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...political analyst Dad Noorani believes that Karzai may have unwittingly undermined his already weak standing with his defiant statement. "When he said the international community has two choices, he clearly discredited himself," Noorani said. "All along he has been saying that he was elected by the Afghan people, and now he says if the international community does not accept his offer to Mullah Omar, then they can remove him or leave. How can the international community remove him if he is elected?" Safi agrees: "This just proves that the whole election was a farce, and that Karzai is President...
...boost, but Musharraf also privatized key industries and opened up the banking sector. The rapid growth, however, exposed cracks in infrastructure that was failing to keep up. "The economy has been good for big business, good for the per capita averages and good for GDP," says Tasneem Noorani, who served as Secretary of the Interior under Musharraf. "But it has not been good for the common man. We are all waiting for the trickle-down effect...
Analyst and radio talk-show host Dad Noorani blames a failing and corrupt security force for the increased violence. "People don't tell the police because they are sure the security forces are involved and have a hand in the kidnapping. They are worried that if they report something they will have more problems in the future." The son of a friend, he says, was kidnapped and taken across the border to Peshawar, where he was held for a $30,000 ransom. It was eventually negotiated down to $16,000, which was all that the man could scrape together...
...talks. For another, the Soviet representative at the negotiations, Ambassador-at-Large Nikolai Kozyrev, revealed that his government and the U.S. are conducting intensive and highly secret discussions on Afghanistan in Moscow and Washington. The ever persistent Cordovez has privately predicted that the bargaining could drag on. Summed up Noorani: "The important date is not the 15th of March; it's the 15th...
...other major unresolved issue is the future shape of Afghanistan's government. Pakistan, which serves as the exile home of more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees, believes the treaty must at least provide a "mechanism" for a transitional government. Said Noorani: "The refugees in Pakistan are not going to return home as long as the regime in power is the same one that is responsible for the deaths of 1.2 million Afghans." Afghanistan's chief negotiator, Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil, insists the matter is a purely Afghan affair and last week accused Pakistan of seeking "to push the talks into...