Irfan Baloch
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- Afghanistan's 'ghost soldiers': thousands enlisted to fight Taliban don't exist
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Ghost troops are emblematic of an adversary possibly even more damaging than the militants: corruption. Toofan Waziri, a political analyst who recently visited Helmand as part of a government appointed delegation, said he found one base where the commander had ordered half of his 100 soldiers to leave, without notifying his superiors, only to pocket their salaries.
- Afghan police 'sell weapons to Taliban, are addicted to drugs and kidnap and rape young boys'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...an-addicted-drugs-kidnap-rape-young-boys.html
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some officers appear drug-addicted, others are kidnapping civilians for ransom while in the past five weeks, four boys suspected of having been used as 'sex slaves' have been shot - one in the face - while attempting to escape from police commanders believed to have abducted them from their families. Three have died
ARMING THE ENEMY IN AFGHANISTAN
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http://www.newsweek.com/2015/05/29/arming-enemy-afghanistan-332840.html
There are only a few ways the Taliban get U.S. weapons. Insurgents sometimes capture them from Afghan police or soldiers. But usually, U.S. and Afghan officials say, they just buy them from corrupt members of the Afghan security forces. One Afghan army colonel, who asked to be identified only by his last name, Ahmadzai, said entire groups of soldiers manning various checkpoints have sold their weapons and ammunition to the insurgents.
Second Afghan Governor Defies Kabul Order to Resign, Adding to U.S. Headache
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/asia/afghanistan-governor.html
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A second governor of a northern Afghan province defied an order by the United States-backed central government to step down on Sunday, deepening a political schism between President Ashraf Ghani and regional leaders.
Taliban threaten 70% of Afghanistan, BBC finds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42863116
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Taliban fighters, whom US-led forces spent billions of dollars trying to defeat, are now openly active in 70% of Afghanistan, a BBC study has found.
Months of research across the country shows that the Taliban now control or threaten much more territory than when foreign combat troops left in 2014.
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please comment below to blame Pakistan for all this