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| Afghanistan |
| Kabul Mayor Offers Resignation |
| 2002-07-26 |
| Kabul's mayor on Friday offered to resign after President Hamid Karzai said there was corruption in city hall. Karzai told business leaders in a speech last week that bribe-taking city government officials were hurting the Afghan capital. The president did not mention Mayor Fazel Karim, but the mayor said he was "very upset" about the criticism and has not been to work in six days. "If he has problems with someone, it is better to talk to the responsible officials," Karim told The Associated Press at his home. "If he doesn't want me he can appoint someone else." When you do that in Afghanistan, generally the "responsible officials'" gunnies turn out and start shooting people up... Karim, who previously served as mayor in the early 1990s, said he hoped to meet with Karzai again to discuss problems facing the war-ravaged Afghan capital. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |