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Your Ad Here Your Ad Here Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:239 Price: Afs.15 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30. 2016 -Hamal 11, 1395 HS Yo ur Yo ur ad ad he re he re 0778894038 0778894038 AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Two civilians were killed suspended following the incident. and seven others injured in a road- A delegation was assigned to side bomb blast Tuesday morning evaluate if the officers were guilty, in Kabul city, a security official it added. said. The ministry strongly con- “A bomb placed under a bridge demned the attack. in police district 11, exploded at Separately, a former senator 9:00 am, killing a woman and a child Rafiullah Gul Afghan claimed that and wounding seven other civil- it was a remote-controlled bomb ians,” Najib Danish, deputy placed to target his convoy. spokesman for interior ministry He said that four civilians were said. killed and over 10 injured. The interior ministry said in a No armed group has claimed statement that five officers were responsibility for the incident yet. Key HPC members work for foreigners: Shahid A spokesman for the High Peace HERAT CITY: Former national Council on Tuesday said funding security advisor Dr. Rangin Dad- for 2,400 HPC projects has been far Spanta has said inappropriate embezzled and that key members policies of the incumbent govern- of the council are being paid by ment had raised concerns about foreign embassies. political instability and fear of es- While appearing on a TOLO- calation in war. news current affairs show, Tawde Also a former foreign minis- Khabare, Mawlavi Shahzada Sha- ter, Spanta said he would render hid, spokesman for the HPC, let all possible sacrifices but would slip that prominent members of the not allow the Pakistani establish- HPC's secretariat were working for ment to influence Afghanistan’s foreign embassies. foreign policy or meddle in its in- "President [Ashraf] Ghani and ternal affairs. Speaking at the resi- [Chief Executive Officer] Abdul- dence of Mohammad Ismail Khan, lah Abdullah should know this. A former jihadi leader and minister person, who was working in the der for them to broadcast HPC re- on Monday night, he alleged most High Peace Council and is now lated news. achievements of the past decades working at the Ministry of De- He went on to say that "2,400 had been reversed over the last two fense, was receiving €9,000 Euro projects have been approved by years by the unity government. (about $10,580 USD) monthly the council for provinces, but the Ismail Khan had invited key mem- salary from a [foreign] embassy," funding was embezzled". bers of the Karzai administration he said. He said that there are people to dinner at his home in Herat City, Speaking of embezzlement in in the council who don't have the the capital of western Herat prov- the HPC, Shahid said that the expertise to work there and they ince. Spanta assailed the Ghani-led council was paying $3.5 million rarely appear at sessions of the government and countries such as USD to a television channel in or- council. the United States for following weak and ambiguous policies. As a consequence, he said the sitting government had weakened and Stanikzai pledges to equip southern there were concerns about politi- Response to Natural Disasters cal instability. He said the nation troops with modern weapons TheTogholqaha,one ofvillages related to Doshidistrict ofBaghlan province is located abouteight had rendered scarifies for liberat- The acting minister of defense, Masoom Stanikzai, during his trip to Kandahar on ing the country from Soviet and Tuesday assured security forces in southern Afghanistan that they will eventually be kilometers west of the district center. Most of the residents of this village fulfill their daily needs from British occupation. In case of need, equipped with modern weapons. "The Ministry of Defense (MoD) wants to equip farming, livestock, horticulture and shop-keeping activities while a number of them are working for he added, the Afghans would de- Afghan army forces in southern Afghanistan with modern weapons," he said. The trip the government. fend their motherland and frustrate was aimed at visiting Afghan army troops. Kandahar provincial council members and Islamabad’smeddling. tribal elders from the province meanwhile commended the Afghan security forces for Considering the year-round climate of the territory, the farmers in this community cultivate their lands Former energy and water min- their bravery. "We praise the activities of the Ministry of Defense and people in the twice a year. They mainly grow wheat, barley, peas,etc on their forms. The fruit produced in their ister Ismail asked the nation to southern zone, particularly Kandaharis are standing beside their security forces to stand united against all threats and defend their country," said Sayed Jan Khakrezwal, chairman of the Kandahar provin- gardens includes peach, apple, plum, grape andberry. protect the government system. He cial council. Mohammad Essa Khan, a tribal elder, said that they say no to war in order The irrigation canal providing water to villagers’agricultural landsis located at the edge of the Baghlan reiterated his resolve to keep Tali- to bring lasting peace and security to Afghanistan. The trip comes at a time that Afghan ban from destabilising the coun- security forces are engaged in fighting in different parts of Helmand, Uruzgan, Zabul River. In the past, this canal was usually washed away by seasonal floods as the villagers were quite and Kandahar provinces. try. (Pajhwok) concerned in this regard. However, the villagers every time put a lot of effort into reconstructing it temporarily. In order to earn their living and cover their daily expenditures, they had to endure great hardship to keep their lands arable. Soon after this community came under the coverage of the National Solidarity programme of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD/NSP) in its second round of black grants disbursement, the villagers had an opportunity to come together and include the construction of a PRAGUE: Extremist attitude to- The school argued that stu- retaining wall as a priority need in their Community Development Plan (CDP) in close consultation wards Muslims especially girls dents must not have their heads with their Community Development Council (CDC), established in 2014. The project completed in wearing veil in schools had forced covered in the classroom. Sabatova CJ’s father rescued from 2015 at a sum of AFN 3,000,000 funded by the NSP including 10% community contribution (financial, an Afghan female student to leave demanded that the school rules be school. changed as the hijab is a religious kidnappers in Nangarhar labor or in-kind) is currently benefitting 423 families that mainly subsist on farming. A foreign female student, symbol. The school did not change JALALABAD: The Supreme Court Chief Justice’s fatherhas been rescued from kidnappers during an Mr. Abdul Hakim 37, a resident of Togholqaha village revealed:”The irrigation canal lying alongside whom a Prague secondary nursing the rules, but it gave the school operation in eastern Nangarhar province, an official the river, waters around 400 jirebs of villagers’ agricultural lands. The seasonal floods and water level school banned from wearing the director the right to grant excep- said on Tuesday. Governor Salim Khan Kunduzi Muslim veil covering her head and tions for religious reasons. told Pajhwok Afghan News Syed Hassan, the father rise particularly in summer usually damaged the canal badly.However, the villagers were obliged to neck (hijab) during classes in 2013, This dispute provoked discus- of Chief Justice Syed Yousuf Halim,had been kid- has sued the school, her lawyer sions about whether to let Mus- napped by unidentified men about a week ago. reconstruct it again and again desperatelyin another place with great hardship and tireless efforts in Radka Korbelova Dohnalova has lim women wear coverings such as He said Hassan was rescued as result of an oper- order to keep their lands cultivable. In 2012 and 2013, the same canal was severely damaged by the told CTK. The lawyer said a Pra- the hijab, niqab or even the burka ation and tribal elders’ mediation on Tuesday morn- gue district court will deal with the in the Czech Republic. ing. He did not provide information about the loca- flooding. On one occasion,for 7 days while on another occasion, for 29 days around 50 villagers tion where Hassan was released. Local officials said case. Two Muslim girls left their Unlike Sabatova, Deputy no one had so far detained in connection with the including men and women were working to repair the canal to nurture their lands that were the only school due to the ban on hijab in Ombudsman Stanislav Krecek was incident but police were looking for the kidnappers. source to subsist on. As such the villagers were living a life full of worries and distress.” the Czech Republic in 2013. One against it. According to President A day earlier, the governor’s spokesman, At- was from Somalia and the other Milos Zeman, the state should not taullah Khogyani, said Hassan was kidnapped on “We hope the MRRD/NSP does not leave us alone half way down in further assisting us how to put from Afghanistan. allow Muslim coverings at schools his way from home to a mosque early in the morning an end to the rest of difficulties plaguing our community as well as providing us with a happy and Ombudsman Anna Sabatova and medical facilities because Is- on March 17. supported the girls then and said lam is an aggressive religion.
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