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Afghan-Sino Relations Stressed Under New Chines Foreign Policy

Peace Convoy to Hold Meeting with Religious Scholars

KABUL - Chinese envoy welcomed ceasefire dur-ing Eid-ul-Fitr and expressed happiness over the existence of general consensus on peace in the country.The two sides discussed ways to improve bilateral

KABUL - Peace activists said they hope religious scholars and tribal elders will help open the doors of peace.Helmand Peace Convoy activists said on Tuesday they plan to organize a meeting with tribal elders and religious scholars in order to secure a ceasefire with the Taliban.The head of the peace convoy Iqbal Khyber said the aim of the meeting will be to get all sides in-volved in the war to agree to a one-year truce.“We want to open the door of peace, meetings and talks with the Taliban through tribal elders and religious scholars. The tribal elders and religious scholars will mediate in this respect in order to

cooperation, counterterrorism efforts and Afghan led and owned peace process.Separately Foreign Minister SalahuddinRabbani also held a meeting with Chines envoy and dis-cussed bilateral and regional issues. (Pajhwok)

start talks (with the Taliban),” Khyber told TOLO news on Tuesday.Members of the campaign ...(More on P4)...(6)

Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Liu Jinsong has held a meeting with National Security Advisor Mohammad HanifAtmar

and discussed regional cooperation and peace process.

Neymar barged his way into the World Cup limelight with a goal, an assist and another helping of histrionics as Brazil roared into the quarter-finals with a 2-0 vic-tory over Mexico on Monday.The Paris St Germain forward was both architect and execu-tioner for Brazil, who inflicted a seventh straight last-16 exit on the central Americans, sliding home in the second half and then teeing up Roberto Firmino late on.Yet the less attractive side of his game was also on display, as he writhed on the floor, seemingly in agony, after Mexico’s Miguel Layun had made the slightest contact with his ankle, before making an immediate and mi-raculous recovery.That should not overshadow his generally positive performance, however, as the five-times cham-pions beat an otherwise stub-born Mexico, whose World Cup began with such promise with a victory over champions Germa-ny, but ended in familiar fashion in the first knockout round.It was the seventh World Cup running that Brazil have reached the last eight, where they will

now face Belgium or Japan, while Mexico have not made it to that stage since they hosted the tournament in 1986.Mexico, who enjoyed an envi-able recent record against Brazil having won seven of their pre-vious 15 matches against them, were a threat on the counter in the first half but then faded without ever really being put to the sword.For all their quasi-mythological attacking traditions, this Brazil side have a pragmatism that keeps them in check in such a way that you cannot see them ever truly cutting loose at this tournament.Having kept clean sheets in seven of their previous eight games, they were never going to commit men forward and allow Mexico to pick them off in the same way that Germany did in the group stage.That is not to say that they were not under the cosh in the early stages, however, as Hirving Lo-zano had an effort blocked after two minutes, as did Hector Her-rera, but as the first half wore on, Brazil got on top in the sti-fling ...(More on P4)...(7)

That’s the immediate and obvious takeaway after the Belgians – with a squad so talented that the Red Devils were universally consid-ered a dark horse title threat de-spite little history of success at the international level – were pushed to the limit by Japan, which took a two-goal lead early in the second half of their Round of 16 clash be-fore Belgium roared back to win 3-2 on Nacer Chadli’s goal sec-onds before the final whistle.On paper, the match in Rostov-on-Don shouldn’t have been close. Belgium, the sport’s third-best team according to FIFA’s rankings, was up against the No. 61 Blue Samurai. Of the eight matchups to open the tourna-ment’s knockout phase, this one seemed the easiest to predict. Few thought that Japan would even survive the group stage. The only real question heading into Mon-day’s win-or-go-home contest was ...(More on P4)...(8)

Neymar Dazzles and Disappoints as Brazil

Reaches WC Quarters

Belgium Reminded by Japan Just How Tough Winning its First World Cup will be

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