Rahimullah Samander
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Herat's local power baron is locking up potential opponents in the run-up to the grand assembly.
The constitutional process appears endangered by disputes over the issues of national language and dual citizenship.
The coordinating committee has yet to finish its work on 38 of the 160 articles that will make up Afghanistan’s new constitution.
Nervous authorities drag their heals over report into confrontation between Pashtun and ethnic Tajik university students.
The supreme court proposes the death penalty for two journalists who criticised Islamic practice.