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HERAT CITY, Jan 2 Asia Pulse - Herat's industrialists have underlined the need for security at an industrial park in the western province. Police officials are ready to provide paid security guards.
Located 22 kilometres south of the city and in front of the provincial airport, the industrial estate has more than 60 operational factories. But no proper security arrangements have so far been put in place to protect the goods and equipment of these companies, according to a senior member of the industrialists' union.
Haji Torialay Ghausi told Pajhwok Afghan News on Saturday they had discussed the problem with provincial law-enforcement officials but they sought a sum of US$60,000 annually to pay the security guards.
"Police are responsible for maintaining peace and order so that industrialists could peacefully push ahead with their activities," Ghausi observed, arguing they could not afford to pay the security guards' salaries and a raft of other duties.
However, Herat's deputy police chief Ghulam Sarwar Haideri contended hiring ...