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Posts published in “Day: January 28, 2016

Mahtab blames Fata mess on successive governors: Report in Dawn, Jan 28, 2016

PESHAWAR:KhyberPakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan has blamed the governor`s chair for the prevailing `mess` in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). Speaking at a MoU signing ceremony here on Wednesday, he said every governorshould be heldresponsible and accountable afterrelinquishing the office for what he had done during his tenure. `If a chief minister can be held accountable, then governor should also be held responsible after leaving his charge,` he said. The MoU was signed…

Afghan envoy summoned : edit in Daily Times, Jan 28, 2016

Afghan Charge d’Affaires Syed Abdul Nasir Yousafi was summoned by the Foreign Office on January 27 to convey Pakistan’s concern regarding the use of Afghan soil by terrorist elements to direct the horrific attack on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda in which unidentified gunmen opened fire on students and faculty members, leaving at least 21 people dead. This attack, reminiscent of the devastating Army Public School (APS) massacre of December 2014, traces its origins…

Islamabad blames the victim: edit in Afghanistan Times.af, Jan 27, 2016

Every country on this planet knows that Afghanistan is the worst victim of foreign influence, terrorism and extremism. Afghans are paying the cost for the war that has been imposed by the neighbors and world powers on them. It has been more than three decades but there is no end in sight to the ongoing violence which had displaced hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed their properties. The quest to control Afghan policy, natural…

Taliban targets a major achievement of the U.S. war in Afghanistan: the private media : Report in LA Times, Jan 27, 2016

By Ali M. Latifi and Shashank Bengali Kabul:  It was a cruel twist when many Afghans learned of last week’s deadly Taliban bombing of a bus carrying workers of the country’s largest private broadcaster directly from the Tolo TV network. The spread of private media has been one of the only clear successes in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led international coalition invaded in 2001 and toppled a Taliban government. Tolo, which airs a mix of news…

Scores of militants killed, injured in military ops: report Afghanistan Times.af, Jan 27, 2016

KABUL: At least 42 Taliban militants have been killed and 32 injured in a series of operations launched by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in different provinces, security officials said Wednesday. “Afghan National Army (ANA), the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) launched joint operations in Nooristan, Ghazni, Logar, Kandahar, Helmand, Laghman and Paktia provinces in the past 24 hours,” defense ministry said in a statement. “The militants were threading…

NDS seizes arms cache of Taliban in Maidan Wardak KHAAMA PRESS, Jan 27 2016

The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has seized an arms cache of Taliban militants in Jalriz District of central Maidan Wardak province. A statement released by NDS on Wednesday states that explosive materials and rounds of different types of heavy and light weapons were hidden in the cache. “Terrorists planned to target vehicles with these materials on Kabul-Ghazni highway but luckily the cache was seized and several terrorist activities prevented,” the…

Olomi Speaks Out About Delay In Baghlan Operation: report in Tolo News, Jan 27, 2016

Kabul: Interior Minister Noorulhaq Olomi on Wednesday said there were lots of efforts by some elements to cancel the military operation in parts of Pul-e-Khumri city in northern Baghlan province, but the security forces made the operation happen based on the suggestions of the people. “There were efforts by some circles to stop the Baghlan operation, but the security forces started the operation after they were requested by the people,” the minister said at a…

The U.S. was supposed to leave Afghanistan by 2017. Now it might take decades. By Greg Jaffe & Missy Ryan in The Washington Post, Jan 26, 2016

Top U.S. military commanders, who only a few months ago were planning to pull the last American troops out of Afghanistan by year’s end, are now quietly talking about an American commitment that could keep thousands of troops in the country for decades. The shift in mind-set, made possible by President Obama’s decision last fall to cancel withdrawal plans, reflects the Afghan government’s vulnerability to continued militant assault and concern that terrorist groups such as…

China Urging Afghanistan to Restart Peace Talks With Taliban: By Edward Wong in The NY Times, Jan 28, 2016

BEIJING — Chinese officials are urging the government of Afghanistan to restart peace talks with the Taliban after the last round of discussions collapsed, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said. The statement by China late Tuesday was a sign that its leaders were asserting their commitment to the nascent peace process despite problems after the major countries involved learned last year that a Taliban founder, Mullah Muhammad Omar, had been dead for two years. That…

Islamabad to write to India on JIT visit: by Maqbool Malik in The Nation, Jan 28, 2016

ISLAMABAD – Islamabad will write to New Delhi about the visit of its Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the information India shared with Pakistan on the Pathankot airbase attack. According to the government sources, once the JIT investigating the Indian leads felt the need to visit India, Islamabad will immediately inform New Delhi of the schedule. “A thorough investigation is underway; it would be premature to comment on the outcome of the investigation,” a senior…

In Book, Xi Jinping Taints Ousted Rivals With Talk of Plots By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW in The NY Times, Jan 28, 2016

BEIJING — The strip lighting and plastic chairs of the Xinhua bookstore on Dongdaqiao Road don’t invite people to linger, and the government-owned store, in the basement of a mall, was deserted on Monday afternoon. Yet something momentous was on the “new arrivals” shelf by the entrance: a book containing the first public and official declaration by President Xi Jinping of “political plot activities” by senior Communist Party officials “to wreck and split the party”…