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Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:164 Price: Afs.15 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes TUESDAY . JANUARY 12. 2016 -Jadi 22, 1394 HS Yo ur Yo ur ad ad he re he re 0778894038 Security situation remained challenging; differences between NUG leaders had deep impacts over foreign policy; 200,000 Afghans went to Europe; decrease in poppy production was due to bad harvest; investment decreased by 26pc No precondition should be attached for peace talks with the Taliban, says Sartaj Aziz AT News Report ghani’s value against US dollar be- came improved. In January, one US AT Monitoring Desk voy for Afghanistan, Deng Xijun, KABUL: The Center for Strategic dollar was equal to 57.76 Afghanis also participated in the meeting. and Regional Studies (CSRS) in its and then in February it decreased KABUL: Representatives from China’s Foreign Ministry’s recent report said that 2015 was a to 57.4 Afghanis against US dollar. Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United spokesman, Hong Lei, said that his very problematic year for Afghan- In the first two months of the New States and China opened quadri- country is willing to provide sup- istan as the National Unity Gov- Year, the value of Afghani de- lateral meeting in Islamabad aimed port and assistance to resume Af- ernment (NUG) leaders were increased very much against US dol- at establishing a roadmap for peace ghan peace talks through joint ef- volved in internal disputes and lar and still it is decreasing and now talks between Afghan government forts with relevant sides, on the failed to deliver on their pledges. (in the first week on 2016) the val- and the Taliban. However, Taliban basis of respecting Afghan’s sov- The report which is part of the representatives were not present. ereignty and relevant parties con- ue of Afghani against US dollar was cerns. Hinting to the quadrilateral CSRC’s weekly analysis series 68.78. Investment According to While opening the Quadrilateral said that the peace negotiations Coordination Committee (QCC) meeting he said that Chinese dele- the Afghanistan Investment Sup- gation was led by the ministry’s between Afghan government and port Agency (AISA), the amount Pakistani’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, said that no special envoy on Afghan affairs the Taliban insurgents were not of investment was decreased by Deng Xijun. He furthered that Chi- successful. Daesh also began its 26% in the first nine months of precondition should be attached for peace talks with the Taliban. na back the Afghan-led and Afghan- activities in Afghanistan. Thus, 2015 compare to the first nine owned reconciliation process and security situation of the country months of 2014. In the first nine “It is important that no precondi- tions are attached to the reconcili- is willing to continue playing a con- remained fragile compared to the months of 2014, $611 million was structive role to this end. The first past 14 years. For the first time invested; however, in the first nine ation drive, as it will create diffi- culties in brining Taliban to the ne- phase of face-to-face peace talks since ouster from power, the Tali- months of 2015, $448 million was between Afghan government and ban were able to control a major invested. gotiating table,” Aziz said, adding, the Taliban began last year where city, Kunduz, for two weeks and The amount of investment in the “We will have to offer them incen- Pakistan played role of a media- extended influence to northern construction field decreased by tives without any precondition.” tor. However, it was stalled when parts of Afghanistan. Economic $83 million in the first nine months However, he added that use of the Taliban revealed the death re- situation According to the statis- of 2015 compare to $200M in military action against the irrecon- port of their leader, Mullah Omar. tics of the Asian Development 2014, which shows a decrease of cilables could not precede talks. He died in Karachi city of Paki- Bank (ADB), in 2015, the growth 58%. Moreover, investment in the The meeting was attended by Af- stan in 2013. After the collapse of rate of Afghanistan’s GDP (Gross fields of industry, agriculture and ghan Deputy Foreign Minister the first phase of the talks with Domestic Products) was 2.5 %, services was also decreased by 25, Hekmat Karzai and Pakistani For- Taliban, insecurity increased in Af- An Afghan woman cries as she looks for her son after a suicide attack at the entrance to the eign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry. which shows a 1.3 % increase com- Police Academy in Kabul killed more than 20 cadets on August 7, 2015. –Photo by AFP 12 and 9.63 percent accordingly, ghanistan. Only on a single day in pare to 20151. However, the ac- the report noted. General Anthony Rock, the top early August last year, three sui- cording to World Bank, the GDP political and security instabilities, ised reforms, the report said. Ac- tion of NUG to the end of 2014, Corruption US defense representatives in Pa- cide attacks took place in Kabul, growth was 1.9 %2. Industrial people and investors lose confi- cording to the report, in 2015, Af- Afghani’s value against US dollar The NUG in its first months kistan, Richard Oslon, the US spe- the capital city of the country, products also increased compared dence in the government, and the ghani’s value decreased very much was approximately 58.18. In the had made a lot of promises related cial envoy for Afghanistan and leaving scores of people killed and Pakistan, and China’s special en- to the last year. In addition, due to NUG also did not bring its prom- against US dollar. From the forma- first two months of the 2015, Af- to tackling corruption ...P3 wounded. AT News Report Bak district of Khost province,” “cowardly attack” and to bring sands of school-age children are de- chief of All Afghanistan Federation MoE said in a statement. The min- them to the court of justice. A gov- prived of their fundamental right in of Trade Union, Dr Muhammad KABUL: At least three school istry “strongly condemned” the ernment official in Khost province, south, southeastern and eastern Af- Adil, said last year in June that the By Farhad Naibkhel Minister of Public Health Fero- children, including two girls, were attack and said that it was carried who wished anonymity, told Af- ghanistan due to the security threats number of child laborers has been killed and eight others were injured KABUL: Chief Executive Officer zuddin Feroz said: “Since last out by the “enemies of education” ghanistan Times that the mortar for the past several years. Dozens persistently on the rise. Around month, 700 addicts have been col- on Monday morning when mili- but not blamed any side, involved was fired by armed Taliban during of school students and teachers were two million children have been Abdullah Abdullah on Monday tants fired mortar at a school, Min- urged the ministry of interior to lected from parts of Kabul city to in the ongoing conflict in the prov- an ongoing attack in the area. De- killed and injured in the past several pushed into the streets to work boost up crackdown of drug sellers the newly treatment center.” He istry of Education (MoE) said. ince. Officials in the ministry of spite continued efforts by the Af- years by the armed groups in differ- and augment their families’ income. in the country. “Considering ad- said that the program would shift “The mortar hit the Spin-Gahi education asked the security forc- ghan government and local people ent parts of the country, but no one Insecurity was underlined as big- dicted complaints regarding for the 800 more addicts to the center School on Monday at 11:00 am in es to detain perpetrators of the to keep all schools open, thou- has been detained and punished. The gest factor. drug sellers, I will instruct interior within coming weeks. “The home- ministry to foster operations against less and sick addicts will be on them throughout the country,” Ab- prior for the campaign,” Feroz NDS detains suicide dullah said during a visit to an ad- promised. Besides treatment, ad- bombers squad diction treatment center in Kabul. dicts will be provided with litera- He said that ‘to date’, no serious cy and vocational course in the in Nangarhar step had been taken against drug camp, he noted. He highlighted AT News Report business, which had encouraged the that entertainment and sport pro- grams are also available for addicts KABUL: The National Director- drug sellers to distribute narcotics ate of Security (NDS) has detained in public without any fear of po- inside the treatment center. Min- ister of Counter Narcotics Salamat a six-member Taliban group, in- lice. “The campaign to collect ad- cluding two suicide bombers, in dicts won’t be successful, unless Azimi said that a mobilization campaign began to collect the addicts. eastern Nangarhar province. The police takes serious measures spy agency said on Monday that against the drug dealers,” he added. She said that work over construction of two treatment complexes out of the six militants, two were Abdullah asked ministry of public suicide bombers, already prepared health to accelerate collecting of ad- was underway in Helmand and Nangarhar provinces. to carry out suicide attacks in Jala- dicts, pledging to help the program. labad, the capital city of Nangar- har province, but were prevented by the NDS personnel before they could hit the target.

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