Quote of the Day Alone www.outlookafghanistan.net I never” said, ‘I want to be” alone.’ facebook.com/The.Daily.Outlook.Afghanistan I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 There is all the difference. Add: In front of Habibia High School, Greta Garbo District 3, Kabul, Afghanistan Volume No. 4383 Thursday February 06, 2020 Dalw 17, 1398 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 20/-Afs Special Care Center Pakistan to for Coronavirus in Trump Renews Pledge to Continue Aiding Kabul Bring Back US Troops Afghan Peace Process KABUL - On February 4th, 2020, the first special KABUL - Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan care center to fight coronavirus was established in from Afghanistan Zahid Nasrullah Khan on Wednesday said Islam- Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in abad played a vital role in the US-Taliban peace Kabul. talks and would continue facilitating the process. Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz says that The envoy said this while addressing a gathering the center offers 100 beds, and is dedicated to diag- at the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul, marking Kash- nose and cure coronavirus patients. mir Solidarity Day. The minister adds that if need be, they will estab- Nasrullah Khan said Afghanistan and Pakistan lish such centers, with a capacity of 150 beds, in were neighbors and enjoyed a long border, add- other provinces too. ing that around two million Afghan refugees still He says, “The special care center is meant for those lived in Pakistan. infected and/or possibly exposed to the virus – He said the Afghan peace process was vital for Af- they will be diagnosed and cured here, because ghanistan, Pakistan and the entire region, adding moving patients around, adds to the possibility of that Pakistan was playing a key role in the process. the outbreak.” He said Pakistan facilitated the launch of Taliban Authorities in the hospital say that as of now, the and US talks and facilitated the process to a great- outbreak of the coronavirus in Afghanistan is neg- er extent. ative. “Peace in Afghanistan is vital for us. War is not Mohammad Tahir Formuli, head of Afghan-Japan a solution to Afghan problem, this conflict should Communicable Disease Hospital, says, “There is come to an end to serve the best interest of the peo- no problem in the diagnosis and treatment of pa- ple of Afghanistan and Pakistan.” tients. We have the required number of staff. In Pir Syed Ahmad Gilani, head of the Melli Mahaz case, God forbid, ...( More on P4)...(1) Party, said there ...( More on P4)...(3) WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has renewed his pledge to bring back US troops from Afghanistan as his administration aims to end the United States’s longest war. “We are working to finally end America’s longest war and bring our troops back home,” Trump said on Tuesday during his State of the Union address to US Congress that touched on few foreign-policy points. “I am not looking to kill hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan, many of them totally inno- cent,” Trump told the joint session of Congress. “It is also not our function to serve other nations as a law enforcement agency. These are war-fighters, the best in the world, and they either want to fight to win or ...( More on P4)...(2) We Want Peace That Protects Last Decade Marks over 80,000 Women’s Rights: Ghani Civilian Casualties, Afghanistan KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani KABUL - The latest statistics on Wednesday stressed protec- by the Independent Human tion of women’s rights and solu- Rights Commission shows that tion to their problems, saying he over 80,000 civilians, either did not want to change the peace killed or wounded, in the last process into a political trade. decade in Afghanistan. A statement from the Presiden- The IHR’s annual report, un- tial Palace Media’s office received veiled Tuesday, February 4, by Pajhwok Afghan News said says that though the violence President Ghani met with Kabul graph has reduced by a mar- women’s representatives from gin of 45%, compared to 2018, various parts at the Presidential between 2009 and late 2019, Palace Wednesday. around 28,979 civilians have The statement said women shared been killed, and 57,844 others their problems regarding health- have been injured. care, sports, education, high The report also indicates that education, social associations, 70,597 people were domesti- economic and commerce with cally displaced due to the war. President Ghani at the meeting. The IHRC’s findings suggest President Ghani ordered the Ka- district. He called for creation of a past five years and the process that the main cause of the ci- National Security Forces are lows: bul municipality to provide elec- strong women council to address would continue. Ghani promised vilian casualties are the insur- responsible as well. The Taliban: 71% tion opportunity to two women’s their issues, saying women were further facilities ...( More on gent groups – the Taliban and The report categorizes the sub- National forces: 14% representatives in each municipal recruited to high posts during the P4)...(4) the ISIS – and partially, the jects of the casualties as fol- ISIS: 5% ...( More on P4)...(5) No Cargo Flight from Kandahar Analysts: Multiple Plans to India Current Solar Year Affect Peace Process KANDAHAR CITY - Fresh and Kandahar to India through the percent on Afghanistan exports KABUL - Analysts familiar with on a ceasefire and a reduction in and National Parties, among oth- dried fruit traders and their rep- air corridor, but no flights were from the beginning of the current the Afghan peace process say violence. President Ghani is in- ers, have presented plans for the resentatives on Wednesday said made since the beginning of cur- year”, he said. they see a lack of “serious coordi- sisting on a ceasefire while Chief reconciliation process. no cargo flight took place from rent year. “Pakistan always creates prob- nation” between the government Executive Abdullah Abdullah Analysts said the intra-Afghan southern Kandahar province to He said creating the air corridor lems for fresh fruits exports, it and political parties and move- reiterates that the current oppor- negotiations – if started – will not India current 1398 solar year. was a symbolic move from the sometimes shuts the border and ments that have presented vari- tunity – which is the Taliban’s have a result unless there is an Traders and commerce and in- government as it was stopped af- sometimes increases taxes”, he ous draft plans for reconciliation willingness for a reduction in vi- agreement between the US and dustry officials called for resump- ter its launch. said, adding that gardeners were and talks with the Taliban. olence – should be taken advan- the Taliban. tion of cargo flights to India and Grape production in Kandahar obliged to dry their fruits and There are at least eleven plans tage of. “None of these plans have been said the air corridor was a great was high but traders were in then export them abroad as ex- and frameworks for talks and the Since the start of the US-Taliban implemented. They are still work- opportunity for fresh and dried trouble exporting them and they porting them fresh could gener- peace process itself, according to talks in 2018, the Afghan govern- ing on them. As far as I know, fruits exports. needed cargo flights this year ate a low revenue. analysts, who said none of these ment, the High Peace Council, the politicians want to agree on a uni- Haji Nanai Agha, head of Fresh more than any other years in the Agha said it was responsibility schemes have been put into prac- Heart of Asia Foundation, former fied plan,” presidential advisor Fruits Traders’ Association in past, he said. of the government to resolve the tice so far. president Hamid Karzai, Jamiat- Nabi Misdaq said. Kandahar, told Pajhwok Afghan “Pakistan is the biggest market problem and facilitate exports More recently, there are opposite e-Islami Afghanistan party, Hizb- Analysts also said that a major- News that they were fully pre- for Kandahar fresh fruits, but this through air. ideas coming from the Presiden- e-Islami party, Wahdat-e-Islami ity of these plans are general, and pared to export fresh fruits from country increased taxes by 300 He ...( More on P4)...(6) tial Palace and the Sapidar Palace party, the High Council of Jihadi lack ...( More on P4)...(7) 2 February 06, 2020 Main News Page Ghani Orders Merge of State-Owned Enterprises AIC Working Under Govt’s Influence, Says IWA to Establish a Development Corporation KABUL - The Integrity Watch On the other hand, AIC head KABUL - President Ghani signed Afghanistan (IWA) on Wednes- Ainuddin Bahaduri said that a decree ordering the merge of day said the Access to Informa- the commission was a govern- state-owned enterprises to estab- tion Commission (AIC) worked ment’s institution but it worked lish a single corporation naming under government’s influence, independently. ‘National Development Corpora- a claim the commission rejected. He said the commission was tion’. Mohammad Ikram Afzali, IWA ready to respond to evidence The ordinance document indicates head, told a press conference from journalists or other people that the President has ordered the here that the Afghan govern- to prove that AIC was not inde- merging of eight state-owned en- ment had failed to implement pendent. terprises to incorporate a national the Access to Information Law A day earlier, a number of me- development corporation. properly and the relevant com- dia representatives and jour- The enterprises mentioned to be mission was under its pressure.