Taliban maintain navy parade with US-made weapons in Kabul in present of power

Taliban forces held a navy parade in Kabul on Sunday utilizing captured American-made armoured automobiles and Russian helicopters in a show that confirmed their ongoing transformation from an rebel power to a daily standing military.

The Taliban operated as rebel fighters for twenty years however have used the big inventory of weapons and tools left behind when the previous Western-backed authorities collapsed in August to overtake their forces.The parade was linked to the commencement of 250 freshly skilled troopers, defence ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khwarazmi stated.The train concerned dozens of US-made M117 armoured safety automobiles driving slowly up and down a significant Kabul highway with MI-17 helicopters patrolling overhead. Many troopers carried American made-M4 assault rifles.ALSO READ: Afghanistan does not need battle with any nation, together with India: Taliban Foreign MinisterMost of the weapons and tools the Taliban forces are actually utilizing are these provided by Washington to the American-backed authorities in Kabul in a bid to assemble an Afghan nationwide power able to combating the Taliban.Those forces melted away with the fleeing of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani from Afghanistan – leaving the Taliban to take over main navy belongings.Taliban officers have stated that pilots, mechanics and different specialists from the previous Afghan National Army could be built-in into a brand new power, which has additionally began carrying typical navy uniforms rather than the standard Afghan clothes usually worn by their fighters.According to a report late final yr by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Sigar), the U.S. authorities transferred to the Afghan authorities greater than $28 billion price of defence articles and companies, together with weapons, ammunition, automobiles, night-vision units, plane, and surveillance techniques, from 2002 to 2017.Some of the plane had been flown into neighbouring Central Asian Countries by fleeing Afghan forces, however the Taliban have inherited different plane. It stays unclear what number of are operational.As the US troops departed, they destroyed greater than 70 plane, dozens of armoured automobiles and disabled air defences earlier than flying out of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport following a chaotic evacuation operation.ALSO READ: Bomb explodes inside bus on busy Kabul avenue; 1 killed, 5 injured