One month after President Ashraf Ghani fired Balkh provincial governor Mohammad Atta Noor, the Jamiat-e-Islami party’s CEO threatened civil rebellion if talks between the party and government failed to provide results.

Noor also said he would impose a deadline for government if an agreement was not reached.

Mohammad Natiqi, the head of the commission overseeing the implementation of the political agreement of the National Unity Government (NUG), reiterated a call on Wednesday for radical reforms to be implemented in the Constitution of Afghanistan so as to curb the president’s power.

Right now, the president has an enormous amount of power, in accordance with the Constitution; the president holds extraordinary powers “like a Sultan” and the Constitution needs to be amended, said Natiqi.