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[RescueRanger]

Dear Pakistani members,

Lately, I have been really pleased to see an uptick in Pakistanis on social media challenging the anti-Pakistani narrative, especially around the failures in Afghanistan. Sadly a lot of these posts whilst well-intentioned tend to start falling down the trap of blind nationalism and this undermines the thrust of your rebuke.

Here are a few links to help those of you on social media countering Anti-Pakistani narratives in an informed and educated manner, making informed, intelligent led and balanced rebuttals:

sigar.mil
(Reposotries of US Government Oversight report on Afghanistan) highly informed and very insightful.

No Moment of Victory: US-NATO Mission to train Afghan Security forces 2009-2011

https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AUPress/Books/B_171_LOICANO_FELKER_NO_MOMENT_OF_VICTORY_THE_NATO_TRAINING_MISSION_IN_AFGHANISTAN_2009_2011..pdf

Interagency Assessment of Afghan Police Training and Readiness

https://media.defense.gov/2006/Nov/01/2001713037/-1/-1/1/Interagency%20Assessment%20of%20Afghanistan%20Police%20Training%20and%20Readiness.pdf

Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies:
Published a number of peer-reviewed papers on CEV (Countering Violent Extremism) in Pakistan and also publish the highly acclaimed and NDU referenced annual Pakistan Security Report.

Pak Institute For Peace Studies Pvt Ltd. (PIPS)

An independent think-tank

www.pakpips.com

Enjoy

 

[Verve]

Finally, the following is quoted from “Unguarded Nation”:3

In one interview, Thomas Johnson, a Navy official who served as a counterinsurgency adviser in Kandahar province, said Afghans viewed the police as predatory bandits, calling them “the most hated institution” in Afghanistan. An unnamed Norwegian official told interviewers that he estimated 30 percent of Afghan police recruits deserted with their government-issued weapons so they could “set up their own private checkpoints” and extort payments from travelers. . .

Victor Glaviano, who worked with the Afghan army as a U.S. combat adviser from 2007 to 2008, called the soldiers “stealing fools” who habitually looted equipment supplied by the Pentagon. He complained to government interviewers that Afghan troops had “beautiful rifles, but didn’t know how to use them,” and were undisciplined fighters, wasting ammunition because they “wanted to fire constantly.” . . .

On paper, the Afghan security forces look robust, with 352,000 soldiers and police officers. But the Afghan government can prove only that 254,000 of them serve in the ranks. . . .

In the Lessons Learned interviews, officials said the United States and NATO deserved a large share of the blame. They said the training programs for the Afghan security forces— not just the police—were ill-designed, poorly coordinated and thinly staffed. For starters, only about 2 in 10 Afghan recruits could read or write. U.S. and NATO trainers put them through crash literacy courses, but those lasted only a few weeks. . . .

One U.S. military adviser assigned to the Afghan air force told government interviewers that “Afghans would come to them with ‘pilot wings’ that they found or purchased, claiming to be pilots but having no flight experience.” The unnamed U.S. adviser said that the air base where he worked was plagued by “shenanigans” and that many Afghans reeked of jet fuel when they left each day because they were smuggling out small containers of it to sell on the black market. . . .

One former U.S. trainer said he was selected for the job because he “had a pulse.” When government interviewers asked him in 2017 which U.S. official was in charge of police training, he replied that no single person was and that he “wasn’t sure who he would say fills a role that could be considered as such. . . .” Petty corruption was rampant.

In a 2015 Lessons Learned interview, an unnamed U.N. official described how Afghan police recruits would undergo two weeks of training, “get their uniforms, then go back to the province and sell them.” Unworried that they might get in trouble, he said, many would reenlist and “come back to do it again.”

 

[Vapnope]

@RescueRanger Can we write articles for def pk so it can be posted online?
@The Eagle @waz

 

[RescueRanger]

@RescueRanger Can we write articles for def pk so it can be posted online?
@The Eagle @waz

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[Vapnope]

@Pak Nationalist

 

[Pak Nationalist]

@Pak Nationalist

Unfortunately, I am a bit busy these days.

 

[waz]

@RescueRanger Can we write articles for def pk so it can be posted online?
@The Eagle @waz

Yes you can bro.