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Pompeo: John Bass Helped Advance US Efforts Towards Afghan Peace

33% Hike in Afghanistan’s Exports as a Result of Air Corridors

In Tehran, Karzai Praises Iran’s Role in Afghanistan, Criticizes US

KABUL - US Secretary Mike Pompeo described Ambassador John Bass’ service in Afghanistan as “exemplary,” saying he helped “advance American efforts to fa-cilitate a political settlement in Afghanistan,” and served with “excellence and integrity.”“As Ambassador John Bass con-cludes two years in Afghanistan, I am grateful for his exemplary service leading one of the world’s most challenging diplomatic mis-sions,” Pompeo said in a tweet.“A valued partner and counter-part, he helped to advance Amer-

ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that they will issue five years ‘tour-ism’ visa for all nationalities in-cluding Afghans.His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Monday announced that tourist visas in the UAE will now be is-sued for five years.” We change the system of issu-ing tourist visas in the country, to make the duration of the tourist visa for five-years, multiple uses, for all nationalities.”, Sheikh Mo-hammed tweeted.We received more than 21 million tourists annually, and we want to establish the UAE as an inter-national tourist destination, he added.The move comes in a bid to sup-port the UAE’s tourism economy, and affirm the country’s position as a global tourist destination.Sheikh Mohammed said during a cabinet meeting that the move aimed to establish the UAE as a major global tourism destination and was part of wider plans to prepare the country for the next 50 years of development. At pre-sent, he said the UAE welcomes about 21 million visitors each year, Khaleej Times reported.The year 2020 will be different be-cause it is the year of preparation for the next 50, the year in which we design the future of the Emir-ates, he said on Twitter.The move is expected to provide a boost to the tourism industry and make it easier for residents to bring relatives to the country for visits.Dubai is a luxury and attractive tourism and business city in the UAUE, where many of Afghani-stan’s business people love to live and work.The UAE visa was usually issued for 1 month and 3 months for Afghan applicants. (KHAAMA PRESS)

KABUL - Afghanistan’s exports via new international trade route, known as Lapis Lazuli, is fac-ing hurdle as countries along the route refuse to issue visas to transporters.The route, which was inaugu-rated by President Ashraf Ghani over a year ago, runs from Af-ghanistan to Turkmenistan, Azer-baijan and Georgia before cross-ing the Black Sea to Turkey and eventually Europe.Khanjan Alokozay, a member of board of directors of Afghani-stan’s Chamber of Commerce and Investment, said that the nations along the route are denying visas to transporters.Meanwhile, Mirwais Nab, depu-ty foreign minister for economic cooperation, said that the issue would be resolved soon in an up-coming ...( More on P4)...(3)

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani FM Qureshi said Monday in the coun-try’s upper house that Iran-US tensions could hit Afghan peace process. Mr Qureshi also during a telephonic conversation with his Kuwaiti Counterpart discussed peace and stability in the region.Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made a telephonic con-versation with his Kuwaiti Coun-terpart Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah.They discussed overall situation of peace and stability in the re-gion, according to Radio Pakistan.Speaking at the Pakistan’s up-per house, FM Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that “the crisis will have a negative impact on Af-ghanistan, and Pakistan’s efforts in this regard could be undone.”“Some elements, who have long been awaiting for this [kind of] moment, may take advantage and try to derail the Afghan peace process,” Qureshi further said without naming any individual, group or the country.Tensions between US and Iran entered into a military phase af-ter Qasem Soleimani commander of Iran’s Quds Force was assas-sinated by America in Baghdad. (DID PRESS)

KANDAHAR - Increased water resources are needed to boost agriculture in the Daman district of southern Kandahar province, says an official.Haji Khadi Khan, the district’s administrative chief, said Daman -- located close to Kandahar City -- had severely been affected by drought in previous years.In an exclusive interview with Pa-jhwok Afghan News, Khadi Khan urged the central government to resolve the water shortage prob-lem on a war footing.He said retaining walls were be-ing established in Tarang and Ar-ghistan districts to store rainwa-ter and use it for irrigation.The official added wheat, saffron, pistachio, watermelon, melon, grapes and pomegranates were cultivated in the district.The yield of these crops would significantly rise with the avail-ability of more water, hoped the district chief.Khan said 20 schools were opera-tional across the district and more than 7,000 students, including 1,400 girls, were studying there.Buildings are being constructed for four schools a project that would help provide an appropri-ate learning environment for stu-dents.The district’s education depart-ment did not have its own build-ing, he said. At least four health centres in Daman remain open for 24 hours and there is no health problem for residents.Daman had emerged as a stable district as a result of greater coop-eration and coordination among provincial council members, local elders and the general public, he concluded. (Pajhwok)

ican efforts to facilitate a political settlement in Afghanistan. He served me, the President, and America with excellence and in-tegrity. My most sincere thanks,” he said.Bass will be remembered for speaking out against corruption within Afghanistan in very frank terms. Notably, last year during a power shortage due to the de-struction of electricity towers by insurgents, Bass called out the Palace-run National Procurement Authority on social media over reports of their delaying procure-

UAE to Issue 5-Year ‘Tourism’ Visa to All Country Nationals Including Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Exports Via Lapis Lazuli Route Face Hurdle as Countries Deny Visas

Iran-US Tensions to Hit Afghan Peace Process: FM Qureshi

More Water Needed to Boost Agriculture in Daman

ment contracts that would have provided much-needed fuel to handle the crisis. It was also on Bass’ watch that the US State De-partment pulled back millions of dollars of US aid, citing corrup-tion within the Afghan govern-ment, among other reasons.In a recent interview, John Bass spoke to TOLOnews’ Lotfullah Najafizada about the threat of corruption:“If I look ahead over the next cou-ple of years, what concerns me about Afghanistan--obviously the levels of violence, the complexity

KABUL - Afghanistan has ex-ported over 11,000 tons of goods worth more than $238 million, comprised of fresh and dry fruits, natural herbs, handicrafts, rugs, sheep skin, vegetables and saffron to international markets since the inauguration of the very first air corridor in 2017.The implementation of the first air freight initiative between Afghanistan and India in 2017 gave major impetus to increase its footprint to other countries as well. Today, Afghanistan has exported its goods to European , Asian and Arab markets through over 1,100 flights from Kabul,

of solving the conflict-- but the second thing that concerns me is the number of people in this so-ciety, but particularly here in Ka-bul, who have a sense of entitle-ment about the flow of financial resources from the international community, from other govern-ments, from taxpayers in demo-cratic societies that will come to Afghanistan. They seem to expect that we will continue to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in funding regardless of whether it is spent well, regardless of wheth-er it ...( More on P4)...(1)

KABUL - Former Afghan Presi-dent Hamid Karzai has praised Iran’s role in Afghanistan while criticizing the United States.Speaking at Tehran Dialogue Fo-rum, Karzai said that despite US presence in Afghanistan, Iran took part in Afghanistan’s recon-struction, had economic coopera-tion and hosted Afghan refugees, according to Iran’s official news agency IRNA.He said that regional and global cooperation fell apart following US entry into Afghanistan, add-ing US presence didn’t deliver what was expected.Karzai said that after 18 years, Afghanistan is still suffering from

war and its national sovereignty is breached. He said that peace cannot be ensured unless regional countries cooperate. The forum was organized in Tehran amid growing ...( More on P4)...(2)

Kandahar, Mazar and Herat air-ports. According to figures from the Afghan Ministry of Commerce, in 2019 about 5,300 tons of goods were exported to India, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Germany, UK, Azerbaijan, France, Belgium, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Turkey, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland and Holland through 8,55 flights. This indicates a 33% increase in the country’s exports compared to last year’s. In 2019, Afghanistan opened air corridors with Azerbaijan, Ku-wait, Oman and Qatar. (WAD-SAM)

MADRID - According to Spanish media reports, Afghan men have raped 3 US sisters in Spain, sus-pects have been arrested.The Epoch Time reported that three men have been arrested in Spain over the alleged sexual assault of three sisters from the United States on new year’s eve, authorities said.The alleged victims, aged 23, 20 and 18, who are from Ohio, were reportedly attacked on New Year’s Eve in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia by three Afghan men aged between 20 and 25.In a press conference on Jan. 3, Francisco Jiménez, the Govern-ment delegate in Murcia, said the alleged sexual assaults took place in two different homes, one of which was in the Plaza de la Candelaria, where the youngest of the victims lived while she was studying in the city reported Euro Weekly News.The second location belonged to the three arrested Afghan citizens, he said.Local newspaper, La Opinión de Murcia, reports that the alleged victims and attackers initially met

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - Public rep-resentatives and residents of northern Balkh province on Tues-day expressed deep concern over insecurity on the Mazar-i-Shraif-Shiberghan highway.They claimed government recent-ly constructed some check-posts between Balkh and Jawzjan prov-inces, but insecurity remained.They said sometimes Taliban mil-itants emerge on the highway by creating check-posts and collect-ing taxes from truck drivers.Residents of Balkh province say security forces have been only securing their check-posts and themselves and most of Mazar-Shiberghan highway’s parts are under Taliban insurgents’ control.But Shahin Military Corps offi-cials rejected the allegations and said after creation of some check-posts, security on the Mazar-Shiberghan highway has been

ensured.Jan Mohammad, a resident of

Balkh province, told Pajhwok Af-ghan News insecurity increased

on the highway since last year. (Pajhwok)

KABUL - Pakistan’s Air Force (PAF) aircraft crashed while on a routine operational training mis-sion near Mianwali, a district of Panjab province PAF confirmed on Tuesday.According to Dawn.com, Both pi-lots, Squadron Leader Haris bin Khalid and Flying Officer Ibaadur Rehman, aboard the PAF FT-7 air-

GHAZNI - Officials from the Ghazni Province Chamber of Commerce and Investments are re-porting the decline in business and investment in the province due to insecurity and other problems in the province.Abdul Matin Qalandari, head of the Ghazni Chamber of Commerce and Investments, told the Pasba-nan reporter that the businessmen and peasants of the province are facing many problems.Mr. Qalandari added: “The Kabul-Ghazni-Ghazni-Kandahar public highway is so insecure that no businessman can travel. There are

FAIZABAD - Two people have been killed and five others wound-ed in a traffic accident in the Shahr-i-Buzarg district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday.Nek Mohammad Nazari, the gov-ernor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the accident took place as a car overturned in the Ar-cha Katal locality of the district on Monday.He said two teachers, including a woman, were killed and five oth-ers wounded. The injured were

KABUL - According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Interior, the Afghan forces arrested four professional burglars in PD7 and PD13 of Kabul city during two separate operations.According to the source, the sus-pects were involved in armed rob-beries of whom three were arrest-

HERAT CITY - More than 30 drug addicts have died in the last 45 days of biting cold in western Herat province, an official said on Tuesday.Public Health Director Abdul Hakim Tamana told Pajhwok Afghan News the dead addicts included 30 men and a woman, whose bodies were evacuated to the zonal hospital.He expressed concern over the surge in drug addicts’ popula-tion and lack of shelter for them. Though it was not the job of public health officials, yet they were try-ing to collect the addicts and take them to a health facility, he said.On the other hand, a number of addicts spend their days and nights on the streets of Herat City in the cold weather.Mohammad, sitting near his brother, both addicts, said: “We were deported from Iran some-time back. Having no shelter,

my brother cried all night due to frosty conditions.”Reza, another resident of Herat, said: “I slipped into addiction five years back have since been living on streets. The weather gets very cold during night.”Syed Mohammad, an inhabit-ant of the provincial capital, said: “Addicts are also human beings like us and have the right to life. The government should pay atten-tion to their plight.”Another resident, Habibullah, told Pajhwok: “The government should collect the addicts and ad-mit them to hospital. It’s painful to see them dying in the harsh win-ter.”Jilani Farhad, the governor’s spokesman, said they had launched a campaign with the cooperation of local authorities to collect the addicts across the city. The drive is aimed to rehabilitate the junkies. (Pajhwok)

craft lost their lives in the crash.The last trainer plane crash was reported in October 2019 when a Mushshak trainer aircraft be-longing to the Army Aviation crash-landed in a paddy field near Wazirabad in Punjab’s Gujran-wala district. However, both pilots aboard the plane remained safe. (Pajhwok)

no airline facilities in Ghazni.Products harvested by peasants should be sold elsewhere due to the lack of cold storage in the prov-ince. ”The head of the Ghazni Province Chamber of Commerce and In-vestments adds that traders have come from the center of the coun-try to buy products in the past, but no business has come to Ghazni during the year.He said he hoped to provide es-sential trade opportunities in the province so that the farmers could sell their products at a reasonable price. ...( More on P4)...(5)

evacuated to civil hospital in criti-cal condition, he added. (Pajhwok)

ed in Dasht-e-Barchi and the other was arrested in the seventh district of Kabul.This comes as the crime rate is in-creasing rapidly in Kabul city.Security officials reported that they are leading serious counter-crime efforts in Kabul and several other provinces. (TKG)

‘Check-Posts Bring No Security to Mazar Highway’

Afghan Men Rape 3 US Sisters on a

New Year’s Eve in Spain

Pakistan’s Fighter Aircraft Crashes on Routine Training

Mission

Insecurity in Ghazni Province Has Reduced Trade

and Investment

2 Killed, 5 Seriously Injured in Badakhshan Accident

Police in Kabul Detains 4 Professional Burglars

Over 30 Drug Addicts Die of Biting Cold in Herat

Jan 8, 2020 - This is not the day to make finan-cial investments of any kind, Leo, although someone may present you with some pos-sible opportunities. They may sound good, but caution is called for. If the information appeals to you, look into it and try to learn

the facts, but make no commitment today. If it’s truly a good opportunity, it won’t disappear within a few days.

Jan 8, 2020 - Right now you might be in the process of moving from one job to another, Taurus. This might even be a total change in career. Your hard work is paying off, though it may not show up in your bank account for a while yet. There

might be contracts to be executed first. Your social life may be put on hold until all facets of this transition are worked out.

Jan 8, 2020 - Gemini, right now you could be overwhelmed by conflicts among your own needs, the needs of your family, and your responsibilities toward your job. As a result, you may be feeling tense and stressed out, and wondering if the situation

will ever be resolved. Don’t panic. It will, and you’ll be none the worse for it. The keyword is balance, and the so-lution lies in finding it.

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Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb.18)

Capricorn (Dec.21-Jan19)

Scorpio (Oct.23-Nov.22)

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Jan 8, 2020 - Too much food and drink could have you feeling a little out of sorts today, Ar-ies. Some friends might have taken you out and exposed you to the most tempting of food and drink. This is always fun, but today you have to

face the consequences! A workout fueled with water could help burn off any toxins or extra calories, and a nap just might com-plete the process so you’re feeling like your old self again.

Jan 8, 2020 - A close relative may be ill or otherwise troubled, Cancer, and you might worry a bit too much today be-cause of a lack of communication from this person. Attempts to phone might

result in no answer or repeated voicemail messages. However, take care to stay focused and objective. Your relative is probably recovering from whatever has been bothering him or her.

Jan 8, 2020 - Your ingenuity and imagina-tion may seem to have deserted you to-day, Libra, and this isn’t making it easy for you to produce the high level of quality you’re used to at work. Perhaps it might

be best to busy yourself with routine tasks you can do automatically and, if you can, put off the more creative endeavors until your brain gets back in gear. Don’t be too proud or too shy to ask for help. Hang in there.

Jan 8, 2020 - Excesses in food and drink yesterday may force you to cancel a social engagement today, Capricorn. You prob-ably aren’t feeling up to it. This might be

a bit irritating, and somewhat embarrassing as well. However, you just might have needed the rest even if you hadn’t eaten too much. Make the most of your evening alone. Soak in a tub and go to bed early.

Jan 8, 2020 - Money matters might require your attention today, Scorpio. Unusual ex-penses may have depleted your reserves, so you might have to cut a few corners. Your in-

come, however, is probably the same if not slightly higher. This is, therefore, only a temporary situation, and your accounts should be back to normal in time, although some caution with regard to spending may need to be observed for a while.

Jan 8, 2020 - Tension between a married couple who are both your friends could have you situated in the most uncomfort-able place of all, Aquarius: right smack in the middle. Both may want to recruit you

to their side, but you’ll want to avoid allying yourself with either party. The best you can do is mediate by try-ing to get each of them to see the other’s point of view.

Jan 8, 2020 - Gloom over the absence of a family member or romantic partner could come upon you today, Pisces, and your usually exuberant nature could be

far more subdued than is normal for you. You might even spend the entire evening watching whatever hap-pens to be on TV. It would be far more productive if you treated yourself to a trip to the bookstore and picked up some new reading material.

Jan 8, 2020 - You should be looking es-pecially attractive today, Virgo, but you may feel that it’s wasted because your be-loved isn’t around to appreciate it. Cheer

up! It will only be for a few days, and you’ll still look pretty good by then. Try to keep yourself busy, pref-erably doing something you love to do, so your en-thusiasm will enhance your good looks. Your friend won’t be away forever. It only seems that way.

Jan 8, 2020 - A lack of contact with a roman-tic partner could have you feeling a little down right now, Sagittarius. You may be

wondering if you’ve said or done anything that offended your beloved one in some way. Your friend, however, is apt to be totally oblivious to the idea that you’re upset. Your partner is probably taking care of some family ob-ligations and may have lost track of time. Hang in there! Your honey should get in touch with you soon.

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in a pub during the New Year’s Eve celebrations before one of the sisters left with one of the men to go to his home.The other two sisters stayed in the bar before leaving with the two re-maining men to continue celebra-tions at the apartment belonging to the youngest woman, they said.According to Jiménez, at the time the incident took place, the older sisters were on vacation and vis-iting the younger sister, who was due to return with them to the United States after finishing her studies.La Opinión de Murcia says that two of the women reported being raped and the third was assaulted and beaten before managing to escape.Police found indications not only of sexual assault but also other in-juries to one of the girls who was attacked, Euro Weekly News re-ports.The men were taken to differ-ent police stations after spending the night in a station located in Plaza Ceballos, near the neighbor-hood of Santa Eulalia where the events took place, Jiménez said. (KHAAMA PRESS)

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In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Kind

January 08, 2020

Achieving Sustainable

Development

We live in “the global village” where human societies share organic relations. When a country sustains economic reces-sion, prosperity is harmed everywhere. When a person suf-

fers from a new flu, all are at risk. When nuclear weapon is pursued by one nation, all nations are susceptible to the risk of nuclear attack. When violent extremists spill the blood of individuals in one corner of the world, the entire globe is affected mentally and emotionally. And when innocents are slaughtered in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, the pub-lic conscience is outraged. That is what it means we live in “the global village” and share this world in the 21st century. Currently, the world is left at the mercy of terrorism. Terrorist net-works have changed into global threat seeking to expand their reach. Terrorists murder innocent civilians, including women and children, on a massive scale around the world. Confronting violent extremism in all of its forms is the first issue the world has to begin. To combat terrorism and mitigate extremism, we have to find out the root causes. It is believed that poverty is one of the main reasons behind extremism. A number of individuals join terror-ist networks to alleviate their hunger and financial urges. Luckily, the first objective of the “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” is to put an end to poverty and hunger and promote well-being. This fact indicates that poverty plays a highly de-structive role in human societies and should be eradicated. Lack of education is the second reason behind growing extremism. No wonder, the uneducated layer of a society will be more vulnerable to terrorist networks. According to my knowledge, those who live in tribal belts, where educational institutions are lacking, easily fall for the bogus claim of terrorist networks. Since one out of the 17 objectives of ‘the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ is providing learn-ing opportunity and quality education, the world should broaden the individuals’ horizon through extending educational programs and vocational institutions. Violence and discrimination against women is widespread, mainly in societies where patriarchal system rules. Women’s social, political and economic role is curtailed in light of cultural restrictions and tra-ditional worldview. The fundamental groups and militant fighters, who practice upon misogynistic view, also pose a serious threat to women. For instance, women lose their lives in terrorist attacks and suicide bombings in war-torn countries. Women are exploited and murdered in cold blood by the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, to name but a few. To end sexual discrimination and violence against women, all nations have to act upon the fact that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” regardless of their race, color and sex, which has been stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and all countries should include this article in their constitutions so as to protect women’s rights and dignity and achieve gender equality. Climate change and air pollution are believed to pose strong threat to people around the world and cause silent death. A large number of people lose their lives annually as a result of air pollution. Combating climate change is also the goal 13 of “the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The world needs to reduce pollution through sup-porting planting trees and preventing deforestation, saving energy and provoking sense of responsibility for companies and stakehold-ers. Similarly, the world should cut greenhouse gas emission and limit the temperature increase so as to reduce the risk and sustain environ-mental integrity. The best way to mitigate climate change and support sustainable development is to practice upon the “Paris Agreement”. To reduce extremism and build a world void of violence and blood-shed and to combat poverty, the human societies need to “act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood” as it is stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and strengthen global part-nership in this “global village”. We have to respect the rights and dignity of all members of the human family. We have to seek com-mon grounds and share common principles – principles of freedom, justice, tolerance and dignity. To reduce violence, the cycle of hatred and mistrust must end. In brief, religious tolerance, racial equality and respecting human rights and liberty will catalyze reaching sustainable development but contempt for human rights will lead to violence and cruel practices. Words alone cannot meet our collective needs, these needs will be met if we take practical step boldly. Moreover, only military power cannot eradicate war and militancy in countries such as Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, this fact has been proved in Afghanistan and the “war on terror” did not bear the desired result. Besides targeting the sanctuaries of terrorist networks, no matter where they are, we need to pursue a non-violent mechanism, too, namely holding negotiation and eradiating poverty, lack of education, intolerance and racial in-justice. Streams of blood have been shed as a result of terrorist activities. Peo-ple have been murdered on the grounds of their caste, color and creed. These outrageous acts will shake our collective conscience. We are all responsible and have to promote friendly relations among the nations. We have the responsibility to work for the time when the mothers of Afghans, Iraqis, and Syrians see their children grow up in a peaceful environment.

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As result of long war and rising poverty, the phenomena of social crimes have increased in all large cities of Afghanistan, but the Kabul is considered as the Kingdom of social Criminals according some

citizens. Given the fact that Kabul is the center of political and economic de-cision making, it is expected to be one of the secure provinces in the country but no one feel secure in this city. Almost every day, there are reports and complains about social crimes including looting residential houses, killing students in Kabul streets and kidnapping traders in the work place. Two days ago, Ali Sina, a highly talented student of American University of Afghanistan, was killed while coming home. He was killed when he had resisted against robbers who tried taking his laptop and other property. A similar event happened yesterday, in Dehboori area of Kabul when three motorcycle riders shot a man on his chest while robbing his mobile. As according to a report quoted from MoI officials, 2632 criminal cases have been recorded within one last year which includes: 523 deaths, 638 injuries, 26 kidnaps, 937 thefts and the rest reported as miscellaneous. Based on a separate report, nearly 70 robbery events recorded in last two weeks and so nearly 103 people been arrested. As a result of these successive cases, some of the top officials including Uleama council, COE and parliament reacted against the issue. Some of the PM says a large number of complains stormed to the parliament from different area of Kabul city; the Ulema council also invited a number of PM asking to take immediate action against the issue; Dr. Abdullah Abdullah also called the security forces to pay serious atten-tion on the social complaints.According to citizens, the social crimes are more dangerous than terrorists and air-pollution as it kills at least 18 people per day in each of the18 districts of Kabul. Despite these many crimes which are happening everyday and everywhere, MoI reports indicate that the level of crimes 40% decreased; according to public opinion, these kinds of expression and reports are ri-diculous. They blame the police officials for being behind the social crimes and so a number of face-book users launched face-book campaign saying “Kabul is not secure”. In fact, the organized groups of criminals have badly challenged the police ability and Kabul security system. The current increas-ing poverty, air-pollution, terrorism, and now social crimes have hardly pressurized people in Kabul city. However, social offences have a long history in human life and considered as an inevitable phenomenon in human life. The human history has record-ed numerous crimes and catastrophes in its memory. The Criminal offenses can directly threaten social security while the social security is one of the main philosophies for existence of the political system to protect members of a society against any threatening factors. When citizens do not feel secure

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For an armchair warrior like US President Donald Trump, who re-ceived five deferments from serving in Vietnam, assassinations must look like a foreign-policy silver bullet. You take out your

enemy’s leadership with a drone strike or a rifle shot and, presto, your problems are solved. In fact, there is no historical basis for believing that assassinations solve anything. But there are plenty of precedents that they make things far, far worse.Assassinations are, in almost every case, desperate gambles, usually carried out not by statesmen but by committed ideologues. This has been clear at least since the “golden age” of the assassin – Europe and America in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. During these decades, anarchists murdered two US presidents (James A. Garfield and William McKinley), a Russian czar (Alexander II), a Habsburg empress (Elisabeth, wife of Franz Joseph I), an Italian king (Umberto I), a French president (Sadi Carnot), and two Spanish pre-miers (Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and José Canalejas y Méndez).The two great heroes of this movement of anarcho-assassins, Mikhail Bakunin and Prince Petr Kropotkin, were Russians, which is not sur-prising. After all, in the words of an anonymous Russian diplomat of the time, quoted by Georg Herbert zu Münster, nineteenth-century Russia could be described as “absolutism tempered by assassination.” Bakunin and Kropotkin both embraced assassination, which they called “the propaganda of the deed,” or, as the Harvard cultural his-torian Maya Jasanoff more correctly called it in her luminous study The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, “propaganda by dynamite.”Jasanoff was commenting on Conrad’s The Secret Agent, the Polish-English novelist’s darkly cynical story in which a purveyor of pornog-raphy, not some political fanatic, plots a terrorist atrocity. Such tactics, Conrad seems to suggest, are the tools of demented misfits, hollowed-out malcontents, and the morally corrupt, not government leaders. And, in the end, the violent anarchy of Bakunin and Kropotkin yielded the Soviet Union, which in the Stalin era was just about the most totali-tarian state the world has ever known. Though China’s Mao Zedong would certainly challenge that title, and with the advent of Big Data, facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence may enable its current President Xi Jinping to keep it.And if Czarist Russia was a form of “absolutism tempered by assas-sination,” Japan in the 1920s and 1930s perfected a form of politics in which murder became the military’s chosen means of influencing government policy. Determined to eliminate civilian opposition to Ja-pan’s invasion and takeover of China, extreme nationalist elements of Japan’s army and navy engaged in a series of assassinations to achieve their policy goals. Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, who negotiated the

Kabul Streets: the Kingdom of Social Criminals

The Assassin’s False Creed

at his home, at his work or on the street then the philosophy of the security system is questioned and so the distance between citizens and political sys-tem may also increase.According to social experts, the first and most important factor of social crimes is poverty. Initially, poverty may compel a sinless individual to com-mit social offences while it is against his natural will and conscience, but gradually it can become a part of his personality and alter to a professional criminal. In context of Afghanistan, from one hand accessing to weapons is easily possible through black market, and on the other hand poverty compels them to take such an action. In many advanced countries, either government are deemed accountable against people to provide them jobs or provide the minimum social welfare under name of social security al-lowance to unemployed and weak people. Anyway, the social crimes seem as serious issue in Afghanistan which hardly pressurized the innocent people. If the government does not take immediate action, it will have very unpleasant consequences for the gov-ernment and overall people of Afghanistan. Given the conflict contexts, the enemy of Afghanistan will try to attract cheap and unsatisfied social forces to sabotage the social tranquility. In addition to the political effects on the lives of the people, the social crimes will also have a negative impact on the country’s economy. With everyday Killing and kidnapping, the traders and investors will be compelled to leave the country. So, economical conse-quences will not only be capital flight but also brain drain from the country. In order to prevent the social crimes, there are two types of methods: penal-izing strategy and non-penalizing strategy. In third world countries, what-ever action may be used to reduce the crime but experts believe that only punishment strategy will not work and so we need to root out the real fac-tor. Meanwhile, all preventive strategies are focused to reduce the crimes not reach to zero level as it is too difficult or impossible. Therefore, crime is an inevitable phenomenon of social organization we should use proper strategies to reduce crime, not fully eliminate it. However, reaching to this point is a distant dream to the war-torn countries like Afghanistan. According to criminological theories, we need to use certain indicators to assess the success of crime preventive programs. One of the most important indicators is the criminological capacity and this can be used as a tool in the hands of forensic researchers to shows the degree of success of programs and allows them to determine to what extent they have been successful in implementing programs. The capacity is determined by figures at a specific time and location. But this is done under certain conditions to determine which crime in that specific area is above or below than normal level.

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By: Nina L. Khrushcheva London Naval Treaty (which, in the eyes of the nationalists, gave Japan a status “inferior” to that of the United States and the United King-dom), was murdered in 1932. Originally, the officers had also planned to kill Charlie Chaplin, whom Inukai had hosted at a reception earlier in the day.The light sentences handed out to the assassins only encouraged more, and greater, political bloodshed. Although the plotters of the “Febru-ary 26 Incident” failed to assassinate Prime Minister Keisuke Okada or to take Emperor Hirohito hostage, they did succeed in killing Finance Minister Takahashi Korekiyo (sometimes called Japan’s Keynes), and Admiral Saitō Makoto, one of Hirohito’s closest military advisers. An-other, Admiral Kantarō Suzuki, was wounded. In a grim sense, these assassinations succeeded, because Japan’s militarists so intimidated the government and palace that their policies, in China and elsewhere, could no longer be challenged. The road to war, and Japan’s ultimate ruin, lay open.True, some state-sponsored assassinations, and attempted assassina-tions, contain an element of personal vengeance. Stalin loathed Leon Trotsky, and was undoubtedly delighted when the Spanish Commu-nist and Soviet NKVD agent Ramón Mercader buried an icepick in his one-time rival’s head. And Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of allegedly ordering the killing of former KGB operative Al-exander Litvinenko by radioactive polonium in 2006 and the poison-ing of Sergei Skripal, along with his daughter, who luckily survived their exposure to the Novichok nerve agent in 2018. Supposedly, he took their defection to London as a personal affront.But the world’s democracies should not feel very self-righteous where assassination is concerned. It is easy to imagine that some wounded amour propre was behind US leaders’ persistent efforts to assassinate Cuba’s Fidel Castro, using everything from poison to exploding cigars. And it was a British attempt to assassinate Napoleon that led to a re-newal of warfare in Europe after peace had been concluded with the Treaty of Amiens. Two political scientists, Northwestern’s Benjamin Jones and MIT’s Benjamin Olken, have actually tried to quantify how misguided assassinations are as a matter of policy. They examined 298 assassination plots dating back to 1875 and discovered that success was no sure thing. Indeed, only 59 of the attempts ended with the target dead. More to the point, Jones and Olken’s research bears directly on the assassination of Qassem Suleimani: they found that such targeted killings by governments do little either to deter war or to minimize it. So, as usual with Trump, the world may just have witnessed an empty – and potentially a very costly in the long run – gesture.

By: Mohammad Zahir Akbari

Nina L. Khrushcheva is Professor of International Affairs at The New School. Her latest book (with Jeffrey Tayler) is In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones.

Mohammad Zahir Akbari is the permanent writer of the Daily Outlook Af-ghanistan. He can be reached at mohammadzahirakbari@gmail.com

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age is half the proportion spent by the US it hardly reassures the hawks in Washington.“In the end, money matters. If we’re not prepared to cough up we should not be surprised if we are not consulted ahead of big de-cisions such as the taking out of General Suleimani. Nor should we be surprised if the Western alliance slowly starts to fracture as resent-ment builds up at European free-riding. To allow that would be a historic mistake.”“They were right,” Mr Straw wrote in The Times. “Aside from any deaths of American, Israeli, or oth-er westerners in reprisal for Solei-mani’s killing, there will be wider consequences adverse to US and Israeli interests, and beneficial to Iran.”Rather than a pre-emptive strike against the killing of Americans by Iranian-backed forces, Mr Straw linked the strike to Mr Trump’s re-election bid, and called it a gamble which would “play into the hands of the hardliners in Iran”.“Whether it all helps President Trump’s re-election remains to be seen,” he wrote. “But if so, what a price to pay.”Meanwhile, retired diplomat Sir Paul Lever, former chairman of the UK’s Joint Intelligence Commit-tee, concurred with Mr Hunt that Britain - like France and Germany - should not expect to be involved in America’s manoeuvrings in regard to Iran.“We have interests to protect in the region (by re-grouping our forces in Iraq to more defendable loca-tions and by re-instituting convoys in the Strait of Hormuz),” Sir Paul wrote in a letter to The Times.“But we should not pretend that we are a significant political player. We are not consulted by the Unit-ed States and we have no influence over Iran. We can only watch and wait. This is the reality of being a middle-sized power.” (Indepen-dent)(17) Pakistani ...responded by drafting legislation that the lower house approved on January 7, clearing the way for the extension after the expected ap-proval by the upper house.Pakistan’s two main opposition parties have a long history of clashing with the military, but backed the extension in an appar-ent attempt to avoid a politically damaging confrontation.Two smaller parties and some members of parliament from Pakistan’s northwestern districts along the Afghan border opposed the extension.They accuse Pakistan’s military of committing rights abuses dur-ing its anti-militant operations. The army rejects such accusations. (Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty)(18) Uzbekistan, ...ratified the treaty on April 19, 2018.The agreement on the most con-troversial part of the border, in particular, at the the Farhad hy-droelectric power station, was reached at a meeting of the Inter-governmental Commission on De-limitation and Demarcation of the State Border in Dushanbe on Janu-ary 10, 2018.It was decided that the territory on which the Farhad hydroelectric power station is located will be recognized as the territory of Ta-jikistan, and the hydropower facil-ity itself will be recognized as the property of Uzbekistan. The facil-ity will be protected by the Tajik side, and Uzbekistan will be en-gaged in its maintenance.According to the State Committee for Land Management and Geod-esy of Tajikistan, the length of the Tajik-Uzbek border is 1,332 km. Of the total length, the river bor-der is 105 kilometers, and land - 1,227 km. (Trend)

military centers will be included in the retaliation,” Mohsen Reza-ei said in a televised speech to mourners in Tehran.Following the attack, where the U.S. launched three rockets at Baghdad International Airport, killing the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force as well as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Pop-ular Mobilization Forces, and five other people, Netanyahu issued a statement with brief congratula-tory remarks to President Trump, a longstanding ally in the region.“Qassem Soleimani brought about the death of many American citi-zens and many other innocents in recent decades and at present. Soleimani initiated, planned and carried out many terrorist attacks throughout the Middle East and be-yond,” Netanyahu said. “President Trump is deserving of all esteem for taking determined, strong and quick action. I would like to reiter-ate — Israel fully stands alongside the U.S. in the just struggle for se-curity, peace and self-defense.”Netanyahu reiterated to Cabinet ministers Monday that although Israel did not take part in the at-tack, they support the U.S.’ right to defend itself. (Fox News)(7) Muslims should ...terrorism”. “The time is right for Muslim countries to come togeth-er,” Mahathir told reporters. “We are no longer safe now. If any-body insults or says something that somebody doesn’t like, it is all right for that person from another country to send a drone and per-haps have a shot at me.” About 50 people including burqa-wearing women gathered outside the Iranian embassy in the Ma-laysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to shout “Down, Down USA”. Ma-hathir has tried to maintain good relations with Iran despite U.S. sanctions on the Middle Eastern country. An estimated 10,000 Ira-nians live in Malaysia. Last month, Mahathir hosted Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a conference of Muslim leaders in Malaysia where they discussed boosting business, trading in each other’s currencies and keeping up with non-Muslim countries. Mahathir’s recent com-ments on the treatment of Mus-lims in India and his criticism of the Saudi Arabia-based Organisa-tion of Islamic Cooperation have soured Malaysia’s relations with both New Delhi and Riyadh. “I speak the truth,” Mahathir said. “You do something that is not right, I think I have the right to speak out.” (Reuters)(8) Turkey’s ...Kyrgyzstan amounted to $32.3 mil-lion.At this time, export from Ankara to Kyrgyzstan increased by 9.3 times compared with November 2018, amounting to $2.6 million.Export from Istanbul to Kyrgyz-stan increased by 29.1 percent compared with November 2018, and amounted to $29.7 million, the ministry said.From January through November 2019, Turkey’s export increased by 1.3 percent compared with the same period of 2018, amounting to $151.8 billion.In November 2019, Turkey’s export dropped by 0.7 percent compared with October 2018, and amounted to $14.8 billion. (Trend)(9) Japan Issues ...2018 and his dramatic flight last month to Lebanon, his childhood home..“Last time Carlos Ghosn an-nounced a press conference and got re-arrested. This time, the day before he is announced to speak out freely for the first time, they is-sued an arrest warrant for his wife Carole Ghosn,” a spokeswoman

which called for North Korea to drop its nuclear program in ex-change for sanctions relief. (RT)(13) Pentagon ... allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people,” he told reporters travel-ling with him on Air Force One.“And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn’t work that way.” (Aljazeera)(14) Kazakhstan, ... meeting, parties agreed to contin-ue negotiations on this issue.Important steps in the develop-ment of Kazakh-Emirati relations in trade-economic sphere are meet-ings of the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC), the report said. As of now, six of the IGC meetings held, the last of which took place on 12-16 January 2017.According to the National Bank of Kazakhstan, from 2005 through 1Q2016, total volume of direct in-vestments attracted from the UAE to Kazakhstan reached $2 trillion. (Trend)(15) Australia ... and wind later this week that is expected to fan existing blazes and spark new ones.“We need to remain vigilant,” An-drew Crisp, Victoria state’s emer-gency management commissioner, told reporters.“We talk about benign conditions, and the fire is suppressed, but it is still there. It is still tinder dry.”Australia’s bushfire season started earlier than normal this year fol-lowing a three-year drought that has left much of the country’s bushland vulnerable to fires.Thousands of people have been left homeless, while many in ru-ral towns have spent days without electricity, telecommunications and, in some cases, drinking water. Military-coordinated rescue and support efforts are going on.Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the crisis would have a significant economic impact as Treasurer Josh Frydenberg met chief executives of insurers Insurance Australia Group, Suncorp Group and QBE Insurance Group, and local heads of Germany’s Allianz and Swit-zerland’s Zurich Insurance Group, plus heads of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac Banking Group.Morrison on Monday pledged A$2 billion ($1.39 billion) to a newly created National Bushfire Recov-ery Agency.* A member of parliament from Morrison’s party was criticized for an appearance on the “Good Morn-ing Britain” ITV program during which he said there was no link between climate change and the bushfire crisis. “There is no link, the facts that cause the fires are the drought and the drying of the en-vironment,” lawmaker Craig Kelly said. (Reuters) (16) 35 People ...calling it a gamble by Donald Trump and linking it to his re-elec-tion bid.Mr Hunt, the Tory foreign minis-ter for a year under Theresa May, says the killing of the Iranian gen-eral without consultation from the United States to countries includ-ing Britain reflected a growing dis-regard toward Europe from Wash-ington.This stemmed mostly from Ameri-can disenchantment with defence spending by European countries, which invest 2% of their GDP or less on defence whereas the US spends 4%.“American taxpayers still fund around one third of the cost of de-fending Europe, a massive subsidy to already-prosperous Europeans,” Mr Hunt wrote in The Daily Tele-graph.“If the best the Europeans can man-

for Ghosn told Reuters in Beirut. (Reuters)(10) ‘Keep Out ... as someone looks over the grisly scene, with body parts and puddles of blood scattered across the acad-emy courtyard. Footage captured later on shows debris still littering the charred concrete.While it remains unclear who car-ried out the deadly bombing this weekend, the UN’s envoy to Lib-ya Ghassan Salame suggested on Monday it was “probably” forces supporting the rival legislature based in Tobruk, led by military commander Khalifa Haftar. A spokesperson from Haftar’s Liby-an National Army (LNA) denied any involvement in the attack.Salame stopped short of assign-ing definitive blame, however, and spoke out against foreign interfer-ence in Libya.“Keep your hands out of Libya, the country is suffering too much from foreign interference in dif-ferent ways,” Salame said. “There is enough weapons in Libya, they don’t need extra weapons, there are enough mercenaries in Libya, so stop sending mercenaries, as is the case right now with hundreds, probably thousands, coming into the country.”On Thursday, the Turkish parlia-ment approved the deployment of troops and weapons in Libya in or-der to prop up the GNA against the LNA. Haftar responded by declar-ing jihad and vowing to “confront and expel” any foreign forces in Libya.Though the GNA is the interna-tionally recognized government, Haftar’s forces control most of the country. They have made efforts to take Tripoli since April last year, and announced a major push in early December.Libya never recovered from the US-led NATO operation which over-threw leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, unleashing years of bloody conflict and instability. (RT)(11) Rising Carbon ...greenhouse gas emissions by 40% compared with 1990-levels, to just over 750 million tons of carbon di-oxide. But the latest figures show Germany’s emissions reached 811 million tons in 2019, meaning a similar decline over the coming year could put Germany back on track to meet its short-term target.The report’s authors said emis-sions from heating and transport increased last year, partly due to the growing use of fuel-hungry SUVs.They also noted that the expan-sion of wind farms slumped in 2019 amid a lack of available space for new turbines. The authors said the government needs to swiftly resolve a political dispute around rules for erecting wind turbines if the country is to achieve its medi-um-term goal of cutting emissions by 55% by 2030. (AP News) (12) S. Korean ...equipped with missiles capable of intercepting an aircraft or missiles at altitudes of around 20-40km (12.5-25 miles).The decision to relocate the system follows a series of warnings issued by Pyongyang, including a threat alluding to the unveiling of a new strategic weapon “in the near fu-ture.”President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday that South Korea must strengthen its relationship with Pyongyang, and has called for the resumption of dialogue between the two states.At the beginning of the year, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un an-nounced that Pyongyang is drop-ping its earlier nuclear promises unless the US changed its policy.Previously, North Korea had given Washington until the end of 2019 to rethink it’s hardline position,

(1) Pompeo ...achieves the intended results be-cause we have done so in the past.”Also in the interview, Bass admon-ished those involved in the peace process to take advantage of the current opportunity for peace, say-ing that the international and re-gional politics are dynamic, and the current window may not last forever.The New York Times reports that Ross Wilson, a retired career am-bassador who was previously the top American diplomat in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, will fol-low John Bass, whose two-year tenure as US envoy in Kabul ended this week.Wilson is taking a leave of absence from the Atlantic Council think tank and the nonprofit Global Min-nesota networking organization to run the embassy in Kabul until a permanent ambassador is nomi-nated, the State Department of-ficial said as quoted by The New York Times.The Times reported that Wilson will serve as a temporary charge d’affaires before a permanent am-bassador is appointed.The report says that Wilson is ex-pected to arrive in Kabul soon.John Bass was serving as the US envoy in Kabul since December 2017. (TOLO NEWS)(2) In Tehran ...tensions following US killing of top Iranian commander Qasem So-leimani in Iraq.Karzai urged US to take a rational path in dealing with Iran and re-turn to the nuclear deal.The forum was addressed also by Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif who said that regional countries should not sacrifice their neigh-bors for US for their own security. (1TV NEWS)(3) Afghanistan’s ...meeting with countries along La-pis Lazuli route in Turkmenistan.Afghanistan has exported 500 tons of domestic products to Azerbai-jan, Turkey and European markets since the inauguration of the route in late 2018, according to data from Afghan Ministry of Industry and Commerce.The ministry’s spokesman, Sameer Rasa, said that the volume of ex-ports via the route could increase this year. (1TV NEWS)(4) ‘Kabul Is ...Kabul city; armed robbers injured a Kabul University lecturer with gunshots and seized his laptop and mobile forcefully. In another separate incident, a young stu-dent of the American University of Afghanistan was shot dead by armed robbers in district 13 of Ka-bul city.”, Haidari posted on his Facebook wall on January 5, 2020. (KHAAMA PRESS)(5) Insecurity in ...Meanwhile, Ghazni province was to be upgraded from second-tier province to second-tier province in fiscal year 1398. (pasbanan)(6) Netanyahu ...drone strike.The director of Mossad, a branch of the Israeli Intelligence Commu-nity, told ministers they were not expecting any attacks from Iran be-cause “Israel stayed in a distance from the incident,” adding that the leaders should expect Iran ef-forts towards retaliation to become more apparent on Tuesday after the national three-day period of mourning for Soleimani is over.A former chief of Iran’s elite Revo-lutionary Guards said Sunday the Israeli city of Haifa and Israeli mil-itary centers would be included in Tehran’s retaliation for Soleimani’s death, according to Reuters.“Iran’s revenge against America for the assassination of Soleimani will be severe. ... Haifa and Israeli

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Rising Carbon Prices Led to Drop in German Emissions in 2019

S. Korean Moves Patriot Missile Unit to Seoul Amid Growing Uncertainty Over Denuclearization Talks with

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Pentagon Rejects Trump Threat to Target Iranian Cultural Sites

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‘Keep Out of Libya!’ Gruesome Videos of Tripoli Military Academy Strike Emerge as

UN Envoy Decries Foreign Meddling

35 People Killed, 48 Injured in Stampede at Funeral Procession for Iranian

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Japan Issues Arrest Warrant for Ghosn’s Wife, looks for Ways to Bring Him Back

TASHKENT - Tajik Prime Minister Mah-madtohir Zokirzoda is visiting Uzbekistan’s capital of Tashkent on January 7 to sign an interstate protocol on the final demarcation and delimitation of the Tajik-Uzbek border, Trend reports with ref-erence to the Tajik Asia Plus IA.The document from the Uzbek side will be signed by Deputy Prime Minister Elyor Ganiev.The protocol will con-firm the full agreement of the parties on the clear passage of the state border of the two states.The complete delimita-

DUSHANBE — Po-lice in Tajikistan have detained 27 people on suspicion of being members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.Police sources in Du-shanbe, speaking on condition of anonym-ity, told RFE/RL on January 6 that members of the banned Islamist group were detained in the Tajik capital and in the regions of Sughd and Khatlon during the previous week.They said those de-tained included stu-dents, Islamic clerics, and local officials.The police sources told RFE/RL that there were no initial charges filed against the detainees. But they said the de-tainees were still being questioned as part of an ongoing investigation.They said additional ar-rests were possible as a result of the investiga-

ISLAMABAD - Paki-stan’s lower house of parliament has ap-proved legislation that would extend Chief of Army Staff General Qa-mar Javed Bajwa’s term by another three years.Passage by the cham-ber on January 7 came despite the objections of some political parties that accuse Pakistan’s military of heavy-hand-ed tactics in its anti-mil-itant operations along the border with neigh-boring Afghanistan.The extension must still be approved by the up-per house of parliament in Islamabad, which is

TEHRAN - Thirty-five people have been killed and 48 injured in a stampede that erupted at a funeral procession for an Iranian general killed in a US air strike, Iran state TV said.The online report said the incident happened in Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Solei-mani’s home town of Kerman, in south-east-ern Iran.It quoted the head of Iran’s emergency medi-cal services, Pirhossein Koulivand, as saying

SEOUL - South Korea has deployed a Patriot missile unit to central Seoul, state media has reported, as part of an effort to safeguard the country from its nu-clear-armed northern neighbor.The unit, previously stationed in the south-eastern region of North Gyeongsang Province, was moved to a former

BERLIN — Germany’s greenhouse gas emis-sions fell sharply last year, putting the coun-try’s 2020 climate goal within reach again.A report released Tuesday by the think tank Agora Ener-giewende found that emissions fell by 6.5% in 2019 compared to the previous year — equivalent to 50 mil-lion tons of carbon di-oxide.Analysts said the de-cline was driven by the

SYDNEY - Australian firefighters used a break from searing temperatures on Tuesday to strengthen containment lines around huge wildfires as the financial and environmental costs of the crisis mounted.More than 10.3 million hectares (25.5 million acres) of land an area the size of South Ko-rea - have been razed by bushfires across the country in recent weeks, according to the latest data, with the southeast particularly hard hit.Imagery posted online from the Himawari 8 Japanese satellite and NASA’s Earth Observa-tory showed plumes of smoke from the fires reaching as far as South America.Firefighters on the ground were making the most of a few days of cooler temperatures in the southeast to prepare for the expected re-turn of heat...(More on P4)...(15)

WASHINGTON - The United States’s defence secretary has contradicted President Donald Trump by saying the country’s military had no plans to bomb Iranian cultural sites amid threats of retaliation from Teh-ran over the US assassination of its top military commander, Qassem Soleimani.Speaking to reporters on Mon-day, Mark Esper said the US military will “follow the laws of armed conflict”.When pressed if that ruled out hitting cultural sites, Es-per said pointedly: “That’s the laws of armed conflict”.In comments that sparked an international outcry, Trump first raised the prospect of attacking cultural sites in a tweet on Saturday and reiter-ated that view to reporters the next day.“We have targeted 52 Irani-an sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & impor-tant to Iran & Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD,” he tweeted.His Twitter message caught administration officials off-guard and prompted immedi-ate condemnation from legal scholars, national security ex-perts and Democratic politi-cians. But the president stood by his threat on Sunday.“They’re...(More on P4)...(13)

NUR SULTAN - Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates may sign an agreement on co-operation in the field of international motor vehicle communication, Trend reports with reference to the press office of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.This issue was discussed during a meeting of Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UAE Madiyar Menilbekov with Director General of the UAE Federal Transport Authority H.E.Eng. Ahmed Al Khouri.The parties considered the current state of bilateral cooperation in the field of interna-tional motor vehicle communication and dis-cussed ways to enhance partnership. In this regard, the possibility of signing an agree-ment between the governments of the two countries was noted.Following the...(More on P4)...(14)

tion of the state border between the two states was completed last year.Even then, the parties agreed on the border line; now, as a result of demarcation of the state border, the exact border line of the two states will be indicated on the maps.The agreement between Tajikistan and Uzbeki-stan on separate sec-tions of the Tajik-Uzbek state border was signed on March 9-10, 2018, as part of the state visit of Uzbekistan’s President of Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe.The Tajik parliament ...(More on P4)...(18)

tion. Relatives of some detainees told RFE/RL that their homes had been searched during the weekend.The Muslim Brother-hood is a Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928 by the Islamic scholar Hassan al-Banna.The group’s teachings have spread interna-tionally and have influ-enced various Islamist groups, movements, and parties around the world — some of which do not use the same name. The group claims to be peaceful but has been banned in many countries as an extremist organization. Tajikistan banned the group as such in 2006.In 2016, an imam in Tajikistan’s northern region of Sughd was sentenced to five years in prison for being a member of the Mus-lim Brotherhood.(Time SCA)

expected to support the measure.Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government ap-proved the extension for Bajwa in August, citing a worsening na-tional-security situation with neighboring India to justify the extension at the end of Bajwa’s initial three-year term.But in November, the Supreme Court struck down the extension -- ordering the govern-ment and army to pro-duce legal provisions and arguments for the reappointment.Khan’s government ...(More on P4)...(17)

there had been people injured and killed.A procession in Tehran on Monday drew more than one million people on Monday in the Ira-nian capital, crowding both main thorough-fares and side streets.Meanwhile, two for-mer foreign secretaries have joined the debate over the assassination of General Qassem Su-leimani, with Jeremy Hunt saying it exposes cracks in the Western alliance and Jack Straw ...(More on P4)...(16)

TOKYO - Tokyo pros-ecutors on Tuesday is-sued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn’s wife Carole for allegedly ly-ing in testimony, as of-ficials sought ways to bring the fugitive car industry boss back for trial on financial mis-conduct charges.The perjury arrest war-rant accuses Carole Ghosn of falsely claim-ing not to know, or to have met, people con-nected to a company that received payments from Nissan Motor, part of which it subsequent-ly transferred to a firm owned by Ghosn.Separately, a senior Ministry of Justice offi-cial said staff were por-

TRIPOLI - Shocking videos have emerged online, showing what ap-pears to be a drone strike on a Libyan military academy – instantly killing dozens of cadets and wounding just as many – as well as its bloody after-math.At least 30 trainees were killed and another 33 injured in the Saturday strike, health officials of the Tripoli-based Government of National Ac-cord (GNA) said, noting the total death toll could still increase.In one video circulating online, some-

KUALA LUMPUR - Mus-lim countries should unite to protect themselves against external threats, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday after describ-ing the U.S. killing of Ira-nian military commander Qassem Soleimani as im-moral.The world’s oldest pre-mier, who has in recent months stoked diplomatic tensions by speaking out on issues concerning the Muslim world, also said the U.S. drone attack on So-leimani was against inter-

ing over Lebanese laws to find a way to return Ghosn and that Japan “will do whatever it can” to have him face trial.The former Nissan and

Renault SA chairman is scheduled to hold a news conference on Wednesday, his first such appearance since his arrest in November ...(More on P4)...(9)

what grainy and taken from a dis-tance, a column of trainees is briefly seen in marching formation before it is obliterated by a direct hit that comes out of nowhere. A number of trainees are thrown to the ground im-mediately – many of them presum-ably killed – while a handful of survi-vors attempt to flee.A second, much more graphic clip has also emerged, apparently taken in the moments following the strike. Screams of shock and prayers can be heard...(More on P4)...(10)

national laws. Soleimani’s killing in Baghdad last Friday has sparked fears

military installation lo-cated behind the presi-dential office com-pound, Yonhap news agency reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The rede-ployment was report-edly carried out earlier this month.It is also mentioned in the report that the unit is believed to be ...(More on P4)...(12)

rising price for carbon dioxide on Europe’s emissions trading sys-tem, which pushed util-ity companies to burn less coal.Energy from renewable sources also hit a new high in 2019, meeting 42.6% of gross energy consumption in Ger-many compared with 38.2% the previous year.Germany had been predicted to miss its 2020 target for cutting ...(More on P4)...(11)

Turkey’s Export from Ankara, Istanbul to Kyrgyzstan Rises

BISHKEK - From Janu-ary through November 2019, Turkey’s export from Ankara and Is-tanbul to Kyrgyzstan amounted to $286.9 mil-lion, Turkey’s Ministry of Trade told Trend.During this period, ex-port from Ankara to Kyrgyzstan increased by 19.7 percent com-pared with the same period of 2018, amount-ing to $12.3 million, the ministry said.In the first 11 months

of 2019, export from Is-tanbul to Kyrgyzstan increased by 5.3 percent

compared with the same period of 2018, amount-ing to $274.6 million.

In November 2019, ex-port from these cities to ...(More on P4)...(8)

of a broader conflict in the Middle East. Maha-thir, 94, said it could also

lead to an escalation in “what is called ...(More on P4)...(7)

January 08, 2020JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to distance himself from the U.S.-led airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, telling Security Cabinet ministers on Monday that Israel should “stay out of it.”“The killing of Soleimani is a U.S. event, not an Israeli event, and we should stay out of it,” Netan-yahu said, according to reports by Axios that cited two ministers who attended the meeting.The prime minister gave further instructions for Cabinet officials not to engage the press in com-mentary about the attack -- which has ramped up the tensions be-tween the U.S. and the Middle East and escalated the likelihood of a retaliatory attack -- in order to ensure that Israel’s longtime rivals do not get the impression that it was involved in Thursday’s deadly ...(More on P4)...(6)

Netanyahu Says Israel Should ‘Stay Out’ of Fallout from US Killing of

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KABUL - The Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the Afghan par-liament, on Monday summoned the Kabul mayor and the dep-uty head of the National Envi-ronmental Protection Agency (NEPA) to a hearing over a re-cent surge in air pollution in Ka-bul city.Despite recent snowfall, Kabul is still among the top 10 cities with the most polluted air, ac-cording to Air Visual, an inter-national air quality monitoring organization.NEPA officials have said that over 60 businesses, including 33 brickyards, were closed in the Arghani area in the west of Ka-bul on Sunday.Despite these efforts, some MPs said that so far these efforts have been neither “practical” nor “effective.”“Work on a plan that prevents pollution for many upcoming years,” demanded Khalid As-sad, an MP.“You ask the president to issue this decree. Pay attention to the

people’s economic condition. People are living in bad condi-tions in Kabul,” MP Fatima Ko-histani said.The deputy head of NEPA, Ezatullah Sediqqi, said there is a need for action by all relevant organizations.“Without the government, mu-nicipalities, parliament and civil societies aid--our good plan re-mains on our desks,” he said.A number of lawmakers said they were not satisfied with the answers provided by the two government officials during the Monday session.“You don’t have any solutions and you don’t have any plan,” MP Shahnaz Ghawsi said.“All of us are responsible. Why didn’t the parliament raise this matter six months ago?” law-maker Rahimullah Aliyar asked.A recent figure by the Ministry of Public Health shows that at least 17 people were killed due to air pollution-related health issues in Kabul in the last week of December. (TOLO NEWS)

MPs Doubt Sincerity of Govt Efforts to Curb

Air PollutionGhani Orders Probe into NDS

Kabul Operation That Killed Five

‘Kabul Is Not Safe’, A Security Advocacy Campaign for Crime Combat in The Kabul Streets

KABUL - Elders from the prov-inces of Kapisa, Panjshir and Parwan were also present at the meeting in which Ghani extend-ed his condolences to Amer Ab-dul Sattar’s family and ordered an investigation into the incident.Amer Abdul Sattar was a for-mer Mujahideen leader who was killed with four others in an op-eration by the National Directo-rate of Security’s (NDS) special unit in the north of Kabul.Amer Satar was from Ghorband valley of Parwan province.“Believe us, the wounded were killed after the forces entered the room,” said Abdul Nasir, a neighbor of Sattar.“Amer Sattar and his son were guests at the house. and when we finished the praying than we heard the shooting,” said Abdul Nasir, a relative of Amer Sattar.The son of the owner of the house, Shafi, said: “Amer Sattar and his son and nephew were our guests, and they were killed with my father and one of my

brothers.”The issue sparked anger among some politicians and MPs.“Mr. Amer Sattar was not a fu-gitive,” the parliament speaker

KABUL - The residents of capi-tal Kabul city have recently launched a security advocacy campaign against increasing crimes through social media tools.The campaign named ‘Kabul is not safe/peaceful’ started follow-ing the assassination of a 22-year old Afghan student who was killed by armed street robbers in one of the streets during evening time.

Mir Rahman Rahmani said on Monday. “He (Sattar) attended all government meetings. Why did this operation happen, which included Amer Sattar, where the

Ali Sina Zafari, a third-year stu-dent at the American Univer-sity of Afghanistan (AUAF), was snubbed to death by armed men while showing resistance to hand over his personal computer and laptop on Saturday night, in the 13th district of Kabul City.Zafari’s death sparked anger and concerns among other residents of Kabul, many of whom criticize the government and accuse the police of negligence.

owner of the house with his son was also martyred?”Sources within the NDS con-firmed the operation but have not given details. (TOLO NEWS)

Kabul police say they have reg-istered 70 crime cases in the last two weeks, which includes armed conflicts, robbery and as-sassination cases.The residents in Kabul cannot travel within the city with ‘peace of mind’ after the evening times, there are more chances of victim-izing.Aziz Ahmad Ahmady, a civilian official who lives in district 6 of Kabul city told Khaama Press

that we notice several armed robberies in our area. Dozens of civilians are killed or injured by armed robbers on the streets of Kabul and the government does not care about it:Hamid Haidari, news manager for Afghanistan’s 1 TV channel called on the Kabul residents to join the ‘Kabul is not safe/peace-ful’ advocacy campaign.“Happenings in the last 24hrs in ...( More on P4)...(4)

The Presidential Palace says that President Ghani on Monday evening met with the family of Amer Abdul Sattar – a former Mujahideen leader – who was killed in an NDS operation in Kabul on Sunday.