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Karzai said likely to boycott election
The U.S. news network, citing an unnamed Western source close to Afghan leadership, said talks between Karzai and opponent Abdullah Abdullah had broken down.
Word of the apparent collapse of negotiations came a day after Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, predicted in an interview with CNN that the country would soon be governed under a power-sharing deal.
"Both (candidates) want power-sharing," Khalilzad said. "Karzai wanted to be first declared the winner or win the election and then offer something from a position of strength, while Abdullah Abdullah wanted to go to a second round but have a power-sharing agreement without the vote."
But Khalilzad also said Abdullah is running out of money and worries he could lose.
Also Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama met with military advisers about strategy in Afghanistan. Sources told CNN each branch of the armed services had a chance to predict the effect on the military of sending a "large number" of additional forces to Afghanistan.
Khalilzad called the outcome of Afghan election negotiations critical in Obama's decision.
"There are very few very capable Afghans, and they need to come together in a power-sharing arrangement," he said, "because whatever the decision is here in the United States, this will be one last chance to push for success in Afghanistan. And that cannot happen without the Afghan leaders doing their part."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/30/2009
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11-01-2009 17:35
Historian,66 wrote:
Afghanistan...et al
So what's the cost to date:
-deaths? -wounded? -materiel?
Our soldiers ARE brave, but ...why are we there;
just to stroke Karzai's huge ego?? If this nation enjoys living in the 12th century, so be it....
Someone is getting VERY RICH on the opium trade,
and its probably not US!
-deaths? -wounded? -materiel?
Our soldiers ARE brave, but ...why are we there;
just to stroke Karzai's huge ego?? If this nation enjoys living in the 12th century, so be it....
Someone is getting VERY RICH on the opium trade,
and its probably not US!
11-01-2009 11:12
Catharyne Stauffer wrote:
I am not sure if that would immediately place the third runner up into Dr Abdullah Abdullah's second place position .
The third runner up is reported by Al- Jezeera ( english)
Ashraf Ghani, who according to a number of opinion polls, trails Abdullah in third place, is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution.
The 59-year-old is using his successful tenure as Afghanistan's finance minister and World Bank development strategist to convince the electorate that he is the candidate to turn the country's economic problems around.
He has also played on national pride by promising to work out a timetable for eventual foreign troop withdrawal.
Ghani is an ethnic Pashtun, received a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. Ghani has spent more than two decades outside Afghanistan, working at different universities and for the World Bank.
In 2002, he served as special adviser to the United Nations and later as finance minister under Karzai.
In 2005, Ghani founded the Institute of State Effectiveness, aimed at promoting effective government, in the United States, where he lived at the time.
He has made the economy the centrepiece of his campaign and is promoting a 10-year action plan for the country, touching on economic development, the creation of one million jobs, women's rights and poverty.
He has also played on national pride by promising to work out a timetable for eventual foreign troop withdraw
The third runner up is reported by Al- Jezeera ( english)
Ashraf Ghani, who according to a number of opinion polls, trails Abdullah in third place, is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution.
The 59-year-old is using his successful tenure as Afghanistan's finance minister and World Bank development strategist to convince the electorate that he is the candidate to turn the country's economic problems around.
He has also played on national pride by promising to work out a timetable for eventual foreign troop withdrawal.
Ghani is an ethnic Pashtun, received a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. Ghani has spent more than two decades outside Afghanistan, working at different universities and for the World Bank.
In 2002, he served as special adviser to the United Nations and later as finance minister under Karzai.
In 2005, Ghani founded the Institute of State Effectiveness, aimed at promoting effective government, in the United States, where he lived at the time.
He has made the economy the centrepiece of his campaign and is promoting a 10-year action plan for the country, touching on economic development, the creation of one million jobs, women's rights and poverty.
He has also played on national pride by promising to work out a timetable for eventual foreign troop withdraw
11-01-2009 11:08
Catharyne Stauffer wrote:
Abdullah Abdullah has dropped from the poll according to a BBC report ,
President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced in Kabul that he is withdrawing from the poll.
Speaking after he addressed his supporters, Dr Abdullah told the media that his decision was "final" but that he would continue to be at the service of the people of Afghanistan.
President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced in Kabul that he is withdrawing from the poll.
Speaking after he addressed his supporters, Dr Abdullah told the media that his decision was "final" but that he would continue to be at the service of the people of Afghanistan.
11-01-2009 10:25
Catharyne Stauffer wrote:
The egos of these two politicians blinds them to their original purpose and mandate of why they are suppose to be running for leadership of that country.
But when someone looks at the family laws in Afghanistan the male ego there does not appear to be a healthy one to start with .
But when someone looks at the family laws in Afghanistan the male ego there does not appear to be a healthy one to start with .
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