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Afghan upper house backs Karzai anti-US decree
Sunday, 04 April 2010 14:18 | 
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The Afghan parliament's upper house has voiced support for President Hamid Karzai in limiting the role of foreigners in the five-seat election fraud watchdog. Karzai had issued a decree in February to reduce the number of foreigners in the watchdog body which includes three foreigners and two Afghans. The move led to a dispute with the White House over how to run a September parliamentary election.
The lower house of the Afghan parliament voted on Wednesday to overrule the decree; but the upper house, in a counter measure on Saturday, excluded the lower house's proposal from its own agenda.
The upper house leadership concluded that the parliament lacked the power to rule on electoral laws within a year of an election, which would thus prevent it from placing the veto on its agenda, Reuters reported.
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Kabul condemns German 'friendly-fire' killingSunday, 04 April 2010 14:17 | | |
 Afghanistan has strongly condemned the killing of six its soldiers by German troops. The Afghan Defense Ministry issued a statement calling for a probe into the incident, which claimed the lives of three members of the Afghan National Army in the northern province of Kunduz on Friday. An initial statement by the International Security Assistance Force said German soldiers opened fire on two "unmarked civilian cars" which failed to stop when signaled to halt, but a NATO spokesman later said it was unclear if the vehicles were civilian, the BBC reported. Afghan commanders were meeting on Saturday with US-led coalition forces to discuss the so-called friendly fire incident. The shooting followed a fierce gun battle between German soldiers and Taliban militants, who attacked foreign forces on a bridge-building and mine-clearing mission southwest of Kunduz city. Three German soldiers were killed by the Taliban fire. Dozens of Afghan civilians died last September in Kunduz when German commanders called in a NATO airstrike on two hijacked fuel trucks, sparking outrage across Afghanistan and drawing strong criticism from the German opposition about the presence of the country's contingent in Afghanistan.
Abdullah slams Karzai for anti-US remarksSaturday, 03 April 2010 07:55 | | |
 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main political rival has accused him of undermining the battle against the Taliban. Abdullah Abdullah — who dropped out of the presidential runoff race against Karzai — described the president's recent behavior as erratic. "As a former colleague and doctor, I think this is beyond a normal attitude," Abdullah, a former foreign minister, told reporters in Kabul on Friday. The remakes come one day after Karzai blamed the UN and US-led community for the controversy over last year's disputed election.
Three more US-led troops die in AfghanistanSaturday, 03 April 2010 07:57 | | |
 The German military says at least three of its soldiers, under US command, have been killed in fierce clashes with Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan. According to a German military spokesman, the fighting is still ongoing in the district of Chardarah in Konduz Province. Military sources say a number of other German soldiers were seriously injured in the fatal incident that took place in south-west of the city of Konduz. The recent casualties bring the total of German deaths in Afghanistan to 39 since Berlin sent troops to the country in 2002.
Karzai blames foreigners for 'election fraud'Friday, 02 April 2010 03:29 | | |
 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has blamed foreign countries for what he called widespread fraud in the country's recent elections. "There was fraud in presidential and provincial council elections. No doubt that there was a very widespread fraud, very widespread. But Afghans did not do this fraud. The foreigners did this fraud," he told a meeting with Afghan election commission workers in Kabul. Afghan president also accused "some embassies" of trying to bribe electoral commission members by trying to give them armored vehicles. He did mention the names of the embassies. The Afghan president on Thursday criticized a parliament vote which rejected a presidential decree giving him more control over the Electoral Complaints Commission. The lower house voted to reject proposals allowing Karzai to select three of the five members of the ECC. Karzai amended a law in February to give himself full control in appointing the ECC members. However, he later agreed to allow the UN to pick two of the commission's members after heavy criticism from the West. The ECC, which also had two Afghan members, declared as invalid half a million votes cast for Karzai in the August 20 election.
کشته شدن 5 غیرنظامی افغان در انفجار بمبTuesday, 30 March 2010 23:57 | | |
There are no translations available. پلیس هرات در غرب افغانستان اعلام کرد که در نتیجه انفجار بمب کنار جاده ای در این استان پنج غیرنظامی افغان کشته و دو تن دیگر زخمی شدند.
کشته شدن دانش آموز افغان در لوگرTuesday, 30 March 2010 23:55 | | |
There are no translations available. برخورد تانک نیروهای خارجی با یک دختر دانش آموز افغان منجر به کشته شدن وی شد.
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