41.   The challenges to the plunder charge were criticized by prosecutors as a delaying tactic.

42.   The company accused the state government of using a delaying tactic by trying to halt the international arbitration in favor of a settlement procedure in India.

43.   The move appeared to be a delaying tactic by the defense.

44.   Defence lawyer Abdul Waheed Katpar dismissed the move as a delaying tactic.

45.   Mosheb said a decision by Karzai not to address delegates until the afternoon on the make-up of a new parliament was a deliberate delaying tactic.