Lawmakers look forward to reject Nominees with Duel Nationalities

Lawmakers declared that they have not received the documents of sixteen cabinet nominees as of today.

Afghan leaders announced 16 nominated ministers before they depart Kabul to Washington for a five day visit with the U.S. President Barak Obama and American officials and Ghani delivering speech at the Congress.

The nominees will be introduced officially to Afghan Parliament on Wednesday; likely by the President or one of his deputies, but their educational and personnel documents have not been provided to the House as yet.

Stating the above comments; MPs on Education, Higher Education and International Affairs Commissions of the House insisting that they will reject ministers with dual citizenship after they received the documents proving their multi-nationalities.

Zakria Zakria Kabul MP and a member of the International Affairs Commission in Afghan Parliament said,” Two nominees have dual-citizenship. Saadat Naderi has revoked from his citizenship, but Bari Jahani foreign citizenship is still unclear because he has not provided a letter showing he has cancelled his duel-citizenship officially, we will immediately review their documents once we received”.

In addition, a number of the lawmakers stress that they will not let nominees with dual-citizenship to enter the Parliament.

Humaira Ayoubi a member of the Education and Higher Studies Commission highlighted,” We will deal nominees with double citizenship according to the decision earlier made by the House of Representatives saying those who have a dual-citizenship is not allowed to enter the House before we put ballot boxes and cast our votes of confidence or non-confidence”.

Nominee’s dual-citizenship will be revealed after the House received their official documents.