Mujahedin forces to aid Afghan government after Western troops leave KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Mujahedin forces are ready to assist in providing security for Afghanistan after Western forces withdraw in 2014, a government minister said. Mohammad Ismail Khan, water and energy minister and chief of a mujahedin council, made the comments Thursday while speaking to a gathering of thousands of former mujahedin fighters in western Herat province, Khaama Press reported. "We will support our national police and national army service members, and the mujahedin fighters will be ready to assist the Afghan security forces if any security issue threatens Afghanistan," Ismail said. Mujahedin Islamic guerillas were credited for having a major role in the withdrawal of Soviet Union from Afghanistan and the ouster of Soviet-backed President Mohammed Najibullah in 1992. They also were also implicated in the deaths of thousands of people during Afghan civil wars and the destruction of major infrastructure, observers said. Ismail, himself a former mujahedin leader, said no political system would succeed in Afghanistan if the mujahedin were ignored. A future president of Afghanistan should come from the mujahedin, he said.