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Volume No. 4139 Tuesday April 02, 2019 Hamal 13, 1398 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 20/-Afs ‘Fight and Talk’: Afghan War Escalates Eying Intra-Afghan Talks, Alongside Peace Push Khalizad Back in Kabul Khalilzad says that in a meeting with Afghan officials he discussed the urgency of making progress on intra-Afghan dialogue.

KABUL - Fighting in has escalated ahead of the usual spring season, as both sides seek to increase leverage in talks on a peace set- Nabi Sinks tlement - a gamble that analysts warn could also risk hardening positions.In March, hundreds of Rcb in IPL with Afghan forces were killed or wounded in heavy Special Spell clashes in southern, western and northern Af- ghanistan, according to unofficial reports. Two NEW DELHI - Afghanistan’s U.S. special forces were killed near Kunduz, and all-rounder Mohammad Nabi, attacks by both sides caused civilian casualties. who is playing for Sunrisers Hy- U.S. air strikes also accidentally killed Afghan sol- derabad in the Indian Premier diers, in a case of friendly fire. League (IPL), bowled a dream “Government forces are on the offensive this year. spell of four for 11 to fashion a We expect a lot of fighting and obviously casual- thumping 118-run win for the ties,” said a senior Afghan security source. Orange Army at the Rajiv Gandhi Seasonal trends to fighting have become less de- Stadium on Sunday. fined the years, as most Taliban now fight Sunday’s match was Nabi’s first near their homes and so do not need to wait for match of this season for Sunris- snow to melt in the mountain passes to travel to ers. battlefields, said Graeme Smith, a consultant for It was a no-show from Virat Koh- the International Crisis Group (ICG). li’s Royal Challengers Bangalore Even so, the Taliban annually announces the start (RCB) in an IPL match against of a spring offensive with fanfare and a name -led Sunris- evoking epic ...(More on P4)...(2) ers Hyderabad. Sunrisers’ and slammed quick- Central Bank fire centuries to dent the visitors Cancels Pakistan HBL before the wily off-spinner from Afghanistan. KABUL - On a multination trip to fa- ernment representatives with respon- Khalilzad began his latest peace mis- Business License Nabi dismissed Parthiv Patel, cilitate intra-Afghan peace talks, US sibility for the peace process, including sion on March 25 with visits to London Shimron Hetmyer, AB de Villiers special representative for Afghanistan the President’s Chief of Staff (Abdul and Brussels before traveling to Af- and Shivam Dube to pick up his reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Salam) Rahimi and secretary (Omar) ghanistan. seventh four- haul in T20 Monday arrived in Afghan capital Ka- Daudzai,” Khalizad tweeted. He is also expected to visit Pakistan, . bul and met Afghan officials. He said they discussed the urgency of Uzbekistan, Jordan and Qatar before Chasing a massive total of 232, “Glad to be back in Kabul. I started my making process on intra-Afghan dia- returning to Washington on April 10. RCB lost the script very early morning by meeting with Afghan gov- logue, the US diplomat wrote. Khalilzad ...(More on P4)...(1) thanks to Nabi’s variations in pace, flight and spin. The way he outfoxed Shimron Hetmyer NATO Says Closely Coordinating with Khalilzad to get him by Bairstow KABUL - Afghanistan’s Central Bank canceled and then cleaned up AB de Vil- NATO foreign ministers, who are due to meet in Washington DC this week, will also discuss the alliance’s Pakistan’s Habib Bank Limited (HBL) business liers with a slower one, was a role in the fight against terrorism and US efforts to reach a political settlement in Afghanistan. license in the country on Monday, an official said. treat to watch. ...(More on P4)...(3) rorism and burden were closely coordinating with Emal Hashor, the Afghanistan Central Bank’s sharing will be high Ambassador Khalilzad. spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News based Afghan Artist Wins on the agenda. “We are in Afghanistan together on the Bank High Council (BHC)’s instructions, Spectrum 26 Gold In response to an and we will take any decisions on the HBL business license in Afghanistan had been email from Pajh- our future presence together,” the cancelled after the bank violated Afghanistan’s Award in US wok, the NATO statement read. Earlier in the day, banking regulations. Resolute Support Khalilzad arrived in Kabul and According the Afghanistan Constitution, all bank- Mission media of- met with Afghan officials as part ing investments should be in Afghan currency but fice in Kabul in a of his multinational trip to facili- the HBL violated the certain law, he said. statement said US tate intra-Afghan peace talks. He said based on the central bank’s investigation, special envoy for The RS statement said the allies the HBL during the last two years even did not reconciliation in also stood together in the fight give 2,000 afghanis to citizens. Afghanistan, Am- against ISIS and had made major Hashor urged the Habib Bank’s depositors and bassador Zalmay progress, freeing millions from customers to withdraw their money from the Khalilzad held oppression. “This terrorist group bank within three months. consultations with (Daesh) no longer holds any ter- Earlier, Pakistan media quoted a senior official of KABUL - In a press conference on Monday, NA- the allies in Brussels just last week for the ritory. But we are not complacent. the bank as saying that the lender has decided to TO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg previewed fourth time. It said NATO Resolute Sup- We are now doing more training wind down its operations in Afghanistan in line KABUL - Afghan-Canadian art- with the regulatory requirements in Afghanistan. ist Abdullah Taraky has won the the meeting, announcing that NATO’s relations port Mission commander and NATO’s inin Iraq to help ensure that ISIS “HBL’s exit ...(More on P4)...(4) Spectrum 26 Gold Award in con- with Russia, NATO’s role in the fight against ter- Senior Civilian Representative in Kabul can never return.” (Pajhwok) cept art category by gaining first position among other artists in the United States. The award, which is equal to Former Ambassador to Afghanistan Shares Strategy to Combat Extremism the Oscar Award in Hollywood SEATTLE - Karl Eikenberry is a retired Army can lives, according to a report in February films, is given to best artwork, officer whose two tours of Afghanistan duty by the congressionally chartered Task Force cartoon and video makers each -- and later service as ambassador to that na- on Extremism in Fragile States that included year. tion -- left him keenly aware of the limits of Eikenberry as a member, and was led by for- Abdullah Taraky, a leading U.S. military power. mer New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean and for- painter, three-dimensional car- As a soldier, Eikenberry launched the still- mer U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, the co-chairs of toonist and 3D games maker, was ongoing effort to build an Afghan military the 9/11 Commission. nominated for one of his creative force capable of fending off the Taliban. As Despite such milestones as the recent seizure works, the Submerged Statue of a diplomat, he was stationed at the Kabul of the last ISIS stronghold that President Don- Tyr, for the Spectrum 26 Gold embassy during President Barack Obama’s ald Trump has boasted about in Twitter state- Award. surge that would eventually push American ments, extremist ideology is spreading. Bat- At least 300 art works from art- troop strength in Afghanistan to more than tlefield victories often do not yield long-term ists of different countries were 100,000 service members in an attempt to im- stability. And annual terrorist attacks around nominated for this award but top prove security. the globe have increased fivefold, according five artists received it. Abdullah “Americans and the world have rightly been to the task force report. Taraky was declared as winner of disappointed with the results of our costly In his Seattle presentation, Eikenberry de- Spectrum 26 Gold Award. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan tailed a key task force recommendation: A Artists from France, the US and in the 21st century. Hugely expensive, pro- to a Town Hall audience in Seattle. call for a U.S. counterterrorism focus on pre- China also received gold awards tracted ... and damaging to our country’s These wars are part of a broader counterterrorism effort of the post 9/11 vention, in partnership with the United Na- in 3D and ...(More on P4)...(5) prestige abroad,” Eikenberry said Thursday era that has cost taxpayers $5.9 trillion and claimed some 10,000 Ameri- tions and other ...(More on P4)...(6)