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KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa have conferred on Afghan Taliban ac-tivities and terrorist sanctuaries in the region, says a top diplomat.Afghan Ambassador Dr. Omar Zakhilwal told a Pakistani TV channel the COAS had invited Ghani to visit Pakistan, The visit would take place at an “oppor-tune” time, he hoped.Speaking to Geo TV, Zakhilwal denied some Afghan leaders op-posed negotiations with Pakistan. The president and all important leaders and the people desired improved relations with Pakistan, he insisted. He saw no indication from the ...(More on P4)...(6)

KABUL - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Monday said increasing pressure on militant groups was a good tactic for the government to push them to the negotiation table.Addressing a cabinet meeting, he said: “Mounting military pressure on all militant groups helps us in peace negotiations. We hope these groups would come to the nego-tiation table.”He said lasting peace in the whole country was a primary demand of all people. “We hope we would achieve the goal,” he said, adding NATO had announced support for the four-year security plan of the ...(More on P4)...(7)

JALALABAD - Development and reconstruction projects worth 648 million afghanis are being execut-ed in eastern Nuristan province, an official said on Monday.Governor Hafiz Abdul Qayyum was continuously monitoring the projects’ quality to foreclose the possibility of fraud, his spokes-man Mohammad Syed Momand told Pajhwok Afghan News He said the projects included the central hospital building, which would cost 184 million afghanis, the governor’s house building worth 50 million afs and a guest house that would account for 40 million afs.Similarly, the provincial council will also get a new building at a cost of 25 million afs. New build-ings are also being constructed for the attorney-general office and the statistics directorate, costing 45 million afs and 7.3 million afs re-spectively.He said 15 million afs were being spent on a building for the tribal affairs department. Structures for the economy and culture depart-ments would cost 17 million each.A sum of 14 million afs is being ex-pended on constructing a second building for the education depart-ment ...(More on P4)...(14)

Kabul Seeks Handover of 5 Top Taliban in Pakistan Jails

KABUL - The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ac-cused the US forces in Afghani-stan for aiding the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syr-ia (ISIS) terrorist group.In an interview with the Rus-sia Today and in response to a question whether there was any suspicion that the US was aiding ISIS group, Karzai said “I have more than suspicions.”However, he said reports re-garding the alleged support to ISIS by the US forces are still un-confirmed.

KABUL - Kuwaiti authorities have assured the Afghan ambas-sador of resolving the problems of Afghans living in that coun-try.Mangal Hussain, ambassador to Kuwait, told Pajhwok Afghan News he met Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Khalid Al Jarrah Al Sabah on Sunday.He said that they discussed in details relations between the two countries and efforts for bringing peace to Afghanistan and the region at large.Hussain said that he also shared problems of Kuwait based Af-ghans to Sheikh Khalid Al Jarrah Al Sabah for their solution.Kuwait-based Afghans are forced to renew their residency

Karzai said he had heard re-ports, albeit unconfirmed, that the IS was being supplied with helicopters.The former President further added “How unmarked non-military colour helicopters sup-ply these people, not only in one part of the country but in many regions.” “And this is a daily occurrence,” he said, claiming that the terror group has been able to spread its tentacles in the country just under the nose of the US forces and the CIA.

documents and fingerprints every year -- an issue that cre-ated problems for them.Hussain added the Afghans who delayed renewing their documents were fined. Kuwait also did not issue business and family visas to Afghans, he said.Some of the Afghans have been living in Kuwait for the past

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said Pakistan is no longer dependent on the United States to meet its military and other requirements and would reach out to others if one source dries up.“If one source dries up, we have no option but to go to another source. It may cost more, it may consume more resources, but we have to fight that war [against terrorism], and that’s what we emphasized to all the people that we met,” Abbasi

KABUL - Free media supporting organization NAI on Monday said tolerance to the freedom of expression was worst in the na-tional unity government’s tenure compared to past governments.According to a NAI report re-leased on Monday said scruti-nizing some cases of violence against journalists was the unity government’s only achievement

KABUL - Dozens of people on Monday protested in front of the National Assembly building in Kabul, accusing the 1st deputy speaker of Wolesi Jirga of usurp-ing their market, however, the deputy speaker rejected the alle-gation.The demonstrators numbering around 150 individuals accused Homayoon Homayoon of grab-bing a business plaza belonging to them in Qowai Markaz neighbor-hood.Naqibullah Kakar, representing the protesters, said Homayoon along with his armed men invad-ed ‘the agricultural and industrial market’ and took control of it on January 12 this year. He said the five-storey market had been built on 2,000 square meters of land

KABUL - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will “drastically” cut back its operations in Afghani-stan following attacks that have killed seven of its staff this year, the aid group said on Monday.The announcement underlines the deteriorating security for aid

Karzai went on to claim that extremism in Afghanistan had grown ...(More on P4)...(8)

40 years and owned good busi-nesses there. They want to bring their families and children to Af-ghanistan but are refused visas.The ambassador said the Ku-waiti prime minister had prom-ised directing the relevant au-thorities to resolve the problems being faced by the Afghans. (Pajhwok)

said in his interview with Arab News.Pakistani Prime Minister said any sanctions ...(More on P4)...(9)

in strengthening the freedom of expression.Violence against reporters, cen-sorship, short-term detentions, closing of media outlets, restric-tions on access to information and migration of journalists abroad are main topics discussed in the report.NIA Executive Director Mujib Khelwatgar ...(More on P4)...(10)

KABUL - NATO secretary gen-eral Jens Stoltenberg has hailed Romania’s strong contribution to the alliance in Afghanistan, ac-cording to a statement issued on Monday.Stoltenberg, who arrived in Bu-charest, the country’s capital, held talks with Romanian Presi-dent Iohannis on preparations for the alliance’s summit in Brussels in July next year and challenges NATO faced and response to them. ...(More on P4)...(11)

about 12 years back and contained 250 shops.“We (shareholders) bought the land and constructed the market and now after years, Homayoon without having any document forcibly took control of our mar-ket and even engraved his name on it.” ...(More on P4)...(12)

groups in Afghanistan, where the ICRC has been operating for more than 30 years and has been running its fourth biggest hu-manitarian program.“Exposure to risk has become our greatest challenge and con-cern,” Monica Zanarelli, head of the ICRC ...(More on P4)...(13)

Ghani will Visit Pakistan at

Appropriate Time: Zakhelwal

Military Pressure will Nudge Rebels

to Negotiating Table: CEO

NATO Chief Hails Romania’s Afghan

ContributionDevelopment

Projects worth Afs 648m Being

Executed in Nuristan

In an attempt to step up efforts for peace and reconciliation, Afghanistan has asked Pakistan to hand it over five top imprisoned militant commanders, a media report.

Pakistan No Longer Dependent on U.S. for Military, other Needs

Freedom of Expression ‘Worst’ Under Unity Govt: NAI

Problems of Afghans Living in Kuwait to be Resolved

Homayoon Forcibly Usurped our Plaza: Protesters

ICRC to “Drastically” Cut Afghan Operations after Attacks

Karzai Accuses US of Aiding the ISIS Militants

KABUL - National Security Advisor Hanif Atmar recommended the names of Taliban commanders on the side-lines of the 72nd United Nations Gen-eral Assembly (UNGA) session in New York last month, Pakistani newspaper the Express Tribune quoted Tolo News journalist Abdul Haq Omari as saying.According to the adviser, he handed over the list to Foreign Minister Kha-waja Asif comprising 35 commanders, five of whom have a say in Taliban Shura and could play a role for peace in the war-ravaged Afghanistan.The meeting between the sides on UNGA sidelines followed a recent visit by Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa to Kabul. Bajwa has invited the Afghan president to visit Islamabad in near future.The Afghan government and its inter-national partners seem to accelerate ef-forts at bringing the Taliban to the ne-gotiating table as military option over the years failed to stabilize Afghani-stan.

Another Afghan interior ministry of-ficial present at the Kabul meeting re-vealed names of the five commanders, including co-founder of Afghan Taliban Mullah Ghani Baradar, senior members

of the so-called Quetta Shura Mullah Ah-madullah Nani, Mullah Sammad Sani, and Mullah Suliman Agha who was arrested from a seminary in Quetta’s Satellite Town along with four others on October 11, 2014,

the Express Tribune said.The two sides had agreed in principle to ink an agreement in the next session in Is-lamabad to exchange prisoners jailed on either side of the border. (Pajhwok)