Pakistan Is Quietly Shopping for New Proxies in Afghanistan

Pakistan Is Quietly Shopping for New Proxies in Afghanistan

In September 2024, I met Yasin Zia, founder of the Afghan Freedom Front, and Daoud Naji, the party’s political committee leader, in a plush restaurant in London. Time had been gentle on the silver-haired general, but Naji, a former BBC journalist, looked tired and time-worn. The two men had once been enemies, fighting on opposing sides of Afghanistan’s brutal civil war that followed the mujahedeen victory over the Soviets in 1992. Both later ser…

ExxonMobil Defends Efforts to Vote Its Own Proxies

Two shareholder advocates with shares in ExxonMobil, As You Sow and Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), requested that the SEC rescind its approval. On October 14, the City of Hollywood Police Officers’ Retirement System, a pension fund, sued ExxonMobil and its directors for allegedly violating their fiduciary duty with the adoption of the program. Both the lawsuit and request from As You Sow and ICCR expressed concern that th…