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Atmar Accuses Afghan Govt of ‘Destroying’ U.S.-led Peace Efforts
Mohammad Haneef Atmar, a presidential candidate and former national security advisor has accused the Afghan government of destroying the U.S.-led efforts for the Afghan peace process.
Addressing a ceremony on Monday to mark the death anniversary of Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim in Balkh province, Atmar said that the Afghan government has challenged the peace process and that attempting to destroy the efforts of the international community led by the United States for Afghan peace.
Atmar said that Afghan politicians were making efforts to ensure “sustainable” peace in the country which could preserve Islamic values, Afghanistan’s republic system and Afghan people’s rights particularly women. But he said the Afghan government was not supporting them in their peace efforts.
“Unfortunately, we don’t have the support of the government’s leadership. They don’t support because of their political interests, they don’t send their delegation to intra-Afghan dialogue and they are destroying the peace efforts of the international community led by the United States,” Atmar said.
He stressed that for the sake of peace, they were even ready to establish an interim government in the country.
“We want the kind of government which could honestly work, but not to be an obstacle [for peace efforts],” Atmar said. “Having an interim or caretaker government would be our priority to assure our people that peace and elections will come.”
In other parts of his speech, Atmar said that in the last five years over 50,000 Afghan security forces and civilians have been killed and 98,000 more wounded as a result of the ongoing war in the country.
He reiterated that ongoing imposed war must end and that a “fair and sustainable” peace is the only way to make this happen.
At the event, former governor of Balkh province and chief executive of Jamiat-e-Islami party Atta Mohammad Noor once again warned the government of using “every option” if it fails to implement “agreement” being made after the introduction of new Balkh police chief.
Noor said he will not allow the government of President Ashraf Ghani to continue when its term ended on May 29.
Iran executed four Afghan prisoners in Vakliabad Prison in Mashhad on Thursday morning, a human rights group reported.
Haalvsh said that the individuals had been arrested in 1398 over drug-related charges and then sentenced to death by the court.
This organization announced the names of the executed prisoners as Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri, Gholam Qadir Samani and Ebrahim Noorzahi.
Zaman Taheri and Salam Taheri were brothers.
Iranian officials have not commented about the matter so far.
Two people were killed after roof of their house collapsed in southern Helmand province on Friday night, officials said.
Abdul Bari Rashid, head of information and culture in Helmand, told Ariana News that the incident occurred in Tajkan village of Gershak district due to heavy rain.
According to him, the dead include a woman and a child. A man was injured in the incident.
This comes as 10 people have died and six others have been injured as a result of the floods in Helmand province in the last one week.
Officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) say 7,000 incomplete projects of the World Bank are at risk of destruction in Afghanistan. They call on the World Bank to resume the work of these projects.
According to them, discussions have been held with the World Bank about these projects, but there has been no result yet.
“7,000 incomplete projects are being destroyed, and if the work is not started, these projects will be destroyed. We ask the World Bank to resume the work of these projects as soon as possible,” said Noorul Hadi Adel, the spokesperson of MRRD.
Meanwhile, members of the private sector also ask international institutions to resume their work in Afghanistan.
According to the officials of this sector, with the start of these projects, job opportunities will be provided for thousands of people in the country.
“These projects create employment for our people and the country will grow a lot,” said Mirwais Hajizadeh, a member of the private sector.
However, economic experts stated if the work of these projects does not start soon, they will be destroyed and the investments made in them will be wasted.
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