www.outlookafghanistan.net www.thedailyafghanistan.com facebook.com/The.Daily.Outlook.Afghanistan facebook.com/The.Daily.Afghanistan Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 Add: Sarai Ghazni, District 3, Kabul Add: Sarai Ghazni, District 3, Kabul Back Page August 22, 2017 Jalalabad Clear Ghazni Kandahar Clear Clear Mazar Clear Herat Clear Bamayan Clear Kabul Clear Daily Outlook 36°C 32°C 38°C 37°C 33°C 26°C 31°C Weather 28°C 16°C 24°C 25°C 16°C 12°C 18°C Forcast Balkh’s Chamtal District Cleaned up from Rebels MAZAR-I-SHARIF - Local officials on Monday said Chamtal district of Security Forces northern Balkh province has been cleaned of militants during an Af- Recapture Some Areas ghan forces operation. An operation launched by the Shahin of Mirzawlang Military Corps against militants was SAR-I-PUL CITY - Security forces have underway since Saturday night and taken control of Sheram and Kalta Taw ar- was ended late on Sunday. eas of Mirzawlang village in northern Sar- Amanullah Mobin, the commander i-Pul province, an official said on Monday. for the corps, told reporters that Governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told around 50 militants suffered casual- Pajhwok Afghan News the security forces ties and eight others were arrested carried out a predawn operation for retak- during the operation. Six security ing the valley. The security personnel suf- personnel were also killed. fered no casualties. He said that there were no rebels cur- Mirzawlang was overrun by militants on rently in Chamtal district after the August 4 when 50 civilians were reported- operation. ly killed. However the area was recaptured Governor Atta Mohammad Noor by Afghan forces on August 14. who also took part in the offensives, Nearly 40 bodies of people allegedly killed said that the district was destabilized by militants after being abducted were due to negligence of some Afghan for taking no action against militants. completely cleaned from militants and A number of the suspects arrested in found in two mass graves in the locality. Local Police (ALP) commanders. However, he did not name any com- said a military base and a number of se- the operation told media that they were The Taliban have denied hand in the mas- He accused a number of ALP com- mander and political parties. curity posts would be deployed there to shepherds and had no connection with sacre.(Pajhwok) manders on patrician discrimination Noor stressed Chamtal district was ensure security in the district. rebels. (Pajhwok) 30,000 Afghans Become Projects worth Afs 1.3 Billion Rising Tensions Among Political Cannon Fodder Amid Underway in Laghman Homeland’s Collapse MEHTHARLAM - Dozens of work on 42 different schemes Leaders Amid Deteriorating Security development projects have was underway and the pro- KABUL - The tensions are on cil member Asif Momand. suicide attacks, and war been launched in eastern Lagh- jects would cost 13,000 million the rise among the two promi- However, Noor in his latest would reduce. man province at a cost of one afghanis. nent political leaders amid de- statement slammed Hekmat- The governor of northern billion and three hundred mil- He said two projects worth 172 teriorating security situation yar for his discriminatory re- Balkh province accused Hek- lion afghanis. million afghanis were handed in the country. marks regarding the northern matyar of sparking tensions KABUL - About 30,000 Afghans are fight- It was told to a meeting about over to the electricity depart- The tensions among Gulbud- Panjsher province and Ah- and divisions among the peo- ing foreign wars in Iraq and Syria accord- provincial development held ment after completion this din Hekmatyar, the emir of mad Shah Massoud. ple based on geographical ing to Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) under the chairmanship of month. Hezb-e-Islami, and Ata Mo- Noor further added that Jami- locations, skin color, and the head Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Governor Abdul Jabar Naeemi The governor said the pro- hammad Noor, the chief exec- at-e-Islami warmly welcomed languages they speak. “The blood of Afghans is cheaper than oil,” on Monday. vincial government was com- utive of Jamiat-e-Islami inten- the conclusion of a peace deal He said the leader of Hezb- Hekmatyar told Sputnik. Eng. Mohammd Den, head of mitted to addressing people’s sified during the recent days between the government and e-Islami is strictly following According to a high ranking source inside the economy department, told problems in all parts of the and particularly after the ar- Hezb-e-Islami with expecta- a mission hatched by the for- Afghanistan, the situation of Afghans in the meeting that construction province. ...(More on P4)...(11) rest of Balkh provincial coun- tions that the rate violence, eigners ...(More on P4)...(12) Iraq is deplorable and many of them, due to poverty, cannot return back to their Supporters Want Gen. Dostum Back Home Soon Pakistan Claims Success Against home country. SHIBERGHAN - Supporters of Hekmatyar also suggested that Afghans the new political alliance, the Al- Militants Near Afghan Border have gone abroad to fight these wars in or- liance for Salvation of Afghani- der to feed their poverty-stricken families. stan, on Sunday held a protest “I lived in Baghdad for two years, so I gathering in the capital of north- know these poor and unfortunate Afghans ern Jawzjan province and de- very well. Their situation in Iraq is dis- manded the return of first vice appointing. They do not even have $106 president Abdul Rashid Dostum to get a new Afghan passport. These Af- and restoration of his powers. ghans cannot leave and are forced to stay Participants of the gathering in Iraq,” he said. in Shiberghan asked President However, military analyst, retired Air Ashraf Ghani to pave the way for ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s military since July 15 when the offensive Force General of Afghanistan Atikqullah return of Dostum and reinstate ment. claimed success in a month-long was launched in the Khyber tribal Amarkhel told Sputnik that Afghans do his authorities as VP. They also Islamic National Movement of Afghanistan leader Ba- operation against militants in a region. He said the military lost not face any economic difficulties in Iraq strongly criticized the govern- toor Dostum on the occasion said: ...(More on P4)...(13) troubled northwestern tribal re- two soldiers in the operation, and or Syria. gion that borders Afghanistan. a huge cache of weapons was also “Some of them are paid by the Arab coun- AIHRC Urges Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, a Paki- recovered. tries — for the war against the Shiites. Oth- Pakistani Forces stan’s army spokesman, said Mon- Ghafoor said the military has ers are given money by Iran, so that after Transparent Probe of Again Fire Scores of day that ground troops backed by launched four operations in Khy- training in that country they would fight Mohmand’s Case Rockets into Kunar the air force killed 52 terrorists ber to clear ...(More on P4)...(14) in Iraq and ...(More on P4)...(15) ASADABAD - Pakistani forces have once again fired 85 rockets into two districts of eastern Kunar province, but the incur- sions caused no casualties, officials said on Monday. Provincial police chief, Maj. Gen. Jum- ma Gul Himmat, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Pakistani soldiers fired 85 missiles into Dangam and Nari districts on Sunday night. ...(More on P4)...(16) KABUL - Reports indicate that the Presiden- Taliban Overrun tial Palace’s fact-finding team has returned to More Villages of Kabul but has not made public its findings about the case. Jawzjan’s Khamab Afghanistan Independent Human Rights SHIBERGHAN - The Taliban insurgents Commission - AIHRC - in a statement on have overrun at least 17 villages in the Monday asked for fair and transparent in- Khamab district of northeastern Jawzjan vestigation into allegations made by Balkh province, officials said on Monday. provincial council member Mohammad Asif Mohammad Reza Ghafoori, the gover- Mohmand against Balkh governor Atta Mo- nor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan hammad Noor. News the militants attacked the public Mohmand has claimed that he was arrested uprising check-posts in Chopli Tepa, by Balkh governor and was badly beaten Khan Tepa areas of Khamab district on while in his custody. Sunday night. “The AIHRC is concerned over the contin- He said security forces suffered no casu- ued violence and human rights abuses in the alties in the ensuing clashes. Public up- country,” the commission said in the state- rising members and the security forces ment. had teamed up gathered to retake the The commission has asked the Afghan gov- areas from militants, he added. ernment to ensure the security and safety of Eng. Ahmad, the district’s administra- the Afghan citizens. ...(More on P4)...(17) tive chief, ...(More on P4)...(18).