Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:73 Price: Afs.15 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes SUNDAY . OCTOBER 11 . 2015 -Mizan 19, 1394 HS Britain fears Keep 10,000 indiscriminate troops in Page 4 attacks on Afghanistan: Westerners in US presidential Bangladesh hopeful KABUL: A Republican presiden- tial candidate has called for keep- US is an ing at least 10,000 troops in Af- immigrant ghanistan to help the local forces and combat terrorists. Marco Ru- nation, bio wrote in an opinion piece for Page 5 should wel- Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi to probe fall of Kunduz city to on President Muhammad Ashraf the USA Today: The war, which the Taliban. Internal Security Ghani and Chief Executive Offic- many mistakenly believed would come refu- KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga on Sat- Committee (ISC) of the Wolesi er (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah to end in a matter of weeks, has last- gees: Kerry urday asked the government to Jirga said that security forces af- review the military operations ed far longer than anyone expect- review its anti-militants opera- ter 12 days operations failed to against militants in Kunduz. A ed. The senator from Florida said tions in northern Kunduz prov- weed the militants out of Kunduz delegation comprised of lawmak- the Afghans, besides fighting ince. The lawmakers criticized province. It said that lack of coor- ers from different provinces and against a brutal enemy, had to deal clearance operations of Afghan se- dination among security forces is members of ISC and Defense with enduring challenges, includ- G20 curity forces in Kunduz and said one of the big challenge in this re- Committee of the Wolesi Jirga ing drug lords who had the coun- endorses that the offensive should be prop- gard. will be assigned to investigate the try the world headquarters for the erly managed. They voiced their It said that the operations reasons behind fall of Kunduz city heroin commerce. Widespread Page 9 crackdown deep concerns over current secu- should be conducted based on to the Taliban militants. This corruption had dashed the hopes rity situation in the province and credible intelligence information. comes at a time that security forc- Afghans had pinned on their new on corporate said that the ongoing military op- In the meantime, Abdul Wadood es said that they have cleared many government, which was struggling tax evasion erations against militants cannot Paiman, an MP from Kunduz, said areas of the Taliban insurgents and to fight against warlords and or- bring peace to the province. The that the Taliban are hiding in civil- have killed and detained hundreds ganised crime and the resurgent Wolesi Jirga also decided to ap- ian houses. Speaker of the Wolesi of rebels in their military offen- Taliban, the lawmaker added. He point a parliamentary delegation Jirga, Abdul Rauf Ebrahemi, called sives in Kunduz. acknowledged Afghanistan had By Farhad Naibkhel made tremendous progress over the past 14 years a new con- Meet the KABUL: Aimed at accelerating stitution, five national elections, Lebanese the clearance operation, Ministry the inauguration last year of a Page 8 of Interior said on Saturday that pro-Western president and a tri- fighting next it would offer cash in rewards for pling in the size of the economy. information about foreign terror- The senator accused President door in ists and Afghan insurgents hiding Obama and former secretary Hil- Assad's army in Kunduz city. Spokesman to the lary Clinton of failing to give the interior ministry Seddiq Seddiqi US troops in Afghanistan the lead- said that in order to speed up clear- MAZAR-I-SHARIF: The newly- ly aware of security situation and ment and people of Sar-i-Pul, he ership, the resources and the time ance operation in Kunduz and appointed governor for northern other issues existed in Sar-i-Pul and said. Balkh Governor Atta Mo- they needed to finish the job. sweep out insurgents from the Sar-i-Pul province on Saturday was mentally and physically pre- hammad Noor dubbed Wahdat as Obama, who campaigned on giv- A chang- city, the ministry is ready to pro- pledged to improve the law and pared to handle the prevailing sit- honest man and his close ally of ing Afghanistan an additional $1 vide bounty on militants hiding in order situation with the support uation there. According to Wahdat, Jihad period. He assured the new billion in reconstruction assistance ing of the the provincial capital. Speaking at of people and central government. the role of central government and governor of full support in every per year, actually reduced civilian a press conference here he said During a ceremony held in people was vital for the develop- sphere of government. aid to Afghanistan every year Page 7 guard in that operations launched by Af- Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of ment and prosperity of the prov- Wahdat had served as deputy since 2010, he continued. Rubio Algiers ghan security forces are moving northern Balkh province, Moham- inces. He would try to reduce the governor in Balkh before his new claimed the presidential actions ahead in Kunduz city, but still mad Zahir Wahdat said he was ful- existing gap between the govern- appointment. (Pajhwok) had undermined the military ef- there are some terrorists hiding in forts by announcing a timetable civilian population. Those peo- for withdrawal in advance, dictat- ple, who share information about ing a drawdown from 100,000 terrorists hiding in Kunduz city, 100 insurgents killed in Kandahar airstrikes troops to just 10,000. The Repub- their identity will not be dis- lican wrote Obama s actions had Messi closed, he added. He said that Se Almost 100 Taliban insurgents from the Kandahar police media gents had recently arrived in the made it possible for the Taliban cleared in Darak and Kotigerd areas in the have been killed in joint Afghan and office said. "The insurgents were district from bordering areas. No to seize the capital of northern city were cleared from insurgents. foreign troops airstrikes in south- gathered in Shurabak and had civilians were injured or killed in Kunduz province the first ma- Page 11 Barcelona Afghan forces would use all pos- ern Kandahar province, local offi- planned to capture the district but the strike, they said. The Taliban jor city captured by the militants tax fraud sible means to eliminate Taliban cials said on Saturday. the Afghan and foreign troops car- has not yet commented on the air- since 2001. Islamic State has fighters and terrorists in Kunduz In addition, 50 others were in- ried out airstrikes in which nearly strikes. Shurabak borders Pakistan been increasingly making inroads case province. Operation will contin- jured. The airstrikes targeted in- 100 insurgents were killed," offi- where insurgents are known to be in Afghanistan, even challenging ue in different parts of Kunduz surgents at a gathering in Shurabak cials said. active and frequently target local the Taliban for influence in some city. Police will do its best to pro- district of the province, officials Officials said that the insur- security forces. areas. (Pajhwok) tect civilians, the spokesman said. Seddiqi said that Afghan forc- After blizzard of es also retaken Gerziwan district from insurgents and operation is Afghanistan lies, it s underway against rebels in Fary- Page 6 ab province. Providing details GHAZNI CITY/JALALABAD: Directorate of Security (NDS) mad Aman Hamim also assured the ing five Pakistanis. Police spokes- tough to determine about the Taliban casualties in the At least 30 militants, including operation on the outskirts of the people that security forces were man Col. Hazrat Hussain Mashri- past 24 hours, he said that 190 seven would-be suicide bombers, provincial capital on Friday. The using all resources to beef up secu- qiwal told Pajhwok the 13 individ- militants were killed and 64 oth- have been arrested in different guerrillas planned to conduct co- rity in the province. Taliban should uals were detained in Kot, Nazyan who was deceived ers wounded in clearance opera- parts of the country, officials said ordinated attacks on security never think of taking Ghazni City; and Haska Mina districts. Late tions in different provinces. on Saturday. Security officials in check-posts in Ghazni City, but they would just lose their own men on Friday night, five suspects were The Taliban suffered heavy casu- Ghazni said six would-be suicide they were detained before reach- and. Ahmad Jamal, a resident of captured in the Janjal area of Kot, alties in Kandahar and Logar prov- bombers were among 17 suspect- ing their targets, he said. Tali- Andar district, said there was a large two in Haska Mina and six in Nazy- inces. He said that in Shorabak ed insurgents detained during an ban are spreading terror among the number of militants in the town, but an, he added. Meanwhile, a state- district of Kandahar, 100 militants operation in different parts of the people, but I assure there is noth- some of them had recently gone to ment from the 201st Selab Mili- SCO were killed and 50 injured. In Kher- southern province. Intelligence ing to worry about. The masses Kunduz province. In the eastern tary Corps said a militant attack war district of Logar, 45 rebels Director Ali Ahmad Mubarez told should support their security forc- province of Nangarhar, the author- on security posts in neighbouring Editorial P6 were killed including seven foreign Pajhwok Afghan News the mili- es in improving situation, ities claimed arresting more than a Kunar province had been thwart- membership fighters. tants were held during a National Mubarez said.