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November 12, 2015

Pakistan Must Counter Terrorists Fighting Against Afghanistan: Ghani

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday has stressed that Pakistan should take action against the terrorist groups that declare war against the people of Afghanistan and by doing that show their coop-eration and sincerity in fighting ter-rorism and ensuring lasting peace in Afghanistan.A statement issued by the Presiden-tial Palace, Ashraf Ghani said this during meeting with Deng Xijun, the special representative of China for Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday. Ghani also said that dig-nified and lasting peace is the basic need of Afghanistan. He added that peace in Afghanistan has two di-mensions, first peace with Pakistan

KABUL - Nations Assis-tance Mission in Afghani-stan (UNAMA) on Wednes-day condemns the murder of seven civilians, including a child and two women, by anti-Government elements in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan.A statement released by the organization on Wednesday states the senseless murder may amount to war crimes.“These senseless murders may amount to war crimes and the perpetrators must be held accountable.” said Nicholas Haysom the Secre-tary-General’s Special Rep-resentative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA.UNAMA recalls that the murder of civilians, as well as the taking of civilian hos-tages, are serious violations of international humanitar-

KABUL - President Mo-hammad Ashraf Ghani is paying a state visit to Turkmenistan next month based on the invitation of Turkmen President Gur-banguly Berdymuhame-dov.The invitation was given to President Ghani on Monday in a telephonic conversation with Presi-dent Berdymuhamedov to take part in the open-ing ceremony of Turk-menistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline.The project is scheduled to begin by state-run gas company Turkmengaz, which was named pro-ject consortium leader for TAPI Pipeline Company Limited in August, and energy infrastructure con-struction division Turk-menneftegazstroi in De-cember.The $10 billion gas pipe-

KABUL - More than 150 en-gineering specialists from various line departments in six Northern provinces im-proved their skills in use of topographical survey instru-ments through Regional In-frastructure Development Fund (RIDF) of Germany over the past month.Total cost of the program was

nearly AFN 1.5 million and its final course ended in Mazar-e-Sharif on Wednesday and engineers can now apply their knowledge in local in-frastructure projects.The engineers who took part in the training came from various line departments in Badakhshan, Baghlan, Balkh, Kunduz, Samangan and Takhar.The syllabus was tailored to the needs of the departments of economy, rural rehabilita-tion and development, edu-cation, public works, power and water supply, and to the demands of river basin agen-cies and municipalities.During training, participants used topographical survey in-struments commonly used in infrastructure projects, such as GPS, theodolite and level-ling systems.The engineers also learnt how to enter data into computers and then analyse it. By being able to practice the exercises on an actual construction site, they learnt how to better un-derstand the data collected on the spot, both technically and practically.Apart from data collection and analyses, participants discussed questions of safety on construction sites for a saf-er working environment.“There were good sugges-tions on how to improve safety on construction sites. Some-times it’s not even dif-ficult or expensive to put it into practise,” one participant explained.After completing their train-ing in Mazar-e-Sharif, one participant from Kunduz said, “In this course I greatly improved...(More on P4)...(12)

KABUL - Scores of Zabul residents on Wednesday held their own demonstration in protest against the beheading of seven civilians from the southern province and called for their killers, believed to be Daesh members, to be brought to justice.They also called on govern-ment to ensure their safety and to suppress Daesh, Taliban and other militant groups.After the protest, the Zabul residents attended a prayer ceremony for the beheaded hostages.“We condemn this incident. The enemy should not be al-lowed to commit such crimes anymore,” said Mohammad Anwar Ishaqzai, the gover-nor of Zabul, who attended the prayer ceremony.Haji Hashim, a tribal elder, extended his condolences to the bereaved families and condemned the incident.“We feel the pain of the fami-lies who have lost their loved ones in the recent incident,” he said. “We condemn the beheading of the Zabul hos-tages in the strongest possible words.”Another tribal elder, Ghani Khan Tokhi, meanwhile said: “Beheading of the seven hostages was very painful for the Afghan nation. Mili-tants should not be allowed to commit such crimes any-more.”The seven victims, includ-ing three women, were kid-napped last month while traveling between Zabul and Ghazni provinces. They were beheaded a few days ago al-legedly by Daesh members.Their bodies were transferred to ...(More on P4)...(11)

KABUL - Four school boys have reportedly been ab-ducted from the entrance of a private school in Herat city on Wednesday, eyewitnesses said.According to them, kidnap-pers drove off with the boys in a Toyota Corolla.However, Herat NDS direc-tor confirmed the incident but said only one school boy was kidnapped.Police have meanwhile started an investigation into the inci-dent.No group has yet claimed re-sponsibility for the kidnap-ping.Recently a child, believed to

KABUL - Doctors without Bor-ders (MSF) has rejected the Pentagon’s offer to rebuild the Afghan hospital destroyed last month in a US bombing which also killed 30 staff and patients inside the building.MSF said its policy is not to ac-cept government money for its operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.“This policy allows us to work independently without taking sides and provide medical care to anyone who needs it. This will not change,” the nonprofit said in a statement.Last week, MSF General Di-rector Christopher Stokes said that the all of the information about the attack released so far makes it “hard to understand”

Pentagon’s Afghan Slush Fund will have to Answer

to Irate Lawmakers

Afghan Refugee Figures Soar in Sweden

4 School Boys Abducted in Herat: Eyewitness

MSF Rejects Pentagon’s Hush Money in Hospital

Bombing, Still Wants Probe

Zabul Incident May Amount to War Crimes:

UNAMA

President Ghani to Visit Turkmenistan

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Zabul Residents Protest

Beheading of 7 Hostages

150 Engineering Specialists Receive

Topography Training

ian law that all parties to the armed conflict – including all anti-Government elements – are required to uphold.The seven civilians were kid-napped from Gilan District of southeastern Ghazni province and their dead bodies were re-covered from Khak-e-Afghan District of southern Zabul province on Sunday.Thousands of civilians from all tribes, including Pashtoon, Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek have staged a protest in Kabul and demand government to ar-rest perpetrators of Sunday’s incident and punish them for their evil act.This is not the first time, civil-ians are kidnapped and be-headed by anti-government armed groups.Several incidents of this type have taken place in previous months and years. (KP)

line supported by the Unit-ed States and the Asian Development Bank is de-signed to transport 33 bil-lion cubic meters of gas an-nually for a period of three decades to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.The construction of the pipeline with a length of 1,735 kilometers (1,084 mile) is expected to com-plete by the end of Decem-ber 2018 and last for 30 years.The pipeline will run more than 700 km across Af-ghanistan on its way to Pakistan and India which would be filled with gas from Turkmenistan’s mam-moth Galkynysh field, the world’s second-largest res-ervoir of natural gas.The project will create job opportunities for tens of thousands of Afghanistan and will receive millions of dollars every year as the transit. (KP)

tion in the first place.The DOD gave the inspector general an elaborate runa-round. Having shuttered the task force mid-review, the DOD said it could not pro-vide auditors access to former personnel—including cur-rent DOD employees—and wouldn’t give up files, now

During the first eight days of November, 5,010 Afghans have sought asylum in Swe-

be about eight years old, who was kidnapped in Herat city, was rescued late last month during a special operation by police.The kidnapped boy, whose name has been withheld, says he was kept hostage for a few days and that the kidnappers drugged him to keep him un-conscious.The kidnappers had report-edly demanded a ransom for the boy. Kidnapping cases have increased in Herat over the past few years. President Ashraf Ghani, in the first days in office, vowed to end this trend in the western province. (Tolonews)

how the Pentagon maintains the bombing was some sort of “mistake.”MSF believes the attack was deliberate, and therefore a war crime. The group has re-peatedly called for an inde-pendent investigation by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.Since the attack, much of the debate has centered on wheth-er Taliban patients in the hos-pital were armed, and if the group was using the building as a base of operations.Doctors Without Borders re-leased its own findings last week, denying that any com-batant, whether the Taliban or the Afghan government’s, was armed ...(More on P4)...(13)

archived, because previous documents handed over to the inspector had been obtained by reporters under US free-dom of information rules.Instead, Defense officials set up a reading room for the au-ditors. But when they visited, the archive’s monitor did not ...(More on P4)...(9)

den, compared to 3,258 Syr-ians. In January this year, only ...(More on P4)...(10)

WASHINGTON - The US Department of Defense has refused to answer questions about hundreds of millions of dollars spent by a controversial task force focused on economic redevelopment in US war zones. Now, an exasperated US senator has given the de-partment 48 hours to turn over its files.The Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFB-SO) was back in the news last week when an independent inspector general found that it had spent $43 million on a natural gas filling station in Afghanistan, but was unable to justify the huge cost, or even the need for a natural gas sta-

KABUL - Asylum seeker fig-ures in November show that there is an increasing num-ber of Afghans applying for refugee status in Sweden. According to newspaper Da-gens Nyheter (DN), Syrians are the largest group among asylum seekers for the en-tire 2015, but looking only at this month, Afghans have climbed to the first position.

and second peace with the Taliban. He called terrorism a shared threat for Afghanistan, Pakistan and the region and urged joint and sincere commitment to fight this ominous phenomenon in order to eliminate it. In the meeting that was held in Arg [Presidential Palace], Mr. Deng Xijun said that “Afghanistan is an important partner of China and to that end we work jointly with Af-ghanistan to eliminate terrorism in the region and ensure lasting peace and economic development in the country,” the statement reads.At the meeting, Xijun underscored the importance of Afghanistan’s role in improving security in the re-gion. ...(More on P4)...(8)