KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has altered his own defence and interior ministers and also the military chief of staff towards increasing casualties one of Afghanistan’s security forces at radically enhanced fighting with the Taliban.
The changes, announced late on Saturday from the presidential palace, come as Afghan security forces fight the Taliban at 28 of 34 states in the nation, together with all the hardline Islamic group promising more land in recent months.
Bismillah Khan Mohammadi has been appointed as caretaker defence ministry substituting Asadullah Khalid, who’d lately returned to this nation following a protracted disease while Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal had been selected because new interior minister substituting Hayatullah Hayat.
A senior commander beneath late anti-Soviet resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, Mohammadi has experienced a lengthy military career and also served as inside ministrer, defence minister and military chief of staff at the administration of former president Hamid Karzai.
General Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai was appointed as the new chief of military staff, substituting General Yasin Ziathe hall said.
On Friday, 24 members Afghan special forces soldiers had been killed and dozens more injured during a struggle to retake a district seized from the Taliban in northern Faryab province, safety officials said.
Even the Taliban has staged a months-long effort to expand its influence throughout the nation since the United States has started withdrawing troops from May 1 and shut some foundations and handed them over to the Afghan authorities.
Considering that the United States announced plans in April to pull out each its troops from Sept.
11, a minimum of 30 districts are captured from the Taliban.
A security official speaking on condition of anonymity said that there have been exceptionally significant casualties among Afghan security forces, civilians in addition to the Taliban lately as extreme fighting .
No additional details were immediately available.