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Peace is Not a ‘Personal Project’, Abdullah Says Urging Politicians to Collaborate

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah says the Taliban have some shared and similar views regarding the peace process with the Afghan government and that Kabul should show its will and ability for a deal with the armed group.

Addressing a ceremony on Friday in the Presidential Palace to mark the 30th anniversary of Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, Abdullah urged the Afghan politicians to do not consider the peace process as a personal issue and instead should help the government in reaching to an agreement with the Taliban.

“I expected the politicians to collaborate with each other on common points,” he said, adding that the politicians should compete through legitimate ways which he said is elections.

“They should know that peace is not our personal project, but peace is the desire of the people of Afghanistan,” he added.

On February, the Taliban held a two-days of talks with the Afghan politicians in Moscow, where the armed group’s delegation chief Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said that the current constitution of Afghanistan is a major obstacle to peace and that it does not meet the demands of the people.  He asked for a new constitution for the war-torn country.

However, Second Vice President  Mohammad Sarwar Danish said that they did not expect anything else from the Taliban as he stressed that the armed group is dependent on outsiders and a copy of their policy.

Some participants of today’s gathering in ARG, meanwhile, warned that lack of consensus in the peace efforts would deepen the crisis in the country and that will lead into the loss of the achievements gained in the nearly two decades.   

“Those [politicians] who meet with the Taliban outside on behave of the people, would not achieve desirable results and its outcomes will be very bad,” said Fazl Hadi Muslimyar, the speaker of Upper House of the parliament.

He stressed that the government is representing the Afghan people and that the politicians should let the government take the peace talks’ initiative with the Taliban.

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Kabul police summons Afghan YouTuber Hamayon

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Afghanistan’s YouTuber Hamayon Afghan was summoned to the police station for publishing a woman’s interview without her permission, Kabul police said.

The spokesman of Kabul Police Khalid Zadran said Friday on X that Hamayon interviewed an old woman and published the report without her permission.

“After the interview, the interviewee’s family complained to the police and the police summoned Hamayon Afghan to the police station,” said Zadran.

Zadran stated that police are working to solve the problem with the two sides’ agreement as soon as possible.

He urges people to avoid posting rumors on the issue.

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Contract worth $53 million signed for construction of last section of Khaf–Herat railway

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(Last Updated On: March 29, 2024)

A contract worth $53 million was signed Thursday for the construction of the last section of Khaf-Herat railway that connects Afghanistan with Iran.

The contract was signed between Afghanistan Railway Authority and Gamma Group in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, his office said in a statement.

The segment is 47-kilometer long, stretching from Rabat Parian to Herat International Airport and the Industrial Town, according to the statement.

It added that completion and standard operational readiness are expected within approximately two years.

“Upon its completion, this segment will integrate the Khaf-Herat regional connectivity project with Iran’s significant seaports and facilitate access to Europe via the Turkish railway network,” the statement said.

“Furthermore, traversing Afghan territory, it will bolster commercial exchanges between Central and South Asia. Notably, this project’s realization will enable the expansion of railway networks into Farah, Nimruz, Helmand, and Kandahar provinces,” it added.

Gamma operates across Europe and Asia in multiple sectors including construction, renewable energy, power transmission, mining, railways among others.

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US urges IEA to fulfill counter-terrorism commitments

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The US State Department said on Thursday that Washington is committed to ensuring that Afghanistan can never again be a launching pad for terrorism.

“We remain committed to ensuring that Afghanistan can never again be a launching pad for terrorism, and we continue to push the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) to fulfill all of their counterterrorism commitments to the international community,” the department’s spokesperson Matthew Miller said at a news briefing in Washington.

He reiterated that the United States had clearly communicated to the IEA that it’s their responsibility to ensure that “they give no safe haven to terrorists, whether it be Al Qaeda or ISIS-K or any other terrorist organization”.

Miller also reassured US allies that Washington was closely watching the developments in Afghanistan and was ready to deal with any threat emerging from the region.

“We remain vigilant against the evolving threat of these terrorist groups, and our global coalition to defeat ISIS and the C5+1 help intensify our efforts to monitor terrorist threats from the region and prevent their ability to raise funds, travel, and spread propaganda,” he said.

C5+1 refers to a diplomatic platform involving the five Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgy­zstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and the United States. It serves as a forum for discussing and addressing regional issues such as security, economic development, and cooperation.

“The United States remains vigilant against the evolving threat posed by terrorist groups, including ISIS-K, and has maintained an unwavering focus on terrorism since President Joe Biden took office three years ago,” Miller said.

The US, he said, was “working both unilaterally and with its partners to successfully disrupt threats across the globe and degrade ISIS”.

“We will continue to work to hold ISIS accountable for its actions and to prevent terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western countries,” Miller said.

This comes as IEA has repeatedly said that it is committed to not allowing anyone to use Afghanistan soil against any other country.

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