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Some Meshrano Jirga or Senate members said Afghan politicians’ conference in Pakistan was useless absent government representatives, while some others hoped it would encourage Islamabad’s honesty.

An Afghan politician says the Pakistani leader asked them not to doubt Pakistan’s intention towards Afghanistan.

KABUL - The Minister of Refu-gees and Repatriation, Sayed Husain Alemi Balkhi, at a press conference on Monday, briefed reporters on the findings of an as-sessment by the ministry over the past few months by interviewing almost 64,000 individuals in 34 provinces of Afghanistan.Balkhi said that the UN’s Inter-national Organization for Migra-tion, or the IOM, has helped in the DTM Baseline Mobility As-sessment for the period of 2012 to 2018 and that the findings are accurate and are not based on es-timations. He said that the findings show that 3.225 million Afghans re-turned home from different countries between 2012 to 2018 while during this period, 2.291 million people left the country. Among those who left the coun-try, 271,000 people have migrated to European countries, he said. Balkhi said that 3.529 million people were displaced during this period. He said that from a total of 7 mil-lion displaced people and return refugees, 266,000 are living un-der the tent, having less access to shelter. He said that despite Due to the conflicts, insecurity the number of returnees is more than those who left the country and that it is a “positive point” and it shows that people are interested in their country. The total number of displaced persons 3.5 million, of which, 266,000 are living under the open air, having less access to shelter. Meanwhile, Laurence Hart, the country director of IOM, said that Afghanistan is a “very mo-bile” population, and has been throughout history, for a number of reasons.“The overall objective of the DTM Baseline Mobility Assessment in Afghanistan is to track mobil-ity and displacement, provide population estimates, locations and geographic distributions of displaced, returned and migrant population as well as refugees, nomads, cross-border tribal groups and both domestic and international labor migrants,” he said. He said that based on the assess-ment, there is a large IDP popu-lation, and it is concentrated es-pecially in some of the areas of Afghanistan. (Tolo news)

Over Three Million Afghans Returned Home Since 2012

Peace Huddles Absent Afghan Govt Unproductive: Senators

KABUL - Senior Afghan politicians who attended a two-day peace conference in the Pakistani city of Murree on Monday said Pakistan has assured to talk to the Taliban leadership to engage in intra-Af-ghan talks and agree on a ceasefire. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan also confirmed that Pakistan’s previous policy towards Afghanistan was wrong and that Islamabad has now brought sig-nificant shift on its approach towards its neighboring country. “Pakistani prime minister told us that we

Islamabad Vowed Shift in its Afghan Policy: Politicians

should not doubt their intention and de-termination. He said that Pakistan will hold talks with the Taliban leadership to engage in direct talks with the [Afghan] government,” said Abdullah Qarloq, a participant of the meeting and an Af-ghan politician. “There is a hope that Pakistan wants to open a new chapter of relations with Af-ghanistan, but the concern is that they once again pursue the same track in their foreign policy,” said Latif Nazari, an Af-ghan politician who attended Pakistan’s

conference. The Afghan politicians also held talks with the Pakistani officials about the Durand Line. “Let’s show some bravery and resolve the issue of the Durand Line. Let’s con-sult the people and organize a referen-dum,” said Atta Mohammad Noor, the CEO of Jamiat-e-Islami party, who also attended the conference. However, the remarks by Noor was faced with criticism by some MPs and critics who said that the Afghan politi-cians cannot decide on the Durand Line on their own. “They do not have the authority to dis-cuss this issue unless there is consensus and collective decision in the national level about the Durand Line,” said MP Irfanullah Irfan.Speaking to the opening ceremony of the conference titled “Lahore Process” at Bhurbhan in Murree on Saturday, June 22, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan is committed in its efforts to bring peace and stability in Afghanistan. But the Af-ghans ...(More on P4)...(4)

ASHGABAT -A meeting with the delegation of Afghanistan led by National Security Adviser of the country Hamdullah Mohib was held in Ashgabat, Trend reports referring to Turkmen Foreign Ministry.Strengthening and development of friendly and fraternal relations with Afghanistan are the main directions of Turkmenistan’s foreign poli-cy, the report said. The Afghan side drew atten-tion to the international initiatives launched by Ashgabat to peacefully resolve the situation in the neighboring country and the efforts for the socio-economic rehabilitation of Afghanistan....(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Monday it was purchasing 25,000 biometric devices to be used in the September 28 presidential election.Zabihullah Sadat, IEC acting spokesman, told Pa-jhwok Afghan News that biometric system would be used in the presidential election in order to en-sure transparency.He said 21,000 devices used in the October Wolesi Jirga polls were already available and 25,000 more would be purchased....(More on P4)...(3)

KABUL - A ballot box will be set up in the Wolesi Jirga or lower house on Monday to end the dead-lock over speaker’s position.On May 16, the election for the speaker slot be-came controversial after one vote polled for Mir Rahman Rahmani was declared invalid.Rahmani had bagged 123 votes --- one vote short of the required threshold -- against his opponent Kamal Nasir Usoli who collected more than 50 votes.Wolesi Jirga secretary Abdul Qader Zazai said the vote contained two options validation and invali-dation of the controversial votes and each voter should select one of them.The disagreement over the controversial election between Kamal ...(More on P4)...(5)

Afghan Security Adviser Holds Talks

in Turkmenistan

Biometric System to be Used in Presidential Election

Wolesi Jirga Votes to End Deadlock on Speaker Post

KABUL - A day earlier, Afghan poli-ticians including Gulbuddin Hekmat-yar, Atta Mohammad Noor, Moham-mad Karim Khalili, Anwarul Haq Ahadi, Hamid Gilani, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Abdul Latif Pedram, Mo-hammad Hanif Atmar, Ahmad Wali Massoud and some others attended a conference about the Afghan peace process in Pakistan’s Lahore city.The meeting continues today but the Taliban, who were also invited, did not attend it.

Fazal Hadi Muslimyar, Meshrano Jir-ga chairman, told today’ session of the upper house that any efforts made for the Afghan peace should be led by the Afghan government.“We suspect Pakistan’s efforts for peace because they supported terror-ists and figures who fought against the Afghan government,” he said.He said Afghan government’s rep-resentatives had to participate in the meeting in Pakistan and politicians should also attended it in agreement

with the government.“If this meeting is between the two governments, then there is need for government representatives to be there, but if the meeting is only for some politicians then the government should have stopped”, he said.Muslimyar added such meetings with-out participation of government offi-cials were unproductive.Haseebullah Kalimzai, a senator, pointing to Afghan politicians attend-ing ...(More on P4)...(1)