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The Taliban-run administration has built a 150,000-strong
national army and the number may increase, Afghanistan’s state-run
Bakhtar news agency reported on Sunday, Trend reports citing
Xinhua.
“The current personnel of the National Army are 150,000. And the
number may increase,” Bakhtar quoted Acting Defense Minister
Mawlavi Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid as saying.
Technical teams of the defense ministry, according to the top
military official, have repaired 60 damaged helicopters over the
past year.
The former Afghan government, which collapsed in the wake of
U.S.-led forces withdrawal in August last year, had a
350,000-strong security force including a 150,000-strong national
army, experts said.
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