Johannesburg: A US audit report has revealed that records of thousands of weapons provided by the US to Afghanistan are missing and may have ended up in the hands of militants.
The report states that inspections at supply depots have revealed that several arms and weapons are missing. The American military has supplied more than 747,000 AK-47 rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and other weapons to Afghan forces worth about 626 million dollars since 2004.
According to the findings of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, both Washington and Kabul do not possess any record for tens of thousands of weapons, arms provided by the former in the last decade.
There is growing fear that the Taliban might have come in possesion of these weapons. The report comes at a time Afghan President Hamid karzai brought out his plea to the Taliban to stop its violence and restrict the entry of foreign fighters in the nation.