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UN envoy warns of Afghanistan destruction without peace
UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom warned that Afghanistan will fall apart without peace.
Nicholas Haysom is said to consider the continuation of war in Afghanistan unacceptable and emphasized that if the country does not achieve peace and stability in the current year, there will be no international assistance for stabilizing the country.
the top United Nations official in Afghanistan said that Afghan leaders should incorporate people’s views and proposed solutions into all efforts aimed at stabilizing the country. “My firm conviction is that peace will come to those who clearly demand the conditions to allow its establishment,” said the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, in his comments at the conference.
The Afghan People’s Dialogue on Peace, undertaken and led by 11 Afghan civil society networks and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), involved consultation with more than 6,000 people.
Mr. Haysom noted that one tives of the Institute. Welcoming the establishment of AICS, Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abdullah Abdullah, said civil society has played a significant role in transforming Afghan society, fosterof the most important findings of the three-year process was an understanding that “what peace requires is more than a temporary silence of the guns but the active presence of social justice.”
“In peace and reconciliation processes, UNAMA shares the view that human rights cannot be sacrificed, and that women must play a strong and active role, so that peace is both a top-down and bottom-up process,” said Mr. Haysom.
UN envoy also considers Afghanistan neighboring countries pressures on brining Taliban to the negotiation table essential.
Afghan military analysts are also said that until United Nation and the international community do not persuade Pakistan to close terrorist havens, Afghanistan war would not be ended.
The Peace Talks process with Taliban is the only opening that Afghanistan war ends. But Taliban have repeatedly respond the Afghanistan government with their bloody attacks regarding the peace talks.
Reported by Fawad Naseri
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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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