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Kabul-New Delhi Flights Through Pakistan to Resume Soon

KABUL - Abdullah says all Afghans have a shared re-sponsibility of defending the Islamic Republic of Afghani-stan. Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, who addressed the Council of Ministers’ meeting on Monday, said an absolute majority of Afghans are de-manding the continuation of the Islamic Republic of Af-ghanistan, referring to con-cerns of the people about a comeback by the Taliban and their emirate.Abdullah reiterated that all Afghans have a shared re-sponsibility in defending the Islamic Republic of Af-

KABUL - The Police Com-mandment has announced that a security guard of a member of Provincial Coun-cil of Kabul has been arrested by police forces for his illegal actions.According to a statement released by Kabul Police Commandment, the security guard was arrested on Sun-day from the vicinity of 9th Police District in Abdul Haq Square.The statement further added that the security guard was acting against the traffic law and had forcefully stopped several vehicles in an attempt to travel in a one-way road.

ghanistan “because it is an achievement of Afghans and it is not supposed to be com-promised”. “The principle of the repub-lic system has been defined by the Constitution and there

The security guard was ar-rested by police forces of Police District 9 in Abdul Haq Square, the Kabul Police Commandment said, adding

No Compromise on Principle of Republic System: Abdullah

Kabul Police Taking Disciplinary Action Against the Security Guard of a PC Member

will be no compromise in this re-spect. There will be no solution if we ignore the republic system and the right of voting. Peace will not be a reality by ignoring some issues,” he said. ...(More on P4)...(5)

that the guard is in detention of police where his hair has been correct and further disciplinary actions would be taken against him. (KP)

KABUL - Following the latest tensions between Pakistan and India, Pakistani authorities shut down their air space to interna-tional flights.While Pakistan’s air space opened up for other internation-al flights, the country had kept it closed for Kabul-New Delhi flights.Afghanistan’s national aviation department has reported that the neighboring country will open up its air space for Kabul-New Delhi flights after March 11.According to the officials, the blockade was supposed to end on March 8, but due to “un-spec-ified reasons” it was postponed to 11 March.Kabul-New Delhi flight is one of the busiest flights, with at least four companies transport-ing hundreds of passengers on a daily basis.Afghans mostly travel to India for medical treatment, education and vacations. (BNA)

Afghan Women’s Struggle in Support of Elected System Led to Better Opportunities for Them

The Afghan government on Sunday refused to allow mem-bers of the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of Parliament, to enter the parliament house, days after the lawmakers re-

turned from the winter recess.The lawmakers immediately opposed the move, saying they were still the incumbent legislators and that govern-ment’s decision would create legal vacuum. “It is in contravention of the prevailing laws and the Con-stitution, because the legisla-tive body is paralyzed,” said one MP Humayun Humayun, the second deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga.In response to the MPs criti-cisms, the Presidential Palace said the move was not extra-legal and that the new parlia-ment will be inaugurated once the new members come in.“I think it was not necessary to open the parliament for one week or ten days with the pre-vious MPs, because from the legal point of view, the tenure of the previous parliament members has expired,” said

KABUL - The release of mu-nitions by the US Air Force (USAF) over Afghanistan remained at a high level in January, according to US Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT).Recently released data shows that USAF manned and un-manned aircraft released 463 munitions over the Central Asian country in January as part of Operation ‘Freedom’s Sentinel’.While this represents 76 few-er munitions than December 2018, the figure is the highest

KABUL - Afghan security forces suf-fered heavy casualties after Taliban attacked their outpost in Badghis on Sunday night.At least 20 Afghan security force

Govt Faces Legal Backlashafter Refusing to Open Parliament

USAF Continues Extensive Use of Airpower in Afghanistan

20 Afghan Security Force Members Killed in Badghis

KABUL - Acting minister of informa-tion and culture Hasina Safi in a cere-mony held yesterday on the occasion of International Women Day congratulat-ed the day to all women of the country and declared her support from rights of women in all fields of their life.In the ceremony held by the ministry of information and culture with participa-tion of a number of high-ranking gov-ernment officials, advisors to president, chief executive and the country’s First Lady office, deputy ministers of some ministers, foreign guests, officials and employees of the MoIC, acting minister of information and culture by pointing to a range of problems and challenges facing Afghan women in various affairs briefed related ...(More on P4)...(7)

Ali Hedayat, media advisor to Second Vice President Mo-hammad Sarwar Danish.“Delaying the inauguration of the parliament in a way violates the largest body of the

government of Afghanistan,” said Aziz Rafaee, a civil soci-ety activist.“Although it creates a legal vacuum, but it is vital to find a better solution to this issue. In our perspective, results of another fifteen provinces should be announced so that the national assembly is inau-gurated and this will be the best solution,” said Habibul-lah Shinwari, an election ob-server.Meanwhile, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said the commission is work-ing round the clock to finalize the results of the remaining 15 provinces.“The leadership of both com-missions have discussed this issue in their meetings. They are in a hurry to send the final results of the remaining prov-inces to the election commis-sion,” ...(More on P4)...(8)

recorded for January since at least 2008. Currently avail-able AFCENT data only goes back to 2009.The intensified use of air power is part of a military campaign launched by US and Afghan forces in No-vember 2017 that is aimed at destroying the revenue sources, training facili-ties, and support networks of militant groups operat-ing in Afghanistan includ-ing the Taliban and the Is-lamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) groups. (Monitoring desk)

members were killed in a Taliban at-tack in Badghis province, in the west of Afghanistan, on Sunday night, officials from Badghis Provincial Council said on Monday.

The third round of trilateral meeting between Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan was held in Kabul, the sides discussed cooperation in various fields

including the Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process.

Afghanistan, Pakistan, China Held Talks in Kabul

KABUL - Afghan Deputy For-eign Minister for Political Affairs Idrees Zaman was presiding the meeting with ambassadors of China and Pakistan.The meeting was held to discuss agreements on practical coop-eration mechanism between the three neighboring countries.Deputy Minister Idreez Zaman said that Kabul wants honest co-operation of Pakistan in the Af-

ghan peace process which could build trust between the two neighboring countries.Pakistan envoy to Kabul, Zahid Nasrullah Khan, meanwhile, said that his country has played a criti-cal role in the ongoing peace talks with the Taliban, referring to the release of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar who is now leading the Taliban negotiating team in Qa-tar.

He stressed that Islamabad will continue its efforts to facilitate intra-Afghan dialogue.In the meeting, the Chinese envoy to Afghanistan, Liu Jinsong said that his country could play a con-structive role in the Afghan peace process, adding that the peace talks should be Afghan-led and Afghan-owned.The trilateral meeting at the level of ...(More on P4)...(6)

The officials said 10 other securi-ty force members were wound-ed in the attack.The clash took place after a group of Taliban militants at-tacked a security outpost in in Bala Murghab district, said Ab-dul Aziz Bek, head of Badghis Provincial Council.“The Taliban militants took 28 other security force members with them following the clash,” Bek said. Local security officials con-firmed the attack by the Taliban but did not give an exact detail about the casualties. Taliban has claimed responsibil-ity for the attack. (Tolo news)