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Senate rejects HRW report on Khalid as ‘biased, baseless’

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KABUL or Senate members on Sunday criticized the Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s allegations against the acting defense minister Asadullah Khalid as ‘biased’ and ‘baseless’.

A recent HRW report said ‘credible evidence of serious human rights abuses and war crimes linked to Khalid have followed him throughout his government career.

An official internal Canadian document described the allegations of human rights abuses attributable to Khalid as “numerous and consistent,” the watchdog said in a statement on Saturday.

Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin testified to a . . .

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