Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:138 Price: Afs.20 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY .DECEMBER 15. 2017 -Qaws 24, 1396 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime Afghan and Turkish leaders reaffirmed that strategic cooperation and connectivity are key to boosting the regional economy. MAHMOOD RAQI : Work on a President Ashraf Ghani has met his vital road connecting central counterpart, president Receb Kapisa province with other three Tayyip Erdogan, in Turkey on the provinces could not be resumed in sidelines of the summit of the seven years due to non- Organization of Islamic construction of the Gulbahar Cooperation (OIC) and discussed Bridge. Importance of the Road: regional issues, Ghani’s office said The 21-kilometre road in a statement. At the meeting, connects Mahmood Raqi’s Guldan Erdogan reaffirmed the area with Jablus Saraj Chock in continuation of Turkey’s support Parwan province. Heavy and light and partnership with Afghanistan traffic from the country’s east and stressed the need to strengthen travel this road to the north. ties, according to the statement. The road makes the distance Ghani and Erdogan also talked shorter between the eastern and about the Heart of Asia Istanbul northern provinces, compared to Process and its importance for the road going to the north from regional peace and stability. Both Kabul, signifying its importance. leaders affirmed that the strategic But in the Gulbahar Bazaar, cooperation among regional work has been stopped on a 300- countries and connectivity is key meter long bridge, interrupting to boosting the economy. They enhancing economic cooperation early Thursday after vehicular movement. The previous agreed that the Lapis-Lazuli and connectivity in the region. The participating and delivering a bridge was made of woods and iron Transit Trade and Transport Route statement did not provide further speech at the OIC summit. that often got damaged and was an achievement that aims at details. Ghani returned to Kabul (ToloNews) resultantly brought the traffic to a halt. Residents of the locality The residents and local officials said work on the vital road was expected to be completed in Journalists’ safety: Kabul ignores three years, but due the non- The Afghan government wants "The discussions of what forces aircraft — bringing the total to 18 construction of Gulbahar bridge, co-sponsoring UN resolution the US to redeploy the A-10 we move to Afghanistan or F-16s — and a KC-135 tanker work on the road was also halted. Thunderbolt attack aircraft to drawdown from Iraq and Syria are aircraft to Afghanistan in recent Sher Zaman, a driver, said a KABUL: The Afghanistan France, and Tunisia, was adopted firm and public stance in favour bolster efforts in the fight against all ongoing," Bunch said. After the months, according to the report. one-way bridge was constructed Journalists Center (AFJC) on at the Third Committee of the of journalists’ freedom on the the Taliban, according to a liberation of Mosul in Iraq and The numbers of weapons released during former President Hamid Wednesday said it was UNGA on 20 November 2017 by international stage at the UN this Military Times report. Raqqa in Syria in July and October, by US combat aircraft in Karzai’s initial years and later the disappointed to learn that the consensus. It received the support year.” said Ahmad Quraishi, AFJC A senior Afghan defense respectively, operations against Afghanistan have hit highs not seen bridge’s condition dilapidated and Afghan government had failed to of 88 cosponsoring UN member Executive Director. He added that official said that the government Daesh in those two countries, in since the 2010 surge. Air Forces would result in multiple accidents co-sponsor the UN resolution on states from across all regions and despite President Ashraf Ghani wants the vaunted A-10, which which the A-10 played a major Central Command data released in every year. “Many parts of the safety of journalists and the issue Afghanistan is not included “We and Chief Executive Abdullah is highly regarded for its role, have begun to wind down. October showed 751 weapons bridge have damaged and this of impunity. In a statement, the are regretted that Afghanistan did Abdullah’s commitments, durability and lethal capacity in President Trump has also started dropped in September, eclipsing winter drivers may fear using the organization said Afghanistan not co-sponsor the recent UN Afghanistan did not support the close-air-support operations, to to pursue an expansion of US the 503 released in August and set bridge as it often results in continued to be among the most resolutions on the safety of resolution which is a return to Afghanistan. operations in Afghanistan over the a new five-year high. accidents,” he said. Khairullah, a dangerous places for journalists journalists at the UN General disappointing move. On No decision on A-10 latter half of the year and the Air US forces in Afghanistan have tribal elder in Khohistanat-1 with widespread impunity in place. Assembly (GA resolution 70/162, November 12, 2017, AFJC, a deployments has been made, Force may see increased also turned their attention to the district, said the construction The UNGA resolution on "the December 2015) or UN Human member of the global IFEX according to Air Force Brig. operations in Afghanistan as a part Taliban's involvement in the drug company which held the road Safety of Journalists and the Issue Rights Council (HRC resolution network, together with the global Gen. Lance Bunch, who directs of that expansion. The Air Force trade to cut into the insurgent contract “owes eight months’ of Impunity", initiated by Greece, 33/2, September 2016) and it was freedom of expression US air operations in Afghanistan. has deployed six more F-16 fighter group's financing. (ToloNews) wages to locals.” (Pajhwok) Argentina, Austria, Costa Rica, important that Afghanistan take a organisation ARTICLE 19. 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Editorial By Alexander Gillespie This same problem almost lead in setting down their respective They also recall that the last to a nuclear war between the red lines. Neither side is time they suspended their The situation on the Korean US and the Soviet Union in sincere, trusts the other, or military exercises, the North Peninsula - with the clear risk 1983. communicates with respect. Koreans cheated on the of a Third World War - is the The military exercises that The recipe for war is nearly reciprocal commitments they most tense and dangerous caused difficulties for North perfect. made. The Americans are also peace and security issue Korea annually (and may have In this very tense aware that no matter how humanity currently faces. The been instrumental in it creating atmosphere, both Russia and provocative their military Regardless of their positions, everyone is going to be held insanity of this situation is akin its own nuclear deterrent), China are proposing to the two exercises are, they are not to two madmen - "Rocket Man" peaked in scale around 1990. sides a "freeze-for-freeze" or illegal or, in comparison to accountable for carrying illegal arms and cars if found guilty and "Dotard" as they like to call The number and scope of these "dual suspension" agreement, North Korea's nuclear each other - rapidly accelerating exercises rapidly declined with as a first step towards programme, in violation of the during a week-long campaign. The aim of this campaign is to towards one another on a train- the first nuclear control substantive negotiations. The will of the international collect the illegal weapons as part of the Ministry of Interior’s track. agreement of 1994. The war core of this idea is that North community. For Trump, to agree As they hurtle towards games were only re-ignited in Korea would freeze both its to a freeze on war games would efforts to curb violence in Kabul. Indeed, this is not an easy each other, US President their full capacity after North nuclear explosions and missile be to reward the bad behaviour Donald Trump is unequivocal Korea broke the agreement and tests, and in return, the US and of a regime that is now task as police in its first day of the campaign already faced that he will not cancel the war tested their first nuclear bomb its allies would suspend their promising to destroy cities in some challenges as powerful wings and some government games that are so provocative in 2006. large-scale military exercises the US mainland. to North Korean leader Kim Kim Jong Un knows that a that threaten North Korea. Despite holding the high officials opposed to remove the black plastic sheeting from their Jong-un, while demanding his freeze-for-freeze is his next best The freeze-for-freeze deal ground on this issue, in the face opponent give up his nuclear option.