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ISLAMABAD - The arrest of a group of ethnic Pash-tun activists at a rally in Pakistanthis week rekin-dled an angry row with neighbouring Afghanistan on Thursday as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned Islamabad’s treatment of the protest-ers.The members of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) were detained during an Islamabad pro-test against police violence on Tuesday, the latest in a series of moves against the group which was founded a year ago to protest the death of a Pash-tun man killed by police in the Pakistani port city of Karachi.Islamabad’s crackdown against the group, whose support comes mainly from the northwestern re-gion of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has drawn criticism and protests from over the border in Afghanistan, where Pashtuns are estimated to be the largest sin-gle ethnic group.Tuesday’s incident, reopening longstanding ten-sions between Kabul and Islamabad, comes as Pa-kistan has been supporting efforts to open a peace process with the Taliban to end more than 17 years of war in Afghanistan....(More on P4)...(10)

KHOST CITY - Three people have been killed and as many wounded in a bomb explosion inside a house in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Fri-day.Two men and a woman were killed on Thursday night when the blast rocked their house in the Gulzar Aka area of the provincial capital, the Khost police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News.Brig. Gen. Akhtar Mohammad Noorzai

KABUL - Ministry of Defense says the operation to rescue those un-der Taliban custody was conduct-ed in Chahardara district. At least five people were freed from a Taliban prison in Kunduz province by the Afghan Army’s Special Unit, the Ministry of De-fense said in a statement on Fri-day.The statement said that the indi-

KABUL - Former President Ha-mid Karzai who attended the two-day Moscow Talks has called for convening Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) to resolve the ongoing crisis in the country.Speaking with Russia’s Sput-nik News Agency, Karzai hailed Moscow’s role in facilitating the

Karzai Calls for Loya Jirga Following Moscow Talks

Khost City: Woman Among Three Dead in Explosion

Five People Freed from Taliban Prison in Kunduz

You need to be more spontaneous, Leo, and stop trying to organize other people’s lives. You will see that it isn’t so hard to just let things happen. The unexpected also has a special charm. You’re a slave to routine. You need to take a big bite out of life and put your

trust in chance for a while. The people around you would like to see more originality in your personality.

You may feel like you need to work for a cause or political party, Tau-rus. The period you’re in right now is bringing you closer to social issues or humanitarian causes and pushing

you to think about what you can do for people less fortunate. You can help develop a new strategy as far as human relations are concerned.

Unfortunately, Gemini, this may be a pe-riod of conflict and tension in your fam-ily life, especially where siblings are con-cerned. Don’t you think it’s time to deal with these problems once and for all? It

would be nice to build a new relationship with them. It might be painful, but it’s up to you to take the first step. Call a family meeting and put all your cards on the table.

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Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb.18)

Capricorn (Dec.21-Jan19)

Scorpio (Oct.23-Nov.22)

Libra (Sep 23-Oct. 22)Cancer (June 21-July 20)

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Leo (July 21-Aug. 21)Taurus (Apr.21-May 20)

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You’ve always been sensitive to the pain of an unhappy childhood, Aries. Today you can no longer stand the thought of all those children living in misery, victims of war or other atroci-

ties. And this becomes especially painful when you take a look at the happy children full of joy around you.

You now seem to be able to do every-thing you want to do, Cancer. Things are going well as you reap the rewards of important past decisions you made. The obstacles that tended to get in your

way are history now. Your family is happy and healthy. Your success is encouraging you to make plans for the future.

- Watch for any errors in orientation or strategic mistakes, Libra. You may be having some communication problems with almost everyone today. You feel like whatever you say falls on deaf ears

and that no one really wants to listen to you. Don’t get frustrated. Relax and see it with humor. Just be an observer for one day and see what happens.

If people say that you’re stubborn when you’re just determined, let them talk, Sagittarius, and do what you need to do. However, when you think you’re being

determined but you’re actually being obstinate, you may want to listen to the people around you. They don’t tell you to calm down because they’re jealous of you but because they care about you.

At the moment, there’s a great deal of elec-tricity in the air, especially in your life at home. Ignore those people who try to pro-voke you. Don’t get involved in conflicts

that could degenerate into fights. Go somewhere to be alone. Reenergize by really listening to your desires, feelings, and instincts. Why not spend the afternoon in a museum, for ex-ample?

It scares you when life seems like it’s slip-ping through your fingers and you can’t slow it down. But it isn’t life that’s playing tricks on you. You aren’t seeing things as

clearly as you should be. You feel a little left out, but don’t worry. You’re just out of energy. Try and think of this empty feeling inside as a kind of purification or a much-needed break from everything.

When you were younger, your human-ity and generosity seemed limitless. You felt very involved in the world and what was going wrong with it. Today you

may remember these great dreams. It may be time to make some of those dreams come true. It would be especially beneficial to you if you could somehow connect this to the work you do for a living. It’s never too late to make a dream come true.

You’re a hard worker, Virgo, and you expect the same from the people around you. Today you may want to take a look at your personal and work relationships.

Demanding person that you are, you may be con-cerned about the quality of your friendships. Don’t be afraid to separate good from bad. Life is too short to devote your energy to bad relationships.

Members of your household may feel a bit restless today, and therefore might spend most of their time out and

about. You might take advantage of everyone’s ab-sence to catch up on work you need to do alone, Sagittarius. This is going to be a busy day with lots of outside contact. Visitors might drop by and the phone could ring constantly. Don’t be surprised if you don’t get much done.

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KAUBL - A group of at least 1,000 Af-ghan investors is preparing to travel to Lapis Lazuli member nations with-in the next two months to display the country’s products in multiple exhi-bitions in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey – which are the members of the trade and transit route.According to organizers of the event, the products include Afghan carpets, handicrafts as well as fresh and dry fruit. Hafizullah Qul, an organizer of the Lapis Lazuli Convoy, a title given to the convoy of Afghan investors who will travel to the Lapis Lazuli member countries, said the event is deemed as a big opportunity to boost trade and transit through the route.“We have solved the visa problem. We have discussed this with embas-sies of Turkey and Turkmenistan. We will discuss this with Georgia as well,” said Qul as he talked about the preparations for the journey. “This was our hope. Afghan handi-crafts are not known in some parts of the world. Now the opportunity has been created to introduce the Afghan handicrafts to the world,” said Samir, an Afghan investor.A woman investor, Tamanna Shah-pasandi, said women investors will also be given a chance to join the con-voy and attend the exhibitions. “We are supporting women. We will help them to improve their business and display their products at interna-tional exhibitions,” said Tamanna.Turkmen carpets are among the Af-ghan products which will be dis-played in the exhibition. Afghan investor said the carpets are sent to Turkey through the Afghanistan-Turkey air ...(More on P4)...(11)

Afghan Products to be Displayed in Lapis Lazuli Member Countries

Pakistan Activists’ Arrests Fuel Tension

with Afghanistan

Afghan politicians meeting with the Taliban representatives. Karzai said the outcomes of the Mos-cow meeting were beyond their ex-pectation and that he hopes that it could lead to lasting peace in his war-torn country.He stressed that peace cannot be en-sured without ending the bloodshed

and having a ceasefire in the country.The former president also said that Loya Jirga – as the main decision-making address in emergency situ-ations for Afghan people – is the “best” way for overcoming the ongo-ing challenges in the country. However, Karzai said before conven-ing the ...(More on P4)...(9)

said a police team had reached the area for investigations. He said nothing about the nature of the explosion.Meanwhile, another police official said on the condition of anonymity said the three people were killed when the bomb they were making went off prematurely. Two dead bodies and three wounded people were evacuated to a private clinic in Khost City from the site, a doctor said, adding the dead included a woman. (Pajhwok)

viduals were imprisoned in Tali-ban jail in Chahardara district for the past few months and that they were freed in an operation by Af-ghan Army’s Special Unit in the province.The statement said that four Tali-ban fighters were arrested in the operation.Taliban has not commented on this report. (Tolo news)