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VADODARA: Minority community people have alleged police "inaction" in protecting their lives and property and they were in fact the target of police action in the violence in the last three days following the demolition of a 200 year-old dargah on Monday.
The old city area, which has been under curfew for the fourth day on Thursday, saw worst clashes between the police and members of a particular community after the dargah was demolished.
The flare up later turned into communal violence. A 58-year-old hand cart puller, Mehmmudmiya Sheikh, who is recuperating at the SSG Hosp... Read more
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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - The final level of competence the Afghan army and police need to reach for Canada to view its training efforts as complete has yet to be determined, Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier said Sunday.
The minister made the comments at a news conference staged to open a new training centre at the provincial reconstruction site in Kandahar as part of his weekend visit to the country.
"I'm here to listen and to speak with our Canadian Forces, our diplomats and our humanitarian aid people," he said. "As you know, we have to go back to Canada and have a discussion about the future of our mission. And so we will have to set benchmarks on the training of the Afghan National Army, on the training of Afghan National Police."
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Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier (R) talks with his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner (L) as they arrive at the Kandahar International airport on April 13, 2008.
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Font:****That training is one of Canada's key roles in the fight against the Taliban in the country.
The current skill level of both the army and police is difficult to judge, but the 50,000-strong army has a leadership role in a quarter of current operations, according to NATO.
Together, the army and police number nearly 125,000. The goal is for them to reach 132,000 by 2011.
Later Sunday, Bernier said his remarks were restricted to Canada's goals in Kandahar and did not clash with the 2006 Afghanistan Compact - an agreement by countries sending aid and military to the country.
A day before in Kabul, the compact was the standard Bernier said he held himself.
The training centre in Kandahar will teach police and prison staff human rights, ethics, security skills and self-defence tactics.
It will also teach local police counter-Improvised Explosive Device (IED) tactics, which were demonstrated for Bernier at the site. The training will teach Afghans how to identify and cordon off suspected IEDs, not to dismantle them.
Regular and combat first-aid training will be taught after doctors reported injured police showing up at hospitals with no first-aid treatment.
"Accountable and professional Afghan National Police is essential to stability and supporting the rule of law in Afghanistan," Bernier said. "Establishing effective rule of law is integral to rebuilding Afghanistan, promoting peace, stability and democracy, a goal that we all share."
French Foreign Minster Bernard Kouchner also made the trip after viewing fighter jets with Bernier and the French Air Force at Kandahar Airfield.
The foreign ministers of Canada and France continued their show of renewed NATO unity as they moved their visit from Kabul to Kandahar on Sunday.
Touching down at the Kandahar Airfield shortly before Kouchner, Bernier greeted his counterpart on the runway with a family-reunion style hug and wide smile.
The joint visit comes shortly after the French announced they would send 700 more troops to the country. The offer came at the NATO summit in Bucharest when the future of the alliance in Afghanistan was on fragile ground.
Canada had threatened to pull its 2,500 soldiers in volatile parts of southern Afghanistan unless reinforcements arrived.
The French commitment to move troops into Eastern Afghanistan will free American troops to aid Canadians in the south. Canada has now committed to stay until 2011.
There are 2,500 Canadian troops currently based in Afghanistan as part of the 47,000 NATO personnel in the country. Most of the Canadians are in Kandahar province. France has about 1,400 troops in Afghanistan.
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