Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No: 12 Price: Afs.20 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY . AUGUST 03. 2018 - Asad 12, 1397 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime AT News Report his colleagues about the kidnap- ping of the foreigners. Police start searching and cordoned off KABUL: Unknown gunmen today the area and taken measures in kidnapped and killed three foreign all districts of Kabul in order to A new political movement, led be involved in the process. Accord- lid meanwhile told his supporters country to return to the turmoil and national efforts in bringing sta- citizens in Kabul, said officials. rescue the kidnapped foreigners. by former National Directorate ing to him the only way for the that he is a military man and not a experienced throughout the 1990s. bility to Afghanistan. In early The three foreigners were of Security (NDS) chief Assadul- country to resolve the current cri- politician but because of the situa- During the Taliban’s rule, Khalid 2007, Khalid escaped an assassi- He said that after around lah Khalid, was officially sis is through fair and transparent tion in the country he has decided served with the anti-Taliban resis- nation attempt. He was targeted killed by unknown gunmen after two hours dead bodies of the were kidnapped from industrial three abducted foreigners were launched in Afghanistan on elections. Khalid stated the secu- to step into the political arena and tance as part of the Ittihad faction. by a Taliban suicide bomber and th Thursday. Hundreds of support- rity situation is deteriorating day- start this movement. He also ques- After the fall of the Taliban regime, his motorcade was destroyed but park area of 9 Police District in found in Mosahi district of the ers from around the country con- by-day and that national unity is tioned the state of the country and Khalid worked with the National he survived with only minor inju- Kabul city, said Ministry of Inte- Kabul. The foreigners who were verged on the streets on Thurs- being affected. On the subject of the deterioration in security under Directorate of Security, but short- ries. Khalid was appointed as Min- rior Deputy Spokesman, Nasrat- shot dead by a pistol, were In- day morning to attend the launch elections, Khalid questioned the In- President Ashraf Ghani’s rule. ly afterwards became governor of ister of Tribal and Border Affairs ullah Rahimi. dian, Malaysian and Mace- of the movement, called Omid- dependent Election Commission's Khalid blasted the president and Ghazni province, a post he held in 2008. In 2011 besides being in- He said that armed men took donian citizens, he added. e-Sabah. Khalid said their focus claims that over nine million peo- said the president does not care until 2005. After a re-shuffle in charge of the ministry, he was ap- off the foreigners from their vehi- He said that the investiga- will be on security and peace in ple have registered to vote. He said about lives being lost and "that no 2005 by then president Hamid pointed as special representative cle at around 8:30am and abducted tion started regarding the inci- Afghanistan. He said they would he doubts there are even two mil- one even returns the bodies to the Karzai, Khalid was transferred of the president for Kandahar, them in a corolla vehicle. do everything to help end the lion registered voters. But accord- families" of soldiers killed on the from Ghazni province to Kanda- Helmand, Zabul and Uruzgan dent. war in the country but that they ing to him Omid-e-Sabah has a battlefields He said ethnic division har province as the new governor. provinces. In October 2011 Kha- He said the driver of the ab- The killed foreigners were want peace to come in a digni- long-term plan and the movement in the country must end and that As governor, he said he believed in lid survived another attempt on his ducted foreigners after 20 minutes working for a logistic company, fied manner and that all Afghans will follow this accordingly. Kha- there was no way he wanted the the coordination of international life. (Tolonews) reaching their office and informed he noted. In the wake of Tuesday’s deadly attack in Jalalabad the EU said it also stands united with all humanitarian workers in the country. Three children were killed and Since Wednesday, it was the sec- Daesh leader Maulvi Habibur Rah- people of the area knew he was man and more than 100 of his loy- an ordinary religious scholar two others, including a man, in- ond incident of landmine blast in The European Union said in a ple of Afghanistan and with the pose a threat to the lives of inno- alists, who recently surrendered to teaching at a seminary. Frustra- jured in a landmine blast on a the district. Earlier, three persons statement on Wednesday that “we whole humanitarian community,” cent civilians and of those whose the security forces, were shifted tion and joblessness pushed him motorcycle in the Arghistan dis- of a family were killed and as many stand united with the people of the EU’s Commissioner for Hu- mission is to save the lives and re- to Shiberghan, the capital of north- into militancy. He added before trict of southern Kandahar prov- injured when a vehicle struck by a Afghanistan” after the deadly at- manitarian Aid and Crisis Manage- lieve the suffering of vulnerable ern Jawzjan province, on Thurs- joining the Islamic State group, ince on Thursday, an official said. landmine blast. Arghistan district tack in Jalalabad on Tuesday that ment Christos Stylianides said in people. “All parties to this con- day morning. The 209th Shaheen he was an Imam with Qari Hik- Police Spokesman Zia Durrani situated to the southwest of the killed 15 people including an IOM the statement. “My thoughts are flict must abide by the principles Military Corps said in a statement mat, a senior militant leader in told Pajhwok Afghan News the country sharing 100 kilometre of employee. “In the wake of the at- with the families of the victims and of International Humanitarian that Habibur Rahman and his fight- Darzab district. Two months people were travelling on a mo- the Durand Line with Pakistan and tacks in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, all those who were severely Law, and respect and protect ci- ers also handed over weapons and Qari Hikmat’s death, he was ap- torbike when struck a landmine. often witnessed instability and vi- which claimed the lives of 15 civil- wounded as they tried to escape vilians and those who are assisting some military kits to the security pointed to lead rebels across the He said police arrived at the site olence. Taliban have strong pres- ians, including three humanitarian from the building under attack,” he them,” he added. The statement personnel on Wednesday. Habibur province. Maulvi Habibur Rah- workers from some of our part- said. “The senseless, pervasive vi- was issued after insurgents carried Rahman told Pajhwok Afghan man said they were tired of fight- of the blast and evacuated the ence in the district. ners, we stand united with the peo- olence in Afghanistan continues to out an attack. (Tolonews) injured people to the hospital. (Pajhwok) News he was not a terrorist and all ing in mountains. (Pajhwok) FRIDAY .AUGUST 03, 2018 AFGHANISTANTIMES AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy Phone No: +93-797070563 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.afghanistantimes.af Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Advisory editorial board Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal Graphic-Designers: Edriss Akbari and Bilal Yusufi Marketing & Advertising: Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 Mailing address: P.O. 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