Clearing out the warlords
But will the result be chaos?
AFGHANISTAN'S interior minister, Ali Ahmad Jalali, is not afraid of having a go at the country's unruly strongmen. In the spring, he tried to take on the warlord of the west, Ismail Khan. In the summer, he helped get rid of the hapless warlord of the south, Gul Agha Sherzai. Now he is hoping to drag to Kabul the twin warlords of the north, Rashid Dostum and Atta Mohammed, and run their fiefs with a man of his choosing.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Clearing out the warlords”
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