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Stay the Course in Afghanistan, Khalilzad Advises US

WASHINGTON - America’s in-itial assessment of Afghanistan when the Soviet forces invaded the country went wrong, former US ambassador Zalmay Khal-ilzad said Wednesday.He favoured the United States staying the course in Afghani-stan and remaining engaged in the nation-building exercise if Washington really desired to prevent major terrorist attacks.Khalilzad told a Washington audience the United States failed in adjusting its policies in Afghanistan after the Soviets left and became disengaged -- a move which had disastrous con-sequences.“We disengaged. That disen-

PUL-I-ALAM - A Taliban key commander for Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital of central Logar, was killed and his two fighters were arrested by Afghan forces in the province, an official said on Friday.The Taliban commander, Mullah Rahim, was killed and his two comrades were detained on Fri-day morning during an operation conducted by National Directo-rate of Security (NDS) personnel in the Bari Dasht area on the out-skirts ...(More on P4)...(11)

KABUL - At least 48 militants and 10 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed over the past one day in 12 prov-inces of the country, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Friday.A statement from MoD stated that Afghan Security and De-fence Force (ASDF) conducted the operations over the past 24 hours to defeat militants in Nan-garhar, Laghman, Kabul, Paktia, Kandahar, Badghis, Baghlan, and Balkh, Jawzjan, Faryab, Kunduz and Helmand provinces.Three militants were killed in Kandahar province, 25 insurgents including six Daesh fighters in Nangarhar and Paktia provinces and 13 other rebels were killed in Kunduz and Baghlan provinces, the statement added.Seven of the militants were wounded and as many others detained during the raids, the statement said adding 10 ANA soldiers have also been killed in the offensives. (Pajhwok)

KABUL - The New Attitude Or-ganisation (NAO) on Thursday criticised West’s discriminatory attitude toward Afghan asylum seekers and asked the United Na-tions (UN) and European Union (EU) to check the double stand-ards.NAO Director Abdul Qayyum Naderi told reporters in Kabul

KABUL - Security forces have launched a military operation in Warduj district of north-eastern Badakhshan to re-capture the district from Taliban insurgents, local officials said on Thursday.The operation was launched four days ago and currently

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan said on Thursday that Afghanistan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has postponed his upcoming visit to Islamabad.Abdullah’s office had earlier said that he will not travel to Pakistan

Leaving that country would mean the US going back to Afghanistan, he argued. Any pullout programme had to be realistic, he stressed, while re-sponding to questions on his memoir “The Envoy: From Ka-bul to the White House.”The event at the Atlantic Coun-cil was sponsored by the Bayaat Foundation. “I took my time in order to reflect on my work,” he said, when asked why he had written the book seven years af-ter he left the Bush administra-tion.He left Kabul in 1966 and went on to become a top-ranking Afghan-American in any presi-dential ...(More on P4)...(12)

Attack on Civilians Termed

Unforgivable

Tajikistan, Afghanistan Plan to Increase the

Number of Fights

A Taliban Commander

Eliminated in Logar

48 Insurgents Killed in Around-the-Clock

Operations

KABUL - Those wounded in Tuesday’s attack on the intelligence unit tasked with protecting VIPs labeled the incident an un-forgivable act.A number of wounded people, who have been admitted to Ibne Sina hospital, said that most of the victims of the incident were innocent civilians trying to make a living.Around 94 of the wounded people of Tues-day’s attack were taken to Ibne Sina hos-pital and currently four of them are still in hospital - the rest have been discharged.Inamullah, is a baker who came from Takhar to Kabul for work. He said that he was baking bread when the incident hap-pened. ...(More on P4)...(13)

DUSHANBE - Tajik and Afghan civil avia-tion authorities have discussed the issue of increasing the number of flights between Dushanbe and Kabul, according to the Ta-jikistan’s Ministry of Transport (MoT).An official source at a MoT says the plan to increase the number of flights to ten per week. According to him, the sides have signed a memorandum of cooperation un-der which each of the specified air carriers of the two countries will be able to operate up to five flights a week between Dushanbe and Kabul.Tajik air company, Somon Air, will operate the first flight between Dushanbe and Ka-bul on April 29 this year, the source noted.We will recall that Tajik private airline, So-mon Air, said on April 15 it will operate a once-weekly service from Dushanbe to Ka-bul (Afghanistan) on Mondays and a twice-weekly service from Dushanbe to Lahore (Pakistan) on Mondays and Fridays.Besides, Somon Air plans to operate flight routes from Dushanbe to the Iranian capital, Tehran, this year. ...(More on P4)...(17)

NAO Wants Europe to Stop Discriminating

Against Afghans

Operation Underway to Re-Take Warduj

Pakistan Confirms Postponed Visit by

Dr. Abdullahthat Afghans asylum seekers should neither be deported nor discriminated against. “These double standards are violative of human rights and European val-ues; they must be shunned. All countries should accept refugees and provide proper living condi-tions for them in accordance with international...(More on P4)...(14)

security forces are locked in clashes with insurgents near the district governor’s compound, provincial police chief Ghulaam Sakhi Ghafoori said. However, he assured the people that “the district will soon be cleared of insurgents.” ...(More on P4)...(15)

after a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul Tuesday that killed nearly 70 people and injured over 300.The Afghan leader was sched-uled to pay a two-day visit in the first week of May. “The Afghan side ...(More on P4)...(16)

gagement has had disastrous consequences,” Khalilzad said in his remarks before the At-lantic Council, a top American think-tank.“If our goal is to prevent Af-

ghanistan from being used as a ground for terrorist attacks against the United States, then I am an advocate for staying the course (in Afghanistan),” the former diplomat said.