We have formed a committee to protect free expression. The aim is campaigning to change the current minister of information and culture, Kareem Khoram. I was told that some people in the government want us to calm down in the endeavor because the president is planning to replace the minister. Some sources close to Hewadmal, karzai’s advisor on cultural affairs, told a friend of mine that Khoram will be removed soon.
I have also heard from sources in the parliament that he will be replaced by Ismail Yoon, this is indeed going to be catastrophic. Ismail Yoon has lately been promoted by Karzai, he played a major role in the peace jirga as the secretary of Afghan executive committee. Ismail is very dangerous; he is an obvious fascist with anti minority beliefs. His formal arrival in afghan political scene would mean the final departure of any democratic value.
Even if he is going to replace Khoram, the current minister of information and culture, i think journalists shouldn’t quit efforts for the sake of saving the less evil.
First of all because, that is exactly how puppet regimes discourages informed citizens from playing an active political role.
Secondly, I believe journalists and civil society is based on fallibility, the civil society constantly battles the government to consider other options. Government tends to make decisions and claims to do the right thing. Since the right thing is behind any human reach and especially in
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A book writing by Ismail Yoon he used (Samsor Afghan) as a fake name for his safety
The booklet, written in Pashto, calls for the non-Pashtun Tajik and
Hazaras populations to be removed from key areas and replaced by Pashtuns
from the south of Afghanistan. The Islamist Taliban that rules most of
Afghanistan is made up of Pashtuns. Analysts consider that its extreme
beliefs are a form of Sunni Islam distorted by Pashtun tribal culture. The
book, analysts said, appears to share the Taliban view of the situation in
Afghanistan.
While they are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and have been
dominant in its politics for the past two centuries, it is only with the
Taliban taking power in Kabul in 1996 that the Pashtun have sought to impose
their mores on other Afghan peoples.
The book, titled "The Second Water Bearer," compares Ahmad Shah Mas'ud,
the Tajik leader of resistance to the Taliban, to Habibulla Kalakani, known
as the Waterbearer. Kalakani was a Tajik adventurer who ruled as king of
Afghanistan from January to October 1929 before being overthrown and
eventually put to death. Mas'ud is described in the book, which first
appeared in Afghanistan prior to a Taliban offensive against him in 1998, as
the second Waterbearer.
Mas'ud and his supporters in the Panjshir valley in the northeast of
Afghanistan are being aided by Russia, Iran and India. The tract says of
them, "Foreigners and those who serve them have made the Panjshir a center
of thought hostile to the other peoples of the country."
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