The plan calls for cutting by half, in coming months, the 14,000 American troops currently in Afghanistan. But American officials warned that Mr. Trump could upend the new plan at any time. And officials said that even if the peace talks broke down, the United States would go forward with shifting to counterterrorism missions from training Afghan forces. Scaling back the training mission could leave the beleaguered Afghan military not just vulnerable to attacks, but at risk of fracturing. Laurel Miller, who was a top State Department official working on Afghanistan and Pakistan policy during the Obama and Trump administrations, said it was risky to change the military mission in Afghanistan without a peace plan in place.

Source: Pakistan Today February 28, 2019 20:03 UTC