Feud Between Rival Police Groups Sets Off Deadly Clashes in Afghanistan<br />By JAWAD SUKHANYAR and FAHIM ABEDMARCH 20, 2017<br />KABUL, Afghanistan — A feud that began when one police commander in western Afghanistan was accused of killing the<br />civilian son of another has set off days of clashes, leaving four police officers dead, Afghan officials said.<br />The latest outbreak began on Saturday when the head of Faryab Province’s police antiterrorism department, Ahmad Shah Malang,<br />killed the son of Nizam Qaisari, the police commander in Qaysar, a neighboring district, according to the governor.<br />Jamiat said that They are turning this into an ethnic fight,<br />But later, Governor Sadat’s spokesman, Ahmad Jawed Bedar, said<br />that Mr. Malang had been taken into custody by the Afghan National Army and taken away by helicopter in the investigation of the killing of Burhanuddin Qaisari.<br />A delegation including the Afghan Army and police from Balkh arrived to mediate, but so far,<br />that didn’t help, either." Vice President Dostum, the founder of the Junbish party, has his own problems with the government.<br />Government officials ultimately agreed to a compromise in which the attorney general was allowed to interview seven of the nine bodyguards,<br />but not General Sattar, in General Dostum’s compound, instead of taking them into custody.
