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Gov’t Rejects Reports of Child Soldiers in Army

KABUL - The Afghan govern-ment has dismissed reports on the presence of child soldiers in the security forces as base-less, the state-run news agency Bakhtar News Agency (BNA) reported Saturday.“No child soldier exists in the ranks of Afghan national secu-rity forces,” Second Vice Presi-dent Sarwar Danesh said when meeting with Leila Zerrougui, the special representative of UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.According to BNA, the Afghan vice president reiterated the

MAIMANA/FEROZKOH - A tribal elder has been stabbed to death in the Pash-tunkot district of northwest-ern Faryab province and an Islamic State (IS) member detained in western Ghori, officials said on Saturday.Abdul Qadir Qadiri, Pash-tunkot district chief, told Pa-jhwok Afghan News Halim Bai was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants on his way from a local mosque to home on Friday night.He said Bai was a tribal elder from the Bocha area of the district. Intelligence agents had launched a search for the

KABUL - Police of central Logar province have rescued a child who was abducted by a group of kidnappers from capi-tal Kabul.Criminal Investigation Depart-ment (CID) officer while re-turning Haidar Hussain to his family said he was recovered in the provincial capital Pul-i-Alam late yesterday.According to Colonel Wasud-

KABUL - Military crack-down against Taliban in the northern Baghlan and west-ern Badghis provinces has claimed the lives of 35 mili-tants over the past two days, officials said Saturday.“A total of 15 armed Taliban have been killed in Dand-e-Shahabudin and Dand-e-Ghori districts of Baghlan province since Friday morn-ing,” police spokesman in the province, Zabihullah Sheja told reporters on Saturday.Seven more militants sus-tained injuries, the official as-serted.There was no casualty on se-curity personnel, Sheja add-

KHOST CITY - Six terror-ists belonging to notorious Haqqani network have been detained in joint security op-eration in Sabari and Baak districts of Khost province.The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghani-stan’s intelligence agency said on Saturday that the arrested terrorists include Rahimullah and Sattar, two commanders of the net-work.Other four terrorists are identified as Awal Mir S/O Khan Mir, Seyal Mir S/O Khan Mir, Mohammad Amir S/O Janat Mir and Abdullah S/O Sayed Mir.Five Kalashnikovs, a binoc-ular and two walky-talkies were confiscated from the possession of the terrorists.Initial investigation con-ducted from the group led NDS to seize a depot of am-munition which had a huge number of shells for heavy and light weapons.According to the statement, the Area of Operation ‘AO’ of the group was Sabari and Baak districts.(KP)

JALALABAD - Seventy tonnes of expired medicine and food items were set alight in eastern Nangarhar prov-ince on Saturday, officials said.Public Healthinfo-icon Direc-tor Najibullah Kamawal told reporters the drugs and food had been seized in different parts of the province during the current solar yearinfo-icon.He said a joint commission comprised of officials from different government depart-ments were present on the occasion. “Twenty tonnes of spurious drugs and 50 tonnes of expired eatables were torched.”Seventy percent of medicine supplies reach Nangarhar from Kabulinfo-icon, the di-rector said. “We don’t check the drugs coming from Ka-bul. Police seize them at the Daronta checkpoint.Kamal warned of cancelling the licences of some Jalal-abad-based private hospitals that failed to offer satisfactory services. However, he neither named the health facilities nor gave their number.Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the departments concerned had been directed to crack down on the ...(More on P4)...(11)

KABUL - The bodies of a dozen Afghans, who had drowned in Greece waters on their way to Europe, on Sat-urday arrived in capital Ka-bul, relatives said.Ruqia, one of relatives of the victims, said the coffins of the dead were shifted to Amir Hamza mosque in Wazir Abad area of Kabul.Shedding tears she said her close relatives Khalil, his wife and their two children and two brother-in-laws had lost

Woman among Top 10 Finalists in Global

Teacher Award

ICRC Resumes Operations in hazni City after Release

of Workers

Bodies of 12 Afghan Migrants Arrive in Kabul

Afghan Battle Kills 35 Militants in 2

Days: Officials Say

Tribal Elder Stabbed to Death, Daesh

Fighter Captured

Logar Police Rescue Kidnapped Child

Armed Pakistani Citizen Arrested in Special Police

Raid in Capital Kabul

Senior Police Officer, Brother Detained over

Arms Smuggling

70 Tonnes of Expired

Medicine, Food Set Alight

Two Haqqani Commanders

Among Six Detained

in Khost

attackers, he added.A resident of the area, who wished not to be named, hailed Halim Bai as a social-spirited man. He asked rel-evant government organs to ascertain the motive behind his assassination.Elsewhere, a Daesh fighter was detained in Ghor, police spokesmanAhmad Moham-madi said, identifying the detainee as Maulvi Abdur Rahman -- a resident of the Murghab area of Ferozkoh.He said the IS militant was ar-rested in Pozalich area by Af-ghan intelligence operatives late on ...(More on P4)...(12)

din Talash, Hussain had been abducted by a group of kidnap-pers from 8th sector of Kabul city a few days ago.Investigation is still ongoing into the case but no suspect has been arrested so far. This comes three months after a child was res-cued from kidnappers in Baraki Barak District of this province.He was also kidnapped from Kabul. (KP)

ed.Dand-e-Shahabudin and Dand-e-Ghori districts have been regarded as Taliban hot-bed threatening the provin-cial capital Pul-e-Khumri.The government forces, in efforts to dislodge militants from the said areas, launched a major offensive around one month ago which has claimed scores of lives from both war-ring sides as well as non-com-batants. Government forces onslaught has been continuing in Dand-e-Ghori and Dand-e-Shahabudin areas amid Taliban stiff resistance. Taliban mili-tants in Dand-e-Shahabudin ...(More on P4)...(8)

tions had suspended its op-erations in Ghazni City and all districts of the restive province in reaction to the kidnappings. Ayaz added: “We will resume activities at the district level only when all parties to the conflict give us fresh guaran-

There were over 5,000 nomi-nations and applications from 127 countries for the in-augural Global Teacher Prize which generated a huge amount of media interest around the world.Aqeela, the Afghan teacher, was forced to leave Afghani-stan in 1992 due to the civil war and lived in a refugee camp in Pakistan along with millions of other Afghans.During her time at the camp, Aqeela completely changed the face of education for young girls. When she ar-

their lives in Greece waters.Khalil had been working in the Ministry of Economy and her wife had been teaching in

Chahar Qala School of Wa-zirabad, Ruqia said.“For God sake, people should ...(More on P4)...(10)

PUL-I-ALAM - The deputy police chief for cen-tral Logar province and his brother have been detained on charges of weapons smuggling, an official said on Saturday.Crime branch chief, Col. Wasiuddin Talash, told Pajhwok Afghan News Qari Mohammad Wra and his brother were arrested by police in the capital Kabul two days ago.“Wra’s brother was carrying weapons in the po-lice officer’s Ranger pick-up for sale,” he said, adding the deputy police chief was not in the ve-hicle.” Talash said Wra had also been held over the use his vehicle.Wra and his brother are currently under investi-gation. Another provincial security official, who wished to go unnamed, confirmed the arrests.The source said the brother of Wra was serv-ing in the Afghan forces. Wra has been serving as deputy police chief for Logar for the past one year. (Pajhwok)

KABUL - A Pakistani citizen armed with a pistol has been ar-rested during a special military operation conducted by special wing of the Afghan police from capital Kabul.The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the Pakistani national was arrested from the vicinity of the capital, without providing fur-ther details.MoI said the suspect is in custody of the police and an investigation is underway to find out more de-tails.The identity of the arrested indi-vidual has also not been disclosed by the security authorities so far who has been arrested amid tense security situation in the country.This comes as at least five Pa-kistani nationals were arrested

tees of our staff security.” Ac-cording to the ICRC spokes-man, two of the kidnapped workers hailed from central Bamyan province and three from Ghazni. He stressed respect for ICRC operations across Afghanistan. (Pajhwok)

rived, she was shocked to find that there were no op-erational ...(More on P4)...(9)

GHAZNI - After the release of its workers, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Saturday resumed its operation in the capital of southern Ghazni province.The five ICRC staffers, who had been abducted by uniden-tified gunmen on the outskirts of Ghazni City three days back, were set free yesterday (Friday). ICRC spokesman Ahmad Ramin Ayaz told Pajh-wok Afghan News: “We take a lot of care of our workers. But we vehemently deny the pay-ment of ransom or any other deal for their release.” He said the humanitarian organisa-

KABUL - A female Afghan teacher who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize by Varkey Foundation is now among the top 10 finalists. The winner will walk away $1 million USD in prize money.The organization said in a statement that the top 10 final-ists announced on Wednes-day, represent five continents and nine countries.The winner is expected to be announced on March 13 in Dubai and each of the top 10 finalists will be featured by the organization.

government’s commitment to fully implement its Action Plan to end and prevent the recruit-ment and use of children in the national security forces.According to media reports, the warring sides in Afghanistan, including the government, have been using children as soldiers in the conflict.Meantime, a report, released by the Office of Special Representa-tive of the UN Secretary Gen-eral for Children and Armed Conflict on Friday, termed the Afghan government’s commit-ment ...(More on P4)...(7)

during an operation conducted by the Afghan intelligence opera-tives in northeastern Badakhshan province.The National Directorate of Se-curity (NDS) said two weeks ago that the Pakistani nationals were linked with the country’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and were covertly operating as doc-tors. This comes as the Afghan officials have long criticized Pa-kistani, specifically the country’s military intelligence – ISI, for in-terfering in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.The Afghan officials have on nu-merous occasions slammed ISI for sheltering the anti-govern-ment armed militant groups in Pakistan who are staging deadly attacks in the country. (KP)