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Arg to Taliban: Stop making excuses, introduce your negotiating envoy

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(Last Updated On: March 29, 2020)

The Afghan presidential palace wants the Taliban to stop making excuses and introduce its negotiating envoy for the intra-Afghan peace dialogue.

After the Taliban criticized the formation of the Afghan government’s negotiating team of intra-Afghan dialogue, saying it will not talk to the team which is not all-inclusive, the Afghan presidential palace blames the Taliban for beating around the bush.

Presidential Advisor Waheed Omer says, “What we want of the Taliban is not to make excuses. That is, it will talk to a team that is inclusive of all levels of Afghanistan – something which is not their business… If it comes to excuses, we can also judge the formation of the team formed by the Taliban.”

The government says that its negotiating team of 21 is an inclusive one, it is final and no changes will be made to it.

Najia Anweri, the spokesperson to the state ministry of peace, says, “The negotiating team of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, as it is said in the press release, has been formed after consulting with the well-known figures of Afghanistan. It is a strong one. To decide the inclusivity of the team is the business of none other than the government.”

In the meantime, some political movements and groups favorable to Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah say that they have not been consulted regarding the formation of the negotiating team. According to some sources, these political movements want Hamid Karzai to lead the team.

Gul Rahman, a former judge at the monitoring commission of the constitution enforcement, said, “The negotiating team is not inclusive and accountable. It should be led by a man of good character and background.”

Moreover, it seems like the prisoner releases, which is a precondition to the intra-Afghan dialogue, has been facing challenges again.

Also, a Taliban team was supposed to visit Kabul to talk over the prisoner releases; however, the visit, for some reason, has been delayed.

Advisor Waheed Omer says that the release of the prisoners all at once will not be plausible and “the prisoner release will be conditional of the intra-Afghan talks.”

Meanwhile, Roland Kobia, European Union Special Envoy for Afghanistan, has criticized the Taliban’s stance tweeting, “In war, like in peace, you don’t get to choose your opponent. If you want a say in the composition of the other Negotiating Team, fine but then you should accept they have a say in yours too, to check if it is fully representative of your society. Where are the women for example?”

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ISIS-K leader reportedly living in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

Sanaullah Ghaffari, also known as Shahab al-Muhajar, is reportedly the ISIS-Khorasan (Daesh) branch leader and is holed up in Pakistan, Reuters reports.

The 29-year-old took over as leader in 2020 and under his leadership the group has carried out extreme attacks as a means of recruiting, Reuters reported.

Reuters noted that little was known about Ghafari before the deadly 2021 ISIS attack on Kabul Airport, which killed 170 Afghan civilians and 13 American soldiers.

But after Friday’s deadly attack in a concert hall in Moscow, which left 139 people dead, Ghaffari’s group has come under intense scrutiny.

Reuters reports that Ghaffari is said to have been involved in several attacks in Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

Pakistani officials said months ago that Ghaffari had been killed in Kunar province in Afghanistan in June last year, but Reuters has reported that he did not die and instead fled to Pakistan and lives in the border province of Baluchistan.

Abdul Matin Qani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan, says that Daesh has been suppressed in Afghanistan for more than two years and has lost its operational capacity.

The last attack carried out by Daesh in Afghanistan was the attack on the Kabul Bank office in Kandahar last week which left three dead and 12 wounded.

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IPL: Sunrisers thump MI in record breaking match

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

It was raining records at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday with the hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) clinching a 31-run victory over Mumbai Indians (MI) in Match 8 of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

Sunrisers’ batting rewrote the record books on a batting belter after the posted 277 for three.

SRH now have the highest team score in the history of the IPL – beating Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) 263 for five from the 2013 season.

In reply, MI made a spirited effort, and at one stage, were contenders to do the near impossible. In the slog overs, the enormity of the target proved a bit too much, and SRH clinched victory, but not without numerous nervous moments.

To put into perspective the carnage we witnessed – Heinrich Klaasen’s 23-ball half-century was the slowest fifty of the SRH innings.

Travis Head, playing his first match for SRH, raced to the milestone in 18 balls. Abhishek Sharma got there even faster – in 16 balls – to record the quickest fifty by an SRH batter in IPL history.

While Sunrisers notched up the highest total in the 16-year history of the IPL, just as incredibly, Mumbai Indians almost paid them back with the same coin, their batters coming out with a nothing-to-lose attitude.

The sixes kept rolling off the Mumbai bats too, helping them keep up with the asking rate for most of the chase, eventually however, they ran out of steam and finished on 246 for 5, the highest IPL total in a losing cause.

As ESPNcricinfo reported, never were more runs scored in a men’s T20 match (523). Never were most sixes hit in a men’s T20 (38). At the end of the close to four-hour six-fest, only two bowlers returned with an economy rate of under ten an over.

Thursday, March 28 : Match 9

Thursday’s match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur sees Rajasthan Royals go up against Delhi Capitals.

Fans in Afghanistan can tune in to Ariana Television to watch the match live from 6.30pm. Alternatively the match can be screened live on arianatelevision.com

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Magnitude 5.2 quake jolts Afghanistan

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An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon, the National Center for Seismology reported.

The quake was at a depth of 70km and epicentered in the mountainous north-eastern area of Ashkāsham.

The jolt was felt across the region including in Kabul, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan

There were no immediate reports of any casualties.

In October last year, over 2,000 people were killed when four 6.3-magnitude earthquakes struck in Herat province.

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