KABUL – Afgjanistan Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah on Mondaysharply criticized government for not addressing security problems addingthat a large number of soldiers have lost their lives in the last few daysacross the country.
Abdullah, who had been speaking at the Council of Ministers Meeting, saidin recent days hundreds of soldiers have been killed or wounded in the waragainst militants. He said while this was happening, government, especiallysecurity departments, was busy with other affairs and has not been payingattention to security issues, TOLO News has reported.
Abdullah said in parts of the country Afghan soldiers have been surroundedby Taliban for months, but in recent days the National Security Council andthe Supreme Commander meetings were not held to address soldiers’ problemsand to send them support.
“In the last few days, we did not witness a meeting of the NationalSecurity Council and a meeting of the Supreme Commander while everydaythere were casualties. Afghan people are being killedand our securityforces are dying. Who is responsible? Come (officials) and respond to thepeople,” Abdullah said.
The Presidential Palace meanwhile said they have held many meetingsregarding the security situation and even President Ashraf Ghani has setelection security as one of his priorities.
“(The president) as the Supreme Commander has allocated a big amount of histime to security issues. In the last week, at least two or three meetingswere held that includes the Supreme Commander and National Security Councilmeetings,” the president’s spokesman Haroon Chakhansuri said.
Farah, Ghor, Baghlan, Nangarhar and Zabul are among 10 provinces thathave witnessed ongoing heavy clashes between security forces and Taliban inrecent days and the continuation of the clashes have raised concernsamong the people, MPs and politicians.
“An outpost of security forces has been under siege in the last 21 days onthe Baghlan highway and they have been contacting me during this time. Itis still under siege and there is no one to rescue them,” MP Agha Jan said.
“Ghani is just collecting money. MPs! do not ignore the issue, lets pullthe ill man (president) out of power. He cannot control Afghanistan,” MPAmanullah Paiman said.