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Afghanistan Review Week 19 11 May 2011 Comprehensive Information on Complex Crises CIVIL - MILITARY FUSION CEN TRE Afghanistan Review Week 19 11 May 2011 Comprehensive Information on Complex Crises INSIDE THIS ISSUE This document provides a weekly overview of developments in Afghanistan from 4 May—10 May 2011, with hyper-links to source material highlighted in blue and underlined in the text. For more information Economic Development on the topics below or other issues pertaining to events in Afghanistan, feel free to contact the members of Governance & Participation the Afghanistan Team, or visit our website at www.cimicweb.org. Humanitarian Affairs Infrastructure Rule of Law Economic Development Steven A. Zyck ► [email protected] Security Socio-Cultural Development fghanistan-Pakistan trade issues con- officials familiar with the situation believe that tinued to receive attention over the the Tajik authorities perceive Afghan firms to course of the past week. The Mesh- pose a threat to comparable companies based ABOUT THE CFC A rano Jirga, the upper house of the Afghan par- in Tajikistan. This issue follows last month‟s The Civil-Military Fusion Centre liament, heard testimony from the chairman of tensions over the rising rates charged by Taji- (CFC) is an Information and the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and kistan‟s state-owned rail operations for con- Knowledge Management Industries (ACCI), the Minister of Commerce tainers carrying imports to Afghanistan (see and Industries and others about Pakistan's fail- the 28 April 2011 Afghanistan Review). organisation focused on ure thus far to implement the Afghanistan- improving civil-military interaction, Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA), The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India facilitating information sharing and reports Noor TV, an Afghan media outlet. (TAPI) natural gas pipeline project also con- enhancing situational awareness According to ACCI officials, 10,000 Afghani- tinued to receive media attention. The Diplo- through the CimicWeb portal. stan-bound containers have been stranded in mat, an Indian newspaper, reported that the Pakistan for months. The Minister of Com- TAPI pipeline faces a number of challenges, CFC products are developed with merce and Industries indicated that Pakistan including insecurity in Afghanistan and Paki- open-source information from a and Afghanistan disagree over when Afghan stan and concerns regarding the actual avail- wide variety of organisations and importers should be required to establish cash ability of natural gas supplies in Turkmenistan media sources. guarantees or bank guarantees for their im- (which have yet to be independently verified). ports. The Pakistani government would like In addition, technical capacity among all in- The CFC is represented in Kabul by Afghan traders to place cash in Pakistani volved countries may pose a challenge, and a Forward Military Liaison Officer, banks as a means of both guaranteeing rele- some believe that India may pull out given the Lt. Col. Gary Evans, who is vant tax and customs payments and discourag- high gas prices being proposed by Turkmeni- embedded within ISAF. ing smuggling by Afghan traders. Such a proc- stan. Experts believe that Pakistan and, in par- ess would place a significant burden on Af- ticular, India may ultimately conclude that By design, CFC products or links to ghan importers, particularly those with limited their energy security is better ensured through independently produced articles do cash on hand who prefer instead to provide the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) or the resurrection of the Iran-Pakistan-India not necessarily represent the bank guarantees. A bank guarantee would not (IPI) natural gas pipeline, which has been op- opinions, views or official position require Afghan traders to set aside significant posed by the US government. As reported last of any other organisation. amounts of capital. While Tolo News sug- gested on Saturday, 07 May, that the transit week (see the 04 May Afghanistan Review), the TAPI pipeline could also potentially face . CONTACT THE CFC trade issues between Afghanistan and Pakistan had been resolved through negotiations with a competition from pipelines connecting Turk- menistan, Iran and South Asia while bypass- For further information, contact: visiting Pakistani delegation, no details have been provided about any new agreement es- ing Afghanistan. Afghanistan Team Manager tablished between the two countries. Finally, Pajhwok Afghan News noted that the Erin Foster [email protected] Trade related challenges between Tajikistan World Bank has approved a USD 22 million and Afghanistan also re-emerged this week. grant to support the Afghanistan New Market Development Project (ANMDP). This initia- The Afghanistan Team According to Tolo News, the Association of tive is expected to support 750 enterprises and [email protected] Afghanistan Freight Forwarder Companies 10 business associations and may create as (AAFFCO) announced that the Tajik govern- ment has forbidden four large Afghan transit many as 1,500 jobs in the short-term. The pro- ject will be implemented by the Ministry of firms from operating in Tajikistan as they have done for the past several years. ACCI Commerce and Industries (MoCI) with inputs from the ACCI and the Afghanistan Investment Support specifically on improving the performance and export- Agency (AISA). It will be rolled out in four urban centres - readiness of existing enterprises rather than establishing new Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad and Herat - and will focus businesses. Governance & Participation Amber Ramsey ► [email protected] he dominant governance event this week was a protest many in Afghanistan are not satisfied with the current situa- in support of former intelligence chief Amrullah tion, the problems must be solved jointly rather than through Saleh‟s grass-roots movement to put pressure on the creating further tension. T Afghan government to end its peace and reconciliation cam- paign with the Taliban, reports Reuters. During the event, Meanwhile, Tolo News reports that the controversial Special which took place in Kabul on 05 May, Saleh warned that the Elections Court (SEC), created by President Karzai to investi- Afghan government “should heed the democratic parties, they gate fraud following last September‟s parliamentary elections, should heed the social society and not has decided to unseat more than 80 parlia- make us take to the streets”. In contrast to mentarians accused of fraud. While many within the Afghan parliament are against other political movements, Reuters reports “While many in Afghanistan are not that Saleh‟s movement, Basij e Melli, is a the SEC, arguing it is contrary to the Af- national one, not based on ethnic lines. satisfied with the current situation, ghan Constitution, a few parliamentarians While others, such as Global Post writer are beginning to show some acceptance. Jean MacKenzie, suggest that it is tapping the problems must be solved jointly One Member of Parliament (MP) was quoted as saying, “at the very beginning I into 30 years of rage and resentment that rather than through creating further continues to divide Afghans along ethnic made it clear that formation of the special tribunal was against Afghan laws and lines. However, despite these concerns, tension”. Basij e Melli has been backed by politi- there is no doubt about it. But this is also cians from all of Afghanistan‟s ethnic against the laws to sit in the parliament groups as well as powerful opposition based on fraud”. In related news, MPs leader Abdullah Abdullah, the main Karzai contender in Af- have requested that Hamid Karzai intro- ghanistan‟s 2009 presidential election and leader of the coali- duce the remaining seven ministerial candidates to the Wolesi tion for change and hope. The government of Hamid Karzai Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) for a vote of confidence, responded to Thursday‟s protest saying it was staged by those along with three members of the Supreme Court whose terms “marginalised from power”. Presidential spokesman Ahmad recently ended. The initial nomination phase took place in Zia Siamak Herawi went as far as to suggest that some of the 2009, and after three successive rounds, seven seats were left problems identified by the protesters existed when the move- empty. As such, ministries including public health, transport ment‟s organizers were still in office and therefore could have and aviation, women‟s affairs, higher education, communica- attempted to fix them from within the government but did not. tion and information technology and water and energy have Tolo News claims that former Interior Minister, Hanif Atmar, been led by acting ministers for more than a year. According to is also working with Saleh on political programmes. However, Speaker of the House Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, a written request Atmar was not present at Thursday‟s rally. Nevertheless, one has been sent to the President and they are awaiting his re- political analyst was quoted by Tolo News as saying that while sponse. Humanitarian Affairs Erin Foster ► [email protected] easonal flooding continued across Afghanistan during Dushi and Tala Wa Barfak districts as those most affected. the past week with various incidents reported by Additionally, Baghlan provincial capital Pul-i-Khumri is now Pajhwok Afghan News. In Herat and Badghis provinces, without power due to the destruction of a water dam gate. S at least seven people were reportedly killed by flash floods with an additional 27 injured and 27 homes destroyed. Badghis Humanitarian assistance and development projects may come Deputy Governor Abdul Ghani Sabari, whose own sister died into jeopardy with the impending transition to Afghan National in the flood, explained “we wanted to rush relief for the vic- Security Forces (ANSF), according to an article by the Inte- tims but lack food assistance”. Flooding also affected the cen- grated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). In a new report entitled, „No Time to Lose – Promoting the Accountability of tral provinces of Parwan and Panjsher, forcing road closures the Afghan National Security Forces‟, non-governmental or- and destroying hundreds of acres of land.
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