24 April 2017

News Story: Security Agencies Slammed For Not Preventing Attacks

By Tamim Hamid

Former head of the National Directorate of Security, Rahmatulalh Nabil, and former head of the National Security Council, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, on Saturday criticized security agencies for their “security lapses and intelligence failures” in preventing deadly attacks on public and military facilities such as Friday’s attack on the Afghan National Army 209 Shaheen Corps Headquarters in Balkh.

As many as 135 soldiers were killed in this attack.  

The officials said changes should immediately be made in the leadership structure of security agencies.

“Unnecessary casualties are rooted in poor management and it is not acceptable. The people who are involved in many coups in the past are appointed at in the leadership ranks of security and defense agencies for two reasons: first because of ethnic issues and second because of ideology trends.

Therefore, they are not loyal to the people and to the Afghan soil. They are only loyal to the people who have appointed them because of ethnic and ideology issues,” the former National Security Advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta said. 

“Contradictory messages are being sent from the capital to provinces from time to time because of political disagreements in the central government. It has its effects. And secondly, interventions in security and defense issues from tribal, geographical and  political points of view and creating different decision making layers is a reason behind poor management in security departments,” said Rahmatullah Nabi, the former head of the National Directorate of Security. 

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