US agencies systematise information on casualties suffered by Afghan confidence army given 2001
Casualties among Afghan army in a early partial of this year were “shockingly high” as they struggled to kick behind a resurgent Taliban and other belligerent groups, SIGAR has pronounced previously. PHOTO: REUTERS
KABUL: Washington has concluded to systematise information on a array of Afghan confidence army killed and bleeding in a conflict, a US watchdog said, after months of mountainous casualties and targeted attacks have eroded morale.
The preference was slammed on Monday by a US government’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko, who pronounced it would bushel a watchdog’s ability to draft swell among US-funded Afghan troops.
“USFOR-A pronounced a misadventure information belonged to a Afghan government, and a supervision had requested that it be classified,” Sopko pronounced in a latest quarterly news documenting a use of US supports in Afghanistan.
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There was no evident criticism from US Forces or Afghan officials.
Sopko pronounced a pierce “will impede SIGAR’s ability to publicly news on swell or disaster in a pivotal reformation sector”, observant that some-more than 60 percent of a roughly $121 billion in US appropriation spent given 2002 has left on Afghan confidence forces.
Casualties among Afghan army in a early partial of this year were “shockingly high” as they struggled to kick behind a resurgent Taliban and other belligerent groups, SIGAR has pronounced previously.
They soared by 35 percent in 2016, with 6,800 soldiers and infantry killed, according to a watchdog.
As of Feb usually about 60 percent of Afghanistan’s 407 districts were reported to be underneath supervision control, SIGAR has said.
Sopko pronounced a preference was usually a second time that a American infantry has sought to systematise information on a Afghan confidence forces’ capabilities.
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The initial time was for a Jan 2015 quarterly report, that came on a heels of a withdrawal of US-led NATO fight infantry from Afghanistan during a finish of 2014.
During a many new quarter, Sopko trafficked to Afghanistan where he hold a array of meetings with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and other comparison officials.
“On any occasion, President Ghani remarkable a National Unity Government’s tighten team-work with SIGAR and thanked us for a assistance fighting corruption,” Sopko said.
Ghani also “vowed to comment for each penny of American assistance to his government”.
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The SIGAR news comes as a US sends some-more than 3,000 additional infantry to Afghanistan – on tip of a 11,000 already on a belligerent – to sight and support Afghan confidence army as partial of a new plan summarized by US President Donald Trump in August.
The Taliban has been prevalent in new years and Trump’s open-ended committment to put some-more American boots on a belligerent and a swell in US airstrikes has serve fuelled a insurgency.
But Afghan confidence army have been struggling to kick behind a insurgents amid desertions, killings and corruption.
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