Volume No. 4108 Saturday February 23, 2019 Hoot 04, 1397 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 20/-Afs Quote of the Day Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. Bill Bradley www.thedailyafghanistan.com Email: thedailyafghanist[email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 Add: In front of Habibia High School, District 3, Kabul, Afghansitan Leadership Seven other MoU’s were also signed between the two leaders who agreed to ramp up bilateral ties with each other. Afghanistan will receive $ 157 million in aid under an agreement signed on Thursday for providing education to 3.7 million out of school children. BAMYAN CITY - The Afghani- stan Natural Disaster Manage- ment Authority (ANDMA) and the Islamic Relief Organization (IRO) distributed food and warm clothes to 1,300 needy families in central Bamyan province, an offi- cial said Thursday. Ahmad Reza Rafat, ANDMA head for Bamyan, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the assistance included flour, rice, ghee, blan- kets, tarpaulin and a set of winter clothes. He said the IRO provided the re- lief items to 500 needy families, with each family receiving a sack of flour, a sack of rice, ghee, a set of warm clothes, four blankets and two tarpaulins. Rafat said 800 other families also received similar aid from Natural Disaster Management Authority and the package included three bags of flour, ghee and three blankets. The number of needy families was high and only 10 percent of them, who were in desperate need of help, received the assis- tance due to shortage of resourc- es, he added. “We are ready to provide food assistance to 1,000 families in districts and 4,000 families in the provincial capital if a disaster strikes and other items will be provided by aid organizations in Bamyan,” he said. Mohammad Jawad, a resident of Shebarto village of Bamyan city, told ...(More on P4)...(6) NEW DELHI - The Afghanistan National Cricket Team team de- feated Ireland by five wickets during the first match of the bi- lateral Twenty20 International match in Dehradun on Thurs- day. Ireland set a target of 133 runs from 20 overs by losing 6 wick- ets after winning the toss and electing to bat first with Paul Stirling scoring 23 runs, George Dockrell scoring 34 runs, and Stuar Poynter scoring 31 runs who remained among the top scorers on the batting side for Ireland. Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan took 2 wickets each while Mujeeb Ur Rahma and Fareed Ahmad took one wicket each on the bowling side for Afghani- stan. Chasing the given target, the Af- ghan team scored 136 runs from 19.2 overs by losing 5 wickets and secured victory in the open- ing match of the series. Mohammad ...(More on P4)...(7) 1,300 Most Needy Families Get Winter Aid in Bamyan Afghanistan Defeats Ireland by 5 Wickets in First Twenty20I Match Afghanistan-Turkmenistan Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement Afghanistan to Get $157m for out of School Children 2019 will be ‘Decisive’ in Afghan Settlement: Russia MOSCOW - Russian president’s top envoy for Afghan settlement said 2019 will be “de- cisive” in the peace process. “The peace process is developing rapidly,” Zamir Kabulov told an interview with An- adolu Agency, prior to his meeting with U.S. counterpart Zalmay Khalilzad scheduled for Feb.22 in the Turkish Ankara. “This gives us hope that this year we will make good progress in the real restoration of peace in Afghanistan. It will not be easy; there will be ups and downs. It is important for us that the process steadily gets into the mainstream, from which it will be difficult to knock it out,” he said. Efforts to find a lasting settlement to the Af- ghan conflict have gathered momentum in the last six months with many players, in- cluding Russia and the U.S., getting more engaged in the peace process. Moscow has hosted two peace conferences within 4 months between the Afghan gov- ernment and the Taliban aimed at national reconciliation in the war-torn country. The U.S. envoy for Afghanistan has made frequent visits in the countries KABUL - Former Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan, Omar Zakhilwal on Thursday said that confrontation of regional countries has led to the continuation of conflict in Afghanistan, adding that the issue must end to ensure peace in the war- torn country. Zakhilwal said Afghans have been the victims of confrontation between the neighboring countries and that paying the price of the ongoing conflict which has external aspect. He stressed that the is- sue must be addressed. His remarks come days after Pakistan’s envoy in Kabul warned that the ongoing peace talks between the U.S. and Afghan Taliban would be affected if India resorted to violence against Pa- kistan in response to a recent deadly bombing in Kashmir. Zahid Nasrullah said that his country has paved the way for peace talks between the United States and the Afghan Taliban and that the talks have been “substantial and constructive”. ...(More on P4)...(4) KABUL - Figures by Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) show that Af- ghanistan has exported figs valued almost $47 million in the last 10 months. The figures show that farmers have harvested at least 25,000 tons of figs in the past 10 months. The ACCI spokesman Jan Agha Nawid said In- dia, United Arab Emirates, Canada and a number of European countries are the biggest buyers of Afghanistan’s figs. “One of the biggest problems for the Afghan dried and fresh fruits is processing and packaging in line with international standards,” said Nawid. “We sell figs for AFs800 [almost $11] per kilo- gram,” said Humayun Mohammadi, a dried fruit seller. Meanwhile, spokesman for the Ministry of Agri- culture, Irrigation and Livestock, Akbar Rustami, said that Afghan investors signed contracts on figs export with different countries valued $10 million during the Gulfood exhibition held in Dubai from February 17 to 21. Rustami said the total ...(More on P4)...(5) Rivalries of Regional Countries Fueling War in Afghanistan: Zakhilwal Afghanistan’s Dried Fig Exports Reach $47m KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani and his Turkmenistan counterpart Gur- banguly Berdimuhamedow on Thurs- day signed a “Strategic Partnership Agreement” in Ashgabat where both countries pledged to expand bilateral relations on a number of key areas in- cluding economy, trade, transit and KABUL - The agreement was signed between representatives of the Swed- ish Committee and the United Nations joint efforts towards fighting terrorism. The two countries also signed seven Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on cultural exchanges between Turkmenistan Academy of Science and National Archive of Afghanistan, rail- way project, aviation, customs, petro- leum, gas and energy transfer. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Kabul. Education Minister Mirwais Balkhi on the occasion said 3.7 million children in According to a statement by the Presi- dential Palace (ARG), the signing of Afghanistan-Turkmenistan Strategic Partnership Agreement will help the two countries to further expand their political, economic and security coop- eration. Ghani meanwhile ...(More on P4)...(1) Afghanistan were deprived of going to school, with girls making 60 percent of them and calling the statistics as shock- ing. He said the $157 million aid from the Swedish Committee would be used to provide education to children away from school. He said according to the Ministry of Education plan, no child would remain out of school until 2030 end. Also present on the occasion was Chief Executive Officer Dr Abdullah Abdul- lah said the program should be imple- mented because Afghanistan was still in a state of war and affected by natural disasters. ...(More on P4)...(2) involved in the peace process. Khalilzad “makes titanic efforts to agree on a worthy U.S. exit from the protracted war,” Kabulov said. “But it’s easy to say and hard to do. The with- drawal involves a number of conditions im- posed by the Taliban movement. On the part of the U. S., too, there are concerns that the transient withdrawal of troops will create a vacuum, a danger. However, those 14 thou- sand of U.S. military who are in Afghanistan do not fight. Fighting, mostly, their air forces. If these 14 thousand go home, the situation will not change significantly,” he said. Kabulov suggested that the U.S. could take the Soviets’ Afghan pullout experience as a model. “There is a very good experience of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. After their de- parture, the government of Najibullah held out for another 3 years on its own, because the USSR created a ...(More on P4)...(3)
