Date of Release: 28 August 2006

Arg, Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, assigned Abdul Jabbar Sabbit, the Attorney General of Afghanistan, to take widespread and decisive action against corruption and bribery and to fight all types of corruption in the Government offices.

In today’s cabinet meeting, the President instructed the Attorney General to take widespread and decisive action against the perpetrators of corruption and said to the cabinet: “I am assigning the Attorney General to crack down, arrest, and prosecute the perpetrators of corruption in the Government offices. I am assigning him to take decisive actions in eliminating corruption at all levels, even if its tentacles reach high levels of the Government, and to present a report to me.”

Attorney General Sabit was invited to the cabinet meeting to report on the current status of corruption in the country.

The President called on the Cabinet Ministers to spare no effort in cooperating with the Attorney General and other relevant authorities to eliminate corruption and bribery in the Government offices.

The President instructed the Attorney General to start implementing administrative reforms beginning with the Attorney General office in order to create an efficient and corrupt-free agency.

For further information, please contact:

Office of the Spokesman to the President

Tel.:  + 93 (0) 799 33 77 55

        + 93 (0) 799 90 94 29

Released by the Office of the Spokesman to the President