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Can Afghanistan take a joke? Afghan Onion stinging government officials

They have referred to First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, a feared former Afghan militia commander with a reputation for enjoying his alcohol, as the "Vodka General."

They called Mohammad Mohaqeq, another ex-militia commander accused of human rights abuses during the civil war of the 1990s, the nation's "fifth vice president." It was a dig both at Mohaqeq — whose actual title is second deputy to the chief executive — and at the unwieldiness of Afghanistan's unity government.

In little more than a month since its launch, the writers behind Afghan Onion, an English-language satirical website, have spared few of the country's top political figures.