MPs Approve Interior Minister And Attoey General

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شنبه 21 حمل 1395 ساعت 12:30 نوشته شده توسط TOLOnews.com

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Gen. Taj Mohammad Jahid is Afghanistan's new Interior Minister and Farid Hamidi is the new Attoey General.

In a vote of confidence in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) MPs on Saturday approved Jahid's nomination.

He received 190 votes in his favor out of a total of 225 votes.

Meanwhile, former Human Rights Commissioner Hamidi was also approved, as Attoey General.

He received 200 votes in his favor out of a total of 225.

Jahid, who has until recently served as commander of the army's 207th Corps in weste Afghanistan was nominated along with Hamidi in February.

Both nominations were formally approved by parliament on Saturday. Jahid's approval comes as former interior minister, Noorul Haq Olomi stepped down in February and was appointed as ambassador to the Netherlands.

Until Saturday, all three security branches – the defense and interior ministries and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) – were being led by caretakers.

Recently, MPs blocked several of President Ashraf Ghani's appointments, including all his nominations for defense minister.

Following the vote of confidence, CEO Abdullah Abdullah took to Twitter and said: "I thank the parliament for their vote of confidence to Attoey General and Minister of Interior. It is another step forward."

He said: "Govement is committed to introducing the right and competent people to the rest of the vacant positions in the near future."

Biographies:

Taj Mohammad Jahid

According to the official biography on the website of the Ministry of Defence, Taj Mohammad Jahid was bo in 1964 in Omarz village of Panjshir province. He is a cousin of former Defense Minister, the late Marshal Fahim.

Before he was appointed acting interior minister in February 2016, Jahid exclusively served in the army; he has no previous experience in the police force. He was the Commander of 207th Zafar Military Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in Herat (from 2012-2016). Before, he was the commander of the Defense University (2011-12), of the Qomandaniat Qarargah (2006-11) and the 209th Shahin Military Corps in Mazar-e Sharif (2003-06).

He was promoted to Major General in 2002. Jahid obtained the degree of a ma'awen-e daktari (below a full doctorate) from Kabul Military University (formerly, the Military Academy) "in the early years after establishment of the new govement in 2001" and had advanced military training in Pakistan during the war against the Soviet occupation, in 1988 and onwards.

He apparently joined the mujahedin at the age of 16 (in 1981) and served in two positions under the Rabbani regime (during the factional wars in the 1990s): as commander of a commando unit, the Ghund-e Zarbati, starting in 1992, and commander of the Mechanized Battalion of the NDS, starting in 1993. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1993. During the subsequent war with the Taliban, he was a military commander under Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Mohammad Farid Hamidi

Mohammad Farid Hamidi was bo in Nangarhar province on 24 August 1967. He holds a Bachelor degree in Criminology from the Kabul Police Academy and a Bachelor degree in Political Sciences from Kabul University. He later obtained a Master's Degree in Criminal Law from Azad Islamic University in Pakistan, and a Master' Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University in the United States, around 2015. He is a well-known lawyer with extensive experience in criminology and investigation.

Before Hamidi was introduced as candidate for the post of Attoey General, he served as a commissioner in the AIHRC (2002-13). He was appointed deputy chairperson in July 2013, before he took leave to study for his public administration degree at Harvard. While at the AIHRC, he also chaired the Advisory Board to the President of Afghanistan on Senior Appointments and was an advisor to the Policy and Management Unit of the President's office. In 2005, he was a commissioner of the first Independent Electoral Complaints Commission. In the first half of 2002, he was a member of the Independent Commission for the Preparation of the Emergency Loya Jirga.

During the Taliban regime, he led a circle of students in the political underground and later a human rights group, operating from a small office in Peshawar, initially without inteational support. Hamidi has good relations with civil society organizations and inteational human rights networks. He was co-founder of some civil society organizations, including the Free and Fair Election Foundation (FEFA) in 2004 and a member of inteational human rights organizations, like the Asia Pacific Forum for Human Rights. – TOLOnews.com, additional information from www.afghanistan-analysts.org

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