Rights group urges Karzai to sideline warlords
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A leading rights group is urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sideline warlords implicated in rights abuses and strengthen the rule of law when he announces a new cabinet.
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Freshly installed Afghan Pres-ident Hamid Karzai was gearing up yesterday to address tribal leaders on the need to eliminate this war-ravaged country&#39;s booming drug trade, an aide said.
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KABUL: A leading rights group urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to sideline warlords implicated in rights abuses and strengthen his governmentâs commitment to improving security and the rule of law when he announces a new cabinet after
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Worsening security is pushing Afghanistan towards a crisis, the country's main opposition group said on Thursday, days after a deadly Taliban raid near the presidential palace.
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Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai's sacking of a warlord governor in the west of the country ransacked U.N. compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday, leaving as many as three people dead and dozens wounded, including three U.S. troops who were hit with stones.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai sidelined  leaders of powerful regional factions in his new cabinet  line-up announced on Thursday.
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Air strikes by foreign forces in Afghanistan have recently killed more civilians than the Taliban and the U.S.-led operation should cut them back, an Afghan rights group said on Monday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai chose a new cabinet on Thursday, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions and creating a new post to spearhead the fight against opium production.
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Afghanistan&#39;s first directly-elected president, Hamid Karzai, has identified two issues - warlordism and Afghanistan&#39;s booming drugs trade - as targets for change.
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Afghanistan's top human rights official urged the country to confront the horrors of its past, saying Saturday that war crimes dating back more than 20 years should be prosecuted and rights abusers should be purged from public office.
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On Wednesday, Karzai issued a decree ordering a traditional Eid prisoner amnesty but a presidential official insisted the order did not cover the prisoners the militants want freed.
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MOGADISHU -- A warlord urged Somalis yesterday to attack Ethiopian peacekeeping troops being sent to support the Somali government when it returns from Kenya this month, after last year's peace accord.
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Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai&#39;s sacking of a warlord governor in the west of the country ransacked UN compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday, leaving as many as three people dead and dozens wounded, including several US troops
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President Hamid Karzai has chosen a new Cabinet, heeding calls to sideline warlords from top positions -- including the defense minister -- and creating a new post to oversee the fight against opium production, government officials said Thursday.
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An international rights group said it knows of more prisoners dying in U.S. military custody in Afghanistan and called on Washington to reveal details of the cases.
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said his country along with Pakistan faces "gloom and doom" from Taliban insurgents, and called for the world to "join hands" to defeat the Islamist rebels.
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Nepal's main opposition party urged  the government Monday to call a unilateral cease-fire with  Maoist rebels and seek peace talks to end a road blockade that  has cut the capital off from the rest of the country.