NSC take up responsibility for security transition

KABUL: (MEP) – The National Security Council (NSC) has assumed the responsibility for the security transition process after the ex-head of transition commission joined the Presidential runners.

The decision came in a meeting attended by President Hamid Karzai, his cabinet and top military authorities.

Previously, the security transition commission was headed by Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. Four phases of transfer of security responsibility from NATO to Afghan forces were implemented during his leadership.

But following a new decision, the National Security Council is responsible to implement the fifth and the final trench of the process.

Following the implementation of past four phases of security transition, the security of nearly 90 percent areas of Afghanistan falls under the Afghan security forces.

The Afghan security forces are supposed to hold the entire security of the country by the end of 2014, the year in which the international troops are expected to quit Afghanistan.

With the implementation of final phase of the process, the security of 13 districts of southern Kandahar, many districts of eastern Nangarhar, Khost and Paktika provinces would come under the Afghan forces.

Commencing from central Bamyan province in 2011, the security transition process is scheduled to be ended by the end of 2014 with handing over the security responsibility of entire Afghanistan to the national forces.