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Civil war -- not just yet -- but not promising.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Militia forces loyal to the Afghan vice president, the former warlord Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, fought a gun battle with a group of northern Tajik demonstrators in the heart of Kabul on Thursday, leaving at least one person dead and several wounded in a chaotic scene that shook the country’s civil-war fault lines from a generation ago.
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President Ashraf Ghani called an emergency meeting of his national security council, officials said, but General Dostum would not attend. Western diplomats were trying to intervene to calm the situation.
It was a troubling start to an already challenging month ahead for Mr. Ghani’s government. The government faces a test from a different ethnic demonstration — led by the Hazara minority — scheduled to take place in another part of Kabul on Friday. And important political deadlines for the government were already being missed because of an intensifying political opposition and governmental infighting.
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Article here, excerpts below:
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militia forces loyal to the Afghan vice president, the former warlord Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, fought a gun battle with a group of northern Tajik demonstrators in the heart of Kabul on Thursday, leaving at least one person dead and several wounded in a chaotic scene that shook the country’s civil-war fault lines from a generation ago.
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President Ashraf Ghani called an emergency meeting of his national security council, officials said, but General Dostum would not attend. Western diplomats were trying to intervene to calm the situation.
It was a troubling start to an already challenging month ahead for Mr. Ghani’s government. The government faces a test from a different ethnic demonstration — led by the Hazara minority — scheduled to take place in another part of Kabul on Friday. And important political deadlines for the government were already being missed because of an intensifying political opposition and governmental infighting.
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