Hundreds of residents of Maidan Wardak Province have come to Kabul and staged a protest in front of the parliament, demanding the US forces to adhere to Afghan president’s order for US Special Forces to pull out of the eastern province. Saturday’s protest also saw between two and three hundred people from Wardak demand the release of nine locals, whom they believe are under the custody of US forces, the chief of Kabul police’s Criminal Investigations Department said. “The demonstration was peaceful, but the protesters shouted anti-US slogans,” General Mohammed Zahir said. The Special Forces were ordered by President Hamid Karzai to leave the Wardak a week ago amid mounting allegations of abuse by the US forces and the ‘irregular’ Afghan groups working alongside them.
