KABUL (PAN): Internal Security Affairs Commission of the Wolesi Jirga or lower house of the parliament on Sunday blamed NATO and Afghan forces for supply of arms to the militants in southern Afghanistan.

However the NATO forces and Afghan intelligence in their statement said they had mistakenly dropped items which later were commanded by Taliban.

The parliamentary commission claimed the operation had not been a mistake and the sacks dropped in the southern province were arms the NATO forces offered to Taliban.

Zalmai Mujaddedi head of the parliamentary commission claimed NATO forces from Kandahar province carried several containers of arms to Taliban dominated areas in Arghandab district of southern Zabul province 27^th or 28^th of March.

The arms included numbers of Kalashnikovs, different guns, Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) and 550000 bullets, he added, the arms were loaded in Kandahar and were carried by helicopters rented from a Kazakh company.

People have witnessed the arms supply in the southern Zabul province, he argued.

In the past too there were some speculations that the foreign forces were supporting the militants in the country, he added.

NATO forces have branded the act as a mistake and that they were going to investigate and punish the perpetrators but yet there is no step taken, he added.

The commission did not accept the act to be mistake, he argued, local Taliban commander Mulla Muhammad Alam had already taken security measures and preparations in the area.

Hamidullah Tokhi representative of Zabul people in the parliament confirmed the Mujaddedi's remarks

"I wonder how does Muhammad Alam on the same night comes to a house 100 meters from the site where the helicopters drop rockets, bullets Kalashnikovs, arms and food and logistics?." He added." I dont believe it is a mistake, if the helicopter made a mistake to drop the arms there then who brought Muhammad Alam to this neighborhood."

Foreign forces were working for their own interests, he reckoned, it is a preplanned thing and the arms were supplied to devastate Afghanistan."

Amrullah Salih head of the national security department told the reporters that the NATO was trying to supply the items to a security check post in Ghazni.

A small box containing food and arms fell mistakenly in the area which the Taliban took away, he added.

Security officials from Interior Ministry, Defence Ministry and intelligence department were called in for explanation on increasing insecurity in the country especially southern regions to the commission but none except Salih turned to the house.

Carlos Branco the ISAF spokesman admitted that NATO had mistakenly carried arms and food containers to that area.

The containers were filled with water, food and arms that were later taken by Taliban, he added, without telling number of the containers.

Investigation has been launched to look into the case, he assured, they were trying to avoid similar mistakes in future.

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