NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that recent attacks in Afghanistan have claimed the lives of many people – which indicates the situation in the country is extremely complicated. 

He said that the NATO alliance is committed to continuing its partnership with Afghanistan in order to help the Afghan security forces. 

“We should not step back, because the situation in Afghanistan is difficult, we have seen horrendous attacks and many civilians killed,” he said.

Meanwhile, President Ashraf Ghani has said the key to peace in Afghanistan is to undertake systematic reforms in the security institutions particularly reforms in the Ministry of Interior (MoI). 

“The important issue for security strategy is whether we are successful in bringing reforms in the ministry of interior; the ministry of defense has already started its work on reforms. Over the past six months, we took serious decisions to improve the leadership and decrease corruption,” said Ghani.

It is believed that weakness among the leaders of security institutions and the lack of equipment were still among the key challenges facing the Afghan security forces.