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Nabi and Rashid Khan Selected

to Play in Indian Premier League

Taliban Leader among 6 Killed as Rocket Explodes Before Attack on

Lashkargah

Shadow Taliban District Governor Gives up Fighting

ISLAMABAD - A United Nation (UN)’s special envoy arrived Pakistan Monday to reduce tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan following a surge of terror-ist attacks in the country that claimed over 100 lives in few days, according to a Foreign Ministry statement.The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Af-ghanistan Tadamichi Yama-moto met Special Assistant to Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi and discussed the “situation in Afghanistan and efforts for promoting long term peace and stability in that country,” said the statement.Pakistani military said it has targeted hideouts of a Paki-stani Taliban group on the “Afghan side of the border,”

Insecurity Increases Capital Flight from

Country

Additional Forces Deployed to Nangarhar after Pakistani Shelling

Ex-Senior Afghan Official Jailed for 12 Years over Corruption

UN Envoy in Islamabad to Reduce Pak-Afghan Tension

which had claimed responsi-bility for several attacks.

The Pakistani authorities also closed its border with Af-

KABUL - A former senior official of the ministry of interior was jailed for 12 years after he was found guilty of involvement in corruption.Abdul Waseh Raufi, the for-mer assist to of policy and strategy department and head of the procurement department was jailed by the Appellate Court.According to the court hearing, Raufi was found guilty of bribery, misuse of information in his interest, and involvement in smug-gling.The court also ordered Raufi to reimburse the amount of money he has received as bribe when he was on duty.The prosecutor presented relevant documents and evidences to prove Raufi’s

ghanistan. Reports suggest troops of the two countries

KABUL - Growing insecurity, ransom demands and threats to traders and investors in the recent months has tripled security expenses of their businesses, officials of the In-dustries Association said on Monday.This has led to a number of investors leaving the country due to the lack of safety, the Association added.“Problems have increased re-cently. Our investors spend lots of money maintaining their security,” said Sakhi Ahmad Paiman, head of in-dustries association.“Our investors cannot ex-pand their investments in such bad conditions. The Government should change the situation,” said Atiqullah Nusrat, deputy head of Af-

involvement in corruption and bribery.He said Raufi received an amount of $150,000 from a contractor to grant a con-tract for the Feed Less com-pany.The prosecutor also added that the security forces re-covered a Land Cruiser vehicle from Raufi’s house besides recovering several

KABUL - Additional forc-es have been deployed to eastern Nangarhar prov-ince following heavy ar-tillery shelling from the other side of Durand Line.The provincial officials in Nangarhar said the forces were deployed to Goshta and Lalpur districts in a bid to prevent the shell-ing.Provincial governor Gu-lab Mangal said the addi-tional ground forces and artillery units were de-ployed after the conclu-sion of the military coun-cil meeting.He said the Afghan forces have the right to respond to further aggressions.Mangal further added that the deployment of Quick Reaction Forces to Lalpur district was also decided during the meet-

LASHKARGAH - Taliban leader was among six mili-tants killed after a rocket ex-ploded before the militants manage to attack Lashkargah city in southern Helmand province.According to the local gov-ernment officials, the incident took place on Sunday after-noon as the militants were preparing for the attack.The officials further added that the Taliban leader killed in the explosion has been identified as Mullah Rauf.At least two Taliban insur-gents were also wounded in the incident, the local officials added.Helmand is among the vola-tile provinces in southern Af-ghanistan where the Taliban insurgents are actively operat-ing in its various districts and often carry out insurgency ac-tivities.In the meantime, local officials have continuously been slam-ming the group for conduct-ing roadside bombings and rocket attacks which normally lead t civilian casualties.This comes as the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) re-leased its annual civilian casu-alties report for the year 2016.The UN mission said it docu-mented ...(More on P4)...(10)

QALA-E-NAW - Nine Tali-ban fighters including a shadowy district governor laid down arms and gave up fighting in the western Badg-his province on Monday, pro-vincial governor Mohammad Anwar Ishaqzai said.“A nine-member Taliban group under Najibullah gave up fighting and joined the peace process here on Mon-day,” Ishaqzai told Xinhua.The former militants com-mander Najibullah who had served as Taliban shadow governor for Abkamari dis-trict and fought over the past four years have also handed their weapons to local authori-ties, the official asserted.Taliban militants haven’t commented on the subject. (Xinhua)

have exchanged fire over the past two days.Emphasizing that Pakistan desires lasting peace in Af-ghanistan, Fatemi high-lighted Pakistan’s continued efforts for strengthening en-gagement with the Afghan government to enhance co-operation in diverse areas in-cluding fights against terror-ism, the ministry said in the statement.In this regard, he reiterated Pakistan’s firm resolve for ef-fective border management, underlining the need for co-operation by the Afghan side.The Foreign Ministry’s state-ment did not mention the current tension between Pa-kistan and Afghanistan, but diplomatic sources said that ...(More on P4)...(7)

ghanistan Chamber of Com-merce and Industries.Najibullah, owner of a factory in Pul-e-Charkhi industrial parks, who was kidnapped last year, said although he had increased security meas-ures around his house and factory, he still does not feel safe.“My family is tired of being under constant heavy guard, but I have to intensify my own and my family security’s day by day,” he said.A number of investors said the insecurity in private sec-tor has grown and this caused a number of investors to take their families to the United Arab Emirates or to Turkey.The Ministry of Interior has said it maintains security of investors ...(More on P4)...(8)

documents.The Appellate Court judge announced the verdict after hearing the prosecutor and the defend-ant lawyer’s remarks be-sides reviewing the docu-ments and jailed Raufi for 12 years.The judge said the verdict against Raufi is not final and he can file for an appeal to reduce the jail term against him. (KP)

ing.This comes as the local se-curity officials said Sun-day that the Afghan forc-es are ready to respond to the aggression once they receive orders from the central government.The officials further added that hundreds of rounds of artillery and mortar shells were fired on Lalpur forcing hun-dreds of thousands of people to evacuate the area.The artillery shell-ing started hours after a deadly attack ripped through a shrine in Sindh province of Pakistan, leaving scores of people dead and dozens of others wounded.The Pakistani Taliban group’s Jamaat-ul-Ahraar claimed responsibility be-hind the attack. (KP)

An Afghan boy looks at a bird at a bird shop in Ghazni province on Monday February 20, 2017. (Xinhua/Sayed Mominzadah)

‘Efforts on to Reopen Torkham

Crossing’JALALABAD - Officials in eastern Nangarhar prov-ince on Monday said ef-forts were on to reopen the Torkham crossing which was closed by the Pakistani authorities few days back.Pakistan closed the Torkham crossing few days back after terrorist attacks in the neighboring country which left over a hundred killed and scores wounded.The closure of Torkham created multiple issues for Afghan travelers and busi-nessmen. Officials in Nan-garhar, however, expected the gate to be reopened to-day.Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Torkham gate closure en-tered fourth day on Mon-day, adding that sick peo-ple were also not allowed to cross the border.He said efforts were on and the reopening of the gate was expected today at any-time.Governor Gulab Mangal said security forces were prepared to respond to Pa-kistani shelling in Lalpura district but they preferred the issue to be resolved through dialogue.Mangal rejected the claim the Pakistan security forces had conducted search op-eration in Lalpura district. (Pajhwok)

KABUL - Two prominent Afghan cricket athletes, Mo-hammad Nabi and Rashid Khan, have been selected to play in the new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).The two Afghan athletes were selected by Hyn-derabad Sun Risers to play in the upcoming league.The former Afghan skipper Nabi was sold for 3,000,000 Indian Rupees while Rashid Khan was sold for 4 million Indian Rupees.The IPL matches are sched-uled to begin on 3rd April and will continue until 21st May of the year until the winner of the league is ascer-tained.The Sun Risers are the cham-pions of the league by seal-ing a victory in the final of the last year’s competition.They will continue to defend their championship in the new season of the league.In the meantime, the Afghan cricket Mohammad Shahzad was not selected by any team during the auction today along with the Afghan skip-per Asghar Stanikzai.This is the first time the Af-ghan cricketers will partici-pate in one of world’s largest cricket events in India.The selection of the two Af-ghan athletes follow a series of their outstanding perfor-mance with the Afghan team on international level along with several other talented Afghan cricketers, including Mohammad Shahzad. (KP)

NDS Nabs 7 ANP Officers Accused of Selling

Weapons to Taliban

KABUL - Office of the Na-tional Directorate of Security (NDS) in Badghis province said on Monday that it has arrested seven members of the Afghan National Police (ANAP) accused of selling weapons of the security forc-es to the Taliban.According to local officials in Badghis, the group of officers were under the command of the technical department of Badghis police headquarters. They are alleged to have sold thousands of munitions to the Taliban over the past two years.The officers were arrested by the NDS while trying to sell more than 7000 bullets to the Taliban, said Badghis gov-ernor Mohammad Anwar Ishaqzai.Local officials have said that a man was serving as link be-tween the group of officers selling the weapons and the

Taliban.“When we first came to the technical department, we knew nothing. There were guys who for six months had been removing weapons and ammunition, including bombs,” said one of the ac-cused.Part of the munitions which are sold to the Taliban, are weapons that were sent to the check points during the wars with the Taliban. It ap-pears that alleged criminals were keeping the weapons for themselves and then sell-ing them on to the Taliban. They then claimed that all the ammunition had been spent by government forces while fighting the Taliban.“They (Taliban) contacted us and asked us to sell them the weapons. This included ap-proximately five missiles and some AK47 rifle bullets. We said ...(More on P4)...(9)