{"id":2097,"date":"2019-09-23T04:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T04:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2019-09-23T04:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T04:56:22","slug":"minister-tells-ap-afghan-police-are-hardest-hit-by-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=2097","title":{"rendered":"Minister tells AP Afghan police are hardest hit by attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">(Miami Herald): Police in Afghanistan are one of the country&#8217;s most-criticized security forces, denigrated as corrupt and inept. Yet Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi says police are also the hardest hit, taking 70% of all casualties among government forces, dozens of whom die each day in relentless attacks by Taliban and Islamic State insurgents. Still, President Donald Trump is impatient with Afghanistan&#8217;s police, saying American soldiers have taken on their job and that it&#8217;s time for Afghans to step up. He says that&#8217;ll allow Washington to end its longest war, now into its 18th year. Even as Trump abruptly called off a deal with the Taliban earlier this month that seemed imminent, he expressed his frustration with the state of Afghanistan&#8217;s security forces, taking particular aim at the policing. Leading the Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, is Andarabi. He&#8217;s young, Western-educated and part of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s new generation of leaders. He spoke about what he called a slow, steady overhaul of the police during an interview with The Associated Press inside the heavily fortified ministry in the capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Miami Herald): Police in Afghanistan are one of the country&#8217;s most-criticized security forces, denigrated as corrupt and inept. Yet Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi says police are also the hardest hit, taking 70% of all casualties among government forces, dozens of whom die each day in relentless attacks by Taliban and Islamic State insurgents. Still, President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}