US Contractors And Former Afghan Officials Buy Million-Dollar Properties In Dubai
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Last modified on Tue 13 Jul 2021 02.58 EDT Last autumn, with the departure of American troops from Afghanistan looming after the US signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban, several of the most senior security officials in Kabul urged President Ashraf Ghani to make some hard choices. The Afghan army and police needed to retrench, figures including the then defence minister, Assadullah Khalid, told Ghani. Remote outposts, and rural areas where troops held little more than the cluster of government and security buildings that make up a âdistrict centreâ, should be abandoned. Troops a...