reg: no 352 volume no. 3714 tuesday october 24, 2017 aqrab
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BAGRAM AIR BASE - Tillerson spent almost three hours in a heavily guarded building in the main U.S. military facility in Afghanistan, most of the time in talks with President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and other U.S. and Afghan officials.A small group of U.S. media accompanying the former Exx-
KABUL - The US secretary of state is expected underline the Trump administration’s strategy to give In-dia a crucial rule in the enforcement of his South Asia policy.Rex Tillerson, during three-day vis-it to New Delhi beginning on Tues-day, would make a pitch stabilising Afghanistan, a leading Indian daily reported on Monday.Tillerson will fly into Delhi from Is-lamabad during his five-nation trip, according to The Times of India, which said the US might deliver a blunt message to Pakistani on terror safe heavens. ...(More on P4)...(2)
KABUL - A Russian recently vis-ited New Delhi for discussions on Afghanistan with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary S. JaishankarThe Times of India reported on Monday the Indian government had kept secret President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Zamir Kabu-lov’s trip, keeping in mind the sen-sitive nature of the discussions.Kabulov reportedly restated Rus-sia’s position that the US was in a blind alley as Taliban controlled more that 40 percent of Afghan’s territory, ...(More on P4)...(3)
onMobil CEO on his first official visit to Afghanistan were prohibited for security reasons from filing dispatches, photo-graphs and video until they returned to Qatar.While there have been no recent attacks on the airbase by Taliban insurgents, the sprawling facility north of Kabul has been regularly hit since the 2001 U.S. ...(More on P4)...(1)
KABUL - The Afghan and US governments have reportedly agreed to resolve the pre-2015 tax dis-pute, however, it is unclear if the Cabinet has ap-proved the agreement.The agreement happened on terms included a payment of $52 million to the Afghan government to assist it in meeting food bills of the Afghan Na-tional Police.Subject to the payment being received, subcon-tractors shall be entitled to the same tax exemp-tions as prime contractors on pre-2015 revenues.The parties have agreed on a streamlined proce-dure for having such tax exemptions confirmed by the Ministry of Finance (MoF).The settlement agreement is subject to approval by the Afghan Cabinet. ...(More on P4)...(4)
KABUL - Afghanistan Ambassador to Pakistan Hazrat Omar Zakhelwal has promised to discuss the increase in customs duty on Afghan goods with the authorities in Islamabad this week.Zakhelwal held out the promise to a delegation of Afghan businessmen who called on him in Is-lamabad, the Pakistani capital.The ambassador he said ...(More on P4)...(5)
US, Afghanistan Agree to Resolve Tax Dispute
Zakhelwal to Discuss Import Duty Issue with Pakistan
Tillerson, Ghani Arrive in New Delhi Today
Top Russian, Indian Diplomats Meet on Afghanistan
Tillerson Pays Flying Visit to Afghanistan to
Discuss U.S. StrategyU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday discussed with Afghan leaders the U.S. strategy for ending America’s longest war, in a brief, unreported visit
that underscored the challenge of quelling the country’s insurgency.