AP Interview: Afghan minister says police are hardest hit
Posted Sep 22, 2019 02:06:16 PM.
KABUL — Police in Afghanistan are one of the country’s most-criticized security forces, denigrated as corrupt and inept. Yet Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi says police make up 70% of the casualties among security forces, dozens of whom die each day in relentless attacks by Taliban and Islamic State insurgents.
President Donald Trump is impatient with Afghanistan’s police, saying American soldiers have taken on their job and it’s time for Afghans to step up so Washington can end its longest war.
Andarabi — young, Western-educated and part of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s new generation of leaders — told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that a slow, steady overhaul is underway.
“I don’t say it is easy or doable in a day, or a month or a year, but it is doable.”
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