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KABUL - Taliban and the Afghan government may resume peace talks as dip-lomatic efforts have been intensified, a media report said on Tuesday.Acting US Special Repre-sentative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Laura Miller has arrived in Islamabad, with diplomatic sources linking her visit to the re-newed peace push.Miller met Afghan Ambas-

KABUL - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Ab-dullah has urged regional countries to support Ka-bul’s recommendations for lasting peace and stability, his office said on Tuesday.Abdullah expressed the view during a meeting with Tadamichi Yamamoto, special representative of the United Nations for Af-ghanistan. He said peace and stability in Afghanistan would pave the way for re-

NATO Foreign Ministers’ Conference Begins

Govt.-Taliban Peace Negotiations May Resume

Russia Should Prove Has No Ties with Taliban

Good News from Ghani about Iran’s Hamoun Lake

MoF Defends Budget Policy After MPs Cite Imbalance

Stability in Afghanistan Key to Regional Economic Links

sador to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal and “discussed various issues,” the diplo-mat tweeted.A senior Taliban repre-sentative in Qatar recently said the movement leaders were “involved in internal discussions” to chalk out a strategy for possible politi-cal negotiations.In October, The Express Tribune said, Taliban’s ...(More on P4)...(1)

Corruption Remains Endemic at Institutions:

Fakhri

Security Forces Clear Militants in Uruzgan:

Police

Drug Addiction Main Reason of Violence

Against Women: AzimiKABUL - Customs offices, dry-ports and other revenue departments are rife with widespread corruption amid favoritism in and government appointments, the High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption (HOOAC) acting head said on Tuesday.Sayed Ghulam Hussain Fakhri told a semi-nar “Academic and good governance man-agement” here that meritocracy, reward and punishment were undervalued and favoritism such as political, ethnical, parti-san and distribution of posts still existed to a great extent. “Administrative corruption cannot be fought and good governance ensured with just issuing of decrees and orders. Corrupt persons no matter who and where should be punished and social justice ensured.”He called ...(More on P4)...(5)

TIRIN KOT - The Afghan security forces have cleared several villages in surround-ing areas of Tirin Kot city, capital of south-ern Uruzgan province, police said on Tues-day.In early September, the Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack and tired to capture control of Tirin Kot, posing an im-minent threat to the city. Since then, spo-radic clashes between security forces and Taliban have been continuing in the city, 370 km south of Kabul.“Military and cleanup operations to fight back militants in outer sides of Tirin Kot have been continuing. ...(More on P4)...(6)

KABUL - The counternarcotics minister on Tuesday said men’s addiction to drugs was a major reason behind violence against women, an issue that disrupted relations be-tween family members.Salamat Azimi made the remarks a confer-ence ‘Partnership of Civil Society Institutes, Counternarcotics and Elimination of Vio-lence against Women.” A number of gov-ernment officials and civil society activists attended the seminar in Kabul.Azimi said the role of housewives was im-portant in controlling children and spouses from using drugs or smuggling drugs.She added statistics showed more than 3.5 million people 2.9 percent of them women were addicted to drugs in Afghanistan.First Lady Rula Ghani in her message to the conference also linked violence against women to cultivation, trafficking and use of drugs in the country.She said using drugs affected all people, particularly women, in the society. Eradicat-ing narcotics was not the responsibility of a single organ, but other institutions such as police, army and others should also join hands in fighting the menace, she said.Women’s Affairs Minister Dilbar Nazari said drug addiction resulted in depression and psychological problems. (Pajhwok)

BRUSSELS - A two-day con-ference of foreign ministers from NATO countries and its allies kicked off in Brus-sels, the capital of Belgium, on Tuesday to discuss issues concerning the alliance and Afghanistan.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the foreign ministers would discuss is-sues relating to NATO on the first day and especially talk about Afghanistan on the sec-ond day of the conference.The meeting would also be attended by Afghan foreign minister Salahuddin Rabba-ni, he said, adding the inter-national community would once again renew its pledges of long-term cooperation with Afghanistan in the meet-ing.The conference would also review reforms made by the Afghan government, Stolten-berg said, saying internation-al community’s long-term co-

operation to Afghanistan was tied to reforms in the Afghan government.He said the foreign ministers would address some of the security challenges member states faced.“We will do that by address-ing a wide range of the issues but at the core of the meet-ing is the importance of the transatlantic bond, the bond between Europe and North America.”He said they would also com-mit to working more closely to support partners in Eu-rope, the Middle East and

KABUL - Russia a few years back established contact with Taliban about the release of a pilot from their captivity and except that Moscow has no relationship with the rebels, the Meshrano Jirga chairman quoted the country’s ambas-sador Zamir Kabulov saying on Tuesday.Fazl Hadi Muslimyar’s re-marks come as Kabulov, also special envoy of Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin in Afghanistan, last month told Interfox, a Russian news agency, that Moscow had es-tablished contact with Tali-ban in Afghanistan to fight against Daesh or so-called

NEW DELHI - President Ashraf Ghani has given good news to Iranian Foreign Min-ister Mohammad Javad Zarif about Hamoun Lake in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan.President Ghani made the re-marks during a meeting with Zarif who arrived in Beijing early on Monday (Dec 5) after

KABUL - Ministry of Finance (MoF) Tuesday said gov-ernment has allocated more money to infrastructure and security sectors in the next fiscal budget in the hope of creating jobs and meeting the needs of the people.But, lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parlia-ment) plan to reject the draft budget, arguing that it is not balanced.MoF has allocated $2.3 billion USD to the security sector,

North Africa. “Our proposals are pragmatic, but ambitious and we will continue to work in this spirit.”He said the conference would close with a meet-ing on Afghanistan and the resolute support mission there. Stoltenberg said: “We will reconfirm our strong commitment to Afghani-stan’s security and we will get an update on the (Af-ghan) government’s reform agenda, which is essential for Afghanistan’s long term stability and prosperity.” (Pajhwok)

Islamic State (IS) as ‘joint en-emy.’However, Muslimyar told to-day’s session: “Yesterday Ka-bulov came to Meshrano Jir-ga and denied he never said Russia was in contact with Taliban for fighting against Daesh.”He quoted the ambassador as saying: “Only for once a few years back Russia to get re-leased a pilot contacted Tali-ban and Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, former president’s advisor, was in the loop.”Kabulov told senators he would provide further ex-planation to a joint sitting of ...(More on P4)...(3)

a two-day visit to India.The meeting was held on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia Conference that started on Dec 3 in India’s Amritsar.The Afghan president hoped the plan for the water of the Hamoun Lake would be im-plemented soon.Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan ...(More on P4)...(2)

which makes up 36 percent of the total budget, but the amount shows a three per-cent decrease compared to this year’s budget.Another $1.4 billion USD has been allocated to infrastruc-ture development, which makes up 21 percent of the budget – a one percent in-crease against this year.“By supporting the infra-structure sector we are trying to implement more develop-ment ...(More on P4)...(4)

gional economic activities.Afghanistan’s economic, political and security situ-ation was discussed dur-ing the meeting and recent achievements of the unity government highly ap-preciated.Introduction of reforms, the appointment of new commissioners and preparations for parliamen-tary elections also figured at the meeting, a statement from Abdullah’s office said. (Pajhwok)

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