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Afghan War Does have an End: Sediqqi

Afghan War Does have an End: Sediqqi

KABUL - Afghanistan's government has dismissed the comments of military experts who suggested the Afghan war has no end in an article published by the Associated Press.

In the AP article titled "No decisive end in sight for war in Afghanistan", a George Washington University political science professor Stephen Biddle said the US will have to continue to pump billions of dollars a year into Afghanistan for decades to prevent its collapse.

"We are probably headed for stalemate in 2014," Biddle, who has advised US commanders in Afghanistan and Iraq, told AP on the question of whether the insurgency would continue after the NATO combat forces leave in two years.

Afghan Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the statements were baseless pointing out that already most of the military operations are carried out by Afghan security forces.

"We disregard these statements. Today, Afghans act independently in many of the operations," he told TOLOnews on Sunday. "We assure our people that after 2014 their security forces will be capable of defending the country."

However, vice president of the Rights and Justice party Moeen Marastial believes the comments were not that extreme given the strength of the insurgency even after international forces fighting for ten years.

He said the failure was not the lack of security forces but the peace process.

"The peace process has three problems: firstly, the government's policy is the policy of supplication and it is weak. Secondly, the Taliban [in Afghanistan] are not independent – they act as ordered by outer groups. And thirdly, the High Peace Council has not worked for peace the way it was supposed to. It has failed," he said Sunday. (Tolo News)