The Afghan government of Afghanistan
strongly condemned the recording of phone calls by US forces in
Afghanistan and called it an act against the national sovereignty of
Afghanistan, violation of human rights and the rights of Afghan
citizens.
Amirzai Sangin, Minister of
Communications and Information Technology of Afghanistan said Sunday
that the phone calls are recorded by devices which have been set up in
the country to fight drugs smuggling.
The cabinet meeting chaired by President
Hamid Karzai instructed the ministry of interior and ministry of
communications and information technology of Afghanistan for immediate
halt to the operation installations.
The Afghan national security advisor was
also instructed to convey a strong protest by the government of
Afghanistan to the US officials.
This comes as the Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange claimed that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
records almost all domestic and international phone calls in
Afghanistan.
Assange said that Afghanistan was the
second country where NSA “has been recording and storing nearly all the
domestic and international phone calls.”
Bahamas was revealed as one of the
country where the phone calls were being recorded by National Security
Agency in earlier reports; however the second country was called
“country x.”
News organizations including The
Intercept and the Washington Post say they chose not to identify the
unnamed country because concern that doing so would likely lead to
violence and loss of lives.
Source:http://www.khaama.com
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