Taliban Foreign Minister Says All Former Afghan Security Forces Will Not Be A Part Of The Country's New Military

Afghan National Army soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Afghanistan, Dec. 23, 2015. The Taliban’s foreign minister says all those who were part of Afghan security forces prior to the Taliban takeover may not be part of the country's new military. 

VOA: Taliban FM: Afghanistan Needs Smaller Military 

 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan does not need a large military anymore and would not keep all the people who worked in the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) under the previous administration, said the Taliban’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Friday in Islamabad.

“The army that was created by foreign intervention, we are no longer in need of having such large numbers,” said Muttaqi at a public talk in one of Pakistan’s government-sponsored policy organizations, the Institute of Strategic Studies. 

He was responding to a question about the Taliban’s strategy for integrating Taliban fighters and ANDSF personnel into one military, something the Taliban had indicated in the past they might consider if they took over the country. 

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WNU Editor: These measures are going to leave a lot of Afghan men angry and hungry with no means to support themselves. 

This Taliban blacklist will not only be limited to former security forces. I expect all Afghan government officials and bureaucrats in the previous administration will also be purged in the coming months (if not already).