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...defeat of the Taliban, Dostum has reasserted control over his home turf, the ethnically Uzbek and Turkmen provinces of Jowzjan and Faryab. But the onetime master of the north now finds his position challenged by the growing power of his erstwhile ally in the Northern Alliance, the mainly Tajik Jamiat-i-Islami faction. Jamiat's ascension has prompted an unlikely alignment between Dostum and Hamid Karzai, the patrician Pashtun tribal leader who heads Kabul's interim government. In December Karzai appointed Dostum deputy to Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim, Jamiat's military strongman, and in March he named Dostum his "special...
...exaggerated, Karzai must still deal with internal splits. "The cabinet is deeply divided," says the interim leader's adviser. "But that's the government given to him by the U.N. in Bonn and he has to work with it." A power struggle between Defense Minister Fahim, an ethnic Tajik from Panshir who assumed command of the Northern Alliance last year, and non-Panshiri ministers has turned government into a slugfest. "The minute (Karzai) leaves the country (Fahim) tries to get his men into new positions," says the adviser. The foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, meantime, has stacked the foreign ministry...
...interim government representative of all of the diverse anti-Taliban groups in Afghanistan in order to appease all of the major warlords. However, shortly before international forces arrived in Kabul last winter, the largest faction in the “Northern Alliance”—the Tajik-dominated Jamiat-e-Islami party—took over and occupied the capital. In exchange for withdrawing their forces from Kabul, Jamiat-e-Islami received the choicest cabinet positions, including the foreign, interior and defense ministries...
...real trick will be to effectively discriminate between the good warlords and the bad ones, and provide assistance to leaders like Hamid Karzai, as well as the Tajik disciples of the late Ahmed Shah Massood. The U.S. must work with the new Afghan government to bring dependable chieftains, tribal elders and warlords under the umbrella of the state. It must then ensure that countries like Iran, Tajikistan and Pakistan cut off all aid to belligerent warlords like Dostum and Hekmatyar...
...stabilizing force. But attempts to form a unified army combining Afghanistan's rival ethnic groups have proved farcical. Recruitment began in February. When the first 300 hopefuls turned up, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) took a quick look at the recruits' surnames and discovered they were almost all Tajik Panshiris sent by Afghan Defense Minister Fahim. But ISAF later accepted Fahim's second group, even though 154 of those 301 recruits were Tajik, 102 Pashtun and 37 Hazara. (The population of Afghanistan is 25% Tajik, 38% Pashtun and 19% Hazara.) Nor were the recruits interviewed to determine their allegiance...