3 Police Chiefs Are Killed in a Month in a Volatile Afghan District<br />21, 2017<br />KABUL, Afghanistan — The police chief of a volatile Afghanistan district was killed by a roadside bomb on Thursday,<br />officials said, just two weeks after taking over for his predecessor, who was killed in the same manner.<br />The Jaghatu District police chief, Mera Jan Jafari, was killed by a roadside bomb while traveling to the Mohmand Pass area to<br />set up a checkpoint, said Mohammed Arif Noori, a spokesman for the governor of Ghazni Province, where Jaghatu is located.<br />Although the level of violence has persisted in recent weeks, senior Afghan officials say an increase in American airstrikes since President Trump announced his new strategy for the country has helped their forces fend off Taliban advances<br />and avoid any major victories for the group, which last year overtook several districts and the city Kunduz.<br />Nawa District said that We have heard that some people help the Taliban, but that isn’t proved yet.<br />" he said, referring to local residents who are armed and paid by the government as an irregular militia force.<br />that In Ghazni, army forces are not active — most of the operations have been done by police and uprising forces,<br />Mr. Ghani’s government is considering forming a new local force, under the regional army’s command,<br />that will be able to hold the areas cleared by the regular army — a proposal that has raised concerns among human rights activists because of the country’s history of military abuses.
