Hoping to gauge the effectiveness of efforts to secure the border while discerning the needs of local villagers, a senior Afghanistan border patrol leader inspected the 5th Kandak Headquarters in Southern Afghanistan, April 15. Col. Ghuzai Sharif, commander 3rd Zone, inspected the roughly half-square mile complex in the Shurabak district of Kandahar Province, located along the rugged Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
The Afghan uniform police bolstered its force by 84 new officers following graduation from the Joint Security Academy Shorabak at Camp Leatherneck. This graduation illustrates the progress that Afghanistan is making toward gradually taking full responsibility for its own security.
