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YAH A publication of Afghanistan watch Number 26, December 31, 2010 Twenty fifth Note about America’s permission for Corruption: Taliban to form their leadership President Karzai says that widespread ١ circle in order to talk with Americans are the important news the afghan corruption exist in the foreign contracts and since 2002 hundred Haqiqat 26 contains news from print media focused on during past Afghan print media with following two weeks. millions of dollars are wasted in this details: country. The head of Baghlan Appeal Election Transparency: Court is arrested in this province and Negotiation and Reconciliation: Special court is formed to assess two more people are charged with On the eve of ECHO summit, Turkey the electoral frauds. Mishrano corruption cases. Also, the declared that it will mediate Jirga has asked for open trial of weaknesses of legislative organs of between Afghan government and electoral institutions. FEFA also the country have increased corruption the Taliban. Once again the Afghan says that they are anxiously and Taliban influence. government released 9 Taliban from pursuing the creation of special Transition Justice: Bagram prison as a sign of good‐will. court for electoral frauds. Also, More than 50 Taliban fighters joined police have banned former and The Kabul print media did not have any the peace process during the angry MPs from entering the article printed about transitional justice. previous week. The High Peace parliament. Other news in this Articles and Interviews: Council started its activities in section includes the rumors that Kundoz province and Rabbani, head IEC will reassess the frauds in the In this section we have an overview of this council says that foreign presidential elections and also on the negotiation and intervention has slowed down the Karzai wants to bring changes in reconciliation process with the process of work. The statement by the parliamentary elections Taliban and other insurgent forces the former Taliban foreign minister results. inside Afghanistan during last year. Subscription An overview of the negotiation In order to ensure durability of the publication of with the Taliban in 2010 TRUTH Magazine, Afghanistan Watch has decided It seems that discussing the issue of reconciliation with the Taliban in the media and public have strengthened to distribute the magazine to its subscribers. Your the spirit of the Taliban and they want to use this subscription to the Haqiqat biweekly guarantees opportunity to exert more pressure on the government the continuance of the publication of the magazine. of Afghanistan to gain more privileges. 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If you wish to subscribe please send an email to [email protected] or visit ourPURL: website: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/5a2112/ www.watchafghanistan.org Inside This Issue Negotiation with armed Anti‐Government Groups The president is preparing the list of appointment members National Union of Afghan Journalists: Don’t be deceived by of Mishrano Jirga 8 wrong advice of malicious people 3 FEFA: IEC poorly supervised candidate’s financial report 8 Pakistan’s conditional support for peace process in Afghanistan 3 Former MPs: The New parliament must not be inaugurated 8 Head of High Council for Peace: Foreign intervention in Seventy percent of group B Electoral complaints is assessed 8 Afghanistan has slowed down the peace process 3 The UN Security Council supported elections results 8 A Taliban commander joined the peace process with his men 3 5 angry candidates with 16 supporters: The elections results Former Taliban Foreign minister in talks with Al‐Arabia: should be declared invalid 9 Mullah Omar insisted on hosting Osama bin Laden amid Special Court formed to assess candidate’s claims 9 other Taliban leader’s opposition 3 The suspected IEC members are not introduced 9 Zazai declared as peace district 4 Afghanistan Senate House demanded for open trial of Taliban want fierce response 4 electoral fraud’s culprits 9 Crisis of Confidence and the Peace Strengthening Commission 4 An IEC authority: We are gathering evidences and proofs of 35 armed insurgents joined government 4 frauds in the presidential elections 9 Turkey mediates in the peace talks 4 Karzai tried to change the elections results 9 Five insurgents joined the government 5 Zia Rafath: No court in Afghanistan can be formed in single step 10 Baghlan Governor: Tribal Elders have strong role in The Angry candidates demonstrated again 10 establishing peace 5 Formation of Special Court to assess the elections cases is a High Council for Peace negotiating with the Pakistani authorities 5 matter of concern for us 10 The release of 9 prisoners from Bagram meant to show good IEC: We are not collecting evidences about the frauds in the will towards the peace process 5 presidential elections 10 France supports the peace process in Afghanistan 5 Members of special electoral court to be appointed by the President 10 A group of anti‐government forces joined the peace process 5 Corruption Peace Council started work in Kundoz 5 Judcial weakness increases Taliban influence 11 Pakistan will not negotiate with a weak government 6 President Karzai: Widespread corruption in foreign contracts 11 Useless efforts interference in the duties of the institutions Food oversight department of public health ministry takes working for peace 6 bribe from traders 11 Elections Transparency From 2002 to date, hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted in Afghanistan 11 Victorious candidates in presidential palace: Parliament Two persons punished on corruption cases 12 should be opened on 19 December 7 The Chief Appeal Court of Baghlan was arrested on charges The Parliament Secretariat addressing former MPs: Your of embezzlement 12 term is over, please do not disturb 7 National Union of Journalists: The Attorney general should Articles & Interviews not pave the way for dictatorship 7 An overview of the negotiation with the Taliban in 2010 13 Statement by Afghanistan Independent Human Rights New Publications 15 Commission in relation to 1389 elections 7 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/5a2112/ No 26, December 31, 2010 Negotiation with Armed Anti‐Government Groups National Union of Afghan Journalists: Head of High Council for Peace: Don’t be deceived by wrong advice of Foreign intervention in Afghanistan has malicious people slowed down the peace process Mandegar Daily, No 470, Page 8, 15 Dec 2010 Rah e Nejat daily, No 1591, Page One, 18 December 2010 A group of international experts and analysts of Afghanistan’s The head of Supreme Council for Peace says that the foreign situation in an open letter to Mr. Obama have demanded for countries intervene in the affairs of Afghanistan which has direct talks with the Taliban and say that a coalition government slowed the process of peace talks with the Taliban. must be formed in Afghanistan with the presence of Taliban. Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was talking in Heart province with Ahmad Rashid, a member of the group and a Pakistani journalist the reporters said that the foreign interference have created who is one of writer of this letter, in one part writes that Taliban hurdles in bringing peace and stability in the country. He added are a national movement who are powerful in north and west of that he will go to Pakistan for talks in this regard but did not the country. mention the exact date. In the other part of the letter it is written that whether we like He also said that one of the important factors in bringing peace or not; Taliban have big influence in the political prospect of in the region is talks with the regional countries that are Afghanistan and cannot be separated from the bulk of society. involved in the affairs of Afghanistan. We need to sit down and talk with them as they have shown leaning towards negotiation. Mr. Rabbani called peace as a culture and said: we can establish peace in Afghanistan when we reach out to people, learn their These experts say that the formation of new government in views and participate them in this process. Afghanistan without the participation of Taliban was a mistake. ـــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــ The Afghanistan National Journalists Union deems the letter inappropriate, illogical and in the favor of terrorism. A Taliban commander joined the peace process with his men Taliban are not a national movement. The Taliban include Afghanistan Daily, No 1271, Page Eight, 18 December 2010 terrorists, Al‐Qaida members, Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, One of the local Taliban commanders in Baghlan province with Pakistani religious groups that are backed by the Pakistan’s his nine subordinates joined the process of peace in Intelligence agency, the narcotics mafia and criminals so it Afghanistan. cannot be a national movement. Abdul Rahman Rahimi, the security chief of Baghlan province ”.said: “Commander Golzada joined peace process yesterday ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Pakistan’s conditional support for peace Gulzada was one of the local Taliban commander who fought the national and foreign forces in the Pokam village of Baghaln district. process in Afghanistan He said his surrender is an important step in establishing peace Mandegar Daily, No 470, Page eight, 15 December 2010 in the district. The Prime Minister of Pakistan in a meeting with the US deputy Gulzada said that I fought with government forces in Pokam of Intelligence Agency said that Pakistan supports the process of village of Baghlan district with my 9 people and now I will join peace in Afghanistan on a condition that it is parallel with the the national police force to serve the nation.