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| Afghanistan |
| Gul Agha gives up military command... |
| 2003-01-03 |
| Source: NNI Governor of west Afghanistan's Kandahar province has acted on the central government's decree to leave his control over local military affairs. According to local Radio Liberty, Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai's spokesman Khalid Pushtun said that the governor had limited his power only to the governorship in accordance with the decree. Afghan transitional president Hamid Karzai earlier this month decreed that anyone who had a civilian position in provincial governments could not handle local military affairs. In the past, Sherzai also controlled four neighboring provinces,including Helmand, Oruzgan, Zabul and Nemroz, with his command of local military forces, although he was only governor of Kandahar. He was a warlord before he became governor. He brought his gunnies with him, from Quetta, when the Pashtuns were putting together their "southern alliance." The military troops in Kandahar province are now under command of a separate authority in the province, Radio Liberty said. That would probably be Gul Agha's cousin, Bob, but it's a start... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |