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Afghanistan-Pak-India
Afghans reject former Taliban leaders in polls
2005-10-16
I blame George Bush for this.
As votes are counted in Afghanistan's parliamentary polls, the people's emphatic rejection of the fundamentalist Taliban ideology has become clear. Afghan voters rejected outright the former Taliban leaders and declared their preference for the ballot against the bullet. Former Taliban foreign minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil heads the list of ex-Taliban men who lost at the hustings. Muttawakil had tried his luck from Kandahar, which had served as the Taliban capital during their seven-year rule.

The other prominent ex-Taliban losers include Maulvi Qlamuddin, the Taliban minister for beating the crap out of Afghan women promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, Abdul Hakim Munib, Taliban deputy extortion and collusion trade minister and Mullah Abdul Samad Khaksar, the Taliban intelligence chief.
Shame Khaksar hasn't yet succumbed to sepsis.
All these former Taliban heavyweights broke ranks with the segments of Taliban still waging war against the US-supported Karzai government and tried their luck in the Sep 18 elections to get into the mainstream of Afghan polity.

Karzai, who had induced these leaders away from the Taliban, seems to have succeeded in throwing them out of mainstream politics. Karzai declared the "successful holding of elections as a crushing defeat of the militants".

The only Taliban renegade to have been elected and that too with a big margin, is former guerrilla commander Mullah Abdul Salam 'Rocketi' in Zabul province, which is still one of the hotbeds of terrorist violence.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  the Taliban minister for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice..

I'll bet he did lotsa reesearch on all the infidel Haraam intranats, and at the stock yards too...uno, the goats on the spring break thingy.
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-10-16 00:41  

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