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41 Taliban Killed, 50 Wounded in Shindand Offensive

HERAT CITY - At least 41 Taliban fighters were killed and another 50 wounded in joint security operations by Afghan forces in the Shindand district of western Herat province, officials said on Saturday.Local officials said following the infighting between two Taliban factions in Shindand, the Afghan security forces launched a joint operation codenamed “Azam 32” in the district on Thursday.Personnel from the Afghan Na-tional Army (ANA), the National Directorate of Security (NDS), po-lice, commando and air force are taking part in the still in progress

KABUL - A cer-emony marking the completion of Ireland’s mili-tary mission in Afghanistan was held at NATO-led Resolute Support head-quarters in Ka-bul.NATO Commander Gen. John W. Nicholson and the command’s senior military and civilian leaders hosted the event, a statement from Resolute Support said.After 15 years of unbroken service with both ISAF and RS missions, the final contin-gent of seven Irish Defense

KANDAHAR CITY - Con-struction work on a fruit market --- a joint venture of the municipality and traders --- has been launched in the southern province of Kanda-har, officials said on Satur-day.The fruit market is being constructed over a 7.5 acres of land in Kandahar City, the provincial capital, at a cost of nearly $8 million.Traders would contribute75 percent to the total cost and the municipality 25 percent, said Zamarai Sargand, the municipality spokesman.He told Pajhwok Afghan News the market would ...(More on P4)...(15)

Pakistan Exploits Afghan Peace Process: Daudzai

$4bln Spent on Roads, But Majority Damaged

6 Specialist Doctors Graduated

from FMIC

Government Peace Process ‘A Failure’: Ahadi

Irish Defence Personnel Mark Completion of

Afghan Mission

Work on $8m Fruit Market Launched in

Kandahar

Forces personnel will rede-ploy to Ireland.To date, 226 officers and non-commissioned officers from the Irish Defense Forces have served in a variety of ap-pointments within the NATO Headquarters in Kabul.“From 2001 until 2012 the ...(More on P4)...(10)

cere in its cooperation,” said Ahadi, a former minister.The political opposition party leader said the unity government had failed to reserve the tide of insecurity amid its weakening leader-ship and political wrangling.

issues, something Pakistan has always denied.Daudzai, who is also a mem-ber of The Council For The Protection and Stability of Afghanistan (council made of former Afghan Jihadi fig-ures), accused Pakistan of

KABUL - The first six specialist doctors to graduate from the French Medical Institute for Children’s Postgraduate Medical Edu-cation Programme have been awarded cer-tificates of specialization on Saturday by Dr Ferozuddin Feroz, Minister of Public Health and the Professor Farhat Abbas, Dean of Aga Khan University Medical College at a PGME Graduation Ceremony. The funding of PGME programme is ...(More on P4)...(13)

“Insecurity has increased in most of the provinces. The Is-lamic State (Daesh) is still ac-tive in Nangarhar, Helmand is on the brink of collapse. Our security forces have the ability to defend the country, but our ...(More on P4)...(14)

meddling in the internal af-fairs of Afghanistan and ex-ploiting the peace process in a bid to pursue its strategic objectives.He said that the present government is following the same ...(More on P4)...(11)

JALALABAD - Jabha-i-Milli Afghanistan leader Anwarul Haq Ahadi on Saturday said the government’s efforts at peace had failed to produce any result and called the peace process a “failure.”Addressing hundreds of people at a party gathering in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, Ahadi said Pakistan had ei-ther no influence over the Taliban or it was not sincere in the Afghanistan reconcilia-tion process.“The Afghans were hoping for peace, but it has now ap-peared to us that Pakistan has no influence over Taliban to bring them to the negotiating table or the country is not sin-

KABUL - Former minister of interior Mohammad Omar Daudzai slammed Pakistan for what he said was the planned sabotage of the Af-ghan peace process and ac-cused Islamabad of interfer-ing in Afghanistan’s internal

KABUL - $4 billion USD in foreign aid money has been spent on upgrading and building roads and bridges in Afghanistan over the past few years but the majority are in bad condition due to substandard work, lack of maintenance, heavy traffic and security inci-dents – an issue that has drawn wide-scale criticism from the public. Road users have blasted government for not undertaking nec-essary measures to maintain and renovate these roads. ...(More on P4)...(12)

operation.Jilani Farhad, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Af-ghan News the operation was aimed at clearing and prevent-ing war crimes in the district.At least 41 militants were killed and more than 50 were wound-ed during the offensive that led to the destruction of 15 motorcy-cles, 8 vehicles, 4 machineguns, 3 rockets and other ammunition and equipment.Civilians and security forces have so far suffered no casu-alties during the offensive fo-cused on Azizabad area and central ...(More on P4)...(9)