Sentence examples for old warlords from inspiring English sources

Much of it also still goes to keeping old warlords in line.

Many of the old warlords in charge before the Taliban are now installing themselves throughout Afghanistan.

He seeks to set a counterexample to the old warlords and politicians who constantly warn of another civil war.

Still, moving these old warlords aside to make room for fresher, more technocratic faces in government must be a long-term aim.

Other nations in the coalition have warned that any delay in securing order in Kabul would allow old warlords to become entrenched, and would endanger the interim administration.

"They regard women's rights as an add-on that's unimportant, and won't face the implications of backing the same old warlords they have been backing since 1979.

The other man's voice is well known to millions of Afghans as that of Ismail Khan, the old warlord who long controlled Herat as his personal fief and is now a member of President Hamid Karzai's cabinet.

The case of the Haqqani network, run by an old warlord family, underscores the thorny decisions that will have to be made over which Taliban-linked insurgents should win some sort of amnesty and play a role in the future of Afghanistan.

But then the tranquility of the image, which turns out to be a dream, is overtaken by the story of a young girl named Zainab (played by Sahela Aref) promised in marriage to an old warlord, as a way for rival tribes to come together.

Mr. Karzai and the three Northern Alliance leaders who are expected to dominate the cabinet are from a generation of younger moderates who say they are different from the generation of older warlords who ravaged the country in the early 1990's.

Amanullah is a 43-year-old warlord whose family has controlled this plain through tumultuous times: the siege by the Soviets, internecine fighting with Ismail Khan, the governor of Herat in the early 1990's and once again, and Taliban rule.