Challenge in Afghanistan Sopko Says It Is Feared That the Taliban Will Repeat Their Past Behaviors in a Post-Peace Government

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Volume No. 4183 Saturday June 01, 2019 Jawza 11, 1398 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 20/-Afs NATO SCR, Gen. Bajwa Discuss Afghan Sopko Counts Daesh as a Big Peace Process Challenge in Afghanistan Sopko says it is feared that the Taliban will repeat their past behaviors in a post-peace government.

KABUL - NATO Senior Civil Representative in Afghanistan Sir Nicholas Kay on Thursday called on Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, according to a media report. AGO Slaps Travel Matters related to peace and stability in the re- gion, Pak-Afghan border management and recon- Ban on Eight MoI ciliation process in Afghanistan were discussed, Officials Over the Express Tribune reported. Two days earlier, the Afghan national security ad- Graft Case viser held crucial talks with Pakistani authorities, KABUL - The Attorney General’s including the army chief, as part of the latest push Office (AGO) imposed travel ban by the two neighbours to remove irritants in their on eight officials of the Ministry bilateral ties that have undermined efforts for a of Interior Affairs (MoI) until the peace deal in Afghanistan. end of an investigation into em- Hamdullah Mohib – who led a high-powered bezzlement of AFs600 million delegation that included the Afghan interior ($7.5 million) from meat contract minister – was the first senior Afghan official to of the Afghan National Police. travel to Islamabad in months. Afghan President The decisions comes a day after Ashraf Ghani sent the delegation to Pakistan af- police arrested a food contrac- ter he spoke to Prime Minister Imran Khan by the tor for the Ministry of Interior phone last month. Imran Khan, while renewing on charges of “stealing AFs600 Pakistan’s commitment to making genuine ef- million ($7.5 million)” from meat WASHINGTON - John F. Sopko, Spe- world,” Sopko said. forts for a peace deal, invited President Ghani to supply in one year by over-bill- ban, it will have to face with the above- cial Inspector General for Afghanistan Talking about the Afghan peace pro- visit Islamabad. According to diplomatic sources, ing the security agency. mentioned challenges. Reconstruction (Sigar) says that ad- cess, Sopko said if a peace deal is Mohib’s tour is part of preparations for a visit by Sources told TOLOnews that “There are thirty some terrorist groups ministrative corruption, narcotics and reached, integration of the Taliban in Ghani, who is expected to travel to Pakistan next police had arrested at least 22 operating in Afghanistan, so even if Daesh are the three biggest challenges the society will take time and money. month. (Pajhwok) individuals, among them higher you negotiate with the Taliban, you faced by Afghanistan. Sopko said the international commu- and lower rank officials of the still have to deal with ISIS. The other Talking to the US C-SPAN (Cable-Sat- nity will stop their support to Afghani- Ghana’s Ex-Poll Panel Chief ministry, who collaborated in some of the risk with talk about is you ellite Public Affairs Network), Sopko stan if the Taliban in a possible post- the purchase of meat with Hajji still have a problem of corruption, you said that even if the Afghan govern- peace government turns back to their Takes up Job in Kabul Mohammad Rasa, the contractor, still have a problem of narcotics. It is ment makes a peace deal with the Tali- past and last year. the largest producer of heroin in the ...(More on P4)...(1) Haris Siraj, the acting head of the Interior Ministry’s logistics Speaker Row: In Camera WJ Session Tasks Another Panel department; Nasir Zaid, head of The Wolesi Jirga or lower house of Parliament during its 13th session on Thursday tasked another the finance department; Mirwais Janbaz, acting head of logistics 10-member delegation to resolve differences over the speaker election. department are among the eight 123 votes --- one vote short of the officials, according to sources. threshold --- and Osuli collected 55 “Based on the recommendation votes. However, Dehqanpur de- of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, clared Rahmani as winner, trigger- travel ban has been imposed on ing a dispute among lawmakers. eight officials...(More on P4)...(2) The Wolesi Jirga convened session KABUL - A former chairperson of the Ghana today but the media was not al- poll panel has arrived in Kabul to embark on her Bala Murghab lowed to cover it. work as an international election commissioner Humayon Harirud, a lawmaker in Afghanistan District Once Again from Parwan province, told re- Appointed by the United Nations as an inter- ‘Falls to Taliban’ porters after the session that a national election commissioner in Afghanistan, 10-member delegation headed Charlotte Osei reached Kabul on May 28. . by Gul Ahmad Noorzada, a law- She is part of a team of other UN-appointed elec- maker from Farah province, was tion experts from around the world to provide tasked to prepare a plan for resolu- the Afghans technical support. tion of differences over speaker’s They will help build the capacity of the Election KABUL - On May 16, lawmakers Mir Rah- highest numbers of votes on Thursday, position. Complaints Commission and the Independent man Rahmani, Mirwais Yasini, Kamal were in the run for the slot in the second “Until law and principles of in- Electoral Commission. Naser Osuli and Omar Nasir contested for round of voting. ternal affairs of the house are not The experts will also advise the two commis- the speaker post. Atta Mohammad Dehqanpor, provisional followed as standards and until sions, tasked with ensuring a credible presiden- However, none could bag enough votes speaker, said there were 247 lawmakers some lawmakers refrain from us- tial vote in September, on electoral best practices. to become speaker of the house and the present in the house and a candidate was ing threatening language and in- Osei is a lawyer, who served as Ghana’s poll ballot went to a second round, which was required to collect 124 votes to win the timidation, the problem will not be panel boss from 2015 until June 2018. She was deferred to Sunday. seat. resolved,” he said, while stressing the first woman to serve as the boss of Ghana’s KABUL - Taliban has once again Mir Rahmani and Osuli, who received the In the second round, Rahmani bagged over the ...(More on P4)...(3) EC. (Pajhwok) overrun Bala Murghab district in the northwestern Badghis province nearly one month after the area was retaken by Afghan forc- Taliban Bomber Targets US Military Convoy in Kabul es following a 10-day clash late in KABUL - Officials in Afghanistan say a sui- April. others. Afghan officials said four civilians were cide bomb attack Friday targeted a foreign Bala Murghab is a strategic dis- also among those injured. military convoy in Kabul, killing at least four trict in Badghis province, sur- Meanwhile, fierce clashes were continuing in Afghan civilians and wounding four Ameri- rounded by some other volatile the northwestern province of Badghis where can soldiers. districts such as Ab Kamari, the Taliban fighters have taken control of the The U.S. military confirmed the attack in the Muqur, Jawand, and Qadis. embattled strategic Bala Murghab district dur- Afghan capital and said the service members Last time, Bala Murghab came ing overnight fighting with Afghan forces. received “minor injuries”. It did not give fur- under Taliban attack late in April Azai Akazai, who represents the province in ther details. and early in March and was the Afghan parliament, confirmed the insur- The Taliban took responsibility for the bomb- under siege for more than two gent advances while talking to VOA and said ing on a busy road linking Kabul to the east- weeks, leaving more than two overnight clashes killed around a dozen govern city of Jalalabad, saying a suicide bomber dozens of security forces dead ernment forces.= detonated his explosives-packed car near the and almost 28 of them gone miss- The Taliban assault forced around 250 Afghan foreign military convoy. ing. forces to retreat to a nearby Afghan military Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Nas- Ziauddin Akazai, an MP from base, the lawmaker added. rat Rahimi said several passerby were also Badghis, said on Thursday that The insurgent violence comes amid peace ne- among those injured. the district police headquarters, gations between U.S. and Taliban officials. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid cit- use for U.S.-led NATO forces in the country. The insurgent group’s claims the main bazaar of Bala Murghab The dialogue has lately slowed down over Tal- ing initial information claimed the powerful are often inflated.On Thursday, an Islamic State suicide bomber blew and the building of the district iban’s insistence it will not cease hostilities and explosion destroyed two military vehicles himself up at the entrance gate of an Afghan military academy and train- governor have fallen to the Tali- engage in peace talks with the Afghan govern- and killed ten “invaders”, a term insurgents ing center in Kabul. That blast killed six security forces and wounded 12 ment until all ban. ...(More on P4)...(4) ...(More on P4)...(5)