{"id":6162,"date":"2021-09-15T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2021-09-15T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:20:59","slug":"talibans-military-chief-vows-to-put-together-a-professional-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/09\/talibans-military-chief-vows-to-put-together-a-professional-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban\u2019s military chief vows to put together a professional army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Taliban\u2019s designated military chief for Afghanistan has vowed to put together a professional army for the country in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qari Fassihuddin, the Taliban&#8217;s chief of staff, said this during a meeting in Kabul. He said that the Taliban would establish a strong and orderly army in the future. He added that consultations are underway on the creation of the army.<\/p>\n<p>Fassihuddin stressed that the army&#8217;s forces must be trained to be able to protect Afghanistan. The Taliban&#8217;s chief of staff also said they are cracking down on those who stand up to the group in the name of ethnicity and resistance and claim to &#8220;support democracy&#8221; and preserve its 20-year achievements.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, such individuals seek to disrupt security and lead the country to civil war. The Taliban chief of staff said no one will be allowed to disrupt security or ransack Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>He did not name specific individuals or groups, but following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Ahmad Massoud traveled to Panjshir with a group of his party forces and the former government forces, including former First Vice President Amrullah Saleh, to form the National Resistance Front to fight the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Taliban\u2019s designated military chief for Afghanistan has vowed to put together a professional army for the country in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,13,308],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-army"],"views":517,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}