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AFGHANISTAN DAILY DIGEST
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From: Abe Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 16:15:11 EST
CABINET RESHUFFLE IN AFGHANISTAN
President Hamid Karzai on 28 January appointed Ali Ahmad Jalali as the
new interior minister, replacing Taj Mohammad Wardak, who was appointed
ministerial adviser on tribal affairs and named a member of the National
Security Council, Radio Free Afghanistan reported. Jalali completed his
military studies in Afghanistan, the United Kingdom, and Turkey and
served as an army officer in Afghanistan until the communist takeover in
1978, the report added. Prior to his appointment, Jalali served in
Washington as the head of Voice of America's Pashtu service. After the
conclusion of the 2001 Bonn Agreement, Mohammad Yunus Qanuni was
selected interior minister, but following the June Loya Jirga he stepped
down as part of a compromise to balance the ethnic representation of the
Afghan cabinet. Qanuni now serves as education minister. During Wardak's
tenure, criminal activity increased in Kabul, and he was criticized for
his handling of the 11-12 November student protests at Kabul University
(see "RFE/RL Newsline," 14 November 2002). AT
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