Tuesday July 7, 2015
Kabul (BNA) Chief Executive (CE) Abdullah Abdullah yesterday promised to bring to justice all those officials who neglected forces' call for support during the deadly battle in Jalrez district in central Maidan Wardak province.
Speaking at a meeting of Council of Ministers, Abdullah acknowledged the negligence by the security officials in the Jalrez carnage that left nearly 30 Afghan Local Police (ALP) force members dead with their corpses allegedly desecrated. "It is an important issue and we have already discussed it in an extraordinary meeting of National Security Council," Abdullah said. "We have assigned a team to investigate the incident in all levels and the team has started its work." The Jalrez fighting broke out last Thursday after a number of insurgents stormed the district and seized all nine police checkpoints of Jalrez. The police posts were retaken after three days of battle in an operation by the reinforcement troops deployed to the area.
