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Trump Deserves High Marks for New Strategy: Khalilzad

U.S. Fighter Pilots in Afghanistan Prepare for More Air Strikes

CEO Vows to Address Moneychangers’ Issues

Tajikistan Exports More Electricity to Afghanistan

Afghan Army ‘Gains Considerable Strength in

North’Pakistan Facilitates

Afghan Refugees with Education, Training

NZ to Send More Defence Personnel to Afghanistan

Russia Chides US ‘Dead-End’ Strategy to Force Afghan Peace

Process by Subduing Taliban

Outgoing EU Envoy Conferred with Wazir Akbar Khan Medal

Afghan Media Delegation Meets Gen. Bajwa

WASHINGTON - In a newspaper arti-cle this week, Zalmay Khalilzad point-ed out that Trump has acknowledged Pakistan is playing a double game.Zalmay Khalilzad, former US ambas-sador to Afghanistan, said this week in an article published by the New York Times that unlike his two pre-decessors in the Oval Office, US Presi-dent Donald Trump has chosen to ad-dress the fact that Pakistan has been playing a double game.Khalilzad said Trump “unequivocally called out Pakistan for pretending to be a partner and receiving large-scale American assistance while providing sanctuary and support for the Taliban and the Haqqani terrorist network, which have been killing Americans and Afghans.”He said that Trump’s announcement of a change in American policy im-plies that the US will end its support and assistance for Pakistan and that Trump signaled that deference to Pa-

RAWALPINDI - A nine mem-ber Afghan media delegation on Friday visited Pakistan’s General Head Quarter (GHQ) and interacted with the Pa-kistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa . COAS said that Af-ghanistan is a brotherly neigh-bour and terrorists are our common enemy against which a trust based coordinated re-sponse is required rather than blame game and Media can play a vital role in mitigating

KABUL - The government has been considering a request from the United States, made in May on behalf of the NATO-led force, to send more people.The decision comes days after US President Donald Trump promised a stepped-up mili-tary campaign in Afghanistan against Taliban insurgents, who have gained ground against US-backed Afghan government forces.

MOSCOW - Moscow has criticized Trump’s new strategy of pacify-ing the Taliban to force a negoti-ated peace process in Afghanistan, which the group refuses.The Russian Foreign Ministry has criticized the new U.S.-Afghan strategy as doomed from its in-ception and a continuation of the failed policies of past administra-tions, which narrowly focused on the continued use of military force as a means to pacify the 16-year in-

KABUL - President Moham-mad Ashraf Ghani in his Farwell meeting with European Union (EU) Special Representative Franz-Michael Mellbin conferred him with the Ghazi Wazir Mo-hammad Akbar Khan Medal, a statement from the Presidential Palace said on Friday.The award conferred event was held at Presidential Palace on Thursday evening. Presidential Advisor on Cultural Affairs Asa-

KABUL - Military commanders said the Af-ghan National Army had a tough time dur-ing the past five months but they were suc-cessful in their missions.Commanders from 209 Shaheen Military Corps Headquarters in Balkh province in Afghanistan’s north said the Taliban has suffered heavy casualty toll and their war machine has been failed during the past five months. The 209 Shaheen Military Corps Commander Gen. Amanullah Mubin said the combat ca-pability of the Afghan National Army (ANA) units has considerably increased in their mili-tary operations against militants in different parts of Afghanistan’s north.He said the ANA soldiers have been equipped with modern weapons.“More than 2,700 Taliban fighters were sent to the hell and over 1,200 others were wounded,” ...(More on P4)...(15)

KABUL - Pakistan refugees’ ministry official have said multiple facilities had been provid-ed to Afghan refugees in Pakistan including education and trainings.Dr. Imran Zaib Khan, in charge of Afghan refugees, said legislation was being made for Afghan refugees which in the past did not existed. He said Afghan refugees would be facilitated when new law is made for them.He added the repatriation of Afghan refu-gees was made upon the well of refugees and it was not a matter of force.He said Pakistan accelerated the registration process of Afghan refugees recently and his government and the Afghan diplomatic mis-sion in Pakistan held major responsibilities in this regard. He added up to 20 centres had been arranged for the registration process.Earlier, the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR), said, ten thousands il-legal Afghan refugees have been registered recently in Pakistan, with another seven hun-dred thousand illegal refugees to be docu-mented in the coming six months,The registration process of illegal Afghan mi-grants kicked off in Pakistan on August 16. Up to 10,000 Afghan migrants had been reg-istered so far, a statement from the ministry said.It added in the coming six months, 700,000 more Afghan ...(More on P4)...(16)

Defence Minister Mark Mitch-ell said two of the military officers would work at the NATO mission’s headquarters in Kabul and the third at the Afghan National Army Officer Academy as a physical train-ing instructor.New Zealand withdrew its final Provincial Reconstruc-tion Team from Afghanistan in 2013, but 10 officers are still there ...(More on P4)...(10)

surgency against U.S. and NATO occupation.“The main emphasis in the new strategy, which was announced by Washington, is made on settle-ment through use of force … we believe that it’s a dead-end ap-proach,” Russia’s Foreign Minis-ter Sergei Lavrov told reporters, according to RT.His comments were echoed in a news conference held in Moscow by the ...(More on P4)...(14)

kistani sensitivities will no longer pre-vent the US from developing a stronger strategic partnership with India.

Khalilzad said Trump deserves high marks for his new Afghanistan strategy. “It is bold, reasoned and offers the pros-

BAGRAM AIRFIELD - For the fighter pi-lots at the largest U.S. military base in Af-ghanistan, President Donald Trump’s new strategy for the war should mean escalat-ing an already surging air campaign, and possibly including an unrestrained offen-sive against the Taliban.The number of U.S. air strikes in Afghani-stan has already dramatically spiked since Trump took office in January, from 1,074 in all of last year to 2,244 as of August 20 this year. After a months-long review of his Afghan-istan policy, Trump committed the United States last week to an open-ended conflict in the country and promised a stepped-up campaign against the Taliban insurgents.Few details have emerged, but the pilots in Bagram are preparing for the possibility they’ll be taking the fight to the Taliban in a way they ...(More on P4)...(9)

KABUL - Moneychangers on Thursday urged Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ab-dullah to give them more time to submit old banknotes to the central bank.Earlier, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) had announced that banknotes that were stuck back together with sticky tape or glue, painted with colors or stamped or their colors changed would be invalidated with the beginning of the new solar year, 1396 (March 22).However, DAB later extended the dead-line for another four months till August 22.DAB deputy head Mohammad Qasim Rahimi had told a press conference that around 500 branches of the government and private banks had been tasked coun-trywide with collecting old banknotes from people.The process of exchanging the bills was underway and so far 25 million worth old banknotes had been collected since Febru-ary 1, he had said. ...(More on P4)...(12)

KABUL - Energy-starved Afghanistan has imported 205.2 million kWh of electricity from Tajikistan during the current month, a media report said on Thursday.The electricity imported by Afghanistan from the former Soviet republic is 23.6 million kWh more than in July 2016, AKI Press quoted an official report as saying.According to the report, Tajikistan export-ed about 870.8 million kWh of electricity to Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. Sangtuda 1 and 2 supplied the electricity to Afghani-stan.The volume of electricity exports amounts to 13.5% of the total volume of power produced by the Central Asian country. (Pajhwok)

dullah Ghazanfar read out Presidential Decree in this regard at the event, the statement said.The president hailed Mellbin ...(More on P4)...(13)

pect of success against the violent Islam-ist groups of the region. But it will also face opposition in the region. The presi-dent will have to show an unflagging commitment to the cause and be pre-pared to respond to moves by adversar-ies to disrupt his plan.”He stated that Trump recognizes that abandoning Afghanistan would allow safe havens for international terrorist or-ganizations to emerge once more.“The new strategy is not only compre-hensive but also a major evolution in American policy. Though he did not specify numbers, the president indicated that he will deploy a surge of United States forces, without any timeline for their withdrawal — the error of the Oba-ma administration,” Khalilzad said.He went on to say that another major change from the Obama era is Trump’s decision to give American commanders in the field the flexibility they’ve long sought in assisting the Afghan forces fighting ...(More on P4)...(8)

the negativity created by inimical forces. COAS reiterated that Pakistan has undertaken operations ...(More on P4)...(11)