Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:IX Issue No:247 Price: Afs.15 SUNDAY . APRIL 12 . 2015 -Hamal 23, 1394 HS www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes Armed groups Tajikistan to Three more cabinet illegally join APTTA extract mines picks present future IN SAMANGAN: soon: MoCI OFFICIAL AT Monitoring Desk programs to WJ KABUL: The Ministry of Com- AT Monitoring Desk merce and Industry (MoCI) said Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi parts of the country. that Tajikistan will join the Af- The minister-designate also KABUL: Warlords and illegal ghan Pakistan Transit and Trade KABUL: Three more nominated stressed on transparency in the armed groups illegally extract Agreement (APTTA) soon. ministers on Saturday briefed university entrance exams and said mines in northern Samangan prov- Musafer Qoqandi, spokesman for members of the Wolesi Jirga (WJ) the exams would be monitored ince, said a local official. AT News Report the MoCI, said that Tajikistan s or Lower House of the parliament and controlled in order to allow Spokesman for the Samangan participation in the agreement will over their future programs. only talented students to get ad- KABUL: John F. Sopko, special governor office, Seddiq Aziz, told help Afghanistan to a main transit Ministers-designate for La- mission in the state-run higher Inspector General for Afghanistan Azadi Radio that illegal armed corridor between the two coun- bor, Social Affairs and Martyrs, education institutes. Reconstruction (SIGAR) called Salamat Azemi said that num- groups illegally extract coal mines tries. He added that implementa- Nasrin Oryakhail, for higher edu- on the Chief Executive Officer ber of the rehabilitation centers in in Dahan-e-Tor and Shabashak tion of the agreement will on one cation Farida Mohmand, and for (CEO), Abdullah Abdullah on Sat- the country would be increased areas of Dara-e-Souf. We are un- hand pave the ground for domes- counter-narcotics Salamat Azemi urday. According to a statement were those who explained their to rehabilitate drug addicts. She able to stop the strongmen from tic products to find access to in- by the CEO office, Abdullah plans. Creating more employment said that anti-narcotics efforts extracting mines, he added. ternational markets while on oth- termed SIGAR role crucial for opportunities through a commit- would be accelerated with help of He said that they have dis- er hand it will turn Afghanistan uprooting the endemic corruption, tee, implementation of labor laws, the regional countries. cussed the issue with the central into a bridge between South Asia and said the organization should establishment of technical and Azemi further said that data government, but haven t received and Central Asia. The agreement join hands with the Afghan gov- vocational training centers for about addicts including male, fe- any response yet. A special mil- will allow Pakistan s cargo trucks male and children would be col- ernment in overcoming the prob- youth and disabled people were itary unit should be established to enter Tajikistan through Af- lected in a professional manner. lem. He said the national unity underlined as top priorities by Ms to tackle illegal extraction of mines ghanistan and vice versa, Radio Second deputy of the WJ, government is committed to fight Oryakhail. Seeking job markets in the province, he added. Azadi quoted Qoqandi as saying. inside and outside the country, Nazir Ahmad Ahmadzai, ex- corruption and ensure transpar- According to sources in the He added, the transit trade pact provision of required life-sustain- pressed satisfaction over future ency in public offices. We want province around 2,000 people, will also allow Afghanistan cargo ing facilities to street children, programs of the nominees and SIGAR to help us in eradicating most of them children, are illegal- trucks to enter Tajikistan and Pa- scholarships for disabled youth in urged the government to introduce corruption, he added. ly extracting mines in Dara-e-Souf kistan. He said that the agreement foreign universities were other key the picks for the Ministry of De- Abdullah said the government district of Samangan province. Il- will be signed within 15 days. The contents of her future policies. fense, Central Bank and the At- is mulling to prepare a strategy to ghanistan. He promised to work government s viewpoint on SI- torney General Office as soon as legal and unprofessional extraction APTTA came into effect in 2010 Farida Mohmand told the WJ address corruption related issues. closely with Afghan officials for GAR report, Sopko said he is possible because the country was led to coal mine explosions in which allows Afghan cargo trucks that capacity building of the uni- Sopko presented recent report eradication of corruption and en- ready to support the process of passing through a critical juncture Smangan province last year which to enter Pakistan via Torkham on versities is her top priority. She to the CEO and briefed him about suring better governance in Af- eliminating corruption in police said that due attention would be and the organizations were man- left around 30 people dead, while their way to Wagah port. It also SIGAR s recent activities in Af- ghanistan. Seeking the Afghan and judiciary. paid to girls education in insecure aged by caretakers. several others wounded. allows Pakistani cargo trucks to reach Afghan ports. Officials in the Afghanistan Chambers of Protest demo staged in Ghazni Six held Commerce and Industries (ACCI) Over 80 school students termed Tajikistan s participation in connection in the APTTA beneficial for all the FOR RELEASE OF 31 PASSENGERS stack holders and said that Af- POISONED IN HERAT with Khost ghanistan will not be capable to By Akhtar M. Nikzad Kabul from Herat.Mohammad the government to take serious se- receive enough benefit from the Hashim Anwary, a protestor, curity measures aimed at thwart- bombing agreement, as comparing to Paki- KABUL: Hundreds of civil soci- termed efforts of the government ing such plots of the anti-Afghan- stan and Tajikistan. ety activists, scholars and tribal ineffective and asked the authori- istan elements. Last week fami- AT Monitoring Desk elders staged protest demonstra- ties to rescue the abducted pas- lies of the kidnapped 31 passen- tion in Ghazni province against sengers as soon as possible. The gers set up a protest camp in the KABUL: As many as six men held Culture what they called the government s protestors in a statement de- Park-e Zarnigar near the Presiden- in connection with the suicide silence over abduction of 31 pas- nounced kidnapping of innocent tial Palace and accused the gov- bombing in eastern Khost prov- center built in sengers on Kabul-Kandahar High- people by insurgents and asked ernment of paying no heed to free ince which left 20 killed and more way in Zabul province. the law enforcement agencies to their dear ones. Abdullah Abdul- than 80 others wounded. A state- Bamiyan The protesters asked the na- explore all ways that could make lah on Friday met with relatives ment issued by the National Di- tional unity government to pick release of the passengers possi- of the kidnapped passengers in the rectorate of Security (NDS) on AT Monitoring Desk up practical steps for release of ble. They urged President Ashraf protest camp and said that he Saturday said the arrested terror 31 kidnapped passengers. As Ghani and Chief Executive Offic- could not answer questions rele- suspects had links to Haqqani KABUL: A cultural center has er Abdullah Abdullah and interna- vant to the abduction and the gov- network.The arrested men are been built in central Bamiyan prov- many as 31 passengers were kid- AT News Report for treatment. Most of the boys napped around 50 days ago by tional community to spare no ef- ernment efforts for release of the identified as Obaidullah son of Fa- ince which is expected to boost were grade 3-6 students. Though, zlurrahman, resident of Khaiber cultural and artistic activities unknown armed people, alleged- forts and release the passengers. passengers.However, he assured KABUL: More than 80 students no official is sure that how the ly the Islamic State fighters, in Protesters termed kidnapping of that the government would take Pakhtunkhwa, Anwaruddin son of there. Bamiyan hosts huge num- students got poisoned, but the Qiyamuddin and Shakil Rahman ber of tourists every year who of a private school in Herat prov- Zabul when they were heading to 31 passengers a plot and asked all steps to free the abductees. ince got poisoned on Saturday provincial police said the students son of Habib Rahman residents visit the province to watch the started vomiting after eating the of Alisher district of Khost prov- Buddha sculptures, Band-i-Amir morning. Provincial officials said Gunmen shot dead the students got poisoned after chick peas. Spokesman to the ince, Abdullah son of Lal Marjan and other historical sites. Culture provincial police Abdul Rauf Ah- Farkhunda case to reach resident of Kandai area of Khost and Arts Center was inaugurated eating boiled chick peas from a Maidan Wardak s roadside vendor in front of the madi said the police has launched city and Sayed Rahman son of to host theatrical shows, music probe to find out whether the stu- Kamal also resident of Khost. The concerts, poetry sessions and school. However, there are con- COURT IN 2 WEEKS: AGO financial officer flicting reports about number of dents got poisoned after eating the statement added that the men have other entertaining performances chick peas or something else was AT News Report confessed to their crimes. Accord- by Bamiyan youth. Chairman of the poisoned students and rea- sons. The students were immedi- responsible. He said the vendor Protesters want ing to the statement, the suicide the center, Asadullah Rahnaward, was arrested.