Your puppet in Afghanistan

"Earlier this year, he pardoned five convicted heroin traffickers, apparently to win the support of an important political family in Jalalabad. “It’s not pardoning criminals, it’s giving a new opportunity to an 18 year old whose family paid tremendous sacrifice for this land,” he told me. Yet by contrast for a year he refused endless pleas from diplomats to pardon Pervez Kambaksh, a 23-year-old journalist sentenced to death for downloading material on women’s rights from the Internet."