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KABUL - India has pledged to do-nate 500,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to Afghanistan, authorities said on Monday.The doses of vaccine, made in In-dia, will be administered to 250,000 people in Afghanistan, the coun-try’s health ministry said.Afghan deputy health minister, Ba-

shir Noormal, said that people with higher vulnerability to the disease will be first to get the vaccine.So far, India has made 16.5 million doses of covid-19 vaccines, with 11 million Covishield shots and the rest Covaxin, and plans to secure more jabs later this month.It plans to vaccinate 270 million

people — elderly above 50 years of age and those below 50 but with severe comorbidities — by August.Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Mau-ritius are other countries that are expected to receive free doses of COVI-19 vaccine from India. (1TV NEWS)

India to Donate 500,000 COVID-19

Vaccine Doses to Afghanistan

US to Consult Afghan Government for Joint Roadmap Toward

Shared Interests: Ghani

Afghan Officials Optimistic About Ties with Biden Administration

Over 200 Afghans Released from Dubai Prisons in Past 8 Months

Ghani, Abdullah Emphasize Permanent Ceasefire

Italian Embassy Vehicle Targeted in IED

Explosion in Kabul

MoFA Calls on Pakistan, Allies to Pressure Taliban

for Ceasefire

people will be released tomor-row (Monday) and will be sent (to Kabul).”Azizi said the government is paying for the transfer of the re-leased Afghan nationals.Those who have been released said they were imprisoned on suspicion of committing vari-ous crimes. They said they are happy to join their families. “No one asked us there. We were released,” said Abdullah Aziz Mir, a released prisoner. “I was

The Presidential Palace in a statement said President Gha-ni met with Dr. Abdullah Ab-dullah at the palace.Both leaders discussed recent progress in the peace process and regional matters and ex-pressed their concern over in-creasing violence in the coun-

KABUL - An armored Land Cruiser belonging to the Italian Embassy was targeted in an early morn-ing IED explosion in Kabul’s PD4 area in yet an-other targeted attack.This time there were no casualties reported, police confirmed.Security sources confirmed the Land Cruiser be-longed to the embassy. Police stated a second ve-hicle, a Toyota Corolla, was also damaged in the explosion. This vehicle belonged to the Ministry of Economy. According to sources, no casualties were reported.The incident happened at around 7.35am in Par-wan-e-Do area of Kabul. This comes just a day after a senior official of De Afghanistan Bank, (the Central Bank) was targeted in an IED explosion in Kabul.The bank said in a statement that Abdullah Daw-rani, the head of the Financial Dispute Resolution Commission, was the target in an IED explosion at around 8.15 am on Sunday morning.According to the statement, Dawrani was wound-ed and his bodyguard was killed in the blast.The bank stated that another person was also in-jured in the explosion, which occurred in the Shah Shaheed area of PD8 of the city but did not reveal the person’s identity.No group has claimed responsibility for either of the attacks. (ATN)

KABUL - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked Pakistan and other countries with a stake in Afghanistan’s future to put pressure on the Tali-ban to agree to a reduction in violence, a ceasefire and to cut their ties with terrorist groups. “We expect Pakistan’s government and all our international partners to force the Taliban to acknowledge their commitment to reducing violence, ensuring a countrywide ceasefire and cutting their ties with terrorist groups to create the grounds for meaningful peace and political agreement,” the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement. President Ashraf Ghani last week said Kabul-Islamabad ties are weak and that the Taliban should cut their ties with Pakistan. “Trust between us is weak. Respect is prone to risk. Interests have not been defined properly. The Taliban should consider all this,” Ghani said. Afghan officials said they are still concerned about the safe havens of the Taliban in Pakistan. “They are those who have been raised along with their children in Quetta and Peshawar streets and their dependency is mostly on that country and they consider that country as their own,” said Ahmad Zia Saraj, the head of the Na-tional Directorate of Security. ...

DUBAI - At least 200 Afghan nationals have been released from Dubai prisons with the help of the Afghan consulate over the last eight months, of-ficials from the consulate said on Sunday.The Afghan general consul in Dubai, Masoud Azizi, said that 28 were sent to Kabul this week. “Fortunately, we have sent 210 released (Afghan) prisoners back in the last eight months,” he said. “Two more

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani and High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) chairman Dr. Ab-dullah Abdullah on Monday expressed their concern over increasing violence in the country and emphasized a permanent ceasefire.

released after five months,” said Akhtar Mohammad, a released prisoner. (TOLO NEWS)

try and also emphasized on a permanent ceasefire in Af-ghanistan.The two leaders meet amid in-creasing incidents of violence in the country despite the pas-sage of three months since the launch of intra-Afghan nego-tiations in Qatar.In the first round of intra-Af-ghan peace talks lasted three months and the two sides only agreed on procedural rules.The negotiating sides rose for a three-week break and returned to Doha for the second round of talks on January 6. The new US government says it will re-view the peace agreement with the Taliban. The agreement was signed during former president Donald Trump’s ad-ministration. (Pajhwok)

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KABUL - The United States will review its deal with the Taliban and will consult the Afghan government for joint roadmap to-wards shared interests, President Ashraf

KABUL - Following the US national se-curity adviser’s phone call with Afghan counterpart Hamdullah Mohib, hope has emerged among Afghan officials that Ka-bul’s ties with Washington will strengthen and more accurate information about the peace process--from the US side--will be-come available from the Biden administra-tion. Afghan officials said the former US admin-istration did not share organized informa-tion about the peace process with the Af-ghan government. “Previously, their (US’s) national security institutions did not have strong relations

Ghani said on Monday.Addressing the cabinet meeting, Ghani said that a new chapter has opened in rela-tions between Afghanistan and US, follow-ing the inauguration of new administra-tion led by President Joe Biden.The president said that the new US nation-al security adviser’s first phone conversa-tion was with his Afghan counterpart.He said that the US considers Afghan gov-ernment and its security forces as its fun-damental partner and the two will have state-to-state relations.The president noted that the bilateral se-curity agreement is in place and is imple-mented. (1TV NEWS)

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JALALABAD - The provincial council chairman of eastern Nan-garhar on Sunday claimed Pa-kistan had secretly invited some Afghan tribal elders from border districts and made promises to them, calling it intervention in Af-ghanistan.Ahmad Ali Hazrat told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Afghan government and people should not remain silent in the face of Pa-kistan’s moves because it would have bad consequences in future.“I have correct information that these tribal elders have been promised scholarships, perma-nent Pakistani identity, cash and some other things,” he added.He said Pakistan’s aim was to show its sovereignty in tribal ar-eas and if there was a referendum on the tribal belt, the people of Afghanistan’s tribal areas would have a positive view of Pakistan.

He said such covert Pakistani efforts on the Afghan side were a direct interference in Afghani-stan’s affairs and urged the Af-ghan government to take action against in this regard.Meanwhile, Wajah-ur-Rehman Shinwari, director of tribal af-fairs in Nangarhar, denied that some leaders had gone to Paki-stan and that Pakistan had made promises to them.However, he said in the past, Pakistan had repeatedly made offers to tribal elders in various districts, which they had reject-ed.He said Pakistan had promised to provide Pakistani identity cards to tribal elders in various border districts and provide them with roads, electricity and other facilities in their areas, but the tribal elders did not agree. (Pajhwok)

KUNDUZ CITY - The governor of northern Kunduz province claims the new provincial lead-ership has addressed alcohol drinking and other irregular-ity problems in security forces ranks.Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal, while addressing a gathering at the provincial Education Depart-ment four months ago had claimed receiving a report that Kunduz police, army and Na-

PESHAWAR - A Pakistani Pa-khtun nationalist leader has warned of a serious crisis in Af-ghanistan if the ongoing peace talks in Doha fail.Awami National Party (ANP) general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain also asked US Presi-dent Joe Biden to focus on the success of Afghan peace nego-tiations.The ANP leader also urged the government of Pakistan to play a sincere and proactive role in making the Afghan peace pro-

LASHKARGAH - Unidentified gunmen have shot dead an in-structor at the Police Academy in Lashkargah, the capital of south-ern Helmand province, on Mon-day, a security official said.Mohammad Zaman Hamdard, Helmand police spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the in-structor was gunned down in the Sofiyan area of the provincial cap-ital. Hamdard added that no one has been arrested so far in connec-

PESHAWAR - An influential Afghan Taliban commander has been gunned down in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, says a media report.Commander Abdul Samad Mul-lah Tor was sprayed with bullets while offering morning prayers at a mosque in Muslim City area, Daily Times said“Mullah Tor, who was initial-ly injured, succumbed to his wounds at hospital,” a relative of the insurgent commander told the newspaper.

tional Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel used to drink every evening.In the video, the governor re-garding the matter said that the issue existed four months ago but now it had been resolved.“Earlier there were individuals who acted against the military disciplines; these individuals were irregular and they exploited their power but we dismissed...

cess a success.Speaking at an event in Pesha-war on Sunday, Hussain said if the peace dialogue failed to yield the desired results, Af-ghanistan would plunge into a severe crisis.Senior ANP leader Haider Hoti said unless peace was brought to Afghanistan, peace would continue to elude Pakistan and the region at large.Aimal Wali Khan, pro-vincial president of the party, called for the...

tion with the murder but police had launched an investigation.A source in the Police Academy, wishing anonymity, told Pajh-wok that Mohammad Wali, the instructor, was killed by uniden-tified gunmen. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the incident. Targeted killings have recently spiked in the capital Ka-bul and other provinces, fueling grave concerns among residents. (Pajhwok)

Living as a refugee in Akora Khattak, Tor was reportedly staying with relatives near Tarn-ab neighbourhood.The assailants fled after the inci-dent and supporters of the com-mander are searching for the kill-ers in the area. Personal enmity led to the shooting of Mullah Tor.Tor’s son and other family mem-bers were accused of killing a brother of Mullah Musa — an-other Taliban commander — in the Sarobi district of Kabul. (Pa-jhwok)

Ahmad Ali: Pakistan Secretly Invites Afghan Tribal Leaders

Qataris Eye More Investment in Farah: Minister

Taliban Red Unit Deputy Commander Killed in Kunar

Drinkers Dismissed from Security Forces: Kunduz Governor

ANP Stresses Success of Afghan Peace Talks

Police Academy Instructor Killed in Helmand

Taliban Commander Shot Dead in Peshawar

FARAH - Qatari business peo-ple are seeking to invest in the western Afghan province of Fa-rah with an aim to upgrade the provincial airfield into an inter-national airport, an Afghan of-ficial said Sunday. The industry and commerce minister, Nisar Ahmad Ghory-ani, addressing a press con-ference on Sunday, said that Chinese, Iranian and European investors are in Kabul to review investment opportunities in the country.

ASADABAD - Taliban’s Red Unit deputy commander for eastern Kunar province has been killed and an Islamic State (IS) recruiter arrested in Nan-garhar province, sources said on Monday.Kunar police spokesman Farid-ullah Dehqan told Pajhwok Afghan News that NiazSalim, deputy commander of the Tali-ban Red Unit, was killed by unknown armed men in Ganj-gal area of Sarkano district late Sunday night.He said Salim was an expert of laser weapons use and he would target security check-posts at night.

Last May, Algharrafa Founda-tion, a Qatari organization, pro-vided $1 million worth of aid and pledged to build a hospital in Farah province. Qatari businesspeople have also invested in the agricultural sec-tor in Farah province over the last three years. Qatari institutions have also in-vested in Kabul. Last December, officials held a ground-break-ing ceremony for the con-struction of a township by the Al-Gharafa...

The Taliban have not yet com-mented on the death of the dep-uty commander.In Nangarhar, a member of Daesh media and recruiter of youth in the group, has been arrested, a statement issued by the governor’s office said.It said the IS man was detained during a special night operation in Sheikh Masri area of Sararud district.It said the detainee would re-cruit teenagers through his Fa-cebook page and his arrest pre-vented recruitment of teenagers in Daesh.The governor’s office said the Special Forces conducted the night operation in the Dawlat-zai area of Chaparhar district to arrest Daesh members.During the operation, they ar-rested an Islamic State (IS) member named Sabagul and two suspects. The source added another Daesh propagandist was arrested by National Di-rectorate of Security (NDS) forces during a night op-eration in the 8th police district...

Jan 26, 2021 - A financial windfall could come as the result of a coup that no one expected you to pull off, Leo. Everyone is likely to be very proud of you - and you will be very pleased with yourself, too. This is only the start of a fortunate new

turn in your life. As far as money goes, it may all be smooth sailing from here on out.

Jan 26, 2021 - If you’re currently in-volved, Taurus, expect to feel a rush of revived passion for your partner. If you aren’t currently involved, the one great love of your life could finally appear. You may meet this person through

work, creative activities, or spiritual studies. Your new friend could be from far away and work in an intellectually oriented profession. Expect to spend the next few days in a fog!

Jan 26, 2021 - You know you’re intuitive, Gemini, but changes could take place in your brain that elevate your abilities be-yond mere intuition. Visions, prophetic dreams, and powerful insights into oth-ers’ thoughts and feelings could reveal

you to be a gifted psychic. If you’ve been training your abilities, this should come as no surprise, but the level of your gifts will. You will never be the same.

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Jan 26, 2021 - Job-related or personal pro-jects are apt to come to a head now. Suc-cess is in the air, along with a marked increase in income and acknowledgment from those who matter. This, of course, is going to boost your confidence, not to

mention your mood. You might already be fired up with plans for new trails to blaze. Try to stay focused. You won’t want to miss anything.

Jan 26, 2021 - Don’t turn down invitations today, Cancer. A group meeting or social event could be thrown together with cas-ual acquaintances, and your relationship with these people could abruptly change.

At the very least, some will become friends. You might also acquire some valuable business contacts or part-ners. You might fall in love. By evening, you could be in a daze from the unexpected events.

Jan 26, 2021 - An enterprise you’d long since given up on, perhaps one involv-ing the creative arts, may suddenly come up again, this time as a real opportunity, Libra. Once you know it’s real, you still

might have trouble believing that it’s finally happen-ing. Friends and your current love interest may accept it more readily than you do. Enjoy your success and make the most of it!

Jan 26, 2021 - Today might be one of the most fortunate days of your life, Cap-ricorn. Everything you’ve been striving for - romance, money, creative fulfill-

ment - could fall into place at various times today. Expect exciting calls bringing good news. A lover could offer congratulations. The only downside is that all the stimulation could leave you exhausted. Never mind. You will sleep well!

Jan 26, 2021 - Group activities or social events could put you in contact with a new, exciting person. You could feel a strong physical and romantic attraction, Scorpio. If you aren’t currently involved

- and perhaps even if you are - this might be worth pur-suing. The attraction is reciprocated. You will probably share interests and be able to talk for hours. Be cautious but confident. Go for it, but slowly.

Jan 26, 2021 - Information received through dreams and visions could trig-ger sudden psychic revelations of solu-tions to problems you may have been mulling over for weeks. What you real-

ize is likely to clear up any difficulties and pave the way for success. The emotional release could have you feeling like a heavy weight has been lifted off your shoulders. Obey your impulses, and get to it.

Jan 26, 2021 - Some unexpected calls from friends or colleagues could bring you wonderful news today, Pisces. A serendipitous lucky break could end

the logjam that has held up the attainment of all your dreams. Love, money, success in career and personal development - all seem to be falling into place. You might spend the day in a daze, trying to take it all in. Relax and focus. You’re on your way.

Jan 26, 2021 - Wonderful news comes from far away, Virgo, possibly involving writing, teaching, or publishing. Creativity combines with heightened intellectual ability to bring

success and good fortune to your door today. You might spend the day in a daze, waiting for it to sink in, and the evening celebrating with friends. This trend is likely to continue for the next few months. Make the most of it.

Jan 26, 2021 - Whatever you’ve been try-ing to accomplish over the past several months could break loose just the way

you want it to today, Sagittarius. It could come as a surprise and resemble a logjam that finally gives way. Nonetheless, this is your good fortune, and you and those who have been in the trenches with you deserve a few accolades. After it’s all set in stone, go out and celebrate. You’ve earned it.

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Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), more than 2,100 plus civilians were killed and over 3,800 wounded in the first nine months of 2020, and things have only gotten worse ever since, with Washington accusing the Taliban of carrying out a recent wave of high-profile assassinations.According to Hafiz Mansour, a member of the Afghan negotiating team, «the Taliban cannot scale back their terror attacks without losing leverage in the negotiations, and their attempts to grab power militarily are driven by their «hardline mindset».On the other hand, Afghanistan›s neighbors are only holding the role of spectators and thus far have remained heedless of who will rule Afghanistan next and what type of the government will come into being, inattentive of the fact that such a situation will not only have dire consequences for Afghanistan but the whole region at large. All the more, experts are evolving deep concerns around the potential for extreme mayhem in the face of a U.S. hasty withdrawal that will push the country to the brink a post-Soviet-Union like chaos.There is no denying the fact that the situation will go from bad to worse without striking a deal with the Taliban. However, as long as they persist in ruling the roost in peace talks, refuse to deny Al-Qaeda safe-havens, and de-link themselves from the regional and international terrorist organizations, the threats will multiply would further threaten the regional security. Afghanistan›s closest neighbor Pakistan for its part, desires to see a malleable regime in Kabul to attain its chronic pursuit of «strategic depth» and hold its archrival India›s influence in the country bay. The recent visit of the Taliban negotiating team after the first round of talks to Pakistan indicates that Pakistan has an institutionalized role in shaping the Taliban›s position in the peace talks and future of the country. Another prominent issue among others abound is women›s rights, how the Taliban embrace the role of sophisticated, empowered women in the future government, given the peace talks fruition is a burning question at hand. In a broader sense, the U.S. President Joe Biden has neither during his campaign trails nor recently has held a clear stance as to the US-Afghan policy, and probably not make any soon as far as clearing the mess his predecessor has left him at home is concerned. However, during his vice-presidency in the Obama administration, Joe Biden supported a negotiated settlement with the Taliban to put an end to the protracted war and lesser military presence, but he will favor retaining a counterterrorism-focused mission. Taliban horrid and intentional denegation from honoring the Doha agreement›s conditions, especially their pledge to shy away from killing and violence, would remain President›s Biden›s Achilles heel unless taken seriously. However, there sounds a miniature possibility that the Biden administration unilaterally desert the deal, which would cause the past two decades› efforts and achievements to go bust. Whatever approach the U.S. and the international community would maintain, let not Afghanistan decent into past chaos, as neither the international alliance nor the Afghan people can bear the burden any further.

years. Overall, people are considered as an end and State as the means in a democracy: This is one of the main characteristics of democracy that individual is a mean and the state is an end. It means that the state makes use of the individual for its own interest while in a dictatorship no atten-tion is paid to the freedom of the individual.The next important of principle of democracy is equality. Based on this principle, all citizens regardless of social status, gender, or ethnic back-ground should have equal opportunities to take part in social and politi-cal life such as right of education, the right of access to information, the right of minimum income and everyone should enjoy equal opportunity in the society, there would be no unemployment, the living standard of the people should be raised and they should have economic security. This is possible only when there is no exploitation. As referred, every citizen must be equally able to access to information regarding rulings made by elected bodies, the administration and courts. Access to information is also important to a free formation of opinion and to an independent decision-making process among the citizen. This applies to the existence of free and independent media as well.The other valuable principle of democracy is the independence of Judicia-ry; it is responsibility of the judiciary system to protect the fundamental rights of the people. In some countries the Supreme Court and the High Court’s protect the Constitution and the fundamental rights of the people. Wherever judiciary is not free, the protection of fundamental rights is not possible. In addition, the system should ensure the citizens equal treat-ment with consideration and respect. All authority must be practiced ac-cording to enacted laws and regulations, and the administration has to comply with predetermined, neutral, and known procedures when en-forcing laws. The purpose of such procedures is to protect the citizens from random and undignified treatment. Based on this, the legal system must ensure the fundamental rights of people as in the absence of these rights the development of an individual is not possible. As a last point, the liberal democracy with more or less modifications fit with the culture and conditions of Afghanistan while has no rival alterna-tive theoretically. If any groups have any better alternatives, they should change it to text so that every can know about it or they should defend their political program in public media debate so that the people of Af-ghanistan knowingly decide about their future. After listening to both programs, the public opinion would be a fair judge what to decide. If the Taliban really have better political programs that the people are not aware, we should listen and accept their logic and political programs, but if they really have nothing other than what they applied from 1996-2001, It will not be applicable and acceptable in the current Afghanistan.

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Violation of Human Rights and Heart-Breaking

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Violation of human rights and humanitarian law make repeated headlines in national media. Tragic stories of

domestic violence and bloody conflict are circulated through social and the mass media. Despite human rights discourse and conferences, stories of death and violence continue un-abated. The outpouring of sadness and grief as a result of heart-wrenching cases put mental pressure on the public and fill the air with fear and disappointment. The ongoing con-flict forms the bulk part of the sad stories reflected in national and international media. Human Rights are “the recognition of the inalienable dig-nity of human beings”; free of discrimination, inequality, or distinction of any kind, human dignity is universal, equal and inalienable. After the horrors of the Second World War, which inflicted heavy casualties and indescribable destruc-tions upon human societies, the international community decided to draw up an international charter of rights that would affirm the values put forward in the struggle against fascism. The Human Rights Law was adopted to alleviate the pains and sufferings of mankind and put an end to war and vio-lence. Men’s natural rights to life, liberty and estate are rec-ognized in the UDHR and it aptly states, “disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the ad-vent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people”. Despite the claims made by the UDHR “to promote respect for these rights and freedoms”, the rights and liberty of the people are violated flagrantly around the globe and violence and militancy continue unabated. The blood of women and children is spilt in the worst possible way and a large num-ber of the individuals are killed on the grounds of their race, color and creed. In addition, terrorism is a serious threat to the men’s rights and dignity and scores of individuals fall victim to the radi-cal ideology of warring parties – which make no bone about shedding the blood of innocent people or dishonoring them. They pay no heed to national or international laws and sac-rifice moral standards and religious tenets for satiating their carnal desire and megalomania. In other words, the terror-ist networks resort to war and violence to break the lump in their throats made by deprivations and poverty. Despite religious emphasis on respecting men’s rights and dignity, they trample upon their rights in the worst possible way. Besides terrorism, the high graph of domestic and social vio-lence against women is a blatant violation of women’s hu-man rights. They fall victim to (gang) rapes and their free-doms are curtailed not only in Afghanistan but in many parts of the world. Cultural restrictions are serious barrier before their progress and since the hegemony of democracy is not digestible in villages, crossing the red line in tribal areas by women – though their acts will not be in conflict with reli-gious tenets – will be followed by torture and punishment. Forced marriages and selling girls for economic reasons are practiced widely in our society. Hence, do you think that UDHR has mitigated the sufferings of mankind?In fact, there is a great sensitivity towards Human Rights Law and human rights discourse in traditional cultures. I re-member vividly when I was working as a civic educator to conduct awareness about women’s rights in some villages; the people pursed their lips with hearing the subject and be-lieved that it would lead to conflict between men and wom-en in their area. It is believed that the main reason behind their negative reaction was misunderstanding human rights. They believe that human rights are a western gift preached to westernize our culture and may affect the minds of our youths negatively. Additionally, the cruel practices by some powerful countries, that disregard the rights of mankind, triggered a sense of pessimism among the public. The international community has to spread true awareness about human rights and condemn the violation of human rights committed by any countries. Furthermore, a strong sanction by international community is lacking and many violators of human rights are not prosecuted by international court. Hence, only writing the rights and dignity of mankind on a piece of paper will not alleviate the anguishes and suf-ferings of human societies and will not put an end to violence and bloodshed. To alleviate the tragedies and prevent ugly happenings, the international community, in addition to spreading awareness and holding conferences and workshops, have to pressure the Taliban leadership to declare ceasefire and stop spilling the blood of civilians, especially women and children.

Abdul Qahar Bakhshi is the newly emerging writer of the Daily Out-look Afghanistan. He can be reached outlookafghanistan@gmail.com

Mohammad Zahir Akbari is the permanent writer of the Daily Outlook Afghanistan. He can be reached at mohammadzahirakbari@gmail.com

As scheduled, the second round of Doha talks on Afghan peace resumed on January 2021 ,05. Afghanistan negotiators who had returned to

Kabul for a recess went back to Doha, some still with the hope that the second round of talks might come to tangible fruition, and some still with tantalizing pessimism, maintaining that the Taliban side up to now are not allusively moving an inch from their maximalist position insisting on full fulfillment of their demands.With the second round of talks underway, new demands of the Taliban, which seem arduously exacting to Afghan people and government, are coming to light as conditions for negotiations to move forward. In response, Afghanistan negotiators counterargue the Taliban demands, first to justify their unceasing killing and brutality against the Afghan people pursuant to the Islamic tenets and other national and international laws and conventions. Should they can do so, these demands of them will be fulfilled for the sake of peace by the Afghan people as well.Notwithstanding, it is very pertinent to argue the Taliban demands in the light of the Afghanistan Constitution, which despite many criticisms pinned to it, is the fourth most Islamic constitutions in the rank of Islamic countries worldwide and a member of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC). There is mention of Islamic principles in the Afghanistan constitution six times more than Kuwait, four times more than Qatar, and many folds than Saudi Arabia. In contrast, 29 other Islamic countries, including Turkey and Indonesia, have no mention of Islam in their constitutions. Furthermore, Afghanistan is one of the four countries with the suffix ‹Islamic› at the end of its government insignia. Among all countries only three have manifest Islamic symbols, which Saudi Arabia and Iran have only one each, while Afghanistan bears five Islamic symbols in its insignia, comprised of an emblem and a pulpit in white color—at the two corners of which are two flags, inscribed in the top middle the holy phrase «There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his Prophet, and Allah is Great.» With this, the people ask what sort of more Islamic government the Taliban wants to establish? Afghan people do not understand what type of perception the Taliban delegation negotiating in Doha holds from Islam. If bloodshed and killing of innocent men, women, and children are more Islamic in their version of Islam, only then they are more Islamic!The Afghans are perplexed by the ambiguity surrounding the peace talks. «People are wondering that thousands of Taliban inmates have been released and most of their conditions were fulfilled by the U.S, but negotiations have not born the expected results yet,» the government-run newspaper Kabul Times maintained.However, «Taliban persists on change of government system to Islamic Emirate a system (name of their ousted regime) against the government demand of republicanism. The demand is not accepted by Afghans and the international community,» Ahmad Sayeed of the Kabul Times stressed.If the government does not release the remaining 7000 prisoners plus the other two conditions, even the negotiations are seemingly expected yet to make no headway.So far, the security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated in the face of ceaseless terror attacks by the Taliban. According to the United Nations

After centuries of social and political live, human societies have had experi-mented various types of political system such as kingdom system, aristo-cratic system, communist system, fascist system, Talibanism and different types of absolutist systems, but none of them are as dynamic and flexible as liberal democracy. Although the liberal democracy was originated from western society, we had better attribute it to product of human thought which is respectable and recognizable by everyone and everywhere. In case this, it is not important who has devised democracy rather what has devised is important. Undoubtedly, the device of democracy was far more important than invention of air-plane, computer and other industrial or technological inventions. The product of air-plane can transfer a group people from one city to another but the product of democracy can rescue a nation from annihilation towards peace and survival. The most important gifts of liberal democracy are freedom, equality and sovereignty of people with certain mechanisms compatible with different social and cultural con-texts. With true implementations of these principles and mechanisms, the liberal democracy can play a very dynamic and constructive role in human society providing people opportunity to live peacefully but diversely. Democracy can also be considered as a successful mechanism for reaching the blessing of freedom and justice which was naturally sanctified to hu-man being. When the human were at their childhood, it was, somewhat, justifiable to live under direction of doctorial regimes, but gradually, hu-man has got mature and so, no system may fulfill their needs and rights as much as liberal democracy. In today’s multicultural world, we need to freedom of thought, freedom of opinion, freedom of believe, freedom oc-cupation, freedom of inhabitancy, freedom of criticism and so on. Liberal democracy is a fair and dynamic system which ensures all these as natural values, not enacted values. That’s why the universal human rights’ values are called declarative values, not enacted or superficial values. In clearer term, the liberal democracy is a defendable system because it was founded on basis of natural human rights which already recognized in many cul-tures and has no fundamental conflicts with religious values. In general, democracy is recognized few fundamental principles which ensure peace, prosperity and dynamism in a society. The first and most important principle of democracy is legitimacy. Based on this principle, people are considered as real source of sovereignty and the government derives its power from them. Therefore, the legitimacy of the system de-pends on satisfactions, demands and more importantly people’s values. If the rulers are failed to comply with the values of people, they can be kicked out from the power. The people can exercise their power through elections at certain intervals. For example, In India and England, General Elections take place after every five years but in U.S.A. it is hold after every four

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despite repeated attempts. (Pajhwok)

(5) 78 New Covid-19…then it spread to at least all countries around the world, including Afghanistan but a new form of corona has recently reappeared in the United States and Britain.With the emergence of the new variant, a number of countries again closed their borders and the Afghan Ministry of Public Health called on people to reduce their overseas travels. (Pajhwok)

(6) Promoting Saffron…puppy,” he added. (Pajhwok)China and Tajikistan increase military presence along Afghan borderKABUL - China and Tajikistan have increased the number of border troops and outposts along their borders with Afghanistan, security forces confirmed.China meanwhile has called for a joint mountain unit with Afghanistan. However, after Washington disapproved, this plan failed to materialize, security sources said.The governor of Badakhshan meanwhile has said he is concerned about the large number of foreign fighters, especially Tajikistan’s Ansarullah group members, in Badakhshan.“Foreign fighters like Ansarullah are present in parts of Badakhshan and they are involved in smuggling [minerals from] mines. This is a big threat,” said Zakaria Sawda, the provincial governor.China, Tajikistan and Afghanistan currently have a joint -150strong Chinese-backed force on the border working together to coordinate border threats. (ATN)

(7) Talks Team Members…priorities of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.Stanekzai praised Indonesia ‘s constructive role in the peace talks and called for continued co – operation in supporting the Afghan peace process. (ATN)

(8) Govt Given 9-Day… them, perhaps three or four, had been released by security forces, but the rest were released after payment of ransom money.Younis Qazizadah, head of the Chamber of Commerce and Investment, expressed grave concern over the poor security situation in the province.He said this year most investors would withdraw their capital from the province due to increased kidnappings, armed robberies and assassinations.Dr. Nisar Ahmad Mossadeq, chief of the Doctors’ Union, also said the increase in kidnappings this year was unprecedented and that since the beginning of this year, 70 kidnappings and assassinations had taken place in Herat and dozens of cars, motorcycles and mobile phones stolen daily in Herat province.The police chief said that in recent weeks, police detained more than 15 kidnappers and dozens of armed robbers and rescued several abductees. (Pajhwok)

(9) Instant Messaging…messages, share photos, videos, files, voice notes and even their location, and can also subscribe to live channels. Localised content is available through these channels that aim to entertain, educate, and empower communities.Since 2020, as COVID19- spread across the world, ayoba’s daily lifeline data allocations on MTN’s networks in most markets allowed users free connections with family and provided them with zero-rated access to credible information through special COVID19- channels.

(10) Qataris Eye More… Foundation in Kabul. The -110$million township will be built on 6 hectares of land in Kabul’s Khoshal Khan area.The minister said Qataris want to build infrastructure in Farah and open the way for the export of products from the province to international destinations.“They are ready to make the Farah airport international and work on (building) cold storage facilities where all products are kept and then sent abroad,” Ghoryani said. Meanwhile, Economy Minister Karima Hamid Faryabi said that the country’s economic growth is expected to increase 2.5 to %3 this fiscal year, but this will not be enough to make a serious difference in economic health.“This rate of economic growth is less compared with the speedy growth in population and will not have a significant impact on the reduction of poverty, job creation and access to basic services,” Faryabi said. Industry owners said that insecurity, lack of electricity and other problems have plagued their businesses and have lowered investment in industries by 50 percent. “Lack of sufficient electricity, wrong policies by neighboring countries, the influx of imported goods, the smuggling of goods, all have resulted in the bottoming-out of investments,” said Nasir Reshtia, CEO of an industrial union. But the industry and commerce minister said that despite the fact that many businesses have left the country, the interest in investment has increased in Afghanistan

(16)Indian farmers…livelihoods and help big companies.Their unions are pushing for repeal of the laws, after rejecting a government proposal to suspend the measures it says will usher in much-needed steps to boost farmer incomes.Several rounds of talks with Modi’s government have made little headway, and protesters now aim to up the ante with the procession set to follow Tuesday’s military parade.Top leaders and military officials attend the annual high-security parade to mark the day India’s constitution took effect in 1950.At the weekend, police said they would allow at least 12,000 tractors to traverse a -100km (-62mile) stretch around the capital, despite some intelligence warnings of possible efforts to disrupt the farmers’ peaceful rally.A farmers’ group exhorted its members to refrain from violence in detailed instructions issued for Tuesday’s event.“Remember, our aim is not to conquer Delhi, but to win over the hearts of the people of this county,” it said.In the western state of Maharashtra, thousands of farmers were also on the move, flocking to a flag-hoisting ceremony on Tuesday in the heart of Mumbai, India’s financial capital.“We are here to support farmers in Delhi, to highlight that farmers across the country are against the farm laws,” said Ashok Dhawale, a state protest leader. (Reuters)

(17)U.S. House…procession of lawmakers through a hushed Capitol.It will mark two historic firsts - Trump is the only U.S. president to have been impeached by the House twice and will be the first to face trial after leaving office. Conviction in the Senate could result in a vote to ban him from holding future office.Leaders of the Senate, which is divided 50-50 with Democrats holding a majority because of the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris, have agreed not to start the trial until Feb. 9. That gives Trump more time to prepare a defense and allows the chamber to focus on President Joe Biden’s early priorities, including Cabinet appointments.After a two-month campaign to try to discredit his election defeat, Trump on Jan. 6 urged his followers to “fight” to overturn the result. A mob later descended on the Capitol, sending lawmakers into hiding and for several hours delaying Congress’ formal certification of Biden’s victory.Ten House Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump, a step akin to an indictment in a criminal trial. Senate Democrats will need the support of 17 Republicans to convict him, a steep climb given Trump’s continued popularity with Republican voters.A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Friday found that %51 of Americans thought the Senate should convict Trump. That largely broke down along party lines, with less than two in 10 Republicans agreeing. (Reuters)

(18)Thousands take…vote for leadership of the lower house.“Bolsonaro’s base in congress is unstable, but it is robust,” he said, though it could be dented by the president’s flagging popularity.But he said impeachment would be “a nuclear option that changes the country’s political trajectory.”Bolsonaro — who is midway through his four-year term — has faced renewed criticism in recent weeks for both the crisis in Manaus and for delays in launching Brazil’s immunization campaign against COVID19-. The president has long resisted lockdown measures against the new coronavirus, arguing economic damage would be worse than the disease.Brazil’s prosecutor-general, Augusto Aras, on Saturday asked the Supreme Court to open an investigation into Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello over the crisis in Manaus, capital of Amazonas state. Aras cited a document that said the ministry knew of a possible shortage of oxygen on Jan. 8, but didn’t start sending extra supplies until Jan. 12. (AP)

(19)Pakistan Taliban…including two terrorist commanders Syed Raheem [also known as] Abid of TTP (AKK Group) and Saifullah Noor of TTP (Gohar Group) were killed,” said the statement.According to the statement, Raheem had been directly involved in 17 attacks against Pakistani security forces since 2007 and had been involved in a recent spate of targeted killings in the district.Since last year, more than 50 people have been killed in targeted gun and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in North Waziristan, according to media reports. (Aljazeera)

(20)Australia Oks…the country overall had secured 140 million vaccines, one of the highest dosing rates per head of population in the world.The biggest of the pre-orders, conditional on regulatory approval, is 53.8 million doses of the vaccine made by AstraZeneca

recently as 300 factories are on the verge of being established. (TOLO NEWS)

(11) Drinkers Dismissed… these individuals from security ranks and the issue has been resolved,” the governor said.The governor also said some people had problems with the Citizen Security Charter and as a result they were conspiring against him.“Those who have grabbed government lands and are involved in illegal activities are conspiring against me but I will implement the Citizen Security Charter come what may,” asserted Mizakwal.The governor dubbed Kunduz as the most secure province because blasts and suicide attacks did not occur in the province.His claims following growing complains from Kunduz people regarding insecurity and Taliban’s presence in areas near the provincial capital, Kunduz City. (Pajhwok)

(12) ANP Stresses… formation of a truth commission to look into the war on terrorism and fix responsibility.He asked the federal government to open all trade points with Afghanistan and take steps for facilitating traders. (Pajhwok)

(13) Taliban Red…of Jalalabad.The governor’s office said the man was spreading propaganda on social media to attract anti-government and Daesh militants. A pistol, two assault rifles and a number of documents were recovered from the detainee.At the same time, another person was arrested on suspicion of having links with Daesh and he is being investigated.The governor’s office said a kidnapper had been arrested in Nangarhar on charges of kidnapping and killing a person named Akmanullah.The National Directorate of Security (NDS) forces arrested the kidnapper named Khalid, who had abducted Akmanullah from Jalalabad five months ago and later killed him in Pachiragam districtThe kidnappers had demanded 200,000$ from Ammanllah’s family before killing him. (Pajhwok)

(14)Earth is losing…them,” he said.The melting of land ice – on Antarctica, Greenland and mountain glaciers – added enough water to the ocean during the three-decade time period to raise the average global sea level by 3.5 centimeters. Ice loss from mountain glaciers accounted for 22 percent of the annual ice loss totals, which is noteworthy considering it accounts for only about 1 percent of all land ice atop land, Slater said.Across the Arctic, sea ice is also shrinking to new summertime lows. Last year saw the second-lowest sea ice extent in more than 40 years of satellite monitoring. As sea ice vanishes, it exposes dark water which absorbs solar radiation, rather than reflecting it back out of the atmosphere. This phenomenon, known as Arctic amplification, boosts regional temperatures even further.The global atmospheric temperature has risen by about 1.1 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. But in the Arctic, the warming rate has been more than twice the global average in the last 30 years.Research scientist Julienne Stroeve of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado noted the study had not included snow cover over land, “which also has a strong albedo feedback”, referring to a measure of how reflective a surface is.The research also did not consider river or lake ice or permafrost, except to say that “these elements of the cryosphere have also experienced considerable change over recent decades.” (Reuters)

(15)Ugandan court…was aware of the court ruling and would comply, said military spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso, without specifying when soldiers would depart.Barricades were still up by early afternoon.Pressure has been mounting on the government to free Wine, including from the United States and rights group Amnesty International which called his incarceration arbitrary and politically motivated.Joel Ssenyonyi, spokesman for Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP), said lawyers were moving to serve the court order to security agencies. “Their continued presence there is illegal,” he said.Last week, U.S. ambassador Natalie E. Brown tried to visit Wine at his home, drawing an accusation of meddling and subversion from the Ugandan government.Museveni has long been a Western ally, receiving copious aid and sending troops to regional trouble spots including Somalia to fight Islamist militants.But Western backers have become increasingly frustrated at his reluctance to cede power and crackdowns on opponents.Wine had channelled the anger of many young Ugandans who view former guerrilla leader Museveni as an out-of-touch autocrat repressing dissenters and failing to create jobs. (Reuters)

and Oxford University, 50 million of which would be made in Australia in a partnership with Melbourne-based biopharmaceutical company CSL. Australia is aiming to complete inoculations by October. The nation of 26 million people has reported fewer than 30,000 virus cases and a little over 900 deaths. (AP)

(21)Ruling Communist…19 of its members to serve on the Politburo, the highest party body.The Politburo will make nominations for the “four pillars” — general secretary of the Communist Party, the country’s most powerful job; the president, a largely ceremonial post; the prime minister; and the National Assembly chairman. The nominations are then put to a vote in the party congress.Vietnam’s Communist Party is known for its collective leadership, which means key decisions are determined by consensus in the Politburo. The agenda for the congress is set by the leadership chosen at the last meeting in 2016. (AP)

(22)Mexican president…Mexico has already received a batch of Pfizer-BioNTech doses. He has said that health workers would be the first ones to get them. Under the government plan, people over 60 will start being vaccinated in February. López Obrador has rarely been seen wearing a mask and continued to keep up a busy travel schedule taking commercial flights.He has also resisted locking down the economy, noting the devastating effect it would have on so many Mexicans who live day to day, despite that the country has registered nearly 150,000 COVID19- deaths and more than 1.7 million infections. A new wave of infections has pushed the health system of the country’s capital city close to saturation.Early in the pandemic, asked how he was protecting Mexico, López Obrador removed two religious amulets from his wallet and proudly showed them off.“The protective shield is the ‘Get thee behind me, Satan,’” López Obrador said, reading off the inscription on the amulet, “Stop, enemy, for the Heart of Jesus is with me.López Obrador’s announcement came shortly after news emerged that he would speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday about obtaining doses of the Sputnik V COVID19- vaccine.Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said via Twitter the two leaders would speak about the bilateral relationship and supplying doses of the vaccine. (AP)

(23)China says…Chinese air force jets into the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone, prompting concern from Washington.China has not commented on what its air force was doing, and Zhao referred questions to the defence ministry.He reiterated China’s position that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and that the United States should abide by the “one China” principle.Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visited a radar base in the north of the island on Monday, and praised its ability to track Chinese forces, her office said.“From last year until now, our radar station has detected nearly 2,000 communist aircraft and more than 400 communist ships, allowing us to quickly monitor and drive them away, and fully guard the sea and airspace,” she told officers. Taiwan’s defence ministry added that just a single Chinese aircraft flew into its defence zone on Monday, an anti-submarine Y8- aircraft. Biden’s new administration says the U.S. commitment to Taiwan is “rock-solid”. The United States, like most countries, has no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan but is the democratic island’s most important international backer and main arms supplier, to China’s anger. (Reuters)

(24)Japan likely…on time. Taro Kono, Japan’s vaccine programme chief, said last week it would begin its first shots in February, starting with 10,000 medical workers, but he walked back on a goal to secure enough vaccine supplies by June. Japan is particularly vulnerable because its initial inoculation plan is dependent on Pfizer doses, which are at risk of being taken back by U.S. authorities to fight the pandemic there. “There simply aren’t enough vaccines for all the countries that Pfizer made agreements with,” Hansen said.“America needs 100 million more Pfizer vaccines to be on the safe side to reach their goals, and a lot of those 100 million would come from the Japan pile.”Japan’s health ministry did not immediately respond with comment on Airfinity’s forecasts. Pfizer said in a statement it is working to boost capacity to meet global demand, aiming to make about 2 billion vaccine doses in 2021.Pfizer is scaling up its Puurs, Belgium facility, which will result in a temporary impact on some shipments until mid-February. Meanwhile, the company is “working closely with all governments on allocation of doses.” (Reuters)

(1) Afghan Officials…improve,” National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib said. The United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Friday spoke with Mohib regarding the US commitment to the US-Afghan partnership and to peace for all the people of Afghanistan, according to a statement by the US National Security Council. Sullivan underscored that the US will support the peace process with a robust and regional diplomatic effort, which will aim to help the two sides achieve a durable and just political settlement and permanent ceasefire. Sullivan also made clear the US’s intention to review the February 2020 US-Taliban agreement, including to assess whether the Taliban was living up to its commitments to cut ties with terrorist groups, to reduce violence in Afghanistan, and to engage in meaningful negotiations with the Afghan government and other stakeholders, the statement said. “They (Taliban) continue the violence. They don’t have a commitment to peace and they have maintained their ties with international terrorists,” Mohib said. Sources close to the Taliban said that there will be no change in the US-Taliban agreement signed last year in February. “Such an attempt won’t be considered. The stopping of Taliban movement against US and NATO interest is in favor of the US and NATO. The cutting of ties of the Taliban with al-Qaeda is in favor of NATO and US,” said Jalaluddin Shinwari, attorney general during Taliban regime in Kabul. NDS chief Ahmad Zia Saraj meanwhile blamed the Taliban for wasting time in the peace negotiation delays. “They have no interest in peace and they are always trying to make excuses and waste time,” Saraj said. (TOLO NEWS)

(2) MoFA Calls…“(The Taliban) is controlled by them and (the Taliban) are the servants of an intelligence agency that is conducting killings in our country every day,” National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib said. “They see everything as un-Islamic here and they undertake destructive activities.” Some former diplomats said that Kabul needs the sincere support of Pakistan to gain success in the peace process. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is trying to convince countries of the fact that peace in Afghanistan favors all,” said Nizamuddin Katawazi, a former diplomat. Najibullah Alikhil, Afghan ambassador in Pakistan, said that practical steps have been made for trust-building between the two countries in recent months. “The mechanisms were discussed and were agreed upon between the two sides in Imran Khan’s visit to Kabul. And we are discussing these mechanisms,” the Afghan envoy said in an interview with Khyber News. (TOLO NEWS)

(3) Afghan Official…United States and its allies. The agreement has reduced the number of American troops in the country from more than 12,000 a year ago to about 2,500, but, it has not eased Afghan bloodshed. (VOA)

(4) Govt Sacks MPs…draft.He added that the government had sacked husbands of Robina Jalali, lawmaker from Kabul, Lailuma Hukmi, lawmaker from Nangarhar and brother of Hamida Ahmadzai, representative of the Afghan nomads in the lower house.The government also sacked Kamil Bik Husseini, selected member of the senate. Kamil Bik Husseini is a relative of a lawmaker in the lower house.Rahmani said the government’s behavior was against political and administrative ethics. He said the government had dismissed these officials who served the government for years as an act of revenge.He defined it as threatening and pressurizing lawmakers to approve the budget draft and ignore law-breaking acts of the government.Rahmani urged the government to ensure security and fight the Taliban, Daesh and other insurgent networks instead of defaming and disrespecting the lower house of representatives.Rahmani believed the government was weakening the system and did not distinguish between the branches of the government. Rahmani also accused the government of internalizing some of the sectorial projects.The lower house speaker urged the government to include their suggestions and resolutions into the third budget draft of the next fiscal year.According to the lower house decision, lawmakers would not disapprove the draft again rather the house would modify the draft in line with the constitution and then approve it.Rahmani once again emphasized on equalizing salaries of government employees and warned that they would not approve the draft until people’s demand was met.Pajhwok tried to get the Presidential Palace’s view in this regard but failed

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Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

U.S. House to bring Trump incitement charge to Senate,

launching second impeachment trial

Ugandan court orders freedom of opposition leader Bobi Wine

Thousands take to streets protesting

Brazil’s Bolsonaro

Ruling Communist Party to set

Vietnam’s course this week

Australia OKs Pfizer vaccine, to begin in Feb

Pakistan Taliban ‘commanders’ killed in northwest: Pakistani army

WASHINGTON- The U.S. House of Repre-sentatives on Monday will formally charge ex-President Donald Trump with inciting insurrec-tion in a fiery speech to his followers before this month’s deadly attack on the Capitol, signaling the start of his second impeachment trial.Nine House Demo-crats who will serve as prosecutors will pro-ceed through the build-

KAMPALA- A Ugan-dan court has ordered security forces to cease surrounding the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine, whose house ar-rest since a mid-month presidential election has drawn international pressure, his lawyer said on Monday.Troops have blocked the 38-year-old pop star-turned-politician from leaving his house in a suburb of the capital Kampala since he voted in the Jan. 14 election where he ran against long-serving incumbent President Yoweri Musev-

RIO DE JANEIROX- Thousands of Brazilians took the streets for a second day Sunday to call for the impeachment of President Jair Bol-sonaro, who is under fire for his gov-ernment’s handling of COVID-19, which has raged through the country and claimed more than 216,000 lives.Horn-honking cars paraded through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Pau-lo and a dozen or more other cities as other protesters marched on foot, some calling, “Get out Bolsonaro!”Sunday’s protests were called by conservative groups that had once backed the president, while those on Saturday had come from the left.“When Bolsonaro arrived, we voted for him for his proposals that we found interesting, but the situation now with the pandemic is terrible”, said Meg Fernandes, a 66-year-old engineer who joined a protest in Rio on Sunday.She said she was especially alarmed by the situation in the northern city of Manaus, where there’s a waiting list for hospital intensive-care beds and a shortage of medical oxygen.“I had already been disappointed last year, but now with the situation in Manaus, I think (this government ) has to stop,” she said. “Bye, Bol-sonaro.”Thomaz Favaro, a political analyst at consultancy Control Risks, said Bolsonaro faces little risk of impeach-ment, though that could change if his allies lose a Feb. 2

HANOI- Almost 1,600 leading mem-bers of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party meet this week to approve fu-ture policy and help select the nation’s top leaders amid talk whether the cur-rent party chief will stay.General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, 76, defied conventional wisdom by winning a second term in 2016 against a favored opponent. Trong has made his name by presiding over economic growth and waging a popular war on corruption.There has been speculation the selec-tion of the new set of leaders is already a done deal, but the Vietnamese party is highly secretive and citizens are not even allowed to publicly discuss can-didates. The city’s streets are lined with the party’s hammer and sickle flags and posters to promote the week-long congress, which is held every five years. Some 4,900 people involved with the event must each take two tests for the coronavirus.Vietnam is one of the handful of the world’s remaining communist single-party states that tolerates no dissent. However, policy is not completely dic-tated from the top.A series of meetings down to the com-munity level were held earlier in each of Vietnam’s 63 provinces and munici-palities to select the 1,587 delegates. They will elect the 200-member Cen-tral Committee, which will choose be-tween 15 and

SYDNEY- Australia’s medical regulator has approved use of its first coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for in-oculations to begin next month.The Therapeutic Goods Administration on Mon-day gave provisional approval for people aged 16 and over to use the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Residents and work-ers at aged-care facili-ties, frontline healthcare workers and quarantine workers are among the groups being prioritized for the first doses.

Pakistan’s military says it has killed five members of the Pakistan Taliban group in two separate security operations in the

EU to debate Russia sanctions after Navalny protest arrests

ANCHORAGE- Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges glob-al temperatures ever higher.Altogether, an esti-mated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Annually, the melt rate is now about 57 percent faster than it was three decades ago,

Australian Prime Minis-ter Scott Morrison wel-comed the development. He said Australia was among the first countries to complete a compre-hensive process to for-mally approve a vaccine rather than just grant an

emergency approval.Australia has an agree-ment for 10 million doses of the two-dose Pfizer vaccine and an option to buy more if supplies allow. Health Minister Greg Hunt said Monday

scientists report in a study published Mon-day in the journal The Cryosphere.“It was a surprise to see such a large increase in

just 30 years,” said co-author Thomas Slater, a glaciologist at Leeds University in Britain.While the situation is clear to those de-

ing where hundreds of Trump supporters fought with police, leav-ing five dead, at about 7 p.m. on Monday (0000 GMT), carrying the ar-ticle of impeachment to the Senate where Trump will face trial.A similar ceremony was carried out for Trump’s first impeachment trial last January, when the House clerk and ser-geant at arms led a small

eni. “The judge ordered that the state and its agencies should immedi-ately vacate his property and his right to personal liberty should immedi-ately be reinstated,” law-yer George Musisi told Reuters. Museveni, 76, who has been in power since 1986, was declared winner of the poll with 59% of votes versus 35% for Wine, who had for years denounced corruption and nepotism in his songs. He rejected the result, alleging fraud which the government denies. Uganda’s military

pending on mountain glaciers for drinking water, or relying on winter sea ice to pro-tect coastal homes from storms, the world’s ice melt has begun to grab attention far from frozen regions, Slater noted.Aside from being cap-tivated by the beauty of polar regions, “peo-ple do recognize that, although the ice is far away, the effects of the melting will be felt by

Indian farmers ride caravan of tractors into capital ahead of Republic Day

NEW DELHI- Caravans of tractors clogged a key highway in northern In-dia on Monday as tens of thousands of farmers pro-testing against agriculture

reforms streamed into the capital ahead of celebra-tions for Republic Day.India marks its founding as a republic on Tuesday with a military parade in

northwestern North Waziristan dis-trict, including two senior members of different factions of the armed group.In a statement released late on Sun-day, the military said it had con-ducted security operations in the Mir Ali and Kaisoor areas of the district, which was once the headquarters of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or Pakistan Taliban). “During IBOs [five] terrorists

the historic city centre, but the farmers, who are demanding a rollback of Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi’s deregu-lation effort, plan their own peaceful show of strength.“We will teach Modi a lesson that he will never forget,” said one of the protesters, from the dis-trict of Ludhiana in Pun-jab, who drove his own tractor. The 35-year-old, who cultivates 10 acres (4 hectares), asked not to be identified.Loudspeakers blared

anti-government songs as the lengthy procession of vehicles rolled down National Highway 44, ac-companied by dozens of community kitchens to hand out hot meals and beverages in the winter cold.Farmers mainly drawn from the breadbasket states of Punjab and ad-joining Haryana have blockaded approaches into New Delhi for about two months to protest against three new farm laws they say will hurt their

BRUSSELS- The European Union will consider fresh sanctions on Russian in-dividuals on Monday after more than 3,000 people were arrested across Rus-sia on Saturday to demand the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.Lithuania’s foreign minister, arriving in Brussels for a meeting of the bloc’s 27 top diplomats, said “a change is in the air in Russia” that the bloc must support, especially after Navalny’s de-tention as he returned to Russia from Germany.“The EU needs to send a very clear and decisive message that this is not accept-able,” Gabrielius Landsbergis said in a video statement, calling for more sanc-tions on Russian individuals.The EU already has economic sanctions on the Russian energy, financial and arms sectors over its 2014 annexation of the Crimea peninsula and has im-

posed sanctions on Russian officials close to President Vladimir Putin in response to Navalny’s poisoning in August.Fellow Baltic countries Latvia and Estonia sup-port more EU sanctions on Russian individuals, and Italy’s foreign minister said on Sunday that Rome was ready to support more travel bans and asset freezes. Romania publicly backed sanctions on Monday.German Foreign Minister Heiko

Maas demanded the immediate release of protesters who braved extreme cold to call for Navalny’s release, but did not make further comment.In central Moscow on Saturday, where Reuters reporters estimated up to 40,000 people had gathered in one of the big-gest unauthorised rallies for years, po-lice were seen roughly detaining peo-ple, bundling them into nearby vans.Germany and France, the EU’s main powers, will be central to deciding if the bloc goes ahead with punitive measures on Russia, a big oil and gas exporter to the bloc, although no detailed list of names is expected to be decided on Monday.Navalny says Putin was behind his poi-soning last August, a version that the Kremlin rejects. The Kremlin says it has seen no evidence that Navalny was poi-soned and that it will not heed calls by some Western countries for sanctions over Navalny’s detention because his case is a domestic matter.Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavis-to said he wanted a “proper legal inves-tigation” in the poisoning. (Reuters)

many (vaccines) from the U.S. And at the mo-ment, it doesn’t seem very likely they will get very large quantities of for instance, the Pfizer vaccine.”Hansen said Japan will not reach a 75% inocula-tion rate, a benchmark for herd immunity, until around October, about two months after the close of the Summer Games.Japan has arranged to buy 314 million doses from Pfizer, Moderna Inc and AstraZeneca Plc, and that would be more than enough for its pop-ulation of 126 million.But problems seen in vaccine rollouts else-where stir doubt that Japan will get those sup-plies

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TEHRAN, Jan. 25 The Iranian Foreign Minis-try said on Monday that Iran will re-embrace its nuclear commitments if the United States removes sanctions against it.“We have already an-nounced our position. We should see removal of sanctions and effective implementation of the agreement by the United States and the other par-ties,” said Saeed Khati-bzadeh, the ministry spokesman, during his weekly press conference.“We have not seen any-

BEIJING- The United States often sends ships and aircraft into the South China Sea to “flex its muscles” and this is not good for peace, China’s Foreign Minis-try said on Monday, af-ter a U.S. aircraft carrier group sailed into the dis-puted waterway.The strategic South Chi-na Sea, through which trillions of dollars in trade flows each year, has long been a focus of contention between Bei-jing and Washington, with China particularly angered by U.S. military activity there.The U.S. carrier group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt and accompa-nied by three warships, entered the waterway on Saturday to promote “freedom of the seas”, the U.S. military said,

Japan is likely to achieve herd immunity to CO-VID-19 through mass in-oculations only months after the planned Tokyo Olympics, even though it has locked in the big-gest quantity of vaccines in Asia, according to a London-based forecast-er.That would be a blow to Prime Minister Yo-shihide Suga who has pledged to have enough shots for the populace by the middle of 2021, as it trails most major econo-mies in starting COV-ID-19 inoculations.“Japan looks to be quite late in the game,” Ras-mus Bech Hansen, the founder of British re-search firm Airfinity, told Reuters. “They’re dependent on importing

MEXICO CITY- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he has tested positive for COV-ID-19, an announcement that comes as his country registers the highest levels of infections and deaths to date.López Obrador, who has been criticized for his handling of Mexico’s pan-demic and for not setting an example of prevention in public, said Sunday on his official Twitter ac-count that his symptoms are mild and he is under medical treatment.“I regret to inform you that I am infected with COV-ID-19,” he tweeted. “The symptoms are mild but I am already under medi-

thing new about the JCPOA,” he added, refer-ring to the Joint Compre-hensive Plan of Action, also known as the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal.If the United States ad-heres to its obligations, Iran’s mitigation mea-sures about its nuclear commitments will be reversible, Khatibzadeh noted.Following the U.S. exit from the nuclear deal in 2018 and imposi-tion of sanctions, Iran has stopped implementing parts of its obligations un-der the JCPOA. (Xinhua)

just days after Joe Biden became U.S. president..“The United States fre-quently sends aircraft and vessels into the South China Sea to flex its muscles,” the foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, told report-ers, responding to the U.S. mission.“This is not conducive to peace and stability in the region.”China has repeatedly complained about U.S. Navy ships getting close to islands it occupies in the South China Sea, where Vietnam, Malay-sia, the Philippines, Bru-nei and Taiwan all have competing claims.The carrier group en-tered the South China Sea at the same time as Chinese-claimed Tai-wan reported incursions by

cal treatment. As always, I am optimistic. We will all move forward.”José Luis Alomía Zegarra, Mexico’s director of epide-miology, said the 67-year-old López Obrador had a “light” case of COVID-19 and was “isolating at home.”Mexico’s president wrote that while he recovered Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero would be taking over for him in his daily news confer-ences, at which he usually speaks for two hours with-out breaks each weekday.Despite his age and high blood pressure, López Ob-rador has not received a vaccine shot even though

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KABUL - Wolesi Jirga speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani and some members on Monday claimed the government was dismiss-ing officials who were relatives of lawmakers to avenge voting against the budget draft.Rahmani emphasized on resolu-tion of the budget draft and said they would not disapprove the draft again but would modify and approve it in line with the Constitution.The lower house has already rejected the budget draft twice over omitting over 1,100 provin-cial projects, allocation of higher budget to codes 91 and 92 and not equalizing salaries of gov-ernment employees.

Abdul Sattar Husseini from Fa-rah province further explaining the matter said, the government was sacking relatives of those lawmakers who voted against the budget draft of 1,400 solar year.Pidram said the government was conspiring against lawmakers

KABUL - Authorities in Afghanistan say they have rearrested 600 members of the Taliban who were freed from imprison-ment as part of a peace-building agree-ment between the United States and the insurgent group. Afghanistan’s national security adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, made the announce-ment Sunday, alleging the men in ques-tion had returned to the battlefield to plot deadly attacks against government forces and civilians. Under the February 2020 U.S.-Taliban deal, the government had released more than 5,000 insurgent prisoners in ex-change for 1,000 security personnel. The swap led to the opening of much-sought peace negotiations between the Taliban and representatives of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s government. Mohib told reporters in Kabul that the prisoners’ release did not contribute to peace efforts, reiterating that his govern-ment would not free more Taliban. “We have rearrested 600 of the freed individuals because they were fighting alongside the Taliban despite pledges that they would not rejoin the battle-field,” the Afghan adviser said. Mohib added that intelligence informa-tion suggested other freed Taliban pris-oners were also involved in making car bombs and directing deadly attacks at Afghan security forces as well as civil-ians. He accused the Taliban of failing to live up to its commitments to reduce violence and work toward a nationwide cease-fire. Instead, Mohib said, the insurgents have escalated the violence and staged targeted killings of Afghan officials, jour-nalists and activists.

“We see that none of the conditions that the Taliban agreed to in the U.S.-Taliban agreement have been fulfilled. We want those conditions to be implemented,” he said. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid rejected allegations that freed insurgent fighters had returned to the battlefield or 600 of them have been rearrested by Af-ghan authorities.Mujahid told VOA, however, that Kabul has allegedly “killed or rearrested up to 40” freed Taliban during raids on their homes or on hospitals where they were undergoing medical treatment after be-ing released from jails. The Taliban has also repeatedly accused Afghan forces of storming homes of the

freed prisoners and killing or rearrest-ing them to spoil the U.S.-initiated peace process. The agreement requires all remaining U.S. and NATO troops to stage a “condi-tions-based” complete withdrawal from Afghanistan by May 2021. Former Presi-dent Donald Trump defended the pact saying it would help end what he often referred to as America’s “endless war.” The Taliban in return pledged to negoti-ate a political power-sharing deal with Afghan rivals that would end years of hostilities in the country. The group has also given assurances it will stop al-Qaida and other international ter-rorist groups from using Afghan soil for attacks against the...

KABUL - The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Monday an-nounced recording 78 new posi-tive Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours in the country.The ministry in a statement said 1, 991 people underwent tests since Saturday and 77 people were diagnosed with the vi-rus, pushing the overall tally to 54,750.It said 43 cases were detected in Herat, nine in Nuristan, six in Nangarhar, five in Kunar, four in Balkh, three in Kabul, two each in Kandahar, Takhar, one each in Ghazni, Badakhshan, Helmand and Laghman prov-inces.During the period, 67 people

ZalmaiAlako in an exclusive inter-view told Pajhwok Afghan News that they had launched efforts to promote the cultivation of saffron.He said: “We cultivated saffron on a small piece of land in Helmand last year which had good result.” He added saffron was good alternative to puppy.Mohammad AslamBashardost, Hel-mand cultivation affairs in charge, told Pajhwok that the saffron they cultivated last year had good yield.Meanwhile, a farmer Khaliqdad said he planned to cultivate saffron on his land this year.“It’s cultivation is easy, it needs little effort and could be very good replacement of...

the negotiating team, met with Jusuf Kalla, Chairman of Muhammadiyah Ulema Organization and former vice president of Indonesia and his ac-companying delegation in Doha on Sunday.At the meeting, Kalla said the con-tinuation of violence in an Islamic society calls into question the peace process.He added that the two negotiating parties are expected to provide peace and security through a ceasefire and constructive negotiations.Welcoming Kalla’s remarks, Stanekzai said that providing a ceasefire and effective nego-tiations are among the...

LASHKARGAH - The Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock director for southern Halmand province says ef-forts are underway to promote saf-fron crop in order to prevent pup-py’s cultivation.

DOHA - Masoom Stanekzai, Chair-man of the Afghan Republic’s nego-tiating team, along with the Minister of State for Peace and members of

The lower house has urged the government to equalize salaries of government employees and teachers and warned of disap-proving the budget in case they did not include the aforemen-tioned demands in the budget draft.In Monday’s session, the law-makers discussed problems in the budget draft and govern-ment attempts at preventing the disapproval of the draft.Some lawmakers claimed that the government had sacked their relatives who served in the gov-ernment because they had voted against the budget draft.Habib Rahman Pidram, a law-maker from Herat province and

instead of respecting their au-thorities.Some other lawmakers also had similar views.Mir RahmanRahmani said the government was sacking offi-cials related to lawmakers in order to pressurize them to approve the budget...

recovered from the infection, taking the recoveries to 47,367 in the country.Four people lost their lives to the virus since yesterday, with the total death toll reaching 2,390.The coronavirus was first detected in China more than a year ago and...

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HERAT CITY - People from various walks of life on Monday set the government a nine-day deadline to remove the provin-cial police chief after insecurity situation deteriorated in west-ern Herat province.The Provincial Council, the Chamber of Commerce, the un-ions of craftsmen, doctors and money changers held a joint protest meeting here.Provincial Council Chairman Kamran Alizai asked the central government to fire the provin-cial police chief until Tuesday next week, criticizing the in-crease in kidnappings, assassi-nations and armed robberies in the province.He said unless fundamental

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measures were taken to improve the security situation, citizens would protest and would not al-low the police chief to work.He added assassinations and kidnappings had increased to the extent that they had lost sta-tistics. “Currently, there five or six people are in captivity of kid-nappers, but their relatives can-not raise the matter out of fear that they will be killed.”ObaidullahYari, deputy chair-man of the West Zone Chamber of Crafts, said that shopkeepers were not safe and all shopkeep-ers would go on a general strike if no action was taken by Tues-day to improve security.Meanwhile, BahauddinRahimi, head of the Money Changers

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Association, expressed concern about the increasing incidents of kidnappings and said that 15 moneychangers had been ab-ducted in the province since the beginning of the year.He said currently two money-changers were in the cus-tody of kidnappers and a small number of...

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