International Crisis Group Condemns Afghan Parliamentary Election Crisis

February 23, 2011 3 min. read

Tags: Afghan Parliamentary Crisis, Corruption in Afghanista, Hamid Karzai and Corruption, International Crisis Group, Kabul Bank, Lower House Inaugurated in Afghanistan with Delay, Personal Corruption in Kabul Bank, Public and Private Corruption in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s democratic gamble seems to have paid off handsomely for Hamid Karzai and all those who play private politics with him. For he must think politics in Afghanistan is a game; why else would he and his friends take the money and run? In the past year President Karzai has threatened to leave the safety […]

Failing Kabul Bank Threatens Already Weak Economy

February 3, 2011 4 min. read

Tags: Afghanistan's Strained Budget, Hamid Karzai, IMF Assistance to Afghanistan Not Renewed, Kabul Bank, Kabul Bank and Corruption, Kabul Banks Impending Collapse, Mahmoud Karzai, Public and Private Corruption in Afghanistan

Politics turns on public finance; public finance turns on politics. Afghanistan is no different than the United States, or the United Kingdom on those terms. So it comes as a dismaying shock that the government of Afghanistan might have to bail out its largest and most important private bank. Kabul Bank has taken losses as […]

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