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