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Afghanistan

MPs: Govt Policy on Public Forces 'Suddenly Changed'

2021-07-13

[ToloNews] Lawmakers and members of political parties said that the government’s policy toward public uprising forces has suddenly changed as it does not want to provide financial and military support to those who have taken up arms against the Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
The public forces were formed in various provinces, mostly in the north, after the fall of territory to the Taliban. The public forces said the government should provide them with military equipment and financial support.

"The people of Afghanistan have fought for 40 years and have weapons, too. Now, they have picked up guns to protect their dignity and life. They have even purchased weapons," said former mujahedeen commander Mohammad Ismail Khan.

...one of the Northern Alliance/Jamiat-e Islami warlords, the Herat Tajik was an Afghan National Army captain under the Communists, mujahideen commander against the Soviets, twice governor of Herat province — first for the mujahideen, then after the Taliban were defeated — and finally Hamid Karzai’s Minister of Energy and Water. He no doubt expected that at 75 he would be sitting back and enjoying less active maneuvers as an elder statesman...

"There is morale in the districts where there are a large number of public forces, but they lack military equipment," said Fatima Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
i, an MP from Ghor.

Two analysts said that the government has stopped support for public uprising forces even as the Taliban threat remains.

"The government called the loss of districts a tactical retreat, but these districts were handed over one after another to keep the public uprising forces at a level that cannot fight the Talibs," said Rahmatullah Bezhanpoor, a university lecturer.

"The government has lost useful opportunities for peace and I think that it has not sent equipment and weapons to them," an MP from Badakhshan

...Badakhshan plays host to the Al Qaeda-linked colony of Uighur jihadis who call themselves the Turkistan Islamic Party. TIP is listed under Tehrik-e-Taliban in the Al Qaeda organization table...

Waqif Hakimi said.

However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
the government has made statements about its support for the public uprising forces without giving details.

"The public uprising forces have been provided the required support. Don’t ask for information from me. Some issues are not appropriate to talk about," said senior presidential adviser Waheed Omer at a press briefing on Monday.

"The National Security Council, Ministries of Defense and Interior, as well as the NDS, are working together to organize the forces, do the biometric registration and address all problems in this respect," said the head of the government’s media and information center Dawa Khan Minapal.

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