Volume No. 4061 Thursday December 27, 2018 Jaddi 06, 1397 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 20/-Afs

Quote of the Day

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless

knowledge.Bertrand Russell

PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI

www.thedailyafghanistan.comEmail: thedailyafghanistan@yahoo.com

Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019Add: In front of Habibia High School,

District 3, Kabul, Afghansitan

Learning

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday stressed the conduct of global affairs on the basis of mutual interest.

Iranian Leader’s envoy Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani has arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul this morning for a one-day state visit, according to a media report.

KABUL - Amid intensified peace efforts, Afghanistan’s High Peace Council (HPC) has suspended its provincial offices across the country. In an official letter signed by the head of High Peace Council’s Secretariat Umar Daoudzai, it was pointed that the decision has been taken based on the agree-ment of the HPC’s leadership in a bid to bringing reforms in the organization.“We are not talking about the shutdown but to suspend the op-eration of the HPC’s provincial offices,” the HPC deputy spokes-man Asadullah Zahiri said. “We have gone through the essential process and in the new step it is required to reconsider the opera-tions of parts of the High Peace Council.”However, many politicians be-lieve that President Ghani has undermined the activities of HPC after announcing the formation of the negotiating team and a new advisory board for peace.“The High Peace Council has lost its prestige after suspension of its provincial offices and it will remain as an inefficient organiza-tion,” said Syed Ishaq Gilani, the leader ...(More on P4)...(3)

TIRINKOT - High dowry rates in central Uruzgan province have led many young men into illegal activities and girls to grow old at parental homes.Local elders say a bride’s family, takes one to five million Pakistani rupees in dowry from the groom. But most of families are unable to pay such huge amounts.To debate the social issue, a meet-ing was held in Tirinkot, attended by religious scholars, members of provincial council, government officials, tribal elders and several women.Religious scholars said the high rate of dowry was against the teachings of Islam, They urged the institutions concerned to launch public awareness against the unfair tradition.Uruzgan Hajj and Religious Af-fairs Director Maulvi Hamdullah Abadali said Islam had granted women all due rights.But unawareness among the people pushed society toward misfortune, he deplored, urging the bride family to charge 300 dirhams.Culture and Information Director Noor Mohammad Abdali, mem-ber of provincial council Noor Mohammad Haqmal and human rights commission representative Abdul Hadi Bahae urged families to avoid ...(More on P4)...(5)

HPC Suspends its Provincial Offices in All Provinces

Rs1.5m Being Charged in Dowry in Uruzgan

Peaceful Afghanistan Vital to Regional Stability

KABUL - Iranian Leader’s envoy Rear Admi-ral Ali Shamkhani has arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul this morning for a one-day state

Iranian National Security Council Secretary in Kabul for Talks

Qureshi, Lavrov Ponder on Afghan Peace Process

visit, according to a media report.Secretary of the Supreme Nation-al Security Coun-cil Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, accompanied by a number of high-ranking se-curity, military and political of-ficials, is in Kabul

at the invitation of National Security Adviser of Afghanistan Hamdullah Mohib.

His one-day visit aims at hold-ing talks with his counterpart, as well as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and some other senior political and security of-ficials of the neighboring coun-try.Reviewing ways to expand bilateral ties in political, eco-nomic and security sectors, combating terrorism and or-ganized crime, as well as joint border and regional coopera-tion are among the key objec-tives of the Leader’s envoy to Afghanistan. (Pajhwok)

KABUL - Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday held a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on his trip to Moscow, his last stop on a whirlwind four-nation tour, according to a media report.The ministers talked about the revival of peace process in Afghanistan. They also discussed bi-lateral relations between Russia and Pakistan and developments in the regional situation.Both Russia and Pakistan have been actively trying to revive the peace process in war-torn Afghanistan. In order to kickstart direct nego-tiations between the Afghan Taliban and the Afghan government, Moscow had last month hosted peace talks that were attended by dele-gations of the Taliban, the Afghan government and global stakeholders. A Pakistani delega-tion had also attended the peace talks.Last week, Pakistan brokered a meeting be-

tween the United States and the Taliban in Abu Dhabi in a bid to pave the way for reviving the peace process that has remained stalled since 2015.The talks were arranged after the US President Donald Trump wrote a letter

ANKARA - Turkish parliament has approved a motion to extend the country’s troops deploy-ment in Afghanistan for another two years, An-adolu News Agency said.According to the Turkish News Agency, the deci-sion is part of the NATO-backed mission in Af-ghanistan.‘A legislation will put into effect on Jan. 6, 2019, allowing the Turkish government to send troops to Afghanistan to support the NATO-led mission Resolute Support,’ Anadolu went on to say.Meanwhile, the legislation gives leeway to Anka-ra to allow transporting foreign army personnel from Afghanistan through Turkey.The Turkish government also aims to increase the number of its troops in Afghanistan from 700 to 750.After 17 years, the International Security Assis-tance Force operations which included training and advising new Afghan security forces will come to an end in 2018. ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - The acting minister of interior Amrullah Saleh outlined the priorities of the ministry under his leadership by formally assuming charge of the ministry Yesterday.In his speech during his introductory ceremony in the ministry of interior, Saleh said he is assum-ing the charge of the ministry as a sincere servant of the people and as a brutal minister to terrorists and criminals.Saleh further added that the ministry of interior is a key governmental institution between the peo-ple and government, emphasizing that he would step up efforts to rehabilitate the image of the police forces and create an environment of hope among the people.He also added that serious attention would paid to the disabled police forces and families of the fallen soldiers and would promote the culture of respect to the disabled members of the police forces in the ministry.Amrullah Saleh was formally introduced as the acting minister of interior during a ceremony in ...(More on P4)...(4)

Turkey Extends Military Presence in

Afghanistan

Saleh Outlines Priorities by Assuming Charge of the

Ministry of InteriorKABUL - He was speaking at a cer-emony for the introduction of new in-terior and defence ministers.Ex-spymaster Asadullah Khalid re-placed Tariq Shah Bahrami as act-ing defence minister while Amrullah Saleh succeeded Wais Ahmad Bar-mak as interior minister.“We are working for the establish-ment of lasting peace and stability but also decisively manage the conflict,” the president remarked.

Ghani hailed the performance of Bah-rami and Barmak, saying on the basis of the principle of change within the government and keeping in mind the circumstances, Khalid and Saleh had been appointed as defence and inte-rior ministers.“Despite having differences on cer-tain questions, Khalid and Salesh remained cooperative in issues of national interest. Both have different styles of leadership and specific vi-

sions.“Using their experiences in the area of intelligence was a national duty and finally it was decided to get benefit of the energy and experience of the two military experts,” he said.Ghani added the government had clear views about restoring peace and a specific plan was also being devised for this purpose. Tue plan was in line with the national consensus....(More on P4)...(1)

to Prime Minister Imran Khan seeking Paki-stan’s help in mending Afghan peace process. The overture came after a patch of tense ties between the US and Pakistan since President Trump last year announced his Afghanistan and South Asia strategy in which Islamabad was accused of not acting against terrorist safe havens.In the first two days of his three-day trip, the foreign minister visited Kabul, Tehran and Bei-jing, where he met his counterparts and other high-ranking officials. He discussed regional peace and stability and matters of mutual inter-est with the three neighbours.During his trip to Kabul on Monday — his third since he became foreign minister in Au-gust — Qureshi met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rab-bani. During his meetings, the foreign minister stressed the ...(More on P4)...(6)