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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

KUNDUZ CITY - A senior police commander in the northern zone on Wednes-day claimed the Taliban had intensified their attacks in northern Kunduz province to enable foreign terrorists to sneak into Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.Lt. Gen. Sher Aziz Kamaw-al, the 808th Spin Zar Zone Police commander, told Pa-jhwok Afghan News in an exclusive interview that “the Taliban wanted to bring into Kunduz Jandullah, Tajik and Uzbek extremists and then send them to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.”“The war in Kunduz is very complex, Pakistan has ...(More on P4)...(5)

KABUL - A total of 780 newly graduated personnel of Af-ghan Special Force after com-pletion of a 16-week training course and receiving certifi-cates commissioned to the Na-tional Army on Wednesday.“The newly graduated person-nel mostly in the rank of lieu-tenants would be deployed elsewhere in the country from now on wherever there pres-ence is needed,” commander of Special Force Unit, Bismil-lah Waziri said in his speech at the certificate distribution ceremony.Personnel of Special Force Unit, according to the official, have played significant role in the war on terror and defeating insurgents elsewhere in Af-ghanistan.Afghan government with having more than 350,000 strong national security forces including army and police has been fighting the increasing in-surgency involving hardliner Taliban and the Islamic State outfit to stabilize peace and security in the conflict-ridden Afghanistan. (Xinhua)

KABUL - The Taliban have expressed their opposition to a proposed international conference of Islamic schol-ars in Saudi Arabia about Afghanistan.The Afghan government has been requesting the Saudi government over the past several years to hold a conference of Islamic schol-ars to discuss the situation of Afghanistan.The Saudi government agreed to the proposal dur-ing a formal trip to the king-dom by Chief Executive

NEW YORK – US President-elect Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to unify a deeply divided nation, having scored a stunning victory backed by extraordinary support from working-class America.The tough-talking New York billionaire claimed victories in the nation’s premier battle-ground states, but his appeal across the industrial Midwest - Pennsylvania and Wiscon-sin, in particular - sealed a victory that defied pre-elec-tion polls and every expecta-tion of the political establish-ment.“I say it is time for us to come together as one united peo-ple,” Trump told support-ers gathered in a Manhattan hotel near his Trump Tower campaign headquarters.“For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so we can work together and unify our great country,” he said, the stage crowded with family and his most loyal allies.

KABUL - The selection committee on Wednesday handed over a final list of shortlisted commissioners-designate on the two elector-al bodies to the Presidential Palace.A statement from the Presi-dential Palace said the five-member committee called on President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday afternoon at the Palace.The panel presented the final list to the president. The committee is composed of a representative from civil society, a representa-tive from the Supreme Court High Council, a representa-tive from the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, a member from the Oversight Com-

HERAT CITY - The 2nd Saf-fron Flower National Festival kicked off on Wednesday in western Herat province -- a major saffron producing re-gion in Afghanistan. The festival at the Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi hall in Herat City, the provincial capital, was attended by officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), local officials. At the festival, saffron farmers have displayed the saffron flower with the method how to col-lect pure saffron.Deputy Minister of Agricul-ture, Irrigation and Livestock Abdul Qadeer Jawad, who participated in the festival, expressed happiness over the saffron cultivation situation in Afghanistan and hoped saffron growing would fur-ther increase.He said 2,000 hectares of land was cultivated with saf-fron crop in the country this year, an 800 hectares increase compared to last year’s culti-vation. “MAIL has adopted fun-damental programmes for marketing and promoting saffron cultivation and pro-duction and its export out-side the country.”He didn’t go into details but said saffron yield hovered between four and 5.5 tonnes last year in Afghanistan, of which two tones were ex-ported. According to Abdul Qadeer Jawad, more than 90 Herat Governor Mohammad Asif Rahimi stressed eco-nomic importance of saffron and public awareness in this regard. He said holding the festival ...(More on P4)...(3)

Selection Panel Submits Final List to President

Taliban Oppose Scholars Summit in Jeddah

Ghani Gives Away Apartment Keys to

Sharbat Gula

Trump Elected 45th President of the United States

Land under Saffron Cultivation up by 800 Hectares

this Year

780 Newly Graduated Officers Commissioned to

Afghan Army

‘Taliban Want Foreign

Rebels Sneaked into Tajikistan,

Uzbekistan’

Afghan children attend a class at a local school in Kandahar Province. Some 1.3 million school-aged children are deprived from education as a result

of conflicts and poverty in the country. (Xinhua/Sanaullah Seiam)

U.S Embassy in Kabul

Marks Trump’s Victory

Trump urges Americans to ‘come together as one united people’

KABUL - Michael McKin-ley, United States (U.S) am-bassador to Afghanistan on Wednesday said they had celebrated Donald Trump’s victory in Kabul.After the results were re-leased, Trump was an-nounced as the 45th president of America. The U.S embassy in Kabul meanwhile said the relationship between Kabul and Washington will con-tinue as usual.“U.S-Afghan relationships remain strong and close. Because it is based not on any election, neither a party. But on our common in-terests, our people to people ties and our shared values.American citizens working in Afghanistan also had the op-portunity to vote for the pres-idential election.American citizens working in Afghani-stan also had the opportunity to vote for the presidential election ahead of time. The question now however is how ...(More on P4)...(1)

Officer (CEO) Abdullah Ab-dullah.The conference is expected to be held in Jeddah city where religious scholars from sev-eral Islamic countries will participate in the near future.However, the Taliban op-posed the ulema interna-tional conference to discuss Afghanistan issues.A statement from a Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ah-madi received by Pajhwok Afghan News said Islamic scholars were responsible to address ...(More on P4)...(4)

mission for Implementa-tion of the Constitution and another member from the Administrative Reform and Civil Services Commission.The meeting at the Presiden-tial Palace was also attended by Mohammad Sarwar Dan-ish, 2nd vice president, CEO Abdullah Abdullah, Attor-ney General Farid Hamidi and Tadamychy Yamamoto, the UN special envoy for Af-

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani has given away the keys of a residential apart-ment to Nat Geo’s famed ‘Afghan Girl’ Sharbat Gula and promised taking care of her family’s heath and edu-cation.Gula, who was made famous by a National Geographic

ghanistan.The statement said President Ghani thanked the panel for observing “accu-racy and transparency” in finalizing the list of appli-cants. The president called finalising of the nominees list a vital step in reaching the stage of holding elections and assured the electoral bodies members would be appointed in a transparent manner. (Pajhwok)

cover in 1985, arrived in Ka-bul on Tuesday night after being deported by Pakistan.She had been arrested in Peshawar during a raid on her house and convicted of having fake ID papers. She served a 15-day sentence in hospital where she was treat-ed for ...(More on P4)...(2)

Trump addressed the nation after sweeping most of the nation’s top battlegrounds - and created some new ones.He won Ohio, Florida and North Carolina. He also took down the Democratic Party’s “blue firewall” by scoring victories in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states that haven’t supported a Republican pres-idential candidate since 1988 and 1984 respectively.Trump’s win shocked politi-cal professionals and global financial markets alike. But

it created pure joy inside the hotel ballroom where hun-dreds of Trump supporters waited for hours for his cele-bration speech. They hugged each other, chanted “USA!” and bellowed “God bless America” at the top of their lungs.House Speaker Paul Ryan called Trump Tuesday night to congratulate him on his “incredible victory.”“We are eager to work hand-in-hand with the new admin-istration to advance an agen-

da to improve the lives of the American people,” Ryan, who had a rocky relationship with Trump at times, said in a statement. “This has been a great night for our party, and now we must turn our focus to bringing the country to-gether.”While Democrat Hillary Clin-ton was trying to make his-tory as the first female presi-dent, Trump made a different kind of history as one of the least experienced presiden-tial candidates ever elected.

A businessman and former reality TV star, he is a true po-litical outsider in a way that marks a sharp break from past presidents.Some were branded resume lightweights: ex-governors George W. Bush of Texas, Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Ronald Reagan of California, among them. But they had served somewhere - whether in Congress, states or in a leadership post in an admin-istration.Trump’s outsider status ulti-

mately helped him politically far more than it hurt.His political inexperience al-lowed him to cast himself as a change agent just as frustrat-ed voters in both parties were hungry for change. The mes-sage was particularly effec-tive against Clinton, a fixture in public service over the last three decades.Ever the showman, his strat-egy relied almost exclusively on massive rallies to connect with voters, ignoring the grunt work that typically fu-els successful campaigns.Pre-election polls suggested he was the least popular pres-idential nominee in the mod-ern era.Yet there were signs that Re-publicans who previously vowed never to support Trump were willing to give him a chance moving for-ward.“If Trump wins, he does de-serve the benefit of the doubt because he was right on his chances and so many of us were wrong,” tweeted con-servative leader Erick Erick-son. (AP)