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Ghani fled the country on /4**.*2 control after their blitz through Nestled in the towering August 15 as the Taliban Afghanistan last month, appar- Hindu Kush mountains, the reached the gates of the capital. he Taliban on Monday ently overrunning the National Panjshir Valley has a single nar- The whereabouts of Saleh Tasserted that it will not Resistance Front (NRF) forces row entrance. Local fighters and the young Massoud were allow any country, including who had opposed their held off the Soviets there in the not immediately known Pakistan, to interfere in takeover. 1980s and also, for a brief Monday. Afghanistan’s internal affairs as Thousands of Taliban time, the Taliban a decade & " '( & &' The US withdrew its last it confirmed that ISI chief Lt fighters charged into eight dis- later under the leadership of troops a week ago and ended a Gen Faiz Hameed met the tricts of Panjshir province Ahmad Shah Massoud. down their weapons but only if In a second statement harrowing airlift to evacuate insurgent group’s de-facto % overnight, according to wit- Massoud’s son Ahmad the Taliban agreed to end their Monday, a now-defiant Western citizens and their leader Mullah Abdul Ghani nesses from the area who spoke called for an end to the fight- assault. Late on Sunday dozens Massoud accused the Taliban Afghan allies that was marred Baradar in Kabul, amid efforts & on condition of anonymity ing on Sunday. The young of vehicles loaded with Taliban of attacking even as they were by scenes of desperation and to finalise a Government in the because they feared for their British-schooled Massoud said fighters were seen swarming ready to agree to a cease-fire. horrific violence. war-torn country. safety. his forces were ready to lay into the Panjshir Valley. He vowed to fight on, urged Continued on Page 11 The questions of interfer- Taliban spokesman ence in Afghanistan’s internal 0241/ Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed affairs were raised after Inter- located 90 kilometres south- that the province, which is Services Intelligence (ISI) vidence of direct involve- west of the federal capital, north of the capital, was now Director General Lt Gen Ement of Pakistan’s ISI-Army Islamabad, and 270 kilometres held by their fighters. !"R Hameed dashed to Kabul on an combine in Afghanistan has from the provincial capital, “We tried our best to solve unannounced visit last week. come to the fore as the father Lahore to which ISI chief Lt the problem through negotia- Taliban spokesperson of a slain ISI operative Hamid Gen Faiz Hameed belongs. tions, and they rejected talks virtually take part in the meet. these areas, the leaders will also Zabiullah Mujahid said that the Faiz has revealed that his son “Faiz came to Afghanistan and then we had to send our The theme for this Summit exchange views on the impact group will not allow any coun- was fighting along with Taliban with Taliban fighters and he forces to fight,” Mujahid told a is ‘BRICS@15: Intra-BRICS of the Covid-19 pandemic and try, including Pakistan, to inter- till he was killed. wanted to fight alongside news conference in Kabul later cooperation for continuity, other current global and fere in Afghanistan’s affairs, In a video message, Faiz’s Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Monday. consolidation and consensus’. regional issues. Afghanistan’s Khaama news father has also revealed that And in Afghanistan, Afghan The resisting forces were 0241/ India had outlined four prior- The crucial summit takes reported. Pakistani intelligence opera- Special Forces were killed in an led by the former vice presi- ity areas for its chairship. These place days ahead of Modi’s Earlier, Pakistani media tives are being recruited in the operation in Kunar province. dent, Amrullah Saleh, and also he current fluid situation in are reform of the multilateral visit to the USA in late reported that a delegation of Army that the Taliban is rais- Faiz’s main job was to spy for the son of the iconic anti- TAfghanistan will figure system, counter terrorism, September. The PM is likely to senior officials led by Lt Gen ing in Afghanistan post- Pakistan’s intelligence network, Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah prominently during the 13th using digital, and technological hold summit level talks for the Hameed was in Kabul at the takeover of the war-ravaged but he was killed along with Massoud. Experts had doubt- BRICS summit on September President Xi Jinping, South tools for achieving Sustainable first time with President Joe invitation of the Taliban, but country. Taliban fighters in ed that the holdout efforts 9. Prime Minister Narendra African President Cyril Development Goals (SDGs) Biden since he took charge ear- the Taliban said Islamabad had Faiz hailed from Chakwal, Afghanistan,” Faiz’s father said could succeed long-term Modi, Russian President Ramaphosa, and Brazilian and enhancing people-to-peo- lier this year. proposed his visit. Rawalpindi Division of Punjab in the video message. against the Taliban, whose Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Jair Bolsonaro will ple exchanges. In addition to Continued on Page 11 Detailed report on P11 province, Pakistan. Chakwal is Continued on Page 11 0 2 " !"# $ " ,5 1// cation, etc,” the judge said in his 0 241/ be continued under a micro order. plan submitted by the central he Kerala High Court on He said it was discrimina- central team which was team. TMonday ruled that the sec- tion and should be rectified. Asent to Firozabad in Uttar He also recommended that ond dose of Covishield vaccine The petitioner was willing to Pradesh to investigate the cause surveillance should be could be administered after 28 pay for the vaccines and hence of a fever outbreak and deaths strengthened with implemen- days and the stance of the he should have the freedom to among children has observed tation of the Integrated Health Union Government that the get the second jab like the oth- ,54,** that the majority of cases are of Information Platform (IHIP) in same could be given only after ers, said the judge. dengue and a few are of scrub the district in coordination 84 days was discriminatory. “The fact that the vaccina- onths after PCC president typhus and leptospirosis. with the central surveillance Justice PB Suresh Kumar tion is voluntary and there is no MAdhir Chowdhury Firozabad district has unit at the National Centre for who heard a petition filed by compulsion on anyone to expressed his “goodwill ges- recorded 51 deaths, mostly of Disease Control (NCDC) and Kitex Limited seeking a direc- accept the same is declared by ture” saying the Congress children, and hundreds of hos- that entomological activities tive to the authorities to allow the Government of India in the would not field any candidate pitalisations in over a fort- be strengthened and continued its employees to get the second the vaccinations for Indian website of the Ministry of against Bengal Chief Minister night and the viral fever has according to standard guide- jab after 28 days against the Government officials with Health and Family Welfare. If Mamata Banerjee in the now spread to neighbouring lines and SOPs of the National order by the Ministry of Health commitments abroad, persons that be so, the requirement to Assembly by-election, the ) ' & ( " Mathura and Mainpuri dis- Vector Borne Disease Control and Family Welfare that the needing to travel abroad for administer two doses of the Congress leader in the Lok % '* tricts. Programme (NVBDCP). same could be given only after studies or employment, those vaccine and the time interval Sabha on Monday said the Based on the observations He also recommended 84 days said that there were dis- participating at the Olympic between the two doses for bet- State unit of the party had State unit and after taking the The CPI(M) too said it was of the central team, Union augmenting isolation beds and criminations in the law. Games, etc. ter protection from infection decided to contest against the views of all the leaders we have in favour of continuing the Health Secretary Rajesh admission facilities in the dis- “The decision of the “If the Government can can only be considered as advi- Chief Minister with the support decided to field our candidate Front with the Congress. “We Bhushan in a letter to the Uttar trict hospital of Firozabad and Government in providing permit persons who are intend- sory,” said judge Suresh Kumar of the Left Front. backed by the Left.” too are of the opinion that the Pradesh Chief Secretary has neighbouring districts and relaxation in the protocol ing to travel abroad to exercise in his verdict. By-election for the The decision in this regard Left, Congress and all the other recommended screening of all organising a short reorientation regarding administration of a choice between early protec- The court asked the Union Bhawanipore seat will take had been sent to the All India like-minded parties must unite fever patients for dengue, of all doctors at primary health second dose of vaccine to cer- tion and better protection from Government to immediately place on September 30.