US special forces told to leave key Afghan province

Kabul: Afghan President has ordered U.S. special forces to leave the province strategy in his quest to tighten control on the Afghan militias, exacerbating tensions ahead of the withdrawal of NATO troops 2014.Hamid Karzai on Sunday gave U.S. Special Forces weeks to withdraw from Wardak, a hotbed of Taliban activity on the outskirts of Kabul, accusing Afghans who work with them torture and murder that instigated hatred.NATO local and U.S. military has said that he would discuss this issue with Afghan officials and takes all allegations of misconduct seriously. "We are looking into these allegations, and we did not find any evidence and we will talk to our colleagues and our Afghan partners to find a solution," Dean Gunter Katz, a spokesman for Mission NATO-led United States, said at a news conference, "In fact in recent months, and a comprehensive review confirmed he did not share any coalition forces in the alleged misconduct in Wardak province, "said Jamie Graybeal, a spokesman for another name for the forces led by the United States in NATO Afghanistan.A coalition spokesman said agreed with Afghan officials to form a committee to investigate the claims.Wardak is the focus troubled where it was fired on helicopter Chinook by the Taliban in August 2011, killing eight Afghan and U.S. 30, said the incident was the bloodiest for U.S. forces in war.Analysts full confirmed order mistrust growing from Kabul international forces and their desire to control the local militias, who have been trained by the Americans but operate without government control in the war against Taliban.Relations between Karzai and Washington has long been troubled, with the bulk of the NATO soldiers combat 100,000 due to leave Afghan president to step down next year, There is considerable doubt about the future. "It seems to be on the top spot, an emotional decision, based on the frustration of long ago that there are forces ... Afghan and international, that can not be controlled," said Martin van Bijlert means the Afghanistan Analysts Network.The media quoted Afghan officials as saying taken system as a last resort after the tried and failed to get the alliance to cooperate with the investigation into allegations of killings, abductions and accused presidential torture.The armed individuals working with U.S. special forces of "harassing, annoying, torture and murder of innocent until." Cited, for example, a student who has taken away in the night from his home and two days later he was found dead with wounds and torture cut.Kabul his throat did not specify the groups that were responsible, but it was understood the United States had trained a variety of local militias, issued a number reports and operating outside the control system government.Karzai Afghan central discussions sensitive about the size and role of the remaining forces that may remain in Afghanistan after 2014 to focus on training and counterterrorism operations.Kabul and Washington are still negotiating an agreement on the legal status that could allow the estimated 8000 to 12,000 U.S. troops to February remain.On 16, Karzai's Afghan forces also restricted from calling in NATO air strikes - an important weapon in the war against the rebels - amid fears civil casualties.Some Last say it embodies the conflict that many Afghans feel against troops foreign - that they are needed to counter the Taliban, but civilian casualties and arrests that can also make them part of the problem. "On one hand there is a sense that Afghanistan needs the continued presence of international forces, but there is also a sense that maybe they'll be just fine without them and that he would not well with them here anyway," said spokesman for the governor Bijlert.A Wardak said local residents in He complained for two and a half months for U.S. special forces and "illegal armed Afghan forces arrested, tortured and even killed villagers.""We want our Afghan security control of this province and replace these U.S. Special Forces," said the spokesman, Ataollah Khogyani, and the media, in the province of Ghazni neighboring dozens of protesters shut down the highway between Kabul and Kandahar for about three hours and accused the police trained by the United States local Afghan (ALP) of harassment, beatings, officials and witnesses said.The often accused of bullying and ALP operating outside the law, and other damaging its reputation on December 24, when an officer shot and killed five of his colleagues.