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CEO Dr. Abdullah President Ashraf Ghani

Egypt Provides Humanitarian Aid to Needy Afghans

Afghan Woman Brings Hope to Kabul Children

Pakistan Welcomes Peace Agreement between

Afghan Govt.-HIA

We Believe in an Afghan-Owned Peace Process: Ghani

Sharp Rise in Number of Returning Refugees: Balkhi

Seeking Alternative to Unity Govt a Dream

Afghanistan at Center of World’s Attention

UNAMA Discuss July 23 Attack with Hazara Community

Top TTP Commander Killed in Paktika

National Citizen Charter Program Inaugurated

KABUL - UNAMA on Sunday hosted a meeting in Kabul with representatives of the Hazara commu-nity.As part of its good offices mandate, UNAMA in-vited participants for an open discussion, chaired by Pernille Kardel, the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan. A broad range of issues were discussed, including the tragic 23 July suicide attack in Kabul claimed by Daesh against peaceful demonstrators, which resulted in the deaths of at least 85 civilians and injured more than 400 others.The findings of UNAMA’s independent human rights investigation of the attack were shared with participants at the meeting. UNAMA has produced a report on the attack as part of its mandated, and internationally respected, work on human rights in Afghanistan and the protection of civilians in armed conflict. The report will be released shortly.Participants included Members of Parliament, rep-resentatives of civil society groups, including the Enlightening Movement, as well as Dr. Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. ...(More on P4)...(4)

ISLAMABAD - A senior leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Azam Tariq, is believed to have been killed in Paktika province, the group’s sources confirmed to the media on Sunday.Azam Tariq was among four Pakistani Taliban ac-tivists who were killed in an operation by the Af-ghan security forces late Saturday, the sources told tribal journalists in Pakistan. Some sources said Azam’s son is also among the dead.Security sources have also confirmed to tribal jour-nalists in the region that the Taliban’s leader has been killed, according to section of the media.The slain leader had previously worked as the spokesman for the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Paki-stan and was working as spokesman for the Taliban faction led by a senior commander, Khan Sayed alias Sajna.Pakistani security officials believe that majority of the Taliban belong to Sajna group living in Paktika province after they entered Afghanistan in the wake of military operations in Waziristan tribal region.Last month, American and Afghan officials con-firmed that a leader of the Islamic State, Hafiz Saeed Khan, was killed in a U.S. drone strike. Khan, a sen-ior former Pakistani Taliban leader, was the head of the IS group in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Xinhua)

KABUL - At a meeting with the High Peace Council Chairman (HPC) Pir Sayed Ahmad Gillani, President Ashraf Ghani thanked them for their efforts in getting Hizb-e-Islami to sign last week’s peace agreement, Ghani’s office said in a state-ment.At the meeting Ghani said: “We always said that we don’t want peace from others and we believe in an Afghan-owned reconciliation” add-ing that “signing of the peace agreement with Hizb-e-Isla-mi was a big step.”“We have showed Afghans and the world that we have the will and the commitment for legal peace with dignity;

KABUL - The 10-year Citizen Charter Program offering fundamental ser-vices to villages, towns and cities in all provinces of the country was inau-gurated on Sunday.Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah Ab-dullah, who participated in the program’s inaugu-ration ceremony at the Presidential Palace, said he was happy that the national unity govern-

KABUL - Chief Executive Of-ficer (CEO) Abdullah Abdul-lah on Sunday said the national unity government came into power with public mandate for a five-year term and seeking its replacement was a dream that would not come true.Addressing the inauguration ceremony of Citizen Charter Programme in Kabul, Abdul-lah said despite shortcomings during the past two years, the government had also many achievements.The government’s commit-ment to serving people was strong and there were no dif-ferences in any corner of the country over the government’s

and the national and inter-national community strongly supports the Afghan-owned reconciliation (process),” he said.Ghani stressed that “successful reconciliation with Hizb-e-Isla-mi was a good beginning and we will continue this process.”

ment’s pledges were being given a practical shape.He said the Citizen Char-ter program was part of the government’s commit-ments and the program would only succeed if the public cooperated in its implementation and trans-parency.Abdullah said people’s cooperation in implemen-tation of the program was vital. The international community is support-

KABUL - The refugees and repa-triation minister on Sunday said the number of Afghan refugee families returning from Pakistan and Iran had dramatically in-creased.Sayed Hussain Alami Balkhi told a general session of the Meshrano Jirga or Senate that “unfortunately the situation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan has been affected by political issues and tense relations between the two countries. Paki-stan’s negative behavior towards Afghan refugees is based on poli-tics.”Economic and trade related issues between Afghanistan and Paki-stan also had a negative effect on

KABUL - Laila Farhad Noor, who lives in Germany, officially opened a kindergarten in Kabul on Saturday – the eighth school she has built in the capital.With the help of the Independent Afghan Women’s Institute in Germany, Noor has managed to raise enough money to build the schools in Kabul over the past 13 years.Noor said she visited Kabul 13 years ago for the first time in 25 years and was shocked to see that children did not have proper class-rooms.“Thirteen years ago when I came to Kabul, after twenty five years, I saw children with no clothes but they were studying with lots of enthusiasm in tents. I said these children are our country’s future, we must do some-thing for them,” said Noor.She said that she then established the Inde-pendent Afghan Women’s Institute in Ger-many and managed to raise money to start building a school. Thirteen years later her organization has ...(More on P4)...(6)

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Sunday wel-comed the agreement signed between Af-ghan Government and Hezb-i-Islami Af-ghanistan (HIA). A press release issue by Pakistani embassy in Kabul stated that Paki-stan wishes to see peace in Afghanistan and we support all sincere Afghan owned and Afghan led peace efforts to that end. People of Afghanistan deserve peace and prosperi-ty. Pakistan remains committed to peace and stability in Afghanistan as it is in the larger interest of the region and Pakistan in particu-lar. (PR)

He added those thinking for a change in the current govern-ment would be unable to do so and their this dream would re-main a dream.“We must accept criticism about our shortcomings, but it does not mean we are unaware of it, we hear criticism and also respond,” the CEO said.Vowing to use all resources for improvement during the gov-ernment’s remaining time, Ab-dullah said the government had not ignored its commitments and efforts for bringing reform to the election system and hold-ing elections were underway.Calling the peace agreement with ...(More on P4)...(1)

eign policy has played a vital role in the survival of Afghanistan in the past two years, taking out the country of isolation at it was impor-tant, Afghanistan is not de-pended to a single port but it has access to several ports,” Ghani said. “The survival of Afghani-stan was in danger when the responsibility of the country was handed over to us, ab-solute majority of regional commentators and internal bad wishers thought the country and the government would collapse, but the coun-try survived due to sacrifices of Afghan forces and brave generals,” he said.The president and other workers of the government were servants of people and the people had rights over them. “Our culture should be changed to serving and cooperating with people, every Afghan when enters a government office should be welcomed like the country’s president and chief executive officer,” he said.The president said leaders of the national unity govern-ment were chosen by Afghan people through an election process. The current leaders of the government represent-ed the nation and they were ...(More on P4)...(3)

KABUL - A cargo of humani-tarian aid and medical sup-plies arrived in Kabul from Egypt as a sign of solidarity from the people of the Arab Republic to the brotherly people of Afghanistan.The Egypt Embassy in Kabul in a statement said the Egyp-tian Red Crescent Society along with different govern-ment agencies coordinated their efforts and contributed to the cargo carrying human-itarian aid and medical sup-plies.The Egyptian assistance in-cludes blankets, medicines, medical supplies, as well as food items to be delivered to most needy families in poor areas across Afghanistan be-fore the beginning of the cold winter season.The Egyptian Embassy in Kabul handed the assistance to the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) in to take the charge of distributing it to different hospitals and to the less fortunate people in dif-ferent provinces around the country.The Egyptian Embassy and the ARCS organized an event on Saturday to announce the delivery of Egypt’s humani-tarian assistance. The event was ...(More on P4)...(8)

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday said the Afghan government’s main focus in the past two years had been on foreign policy to end Afghanistan’s isolation.Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of Citizen Char-ter National Program at the Presidential Palace, Ghani said the Afghan people and the international community would renew their contact at Brussels Conference taking place next month.Two years ago, people did not expect the international community to remain inter-ested in Afghanistan, but to-day the country is at the cent-er of its attention, he said.After the Brussels Confer-ence, the government’s main focus would be on refugees, he added.Ghani said corruption in Af-ghanistan was a great shame for the country but the na-tional unity government had made efforts to convince the international community that the government had decisive plans to curb the menace.He said the Citizen Charter program offering fundamen-tal services to villages, towns and cities in all provinces of the country was part of the government’s struggle for development.“The the government’s for-

programmes, he said.“We hear some words like the period of the national

unity government has ended, I assure you nothing has end-ed, the Afghan people voted

President Ashraf Ghani and me through an election process,” he said.

He said: “We support the agreement and the imple-mentation of it.”Meanwhile, Gillani said that the HPC is working on a basic strategy for all insur-gent groups to join the peace process.“We are also consid-ering ...(More on P4)...(2)

ing the Afghan people through revenues they collect from own citizens, he added.Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi said the national Citizen Charter program’s inauguration came after hard efforts.The program would cover all provinces in the next 10 years and one-third part of the provinces would be covered in the first phase, he said. ...(More on P4)...(7)

Afghan refugees there, he said, insisting Afghan refugees had no role in anarchism and insecurity in Pakistan.The stay of Pakistan-based Afghan refugees hav-ing legal documents has been extended to March 2017 and of the refugees ...(More on P4)...(5)