Afghan rivals’ power-sharing deal would promote official accused of rape and torture

Afghanistan’s months’ long dispute over who won last year’s presidential election is near resolution after a draft power-sharing deal was agreed by incumbent Ashraf Ghani and his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah, local media reported. Controversially it would make former vice-president Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is accused of ordering the torture and rape of a political rival, marshal of the Afghan armed forces, and a senior government official. It comes after heavy pressure from the US to resolve the eight month standoff at the top of Afghan politics, to smooth the way for a new administration to start US-brokered peace...