Intra-Afghan Talks to Be Scheduled After Prisoners Swap U.S
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Afghan Exports Page 2 | NATIONAL Kabul Herat Nangarhar Balkh 28 / 13 31 / 14 35 / 22 29 / 17 Your Gateway to Afghanistan & the Region Sunday, June 21, 2020 Issue No. 793 www.heartofasia.af 10 afs Intra-Afghan Talks to be Scheduled After Prisoners Swap U.S. vows to National Security and Defense Forces work with Afghan (ANDSF) and the Taliban outfits in various regions across the nation. government In a latest sign of escalating violence, overcome challenges two commanders in the Afghan security forces were killed in a Taliban U.S. Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo attack on Friday night in Helmand in a congratulatory message to Acting province in the south of Afghanistan Foreign Minister Hanif Atmar pledged amid an unannounced truce between to work with Afghan government to the two sides and while peace efforts overcome challenges of terrorism and by the Afghan government and its global pandemic. allies are underway. In a series of tweets the Ministry of Reports say that 9 Taliban fighters Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said: “Acting have also been killed during the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad firefights with ANDSF in Helmand and Haneef Atmar, received a congratulatory Logar provinces. note from the Honorable Micheal R. In another incident, three Afghan Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State. In a security force members were killed as message delivered to Minister Atmar by a result of a roadside mine in Kohsan Mr Ross Wilson, Chargé d’Affaires of the district of Herat on Friday night. U.S. Embassy in Kabul.” The Secretary On Friday, Afghan forces displayed conveyed his congratulations and dozens of weapons and motorcycles stated: “Afghanistan will benefit greatly they seized from the Taliban in Paktia from your extensive experience as it province after the Taliban launched a faces the challenges of moving quickly coordinated attack on Afghan forces to advance the peace process, combat The venue and time of the start of intra-Afghan talks,” said Najia Anwari, of Afghanistan and (the Talban) and in Sari-roza district of the province. the global pandemic, and address the intra-Afghan talks will be finalized a spokeswoman for the State Ministry this has resulted in the suspension of “Our brave police defused five land continued threat of terrorism. ... P3 after the completion of the on Peace Affairs. intra-Afghan talks during the current mines. They also seized suicide prisoners swap between the Afghan But, a former senior Taliban leader week,” said Jalaluddin Shinwari, vests used by the suicide attackers, government and the Taliban, the in Kabul, Jalaluddin Shinwari, has attorney general during the Taliban but the attackers had fled the area State Ministry on Peace Affairs said said that the intra-Afghan talks have regime. and left their suicide vests behind, on Saturday. been delayed due to the emergence While a reduction in violence by the we exploded those vests,” said “With the completion of the prisoners of mistrust between the Afghan Taliban is considered a precursor Nisar Ahmad Abdul Rahimzai, the swap between the two sides and a government and the Taliban. of a swift start of the intra-Afghan commander of Paktika police. halt in the violence, arrangements will “There has been mistrust between the talks, there are widespread reports On Friday night, Afghan forces also Thousands be made for the venue and date of government of the Islamic Republic of deadly battles between the Afghan engaged in armed confrontation ... P3 displaced by war in Atmar-led Afghan Afghan Mothers Appeal to MSF to Afghanistan: UN delegation to visit Thousands of people have left their Iran Today Continue Maternity Program homes this year due to conflict in Acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Afghan mothers in the Dasht-e- Afghanistan, while many remained Hanif Atmar will be heading a powerful delegation to Iran on Sunday, the Barchi area of Kabul on Saturday displaced across the country, the UN Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said appealed to Médecins Sans says. Saturday. Frontières (MSF) to resume its health Conflict and poverty prevent them Representatives of seven ministries, activities in the vicinity, days after (the displaced people) from returning five independent departments, legal the MSF in a statement announced to their areas of origin, a statement advisory board from Presidential that it had decided to end activities form United Nations Office for the Palace and office of the National and withdraw from Dasht-e-Barchi Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Security Council are part of the maternity hospital following the (OCHA) said. delegation, the statement said. attack on the hospital on May 12. The women said that pregnant Almost 86,000 people have been The visit, aimed at addressing recent women will lose their lives before displaced from their homes due adverse events, search ways to stop a reaching other hospitals in the to fighting. Around 111,000 of the repeat of such incidents, strengthen and expand co-operation, and facilitate city due to certain problems such 245,000 individuals displaced in the comprehensive negotiations between as poverty and the hardship of maternity wing on May 12, in which babies at risk,” said Habiba Hussaini, country’s West in 2018/19 mainly traveling long distances. 16 mothers were systematically shot an Afghan mother in Kabul. the two countries. ... P3 because of drought are still living in MSF said that the decision was made dead. An MSF midwife, two children “Doctors of Médecins Sans Frontières displacement sites -- often unable to after the attack on the maternity aged 7 and 8, and six other people should resume their work so that the return home because of conflict. ward on May 12, in which 24 were present at the time of the attack children are not deprived of their Nearly 298,000 people have returned killed and 16 others were wounded. were also killed,” said MSF. rights,” said Muzhda, a resident in from neighbouring countries to “Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) “They (mothers) can’t go to private Kabul. Afghanistan so far during the current has announced our decision to end hospitals, they are not able to reach “I came here to the hospital to activities and withdraw from Dasht- government hospitals because of request that the MSF doctors resume year. They include 296,000 from Iran e-Barchi in Kabul, Afghanistan, traffic and rush, these issues put their work,” said Setayash, a resident and 1,700 from Pakistan. ... P3 following the brutal attack on our their lives and the lives of their in Kabul. ... P3 June 21, 2020 Heart of Asia NATIONAL SUNDAY 2 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost World now... By Chile Eboe-Osuji It also shows that 80% of the world’s displaced people are in countries or territories affected by acute food insecurity and All We Want Is Justice for malnutrition – many of those countries facing climate and other disaster risks. Victims, Says the I.C.C. More than three-quarters of the world’s refugees (77%) are caught up in long-term In the United States and the wider its consent. And the I.C.C. does not try displacement situations world, seismic discussions are raging countries. – such as the situation in about the need to see justice done when I must emphasize that the I.C.C. is Afghanistan is now in its fundamental human rights are violated. only a court of last resort. It is only fifth decade. This is no time for any government to when questions of accountability for Further, more than eight exert coercion against an international international crimes have remained of every 10 refugees (85%) court that was created to do justice unaddressed that international law are in developing countries, when there is nowhere else to turn for it. allows the I.C.C. to intervene and ask generally a country But last week, in the latest of an those questions for the sake of victims. neighboring the one they escalating series of attacks against the And in the case of Afghanistan, the I.C.C. fled. International Criminal Court, President has no specific desire to prosecute Five countries account Trump’s administration announced new Americans. Instead, its concern is that for two-thirds of people acts of economic pressure against the there are allegations of gross human displaced across borders: court. Why? Simply for doing its work by rights violations in Afghanistan that Syria, Venezuela, seeking to investigate allegations of war victims complain have waited far Afghanistan, South Sudan, crimes committed in Afghanistan. Allies too long without investigation or and Myanmar. of America, human rights organizations prosecution. UNHCR said that the Global and bar associations — notably the So now the I.C.C. is insisting that justice Trends Report counts European Union, France, Germany and based on evidence must be pursued all significant displaced the American Bar Association — have by somebody, somewhere — if not and refugee populations, expressed deep concern. in the United States or Afghanistan, Vizier of Morocco ‘‘that in spite of my to support the new international court including the 5.6 million The bullying tactic has been defended then at the I.C.C. Such justice will have most diligent efforts, there would while ensuring that it would not be used Palestine refugees who fall as an effort to prevent American to be based on concrete evidence, if unquestionably be some raping, and as “a court that frivolously prosecutes under the care of the United soldiers from being “hauled” up before discovered, rather than merely lingering that I should like to have the details as Americans or which acts with politics, Nations Relief and Works the I.C.C., arguing that America is able suspicions and allegations.