Behind Kayani's training offer to Afghans‎ - Rahimullah Yusufzai

One major concern for the Afghans is that the ISI would recruit Afghan army officers if they are sent for training to Pakistan, which would then use them for its strategic goals in Afghanistan.

The Afghans have the bitter experience of their young army officers sent for training to the Soviet Union becoming influenced by the communist ideology. A number of these officers later staged the bloodless 1973 coup that brought Sardar Mohammad Daud to power, replacing his cousin King Zahir Shah, and then violently overthrew Daud himself in April 1978 to install a communist regime. The rest, as they say, is history. Three decades later Afghanistan is still a battlefield and would not like to become the arena of a proxy struggle between India and Pakistan. - Behind Kayani's training offer to Afghans‎

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