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Reg: No 352 Volume No. 3304 Tuesday May 24, 2016 Jawza 04, 1395 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 15/-Afs Quote of the Day Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 www.thedailyafghanistan.com Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace MoI Iran, India, Afghanistan Ink Chabahar Agreement Abdullah Calls for Robust Global Cooperation to Curb Violence TEHRAN - Tehran, New Delhi and Kabul signed an epoch- making agreement in Tehran on Monday to establish a transit and transportation corridor. The agreement known as Chabahar Trilateral Agreement was signed by the three coun- tries’ officials in the presence of Iranian President Hassan Rou- hani, his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister Naren- dra Modi in Tehran on Monday. The trilateral Chabahar agree- ment will considerably increase making use of Chabahar port that will connect India to Cen- tral Asia through Afghanistan and instead will provide Af- ghanistan’s access to India via Mansoor Hindered Reconciliation Process in Afghanistan Iranian Supreme eader Receives Afghan President Mansour’s Death Spells Taliban’s End Taliban Starts Consultations to Appoint New Leader KABUL - The late Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, killed in a remote area in Pakistan dur- ing a US bombing raid, obstructed the peace talks between the movement and the Afghan govern- ment, holding back the reconciliation process, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday in a statement. Earlier in the day, US President Barack Obama confirmed Mansour’s death in a US drone strike carried out several days ago. “Mullah Mansour stood in the way of talks be- tween the Afghan government and the Taliban, blocking the prospects for progress towards peace and reconciliation for Afghanistan,” the statement on the NATO website reads. Stoltenberg added that the Taliban leader over- saw the group’s brutal attacks across Afghani- stan, which resulted in the death and suffering of thousands of Afghan civilians and security forces. The Taliban leader was also a major threat to the United States and other NATO allies and partners. According to Stoltenberg, NATO and its allies support the process of reconciliation in Afghani- stan and appreciate all the peacekeeping efforts being taken. On Sunday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif slammed the US drone strike, de- scribing it as a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Afghanistan is struggling ...(More on P4)...(4) TEHRAN - Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolu- tion Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Monday received Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Ghani arrived in Iran on Monday to take part in ceremony to ink a tripartite agreement on Chaba- har with Iranian counterpart Hojjatoleslam Has- san Rouhani and Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi for transport cooperation and linking rail- ways. (IRNA) KABUL - The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Monday said the death of the Taliban’s leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Man- sour is a sign of the group’s demise. MoI spokesman Sediq Sediqqi, who ad- dressed a press conference in Kabul on Monday, said Mansour’s death on Paki- stan’s soil is a serious warning to Islama- bad and that it will push the Pakistani gov- ernment not to further support the Taliban and provide them with safe havens. “Taliban is defeated. This year is the year of their end. Whoever succeeds Mansour will face the same fate,” Sediqqi said. “The death of Mullah Mansour, who was the leader of the Taliban, is a serious warn- ing to Pakistan as they cannot continue supporting the ...(More on P4)...(6) ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s External Affairs Ministry has confirmed that a passport found at the site of the U.S drone strike that killed the Taliban’s leader Mullah Mansour shows the name of a Pakistani citizen Wali Mohammad and carries a valid Iranian visa. In response to the allegations, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed the reports about the journey of the person under the mentioned name as baseless. It is said that the photos of Mohammad’s passport, seen by media, shows a slight re- semblance to some of the old photos of Man- sour and that the holder of the passport had just returned from Iran on the day he was hit by the U.S drone. “The Iranian authorities have rejected the entry of a person with such a description from Iran to Pakistani ...(More on P4)...(5) ANKARA - Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, who ad- dressed the World Humani- tarian Summit in Turkey on Monday, called for wider in- ternational cooperation to ad- dress the crisis facing people across the world. According to Abdullah’s dep- uty spokesman Jawed Faisal, the Chief Executive also called for strong international coop- eration to address the refugee crisis and terrorism. “Abdullah in his speech at the summit said that the world countries should join hands and seek ways on how to over- come conflicts in war-hit coun- ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has criticized the U.S drone strike that reportedly killed the Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, saying that the attack was a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Pakistan’s Dawn news re- ported that Sharif said a strong protest in this regard had been lodged with the U.S. In a statement issued late Sunday by the Pakistan For- eign Office, Islamabad said: “While further investigations are being carried out, Paki- stan wishes to once again state that the drone attack was a violation of its sover- eignty, an issue which has been raised with the United States in the past as well.” According to the state- ment, “on late Saturday 21st May, 2016, the United States shared information that a drone strike was carried out in Pakistan near the Pakistan- Afghanistan border area, in which reportedly the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhter Mansour was targeted. This information was shared with the Prime Minister and the Chief of Army Staff after the drone strike.” The U.S reportedly carried out a drone strike against a vehicle Mansour was thought to be traveling in, in the Dal- bandin area of Baluchistan. Pakistan confirms this vehicle was destroyed and that two adult males were killed. One is believed to have been the driver and the other, Man- sour, who was reportedly carrying a Pakistani passport and I.D card in the name of Wali Muhammad. Pakistan’s statement said: “According to information gathered so far, a person named Wali Muhammad S/o Shah Muhammad, car- rying a Pakistani passport and an I.D. Card, resident of Qilla Abdullah, entered Paki- stan from Taftan border (with Iran) on 21st May.” “His passport was bearing a valid Iranian visa. He was traveling on a vehicle hired from a transport company in Taftan. This vehicle was found destroyed at Kochaki along the Pakistan-Afghan- istan border. The driver’s name was Muhammad Azam whose body has been identi- fied and collected by his rela- tives. The identity of the sec- ond body is being verified on the basis of evidence found at the site of the incident and other relevant information.” In conclusion, the statement read: “It may be recalled that the fifth meeting of the ...(More on P4)...(8) WASHINGTON - U.S President Barack Obama said the death of Taliban leader Mullah Moham- med Akhtar Mansour marks an “important milestone” in the long- standing effort to bring peace to Afghanistan. In a statement issued by the Whitehouse, Obama said: “Mansour’s death removes the leader of an organization that has continued to plot and un- leash attacks on U.S and coalition forces and that has waged war against the Afghan people.” In a written statement issued as he traveled in Vietnam, Obama said the U.S will continue to take action against extremist Mansour’s Death a Milestone for Afghan Peace: Obama U.S Drone Strike a Violation of Sovereignty: Islamabad 1,167 Militants Killed Since the Start of Shafaq Operations: Sediqi networks that target the United States. “Mansour rejected efforts by the Afghan govern- ment to seriously engage in peace talks and end the violence that has tak- en the lives of countless ...(More on P4)...(2) KABUL - At least 1,167 militants have been killed since the start of Shafaq military operations to suppress the insurgency ac- tivities of the anti-government armed militant groups, the Min- istry of Interior (MoI) said. Sediq Sediqi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, told re- porters that the operations were launched two months and are still being conducted against the armed militants. He said at least 465 militants were also wounded and at least 154 others were arrested during the operations across the coun- try. Sediqi further added that the Afghan security forces have increased pressures against the armed insurgents which comes as the Taliban group lost their leader Mullah Akhtar Man- soor that could have a negative impact on the morale of the group’s fighters. According to Sediqi, ...(More on P4)...(7) of people to pessimism and desperation. “We must invest in human- ity. We need to approve direct funding to local people and communities and fix the persis- tent humanitarian funding gap and invest in building stable and inclusive societies,” Ban Ki said. “Terrorism does not recognize color and race. Dozens of peo- ple are killed in the world on a daily basis. We must curb vio- lence to make stable and pros- perous lives by being respon- sive,” Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said. The ...(More on P4)...(3) but other countries as well. “The Iran-India relations have always been important and today such ties can benefit the two nations and the whole region,” the Ira- nian president said. He pointed to the Indian prime minister’s visit to Iran, and said, “This visit is taking place in the post-sanction era and will pre- pare the ground for further eco- nomic cooperation between the two countries.” Modi, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Tehran on Sunday evening and was of- ficially welcomed by President Rouhani on Monday morning. Modi is making a first trip to Iran since he took office in 2016, aimed at ...(More on P4)...(1) tries and they should not allow schools and healthcare centers to be the target,” Faisal said. Abdullah asked for more in- sea. Earlier, President Rouhani in a joint press conference with the Indian prime minister underlined that boosting mutual coopera- tion between Tehran and New Delhi would serve not just the interests of the two nations, Participants pose for a group photo during the world humanitarian summit in Istanbul, Turkey, May 23, 2016. The first world humanitarian summit opened here Monday with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging governments, aid groups, the private sector and other stakeholders to act to improve the global humanitarian system. (Xinhua/Anadolu Agency) NATO ternational cooperation for Afghanistan in its struggle against terrorism. The purpose of the summit is to set a forward-looking agenda for humanitarian ac- tion to collectively address future humanitarian chal- lenges. The aim is to build a more inclusive and diverse humanitarian system com- mitted to humanitarian prin- ciples. Meanwhile, the United Na- tions Secretary General, Bank Ki Moon, said the prolonged waves of violence emerging out of insurgency and terror- ism have changed the hopes
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Reg: No 352 Volume No. 3304 Tuesday May 24, 2016 Jawza 04, 1395 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 15/-Afs
Quote of the Day
Email: [email protected]: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019
www.thedailyafghanistan.com
Life grants nothing to us mortals without
hard work.Horace
MoI
Iran, India, Afghanistan Ink Chabahar Agreement
Abdullah Calls for Robust Global Cooperation to Curb Violence
TEHRAN - Tehran, New Delhi and Kabul signed an epoch-making agreement in Tehran on Monday to establish a transit and transportation corridor.The agreement known as Chabahar Trilateral Agreement was signed by the three coun-tries’ officials in the presence of Iranian President Hassan Rou-hani, his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi in Tehran on Monday.The trilateral Chabahar agree-ment will considerably increase making use of Chabahar port that will connect India to Cen-tral Asia through Afghanistan and instead will provide Af-ghanistan’s access to India via
Mansoor Hindered Reconciliation Process
in Afghanistan
Iranian Supreme eader Receives Afghan President
Mansour’s Death Spells Taliban’s End
Taliban Starts Consultations to
Appoint New Leader
KABUL - The late Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, killed in a remote area in Pakistan dur-ing a US bombing raid, obstructed the peace talks between the movement and the Afghan govern-ment, holding back the reconciliation process, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday in a statement.Earlier in the day, US President Barack Obama confirmed Mansour’s death in a US drone strike carried out several days ago.“Mullah Mansour stood in the way of talks be-tween the Afghan government and the Taliban, blocking the prospects for progress towards peace and reconciliation for Afghanistan,” the statement on the NATO website reads.Stoltenberg added that the Taliban leader over-saw the group’s brutal attacks across Afghani-stan, which resulted in the death and suffering of thousands of Afghan civilians and security forces. The Taliban leader was also a major threat to the United States and other NATO allies and partners.According to Stoltenberg, NATO and its allies support the process of reconciliation in Afghani-stan and appreciate all the peacekeeping efforts being taken. On Sunday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif slammed the US drone strike, de-scribing it as a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty.Afghanistan is struggling ...(More on P4)...(4)
TEHRAN - Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolu-tion Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Monday received Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.Ghani arrived in Iran on Monday to take part in ceremony to ink a tripartite agreement on Chaba-har with Iranian counterpart Hojjatoleslam Has-san Rouhani and Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi for transport cooperation and linking rail-ways. (IRNA)
KABUL - The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Monday said the death of the Taliban’s leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Man-sour is a sign of the group’s demise.MoI spokesman Sediq Sediqqi, who ad-dressed a press conference in Kabul on Monday, said Mansour’s death on Paki-stan’s soil is a serious warning to Islama-bad and that it will push the Pakistani gov-ernment not to further support the Taliban and provide them with safe havens.“Taliban is defeated. This year is the year of their end. Whoever succeeds Mansour will face the same fate,” Sediqqi said.“The death of Mullah Mansour, who was the leader of the Taliban, is a serious warn-ing to Pakistan as they cannot continue supporting the ...(More on P4)...(6)
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s External Affairs Ministry has confirmed that a passport found at the site of the U.S drone strike that killed the Taliban’s leader Mullah Mansour shows the name of a Pakistani citizen Wali Mohammad and carries a valid Iranian visa.In response to the allegations, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed the reports about the journey of the person under the mentioned name as baseless.It is said that the photos of Mohammad’s passport, seen by media, shows a slight re-semblance to some of the old photos of Man-sour and that the holder of the passport had just returned from Iran on the day he was hit by the U.S drone.“The Iranian authorities have rejected the entry of a person with such a description from Iran to Pakistani ...(More on P4)...(5)
ANKARA - Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, who ad-dressed the World Humani-tarian Summit in Turkey on Monday, called for wider in-ternational cooperation to ad-dress the crisis facing people across the world.According to Abdullah’s dep-uty spokesman Jawed Faisal, the Chief Executive also called for strong international coop-eration to address the refugee crisis and terrorism.“Abdullah in his speech at the summit said that the world countries should join hands and seek ways on how to over-come conflicts in war-hit coun-
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has criticized the U.S drone strike that reportedly killed the Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, saying that the attack was a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty.Pakistan’s Dawn news re-ported that Sharif said a strong protest in this regard had been lodged with the U.S.In a statement issued late Sunday by the Pakistan For-eign Office, Islamabad said: “While further investigations are being carried out, Paki-stan wishes to once again state that the drone attack was a violation of its sover-eignty, an issue which has been raised with the United States in the past as well.”According to the state-ment, “on late Saturday 21st May, 2016, the United States shared information that a drone strike was carried out in Pakistan near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area, in which reportedly the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhter Mansour was targeted. This information was shared with the Prime Minister and the Chief of Army Staff after the drone strike.”The U.S reportedly carried out a drone strike against a vehicle Mansour was thought to be traveling in, in the Dal-bandin area of Baluchistan.Pakistan confirms this vehicle was destroyed and that two adult males were killed. One is believed to have been the driver and the other, Man-sour, who was reportedly carrying a Pakistani passport and I.D card in the name of Wali Muhammad.Pakistan’s statement said: “According to information gathered so far, a person named Wali Muhammad S/o Shah Muhammad, car-rying a Pakistani passport and an I.D. Card, resident of Qilla Abdullah, entered Paki-stan from Taftan border (with Iran) on 21st May.”“His passport was bearing a valid Iranian visa. He was traveling on a vehicle hired from a transport company in Taftan. This vehicle was found destroyed at Kochaki along the Pakistan-Afghan-istan border. The driver’s name was Muhammad Azam whose body has been identi-fied and collected by his rela-tives. The identity of the sec-ond body is being verified on the basis of evidence found at the site of the incident and other relevant information.”In conclusion, the statement read: “It may be recalled that the fifth meeting of the ...(More on P4)...(8)
WASHINGTON - U.S President Barack Obama said the death of Taliban leader Mullah Moham-med Akhtar Mansour marks an “important milestone” in the long-standing effort to bring peace to Afghanistan.In a statement issued by the Whitehouse, Obama said: “Mansour’s death removes the leader of an organization that has continued to plot and un-leash attacks on U.S and coalition forces and that has waged war against the Afghan people.”In a written statement issued as he traveled in Vietnam, Obama said the U.S will continue to take action against extremist
Mansour’s Death a Milestone for Afghan
Peace: Obama
U.S Drone Strike a Violation of Sovereignty:
Islamabad
1,167 Militants Killed Since the Start of Shafaq
Operations: Sediqi
networks that target the United States.“Mansour rejected efforts by the Afghan govern-ment to seriously engage in peace talks and end the violence that has tak-en the lives of countless ...(More on P4)...(2)
KABUL - At least 1,167 militants have been killed since the start of Shafaq military operations to suppress the insurgency ac-tivities of the anti-government armed militant groups, the Min-istry of Interior (MoI) said.Sediq Sediqi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, told re-porters that the operations were launched two months and are still being conducted against the armed militants.He said at least 465 militants were also wounded and at least 154 others were arrested during the operations across the coun-try. Sediqi further added that the Afghan security forces have increased pressures against the armed insurgents which comes as the Taliban group lost their leader Mullah Akhtar Man-soor that could have a negative impact on the morale of the group’s fighters. According to Sediqi, ...(More on P4)...(7)
of people to pessimism and desperation.“We must invest in human-ity. We need to approve direct funding to local people and communities and fix the persis-tent humanitarian funding gap and invest in building stable and inclusive societies,” Ban Ki said.“Terrorism does not recognize color and race. Dozens of peo-ple are killed in the world on a daily basis. We must curb vio-lence to make stable and pros-perous lives by being respon-sive,” Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said.The ...(More on P4)...(3)
but other countries as well. “The Iran-India relations have always been important and today such ties can benefit the two nations and the whole region,” the Ira-nian president said.He pointed to the Indian prime minister’s visit to Iran, and said, “This visit is taking place in the post-sanction era and will pre-pare the ground for further eco-nomic cooperation between the two countries.”Modi, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Tehran on Sunday evening and was of-ficially welcomed by President Rouhani on Monday morning.Modi is making a first trip to Iran since he took office in 2016, aimed at ...(More on P4)...(1)
tries and they should not allow schools and healthcare centers to be the target,” Faisal said.Abdullah asked for more in-
sea.Earlier, President Rouhani in a joint press conference with the Indian prime minister
underlined that boosting mutual coopera-tion between Tehran and New Delhi would serve not just the interests of the two nations,
Participants pose for a group photo during the world humanitarian summit in Istanbul, Turkey, May 23, 2016. The first world humanitarian summit opened here Monday with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging governments, aid
groups, the private sector and other stakeholders to act to improve the global humanitarian system. (Xinhua/Anadolu Agency)
NATO
ternational cooperation for Afghanistan in its struggle against terrorism.The purpose of the summit is to set a forward-looking agenda for humanitarian ac-tion to collectively address future humanitarian chal-lenges. The aim is to build a more inclusive and diverse humanitarian system com-mitted to humanitarian prin-ciples.Meanwhile, the United Na-tions Secretary General, Bank Ki Moon, said the prolonged waves of violence emerging out of insurgency and terror-ism have changed the hopes
