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| Baghlan Police Chief: No Mercy for Taliban |
| 2014-08-14 |
| [Tolo News] The Police Chief of Baghlan province has issued his officers shoot-to-kill orders when engaging Talibs. The move comes as police and military commanders around the country have ramped-up efforts to put Lions of Islam on their heels following major Taliban offensives in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. provinces. "We have told our soldiers, in order to prevent the release of Taliban from prisons and the judicial systems, that they should be killed and must be punished for what they have done," Baghlan Police Chief General Aminullah Amarkhail said on Wednesday. Many Afghan security officials and politicians have blamed government policies that have led to the releasing of suspected murderous Moslems from custody for the recent slue of Taliban advancements. General Amarkhail's orders follow a similar approach taken by the famously tough Kandahar Police Chief, General Razaq. "No matter where the operations are, I have ordered my soldiers to not let Taliban live from now on," he said. The District Governor of Hesarak in Nangarhar, where the Taliban recently launched a major offensive, has also asked his police commanders to not show any mercy toward Taliban fighters. "I tell all commanders, no matter where they find the Taliban, they should not be brought in alive," said District Governor Abdul Khaliq Maroof. While praising the decisions of the police commanders, MPs this week added that their hands were forced. "The police chiefs are present in the district and know that local people are being killed [by Taliban], local commanders are closer to the local people than those in Presidential Palace," MP Naheed Farid said. President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , who has promoted a more lenient approach toward the Taliban in his last months in office, has been the focus of much of the criticisms surrounding releases of suspected myrmidons. Some fear the lack of will for fighting the Taliban at the highest levels of power in Kabul will undermine the commanders efforts. "Since there is not very much motivation in the capital, and ministers do not have a strategy against the Taliban, I don't think that the commanders' statements will have any effect," Helmand MP Abdul Hay Akhundzada said. Taliban Lions of Islam have undertaken major efforts to disrupt security in parts of Eastern, Western and Northern provinces this summer. But local officials in these provinces have maintained that they have mobilized their forces for a quick and effective response. |
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