GEO 436 WELLINGTON: New Zealand will extend its deployment of 140 troops in Afghanistan for another year, then start withdrawing troops while posting civilian development specialists to the war-ravaged country, Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday. New Zealand’’s 140-strong provincial reconstruction team of troops in Bamiyan had been expected to end their seven-year deployment in September, but Key said the posting will roll over for another year, then start reducing as civilian specialists are introduced. Under the plan, about 50 troops would remain in Bamiyan, he said. Key said that a separate contingent of about 70 New Zealand commandos in Kabul that had been due to leave in March 2011 may now also be extended.
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