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[email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:XI Issue No:196 Price: Afs.20 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 2017 -Dalw 27, 1395 HS A deadly suicide attack rocked the those behind the attack. (KP) Lahore city of Pakistan on Mon- day evening, leaving at least 90 people dead or wounded. HEKMATYAR According to the Pakistani police officials, the incident took REPORTEDLY place as hundreds of people had participated in a demonstration in HOSPITALIZED the city. The protesters had organized a sit-in against a new law near the IN ISTANBUL Punjab provincial assembly build- A Turkish newspaper has claimed By Mansoor Faizy ing. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader Inspector General of Punjab of the Hizb-e-Islami group, is cur- KABUL: Among the concerns that “I once again call upon those police, Ahmad Mushtaq Sukhera, rently in hospital in Istanbul. The the upcoming spring would be a Taliban who are having an inde- said the blast ripped through the newspaper, Aydinlik, quoted a bloody one with serious of fight- pendence of mindset that Afghan- protesters after the suicide bomb- Turkish intelligence source as say- ing, President Mohammad Ashraf istan is the joint homeland of all er detonated his explosives vest ing Hekmatyar is being treated at Ghani, on Tuesday warned that the Afghans, and (you should) come among the people. an Istanbul hospital. No details country’s security forces will “de- to live a dignified life in this com- He said at least six police offi- were however given.