From: endevour@snoopy.umd.edu (endeavor)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Re: Shura criticized
Date: 1 Jan 93 08:47:29 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <92363.115511OMARS@auvm.american.edu> OMARS@auvm.american.edu writes:
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>Combined dispatches from Kabul reporting - December 26:
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>   The Afghan interim government's attempts at convening a national
>   assembly, known as the Shura-e Ahl-e Hal wa Haqd, which has been
>   empowered to select the country's next president, is now facing
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Empowered by whome ? What is the legitimacy of this Shura ? And, really,
just like our FLAG, was it so necessary to change the original and 
triditionally Afghan and time tested concept of LOYA GIRGA by this
out of the blue Hal wa Haqd ?? All I can say is this that some real 
genii are designing and implementing the systematic dismantaling
of Afghan tridition, identity , territorial integrity and National 
soverignty.

The current " NATIONAL ASSEMBLY " is like the one created by former President
Daud in which one of his stooges shouted " Mr.Daud is not a candidate".
The same Drama is played out once again but this time around not just the
presidency is at stake but the faith of an entire nation is at stake. 

When Afghans eventually get to decide their faith they will form their 
national assembly and will call it a Loya Girga. The representatives
of this GIRGA will be elected by the peaple of Afghanistan and not bought,
selected, imposed or bribed into their positions. Also Pakistani, Wahabi,
Ikhwani, Irani stooges will not be members of an Afghan LEADER SHIP COUNCIL
but true milli and Afghani elements will represent Afghanistan. 




>   serious resistance from different quarters. On Saturday, the country's
>   Chief Justice, M Fazeli, added his opposition to the Shura's electoral
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Once again I call into question the legitimacy of the appointment of the
so called Chief Justice. In a set up in which the PRESIDENT, ITS ASSEMBLY
and the so called LEADER SHIP COUNCIL have no legitimacy what so ever then
the very idea of the Chief Justice appointed by such a regime is an abusurd
joke.  



>   process, Radio Kabul said.
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>   According to the Afghan news source, Fazeli, speaking on behalf of other
>   Supreme Court justices, said people were bringing complaints against
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Another joke !!!


>   the delegate election process for the Shura, calling it "not fair."
>   Several Mujahedeen parties have charged the present interim president,
>   Burhanudin Rabani, of having used bribes to get his own men elected and
>   to ensure his own re-election. These allegations have not been substantiated
>   yet.
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>   At Rabani's request, The Shura has been postponed until the Supreme Court
>   looks into the complaints. A commission has also been set up to propose
>   alternative ways of electing the next president. Rabani's tenure formally
>   ended on Dec. 15.
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>   Meanwhile, rival leader Gulbudin Hekmatyar presented three proposals to
>   clear the political logjam. Talking through his party's Afghan News Agency,
>   Hekmatyar said the country's 10-party leadership council should elect
>   another president by consensus.

I think that is the best way to divide the presidency among them. Why all this
deception with Shuras and Assembly's ? We know and they know that if they 
have it their way they will never, for one second, ask the Afghan Nation as
to whome they want and what they want. As long as the ISI arms are flowing,
as long as the Arab petro dollors are flowing and as long as the Iranian 
are interested, the 10-party leadership council can do what ever they want.



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>   Hekmatyar's second choice is for the leadership council to form a
>   care-taker government of "non-controversial figures," until the time
>   when general elections can be held.

Non-controversial figures ?? a figure that both Hekmatyar, Dostum, 
Rabani , Sayaf, Wahdat and the rest of them can agree upon ?? now this
is truely mission impossible.  And who is going to gaurantee that these
figures can stay alive for one day in Kabul ? and who is going to make
sure that the decrees of this council are actually executed ?? Mr.Hekmatyar
thinks we all think with the mind of an engineering school drop out.   


 His third alternative is to transfer
>   all powers to the current vice-president, Mohamad Nabi Mohammadi, leader
>   of one of the main Mujahedeen parties. This plan calls for Mohammadi to
>   convene the Shura.

Yep, let Mohamad Nabi have a stab at the Presidency. I guess ISI have
given Gulbudin the green light in accepting Mohammadi since ISI is pretty
sure of the incompetence and unparalleled loyalty of Mohammad Nabi to them. 

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>   Hekmatyar, whose forces have been involved in several bloody clashes
>   with other Mujahedeen and militia forces sinces April, said he has
>   received an invitation from Rabani to attend a meeting of the main
>   four rival groups, his own Hezb-i Islami, Rabani's Jamiat-e Islami,
>   Dostum's militia forces and the Shiite Hezb-e Wahdat. He did not specify
>   whether he had accepted the invitation or not.


H.Abed
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