US spending billions of dollars on Afghan ‘ghost soldiers’

‘The United States is spending billions of dollars on Afghanistan’s “ghost soldiers,” who exist only on paper, a report says.

One reason the Afghan National Army is struggling against Taliban is because nearly 40 percent of its force is constituted on “ghost soldiers,” The Associated Press reported.

“At checkpoints where 20 soldiers should be present, there are only eight or 10,” Karim Atal, the head of the provincial council in Helmand, told AP.’

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