Pakistan has agreed to train 800 Afghan policemen in three of its training centres, an official from Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says. Pakistan will also provide stipends to the Afghan police cadets during their training, the official, Mohammad Akbar Ahmedzai, told reporters in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar.
He was speaking after talks there between a visiting Afghan delegation and the Pakistani authorities.
General Ahmedzai said 500 Afghan cadets would be trained in Pakistan's North Western Frontier Province, 200 in the Punjab and 100 in Baluchistan.
He added that the policemen would form part of the 70,000-strong Afghan police force that he said his ministry aimed to form over the next three years.
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