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KABUL - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Monday arrived in western Ghor province to evaluate the security situation and governance issues.A statement from the CEO Sec-retariat said Ghor officials and elders warmly welcomed Abdul-lah and his delegation. The CEO attended an extraordinary secu-rity meeting immediately after his arrival.At the meeting, Abdullah was briefed on the security situation. He would also discuss develop-ment projects and local govern-ance at his meeting with the gov-ernor and local officials.The CEO is accompanied by min-isters of education, rural rehabil-

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakria on Monday said that Pakistan had always supported initiatives for peace and development in Af-ghanistan.Talking to a private news chan-nel, he said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), projects are instrumental for progress in the region.Pakistan wants economic devel-opment in Afghanistan and for this, it will continue to play role to maintain peace in the region, he said. ...(More on P4)...(7)

KABUL - Najib Nangal, spokesman for the (MoTT), told Pajh-wok Afghan News the acting minister of telecommunications and technology, Syed Ahmad Shah Sadat, met Indian Ambas-sador Manpreet Vohra in Kabul.He said the opening of a terminal for Afghanistan in the South Asia Satellite, another special satellite, small development projects and bilateral relations were discussed at the meeting.

JALALABAD - Female Wolesi Jir-ga or lower house member from eastern Nuristan province, Par-ween Nuristani, died in a traffic accident on Monday afternoon, a colleague said.Mualvi Ahmadullah Moahid, a lawmaker from Nuristan, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Nuristani was on her way from Kabul to Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, when she died in a traffic mishap around 4pm.The accident took place in Daron-ta area of Qarghayee district of eastern Laghman province. Two other people were injured in the incident, the MP said.Nangarhar Civil Hospital di-rector Dr. Ehsanullah Shinwari confirmed to Pajhwok receiving Nuristani’s body and one injured person.Dr. Parween Nuristani, daughter of Abdul Qader, was born in 1975 in Waygal district of Nuristan province. In 1990, Nuristani grad-uated from Abu Ul Qasem Ferdo-si High School in Kabul.She received her bachelor’s de-gree ...(More on P4)...(2)

Nanal added a memorandum of understanding would be signed soon to let Afghanistan benefit from India’s South Asia satellite, having 12 transponders. Two of them will be provided to Afghanistan.The satellite will be used in areas of telecommunications, television services, agriculture, mines and other fields. The construction of the special ...(More on P4)...(1)

KABUL - NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Cornelius Zimmermann said that or-ganization condemns the attack against the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul.NATO condemns the attack against the Iraqi Em-bassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul staged by the Daesh terror group (banned in Russia) on Mon-day, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Af-ghanistan Cornelius Zimmermann said Monday.“I strongly condemn the attack against the Embas-sy of the Republic of Iraq in Kabul today. Attacks against diplomatic facilities and staff are against the principles of the international law. Daesh has once again demonstrated their utter disrespect for civilian lives,” Zimmermann said.The representative also stressed that the alliance was standing firm in its commitment to support the Afghan security forces.Earlier in the day, a group of four Daesh militants attacked the Iraqi embassy. One of the terrorists detonated a bomb at the entrance gate of the em-bassy, thus opening way to other attackers. As re-sult of a four-hour gun fight all the militants have been killed, one policeman was wounded.The Afghan Interior Ministry said that no embas-sy staff members were hurt in the attack.Media reports ...(More on P4)...(3)

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration re-portedly is in the throes of concocting a “new” strategy for Afghanistan.No White House wants to lose a war, especially one that has its provenance in 1980 with the deci-sion to arm the Afghan Mujahedeen against the invading Soviet army and in 2001 with the U.S. invasion into Afghanistan to punish al-Qaida for the attacks of Sept. 11. The war is now in its 16th year with no end in sight.About this war, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis bluntly observed: “We are not winning.”Nine years earlier, in January 2008, another Ma-rine four-star general and former NATO military commander James Jones signed out a report for the Atlantic Council (in which I participated) that began, “Make no mistake: NATO is losing in Af-ghanistan.” The reaction was so intense that the sentence was softened to read, “The West is not winning.”Why is the diagnosis today as stark as it was near-ly a decade ago? The answer in part explains the tragedy engulfing ...(More on P4)...(5)

KABUL - Afghanistan plans to double the number of elite Special Forces, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said.At the opening ceremony of third national army special bri-

KABUL - An increase in insecurity around Herat province has raised concerns among residents who say the Taliban is imposing their rules in a number of districts. Residents of western Herat prov-ince on Sunday expressed con-cerns over the increase in inse-curity in eight districts and said “insurgents are forcibly imple-menting their laws in the dis-tricts.”The residents said government’s “control” has dropped in Gulran, Keshk Kohna, Farsi, Adreskan, Chesth-e- Pashton Zarghon, Obe, Kehsan and Robat Sangi districts of the province.The residents added that govern-ment forces “only have control of the district centers during the day, but the Taliban are active in most of the villages.”“Unfortunately, in the evening the people take care of the security of their own houses. This is a serious problem and we are asking securi-ty forces to provide security in our areas,” a resident of Robat Sangi district, Massoud Jamshidi said.Nasibullah Rahimi, a resident of Gulran said: “The Taliban’s pres-ence in the district has raised the concerns of the people and we are asking the security forces to de-stroy the Taliban.”In the meantime, a number of pro-vincial council members have said ...(More on P4)...(4)

itation and development, energy and water, heads of National Disaster Man-agement Authority (ANDMA), Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG), National Directorate of Security, Council of Ministers secretary, MPs and advisors. (Pajhwok)

KABUL - The Afghan Air Force took another major step as efforts are underway by the Afghan government together with its international allies to bolster the capabilities of the Afghan national defense and security forces.

NATO Condemns Daesh Attack on Iraqi

Embassy in Kabul

No Good Choices for New Strategy in Afghanistan

Lawmaker Parween Nuristani Dies in Traffic Accident

Eight Herat Districts Facing Security Threats: Residents

Pakistan Always Support Efforts for Peace, Development in

Afghanistan

Afghanistan to Double Special Forces

Abdullah in Ghor to Evaluate Security SituationAfghan Air Force Takes another Major to Bolster

ANDSF Capabilities

India Urged to Launch

Special Satellite for Afghanistan

The 438th Air Expeditionary Wing said the Afghan Air Force A-29 maintenance leadership requested to take full responsi-bility for flight line maintenance operations from TAAC-Air advisors and contract mainte-nance. ...(More on P4)...(6)

gade, the acting minister of defense said, the terrorist groups have taken a heavy blow by the Afghan security forces in the current year.“We study all the threats in Afghanistan and prepare the structures of security institutions according to them. Afghan Special Forces had a key and important role in last year’s operations. Considering the increase of security threats, the Special Forces will have a double increase,” said Tariq Shah Bahrami, the acting defense minister.Currently, war is ongoing in several districts of the country. The acting defense minister noted that they have special op-erations and focus more on enemies’ threats.“We have special plans in hand, Afghan forces are some-times in defensive mood and sometimes in offensive,” Bah-rami added. In the meantime, the commander of special bri-gade insisted on powerful standing against enemies’ threats.“We will be accountable to any threats in terms of providing security,” said brigadier Khanullah Shoja.Afghanistan’s international allies regularly praise the per-formance of the special forces, but there is also concern that the workload places them under too much strain. (ATN)

The Ministry of Telecommunications and Technology (MoTT) has urged the government of India to launch a special satellite for Afghanistan.