MPs Criticize Govt’s Policy on National Issues

 AVA- Some lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on Wednesday accused the Afghan government of sowing the seeds of division among the different ethnic groups and of conspiring against politicians instead of focusing on national challenges. 
 
The first deputy speaker of parliament, Humayoun Humayoun, said government is deliberately putting up obstacles in the way of Second Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum’s return to the country and said this was against the law. 
 
“I am not confident about the mental health of the president, because he has slapped a ban on the second vice president and it is totally unlawful,” said Humayoun. 
 
“I have conducted investigations over the past six months and now I realize that a conspiracy is going on for the physical removal of Dostum,” said MP Abdul Sattar Darzabi.
 
But government has rejected the claims. 
 
“I want to make it clear to the people of Afghanistan that those who speak about nationalism do not represent the Pashtun people whether they are ministers, deputies or anyone else,” said MP Abdul Rahim Ayoubi. 
 
“The law prohibiting discrimination is crucial, just like the law against corruption; you (MPs) need to ask government to prepare a law prohibiting discrimination  or introducing such a plan which can be defined by the members (of parliament) so that no one, including the president, lawmakers and government employees, can carry out any acts of discrimination,” said MP Arif Rahmani. 
 
This comes a week after close aides to Dostum said he might return to the country in the near future. 
 
Dostum has been living in Turkey for the past six months.