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Pakistan, India should Militants set up surround Page 4 mechanism Peace talks: No olive branch for resolving 200 TROOPS differences for Afghans; only ceasefire IN WARDUJ AT Monitoring Desk

Iran hits Pakistan s demands are that Afghanistan should cut off ties with India; recognize the Durand Line as international border through border KABUL: The armed militants have surrounded more than 200 Afghan out at cooperation pact; access to Central Asia; creation of China-Pak consortium that can use Afghanistan s natural resources through a single- troops in Warduj district of Bada- bidding process, resolve the water issue, and train at least 30 percent of Afghan army Amrullah Saleh Page 5 Kerry s khshan province, said a local offi- empty cial. The chairman of Badakhshan AT News Report provincial council, Abdullah Naji threats Nazari, told Radio Azadi on Sat- urday that the Taliban militants KABUL: The former chief of the have surrounded around 220 Af- National Directorate of Security ghan troops in Tirgran outpost of (NDS) said that Pakistan was en- the district. He said that the gov- couraging the Taliban to continue ernment is yet to provide support Spot gold fighting Afghan security forces and to the soldiers. He warned that sit- drops to push on the war for one more year. uation will further deteriorate and Addressing a monthly gathering of scores of soldiers will be killed, if Page 9 lowest the Rana Think Tank, the ex-spy- the government failed to provide price level master Amrullah Saleh said that them with air support. Nazari said Islamabad does not want to give that he has shared the issue with since 2010 dignified peace to Afghans. Com- the Ministry of Interior (MoI), but menting on the recent direct talks it hasn t taken any action so far. between Afghan government and Local officials in the province the Taliban in Murree, he said the blame lack of government s atten- reconciliation process would not tion to the strategic location of Why is be successful as Islamabad was Badakhshan and lack of coordina- Turkey controlling the dialogues. He said tion among security forces for that Pakistan s cooperation with mounting insecurity in the prov- Page 8 scaling up Afghanistan was not based on sin- the US]. The United States was military dictator, Ziaul Haq. They fighters that Pakistan arrested and ince. Seddiq Seddiqi, spokesman efforts cerity. First we should come to extremely emotional in this peri- proved that yesterday they were handed over to Afghanistan was for the MoI, said that militants are the point that why the peace talks od. Pakistanis started a decisive at the frontline against communism not more than 10 people who trying to launch attacks against against ISIS started now while it was the gov- cooperation with the west and and now against terrorism but it were not so famous. I call this a Afghan forces in Warduj. We have now? ernment s policy since 2006. I see showed that once again after 1980s was decisive. This period lasted very important period. The sec- taken all necessary measures to this process divided into four phas- Pakistan was at the frontline to from 2001 until 2005, he said, ond period started from 2005 to send backup troops to the district, es: The first phase began after 9/ protect their interests. In the past adding that during 2001 and 2005 2008 in which Pakistanis allowed he added. Seddiqi rejected the re- 11 [attack on the twin towers in it was during the rule of Pakistani the highest number of the Taliban the Taliban to go to the most ..P3 ports that Afghan troops are sur- rounded by militants. Anti-measles drive kicks Retaking Dasht-i-Archi beyond Page 12 off Logar air raid findings to local forces capacity: PC KUNDUZ: The Kunduz provin- to the fall of the district. We be revealed soon: MoD cial council on Saturday said re- warned the local officials many gaining control of Dasht-i-Archi times by telling them the people he Ministry of Defence day morning when two US heli- visible. Brig. Gen. Dawlat Waziri, district was beyond the capabili- of the district faced problems and Bernard (MoD) on Saturday said its copters bombed their outpost in MoD deputy spokesperson, told ty of local forces. It urged the gov- we would protest by closing Tomic Tinvestigations into an Amer- the Baraki Barak district of Logar. a press conference in Kabul their ernment to conduct major opera- roads, but all our calls fell on deaf ican airstrike on an army outpost A senior army commander had findings would be announced most tions and send reinforcements to ears, he complained. The public dismisses in central Logar province have said the airstrike involved two US probably on Sunday. The fact- Dasht-i-Archi, which fell to insur- representativesaid regaining of the Page 11 Tennis been completed and would be helicopters that targeted the ANA finding commission s work has gents one month ago. Mohammad district s control was beyond ca- made public soon. Eight Afghan outpost in Chaltan area. The heli- been completed 90 percent and Yousuf Ayubi, provincial council pability of the local forces and Australia olive soldiers were killed and another copters attacked the post on most probably they would be an- head, blamed the Kunduz admin- reinforcements be sent to the prov- branch half a dozen wounded on Mon- which an Afghan flag was clearly nounced tomorrow. (Pajhwok) istration for its negligence that led ince. (Pajhwok) 6 passengers 1 policeman abducted on killed, 6 injured in The risk of fumbling FARAH-NIMROZ Jalalabad explosion Page 7 JALALABAD: At least one per- HIGHWAY son was killed and six others were the Europe poll wounded on Saturday morning FARA CITY: Unidentified gunmen when an improvised explosive de- have abducted six passengers from vice (IED) went off in Jalalabad, the Suor locality of Farah City, the the capital of eastern Nangarhar provincial capital of western Farah province, a health official said. province, an official said on Satur- Rafique, an eye witness, told Pa- day. Police Spokesman Iqbal Ba- jhwok Afghan News the IED plant- her told Pajhwok Afghan News ed close to a police chec post went the passengers were traveling in a off with a big bang. Two police- Community 303 bus of Kabul Karwan Trans- men were killed and six others portation Company from Farah to wounded in the blast, he said. Dr. Editorial P6 Nimroz provicne. He said the gun- Najibullah Kamawal, director of policing men stopped the bus at around Nangarhar Civil Hospital, said one 3:00am in the Suor locality and got dead body and six wounded peo- the six passengers off the bus. Po- ple had been shifted to hospital. However, he did not comment on lice had opened investigation into the condition of the wounded po- the incident, he added. Abdul Sam- licemen. A press release from the Jolie to direct mad Farahi, head of transportation governor s office said two civilians department, said the abducted in- and two security forces had been Cambodian war dividuals were truck drivers who wounded in the blast. No group wanted to go to Nimroz for work. has claimed responsibility so far. Page 10 film for Netflix (Pajhwok) (Pajhwok) Afghan security forces casualties rose 196 insurgents killed in joint mand, Logar, Kandahar, Badakhs- Afghanistan beats AT News Report in operations against Taliban in- garding the Taliban s warm-season operations han, Takhar, Kunduz and Kabul Oman, secures surgents and terrorists all over the offensive, General Waziri said that provinces. In these operations 189 KANUL: Ministry of Defense country could be one of the main insurgency mostly increase in sum- AT News Report rebels were killed and 88 others in- Page 2 5th place in (MoD) on Saturday said that Af- factors behind increase in the ca- mer season, adding that despite all jured. A Taliban commander, identi- ghan security forces casualties rose sualties. He said that after com- challenges ANA remained victori- KABUL: At least 196 armed Tali- fied as Mullah Khaksar, three Tali- ICC World T20 this year due to involvement in war pletion of security transition, over ous in the operations and has the ban fighters were killed and 91 oth- ban shadow district chiefs and nine qualifier and operations across the country. 100,000 foreign troops left Af- capability to fight insurgency and ers were wounded in different foreign militants were among the Spokesman for the defense ghanistan which is another reason defend the country. Regarding the crackdowns within past 48 hours. killed. According to the statement, ministry, General Dawlat Waziri, for increase in the casualties. He ongoing clashes between the gov- In a press release issued here, Min- 13 ANA soldiers were also killed in said that Afghan National Army said that two years ago, 100,000 ernment forces and the Taliban in istry of Defense (MoD) said that the line of duty. Meanwhile, Minis- Afghan forces (ANA) casualties increased in the foreign troops were involved in Badakhshan and Faryab provinc- Afghan National Army (ANA) in try of Interior in a statement said rescue wounded current year as compared to last fight against terrorism, patrolling es, the interior ministry s spokes- collaboration with Afghan National that seven Taliban fighters were year. However, he did not provide the area and had outposts in dif- man Sediq Sediq said that addition- Police (ANP) and the National killed and three others were wound- Page 3 prisoners but further details. Speaking at a joint ferent provinces, but after pullout al force had been dispatched to the Directorate of Security (NDS) has ed in different districts of Zabul and Taliban tortures press conference with the Minis- of these troops all part of the coun- areas to defeat militants. conducted clearance operations Helmand provinces. Ten insurgents try of Interior s spokesman here, try were controlled by Afghan se- He said the Taliban suffered against insurgents in different parts were also arrested in the crackdowns and kills he said that involvement of army curity forces, independently. Re- heavy casualties in the clashes. of Paktia, Faryab, Urzgan, Hel- by ANP and ANA.

61.80 60.40 67.67 67.67 This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghan istan beats Om an , secures 5th place in ICC Wo rld T20 qualifier MAIDAN SHAHR: Tribal elders have accused the Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel deployed to the Jalrez district of central Maidan Wardak province of ha- rassing and torturingcivilians. However, the ALP commander rejects the charge as groundless. On July 3,at least 30 militants and 28 ALP members were killed in clashes on the Kabul-Bamyan highway clashes in Jalrez. The The Afghan team on gun-battles erupted after hundreds Thursday defeated Papua of militants stormed ALP posts New Guinea in their in Ismailkhel and Zewlat areas. A second ICC World dozen checkpoints fell to the mil- Twenty20 Qualifying itants as a result of the coordinat- Play-off and qualified for ed assault. Authorities say rein- the ICC World Twenty20 forcements from the provincial World Cup 2016 in India. capital could not reach the site in Afghanistan came into the time due to Taliban ambushes and some of the people who were tor- also created problems, the provin- tivists Najibullah Fikarman and ICC World Twenty20 roadside bombs planted by the tured on different pretexts at the cial authorities acknowledge. Zalmai Wahid also cited instances Qualifier 2015 carrying fighters. The fatalities included a hands of the ALP staff manning Governor Hayatullah Hayat told of torture by the ALP servicemen. plenty of hope and policeman from Bamyan prov- the 12 posts. Habibullah, 37, said: Pajhwok the Jalrez assault oc- They called for effective measures expectation following a ince, who had been posted in vio- An ALP member named Karim curred a week after his assump- to hold the force accountable for spirited display at the ICC lation of ALP rules to Ismailkhel ordered me down my bike in Kh- tion of office. He also verified the its illegal acts. Need for ALP: Po- Cricket World Cup 2015. to patrol the highway. waja Sahib village. He scorched illegal deployment of the ALP lice chief Gen. Andarabi says the Under the ALP recruitment several parts of my body with a personnel to the restive district. Taliban disembarked people from policy, each member should be- heated skewer. Gulzar, a resident Hayat also lashed out at the force vehicles in the two villages on the long to the district where he is of Ismailkhel, also accused the for misbehaving with residents. Kabul-Bamyan highway some posted. The ALP official from ALP personnel of attacking him. An official, requesting anonymi- three years back, when residents The Afghanistan National Cricket team from 20 overs and by losing following a spirited display at the Bamyan was assigned to guard the They struck me with a grenade, ty, revealed the 12 ALP post were asked to offer recruits for Team defeated Oman by 5 wick- 9 wickets. The Afghan batsmen ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. highway, along which 12 posts are whose shrapnel is still inside my commanders did not obey guber- ALP to bring security to the area. ets in their last match in ICC World chased the given target by losing 5 However, they were pushed located. Complaints from elders: body. I cannot be treated here and natorial orders. Instead, they al- Since the call went unheeded, ALP Twenty20 Qualifier on Saturday. wickets and 7 balls remaining. to third on the table following a At a meeting, dozens of elders need to go to Pakistan. However, legedly received instructions from members were brought to Jalrez Today s match between Af- The Afghan team on Thursday loss to Oman and rained out games from Zewlat and Ismailkhel areas I can t afford to pay expenses of elsewhere. Even on the eve of the from another province, he recalled. ghanistan and Oman was orga- defeated Papua New Guinea in against Canada and Kenya despite alleged that nearly 100 ALP per- travel to the neighbouring coun- attack, the source disclosed, they But provincial council mem- nized to ascertain the team which their second ICC World Twenty20 three consecutive wins against Scot- sonnel from Bamyan province had try. A shopkeeper in the Jalrez had established contact with high- ber Hotak retorted innocent resi- forcibly occupied 12 civilian hous- bazaar, Qudratullah, has also a er-ups in Kabul and requested dents should not suffer for what secured 5th place in ICC World Qualifying Play-off and qualified land, Netherlands and United Arab es bang in the middle of the two Twenty20 Qualifier series. for the ICC World Twenty20 Emirates in Group B. The Afghan woeful tale to tell. In broad day- help. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kha- the Taliban had done years ago in villages on the plea to secure the light, some members of the force lil Andarabi, the provincial police the area. He said hundreds of Afghanistan won the toss and World Cup 2016 in India. Afghan- team went down off the last deliv- highway three years back. They looted my shop. To lodge my chief, said the unlawfully de- Bamyan-bound vehicles passed elected to field first allowing the istan came into the ICC World ery against Hong Kong in their first would often harass the locals, the complaint, I went to a post led by ployed ALP personnel had regis- through the two villages on a dai- Oman batsmen to bat first who set Twenty20 Qualifier 2015 carrying ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier elders claimed. Hailing from Ze- ALP Commander Hussain Ali. He tered with the police headquarters. ly basis but none of them was ever a target of 128 runs for the Afghan plenty of hope and expectation Play-off match on Tuesday. (KP) wlat, Ghulam Siddique said after hanged me upside down. I was They were regularly drawing their intercepted. His view was en- the deployment of the ALP men, beaten so much so that I fell un- monthly salaries, he said, adding dorsed by tribal elders, who said who belonged to another prov- conscious he had twice visited ALP check- the Taliban targeted only those ince, many schools in the areas Zakirullah, Qudratullah and points in the district. who were important to them. For had been closed. He blasted the several other people have ap- He confirmed receiving infor- his part, Raza says the Jalrez peo- Why Chin a s Uighurs policemen for firing at schoolchil- proached tribal elders, provincial mal complaints from Ismailkhel ple had failed to meet the govern- dren and thereby depriving them council and civil society represen- and Zewlat residents, but the ob- ment s demand for ALP recruits of education. Another tribal chief- tatives with grievances against the jections needed to be formalised to secure the area. As result, he tain from the same village, Khu- ALP. Pajhwok has also obtained before being referred to prosecu- maintained, ALP personnel had to da-i-Noor, complained they had documents linking the personnel tors. The formality was yet to be be recruited from Bamyan. Some are jo in in g jihadists been intimidated to the extent that of the 12 checkpoints to 24 cases met, the police chief maintained. suspects coming from Punjab they could not expose the ALP of murder, injuries to 44 and loss- Jalrez district administrative chief were fuelling insecurity in Ward- heavy-handed tactics. The gov- es to 40 others. On the other hand, Naqibullah Haideri also verified ak, he continued. Clarifications: ernment doesn t listen to us; you ALP Commander Raza scorned the ALP deployment illegality, Speaking to Pajhwok, elders from in Afghan istan (journalists) convey our voice to the allegations from Jalrez resi- saying the policemen would oc- different tribes and communities the authorities concerned, he dents as baseless. Instead he said casionally attend meetings with insisted the people of Wardak What is driving the Uighur Muslims to increasingly join the ranks of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghani- said. Area resident Sahar Gul said the complainants had connections him. He added only some of the lived in complete harmony and stan? Analyst Siegfried O. Wolf tells DW why the Uighur issue has expanded far beyond China's borders. the villagers had lodged complaints with the Taliban. The commander complaints were valid but the peaceful coexistence, like mem- against the ALP posts with dif- claimed having evidence against scale of abuse was not as high as bers of one family. They blasted ferent provincial departments sev- some of the people who had ac- the people claimed. With regard some Kabul-based media outlets Uighur Muslims, a Turkic-speak- eral times, but no one bothered cused the force of involvement in to the woman s shooting, he said and other powerful circles of fo- ing minority in China's northwest- taking corrective action. As a re- abuses. He did acknowledge the two ALP officials were currently menting trouble in Maidan Ward- ern Xinjiang province, have long sult, the security personnel con- killing of a mentally sick woman, being held in Pul-i-Charkhi pris- ak. Similarly, provincial officials faced persecution by the country's tinued to ride roughshod over the who was shot dead by ALP men on in Kabul in connection with unanimously blamed the Taliban communist authorities. They are a poor inhabitants. Haji Momin after she refused to stop. The se- her murder. A third has been dis- for the Jalrez attack. But the mil- distinct and mostly Sunni Muslim Mullahkhel, a dweller of Sher curity personnel mistook her for armed. Yet another official who itants failed to overrun the dis- community and one of the 55 rec- Khan area, remarked the ALP of- an enemy. Her mental problem tortured a civilian had fled, he add- trict. People s demand: Area el- ognized ethnic minorities in Chi- ficials had inflicted more suffer- was confirmed by relatives as ed. Efforts are ongoing to bring ders and social activists urged the ings on them than the Israelis had well. The case went to judicial him to justice. Sharifullah Hotak, government not to let anyone give na. However, the Uighurs feel in- on Palestinians. He charged the creasingly suppressed and view organs, but the ALP staffers were a provincial council member from a political, communal or commer- so-called ALP men were loyalists acquitted, Raza said. About the Zewlat, charged the ALP person- cial twist to the attack. Residents Beijing as a "colonizing power" at- of a certain group and were su- man who had been burnt with a nel had been sent to Jalrez unlaw- called for President Ghani to visit tempting to undermine their cul- perimposed upon Jalrez residents skewer, the commander said he fully by certain circles. He said a Jalrez to ascertain the facts and tural identity, political rights, reli- in the garb of security officials. had evidence of the man aiding the large number of force members invite their representatives to gion and to exploit their region's He spurned assertions by insurgents. Raza vehemently de- from Maidan Wardak were main- Kabul. Authorities assurances: natural resources. In the past few some circles that the locals had nied ALP involvement in tortur- taining security in different dis- Senior provincial officials, includ- years, the Chinese government has assaulted the police posts, asking ing the people. If the allegations tricts and behaving well with the ing the governor and police chief, acted strictly against the separat- bers to fight for "Islamic State" (IS) include Afghanistan or the Afghan those who branded Jalrez resi- had been true, other government people. promised they would not send ists in Xinjiang. This has pushed in Syria. IS has declared jihad Taliban. When it comes to Afghan- dents as terrorists after the inci- institutions would have taken ac- He went on to take issue with ALP personnel from other prov- many Uighurs towards radicaliza- against China on the grounds that istan it seems that Pakistan and dent to apologise for the slur. We tion against them, he argued. supporters of the ALP men, who inces to any district of Maidan tion and militancy. The situation Beijing is mistreating the Uighur China are not on the same page. voted for President Ashraf Ghani Provincial Council Chairman called Jalrez residents terrorists Wardak. Muslim population. This classic Achieving peace in Afghanistan is in the hope he will address our Haji Ahmad Jafari also tended to during discussions with journal- They also vowed to keep a is also becoming aggravated due to problems, not to allow our tor- the fact that Uighur separatism is Sunni jihadist propaganda based on not Islamabad's main goal or con- reject the accusations. He said if ists and meetings in Kabul. He watch on security forces and work the persecution of the Uighurs is cern. Pakistan's Afghan policy is ture and killing at the hands of the people should share with the asked them to apologise to Jalrez for strengthening coordination not only an ethnic movement but gunmen from another province council before the Jalrez incident dwellers. between the people and law-en- also has a religious dimension to evident in videos and other jihad- driven by its rivalry with India He added the locals were threat- ist material in which IS has called which is aimed at minimizing New whatever proofs they had against Hotak said there was hardly forcement agents. Current situa- it. The Uighur issue is generally ened and tortured by the ALP the security personnel. He saw a any family in the two villages that tion in Jalrez: Officials say the viewed as an internal Chinese se- for global jihad and an uprising in Delhi's influence over its western personnel who had been sent to pattern in levelling such allegations had not been tortured by the ALP security forces had wrested back curity problem but some experts China. What is driving the Uighurs neighborhood and making sure that the area illegally. against the ALP after the attacks. staffers. The public representa- control of the 12 checkpoints that argue that it should also be looked to flee China and join the jihadists' a Pakistan-friendly government is The people were happy with Deployment against rules: Almost tive said they had shared the pub- had been captured by the Taliban. at in the context of the rising glo- ranks? The Uighurs identify them- in power in Kabul. Even if Islama- the security officials who had all senior provincial officials ad- lic complaints with some parlia- Public Order Police are currently bal jihad and Islamic fundamental- selves as the original inhabitants bad decides to use its influence to come to Jalrez in line with rele- mit that those manning the 12 mentarians, influential figures in manning the posts and will remain ism. The crucial point, the analysts of Xinjiang, which they describe protect Chinese interests vis-a-vis vant rules, the elder explained, ALP posts were not Maidan Kabul and even with the United there until area people are recruit- say, is that the Uighur case is get- as "East Turkistan." Many of the Uighur militants, I am not sure it seeking stringent action against the Wardak residents and that they Nations Assistance Mission in ed into ALP. They add the Kabul- ting increasingly hijacked by the Turkic-speaking Uighurs feel clos- can convince various Afghan Tali- individuals involved in torturing were posted to Jalrez in violation Afghanistan. Bamyan highway remains open, er to Central Asian states and are ban factions and affiliated groups the masses. Victims claims: Pajh- of the ALP rules. Not only they But there has been no remedi- with normal traffic continuing jihadist movements, particularly in wok Afghan News interviewed Afghanistan where a number of in favor of separating from China to change their strategies. To what failed to improve security, they al action so far. Civil society ac- smoothly. (Pajhwok) Uighur militants are reportedly or receiving greater autonomy. extent are Uighurs a threat to Sino- fighting alongside the Taliban and Therefore, it does not come as a Pakistani relations? In the Af-Pak skirts of Herat province, Kabul, al Qaeda. In a DW interview, Sieg- surprise that Chinese security of- region, China's Uighurs have prov- western Afghanistan. Source: AP fried O. Wolf, Director of research ficials are dealing with them very en to be not only an unusual source Directors Doran and Afghanistan- at the Brussels-based South Asia strictly and want to have Xinjiang of friction in China-Pakistan and based Quraishi wanted to lay bare Democratic Forum (SADF), and a under their tight control, for both Afghanistan-Pakistan ties but have the stark facts about the mental researcher at the University of economic and geo-strategic rea- also added to regional instability. toll inflicted on those who live in Heidelberg's South Asia Institute, sons. Chinese police shoot dead In this context, it is important to the world s most heavily drone- explains what is driving Uighurs 'terrorist' Uighurs Officers in Shen- note that until the early 1990s, bombed country, and how debili- yang have killed three Uighur men Pakistani governments adopted a tating the psychological problems to join Islamists in Afghanistan and can be even for those who are not what could be done to prevent this. who they say were Islamist mili- much lenient attitude towards the tants. Activists have said that Ui- Uighur presence in its northwest- physically injured. Unmanned Siegfried O. Wolf O. Wolf: 'Chi- drones are a dangerous and fright- na's major concern is that Uighurs ghurs are merely being discriminat- ern tribal areas and remained large- ening force. More than 1000 are are still using the Pakistani territo- ed against by a "hostile" govern- ly indifferent to their separatist known to have hit targets in the ry to create unrest in western Chi- ment. (14.07.2015) Rights groups cause in China. This policy past five years, but there is no na' DW: What can you tell us slam Thailand's Uighur repatriation changed in the late 1990s in order record of when and where the about the link between Uighur Targeting of Islamic customs re- to mollify Beijing, which felt in- strikes took place, what they de- separatism and global jihadism? flects 'misdiagnosis' of Uighur dis- creasingly uncomfortable about the stroyed, or who they killed. Siegfried O. Wolf: Decision-mak- content Beijing has enforced harsh- fact that Pakistan's lawless tribal Drones are a way of life for the ers also need to look at the Uighur er regulations against the Uighurs region bordering Afghanistan had people Afghanistan. In the cities, conflict in the context of Islamic and raised the security budget for developed into a sanctuary for a suicide bomber or Taliban unit jihad and fundamentalism. It is Xinjiang. As a result, tensions be- Uighur extremists. Chinese Para- can attack at any time, said the important to investigate to what tween the Uighurs and the majori- military policemen take part in an filmmakers. You may simply be extent Uighur refugees and illegal ty Han Chinese people have dra- anti-terrorism exercise involving travelling to your place of work at migrants are getting involved in ji- matically increased. Clashes and local police, paramilitary and mili- the usual time or having a cup of hadist networks in and outside violent riots broke out between the tia forces, in Hami in northwest tea at a cafe when an attack oc- two communities in July 2009, China's Xinjiang Uygur Autono- curs. It s the uncertainty that af- South Asia and are being used as fects everyone in urban areas. But potential recruits for terrorist or- which resulted in at least 197 fa- mous Region (AP Photo) O. Wolf: talities. Another wave of violence 'Beijing has raised its security bud- imagine living in a remote village ganizations. According to Chinese with your family and the drones sources, Uighur militants use fake occurred in 2012.This has driven get for Xinjiang' Beijing's major When a Western soldier suffers (ANA) soldier searches a man at a ing them. You can see it in their begin circling in search of armed Turkish passports to enter Afghan- many Uighurs to flee China both concern remains that Uighurs are from post-traumatic stress disor- checkpoint. Source: AFP Many of worn faces. Hope and confidence men on the ground. It can happen istan and Pakistan to join extrem- legally and illegally - to other coun- using the Pakistani territory to cre- der, there are doctors and organi- the shrines are nothing more than in the future had steadily dissolved, several times every single day. ist groups. In the Afghan and Pa- tries. ate unrest in western China. As sations who can help them recov- money-making enterprises run by with millions now thought to be Neither believe that civilian casu- kistani camps, which are heavily Around 100 Uighurs were re- such, China expects that Pakistan er from the heartbreaking legacy con artists with little or no reli- suffering from PTSD, with little alties are intentional, but remote- funded by Saudi Arabia, Uighurs cently deported by Thailand to acts more aggressively against of war. When it is someone from gious training. The filmmakers hope of treatment. Only one hos- ly-controlled weapons can easily receive ideological indoctrination as China. What kind of treatment do these militants. Could Uighur mil- Afghanistan, where bombings reg- hope their footage of the inhumane pital in the entire country is dedi- harm the wrong person or place in well as military training. Many of repatriated Uighurs generally re- itants challenge the implementa- ularly wreak devastation and tear businesses will force uninterested cated to mental health, despite of- innocent communities. To watch ceive from the Chinese authorities? tion of the planned China-Pakistan families apart, you are unlikely to police and government officials to ficial estimates indicating that 60 children screaming, running to their the Uighur fighters are organized find any assistance, since there is act. You might have thought that to 70 per cent of the country s under an umbrella group called East There is no doubt that the "forced Economic Corridor (CPEC)? The homes in utter fear, is heartbreak- returnees" have to face severe per- CPEC, funded and most likely little understanding of mental ill- civilians and soldiers living in war population now suffer from some ing. But very often it s the wom- Turkestan Islamic Movement or ness in the country. The most zones would become hardened to mental health problem. Unofficial ETIM. The ETIM was listed as secution, torture, abuse, and even constructed exclusively by China, en, the mothers and daughters, who common treatment is to take your this life, and find it almost normal. estimates go as high as 95 per cent. suffer most. Mostly, they must one of the "more extreme separat- disappearances in China. The Chi- could be a primary target of Ui- loved one to a religious shrine In fact, the pervasive atmosphere This is the real human impact of nese authorities have executed sev- ghur fighters in the region. Islama- suffer in silence, such is the stigma ist groups" and as a terrorist orga- where they are chained to walls or of violence and fear takes a bitter living with the daily threat of death. attached to females with mental nization by the US in 2002. Ac- eral of them in the past. You said bad needs to do something to pre- trees for up to 40 days, fed stale toll, and this terrible truth can be Over the past 14 years or so, I Uighur militants are active in Af- vent this from happening. Other- health issues. Many take their own cording to the UN, the ETIM is bread, water and ground pepper, seen most clearly in Afghanistan, have sensed and experienced a dis- lives. Doran and Quraishi say Af- associated with al Qaeda and its ghanistan fighting alongside the wise it could have a negative im- and read dubious lines from the the site of the longest war ever for cernible change in Afghans, add- ghanistan is a broken country fighters are believed to have fought Taliban. Could China convince pact on its ties with China and its Qur an by individuals with no Australia and the US. When you ed Doran. They re still beautiful and worse than it has ever been, as alongside them and the Taliban in Pakistan to use its influence over weak economy. (DW) medical or, for that matter, reli- talk to them, there is little joy in people, but they re also angry and once close-knit communities fall Afghanistan against NATO troops. the Taliban and make it act against Siegfried O. Wolf is Director gious training, documentary- their words any more, said UK- confused. Afghan internally dis- apart under the pressure. Many Furthermore, the Uighurs gained the Uighur extremists? In the past, of research at the Brussels-based makers Jamie Doran and Najibul- based director Doran, after filming placed children pose for a photo- have left their villages for refugee combat training in Chechnya and Islamabad acted against militant South Asia Democratic Forum lah Quraishi told news.com.au. An Living Beneath Drones for Al graph at their makeshift home on camps elsewhere in the country, were involved in terrorist activi- groupings carrying out anti-Chi- (SADF), and a researcher at the Afghan National Army (ANA) Jazeera in the region. Anyone the Afghan internally displaced seeking homes that are relatively ties in Kyrgyzstan. Reportedly, nese activities. However, this hap- University of Heidelberg's South soldier searches a man at a check- with a family, children, someone children pose for a photograph at safe and peaceful - places that are the ETIM has also sent its mem- pened on Pakistani soil and did not Asia Institute. point. An Afghan National Army you love, is forever in fear of los- their makeshift home on the out- few and far between. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghan forces rescue AISA plans to review wounded prisoners but investment law Taliban tortures and kills

Officials from the Afghanistan In- vestment Supporting Agency (AISA) on Friday announced plans to seek a number of amend- ments to the nation's investment law in hopes of removing barriers to investment and renewing inves- tor trust in the country. Citing high EMERGENCY unemployment, AISA officials said it is crucial to grow investments in CALLS Afghanistan. "Our responsibility isn't supposed to be limited to the issuance of licensees for commer- Police eputy spokesman for the members of the Afghan Local Po- cial activities," AISA Chief Mo- Ministry of Defense of Af lice (ALP) forces in Jalrez district Hundreds of migrants who fled the refuges is Jora Khan who said: "I Our priority has to be the children, hammad Qurban Haqjo said on 100 - 119 ghanistan (MoD) Dawlat of central Maidan Wardak prov- war in Afghanistan and arrived in made it this far, I don't know how regarding water, food and most im- Friday. "But we must struggle to D pursue successful investments and Waziri said the main difference be- ince where the check posts were Greece have set up camp in a cen- but I will find a way to get to Ger- portantly a place to stay. A park in tween the Afghan National Securi- overrun and ALP forces were bru- tral Athens square. Pedion Areos, many." Fahima Anwari, another mi- the middle of the city cannot be provide the investors with the nec- Hospitals ty Forces (ANSF) and the Taliban tally killed and their corpses were essary cooperation; this is impor- a park in the centre of Athens, has grant said: "We don't have food, my turned into a refugee centre. We need tant at a time when we are consid- militants is the way they deal with humiliated. This comes as at least become a makeshift migrant camp children are hungry, we don't have to find a place that will be decent so ering some amendments to the in- FMIC Hospital the wounded prisoners. 4,100 service members of the Af- where more than 420 people are clothes, we don't have water and I that we are not unfair to neither them vestment law." Economic analysts Behind Kabul Medical Speaking during a press con- ghan National Army (ANA) and currently staying. According to don't have nappies for my baby." nor the city." Earlier this month, stress that there is a dire need to ference in Kabul, Waziri said the the Afghan National Police (ANP) Arash Himati, a representative of The representative and spokesman UNHCR spokesperson William reassess the overall issues facing University: Afghan National Security Forces forces have lost their lives during the Afghan community in Greece, for the community, Arash Himati, Spindler said the number of refu- investors in order to revive the 0202500200-+93793275595 are not allowed to torture or exe- the first six months of the year at least 200 more are expected to said: "For the past week, migrants gees arriving in the Greek islands confidence of those willing to in- cute prisoners, specifically the 2015. The latest statistic regard- arrive by Saturday. Many were and refugees have been arriving at continues to rise, averaging 1,000 vest in Afghanistan. Primarily, they wounded individuals captured dur- ing the Afghan National Security hoping to move on to Germany this park. A week ago there were people daily. Since the beginning of have argued, the government must Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital ing the battle. He said the anti-gov- Forces casualties was disclosed by and other countries in Europe. On five or 10 families but two days ago, the year, 77,100 people have ar- determine the priority areas for in- ernment armed militants however an official with the American-led Friday bread, tomatoes and mel- 50 more families arrived. Today we rived by sea to Greece. Almost 60 vestment and support enterprises Pule Bagh-e- Umomi torture and kill the members of the coalition which shows a 50% in- ons were distributed to the people have 420 people that came from Af- per cent are refugees from Syria. in those areas. "AISA should pave 070263672 Afghan National Security Forces crease as compared to the first six in the camp who were trying to ghanistan." However, Nikitas Others come from Afghanistan, the way for medium and small in- when they are captured by them. months of the year 2014. The data beat the heat by sitting in the shade Kanakis, President for, Doctors of Iraq, Eritrea and Somalia. Greece is vestments in the country," eco- Waziri further added that the Af- also revealed at least 7,800 service of the park's trees including the World in Greece said: "The cir- now facing an unprecedented refu- nomic analyst Sayed Massoud told Khairkhana Hospital ghan forces have been prohibited members of the Afghan National women and children. Among the cumstances cannot be described. gee emergency. TOLOnews. to execute the prisoners and have Security Forces were wounded 0799-321007 been instructed to hand them over during the same period. the relevant judiciary institutions. The considerable growth in 2401352 The remarks by Waziri comes as Afghan forces casualties comes as the Taliban militants carried out the Taliban-led insurgency has also Security threats cause over barbaric acts against the Afghan been rampant with Afghan com- Indira Gandhi Children security forces after over running manders and officials in key bat- Hospital, Wazir Akbar their security check posts during tleground areas saying that while the recent clashes. One of the most Afghan forces nominally hold key 100 Helmand schools to close Khan, Kabul 2301372 barbaric act by the Taliban mili- areas, they are often penned in by tants was carried out against the Taliban forces. (KP) Helmand's education officials have said over 100 schools have been Ibn-e- Seena closed in the province on account Pul-e-Artan, Kabul of security threats, with the ma- Land disputes in jority of them located in the north- 2100359 ern districts. In addition to the confirmed Logar leave 6 injured closures, provincial officials have Wazir Akbar Khan said that even in the cases of Hospital schools that are remaining open, PUL-I-ALAM: As many as six and grabbed the government and 2301741, 2301743 people were wounded when a fight local residents land plots, he said. families are declining to send their erupted over a land dispute be- Hamid, a resident of Ibrahim children to school out of fear of security threats. tween Kochis and local residents Khail, said dozens of people of "Schools have been closed Ali Abad in central Logar province, an offi- Kochi tribe armed with guns and down in Desho, Baghran and Bali cial said on Saturday. sticks attacked a village and start- and these areas aren't under gov- Shahrara, Kabul Col. Qari Mohammad Wara, ed beating everyone come on their ernment control," deputy head of 2100439 way. But people called police Helmand Education Department instead of engaging in fighting with Sardar Mohammad said. them and police immediately took Meanwhile, civil society activ- Malalai Maternity action against them. He said. ists in Helmand have reported a The police should punish the higher number of closed schools Hospital arrested people so that other than the one quoted by provincial 2201377/ 2301743 would never dare to act like that officials. "As far as I know, the in future, he demanded. number of schools that are closed Kochi tribe did not comment is much higher and this could have Banks on the incident so far. damaging consequences," activist Separately, as many as three Farhad Dawari told TOLOnews. Da Afghanistan Bank armed rebels had been killed and "In each school from 500 to 2,000 police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan scored other wounded when Tali- students have been deprived of 2100302, 2100303 News five people were wounded ban militants attacked security education, and the continuation of "Schools have been closed down in Desho, Baghran and Bali and these areas aren't under govern- the situation will mean an illiterate ment control," deputy head of Helmand Education Department Sardar Mohammad said. Kabul Bank when local people and Kuchis check posts late Friday night in generation ahead." engaged in an armed and physical Sari Sang area. The dead bodies Members of Helmand's Pro- closed are in Sangeen, Musa Qala, total of 385 schools in the prov- some progress was made in get- 222666, 070285285 fight. Police arrested nine persons of the slain militants still have vincial Council have called on lo- Nawzad and Kajaki districts, and ince, with 192,000 male students ting schools reopened in recent of Kochi tribe who were the main been left in the area. They have cal tribal elders and religious schol- a large number of students have and 50,000 female students. Offi- months, instability in northern Azizi Bank culprits of the fight, he said, add- black flags and have covered their ars to take all steps necessary for been deprived of education in these cials say 150 schools, or 43 per- Helmand is now forcing many 0799 700900 ing that investigations had been head with black cloth which sug- getting the schools reopened. areas," Provincial Council member cent, are thought to be closed at schools to close rapidly, curtailing continued from the apprehended gest the slain militants belong to "Some schools have been closed in Nargis Rukhshani said. the moment, amounting to about much of the progress previously Pashtany Bank persons. Daesh group, Qari Wara said. northern parts of Helmand and the According to Helmand's De- 100,000 students. made. Kochi tribe had always tried (Pajhwok) majority of the schools that are partment of Education, there are a While provincial officials say (TOLONews) 2102908, 2103868 Air Services In Nangarhar, governance 72 CASES OF MEASLES Safi Airways 020 22 22 222 REFORMS ON THE CARDS found in Kunar, says official Ariana JALALABAD: Following securi- placed, he said. Although Gen. cording to Kamawal, who said re- ASADABAD: As many as 72 cas- 020-2100270 ty operations, local governance Sherzad gave no clear timeframe, forms were yet to be implement- es of measles have been detected in reforms would be introduced in operations are already ongoing in ed. One complication is that sev- eastern Kunar province, where a remote areas of eastern Nangar- certain areas of the province. eral officials have been holding vaccination campaign is ongoing, Kam Air har province, the police chief Whether the security push is important positions for years on an official said on Saturday. Pub- 0799974422 promised. Administrative re- based on that decision remains end. He alleged: These well-con- lic Health Director Dr. Assadullah forms, nepotism, lack of access unclear. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the nected officials refuse to address Fazli told Pajhwok Afghan News to local authorities and extensions governor s spokesman, also ac- public complaints in time. In cer- 72 measles cases had been detect- Hotels granted to certain government of- knowledged local governance is- tain instances, the people are ed in the last six months alone in Safi Landmark ficials are some of the local gover- sues. We have governance-relat- forced to take their cases to the different districts of the province. nance problems in the province. ed problemsat the district level. Taliban for decisions. Civil soci- The measles was a dangerous virus Nangarhar police chief, Brig. Gen. At the meeting with security offi- ety activist and journalist Zabi- that attacked children and the symp- 020-2203131 Fazal Ahmad Sherzad, told Pajh- cials, the governor recommended hullah Ghazi believed: Reforms toms were severe fever and spots wok Afghan News that, at a re- reforms to deal with these irri- in local departments may have a appearing on the affected child s SERENA cent meeting with the governor, tants. Dr. Nasir Kamawal, the direct impact on security and body, he said, stressing timely treat- they had agreed on local gover- provincial council deputy head, could lead to stability. There is ment. The vaccination camping 0799654000 nance reforms. We have decided also admitted: In Nangarhar, we still enough distance between the was underway in most provinces to conduct security operations in have serious local governance is- public and the government. of the country, he said, adding the New Rumi Restaurant certain restive areas before bring- sues, including pervasive corrup- While welcoming the decision, drive could not be initiated due to nine months and five years would 15 monitors and 489 volunteers ing about reforms. A number of tion and a delay in resolution of he urged Governor Saleem Khan security reasons in eastern be vaccinated in the first phase of would vaccinate around 99,348 0776351347 local officials, who have been in- public problems. The issues have Kanduzi to keep his word as soon Nuristan and northern Takhar. He camping that began today. At least children, the director concluded. efficient, may be sacked or re- been shared with higher-ups, ac- as possible. (Pajhwok) explained children aged between 15 coordinators, 41 supervisors, (Pajhwok) Internet Services UA Telecom Peace talks: No olive branch for Afghans; only ceasefire 0796701701 / 0796702702 ...P1 remote areas of Afghanistan resentatives of the Afghan govern- He further said that the Afghan cure its own interests in the peace cooperation with other countries. Karzai. The ex-chief of NDS said Exchange Rate and create bases there, particularly ment in Murree for peace talks are president showed political cour- talks. ISI does not want a prospec- They want to change us to protec- that Washington on the other hand in south the places that were not ISI agents living in Islamabad for age to accept all demands of Is- tive peace and stability in Afghan- torate, he added. Based on his also provided financial support Purchase: important strategically, he re- the past several years. With this lamabad aimed at bringing peace. istan, he said. experience as former chief of the both to Islamabad and Kabul that called. During this period, Ameri- structure ISI wants to create legit- However, it did not help Kabul. Saleh went on to say that Is- Afghan spy agency, Saleh advised also prolonged the Afghan war. The cans rejected President Karzai s imacy problem for Kabul under the As a matter of fact, the result lamabad has six major demands, the government to prevent peace former president of the US, One US$ = suggestion for having a powerful pretext of Afghan-led and Afghan- of peace talks would be uncertain some of which are against Afghan- talks from fragmentation. He said George Bush, did not listen to 60.42Afs army, Saleh said. Islamabad wants owned peace process. In real until NATO and the US pullout istan s interests and would turn the that President Ghani should direct- Hamid Karzai s demands about One Pound Sterling= to help the Taliban to enter into sense, the process is neither Af- troops from the country because country into a protectorate state. ly lead the talks himself for fruit- required military support, he said. the advanced stalemate against Af- ghan-owned nor Afghan-led, he Pakistan is well-informed of the Pakistan s demands are that Af- ful results. The ex-chief of the The Taliban started activities 92.90Afs ghan government. To do so, Paki- said. He said that such kind of ne- plans of the US and NATO. Is- ghanistan should cut off ties with NDS blamed the US and NATO in Helmand for the first time but One Euro = stan wants to continue fueling in- gotiations would not bring digni- lamabad would try to cash the India; recognize the Durand Line for continuation of war in Afghan- Washington was not ready to in- surgency in Afghanistan. Pakistan fied peace to Afghanistan which is opportunity and turn it into a prize as international border through istan, adding that they did not pro- crease the number of Afghan 66.62Afs wants to protect the Taliban as its major demand and a dream of ev- while prolonging the war until most border cooperation pact; access to vide required support to Afghans. troops. The then NATO chief re- 1000 Pak Rs = armed group. Current peace pro- ery Afghan because ISI is leading of its interests were secured, he Central Asia; creation of China-Pak NATO and the US were carrying jected our demands and launched 581Afs cess is mostly about ceasefire rather the reconciliation process. said. Speaking about gains that Is- consortium that can use Afghani- out their own strategies without operations which were not produc- than durable peace, he opined. Every Afghan wants a legal lamabad made through the Afghan stan s natural resources through a considering the genuine demands tive, he added. He also criticized Sale: Saleh said that this strategy of and independent government of peace process, he said that Presi- single-bidding process, resolve the of Kabul. They say that their sup- the US authorities decision to send One US$ = the Pakistani military establish- which only unarmed Taliban dent Ghani refused to take mili- water issue, and train at least 30 port would be scheduled based 100,000 troops to Afghanistan in- ment is against the promises they should be part. However, ISI does tary support from India and rela- percent of Afghan army, he said. while Afghanistan says that it stead of increasing strength of Af- 60.62 Afs have given to President Ashraf not want so. ISI cheated President tions between Kabul and New He said that Pakistan wants should be situational based and ghan army. He said that Karzai re- One Pound Sterling= Ghani about the peace talks. Ghani and did not fulfill its prom- Delhi dropped. Soon after assum- Afghanistan to have a framework unconditional. Afghans want that peatedly urged Washington to 93.70Afs According to the former chief ises, because it is not helping the ing office as president, Ashraf for its strategic cooperation with NATO should consider their de- strength the Afghan security forc- of the NDS, Pakistani spy agency, Afghan president honestly in the Ghani visited Islamabad, Saudi other countries. They want to set mands, he underlined. es and increase their number but One Euro= Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has peace process, though ISI received Arabia and China in order to please a framework for Afghan govern- He said the United States pol- the US was not interested which 67.22 Afs fifty percent control over the peace many favors from Kabul, said Islamabad. However, ISI is not ment through which they will al- icies are not clear which also an- resulted into continuation of war 1000 Pak Rs= 589Afs process. Those who sat with rep- Saleh. satisfied because it wants to se- low Kabul to manage its strategic noyed the former president Hamid for long-term. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Judicial commis- ‘Pakistan, India should set up sion verdict is mechanism for resolving differences’ against ECP, says WASHINGTON: India and Paki- between the prime ministers of the stan should sit together to set up a two countries on the 10th of this mechanism for resolving their dif- month, in the city of Ufa, and you Imran Khan ferences instead of "maligning" will have to go back to your geog- each other, an aide of Pakistan raphy lessons to know where it is. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has It is deep in the belly of Russia, a said. Tariq Fatemi, Special Assis- southern city in the Bashkir Re- tant to Sharif on Foreign Affairs, public." said that after the recent meeting "Let us set up a mechanism between Prime Minister Narendra whereby Indian concerns can be Modi and Sharif in Ufa, Pakistan met, and our concerns can be met. is now looking forward to its Na- You see, if the two countries are to tional Security Adviser's visit to live at peace with each other, and I New Delhi, which is exactly in or- agree with you that the people do der to meet the concerns of both want peace, on both sides of the the sides. border, there is no doubt about it. He said that it is important for That is why it becomes incumbent the two countries to sit down and on the political leadership to carve resolve the differences. out a way, and in the process, "If they (India) have concerns, friends should also help us," he and we have concerns, so you have said. On underworld don Dawood two options. Either go around Ibraham, Fatemi said he is not beating each other, maligning each aware if the 1993 Mumbai attack other, ridiculing each other, which mastermind is alive or dead. will add to hostility between the "Dawood Ibraham, or Ibrahim two countries, or sitting down as Dawood, we don't know where he ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek- the sake of democracy's future." civilised people, which we pre- is. I, frankly, am not even aware i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said Imran, however, did raise some sume we are, and then debating and that he is alive, dead or alive, or that it is not him but Prime Minis- questions, asking "Why were the discussing and finally resolving that he is in Pakistan. There are ter Nawaz Sharif who should apol- Returning Officers (ROs) in Pun- them," Fatemi said speaking at The people, you know, who have com- ogise over the judicial commission's jab given the carte blanche to de- Heritage Foundation, a US think- mitted acts of terror and have dis- report, as all political parties are cide how many extra ballots to tank here. appeared. We don't know," he said. in agreement that there was rigging print. Under what law was it jus- He said that the meeting be- Notably, till the time Al Qae- during the 2013 general elections. tified?" “Why were the ROs tak- tween Modi and Sharif in Ufa pro- da Chief Osama bin Laden was In a much-awaited response to ing decisions in Punjab, while in vides a "glimmer of hope" that the killed by US commandoes in a dar- the report, Imran lashed out at the other provinces the decisions were talks would be revived between the ing raid in Abbottabad in 2011, top Election Commission of Pakistan taken by the provincial election two countries. Pakistani leadership continued to (ECP), saying "ECP had no idea commissions?” he questioned. "...I see a small glimmer of deny his presence inside the coun- of how the elections were being Know more: JC finds 2013 elec- hope in the meeting that took place try. conducted." tions 'fair and in accordance with Quoting the judicial commis- law' “Initially I wanted them to sion report, he said “ECP had no open only four constituencies as a coordination with provincial elec- sample case to probe alleged rig- India's ties with Liberia to strengthen: President tion commissions." ging, but it took them a year to do Imran appreciated the perfor- so,” said the PTI chief. “Why did NEW DELHI: President Pranab mance of the judicial commission it take them two years and four Mukherjee on Saturday said India's and said there was no conspiracy months to get a judicial commis- ties with the western African nation and the military's leadership was sion report?” Responding to a ques- of Liberia will "continue to strength- not involved. tion, Imran said his party will form en" in the coming years. "I am con- “The verdict it (JC) has given a strong opposition in the Nation- fident that our close and friendly re- against ECP will definitely help al Assembly and went on to add lations will continue to strengthen in the future course of elections in that “the whole country will see the years ahead," Mukherjee said in the country,” he said. what real change is with the exam- a message to his Liberian counter- Imran said he was a bit disap- ples we are setting in Khyber Pa- part Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on the eve pointed because the chief justice khtunkhwa (KP)." of Liberia's National Day. Liberia, conducted the probe so well and “PML-N forced us to initiate once a part of the American Coloni- their expectations were high. “We street protests. We accept the JC’s sation Society, declared its indepen- expected him not to leave it half decision but we will be the most dence on July 26, 1847, which the finished.” The PTI chairman laud- formidable opposition for them in US recognized on February 5, 1862, ed the chief justice saying “The the assembly,” he said. to make it the first African country chief justice brilliantly conducted Imran had earlier refrained to shake off the colonial yoke. "It this probe. He was alert, listening from commenting on the findings gives me great pleasure to extend to every word, remembering ev- of the judicial commission report warm greetings and felicitations to ery detail. But we had higher on Thursday, saying he would only you and to the people of Liberia on hopes." "We accepted the results comment on it after reading it, since the occasion of your National Day. for bringing transparency and for he was not given a copy of it. Please accept, my best wishes for your continued well-being as also for the welfare and progress of the friendly people of Liberia," Mukherjee said in a statement. Monsoon troubles Nepal quake survivors three months on Concerns that the monsoon could trigger an outbreak of Addressing a public rally in diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases Kandy yesterday, the Prime Min- ister said the President Sirisena has launched an appropriate program KATHMANDU: As dark clouds to build the country and the peo- loomed overhead, Rabi Baral hur- ple now have an opportunity to riedly secured his tent to the carry forward this program. ground at a camp for victims of He said the present adminis- Nepal’s earthquake, three months tration completed a number of after the disaster upended his life. tasks within the 100 days in com- The 7.8-magnitude quake on parison to what many other gov- April 25 destroyed the 41-year- ernments achieved in 5 years. He old’s home and left him without a noted that the government was able job, forcing him and his young fam- to reduce the price of fuel, the cost ily to take refuge in a makeshift of living and grant pay increases camp in Nepal’s capital Kath- for state sector employees. mandu. “The rain has made life Prime Minister Wickremesing- even more difficult, but we have he said a program will be carried no choice right now,” Baral told out to ensure that tasks of the elec- AFP. As his wife Parwati nursed tion manifesto of the United Na- their 18-month-old son, Baral said tional Front are being implement- he was desperate to return home ed accordingly. to the hills east of Kathmandu but The Prime Minister appealed was too afraid to risk travelling on to the public to support his five- quake-hit roads that now face the fold development Master Plan threat of landslides triggered by COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has called on everyone in the country to join emphasized that he needs the sup- heavy rains. a program to build a new country without the customary politics in the next five years. port of everyone to realize the “We are in limbo right now. I He says five years is sufficient for his government to build a new country, as his government with the goals in the plan for the country am counting days for monsoon to President Maithripala Sirisena was able to implement Good Governance within 100 days. for the next five years. end so we can plan ahead,” he said. Three months on, Nepal is still reeling from the impact of the culture and tourism, with the di- ning will delay rebuilding. One earthquake that killed over 8,800 saster destroying crops and trig- month after the government people and flattened nearly gering deadly avalanches at Mount pledged to lay out a clear road map 600,000 homes, leaving thousands Everest base camp and on the pop- to recovery at a donors’ meet, Kath- in desperate need of food, clean ular Langtang trekking route, which mandu is yet to set up the new water and shelter. remains closed to visitors. In a bid body, while homeless victims have According to the World Health to lure foreign visitors back, Ne- received just $150 out of a prom- Organisation (WHO), landslides pal recently called in international ised $2,000 to rebuild their hous- RAWALPINDI: Interior Minister are already hampering delivery of experts to assess the safety of the es. “The new fiscal year has just Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sat- relief supplies to mountainous vil- popular Everest and Annapurna begun. We are in the process of urday said that Rangers in Karachi lages and there are concerns the trekking routes. Engineers from establishing the reconstruction au- have been given special powers monsoon could trigger an outbreak Miyamoto, a US-based firm, thority,” said Finance Minister within the limits of the Constitu- of diarrhoea and other waterborne found that the Annapurna route Ram Sharan Mahat. “We are at the tion and the law of Pakistan. “All diseases. Edwin Salvador, Emer- was largely unaffected, with only beginning of the reconstruction political forces and state institu- gency and Humanitarian Techni- six of 250 guesthouses assessed phase. Our ministries are prepar- tions must work in a united fash- cal Officer at WHO Nepal, told showing repairable damage. They ing rebuilding plans”, Mahat told ion to resolve issues facing Paki- AFP that the agency had already plan to release their findings on AFP. The remittance sector was stan,” said Nisar while speaking delivered three months’ worth of quake-hit Everest next month. one of the rare areas that saw to media representatives in Raw- medicines to remote villages at risk “Our priority right now is to send growth even after the quake, with alpindi. Answering a question re- of landslides to ensure adequate out a positive message that Nepal money transfers increasing by 11.2 garding the recent judicial commis- supplies in the event of an emer- is safe for travel,” said Tulsi per cent to $5.55 billion in the first sion report, he said: “The verdict gency. “After the earthquake hit, Gautam, chief of Nepal’s tourism 11 months of this fiscal year, ac- of the judicial commission is based we were thinking forward to pre- department. “If we use this time cording to Nepal’s central bank. on facts and evidence provided, pare for the monsoon,” Salvador to reassure our visitors, I am sure Every year, thousands of and not rumours and media re- said. “There hasn’t been a health that tourism will bounce back in young people leave Kathmandu in ports.” The interior minister had crisis so far, but preparedness is our next peak season which begins search of jobs in India, South East said last month that the federal gov- key. We are working closely with October,” Gautam added. Asia and the Gulf nations, keep- ernment would not deploy para- the community to prevent any According to the government’s ing the economy afloat with the military forces in Karachi without such outbreak,” he added. estimates, the Himalayan nation earnings they send home. After the legal cover. He also stated earlier Nepal’s economy — one of the will need around $6.7 billion to disaster, many Nepalis are look- that there were attempts to create world’s weakest even before the fund rebuilding, with donors al- ing overseas to secure the funds an impression that Rangers’ de- disaster — was hit hard by the ready offering pledges worth $4.4 they need to rebuild their lives, ployment in Karachi was either quake, with the country’s annual billion for reconstruction. The gov- with quake survivor Baral saying unwelcome or not in accordance GDP forecast to grow just three ernment wants reconstruction that he hopes to go to India to find with the law, which was deplor- per cent, the lowest in eight years. funds to be channelled through a work. “Where else will the money able. Also read: Sindh govt extends The Sindh government had extended, on July 9, the special policing powers assigned to Rangers in the Growth prospects have plum- new state body, raising concerns come from? I have a family to take Rangers stay in Karachi for a year province for a month, which were later extended for a year on July 17. meted in crucial sectors like agri- that bureaucracy and poor plan- care of, I have to rebuild,” he said. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief US troops to train regular Saudi-led Ukrainian warplanes hit military Yemen’s Taiz troops: State killing 80 Department SANAA : The death toll from WASHINGTON: U.S. troops Saturday's Saudi-led airstrike on will begin training regular Ukraini- the central Yemeni city of Taiz an military forces later this year in rose to 80 people with at least an expansion of their current mis- 150 people injured, local medi- sion, which so far has been limited cal sources said. The Houthi- to instructing Interior Ministry na- controlled Saba news agency tional guard units, the State De- earlier on Saturday reported the partment said on Friday. strike on Taiz had killed 55 peo- "This training is part of our ple but said the casualty figure long-running defense cooperation was expected to rise. A coalition with Ukraine and is taking place at of Arab states, led by Saudi Ara- the invitation of the Ukraine gov- bia, has been bombarding Iran- ernment. This additional program allied Houthi forces in Yemen brings our total security assistance since late March in a bid to rein- committed to Ukraine since 2014 state President Abd-Rabbu to over $244 million," State De- Mansour Hadi, who has fled to partment Mark Toner said. Riyadh. The Saba agency had Lieutenant General Ben Hodg- quoted a local source in Taiz as es, head of U.S. Army forces in saying that the bombing early the situation to their disadvan- Europe, said earlier this month that on Saturday morning had target- tage,” Zarif claimed. U.S. officials were discussing ex- ed the Mokha area inhabited “Therefore, it would be better panding the military training to mostly by engineers and work- for Americans to abandon their old include regular Ukrainian troops ers of a power station and some habit and put aside once and for all under the Defense Ministry. displaced families. The front- their threatening language and sanc- The training is part of U.S. ef- lines of Yemen's war shifted to tions against this great people,” he forts to strengthen Ukraine's se- the favor of the Gulf Arab coali- added. curity following Russia's seizure tion earlier this month when in Iran hit out Friday against U.S. about the rotten rope of ‘the abil- and the resistance of the nation of have signalled that military force Under the July 14 agreement, of the Crimea last year and the coordination with forces loyal Secretary of State John Kerry, ac- ity of the U.S. for using military Iran”, and said such remarks should remains on the table to prevent Iran has agreed to dismantle or spread of separatist unrest in east- to Hadi they managed to drive cusing him of threatening military force’,” said Iranian Foreign Min- be consigned “to the last centu- Iran from obtaining nuclear mothball much of its nuclear in- ern, Russian-speaking regions of the Houthis out of the southern action against Tehran if it fails to ister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a ry”. Despite the agreement reached weapons. Kerry and other Amer- dustry in return for an easing and Ukraine. port city of Aden and much of respect a historic nuclear deal statement. with Iran on putting the nuclear ican officials “have repeatedly eventual lifting of sanctions. Hodges said officials were the surrounding areas. Since then sealed on July 14. Zarif decried what he called the bomb out of Tehran’s reach, sev- admitted that these threats have World powers have called it a looking at training army and spe- warplanes have been landing in “Unfortunately the U.S. Sec- “uselessness of such empty eral U.S. officials, including De- no effect on the will of the peo- historic opportunity to set rela- cial operations troops, likely fo- Aden airport carrying equip- retary of State once again talked threats against the nation of Iran fence Secretary Ashton Carter, ple of Iran and that it will change tions with Iran on a new path. cusing on skills like tactics and ment necessary to help re-open combat medicine. He said the ex- the facility which had been shut panded training mission did not down by the fighting. Aden and mean the administration would be the other southern provinces Obama says Turkey says parts of Syria providing Ukraine with lethal have been largely inaccessible to arms. The United States has pro- U.N. food aid, and about 13 mil- vided Ukrainian forces with non- lion people - more than half the entrepreneurs in lethal aid to help them battle Rus- population - are thought to be to become ‘safe zones’ sian-backed rebels, but the admin- in dire need of food. In the Red istration has resisted providing le- Sea port city of Hodaida, Saba Africa can give Foreign minister says areas cleared of fighters belonging to ISIL thal arms in hopes of preventing said a bomb that was planted in an escalation of the conflict. an oil tanker on its way to some can become haven for Syrians displaced by war. Some U.S. officials have called oil facilities was diffused and an hope, deliver growth for giving Ukraine more sophisti- investigation of the incident was Turkey has said areas in north Syria believe Turkey's decision to ac- zones in Syria. People who have cated counter-battery radar to help ongoing. cleared of fighters belonging to the tively engage in the US-led fight been displaced can be placed in them fight back against artillery and prosperity." Kenya's economy is Islamic State of Iraq and the Le- against the armed group has as those safe zones." The conflict in mortar fire from the rebels. expected to grow by about 6 per- vant (ISIL) group will become safe much to do with the battlefield in Syria has displaced more than 10 Toner said he had nothing to US judge rules cent this year. The economy of zones. Saturday’s announcement northern Syria. The government million people, with many resid- announce on any new weapons for Ethiopia, Obama's next stop, is made by Mevlut Cavusoglu, the here is concerned about ISIL threat- ing in makeshift camps near the Ukraine and that the focus was on immigrants’ forecast to expand by more than Turkish foreign minister, came af- ening Syrian opposition groups in Turkish border.These areas have providing non-lethal aid. 10 percent, although right groups ter Ankara announced it had begun their strongholds in Aleppo. But been targeted a number of times "There's no plan to change detention say Addis Ababa's economic bombing ISIL positions in Syria Ankara is also worried about what by Syrian military bombardment. that," he said. He said the training achievements are at the expense of and and Kurdish fighters' camps it perceives as the growing strength The Turkish government has re- would begin in western Ukraine breaches free speech. The annual U.S.-spon- in northern Iraq. "When areas in of Syria's Kurds. The Kurdish peatedly called for the setting-up near the Polish border later this sored conference was being held northern Syria are cleared of the YPG militia, which is linked to the of safe zones to protect these peo- autumn. The Pentagon said the agreement for the first time in sub-Saharan (ISIL) threat, the safe zones will PKK, now controls half of the ple. Several Turkish media outlets training offered to regular Ukraini- Africa at a U.N. compound in be formed naturally," Cavusoglu 800km border with Turkey. Tur- had earlier reported the government an military troops would be simi- Nairobi. After attending the con- told a news conference. Turkey’s key said it would be a red line if was considering setting up a lar to that given to the national A federal judge has ruled that ference, Obama laid a wreath to two-pronged war Zeina Khodr re- Kurds create a state in northern 33km-wide safe zone inside Syria, guard forces. U.S. forces in Europe the US Department of Justice's victims of the 1998 bombing by ports from Istanbul: For Turkey, Syria. Officials even blamed US air stretching from the outskirts of have been training the Ukrainian current system of detaining chil- Islamist militants of the U.S. Em- ISIL declared war when it bombed strikes for helping the Kurds gain Kurdish-held Kobane to areas con- guard since this spring, focusing dren with their mothers after bassy. The site of the attack in cen- a cultural centre in the border town ground from ISIL. "We have always trolled by pro-Western rebel on strengthening internal defense they crossed the US-Mexico tral Nairobi is now a memorial park. of Suruc on Monday. But many defended safe zones and no-fly groups. capabilities. border violates an 18-year-old The new mission is further from court settlement. The decision the center. On arrival in Kenya on on Friday by US District Judge Friday, Obama had dinner with Dolly Gee in California is a vic- relatives at the central Nairobi ho- tory for the immigrant rights tel where he is staying. Some Afri- lawyers who brought the case, but its immediate implications cans complain that Obama, whose for detainees were not immedi- father is buried in western Kenya, has not paid enough attention to ately clear. The ruling upholds a NAIROBI : U.S. President Barack tentative decision Gee made in the continent in his presidency. Obama told African entrepreneurs Obama has sought to change that April, and comes a week after in Kenya on Saturday they could the two sides told her that they perception, in part by hosting Af- help counter violent ideologies and rican leaders in Washington last failed to reach a new settlement drive growth in Africa, and said Egypt began on Saturday the first passing through the new Suez Ca- expansion and deepening of the ak in 2011 agreement as she had asked for. year. One of Obama's initiatives, governments had to assist by en- launched in 2013, was to boost elec- trial run of its "new Suez canal," nal started on Saturday," state Suez Canal, in a bid to help speed Authorities raised $9 bln to The 1997 settlement at issue suring the rule of law was upheld bars immigrant children from tricity supplies across a continent officials and state media said, ahead news agency MENA reported. up the movement of vessels. build the new canal by selling being held in unlicensed facili- and by tackling corruption. where many are not on the grid. of the formal inauguration of the Officials said six vessels in President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi shares in the project to domestic ties. Gee found that settlement Obama was addressing a Glo- The goal is to add 30,000 mega- new shipping route next month. two fleets of three each were sched- launched the project in August and investors, with private Egyptian covered all children in the cus- bal Entrepreneurship Summit at watts (MW) of capacity. Deals to Dubbed the Suez Canal Axis, uled to cross through the expand- set an ambitious target of digging companies tasked with its con- tody of federal immigration of- the start of the first visit by a serv- add 4,100 MW have been agreed the new 72 km project is aimed at ed canal as part of the first trial the expanded canal within a year. struction. It is expected to more ficials, even those being held ing U.S. president to Kenya, his so far, the White House said. speeding up traffic along the exist- run. The fleet sailing from south A ceremony will be held on Au- than double Suez revenues from with a parent. 'Unsafe facilities' father's homeland and the biggest ing waterway by reducing the wait- to north had vessels flying flags of gust 6 to officially inaugurate the $5.3 billion expected at the end of Peter Schey, executive director economy in east Africa, which has ing period of vessels, as well as Singapore, Luxembourg and Bahr- project. 2015 to $13.2 bln in 2023, accord- of the Center for Human Rights suffered attacks by Somali Islam- Hamas armed boosting revenues for Egypt. ain. Those sailing from north to The new route is considered a ing to official estimates. Built 146 and one of the attorneys who ist group al Shabaab. It will run part of the way south had flags from Liberia, Sin- "national project" that aims to years ago, the Suez Canal is one of brought the suit, said federal Security was expected to top wing gives along the existing canal that con- gapore and Hong Kong. kick-start an economy battered by the world's most heavily used officials "know they are in vio- talks with President Uhuru Ken- 25,000 Gazans nects the Red Sea to the Mediter- The new waterway involves years of political turmoil since the shipping lanes and has been a key lation of the law". "They are yatta at State House, where Obama ranean. "The first trial run for ships 37 km of dry digging and 35 km of ouster of president Hosni Mubar- source of international trade. holding children in unsafe facil- received his official welcome with combat training ities, it is that simple," Schey a gun salute. Kenyatta called the told the AP news agency. "It's United States a "very strong sup- The military wing of Hamas intolerable, it is in humane, and porter of Kenya" before closed opened its Gaza summer camp on it needs to end, and end sooner discussions. The talks at State Saturday, aimed at providing ba- rather than later." Justice De- House were attended by Deputy sic combat training for 25,000 Pal- partment attorneys did not im- President William Ruto, who is estinians in the embattled strip. mediately reply to late-night facing charges at the International Hamas, the de facto power in messages seeking comment on Criminal Court that he fomented Gaza, is currently engaged in in- the ruling. The new lawsuit was ethnic killings after Kenya's dis- direct contacts with Israel to try brought on by new major de- to reach a long-term truce, but a tention centres for women and puted 2007 election. He denies the children in Texas that are over- charges. Kenyatta had faced simi- year after last summer’s devastat- seen by the US government but lar charges, but the charges have ing 50-day war the militant move- are managed by private prison since been dropped. ment has kept up the fighting talk. Unified front could strengthen political opposition's hand in operators. Together they have Obama is keen to boost busi- “The goal of these military recently held more than 2,000 ness ties with Africa, where China training camps is to train the van- any future talks with President Assad's government. women and children between overtook the United States as the guard for liberation -- spiritually, them after a surge of tens of thou- continent's biggest trade partner in intellectually and physically -- to The two major Syrian political gime and all its leaders, pillars and Assad or members of his govern- main political group in exile, have sands of immigrants from Cen- 2009. "Africa is on the move. Af- be ready and able to play its role opposition blocs, once foes, have security agencies." ment in a transitional body," long accused the Damascus-based tral America, most of them moth- rica is one of the fastest growing in liberation,” said a statement by drawn a roadmap that they say It would be based on the 2012 Hisham Marwa of the SNC told a NCC, whose leaders have been ers with children, many of regions in the world," Obama told the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, will eventually lead to an end to Geneva accord which envisaged a press conference in Brussels after tolerated by the Syrian govern- whom claimed they were flee- the conference, where he was greet- Hamas’ military wing. the country’s raging conflict. transitional government of nation- the talks. ment, of being too lenient and even ing gang and domestic violence ed by applause when he began with It said that participants, aged The credibility of the Syrian al unity with full powers to run NCC executive bureau mem- complicit with Assad's govern- back home. They are often held the words "Jambo", the Swahili for 15-60, would spend two weeks opposition had largely been com- the country and organise elections. ber Khalaf Dahowd said the most ment. Members of the NCC, in in overcrowded facilities in the "hello". "It is wonderful to be back being “trained in military tech- promised over the past few years Assad's role Until now, the NCC important thing was the overall turn, have often accused the SNC US that lack basic necessities in Kenya. "Entrepreneurship of- niques and in firing live ammuni- because of its perceived fragmen- had appeared to leave the door agreement, not Assad's role. "We of being bankrolled by oil-rich Arab such as beds and are forced to fers a positive alternative to the tion” as well as “first aid and res- tation. The unified front could open for Assad to play a role in a have a political agreement which Gulf countries. The political op- sleep on the floor. The Justice ideologies of violence and division cue techniques.” strengthen the opposition's hand transitional government but the gathers all the political camps. We position in general has been criti- Department had argued it was that can all too often fill the void As with all the brigades’ ac- in any future talks with the gov- SNC was bitterly opposed and do not think these things should cised as being out of touch with necessary to modify the settle- when young people don't see a tivities the camps will be conduct- ernment of President Bashar al- restated that position again on Fri- prevent us from finding common reality and with no significant in- ment and use detention to try future for themselves." He said ed out of public and media sight. Assad. day. "We do not see any role for ground." Members of the SNC, the fluence on the ground. to deter more immigrants from government had a vital role on is- Rescue squads dealt with Officials of the Syrian Nation- coming to the border after last sues such as establishing the rule thousands of local victims during al Coalition (SNC) and the Nation- year's surge and it was an im- of law and curbing corruption, cit- the war of July-Agust 2014, the al Coordination Committee portant way to keep families ing two issues often cited by busi- third in Gaza in six years. (NCC), after meeting in Brussels, together while their immigration nesses as major obstacles. He said Hamas has long run summer told reporters on Friday that the cases were being reviewed, but more had to be done to help new camps devoted to sport and study roadmap entailed the establish- firms secure capital. An array of the judge rejected that argument of the Koran in Gaza but over the ment of a transitional governing technology and other companies body that will replace the Assad in Friday's decision. Gee said the winter the al-Qassam brigades Department of Justice has 90 have started up in recent years in regime and have executive, legisla- Africa in a bid to shift the conti- launched a new kind of camp, giv- tive and judicial powers. days to show cause why it ing military training to 15 to 20- should not change its policies in nent away from a traditional focus “The resolution of the crisis of commodity exports, but entre- year-olds. Human rights activists comes through a political process according with her ruling. But condemned it as a forced militari- since the tentative ruling in preneurs often complain they can- handled by the Syrians themselves not find affordable capital. "Afri- sation of Gazan society and a vi- under the auspices of UN," the two April, Immigration and Cus- olation of children’s rights. toms Enforcement has vowed to ca is open for business," Kenyatta groups said in a joint statement. said in his speech to open the en- Brushing off the criticism, the This solution would involve "a make the facilities more child- brigades are repeating the excer- friendly and provide better over- trepreneurship conference. "It is fundamental and comprehensive sight. the time for a new generation of cise with the summer camp, while change of the current political re- Africans to promote inclusive raising the upper age limit to 60. gime, including the head of the re- This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.

SUNDAY .JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES We a r e a n a t ion a l in st it u t ion a n d n ot t h e voice of a gov t or a p r iva t e or ga n iza t ion WHAT PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Afghanistan mean to Australia Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] By Zushan Ahmad Hashmi Australia policy and in recent tion technology), while escap- now reaching university age, a years, thousands of Afghans ing the volatile security situa- rise in student associations Email: [email protected] What do Australia, Pakistan and Pakistanis have settled in tion in Pakistan. Several Paki- within the Afghan community and Afghanistan have in com- Australia and continue to re- stani-Australians are making a is also likely, as is the case with www.afghanistantimes.af mon, beyond radicalisation side here temporarily. A large name for themselves in sports, the recent formation and suc- problems, the war on terror and number of Afghans fled Af- including Australian cricketers cess of the Afghan Students’ Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi global security? Surprisingly, ghanistan after the Soviet in- Usman Khawaja and Fawad Association at the University there is a much stronger link vasion and the Taliban era, Ahmed. Additionally, there are of Queensland. It seems that Advisory editorial board between the three, which is of making their way to Australia, several Pakistani-Australian through globalisation, political Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, little knowledge to people. To- often through Pakistan and academics and political com- turmoil and The Australian wards the end of the 19th cen- Iran. Today, this community mentators like Hanifa Deen and Dream, the historical links be- Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal tury, several thousand camel- makes up a substantial part of Irfan Yusuf. The Greens MP tween these South Asian na- eers from South Asia were re- Australia’s South Asian popu- Mehreen Faruqi is also Paki- tions and Australia have Graphic-Designers: cruited to Australia, during the lation. They own several small stan-born. Members of this seeped their way back into the Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari development of the outback, businesses such as restaurants community are growing signif- contemporary era. The people Marketing & Advertising: predominantly from the afore- and grocery stores, and have icantly in arts and entertain- of these two countries are in- mentioned nations. And today, been awarded accolades by the ment as well, with Zohab Khan creasingly contributing to Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 there are thousands of Austra- Australian government as well. being crowned the Australian modern-day Australia just as Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan lians who identify themselves Akram Azimi, a youth mentor Poetry Slam champion, 2015. their forefathers had done over Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 as Pakistani or Afghan-Austra- and philanthropist was award- Along with this large commu- a hundred years ago. There- lian, in various fields, disci- ed the Young Australian of the nity, over 11,000 Pakistani stu- fore, with the growing fear of Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press plines and jobs. Several inter- Year award 2013. Other nota- dents are now enrolled in Aus- radicalisation within Australia, national students from Pakistan bles include BBC broadcast tralian universities, mainly pur- particularly amongst communi- studying in Australia and hun- journalist Yalda Hakim and en- suing postgraduate degrees. ties such as these, I believe it The constitution says dreds of Afghan refugees have trepreneur Saad Mohseni, who And this number is increasing imperative that the Australian made Australia their permanent runs the one of the largest Af- substantially every year. government provides these home. The ‘Afghan’ cameleers ghan television networks — Thanks to these growing num- communities with exposure to significantly contributed in dis- TOLO. Similarly, many Paki- bers, Australian universities the government, progressive Article 20: covering the Australian out- stanis have made their way to now boast a large set of Paki- support and development as The national anthem of Afghanistan shall be in Pashto with the mention back for the European settlers Australia, more recently stani student associations, members of Australian society, of “God is Great” as well as the names of the tribes of Afghanistan. as early as the 1860s, up until through the permanent-resi- such as the University of and most importantly, plat- the 1900s. The camels them- dency points system, as a Queensland Pakistani Stu- forms that enable the contin- selves were of substantial im- means to pursue careers in their dents’ Association and Univer- ued embodiment of the Austra- portance, as they were neces- respective disciplines (mainly sity of Sydney PakSoc. With lian way of life.—(The Express sary for exploration and trans- medicine, finance and informa- young Afghan-Australians Tribune) port, and their handlers were central to these discoveries too, as they managed the well- ISIS: Why should we care being and survival of these camels. Contrary to popular belief though, if one reads into about the acronym? Community policing history, the cameleers were hired within regions ranging By Abdulrahman al-Rashed The group has even sanctioned a asked the media not to use this Community police plays important role in democratic countries as they know how from Peshawar all the way to kid in Anbar because he dared to appellation because it confuses Many governments have begun Karachi, which included peo- call it ISIS, as it considered it to be Muslims and terrorists. It is not to deal with crimes in a particular community with support of locals. Local police- urging the media to not use the an insult. It broadcasted the video true that everyone is aware that ple predominantly from mod- “ISIS” acronym. The terrorist or- to be a lesson to others. ‘Two Baby- ISIS is a terrorist group similar to men or community police are posted at their home towns because they have famil- ern-day Pakistan (British India, ganization started using this acro- lons’ It is an old battle with ex- fascist organizations spread iarity with ways and lifestyle of locals. Therefore, positive role of local police force at the time), and hailing from a nym two years ago, when its lead- tremists. Fourteen centuries ago, around in the world. Ordinary diverse set of ethnic communi- er declared himself a caliphate and Muslims fought a group that is Muslim citizens and young peo- becomes essential when it comes to strengthening democracy in Afghanistan and changed the name of his group very similar to ISIS: it expiated ple may misguidedly believe that ties, including Pakhtuns, Pun- from ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) to Muslims and called for the revolt an Islamic organization is defend- winning public support. jabis, Sindhis and Balochis. As ISIS in order to expand from Iraq against the State. It called itself as ing them just because a group la- is the case with migration, the to include Syria. “Jamaat al-Mumineen”, but Mus- beled itself as the “Islamic State in However, in our country the role and performance of Afghan Local Police (ALP) cameleers brought along their When the group’s formation lims labeled it as Khawarij or Iraq and Syria”, and “God is great” was announced in April 2013 un- “Kharijites”. History repeats it- is written on its flag. The name of came under discussion on several occasions, sometimes for their alleged involve- culture and common belief to der the appellation of the “Islamic self. We are facing today an ideo- the group embraces history and ment in crimes and failure to maintain law and order situation. Though, their perfor- the shores of Australia — Is- State of Iraq and Syria”, the media logical problem that cannot be com- religion, and it facilitates the task lam. They built the first Aus- and specifically Al Arabiya News bated with weapons, but rather of the defenders who are mainly mance mostly remained satisfactory but the government should not let the ALP to be tralian mosque in Marree, South Channel decided to call it as challenged with ideas, starting with Muslim extremists. They are the Australia, and some also mar- “Daesh” (the Arabic abbreviation its name and theme. Arab and for- most dangerous fighters in the struck by controversies. of the Islamic State of Iraq and eign media were thus led behind group. It also harms Islam as it ties ried into the communities of This time, the residents of Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province accused Syria). We are all aware that ISIS involving the appellation of the it to activities that non-Muslims Aboriginals and Europeans. wants to use us, as media plat- Islamic State in heinous crimes. around the world might link to the the local policemen of torturing and harassing civilians under different pretexts. The Today, if one knows where to forms around the world, to build a This is not wrong but it is also not religion of Islam and its followers. look, they can find information picture that serves its purposes. A necessary, especially in the pres- It is easier to link any crime to a ALP commander rejected the allegations, but the government should launch probe lot of people objected to the ap- ence of correct and professional nationality, race, religion or ideol- and details on some cameleers pellation and the coverage because appellations that would avoid ogy if the media highlighted it to because if public voices are not heard then there is no difference between the dem- buried within town libraries and it is insulting the true defenders of harming the Muslims twice: the be so, as is the case with ISIS. ISIS ocratic system and totalitarian government. Democratic governments never use po- cemeteries, such as Dost Ma- Islam against the Western occupi- first time, in Islamic countries is a very intelligent group. It de- homet and Zeriph Khan. Due ers or the oppressed Sunni com- where the group uses its appella- ploys a great effort to promote the lice force to intimate citizens because this gives local police force a bad reputation. to the classification of these munity. It offended the defenders tion to incite young Muslims to same image; that it represents Is- of the people of al-Anbar or the join its ranks, and the second time lam and Muslims in a conflict with It is necessary to establish the integrity of local police; otherwise the ALP will be people at the time as ‘alien non- rebels against al-Assad regime in in other communities, by provok- the whole world. It knows the citizens’, many of them made Syria. In fact, ISIS activities con- ing non-Muslims against Muslims mentality of Muslims around the seen as part of the problem rather than solution. their way back home. And due fused people initially, but most of in communities where they coex- world. The government must provide the constitutional freedoms to the citizens while to these return journeys, them discovered later on that ISIS ist together, such as Europe, Rus- Declaring the group as a state is nothing but the same al-Qaeda knowledge of this fascinating sia, China and India. This will serve or caliphate tackles deep histori- bringing essential reforms in the ALP. Local police and the respective community evil group, despite adopting right- the vision of bin Laden to divide cal values that might attract some relationship between the three ful issues. ISIS (Daesh in Arabic) the world, where he called it as the Muslims and urge them to fight to can truly work together if there was no trust deficit between the two. Trust between nations is almost forgotten and is not a cynical label as said and “two Babylons. protect these values. This is why the two is imperative to work for the common good. The relevant authorities should unheard of in Australia today. written in the Western media. It is ” We are all aware that ISIS the group made sure that its full The history of the cameleers is just the acronym of the appella- wants to use us, as media plat- name be published as the Islamic ponder over the issue seriously because without public support the local police tion. The group is certainly against forms around the world, to build a State in Iraq and Syria. It is aware shrouded in the past and re- this acronym because it intention- picture that serves its purposes that popular media will be the best force would not be able to control crimes and fight militants. It is trust of the citizens membered in a rather meaning- ally wants to be known as the Is- Abdulrahman al-Rashed The way to convey its identity, appel- that gives edge to local police in the fight against insurgency because local people less manner through the Ghan lamic State in Iraq and Syria, to French government was the first lation and messages in Syria and Express and other minor mon- rally around it Muslims from all to warn against the use of “the Is- Iraq to millions of Muslims around provide the police with important information and help. Without this assistance, po- over the world. According to the lamic State in Iraq and Syria” ap- the world. This is what distin- uments, which is of course, group, it is the identity, land and pellation, saying that it is as dan- guishes ISIS from al-Qaeda: the lice force could not serve their communities in better manner and would not be able very unfortunate. However, af- project that matters, and ISIS is gerous as the terrorist act. Later, latter did not care much about the ter the dismantling of the White the sole representative of Islam! the Prime Minister of Australia appellation’s psychology. to gain legitimacy in the eyes of public. If the leaders want to improve and preserve security then the ALP should be directed to garner public support and secure the cooperation of local people. Likewise, support of the local communities is also important to implement uplift schemes and prevent insurgents from taking shelters and launching attacks against government forces. In order to garner public support, the government should deploy local policemen in the districts to which they belong. This will bridge the gap between the ALP and Exchange market locals. If the relevant authorities continue to ignore importance of public support, this will give the militants an opportunity to achieve their nefarious goals as they did while attacking the ALP posts in Jalrez district on July 3. Further, the local police- men should be trained in public dealing. If they harass people, the government could not maintain law and order situation. Those policemen who are promoting discrim- ination and violating laws should be punished strictly. The public image of police does matter. Last but far from least, the government should allow the communities to monitor and control activities of police. This will increase effectiveness of the ALP. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY .JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

ingful treaty change in the next 24 months. Our EU partners neither have the time nor the inclination to make Britain’s “long march” from Lahore stitutional term of five years. By Ed Balls ued EU membership is factual- in Europe. I also agree with needs their urgent priority. It to Islamabad. The marchers Three that in the Inquiry ly absurd and politically un- Prime Minister David Cam- would have been better to of- laid siege to Islamabad that Commission of the Supreme A national referendum is always wise. eron’s insistence on the need fer a referendum after showing continued for 126 days. The Court the legitimate umpire a momentous event, and it car- In economic terms, last for reforms of the single mar- that the conditions of contin- sit in came to an end only of the system has asserted ries monumental risks. To hold September’s vote on Scottish ket, labour mobility and bene- ued membership had been met, after the terrorist attack on himself not leaving space for one such referendum in a gen- independence was about fits, as difficult as they will be not just on the promise of fu- Army Public School Pesha- the unconstitutional umpire eration is bold enough. Yet Brit- whether to maintain an effec- to deliver. But the challenges ture change. The second (and ain is holding two in three war on December 16, 2014. that IK was waiting for. tive, centuries-old currency of continued EU membership more serious) problem is the That may be very well justi- years. union with strong fiscal, regu- do not outweigh the economic government’s reluctance to After intensive negotiations Last year’s referendum on between the government fied and true. The PML-N latory and political underpin- advantages and potential op- enter the debate until progress government may remain in Scotland’s future was destabi- ning. No one could say the portunities. has been made towards a deal and PTI representatives lising; I remember well how on reforms. Yet if there is one TORs were agreed upon for power and may complete same of the current arrange- Europe is our biggest trad- By Afrasiab Khattak much concern that vote caused ments of the Eurozone, where ing partner. We gain hugely important lesson from the Scot- a Supreme Court Inquiry some more metro bus the business community, and projects. But will it effective- the focus on Greece’s gaping from the single market’s liberal tish referendum, it is that, while The findings of the Inquiry Commission. The findings of the paralysing impact on in- campaigning on a negative the Inquiry Commission ly be in the driving seat of wound is distracting attention trade policies and regulatory Commission of the Supreme vestment. And by 2017 the UK from a whole series of maladies harmonisation. Much invest- may be enough to clinch the Court of Pakistan (errone- have mainly rejected the al- the state system in terms of faces an equally seismic choice battle, it risks losing the war. fundamental policy making, facing the bloc’s bigger econ- ment in the UK by foreign com- ously and continuously legations of industrial scale on whether to stay in the EU. omies. panies depends on our con- The Scottish National party’s called the Judicial Commis- rigging and stealing of the is the real issue. Serious and Referendums risk pitting general election landslide keen political observers of Any feasible future for the tinuing membership. And our sion by all and sundry) about mandate although it has held political short-termism and Eurozone will require a much voice in economic negotiations showed how much ground they the alleged rigging in the gen- that procedural irregularities the situation are already talk- emotion against long-term eco- closer union in fiscal, banking with America and Asia is stron- won with their appeals to eral elections of May 2013, did take place in various con- ing about a soft coup that has nomic logic — never an attrac- and monetary policy. While the ger if we remain part of the Eu- youth, patriotism and optimism. made public on July 23, are stituencies, something that meaningfully changed the tive prospect for investors. UK will thankfully stand out- ropean trading bloc than it ý The pro-EU campaign must bound to have a profound almost every one accepted balance of power within the Contrast that with Britain’s last side those arrangements, that would be if we were shouting not repeat the unionists’ mis- impact on the political devel- from day one. state system. Apex commit- big call on Europe, when the undoubtedly makes it harder to on our own. take. It cannot just say Britain opments in the country. A Findings of the Inquiry tees in some provinces have government opted to stay out maintain influence and prevent In every conversation I will lose jobs and influence if fragile democratic system in Commission are confined to already expanded their juris- of the euro. That decision was the decisions of the Eurozone have ever had in America, from we leave. We have to win the Pakistan has significantly the electoral process in the diction beyond war on ter- taken in cabinet, on the basis from damaging British interests. the White House to the wider argument that — despite Eu- evolved over the last few general elections of 2013 as ror by encroaching on the of a Treasury assessment of On top of that, increasing business world, the view has rope’s problems — Britain can years with the previous Na- per the TORs of the Com- functions of civilian execu- Britain’s long-term national labour mobility is becoming been unanimous: do not leave, be stronger, wealthier and more tional Assembly completing mission. But there are seri- tive in running day today af- economic interest. ever more necessary as a means fight for reform and open mar- influential if we stay in and fight its constitutional term of five ous questions in the minds of fairs. To be fair it would be If Britain were to base its of adjustment for under-devel- kets from the inside. Unavoid- our corner. The government years for the first time. Also the people about the purpose incorrect to attribute the en- judgement on whether to stay oped EU countries, just when able thing A referendum is now needs to make this case now, significant was the fact that and intent of Imran Khan’s tire mess to the Khaki push in the EU on a similar long-term open migration is becoming in- unavoidable — I will be voting rather than wait for the end of during the general elections reckless adventure. They only. The paralyzing incom- economic assessment, what creasingly unsustainable — to stay in — but there are two renegotiation efforts that in held in May 2013, power believe that the real purpose petence of political adminis- would the decision be? Pro- politically and economically — problems with the govern- truth can only ever be a work- was smoothly transferred of his anarchist agitation tration in some places also Europeans who say the eco- in the UK and elsewhere. Giv- ment’s strategy for winning it. in-progress. Unionists allowed from one elected civilian was to pave ground for a mil- creates a vacuum that nomic case is unambiguous do en all those concerns, I under- The first is that Europe’s fu- the agenda to be dictated by government to another with- itary coup. His unsavory de- works as a pull factor. their cause a disservice. To stand the viewpoint of pessi- ture will be determined over the the separatists in one referen- out military intervention. signs were publicly exposed Be that as it may, the po- deny the serious economic mists who cannot see an ac- next five to 10 years. There is dum. Twice would be truly reck- Imran Khan led the PTI that by the then sitting Central litical turmoil arising out of problems involved in contin- ceptable future for Britain with- no chance of securing mean- less. could win elections only in President of PTI Mr. Javed IK’s agitation may be over. one province, initially raised Hashmi who not only made But for all the political par- a few minor objections but public the details of the plan ties in general and for the by and large accepted the but also named names. Dur- ruling party in particular it election results and assured ing the recent few weeks will be very foolish and my- In Kenya, Barack Obama's visit is seen as an international acknowledge- the ruling party of its full some of the sitting federal opic to assume that the con- ment of Uhuru Kenyatta's government. cooperation in running the ministers have pointed ac- stitutional system is out of democratic system. But af- cusing fingers at specific in- crises. It goes without say- By Patrick Gathara ter the passage of more than fluential elements of the se- ing that the parliament has a year, PTI developed sec- curity establishment (who to formulate reforms in elec- The last time Barack Obama ond thoughts and decided to have retired recently) for toral system on war foot- visited Kenya, he was a fresh- launch an aggressive agita- having a hand in IK’s coup ings. But the question of civil man Democratic Party senator tion to force the government plans. The concerned insti- military relationship can’t be from Illinois and putative glo- to conduct a judicial inquiry tutions have so far not de- pushed under carpet any bal superstar - considering a into the allegations of rigging. nied their allegations. What more. As Samuel P. Hunting- stab at the United States pres- But the tone and tenor of else can explain IK’s call for ton puts it in his book ‘ Sol- idency. IK’s battle cry would at launching civil disobedience, dier And The State, “ Any On that occasion, he simul- asking the people not to pay system of civil-military rela- taneously enraged Kenya's times suggest that an over- political authorities and en- throw of the government their utility bills and the ex- tions thus involves a com- patriate to send remittances plex equilibrium between the deared himself to many ordi- was the real aim of his cam- nary Kenyans during a lecture paign, which many believed not through registered banks authority, influence, and the but through “hawala” illegal ideology of the military, on at Nairobi University where he had a “ script” behind it. described systemic corruption Using the terminology of informal channels supposed the one hand, and the au- to be used by terrorists for thority, influence, and the ide- as "a crisis that's robbing an cricket, Imran Khan repeat- honest people of the opportu- edly and ominously claimed transfer of finances. Most ology of non military groups on the other”. Far from be- nities they have fought for". that Mr. Nawaz Sharif will interestingly the federal gov- The government was quick have to go to the pavilion as ernment could not take any ing a zero sum game it is all about the evolution of mod- to dismiss Obama as "imma- the umpire raises his finger action against these blatant ture" and an opposition "pup- to declare him out. It is at unconstitutional and illegal ern democratic state system. pet". Kenya tightens security in gone some way towards fixing Obama's trip to Tanzania in this point that almost all ma- activities and instead opted We have many best interna- Today, the Kenyan govern- jor political parties decided for “strategic patience”. tional practices to look at advance of Obama arrival this and rehabilitating Kenya's 2013, served to rub salt in Ken- ment has prepared a red carpet Perceptions that Mwai image abroad. Obama then ya's festering wound of irrele- to stand behind the constitu- With the coming of the in- and creatively adopt them to welcome for him. Despite his tional system and parliament quiry report the PML-N our objective conditions. Po- Kibaki had stolen a second term snubbed Kenya during his vance. By securing this visit, blood ties to the country, his - coupled with persistent cor- three-nation Africa tour in June Kenyatta can validly claim to to foil the conspiracy for the government may congratu- litical parties need to brain- return as global potentate has unconstitutional overthrow late itself for three things. storm about a series of re- ruption allegations, and domes- and July 2013. In fact, a hand- have gone some way towards been long in the making and, tic US concerns - rendered a shake between the two at Nel- fixing this and rehabilitating of the elected government. One, that the constitutional forms within political parties for most of his tenure, has system has survived and the themselves along with re- first term visit impossible. The son Mandela's 2013 memorial Kenya's image abroad. Meet- On August 12, 2014 the seemed most unlikely. violence also resulted in indict- service was the closest Ken- ing Obama's grandmother in PML –N led federal govern- IK’s effort to launch a coup forms in the state system. In the year Obama was has been foiled. Two, that the We can delay it only with ments from the International yatta had gotten to formal family's Kenyan homeland ment offered to set up a ju- elected president, a chaotic and Criminal Court (ICC) - two of Western acknowledgement This will also be an oppor- dicial body for inquiring into inquiry report will put to rest peril to ourselves. disputed election in Kenya the controversies about 2013 Afrasiab Khattak is a re- which were for Uhuru Kenyat- that year. The next year would tunity for Kenyans themselves the allegations of rigging in sparked weeks of violent eth- ta and William Ruto, the pair begin on a more positive note - to reinforce their relationship elections but the PTI reject- elections enabling the gov- tired Senator and an analyst nic conflict which left over of regional affairs who were to take over power when Kenyatta was invited to with Obama and the democra- ed that offer and launched a ernment to complete its con- 1,000 people dead. from Kibaki in April 2013 - just the US-Africa Summit in Au- cy he represents. Obama re- months after Obama's own elec- gust 2014. Though nearly ev- mains popular across the coun- tion for a second term. ery other African president was try, with a Pew opinion survey Already unlikely prospects invited, this did not stop Ken- last year showing that 80 per- ETTER TO THE EDITOR for an Obama visit dimmed con- yatta's team from taking full ad- cent had confidence in him to siderably when the Kenyan vantage of the situation. The do the right thing in world af- government adopted an anti- invitation to the summit was fairs. However, compared to Western rhetoric as part of its painted as an indication of similar data gathered in 2009, push to get the ICC cases Western reconciliation - even this indicates a drop of 10 per- dropped. The Kenyatta admin- though the White House had cent. While in 2006, he was Rising drug addiction istration also began to talk up said there would be no private largely (and mistakenly) seen its pivot away from Kenya's meetings, the inevitable photo as a Kenyan making waves in Afghanistan has ranked first in drugs production in the world. Most of the world’s poppy is cultivated in this country. Dangerous drug traditional partners in the West of the Obamas and Kenyattas the US political sphere, and lat- smugglers live here in Afghanistan. These words are rarely supported by Afghans as most of them believe that Afghans are not blamed for poppy and towards China as a poten- was widely circulated in the lo- er as "our man" or Africa's rep- cultivation, there are foreign hands that are involved in supporting this phenomenon in Afghanistan. tial patron. Craving for accep- cal Kenyan press and on Twit- resentative in the White House I think poppy cultivation is not dangerous for Afghanistan as drug addiction among Afghans is. Drug addiction is on the rise in some tance However, despite the in- ter. Fixing Kenya's image Now, - perceptions of him, and his provinces. Drug addicts claim they can find drugs easily and its sold in each and every part of Kabul and other cities of Afghanistan. The drug addicts are those who have migrated once to Iran or their friends have migrated to Iran and have returned with drug addiction. flammatory rhetoric, there is lit- with the coming of Obama to "Kenyanness" have changed This problem needs serious attention. The government should first overcome the increasing joblessness in the country as it is the main tle doubt that the Kenyan gov- Kenya, Kenyatta can claim a quite radically since then. As reason which protects and increases drug addiction in the country. ernment craved acceptance by full rehabilitation. The visit will the late veteran journalist Jerry Meanwhile the related organizations should establish more drug addicts treatment centers in all over the country. Hundreds of these centers the West. As a recent poll has be widely seen as bestowing Okungu wrote in 2013, "Ken- are needed in all provinces. shown, most Kenyans consid- the much coveted internation- yans had learned the hard way Another attempt which can prove vital for overcoming drug addiction in the country is preventing of poppy cultivation. Afghan government should change its policy in this regard. er the US, and the West in gen- al imprimatur. As Jacob Kush- that Obama was not a Kenyan Hashim Azizi, Qala-i-Fathullah, Kabul eral, to be a more valuable part- ner, an East Africa security ex- but an American president." ner than China. And Kenyatta pert said, "Symbolically this is Thus this visit will be less a Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s is unlikely to have forgotten very important for Kenyatta homecoming and more a visit name and address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] the humiliation of his visit to […] It demonstrates he's a part from the head of the world's the UK for the Somalia Summit of the international community most powerful state. Patrick shortly after his inauguration, again." Further, the fact that no Gathara is a strategic commu- where he was reportedly shuf- sitting US president has ever nications consultant, writer, Disclaimer: fled in through the cargo sec- paid a visit to Kenya dented the and award-winning political tion of Heathrow Airport and nation's self-image as the linch- cartoonist based in Nairobi. denied a photo-op with British pin in the region. Previous vis- The views expressed in this ar- The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) Prime Minister David Cameron. its by Bill Clinton and George ticle are the author's own and and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. By securing this visit, Kenyat- W Bush to neighbouring Tan- do not necessarily reflect Al ta can validly claim to have zania and Uganda, as well as Jazeera's editorial policy. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Artists reclaim Karachi WALLS Doing business in Kenya is tough, will showcase during his first visit pus among other targets. RE- Initiative, in June 2014. He is bull- Business is booming despite a with whom the US leader had little said Eric Muthomi, but the re- to Kenya, his father's birthplace, LATED: US holds summit with ish about Kenya's economy, which 7.5 percent tourism slump in the contact. FROM wards can be huge. His company, since becoming US president. African heads of state "It's great grew by 4.9 percent in the first first quarter of 2015. Nairobi boasts new a porridge maker called Stawi, The centrepiece of the two- that he's coming here to spotlight quarter of 2015. It is one of the Holidaymakers cancelled trips to flowerbeds, billboards and fresh- struggles with everything from li- day trip is the Global Entrepre- Kenya as East Africa's hub of busi- world's fastest-growing markets safari parks and the Indian Ocean laid tarmac ahead of the visit. Ven- HATE censing laws and high electricity neurship Summit, a yearly gather- ness and entrepreneurship, but also and part of a long-term expansion coast following a spate of al- dors sell Obama-themed mugs, costs to the traffic-clogged roads ing of industry leaders and manag- to raise issues such as democracy, across sub-Saharan Africa that is Shabab attacks. caps and mobile phone ringtones. that slow his delivery trucks. ers taking place this year from July good governance, and security. We building a middle class of new con- "You can feel the confidence Some are saddened that he will not GRAFFITI Last year, Muthomi took part 25-26. need systems that work to benefit sumers. "The UN projects that in Nairobi these days, a sense of visit his ancestral village Kogelo, in a US-backed scheme to help bud- According to analysts, everybody in society," Muthomi over 1.8 billion children will be born swagger and bravado on the part the site of his father's grave, amid ding African entrepreneurs. He trav- Obama's visit reveals Washington's said. You can feel the confidence in the next 35 years across Africa. of Kenyan elites," Mark Bellamy, al-Shabab security concerns. elled to the US and met executives desire to fix ties with Kenya - East in Nairobi these days... A sense that That's a huge market that's avail- a former US ambassador to Kenya, For his part, Obama appears from Wal-Mart and Domino's Africa's top economy and a part- Kenya, for the first time since in- able for anybody serving the baby told Al Jazeera. dismayed that he will be tied to Pizza to study the supply chains ner in the fight against religious dependence, really does have its industry, everything from diapers "A sense that Kenya, for the his security detail and motorcade, that get their products to custom- radicals - after they slumped while destiny in its own hands and does to baby food. There is lots of op- first time since independence, re- rather than be free to meet with ers. "I took these lessons and President Uhuru Kenyatta faced have options in terms of who it portunity," Muthomi told Al ally does have its destiny in its distant relatives, such as his step- tweaked them to the Kenyan sce- international charges of crimes chooses to partner with interna- Jazeera. He is not alone. New own hands and does have options grandmother Sarah Onyango nario," he told Al Jazeera. Better against humanity. tionally. Mark Bellamy, former US tower blocks rise across the capi- in terms of who it chooses to part- Obama, like he did during a visit to stocktaking methods and new soft- Obama also faces pressure ambassador to Kenya Muthomi tal, Nairobi, as technology start- ner with internationally," Bellamy Kenya before he was voted into ware have helped cut delivery from rights organisations to use his will address the entrepreneur meet- up firms in its western suburbs said. Kenyan newspapers have the White House. times to supermarkets from two popularity to address Kenya's ing - his latest in a series of public seek to build on such successes as buzzed about "Obamamania" for "I'll be honest with you, visit- weeks to two days and sales have problems with corruption, media speaking appearances since he the mobile phone money transfer weeks. The US president has an ing Kenya as a private citizen is grown by 50 percent, he said. Eric freedom, and the battle against joined the inaugural batch of 500 system, M-Pesa. The innovation 80 percent approval rating there probably more meaningful to me Muthomi and his porridge flour militants from Somalia's al-Shabab young Africans on the Mandela hub along Ngong Road has been and is lauded as "our son", thanks than visiting as president because products [Stawi] It is the kind of group, who have spilled blood in a Washington Fellowship, part of dubbed Silicon Savannah. to his father, Barack Obama Sr, a I can actually get outside of a hotel success story that Barack Obama shopping mall, a university cam- Obama's Young African Leaders Booming and blooming peripatetic Kenyan economist room or a conference centre," he told reporters after securing a nuclear arms deal with Iran. A mixed bag Upon arrival, he will meet his Kenyan counterpart, Kenyatta, whose presidential bid Washing- ton lobbied against because, at the time of the election in March 2013, he faced International Criminal Court charges over his role in the 2007-08 post-election violence. KARACHI: For years Karachi’s The court dropped all charges walls have been spattered with the against Kenyatta in December. For bloodstains of murder victims and Aubrey Hruby, co-author of The scrawled with graffiti touting ev- Next Africa, Obama's visit seeks erything from sectarian hatred to to ease tensions with Kenyatta and quack cures for erectile dysfunc- build ties with an economy that is tion. eyed by traders in China, India, Now a group of artists and and Europe. "It's a form of volunteers are reclaiming the walls normalisation: putting the past by painting them with cheerful de- behind and moving on with secu- signs aimed at bringing some hap- rity cooperation," she told Al piness and pride back to an often Jazeera. What is behind Obama's violent, chaotic and corrupt city. new Africa strategy? In her book, Karachi, Pakistan’s economic Hruby argues that Kenya's eco- capital and biggest metropolis, has nomic boom is part of a wave of been swamped in recent years by modernisation and entrepreneur- a wave of extortion, murder and ship that is sweeping sub-Saharan kidnapping — for religious, crimi- Africa and challenging deep-rooted nal, ethnic and political reasons. prejudices that the continent is Take a look: In Karachi: When forever blighted by poverty, war, hate on the wall disappears disease, and corruption. "The Those behind the new project, pundit's pendulum will not always called “Reimaging the walls of swing from Afro-pocalpyse to Karachi”, hope that by taking art Afro-optimism," she said. "There to the streets they can bring a more will essentially be a mixed bag of positive outlook for its 20 million billionaires emerging at the same inhabitants. time as we see people risking their “We are working together and lives to reach Europe across the taking back the city by reclaiming Mediterranean. They will exist side the walls which are filled with hate by side, in much the same way we graffiti,” artist Norayya Shaikh as see the super-rich and a home- Nabi told AFP while drawing an less population in Washington abstract of the city on a wall along DC," said Hruby. In a letter, Hu- a busy road. man Rights Watch and 16 other Shaikh Nabi, an art teacher at civil society groups urged Obama the Indus Valley School of Art and to address social issues, from gay Architecture, is one of 200 artists, rights to graft and the harassment artisans and labourers taking part of HAKI Africa and Muslims for in the project. Human Rights, two groups that With help from the city au- criticise the government's heavy- thorities to get the permission handed efforts to stamp out ter- they need, they aim to repaint walls rorists. "I'm nervous about what in 1,600 different places — from happens after the president warehouses to schools to flyovers leaves," Sarah Pray, an analyst at and underpasses. One year since the beginning of the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of housing demand for the next five years, but even where materials are available, the the grant-making body Open So- The scheme is being run by “I ciety Foundations, told Al Jazeera. Am Karachi”, a charity working over 2,000 Palestinians, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are left with huge scars of people lack the finances to start reconstruction in an area with the highest unemploy- war. Many are still homeless, waiting for reconstruction to begin in the blockaded enclave. ment rate in the world. Large swaths of rubble are still waiting to be cleared - some still "We might see a little action, for the cultural, social and literary get some folks out of jail, get the uplift of the city, backed by funds None of the 12,600 homes destroyed a year ago have been rebuilt, leaving up to 100,000 containing unexploded ordnance from the war - while the water network has suffered people still displaced, with many of them living in makeshift tents or struggling to earn severe damage and electricity only comes intermittently. bank accounts of human rights from the US Agency for Interna- groups unfrozen, but, as soon as tional Development. enough to pay rent in an economy shattered by 8 years under blockade. An extra 83,977 The following photo essay shows some of the people in Gaza and their struggle to housing units are still waiting for repairs and people continue to live in homes with gaping survive a crippling blockade one year after the last war that destroyed their houses and the spotlight is removed, then the Rare street art government passes more repres- Pakistan boasts some talented holes from the bombardment. killed members of their family and friends. The stories range from a fisherman who had While much has been made of mechanisms to bring in construction materials which the his boat - the only source for his family's livelihood - destroyed, to a father and a sive legislation and people are re- young artists, but public art is rare. arrested," Pray said. The project’s coordinator Adeela blockade prevents, the problem goes deeper than merely providing building materials. At grandfather who lost six of his family members, including his wife and three sons. These present, Gaza is getting just 7.5 percent of daily construction materials needed to cover the individuals live with the scars of war every day. Follow James Reinl on Twit- Suleman said she was delighted the ter: @jamesreinl work had brought a “less hostile” look. Munawar Ali Syed, who is leading the team of artists, said it was a pleasure to take their work Why is Turkey scaling up efforts against ISIS now? beyond the elite circles of galleries and graduate shows. “It’s important for society to In recent days, Turkey has wit- ern Iraq, which especially enraged the Interior Ministry has allegedly siles. In the past, Turkey only al- 24, Turkish anti-terror police violence against local people who remain involved with art and mu- nessed a marked intensification of Turkey’s Kurdish minority and is allocated about TL 2 billion sum, lowed unmanned strikes from this raided suspected ISIS and PKK lo- do not obey them and their reli- sic, but unfortunately such things tensions along its 911 km (566 seen as a major blow to the especially focused on the border base. Metin Gurcan, a security cations in 22 cities, and detained gious discourse, which discourages are waning from our culture,” he miles) long border with Syria. The Kurdish peace process in the coun- provinces of Gaziantep, Kilis, policy researcher at Ankara's 320 people in operations sup- people to help Turkish security said. “In my 17-year art practice tense security conditions under- try. Kurdish news agencies ANF, Sanliurfa and Hatay. After having Bilkent University and a former ported by thousands of police of- forces in retrieving ISIS’ sleeper in the galleries, I have enjoyed scored once again public fears about DIHA, BasNews, Ozgür Gundem agreed in principle during talks on special-forces officer, said there is ficers. cells,” he said. working here the most as I am di- the spillover of the Syrian civil war and Rûdaw are also closed in Tur- early July, Ankara and the United a significant authority imbroglio The operations will continue, The suicide bomber in recent rectly communicating with my into Turkish territories, and key. In line with the military mea- States have also reportedly final- especially at the border with Syr- President Erdogan told reporters Suruc blast, an ethnic Kurd from viewers.” pushed the authorities to make a sures, Turkey has begun reinforc- ized the deal for the U.S.-led coali- ian town of Kobani, which pre- on July 25, while at the very same Turkey’s southeastern province of Under Syed’s watchful eye, a heavy response against terrorist ing border security by deploying tion fighting ISIS to station aircraft vents authorities to take solid steps day Prime Minister Ahmet Adiyaman, was brainwashed by team of artists use stencils to cre- targets. Turkey has renewed its additional armored vehicles to pa- at the NATO military base of to fill the security void. Davutoglu gave a press speech militants at a local teahouse, called ate images of boys flying kites, widespread efforts against terror- trol the frontier. In line with joint Incirlik in Turkey, although both “About 28 different bodies saying that those who make Tur- “Islam”, which was used as a meet- donkey cart races and other im- ists following the latest massacre planning of Defense and Interior parties remain cautious about ac- under state bureaucracy are held key pay a price will be made to ing place and prayer room for radi- ages of rural life. committed by an ISIS suicide Ministries, it will start by identi- knowledging the deal publicly. responsible for the border security, pay tenfold. cal Islamists until eight months ago Elsewhere, flamboyant, bomber in the southeastern town fying some critical points of ter- Reports say that the deal awaits and most of them pass culpability According to Gurcan, along when it was closed for lacking a brightly coloured paintings of pea- of Suruc, killing 32 people and rorist flow at the border with Syria, the approval of Turkey’s cabinet on to the others because of the con- with border security measures, trading license. cocks and elephants have not only wounding 100 others. Moreover, and physical blocks will be built of ministers. So far, only President fusion about jurisprucence among Turkey should implement an ex- However, for Gurcan, the radically changed the feel of on Thursday 23, one Turkish sol- to stop illegal crossings. Accord- Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced these institutions,” Gurcan told Al haustive grassroots program that opening of Incirlik airbase to hit Karachi but have also drawn for- dier was killed and two others were ing to reports, the border security on July 24 that Incirlik base would Arabiya News, underlying the need will focus on districts where mili- the militant targets should not have eigners, who usually move with wounded by shots fired from an will be further beefed up by sta- be used against ISIS within a cer- to implement a specific border se- tants can be located and use social been so much publicized and ought extreme caution around what is a area in Syria near the Turkish bor- tioning wire fences, security lights, tain framework. Currently six U.S. curity plan along with an integrated tools to cleanse the local roots of to have been carried out behind volatile city. der town of Kilis which is held by unmanned vehicles, aerial mobile Predator drones are stationed at border management system. radicalization. doors to avoid further provoking Aside from daily murders, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria armored vehicles, surveillance bal- the Incirlik Air Base, while two of The issue of countrywide “ISIS is highly integrated into ISIS against Turkey. Karachi was hit by two major ter- (ISIS). In a press statement, the loons, and cameras along the bor- them are expected to be equipped sleeper cells of ISIS is crucial for Turkey’s social structures. It has Nihat Ali Ozcan, a retired ma- ror attacks in just over a year. Turkish military announced that der. For the execution of the plan, with Hellfire air-to-surface mis- the anti-ISIS fight, as on early July district-based networks and it uses jor now serving as a security ana- A Taliban attack on the airport they instantly retaliated by de- lyst at Ankara-based think-tank left 38 people dead last year June, stroying ISIS bases across Syrian TEPAV, said the confrontation be- and in May this year gunmen territory, killing one ISIS militant Civilians gather to watch fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group alongside Turkish tween two sub-state groups, Syr- slaughtered 45 minority Ismailis and destroying 3 vehicles belong- soldiers aboard a tank holding a position overlooking the town Kobani, Syria, on a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, ian Kurdish YPG forces and ISIS, on a bus. ing to ISIS in these revised rules of at the Turkey-Syria border, October 11, 2014. (AP) has been moved in Turkish terri- Schoolchildren have also been engagement. tories since the Suruc attack. made part of the project, in the On the very same day, U.S. “However, with the increased hope of shifting a sense of owner- President Barack Obama and his engagement of Turkey with the ship of the city and its appearance Turkish counterpart, Recep anti-ISIS coalition forces, I don't on to the younger generations. Tayyip Erdogan, discussed in a believe that ISIS will remain silent. “We included younger people phone call possible ways of boost- There will be an increased risk that so they can carry this work on fur- ing their bilateral cooperation it will retaliate with attacks inside ther,” said Adeela, as she worked against ISIS, including ensuring Turkey and justify them through with her teenage daughter on a wall. Turkey’s border security. so-called religious references,” “When they grow up they will In the following days, Turkey Ozcan told Al Arabiya News. feel that they are comfortable in carried out several rounds of “The opening of Incirlik sort of working for the city — this airstrikes with F-16 warplanes for airbase, adjacent to the Syrian bor- is like planting a seed to the next the first time against ISIS targets, der, will provide coalition forces generations. “The artists hope the reportedly killing at least 35 mili- with immediate capability to hit project will subtly change people’s tants. Article 51 of the U.N. Char- ISIS targets with more geopoliti- behaviour after years of violence, ter provided a justification for cal intelligence, decrease their costs softening them a little. Turkey to conduct air strikes cit- of logistics. It will be a strategic “I believe that this will yield ing the right to self-defense against gain for the coalition, but a serious good results in the long term,” Mr an armed attack. loss for ISIS,” he underlined. Syed said. However, the same F-16s also On July 26, pro-peace groups “When you see positive things hit on Friday night various train- will organize the “Great Istanbul around you, your behaviour be- ing camps and logistic points op- March” starting from the Taksim comes positive and a big change erated by the outlawed Kurdistan neighborhood in protest of ISIS comes along in one’s life.” Worker’s Party (PKK) in north- terror and to call for peace. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Spot gold drops to lowest price level since 2010

Gold has been hurt this year by expectations that the Federal Reserve is on track to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. (Shutterstock)

The next managing director of the BBC World Service the tradition the convention that has ensured the next time around than it has that there has to be a broader pool she would consider a second term Gold slid more than 1 percent on International Monetary Fund by which a European heads the that Europeans lead the fund has ever been," he said. "There are more for the leadership role," Lipton if she had the support of the IMF's Saturday to its lowest since early (IMF) is likely to come from out- fund while an American leads the been increasingly challenged dur- and more eminently qualified said. Lagarde, a former French fi- members. Although there is no for- 2010 as fresh strength in the dollar side Europe when current leader World Bank was coming under ing the euro zone crisis. people from outside Europe and nance minister, took over as head mal requirement that the leader of prompted another wave of selling, Christine Lagarde eventually pressure and the next appointment Lipton said that when Lagarde the United States and I think the of the IMF in 2011 after her pre- the IMF come from Europe, it has putting the metal on course for its leaves, the deputy head of the would be "strictly merit-based". steps down, her successor would fact that there's been so much fo- decessor, Dominique Strauss- been the practice ever since the biggest weekly loss in nine months. Washington-based fund said in an Described on the same radio probably come from a non-Euro- cus on crisis in the United States Kahn was forced to resign over a institution was set up after World Prices have been under pres- interview broadcast on Saturday. programme as an "incredible pean country. "With candidates right at the early stages of the glo- sex scandal. Her five-year term War Two, while the World Bank sure since tumbling more than 3 IMF First Deputy Managing anachronism" by former IMF coming forward from around the bal financial crisis and with Eu- comes to an end next year but she has always been led by an Ameri- percent in Asian trading hours on Director David Lipton told the Chief Economist Kenneth Rogoff, world, I think it's much more likely rope, is going to lead to a sense was quoted last month as saying can. Monday, their biggest one-day drop in nearly two years, in a selloff accompanied by heavy trading vol- India needs umes in New York and Shanghai. Greek bailout Spot gold hit a low of $1,077.00 greater an ounce on Friday and was down talks to start 0.7 percent at $1,083.25 at 09:30 oversight of GMT. U.S. gold futures for Au- on Monday gust delivery were down $11.70 ‘black money’ an ounce at $1,082.40. Gold has been hurt this year by expectations after delay that the Federal Reserve is on track to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, boosting the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion while lifting the dollar. "It feels as though the driver in this market, aside from MUMBAI: A Supreme Court-ap- the impetus we got from China, is pointed special investigations team that if you get any kind of dollar said Indian regulators need to pro- strength, gold goes down," Natixis vide greater oversight of money analyst Nic Brown said. "But the laundering in stocks as well as flip side of that simply doesn't sup- “black money” being repatriated port prices." "It's been very pain- to the country through invest- ful this week," he said. "Sentiment ments in equity derivative prod- remains negative, and the trend ucts. The recommendations were does very much appear to be fur- part of a report detailing the need ther down." The dollar rose on for greater oversight across a vari- Friday after data the previous day ety of activities that have long been showed U.S. weekly jobless claims suspected of being fronts to avoid dropping to their lowest since Greek Prime Minister Alexis taxes, including via shell compa- 1973, while the euro fell on down- Tsipras in Athens, Greece July nies, imports and exports, or even beat German and euro zone data. 24, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis cricket bets. India has long suffered As gold prices slump, holdings of Konstantinidis from so-called black money, or the world's biggest gold-backed ex- funds illegally deposited in banks change-traded fund (ETF), the ATHENS: Talks between Greece outside the country to avoid tax. A SPDR Gold Trust, fell for a sixth and its international creditors over report by Washington-based day on Thursday to 684.6 tonnes, a new bailout package should go think-tank Global Financial Integ- the lowest since September 2008. ahead on Monday after logistical rity estimated that India suffered The fund is on track for its biggest issues that delayed meetings this $344 billion in illicit fund outflows weekly outflow since early May. week are resolved, a Greek official between 2002 and 2011. The spe- "Rising nominal rates and said on Saturday. The meetings cial investigations team was set up disinflation have created the most with officials from the European last May to investigate black bearish cocktail for gold in the past Commission, European Central After the UAE government said committee. Analysts expect the sectors like industry, shipping and chance for you to see as many Teslas money, a key priority for Prime 43 years," Bank of America said in Bank and International Monetary on Wednesday it would end fuel current cost to shoot up from 0.47 cargo among many others,” said the in Dubai than you see in Califor- Minister Narendra Modi’s govern- a note. "As such, we reiterate our Fund had been expected to start years of fuel subsidies, experts and cents (1.72 AED) a liter to a little UAE’s energy minister Suhail bin nia,” added Noweir, referring to the ment, which this year unveiled view that gold prices are unlikely on Friday but were delayed by residents expressed mixed views under 80 cents (around 3 AED). Mohammed Faraj al-Mazroui. all-electric sports cars produced by tougher penalties against people to rally into a Fed tightening cycle organizational issues including the on how the increase in petrol pric- The first round of de-subsidized “It’s not a huge increase,” said the upstart U.S. automaker. Due to convicted of illicitly stashing and now believe gold could dip location of talks and security. The es will affect living costs. “It’s not prices will be published next Tues- Mashfique Chowdhury, the editor subsidies lifting at a time of low glo- wealth abroad. Among the propos- below $1,000 an ounce by 2016." finance ministry official said talks looking too good,” said Ahmed, day. Yet many of the UAE’s busi- of UAE-based motoring site bal oil prices, UAE consumers will als, the panel said India’s market Physical demand in Asia remained were now expected to get under- whose daily commute from Shar- ness leaders have lauded the in- DriveArabia. “People who can af- feel the effect “less sharply,” the regulator, Securities and Exchange lackluster amid modest premiums way formally on Monday after the jah to Dubai’s Jebel Ali freezone crease, according to a report by the ford gas guzzling cars should still UK-based ICAEW accountants said Board of India (SEBI) needed to in top gold consumers India and logistical issues were resolved. The and back takes close to two hours. state-owned National daily. How- be able to afford them. It might hit in a press release on Thursday. How- ensure it can better identify own- China. Elsewhere, silver was down official, who spoke on condition “The whole economy will shift ever, the same paper said that res- the low-income groups more if ever, it adds that with subsidies be- ers behind overseas investments 0.4 percent at $14.59 an ounce. of anonymity, denied that the gov- drastically as a result.” Every two idents have a “mixed response” to commuting costs double. Moham- ing lifted, “households will start to into participatory-notes (P-notes), Palladium was up 1.1 percent at ernment was trying to keep the days, the UAE resident, who the subsidy lifts, lauding the like- ed Noweir, the managing director think about how they can reduce or popular derivative products that $621.75 an ounce, while platinum lenders' team away from govern- wished not to be identified, fills ly reduction in emissions but un- of UAE car classifieds site Car- their reliance on fossil fuels in case track domestic equity markets. was down 0.2 percent at $974.25, ment departments. "We don't have his fuel tank with around $22 (80 happy at the prospect of rising liv- mudi, said that the higher prices of future price hikes.” Inflation one- Regulators have long suspected both holding near multi-year lows. any problem with them visiting the AED). Yet from August 1, prices ing costs.” A perk to the deregula- could spur on sales and availabili- off Robin Mills, head of consulting flows into P-notes are in reality Platinum producer Lonmin said on General Accounting Office," the are expected to rise significantly – tion, which will set fuel prices at a ty of hybrid vehicles – currently a at Dubai-based firm Manaar Ener- domestic money being repatriated Friday it planned to close or moth- official said. Greeks have viewed although the government has not market rate, will mean cheaper die- rarity in the Gulf. “Who knows, gy, downplayed the likely effect to back into India because of looser ball several mine shafts, putting inspections visits by the lenders yet provided an exact figure, which sel, resulting in “lower operating maybe we’ll see hybrids picking consumers when prices rise as ex- registration standards for owners 6,000 South African jobs at risk, in Athens as a violation of the is says will be set monthly by a costs for a wide number of vital up in the UAE. There could be a pected. of these products. because of depressed metal prices. country's sovereignty and six- months of acrimonious negotia- tions with EU partners took place in Brussels at the government's NI economy request. Asked if the government In vestin g in Chin a’s eco n o m y n o would now allow EU, IMF and growing but ECB mission chiefs to visit Ath- ens for talks on a new loan, State still trailing lo n ger tied to n atio n al sto ck exchan ges Minister Alekos Flabouraris said: "If the agreement says that they should visit a ministry, we have to rest of UK Charles Dickens might have said, global investors and customers. New York can offer key new-gen- ‘A’ share market has obviously and other index providers, mistak- accept that." The confusion “Outperformance of the bench- China stands out as a prime exam- eration companies like Alibaba, been more profitable than in Hong enly confusing exchanges with mar- around the expected start to the mark, result: happiness. Underper- ple of where investors are missing JD.com, and Sohu, which are sure- Kong over the last year - but for kets? Looking across stock markets talks on Friday underlined the chal- formance of the benchmark, result: a big opportunity of taking a real- ly a core part of a China bench- the six years before that, the op- to get the correct exposure is critical lenges ahead if negotiations are to misery”. Though he was an author istic investment exposure to the mark. Investors taking a bet on Chi- posite would have been true. In- as globalisation makes national stock be wrapped up in time for a bail- rather than a fund manager so he economy. Around 50 per cent of na’s economy will find that few vesting in both would have pro- exchanges less relevant. Because out worth up to 86 billion euros to probably never thought of it like China’s companies listed on non- investment funds are set up for a vided good diversification and a they cannot get it right, almost all be approved in parliament by Aug. that. Investors want it all, they mainland exchanges are listed in multi exchange approach. The in- better exposure to the Chinese fund managers still benchmark funds 20, as Greece intends. Already, want it now, and invariably they Hong Kong, a quarter are listed in dustry still assumes that national economy. A more realistic top- to invest on a national exchange ba- Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is want it with a discount. They also New York, while 15 per cent are in stock exchanges represent the na- down China benchmark allocation sis; in Hong Kong only, or China struggling to contain a rebellion in like to see how their investments Singapore. So to capture the wider tional economy. They still treat the for a foreign investor might there- only, or (if you are lucky) in Great- his leftwing Syriza party that made are doing. This has led to invest- China exposure, you have to in- Chinese A share market and the H fore be something like 60 per cent er China only. None has shown the his government dependent on ment performance being measured vest across stock exchanges around share market as if they are some- in Hong Kong shares, 25 per cent innovation to offer “global China”. votes from pro-European opposi- against benchmarks – that don’t the world, otherwise you miss a how related to a different econom- in New York, and 15 per cent in So if you do not have a portfolio tion parties to get the tough bail- work. The benchmark is often the key part of the listed universe. In ic environment. Naturally the ‘A’ China ‘A’ shares. This is why the that incorporates all of China’s out terms approved in parliament. return of the stock exchange index mainland markets, you cannot buy share market has different charac- recent decision by the MSCI shares, and you want exposure to One of Tsipras' closest aides that a fund is targeting. Benchmarks many of China’s most successful teristics; its limited foreign invest- Group not to allow even a part of all of China’s economy – pick up warned that the understanding are becoming more sophisticated; and respected companies, like ment, behavioural swings, and vol- the mainland market into their the phone and ask your fund man- with the opposition parties could such as those which target bond, Hong Kong-listed technology gi- atility makes it distinctive – but broader indices is an example of ager why. His fund can only cap- not last long and a "clear" solution cash, sector, or economic return ants, Tencent, China Mobile and both markets are actually compo- ‘old investing’ – it was mistaken. ture a realistic exposure to China by was needed, underlining wide- indices. Whatever the benchmark, Baidu; the very stocks that pro- nents of the Chinese market as a Something of the last decade. In focusing on the stocks not the stock spread expectations that new elec- it allows the investment manager fessional investors want to own. whole. Investing in the mainland how many other markets are they, market. tions may come as soon as Sep- he latest figures concerning to see how well he did against the tember or October. "The country growth in the province are index, and against his peers – which cannot go on with a minority gov- Tencouraging but highlight a may be different. Investors pay a ernment for long. We need clear, familiar problem economist lot of attention to performance SkillsFuture key to Singapore’s next phase strong solutions," State Minister Esmond Birnie has claimed. Dr over the benchmark, even though Nikos Pappas told the weekly Birnie, chief economist in Belfast they are widely advised not to rely Ependysi in an interview published for business advisors PwC, was on past performance as a guide to of economic development: DPM Tharman on Saturday. Tsipras, who is by commenting on the latest figures future results. Fund managers can far the most popular politician in from the Northern Ireland Com- game benchmarks by “window Greece according to opinion polls, posite Economic Index which dressing” at the end of a quarter or It will see Singaporeans at the core of innovative, high-skill teams in every sector and developing good careers for them- has said his priority is to secure shows the economy here grew by by trading against large or small selves, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam says. the bailout package before dealing 1.1 per cent in the first quarter of components within the benchmark. with the political fallout from the this year. The tail of the benchmark might SINGAPORE: Three dimensions develop new attributes in Sin- firms, as well as help ensure tie- providing the environment for work- Syriza party rebellion. According “The Index confirms a number of end up leading the investment pro- that will reinforce each other in gaporeans and a new culture to ups with quality education and ers to train. Mr Lee added that to a poll by Metron Analysis for messages about the NI economy, cess. None of this is wrong if it Singapore's next phase of econom- achieve mastery of skills in every training providers. "It involves ev- SkillsFuture is a long term project Parapolitika newspaper on Satur- the most important of which is that helps the end investor to perform ic development are enterprises, vocation. He noted that the big- eryone being able to learn continu- for Singaporeans in various profes- day, 61 percent of Greeks had a the economy is still growing, but in line with his investment objec- skills and Singaporeans, said Dep- gest challenge is reaching out to ously through life, to push his or sions to upgrade themselves over positive view of Tsipras against considerably more slowly than the tives. But there is one area of uty Prime Minister and Finance businesses, especially small and her potential or discover a new in- time. "My job is really to integrate 36 percent who disapproved. An UK average. benchmarking where modern fund Minister Tharman Shanmugarat- medium-sized enterprises. Senior terest at each stage of life,” Mr Thar- the various aspects of SkillsFuture overwhelming majority - 78 per- “The Index suggests that in the 12 managers, trustees and consultants nam. Speaking at the Economic De- Minister of State for Trade and man said.“And it will mean Sin- initiatives,” he said "For example, cent - still wanted Greece to stay months to the end of March 2015, are completely missing the new re- velopment Board (EDB) Society's Industry Lee Yi Shyan has been gaporeans being at the core of inno- large businesses have to come in to in the euro zone against 19 per- Northern Ireland’s economic ality. It is because so many com- 25th anniversary dinner on Thurs- tasked to lead outreach efforts to vative, high-skill teams in every sec- take the lead, and small businesses, cent in favor of going back to the growth averaged 1.6 per cent com- panies these days list outside their day (Jul 23), Mr Tharman said businesses under the national tor, developing good careers for because of their numbers and their drachma. Tsipras insists there is pared to three per cent for the UK. country of origin. It helps them Singapore is moving from value- SkillsFuture initiative. SkillsFuture themselves,” he added. Mr Lee said employment, they must also join no viable alternative to the bailout “However, the Index suggests that access bigger pools of cash, get a adding to value-creation, meaning aims to help Singaporeans achieve one of the first tasks is to consult in." At the dinner, Mr Tharman also but has been wary of striking out growth in the first three months of better price for their shares, exploit innovation has to be pervasive in deep skills through training and businesses to find out what skills presented Distinguished Fellow against his party opponents in a 2015 was 1.1 per cent - almost four local interest in the stock, attract every industry and in companies career development opportunities. are needed now and in the future. Awards to four pioneers who con- bid to keep it together, at least times the UK Q1 GDP growth of better trading expertise, corporate small and big. On the skills front, Mr Lee will engage closely He said the aim is to get all parties tributed to developing Singapore's while talks proceed. 0.4 per cent. governance, or greater exposure to he said efforts are underway to with industry associations and involved to coordinate efforts in economy in the early years. 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murder mystery The singer hadn't sung the choruses for the tracks, so"someone genre with would have to be found" to perform them. PHOTO: PLAYBUZZ Irrational Man 20 unfinished Michael Jackson tracks stored on sound engineer's computer

Michael Jackson’s sound engineer no others were currently in the said Thursday he has 20 unfinished works. Prince, who was Jackson’s tracks by the late pop star on his audio engineer from 1995 up to his computer — but he isn’t allowed death, told Le Parisien in an inter- to let anyone hear them. view from Germany: “I have on “I don’t have the right to write my computer 20 unreleased the song titles or to let people hear (songs) by Michael, all of them JOAQUIN Phoenix has grown an them for the moment,” Michael unfinished”. He explained that unsettlingly prodigious potbelly Durham Prince told the French Jackson hadn’t sung the choruses for his role in Irrational Man, in newspaper Le Parisien. for the tracks, so “someone would which Woody Allen revisits the Months after Jackson’s death have to be found” to perform them terrain of his 2005 murder mys- in 2009 from a lethal overdose of whenever they did get released, if tery Match Point, with more con- sedatives, the entertainer’s estate Sony and Jackson’s family gave the clusive, if less memorable, results. signed a $200-million deal with go-ahead. “That would mean du- Phoenix plays Abe Lucas, a disso- Sony recording company, accord- ets,” he said. Prince added that he lute philosophy professor as ing to the Wall Street Journal. Un- believed there would be further known for his affairs with students der the agreement, Sony can bring Michael Jackson albums in the fu- as for his erudite theorising when out up to seven albums over a de- ture, “but for the moment, we are he arrives for the summer term at a cade, including new or remixed thinking more about bringing out small liberal arts college in Rhode Michael Jackson songs. Two post- new songs every six months”. Island. Depressed, blocked and humous albums have already been Jackson died aged 50 on June 25, sexually stymied, Abe drinks from released, in 2010 and 2014, but 2009 as he was readying to give a a perpetually topped-off flask and Sony told AFP on Thursday that series of concerts in London. pontificates on Kant and Kierkeg- aard, emitting a frequency that only women addicted to lost caus- ACTRESS-TURNED-DIRECTOR ANGELINA JOLIE ney is a testament to the human es can hear. Almost immediately Anupam and anything spirit and its ability to transcend upon his arrival, he’s pounced on even the toughest circumstances,” by a flirtatious science professor LOS ANGELES: Actress-turned- said Jolie, cited in a Netflix state- produce the film from a script she he added. (a delightfully blowsy Parker Po- can happen any time director Angelina Jolie is to make a ment. “It deepened forever my un- co-wrote with Ung. Acclaimed The movie will be released on sey) and becomes the crush — film about Cambodia’s Khmer derstanding of how children expe- Cambodian director Rithy Panh, Netflix in late 2016. unrequited, at least for a little while NEW DEHLI: Social media has Rouge regime seen through the rience war and are affected by the nominated for an Oscar for 2013’s — of one of his students, a colt- become the perfect platform for Jolie’s feature film debut was stars to connect with their fans, eyes of a war-scarred child for emotional memory of it.” And it “The Missing Picture,” will also 2011’s “In the Land of Blood and ish, earnestly precocious senior Netflix, the streaming giant said. helped me draw closer still to the serve as a producer. named Jill (Emma Stone). but veteran actor Anupam Kher Honey” set in the Bosnian war. Her holds that celebrities have person- The Oscar-winning Hollywood A- people of Cambodia, my son’s Netflix Chief Content Officer When Abe comes up with a 2014 “Unbroken” was nominated scheme to jar himself out of his al lives that shouldn’t get dis- lister will adapt “First They Killed homeland,” said the 40-year-old, Ted Sarandos said: “We are proud for three Oscars. psychic stasis — one that involves turbed. “Today, you can’t stay My Father: A Daughter of Cam- speaking of Maddox, her adopted to be working with Angelina Jolie She won an Oscar for best a local judge and an act of decisive, away from social media. People bodia Remembers,” a harrowing son with megastar husband Brad in bringing this emotionally pow- supporting actress for 1999’s even fatal, comeuppance — Irra- can judge you by your Twitter, memoir by Cambodian human Pitt. Netflix said Maddox Jolie- erful and ultimately uplifting sto- “Girl, Interrupted. “She also won tional Man starts to engage themes Facebook and other social media rights activist Loung Ung about Pitt, 13, the Hollywood couple’s ry exclusively to Netflix members the Academy of Motion Picture and cinematic gestures that should accounts. But behind that, celebri- surviving the deadly regime. “I was eldest child, will be involved in the around the world. Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt be familiar to Allen’s fans: the va- ties’ off-screen lives are as person- deeply affected by Loung’s book,” production. Jolie will direct and “Loung Ung’s incredible jour- Humanitarian Award last year. garies of chance, the power of con- al as anybody else’s. So, they science, the subtleties of situation- should not be disturbed there,” he al ethics and the fine mechanics of said. Anupam, who’s heading back the murder caper at its most craft- to television with the second sea- Do modern Pakistani ‘Bajrangi Shake a ily Hitchcockian. Filmed in and son of talk show The Anupam around Newport, Rhode Island, Kher Show – Kucch Bhi Ho Sakta Bhaijaan’ Irrational Man exudes the hand- Hai, interviewed the likes of Shah TV romances fall leg to Jutt some good taste that viewers have Rukh Khan, Kangana Ranaut, Na- come to associate with Allen’s seeruddin Shah, Om Puri and Ma- earns big at films. Shot in a rich, buttery co- hesh Bhatt on the previous season very comfortable in sharing their short of classics like Blues lour palette by Darius Khondji, it’s of the show. He shared that celeb- personal lives with me. They Pakistani an indulgent pleasure to watch, rities feel comfortable sharing their know I’ll not ask them any ques- from Abe’s cozy, well-appointed personal lives with him. tion that’ll make them uncomfort- Dhoop Kinarey? faculty rental to the floaty cotton “Celebrities know me for the last able,” he stated. “I’m not only a box office frocks Stone wears with heedless 30 years. I’m genuinely interested chat show host but also their come-hither elan. in their lives. That’s why they’re friend. I won’t work in a

What does one expect from the mash-up of sophisticated jazz film unless music and the intensity of Punjabi "Bajrangi Bhaijaan", Bollywood beats? The concept seems about superstar Salman Khan's Eid gift as crazy as pouring chocolate on I like the to his fans, is not only breaking parathas. But if Nutella parathas records in India, but has also gar- can become all the rage in Paki- nered appreciation at the Pakistan stan, Islamabad-based musician script: box office - earning nearly Rs.6 Shamoon Ismail may just have That phrase from iconic 80s TV Today’s heroine has also million (INR3million/ $47,000) in struck gold with exploring Punjabi drama Dhoop Kinarey had three changed: she is weighed down with its first week in Karachi and Is- Blues. Kareena generations of women swooning domestic responsibilities, attacked lamabad alone. For those seeking eclecticism, with the younger lot making mental on all sides and in constant fear of The Kabir Khan directorial, Shamoon makes this new genre of notes on romance. Year's later, desertion, while carefree and which released in India and Paki- music palatable, adding his unique Kapoor Dhoop Kinarey's romantic duo Dr happy are words reserved for the stan on July 17, has left behind talent and experience to the mix Ahmer (Rahat Kazmi) and fun villainous cousin or secret the collection of Pakistani films and creating something the world loving Dr Zoya (Marina Khan) are girlfriend. The wonderfully laid "Bin Roye" and "Wrong Number". has never heard before. still one of the most famous back, working woman Aani Khala According to Nadeem Mandviwal- Having a fierce streak of cre- romantic couples to grace our (Badar Khalil) of Tanhaiyaan ative independence, Shamoon screens. would never qualify for a rishta in la, "Bajrangi Bhaijaan", which fo- chose to stray from the generic In recent months, Kareena Kapoor excerpt from the emotionally mances delivered by the actress. Throughout the 80’s and 90’s today’s onscreen climate; her cusses on the bond shared by a romantic ballads sung by most has been raising eyebrows with her charged letter: “It seems that film Although the Jab We Met actress we were swept off our feet by outspoken ways and cooking Pakistani mute girl and an Indian Pakistani musicians and combined career choices. The actress, who is budgets and box-office figures have is usually MIA from social media some very likeable couples and methods (put the ingredients in a man, minted Rs.3.2 million in its his mother-tongue Punjabi with notorious for rejecting roles such greatly affected your career’s route platforms, the news of the open romantic screenplays in drama pot and read a book till cooked) first week, while Mahira Khan and jazz and blues from the West. The as the female leads in Ram-Leela and your choice to experiment letter did get back to her, an issue serials such as Ankahi, Tanhaiyan, would rule her out as wife material Humayun Saeed-starrer "Bin resulting melody was a pleasant and Chennai Express, has once with roles. Although your love for she addressed during an interview Bandhan and many more. immediately. Roye" raked in about Rs.2.8 mil- surprise. again come under fire for walking masala films is understandable, with a newspaper.“I don’t under- However, the scope for romance The scope for romance has lion and "Wrong Number" managed Shamoon’s story is much like out of Rajkumar Gupta's thriller, your well-wishers find it hard to stand why is there such a big hue has slowly become more and more slowly become more and more to collect Rs.2.7 million in Mand- that of the quintessential rockstars Section 84. The actress had limit- content themselves with second- and cry about me not doing the limited as male protagonists have limited as male protagonists have viwalla-owned cinemas in Karachi around the world, who saw fame ed screen time in Bajrangi Bhaijaan ary roles and short screen times film. I don’t know why people are become villains rather than heroes become villains rather than heroes and Islamabad, Dawn online re- after years of struggle and sacri- and rumour has it that even her for the talented superstar that you going crazy if I have said no. To be and our heroines have lost agency and our heroines have lost agency ported on Friday. fice. For him, the journey began at roles in the upcoming Singham 2 are and that we support so vehe- honest, I was not convinced by the and sit weeping in corners, waiting and sit weeping in corners, waiting Where Hollywood films like age seven when he performed a and Gabbar are going to be 'blink- mently.” That wasn't the end of it. script at all. I am sure that I won’t to be rescued. to be rescued Flancing through a "Minions", "Terminator: Genysis" song on PTV. “According to my and-miss' appearances. It's not The letter goes on to tackle points work in a film I don’t like at the In the past, marriage and a list of the most popular dramas of and "Ant-Man" were unable make parents, I started singing before I surprising that her admirers miss like Kapoor possibly letting her script level. Seriously, even if I happy life were once the ending to the last few years serials such as their presence felt, "Bajrangi could even talk properly,” her and decided to pen a open let- career take the backseat because don’t have a single film in hand, I Bhaijaan" also left behind Paki- Shamoon tells The Express Tri- ter to the star expressing their dis- of her marriage and how fans can't won’t do a film unless its script is stan's regional cinema. "Bajrangi bune. appointment. The following is an think of any recent meaty perfor- really good,” she stated. Bhaijaan", which also stars Karee- na Kapoor Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, collected Rs.2.5 million in Karachi's Capri Cinema. The First look: Saif, Katrina Who is going exact figures for the entire country will be known only after the film to be Akshay ends its run in Pakistan. in 'Phantom' posters Although "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" Kumar's new faced a lot of obstacles before its and Katrina Kaif. As soon as Kabir release in Pakistan, the film is draw- Khan revealed the posters, #Phan- ing large audiences who are com- tom started trending on Twitter. neighbour? ing to see Salman in a role of a broth- Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala's Hrithik Roshan is said to have fi- erly figure. nally shifted to his new bachelor's Meanwhile, the film is receiv- production house Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, the film pad in a Juhu building where Ak- ing enormous response at the box shay Kumar resides Grapevine is office in India. is said to be about the situation post 26/11 attacks in Mumbai and glo- abuzz that Hrithik Roshan has fi- It collected Rs.184.62 crore in nally moved into his plush, sea- a story of self-realisation, now the Meri Zaat Zara Benishan, Khuda its opening week leaving behind bal terrorism. The film has received 'U/A' certificate from the Central facing flat in Juhu that he had tak- wedding vows mark the beginning Aur Mohabbat, Daam, Humsafar, Aamir Khan's "PK" (Rs.183.09 en on rent last year. It is the same busy shooting for 'Mohenjo Daro' of a torturous process of Dastaan, Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Aun crore) and Shah Rukh Khan's Hap- Board of Film Certification building where Akshay Kumar cur- in Gujarat. He finally moved in last misunderstandings with betrayal Zara and more recently Pyarey py New Year (Rs.157.57 crore), (CBFC). In the posters, Saif and rently resides with wife Twinkle week and is staying alone. Akshay lurking around every corner. Afzal stand out as memorable according to trade analyst Taran Katrina are blindfolded with what Khanna and their two children. Kumar stays in the same building." Today’s hero is a far cry from romances. So, what is the modern Adarsh. "#BajrangiBhaijaan is now looks like the Indian tricolour and Says a source, "Hrithik Roshan Another source close to the Dr Ahmer, he does not waste time perspective on romance? 3rd HIGHEST grosser of Salman, Riding high on the success of his the tagline reads 'A story you wish decided to move out of his par- actor says he redid the interiors judging a woman’s character or We asked a few of the talented after #ETT (Ek Tha Tiger) and Salman Khan starrer 'Bajrangi were true'. It is the second time ents' house after his divorce and and the renovation work took personality. Clearly the path to his writers and directors behind some #Kick... Will emerge HIGHEST Bhaijaan', director Kabir Khan un- Katrina is teaming up with both Saif shift to a third floor flat in Prime about a couple of months. "He heart is through his stomach as his of these serials what magic pixie grosser in Week 2. India biz. AWE- veiled the first look posters of his and Kabir as she worked with the Beach, Juhu. He did a small puja wanted everything new in the main concern is who makes good dust they sprinkle to make such SOME," Adarsh posted on Twit- next 'Phantom', a counter-terror- actor in 2008 hit 'Race' and the di- in mid-January, but he didn't get house, right from his clothes to parathas and the roundest koftas. scenes work: ter on Friday. ism drama, featuring Saif Ali Khan rector in 'New York'. the chance to stay there as he was household utilities. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . JULY 26, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Pakistan team’s tour to Zimbabwe postponed

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket would have opted for the strategy, Board (PCB) and Zimbabwe Crick- now adopted by the PCB -- of et (ZC) have mutually decided to withdrawing from the triangular defer Pakistan team’s tour to Zim- series in Zimbabwe -- as in that babwe, scheduled for August-Sep- scenario further ODI cricket would tember this year, for an indefinite not suit the Caribbean side. Tak- period, well-informed sources told ing a look at PCB’s recent strategy Dawn. Pakistan were scheduled to of finalising international series -- undertake a return tour to Zimba- with Pakistan struggling to quali- bwe for a bilateral limited-overs fy for the Champions Trophy -- series featuring ODIs and T20s, one finds the approach anomalous. after Zimbabwe squad visited Pa- The PCB, after the national team’s kistan for a historical series in May disastrous exit from the World Cup, this year, opening the gates of in- made a mistake by deciding to send ternational cricket to Pakistan af- its team to Bangladesh for a limit- ter a lapse of six years. “[Howev- ed-overs series (which featured er] Zimbabwe have now involved three ODIs) in April-May. Before the West Indies to hold a triangu- the Bangladesh series, Pakistan lar series, in place of the bilateral stood at seventh place in ICC ODI series, which does not suit Paki- rankings. However, after losing all stan in the wake of [our] qualify- three ODIs to a resurgent Bang- ing for the 2017 ICC Champions ladesh who had stunned England Trophy,” a PCB official told Dawn in this year’s World Cup, Pakistan on the condition of anonymity. dipped to ninth spot and faced the MELBOURNE: Cristiano Ronal- ers as Real ripped apart the 2014 flicks and clinical finishing for three Spanish giants ahead with a spec- before half-time. Deep in first-half “The decision to include the third danger of failing to qualify for the do turned on a show as Real English Premier League champions goals in the first half. “I’m really tacular finish in the 21st minute. stoppage time City got one goal team was clearly clashing with our Champions Trophy contested by Madrid demolished Manchester in a blistering first-half perfor- pleased to see the team play well,” Ronaldo pounced four minutes lat- back through a penalty for a Ser- interests. Therefore, we proposed top eight-ranked teams. After los- City 4-1 before a record crowd in mance before more than 99,000 said Real manager Rafael Benitez. er, bringing down German Toni gio Ramos hand-ball as he jostled Zimbabwe a T20 triangular tour- ing in Bangladesh, Pakistan had to the International Champions Cup fans at the vast stadium. “It is really good for everyone Kroos’s long pass with a sublime with Raheem Sterling. Yaya Toure nament but it was not accepted. confront two tasks to regain their at the Melbourne Cricket Ground It was the MCG’s biggest ever when you are working so hard, first touch before poking home. It slotted home the spot kick for City So, both [Zimbabwe and Pakistan] standing among top eight-ranked (MCG) on Friday. crowd for a football event. The 10- when the players are having dou- got worse for City when central to trail 3-1 at the break. cricket boards have decided to post- teams to get eligible for the Cham- World footballer of the year time European champions revelled ble training sessions and you can defender Pepe scored Real’s third Russian Denis Cheryshev pone the triangular event and any pions Trophy. There were doubts Ronaldo showcased his sublime in the atmosphere, opening up see the commitment.” French with an unmarked thumping head- made it four when he stabbed home bilateral series for the next year,” that Pakistan will get the required skills and was among the goalscor- Man City with dazzling touches, striker Karim Benzema put the er off Isco’s corner just minutes an Isco cross with 17 minutes left. he added. Decision mutually tak- results, as the new skipper Azhar en by PCB, ZC “[Deciding] fresh Ali, installed after the World Cup dates for the tour to Zimbabwe is crash, was inexperienced in ODI not possible this year. However, a format, seemed to lack confidence window will be found out next year and had not even been considered Lexi shares to tour,” the official said. “The by the selectors earlier as an ac- PCB was ready to play a T20 se- complished ODI player. After un- lead in ries [in Zimbabwe], bilateral or in dergoing the 0-3 thrashing in Bang- a triangular format,” the official ladesh, first Azhar’s men had to added. In fact, the PCB wanted to win the three-match ODI series Michigan play the triangular ODI series too. against Zimbabwe at home, which However, when Azhar Ali and was necessary to revive interna- company took an unassailable 3-1 tional cricket in Pakistan. Though lead in the ongoing five-match ODI Pakistan did it successfully, the series in Sri Lanka, which ensured second challenge was tougher -- of the green-shirts’ participation in winning the series in Sri Lanka. the Champions Trophy, no further However, Azhar and his team- ODI cricket suited Pakistan’s in- mates gathered themselves, took terests. Had Pakistan lost the ODI the challenge head-on and with rubber in Sri Lanka, participating teamwork and self-belief also Lexi Thompson made six birdies in the triangular series (in Zimba- achieved this target, defeating Sri in her opening eight holes en route bwe) would have been the only Lanka 3-1 in the series (with the to carding an excellent seven- chance left for the PCB to keep its fifth and final match to be played under-par 64 to grab a share of the team’s qualification chances for the tomorrow). The bilateral ODI se- lead at the halfway mark of the Champions Trophy alive. It is in- ries victory on the Island after nine Meijer LPGA Classic. The 20- structive to mention here that in years enabled Pakistan to finally year-old American needed just 30 case of Pakistan’s loss in the Sri book their place in the prestigious shots to reach the turn at Lanka ODI series, the West Indies ICC Champions Trophy. Blythefield Country Club at Grand Rapids in Michigan and, after 36 holes, is level at nine under with compatriots Alison Lee (66) and Bernard Tomic Lizette Salas (69). World No 13 Thompson was a little disappointed with her play dismisses Tennis on the back nine but she still completed her round without a single bogey on her card. She said: Australia olive branch "I wanted to make more birdies on Frank Buglioni underlined his inating the early rounds before Fighting for the first time since in the space of two rounds. Saun- the back nine. I hit it in the rough growing reputation by defeating stopping the Mexican with a big being stopped by world title chal- ders travels to Limerick to chal- on a few holes on the back nine Fernando Castaneda as he claimed right-hander in the fifth round. lenger Tyson Fury last November, lenge Andy Lee for the Irishman’s where I needed to hit it in the the vacant WBA intercontinental The Enfield super-middleweight Chisora knocked out the Georgian WBO world middleweight title at fairway to be able to make birdies. super-middleweight title at Wem- remains on course to fight Chudi- with a huge right hand 29 seconds Thomond Park in September. "But I'm very happy with my bley’s SSE Arena. Castaneda came nov for the WBA title, with Sep- into the first round. Andy Lee up Ovill McKenzie made it four round, don't get me wrong." And in at late notice after Buglioni was tember 26 pencilled in as the re- next for Billy Joe Saunders (r) wins on the bounce with a second she admitted that playing early in denied a shot at WBA world cham- scheduled date for the contest. Andy Lee up next for Billy Joe round stoppage of Janne Forsman, the day was a contributing factor pion Fedor Chudinov when the Finchley heavyweight Dereck Saunders (r) while super-featherweight hopeful for her low score. She added: Russian pulled out due to a bro- Chisora made an emphatic return Billy Joe Saunders was also in Mitchell Smith retained his WBO "Playing in the morning without ken nose sustained during sparring. to action on the undercard, taking action, earning a fourth round stop- intercontinental super-feather- the wind, the greens are a little bit And the Wise Guy showed he had less than 30 seconds to dispose of page win over Yoann Bloyer after weight with a first-round knock- softer, so it was easier to just the measure of Castaneda by dom- Beqa Lobjanidze. flooring his opponent three times out win against Dennis Tubeiron control the way your irons are going to bounce into the green. Froome hits out at Richard Fahey: Welcome Guest Race leader also reacts to being spat Nibali at by fan.

Bernard Tomic says he has no in- "I am always ready, willing and terest in holding clear-the-air talks able to play for Australia. It is my with Tennis Australia until the gov- honour and privilege to do so. I erning body has resumed funding consider that I have a good record for his sister, Sara. The 22-year- and it is my hope to continue to old was excluded from the Davis represent my country. "Important- Cup quarter-final against Kazakh- ly, I would like to thank previous stan after he launched a public at- TA administrators for their finan- tack on Tennis Australia (TA), who cial support in the past. Current have withdrawn funding from both TA administrators sacked me from Tomics because of the uncoopera- the Davis Cup for comments I tive attitude of their father, John. made at Wimbledon. I stand by Australia won their quarter-final those comments." Australia need- tie 3-2 to set up a last four clash ed veteran Lleyton Hewitt to res- with Great Britain and TA presi- cue them from defeat against Ka- dent Steve Healy appeared to ex- zakhstan in Darwin last weekend, tend an olive branch to the coun- with the 34-year-old replacing try’s No 1, offering talks to ham- Thanasi Kokkinakis to clinch the mer out their differences. Howev- deciding singles match. Sam Groth Chris Froome has criticised problem Nibali launched his Our star columnist Richard Withernsea runs in the Win Lexi’s Hero does his own thing. er, Tomic, who was arrested in Mi- of Australia celebrates match point Vincenzo Nibali for launching his decisive attack just as Froome Fahey's horse-by-horse guide to 5,000 With sportinglife.com Pick Any rain would help him and I’d ami last week after refusing to turn after winning the reverse singles decisive attack on stage 19 of the suffered a mechanical problem The his Saturday runners. 6 Handicap. Ideally he’d prefer never draw a line through the horse down music during a party at his match against Mikhail Kukushkin Tour de France just as the race Italian was 8min 4sec down on It’s another busy Saturday for softer going than is forecast but for all this is very competitive. hotel room, said there was no in the Davis Cup Sam Groth of leader had to stop due to a Froome at the start of the day, so our team starting with Abbey ran well on good ground at We’re also double handed in point. Tomic plays a backhand Australia celebrates match point mechanical problem. All of the race the pair were not racing each other, Angel and Pamushana in the Sky Newcastle two starts ago and the Sky Bet Making Betting Better during his match against Thanasi after winning the reverse singles favourites were approaching the but Nibali’s move triggered a chase Bet Best Odds Guaranteed EBF wouldn’t be without a chance. Median Auction Maiden Stakes. Kokkinakis at Roland Garros Tom- match against Mikhail Kukushkin top of the Col du Glandon, just from the likes of Nairo Quintana Fillies' Handicap at York. We’ve two in the Sky Bet Penwortham did everything wrong ic plays a backhand during his in the Davis Cup under 50km from the finish, when and Alberto Contador, and that in The former has taken a long Dash. Grandads World has been on debut, was very keen and ran match against Thanasi Kokkinakis Tomic, ranked 29th in the Froome got a stone trapped turn forced Froome to dig deep to time to come to herself this season gelded but disappointed on his first himself into the ground. He’s at Roland Garros "Until I am sat- world, would undoubtedly be a between his back wheel and catch back up. but we’ve been pleased with her start since last time. We’ve stuck a better than that and is a horse we isfied TA is committed to funding boost to the Australia team when brakes. At the same moment, Nibali Froome said afterwards: "I for the last few weeks now. I think hood on him here and he worked like. If he switches off early I’d the development of junior Austra- they travel to Britain to take on a immediately jumped out of the told him exactly what I thought of she’ll run a decent race. Pamushana really well this week. He’s not expect him to bounce back. lian talent, including my sister Sara, team led by Andy Murray in Sep- saddle and accelerated, and he went him. I felt very specifically the has been frustrating as we think straightforward but ran well at the Back To Bond’s owner loves on a non-discriminatory basis, I do tember. "I am always available for on to win the stage solo to move moment he attacked in the she’s a well-handicapped filly. She track on his previous visit to York. runners at this meeting. This is a not believe there is any point in selection for Davis Cup. If TA se- up to fourth place overall. Nibali mountains today it was almost as should be competitive here but He needs to get his career back on horse who tries very hard but he meeting," he told the Herald Sun lect me, then great. If TA does not launched his decisive attack just if my mechanical provoked his £25,000 prizes at this track are the rails but it wouldn’t surprise has to step up on what he’s done newspaper from Colombia, where select me, then there's not too as Froome suffered a mechanical attack. never easy to win. me if he did. so far to win this. he is competing at the Claro Open. much I can do," Tomic added. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . JULY 26 . 2015-Asad 04, 1394 H.S Vol:X Issue No:05 Price: Afs.15

Pakistan continues construction of military installations in Paktika

AT Monitoring Desk ed between Afghan and Pakistani ic ways. National Security Coun- to build pressure on Pakistan to forces in Angoor Ada after Paki- cil (NSC), the Ministry of Interior restrain from building military es- Four militants KABUL: Pakistani army hasn t stani forces allegedly tried to con- and the Ministry of Foreign Af- tablishments inside Afghanistan s stopped construction of military struct military installation in the fairs are discussing the issue with territory. Otherwise, people of detained in installations in Angoor Ada area of area inside Afghanistan s territory Pakistani officials, he added. Paktika province are ready to push Paktika province, said Afghan bor- during night time. Nader Khan Katawazi, a law- back Pakistani forces from the der police chief. Rahmatullah Raufi Raufi said that Pakistani forc- maker from Paktika province, also area, he added. Helmand in an interview with Radio Azadi es are periodically working on con- confirmed that Pakistan s forces In the meantime, the Ministry urged the government to resolve struction of the establishments in are constructing military installa- of Foreign Affairs, said that they AT News Report the issue through diplomatic ways. the area. Efforts are underway to tions in Angoor Ada covertly dur- are trying to resolve the issue resolve the issue through diplomat- ing night. He urged the government through diplomatic ways. KABUL: The National Director- Earlier this month, clash erupt- ate of Security (NDS) on Satur- day said that four Taliban fighters Helmand were arrested in Helmand prov- part of the campaign for resolving ince. In a media statement issued officials accused the problem. But the issue lin- here, the NDS said that its opera- Year-long Jawand gered on, according to the council tives arrested four Taliban mili- of complicity in member, who explained the tribal tants in Lashkargah and Nahr-e- elders showed a lot of determina- Saraj districts of Helmand prov- kidnappings land dispute settled tion in bringing about a patch-up ince. The militants were identified between the rival sides. Having as Mullah Faizullah, Mullah Sar- LASHKARGAH: Helmand pro- remained in a state of war and con- dar, Mullah Ekhlas and Mullah vincial council members and civil after loss of 6 lives fined to trenches for months, they Children with measles often die because of complications Agha, a Taliban commander. The society activists on Saturday al- eventually agreed to bury the hatchet. Akhizai adds: The elders like pneumonia and encephalitis. detained militants confessed that leged high government officials QALA-I-NAW: The resolution of they carried out different terror were involved in abductions and sized up the losses while handing a year-long land dispute between Provincial council down their verdict. The family of By Akhtar M.Nikzad that 581 cases of measles have been attacks in the province. preventing police from arresting two irresponsible armed groups registered in the first quarter of member Mohammad each victim was given 2.5 million kidnappers. Farhad Dawari, head has had a positive impact on the afghanis or a piece of land worth KABUL: The Ministry of Public 2015. Akhil Iyer, Representative of civil society coordination body, security situation in the Jawand Farid Akhizai said the of UNICEF in Afghanistan, said Ex-jihadi it. Kabir, who had lost four men, Health (MoPH) in cooperation told a press conference security district of northwestern Badghis dispute over land was more enthusiastic about rec- with World Health Organization that administering vaccine is an ef- commander shot forces had arrested several kidnap- province.Provincial council mem- ownership between onciliation. Mohammad was (WHO) and United Nations chil- fective method for eradication of pers in the recent past but some ber Mohammad Farid Akhizai told ready to pay compensation to kin dren s fund (UNICEF) kicked off the disease. He hoped that the two- dead; 5 ALP men government officials got them Pajhwok Afghan News the dispute Mullah Kabir and Amir of the dead but consistent efforts a six-day anti-measles vaccination dose vaccine will reduce cases of killed in infighting freed. Without naming the govern- over land ownership between Mohammad erupted a by the jirga members forced him drive, targeting around 4.5 million measles in the country. When ment officials who supported the Mullah Kabir and Amir Moham- to reach a comprehensive settle- children are not immunized against year ago. Both backing children under the age of five. MAIMANA: A former jihadi com- kidnappers, he said at least 11 kid- mad erupted a year ago. Both back- the government, the ment with the rival party. Per- Around 27,000 trained volun- such deadly diseases, both children mander and five Afghan Local Po- nappers had been arrested last ing the government, the men have sonally speaking, I wasn t part of teers will administer the vaccine in and the communities that they live lice (ALP) members have been week. Amid security fears, par- armed supporters. Mohammad men have armed this decision. However, elders 30 provinces. Children between the in are at risk. We want to reach to killed in separate security inci- ents avoid sending their children supporters. from nearby areas were present hails from Korich and Kabir from on the occasion. age of nine months and five years children in every nook and cranny dents in northwestern Faryab to school. Therefore, the govern- Gashak villages lying cheek by will receive anti-measles and anti- of the country to ensure that all province. Pashton Kot district ment should take serious action to The elders sought my sugges- jowl. The public representative tion and I told them to go to the rubella (German measles) vaccina- children receive the life-saving vac- chief Abdul Qadir Qadiri told Pa- trace the kidnappers and arrest says clashes over the land tract have one month of efforts by tribal el- tions during the campaign. cines, he added. jhwok Afghan News commander jirga for the sake of peace in the them. Bashir Ahmad Shakir, pro- killed two supporters of Kabir and ders. The provincial council had area, said the public representa- Children with measles often UNICEF and ministry of pub- Ghaibullah was killed on his way vincial council member, confirmed four of Mohammad. However, urged the elders to intervene. Both die because of complications like lic health called on the militant from Maimana, the provincial cap- tive, who also belongs to Jawand. the involvement of several high Akhizai noted with happiness an antagonists were summoned to the (Pajhwok) pneumonia and encephalitis. groups to refrain from hindering ital, to his home. He came under government officials in abduction. end to the dispute as a result of provincial capital several times as Measles and rubella (German the vaccination drive and killing attack from unidentified gunmen He also stopped short of naming measles) are common childhood vaccinators.Immunization is one of in Chaqmaq area last night. He said anyone. We are trying to bring diseases in Afghanistan and the the most successful and cost-ef- Ghaibullah was leading pro-gov- the kidnappers to justice, he said. rest of the world. fective health interventions pre- ernment uprising members in his Maj. Qand Agha, counter-terror- Bride price lowered, fine imposed The MoPH didn t provide ex- venting illness, disability and death area. He had differences with oth- ism police head, promised they act figures of measles mortality from vaccine-preventable diseas- er commanders but a day earlier, would do their best to arrest the for a man tying the knot for a sec- rate in Afghanistan. However, the es including pertussis, pneumonia, local influential individuals and kidnappers and bring them to jus- on lavish weddings ond time, he said, recalling that Deputy Minister of Public Health, polio, rotavirus diarrhoea, tetanus provincial High Peace Council tice. Police often apprehended kid- the rate previously ranged between and measles. Afghanistan s under- members mediated between them SHARAN: The rate of walwar Reform Council head Abdul Hai Rs1 million and Rs3 million. Un- Ahmad Jan Naeem, said that de- and resolved their enmity. Sepa- nappers but judicial organs rarely spite many efforts for eradication five mortality rate is among the punished them, he complained. (bride price) has been brought Sahibzada said they stoutly sup- der the council s decision, he add- highest in the world at 99 per 1,000 rately, five ALP members were down and a cash fine imposed on ported by local tribal elders in low- of measles, the disease is still en- killed in internal fighting in the Meanwhile, Deputy Governor ed, no one was allowed to spend demic in Afghanistan. Conduct- live births. Before, the MoPH and Dahan Dara area of Pashton Kot. Wali Mohammad Jan Rasulyar said unnecessary expenditure on lavish ering the walwar in the provincial lavishly on marriage ceremonies in ing anti-measles vaccination cam- UNICEF had conduct an anti-mea- The district chief said the police- the National Directorate of Secu- wedding meals in some district of capital, Yousafkhel, Mata Khan the said districts. Anyone violat- paigns is the most economic and sles immunization campaign in men were killed after two ALP rity personnel apprehended a nine- southeastern Paktika province, a and Sar Roza districts. ing the decision would have to pay effective way to fight against the Khost, Helmand and Kandahar commanders engaged in infighting member group of kidnappers to- reform body said on Saturday. For unmarried youth, the a hefty fine. But he stopped short infectious disease, he added. provinces, which are at higher risk over personal differences. day. The detainees have confessed In an exclusive interview with bride price has been fixed at of saying if anyone had been pen- Earlier, the MoPH had said for measles outbreaks. (Pajhwok) to their crimes. (Pajhwok) Pajhwok Afghan News, Paktika 250,000 afghanis and 350,000 afs alised so far. (Pajhwok) This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.