Quote of the Day FREEDOM The secret to happiness www.thedailyafghanistan.com is freedom... And the secret to Email: [email protected] freedom is courage. Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 Add: In front of Habibia High School, Thucydides District 3, Kabul, Afghansitan Volume No. 4214 Wednesday July 10, 2019 Saratan 19, 1398 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 20/-Afs Iran Fully Supports Taliban, Afghan Representatives Afghan Peace Process Agree to Road Map for Peace Deal Taliban and Afghan representatives, including some government officials, agreed Tuesday to a basic road map for negotiating the country’s political future, a major step that could help propel peace efforts to end the long war, now in its 18th year. MAZAR-I-SHARIF - Iran’s deputy foreign minis- ter Jaber Ali Ansari has said Tehran fully supports the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan. Addressing a gathering here, Ansari said the time had come to put the decades old conflict in Af- ghanistan to an end. He said after Balkh province, he would travel to Kabul, Herat and other provinces to meet local of- ficials. He said Iran had been under pressure from the US since years but the tense relations would have no negative impact on the good Tehran-Kabul ties. Ansari said efforts were on to facilitate and bring reforms in visa policy. He claimed some countries in the region wanted to harm relationship be- tween Iran and ...(More on P4)...(2) Finance Ministry Reports 14% Revenue Increase in 2019 DOHA - In a joint declaration after al, cultural affairs.” ward a peace process between U.S. only after the United States announces two days of unprecedented and often The declaration is not binding, and at diplomats and the Taliban that has a timeline for the withdrawal of its emotional discussions in the Qatari best is a starting point for when the been making strides in negotiations, troops from Afghanistan. KABUL - Afghan government institutions have capital, Doha, the two sides empha- two sides meet later for negotiations but which has been struggling to over- U.S. negotiators are in the middle of spent more than 40 percent of their development sized a need to work for reducing “ci- that could lead to fixed terms. come the Taliban’s refusal to meet the seventh round of talks with the budget during the last six months of the fiscal vilian casualties to zero” and assuring But even if the declaration might not with Afghan government officials. Taliban over the withdrawal of troops year. women their fundamental rights in immediately de-escalate the violence The Taliban have said direct nego- in return for a commitment from the Shamroz Khan, Spokesman of the Ministry of Fi- “political, social, economic, education- in Afghanistan, it does help push for- tiations with the Afghans would start insurgents that ...(More on P4)...(1) nance on Tuesday said at a press conference that there is a five percent increase compared to the previous year in the usage of the development Baghlan Residents MoFA Counts Doha Conference Resolution a Step Forward budget. ...(More on P4)...(3) Rally Against Civilian Foreign Deputy Minister says a breakthrough in peace requires regional Political Parties Prioritize Casualties consensus and addressing the Taliban’s interdependencies. Peace Over Election resolution of the ban in the future. meeting is a step “The intra-Afghan conference forward for bring- which was held between the Tal- ing peace and sta- iban and a number of Afghans in bility in the coun- Doha was wrapped up yesterday try. by issuing a resolution. There are Deputy Foreign positive points in the resolution Minister Idris Za- that we welcome them,” said Za- man talking at a man. gathering entitled Zaman’s remarks come after on “National Peace Monday a delegation of Afghan Symposium” in politicians and members of Tali- Kabul on Tuesday ban concluded a two-day meet- KABUL - A number of electoral tickets and politi- said Doha resolu- ing in Doha and issued a resolu- cal parties prioritize peace with Taliban over the tion contains some tion about the Afghan war and upcoming presidential election in the country. good points and peace. “If we have an election that results in poverty, in- KABUL - Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Af- that the Afghan government is trying Zaman said Afghan security and creasing of refugees, war and destruction I’m not KABUL - A group of Baghlan res- fairs (MoFA) on Tuesday welcomed the intra- to form an inclusive negotiating team defense forces will continue sup- ready to take part in such an election,” said Sha- idents staged a rally in the city of Afghan conference in Doha and said the joint which will enter the talks with the Tali- pressing ...(More on P4)...(4) hab Hakimi, ...(More on P4)...(5) Pul-e-Khumri to protest civilian casualties in a recent airstrike by government forces. The residents claimed that an Renovation of Darul Aman Palace Almost Complete Army helicopter bombarded companies. parts of the outskirts of Pule-e- KABUL - The reconstruction of Darul Aman “The work of the [Darulaman] palace struc- Khumri in which seven members Palace has completed 90 percent and will be ture is completed hundred percent. I can say of one family were killed and an- ready to host the celebration of Afghanistan’s our project is completed 90 percent,” said other was wounded. Independence Day in another two months. Javid Huma, an Afghan engineer working at “Provincial governor, police Darul Aman Palace was built during the era the palace. chief, and NDS director are not of King Amanullah Khan who ruled Afghan- Tajbeg Palace is a palace built in the 1920s to aware that foreigners are coming istan from 1919 to 1929. house the Afghan royal family and is located and conducting airstrikes. We Engineers say they have used materials pro- near the Darul Aman Palace. want them to resign from their duced in Afghanistan to rebuild this histori- Abdul Manan Mukhlis, another Afghan en- posts,” said Khan Mohammad cal palace including marble from Herat prov- gineer working at the Tajbeg Palace said that Ahmadzai, a Baghlan resident. ince and wood from Kunar province. the reconstruction of the palace is completed “Foreigners targeted civilian’s Nearly 1,000 Afghans are employed by the 80 percent and they are trying to complete it homes. Taliban’s locations are project to rebuild the Darulaman and Ta- before the celebration of Afghanistan’s Inde- very clear. War is somewhere jbeg, the two historical palaces which were pendence this year. else and airstrikes are taking severely damaged during the civil war in Af- President Ashraf Ghani inaugurated the re- place somewhere else,” said Qari ghanistan. construction project of Darul Aman Palace in Hakim, a Baghlan resident. “There was no foreigner advisor, engineers ing the reconstruction of the project. 2016 and said it was one of the main demands The protesters said that three or labors in the project rather it was an Af- Officials said that the reconstruction of Darul Aman Palace cost nearly $10 of Afghans to see the palace renovated. women and a man were killed in ghani movement,” said Abdul Rahman million, two percent less than the amount which was predicted by foreign (ATN) the incident. ...(More on P4)...(6) Atash, a government official who is oversee-.