Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:211 Price: Afs.15 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes MONDAY. FEBRUARY 29. 2016 -Hoot 10, 1394 HS Yo ur Yo ur ad ad he re he re 0778894038 0778894038 Karzai calls Salangi honest police officer KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Sunday met former dep- uty minister of interior Gen. Mo- hammad Ayoub Salangi, praising his efforts in serving for security. In the meeting held in Salan- gi’s residence, Karzai thanked him for carrying out his duties with very honesty in the past 13 years. The ex-president called Salan- KABUL: During the regime of According to Mullah Zaif, first the presidency of General Parwiz provinces. But the 1893 agreement gi a patriotic person and praised Taliban, Islamabad tried to make time Pakistan urged Taliban to ac- Musharaf. The line was drawn in which was for 100 years has been his services as police chief of Her- the over 2,000-kilometre Durand cept the border when Mullah Ab- 1893 as a temporarily border be- expired. Pakistan which does not at, Kandahar, Nangarhar and Kab- Line a permanent border between dul Raziq appointed as the interi- tween Afghanistan and the British agree to return Afghanistan’s land ul provinces as well as deputy in- Afghanistan and Pakistan, a former or minister, second time the regime India based on an agreement. even tried during the Presidency terior minister. Salangi welcomed diplomat of Taliban reveals. was forced during the visit of Pa- When India partitioned in 1947 of Hamid Karzai to give the bor- Karzai to his house and vowed to Mullah Abdul Salam Zaif who kistan’s interior minister Moinud- and Pakistan created, the Durand der a permanent status but it again help the people and government was ambassador of Taliban to Is- din Haider to Kabul who also trav- Line became a border between Af- received a negative response. as his national obligation. He ex- lamabad says the country tried elled to Kandahar for the same ghanistan and Pakistan. Most of the issues between the pressed readiness to serve the coun- three times to formalize the bor- purpose. The line gives some of Afghan- two countries are believed to be try and people anytime needed. der but it repeatedly received a Mullah Zaif says the demand istan’s land to Pakistan’s Khyber the result of this line. He lauded Karzai’s efforts for negative response. was made for the third time during Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan (Khaama Press) founding the infrastructure of the Afghan National Police. Taliban suffer heavy casualties in Kunduz he Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Sunday the exodus of Afghans was a human capital flight. ? The MoRR said that every asylum seeker spends between air, ground operations T$6 thousand and $20 000 USD to reach Europe. Their statements comes as thousands of Afghan refugees are stranded at borders, mostly in Greece and Macedonia. This has not however, put people off and thousands would like to leave the country. The International Organization of Migration (IOM) meanwhile said the government should The Taliban militants have suf- take more steps to create jobs. A large number of people leave their country by selling all what they have. They face many hardships along the way to Europe, but after reaching their fered heavy casualties in a series destiny they feel the joirney was not worth everything. At least 125 Afghans voluntarily returned from Germany last week. of air and ground operations in northern Kunduz province of Af- MoD hands over Taliban’s shadow ghanistan, local officials said Sun- Cabinet forms prosecution day. four helicopters district chief among Provincial police chief Mo- Horrific video shows 6 killed in Faryab hammad Qasim Jangalbagh said to Selab Military committee to pursue slain clashes are underway in Dasht-e- Taliban torturing, MAIMANA: A Taliban des- Archi district as the Afghan forces Corps executing Badghis journalists’ cases ignated district chief and five are busy in clearance operations other rebels have been killed against the anti-government armed The Ministry of Defense (MoD) By Akhtar M. Nikzad militants. handed over four A29 helicopters tribal elder in the Pashtoonkot district of NDS arrests teenage KABUL: Amid increasing viola- According to the statement, northwestern Faryab prov- He said at least 61 militants to 201st Selab Military Corps on A distressing video has emerged tions against journalists and media the committee would start to work have been killed so far which in- suicide bomber Sunday. from the northwestern Badghis ince, an official said on Sun- workers, second vice president, in the next week and media sup- day. Governor Syed Anwar clude 3 of the group’s command- The Afghan air force said that province of Afghanistan which Mohammad Sarwar Danish or- porting bodies will contribute in ers and scores of others were in- AT News Report the helicopters are equipped with purportedly shows horrific torture Sadattold Pajhwok Afghan dered governmental to establish a evaluation of violations against News Damla Noorul Haq, the jured. KABUL: The National Director- modern weapons and will prove of a tribal elder by the Taliban mil- joint committee to prosecute the journalists. Meanwhile, at least 10 mili- ate of Security (NDS) on Sunday effective in the fight against mili- itants before he is executed. shadow district chief, was hit by a mortar shell fired by the tants were killed in separate oper- said that its operatives had arrest- tants. Local police officials have con- ations involving air raids in Chard- ed a 14-year-old boy in Kabul, who "These helicopters are firmed that the tribal elder Haji army in Khwaja Musa area on was believed to commit suicide Saturday night. ara and Khanabad districts, the equipped with four kinds of weap- Allah Dad was recently captured officials added. attack. by the Taliban militants after he He said five associates of The captured teenage boy was ons and modern bombs. They are The local officials are saying identified as Nabiullah, who was also equipped with laser and can visited the Taliban-controlled area. the Taliban district chief were also killed during.Noorul Haq the anti-government armed mili- sent to Kabul with the aim of car- fly up to 36,000 feet above ground Provincial police chief Abdul tants have been dispersed as a re- rying out suicide attack, the NDS and will be flown by two pilots," Halim Saberi said the Haji Allah had recently warned the gov- ernment of torchingoil tankers sult of the military operations and said in a statement. “He had al- said the commander of Kabul air Dad was cooperating with the Af- it would be difficult for them to ready received military trainings,” force, Suleman Shah. ghan Local Police (ALP) forces in and cutting power cables if the the statement added. fuel supplies were not allowed consolidate their activities due to Meanwhile, the commander of Khana Neshin area. the heavy casualties they have suf- The 14-old-boy was sent to Saberi told BBC that the per- to area under Taliban control. Kabul via Kunar province, and But the governor categor- fered. petrators involved in the brutal The Taliban militants group was identified and arrested before torture and murder of the tribal el- ically refused to allow fuel committing suicide attack. supplies to the area. While has not commented regarding the It is pertained to mention that der have been identified and efforts dossiers of slain reporters. The government said that the reports so far. this is not the first time that Tali- have been put in place to detain spurning Haq’s warning, he In the cabinet meeting held committee will assess all dossiers said clearing operations would Kunduz is among the volatile ban misusing children for military them. Sunday, Danish criticized judicia- of the slain journalists and the vio- provinces in northern Afghanistan purposes and suicide attack many He admitted that the arrest of be launched soon against the cases recorded in Kandahar, Hel- ry organs for delay in prosecution lations cases against media work- militants. where anti-government armed mil- the perpetrators would be difficult of killed journalists’ dossiers. ers as its first step and would itants are actively operating and mand and some other provinces. as Taliban militants are having The National Journalist Uni- present its report to the cabinet major influence in Qads area where ty said in a statement that the cab- meeting. the tribal elder was tortured and inet took decision to prosecute the Culture minister reported the France to help attract foreign aid for Nangarhar 201st Selab Military Corps, Za- killed. dossiers of murdered journalists cabinet about the number of viola- JALALABAD: The French am- eign organizations either suspend- Khan Kunduzi, promised he would man Waziri, said that from now on The video was widely shared through establishment of a joint tions against journalists. bassador on Sunday said he would ed or reduced their activities in initiate talks with ambassadors of they will take immediate action online on social media websites committee. The report had mentioned 625 persuade his counterparts Nangarhar following the emer- foreign countries on his return to against militants' attacks. He add- which purportedly shows humili- The statement added that Dan- cases of violations against report- in Kabul to increase their coun- gence of Afghanistan chapter of Kabul from Jalalabad. Kunduzi’s ed that the helicopters will help ation of the elder besides he was ish ordered to ministries of interi- ers and said that 59 journalists were tries’ cooperation and assistance the self-styled Islamic State mili- spokesman Attaullah Khogyani them eliminate insurgents.