Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:70 Price: Afs.15 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes THURSDAY. OCTOBER 08 . 2015 -Mizan 16, 1394 HS TERRORISTS Cannot allow India s core INCLUDE values to be TALIBAN AND Page 4 wasted, says President Pranab CRIMINALS: Mukherjee GHANI KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani for the first time announced at a IRAN'S cabinet meeting on Tuesday that SUPREME "terrorist groups" are made up of LEADER If manpower is needed, we are all ready to take up arms and Taliban, criminals and foreign ter- fight against the Taliban insurgents in framework of Afghan rorists unlike his previous state- Page 5 BANS security forces, Amrullah Saleh ments where he often referred to negotiations the Taliban as either brothers or with the By Akhtar M. Nikzad political opposition. United States KABUL: The ex-Chief of Nation- tice. "Preliminary assessments by al Directorate of Security (NDS), Talking to a gathering orga- intelligence agencies show that ter- and leader of the Afghanistan nized by Afghanistan Green Trend, rorist groups in Afghanistan are Green Trend (AGT), Amrullah Saleh said that Kunduz tragedy was criminal groups, Taliban and for- Iran to Saleh has called on the government a great human catastrophe and eign terrorists who commit unfor- launch new to carry out investigation into would never be forgotten in the givable crimes on behalf of outsid- oil projects, Kunduz province tragedy and coming years. ers and drug smugglers," said bring the perpetrators to the jus- Ghani, who has made a U-turn on Page 9 sees post- (See P2) his public comments regarding the sanctions Taliban and also apparently supply boost changed his policy towards Paki- 17 Daesh fighters eliminated in Nangarhar offensive stan after a wave of terrorist at- tacks in Kabul over the past few JALALABAD: At least 17 Islamic State (IS) or Daesh fighters have been killed and five others wounded during a clash in the Achin district of months. eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. The 201st Selab Military Corps deputy spokesman, Capt. Syed Maqsood, told According to Ghani, militants Pajhwok Afghan News the security forces conducted an operation against the IS fighters in Achin late on Tuesday. He said 17 Daesh members were that launched attacks in Faryab, killed, five others wounded and their five cars destroyed during the operation. Security forces suffered no casualties, the official added. Achin Kunduz, Nangarhar, Badakhshan, district chief, Haji Ghalib Mujahid, confirmed the offensive and said Afghan security forces had attacked the IS fighters with heavy weapons. He Uruzgan and Helmand provinces Page 8 believed the death toll for the insurgents could be higher. Achin district, infested with a Daesh presence, has been the scene of intensifying clashes aimed to accomplish the goals of for the past one month. Local officials have claimed killing a large number of the militants during operations there. (Pajhwok) outsiders. In addition, the Army's Depu- ty Chief of Army Gen. Murad Ali Security beefed People to be Murad and the acting governor of Putin tells troops to Kunduz Hamdullah Danishi up in Kabul briefed the meeting via video tele- held accountable conference about the recent secu- By Farhad Naibkhel Beijing CAPTURE if necessary, says rity developments in Kunduz city looks to KABUL: Commander of the Kab- which recently fell to the Tali- ul Garrison, General Abdur Rah- ban following a massive and well- Page 7 contain man Rahman, said that measures Carter planed attack. economic al-Baghdadi alive Murad assured the meeting, WASHINGTON: Awaiting the re- chaired by Ghani, that security growth Russian President Vladimir Putin told a press conference in Brus- sults of investigations, US Defense has asked his forces fighting sels. forces had not violated human Secretary Ashton Carter on Tues- rights laws. against IS in Syria that he wants We cannot endure it. Some day said if necessary he would hold Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group s steps that we do not desire are According to Murad, security people accountable for the mistake forces were putting all their efforts leader, alive. being taken. It is not suitable for of bombing a hospital in Kunduz BEIJING The Middle-East Panorama Turkey to accept them. This is into protecting the lives and prop- province over the weekend. erties of civilians in the embattled POLLUTION? website reports that Putin wants also beyond the principles of The US military takes the the dead body of al-Baghdadi dis- NATO. He said. city. Tolonews WHAT greatest care in our operations to Page 11 played in case he is killed. A war of words has also begun prevent the loss of innocent life, POLLUTION, The website made the an- between Russia and NATO over and when we make mistakes, we COUGHS nouncement referring to aware Moscow s violation of Turkish own up to them. That's exactly Poor political have been taken to ensure tight sources. Russia has been pound- airspace and its military interven- NADAL what we're doing right now, he security in the capital city as inse- ing IS positions in Syria claiming tion in Syria. said. system led to fall curity in the neighboring provinc- heavy casualties to IS militants. In a statement, Carter said es pose threats to Kabul. Russian officials say that the air- through a full and transparent in- of Kunduz: EU Addressing a press conference strike will continue. From vestigation, the US would do ev- here on Wednesday, Gen. Abdur We will not only continue erything it could to fully under- Envoy Afghanistan Rahman said that security has strikes We will also increase stand the tragic incident, learn from been beefed up in the capital city, European Union (EU) Ambassa- Page 6 to Syria, their intensity. said Andrei Kar- it and hold people accountable as t he adding that law enforcement agen- tapolov from the Russian army. necessary. dor to Afghanistan Franz-Michael cies were on high alert to avoid any Russia is also mulling to com- Mellbin on Wednesday told definition of Earlier in the day, Commander untoward incident. plete 150,000 soldiers in Syria in a of US forces in Afghanistan Gen. TOLOnews the collapse of Kun- insanity He said the threats were not bid to wipe out the Islamic State. John Campbell informed Congress duz came as a "big surprise" to the so serious but the security forces However, Turkey has con- that the military airstrike in Kun- international community and is a were ready to respond quickly to demned Russia violating its air- duz in support Afghan forces on technical setback for the Afghan terror attacks. space to reach out to Syria to sup- the ground was a mistaken attack government. All Afghan forces including port Bashar al-Assad s regime. on the Doctors Without Borders He said he believes that ineffi- police, army and intelligence per- Nato has issued a stern ulti- field hospital. ciency in the political system led sonnel are ready to defend the cap- matum, Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the fall of the city. ital bravely and repel insurgent at- According to Mellbin, the Editorial P6 Exhausted budget tacks. They will fight till last drop Kunduz crisis is the result of an of blood. We will not let the ene- EU urged in Geneva meeting to grant asylum to all Afghans mies to impose their cruel rule on KABUL: The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation on Wednesday urged the international community to innocent people in any part of grant asylum to all refugees arriving in Europe without discrimination. According to the ministry, due to Kabul, he said. instability in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, more than 500,000 people including 70,000 Afghans have reached He assured residents of Kabul Europe illegally since the beginning of this year. Some of these asylum seekers have either drowned in WHEN HEIDI that the Taliban could not pose dangerous waters or been facing discrimination by some of the EU member states. At the annual UN High KLUM serious threat. The commander Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Executive Committee (EXCOM) on October 5 in Geneva, the issue said that suicide and terrorist at- of Afghan refugees was also discussed. Hafiz Ahmad Miakhail, the refugee ministry s press office advisor, Page 10 COVERED tacks are possible but would be told Pajhwok Afghan News the issue of Afghan refugees was exclusively discussed on the second day of the HERSELF WITH repelled within no time. Geneva meeting. At the meeting, he said, the Afghanistan delegation presented a plan demanding $500 million PLASTER The forces would increase ac- from the international community for the repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and Iran and the incompetent political system and tivities in different parts of Kabul Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). He added representatives from more than 100 countries had attended not the inability of the security for better law and order situation, the meeting and Afghanistan was represented by Sayed Hussain Alemi Balkhi, the refugee and repatriation forces. he added. Gen. Abur Rahman also minister. Miakhail said the minister in the Geneva meeting had asked the international community to give "It was a big surprise to the asked residents of Kabul for co- asylum to all refugees without discrimination. Iran s interior minister and Pakistani minister on tribal affairs international community and a operation to foil terror attacks. joined the meeting on the day three. (Pajhwok) technical setback to the Afghan government and it is very impor- Page 2 tant that lessons are learned from Kunduz so that in future we don't have a repeat of the situation," Mellbin said.