Sherpao Fears Mansour's Killing to Hamper Qcgefforts
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Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:300 Price: Afs.15 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes TUESDAY . MAY 31. 2016 -Jawza 11, 1395 HS Notorious Daesh commander killed Pakistan's Interior Ministry on stan to collect his body," the Sunday said DNA tests confirmed spokesman said. that the second person killed in a According to Pakistan's Inte- in Wardak U.S drone strike in Baluchistan rior Ministry, the other person province recently was Mullah killed in the attack has also been AT News Report mander killed in Maidan Ward- ak. However, the Daesh group Akhtar Mansour, former leader of identified. KABUL: A notorious commander the Taliban. Adviser to Pakistan's Prime did not comment into the matter of the Islamic State known as so far. "It is confirmed that Mullah Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Daesh, along with his three asso- Mansour was killed in the U.S Aziz confirmed Mansour's death Airstrike against insurgent ciates were killed in an airstrike in outfits had been intensified in the drone strike in Noshki area of Bal- on Thursday - five days after the central Wardak province, security uchistan," a spokesman from the drone strike in Baluchistan. country, especially in the past official said on Monday. month, in which scores of the Interior Ministry of Pakistan said "All indicators confirm that the Briefing newsmen, Ministry of as quoted by Dawn News. Accord- person killed in the drone strike insurgents, including Daesh Defence spokesman, Dawlat Wazi- fighters were killed in different ing to the spokesman, the DNA was Mullah Mansour, who was ri said that the airstrike targeted sample from Mansour's body was travelling on a fake identity," Aziz airstrikes conducted by Afghan Daesh commander and his body- and US forces. Recently six matched with the DNA of one of stated. guard on Syedabad district late on his close relatives who went to The drone strike that targeted Daesh fighters were killed in a Sunday. It is worth mentioning that US drone strike in Nangarhar Pakistan to claim the body. "DNA Taliban's former leader was direct- Mujahid is the first Daesh com- of Mansour matched one of his ly ordered by U.S President Barack province. relative who came from Afghani- Obama. (ToloNews) Three Haqqani linked Sherpao fears Mansour’s Afghanistan wishes terrorists arrested Sharif’s speedy recovery AT News Report The detained insurgents were in- killing to hamper QCGefforts volved in different subversive ac- AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The National Director- tivities including laying mine on ate of Security (NDS) on Monday roadside, added the statement. The AT Monitoring Desk upcoming Quadrilateral Coordina- into KP province in order to bring KABUL: Afghan Ambassador to said that three terrorists linked tion Group (QCG)’s meeting. “To the tribesmen into mainstreaming. Islamabad Hazrat Omar Zakhilw- captive identified as Ahmadzai, KABUL: Qaumi Watan Party with Haqqani network were arrest- Mohammad Omar and Salam Jan, me, there is no ray of hope emerg- Sherpao comments regarding QCG al in a meeting with Pakistan prime ed in southern Logar province. A (QWP) Chairman, Aftab Ahmad ing from QCG to help resolve the meeting comes after the fifth ses- minister’s advisor Sartaj Aziz, of- who confessed to their crime dur- Khan Sherpao, told newsmen in press statement issued here NDS ing primary investigation. Also Afghan peace settlement follow- sion of the quadrilateral talks be- fered his best wishes for rapid re- said that it is operatives succeed- Charsadda district that Kabul-Is- ing the killing of Mullah Man- tween Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chi- covery to prime minister Nawaz Intelligence operatives managed to lamabad relations may become ed to arrest three terrorists through discover and confiscate an ammu- soor,” Aftab Sherpao hinted. Em- na and the United States were held Sharif, who will undergo an open- an operation in Sarghonda village more inauspicious after the killing phasising on the unity of the Pa- in Islamabad on 18 May. The Unit- heart surgery in London today nition cache belonged to Taliban in of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar of Khoshi district in Logar prov- Khoshi district in a separate oper- khtuns, Aftab Sherpao said that the ed States killed Taliban leader, (Tuesday), Afghan embassy in ince. Statement said that two AK- Mansoor. Mansour was killed in a entire nation was waiting for the Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a drone Pakistan said in media statement. ghan conflict. “We believe that this ation. Confiscated munitions in- US drone strike on May 21 in Pa- action has undermined the Afghan 47 rifles with some ammunition cluded two AK-47s, three mortar, report of the FATA Reforms Com- strike, on May 21, three days af- According to Sharif’s family and were seized from captured rebels. kistani province of Balochistan. mittee to decide the fate of people ter QCG meeting, aimed at con- office, this is his second cardiac peace process,” he told newsmen. one missile and four mines. Sherpao said that killing of Tali- of FATA. He added that in order vincing the Taliban group to come operation in five years. Sharif’s ban leader added fuel to fire, as it to make the voice of the Pakhtuns to the table of talks with the Af- daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif could bring negative impacts on the stronger; FATA should be merged ghan government. said on her Twitter that the sur- Scores of insurgents killed in gery would be for perforation of the heart, a complication from an earlier procedure in 2011. Senior Kandahar, Baghlan airstrikes Afghan and Pakistani diplomats Zakhilwal and Aziz also held dis- AT News Report ment added. A food stock, four ve- US drone strike in the Haska Mina cussions on the past week’s im- hicles, five motorcycles, one heavy district of eastern Nangarhar prov- portant developments, the state- KABUL: At least 29 insurgents machine gun and a MK19 automat- ince. Several provincial officials ment said. Issues of bilateral inter- were killed by the airstrikes target- ic grenade launcher were also de- termed airstrikes a very much use- ed their sanctuaries in the northern stroyed in the raid, the statement ful in fight against insurgency in ests, including the Afghan peace province of Baghlan and southern campaign following the death of claimed. In another airstrike carried the country. They believe airstrikes KABUL : The Wolesi Jirga on to the government for a review af- Peace Council without consulting Kandahar, security official said on out in Shahwali Kot district of against militants should be accel- Monday asked the government to ter 13 months. A lawmaker from the parliament. Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the Monday. Ministry of Defence said Naushki district of Balochistan southern Kandahar province, elev- erated and would definitely bear resend the draft law on ‘govern- central Bamyan province, Fakoor “We have repeatedly asked in a statement that 18 militants were en insurgents were killed, the state- positive result in fight against in- ment basic structure’ to the lower Behishti, told Monday’s general the government and have sent of- province, figured at the meeting, killed in Baghan-e-Markzai district ment added, without giving further surgent outfits. Killing of 29 mili- house for approval. The draft law session the government should re- ficial letters to the government to an official told Pajhwok Afghan of the Baghlan province. In addi- details. It is worth mentioning that tants takes place at a time, when on the basic structure of govern- send the draft law on basic gov- dispatch the law on government News. After US drone strike killed tion to that, six other militants were airstrikes against any form of insur- recently officials at the Ministry ment once landed in parliament in ernment structure as soon as pos- basic structure, but the government Mansour in Pakistan on May 21, received injuries, the statement said, gents had been intensified in all over of Defence said that Afghan Air August 2006 after being approved sible. Without elaborating, he said is yet to do so,” Wolesi Jirga speak- Aziz turned blamed finger on adding that militant’s weapons and the country as on Sunday six mili- Forces takes part in 50 to 180 mis- by the Council of Ministers, but the government had established er Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi said. Washington and said that US add- explosives depot were also de- tants loyal to the Islamic State, sions on daily basis to support the the Wolesi Jirga sent the draft back many entities including the High (Pajhwok) ing a new complexity to the Af- stroyed during the raid, the state- known as Daesh, were killed in a security forces in the battlefield. By Farhad Naibkhel at a ceremony held Monday for private sector to help the govern- the palace reconstruction. Ghani ment in reconstruction and main- KABUL: The work for the war- said that the reconstruction of pal- tenance of historical monuments. ruined Darul Aman Palace recon- ace was a dream of people. “The Chief Executive Abdullah Abdul- struction officially began. “The government will make its utmost lah said that the government would Darul Aman ruined palace is a his- efforts to fulfill the expectation.” attempt to protect historical mon- torical Afghan palace, which will The president vowed to address uments and places. Speaker of be rebuilt by the government bud- all urban challenges across the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of get,” President Ashraf Ghani said country. He urged the people and Parliament Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi called the palace as a picture of war reminding people of past trag- edies. “The reconstruction of the palace was people’s hopes and today is a good fortune that the government held steps to start re- construction of Darul Aman pal- ace.” It is pertained to mention that a campaign initiated in 2012 to raise donations from the public, including schoolchildren and gov- ernment employees, to start ini- tial construction work of the Darul Aman palce, which is still a source of national pride.