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Afghanistan
MPs Angered Over Karzai's Action Against Three Police Commanders
2014-05-24
[Tolo News] Afghan politicians have expressed outrage at the Presidential Palace's action against three veteran Police Special Forces officers accused of committing misconduct during the first round of this year's presidential election. The MPs emphasized the sacrifices of the national security forces and questioned the grounds for the charges against the three police commanders.

Based on a report published in the Guardian newspaper, President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
has issued arrest warrants for the three coppers on charges of illegally detaining citizens and searching a mosque with a dog.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs has confirmed that two high ranking special police commanders have already been nabbed
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!

But politicians argued the action taken against the officers could undermine the morale and efforts of the national security forces.

"Perhaps the presidential palace arrested these officers to make some others happy, but these officers have contributed to security, and this could undermine the morale of the security forces and impact the security situation," Badakhshan MP Bashir Ahmad Tayyanj. "Those who serve the country and work for our security must not be the victims of politics."
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