Foreigners are fuelling the problem of corruption in Afghanistan, a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world, the Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday. “We have problems with both Afghans and foreigners… Our foreigner colleagues have not only been uncooperative but sometimes they have created obstacles,” he said during a speech in Kabul on corruption.
“We have lost our mutual trust: foreigners think we go corrupt for political reasons, and we think they are corrupt for the same reason.”In a global survey published this month by Berlin-based anti-graft watchdog Transparency International, Afghanistan was again named one of the world’s most corrupt nations.
TOLL FROM ATTACK ON SHIAS NOW 80: Karzai said Sunday the death toll from bombings targeting the Shia Muslim holy day of Ashura, which raised fears the nation could face an eruption of sectarian violence, has climbed to 80.
Takes two to tango.
Still since many of Afghanistans elite have foreign passports one is left wonder which foreigners the gardener of Kabul is talking about
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