KABUL, Afghanistan — The chief of Afghanistan’s antigraft commission has called for the country’s finance minister to step aside while he is being investigated in connection with corruption allegations, even as the minister appealed to his Western backers for support.
The back and forth is just one element of what appears to be a widening shake-up in some of the Afghan government’s most powerful ministries, and notably ones that play a critical role in working with the country’s biggest Western supporters, officials say.
The Ministries of Defense, Interior, Mining and Finance — linchpins of United States plans for troop withdrawal and for long-term Afghan development — have all come under intense pressure in recent weeks. The cases are rooted in different political tensions, but taken together they raise the prospect that the West’s already tenuous relationship with the Afghan government could become even less stable.
“Those four ministers constitute the core of the team that we work with and are major liaisons with the international community,” said one senior Western diplomat, who, like other diplomats, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the political situation. “We have to be honest with ourselves and the Afghans and encourage them to conduct proper investigations so that either the accusations are upheld and there are judicial proceedings or they are dispelled.”
Starting in July, a serious altercation between cabinet members has played out over a new mining law that the mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, with advice from Western consultants, has advocated, saying it would give international mining companies the certainty they need to make substantial investments. Passage was blocked by several other cabinet members, who expressed concerns that the draft law gave away too much to international interests, and their view was publicly supported by President Hamid Karzai.
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