“Anyone who makes claims that senior government officials have links with Daesh, should bring those allegations to court,” said President Ashraf Ghani.

Addressing the Border Force members, Ghani commended the Afghan troops’ performance across the country and referred to recent claims that accused some senior government officials of links with Daesh militants.

Over $62 million USD of American aid for equipping Afghanistan customs with modern machines has been wasted, the Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has said in a recent report.

According to the report, more than eight standard scanners were bought to be installed at Afghanistan border and customs posts to check the goods and prevent importation of drugs, but most of these scanners were de-activated after the installation.