Almost 300 foreign (mostly US) staff works in the Afghan Interior Ministry, and hundreds more work in other government departments. Of course this leads them to influence decisions. For ex:
Another former senior Interior Ministry official, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that Afghans wanted to develop the police as a law enforcement force, but that American advisers, holding the upper hand because they also held the purse strings, pushed through training the police as a counterterrorism force instead.
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