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December 06, 2015 Page 4 December 06, 2015 (1) Afghan... management skills, therefore, they United States, completing a doctor- women and children was in hun- But Dadullah’s spokesman Qari and they’re going to come.” shouldn’t be allowed to continue to ate in anthropology and becoming dreds. Hamza had rejected the Taliban Walker said she believed the RSA’s sides, the main factors of immigra- hold posts which provide services a professor at Johns Hopkins Uni- Pajhwok Afghan News has ob- report as propaganda. “The plot support for Ahmadi and an article tion is poverty, low knowledge, to the public,” MP Fawzia Kofi said. versity before returning to Afghani- tained a recording of a telephonic of the conflict was orchestrated in on Stuff had made the difference. and distrusts, we will review the is- “Parliament must grant them two stan after the fall of the Taliban. conversation between two Taliban Iran. Because without Iran’s back- “These guys were working for the sues, based on the information part weeks. If they accomplish their Confronted with this fact, Ghani militants. One Talib is inform- ing, Mullah Akhtar Mansour was army and made a big contribution, of the Afghans whom were living tasks, there will not be more issues, said: “The minute opportunity was ing the other about the situation not able fight against Dadullah I think the RSA felt they had a re- in the third country have come to if they did nothing, the president created in 2001 I returned. I hope in Khak-i-Afghan district. “They and the Uzbeks.” (Pajhwok) sponsibility to help. They jumped Sweden, what we have agreed to must be asked to suspend them that the new generation of our killed all the friends in Khak-i- in and did some pretty strong lob- begin talks to find best results for (12)Afghan Returnees ... from the jobs,” MP Arif Rahmani friends will have the same sense of Afghan even minor children and bying.” the issue President Ghani added. said. patriotism and respond to the con- women. All the guests were elimi- increased significantly after the at- Ray Terrill, the RSA’s Waikato sup- In order to have good relation- An estimated four tons of garbage ditions of our country.” nated and houses of Mullah Dadul- tack on school in Peshawar. Many port adviser, said the RSA wrote to ships with Afghanistan we have is accumulated in Kabul on a daily However, Afghanistan and Sweden lah’s supporters were plundered.” lived in Pakistan for the past three Woodhouse and Veterans Affairs announced our $1 billion aids from basis, but it is believed Kabul mu- agreed to open talks on repatriating A Taliban source in Zabul told decades and some even more and Minister Craig Foss, who is also as- 2015 up to 2024. nicipality currently has the capac- Afghan nationals whose asylum Pajhwok Afghan News that well- we have people who have not been sociate immigration minister, out- Sweden Prime Minister Stefan ity to remove only half that. (Tolo- bids have been rejected, leaders of trained fighters and snipers were to Afghanistan at all,” Saroop Ijaz, lining Ahmadi’s predicament and Löfven said,” we have announced news) both countries said. called in from other areas to Zabul a lawyer and Pakistan researcher suggesting he would be better off our 1 $billion aid to Afghanistan Addressing a joint press conference for killing Mullah Dadullah and for Human Rights Watch told Al with his family here. in coming 10 years, and I m closely (4) No Risk of ... following high-level talks with his his Uzbek supporters who had Jazeera. “I think between the two of them, watching the Afghanistan, refor- agenda,” Grushko said in light of Swedish counterpart, Ghani said: pledged allegiance to the Islamic “Life has become really difficult they decided the RSA had a good mation programs, in order to have the recent tensions between Mos- “Migration is a human tragedy and State. for Afghans living in Pakistan. Af- case for these interpreters. I was strengthened relationships in Af- cow and the alliance over the down- a human phenomenon. As partners He said other Taliban fighters, ghans are left with no choice but to over the moon, I even had a few ghanistan we have signed some ing of a Russian attack aircraft by we have agreed there is a common who brought with them a fitwa leave. If you take away someone’s beers afterwards. We don’t get a cooperation agreements which Turkey, a NATO member state. problem.” from a cleric in Pakistan’s Quetta business or someone’s job what lot of [good results].” includes human rights protection A Turkish F-16 fighter shot down Swedish Prime Minister Stefan branding the rivals as traitors, also options are they left with? Woodhouse said Ahmadi’s situa- specially the rights of women, and a Russian Aerospace Forces Su-24 Lofven said: “Many refugees com- launched their operations against “This was just a political response tion was “unique” and extending full supports of Sweden in democ- Fencer over Syria on November 24, ing to Sweden are from Afghani- Dadullah and his supporters. to the school tragedy. Afghan re- the refugee family support cat- racy system.” damaging relations between the stan or Afghans, many are unac- “The Taliban assembled 3000 turnees are now in dire need of egory to cover the interpreters was Once again Sweden Prime Minister two countries. companied minors.” fighters laced with weapons Iran help and support. They have no “another way of acknowledging announced its supports on peace Ankara claimed it downed the “This year about 20,000 minors, pri- had given to them against Daesh source of income and they can- their special circumstances”. and stability of Afghanistan, and Russian jet after it had allegedly marily young men, have come to militants and they launched op- not go back to their hometowns as He said he’d had “a number of willing to extend its Sweden troops breached Turkish airspace. The Sweden, and this is of course a se- erations in 75 villages of the three they barely know anyone there.” people write to me on behalf of Mr presence under the resolute sup- Russian General Staff and the Syr- rious challenge for both our coun- districts. They killed hundreds of According to International Organi- Ahmadi”. (Agencies) port mission in Afghanistan. (ATN) ian Air Defense Command have tries.” opponents and imprisoned 1500,” sation for Migration (IOM), more (14)7 Afghan ... (2) Final Draft... provided evidence the aircraft did The two sides were also to review the Taliban source said. than 90,000 refugees returned back not cross into Turkish airspace. to Afghanistan this year, six times security forces over the same pe- and damage, finance, technol- the reasons contributing to the mi- He said the dead included Mullah Following the incident, NATO offi- the number during the same pe- riod. ogy and transparency of action and grant flows. Dadullah, his elder brother Haji cials have expressed support for the riod last year. The raids were conducted in five of support. It will now be handed over These include poverty, insecurity Lala and some other family mem- Turkish right to defend its airspace. The numbers are expected to rise if the country’s 34 provinces, accord- to ministers for further discussion and lack of trust. “We will address bers. The Russian Defense Ministry said Pakistan fails to agree to extend the ing to the statement. next week. the push factors,” Ghani said, also Sources in Zabul province said the in October it was planning to ex- validity of the Proof of Registra- “The joint forces found weapons Compared to the first version of pointing out that a significant num- Taliban pardoned only the brother pand its presence at a Russian air tion (PoR) card, which will expire and ammunition in addition of the draft negotiators reached early ber of Afghans had arrived from of Tahir Yuldashev, the leader of base in Tajikistan with attack and at the end of this month. defusing dozens of Improvised Ex- this year in Geneva Switzerland, “third countries.” the Islamic Movement of Uzbeki- transport helicopters. (Sputnik) The card recognises their status as plosive Devices (IEDs) and land- which runs to nearly 100 pages, the Local media also reported that dur- stan, and another 15 persons and “Afghan citizen temporarily resid- mines during the mentioned op- draft on Friday was more readable (5) 50% of... ing Ghani’s visit, a new bilateral killed the rest they had captured. ing in Pakistan”. erations,” the statement noted. with fewer and clearer options for aid agreement was inked. Lofven But the Taliban rejected these indicated that 50 percent of build- “There should be immediate steps The Taliban has intensified attacks different issues. “It’s an outcome underlined that Afghanistan re- claims and said a few casualties ings with dozens floors built ille- taken to ensure no mistreatment, over the past months as the mili- achieved by all parties after long- mained Sweden’s main foreign had taken place during the clashes. gally without permission of Kabul torture or detention of Afghans oc- tant group tries to take territory lasting efforts, lays a solid founda- aid recipient and was set to receive Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, a Taliban municipality Kabul acting mayor curs in Pakistan. Afghans who are and consolidate its positions ahead tion for future work. It deserves to about $1 billion dollars in the pe- spokesman, said 30 people had Wahid added. (Tolonews) registered cannot be asked to leave of winter in the country. (Xinhua) be celebrated,” said Su Wei, China’s riod 2015-2024.
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