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According to reports, US led NATO forces in Afghanistan will retrain its troops by December 5 on how to avoid civilian casualties, following fresh accusations of civilian killings President Hamid Karzai’s office said. The move comes with Nato already facing uncomfortable fallout after an air strike killed 24 Pakistani troops near the Afghan border on Saturday. Karzai’s office quoted a letter from Commander General John Allen as saying he had issued orders “for all units to conduct retraining on our methods of employing force against insurgents while protecting Afghan civilians.” 1
In another development, according to reports, foreign troops began the second stage of a security handover that aims to put Afghans in charge of the whole country by the end of 2014 with a ceremony on Thursday in a small town on the plains north of Kabul. This new phase of a years-long transfer programme will extend Afghan security coverage to half the population, and move beyond the largely showpiece areas chosen for the first stage. 2
- 1. “ISAF to retrain troops on civilian casualties: Kabul”, Dawn, November 29, 2011 at http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/29/isaf-to-retrain-troops-on-civilian-casual...
- 2. “Second stage of Afghan security handover begins”, Dawn, December 2, 2011 at http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/01/second-stage-of-afghan-security-handover-...