Afghan Online Press

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Al Jazeera: Some of the earliest statues of the Buddha are among precious items housed at the National Museum of Afghanistan. But the US estimates that nearly 70 percent of the treasures have been looted from the museum or destroyed during four decades of war or under strict Taliban rule. Now, historians at the University of Chicago and teachers in Afghanistan are working together to preserve what is left of this cultural heritage. Al Jazeera s John Hendren reports. CoinDesk: Blockchain startup Fantom has been given the green light to start tracking medicinal drugs in Afghanistan to help stem the country’s counterfeiting problem. After a signing ceremony with the Afghan Ministry of Health and several pharmaceutical distributors last month, the startup has unveiled details of its Smart Medicine pilot project. The project aims to keep track of pharmaceutical drugs traveling along the supply chain in order to stem the distribution of fake products caused by a lack of appropriate checks. Click here to read more (external link). Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyJuly 6, 2020A female Afghan politician and her driver were wounded in a gun attack in the morning of July 6, in her native province of Logar, local police said.Gunmen targeted the vehicle carrying Nafisa Hijran, a provincial council member, in Logar’s capital, Pul-i-Alam, said Shahpoor Ahmadzai, a spokesman for the Logar police chief.The spokesman added that “Hijran is in stable condition and has been sent to Kabul for treatment.”At least one suspect has been arrested and “investigations are ongoing,” police said.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but militants in Afghanistan often target women who work outside the home, especially in the provinces.Based on reporting by tolonews.com and 1TVCopyright (c) 2020. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036. Sediq Sediqqi1TV: Each of 34 provinces in Afghanistan will have a female deputy governor, a presidential spokesman said on Monday. The decision was made during the cabinet meeting. The Independent Directorate of Local Governance has been instructed to create the new posts, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqi said in a press conference. Click here to read more (external link). Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 239 new positive cases in the past 24 hours out of 668 tests. The ministry also reported 34 deaths due to COVID-19 over the last 24 hours while 737 others have recovered. With this, the total COVID-19 cases in the country reached 33,190, the total deaths reached 898 and the total number of recoveries is 20,103. Click here to read more (external link). Dr. AbdullahBy Ayaz GulVOA NewsJuly 5, 2020ISLAMABAD Pakistan says it has formally invited Afghanistan’s chief peace negotiator, Abdullah Abdullah, to pay an official visit to Islamabad at “mutually convenient dates.”The move is the latest in a series of steps the Pakistani government has taken in a bid to improve the country s often tenuous relations with Kabul.“Pakistan-Afghanistan relations are moving forward,” said Mohammad Sadiq, the Pakistani prime minister’s special representative for the neighboring country, while announcing details of the invitation extended to the top Afghan leader.Abdullah heads what is known as the High Council for National Reconciliation, tasked to negotiate peace with the Taliban insurgency to end decades of hostilities plaguing Afghanistan.“I thanked him for the official invitation extended to visit Pakistan at an opportune time,” Abdullah tweeted after a meeting with the Pakistani ambassador in Kabul. He shared no further details.Border openingsIslamabad has recently reopened three major border crossings at the request of Kabul to ease transit and bilateral trade activities.The outbreak of coronavirus in Pakistan and the ensuing lockdown restrictions had prompted authorities to seal the border with landlocked Afghanistan and other neighboring countries in March to prevent the regional spread of the pandemic.Sadiq said arrangements have also been made to open two more Afghan border crossings July 12 to further enhance the bilateral trade.“This is an important step in strengthening bilateral trade between the two countries,” said Atif Mashal, the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad.“We are certain that the opening of more crossing points will help in the development of bilateral trade between both countries,” Mashal said.The Afghan envoy told VOA his government is committed to improving relations with Pakistan and that enhanced trade ties will help both sides in achieving the desired outcome.Political and trade ties between the two countries, separated by a nearly 2,600-kilometer (1,615 miles) frontier, have long suffered from mutual distrust and acrimony.Mutual trust very tenuous Raoof Hasan, chief executive of Islamabad-based Regional Policy Institute, hailed Pakistan’s invitation to Abdullah as a good move and another sign of thaw in bilateral strained relations.Hasan cautioned about a traditionally “unpredictable” nature of the bilateral relationship, however.“The bond of mutual trust is very tenuous,” he said.Afghan leaders and American military commanders have long accused the Pakistani military of allowing Taliban insurgents to shelter in and use the neighboring country for directing attacks against local and U.S.-led international forces in Afghanistan.Islamabad has consistently denied the charges, blaming several million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan for serving as hiding places for insurgents. For their part, Pakistani officials say anti-state fugitive militants use Afghan soil to carry out cross-border terrorist attacks.The United States, however, has lately praised Pakistan for facilitating a landmark Feb. 29 peace-building deal between Washington and the Taliban to end nearly two decades of Afghan war, America’s longest.The deal requires U.S. and allied troops to leave Afghanistan by July 2021. In return the Taliban has committed to engage in peace talks with a team of Afghan negotiators led by Abdullah and agree on a sustainable cease-fire as well as a power-sharing arrangement in post-war Afghanistan.The proposed dialogue is expected to begin later this month at the conclusion of an ongoing prisoner swap between Kabul and the Taliban. Kabulov1TV: A top Russian diplomat has accused US intelligence officers of involvement in trafficking of drug from Afghanistan. Those wonderful US intelligence officers, who accuse us of different things, are involved in drug trafficking. Their planes from Kandahar, from Bagram [airfield near Kabul] are flying wherever they want to to Germany, to Romania without any inspections, Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special representative on Afghanistan said as quoted by TASS news agency. Every citizen of Kabul will tell you that, everyone is ready to talk about that. Click here to read more (external link).

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