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Relatives, Supporters of Qaisari Hold Protest Outside AIHRC in Kabul
Relatives and supporters of Nizamuddin Qaisari on Sunday held a protest outside the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in Kabul, asking for clarification on the fate of the commander and his loyalists.
It has been 27 days since the arrest of Nizamuddin Qaisari, a militia commander and a close aide to Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum by the government forces.
Qaisari was arrested after a violent dispute during a meeting with leaders of government security forces, about a month ago, drawing angry protests from Dostum’s supporters in many northern provinces.
Arriving in Kabul after more than a year-long exile in Turkey, Dostum pledged to his supporters that Qaisari’s case would be solved. He asked his supporters to stop protesting and blocking roads. However, it seems the issue has not been solved yet.
Some supporters of Qaisari and his relatives on Sunday held a protest outside human rights commission in Kabul in this regard, asking for clarification on the fate of their commander.
They reiterated the call for release of the commander and his loyalists.
Sayed Anwar Rasooli Oghli who was leading the group of protesters said that there is no clarification on the fate of the people who were being held in captivity alongside Nizamuddin Qaisari.
“We don’t have any information about them whether they are died or alive,” he said.
Accepting the objection letter of the protesters, the human rights commission said that it will act according to its authority in this regard.
This comes days after some Faryab residents gathered in front of AIHRC in Kabul and called for trial of Nizamuddin Qaisari.
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Girls’ education is a ‘vital issue’ for Afghanistan: Karzai
Former president Hamid Karzai said in a meeting with Iran’s ambassador and special representative, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, that education of girls was a “vital issue” for Afghanistan.
Karzai said he appreciated Iran’s cooperation and its standing with the Afghan people, especially Iran’s contributions to education in Afghanistan.
During the meeting, Karzai said peace and stability in the region are in the interest of all regional countries.
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Uzbekistan’s humanitarian aid arrives in Balkh
A shipment of humanitarian aid from Uzbekistan was handed over on Thursday to the local officials of Balkh province in the trade port of Hairatan.
Local authorities said the aid, which includes flour, oil, wheat, sugar and meat, has been handed over by Uzbekistan’s Surkhandarya governor to the governor of Balkh.
The governor of Surkhandarya stated the purpose of sending this aid was to support the people of Afghanistan and stressed the need for the development of good relations between the two countries.
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Afghanistan’s problems caused more damage to Pakistan than 3 wars with India: Durrani
Islamabad’s special envoy for Afghanistan Asif Durrani said on Wednesday that Pakistan has suffered more due to Afghanistan’s internal situation than Pakistan has suffered in three wars with India in terms of blood spilt and finances drained.
Durrani said at a one-day International Conference titled “Pakistan in the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape”, which was organized by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) and the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), that over 80,000 Pakistanis died in the two decades of the War on Terror and that his country was still counting its dead and injured.
“After the withdrawal of NATO forces, it was hoped that peace in Afghanistan would bring peace to the region. However, such expectations were short-lived,” he said.
He also stated that attacks by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group on Pakistan’s border areas increased by 65 percent, while suicide attacks increased by 500 percent.
“The TTP’s enhanced attacks on Pakistan while using Afghan soil have been a serious concern for Pakistan. Another worrying aspect is the participation of Afghan nationals in these attacks,” he said.
Durrani also said Pakistan had suffered geopolitically since the Soviet Union invaded the neighboring country.
“The post-9/11 world order has negatively impacted Pakistan. Apart from losing 80,000 citizens’ lives, including 8,000 law enforcement agency personnel, the country’s economic opportunity cost is estimated at $150 billion,” Durrani said.
Talking about the future outlook for Pakistan in the regional context, Durrani said that while “our eastern neighbor is likely to continue with its anti-Pakistan pursuits, the western border poses an avoidable irritant in the short to medium term.”
However, he said Pakistan can overcome its difficulties with Afghanistan, including the TTP challenge.
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