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Protesters accused NUG for being reckless on 31 abducted passengers
Afghan government and Parliament members are reckless about the 31 passengers whom are being kidnapped in Ghazni, protesters said.
Families of the 31 men who were abducted in Zabul province of Afghanistan about two months ago demonstrated on Saturday in front of the Afghan Parliament saying that the government is very careless about our beloveds and they will be responsible for any consequences.
Zulfaqar Omid leader of labor and development party said,” Fifty seven days have passed from the national disaster in Ghazni and our gatherings are useless, we have staged in front of the nation’s house with no answers to our questions, the government must not discriminate between the citizens”.
Aqbal Ali Muzafari who is the relative of one of the abductees said,” we are asking the government to find a solution for our relatives being kidnapped by unknown gunmen, and the government must provide the pained relatives looking for their beloveds with satisfactory answers”.
While a number of the Lawmakers insist that they will not bare any efforts to help the kidnappers release the passengers.
Lawmaker Baktash Siawash angrily said,” Our city has been changed to house with no owner, anything happens and there is no one to answer”.
“We have discussed this issue in the Lower House and the House speaker tasked internal and defensive committee to follow this issue seriously,” Another MP Mohammad Reza Khoshak Watandost highlighted.
Protesters staged in front of the Afghan Parliament after another group of kidnappers beheaded four people in Malistan district of Ghazni.
Four death bodies were buried today and the participants asked the government to find and trial the kidnappers.
Shazya Ashrafee a member of the New Generation Network said,” We are demanding the government to identify and punish the perpetrators who kidnapped these four residents of Malistan district of Ghazni and then beheaded”.
Afghans were hopeful about peace and reconciliations with the anti-government armed militant groups, but after the New Year Afghan disappointed again and the insurgents increased their brutality across the country by kidnaps, beheadings and suicide attacks.
Reported by: Rafi Sediqi
Pakistan’s government on Friday extended the stay of Afghan refugees in the country till June 30, amid repatriation of illegal foreign nationals.
There are around 1.3 million registered Afghans living in Pakistan, according to a spokesman for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Islamabad, Dawn newspaper reported.
“On the recommendation of the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, the federal cabinet approved the extension of the validity of PoR cards of Afghan refugees from April 1, 2024, to June 30, 2024,” said an official statement, issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.
The PoR cardholders will be repatriated in the third phase of the plan that will begin after the repatriation of “illegal foreign nationals” residing in Pakistan is completed, the statement added.
The PoR card holders avail schools, bank accounts and other facilities in Pakistan.
Repatriation of undocumented refugees began on November 1 and continues. More than 500,000 Afghans have been expelled so far.
John Bass, US acting under secretary of state for political affairs, will travel to Qatar and Pakistan April 26-30, US State Department announced on Friday.
In Doha, Qatar, he will meet with senior Qatari government officials and other diplomatic missions to discuss support for Afghanistan and shared security interests in the region, US State Department said in a statement.
In Islamabad, Pakistan, Under Secretary Bass will meet with senior Pakistani government officials to discuss a range of regional and bilateral issues as part of the U.S.-Pakistani partnership, the statement added.
John Bass served as US ambassador to Afghanistan under Donald Trump administration between December 2017 and January 2020.
A tripartite meeting between the delegations of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan was held in Kabul with the aim of connecting North Asia to South Asia and reducing transit and transportation costs among these three countries, the Ministry of Trade and Commerce said in a statement.
In this meeting, an agreement was reached on the creation of a joint technical committee to continue the talks.
This tripartite meeting was held under the leadership of Nooruddin Azizi, the Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, Vice President of Turkmenistan and Srik Zhumangarin, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.
Earlier, a bilateral meeting was held between the delegation of the Islamic Emirate and Turkmenistan. The ministry of commerce said the participants of the meeting discussed the construction of a large joint logistics center in Torghondi, the trilateral transit agreement between the IEA, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, the expansion of Afghanistan’s railway, solving issues related to Afghan transit and export goods, and a number of other commercial issues.
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