Karim Khalili

Mohammad Karim Khalili (Persian محمد کریم خلیلی; * 1950 in Qala -yi Chesh, Wardak province, Abdul Karim Khalili ) is current second Vice President of Afghanistan in the government of Hamid Karzai. Khalili was appointed Vice President in 2002, in 2004 he was elected in the wake of the election of Karzai in his present office. Since 1989, he is one of the main leaders of the Hizb -i Wahdat, a party of the ethnic minority Hazara.

Khalili attended a religious school; He actively participated in the Afghan resistance during the Soviet invasion. In the early 1990s, he also served as finance minister in the government of the Mujahideen.

In a report of the Afghan Human Rights Commission ( AIHRC ) at the time between 2003 and 2005 he was accused of involvement in human rights violations.

According to a report in the New York Times of 23 June 2012, which reported on the existence of a mapping of the human rights violations of the AIHRC, the fact his name is called.