Topic: Ismail Khan

Karzai keeps minister considered corrupt by US

AP News - 409 days ago
Cables: Karzai rejects request to replace minister considered corrupt, incompetent by USU.S. officials pressured Afghan President Hamid Karzai to remove a former warlord from atop the energy and water ministry a year ago because of corruption and ineffectiveness, and threatened to ...

Audio recording points to fraud in Afghan election

AP News - 459 days ago
Audio recording points to vote rigging in Afghan parliamentary electionThe Afghan election commission says it is investigating allegations that a top government official pressured an election worker to rig the results of the parliamentary ballot in western Afghanistan.Noor Mohammed Noor, a ...

Grisly Afghan museum honors anti-Soviet jihad

Reuters US Online Report World News - 659 days ago
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The bloodied corpses of Soviet soldiers slumped over an armored tank. Burqa-clad Afghan women on a roof, cheering on fighters as helicopters burn in the sky above their heads.These are scenes from a panoramic pastiche of Afghanistan's ...

New Karzai cabinet snubs warlords

Reuters US Online Report World News - 765 days ago
KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai proposed new names on Saturday to replace an Afghan cabinet lineup rejected by parliament, omitting controversial ex-guerrilla commanders and their allies but still disappointing diplomats and lawmakers.The absence of powerful figures such as former guerrilla chief ...

Top Afghan official threatens to quit after attack

AP News - 869 days ago
Targeted by suicide bomb, Afghan Cabinet minister threatens to quit post, deplores insecurityA powerful member of President Hamid Karzai's Cabinet threatened to quit after a suicide car bomb attack targeted him Sunday, killing five people, in the latest Taliban attempt to ...

Ten killed in Pakistani Taliban and tribal clashes: official

AFP Global Edition - 1182 days ago
At least 10 people have been killed in gun battles between Taliban militants and pro-government tribal leaders in a northwestern Pakistani tribal town, officials said on Tuesday.The militants intercepted a convoy carrying 12 pro-government Mamoun tribe elders in Bajaur district near ...