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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general

and the country in particular.

Oscar Fernandes

Terrorism

KABUL - Gunmen attacked a school prin-cipal in Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday morning, leaving him wounded.The principal of Arif Shahid High School in west of the city was attacked around 9:18a.m. while he was heading to the school, his colleague said.The principal was injured in the attack and shifted to hospital, he said.Police said that they were investigating the incident. The attack comes a day after gun-men killed the principal of Abdul Ghafoor Nadim High School in the city.There has been no claim of responsibility for the attacks. Separately, Defense Ministry said on Tuesday a bomb was discovered near a school on the outskirts of the city.The remote-controlled bomb was found by Afghan army near Olya High School in Riskhor, the ministry said in a statement. (1TV News)

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan parliament has said that it is ready to offer its services for enhancing the capacity of the Afghan par-liamentarians through the platform of Pa-kistan Institute for Parliamentary Services.Pakistan parliament’s speaker, Asad Qais-er, made the offer during a meeting with his Afghan counterpart Rahman Rahmani on the sidelines of the 141st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Belgrade, Serbia, according to a statement released by Pakistan parliament.An important breakthrough in the rela-tions of Pakistan and Afghanistan took place when the sides decided to hold bi-lateral talks at parliamentary levels to pro-mote cooperation and understanding as well as to evolve trust based strategy for fostering people-to-people contacts, the statement said.Qaiser ...(More on P4)...(4)

Gunmen Attack Second School Principal

in Kabul in Two Days

Pakistan Makes an Offer to Afghan Parliamentarians

Ghani and US Amb. Wells Discuss Election, Peace and Security

NEW DELHI - India delivered two more Mi-35 attack heli-copters to the Afghanistan Air

KABUL - “All citizens – whether voters, candidates or election-relat-ed staff – have the right to be free from fear and intimidation at all stages of an election process.”At least 28 civilians were killed, and 249 others were wounded during the Afghan presidential election on September 28, said the UN As-sistance Mission in Afghanistan, in a new report released on Tuesday.“These attacks, along with public statements made by the Taliban, revealed a deliberate campaign

India Hands Over 2 More Mi-35 Attack Helicopters to Afghan Air Force

28 Civilians Killed, 249 Wounded on Election Day: UNAMA Report

Taliban ‘Ready to Talk’ With Afghan Gov’t after Signing Deal with US

Afghan Government Is Not Releasing Anas Haqqani: Sediqqi

Force on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said.The Indian Ambassador to Ka-

intended to undermine the elec-toral process and deprive Afghan citizens of their right to participate in this important political process, freely and without fear,” said Tad-amichi Yamamoto, the UN Secre-tary-General’s Special Representa-tive for Afghanistan.“Many Afghan people, however, defied the threats and cast their votes – brave acts that I commend,” Yamamoto said.UNAMA in the report also said that the acts or threats of violence

bul Vinay Kumar handed over the helicopters to the Afghan Minister of Defense Assadul-lah Khalid during a ceremony which was organized today at the Kabul’s military airbase, the statement said.Fawad Aman, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said in a tweet that “two Mi-35 attack helicopters gifted by India to Afghan forces.”The helicopters are expected to boost the Afghan Air Force’s capability in combating terror in the war-torn country.India has been one of the key donors ...(More on P4)...(3)

intended to spread terror among the civilian population are prohib-ited under international humani-tarian law.“Deliberate acts of violence against voters, election workers, cam-paigners, election rally sites and polling centers are completely unacceptable,” said Yamamoto. “Widespread or systematic attacks against civilian populations may constitute crimes against human-ity; the United Nations unequivo-cally condemns them.”The report also said that according to international human rights law, everyone has the right to take part in public affairs, to vote and to be elected to government without dis-crimination and without unreason-able restrictions:“All citizens – whether voters, can-didates or election-related staff – have the right to be free from fear and intimidation at all stages of an election process.” (TOLO News)

KABUL - Speaking with CNN-News18, an Indian English-lan-guage news television network, the Taliban’s political spokes-man Suhail Shaheen said there is no military solution to the is-sue of Afghanistan.Shaheen further said that the group was ready to talk to all Afghan sides including the Af-ghan government after signing a peace deal with the United States.“So whether it is the current administration or any other ad-ministration in future, we con-sidered them as a party to the conflict and we will have a ne-gotiation with them alongside other Afghans,” he said.Taliban spokesperson stressed that if U.S. President Donald Trump had not called off the ne-gotiation, the peace deal would have been signed by now and there would have been ceasefire in Afghanistan.Political figures in Kabul are expecting the next Afghan gov-ernment to have a clear plan for peace.Haji Deen Mohammad, an of-ficial in the Afghanistan’s High

KABUL - The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that the U.S. and Taliban representatives have begun discussing ways to resume the Afghan peace talks.

Apparently, the U.S. and Taliban are willing to revive the stalled Afghan peace talks.

Afghan government says it has no plan to release any Taliban prisoners including Anas Haqqani, a high-profile member of the Haqqani Network.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met with Alice Wells, the US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, on Tuesday at

the Presidential Palace, President Ghani’s office released in a statement.

Peace Council believes that if the next president do not differ-entiate between peace and sur-rendering, the ongoing-war will intensify in the country.Sayed Ishaq Gailani, the leader of a political party claimed that there is no consensus among Afghan elites when it comes to peace.However, Najia Anwari, a

The report added that the two sides have discussed the swap of prisoners and the Taliban group is demanding the release of Anas Haqqani in exchange for two

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KABUL - Both discussed issues related to the presidential election, peace, security and regional relations.Wells praised the successful holding of election day, saying the elections are im-portant to consolidate the foundations of

democracy.Meanwhile, Ghani said that the inde-pendence of the electoral commissions and their decisions must be respected, and added that no candidate should claim victory before the results are an-

spokesperson of the Ministry of State for Peace Affairs said there are obstacles in way of peace in-cluding Taliban’s unwillingness to ceasefire but efforts have been made to accelerate the process.This comes after reports emerged that the U.S. and Tali-ban representatives are discuss-ing to resume their peace talks. (ATN)

American professors.However, Presidential Spokes-man Sediq Sediqqi rejected reports about the release of Anas Haqqani.“Our policy has not changed to-ward prisoners under the custody of Afghan government and it will not change. The government of Afghanistan has no such decision to release Anas Haqqani,” Ghani’s spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Monday.However, Hamayoun Jarir, a sen-ior member of Hezb-e-Islami po-litical party told Ariana News that he believes the U.S. and Taliban have agreed on swap of prisoners in order to build trust.He added that the two sides have agreed to exchange Anas Haqqani and Hafiz Ahmad Rashid with two American professors kid-napped ...(More on P4)...(2)

nounced by the electoral commissions.The US Embassy in Kabul in a tweet on October 9 called on “everyone to respect the time required” for the Afghan elec-tion organizations to finish processing the votes, ...(More on P4)...(1)