Mr Tsvangirai's party dismissed a recent suggestion from SADC's leaders that the home ministry, which controls the police, be shared with the ruling party, while Mr Mugabe's side would hold on to the army and intelligence service.

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Tribal members of the Awakening movement, with whom the police chief is allied, are trying to rest power from the Iraqi Islamic party, which controls the council.

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But Raziq says his confidence comes from a better cut of recruit entering the police and army, government-imposed controls that have taken absolute power which they often abused out of the hands of the security forces, and what he says is waning support for the Taliban movement among Afghans, particularly majority ethnic Pashtuns.

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