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MARCH 05. 2016 -Hoot 15, 1394 HS Yo ur Yo ur ad ad he re he re 0778894038 0778894038 WASHINGTON: The US needs to stay in Afghanistan because its immediate neighbor Pakistan has nuclear weapons which have to be KANPUR: Religion should not al technical festival ‘Techkriti’ last protected, Republican presidential be used as a political tool as it caus- evening. frontrunner Donald Trump has es immense harm, former Afghan Mr Karzai, who recalled his said. president Hamid Karzai has said, student days in India, said when “I think you have to stay in asking Pakistan to turn a new leaf he returned to Afghanistan, the Afghanistan for a while, because so that there is peace in the region environment had considerably de- of the fact that you are right next and the countries can progress. teriorated as “on one hand there to Pakistan, which has nuclear The people of Afghanistan was Soviet Union which wanted weapons and we have to protect were “misled” in the name of reli- to impose communist ideology and that. Nuclear weapons change the gion, he said while interacting with on the other hand there was Paki- game,” he said. Indian Institute of Kanpur (IIT)- stan indulging in religious extrem- Trump was responding to a Kanpur students during the annu- ism. Afghanistan was caught in the question on Afghanistan during the middle and completely destroyed Republican presidential debate on Mazari wanted as a result”. Thursday. “There were no universities or Last year, Trump had called Wednesday. democratic schools. Only violence in the name Pakistan the most dangerous coun- “Pakistan’s nuclear stockpile See P2 try in the world. In an interview, continues to grow. We are con- system in the he had indicated that Pakistan Afghanistan asks cerned that this growth, as well as country: Ghani needs to be denuclearize. the evolving doctrine associated Pakistan for “You have to get India in- with tactical nuclear weapons, in- KABUL: President Mohammad volved. India’s the check to Paki- creases the risk of an incident or Ashraf Ghani said on Friday Ab- change in stan,” he said in a radio address in accident,” Lt Gen Vincent Stew- dul Ali Mazari was martyred in September last year when asked art, director of Defense Intelligence path of struggles for democracy and ‘destructive’ policy what he would do if Pakistan “the Agency had told lawmakers on did not want the repetition of his- AT Monitoring Desk most dangerous country in the Wednesday during a Congression- tory. world other than Iran” became un- KABUL: Deputy Foreign Min- al hearing. In his video message at a gath- stable. “Islamabad continues to take ering that marking the ister, Hekmat Khalil Karzai “They (India) have their own st asked Islamabad to bring chang- steps to improve its nuclear secu- 21 anniversary of Wahdat-i-Isla- nukes and have a very powerful rity, and is aware of the threat pre- mi leader, a Hazar community es in its policy which had caused army. They seem to be the real destruction in Afghanistan. sented by extremists to its pro- dominated party, the president check... I think we have to deal very gram,” Stewart said during his tes- said Mazari believed on social jus- Talking to a delegation on the closely with India to deal with it sidelines of a Pak-Afghan Track timony before the house armed tice and democratic government. (Pakistan),” Trump had said, set- services committee on worldwide Mazari was captured and 11/1.5 here the other day, the ting off intense chatter among Pa- killed by the Taliban in the south- deputy minister said that Kabul threats. kistani experts whose approach to Pakistan will face internal se- ern part of Kabul back in March, was not eager for road and Islamabad’s recklessness so far has 1994. Chief Executive Officer healthcare projects but was seek- curity threats from militant, sec- been one of caution and discretion. tarian and separatist groups this (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah his dep- ing positive changes in Paki- The US is concerned over Pa- Afghanistan is preparing a wish list list of military needs. Mr. Fenghui pledged more than stan’s policy regarding Afghani- year, he said, adding that ISIS in uties, ministers, public represen- of military equipment for China During a meeting with Fang $70 million in fresh military aid to kistan’s fast-expanding stockpile tatives, heads of political parties stan. Khorasan and al-Qaida in the Indi- to assist the Afghan national secu- Fenghui, chief of China’s People’s Afghanistan, saying the latest aid of nuclear weapons which com- an subcontinent will also remain and the followers of Mazari at- According to a press release, bined with its evolving doctrine tended the gathering held in Kab- rity forces, the defense officials Liberation Army, the National Se- will follow besides Beijing’s ongo- Beyond Boundaries, an initiative significant security concerns for have said. curity Adviser, Hanif Atmar, re- ing cooperation in development increases the risk of an “accident”, Islamabad. ul. See P2 Pentagon’s top spy master said on The president said Mazari had Deputy spokesman for the quested Beijing’s support to Af- and economic sector. (Times of India) special respect for the women role Ministry of Defense Mohammad ghan National Security Forces in society and believed the wom- Radmanish told RFE that a com- (ANSF). en could play a vital role in politi- mittee has been established to iden- The Office of the National Se- cal spectrum of the country. tify the needs of the Afghan forc- curity Adviser said earlier this 1,500 cases stalled within the AGO's: Official He said: “Afghanistan was the es. week that Mr. Atmar requested President Ashraf Ghani's top ad- at the request of lawbreakers. dockets relating to corruption cas- no case has been pushed to the country of every Afghan and ev- He said the work of the com- Mr. Fenghui to provide the Afghan visor on transparency in develop- "Government shouldn't handle es have gone missing from the sidelines and all cases are being ery citizen and stressed the need mittee is expected to conclude by forces with military aids, includ- ment programs Sardar Mohammad these cases superficially, all cases AGO's office.? processed. for an active political role of every the end of this week and a wish ing transport and logistics planes, Roshan said Friday that more than must be reviewed. There are some "The main issue is that the We strongly reject the allega- countryman.” list of the military equipment will mobile radards, military uniform, 1,500 cases have not been pro- cases which have been prepared AGO has failed to conduct a good tions," Basir Azizi, a spokesman Ghani said the constitutional be prepared. etc. Meanwhile, China pledged cessed by the Attorney General's after a lawbreaker got angry at job over the last several years, even for the AGO said. clause that no Afghan is privileged According to reports, the Af- more than $70 million to support Office (AGO), with the majority someone and then made a tele- we heard that some dockets have This comes at a time that the over another helped us to reduce ghan security authorities have start- the military sector of Afghanistan, of them having been sent by the phone call to AGO to bring charg- gone missing from the AGO's of- AGO is run by an acting chief. difference and work of the bright ed work on the wish list after se- the Office of the President – ARG Afghan spy agency - National Di- es but only four pages of papers fice," IWA Researcher Nasir However, NUG this past week future of the country. nior Chinese defense officials vis- Palace said. rectorate of Security (NDS). are lying inside these documents," Taimoori said. announced the appointment of ited Kabul this week and asked the During a meeting with Presi- "There are more than 1,500 Roshan said. The Attorney General's Office Mohammad Farid Hamidi as new Taliban prisoner Afghan authorities to prepared a dent Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, cases pending with the majority Amid deep concerns over the slammed the claims as baseless, chief of AGO. of them referred by the National huge number of pending cases, the urging that no case had been pre- Hamidi is expected to appear disguised in Directorate of Security," Roshan Integrity Watch Afghanistan pared on order of lawbreakers and before the Wolesi Jirga (Lower 10 militants affiliated with ISIS said.? (IWA) blasted the AGO officials that no case has been sidelined. House of Parliament) for a vote of women’s dress According to Roshan, there are for failing to fulfill their legal re- "All tasks are being carried out confidence from the Afghan law- in failed bid to terror group killed in Nangarhar some cases which were prepared sponsibilities, arguing that several by the AGO in line with the laws, makers. At least ten militants affiliated with Afghan border and public order break jail the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria police, and Afghan intelligence A Taliban prisoner disguised in (ISIS) terrorist group were killed operatives. The Afghan forces have women’s dress and burqa in a bid during the ongoing operations in stepped up counter-terrorism op- to break jail in northern Jawzjan eastern Nangarhar province of Af- erations against the loyalists of the province of Afghanistan was ar- ghanistan. terror group amid concerns that the rested by the security forces be- The provincial government group is attempting to establish a fore he manage to pass through media office said the operations are regional base in Nangarhar.