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Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:107Price: Afs.20 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY .NOVEMBER 16 . 2018 -Aqrab 25, 1397 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime WASHINGTON: Pakistan needs to do more in its fight against ter- rorism, the Trump Administration told lawmakers on Wednesday add- ing that its expectations now is same as in the aftermath of the twin FARAH CITY: At least 30 secu- Meanwhile, Khir Mohammad ago. Norzayee expressed concern tower attacks in New York in rity forces have been killed during Norzayee, a member of the pro- over the security forces causali- 2001. “Pakistan certainly needs to Taliban militants’ attack on battal- vincial council, told Pajhwok that ties and said at least 250 soldiers do more,” Nathan Alexander Sales, ion in western Farah province, the exact number of soldiers killed were killed during the Taliban co- the State Department Coordinator public representatives said on in the incident was unknown so ordinately stormed last month. for Counterterrorism told mem- Thursday. far. He said 45 policemen and ANA Meanwhile, provincial police bers of the House Subcommittee Sha Mahmood Naemi, the soldiers were stationed in the bat- spokesman, Mohibullah Muhib on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, deputy provincial council head, talion which was attacked. Initial also confirmed the Taliban at- and Trade during a Congressional told Pajhwok Afghan News the reports indicate 15 ANA soldiers tacks in Balablok, Push Koh and hearing. “We are very concerned militants launched a coordinated and 15 to 20 police personnel had Pusht Rod districts but said both about support for terrorism in any attack on a joint Afghan National been killed in the incident, Norza- sides suffered causalities in the region of the world. And I can tell Army (ANA) and police battalion yee said. He said the joint battal- attack. However, he had no ex- you we have communicated to the Aab-i-Khorma locality of Balablok ion of the ANA soldiers and po- act number of the causalities. Qari KABUL: A verbal dispute be- the clash took place after an argu- till 1pm. Other students confirmed Pakistani government at the high- district on Herat-Kandahar high- licemen was located in Khak-i-Sa- Yousuf Ahmadi, the Taliban tween students of Kabul Uni- ment over militants’ attacks in the clash erupted over differences est levels that we expect them to way late on Wednesday night. fid district but was shifted to Aab- spokesman claimed killing 30 versity led to physical fight in Malistan and Jaghori districts of on views over Ghazni insecurity. do more just like we expected them He said at least 30 security i-Khorma area of the Balabolok security forces in the nighttime the university’s hostile Thurs- southern Ghazni province turned Basir Mujahid, the Kabul police to act with us after 9/11,” Nathan forces were killed in the attack. district of the province three days stormed. day noon. serious. As the quarrel continued, spokesman, confirmed the fight and Alexander Sales, the State Depart- Fawad Ahmad, a student of the police forces arrived and took said police arrived to the scene and ment Coordinator for Counterter- third year of journalism faculty, control of the situation, he said. took control of the situation. rorism said during a Congressional told Pajhwok Afghan News that The dispute happened at 12:30pm (Pajhwok) hearing. “Pakistan has in the past been a very effective counterpart in taking the fight to Al-Qaeda. We need them to do the same thing with respect to the Haqqanis, Lash- kar-e-Taiba, and the other terror- ist groups that are active in the re- gion,” he said. Sales was respond- KABUL: Representatives from Afghanistan and for being a “long- NATO's mission in Afghanistan ing to concerns expressed by Con- the UAE, Saudi Arabia, United time friend and military partner” is proof of your global reach. WASHINGTON : Describing ereign governments. India, he said, people of Pakistan that Pakistan gressmen in this regard. “I think States and Afghanistan have met to the US and NATO. “Thank you for Qatar's efforts India as a long-term partner of has been a traditional and long-term has closer linkages and ties with they're not doing their job, despite in Abu Dhabi to discuss efforts to Speaking ahead of a meeting in in support of peace and stability Afghanistan, Finance Minister partner of Afghanistan. “They India and Central Asia as a whole. terrorism, because the terrorists restore security and stability to Washington on Tuesday, Mattis in Afghanistan and our efforts to- Mohammad Humayon Qay- have been a long-term partner. “This whole region is ripe for be- come in from Pakistan into Afghan- push forward the peace process in welcomed the Qatari Minister of wards reconciliation of that too oumi, has said that his country They will remain a long-term part- ing a very functioning economic Afghanistan, according to an Emir- Defense Khalid Al-Attiyah and long war. has no secret deal with New ner,” Qayoumi said. Responding ecosystem. Right now that is the istan, do their mischief, and run back across the border. I think ates News agency. said: “In Qatar, we recognized a I must also thank you for gra- Delhi. “Afghanistan has no se- to a question, he hoped that Af- least integrated region of the world The US Special Envoy for Afghan long-time friend and military part- ciously hosting the US forces at cret deals with India,” he said at ghanistan has similar relationship economically. It's not helping any- they've been doing that for years,” Peace in, Zalmay Khalilzad, ex- ner for peace and stability in the Al Udeid Air Base, home to our the School of Advanced interna- with Pakistan. “But I think it's one,” Qayoumi said. “We hope Congressman Ted Poe said. “They pressed satisfaction over the out- Middle East and a supporter of combined air operations center, tional Studies of John Hopkins Pakistan that has to decide what Pakistan can really see that as a take our money….millions of dol- come of the meeting. This came NATO's mission in Afghanistan, where together we work with 15 University. The relationship be- they would like to do as part of it way that on how we can work to- lars we give Pakistan every year. after US Secretary of Defense and here I must note Qatar's re- nations to bolster regional secu- tween the two countries is based in where they would like to be,” gether as a region, as equals, as It befuddles me why we do that James Mattis thanked Qatar for cent highly successful delivery of rity and our shared commitment on trust based between two sov- he said. It is in the interest of the sovereign nations. (Pajhwok) when they don't. its efforts in support of peace in materials from Hungary to to combating extremism,” he said. FRIDAY .NOVEMBER 16, 2018 AFGHANISTANTIMES AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy Phone No: +93-797070563 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.afghanistantimes.af Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Suez war was indisputably a fiasco, an act of imperial madness. So is Brexit. 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Editorial By Avi Shlaim present the nation with a choice The Suez war was indisput- have even had one positive effect: between two deeply unattractive ably a fiasco; the only debate is it acted as a reality check on Brit- outcomes, vassalage and chaos, is about the causes of the fiasco. ain's image of itself as a great pow- Jo Johnson, the pro-Remain min- a failure of British statecraft on a Here, there are two main schools er. ister of transport, resigned from scale unseen since the Suez crisis". of thought. One school of thought Like Eden, today's Tory Brex- the government last week because The reference is, of course, to the sees the Suez debacle as the result iteers are incapable of grasping the he could not vote for the Brexit Suez crisis of 1956 in which Tory of a loss of nerve, a failure of im- changes that have occurred in the deal that Theresa May is expected Prime Minister Anthony Eden col- perial willpower. According to this international system since 1945 to bring back to parliament. He luded with France and Israel to at- school of thought, the real mistake and the limits they place on Brit- thinks her deal is worse than mem- tack Egypt following President was not to embark on this venture ain's ability to pursue an indepen- bership of the EU and he has Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez but to abandon it without achiev- dent foreign policy. The notion of thrown his weight behind a sec- Canal. ing its basic aim: the overthrow of global Britain prospering outside ond referendum. His resignation Suez was a colossal strategic Nasser. Once Britain retreated, so the EU is a delusion based on ig- came four months after his Brexi- blunder and a sad watershed in the argument ran, any monkey was norance and fuelled by nostalgia teer brother, Boris, quit as foreign post-war British history.