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Pakistan Opposes Preconditions for Talks with Afghan Taliban

Ghani under Fire for Withholding Results

of Task Teams

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Monday opposed precondi-tions in talks between the Af-ghan government and the Tali-ban and suggested incentives to encourage the insurgents to come to the negotiations table.Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan’s foreign affairs adviser, floated the pro-posal in his speech at the open-ing session of the four-nation talks to explore ways for pro-moting reconciliation process in Afghanistan.The quadrilateral process in-volving Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the U.S. was launched during a meeting of the four countries on the side-lines of the Heart of Asia Con-ference held in Islamabad last

Global Action too Slow to Curb

Rising Risks

Ex-UN Disaster Chief

Call to Boost Intel Sharing to Thwart ‘Terrorism 2.0’

China Willing to Provide Assistance for Afghan Peace

Talks: FM

Afghan Taliban Rejects Talks with Kabul Government

New Council Pushes Government

to Convene Jirga before August

Iran to Provide Internet Services to Afghanistan

BARCELONA - The world’s preparations to deal with disasters are not yet keeping pace with the growing threats to people and societies, said the for-mer U.N. disaster prevention chief.Margareta Wahlström, who served for over seven years as head of the United Nations Office for Dis-aster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), said big changes could be made to limit the physical impacts of natu-ral and manmade disasters like floods, earthquakes and industrial accidents.“If we included risk as a factor into all the plans and visions we have for the future, we will gradually catch up - then we will be able to reduce risk,” she told the Thomson Reuters ...(More on P4)...(4)

KABUL - The Afghan Taliban on Monday rejected talks with the government in Kabul, which along with the United States, China and Pakistan pro-motes a peace process with the armed group.Some people may be introducing themselves as Taliban to resume talks, but the reality is we nei-ther take part in the talks nor attend worthless meetings, said a leader of that organization to The Express Tribune.According to the Chief of the Afghan Executive, Abdullah Abdullah, Pakistan will “present a list of the Taliban willing to negotiate” with Kabul in the quadrilateral meeting to be held in this capital.The Taliban spokesman also dismissed rumors about the involvement of Sirajuddin Haqqani, sec-ond in command of the armed group, in dialogue to end the Afghan war. Mullah Abdul Razzaq and Hasan Rehmani were ...(More on P4)...(3)

KABUL - The Council of the Protection and Stabil-ity of Afghanistan renewed its call to government to keep within the time frame to convene the con-stitutional amendment Loya Jirga.The council also pledged government its full support so that the Jirga is held on time - noting that government will lose credibility if it ends its two years in power without having convened, as agreed, the Jirga in August.According to a political agreement inked between President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Ab-dullah during the formation of the National Uni-ty Government, a Loya Jirga has to be convened within two years to amend the constitution to es-tablish the position of a Prime Minister.“On the basis of the political agreement signed for the formation of the National Unity Government, the legal tenure of the government ends in August. If the government fails to convene the constitu-tional amendment Loya Jirga, the Council of the Protection and ...(More on P4)...(6)

ISLAMABAD - China’s Foreign Ministry said Monday it is willing to support and assist the re-starting of the peace process in Afghanistan.“China is willing to provide support and assis-tance to restarting the Afghan peace talks through joint efforts with relevant sides, on the basis of re-specting Afghan’s sovereignty and relevant par-ties’ concerns,” spokesperson Hong Lei said at a daily press briefing.Senior officials from Afghanistan, the United States, China and Pakistan started consultations in Islamabad Monday to push forward the peace process in Afghanistan.Hong added that The Chinese delegation was led by the ministry’s special ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - Critics blasted Presi-dent Ashraf Ghani on Monday over the creation of what they call incompetent task teams assigned to investigate major incidents in the country and for withholding the findings of such teams despite having pledged otherwise.Reacting to the allegations posed by critics, the Presiden-tial Palace insists that the tasks teams have conducted thor-ough investigations and rec-ommendations are being fol-lowed up.“In a country where there is the culture of reward and pun-ishment and the culture of ac-countability and monitoring, and there is no seriousness within the system, such issues continue to happen,” MP Ha-biba Danish said.The Kunduz fact finding com-

mittee was one example of a com-mission tasked by Ghani to probe the fall of the city to the Taliban in September last year. However, de-spite having submitted its findings and making recommendations, neither the full report was released nor were recommendations fol-lowed up by government, said a member of the fact finding team.“The majority of these commis-sions are symbolic, because people

KABUL - Speaking in an ex-clusive interview with IRNA Samim said that we signed a contract to pay $105,000 for each 10 Gigabyte. Currently Afghanistan is paying $250,000 for the same bandwidth.He said that as a result of entering the Internet market in Herat, gateways would be created in Herat, Kanda-har, Nangarhar, Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif for people to have access to Internet and

THE HAGUE - Ministers demand-ed greater intelligence sharing to stop extremist groups slipping across borders to carry out attacks, urging concrete commitments at talks Monday to stem dangerous intel lapses.In the wake of the November 13 Paris attacks allegedly master-minded by a Belgian-born extrem-ist, Belgian Foreign Minister Didi-er Reynders admitted more must be done.“Intelligence services must get used to not only collecting infor-mation, but to sharing it,” he told AFP on the sidelines of talks on how to thwart terror groups, at-tended by more than 50 countries.“We are doing it more and more among European services, but there is still work to be done,” he acknowledged at the confer-

tion process is to create conditions to bring the Taliban groups to the nego-tiation table ...(More on P4)...(1)

get emotional whenever an incident happens, therefore the government forms such commissions to cool public outrage,” one member of the Kunduz fact finding committee Ab-dalullah Mohammadi said.In answer to this, deputy presiden-tial spokesman Sayed Zafar Hashe-mi rejected the claims.“Despite the challenges and a pro-longed working process, you wit-nessed that ...(More on P4)...(5)

the price would fall to 20 to 25 percent. He added that Af-ghanistan has to pay $135,000 for each 10 Gigabyte of inter-net services from Kazakhstan.He referred to low quality as well as high Internet charge and being fully dependent on Pakistan as major problems on the way of Afghanistan to access Internet.He noted that implementing new plans will put an end to Internet problems in Afghani-stan. (IRNA)

Afghan cricket fans celebrate the victory of the national cricket team over Zimbabwe as the team returns to Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday January 11, 2016. Afghanistan’s national cricket team returned home after securing their second Twenty20 win over Zimbabwe in three months in a compelling series that propelled

the Afghans into the world top ten in both the one-day and T20 formats. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

An Afghan child receives winter relief assistance distributed by Afghan govern-ment in Bamyan province. The Afghan government and aid agencies have speed

up their efforts to help needy people during the winter. (Xinhua/Latif Azimi)

ence hosted by The Netherlands. While there was a lot of bilat-eral cooperation, Reynders said it was not happening “in a very structured fashion between very many states.” Held as part of the Global Counter Terrorism Forum and the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, an alternative acronym for the Islamic State group, the talks were taking place nearly two months after the Paris at-tacks which killed 130 people. And they come as The Netherlands begins its six-month rotating presidency of the European Union. “What we face today is terrorism 2.0. Like a virus, it adapts to sur-vive and becomes more resilient,” Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders told the opening of the talks. (AFP)

month. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif were present in that meeting, which

was also attended by senior officials of China and the U.S.“The primary objective of the reconcilia-