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Afghan parliament dismisses another minister

Xinhua, November 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

Afghan Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of parliament dismissed another minister on Tuesday over failure in spending development budget, bringing the number of disqualified ministers to seven since launching the process of no trust move on Saturday.

"Since the Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Abdul Razaq Wahidi has failed to secure vote of confidence from the lawmakers he has been disqualified and I am calling upon the president to introduce new face for the post," deputy speaker of the house, Abdul Zahir Qadir said in the session broadcast live by Tolo television channel.

However, he added that the the ministers for Counter-Narcotics, Water & Power and minister of Agriculture and Livestock have survived the move.

The Afghan government has 25 ministries and more ministers will be summoned in coming days to the Lower House of parliament over failure in spending development budget and a few more ministers might be disqualified in coming days.

Afghan reports say the majority of the government's budgeting sectors including ministries have failed to spend even half of the allocated development budgets in past 10 months. Endit