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KABUL - Ahmad Zia Mas-soud, the president’s special representative on reforms and good governance, on Sunday said in Herat city that major drug traffickers are in the National Unity Government (NUG) and they are preventing security forces from eliminating in-surgents.Massoud, had been speak-ing at the inauguration cer-emony of National Resist-ance Council and said as long as poppy fields exist in the country, the war will not stop.“Major drug smugglers are in the government depart-ments and they prevent the

MP Warns of Spread of Extremism in Universities, Mosques

Afghan Army Defuses 12 Improvised

BombsMajor Drug Traffickers

in NUG: Massoud

KABUL - MP Abdul Hafiz Mansour said the spread of extremism at a number of universities and mosques is

KABUL - Afghan army per-sonnel recovered and de-fused one dozen Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines in two eastern provinces, the Defense Min-istry said on Sunday.“The engineering teams of Afghan National Army dis-covered and defused 12 IEDs and landmines in Kunar and Parwan provinces over the last 24 hours,” it said in a statement.The Taliban militants and other insurgent groups have been using IEDs to target security forces but the lethal weapons also inflict casual-ties on civilians, according to military officials.On Saturday, Afghan po-lice seized over 9,000 kg of a banned chemical in eastern Nangarhar province, border-ing Pakistan.“Afghan Na-tional Border Police (ANBP) confiscated 9,310 kg of Am-monium Nitrate, a key com-ponent used to make Im-provised Explosive Devices. The ANBP searched a truck and found the Ammonium Nitrate besides arresting one suspect in Torkham port, Nangarhar province,” Af-ghan Interior Ministry said earlier Sunday.The seizure of such a large volume of the banned material will signifi-cantly degrade insurgents’ capability to build IEDs, the statement noted.The Afghan government has banned use, product, storage and sale of fertilizer Ammonium Nitrate since 2010. (Xinhua)

plans for elimination of in-surgents,” he said.According to Massoud, the smugglers earn billions of dollars a year through traf-

ficking drugs and that the continuation of war is in their interests.Massoud also said people should help security forces

to maintain security.Provincial governor, Mo-hammad Asif Rahimi, mean-while said the four security check posts of the city will expand to fifteen check posts and that the city will be more secure.He added that Shindand, the most insecure district of the province, is divided into four or five administrative units (districts) and that its security will improve as the new districts’ security de-partments start it work.“We convinced the ministry of interior to increase secu-rity checkpoints to fifteen checkpoints,” Rahimi said.Herat ...(More on P4)...(8)

challenging Afghanistan’s security.Addressing a gathering at a private university in Ka-bul, Mansour said a num-ber of extremist Muslims have been changed into a machine that produces in-fidels.“Who has allowed you to judge and write on your facebook that this is infidel and that is. How many peo-ple are you inviting to Islam every day while you are making infidels of hundred of others? You have been changed into an infidel making machine,” he said.

He said opposing views among Muslims is natural but that no one has the right to call someone infidel.“The culture of Islam [a sub-ject at universities] should be reformed, should be com-pleted. Experts should re-form it. I am a teacher of this subject. I know dozens of other teachers who are com-plaining about this subject and believe that it should be reformed,” he added.Meanwhile, a number of students who attended the ceremony said they agree with the MP....(More on P4)...(11)

ZARANJ - People and farm-ers in southwestern Nimroz province on Sunday said Saturday’s night snowfall was the first in eight years and called it a good omen for agriculture and farming.Mohammad Akbar Sharifi, the provincial agriculture, irrigation and livestock de-partment head, told Pajh-wok Afghan News the snow fell in the province for first time in eight years on Satur-day night. He said one centi-metre of snow was recorded in Zaranj, the provincial capital, raising hopes for im-proved agricultural harvests in Nimroz this year.

Farmers Happy as Snow Falls after 8 Years in Nimroz

Taliban Must be Vanquished in Winter: Kunduzis

He said last year the pro-duction of water-melon and melon in Nimroz stood at 170,000 tonnes and wheat and barley 35,000 tonnes. As the snowfall, from 20 to 30 percent increase in harvests has been projected in the best case scenario, he added.He said rainfall in previous years barely reached 80mm annually, but fortunately with snowfall this year the rainfall was likely to reach up to100mm in Nimroz.“Snowfalls positively affect underground water and saturate underground wells with water and wells are helpful ...(More on P4)...(12)

KUNDUZ - The provincial council on Sunday warned Taliban militants would re-capture the capital of north-ern Kunduz province if clearing operations were not launched against them.“The government must conduct winter operations against Taliban because they are ill-prepared for a show-down”, the PC head, Am-ruddin Wali, told Pajhwok Afghan News.Militants became weak and inactive in winter and the

government must exploit this opportunity and drive Taliban from Kunduz, he suggested.The public representative ac-cused the government of be-ing reluctant to launch win-ter operations and feared a repeat of the fall of Kunduz City.Provincial council secretary Zargul Alami told Pajhwok the government intention-ally did not want peace and security in Kunduz city.“High ...(More on P4)...(9)

Kabul Police Raid Shisha Cafes in “Debauchery”

CrackdownKABUL - Afghan police and health officials raided cafes and restaurants in Kabul on Sunday, confiscating shisha water pipes and parapherna-lia in a campaign to halt “de-bauchery and vulgarity”.Critics say the campaign will only distract police from the Afghan capital’s deteriorating security situation, while doing little to change the pervasive smoking culture in the long-term.Shisha cafes, where customers inhale fruit-flavoured tobacco using pipes that draw the ...(More on P4)...(10)