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[email protected] integrity of the home. Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 Confucius www.thedailyafghanistan.com Reg: No 352 Volume No. 3263 Monday April 04, 2016 Hamal 16, 1395 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 15/-Afs Italy Pledges 40m Euros for Herat-Khawaf Landmines Continue to Railroad HERAT CITY - The Italian government has pledged con- tributing another 40 million Euros in aid for completion of KABULTake - In the past two decades, 77 per112- Lives Each Monthas (an estimated 611 kilometers square area) the fourth phase of the Herat- cent of Afghanistan’s land was cleared of in 1,570 villages remained contaminated Khawaf railroad between landmines that continue to take about 112 with landmines. western city of Herat and Iran, Afghans’ lives each month in around 1,600 The Afghan government has evolved a five- the Herat governor’s house villages. year plan for demining all the remaining ar- said Sunday. Marking the International Mine Aware- eas, a plan that required $550 million to be A statement from the gover- ness Day, State Minister for Natural Dis- implemented, Barmak said. nor’s house to Pajhwok Af- asters Management, Wais Barmak told a He said surveys, clearing landmines, creat- ghan News said Italian Am- ceremony that more than 19 million land- ing awareness about the dangers of land- bassador Luciano Pezzotti mines had been cleared from 2,710 villages mines, destroying bomb depots and as- pledged his country’s assis- in 117 districts during the past two and a sisting families of the victims were among tance during a meeting with half decades.