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NATO Supports Afghan-led, Afghan-owned Peace Process: Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary General on Thursday said the Allies only supports an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process.
“We are in favour of a peace process, but it has to be Afghan-led and Afghan owned,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said after a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council where topics of common concern, including the security situation in Afghanistan were discussed.
“As long as this is an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process, we support initiatives to try to find a peaceful end and solution to the conflict in Afghanistan and to the violence in Afghanistan, but it has to be led by the Afghans themselves, that’s the key message from NATO.”
Stoltenberg spoke about NATO’s continued financial and military support to the Afghan security forces and admitted that Afghan forces are suffering high causalities and there are still many problems and challenges.
“NATO continues to support the National Unity Government,” he added,” there are casualties in Afghanistan, but at least we have been able to train and to support the Afghan national forces so they are now fully in charge of the security situation in their own country and we will continue to do that.”
He also said that the reason why NATO is in Afghanistan is to prevent the country from becoming a safe haven for international terrorists.
The meeting between NATO-Russia comes after Moscow planned to host the third-round of talks on Afghanistan peace process and some U.S. generals said that Russia maybe supporting Taliban in Afghanistan
By Qayam Noori & Hesamuddin Hesam
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More than 800 Afghan refugees deported from Pakistan in two days
As many as 837 Afghan refugees have been forced to return to their country through Torkham and Spin Boldak crossings in the last two days, officials announced on Saturday.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said in a statement that 90 families comprising 468 people returned through Torkham crossing.
Another 67 families comprising 369 people returned through Spin Boldak crossing, it said.
The returnees have been introduced to international organizations to receive aid, and the Islamic Emirate has also paid 10,000 Afghanis to each family.
Pakistani government launched the second phase of deporting illegal refugees five days ago.
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Iran executes four Afghan prisoners
Iran executed four Afghan prisoners in Vakliabad Prison in Mashhad on Thursday morning, a human rights group reported.
Haalvsh said that the individuals had been arrested in 1398 over drug-related charges and then sentenced to death by the court.
This organization announced the names of the executed prisoners as Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri, Gholam Qadir Samani and Ebrahim Noorzahi.
Zaman Taheri and Salam Taheri were brothers.
Iranian officials have not commented about the matter so far.
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According to him, the dead include a woman and a child. A man was injured in the incident.
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