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Supreme State Council to Have Decision-Making Authority: Aide
The Supreme State Council, which the government and political leaders have been working to finalize for the last few weeks, will have the authority to make decisions and provide advice on peace, war and the country’s foreign relations, a senior presidential adviser confirmed on Monday.
Akram Khpulwak, President Ashraf Ghani’s political adviser and the deputy head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said that discussions on the number of members and the structure of the Supreme State Council have been finalized, but talks are underway to decide the date of its first meeting.
Govt Accused of Coercing MPs Over Budget
As the face-off over the current fiscal year’s budget intensifies, some lawmakers said the Afghan government has begun putting pressure on MPs by removing their relatives from public institutions, calling it such acts “illegal.”
The Parliament has rejected the budget plan two times in less than a month, citing at least 19 reasons behind this decision.
One MP said that the National Directorate of Security has been involved in political tumult and has removed 10 of its employees who are relatives of legislators.
The legislators accused the president, the national security adviser and the head of the Administrative Office of the President of conspiracy and said those illegally removed from jobs included, in the NDS, the brother of Hamida Ahmadzai, the husband of Robina Jalali, Lailuma Wali Hukmi’s husband, and others whose relatives voted against the budget.