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No Specific Address To Contact Taliban As Calls For Peace Rises
Afghanistan’s High Peace Council (HPC) has no specific address to contact the Taliban as the Afghan government is ready to even open a political office for the group in Kabul, a member of the Council said on Friday.
With a new leadership, the Council is expected to announce a new strategy in the coming weeks but still unclear whether the Afghan government would contact Taliban political office in Doha, the capital of Qatar, or Islamabad.
“There is no question of negotiating in Doha or Islamabad. We want to encourage the armed opposition groups to peace talks and as the President has told the armed oppositions can open an office even in Kabul,” said Mawlawi Khabir HPC Deputy Chief.
As calls for peace rises, Pakistani officials have once again started to lobby in favor of the Taliban group, emphasizing on consideration of political incentives for the group.
“Pakistan believes that there is no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan,” said Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria during a press briefing on Thursday,” we believe the focus should be on exploring political incentives that can attract Taliban to negotiations.”
Experts believe that the only solution to end the ongoing violence in Afghanistan is to end negative confrontation between Islamabad – New Delhi as well as other regional countries.
“Pakistan and India is having rivalry in Afghanistan. A new formula is need to resolve this issue,” said Tajikistani researcher Qasim Shah Sikandarov.
These remarks come as President Ghani has said less time is left for the Taliban group to accept the reconciliation offer or face serious consequences. In addition, Ghani is seeking peace agreement with Pakistan first and then with the Taliban group.
Reported by: Bais Hayat
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Bayat Foundation helps needy families in Balkh
As part of Bayat Foundation’s Ramadan aid campaign, needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif, in Balkh province, received much needed food packages this week.
The aid package includes rice, flour and oil.
“In continuation of Bayat Foundation’s assistance, this time also a quantity of food such as flour, oil and rice was distributed to needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif; Inshallah, these contributions will continue,” said a representative of the foundation.
Needy families that received aid packages expressed their gratitude but called on other aid organizations to help the needy during these difficult times.
“Many thanks to Bayat Foundation, I thank Bayat Foundation for helping the needy and poor people of this region,” said a recipient said.
“I would like to thank Bayat Foundation for their cooperation in helping the needy in this holy month of Ramadan; it is hoped that traders and charities will do such sustainable work,” said another recipient.
Bayat Foundation is one of the charitable organizations that has played an important role in helping the needy in Afghanistan over the last two decades.
In addition to distributing aid packages to needy and vulnerable families, it has carried out numerous other projects, including the construction of health centers and schools.
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MoI registers over 8,700 criminal cases in the past six months
Abdul Matin Qani, the Ministry of Interior’s spokesman said on Thursday that in the last six months, 8,747 criminal cases have been recorded across the country.
Addressing a press conference in Kabul, Qani said of these cases, 7,233 have been solved while the remaining 1,525 are still being investigated.
He said 12,540 people have been arrested in connection with these crimes.
In addition, 21 kidnappers have been killed, 18 hostages have been freed and 172 people have been arrested in connection with kidnappings in the same period of time.
Qani also said in the last six months 837,000 passports have been distributed. He said three new passport offices will be established in Kabul in the near future.
“10,000 passports are distributed to citizens daily by the Passport Department,” said Qani.
On the issue of narcotics, he said drug cultivation, production and trafficking has been eradicated. He said drug manufacturing equipment and 377 drug factories have been destroyed across the country.
According to him, the ministry has also made advances in collecting illegal weapons, fighting corruption and improving police skills.
Qani stated that during this period, no security incidents took place in most provinces across the country.
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TAPI gas company CEO satisfied with project’s progress
The minister of mines and petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar met with the executive director of the TAPI project and the ambassador of Turkmenistan in Kabul on Thursday to discuss progress around the key project.
Murad Amanov, head of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) Gas Pipeline project, expressed his satisfaction with the recent progress of the project and talked about the practical roll out of the project.
Delawar said that the preliminary work of TAPI is progressing quickly and that the pipeline will be put into operation in the near future.
TAPI is a natural gas pipeline being developed by the Galkynysh – TAPI Pipeline Company Limited with participation of the Asian Development Bank.
The pipeline will transport natural gas from the Galkynysh Gas Field in Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.
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