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Gov’t should share information on peace with nation: experts
Scores of Afghan experts, parliamentary members have demanded the Government to share any information on peace with Afghan Nation, otherwise it will not have tangible results.
Senate house Deputy Mohammad Asif Sediqee said,” there are optimisms underway about the results of the Four state Nations on Afghanistan peace talks process, all four countries should exert pressures on Taliban to come to negotiation table.”
“I believed that few small group of Taliban will attend the direct talks, but other Taliban parties may be not joining the process Political expert Aziz Asifi said.”
Ariana News has accessed some of the documents from the previous sessions of peace talks where all four states have also agreed that Unity, Sovereignty, rights of Afghans will not be dealt, and the following issue should be respected, peace process to be led by Afghans, there should be no preconditions from both sides, all involved countries should use any options on ensuring peace, pressures should exerted if any party not willing to join peace talks process.
What are the conclusion of the pervious peace talks sessions, why the Nation wasn’t informed Mp Safiullah Muslim insisted.
“Political parties should have its own role in peace talks process, the experience indicated that we have had no positive outcome out of those peace session held head of the Itedal and Azadi party said.”
The direct peace talk’s process in between the Afghan Government and authorized Taliban representatives will take place in Islamabad in first week of March 2016, we have to wait and see what the outcomes will be.
Reported By Nasrat Parsa
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.
Ten people have been killed and six others injured by floods in Helmand province in the past week, local officials said on Friday.
According to officials, seven of those were members of the same family, and they were killed in Kajaki district last night.
“Most of the people moved from vulnerable areas to high lands and mountains, and thanks Allah the number of casualties is low,” Sher Mohammad Vahdat, the head of information of the Directorate of Information and Culture in Helmand, said adding rescue teams and security forces have been dispatched to help people.
It is said that the telecommunication system has also been disrupted due to the effect of floods in Kajaki district. Floods have also destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural land.
Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met with the Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi and discussed issues related to Afghanistan, it was announced on Thursday.
During the meeting, Otunbayeva thanked India for “its critical humanitarian support and longstanding friendship for the Afghan people” and discussed the importance of regional and international cooperation to address prevailing challenges in Afghanistan, UNAMA said on X.
Jaishankar also said on X that the sides exchanged views on the current situation in Afghanistan.
“Underlined that India has provided wheat, medicines, pesticides and school supplies. Appreciate the role of UN agencies as partners in these endeavors,” he said.
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