RULING PARTY’S LIST OF CANDIDATES REVEALS PRESIDENT ALIYEV’S DESIRE NOT TO “ROCK THE BOAT”
By Alman Mir Ismail (8/24/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: President Ilham Aliyev was elected to the Presidency on October 15, 2003, on the expectation that he would conduct cadre changes and bring new, young faces into the government. Being young himself, President Aliyev was said to be wanting to give more power to the team of young, Western-educated and reform-minded specialists. This even caused rumors in the local media that President Aliyev was at odds with the “old guard”, the team that once supported and served as the power base for his father, President Heydar Aliyev.BAKIEV-KULOV HONEYMOON IN KYRGYZSTAN: OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS
By Ainura Cholponkulova (8/24/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The presidential elections of July 10 ended the controversy over the legitimacy of the presidential power since the March Revolution that ousted former President Askar Akayev. The southerner and acting prime minister Kurmanbek Bakiev won the presidential race in an election competing with six candidates. According to civil society activists’ polls, 88% of citizens voted against the ousted former regime and for stability in the country.UZBEKISTAN: GRAND STRATEGY OR STRATEGIC FAILURE?
By Farkhad Tolipov (8/24/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: At first glance, the recent tragedy in Andijan – a provincial Uzbek town in the Fergana Valley – is an internal affair of Uzbekistan. That is how Uzbekistan responded to demands from the U.S.TALIBAN-STYLE LAW IRKS MUSHARRAF REGIME
By Naveed Ahmad (7/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Under the new law, the North West Frontier Province government would appoint ombudsmen (mohtasibs) – those who hold others accountable – at provincial, district and village levels to ensure that people respect the call to prayers, pray on time, and do not engage in commerce during the Friday prayers besides stopping unrelated men and women from appearing in public places together, and discourage singing and dancing. With a religious police under his command as an enforcement arm, the army of newly-appointed mohtasibs would also monitor the media to ensure ‘useful for the promotion of Islamic values’. Besides General Musharraf’s regime, human rights organizations, politicians and media bodies see the attempt by the religious clerics to ‘effectively install ultra-conservative rule’ in the province, conflicting with fundamental rights enshrined in the 1973 constitution and violating personal freedoms.Visit also
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