Human Rights Watch has expressed pessimism about Afghanistan’s capacity to bring human rights violators to account, pointing to the lack of political will under President Hamid Karzai to address massive right abuses in the past.
Afghan presidential candidate Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf has dismissed allegations that he perpetrated human rights abuses during Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1990s.
Zahir Tanin, Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nation, says his country expects continued international assistance after the withdrawal of most Western troops this year.
