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| Pakistan Leads War in Southern Afghanistan: Gen. Raziq |
| 2015-08-13 |
| [Tolo News] Famed Kandahar Police Chief General Raziq this week accused Pakistain of criminal masterminding the war against Afghan cops in southern Afghanistan. Gen. Raziq, who is renowned for his unflinching style of opposition to Talibs and his effectiveness in combating them over the years, currently leads the operation for retaking Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... 's Nawzad district, which fell into Lion of Islam hands earlier this summer. "There is a mafia in Helmand, the drug smuggling mafia, and this is a continuation from the past," Raziq told TOLOnews on Wednesday. "We should know one thing, which is that the war here is the war of Punjabis and Pakistain's slaves. They don't want a stabilized Afghanistan." The comments come after a major shift in relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain in the wake of a wave of deadly Taliban suicide kabooms in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... over the past week, which left over 70 innocent civilians dead and hundreds maimed. On Monday, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. said in a presser that Pakistain had reneged on its commitments to quell Taliban activity and demanded that Islamabad take action to prevent the Lion of Islam group from continuing its reign of terror inside Afghanistan. Gen. Raziq emphasized the importance of the battle for Helmand. "Helmand is one of the provinces through which good income could be earned for the country, but all the benefit is under the control of Death Eaters and they don't want us to use Helmand's income," he said. He also voiced criticism of Kabul's approach toward combating the Lion of Islams. "There is a mistake in the central government; this mistake is that they come here to ensure security, but they stay inside bases and police headquarters." According to Raziq, a greater police presence on the ground in Helmand would hugely benefit the province's security. Despite the challenges, Raziq remained optimistic, and said Helmand's security issues are solvable. "All the security forces have to coordinate with each other," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |