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A publication of Afghanistan watch Number 14, June 30, 2010 Fourteenth Note justice, finally suggesting the ways for Wolesi Jirga election. Lack of security implementation of justice. across the country, participation of the Dear readers SALAAM, The last section of this volume contains people and the likely frauds and We are glad to present to you the 14th some relevant Articles and reports irregularities have stirred much volume of the Truth, or Haqiqat, published by other resources. controversial debate in the print media of Afghanistan. As the election is magazine, containing 85 news articles Negotiation Talks with the Insurgent selected from the print media of looming, the inefficient system of issuing Groups: The peace talks between the voter cards is being challenged by the Afghanistan. In this issue, there are 33 Taliban and the government of media. articles on peace negotiations with the Afghanistan is still feverish and insurgent groups, 24 articles on elections remains as the headlines of the most of Corruption: The foreign countries are transparency, 18 articles on corruption the papers in the country. President intended to investigate the corruptions and 7 articles on the transitional justice. Karzai’s efforts on removing names of in Afghanistan by organizing supervisory The analytical article of the issue is a the Taliban leaders from the UN teams while the government of legal analysis written by Dr. Muhammad Blacklist were proceeded by a UN Afghanistan is accusing foreigners of Amin Ahmadi, Dean of Ibn‐e‐Sina delegation visit from Kabul. The secret being responsible over the widespread Institute for Higher education and a meeting between President Karzai and corruption in the country. The issue is member of the Supervisory Commission the leader of Haqqani Network, closely debated by the print media of for the Implementation of the Sirajuddin Haqqani, with the Afghanistan. Constitution, discussing on peace, ambiguous and much‐suspicious role of Transitional Justice: The controversial Pakistan in the talks is still an obscure reconciliation and the role of justice in talks with the insurgent groups have puzzle, leading the media to publish these issues. The article looks into triggered debates on justice and its diverse analysis on the issue. reconciliation after conflicts and implementation in the process. Human transitional justice from legal perspective Elections Transparency: Though the rights organizations and the civil society and continues discusses on the relations parliamentary election race has just got agencies have expressed concerns over between reconciliation and transitional underway, there are hot debates on the the process of the negotiations. Sustaining peace by making it just Justice requires compensation for the rights violated. When there is inequality in a society and some have lost opportunities of a better life and their life and possessions are encroached on, justice requires that measures to compensate for their lost opportunities and harms they have suffered. Page 20 The Truth is a bi‐weekly publication of the Afghanistan Watch supported by the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). It is intended to provide a snapshot of how the Afghan media debate and approach these key issues facing the country: transitional justice, corruption, elections transparency and negotiations with the armed insurgents. PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/d494ff/ If you wish to subscribe please send an email to [email protected] or visit our website: www.watchafghanistan.org Inside This Issue Transitional Justice Elections Transparency A Reconciliation Accord Conditional on Justice 3 IEC Starts Voter registration 11 United Nations Ill‐fated Moves 3 Insecurity a Serious Challenge to the Forthcoming Election 11 Blacklist: Punishing Criminals or Removing their Names 3 IEC Announces a Two‐month Voter Registration Process 11 Establishing High Peace Council and Concerns on fate of the Justice 3 Security Challenges and Its Consequences for the Human Rights Commission: Removing Militants’ Names from Parliamentary Election 11 UN Blacklist not Diminish Their Crimes 3 Symbolic Process of Issuing Voting Cards 12 The Second Parliamentary Election: More Challenging than Ever 4 Voter Registration and Unaccounted Voting Cards 12 AIHRC Reacts to Revision of UN Blacklist 4 Transparency and Security, Unsecured Conditions of the Negotiation with armed opposition Groups Forthcoming Election 12 Who Benefits from Election Delay? 12 UN to Review Blacklist 5 Noor Muhammad Noor: Candidates not Permitted to Use UN Also Pays Tributes to Taliban 5 State Facilities 12 International Community and the Talks with Taliban 5 Turkmenistan Provides Political Space for Peace Talks 5 Election Media Commission Started Work 12 UN Should not Forget Afghan People’s Side 6 Parliamentary Candidates Finalized, Unanswered Questions Consequences of Karzai’s Distrusts 6 Remaining 13 300,000 Security Personnel to be Deployed for Election Government’s Move, Succumbing to the Taliban 6 Security UN: UN Blacklist to be Reviewed 6 13 Zalmay Rasool: Pakistan Should Fulfill its Commitment 6 FEFA Not Authorized to Oversee the Election 13 Who is the UN with, Al‐Qaeda, Taliban or Afghan People? 6 Lots‐Drawing Process of Candidates’ Names Gets Underway 13 UN Blacklist Revision: Inclusion, not Removal of Militants’ Names 6 13 People Deprived of Participating in Parliamentary Election 14 Karzai: Peace in Kandahar at Any Cost 7 Qanooni Expresses Doubts on Holding Parliamentary election 14 Peace Jirga Declaration Has no Novel Initiatives 7 Zahir Azimi: Parliamentary Election to be Secured 14 Supreme Peace Council to be Established 7 The Final List of the Candidates announced 14 20 Insurgents in Herat Province Join Peace Program 7 How will be the Level of People’s Participation in Election? 14 UN Blacklist and the Blindly Process of Insertion and Removal Limited Voter Registration Centers Hinder People’s of Individuals 7 Participation in Election 15 Invention of Supreme Peace Council, Another Attempt for Voter Registration Process and the Challenges in Herat Province 15 Releasing Terrorists 7 Candidates Begin Campaign Before the IEC Scheduled Date 15 25 Prisoners to Be Freed from Bagram Base 8 Japan Supports Afghan Peace Negotiations 8 Corruption Pakistan Mediates between Karzai and Haqqani Network 8 Setting Priorities in Fighting Corruption 16 Negotiations between Kabul and Islamabad on Reconciliation Without Retribution, Eliminating Corruption Impossible 16 with Taliban 8 Failed Government and Silence of the Opposition Waiting for Pakistan: a Peace Mediator in Afghanistan 8 Unforeseen Tomorrow 16 Insurgent Group in Herat Joins Peace Process 8 US Intelligence Reveals Corruption Cases in Afghanistan 16 A Crisis is Looming 9 Two NSD Personnel Indicted for Bribery 16 Obama Administration not to Support Peace Talks with Karzai: Peace in Kandahar at Any Cost 17 Haqqani Network 9 People Get Informed on Assets of the Government Officials 17 20 Taliban Released, Others to be Freed Soon 9 Corruption‐Charged Official Rewarded 17 Increasing Attacks, Taliban Seek more Concessions 9 Japan’s Aid to be Used Effectively 17 Russia Concerned Over Talks with Taliban 9 A Committee for Inspecting Corruption in Foreign Whose Names will be Removed from the UN Blacklist? 9 Organizations 17 United Nations: Militants Who Have No Links With Al‐Qaeda Bank Accounts of Corruption‐Charged Officials blocked 17 Will Be Delisted of the Blacklist 9 Collective Determination for Eliminating Corruption 18 People in Zabul Province Support Peace Jirga 10 MPs Oppose Likely Misuse of Mineral Exploitations 18 A Jirga With 80 Participants Organized in Helmand 10 Corruption and Intransparent Regulations more Dangerous than Insurgency 18 Construction of Azizi and Gulbahar Centers to be Suspended 18 Ministry of Mines Officials Complain against Shahrani 19 Articles & Interviews Sustaining peace by making it just 20 New Publications 23 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/d494ff/ No 14, June 30, 2010 Transitional Justice after being identified. A Reconciliation Accord Without justice, peace and security are not achievable in the Conditional on Justice country, even if they are achieved, they would be very fragile and transitory, he said. Sorosh ‐e‐Mellat Daily, Volume No 385, June 13, 2010, Page 1 ـــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــ Though the efforts by the United Nations to facilitate negotiation process in Afghanistan are much praiseworthy, but Establishing High Peace Council and Concerns undeniably, in this regard the justice should not be sacrificed. Those who have committed murders by staging vicious terrorist on fate of the Justice attacks and their hands are tainted with the blood of the 8 Subh Daily, Volume No 361, June 16, 2010, Page 2 innocents, should not be seen deserved for the recommendations of Kabul Peace Jirga. They should be dealt In order to start peace negotiations with the insurgent groups, more patiently and deliberately. the Afghan government is struggling to categorize the terrorists into different types. This is while a major part of the people do Necessarily, in order to provide peace and security in the not trust the efforts, considering the categorization efforts country and administer justice as well, such efforts for peace unjust and providing impunity to war criminals and human must be conditional on implementation of justice and the rights violators. Nevertheless (On the other hand), the National Taliban leaders should be dealt with according