Brokers representing several presidential candidates in Afghanistan are super-busy fixing multimillion dollar secret deals which will reshape a new political landscape for the country’s upcoming elections, sources tell KblPolitics.   Eleven men have officially been registered to run for the top office in Afghanistan but not all of them will stand until the polling day,…

The atmosphere at Sunday’s National Security Council meetings in the Presidential Palace in Kabul has increasingly turned dull and divisive over the past two months, according to three cabinet members. As soon as the meetings, which are normally chaired by President Hamid Karzai, conclude several participants rush to their BlackBerries and iPhones to email or…

The Obama Administration’s denial of its failed putsch to oust Karzai is like Clinton’s refusal he fucked Lewinsky. “Make this son of a bitch famous. Put him everywhere on TV and radio,” Richard Holbrooke, former US Af-Pak envoy told Saad Mohseni, a US-declared media mogul of Afghanistan, at a meeting in the US Embassy in…

Alcohol and extramarital sex are considered heavy crimes in Afghanistan but if you’re an Afghan VIP you’re virtually free to commit both Islamic sins at deeply secretive parties in Kabul or during highly lavish trips abroad.   Booze and sex are two common to-dos in the private agenda of most Afghan officials, business tycoons and…

In the midst of an economic downturn in the US, one would ask why Washington has thrown over $3 millions to a media entity and an NGO to produce pre-election opinion surveys in Afghanistan. Conversations with three credible sources in Kabul have revealed to this writer that the US Government has doled out more than…

In the midst of an economic downturn in the US, one would ask why Washington has thrown over $3 millions to a media entity and an NGO to produce pre-election opinion surveys in Afghanistan. Conversations with three credible sources in Kabul have revealed to this writer that the US Government has doled out more than…

Jawed Ludin earned over US$11,000 a month when he worked first as President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman and then as his chief of staff in 2004-2007. Through several donors-funded projects including “Bridging the Information Gap” which was administered by the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) and another project which was bankrolled by The Asia Foundation (TAF),…

 “How dare Karzai deny a U.S. Congressman entry to his fucked country,” burst Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican lawmaker in the U.S. Congress, over the telephone from Dubai to an aide in Washington, DC.   It was 20 April 2012 and the Californian representative was on his way, along with several other fellow lawmakers, to Kabul…

It was 11:30pm and almost three hours into an intense discussion in a mini-palace in central Kabul on 7 December 2013. The participants, a small group of super-rich political elites, had gathered to hear classified briefings from two comrades-in-cause – Bismillah Mohammadi, Afghan defense minister, and Salahuddin Rabbani, chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council.…