Japan to provide vocational training to former Taliban soldiers
The Japanese government has decided to provide vocational training to former Taliban soldiers to support reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan as an alternative to the refueling mission by the Maritime Self-Defense Forces in the Indian Ocean, whose legal mandate will expire in January.
Pakistan Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, has said that the Army has a full range of counter-insurgency training facilities, and added and that it does not require any foreign training to tackle militancy.