{"id":86544,"date":"2017-11-21T07:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T07:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/the-afghan-government-forms-the-local-forces\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T07:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T07:08:23","slug":"the-afghan-government-forms-the-local-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/the-afghan-government-forms-the-local-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afghan government forms the \u201clocal forces\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"339\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/November\/21\/download.jpg\" width=\"605\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">KABUL (SW): New troops under the umbrella of the Ministry of Defense called &ldquo;local or regional forces&rdquo; will be created soon; their task will be to provide temporary security to areas under government control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">Gen. Dawlat Waziri, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense, told Salam Watandar that the numbers of these troops will be between 15,000 and 20,000. Gen. Dawlat Waziri stressed that these forces will not be militia and that all activities will be under the control of the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">The British newspaper Guardian, however, said in its latest report that based on the US strategy; militia forces will emerge in Afghanistan though this new plan has faced stong reactions from the supporting countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">But officials at the Ministry of Defense considered the global concerns about the creation of local militia to be unfounded and said that the plan will be implement soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"357\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/November\/21\/\u062f\u0631\u06af\u06cc\u0631\u06cc-\u0645\u0633\u0644\u062d\u0627\u0646\u0647.jpg\" width=\"595\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">But, will the creation of local forces affect Afghanistan&#39;s security? The experts have different positions in answering this question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">Abdul Ghafar Gardezi, expert on military affairs, said if these forces were really under the control of the Ministry of Defense and controlled by Afghan government officials, it will for sure have a positive impact on the security in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">Atiquallah Amarkheil, another expert on military affairs, however, believed that the creation of local (regional) forces will merely widen the scope of war. According to Amarkheil, it will be difficult to attract about 15,000 troops, so all of which are committed to common national interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">Officials at the Ministry of Defense believed the creation of local (or regional) forces to be a way to increase the security forces. According to them, supporting countries have promised financial support for the 195,000 troops in Afghanistan and therefore they are obliged to support the creation of local forces to increase the number of troops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New troops under the umbrella of the Ministry of Defense called \u201cregional forces\u201d will be created soon; their task will be to provide temporary security to areas under government control. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-86544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86544","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=86544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}