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Insecurity in Maqur, Gilan Blamed on Insufficient Police

GARDEZ - Public representa-tives in southeastern Pak-tia province say recent high casualty attacks in the coun-try were against Islam and humanity, urging increased security mesures to prevent such incidents in future.=

The members of the Provincial Council believed the recent at-tacks were carried out by for-eign intelligence circles with support of some senior gov-ernment officials.Abdul Malik Zazai, head of Paktia provincial council, said the perpetrators of the deadly suicide attacks and killers of civilians misused the religion of Islam for achieving their ominous goals.He accused the United States and its allies of pursuing a two-faced policy in Afghani-stan and being not honest in bringing peace and stability to the war torn country. “Some politicians and parties who work for others are in-volved in such incidents, these

KABUL - The political parties and movements have called for a more substantial role for them in the coming parliamentary and district council elections.Jamiat-e-Islami, Hizb-e-Islami led by Abdulhadi Arghandiwal, the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, also known as Junbish-e-Milli, and five other political parties have called for an amendment to the election law, arguing that past elections failed to win the public’s trust.The parties asked government to pave the way for a greater role of political parties and movements in the upcom-ing parliamentary and district council elections – following an

PESHAWAR - In an expect-ed move, the government on Wednesday extended the stay of documented Afghan refugees in Pakistan for two months.The decision came at a federal cabinet meeting in Islamabad, chaired by Prime Minister Sha-hid Khaqan Abbasi. Pakistan has been home to a total of 2.5 million Afghans.Earlier in the day, the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions

LASHKARGAH - A mortar shell fired by security forces during a clash with militants struck a home in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province, killing four members of a family including two women.Haji Abdul Ahad, a relative of the family, bought the four bodies to Lashkargah, the provincial capital, on Friday in protest. He said an-other three people were injured in the incident.He accused security forces of fir-ing the mortar during a clash with insurgents. Their home was locat-ed near the frontline, he added.The governor’s spokesman, Omar

KABUL - Taliban’s supreme lead-er Mullah Haibatullah is quietly planning to grab more power for strengthen the movement ahead of the next fighting season in Af-ghanistan.At a meeting a few days back, he brought a dozen critical changes to tighten his hold on command-ers, followers and the group’s rev-enue, a senior Taliban leader told Pajhwok Afghan News. “Last week, Haibatullah made crucial appointments and ap-proved Taliban’s new military strategy for the coming fighting season,” the source said.Such appointments had been com-mon under Mullah Mohammad Omar and Mullah Akhtar Man-sour. However, since Mullah Hai-batullah’s takeover, these appoint-ment and reshuffles were held back for a long time.The fresh appointment includes seven provincial governors and heads of Taliban’s intelligence committee and three commis-sions. Mullah Haji Yousaf has been named as shadow governor for Ghazni and Abdullah Malakhel for Zabul governor.

KABUL - Nearly 40 insurgents have been killed during secu-rity operations in various parts of the country over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense said on Friday.Another eight militants were wounded and a dozen others captured alive during the joint

amendment to the election law.The other five parties were Mehwar-e-Mardum-e-Afghan-istan, Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami, Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Mardum-e-Afghanistan, Afghan Millat Par-

(SAFRON) recommended a five-month extension in the stay of Af-ghan refugees.In its recommendation, the min-istry said it was implausible to ask more than a million refugees to leave the country and return to their homeland, which does not have the capacity to absorb the returnees.The legal refugee status of many Afghan residents in Pakistan ex-pired on January 31. The cabinet

Zwak, confirmed the incident, but said he had no information who fired the mortar shell.But police spokesman Abdul Salam Afghan gave a different account, saying the four family mem-bers were killed in a landmine blast inside their home. He said the Taliban had planted the bomb. He rejected the deaths resulted from a mortar fire.Officials at the Emergency-run hospital in Lashkargah said they ...(More on P4)...(13)

Mullah Sherin Akhund, who previously served as Taliban intelligence chief, has been named as Kandahar governor. Mullah Muhammad Zahid Akhund has been appointed as Uruzgan governor.Similarly, Naji Nusrat Lala, Maulvi Muneeb and Qari Muhammad Ayub Badghis have respectively been ap-pointed as governors for Daikundi, Herat and Badghis provinces.Maulvi Abdul Rahman is Taliban’s new head of prisons committee, Maulvi Hamidullah Akhundzada of intel-ligence commission and ex-minister of justice Mullah Haji Najib deputy head of intelligence for the southern region.Sheikh Nida Muhammad is the militant movement’s new deputy head of intelligence for the eastern zone and Maulvi Basir chief ...(More on P4)...(15)

operations in Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Logar, Maidan Wardak, Pa-ktika, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Faryab, Baghlan, Farah, Nimroz and Helmand prov-ince, a MoD statement said.The statement claimed the dead Taliban in-cluded four members of the Quetta Council and as many regional commanders.The four regional ...(More on P4)...(14)

Eight Political Parties Call for Amendment to Election Law

Enemy inside Govt behind Recent Bloodshed: Paktia Reps

4 of a Family Killed as Mortar Hits Helmand Home

New Appointments Reflect Power Struggle within Taliban

Pakistan Extends Afghan Refugees’ Stay for 2 Months

Nearly 40 Insurgents Killed in Past 24 Hours: MoD

ty and Hezb-e-Iqtedar-e-Milli Islami Afghanistan (Afghani-stan Islamic National Authority Party.The parties and movements have ...(More on P4)...(11)

took up the issue at its weekly meeting, as Afghan Interior Min-ister Wais Ahmad Barmak and spymaster Masoom Stanikzai ar-rived in Islamabad.Proof of Registration’ (PoR) cards for the Afghans have thus been extended for seven times. The previous extension, the shortest, was for a month only.At least 1.38 million registered Afghan refugees are currently re-siding in ...(More on P4)...(10)

FARAH - An Iranian national has been detained for trafficking 68 kil-ograms of crystal meth in a trailer vehicle near the border with Iran in western Farah province, police said on Friday.The Iranian, a resident of north-eastern Mashhad city, had skill-fully hidden the drug, popularly known as ice, in his trailer which was confiscated at the Sheik Abu Nasar Farahi dry port, Farah po-lice chief Brig. Fazl Ahmad Sher-zad said.He told Pajhwok Afghan News the drug was seized during a joint operation of border and counter-narcotics police on Thursday. (Pa-jhwok)

GHAZNI CITY - Local officials blame growing insecurity in Maqur and Gilan districts of southern Ghazni province on in-sufficient police strength.Col. Lotfullah Kamran, Gilan district police chief, told Pajh-wok Afghan News that around 50 percent of the district’s terri-tory was under Taliban control.“Gilan has 207 villages, we are in control of half of them while the other half are under Taliban control, it is because our person-nel are in a limited number both national and local police forces.”He said police would be able to retake control of the rest of the areas if their strength was in-creased.He said they could launch an operation in areas under Taliban but could not protect the areas for a longer time.Kamran did not provide infor-mation about how much more police personnel are needed, but said: “Our police forces are sent to some other areas.”An Afghan Local Police (ALP) member in the district, Lal Mo-hammad, said that one of his legs was injured during a fight-ing with the Taliban.He said the Taliban could attack their security posts anytime they wanted.“More than 10 of my colleagues were killed in front of my eyes, the clashes have become more frequent, Taliban exist in many villages,” he said.He said the policemen killed in fights against Taliban were yet to be replaced.Abdul Matin, Maqor district police chief, also said their per-sonnel were insufficient.“Most of the areas of this district are under the government control but some of areas under Taliban influence ...(More on P4)...(16)

All Groups Ready for Peace except Taliban: US Official

enemies are inside the govern-ment, they should be identi-fied, exposed and awarded with severe punishment,” he said.Mohammad Rahman Qaderi, another provincial council member, said some foreign

intelligence organs and em-bassies had support of a num-ber of public representatives allowing them to interfere in Afghanistan’s internal affairs and appoint their favorite people.“Kabul based embassies and figures from inside the gov-ernment are involved in these incidents, people who are ap-pointed based on relations are paving the ground for suicide bombers and explosions,” he said.Alamir Bahramzai, another provincial council member, said people strongly sup-ported the government and its recent measures. He said the people of Afghanistan wanted ...(More on P4)...(12)

KABUL - The United States Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan who briefed reporters on his visit to Afghanistan said all militant groups in Af-ghanistan are ready to the join peace process ex-cept the Taliban who by their deadly attacks on civilians showed that they do not have the inten-tion to leave violence.The US deputy secretary visited Kabul on Tuesday

where he held talks with Afghan leaders.He told reporters that the US’s South-Asia strategy is focusing on putting the Taliban under military, economic and political pressure to make the group join the Afghan peace process.“The United States remain firmly committed to supporting the Afghan people and their govern-ment’s efforts to ...(More on P4)...(9)

The top US official says Pakistan should eliminate terrorists’ safe havens on its soil in order to overcome the conflict in Afghanistan.,,

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