Thursday, June 28, 2007

شخص مسؤول نیست

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انجینر شاه محمود عاصم یکی از اعضای کمیسیون مستقل رادیو تلویزیون افغانستان میباشد. محترم عاصم مدت چند روزی میشود که غرض یک سفر رسمی عازم ولایت بلخ گردیده است. اما در غیابت وی هیچ یک از همکاران وی قادر به اجرای وظایف عاصم نمیباشد. به تمام معروضین و مراجعین کمیسیون رسانه ها گفته میشود که بعد از برگشت آقا عاصم، جهت اجرات، مراجعه نمایند، زیرا دیگران اسناد و دانش عمیقی که عاصم دارد، ندارند.

کمیسیون مستقل رادیو تلویزیون جهت ثبت رسانه های برقی و چاپی در چوکات قانون رسانه ها ایجاد گردیده است. به اساس ماده 43 قانون رسانه ها، کمیسیون هم وظیفه دارد بر نشرات رسانه ها نظارت داشته باشد.
وظایف این کمیسیون لازم میدارد تا اعضای کمیسیون با رسانه ها در ارتباط نزدیک بوده و به عرایض رسانه ها که معمولأ عاجل میباشد رسیده گی فوری نماید. عدم رسیده گی کمیسیون به مسایلی هم چون انتقال ملکیت رادیو، زمینه را به دولت و مقامات محلی مغرض مساعد میسازد تا آنها در مورد مداخله نموده، که به این ترتیب آزادی رسانه را سلب نمایند.

کمیسیون رسانه ها هم با فراگیری از دیگر نهاد های دولتی، با مراجعین برخورد نهادینه نه مگر برخورد دکانداری مینماید. اگر محترم عاصم تشریف ندارد، در یک نهاد، همکار وی، اقدام مینماید تا کار به تعویق نیفتد. در صورت که عاصم یگانه شخصی است که میتواند از عهده آن کار براید، در ان صورت وی باید همیشه در دفتر بماند، سفر چند روزه به فلان نقطه کشور از وظایف شخصی نه باید باشد که ضرورت آن تا حدی لازم هست که عضو دیگر کمیسیون نمیتواند، جا گزین او گردد. سفر چند روزه آقا عاصم در تناقص مستقیم با دستور کاری کمیسیون قرار دارد، وظیفه کمیسیون رسیده گی به عرایض است نه تحقیق و پژوهش که متقاضی سفر به ولایات باشد.

اینکه چند شخص معین مظهر یک نهاد میشود عواملی مختلفی دارد. در اکثر نهاد های افغانستان در غیبت یک مامور همکاران دیگر جاگزین وی نمیگردد. مامورین افغانستان، خصوصأ کارمندان دولتی، ارزشی چندانی به مشتریان خود قایل نیستند و تلاش کافی نمی نمایند تا مشکل مراجعین حل گردد. دوم اینکه کمیسیون های چون کیمسیون رادیو تلویزیون به فوریت اقدام خود نمی اندیشند. عدم هم اهنگی میان کارمندان یک اداره، دلیل دیگری است که آنها نمی توانند جای یک همکار غایب را پر کنند. نداشت ظرفیت اداری باعث آن گردیده است که ادارات نتوانند معلومات را طوری ذخیره نمایند که از آن اشخاص متعدد استفاده نمایند. غیر معیاری بودن اسناد باعث آن میشود که صرف یک شخص بتواند از آن استفاده نماید.

Monday, June 25, 2007

GUARDING WHOSE SECURITY?

The 1949, Third Geneva Convention (GCIII) does not recognize the difference between defense contractors and PMCs; it defines a category called supply contractors. If the supply contractor has been issued with a valid identity card from the armed forces which they accompany, they are entitled to be treated as prisoners of war upon capture (GCIII Article 4.1.4). If, however, the contractor engages in combat, he/she can be classified as a mercenary by the captors under the 1997 Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I) Article 47.c, unless falling under an exemption to this clause in Article 47. If captured contractors are found to be mercenaries, they are a unlawful combatants and lose the right to prisoner of war status.

Much of the peacekeeper training the United States provides to Afghan military is done by private firms, and with the increasing absence of Western military support to international peace operations, the private sector is commonly utilized to provide services to peace and stability operations in the south of Afghanistan, mercenaries engages in conventional battles. The Bonn agreement which provides legal ground for presence of international force in Afghanistan is quiet on the issue of mercenaries.
The Uniformed Code of Military Justice does not apply to these contractors in Afghanistan. what law governs their actions? Rumsfeld once answered that Afghanistan has its own domestic laws which he assumed applied to those private military contractors. However, Afghanistan is clearly not currently capable of enforcing its laws, much less against -- over foreign military contractors. there is no solution to the issue of bringing illegal combatant under a system of law in Afghanistan today, the US came up with one which has been criticized widely, american government put illegal Afghan illegal combatant in Guantanamo prison and instead sent thousands of American illegal combatant to Afghanistan.

In theory, private contracting creates competitive pressure to reduce costs, but in practice the bidding process can be so opaque and distorted by favoritism that it becomes an empty formality... The financial savings have turned out to be highly debatable. The costs and attendant risks are not. The government's monopoly of violence -- its role as the guarantor of civil peace and the rule of law -- has been diluted by the new arrangements. Hiring Afghan police is cheaper, and a better security solution too. the total budget of Afghan armed forces on annual basis is less than the amount of money spent on foreign security contractors in Afghanistan. In most of western countries, national labor statistics indicate that more jobs will be created in the private security field than any other categories over the next decade. The number of private guards are in millions in the west.

Several of these private US military contractors have been accused of having been involved in committing war crimes such as the deaths of Iraqis during interrogation. There is no method of formally trying such people for war crimes.
Its in the benefit of Nato to support proper regulation of the industry because it would dispel a lot of the myths and make the situation much clearer.
It would add clarity to what security contractors can and can't do and where they stand with regard to the law.

Monday, June 18, 2007

iran and afghanistan

Iran has given political and material support to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government, but it also may have aided the Taliban guerrillas as a way of hedging its bets inside its eastern neighbor, NATO's top general here suggested Monday.U.S. Army Gen. Dan McNeill, in an interview with The Associated Press, said Taliban fighters are showing signs of better training, using combat techniques to pin down U.S. Special Forces soldiers comparable to "an advanced Western military."Iran's possible role in aiding insurgents has been a hotly debated topic in Iraq, and there were allegations from some Western and Persian Gulf governments last month that the Islamic government in Tehran is secretly bolstering Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. "In Afghanistan it is clear that the Taliban is receiving support, including arms from ... elements of the Iranian regime," British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in the Economist on May 31.Iran — already criticized by the West for a number of issues including its nuclear program — hotly disputes the accusation, saying it is part of a broad anti-Iranian campaign and that it makes no sense for a Shiite-led government like itself to assist the fundamentalist Sunni movement of the Taliban.McNeill, the commander of 36,000 troops in NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said the indications cut both ways. There is "ample evidence" Iran is helping the Karzai government, particularly with road construction and electricity in western Afghanistan, but Iran may also have helped the Taliban and other political opponents of Karzai, he said."So what does that add up to?" McNeill said. "It makes me think of a major American corporation that will give political campaign money to three or four different candidates for president of the United States. ... This corporation wants to be aligned with whomever comes out on top."McNeill, a 60-year-old four-star general from North Carolina who has fought in most American conflicts since Vietnam, said he had no hard evidence that the Iranian government has helped the Taliban. He said munitions, particularly mortar rounds, "clearly ... made in Iran" have been found on the battlefield in Afghanistan, but said that does not prove that the Iranian government is formally involved in aiding Taliban fighters."If I had the information, I would have no reservation about saying it," he added.In a separate interview Monday, Iran's ambassador to Afghanistan denied his government is helping the Taliban."This is not correct," Mohammad R. Bahrami said at Iran's Kabul embassy. "The return of extremism in Afghanistan will affect not only Afghanistan and the region, but the entire world."

Saturday, June 16, 2007

FACTS on al qaida

1. If mostly living in backwards poor countries Moslims are being considered 'Deprived and Depressed' by illiterates of Al Qaeda, 80% of Non Moslims also live in poor countries of the world. 2. 55% of World Population lives in Abject Poverty, while only 20% of Moslims have the same status. 3. Moslims living in the West, advanced countries, Turkey, Central Asian Countries, the countries of northern Africa, Middle East, Malaysia, Brunei etc do not live in Abject Poverty and a life of 'Deprivation and Depression'.4. Kuwait and Brunei are in the list of richest nations of the world and actually Moslim countries of Central Asia, Northern Africa, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Malaysia etc can not be considered 'Poverty-stricken' nations of the world though there could be some pockets of Abject Poverty found in a few of them.5. Al Qaeda is pointing-out to Poverty in Moslim Countries without realizing the reasons of it, which are High Illiteracy Rate, Backwardness and massive Corruption in Poor Moslim Countries.6. Al Qaeda claims to be "waging Allah's war to dissolve the global borders" but it does not explain, why it should not dissolve the borders of its own Moslim people's Countries first. Why Moslims need Visas to visit each others countries and Moslim Countries themselves do not believe in Emigration of even their own Moslim Brothers from other countries? CONCLUSION: Ignorant illiterate Rats of Al Qaeda want to conquer this world by Suicidal Sneak Attack Terrorism but they have no educated people to run this so complicated world that is Philosophically a thousand years ahead of them therefore, their status is no more than House Pests in this Global Village, needing constant Insecticide Sprays.