More than 12700 International Troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2016: Nicholson

The commander, Resolute Support Mission and United States Forces – Afghanistan Gen, John W. Nicholson in brief has stated that some the Afghan unit’s leaders are plugged with poor leaderships, incompetence and corruption, they need to be replaced, to shape and set the conditions for the security forces to seize the initiatives and take the fight to enemies and the counter insurgency.

He also urged that there more than 12700 ally soldiers are committed to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2016.

The European Union Special Representative in Afghanistan Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin stated that too many within the police forces   their loyalty not to the Ministry not to their superiors to people to belong to power structures outside of the Ministry and outside of the state.

The commander, Resolute Support Mission and United States Forces – Afghanistan Gen, John W. Nicholson said,” As your vision states you need leaders and officers ready to work harder, change attitudes and practices, be open to new ideas, stop the old ways of doing things, some units are plugged with poor leaderships, incompetence and corruption, so just as we have heroes like lieutenant Akbar, we also have leaders who are corrupted and need to be replaced Sergeant Major Roshaan said if we do not eliminate corruption, corruption will eliminate us, despite of many successes we have much work to do together, know that we are with you in this hard work, but increasing more and rest on your leadership and on eliminating corruption.”

He further went on and talked about the numbers of the International troops to remain in Afghanistan.

The commander, Resolute Support Mission and United States Forces – Afghanistan Gen, John W. Nicholson said ,” There more than 12700 allied soldiers are committed to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2016, this allows our partnership and the train advises and assist mission to continue and to extend to all police zones corps 2017 and heads the US authority which have been granted by the President Obama will help to shape and set the conditions for the security forces to seize the initiatives and take the fight to enemies and the counter insurgency.”

Meanwhile the European Union Special representative to Afghanistan at the end of their police support mission in Afghanistan has insisted on tackling corruption within the Afghanistan’s police queue.

The European Union Special Representative in Afghanistan Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin said,” We still in situation we are far too many within the police forces or their loyalty not to the Ministry not to their superiors to people to belong to power structures outside of the Ministry and outside of the state, that needs to be tackled, this is a key challenge, it’s still very real and it endures the future development of the Afghan police if it’s not tackled and addressed in focused way.”

Chief executive of the National Unity Government Abdullah Abdullah said,” that we need to tackle against corruption, and practical steps should be taken, otherwise corruption will cause that no uniforms and foods to be reached to the hands of the Afghan security forces in the right time.”

He also mentioned that the Afghanistan’s enemies do not have trust on peace negotiation, insecurity will be enforced in Afghanistan till the foreign supports for the terrorists doesn’t stop, demanding the Afghan security forces the political tensions should not impact on their morals.

Reported by Fawad Nassiri