Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:IX Issue No:219 Price: Afs.15 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY . MARCH 13. 2015 -Hoot 22, 1393 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime Several parliamentary panels Notorious Taliban leader get new heads, deputies killed in Baghlan offensive KABUL: A number of Wolesi speaker, Abdur Rauf Inami as sec- secretary of the women affairs, chief and Syed Nader Shah as sec- Jirga commissions have held retary and Irfanullah Irfan as dep- civil society and human rights com- retary. Inami added Zakaria Saw- elections for appointing their uty secretary. Based on the house mission. Mohammad Nangyal was da, Abdur Rahman Shaidani and administrative board chiefs, rules of business, lawmakers have elected as head, Rahila Salim as Saifora Ilkhani were elected as head, deputy head and secretary of the natural resource and envi- ronment protection commission. Kamal Naser Osuli was elected as head, Khalilullah Shahidzada as deputy head and Lailuma Wali Hukmi as secretary of the com- mission on religious, education and cultural affairs. Likewise, Mir Rha- man Rahmani was chosen as head and Safia Aimaq as secretary of the national economy and agricultural PUL-I-KHUMRI: A notorious Himmat Khail, Shafi Khail, Hus- three days, we had been and livestock commission. Taliban commander has been killed sein Khail, Zaman Khail and Mu- trapped in crossfire. Mohammad Naeem Hamidzai during a clearing operation in the ghala localities had been cleared of Today the fighting is over and Lalai, Abdul Wadood Popal and Baghlan-e-Markazi district of insurgents. security forces have stabilised Chaman Shah were elected as coun- northern Baghlan province, offi- The aim was to secure Baghlan- the area. ternarcotics commission head, cials said on Thursday. A three- Mazar and Baghlan-Kunduz high- He claimed Taliban were ex- deputy and secretary. Also, Qais day operation involving all securi- ways. Residents felt relieved after torting money and food from deputy heads and secretaries, to vote every year to elect heads, deputy chief and Rahima Jame as Hassan, Syed Ikramuddin Masumi ty organs was conducted in the operations, saying they could residents. The man urged the an official said on Thursday. deputy heads and secretaries of the secretary of the international af- and Musa Khan Nasrat were elect- Baghlan-i-Markazi, district chief come out of homes freely after three government to take concrete On Saturday, the assembly 18 commissions of the lower hous. fairs commission. Mohammad Ak- ed to the three slots on the com- Gauhar Khan Baburi told Pajhwok days of clashes. Gulabuddin, a lo- measures to stop Taliban s re- entered its fifth and last legis- Wolesi Jirga Secretary Abdur Rauf bari, Hamidullah Tokhi and Nader munications commission. Afghan News. Baburi claimed cal elder, said: During the last turn. (Pajhwok) lative year and voted to elect Inami told Pajhwok Afghan News Shah Bahar were respectively elect- Mirdad Khan Najrabi, Abdul- the first and second deputy the legislators on Wednesday held ed as head, deputy chief and sec- hai Akhundzada and Shekiba Hash- speakers, the secretary and elections for administrative boards retary of the disabled and martyr imi grabbed the top positions on his deputy. Abdul Zahir of a number of parliamentary com- affairs panel. the domestic security commission. Qadeer was elected as first missions. MP Fawzia Kofi was On the commission of defence Administrative bards of the re- Extremists exploiting deputy speaker, Nazir Ahmad elected as head, Sherin Mohseni affairs, Humayun was elected as maining panels will be elected on Ahmadzai as second deputy as deputy head and Aziza Jalis as head, Ali Akbar Qasim as deputy Saturday. (Pajhwok) local grievances: US official KABUL: The Tehreek-i-Taliban vanced International Studies in ities. Civilian casualties decreased by Pakistan (TTP) has long exploited Washington, she observed: In- Al Qaeda network fight- local grievances in the region near creasingly, they have sprung from ers blended with militants unknown sides. However, the in- Durand Line to sustain itself, a within conflicts worldwide. from the Council of Islamic formation that is provided to the senior US official has said. Sewall noted weak, illegiti- Courts in Africa to create Al 53pc in Maidan Wardak governor s house of Maidan Ward- America s undersecretary for mate, and repressive governments Shabab. In Libya, Ansar al- ak province by the United Nations civilian security, democracy and inadvertently created opportuni- Sharia exploited post-Qadhafi According to Maidan Wardak officials, United Nations has recorded 126 shows that the civilian casualties human rights said extremists in ties for terrorists to capitalise on factional violence. The Islam- separate incidents in Maidan Wardak province where 70 people including recorded in Maidan Wardak prov- Pakistan s tribal badlands also popular resentment. ic State group dramatically ex- women and children were killed and 125 others wounded. ince were 106 persons killed and blamed weak and unpopular gov- In a repressive milieu, the of- panded its reach by exploit- 303 others wounded which is 53 ernments for creating feelings that ficial argued, extremists made com- ing Sunni political disenfran- Officials of Maidan Wardak to 2013. According to Maidan office of Maidan Wardak province percent more than that of record- encouraged terrorism. mon cause with local insurgents chisement in Iraq. province say that civilian ca- Wardak officials, United Nations by the United Nations, out of 195 ed in 2014. In the meantime, Ab- dul Majid Khogyani, the acting- Sarah Sewall, in a presentation and criminal networks and operat- She continued: Violent sualties have been decreased has recorded 126 separate inci- civilians killed or injured in 2014, governor of Maidan Wardak prov- on the long-term US strategy for ed in poorly governed territory. extremist groups have been by 53 % in this province. Of- dents in Maidan Wardak province 94 casualties were recorded in the ince has ordered the security agen- combating terrorism, said over the She cited examples of these expanding their control and ficials say looking at the infor- where 70 people including women attacks of the armed opponents, cies in the province to put all ef- past 13 years violent extremist dynamics in the Pak-Afghan re- resonance in South Asia, the mation collected there is 53 % and children were killed and 125 51 in the security forces actions forts in bringing the percentage of movements had proliferated gion, where the TTP has long trad- Sahel, the Maghreb, Nigeria, decrease in the civilian casual- others wounded. As per the infor- and 27 others were killed or the civilian casualties to zero in around the globe. ed on local grievances to keep it- Somalia, and in the Arabian ties in the year 2014 compared mation provided to the governor s wounded during the fighting by 2015. (KP) Speaking at the School of Ad- self alive and perpetuate its activ- Peninsula. (Pajhwok) This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . MARCH 13, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Four years into the largest humanitarian crisis on our watch, the conflict in Syria is worsening. Phone No: +93-772364666 By Jan Egeland and ammunition to groups who need. And we could do much The talks in Moscow in Janu- E-mail: [email protected] are using these weapons to more, if it was not for the chron- ary were not attended by the Last year three UN Security commit horrifying crimes ic lack of funding. major opposition groups. UN Council resolutions were against civilians. And the peo- About $8.4bn are needed Special Envoy Staffan de Mis- Email: [email protected] passed aiming to protect and ple committing these crimes for all relief work inside Syria tura's plan for a freeze in Alep- assist civilians in Syria. But, a need to be held accountable. and in neighbouring countries po may provide a glimmer of www.afghanistantimes.af year after the first resolution We have also failed to as- this year. It is less than the price hope, but is currently in jeop- sist those who need our help of the Olympic Games in Lon- ardy. Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi was passed, the words ring hollow. the most. don, about a fifth of the price Those with influence, in- Advisory editorial board In a report being released The resolutions demand of the Olympic Games in cluding Russia, Iran, the US, today, my organisation, Nor- that parties to the conflict im- Beijing, and a sixth of the price Saudi Arabia and Qatar, all who Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, wegian Refugee Council, along mediately lift sieges of popu- of the winter games in Sochi. have leverage on key actors, with several other organisa- lated areas, and allow aid agen- While these Olympic Games need to put pressure on par- Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal tions, present a report card that cies rapid, unhindered and safe were fully funded, the interna- ties to the conflict - for them to compares the demands made in access to people in need. It fur- tional community has not been come to the table and negoti- Graphic-Designers: the resolutions with the reality thermore urges all UN member willing to provide even the min- ate a political solution. This Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari we see on the ground. The grim states to increase their human- imum of assistance to the more political process needs to be statistics reveal how the war- itarian assistance. than 16 million Syrian civilians inclusive, allowing those with- Marketing & Advertising: ring parties, countries with in- Humanitarian access in need inside Syria and in out guns to be heard so that Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 fluence in the region and other Still, humanitarian access to neighbouring countries.