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Back Page January 08, 2017 Add: V-137, Street-6, Phase, 4, District 6, Shahrak Omed Sabz, Kabul Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 www.outlookafghanistan.net Add: V-137, Street-6, Phase, 4, District 6, Shahrak Omed Sabz, Kabul Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 www.thedailyafghanistan.com Jalalabad Kandahar Ghazni Mazar Herat Bamayan Kabul Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear 7°C 9°C -6°C -11°C 1°C 9°C -18°C -16°C 6°C -6°C 10°C -3°C -2°C -1°C Daily Outlook Weather Forcast KABUL - The cold-blooded killing of at least eight coal miners in Baghlan on Friday has sparked a massive out- cry in the country with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), Parliament Mem- bers (MPs), the Ulema, Civil Society Activists and govern- ment condemning the inci- dent. AIHRC, civil society activ- ists and the Ulema council on Saturday condemned the kill- ings reportedly committed by Daesh fighters and said it is a war crime. They had been PESHAWAR - A senior Pa- kistani politician has called for normalisation of relations between Afghanistan and Pa- kistan for the sake of lasting peace in the region. Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) head Aftab Khan Sherpao, addressing gathering in Dara Adamkhel area on Friday, ex- pressed concern at the frigid in relations between Kabul and Islamabad. He alleged the enemies of Pakistan wanted to isolate the country in the region. However, he hoped Pakistan and Afghanistan would join hands to meet common chal- lenges. Sherpao promised his party would continue to work for strengthening cooperation between the neighbours and defending the rights of Pakh- KABUL CITY - At least nine Taliban militants have been killed and six others wound- ed in ongoing security forces joint operation in the Nijrab and Tagab districts of the central Kapisa province, an official said on Saturday. Lt. Col. Sherin Aqa Faqiri, spokesman for the 201st Selab military corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News the offensive kicked off three days back by ANA personnel. He said so far nine insurgents were killed and six others wounded and some land- mines were defused. KABUL - One of the Baghlan coal miners who survived a deadly shooting on Friday in Tala wa Barfak in Baghlan, said Saturday the group had been targeted due to their re- ligious beliefs. Early reports indicated 13 coal miners were gunned down by a group of gunmen affiliated to Daesh but on Sat- urday officials said eight had died and three were wound- ed. Three others managed to escape. Mohammad Hussain one of the survivors said the reason was due to their beliefs. Hus- sain was shot in the back and is being treated in the Pul-e- Khumri hospital. “We were trying to escape in our vehicle when they [Daesh] shot us. They killed one person and then stopped Attack on Baghlan Coalminers Sparks National Outcry Frigid Kabul-Islamabad Ties Worry Sherpao Forces, Taliban Claim Inflicting Casualties on Each Other in Kapisa Offensive Baghlan Shooting Survivor Says Religion Was the Motive speaking at a gathering in Baghlan. “Killing of civilians because of their racial and ethnic dif- ferences is a war crime,” said Mohammad Taqi Wahidi, AIHRC media officer in the province. “Sometimes they (terrorists) kill people chanting Allah is great and misuse religion and this is shameful. Religion is against killing and it does not condone it,” said Mohsin Danish, a member of Balkh Ulema Council. MPs also denounced the kill- ing ...(More on P4)...(6) tuns. He asked the central gov- ernment to give rights to the smaller federating units to cement the federation. “The Pakhtuns should be given control of the natural resourc- es in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.” (Pajhwok) Civilians and security forces suffered no casualties in the battle, he added. The provincial police spokes- man, Mohammad Ayoub Yousufzai, said the operation were ongoing in two part of the province where most of the areas were cleared from the militants. Mohammad Aslam, a resi- dent of the Tagab district, said four Afghan local police- men suffered causalities in the ongoing operation and said the Tagab-Surobai high- way was also blocked when the battle ...(More on P4)...(8) us and told us you belong to another religion and your death is allowed and then they started shooting us and others fell in the river and I got wounded in my back,” Hussain said. He said the gunmen, who were masked, called them non-believers. “We were all colleagues and we were told that we are not Muslim. We told them we are Muslims and that we are workers and we have fami- lies and children but they did not care and they shot us,” Hussain said. Darz Ab Women up in Arms Against Daesh Insurgents Municipality-Appointed Reps Accused of Bribery Kunar Residents Seek End to Forest Cutting Afghan men take part in a ski competition in Bamiyan province. (Xinhua/Latif Azimi) Taliban Denies Killing Coal Miners Important Taliban Base Seized, 6 Rebels Killed in Nimroz KABUL - Some local rep- resentatives appointed by the Kabul Municipality have allegedly been asking residents for money for the approval of necessary documents, such as identity cards. Identity cards, school docu- ments, property deeds, rental papers in a particular locality, must have signa- tures and approval of local representatives appointed by the municipality, called Wakeel-i-Guzar in local par- lance. Hussain, 40, a resident of Kart-i-Sakhi locality in the third municipality district, told Pajhwok Afghan News the representative in his area had demanded 300 af- ghanis to stump and sign his application for the ID card. “Finally, I convinced him to accept 150 afghanis for stumping and signing my tazkira application,” Hus- KABUL - The Taliban has denied responsibility for the killing of eight coal miners in northern Afghanistan. Faiz Mohammad Amiri, the district governor of Tala wa Barfak, in Baghlan Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that unidenti- fied gunmen killed eight miners and wounded three others on January 6. Amiri said the miners, who all came from Bamyan Prov- ince in central Afghanistan and were members of the Shi’ite Hazara minority, had been pulled out of a vehicle and shot. Tala wa Barfak is controlled by the Taliban, but the mili- tants denied responsibility for the attack. “The people working in this mine had our permission and we had good relations,” Taliban spokesman Zabi- hullah Mujahid said. “They hadn’t created any prob- lems.” He blamed pro-government militias in the area for the killings. Amiri said the attack was likely carried out by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, which has carried out a string of deadly at- tacks on Shi’ite Muslims in the country. IS militants were largely confined to the eastern prov- ince of Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan, one year ago, but the government says they have greatly ex- panded their presence since then. (RF/ERL) ZARANJ - An important base of the Taliban mili- tants has been captured and six rebels killed by Afghan forces during an operation in Khashrod dis- trict of southwestern Nim- roz province, an official said Saturday. Provincial deputy police chief, Col. Mohammad Saleh Massoud, told Pa- jhwok Afghan News that an operation to recap- tured lost areas to Taliban was underway in Nimroz province from the past three days. He said that Razavi and Kandahariha areas of Khashrod district which were under the Taliban control have been recap- tured by Afghan forces in the operation. Six Taliban militants were killed and 14 oth- ers wounded as well as a major Taliban base in Razavi area of Khashrod district seized by Afghan forces, Massoud said, add- ing a bomb making fac- tor, 20 bags of explosives, 20 bombs and a bicycle rigged with explosives also destroyed in the op- eration. He said that an Afghan National Army (ANA) sol- dier was also killed in a roadside bombing during the offensive. However, a Taliban spokesman, Zabihul- lah Mujahid, rejected the claims that Afghan forces captured a Taliban base in Khashrod. He said 102 Afghan secu- rity personnel were killed or injured and 15 military vehicles were destroyed or seized by the Taliban in the past three days. Three children have been killed and 10 civilians in- jured as well as a madrasa destroyed by the Afghan forces during their opera- tion, Mujahid said. Only two Taliban mili- tants were killed and three others wounded during the operation, he said. But local security officials rejected civilian casualties in the offen- sives. (Pajhwok) JALALABAD - Nangarhar- based residents of eastern Kunur province and some civil society activists on Sat- urday protested against de- forestation, demanding an end to the felling of trees. Nangarhar Governor Gulab Mangal also participated in the protest gathering ar- ranged at the Shirzai Stadi- um in Jalalabad. He prom- ised sharing their issue with ministries concerned. Earlier, the cabinet decided that Kunur wood products could be transported to any province of the country. Si- multaneously, reports re- garding the cutting of green forests in different parts of the province were released. An organiser of the pro- test, Hamdullah Arbab, speaking to Pajhwok Af- ghan News, called forests national wealth which the government must protect. “We made a symbolic, with a tree hanging from it. Our objective is to help the gov- ernment prevent this disas- ter.” Civil society activist Eng Abaseen Baheer held the government responsible for ...(More on P4)...(9) sain said, asking the munic- ipality to define the duties of local representatives and monitor their activities. Asadullah, 27, hailing from the eighth municipality dis- trict, claimed: “A local rep- resentative asked me for 1,000 afghanis to endorse my house ownership docu- ments.” He lambasted the municipality for not keep- ing a check on local repre- sentatives. Asadullah sought a clarifi- cation from the municipality SHIBERGHAN - Over a hundred women from the Qush Tepa district of north- eastern Jawzjan province have taken up arms against Daesh militants, asking the government to help them eliminate the terrorist net- work. The armed women belong to the families whose homes have been destroyed by Daesh insurgents in the Jar village of Darz Ab district. The affected families have migrated to the Jarqud vil- lage of Qush Tepa. Malaika, one of the armed women, said: “Taliban and Daesh fighters set alight my home and killed my family members. Now I have no hope in life. I have taken up arms in self-defence and am ready to fight against the group.” She accused Daesh terrorists if it had allowed local rep- resentatives to seek money from people for such things. He ripped city fathers for failing to keep an eye on these representatives. Mohammad Imran, belong- ing to the 11th municipality district, believed the prac- tice amounted to bribery as the involvement of local representative was illegal and had no mention in any law. The government had no check on their activities, he ...(More on P4)...(7) of killing her three brothers and two sisters. Subsequent- ly, she migrated to Qush Tepa to escape Daesh sup- pression. She is determined to avenge the barbarity in- flicted on her family. Badam, another woman who has become a sworn enemy of the Islamic State, said: “Daesh rebels killed her husband, uncle and an- other relative before forc- ing her to migrate from the area.” She has no option but to take on the terrorists. Asking the government to help the courageous wom- en, she remarked: “We are the people whose men were killed by Daesh. Coming from poor families, we are in urgent need of support. Daesh will not make mercy on us; it may kill us.” The affected families are currently ...(More on P4)...(10) Relatives of the victims have called for justice and said that government must prosecute those responsible. “… our sin is that we are Haz- ara and we have been killed and the government must stop killing Hazara people,” said Hassan, Hussain’s brother. Meanwhile Baghlan provincial council blame security forces for failing to provide adequate security. “If killing of Hazara people continues, I think government will not be able to stop such movements. Government is not able to provide security for the people,” said Bismil- lah Batash a provincial council member. Baghlan provincial governor Abdul Satar Bariz, said they will bring the culprits to justice. “The ...(More on P4)...(5)
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KABUL - The cold-blooded killing of at least eight coal miners in Baghlan on Friday has sparked a massive out-cry in the country with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), Parliament Mem-bers (MPs), the Ulema, Civil Society Activists and govern-ment condemning the inci-dent.AIHRC, civil society activ-ists and the Ulema council on Saturday condemned the kill-ings reportedly committed by Daesh fighters and said it is a war crime. They had been
PESHAWAR - A senior Pa-kistani politician has called for normalisation of relations between Afghanistan and Pa-kistan for the sake of lasting peace in the region.Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) head Aftab Khan Sherpao, addressing gathering in Dara Adamkhel area on Friday, ex-pressed concern at the frigid in relations between Kabul and Islamabad.He alleged the enemies of Pakistan wanted to isolate the country in the region. However, he hoped Pakistan and Afghanistan would join hands to meet common chal-lenges.Sherpao promised his party would continue to work for strengthening cooperation between the neighbours and defending the rights of Pakh-
KABUL CITY - At least nine Taliban militants have been killed and six others wound-ed in ongoing security forces joint operation in the Nijrab and Tagab districts of the central Kapisa province, an official said on Saturday.Lt. Col. Sherin Aqa Faqiri, spokesman for the 201st Selab military corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News the offensive kicked off three days back by ANA personnel.He said so far nine insurgents were killed and six others wounded and some land-mines were defused.
KABUL - One of the Baghlan coal miners who survived a deadly shooting on Friday in Tala wa Barfak in Baghlan, said Saturday the group had been targeted due to their re-ligious beliefs. Early reports indicated 13 coal miners were gunned down by a group of gunmen affiliated to Daesh but on Sat-urday officials said eight had died and three were wound-ed. Three others managed to escape.Mohammad Hussain one of the survivors said the reason was due to their beliefs. Hus-sain was shot in the back and is being treated in the Pul-e-Khumri hospital. “We were trying to escape in our vehicle when they [Daesh] shot us. They killed one person and then stopped
Attack on Baghlan Coalminers Sparks
National Outcry
Frigid Kabul-Islamabad Ties Worry Sherpao
Forces, Taliban Claim Inflicting Casualties on Each
Other in Kapisa Offensive
Baghlan Shooting Survivor Says Religion Was the Motive
speaking at a gathering in Baghlan.“Killing of civilians because of their racial and ethnic dif-ferences is a war crime,” said Mohammad Taqi Wahidi, AIHRC media officer in the province. “Sometimes they (terrorists) kill people chanting Allah is great and misuse religion and this is shameful. Religion is against killing and it does not condone it,” said Mohsin Danish, a member of Balkh Ulema Council.MPs also denounced the kill-ing ...(More on P4)...(6)
tuns.He asked the central gov-ernment to give rights to the smaller federating units to cement the federation. “The Pakhtuns should be given control of the natural resourc-es in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.” (Pajhwok)
Civilians and security forces suffered no casualties in the battle, he added.The provincial police spokes-man, Mohammad Ayoub Yousufzai, said the operation were ongoing in two part of the province where most of the areas were cleared from the militants.Mohammad Aslam, a resi-dent of the Tagab district, said four Afghan local police-men suffered causalities in the ongoing operation and said the Tagab-Surobai high-way was also blocked when the battle ...(More on P4)...(8)
us and told us you belong to another religion and your death is allowed and then they started shooting us and others fell in the river and I got wounded in my back,”
Hussain said. He said the gunmen, who were masked, called them non-believers.“We were all colleagues and we were told that we are not
Muslim. We told them we are Muslims and that we are workers and we have fami-lies and children but they did not care and they shot us,” Hussain said.
Darz Ab Women up in Arms Against Daesh Insurgents
Municipality-Appointed Reps Accused of Bribery
Kunar Residents Seek End to
Forest Cutting
Afghan men take part in a ski competition in Bamiyan province. (Xinhua/Latif Azimi)
Taliban Denies Killing Coal Miners
Important Taliban Base
Seized, 6 Rebels Killed
in NimrozKABUL - Some local rep-resentatives appointed by the Kabul Municipality have allegedly been asking residents for money for the approval of necessary documents, such as identity cards.Identity cards, school docu-ments, property deeds, rental papers in a particular locality, must have signa-tures and approval of local representatives appointed by the municipality, called Wakeel-i-Guzar in local par-lance.Hussain, 40, a resident of Kart-i-Sakhi locality in the third municipality district, told Pajhwok Afghan News the representative in his area had demanded 300 af-ghanis to stump and sign his application for the ID card.“Finally, I convinced him to accept 150 afghanis for stumping and signing my tazkira application,” Hus-
KABUL - The Taliban has denied responsibility for the killing of eight coal miners in northern Afghanistan.Faiz Mohammad Amiri, the district governor of Tala wa Barfak, in Baghlan Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that unidenti-fied gunmen killed eight miners and wounded three others on January 6.Amiri said the miners, who all came from Bamyan Prov-ince in central Afghanistan and were members of the Shi’ite Hazara minority, had been pulled out of a vehicle and shot.Tala wa Barfak is controlled by the Taliban, but the mili-tants denied responsibility for the attack.“The people working in this mine had our permission and we had good relations,” Taliban spokesman Zabi-hullah Mujahid said. “They hadn’t created any prob-lems.”He blamed pro-government militias in the area for the killings.Amiri said the attack was likely carried out by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, which has carried out a string of deadly at-tacks on Shi’ite Muslims in the country.IS militants were largely confined to the eastern prov-ince of Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan, one year ago, but the government says they have greatly ex-panded their presence since then. (RF/ERL)
ZARANJ - An important base of the Taliban mili-tants has been captured and six rebels killed by Afghan forces during an operation in Khashrod dis-trict of southwestern Nim-roz province, an official said Saturday.Provincial deputy police chief, Col. Mohammad Saleh Massoud, told Pa-jhwok Afghan News that an operation to recap-tured lost areas to Taliban was underway in Nimroz province from the past three days.He said that Razavi and Kandahariha areas of Khashrod district which were under the Taliban control have been recap-tured by Afghan forces in the operation.Six Taliban militants were killed and 14 oth-ers wounded as well as a major Taliban base in Razavi area of Khashrod district seized by Afghan forces, Massoud said, add-ing a bomb making fac-tor, 20 bags of explosives, 20 bombs and a bicycle rigged with explosives also destroyed in the op-eration.He said that an Afghan National Army (ANA) sol-dier was also killed in a roadside bombing during the offensive.However, a Taliban spokesman, Zabihul-lah Mujahid, rejected the claims that Afghan forces captured a Taliban base in Khashrod.He said 102 Afghan secu-rity personnel were killed or injured and 15 military vehicles were destroyed or seized by the Taliban in the past three days.Three children have been killed and 10 civilians in-jured as well as a madrasa destroyed by the Afghan forces during their opera-tion, Mujahid said.Only two Taliban mili-tants were killed and three others wounded during the operation, he said. But local security officials rejected civilian casualties in the offen-sives. (Pajhwok)
JALALABAD - Nangarhar-based residents of eastern Kunur province and some civil society activists on Sat-urday protested against de-forestation, demanding an end to the felling of trees.Nangarhar Governor Gulab Mangal also participated in the protest gathering ar-ranged at the Shirzai Stadi-um in Jalalabad. He prom-ised sharing their issue with ministries concerned.Earlier, the cabinet decided that Kunur wood products could be transported to any province of the country. Si-multaneously, reports re-garding the cutting of green forests in different parts of the province were released.An organiser of the pro-test, Hamdullah Arbab, speaking to Pajhwok Af-ghan News, called forests national wealth which the government must protect. “We made a symbolic, with a tree hanging from it. Our objective is to help the gov-ernment prevent this disas-ter.”Civil society activist Eng Abaseen Baheer held the government responsible for ...(More on P4)...(9)
sain said, asking the munic-ipality to define the duties of local representatives and monitor their activities.Asadullah, 27, hailing from the eighth municipality dis-trict, claimed: “A local rep-resentative asked me for 1,000 afghanis to endorse my house ownership docu-ments.” He lambasted the municipality for not keep-ing a check on local repre-sentatives.Asadullah sought a clarifi-cation from the municipality
SHIBERGHAN - Over a hundred women from the Qush Tepa district of north-eastern Jawzjan province have taken up arms against Daesh militants, asking the government to help them eliminate the terrorist net-work.The armed women belong to the families whose homes have been destroyed by Daesh insurgents in the Jar village of Darz Ab district. The affected families have migrated to the Jarqud vil-lage of Qush Tepa.Malaika, one of the armed women, said: “Taliban and Daesh fighters set alight my home and killed my family members. Now I have no hope in life. I have taken up arms in self-defence and am ready to fight against the group.”She accused Daesh terrorists
if it had allowed local rep-resentatives to seek money from people for such things. He ripped city fathers for failing to keep an eye on these representatives.Mohammad Imran, belong-ing to the 11th municipality district, believed the prac-tice amounted to bribery as the involvement of local representative was illegal and had no mention in any law. The government had no check on their activities, he ...(More on P4)...(7)
of killing her three brothers and two sisters. Subsequent-ly, she migrated to Qush Tepa to escape Daesh sup-pression. She is determined to avenge the barbarity in-flicted on her family.Badam, another woman who has become a sworn enemy of the Islamic State, said: “Daesh rebels killed her husband, uncle and an-other relative before forc-ing her to migrate from the area.” She has no option but to take on the terrorists.Asking the government to help the courageous wom-en, she remarked: “We are the people whose men were killed by Daesh. Coming from poor families, we are in urgent need of support. Daesh will not make mercy on us; it may kill us.”The affected families are currently ...(More on P4)...(10)
Relatives of the victims have called for justice and said that government must prosecute those responsible. “… our sin is that we are Haz-ara and we have been killed and the government must stop killing Hazara people,” said Hassan, Hussain’s brother.Meanwhile Baghlan provincial council blame security forces for failing to provide adequate security. “If killing of Hazara people continues, I think government will not be able to stop such movements. Government is not able to provide security for the people,” said Bismil-lah Batash a provincial council member. Baghlan provincial governor Abdul Satar Bariz, said they will bring the culprits to justice. “The ...(More on P4)...(5)
