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Back Page August 10, 2016 Add: V-137, Street-6, Phase, 4, District 6, Shahrak Omed Sabz, Kabul Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 www.outlookafghanistan.net Add: V-137, Street-6, Phase, 4, District 6, Shahrak Omed Sabz, Kabul Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 www.thedailyafghanistan.com Jalalabad Kandahar Ghazni Mazar Herat Bamayan Kabul Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear 39°C 40°C 23°C 32°C 38°C 12°C 19°C 34°C 26°C 37°C 22°C 30°C 19°C 27°C Daily Outlook Weather Forcast Daesh Source Confirms Hafiz Saeed’s Killing JALALABAD - A source in the Islamic State (IS) or Daesh militant group on Tuesday confirmed the killing of Hafiz Saeed, the group’s leader for Khorasan region, in eastern Nangarhar province. According to the source, Saeed was killed in a US drone strike five days back in Mamand Aw Peshi locality of Achin district. Earlier, Afghan officials had claimed an- other top IS commander, Saad Emeriti, was killed in the same area, but Daesh had rejected that claim and said he was alive. On Monday, Afghan security of- ficials claimed Daesh leader Hafiz Saeed was among 30 others killed in Afghan KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani has condemned Monday’s deadly bombing by Daesh at a Quetta hospital in Pakistan which killed at least 70 people. Ghani said the enemies of Islam and humanity carried out the terrorist attack on people who had gathered to mourn the passing of the president of the Baluchistan Bar Association at the hospital. “Attacking people is a grave crime, which is not jus- tifiable under any religion or law,” Ghani said. In his statement he stressed that the government of Afghanistan is committed to doing all it takes to prevent terrorist activities at a national and regional level. He said government fights all terrorist groups without differentiating between good and bad, and urged others to take ...(More on P4)...(11) MAIMANA - Electricity supply to Maimana, the capital of northwestern Faryab province, and three other districts has been suspended after the Taliban blew up a power pylon in Sherin Tagab district, an official said on Tuesday. Syed Abdul Hamid, Da Afghanistan Breshan Shirkat (DABS) director for Faryab, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the insurgents destroyed the power pylon in the Koh-i-Sayad locality of the town Monday night. He said electricity supply to Dawlatabad, Sherin Tagab and Khwaja Sabz Posh districts as well as Maimana had been cut off ...(More on P4)...(12) KABUL - In the first three months of this year, Af- ghanistan exported 100 hundred tons of fresh fruit via air cargo. Officials from the Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry say that the establishment of a cold- storage unit at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul has resulted in an increase in export. They said the new facility can hold up to 100 tons of fruit. The establishment of cold rooms and packing centers at airports in our country will help increase the amount of fresh and dried fruits for export, ac- cording to Chamber of ...(More on P4)...(13) Work on Construction of Water Distribution Network Launched Ghani Condemns Daesh Bombing in Quetta Power Supply Cut off as Taliban Blow up Pylon Export of Fresh Fruit on the Rise ZARANAJ - Construc- tion work on a water distribution network in Kang district of Nimroz province was officially inaugurated on Mon- day. The project is funded by the Ministry of Rural Re- habilitation and Devel- opment at a total cost of AFN 8,968,910. The inauguration cer- emony was attended by Nimroz Governor Eng. Mohammad Sami, members of parliament, national council mem- bers, acting director of the provincial office of Rural Rehabilitation and Development and other local officials. “The facility will pro- vide potable water to the district’s people and will create work opportuni- forces’ operation in Achin district. Lt. Col. Mohammad Zaman Wazir, 201st Selab Military Crops commander, told reporters in Achin district that 30 Daesh rebels, including Hafiz Saeed, had been killed. Saeed originally hailed from Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan and was a mem- ber of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). He joined the IS after its emer- gence in eastern Afghanistan. Saeed was promoted as the group’s Khorasan region’s leader. Few months back, there were reports in media about the killing of Saeed but lat- er the reports proved untrue.(Pajhwok) ties for about 4000 indi- viduals,” said Governor Mohammad Sami. The Governor called on the residents to cooper- ate with the government in keeping the creek clean.(Wadsom) KABUL - Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ide- ology (CII) Chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani has said the massacre of innocent people will continue as long as security agencies aid militant outfits. Also a leading religious scholar, KABUL - A former Aus- tralian soldier who was in a Kabul prison for the past seven years for murder- ing a colleague has been released following a presi- dential pardon, officials Pakistani Agencies Aiding Some Militant Outfits: Sherani Ex-Australian Soldier Freed from Kabul Jail After 7 Years Sherani expressed the views during a visit to the Quetta Civil Hospi- tal, where he inquired af- ter the people wounded in Monday’s suicide at- tack. Seventy people, in- cluding protesting law- yers and two journalists, were killed and more said Tuesday. Robert Langdon, then a private security contrac- tor working for the US military, was convicted in 2009 for shooting his Afghan colleague during than 110 others wound- ed in the suicide bomb- ing of the facility, where lawyers had gathered after Balochistan Bar As- sociation President Bilal Anwar Kasi was gunned down by unidentified as- sailants. Jamat-ul-Ahrar ...(More on P4)...(9) a dispute while escorting a convoy to an American base. Langdon, 44, has always maintained his inno- cence, claiming that he ...(More on P4)...(10)
