Afghanistan’s Unity Government Not So United

Abstract

On August 11, 2016, media reports claimed that Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah criticized President Ashraf Ghani for failing to work collaboratively claiming that he had been left out of key decisions, and deemed Ghani arrogant and undeserving to serve the government. Abdullah also bemoaned that not even a single one-on-one meeting had been held between him and Ghani in the last three months. The Ghani camp responded calling Abdullah’s remarks as ‘not in line with the standards and spirit of governance, insisting that principles and legal criteria formed the basis of executive decisions that had been made.’