Significant Events of 2013 in Afghanistan

[Hashmat]

• Fifth and final Security Transition from U.S. and NATO forces to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) took place in June 2013. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen marked the fifth and final phase of transition. With this decision, Afghan National Security Forces took the lead for security across Afghanistan.
• Taliban opened an office in Qatar giving peace a chance: The Taliban’s political office in Doha, Qatar finally opened as the Afghan National Security Forces officially assumed full leadership for security operations around the country. The office was closed after the Taliban were asked by Qataris officials to remove the white flag flown during the Taliban’s five year rule of Afghanistan.
• Although, football was banned in Afghanistan under the Taliban but talented Afghans excelled enough in sports to win the championship of South. Afghans were over the moon since their national team won the South Asian Football Federation championship. It was a stunning victory over India; two goals to nothing, especially for a team of unpaid players who slept in airports on the way to tournaments because they could not afford hotel rooms. Afghanistan’s national soccer team united the nation in joy after claiming the county’s first ever international trophy in sports.
• Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) ratifies Bilateral Security Agreement pending President Karzai’s signature. Afghan elders at a grand assembly in Kabul have called for a security deal with the US to be signed before the end of 2013.

What Will be the major challenges of Afghan National Security Forces post 2014?

Very Respectfully,

Hashmat
DET, CENTCOM

[randolph85]

football wasn't banned by the taliban.

what a stupid thing to say.

[HalloIsBack]

• Fifth and final Security Transition from U.S. and NATO forces to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) took place in June 2013. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen marked the fifth and final phase of transition. With this decision, Afghan National Security Forces took the lead for security across Afghanistan.
• Taliban opened an office in Qatar giving peace a chance: The Taliban’s political office in Doha, Qatar finally opened as the Afghan National Security Forces officially assumed full leadership for security operations around the country. The office was closed after the Taliban were asked by Qataris officials to remove the white flag flown during the Taliban’s five year rule of Afghanistan.
• Although, football was banned in Afghanistan under the Taliban but talented Afghans excelled enough in sports to win the championship of South. Afghans were over the moon since their national team won the South Asian Football Federation championship. It was a stunning victory over India; two goals to nothing, especially for a team of unpaid players who slept in airports on the way to tournaments because they could not afford hotel rooms. Afghanistan’s national soccer team united the nation in joy after claiming the county’s first ever international trophy in sports.
• Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) ratifies Bilateral Security Agreement pending President Karzai’s signature. Afghan elders at a grand assembly in Kabul have called for a security deal with the US to be signed before the end of 2013.

What Will be the major challenges of Afghan National Security Forces post 2014?

Very Respectfully,

Hashmat
DET, CENTCOM

they will disappear

[Hashmat]

football wasn't banned by the taliban.

what a stupid thing to say.

Dear Randolph85,

I believe you were not in Afghanistan when the Taliban were in power; I have lived in Kabul and have witnessed it myself. We all know that the Taliban banned not only football but all types of sports in Afghanistan.

Hashmat

[RevolutionThroughReason]

Dear Randolph85,

I believe you were not in Afghanistan when the Taliban were in power; I have lived in Kabul and have witnessed it myself. We all know that the Taliban banned not only football but all types of sports in Afghanistan.

Hashmat

I can actually prove with evidence that you're lying; and I'm against the Taliban.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

An Afghan Penalty For Soccer Shorts - NYTimes.com

An Afghan Penalty For Soccer Shorts
Published: July 18, 2000
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The religious police of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement arrested visiting Pakistani soccer players on Saturday and shaved their heads because they were wearing shorts, Afghan and team officials said today.

The players from the Pakistani border town of Chaman were released after the incident at a playground in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar, the Taliban headquarters. A junior team of Chaman's Young Afghan Football Club had played two matches in Kandahar and was warming up for a third when the Taliban police took the players into custody as thousands of spectators watched, said the club manager, Abdul Qayyum.

''Their heads were shaven,'' he said. ''Five of our players managed to escape from the scene.''

His players were ''quite annoyed,'' he said. ''Guests are not treated like this in our society.''

A Taliban Information Ministry official in Kandahar said the players had violated the Taliban dress code under which male athletes must wear trousers while playing.

The Taliban, who have vowed to create the world's purest Islamic state, have ordered women to wear an all-enveloping veil outside their homes and men to grow long beards and to cover their heads.

Which means they allowed soccer but didn't allow wearing shorts.


Hashmat you shouldn't have to lie and make up things to oppose the Taliban; that just hurts your credibility more than it already has been.