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Afghan Gov’t Will Pursue ‘Win-Win Deal’ with Taliban for Peace Talks: HPC
Afghanistan’s Chairman of High Peace Council (HPC) reiterates call on the Taliban to join peace talks; says government will pursue ‘win-win deal’ with group, meaning none of the negotiators would give up or fail.
Describing the recently deadly attacks in capital Kabul and in other provinces including car bomb blast in Lashkargah of southern Helmand province that left at least 29 dead and 60 injured, the Head of HPC, Karim Khalili said the Taliban took a clear stand against the recent attacks by not claiming the responsibility which is a positive act towards peace.
“There is no failure or give up in the peace process but the interaction of win-win situation which none of the sides would fail,” Khalili said. “We have a defined message that peace is not a reason for setback.”
He also said that the people’s critique should not be to overthrow the government or to government consider the criticism a step towards collapse of the system.
The remarks of Afghan Chairman of High Peace Council comes as the Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada in a defiant message of coming Eid al-Fitr has called on the United States to quit Afghanistan for peace.
“The occupation is the main obstacle in the way of peace,” he said.
Akhundzada urged the United States to accept the “legitimate demands of the Afghan people” and seek peace through diplomatic means.
“The solution of the Afghan issue through peaceful means is part and parcel of the policy of the Islamic Emirate, should the occupation come to an end,” he said.
In the statement, the Taliban leader consider the government of President Ashraf Ghani as a “stooge” of America and blamed for rising ethnic and factional tensions in Kabul elsewhere.
He also urged Taliban fighters to avoid civilian casualties, a call likely to be dismissed by the government and its allies following Thursday’s attack in Helmand and last month’s deadly truck bomb in Kabul that killed at least 150 people.
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More needs to be done to boost local industry, says Kabir
The deputy prime minister for policy, Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, met with Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, at Sapidar Palace on Tuesday and discussed issues around the quality of domestic products and the need to grow and develop the industrial sector.
Azizi said that good trade relations with neighboring countries has resulted in stable prices of goods in the country.
He said the Ministry of Commerce and Industry works closely with the private sector. As a result, the private sector functions in a befitting manner and the Islamic Emirate has provided necessary facilities.
Azizi said that based on the Islamic Emirate’s good economic policies, there has been a significant development in the import/export sector in the country.
Kabir in turn voiced appreciation for efforts by the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and said: “The unprecedented efforts of the IEA’s administrations and the stability of the Afghan currency caused the price of food ingredients to remain in the right state and our people also be able to buy essential materials.”
He emphasized the need to work for a balance in trade with neighboring countries, and said more efforts were needed to improve the quality of domestic products and to grow the sector.
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Russia and Tajikistan hold joint military drills along Afghanistan border
Russia and Tajikistan conducted a joint four-day military exercise along the border with Afghanistan in order to be prepared for any “potential threats”, Tajik media reported this week.
Russian military personnel from the 201st military base in Tajikistan participated in this exercise. Reports stated military personnel practiced various combat tactics, especially tactics to counter terrorist groups that illegally enter Tajikistan.
This comes amid repeated concerns expressed by Afghanistan’s neighbors about what they claim are terrorist threats originating from Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on the drills but has repeatedly denied the presence of terrorist groups in the country. The IEA has also continuously said no militant group will be allowed to threaten another country from Afghanistan.
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The Media Violations Commission has ordered Noor and Barya TV channels to stop broadcasting and to appear in court, state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Tuesday.
ّIt is said that the decision against the channels was taken for “not observing the principles of journalism.”
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