AFGHANISTAN will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged yesterday in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government’s first term.

Afghanistan president Hamid Mr Karzai today promised to root out his government’s endemic corruption in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his first term.

Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai promised in his inauguration speech today that he will prosecute corrupt government officials.