President Karzai: International community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after end of combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014; Kandahar massacre victims receive compensation from U.S. authorities
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  • According to reports, on March 22, 2012, President Hamid Karzai said that the international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after US-led combat forces leave Afghanistan in 2014. Meanwhile, western officials told that no final agreement had been reached.1

    In another development, reports noted that the U.S. authorities have given cash compensation to the families of Afghans killed in a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by an American soldier in Kandahar province, a family member and a tribal elder said . The families received around $50,000 for each person killed and about $10,000 for each wounded in the shootings in two villages in Panjwai district earlier this month. Afghan officials say 16 people, including nine children and women, were killed in the attacks. 2

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