Conditional offer to help the Taliban government of Pakistan reorganize the Afghan army

 Conditional offer to help the Taliban government of Pakistan reorganize the Afghan army

 Under Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan has been India's priority in terms of military training and defense.  Military officials have also held talks with the Taliban. Report by the British Broadcasting 

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  28 September 2021 14:31

 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's top military leadership has offered to help reorganize the Afghan army following the formation of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

 There have also been discussions. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has claimed in its report that the senior military leadership of the Pakistani army has made a conditional offer to help reorganize the Afghan army, the BBC quoted its sources as saying. One of the aims of ISI chief Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed's recent visit to Kabul was to discuss the issue.

However, military sources said that the offer was conditional on Pakistan's recognition of the current Afghan government and the representation of all sectors in the Afghan army. Another senior Pakistani military official said the talks were ongoing. There is no formal roadmap and no such move will be possible in the near future unless the Taliban government is recognized.

Pakistan has already made it clear that the Taliban government in Afghanistan, along with other countries in the region, will be recognized. He said that at present, Afghanistan is not threatened by any external force. Border Management Force is needed, if their training is requested, the government of Pakistan will decide on the matter. Recently, Prime Minister Imran Khan had said in an interview with a British broadcaster that Pakistan, along with other countries in the region, would make the final decision on recognizing the Taliban government in the last two months when the Taliban marched on Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

 While advancing, there were reports of Afghan troops surrendering in some areas and joining Taliban fighters in several places. Instruct Afghan troops not to fight the Taliban.

 According to some reports, some Afghan soldiers left the field due to low morale, but on the other hand, many Afghan National Army personnel also joined the coalition against the Taliban in Panjshir and continued fighting, while the Afghan Army's Special Services Group also The war continued. However, after the Taliban took control of Kabul, the Afghan National Army and Air Force have now completely disbanded, while their equipment is in Taliban hands.

 The US president said in a statement in July that the number Pakistan has signed training agreements with Saudi Arabia, Libya, Jordan, Iraq, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. The army was assisted at a time when cadets and officers from other countries are being trained in various training institutes of the Pakistan Army, as well as Pakistani officers and servicemen themselves are being trained in other countries. There are cooperation agreements with the United States and Chinaof Afghan troops was 300,000, but other sources put the number at between 1.5 million and 200,000. The United States launched a multibillion-dollar plan to train Afghan forces in 2002, before the Taliban established an army called the Islamic Army of Afghanistan in 1997 under the Taliban regime. 

The training of the forces and the weapons they possessed were from Russia. In 2002, the United States began training the Afghan army and in 2005 the police and air force. 

However, according to a report by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Did not make accurate estimates of the Afghan army's combatThe United States has spent more than 88 88 billion directly on training and infrastructure for the Afghan forces. As part of this training program, the Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan (SSTCA) was established in 2006 and was eventually assigned to the Resolute Support Mission (RSF). readiness, nor did it hA senior Afghan army official told the BBC that another such offer had been made to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani by former army chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif during his visit to Pakistan. 

Ashraf Ghani appreciated the offer, but on his return to Afghanistan, he refused to do so. Remained limited.ave an effective and long-term approach. Pakistan is a major troop contributor to UN peacekeeping missions and conducts regular military exercises and training exchanges with the United States, Russia, Turkey, China, Azerbaijan, Malaysia and many other countries, experts say. 

That Pakistan's war on terror has further strengthened the military and now the military has extensive experience in counter-terrorism operations in addition to conventional warfare and that is why Pakistan has an "international army" on the issue of military training. Being seen as.