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Protesters accused NUG for being reckless on 31 abducted passengers
Afghan government and Parliament members are reckless about the 31 passengers whom are being kidnapped in Ghazni, protesters said.
Families of the 31 men who were abducted in Zabul province of Afghanistan about two months ago demonstrated on Saturday in front of the Afghan Parliament saying that the government is very careless about our beloveds and they will be responsible for any consequences.
Zulfaqar Omid leader of labor and development party said,” Fifty seven days have passed from the national disaster in Ghazni and our gatherings are useless, we have staged in front of the nation’s house with no answers to our questions, the government must not discriminate between the citizens”.
Aqbal Ali Muzafari who is the relative of one of the abductees said,” we are asking the government to find a solution for our relatives being kidnapped by unknown gunmen, and the government must provide the pained relatives looking for their beloveds with satisfactory answers”.
While a number of the Lawmakers insist that they will not bare any efforts to help the kidnappers release the passengers.
Lawmaker Baktash Siawash angrily said,” Our city has been changed to house with no owner, anything happens and there is no one to answer”.
“We have discussed this issue in the Lower House and the House speaker tasked internal and defensive committee to follow this issue seriously,” Another MP Mohammad Reza Khoshak Watandost highlighted.
Protesters staged in front of the Afghan Parliament after another group of kidnappers beheaded four people in Malistan district of Ghazni.
Four death bodies were buried today and the participants asked the government to find and trial the kidnappers.
Shazya Ashrafee a member of the New Generation Network said,” We are demanding the government to identify and punish the perpetrators who kidnapped these four residents of Malistan district of Ghazni and then beheaded”.
Afghans were hopeful about peace and reconciliations with the anti-government armed militant groups, but after the New Year Afghan disappointed again and the insurgents increased their brutality across the country by kidnaps, beheadings and suicide attacks.
Reported by: Rafi Sediqi
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Afghanistan’s problems caused more damage to Pakistan than 3 wars with India: Durrani
Islamabad’s special envoy for Afghanistan Asif Durrani said on Wednesday that Pakistan has suffered more due to Afghanistan’s internal situation than Pakistan has suffered in three wars with India in terms of blood spilt and finances drained.
Durrani said at a one-day International Conference titled “Pakistan in the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape”, which was organized by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) and the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), that over 80,000 Pakistanis died in the two decades of the War on Terror and that his country was still counting its dead and injured.
“After the withdrawal of NATO forces, it was hoped that peace in Afghanistan would bring peace to the region. However, such expectations were short-lived,” he said.
He also stated that attacks by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group on Pakistan’s border areas increased by 65 percent, while suicide attacks increased by 500 percent.
“The TTP’s enhanced attacks on Pakistan while using Afghan soil have been a serious concern for Pakistan. Another worrying aspect is the participation of Afghan nationals in these attacks,” he said.
Durrani also said Pakistan had suffered geopolitically since the Soviet Union invaded the neighboring country.
“The post-9/11 world order has negatively impacted Pakistan. Apart from losing 80,000 citizens’ lives, including 8,000 law enforcement agency personnel, the country’s economic opportunity cost is estimated at $150 billion,” Durrani said.
Talking about the future outlook for Pakistan in the regional context, Durrani said that while “our eastern neighbor is likely to continue with its anti-Pakistan pursuits, the western border poses an avoidable irritant in the short to medium term.”
However, he said Pakistan can overcome its difficulties with Afghanistan, including the TTP challenge.
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