"We do have some problems with local police and Arbaki forces, " says Siddiq Siddiqi, spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry of InternalAffairs in Kabul.
The Finance Ministry proposes that the monthly pay for police, which grew rapidly thanks to a recent reform of the Ministry of InternalAffairs, should not be touched and that the number of police should be reduced.
"This action seriously interfered with China's internalaffairs, " said Ma Zhaoxu, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, in a statement, adding that officials have lodged formal complaints with their U.S. counterparts in Beijing and Washington.