On the first day of his one-year long tour in Afghanistan an American military officer advising his Afghan counterpart in an Afghan Ministry says "If you appoint your nephew to a high-level position on your staff that is corruption!" On the last day of his one-year tour in Afghanistan an American military officer advising his Afghan counterpart in an Afghan Ministry says "If you don't appoint your nephew to a high-level position on your staff that is corruption!"Something to ponder.
In a related article, Pajhwok Afghan News has published an article entitled "Nepotism detected in appointing diplomats" stating that most of the diplomats in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) appointed " . . . are family members and relatives of government officials and lawmakers and their appointments appeared to be based on nepotism . . . "
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