"I have a good relation with the Afghanistan's Caped President and other government officials as before. If I know that the President does not have the necessary confidence in his Finance Minister, I will no longer be willing to continue," Mr Zakhilwal said.
The Journal has also written that the Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak is expected to be dismissed.
"Mr Wardak, who has served as defense minister since 2004, has been instrumental to U.S. plans to build up the Afghan military, a key priority for the B.O. regime and a precondition for beginning to withdraw the 100,000 American troops here. U.S. taxpayers are paying $11.6 billion this year to train and fund Afghan cops," The Wall Street Journal has written.
Some Afghan experts believe that the US officials should let President
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... 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...
to decide about his ministers.
"If the Wall Street Journal accuses some Afghan ministers of having good relations with the United States, it will only increase sensitivities here," S. M. Rahman Ogholi, a former Afghan MP, told TOLOnews.