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...Interior Ministry has announced that it will crack down on sexual assault. During a recent press conference, President Hamid Karzai said that rapists should face "the country's most severe punishment." Yet on the same day, a man charged with the rape of a 7-year-old boy in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif escaped from prison. Three policemen, thought to have assisted his escape in exchange for a payoff, have been detained; the man has not been recaptured...
...Pakistan's powerful spy agency, controlled by the army rather than the civilian government, has for years been accused of covertly intervening in the affairs of its neighbors. The government of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has accused the ISI of aiding the Taliban and has blamed it for the recent wave of bloody unrest in the country, including a July 13 attack on a military outpost in which nine U.S. soldiers were killed. In June, Afghan officials had accused the ISI of plotting a failed assassination attempt on Karzai...
...country's southeast two mortar rounds fired by NATO-led troops at militants fell a kilometer short and killed four civilians, according to a report released by the International Security Assistance Force. Over the past few weeks President Karzai has vigorously protested such events of civilian casualties - on July 6 NATO forces bombed a wedding party in southeastern Afghanistan by mistake, killing 47. But today's lunch was neither the time nor the place to focus on civilian casualties, says Hamidzada, pointing out that the Senator's visit was more of an introduction to the country, and that such specific...
...Obama, too, may have faced some trepidation before the meeting with Karzai. On July 11 Obama questioned Karzai's leadership in an interview with CNN, saying, "I think the Karzai government has not gotten out of the bunker and helped to organize Afghanistan and [the] government, the judiciary, police forces, in ways that would give people confidence." At the time the Afghan government reacted angrily to the comment, but now that the President and the presidential hopeful have met, the tensions seem to have eased. "We didn't see it as criticism per se, because there is a degree...
...That's something everyone, including Karzai, Obama and even his opponent John McCain, can agree...