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Afghan Reconciliation Quote of the Day Work Success is no accident. It is hard www.thedailyafghanistan.com work, perseverance, learning, studying, Email: [email protected] sacrifice and most of all, love of what you Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 are doing or learning to do. Add: In front of Habibia High School, Pele District 3, Kabul, Afghansitan Volume No. 4129 Wednesday March 20, 2019 Hoot 29, 1397 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 20/-Afs MoU Signed on $631m Hydropower Afghan Reconciliation Dam in Badakhshan to Promote Economic Prosperity: Khalilzad Pakistan and British Ambassadors to the United States (US) on Tuesday met with US Special Representative for Afghan Peace Process Zalmay Khalilzad in KABUL - A Memorandum of Understanding President Ghani Washington and discussed matters related to Afghan peace process. (MoU) was signed on Tuesday at the Presidential Palace on power supply to northeastern Badakh- Briefed on Planned shan province and construction of a hydroelectric dam there at a cost of $631 million. Security Operations A statement from the Presidential Palace received KABUL - President Ashraf Gha- by Pajhwok Afghan News said the MoU was ni and top security officials on signed between acting energy and water minister Tuesday held discussions on up- Mohammad Gul Khulami and Da Afghanistan coming counterinsurgency op- Breshna Sherkat (DABS) head Eng. Amanullah erations and the overall security Ghalib and representative of the Aga Khan Devel- situation in the country. opment Network (AKDN). National Security Advisor (NSA) It said the MoU was aimed at providing electricity Hamdullah Mohib, Interior Min- to Badakhshan residents, a project that would cost ister Masood Andrabi, Minister $631 million donated by AKDN. of Defence Asadullah Khalid, The project would be implemented in different spymaster Masoum Stanikzai phases and each phase would takes seven years, and Dr. Fazal Fazli Mahmood a the statement said. (Pajhwok) senior advisor to the president, attended the meeting. Presidential spokesman Haroon Political Tensions Chakhansouri told Pajhwok Af- Dampen Preparations ghan News the top security offi- cials presented Ghani a detailed for Nawroz Festival report on the security environ- ment and plans for upcoming operations. Chakhansouri added Ghani di- rected the officials to ensure secu- rity in the country and protection of the people and their proper- KABUL - Pakistan and British Ambas- process. sadors to Washington. Whether your ties. (Pajhwok) sadors to the United States (US) on Khalilzad on his social media handler perspective is regional or international, Tuesday met with US Special Repre- said that everyone would benefit from everyone benefits from the security and Kabul’s Expanding sentative for Afghan Peace Process Zal- the economic dividends after war in Af- economic dividends an end to war in may Khalilzad in Washington and dis- ghanistan come to an end. Afghanistan will bring,” he tweeted. Foreigner ‘Bubble’ cussed matters related to Afghan peace “Met with Pakistani and British Ambas- (Pajhwok) Trades Safety for MAZAR-I-SHARIF - Recent tensions over the ap- Isolation U.S. Freezes Out Top Afghan Official in Peace Talks Feud - Sources pointment of the new police chief for northern Balkh province have impinged on preparations In fallout from a feud over U.S.-Taliban peace talks, a senior U.S. diplomat has told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani for Nawroz (Afghan New Year) festival, residents that U.S. officials will no longer deal with his national security adviser, four knowledgeable sources said on Monday. of say. Inhabitants of Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capi- Kabul’s exclusion tary of State for Political Affairs tal, and the authorities concerned confirmed the from negotiations David Hale told Ghani by phone number of people visiting the city for participa- that have mainly that Mohib would no longer tion in the celebrations has drastically fallen this focussed on a U.S. be received in Washington and year. troop pullout and U.S. civilian and military of- Information and Culture Department officials how the Taliban ficials would not do business say the annual festival marking the start of the would stop mili- with him, the sources said. Afghan solar year would be traditionally marked tant groups from “Hale called Ghani and told him in Mazar-i-Sharif by tens of thousands of people using Afghanistan that Mohib is no longer wel- from different parts of the country. as a springboard come in D.C. The U.S. will not Meanwhile, officials assured residents that much for attacks. deal with him in Kabul or in better security arrangements had been taken this Mohib had D.C. any more,” said a former year. Participants should not worry about their se- launched a blister- senior Afghan official, who like curity, they said, asserting their readiness to deal ing public attack the other sources requested ano- with any eventuality last Thursday on nymity because of the issue’s Last Thursday, tensions erupted between for- the chief U.S. ne- sensitivity. mer governor Atta Mohammad Noor and Spe- KABUL - Kabul’s green zone is WASHINGTON - The decision to end U.S. gotiator, Special Representative Zal- Kabul fears that Washington is cial Forces of the Interior Ministry over the ap- a place where diplomats fly in contacts with Hamdullah Mohib will almost may Khalilzad. intent on finalising a U.S. troop pointment of the new police chief. The two sides cheesecake from New York and certainly raise tensions between the allies over The following day, U.S. Undersecre- pullout ...(More on P4)...(1) clashed for ...(More on P4)...(2) cases of wine from Europe, but many of those residing inside the heavily fortified enclave are not allowed to walk without an armed guard even for a distance Herat Activists Ask Govt to Expedite Peace Efforts of 100 metres. HERAT - A group of Herat residents, civil “Lasting and sustainable peace is the demand The walled-off compound of em- society activists, youths and religious schol- of all Afghans,” said Ghulam Farooq Rasib, a bassies and newsrooms, which is ars at a gathering titled “The Public Voice civil society activist in Herat. set to expand dramatically, im- in the Peace Process” called on government “Peace should be for the people at the end of poses extreme limitations on its and the international community to acceler- the day. The voice of the people should be the sheltered residents and stokes re- ate the peace efforts and said they support main voice in peace talks, but the voice of the sentment among Afghans living the talks but they should be led and owned people is not heard at the moment,” said Mu- outside. by Afghans. jib Khalwatgar, member of the Afghan Policy “The best possible argument to The event was divided into different work- Group. be in Afghanistan is to be a sort of ing groups who collected their ideas and pre- Attendants of the event, meanwhile, called on introvert,” said Czech Republic sented them under a united umbrella which government to consider the views of all lay- Ambassador Petr Stepanek. “You all stressed on supporting the peace talks ers of the society in the peace talks. don’t expect a blossoming social with the Taliban, who refuses to attend the “The demand of the people of Afghanistan life.” negotiations table with the Afghan govern- should be prioritized in the peace talks,” said Kabul’s central green zone is set ment. Abdul Hadi Wasiqi, a religious scholar. in the affluent Wazir Akbar Khan “The peace efforts are ongoing for the past “The freedom of the press, women’s rights, neighbourhood. Trees pre-dating few months. The Afghan government, the education, and other achievements should be ghan people is missing,” said Fahim Dashti, an organizer of the event. decades of war still stretch above foreign countries, the Taliban, and political preserved in the peace process,” said Khadija Members of Herat civil society said the Afghan citizens have the right to be the razor-wire topped walls that parties from outside the Afghan government Rahimi, a Herat resident. aware of the details of the talks between the US and the Taliban negotiators. line ...(More on P4)...(3) have their role in it, but the role of the Af- ...(More on P4)...(4).
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