Apparently warning politicians critical of him, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday said that as an elected president of the country he wouldn’t allow anyone except forces to use force.

Ghani was speaking during a ceremony that saw graduation of 528 officers from Marshal Fahim National Defense University.

The president noted that his term of office has been specified in laws and that he would step down according to laws.

Ghani said that there would be major developments in all provinces of the country, adding it would be possible only when the use of force is limited only to the country’s security and defense forces.

He added that he is victorious both in diplomacy and battle fields The president also warned the Taliban and their supporters that if they are seeking to destroy the country and kill innocent people, they would be eliminated.

The event was also addressed by the country’s defense minister, General Tariq Shah Bahrami, and chief of army staff, Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, who hoped that the recently graduated batch of officers would help success in the battlefields.