Sunday, May 29 – Hamid Karzai President of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has ordered the ministry of defense of Afghanistan to take control over the night raids in the country.
The president stresses that special operations and night raids must be independently conducted by Afghan troops.
Assault on Taliban insurgents is one of the most controversial tactics used by the international forces in Afghanistan to target the militants. The night raids against the militants is said to likely stoke tensions between Afghanistan and its western allies.
NATO-led forces supported Karzai’s aim of making them Afghan-led and were working to achieve this but has defended the night-time operations as “indispensable”.
It is said that night raids which are conducted to hunt the Taliban militants often lead to civilian casualties and increases the anger of people.
