Which afghan leaders are facing tough questions during their tour of Japan?”
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was set to face tough questions over governance and corruption from one of his country’s major aid donors as he began a five-day visit to Japan on Wednesday. Japan last year pledged up to five billion dollars in aid over five years until 2013, provided the security situation allows projects to go ahead and contingent on guarantees the assistance will not be lost to graft. It is Karzai’s fourth trip to Japan, and his first since he won his second presidential term last November in elections widely criticised as marred by ballot-stuffing and vote-rigging. He flew in late Wednesday ahead of talks Thursday with Japan’s new Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, which will focus on improvement of security and the wider development of the war-torn and dirt-poor central Asian nation.
