{"id":84020,"date":"2017-02-11T07:22:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T07:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/calls-for-training-and-equipping-the-ansf\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T07:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T07:22:48","slug":"calls-for-training-and-equipping-the-ansf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/calls-for-training-and-equipping-the-ansf\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for training and equipping the ANSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"630\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/feb\/11\/necalsun.jpg\" width=\"973\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Welcoming the proposed surge in US troops in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has underlined the need for more military aid and training for the Afghan forces.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Gen. John W. Nicholson, Commander of NATO&#39;s Resolute Support Mission and US Forces &ndash; Afghanistan, told the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee that &lsquo;few thousand&rsquo; more troops are needed to more effectively train and advise Afghan soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Dawlat Waziri, the MoD spokesman, welcomed this proposed move while talking to Salam Watandar. Gen. Waziri urged upon the international community to unite against terrorism in Afghanistan. &ldquo;We shall be supported to strengthen our army so that they can effectively defend the country from the menace of terrorism&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a number of experts on security affairs believe the Afghan forces need more military aid and training than a simple surge of the foreign troops in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kabul Khan Tadbeer, an analyst, said the conflict can only be resolved with effective training of the country&rsquo;s armed forces and sustainable military aid. Gen. Atiqullah Amarkhail, former Air Chief, said Afghanistan&rsquo;s Air Force needs to be upgraded. He added equipping and training the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) would prove handy to ensure peace in the country.<\/p>\n<p>There are approximately 13500 foreign troops in Afghanistan, up to 8400 of them are American.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Welcoming the proposed surge in US troops in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has underlined the need for more military aid and training for the Afghan forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}