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Afghans continue with demand for return of exiled vice president |
2018-07-11 |
[PRESSTV] People in northern Afghanistan have demonstrated to keep alive a demand for the return of exiled Vice President Abdul Rasheed Dostum![]() On the seventh day of demonstrations on Tuesday, protesters tore down pictures of President Ashraf Ghani ![]() while threatening that they could cut highways and power lines, bringing electricity from neighboring Uzbekistan to the capital Kabul. Their major demand is for Ghani to coordinate the return of Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek leader and a member of Ghani’s current national unity government, who has not returned to Afghanistan since he went to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for medical treatment last year. The protests erupted last week after Nizamuddin Qaisari, a local police commander loyal to Dostum, was tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! Dostum went into exile after he was accused of torturing and sexually assaulting his political opponent Ahmad Ischi. There has been speculation that he may return to Afghanistan despite objections by the United States and other Western backers of Ghani’s government. |
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