Karzai issued a decree on Thursday and appointed a delegation assigned “to ask coalition forces to hand over within three months the mentioned armed groups to Afghan security institutions.”
According to the presidential decree, Afghan security chiefs decided on February 17 “to identify and merge those armed groups which have been established by international coalition forces and are operating out of the structure of Afghanistan’s national security institutions.”
The delegation will be led by Rangin Dadfar Spanta, advisor to Afghanistan’s National Security Council, to locate the so-called “security groups.”
Karzai issued the decree following a meeting with US commander General Joseph Dunford in Afghanistan.
An Afghan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Karzai’s recent “order was definitely influenced and expedited by the allegations and accusations that these coalition-made armed groups have been involved in torture and mistreating Afghans, in particular in Wardak.”
On February 24, the Afghan president ordered the withdrawal of US Special Forces from Wardak and Logar Provinces within two weeks, accusing them of fuelling “insecurity and instability.”
Karzai’s spokesman said US forces and “illegal armed groups created by them” were causing “insecurity and instability” and harassing local people in the two Afghan provinces.
However, the US-led coalition in the war-torn country later rejected the Afghan president’s allegations.
Karzai issued the orders after US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta unveiled a proposal during a NATO meeting in Brussels on February 22, suggesting that the US and European forces remain in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 withdrawal plan.
The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 under the pretext of fighting terrorism. While the war removed the Taliban from power, insecurity continues to be high across the country.
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