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Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:340 Price: Afs.20 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY .JULY 13 . 2018 -Sartatan 22, 1397 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: Flash floods have killed AT News Report others, mostly National Army, se- and 13 other received injures, he “Situation is normal and utterly 10 people in northern Panjshir curity officials told Afghanistan said, adding three check points under Afghan security forces’ con- KABUL: In a multiple attack on province and caused serious dam- Times. “The attack occurred in were also collapse to the Taliban trol.” age to property and livestock with security checkpoints in northern Pul-e-Momin area located between during attack. However, he said Meanwhile, Takhar Governor Kunduz province, at least 31 sweeping out 300 houses, officials Dasht-e-Archi district in Kunduz, that Taliban insurgents also sus- Spokesman, Sanaullah Taimori has said Thursday. Afghan security forces embraced and Khwaja Ghar district in Ta- tained heavy casualties during confirmed Taliban’s massive attack martyrdom and over 50 Taliban “10 people, including two khar,” Shaheen Military Corps counter attack, adding 50 Taliban on security check posts in Pul-e- women lost their lives due to insurgents were killed and Spokesman, Hanif Rezai said. fighters either killed or wounded. Momine area against army and lo- wounded in retaliation budge, heavy floods,” provincial governor However in extensive fighting Six dead bodies of the militants still cal upriser forces that left heavy spokesman, Abdul Hodod Ali official said Thursday. erupted between them, the brave lay in battlefield, he noted. causalities. “31 dead bodies and 15 The Taliban militants at- Mardan told Afghanistan Times. Afghan security forces killed and To prevent additional and sup- wounded of security forces have “The deluge has also destroyed tacked security checkpoints in wounded over 50 Taliban militants, portive forces, the Taliban insur- been shifted to the provincial hos- Daesht-e-Arachi district on over 20 villages and a Bazaar in the spokesman added. The fight- gents exploded Momen Bridge, he pital.” Peshghor area in Hes-e-Awal dis- Wednesday night, martyring 31 ing last for two hours, where un- said with validating that addition- The Taliban insurgents claimed security forces, wounding 15 trict,” he said. fortunately 15 soldiers martyred al troops have reached the area. responsibility for the attack. The floods that took place on Wednesday night at around 12:00 and 12:30, astonishingly caught people who were asleep, and lead causing a hillside in the surround- ing 300 houses were completely to the closure of Panjshir main road, ing mountain. The glaciers usually destroyed in Peshghor area. Ac- the spokesman added. “Some 100 and naturally creating in the moun- cording to him, the figure is not vehicles and tens of acres of agri- tains of Panjshir, it is like a small unreliable, it could be changed. culture lands destroyed in the lakes, but could be turned deadly Two helicopters and a res- floods.” The moment floods over- sometimes as it melts due to hot cue team has already there to ture the district, the residents weather, he elaborated. help flood affected families, the helped each others to survive. However, he informed of a res- spokesman added. “People were shouting to let know cue and assistance team that al- President Ashraf Ghani ex- ready dispatched to the area. pressed his deepest condolence KABUL: NATO Secretary Gen- eral said that handing over the se- The airstrike was conducted in Nawa district in Ghazni others of floods,” Mardan added, province where Taliban’s key members had gathered. saying people climbed to hillside The victims are in an anxious to the victim families, instruct- eral Jens Stoltenberg has ruled out curity of Afghanistan to Afghans condition and being settled irregu- ing related organs to take every military solution to the problems was the right idea and has been valley in Pshghor area, and it was The Ministry of Defense says nated shadow governor for Ghaz- very difficult as darkness covered lar in the hillside, he underlined available measure to help them. in Afghanistan and made it clear to working. He said NATO would Spokesman of According to a statement issued the Taliban the group could not win continue to provide support to Af- Amir Khan Muttaqi a former Tal- ni; and Mullah Sayed Almas, Tali- all over. The floods completely de- iban minister was wounded in an ban’s designated shadow governor stroyed around 200 houses and State Ministry for Disaster Management, by Presidential Palace, Ghani or- on the battlefield. “At the end of ghans, train their Special Opera- Mohammad Omar Mohammadi in dered immediate dispatching of the day, there is no military solu- tion forces and build their air forc- airstrike that targeted a gathering for Paktia, were present at the gath- over 100 shops in Peshghor area. of Taliban leaders in Ghazni prov- ering. The ministry said 24 Tali- According to him, the floods his face book, has confirmed the rescue and assistance team to tion to the problems in Afghani- es. Answering to a question on dead of 10 people in floods, writ- help the affected people. stan, but to send a message to Tal- increasing the size of NATO train ince. The ministry said in a state- ban members were killed and 17 occurred after malting of glaciers, iban that they will not win on the and advise mission, Stoltenberg ment that the Afghan Army’s Air others were wounded in the air- battlefield, they have to sit down said: “I will say that the plan is Force targeted the gathering in Lan- strike. According to initial infor- and negotiate, we need the military working, meaning that we have gai village in Nawa district in Ghaz- mation, the ministry said Mutta- 7 policemen killed, 15 arrested in Farah attack presence to send that clear mes- been able to hand over responsi- ni. The airstrike was carried out qi, Khalifa, Shah Mohammad and sage to the Taliban,” he said while bility for security in Afghanistan based on intelligence that had been Mulalh Yusuf were among the FARAH CITY: Seven policemen governor’s spokesman, said four onymity, told Pajhwok Afghan addressing reporters here. Stolten- to the Afghans themselves. And gathered, the statement added. The wounded. Muttaqi was Taliban’s have been killed, eight wounded policemen, five militants were News that the militants attacked a berg linked the NATO forces pres- that’s a huge difference between MoD said Muttaqi, Mullah Khal- minister of information and culture and 15 others captured alive in killed and six police personnel, sev- police station in the 5th police dis- ence in Afghanistan to the creation what we did before, because then ifa and Mullah Shah Mohammad, in 2001, a member of the Taliban Taliban attack in the capital of en rebels wounded. He rejected the trict in Farah City, the provincial of conditions for a peaceful, nego- we were in Afghanistan with a big both members of the Quetta Shu- Supreme Council Quetta as at June western Farah province, officials capture of 15 policemen by Tali- capital late on Wednesday night. tiated solution. The secretary gen- combat mission. (Pajhwok) ra; Mullah Yusuf, Taliban’s desig- 2007, and is a member . said on Thursday. Nasir Mehri, the ban. A security source, wishing an- (Pajhwok) FRIDAY .JULY 13, 2018 AFGHANISTANTIMES AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy What does the recent political turmoil in the UKmean for the future ofTheresa May's government and for Brexit itself? Phone No: +93-797070563 E-mail: [email protected] By Anand Menon Just when you thought this island had finally calmed down after a Email: [email protected] referendum that shocked the world and an election result no one had www.afghanistantimes.af predicted, the UK hit the headlines again. This time, it was the resig- Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi nation of two senior cabinet mem- bers over matters of Brexit-related Advisory editorial board principle. So, what does this all mean both for the UK government Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, and for Brexit itself? Ironically, the resignations of Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal two of its biggest hitters - Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Brex- Graphic-Designers: it Minister David Davis - may not, in fact, destabilise the cabinet that Bilal Yusufi and Basir Qazizada much. After all, it is hard to see Marketing & Advertising: how either could use his resigna- tion to challenge Prime Minister Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 Theresa May. On Brexit, howev- er, all remains to play for. Let's Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan take the politics first. Here we con- Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 front a relatively simple matter of parliamentary arithmetic. Trigger- Brexit minister David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson stepped down from their roles Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press ing a vote of no confidence in May earlier this week amid disagreements with PM Theresa May over the country's Brexit strategy is relatively easy: just 48 Conser- vative MPs - or 15 percent of the tious deal with the EU that goes tariffs. It does not imply either own voters. So this is the Brexit parliamentary party - have to beyond what existing non-mem- payments to the EU, or the UK Hobson's choice. At the Chequers The constitution says come forward with the demand in bers have managed to secure. This being under the jurisdiction of the residence last Friday the prime order for the vote to be called.

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