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| Order Expelling New York Times' Rosenberg Reversed |
| 2014-10-08 |
[Tolo News] According to a statement issued Sunday by the Attorney General, the Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... 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 Pashtunface 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... administration's travel ban on former Kabul-based New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... correspondent Matthew Rosenberg has been reversed. President Asharf Ghani on Sunday had a telephone conversation with a senior representative of the New York Times, who he reportedly told that Rosenberg would be allowed to return to Afghanistan. The decision comes less than two months after the veteran journalist was expelled from the country, in what was Kabul's first removal of a foreign correspondent since the fall of the Taliban. At the time, the country was in the midst of an intransigent standoff between then candidates Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. and Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , and the Afghan government claimed Rosenberg wrote a story that threatened Afghanistan's national interests. The article in question entailed comments from unnamed sources inside the government that discussed security officials considering the formation of an interim government to circumvent the stalemate between the presidential candidates. The Karzai government demanded Rosenberg reveal his sources, but he refused to do so. The Supreme Court issued the travel ban. Supporting open media in Afghanistan, civil society group Nai has welcomed the decision to reverse the order. "When the supreme court placed the travel ban, it was an urgent decision, they didn't think about the results of that action, now the people who were involved in the travel ban of Matthew Rosenberg should be asked why they did took such action without enough research?" said Mujeeb Khelwatgar, the head of Nai. |
| Posted by:Fred |