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Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:167 Price: Afs.15 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY . JANUARY 15. 2016 -Jadi 25, 1394 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime Kunduz police rescue university students from kidnappers KABUL: Top Afghan and Pa- kistani military commanders KUNDUZ CITY/ZARANJ : Lo- know what happened after have conferred on the need for cal security officials on Thursday that. Later, I found myself in greater cooperation between Ghani promises said a female university student, Kunduz with two men, the two countries. kidnapped by unidentified men, “The men asked to tell Pakistan Army’s Military enhanced security for has been rescued by police in police that one of them is my Operations Director General northeastern Kunduz province. father. When we arrived at a Major General Sahir Sham- Elsewhere, an Iranian nation- check-post, police suspected shad Mirza met his Afghan counterpart during a daylong Pakistani diplomats al, who wanted to join militants, the men and detained both of was arrested in southwestern them,” she added. visit on Wednesday. PESHAWAR: Hours after Wednesday’s attack on the Pakistani con- In Islamabad, the Inter Nimroz province. According to another re- Services Public Relations sulate in Jalalabad, President Ashraf Ghani promised enhanced secu- Kunduz police chief, Brig. port an Iranian national was (ISPR) said the military offi- rity for Pakistani diplomats in Afghanistan. Gen. Mohammad Qasim Jangal- detained by police in Nimroz cials discussed ways to im- At least seven Afghan security personnel and three of the assail- bagh, told Pajhwok Afghan News province. Police chief, Brig. prove coordination for effec- ants were killed in the four-hour attack claimed by the Islamic State the 18 years old girl, a resident of Gen. Dilawar Shah Dilawar, tive border management. (IS) group. Nangarhar province is a stronghold of the IS and Taliban. Ghazni province, had been kid- said that the man wanted to They also reviewed mo- Ghani phoned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to condemn the as- dalities of meetings of corps napped in Kabul. travel to Helmand to join mil- sault on the consulate and assured security for Pakistani diplomats in She had been seized while re- itants there. commanders and sector com- Afghanistan would be boosted. manders of the two countries, turning home from the Kabul Uni- Mujtaba, son of Hasan an ISPR statement said. “The Afghan president made a telephone call to the prime minis- versity a few days ago, he said, Bakr, a resident of Kerman On December 30, shortly ter and apprised him regarding the attack,” a statement from Sharif’s adding the crime branch police had city, was detained was de- after Pakistan Army chie Gen. office said. The prime minister called terrorism a common enemy. detained two suspects in connec- tained in Zaranj, the provin- Raheel Sharif’s visit to Kabul, Sharif said the two neighbours would jointly fight terrorism to tion with the kidnapping in Alia- cial capital, on Wednesday the two sides made a hotline eliminate it once for all.” He expressed profound grief over the death bad district on Wednesday. A vid- night. He was produced in contact to discuss matters of of the Afghan security personnel in the attack. mutual interest. eo clip received by Pajhwok Af- court today. Also on Wednesday, the Foreign Office said the Afghan govern- ghan News shows the female stu- In a separate incident, Emphasising the need to ment had been asked to thoroughly investigate the attack and share improve bilateral relations, it dent being handed over to her fa- police found the body of a 30 was decided to establish the findings with Pakistan. (Pajhwok) ther, and two alleged kidnappers, years old man in Zaranj on hotline contact between the with their hands tied. The detain- Wednesday night. A security DGMOs of both countries. ees are currently under investiga- official said the man had been (Pajhwok) tion. Without giving her name, the shot twice. He suspected kid- Analysts criticise Obama remarks on instability girl said: “Unknown men put a nappers were involvement in 400 suffocation handkerchief on my nose. I don’t the incident. KABUL: Afghan analysts on istan and the region.” incidents Wednesday criticised US Presi- He said killing terrorists was recorded in dent Barack Obama’s remarks that not a solution, but world powers instability would continue in many had to do away with injustices, Herat in 3 parts of the world including Af- poverty and ignorance. months ghanistan. International relations expert In his final Union of the State Ali Akbar Jamshidi said President HERAT CITY: As many as speech, Obama defended his ap- Obama’s remarks about instabili- 400 incidents of suffocation proach to taking on the Islamic ty in Afghanistan were aimed to have been recorded in the past State, describing it as a dangerous continue the conflict in the coun- three month at the zonal hos- threat to the United States that try. pital in western Herat prov- must be dealt with. He said the interests of world ince, an official said on Thurs- “Both Al Qaeda and now ISIL powers were linked to conflicts in day. Aziz Rahman Jame, head pose a direct threat to our people, some countries and that was why of the emergency ward, told because in today's world, even a they did not want an end to insta- Pajhwok Afghan News they handful of terrorists who place no bility in these countries. had received four to five, some- times up to 10, suffocation value on human life, including their “Russia once again wants to cases the hospital on a daily own, can do a lot of damage," show itself a strong country of the Obama said. injustices. “As Obama said the relations world and has thus launched oper- basis in the winter. “In one in- He told Pajhwok Afghan News between Washington and Moscow stance, three people including Political science and law teach- ations against terrorist groups in- er at Kabul University Nasrullah that the countries Obama men- are not improving with the pas- cluding Daesh and this has wor- a bride and her groom were tioned were not stable, but the US sage of time, so this automatically killed and some admitted to the Stanikzai said if the United States ried the US which wants to have and all world powers wanted, they and NATO had no strategy to sta- and directly impacts the strength- influence in the affected coun- emergency ward in uncon- bilise them. ening of terrorist groups in Afghan- scious condition. could do away with terrorism and tries.” (Pajhwok) This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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