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Afghanistan
Many Afghan soldiers fled to Pakistan after Kabul’s fall, says US report Anwar Iqbal
2022-05-23
Not really news to our readers, but it’s nice that the report is finally issued less than a year later.
[Dawn] Many soldiers of the former Afghan government fled to Pakistain after the fall of Kabul, says an official US report while pointing out that the fall of border crossings into Pakistain and Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
also contributed to the collapse of the former Afghan government.

The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reported this week that in July 2021, the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
"started seizing border crossings with Pakistain and Iran, depriving the Afghan government of critical customs revenues".

The report noted that Afghan soldiers started crossing into Pakistain weeks before Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.

"Many Afghan soldiers reportedly escaped to Pakistain as the Taliban attacks on districts and scenic provincial capitals intensified weeks before the Afghan government’s collapse," the report added.

The UN refugee agency UNHCR reported early this year that more than 300,000 Afghans had fled to Pakistain between August 2021 and January 2022. But it did not say how many of those were from the military.

On July 26, 2021, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency reported that 46 members of the Afghan forces, including five officers, crossed into Chitral.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  If they had any sense they did.
Posted by: Chris   2022-05-23 09:53  

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