Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:XI Issue No:231 Price: Afs.20 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes SATURDAY . MARCH 25. 2017 -Hamal 05, 1396 HS 77 insurgents killed in raids: MoD AT News Report KABUL: The Ministry of Defense has said that Seventy-seven insur- gents, including twenty-two Daesh militants have been killed and sixteen others sustained heavy injuries in military operations car- ried out by the Afghan security forces in different parts of the country during past 24 hours. In a statement, the MoD said that military operations had been conducted in Logar, Khost, Pak- tia, Kapisa, Faryab, Herat, Kan- dahar, Helmand and Kunduz prov- inces. Twenty-three militants, in- cluding seven foreign terrorists have been killed and three others wounded in the Pashtonkot dis- trict of Faryab, the statement said, adding that 15 motorcycles, a ma- chine gun and anti aircraft guns were also seized. Moreover, twenty-two more insurgents have been killed in Nesh district of Kandahar and some oth- er militants loyal to the Daesh loy- AT Monitoring Desk itary assistance. This comes after Reuters re- alists were killed in Nazyan dis- “We want India’s cooperation ported that India estimates it would trict of eastern Nangarhar prov- KABUL: The Ministry of De- fense (MoD) has welcomed India’s in any sector which is the inter- cost close to $50 million USD for ince. According to the statement, ests of the two countries. India is new parts and repairs to 11 three militants have been killed in decision to consider whether to pay for repairs to grounded heli- a friend of Afghanistan and we are grounded Soviet-made Mi-35 he- Kunduz and four in Laghman. The independent countries,” Waziri licopters and seven transport air- Afghan security forces are brave- copters and transport planes from the Afghan Air Force as part of told TOLONews. craft, after a team of Indian experts ly and successfully chasing insur- “India knows what Afghani- assessed the Afghan air force’s gency across the country by con- their willingness to step up mili- tary assistance to Kabul. stan needs militarily,” the sources needs last year. ducting air and ground operations quoted a military analyst, Muhs- “We have been looking at the against the insurgent outfits. The Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Defense Ministry said en Mukhtar as saying. scale of the challenge the ANSF recent military operations have “India has knowledge of the (Afghan National Security Forc- been resulted in heavy human los- “friendship between Afghanistan and India does not mean enmity military needs of Afghanistan, be- es) faces, particularly in one seg- es to the militant groups which is cause Afghanistan is of unique im- ment, close air support,” Ambas- a big development and encourag- with another nation.” According to him, New Delhi has positively portance to India and wants a sta- sador Manpreet Vohra said this ing start of the New Year. More- ble Afghanistan,” Mukhtar said. week as quoted by Reuters. over, the Afghan government has responded to Kabul’s call for mil- backed the US call to deploy more troops in Afghanistan to overcome any new threat, posing by mili- AT News Report tants and also help Afghan securi- Russia says ty forces to nip the evil in the bud. KABUL: Hamid Karzai, the Pakistan former president blamed the Unit- USrefused ed States and its allies for what he said “taking wrong policy” in Af- encourages to attend Sopko ghanistan, resulting terrorists more power. “One decade and half ago, highlights the US and its allies came to our Afghanistan country with full cooperation from Taliban to attend major the important regional countries conference with the aim of fight against ter- corruption rorism. Unfortunately, by the Moscow meeting The Russian Foreign Ministry said wrong US policies not only this on Friday that the United States cases among inauspicious phenomenon was not KABUL : Seven Afghan Taliban peaceful solution to Afghanistan’s had told Moscow it would not take removed, but terrorism and extre- leaders held talks with Pakistani protracted war with the Taliban as part in a conference on Afghani- Afghan forces mis became more powerful,” official in Islamabad last week in security across Afghanistan dete- stan in the Russian capital in April, Karzai addressed the people in his an attempt to press the group into riorated and the Islamic State group a decision the ministry said it re- New Year message. “Even the peace talks a head of international gretted, the Interfax news agency threatened to expand its foothold reported. Moscow is still unaware The Special Inspector General for Daesh also emerged.” He added conference on Afghanistan in Mos- in the region. that the expansion of terrorism and of the new U.S. administration's Afghanistan Reconstruction, John cow next month, a media report Islamabad has been under in- F. Sopko, at an event in Duke Uni- extremism caused Afghanistan to claimed on Friday. stance on Afghanistan, the minis- versity in the United States made turn to the ground for confronta- The Two Taliban officials who ternational pressure to try and try was cited as saying. shocking remarks on ‘corruption’ tion of different regional countries, talked to AP said the militant lead- bring Taliban leaders, who have (REUTERS) among Afghan forces as he said the instead of regional cooperation. a new agreement with the people of China, the Republic of India as ers used the Islamabad gathering, lived in Pakistan since their rule in combination of corruption and Karzai called on the government of Afghanistan for bringing peace, well as the Shanghai and SAARC which took place last week, to Afghanistan was overthrown in poor leadership in the security forc- and people to take a national step instead of increasing the number organizations vital in the Afghan press their own demands, includ- the 2001 US invasion, to some Suicide es in Afghanistan is the root cause and policy put an end to the ten- of its troops that will undoubted- peace. The former president again ing that Pakistan free Taliban fig- form of negotiations with Kabul. for their ‘ineffectiveness’. sions, paving the ground for peace. ly cause the war intensifying.” emphasized that neither Afghani- ures from its jails. However, successive attempts “Without question, the top The ex-president “once again” He asked the United States to stan, nor Pakistan and the region The two officials, who were have faltered and failed. attacks two challenges in Afghanistan are called the Taliban to take part in clarify to the regional and world would be safe unless Pakistani gov- familiar with the Islamabad meet- Last year Pakistan, Afghani- corruption and the lack of capaci- the national step and fulfill their countries why terrorism and ex- ernment and its military officials ing, spoke to AP on condition of stan, China and the United States ty of the Afghan security forces. religious responsibility in bringing tremis are expanding, attracting stop supporting and using extrem- anonymity, fearing reprisals by met to jumpstart the peace pro- planner held And in many cases, the two go peace. “Also, my advice to the US their cooperation to a real struggle ism. “My advice to Pakistan is to Pakistani authorities who have not cess but that effort faltered after a hand in hand,” he said. government is to seek its presence against terrorism in Afghanistan. urgently review its policies for confirmed the meeting. series of deadly Kabul attacks that "Commanders in the Afghan in Afghanistan in peace, not in the Karzai called the roles of the Afghanistan. It should adopt a The international community Afghanistan blamed on militants in overnight military steal the food that you continuation of war,” Karzai said. Islamic Republic or Iran, Russian friendly relationship with us, not has stepped up efforts to find a hiding in Pakistan. (Pajhwok) pay for and force their soldiers to “The US would be better to reach Federation, the People’s Republic a destructive one.” buy it back. We hear story after Kapisa raid story of commanders who steal the fuel, sell it to the Taliban, who take the weapons we-you-pay for and sell it to the Taliban," Sopko said. "The irony of it is, the terror- ists are at the end of our supply chain." He mentioned about ‘ghost soldiers’ among Afghan security forces and said their salaries are Moscow has dismissed US allega- NATO’s Supreme Allied Com- 1989,” Russian Defense Ministry iban insurgents in Afghanistan as even facilitating the creation of taken by higher ranking command- tions that it may be supplying mander in Europe, said that he had spokesman Major General Igor evidence-free and absurd. “The training camps for the militants on ers. “Ghost soldiers exist because Taliban insurgents as a “complete seen “Russian influence” on Af- Konashenkov said in a statement. Russian side is accused of supply- the Afghan territory. Needless to names are either added - or never fabrication,” saying the charge is ghan Taliban insurgents who are Earlier this month, the Russian ing the Taliban movement with say, all this is not supported by removed - from the Afghan pay- Washington’s attempt to cover up gaining momentum, raising the Foreign Ministry dismissed US weapons, financing the activities any evidence,” the ministry said MAHMOOD RAQI : Security roll, and their salaries are pocket- for its own failures in Afghanistan. possibility that none other than claims that Moscow supports Tal- of this extremist organization and in a statement. (.RT) forces have arrested organiser of ed by higher ranking commanders. “Those are utterly false asser- Moscow helped supply the mili- suicide attacks in central Kapisa When their commanders act in this tions, and we have reacted to such tants.