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| Parliament Rejects Afghanistan's First Female Supreme Court Nominee |
| 2015-07-09 |
| [Tolo News] The Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on Wednesday rejected Anisa Rassouli as a member of the Supreme Court's High Council -- if approved; she would be the first female judge in the Supreme Court in the country's recent history. Rassouli got 88 votes in her favor as she required 94 votes to get approved as a senior judge in the Supreme Court. She was introduced to the Parliament about two weeks ago after President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. 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. .. during last year's election campaign promised to appoint a female judge to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... the Parliament approved Khalilullah Sediq as the governor of Central Bank and Sayed Yousuf Halim as a member of Supreme Court. Sediq obtained 100 votes and Halim received 103 votes from a total of 187 MPs present at the voting day. Before the voting process started, Halim while presenting his future plan promised to the politicians to ensure justice, fight corruption and introduce new strategies to the country's judicial system. "I will miss no opportunity to implement my plans," he said, emphasizing on a broad judicial reform. Pointing to the Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Bank crises, the new central bank governor promised to introduce new strategies to avoid any further banking crises in the country and appreciate the value of Afghani currency. This comes as earlier this week, the Wolesi Jirga also rejected Masoom Stanekzai as the minister of defense. He got only 84 votes out of 107 required. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 We have a female Supreme Court justice or two that we could provide on permanent loan... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-09 12:22 |