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Over 1,000 Afghan youth commissioned to army after training
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A total of 1,227 youth were commissioned to the Afghanistan National Army on Saturday after completing a three-month military training.Speaking at the graduation ceremony, Payenda Mohammad Nazim, director of education with the Defense Ministry, said the newly graduated soldiers would be deployed to serve the nation. Afghanistan has been facing a protracted war over the past more than four decades that has claimed countless lives including military personnel, Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... said in January last year that more than 45,000 Afghan security personnel had been killed since 2014. More than 70 Afghans including civilians and combatants have been killed since Oct. 7 in the country, according to officials. The country’s 350,000-strong troops including police and army have been fighting a brutal war against krazed killer groups. More than 20 krazed killer groups including Taliban  ...the Pashtun equivalent of men..., al-Qaeda, Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... and Lashkar-e-Tyeba are operational in Afghanistan, according to security officials. Posted by: Fred 2020-10-12 |
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