NEW AFGHAN POLICY IN CASH

NEW AFGHAN POLICY IN CASH

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August 8, 2022

Foreign ministers attending a one-day international conference in London have evolved a new Afghan policy whereby security of all provinces would be under Afghanistan leadership within five years. A new fund to allow the Afghan government to woo Taliban fighters away from the conflict will be provided. In a communiqué published at the end of the conference, which was attended by delegates from 70 countries, support was also offered for the continued growth and expansion of the Afghan national army and police force. Delegates agreed a target of recruiting some 171,600 soldiers and 134,000 police officers by October 2011. But Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said that plans to gradually transfer Afghan security from international to domestic forces were “not an exit strategy”. The whole strategy depends upon the success of a plan by Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, to woo Taliban moderates with offers of money and jobs. If the palm greasing would fail, the whole schemes would crumble.