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Taliban denies report of holding secret peace talks with Afghan govt KABUL: Taliban outfit on Wednesday rejected the reports on holding secret talks on peace with Afghan government as baseless, a AT News Report statement of the armed group sent to media said. KABUL: The UN Assistance Mis- “No talks have been held with sion in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on officials from Kabul regime, nei- Wednesday in a new report on ci- Unityonlysolution ther in Qatar, nor in other place vilian casualties renewed its call for and any report on the subject is all parties to refocus their efforts baseless and fabricated,” the state- on preventing harm to civilians, as to overcome current ment said. The British daily The latest figures released by UNAMA Guardian, according to local media for the first three quarters of 2016 reports reported recently that show continuing high numbers of Mullah Abdul Manan had repre- civilian casualties from the armed crisis: Masoud sented Taliban in the talks attend- conflict. AT News Report ed by Afghan government national “Between 1 January and 30 spy chief Mohammad Masoom September, UNAMA document- said Masoud. He said that discord among Stanekzai and presidential advisor ed 8,397 conflict-related civilian on National Security Mohammad casualties (2,562 deaths and 5,835 nations could be more dangerous than conflict, thus it is required of Hanif Atmar. In the statement, injured) representing a one percent Taliban spokesman Zabihullah decrease compared to the same all Afghan to keep unity in order to cope with all challenges across Majahid categorically stated that, period in 2015. Ground engage- “The stance of Islamic Emirate of ments remained the leading cause the country. Foreigners never will hold step Afghanistan (name of ousted Tali- of civilian casualties, followed by ban regime) with regard to peace suicide and complex attacks, and for solution of crisis in Afghani- stan, it is required of Afghan na- talks is clear” and has not changed. improvised explosive devices Taliban militants who had halt- (IEDs),” it said in a statement. tions to mobilize and fight against challenges in the country, he as- ed peace talks with Afghan gov- “Increased fighting in densely ernment in July 2015, have pre- populated areas makes it impera- serted. Pointing to ramp up insecuri- conditioned any talks with Afghan tive for parties to take immediate government on the complete pull- steps to ensure all feasible precau- ty problems in Kunduz, Farah, Helmand, Uruzgan and some oth- out of foreign forces from the war- tions are being taken to spare ci- torn country. (Xinhua) vilians from harm,” said Tadami- er provinces, he said that interna- tional community helped Afghan chi Yamamoto, the Secretary-Gen- elements caused 61 percent of ci- deliberate targeting of civilians. explosive weapons and aerial at- KABUL: Ex-President Hamid eral’s Special Representative for vilian casualties – 1,569 deaths and The statement attributed 23 tacks. forces in anti-terrorism war, but Karzai’s advisor Shahzada Ma- never helped peace process seri- Taliban shadow Afghanistan. 3,574 injured (5,143 total civilian per cent of all civilian casualties to Eleven per cent of civilian ca- soud said that keeping unity is He said that anti-government casualties). While this represents pro-government forces, document- sualties resulted from ground fight- ously. district chief killed only remedy to fight current crisis He asked the International a 12 percent decrease from the same ing 1,897 casualties (623 deaths ing between anti-government ele- across the country. period in 2015, UNAMA contin- and 1,274 injured), representing a ments and pro-government forces Community Particularly United in Nangarhar “Some eternal and external State to help peace process and Unknown ues to document anti-government 42 percent increase compared to where the responsible party could clusters struggling to create rifts AT News Report elements perpetrating illegal and last year – primarily due to casu- not be identified. Unattributed put pressure over Pakistan to bring and increase discord among Afghan Taliban on negotiation table. gunmen indiscriminate attacks, as well as alties from the use of indirect and See P2 nation throughout the country,” KABUL: The Taliban shadow dis- See P3 trict chief for the Bati Kot was kidnap 20 Several areas of killed along with his colleagues in Danish asks AGO to probe cases of violence against journalists an Afghan airstrike in eastern Nan- Sayyad district garhar province, security officials de-miners in President Ashraf Ghani's second mained pending within the minis- far have been killed including last gunned down Mohammad Yaqoub, said Wednesday. VP Mohammad Sarwar Danish has try of interior, only a few cases week's incident of murder in Zab- a journalist from Afghanistan Na- cleared of militants Provincial police spokesman said that cases of violence against were referred to the attorney gen- ul in which a group of armed men tional Radio Television RTA. Hazrat Hussain Mashraqiwal said Logar AT Monitoring Desk AT Monitoring Desk Afghan journalists have not been eral from amongst several hundred that the strike targeted Taliban hide- investigated properly. cases," said Danish. "Coordinated KABUL: Several villages of Sayy- outs in Chahar Dehi area around KABUL: At least 20 de-miners He called on Afghanistan's At- attacks need to be tackled and law 4:30am. He identified the shadow torney General to launch an inves- enforcing agencies must be provid- ad district of northern Sar-i-Pul have been kidnapped by unidenti- province have been cleared from district chief as Halim alias Qahra- fied gunmen in the capital central tigation into the matter. ed more support," said presiden- the presence of Taliban insurgent man, saying eight others including of Logar province on Wednesday, Meanwhile, Ministry of Inte- tial advisor Nadir Nadiri. during a clearing operation carried a Taliban’s judge Maulawi Abbas official said. rior (MoI) has assured the media The National Directorate of out by the Afghan security forces, were among the dead. Elsewhere Crime Branch Police Chief Col. that all cases of violence against Security (NDS) has also pledged an official said on Wednesday. in the province, Mashraqiwal said Mohammad Jan Abid told Pajh- journalists will be investigated. to establish a special unit aimed at The operation comes after that eight other militants were In addition, the newly estab- maintaining the security of jour- three days ago, the Taliban insur- wok Afghan News the 20 workers gents have captured at least 13 vil- killed during airstrikes in Miagan lished Media Coordination Com- nalists. and Larkari areas of Hesarak dis- of Sterling Global Operations were mittee which has the responsibili- "A special unit was formed al- lages of Sayyad district. Howev- kidnapped in Elyas village of Pul- er, security forces succeed to clear trict Tuesday night. The gover- ty of ensuring the safety of jour- most six months ago to safeguard the villages from the rebels. nor’s spokesman for Laghman i-Alam city this noon. nalists and their media activities journalists so that they are kept “The de-miners were traveling Provincial police chief, Col. province, Sarhadi Zwak said that has also raised concerns over inac- safe from danger," said deputy Abdul Qayum Baqizoy, told Pa- a Taliban commander for Alishang in a mini bus when unidentified tion to probe cases of violence head of NDS Ajmal Abidi. jhwok Afghan News that 10 vil- district was among the dead. Zwak armed men abducted them towards against reporters in Afghanistan. "We at the ministry of interior lages in Sayaad district were cleared identified the slain militants’ com- an unknown location,” he said. Members of the committee will do our part to implement the from militants during an operation currently ongoing in Shah Toot and mander as Abdul Halim who was Confirming the news, provin- comprises officials from the Af- responsibilities," said Sediq Sediq- involved in several attacks on Af- ghan security and government in- qi, spokesman for the MOI. other regions of the district. cial governor spokesman, Salim Five militants have been killed ghan forces on Kabul-Jalalabad Saleh, said that local tribal elders stitutions. This year has been one of the during clearing operation, he said, highway. currently engaged to secure release "Cases related to threats and deadliest year's for Afghan jour- adding that 10 others were received Taliban have not yet com- of the abductees through media- violence against journalists re- nalists. At least 14 journalists so injures. mented about the incidents. tion. Ahmadullah, a resident of El- yas village, said the armed men kid- Hundreds pick arms in support of Dostum in Jawzjan after Taliban ambush napped the de-miners around 10am, the source added. Hundreds of supporter the First bushed Vice President Dostum as Gen. Dostum first joined the Vice President General Abdul he was accompanying a convoy of Afghan security forces in the front- “Eight masked gunmen on four Rashid Dostum picked up arms the security forces on the way to line in northern Faryab province motorcycles stopped the mini bus to declare support following a Ghormach district that fell to Tal- earlier in the month of August last and took away all on board, I don’t deadly ambush by the Taliban iban control last week. year where he survived at least two know exact number of the people militants in Faryab province. Initial reports indicated the assassination plots by the anti- kidnapped,” Pajhwok Afghan The supporters of Gen. First Vice President sustained a government armed militant groups News quoted him, as saying. Dostum chanted support for the minor injury in the attack as it was while he was leading counter-ter- This is not first incident of its First Vice President and an- confirmed by CEO Abdullah but rorism operations. nature as in the past Taliban mili- nounced their support to the office of the Chief Executive Initially his convoy was am- tants abducted nine de-miners of counter the Taliban-led insur- released a statement late on Mon- bushed by the Taliban in militants Halo Trust organization along with gency in the northern parts of day and said Gen. Dostum did not in Qaisar district in mid August their vehicle in DaudKhail area in the country. suffer any injury, emphasizing that 2015 while another plot to assas- Pul-i-Alam central of Logar prov- Photographs emerging from CEO Abdullah made the remarks sinate him was thwarted by the ince. Jawzjan purportedly shows during the Ministers’ Council meet- security forces and his special se- However, these de-miners hundreds of men armed with ing based on inappropriate and ini- curity guards few days later. were released from the militants. assault rifles and machine guns tial reports. At least three suicide bombers as they gather and march in the This is not the first time Gen. were arrested from the vicinity of Provincial officials in that time said province to support the Vice Dostum has came under attack by Gen. Dostum’s residence in Qaisar the de-miners were released with President. Taliban militants or has escaped district in connection to the attack the support of local elders with- The Taliban militants am- assassination plot by the group. plot last year. KP out any deal with Taliban militants.

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In international journalism, a local journalist hired by foreign reporters for his or her special knowledge of the local area, culture, and language is called a fixer. This series explores the untold stories behind their largely unrecognized work.

This past June, an American NPR work—even if they receive intim- journalist named David Gilkey and idation or things like that. This is his Afghan translator and fixer, our job—we have to tell the truth, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed we have to find out what the prob- on assignment in Marjah, a district lems are across the country, what of Afghanistan’s expansive and the people need for us to report to volatile Helmand Province. the world, so that we can tell the Tamanna’s death was a reminder world what is going on in Helmand. that in Afghanistan, being a fixer But in Helmand, we are fright- remains a potentially lethal and ened. The security situation in largely invisible role. According to Lashkar Gah and some districts of the Committee to Protect Journal- Helmand is not very good. Nowa- ists, 26 journalists have now been days some districts are being cap- killed in Afghanistan since 2001; tured by the Taliban. We’re trying this statistic likely underestimates not to work a lot in the most [dan- the true toll, especially for local gerous] areas. journalists. You probably heard that [in I spoke to Rauf Mehrpoor, a June], an American journalist and journalist who lives and works in his fixer were killed in Marjah. I Helmand Province. By his reck- don’t know why they decided to oning, he is the only fixer current- go there—we knew the Marjah sit- ly active in the area. uation was not really appropriate In the two years since he be- for foreign journalists after an op- gan working as a fixer, he has con- eration was conducted by the tributed reporting on everything ANSF there. I don’t know why from exposés on the Afghan Na- they chose to [cover it]. We want- ‘Sonita,’theAfghan teen who raps to end child marriage tional Army [ANA] to investiga- ed to go to Marjah but knew that Her family wanted to sell her as a bride. An Iranian film director saved her by breaking the main rule of documentary filmmaking: do not interfere. The story became one tive reports on the Taliban’s field the situation there was not really of the best documentaries of the year, “Sonita.” operations. He spoke to Roads & good for journalists. Kingdoms about government cor- R&K: What do you see as When director Rokhsareh Ghaem ing the unwritten rule of documen- wants forced marriages to stop. was this year’s Sundance festival gets married before the age of 15, ruption, the threat of violence, and some of the biggest challenges for Maghami started shooting her tary filmmaking - not to interfere The video went viral on You- hit, winning both Grand Jury and according to International Center the responsibility he feels to work those working in media in Afghan- documentary on forced marriag- in the process of the story that Tube. After few weeks, the rap- Audience awards in a World Cine- for Research on Women. es, she never could have imag- you are documenting. But that did per was contacted by an American ma Documentary category. “The Sonita is now an activist, in media despite the risk. istan? ined that it would one day be not worry Maghami. NGO called Strongheart. With Guardian” included it among the shown here speaking at the Clin- Roads & Kingdoms: How Mehrpoor: Sometimes we called “uplifting,” “optimistic,” “I think these rules are not re- their help she received the schol- contenders most likely to get an ton Global Initiative in NY in 2016 long have you been a fixer? travel to areas where the local peo- “the most modern of fairytales.” ally valid,” argues the director. arship that would send her to Wa- Oscar nomination for Best Docu- “We can end child marriage. Rauf Mehrpoor: I have been ple assume, “Oh my god, these are She met Sonita Alizadeh “The only rule is to be as trans- satch Academy, a preparatory mentary. We need educational programs for working as a fixer in Helmand Prov- very rich people, they work with through her cousin, a social work- parent as possible. Documenta- boarding school in Utah, 7,000 Sonita became a media sensa- families and communities and ince for the last two years, since foreign journalists so they proba- er in an NGO protecting street rists claim to be objective but they miles away from Afghanistan. tion included in BBC’s 100 Wom- even regional leaders, so that par- the end of 2014. Before that I was bly get lots of money,” things like children. Sonita was just another always are subjective. It is said that Giving a voice to thousands of en of 2015 and Foreign Policy’s ents know there are other possi- an interpreter. that. Most of the people treat us undocumented teen refugee from the only objective documentary is young women Global Thinkers of 2015 lists. bilities for their daughters. We R&K: How did you decide to very well, but there are some peo- Afghanistan, searching for shel- the one from surveillance cameras Maghami followed Sonita un- “Teen Vogue” named her one of the also need laws to make child mar- become a fixer in addition to inter- ple, I imagine, who think we’re ter in Iran. of banks. If you want objectivity, til the happy end of her journey. “10 Badass Young Feminists.” riage illegal,” Sonita says. preting? very wealthy, which is not really Sonita was not like other go watch that movie.” But the filmmaker’s struggle This September, “Girls Not Sonita is proof that education Mehrpoor: In Helmand, I was true. kids. Inspired by Eminem, Rihan- The music video that saved wasn’t over yet. She needed help Brides,” a global partnership of works. “I have my theory on why the only journalist who spoke En- When foreign journalists are na and most importantly, Iranian Sonita to get the film released. more than 600 civil society orga- she grew up rebellious, when oth- rapper Yas, she wrote her own At the time, Sonita had already She was finally supported by nizations committed to ending er girls didn’t,” says Maghami, glish and also Dari and Pashto. My coming to Lashkar Gah or into lyrics and dreamed of becoming recorded her song “Brides for the German production company child marriage named Sonita their who has known Sonita for four native language is Dari but I can Helmand, I tell them to be very a rapper too. Sale.” After several failed attempts, TAG/TRAUM and the Swiss pro- representative. years already. “She was separat- speak Pashto because I have been attentive, respect the people, treat “I saw her passion, but I she finally found a studio in Iran ducer Aline Schmid from Intermez- Education is key ed from her family and kind of living in Helmand for the past four- them well. There is a specific cul- couldn’t see much future for her. to do it. She then wanted a music zo Films. They obtained funds to Sonita won the fight for her adopted by the women in the Ira- teen years, and my English is not ture for the Afghan people, and we I wanted to film her to show the video to accompany the song. distribute “Sonita” properly. own freedom but she didn’t forget nian NGO. She could see that the too bad. As an interpreter, I gained have to follow this. situation of young refugees. I Maghami and Sonita waited for her “If we do not talk and act her family in Iran, including her women there were educated, they a lot of experience speaking with And of course, one of the [big- couldn’t imagine that this was go- family to be away from home to about child marriage, we fail on a younger sisters. “I have great had jobs. Some of them were mar- the locals as well as commanders gest] problems that we have in ing to be a happy-ending film,” film it. global scale. Films like ‘Sonita’ help friends here (in the US) and I love ried, some were not. None of them and high-ranking officers. Afghanistan, in Helmand, is a se- the director told DW. An image from Sonita’s music make us aware of this issue, them but sometimes I miss my were sold or forced to marry. She R&K: Do you also work as a curity problem. We have to be And yet it did. video “Brides for Sale” through the wonderful, charismat- family, my friends and my home- saw that another way of life is journalist? very alert, very attentive, especial- Now Sonita is 19, she lives “I scream to make up for a ic protagonist Sonita. Her fate is land so much,” she said after the possible. In the organization she Mehrpoor: I work as a ly when we go out of the area. We in Utah, in the US, where she got woman’s lifetime silence. I scream not a single case but one of thou- German premiere of the documen- got classes about life skills, for freelance journalist for a magazine have to be clever—not tell any- a scholarship and goes to a prop- on behalf of the deep wounds on sands of cases,” says TAG/ tary this May. “At first it was hard, example, how to negotiate. She er school for the first time in her my body. I am perplexed by this TRAUM producer Kerstin Krieg. but now my relation with my fam- learned how to say no.” called Sada-E-Azadi that is pub- body what we’re doing, where life. tradition and these people. They Afghanische Rapperin Sonita ily is excellent. They are my fans.” “Sonita” will be screened at lished by the ISAF [the NATO- we’re going, things like that. Her song “Brides for Sale” sell girls for money. No right to (picture-alliance/dpa/RealFiction/ The rapper and activist wants the Viennale film festival in Vien- led International Security Assis- R&K: Is there a story you’ve has more than half a million views choose,” raps Sonita with a price B. Badrouj) to dedicate her life to end child na, Austria, at the Filmplus festi- tance Force] in Kabul. I’m not the worked on recently that was par- on YouTube. This spring, she tag painted on her forehead and Sonita was named of the Top marriage not only in Afghanistan val in Cologne, Germany, and In- only one; there are some other ticularly striking? performed it live at the Women bruises on her face. 10 Badass Young Feminists but all over the world. convenient Films festival in freelancers working for this maga- Mehrpoor: Last year, [Jad] in the World summit in New She sings in Persian, and the “Sonita” had its world pre- The scale of the problem is Vilnius, Lithuania. The official zine across Afghanistan, in other Sleiman, a journalist who was York. English subtitles of her lyrics make miere at the International Docu- huge: One out of three girls in the DVD will be released in March provinces like Kandahar, Herat, working for the Stars and Stripes, Sonita escaped her fate as a her heartfelt message clear for the mentary Film Festival in Amster- developing world gets married be- 2017. and Kabul. But I’m the only came from Kabul because he want- child bride. This wouldn’t have whole world to understand: she dam in November 2015. The film fore turning 18 and one out of nine DW freelancer in Helmand. ed to go to Camp Bastion [now happened without Maghami’s R&K: What is the local media called Camp Shorabak]. It was the film. situation where you’re based? oldest military base in Helmand. Not all of Sonita’s friends es- Mehrpoor: There are some We traveled 215 miles by car and caped forced marriage How much does a 16-year- local journalists, and some foreign stayed there for three days. We old bride cost? journalists who are working for wanted to go with them and see When she turned 16, Soni- international news sources as well. the ANA guys patrolling in the vil- ta’s family decided to sell her into One of my colleagues works for lage like the ISAF forces [had been] marriage. In Afghanistan, it’s a Reuters. His name is Zainullah, and doing, because they were trained tradition driven by poverty, pa- he is the head of the journalist’s by the ISAF forces, trained very triarchy and poor education. She association in Helmand. There’s properly to do patrols in the vil- was valued at $9,000 (8,200 eu- also a guy who works for Tolo TV, lage and maintain the proper secu- ros). Her family needed the mon- one of the most popular TV chan- rity. ey to allow Sonita’s brother to nels in Afghanistan. There are some We did go with them out of buy a wife of his own. fixers in Kabul, but not in Hel- the [camp], but they did not do a Some of Sonita’s friends in mand. proper patrol. They just paused the NGO were already sold. “His R&K: Why is that? their 20 vehicles out of Gereshk [a name is Mohammad. He’s about 18,” says one of the girls in the Mehrpoor: The other journal- village near the camp] and did not documentary. “That’s nice! ists prefer that a fixer be a journal- do anything. Not even speak with They’re almost the same age!,” ist as well, because a journalist has the local people. After half an hour cheers another friend who wasn’t communication with officials and of staying there, they came back. as lucky: her future husband is a they know the area very well. If It was horrible. 30-year-old man, with kids and they find out that a fixer is not I was sad to learn that. We another wife. “Did you agree or [already] a journalist, probably came there to see the ANA guys did they beat you?” her friend there will be more problems com- patrolling very properly and we asks. “At first they beat me up. municating with the officials and wanted to take some good photos Then I agreed.” civilians who are traveling in the and videos and show to the world The film’s turning point area. I have been working as a jour- that the ANA guys were serving comes when Sonita asks: “Would nalist in Helmand for two years, the people even after the ISAF you buy me? I am for sale any- and I know the area, so I know the forces [left] Helmand. But the way,” looking straight into Maghami’s camera. And film- officials and commanders. I have ANA commander didn’t want to maker does, paying 2,000$ to free numbers for most of them, and go to the area, so we came back Sonita for six more months. when I need them I just call them, with nothing. That was a very bad Iranian filmmaker Rokhsareh or I travel to the checkpoint be- memory. In the Stars and Stripes, Ghaem Maghami fore I call them and I let them know Jad wrote an article about it. “I decided to do it. If I’d let and they say, “Yes, they’re wait- R&K: Do you think the Af- someone lose her life because of ing for you, you can come.” ghan government is transparent 2,000 dollars, I would have felt Taliban members are using with its people? bad for the rest of my life,” ex- schools as checkpoints Mehrpoor: I don’t think that plains Maghami. R&K: What type of stories the government of Afghanistan is By doing this, she was break- are the foreign journalists you very transparent with the people work with usually covering? of Afghanistan. Corruption in Af- Mehrpoor: It’s actually very ghanistan is a very big problem— Ground engagement leading cause of civilian casualties: UNAMA hard to find stories. Sune Engel thousands, millions of dollars have From P1 Rasmussen, who works for the been stolen by officials. I don’t unexploded ordnance caused the majority of the remaining civilian casualties (five percent), the statement added. “There is an urgent need for the government to implement the national Guardian, has traveled to Lashkar think that such a government can civilian casualty prevention and mitigation policy and for anti-government elements to cease the use of indiscriminate and illegal devices and tactics,” said Yamamoto. Gah [the capital of Helmand Prov- be very transparent with its citi- The statement noted UNAMA was deeply concerned by the continuing increase in child casualties, which have risen year-on-year since 2013. In the first nine months of 2016, ince] many times—he’s supposed zens. UNAMA documented 2,461 child casualties (639 deaths and 1,822 injured), a 15 percent increase on the same period in 2015. Ground engagements caused more than half of all child to be coming again in a few days— R&K: Is it possible to report casualties in 2016. The Mission documented 877 women casualties (240 deaths and 637 injured), a 12 percent decrease which is primarily due to fewer women casualties from suicide and we worked together on some on that corruption? and complex attacks, as well as from IEDs, it said. The statement underlined it ground engagements between pro-government forces and anti-government elements caused 3,254 civilian articles about child soldiers. I Mehrpoor: If you find out casualties (829 deaths and 2,425 injured), accounting for 39 percent of all civilian casualties. This marks an 18 percent increase compared to the same period in 2015. worked with him a lot on that. We that somebody is corrupt, because The intensification of ground fighting is directly related to the increase in civilian casualties from unexploded ordnance. UNAMA documented 510 civilian casualties (160 deaths and had another story about schools of the security situation we some- 350 injured), a 67 percent increase from the same period in 2015, the statement mentioned it. “Eighty-four percent of victims from unexploded ordnance were children”, said Danielle that are supposed to be educating times cannot publish [an article]. Bell, UNAMA Human Rights Director. “All parties must systematically track mark and clear unexploded ordinance in order to protect current and future generations of children from children, but, unfortunately, Tali- Another problem we have is that harm.” The statement identified notable decreases in civilian casualties caused by IEDs – 1,514 civilian casualties (496 deaths and 1,018 injured) amounting to a decrease of 22 percent ban members are using them as when we make the report, we have – and targeted killings – 835 civilian casualties (445 deaths and 390 injured) amounting to a decrease of 30 percent. It stated notwithstanding these decreases, attacks conducted by anti- checkpoints. But the Afghan Na- to think about both sides: the gov- government elements directly targeting civilians or in areas with a large civilian presence continued. UNAMA recorded attacks intentionally targeting peaceful civilian demonstrators, tional Security Forces [ANSF] are ernment, but also the Taliban. educational facilities, judicial and media workers, as well as attacks conducted in civilian-populated urban areas including bazaars and religious facilities. UNAMA reiterates that attacks directly targeting civilians may constitute war crimes and calls on all parties to the conflict to abide by international humanitarian law, the statement said. It underlined it UNAMA also also using the schools as check- When the Taliban attacks an ANSF documented numerous conflict-related incidents targeting health-care and educational facilities, as well as humanitarian de-miners, polio vaccinators, and those providing humanitarian points. checkpoint, they send messages to aid. Since 1 January 2016, UNAMA documented 75 incidents of attacks deliberately targeting education, including targeted killings, abduction of and threats against education personnel, R&K: Have you faced intimi- journalists telling us that they have and a suicide attack at the American University of Afghanistan on 24 August, which killed 13 civilians and injured 48. UNAMA calls on anti-government elements to cease the deliberate dation while reporting on those killed ANSF forces, this kind of targeting of civilians and civilian locations and to apply a definition of ‘civilians’ that is consistent with international humanitarian law, the statement added. UNAMA documented 1,897 types of stories? thing. civilian casualties (623 deaths and 1,274 injured) caused by pro-government forces in the first nine months of 2016, a 42 percent increase compared to the same period in 2015. The Mehrpoor: Finding such sto- Sometimes it’s not true, some- majority of civilian casualties caused by pro-government forces occurred in the context of ground fighting with anti-government elements, the statement asserted. It noted UNAMA is ries and working with foreign jour- times it is true. Since we cannot be similarly concerned by the rise in civilian casualties caused by aerial strikes by pro-government forces, which accounted for 292 civilian casualties (133 deaths and 159 injured) between nalists is not easy. We don’t feel sure, it means that we have to be 1 January and 30 September 2016 - a 72 percent increase from the same period in 2015. One third of these casualties were caused by international military forces. UNAMA welcomes very safe in Helmand Province. transparent. We should just tell the the government’s continued efforts to strengthen the protection of civilians in the conduct of hostilities, including its approval of a national policy on civilian casualty mitigation. Still, I think for a journalist there truth. UNAMA reiterates its call to the government to prioritize the execution of this policy, commencing with the completion of an action plan containing measurable objectives for its is a responsibility for them to roadsandkingdoms implementation, the statement concluded. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES MAIL has not done enough: Ghani Two US nationals President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday officially opened the killed in Kabul attack 17th international exhibition of AT News Report agricultural products in Badam Bagh of Kabul city and said the KABUL: One US soldier and one tion base by an unknown assail- efforts made in the agriculture sec- US civilian were killed in an attack ant, who was later killed. They tor is not satisfactory and a big by an unknown assailant Wednes- were conducting duties as part of part of agricultural land is not be- day in Kabul, the US Forces in the larger NATO mission to Train, ing cultivated. Afghanistan (USFOR-A) said in a Advise, and Assist the Afghan se- The president said 60 percent statement. curity services. An investigation of food is not secure in the coun- “One U.S. service member and is being conducted to determine the try and that 15 percent of the pop- ulation faces a hunger problem. one U.S. civilian died as a result of exact circumstances of the event,” Ghani also blasted the Minis- wounds sustained in Kabul, Af- the statement added. try of Agriculture and Irrigation ghanistan today (Wednesday). The statement furthered, U.S. and said it has not built a water One U.S. service member and two Department of Defense Policy is distribution network from the Sal- U.S. civilians also sustained to withhold the identity of those ma Dam. wounds and are currently stable,” involved pending next-of-kin no- "Salma Dam, the Afghan-India the statement added. tification. friendship dam, has been complet- “Anytime we lose a member “We will release additional in- EMERGENCY ed and now the ministry should of our team, it is deeply painful” formation as appropriate.” CALLS use its water, but over the past said General John W. Nicholson, Afghan defense ministry also year, the ministry failed to do so," Commander of U.S. Forces-Af- confirmed the news and said that Ghani said. ghanistan and Resolute Support. the incident took place around Police Ghani further added a big part “Our sympathies go out to the 11:00am after a man opened for of the agricultural land in the coun- families, loved ones, and the units on foreign troops in Kabul. 100 - 119 try is not being used and as a re- of those involved in this incident. “A man in army uniform sult Afghanistan imports one mil- lion tons of wheat yearly. To those who continue to target opened fire on foreign troops, kill- Hospitals "Development in the agricul- Coalition forces, ANDSF, and Af- ing two and wounded five others ture sector is not acceptable for However, Assadullah Zamir, fron cultivation in the country. the government to help them. "We ghan civilians, RS and USFOR-A in Rishkoar area, south of the city. FMIC Hospital the Afghan people and for me. Minister of Agriculture and Irriga- "We have started development urge the government to help vil- will continue to pursue our Train, “The assailant was also killed in Because the land that is being cul- tion said the ministry has plans projects in the provinces and vil- lage women play a bigger role in Advise, and Assist mission to help foreign forces return fire.” Behind Kabul Medical tivated now is equal to two-thirds for establishing water distribution lages that were not practiced be- agriculture and to allocate devel- our partners create a better Af- However, he did not provide University: of the land that was cultivated dur- networks, poultry farms, green- fore," Zamir said. Meanwhile, a opment budgets for empowering ghanistan.” further information, but said that 0202500200-+93793275595 ing the presidency of Daud Khan," houses, gardens, saffron quality number of women in agriculture, women in the long-term," said “The two individuals were a probe team has been assigned to he added. labratories and expanding of saf- voiced their challenges, and urged Hafiza, a female farmer. killed during an attack near a coali- start inquiry after the incident. Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital Pule Bagh-e- Umomi Afghan child migrant reunited with his brother after 10 years 070263672 A 14-year-boy among the nately his brother had documenta- first child migrants to arrive in tion to support his story. Khairkhana Hospital Britain from Calais has told Sky Aemal was one of 14 unac- 0799-321007 News about the struggles he faced companied youngsters the Home living there. Office bussed-in to Croydon. His 2401352 Aemal Khan arrived on only belongings were the clothes Monday where he was reunited he wore. with his older brother Asif who However, his reunion with his Indira Gandhi Children he had not seen in a decade. brother will be short-lived as au- Hospital, Wazir Akbar “It was a great moment, thorities plan to put him into fos- when I saw him after a long time, ter care. For now, he has a simple Khan, Kabul 2301372 more than 10 years,” said Asif, a wish - to go to school and get an 25-year-old chef who has been education. living in the UK for 11 years. The Government says it will Ibn-e- Seena “When I met him I hugged resettle 3,000 refugee children but Pul-e-Artan, Kabul him and kissed him, he was so with such slow action and the small when I saw him before. He’s camp due to be dismantled within 2100359 changed a lot, but brothers, if you weeks, the future for many young- see him after 20 years you can sters still stuck there is uncertain. recognise.” Officials from the Home Of- Wazir Akbar Khan Eight months ago Aemal fice are spending the coming week Hospital fled Afghanistan and followed his at the camp in Calais, attempting brother to the UK - it was a jour- to identify further unaccompanied 2301741, 2301743 ney he made alone. minors who are eligible to come to :: Court rejects request to the UK. Ali Abad delay ‘Jungle’ migrant camp dem- The French authorities were olition in Calais due to begin dismantling the set- Shahrara, Kabul He has spent the past five tlement this week but have delayed months stranded in Calais’ the process, partly to allow for the 2100439 ‘Jungle’ migrant camp, despite UK to identify youngsters eligible having a right of residence with to come here. Malalai Maternity family in Britain. Under EU legislation, known During an emotional inter- as the Dublin Regulation, any asy- Hospital view, he said: ”Sometimes I lum seeker who is under 18, unac- 2201377/ 2301743 missed mum, sometimes I cried companied and who has a parent, as I was not with my family; no sibling or grandparent in the UK is legislation known as the Dubbs do not have relations in the UK. with complications. Most of the other forms of ID. Proving their parents. I missed my mum.” entitled to be reunited with their Amendment, the British Govern- The challenge for Home Of- minors are not young children but age, that they are travelling alone Banks It was a drawn-out process family. ment has also pledged to take in fice officials now is to identity teenagers - 15, 16 and 17-year- and the existence of relatives in to get him to Britain, but fortu- Under separate UK some unaccompanied minors who those eligible - a process fraught olds, many without passports or the UK is extremely hard. lbc Da Afghanistan Bank 2100302, 2100303 Security forces Bakhtar Bank Interpreterraped by QRCS INAUGURATES MAJORAID kill 150 militants 0776777000 Azizi Bank allegedAfghan migrants PROJECTS INAFGHANISTAN in Ghazni 0799 700900 A delegation of Qatar Red Cres- fields of education, water, and Federation of the Red Cross and AT Monitoring Desk cent Society (QRCS) has visited healthcare. Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Pashtany Bank near Calais ‘Jungle’ camp Afghanistan to inaugurate a num- During the visit, meetings were International Committee of the KABUL: The Afghan security forc- ber of development projects com- held with representatives of part- Red Cross (ICRC), the World es have killed at least 150 Taliban 2102908, 2103868 pleted by QRCS’s mission there ners like the Afghan Red Crescent Health Organisation (WHO), the insurgents during two weeks of over the past few months, in the Society (ARCS), the International Office of the United Nations High operation carried out in five dis- Air Services Commissioner for Refugees (UN- tricts of southern Ghazni prov- HCR), and the Afghan Ministry of Health. ince, an official said on Wednes- Safi Airways day. Also, the delegation visited 020 22 22 222 Paktia Province to open two new In addition to that more than schools built as part of a pro- 41 rebels were also wounded dur- gramme to support education in ing operation. Ariana remote areas of the country. “Clearing operations still un- 020-2100270 In partnership with the Min- derway in Ghazni city, the pro- istry of Education and the Afghan vincial capital, and Andar, Giro, Charitable Foundation, educational Deh Yak, Qarabagh and Zanakhan Kam Air aid was distributed to several districts for the past two weeks,” 0799974422 schools in Zurmat and Mirzaka provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Districts of Paktia. Aminullah Amarkhel told news- Hotels A female interpreter for a French dent. The $376,780 aid included men. journalist has been raped near the “The victim was examined by classroom tents, desks, seats, text- Safi Landmark books, stationery, and lighting for He added despite 150 mili- notorious Calais ‘Jungle’ migrant a doctor, who confirmed rape. tants were killed and 41 other camp, the authorities confirmed. Samples will… determine the ge- the two schools, which together have 2,868 students. wounded, several villages have 020-2203131 Reports have also emerged that the netic profile of the attacker,” Mar- been cleared from the presence of woman’s attackers were three Pa- conville said. In Khost Province, the delega- ERENA tion visited two healthcare units militants. S shto-speaking male asylum seek- Police have opened a manhunt Moreover, he said that three ers. for the three attackers and have covered by a programme to oper- 0799654000 The incident took place when begun an investigation into the ate 100 health centres for two commanders of the Taliban—Mul- a Pashto interpreter and a freelance case. The Calais ‘Jungle’ houses years, with a budget of $901,837. lah Ahmadi, Mullah Hanif and New Rumi Restaurant journalist were making a story between 5,000 and 10,000 asylum Mullah Khalid Mansor were about the ‘Jungle’ camp for France seekers, according to estimates among those killed in the opera- 0776351347 5 TV channel on Tuesday morn- from different human right groups tion. ing, according to Pascal Marcon- working on the site. Kabul’s historical sites in “I assure Ghazni people that Internet Services ville, prosecutor of the city of On Tuesday, an administrative Taliban would not be able to cap- Boulogne-sur-Mer in the Pas-de- court in Lille upheld its decision ture even a single checkpoint,” he UA Telecom Calais region. to close the notorious camp. Ac- said. 0796701701 / 0796702702 “A 38-year-old Afghan inter- cording to the court, dismantling need of reconstruction Mohammad Eshaq, a resident preter, based in Paris, was accom- of the camp “does not disregard of Tasang area of Deh Yak district, panied by a freelance journalist… the principle of prohibition of in- The Ministry of Information and ings. They must be protected in keeper, Kamran, said. Exchange Rate Culture (MoIC) on Tuesday raised its original shape,” a shopkeeper According to local residents, told Pajhwok Afghan News that who was preparing a documenta- human and degrading treatment.” heavy clashes between Afghan ry for France 5 about unaccompa- The removal of the camp deep concerns over new construc- Ustad Salim said. the buildings, which were de- Purchase: nied children,” Marconville said. “aims, on the contrary... to put an tions replacing a number of histor- “Government should take no- stroyed for new constructions, forces and Taliban were ongoing in Somewhere between 2am and end to such treatment, to which ical sites in the city, referring to tice of this issue,” another shop- were 100 years old. their areas for the past several days. One US$ = Civilians also suffered casualties 3am local time the interpreter and migrants are currently subjected,” the construction of a new building 66.89Afs the journalist were approached by it added. The inhabitants of the in downtown Kabul. during the clashes, he said. three Pashto-speaking men, ac- camp – who are mainly from the Buildings constructed along- Noorullah, a resident of Giro One Pound Sterling= cording to the prosecutor. Middle East, Africa and Afghani- side the Kabul River are said to be Unity only solution to district, also said clashes in their 86.77Afs The attackers were “a priori stan – have traveled to France in the first European style architec- areas had been ongoing over the One Euro = migrants” from Afghanistan, a ju- the hope of crossing the English ture in Afghanistan and heritage of past one month. “Every day at dicial source told AFP, quoting Channel to the UK, often having Kabul’s ancient city. However, one least one house is hit by a mortar 74.18Afs witness accounts. had their applications rejected else- of these buildings has been totally overcome current . . . shell and several civilians are being 1000 Pak Rs = The alleged asylum seekers where, or in expectation of better demolished which has also dam- From P1 killed or injured,” Pajhwok Afghan 621Afs initially wanted to steal the pair’s prospects in Britain than in the rest aged the feature of the city. “They have to rebuild the He also urged National Unity Government leaders to hold efforts News quoted him, as saying. equipment and camera. of the EU. The topic of unaccom- However, a Taliban spokes- Sale: One of the men then reported- panied children in Calais has re- building from the same material and and begin negotiation with Taliban in order to reach durable peace na- tionwide. Welcomed signing of peace deal with Hezb-e-Islami Afghan- man, Qari Zabihullah Mujhahid, One US$ = ly pulled out a knife and forced cently been widely discussed in the in same style,” said Abdul Qadir 67.09 Afs the interpreter to have sex with media. Earlier in October, the Brit- Arzo, head of publication depart- istan led by Hekmatyar, he stated that joining of HIA will have positive rejected casualties, adding that him, while two others stood near- ish Red Cross said there are cur- ment of the Kabul Municipality. impact, but war never will be ended nationwide. Government must there was no operation carried out One Pound Sterling= by, threatening the journalist with rently some 1,000 unaccompanied “The people must act against work over negotiation with Taliban fighter to bring peace and stability by Afghan security forces in Ghaz- 87.57Afs a knife. children in the camp, with at least such a move which affects the his- across the country, he asserted. Killing of innocent people including ni. Afghan forces and displaced issues not acceptable anymore for Afghan One Euro= Once the attackers had let them 178 of them eligible to go to the tory,” said Bashir Bezhan, an Af- He just confirmed the killing 74.78 Afs go, the victims rushed to a police UK, due to existing family ties ghan journalist. people, it is essential to the government to make a clear policy and of two militants in Gilan district address all issues as soon as possible, he underlined. station in Calais to report the inci- there. RT “They are the ancient build- on Tuesday. 1000 Pak Rs= 629 THURSDAY . OCTOBER 20, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

NEW DELHI: Apart from the Navy was signed in Goa.” major defence deals signed during The Defence Ministry did not the India-Russia summit, Russia comment on the matter. has agreed to lease a second nucle- Earlier India had received a ar attack submarine to India. The nuclear submarine of this type- deal is purportedly worth $2 bil- Project 971 also known as Akula- lion. This agreement, which was II- on lease from Russia. The Indi- not made public, was signed on the an Navy currently operates this sidelines of the BRICS summit in Akula-II class submarine called Goa last weekend with other ma- INS Chakra. jor defence deals such as the S-400 The INS Chakra is a 8,140 Triumf air defence systems, the tonne nuclear powered attack sub- joint venture of Kamov helicop- marine. India had sponsored the ters and frigates, worth billions of building and sea trials of the sub- dollars. marine provided it was given to A report written by Alexei the Indian Navy on lease for 10 Nikolski, a columnist with a Rus- years. It was launched as K-152 sian daily Vedomosti reads, “Ac- Nerpa in October 2008 and entered cording to a person in the Russian service with the Russian Navy in defence ministry, the long dis- 2009. The submarine was leased cussed lease to transfer a multi- to the Indian Navy in 2011. Chakra India has “outmanoeuvred” Paki- demands together with like-mind- purpose Project 971 nuclear sub- was commissioned into the Indian stan by effectively branding it as a ed countries. This common front marine to India from the Russian Navy in April, 2012. “regional pariah” during Goa became particularly valuable for BRICS-BIMSTEC summit where New Delhi, especially as its ardu- the country presented itself as a ous bids for Nuclear Suppliers “bright spot”, strengthening its Group’s (NSG) membership as case for the NSG membership and well as for a permanent seat on an a permanent seat in UNSC, state- enlarged United Nation Security run Chinese media said on Wednes- Council have both met frustration,” day. “Given the uneasy background it said. of Indo-Pak tension, which esca- Surgical Strikes: Eyewitness- lated last month, India’s inclusion es' Accounts Validate India's Claim of BIMSTEC (The Bay of Bengal Of A Lethal Strike Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Tech- The daily said that India suc- nical and Economic Cooperation) cessfully projected itself as the bore even thicker geo-strategic con- fastest growing economy com- notations,” an article in the state- pared to other members of the run Global Times said. BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, Chi- Chinese Media Critical Of In- na and South Africa). dia- Here's What Happened.mp4 “During the summit, India pre- The development assistance to Sri placed persons, and developing the pean Commission, Federica Mogh- “As India invited all countries sented itself as a bright spot in a Lanka has nearly been doubled by rural areas. He added that the erini in Brussels on Tuesday. Pro- in the region except Pakistan, it in bloc whose other members have the European Union to €210 mil- progress achieved by Sri Lanka over jetcs including support of the gov- effect consigned Pakistan to be a been buffeted by economic head- lion (approximately Rs. 34 billion) the course of the last 21 months ernment's reconciliation priorities regional pariah,” the article titled winds to varying degrees. With a up to 2020 compared to the previ- has not failed to gain favor with under the Peacebuilding Priority The UN’s world heritage body has and Meghna rivers and are one of ‘India uses BRICS to outmanoeu- GDP growth rate of 7.5 per cent ous period (2007-2013). The Co- the European Union. Wickremes- Plan, the resettlement of Internal- made an urgent intervention to stop the world’s largest surviving man- vre Pakistan’, it said. in 2015 against a rather gloomy lombo Post quoted Sri Lankan inghe accompanied by the Minis- ly Displaced People, assisting tran- the construction of a coal power grove forests. These liminal eco- Referring to India’s decision global backdrop, India has replaced Prime Minister Ranil Wickremes- ter for Law and Order, Sagala Rat- sitional justice and building local station in Bangladesh. systems are already greatly threat- not to attend the South Asian As- China as the world’s fastest-grow- inghe saying that while the aid nayake met with the High Repre- government capacity, as well as Unesco said the plant could ened by rising sea levels which sociation for Regional Cooperation ing large economy,” the article said. granted by the European Union sentative of the European Union supporting development in Sri damage the world heritage-listed threatens to drown the fragile trees. (SAARC) summit to be held in “Only three years ago, India will be aimed at establishing sus- for Foreign Affairs and Security Lanka's poorest areas will be fi- Sundarbans mangrove forest, Payal Parekh, a programme Islamabad after the Uri attack, it was still labeled as one of the tainable peace, resettlement of dis- Policy/Vice-President of the Euro- nanced by the EU. (ANI) which houses up to 450 Bengal ti- director at the NGO 350.org said said, “The collapse of the SAARC ‘RIBS’, whose feeble and volatile gers. A fact finding mission, pub- there were alternatives available to summit presented India a rare op- growth contrasted sharply to Chi- lished by Unesco and the Interna- provide electricity to Bang- portunity to get rid of any con- na’s robust performance. Nowa- tional Union for the Conservation ladeshis. straints Islamabad may have over days, the Russian and Brazilian of Nature (IUCN) on Tuesday, “Solar panels already provide the regional group, as the same economies have deteriorated into found that the proposed site of the affordable, reliable energy to 18 group would soon gather in Goa in recession, South Africa struggles Rampal coal power plant, which million people in the country, and the absence of Pakistan”. to avoid the same fate, and Chi- is 65km north of the Sundarbans other renewable energy options “A major difference between na’s decades-long economic boom world heritage area, would expose like wind power can be harnessed the Goa summit and the previous has geared down,” it said. the downriver forests to pollution instead of condemning the Bang- ones was that New Delhi put the “But India finds confidence in NEW DELHI: As Myanmar em- and acid rain. ladeshi people to the toxic impacts (BIMSTEC) in tandem with the talking about economic matters. barks on a journey of democracy Ships carrying coal and other from the 4.7 million tonnes of coal BRICS meeting,” it said. After all, the setbacks undergone and development, India today as- material for the plant’s function- Rampal is set to burn every year,” By bringing regional countries by its fellow countries made In- sured it of unstinted support as ing will move through the man- she said. – Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, dia’s recent economic achieve- the two traditionally close neigh- grove reserve, requiring dredging The Rampal station is financed Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan – ments shine even brighter in com- bours agreed to enhance ties in a and dumping of 32.1 million cubic by the Indian government. The together with the major emerging parison,” it said. range of areas including security metres of river bottom at first and Unesco/IUCN team noted that in- economies of the BRICS, the dai- “Although India’s domestic and trade during talks between further annual dredging. This adequate environmental assess- ly said, India breathed legitimacy reforms have only made limited Prime Minister Narendra Modi threatens the breeding grounds of ments had been conducted prior and substance into an otherwise inroads in key areas such as land and Myanmar's top leader Aung the endangered Ganges and Ir- to the initial land purchase for the “hallow and moribund acronym acquisition and labour regulation, Sung Suu Kyi. rawaddy river dolphins. plant. Also on Tuesday, the Eco- organisation”. an aspirant (Prime Minister Naren- The two sides signed three Fresh water supply to the nomic Times reported that an In- BRICS 2016: PM Modi Says dra) Modi equipped with newly- agreements to boost cooperation mangroves, already stretched by dian-Bangla people’s movement Terrorism Threat To Eco-Prosper- gained confidence on India’s in power, banking and insurance agriculture, must not be placed had written to the Indian prime ity, Mothered By Our Neighbour growth prospects has clearly made sectors besides deciding to step up Excellency, to your second home! cluding militancy-hit Nagaland and under any more stress, the observ- minister Narendra Modi, urging “While the rest of the BRICS the country more proactive,” it ties in areas of oil and gas, agricul- "Excellency, you are an iconic Manipur. Giving details of the ers said. Their report concluded him to rethink the development. members would never openly en- said. ture, renewable energy and health leader," he said in a media state- talks, Modi said the two countries that the power station posed “a “40% of the Sundarbans is in dorse either side in the Indo-Pak For India, the daily said, this care. ment. Suu Kyi had done her grad- agreed to enhance engagement in serious threat to the site”. India and any damage to that will tension, India in a way secured its BRICS summit has been a won- It is Suu Kyi's first visit to uation from Delhi University. several areas including agriculture, “The mission recommends have devastating impact on thou- stance vis-à-vis Pakistan by tak- derful platform to coordinate ef- India after her National League for In her comments, the Myan- power, renewable energy and that the Rampal power plant sands of fishworkers and forest ing advantages of its agenda-set- forts in reforming current global Democracy wrested power from merese leader invoked Mahatma power sector. "Let me assure you, project be cancelled and relocated dwellers depending on it, apart ting powers for the summits,” it economic and finance governance. the military junta in a landmark Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and Excellency, that as you lead My- to a more suitable location,” said a from the damage to the natural pro- said. “While the prospect of BIM- “This effect becomes more election earlier this year. Suu Kyi, said Myanmar drew huge inspira- anmar to become a modern, secure, Unesco statement on Tuesday. tection from natural calamities like STEC as a more effective alterna- visible as the operationalisation of who could not become Myanmar's tion from the two Indian leaders in economically prosperous and bet- Thousands to march against tsunami and cyclones,” said the All tive to SAARC remains ambigu- the New Development Bank President due to a constitutional its struggle for democracy. ter connected nation, India and its coal plant threat to Bangladesh's India Union of Forest Working ous, a subcontinent grouping with- (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve provision but has full control over The Prime Minister said as friendship will stand with you in Sundarbans forest People and National Alliance of out Pakistan balancing and check- Arrangement (CRA) have put pres- the government, holds the position close and friendly neighbours, the full support and solidarity," Modi The statement also warned People’s Movements (NAPM). ing a dominant India may well raise sures on the current international of State Councillor and Foreign security interests of India and said. Effusive in his praise, Modi Bangladesh that the Sundarbans India’s National Thermal Pow- suspicions and fear for smaller finance system, giving India tangi- Minister. Myanmar are closely aligned. said, "Your clear vision, mature forest reserve would be considered er Corporation, which owns the countries,” it said. ble leverage in demanding relevant Welcoming Suu Kyi, the Prime The two countries agreed that leadership, struggle and eventual for possible inscription on the list proposed plant, has been contact- The summit also helped India reforms,” it said. Minister described India as her close coordination to ensure secu- success in establishing democracy of world heritage in danger at the ed for comment. to push for its membership in the For example, the Goa Decla- second home and assured that "In- rity in the areas along border, and in Myanmar has inspired people next meeting of the World Heri- A second coal plant, the Orion NSG, which was blocked by Chi- ration urges advanced European dia and its friendship will stand sensitivity to each other's strate- across the world. "It is indeed an tage Committee in 2017. This list- power station, is also scheduled na, as well as for a permanent seat economies to cede two chairs on with you in full support and soli- gic interests, will help both neigh- honour for us to receive you in ing is used as a diplomatic stick for construction near the site. in the UN Security Council the Executive Board of the IMF, darity." bours, he said. India. We are also grateful for your for countries seen to be failing their Unesco officials questioned Bang- (UNSC), it said. to which India may have an “up- "You are no stranger to the Myanmar, considered one of participation at the BIMSTEC and commitment to protect world her- ladeshi assertions that the plant “The BRICS summit brings per hand to claim thanks to its huge people of India. The sights, the India's strategic neighbours, shares the BRICS-BIMSTEC outreach itage sites. had been cancelled, given it re- India an ideal mechanism to artic- potential and robust growth re- sounds and vibrancy of Delhi are a 1,640-km-long border with a Summit in Goa a couple of days The Sundarbans straddle the mained apparently active on the ulate and push for its reformist cently,” it said. familiar to you. Welcome back, number of northeastern states in- ago." delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra Orion website. Protests not against CPEC, PTI chief assures Chinese envoy ISLAMABAD: Chinese person Naeemul Haq. tance in the background of the Ambassa-dor Sun Weidong called Insiders said that the PTI lead- PTI’s plans to shut down Islama- on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) ership explained the ins and outs bad and its continued reservations chairman Imran Khan at the lat- of the party’s protest movement over CPEC routes. Only recently, ter’s Bani Gala residence on Tues- and its planned lockdown of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Min- day. capital city on Nov 2. According ister Pervez Khattak had again The gist of the meeting, accord- to party sources, PTI leaders clar- voiced concerns over the way the ing to PTI sources, was to dispel ified that its planned siege of the federal government was ignoring the impression that the party’s city was not meant to derail the the province in setting up econom- ongoing accountability movement present government, the system or ic zones under the corridor. against the prime minister was create chaos in the country. Earlier this year, the Chinese somehow meant to sabotage the There would absolutely be no embassy in Islamabad — in an China-Pakis-tan Economic Corri- threat to the diplomatic corps, unprecedented move — had issued dor (CPEC). since the sealing of the city was a press statement calling on the The two men had a frank dis- only meant to force the govern- political leadership of the country cussion over how Chinese invest- ment into accepting a resulted-ori- to resolve their issues for the ment was crucial for Pakistan’s ented investigation into the Pana- smooth implementation of the future and prosperity, sources said. ma Papers leaks, PTI leaders told CPEC. The PTI leadership waxed lyr- the Chinese ambassador. However, both the current and ical about China’s ongoing support Every now and then, the former ruling parties of Khyber for Pakistan at all regional and in- PML-N leadership has targeted Pakhtunkhwa — the PTI and the ternational forums during the hour- the PTI chairman, saying that his Awami National Party — contin- long meeting. In particular, the continued protests have delayed ue to claim and protest against sources said, PTI leaders talked ongoing development projects be- what they call the unfair distribu- about how China — through its ing carried out under the banner of tion of CPEC-linked investment powerful and unequivocal diplo- the CPEC. The government, all the that was flowing into the country. matic efforts — was defending way from the prime minister down “Certainly, given the billions Pakistan against hostile nations. to his cabinet ministers, could also of dollars in investment being The meeting was requested by be heard accusing the PTI chair- pumped in by Chinese companies, the Chinese ambassador and also man of delaying the planned visit China will always want political attended by PTI vice chairman of the Chinese president back in stability in the country,” com- Shah Mehmood Qureshi, chief Sept 2014. mented a senior economic report- whip in the National Assembly Dr For independent observers, er, who has covered the regional Shireen Mazari and chief spokes- the meeting carried critical impor- economy for several decades. THURSDAY . OCTOBER 20, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Iran rejects US demand for release of dual nationals Iran said on Wednesday it would accept no US “interference” af- ter Washington demanded the Allied forces fighting ISIS in Mo- release of a dual national and his sul say they expect the extremist 80-year-old father given 10 year group to use crude chemical weap- sentences for espionage. ons as it tries to defend Mosul The State Department de- from an assault to drive them out. manded the immediate release One official told Reuters that of Siamak and Baqher Namazi, US forces have gathered ISIS shell both Iranian-American dual na- fragments to test for chemical tionals, after their sentences weapons because the group has were announced on Tuesday. been known to use mustard gas in But foreign ministry the past. US officials said in a pre- spokesman Bahram Qassemi viously undisclosed statement that told Iranian media: “The gov- it had confirmed the presence of a ernment and the Iranian people sulfur mustard agent on ISIS mu- give no importance to the state- nitions on Oct. 5. ments and interference of Amer- Meanwhile, Senior Iraqi Gen- ican officials and their efforts eral Lt. Gen. Talib Shaghati told to divide the ranks of the Irani- reporters at a military base on an people. “The American Tuesday that up to 6,000 ISIS threats only add to the wall of fighters are currently inside the mistrust Iranians have regard- city. He did not say how many of ing the United States.” them are foreigners. Washington expressed con- Displaced people, who are cern over the health of the elder fleeing from clashes in Al-hud vil- Namazi, a former UN Chil- lage, south of Mosul, head to Qay- dren’s Fund employee who also yarah, during an operation to at- served as the governor of an Ira- tack Islamic State militants in nian province before the Islam- Mosul. (Reuters) ic revolution of 1979. Sources say humanitarian agen- Both were jailed for 10 cies are bracing between 100,000 years for “espionage and col- and 400,000 people fleeing the laboration with the American fighting in Mosul and making their government”, Tehran prosecu- way toward Syria, Iraq’s Kurdi- tor Abbas Jafari Dolat-Abadi sh-administrated region or the bor- announced on Tuesday. der with Turkey. Three other Iranian-Ameri- Kerem Kinik, head of the Turk- can dual nationals -- Farhad ish Red Crescent organization, told Abd-Saleh, Kamran Ghaderi and The Associated Press on Wednes- Alireza Omidvar -- were also day that the “humanitarian aspect” sentenced to 10 years on the of the Mosul operation had not same charges, along with a US been well thought out by the coa- resident from Lebanon, Nezar lition forces. Zaka. Migrant killed in clash at camp near Calais A migrant died Tuesday after a clash erupted between Sudanese and Eritrean migrants at a small Philippine President Rodrigo Du- States - lavished his Chinese hosts acerbating tensions with China over off his plane and into a warm em- camp near Calais, local authori- terte’s effusive message of friend- with conciliatory words and plead- the South China Sea, as other US- brace with Foreign Minister Wang ties told AFP. ship on his visit to Beijing this week ed earnestly for economic aid. backed Southeast Asian neighbors Yi - who according to Chinese re- While the man’s death was has handed China a public relations Zhan Jiang, a journalism pro- would have him do, he said. ports has not met a foreign leader the first in the Norrent-Fontes bonanza just three months after fessor at the Beijing Foreign Stud- “They say that all the nations on the tarmac since 2014. But his camp, home to some 150 to 200 Beijing suffered a humiliating de- ies University, said he has rarely would weigh in by my side, (but) I posture in China has been met with people, other migrant camps in feat at an international tribunal. seen a state visit accompanied by said it is close to a third world war,” skepticism back home. Although the area have seen similar fatal- The state-owned Chinese me- so many interviews from state he told CCTV. “What would be his supporters have cheered his ities. Norrent-Fontes is located dia that sought to portray Du- media. “The visit has strategic sig- my point in insisting on the own- diplomatic pivot away from the some 60 kilometers (40 miles) terte’s predecessor and the arbi- nificance and China wants to ex- ership of that body of water when United States on social media, the from the port city of Calais. The tration panel as American puppets press its welcome, but Duterte also the world is exploding?” country’s major media outlets Calais officials have vowed to this summer have now rolled out has a message to convey and he’s Someday, he added, the South have questioned his remarks in demolish the notorious “Jungle” what Chinese media scholars de- willing to give that same message China Sea will just be known as China, said Richard Heydarian, a camp there “within days”. scribe as a rare welcome for the to different Chinese outlets over the China Sea. “One hundred years professor of political science at De On Tuesday the migrant Philippine president, who this and over,” Zhan said. “In the years from now, it’s really meaningless,” La Salle University in Manila. succumbed to his injuries a day week downplayed his country’s I’ve followed the Chinese media I he said. “The oceans cannot feed Honeymoon period “The main- after “a fight erupted between dispute with Beijing over South don’t think I’ve ever seen that.” us all. Your fish is my fish.” stream media is saying it doesn’t inebriated Sudanese and Eritre- China Sea territory. In a 12-minute China Central Wish list sound right to be so deferential to an migrants” in the camp, a But the overtures have drawn Television interview broadcast Duterte outlined his wish list the very country that has occu- spokesman for the local author- criticism of Duterte at home in the Wednesday, Duterte cast the two of help from Beijing, led first by pied Philippine territory, and that ities said. Philippines, where the public is countries as bound as brothers by his hope that China would include has provided negligible aid during The authorities did not re- wary of taking a deferential atti- the South China Sea and men- the Philippines in the Asian giant’s Typhoon Haiyan,” said Heydari- veal his age or his nationality. tude to a country regarded as a tioned his own Chinese ancestry - massive Silk Road economic an. “Now he’s popular enough to Three migrants were detained as bully. As his visit unfolded this his grandfather was an immigrant project. Shui responded: “We never shape public sentiment and ame- authorities launched a probe week, Chinese state media aired a from Xiamen province - which, he forget you.” Other Chinese out- liorate opponents, but that’s not into the fight, the spokesman series of interviews in which Du- said, explains his personal sinceri- lets this week have followed suit guaranteed a year from now. He’s said. Two migrants -- Ethiopi- terte - who has repeatedly voiced ty. Developing his country’s econ- in their tone of coverage, beginning lucky this is his honeymoon peri- an and Sudanese -- were killed strident criticism of the United omy was more important than ex- with the moment Duterte stepped od.” in similar fights in the “Jungle” camp this summer. Most of the 33 migrant deaths in the Calais region since January 2015 have been caused by road accidents, with many A pause in Russian and Syrian gov- UN peacekeeping chief Herve Lad- Machar has been replaced by losing their lives as they at- ernment air strikes on rebel-held sous is pleading with the Security Taban Deng Gai and is now in tempted to climb onto lorries areas of Aleppo held for a second Council to impose an arms embar- South Africa for medical treatment. heading towards Britain under day Wednesday, although ground go on South Sudan where he ex- He has called for renewed war with cover of night. fighting continued in the historic pects an upsurge in fighting with the SPLA forces of President Sal- Old City, a monitor said. the coming end of the rainy sea- va Kiir. Turkish police Washington had voiced skep- son. Ladsous told reporters that “On the SPLA side, they do ticism about how long the lull an- he had made his appeal directly to entertain the idea that they could kill suspected nounced by Moscow from 0700 the council during a closed-door achieve a military victory, so the GMT on Tuesday in anticipation meeting on Monday. political process comes second,” a ISIS suicide of a wider ceasefire would last. “I think an arms embargo senior UN official said. bomber But 24 hours after the start, should happen now and that’s even South Sudan descended into the Syrian Observatory for Human very late,” Ladsous told reporters war in December 2013 after Kiir Turkish police shot dead a sus- Rights said there had been no air on Tuesday. “The rainy season is accused his former deputy Machar pected ISIS militant who was strikes on rebel-held east Aleppo, coming to a close and that has fre- of plotting a coup. believed to be planning a sui- which had been heavily bombed quently been the time of the year Tens of thousands of people cide bomb attack in the capital since the army launched an offen- when people go back to military have died and more than 2.5 mil- Ankara, state-run Anadolu sive to recapture it on September operations.” The council is weigh- lion have been driven from their Agency reported on Wednes- 22. ing its next steps in South Sudan homes in the nearly three-year war, day. A counter terror squad had “There have been no air raids after the government in Juba which has been marked by appall- tracked the suspect to the ninth from yesterday morning until showed little cooperation with UN ing levels of rape and killings. floor of a building on the out- now,” Observatory head Rami plans to deploy a 4,000-strong re- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- skirts of Ankara, where he was Abdel Rahman told AFP. gional force. The council voted in moon said in a letter to the council killed in a gunfight at around 3 Moscow said the lull was in- August to deploy the force in Juba last week that Kiir’s government am (0000 GMT) after opening tended to give the more than and warned that if the government was imposing “significant limita- fire in response to a police call 250,000 civilians trapped in east opposed the plan it would face an tions” to the proposed new force. to surrender. Police found ex- Aleppo time to prepare to leave arms embargo. Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda plosive materials at the scene the city during the eight-hour Prospects for peace in South have offered to contribute troops, and Governor Ercan Topaca ceasefire announced for Thursday. Sudan faded when rebel leader but the Juba government has yet told reporters there were sus- Government forces, which Reik Machar, who had been ap- to give its approval for the make- picions that the suspect planned have kept rebel areas under near- pointed vice president of a new up of the force, which will be un- to target public ceremonies in continuous siege since mid-July, unity government, fled Juba fol- der the command of the UN mis- the capital, Anadolu reported. have said they will open six corri- dors for the safe passage of fleeing civilians. The ceasefire is scheduled to begin at 0500 GMT on Thursday. lowing heavy fighting in July. sion in South Sudan. It said the man was registered in the southeastern city of Di- yarbakir and was born in 1992. Having received intelligence that militants were planning at- tacks in the capital, the Ankara governor’s office on Monday Yemeni activists called for pro- their efforts to reject the coup car- banned public meetings and tests in the Yemeni capital Sanaa ried out by Houthi militias and marches until the end of Novem- on Wednesday to demonstrate supporters of former president Ali ber. against the Houthi militias for re- Abdullah Saleh. The ban, enforced under jecting to pay the salaries of state During his meeting in Riyadh emergency rule imposed after an employees. with tribal leaders from the Hajjah attempted coup in July, came Activists had made similar governorate, Ahmar voiced the as Turkey pursued a near two- calls in the past to protest against importance of taking a firm and month-old military operation in Houthi militias in Sanaa and against strong position that opposes the Syria in support of rebels to the deteriorating living conditions. rebeals' mobilization attempts to drive ISIS from its southern The militias which control involve tribes in the fighting along border.ISIS and Kurdish mili- power refuse to pay the employ- their side. tants have carried out attacks in ees' salaries at a time when Sanaa According to the official Ye- the capital. This month two lives under the iron grip of the meni new agency, Ahmar voiced suspected Kurdistan Workers rebels, who on almost a daily ba- the importance of the role which Party (PKK) members, believed sis, carry out abduction operations Yemeni tribes may play in miti- to be planning a car bomb at- against civilians. gating the Yemenis' suffering by tack, blew themselves up in a Meanwhile, Yemeni vice pres- not allowing those deceived from standoff with police in Ankara. ident Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar called joining the ranks of the Houthi on tribes in Yemen to intensify militias. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES By Muhammad Shariq Khan Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir The tapered minds of our children, different from your own. Famous associations and mature graduates, ture also plays a salient role in guid- youth and elders are the conse- Roman King and philosopher our graduates and even post-grad- ing us wrong, the honour and so Phone No: +93-772364666 quence of the “Fear” embedded in Marcus Aurelius quoted “If some- uates hesitate in investing in Small called self-esteem and our ego E-mail: [email protected] their minds and the chief fear is one is able to show me that what I and Medium sized Enterprises leaves no stone unturned in trap- the “fear of Failure”. think or do is not right, I will hap- (SME’s), besides other reasons, ping our minds in the net of theo- Here, by fear I mean avoiding pily change, for I seek the truth, the core reason is the “fear of fail- ries leading to “fear”. 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The other most impor- rooted and the role of parents in depressed and bounds them to- own made false theories and con- tant factor in spreading the evils shaping it accordingly is inevita- Advisory editorial board wards a specific mindset about any cepts is just nothing more than of “fear” is clerics. They did and ble, following the old trends and observation, and this is how the deceiving oneself. The process of are imposing this fear on the minds ill-minds, slight thinking and ap- Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, sparkling side of intellect remains thinking is directly related to the of masses especially of rural areas proaches bear us great loss in dif- unused. fear; in fact the fear directs the mind either for their religious or politi- ferent areas, the evil of “fear” and Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal Fear is very complex and asym- to think accordingly. The scarce of cal stances. They uses the “fear” mainly the “fear of failure” should metric phenomenon, and it cannot apparitions and ghosts that we put (of God) in wrong sense thus de- be eradicated. “Fear is a habit; so Graphic-Designer: be attributed to any single factor. in the intellect of infants and priving people to think clearly, is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, However it is mainly the outcome schoolboys is the first stage of the broadly and according to the new hopelessness. You can eliminate all Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi of our society which is the amal- fright and is very affective. More- trends of the fast growing techno- of these negative habits with two Mar ket i ng & Adver t i si ng: gam of socio-economic problems, over the youngster and adults are logical world. Mostly corrupt and simple resolves: I can!! And I and the mindset we got inherited mostly from the poor or middle- ill-minded politicians also do not will”.—(The Pashtun Times) Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 from our ancestors. class families, being fully depen- want the demolition of the Stone The writer is a student at This is not natural but taught dent on their family, restricts their Age mindset, and exposure and Quaid-e-Azam College of Com- Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan to us, one side thinking means; not thinking and selection of their own expansion in the thinking of mass- merce, University of Peshawar. He Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 willing to accept opinions, beliefs, choices in any venture. In compar- es for numerous reasons. can be reached at or behaviours that are unusual or ison to the developed societies and The misinterpretation of cul- [email protected] Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press The constitution says Daesh, Dabiq and ominous doctrines Ibrahim Kalin Article 154: Supported by the Turkish Armed established itself there and even- telling picture. The Dabiq maga- The letter, which can also be Forces (TSK), the Free Syrian tually captured Mosul, Iraq’s sec- zine distorts key Islamic concepts seen as a religious fatwa, proves Article One Hundred Fifty-Four: The wealth of the President, Vice-Presidents, Army (FSA) took the town of ond largest city, as a result of the in a monstrous way and engages in point by point the fallacy of Daesh Ministers, members of the Supreme Court as well as the Attorney General, shall be Dabiq from Daesh on Oct. 16, deal- disastrous occupation of Iraq in pure propaganda for recruitment ideology and its claim to religious ing another blow to Daesh under 2003 on the one hand and the sec- and self-glorification. It shows the legitimacy. It shows how Daesh registered, reviewed and published prior to and after their term of office by an organ Operation Euphrates Shield tarian policies of the Maliki gov- terror group’s passionate and even- distorts religious concepts to con- (OES), which began on Aug. 24. ernment between 2010 and 2013, tually foolish search for legitima- struct an ideology of destruction - established by law. Besides losing significant territo- on the other. Alienated, humiliated cy. The magazine, which has pub- a modern construct no different ries along the Turkish-Syrian bor- and oppressed by a hostile gov- lished 15 issues since its first ap- than the other diabolical move- der in less than two months, Daesh ernment and its unruly militia pearance in July 2014, claims to ments of the modern era. Last year, is also facing a growing problem of groups, Sunni tribes and ordinary be based on Divine unity (tawhid), the Presidency of Religious Affairs legitimacy - a key component of citizens in Mosul watched Daesh the proper path or method (man- (DÝB) published a 40-page rejec- its perverted ideology centered on enter their city in 2014 while the haj), migration (hijrah), jihad, and tion of “Daesh as a movement of an apocalyptic story about Dabiq. 65,000-strong Iraqi army left the community (jama’ah). religious distortion and terrorism.” Turkey began the OES to clear city without firing a single bullet. Produced professionally, it The work of de-legitimizing its border of terrorist elements. This not only gave Daesh a safe seeks to make legitimate its claim Daesh ideology should be contin- Since its launch, the OES has lib- haven but also further poisoned to the caliphate and calls on Mus- ued by prominent Muslim reli- erated several key cities including Sunni-Shiite relations. Many have lims to migrate there. It uses cheap gious authorities both in the Mus- Jarablus and tens of towns and vil- now similar fears about the Mosul propaganda tactics and attacks lim world and the West. Muslims lages, all occupied by Daesh, along operation that has just began. Jews, Christians, Shiite Muslims, cannot let a group of barbarians the Turkish-Syrian border be- The fall of Dabiq is an impor- the Muslim Brotherhood and even- hijack their religion and rich tradi- tween Azaz and the Euphrates tant event but by no means the tually all Muslims not buying their tion for nothing but a worldly gain River. Despite losses, the FSA has end of the story. DAESH is likely perverted ideology. for distortion and destruction. been moving steadily into Daesh- to give a fierce fight in al-Bab and Unity doesn’t mean conformi- Western countries should see Media reports suggested that the Taliban and Afghan government held areas and forcing it into al- Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq. ty Daesh for what it is and stop giv- Bab and Raqqa, the two remaining Looking forward, Turkey is It turns everything upside ing it ammunition by inflaming Is- have once again engaged in the talks to give a life to the lifeless strongholds of the terrorist group determined to continue the OES down and eventually becomes a lamophobia and anti-Muslim pop- reconciliation process. According to the reports, the Taliban and in Syria. until it clears its border from all self-defeating nonsense. First of all, ulism. The fall of Dabiq is an im- The OES proved to be an ef- terrorist elements and ensure the unity, the cornerstone of the Is- portant event but by no means the Afghan government representatives held a secret meeting in Qatar fective campaign against Daesh in safety of its citizens and those of lamic faith, does not mean unifor- end of the story. Daesh is likely to Syria: it secured areas from terror, Syria along the Turkish-Syrian mity and never justifies the killing give a fierce fight in al-Bab and where a senior US diplomat also participated. Key Taliban leader, boosted the morale of the FSA, border. This is what is happening of innocent people including other Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq. Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund, and Chief of the National Directorate encouraged moderate groups to in the safety corridor from Jarab- Muslims. Anyone who knows Regardless, the fight against it must join forces and allowed thousands lus to Azaz where life is getting anything about the Prophet of Is- continue at the level of ideas, pol- of Security, Masoom Stanekzai, attended the secret talks. The Af- of Syrians to return home. Further- back to normal and the Syrian peo- lam would know that the so-called itics and military force. But the ghan government and the US authorities neither deny nor accept more, it also demolished the much- ple, at least those living in these “method” of Daesh has nothing to world has to ask itself how and circulated myth that the Democrat- areas, feel respected and protect- do with his life and teachings. why a coalition of more than 60 participation in the meeting. In simple words, the meeting most likely ic Union Party (PYD) and Peo- ed - a glimmer of hope at a time Daesh uses the historic migration countries has failed to defeat this took place behind closed doors. As per reports, Pakistan was not ple’s Protection Units (YPG), the when the world seems to have for- of the Prophet of Islam from Mec- terror group to this day. One can- PKK’s terrorist Syria branches, are saken the people of Syria for ca to Medina to justify its claims not help ask if this “failure” has part of the meeting. the only effective force on the proxy wars and geopolitical mus- for recruitment but this is also to- something to do with the “use val- ground against Daesh. It showed cling. tally false. The Prophet migrated ue” of groups like Daesh in the After the invasion, the Taliban’s policy was to fight fire with fire. that if supported properly, the FSA The loss of Dabiq is a military from Mecca to Medina in 622 to proxy wars of the 21st century and They had given different grounds to the insurgency to justify it. The and other moderate opposition defeat for Daesh. But more impor- flee oppression and persecution how it has become a convenient groups can effectively fight Daesh tantly, it is a major blow to its per- while Daesh is inflicting nothing tool at the hands of players seek- major condition for peace talks was total withdrawal of foreign troops and establish peace and public or- verted ideology because Daesh but oppression and persecution on ing to impose their notion of and a new constitution which would introduce a government system der. believes that Dabiq is where a people under its rule. In Medina, (dis)order on the Middle East and There is a clear message here doomsday battle, an Armageddon the Prophet and his followers laid the larger Muslim world. This ques- that fits their definitions. After formation of the Quadrilateral Coor- to the international community in the Christian eschatology, will the foundations of the later Islam- tion is also a painful reminder of that has failed the moderate oppo- take place. Based on a suspect re- ic civilization while Daesh has the fact that the two monsters of dination Group (QCG), comprising of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China sition groups not once but many port about the end of times, the done nothing but engaged in ter- the Syrian war, i.e., Daesh and the and the United States, the hopes were high that the insurgent group times since the beginning of the Dabiq story claims that a group of rorism pure and simple in Muslim Assad regime, feed off each other Syrian war. Instead of keeping its true believers, in this case Daesh, and Western countries. The terror and as long as they are left to sur- would strike a peace deal with Afghan government while coming promises to the Syrian opposition, coming from the city of Medinah group also abuses the concepts of vive, they will continue to feed the under pressure. After the direct talks with the government in Murree, the international coalition led by will defeat the forces of evil and jihad and community in total vio- worst humanitarian crisis in Syria the United States kept changing its infidelity and capture the city of lation of both the canonical sourc- and beyond. It is important to de- a largest resort area in Pakistan, the Taliban announced death of their policy on the future of the Assad Istanbul. It is only after this major es of Islam, i.e., the Quran and the feat Daesh in Syria, Iraq and else- regime and the Syrian war. The battle that the day of judgment will Sunnah and the Islamic legal tradi- where. But this fight should not supreme commander, Mullah Omar. support not given to the various arrive. That is why Daesh has tion. As a matter of fact, the theo- sow new seeds of conflict and di- Timing of the news was very important. It was a setback for the Syrian opposition bodies includ- named its English magazine Dabiq logical and juridical claims of Daesh vision. The key stakeholders in- ing the Syrian National Council, and its Turkish version Konstan- have been fully rejected and de- cluding global powers, regional nascent peace process. The QCG had failed to convince the militant the High Negotiation Council and tiniyye, the old name of Istanbul molished by the most prominent players and non-state actors must group and lead the reconciliation drive towards success. The Tali- the FSA over the last four years before Fatih Mehmet the Conquer- religious authorities of the Islamic stop using Daesh for their small prepared the ground for the rise or made it part of the Ottoman world in an open letter addressed strategic gains because this is be- ban rejected participation in the peace process and reiterated that and spread of Daesh in Syria. Empire in 1453. to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the lead- coming a war in which there are no It will be sufficient to remem- A cursory look at these publi- er of the terror group, in Septem- winners. Two wrongs do not make they would not talk unless their conditions were met. The group is ber how Daesh was born in Iraq, cations reveals a disturbing but also ber 2014. a right. not ready to announce an unconditional ceasefire. In reality, Taliban had brought intensity in their attacks across Afghanistan. Short tacti- cal achievements had emboldened the insurgent group. Poor war management on part of Afghan government was seen as victory by the group. What has changed now? Perhaps, nothing or may be a lot. But situation on the political and security horizon does not indicate pos- itive signs. It might be another quest of the Afghan government to reach to Taliban. It is believed that the US has put pressure on Pakistan to arrest the Taliban leaders to pave ground for fruitful peace talks. Arrest of three important Taliban leaders by Islamabad is seen a sign. However, the important questions are left unanswered. Will the Taliban agree on presence of the foreign troops in the coun- try? Will they accept the Afghan constitution? If they are ready to show flexibility than why they are launching large-scale attacks in Helmand, Uruzgan, Kunduz, Faryab, Farah and other provinces of the country. Peace talks yield results if the parties were committed and had a common ground. Unfortunately, here the common ground is missing.

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Syria’s sovereignty In an article I wrote after the fall of and coalition military assets to central government. central government has delayed Mosul in 2014, I argued that the achieve the liberation of Mosul. For a good number of Arab contentious issues for years, such Alia Brahimi sentiment of the population of this People rest as they flee their Sunnis, the fear will emerge that as agreeing on the the final status city under the occupation of Is- homes during clashes between Ira- after an ISIL victory, a Shia-domi- of Kirkuk. lamic State of Iraq and the Levant qi security forces and ISIL in Mo- nated government will rule as a When put under pressure, (ISIL) had to be taken account, sul, Iraq [AP] conqueror of this territory, largely however, the Iraqi state, both ex- particularly to know their poten- The US should have pressured supported by the Shia militias. ecutive and legislative branches, tial to rebel and resist. As of Octo- the Iraqi parliament to begin the Nowhere will this issue be can achieve compromise in a rela- ber 2016 evidence emerged from process of reaching a consensus on more prevalent than in the city of tively short time, the best case in the city that the citizens of Mosul Mosul and other disputed territo- Mosul. There is no political con- point being in the crisis of summer had begun to resist ISIL forces ries, such as Kirkuk, before the first sensus over who will control the 2014. After the elections of April militarily. shots of this battle were fired. city after ISIL is expelled. 2014, Iraq had failed to form a gov- Apparently, weapons has Populations in former ISIL- In theory the central govern- ernment for months. It was only been smuggled to these anti-ISIL held territory ment would, but it was the central when ISIL seized Mosul that the rebels in Mosul. For the battle of When the battle for Mosul government’s governance of this US could pressure the Iraqi state. Mosul to succeed, and to avoid a began, the Iraqi government had city that led to the conditions that American military engagement second battle for control of the city, yet to articulate a strategy to man- allowed ISIL to find fertile ground was made conditional on replacing the Iraqis of Mosul living under age the political end game after this in Mosul in the first place. incumbent Prime Minister Maliki ISIL need more than weapons, but battle. Avoiding future battles with a more conciliatory candidate, a message and a vision that there is It is imperative that the Iraqi Once the dust settles from the Haider al-Abadi, and forming a a plan for them the day after liber- government and the US develop a battle for Mosul, the question of government afterwards. Maliki ation. strategy to deal with the first par- who will control Kirkuk will inev- was replaced and the Iraqi govern- Inside Story - Why does the amount issue: the internally dis- itably emerge. There were already ment was formed within the span battle for Mosul matter to Tur- placed peoples (IDPs), and how tense relations between the cen- of a few weeks under such pres- key? to reincorporate previously-held tral government and the Kurdistan sure. A victory over ISIL in Mosul ISIL territories and those who lived Regional Government (KRG) be- Similar leverage can compel the will not be the end of Iraq’s prob- under ISIL rule. fore the ISIL invasion of 2014, and Iraqi parliament to come up with a lems, but rather the beginning of Political battles will ensue over these continued afterwards when draft document or pact on Iraq’s an internal political battle over ter- who will secure and govern these the KRG seized the city to pre- governance after the expulsion of ritory. areas, who will get to live there in vent it falling into ISIL hands. Mosul. The issues of Mosul and Daunting challenges the resettlement process, and how The battle for territorial sov- Kirkuk, or smaller towns such as Prime Minister Haider al-Aba- to reintegrate the IDPs. ereignty will not only involve this TuzKhurmato, will involve intense di will face the daunting challenges Political battles will ensue over city and its oil reserves, but other political rivalries, but at least this of governing a post-ISIL Iraq and who will secure and govern these contested areas, such as TuzKhur- political battle should be ad- post-conflict security issues: first, areas, who will get to live there in mato, one half controlled by the dressed during the actual battle for the reintegration of territory and the resettlement process, and how Kurds, the other by Shia militias, Mosul, and not saved for the end. populations that were under ISIL to reintegrate the IDPs. This prob- ostensibly protecting the town’s As the third US presidential control; second, agreeing to Iraq’s lem will also hinge on the pace of Shia Turkmen. The battle over ter- debate is scheduled for October internal borders with the Kurds; reconstruction of the ISIL-held ar- ritory will involve the complex is- 19, a good test to gauge the candi- and third, presiding over a frag- eas. sues of resource nationalism. Re- dates’ strategy for dealing with mented, sectarian state to deal with The political ramification of solving the issue over Kirkuk and ISIL will hinge on the issue of plan- the aforementioned issues. this issue is how the central gov- the allocation of oil will determine ning for the day after the libera- The Syrian government’s cam- More powerful than Syrian they oppose. ISIL was borne of This is one of the few occa- ernment will manage this process. whether Iraq survives in the most tion of Mosul. So far Trump had paign has reached a grim crescen- government forces, and likely what South Korean writer Han sions where I find myself arguing ISIL’s seizure of Mosul was a optimistic scenario as a loose Shia- focused on an ambiguous military do in Aleppo, further bewildering greater in number, this shadow Kang has termed “the radioactive for American interference in do- symptom of the failure of the Ira- Kurdish alliance. The Iraqi parlia- solution to deal with this threat. It an international community strug- army is a mix of conscripts, mer- spread of brutality”. mestic Iraqi affairs. qi state. ment is notoriously slow in achiev- will be interesting to see if either gling to respond to blatant attacks cenaries and ideological volunteers By depicting their struggle as KRG: Mosul victory depends The question remains as to ing results, such as the multi-year candidate will acknowledge the on hospitals, homes and humani- from Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan part of the global war on terror, on ISIL fighters’ morale how Arab Sunnis will stay in this process of negotiating a hydro-car- need for political and humanitari- tarian convoys. and Afghanistan. the Syrian government and its al- This a time when the Iraqi state city, and whether Anbar and Salah bon law to manage the country’s an strategies to address the crisis The government has long de- Elsewhere in Syria, tens of lies attempt to capture the west- is most dependent on American al-Din provinces reconcile with the oil. The executive branch of the in Iraq. fended its actions, in Aleppo and thousands more foreign nationals ern policy zeitgeist. In reality, their elsewhere, by appealing to Syria’s fight to keep Assad in power. actions aim at keeping a local co- sovereignty. In July, Syrian Presi- More importantly, pro-Assad hort in power at any cost. dent Bashar al-Assad hoped that militia are increasingly directed Unconditional sovereignty history would see him as the man from outside Syria by a foreign The third is the myth of un- who protected his country and power. conditional sovereignty. The Syri- “saved its sovereignty”. Last week, It is widely believed that Iran’s an government arrogates to itself Assad explained to a Danish inter- Quds Force recruits, salaries and the rights and privileges of sover- viewer: “We are a sovereign coun- commands the bulk of this foreign eignty, as though there were no try; we are independent. We have legion. accompanying obligations. the right to tackle our problems.” Survival of Assad regime Assad benefits considerably Yet the arrogation of sover- Together with Russian air from the complexities of the war... eignty by the Assad regime is power, these sectarian paramili- In the 17th century, the Dutch based on three myths. tary pilgrims are vital to the sur- jurist Hugo Grotius argued that the The first myth is that Syria’s vival of the Assad regime. rights of the sovereign should be is largely an internal war. Syria Paradoxically, then, it is not limited by the principles of human- appears locked in stalemated con- only foreign bombers but also for- ity. Since then, the international flict between two loose “sides” - eign flesh and bone that enable the community has slowly arrived at the Syrian government and its op- Syrian government to continue the idea that with sovereignty position. claiming the right to sovereignty. comes an element of basic respon- To the extent that internation- The second myth is that As- sibility. al involvement is recognised, it is sad is mainly defending Syria’s Yet by opting to fight its op- usually through references to a sovereignty against terrorists, position through siege, starvation, “proxy war” between regional and whether foreign or homegrown. chlorine gas and “double-tap” bar- global powers, with the Syrian In an interview with a Russian rel bombs in civilian areas - rou- government backed by Russia and newspaper, Assad claimed that tinely burying women and children Iran, and the rebels supported, to “the majority of those we are fight- under collapsed buildings - the different extents, by the US, Tur- ing are takfiris who adopt the al- Syrian government appears unbur- key and some Gulf states. Qaeda doctrine”. In this week’s dened by the responsibilities of Furthermore, when we talk presidential debate, Donald Trump power. about foreign fighters in Syria, it is asserted that “I don’t like Assad Assad benefits considerably invariably in the context of the rad- at all, but Syria is killing ISIL. Rus- from the complexities of the war: ical component of the opposition, sia is killing ISIL. And Iran is kill- the intimate links to intensifying namely groups such as ISIL, Ahr- ing ISIL”. “cold wars” between Saudi Arabia ar al-Sham and Fateh al-Sham. This The problem is not only that and Iran, and Russia and the US; is with good cause: it is estimated the regime and its partners have the cannibalisation of parts of the that between 27,000 and 31,000 relentlessly pounded moderate Syrian opposition by jihadi foreign nationals from 86 countries opposition factions such as the groups; the uncertain fate of many Bob Dylan and the Nobel prize: When have travelled to fight in Iraq and Southern Front at Deraa, or that communities should the regime Syria. hundreds of thousands of civilians collapse; the approximation of the ISIL and its like are symptoms have been killed. underlying dynamics to the Iraq of Syria’s problems and not their A major difficulty arises from debacle in 2003. the ear loves before the eyes cause. They are the modern prod- the fact that the behaviour of the On account of these compli- TurkiAldakhil uct of a major governance crisis Assad regime will drive the prob- cation, the international commu- across the region. lem of radicalisation for years to nity has tied itself up in knots. However, the Syrian regime come. ISIL and its like are symp- On this final score, then, the The Nobel Prize in Litera- shoulder, Dylan created a insular. They don’t translate reportedly said. not only draws from but is funda- toms of Syria’s problems and not Assad regime may be right. The ture was recently awarded musical legacy which he left enough and don’t really par- Music is the first nation mentally dependent upon its own their cause. They are the modern coming weeks will determine to Bob Dylan marking the behind in the hidden bars of ticipate in the big dialogue of and it is the oldest among all pool of foreign combatants. product of a major governance cri- whether a government that has first time a singer and song- New York. His voice is that literature. That ignorance is languages. Music comes Right now in Aleppo, up- sis across the region. turned the machinery of the state writer has won the award. of a permanent rebellion. restraining.” first, even if its award came wards of 5,000 Shia militiamen are After decades of state repres- against its people in the name of People do pay attention to His words oppose racism, The Swedish Academy late and came as a surprise massing for a final assault on rebel- sion, these groups ape and exag- sovereignty can be stopped, some- other Nobel prizes. They support minorities and de- justified the surprising deci- one fall night. held areas in the east of the city. gerate the excesses of the states how, in the name of humanity. write a little about the win- nounce the US for shelling sion to award the prize in lit- ______ner of Nobel Prize in Physi- other countries and increas- erature to Dylan in many TurkiAldakhil is the Gen- ology or Medicine and a lit- ing the isolation of Ameri- ways. The most beautiful of eral Manager of Al Arabiya tle less about the winner of cans inside the US. Bob these justifications was that News Channel. He began LETTER TO THE EDITOR the Nobel Prize in Econom- Dylan has sung for 50 au- “Dylan writes poetry for the his career as a print journal- ics. They continue to talk tumns until the flowers blos- ear.” The ear loves before ist, covering politics and cul- about them for days. How- somed this year! Dylan has the eye sometimes, accord- ture for the Saudi newspa- ever, everyone stays up been famous since the ing to an Arabic proverb. pers Okaz, Al-Riyadh and across the world on the eve 1960s. His lyrics appealed to When the discussion got Al-Watan. He then moved Empowering women of announcement of the the sentiment of the youth as heated, Swedish Academy to pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat Women in Afghanistan have always faced different challenges such as poverty, joblessness, unsatisfactory Nobel Prize in Literature. he sang intellectual songs secretary Sara Danius ad- and pan-Arab news maga- access to education and healthcare services, early marriages and social taboos. Due to these factors they Publishers stay up and po- against wars and destruc- vised those who are unfamil- zine Al-Majalla. Turki later remained unable to play prominent role and compete with women of the neighboring countries. They ets and novelists do not sleep tion in his hoarse voice Dy- iar with Dylan’s work - and became a radio correspon- have to cross a long road to become self-sufficient. Based on report, in the field of business and investment in the past 14-year, women had limit presence in on this long night of fall of lan has been famous since I am one of them - to learn dent for the French-owned the small and medium entrepreneurs. every year. the 1960s. His lyrics ap- about it by starting with Dy- pan-Arab Radio Monte Car- The National Unity Government should accelerate steps to support Afghan businesswomen. Afghan When asked whether he pealed to the sentiment of the lan’s 1966 album “Blonde on lo and MBC FM. He pro- businesswomen always criticize that the relevant authorities of not providing the required facilities. The looked forward to win a youth as he sang intellectual Blonde.” “It’s an extraordi- ceeded to Elaph, an online government should increase the role of businesswomen in all sectors. Some of businesswomen don’t have Nobel prize, Late Palestin- songs against wars and de- nary example of his brilliant news magazine and male bread owners and left with no option but to support their families, the government should include ian Poet Mahmoud Darwish struction in his hoarse voice. way of rhyming, putting to- Alarabiya.net, the news them in every business opportunity. It is a stark fact that Afghanistan owns a large number of widows due to three decades of war. Agricultural, livestock and industry production have been the important business mockingly replied, saying “I In his song “Blowin’ in the gether refrains, and his pic- channel’s online platform. indicators that women invested more than their capacity in the past 14 years and employed hundreds of am not interested and I don’t Wind,” he sings: “How many torial way of thinking,” Da- Over a ten-year period, Da- other women. get the fever which my times must the cannon balls nius said. She admitted that khil’s weekly Al Arabiya talk The government should generate small and medium enterprises for the Afghan businesswomen. These friend suffers from every fly, before they’re forever when she was young, she show “Edaat” (Spotlights) enterprises are a key economic driver of Afghanistan’s development. fall.” When Darwish said banned?” The Independent was not exactly a fan of provided an opportunity for Arezo Ahmad, Kabul Afghanistan that, many interpreted he included that song in its re- Dylan as she preferred the proponents of Arab and Is- was referring to Syrian Poet port “70 reasons why Bob works of David Bowie. lamic social reform to make Adonis. This joke by Dar- Dylan is the most important “Perhaps it’s a question of their case to a mass audi- wish was commonly heard figure in pop culture histo- generation – today I’m a lov- ence. Turki also owns Al Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must in the fall of every year. ry.” Blowin’ in the Wind was er of Bob Dylan,” she said. Mesbar Studies and Re- have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: Many have written about one of these 70 reasons. Dylan did not only win search Centre and Madarek [email protected] Adonis ever since tree Dylan is the first Ameri- this for music, which has Publishing House in Dubai. leaves began to fall this year. can to win the Nobel Prize suffered from injustice as the He has received several Some mocked his bias to- for Literature ever since greatest of arts, even great- awards and honors, includ- ward bloodshed and how he Toni Morrison - who is the er than theater. He won for ing the America Abroad Disclaimer: stained literature. However, first black woman to win the songwriting and for his abil- Media annual award for his there hasn’t been another prize - won in 1993. In 2008, ity to develop. He won for role in supporting civil soci- The views and opinions expressed in the articles are Arab candidate for the Horace Engdahl, the then- the intellectual’s capability to ety, human rights and ad- those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or award this year. permanent secretary of the express himself, even if vancing women’s roles in In his black sunglasses Swedish Academy, said: through a song which no one Gulf societies. He tweets opinions of the Afghanistan Times. and with his guitar on his “The US is too isolated, too will hear, like Dylan himself @TurkiAldakhil. THURSDAY . OCTOBER 20, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Civilians caught in the crossfire of on suspicion of links to ISIL, the the military operation to retake the report says. city of Mosul from the Islamic Amnesty found that the Pop- State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ular Mobilisation Units (PMU), a also known as ISIS) may face group of militias sponsored by the abuse, execution and torture, Am- Iraqi government, was responsible nesty International has said. for many of the abuses. The UK-based rights group It is unclear what post-IS gov- released a critical 71-page report ernance will look like in Mosul giv- on Tuesday, detailing serious hu- en the clashing agendas and com- man rights violations when civil- peting forces that are at play. ians previously attempted to es- Fanar Haddad, Iraqi analyst cape areas controlled by ISIL, also "PMU militias and government known by its Arabic acronym, forces have repeatedly perpetrat- Daesh. ed such crimes, targeting Sunni men Titled "Punished for Daesh’s and boys in revenge and sectarian Crimes", the report is based on attacks, as a sort of collective pun- interviews with more than 470 in- ishment for atrocities committed dividuals, from detainees to wit- by IS against Shia and other com- nesses and relatives of those munities," Donatella Rovera, the abused by ISIL, Iraqi government senior crisis response adviser for forces and other armed groups. Amnesty, told Al Jazeera. Publishing the report only two "They have abducted thou- days into the Mosul operation, sands, most of whom remain 'dis- Amnesty said it aims to raise alarm appeared', and have tortured and/ "about the risk of mass violations". or summarily executed many oth- "As the battle to retake Mo- ers." Inside Story - Why does the sul gets underway, it is crucial that battle for Mosul matter to Tur- the Iraqi authorities take steps to key? ensure these appalling abuses do The PMU, comprised mostly not happen again," said Philip of Shia militias but also include Luther, the group's research and Sunnis and other sects, were offi- advocacy director for the region. cially designated part of the Iraqi "States supporting military efforts armed forces in February 2016 af- to combat IS in Iraq must demon- ter they took center stage in the strate they will not continue to fight against ISIL in 2014. turn a blind eye to violations." They have been repeatedly The report found that under accused of the crimes detailed in ISIL, Iraqi civilians, mainly minor- the Amnesty report. ities, face abuse in the form of de- Despite Iraqi government liberate attacks against them, mass promises to take precautions to killings, abductions, rape and sex- protect the 1.5 million civilians ual violence, among other human stuck in the city, their fate remains the operation, "it is fair to say that safe from the unrelenting attacks." control of the city that may ensue Iraq, says there is "a clear consen- fers Iraq a chance to embark on a rights violations. Their mistreat- unknown, especially as they try combat will likely leave civilians The United Nations said that could put civilians in a vulnerable sus that the difficulties in Mosul more politically sustainable path. ment, however, does not end there, to flee. "We know ISIL prevents at heightened risk". up to one million could be forced position once again. Mosul, the are more political than military". However, and as ever, the odds are according to the report. residents from leaving, and those Some took to social media to to flee their homes, in addition to second largest city in Iraq, may "It is unclear what post-IS against Iraq: Given how much will Even after fleeing ISIL, thou- who manage to flee do so at great express their solidarity and fear for the half a million who fled when become a microcosm of the securi- governance will look like in Mosul be up for grabs, the redemptive sands of men and boys, mainly personal risk," said Rovera. the lives of the civilians. ISIL took over in 2014. ty vacuum that was unleashed af- given the clashing agendas and potential of Mosul's liberation is Sunni Arabs, were rounded up by While the goal to liberate Mo- The tweet reads: "The battle While the recapture of the city ter the US invasion. competing forces that are at play," going to depend on the goodwill of Iraqi security forces or armed sul may be good for the long-term, for Mosul has begun, may God may be a step forward for its res- Fanar Haddad, analyst and Haddad told Al Jazeera. an unwieldy number of actors both groups backed by the government, Rovera believes that depending on keep the civilians and innocents idents, many fear the struggle for author of the book Sectarianism in "The recapture of Mosul of- within Iraq and beyond." The Canary and leftist media find sudden success in UK ENGLAND: Journalist Kerry- (LSE) have published a study Anne Mendoza's idea for a news which they say demonstrates over- start-up began like many others: a whelming negative coverage of La- vision of disrupting the status quo bour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and challenging narratives others since he took helm of the organisa- were not questioning. tion last year. Unlike other fledgling news The paper [PDF], published BALTIMORE: Marvin "Doc" Gray, who died in hospital from after new legislation came into Nine of the men killed in Mat- outlets, however, Mendoza's pub- in July, said that while left-wing Cheatham is on a mission. He has spinal injuries he suffered during force earlier this year, are part of thew Henson since last October lication, The Canary, quickly es- leaders were most commonly the been sitting outside the elementa- an arrest by Baltimore police, grew his voting drive. Many of that num- were black, the tenth one a white tablished itself as one of the most targets of antagonistic media cov- ry school in the Matthew Henson up here. ber live in Matthew Henson. man coming from outside to buy successful new media outlets in the erage, "in the case of Corbyn, the neighbourhood since early morn- His death last year sparked One of them, turning up at the drugs. "A white person would UK, attracting both a loyal reader- degree of antagonism and hatred ing, hoping to register new voters days of trouble in Baltimore, with school to register, is James Oliver, come here for two reasons: either ship and a considerable number of from part of the media has argu- and convince them they can bring clashes breaking out between frus- 24. He says the biggest motiva- to work at the school, or to buy detractors. ably reached new heights". change. trated black youth and police. Sev- tion for him to vote is his dislike drugs," Cheatham says. Established with just £1,000 LSE's Bart Cammaerts, one of tain circles. Alt-media frequently This neighbourhood desper- eral buildings in Matthew Henson for the Republican party candidate, He points down the street: ($1,280) in seed money last Sep- the authors of the study, told Al become too narrow in outlook, too ately needs it. There have been ten were destroyed. Donald Trump. "There you see guys doing what tember, by July this year the web- Jazeera that it was difficult to tell ideologically driven and mislead- murders in a year - in an area so Cheatham, who seems to "I really don't like the way he young men here do all day. They site garnered more than 7.5 million whether such reporting represent- ing to readers. They want to keep small that you can see one end of know almost everyone who pass- is talking, about building a wall and have no jobs, so they're walking monthly page views and has gen- ed increasing distrust of the me- publishing stories their readers like, it from the other. All were related es him on the street, is trying to about women," he says. "He around, either up to no good, or erated a yearly revenue of dia, but high levels of distrust ex- rather than also challenge them, as to drugs. channel that anger and frustration wouldn't represent the country about to get up to no good." $321,000. That same month it ist regardless. a responsible media outlet should On top of the violence, this into civic engagement. well." Tabitha Williams and Nicole Beyond election season, broke into the top 100 news sites "Survey after survey demon- do. "That gives their audiences a almost exclusively African Ameri- Campaigning for people to Garnett registered to vote as they Cheatham is involved in myriad in the United Kingdom in terms of strates that between 75 and 80 very skewed view of the world and can district also has high rates of vote is something he has done since came to the Matthew Henson initiatives: training people how to visits, and in doing so, The Ca- percent of the British electorate can be destructive ..." crime and drug abuse, school drop- he reached voting age, and com- school for work [Cajsa Wikstrom/ dispense medication that can save nary leapfrogged well-established does not trust their media or jour- The New Statesman's deputy outs, teen pregnancies, unemploy- munity activism runs in his blood, Al Jazeera] lives from heroin overdose, clean- online magazines such as the New nalists. Only a mere 20-25 percent editor, Helen Lewis, said that there ment and poverty. his parents both having been ac- With the state of Maryland, ing up informal garbage dumps Statesman and The Spectator. of people believe that journalists was a market for news organisa- Many houses have been aban- tivists. which Baltimore is a part of, being springing up around the neigh- "In short, we have succeeded tell the truth. This is highly prob- tions that supported Corbyn, and doned, with weeds growing wild He talks about how 30-35 small and having voted Democrat bourhood and others. editorially and commercially," lematic in a democracy and this is that The Canary was filling a gap, outside. "There are a lot of good years ago, a black person not reg- since 1992, the presidential vote He meets a group of city offi- Mendoza, who is now The Ca- something journalists should ad- but she questioned the appeal people here, but the bad overwrites istered to vote was practically un- will not be decided here. cials in a street with mainly board- nary's editor-in-chief, told Al dress," Cammaerts said. many found in such organisations. the good. But if I didn’t think we heard of, as voting was seen as a But as well as a president, res- ed-up properties and, after giving Jazeera. It is within this context of dis- "I do find it intriguing that could make change, I wouldn’t be "badge of honour" after the strug- idents are electing a senator, mem- them a list of 18 places in urgent The feat had been accom- enchantment with mainstream some on the left accuse the UK doing this," Cheatham says, point- gle for universal voting rights. bers of congress, a mayor, and other need of cleaning, he walks the brav- plished without "external funding, outlets that Mendoza believes The media of being biased against Jere- ing at voter registration forms on a Cheatham interrupts himself, city officials and judges. And it is est of the officials through an alley shareholders, connections, or ven- Canary is drawing an audience. my Corbyn, and then choose to table in front of him. standing up and looking over to a at that local level Cheatham thinks of abandoned houses and piles of ture capital", she added, further "Our success is based on a read news sources that are biased Rattling off a list of organisa- car stopping in the street: "I have change can be made by electing garbage, with rats so comfortable explaining the website's appeal. hunger: The thing we wanted to in his favour. That suggests their tions he has been president of, in- to make sure they’re not selling politicians who put people first. they do not budge as the humans "We wanted to create a new media create was also something people problem is not bias, per se, but its cluding the local election board and drugs over there." Before money and prestige, he approach. site which was written in a human were hungry to see created," she direction," Lewis said. the Baltimore branch of the Na- As police rarely patrol this says. "If you think this is an awful While he describes the neigh- voice, that anyone could feel a part said. "We hold power to account, The criticisms by Lewis and tional Association for the Advance- area, someone has to keep an eye place, you have to bring in some- bourhood's future as "challenging", of - it wouldn't be all dry, academ- and when we are wrong, we say so Hundal are on the softer end of ment of Colored People, the 66- on things, he argues, saying he is one who you think can help you," Cheatham still has hope. ic headlines and verbose content," - and we learn. We have a great what The Canary has previously year-old, born and raised in Mat- well aware that interfering in some- he says, grabbing a chocolate-chip "There is a God above and he the editor-in-chief said. relationship with our readership, received. The right-leaning Tele- thew Henson, describes himself as one else's business around here cookie for lunch. helps those who help themselves," "We felt that was a big missing and we respect them." graph's sketchwriter Michael Dea- a "civil rights freak". could end badly for him. One shop a stone's throw from he says. "I think that I was put element required for any new me- However, while its audience con described the site as the "the When he heard that a majority Satisifed nothing nefarious is the school has been robbed twice here, to lead those organisations, dia outlet which was going to make has rapidly grown, so has criticism maddest left-wing website in the of eligible voters in the neighbour- happening, Cheatham goes on to in a year, and a 22-year-old was that was my calling. To help other an impact outside the echo cham- of the site, with some accusing it world" in a scathing piece. hood were not registered, he de- explain how some 20,000 felons shot nearby in broad daylight in people. We have to come together ber." But it would be rash to put of biased and sensationalist report- "If this is a spoof, it's brilliant. cided to put his retirement on hold in Baltimore, who can now vote December. and help each other." The Canary's popularity purely ing. "Nothing in The Canary is But if it isn't, it's even better," and spring back into action as a down to its colloquial and blunt- [true], but it makes a great echo Deacon's assessment concluded. voting campaigner. speaking style. The website car- chamber for the far left," said one For Mendoza, such reactions His car is loaded with black ries a strong leftward tilt in its cov- critic on Twitter. are expected and reflective of a and white posters of civil rights erage and many of its supporters "The Canary is sensationalist media class out of touch with or- activists who changed the course see it as redressing perceived main- gutter journalism, pure and sim- dinary Britons. of history in the 1960s and before. stream media bias towards left- ple," said another. "The mainstream media has He brings them along to events to wing movements in the UK. Filling a gap become its own class. Our media educate younger members of the 'Media bias' Veteran left-wing columnist is 94 percent white, 86 percent community who may not know A casual Twitter search reveals Sunny Hundal told Al Jazeera he university-educated, over 30 per- about those who fought segrega- that endorsements of The Canary welcomed new voices in the Brit- cent London-based, with public tion and for voting rights. and Novara - another left-leaning ish media scene, but had concerns school attendees vastly over-rep- Behind his table hang pictures independent outlet - are often cou- about how such outlets could neg- resented," Mendoza said of role models: Muhammad Ali and pled with expressions of antipa- atively affect political discourse. "They are a painfully narrow Martin Luther King. thy towards established outlets. "As someone who launched a slice of Britain - and this makes "Are you registered to vote, "No thanks - I'll catch up with group blog nearly 10 years ago to them incapable of representing the sister?" he shouts out to a passer- [The Canary] and [Novara] - not offer alternatives to the right-wing issues of wider Britain. by. "Since I was 18, and now I'm your Tory propaganda," said one press, I think the more voices the Hostility towards The Canary 48," she responds, but comes over user, responding to a plug for a better. There is clearly a demand and other similar outlets stemmed to get a registration form for her TV show by a BBC News pro- for alt-media voices, as these two from a fear of new media, Mendo- daughter. "I always tell people that ducer. "As [BBC Newsnight] has [The Canary and Novara] have za said, further accusing parts of if they don't vote, they can't sit become the #bluepeter of News. shown," Hundal said. the established media class of bul- around and complain," she says, Your former viewers have grown "I'm not worried about their lying those who expressed "opin- drawing applause from Cheatham. up. We read [The Canary] ...," said impact on the general media land- ions outside their narrow window Though few people in the US another. scape; the right-wing press has fea- of permitted discourse". know of the Matthew Henson Accusations of bias aimed at tured barmy hard-right voices for "We arrived with the express neighbourhood, one of its former media outlets have always been decades, after all. intention of disrupting the status residents recently became famous plentiful, but researchers at the "I'm more worried about how quo. That's exactly what we've for all the wrong reasons. Freddie London School of Economics they distort the debate within cer- done." THURSDAY . OCTOBER 20, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Saudi Arabia plans to raise up to $17.5 billion from its first interna- tional bond issue, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, cit- ing two people familiar with the offering. It would make the Saudi issue the largest ever from an emerging- market nation, said Bloomberg News, whose sources were not identified. The figure exceeds the $15 bil- lion which an analyst had previ- ously told AFP could be the value of the issue. The kingdom, the world’s larg- est oil exporter, projected a deficit of $87 billion this year after a fall in oil revenues, which still ac- counts for most of its income. To cover the shortfall, Saudi Arabia has imposed unprecedent- ed subsidy cuts, slowed govern- ment projects, and last month cut cabinet ministers’ salaries, among other measures. Saudi Arabia has already issued domestic bonds. The United States views the In- ternational Monetary Fund’s pro- posed $12 billion bailout for Egypt as “essential” and is working with other G7 economic powers to en- sure that it is fully funded with bilateral financing, a senior US Treasury official said on Tuesday. Nathan Sheets, Treasury un- dersecretary for international af- fairs, told a policy forum that the United States supports the IMF’s Egypt program and believes that reforms required by the IMF will be challenging, but are necessary to make Egypt’s economy more competitive and unlock the poten- BEIJING: Fresh doubts emerged tial of its young population. over the reliability of Chinese sta- “We in the United States are tistics on Wednesday after officials supportive of the Egypt program said the economy grew 6.7%—for as Egypt is working closely with the third consecutive quarter. the IMF in taking necessary It was the first time since steps,” Sheets said at the Center Beijing started releasing quarterly for Strategic and International Stud- figures in 1992 that it had achieved ies, a Washington think tank. such a feat of consistency. “We’re also working very closely Economists say it is rare for a with our G7 partners to ensure that fast-growing economy to clock the that program is fully funded.” same growth quarter after quarter. Egypt needs to arrange up to In China, it happens because $6 billion in bilateral gap financing Beijing sets a hard economic tar- before the IMF board can approve get—6.5% to 7% this year—then the program and release an initial does what it takes to reach this loan tranche of about $2.5 billion. level, whether through fiscal stim- Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said ulus, arm twisting of state compa- earlier on Tuesday that about 60 nies or creative accounting, these percent of the total had been se- people say. The International cured. Addressing “the challenges and Arab Emirates. Monetary Fund and numerous IMF officials have said that opportunities for huge construc- The Exhibition addresses the economists have urged Beijing to they have held discussions on bi- tion projects in Saudi Arabia”, Sau- visitors’ queries and concerns re- scrap that system, saying it leads down,” said IHS Markit Ltd. econ- tant source of popular support for tives to fudge growth statistics, lateral financing for Egypt with di Build 2016 Exhibition was offi- lated to construction, since it fea- to excessive fiscal stimulus that omist Brian Jackson. “They tend the Chinese Communist Party.” economists say. While Beijing has Saudi Arabia, China, and G7 coun- cially inaugurated by Eng. Ibra- tures a wide range of products, fuels manufacturing overcapacity to use something like the “other China’s statistics have also edged away from evaluating local tries. Ismail said last week that heem Mohammed Al-Sultan, May- services and technologies related and debt. “It’s quite implausible services” category. come under question at home. officials solely on growth statis- Egypt’s central bank had received or of Riyadh City, on Monday to construction from finishing that growth would be 6.7% for China’s National Bureau of When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang tics, the numbers remain an impor- a $2 billion deposit from Saudi (Oct. 17) amid local and interna- products, construction techniques, three straight quarters,” said Julian Statistics didn’t immediately re- was party secretary of northeast- tant criterion for getting promot- Arabia. Sheets did not say specif- tional construction and construc- construction material, external so- Evans-Pritchard, an economist spond to questions. But in the past ern Liaoning province in 2007 he ed. Double counting is another fac- ically whether the United States tion-related participating compa- lutions, equipment, construction with Capital Economics Pte. it has said that its methodology is was quoted in a leaked U.S. cable tor when, for example, transac- would provide funding, but said: nies from public and private sec- vehicles to consultancy services. “They’re obviously smoothing the sound and in keeping with accept- decrying the accuracy of what he tions across borders are claimed by “the program is essential” for tors. Shahid Bhatti, Saudi Build data quite a bit” he said, adding: ed global standards. called “man-made” statistics, add- both provinces. National statisti- Egypt. The 28th edition of the Saudi Project Manager, said: “Saudi “Even by Chinese standards, this In past periods of double-dig- ing that he relied on measures pre- cians now collect their own inde- As part of a reform program Build Exhibition will continue for Build Exhibition is one of the lead- is a new level of stability.” it growth, Beijing often appeared sumably more difficult to manip- pendent provincial data in a bid to that formed the basis of the IMF 4 days, along with the “Saudi ing construction shows in the China’s one-party state plac- to go the other way, understating ulate, including electricity output improve the data’s accuracy. In agreement, Egypt approved a long- Stone-Tech 2016”, the 19th Inter- Kingdom. It is the ideal platform es a premium on stability, control growth and inflation numbers, and freight traffic. 2015, China adopted an IMF stan- awaited first-ever value-added tax national Stone & Stone Technolo- for connecting exhibitors to the and gradualism, economists say. economists say. A study this year Since then, numerous banks dard aimed at strengthening its data of 13 percent. The IMF also wants gy Exhibition and the “Saudi build specialized audience seeking the Higher growth targets also help by economists Emi Nakamura, Jón have created their own version of system. Egypt to focus monetary policy PMV series”, the 7th Internation- latest technologies and services in stem unemployment that could fuel Steinsson, and Miao Liu in the a “Li Keqiang index” inspired by The official 6.7% growth fig- on easing a dollar shortage and re- al Exhibition for Construction the construction field. The exhibi- social instability and threaten par- American Economic Journal con- his apparent skepticism. ure for the January through March duce inflation to single digits. Equipment, Plant, Machinery and tion offers the opportunity for the ty control, they add. China’s offi- cluded that China underreported China has made periodic ef- period, when growth seemed par- IMF Managing Director Vehicles, at the Riyadh Interna- participating companies to expand cial unemployment rate has re- growth by several percentage forts to improve—or at least de- ticularly weak, was the most ques- Christine Lagarde earlier this tional Convention and Exhibition their business and to create new mained between 4% and 4.3% since points a year in the late 1990s, then fend—the veracity of its growth tionable of the three, many econo- month said that Egypt needed to Center, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, thus business leads in the Saudi mar- 2002. Yet a paper from an Ameri- overestimated growth and inflation numbers. Earlier this month, Pres- mists said. take “prior actions” including steps covering all aspects of the con- ket.” Saudi Build Exhibition 2016 can nonprofit group, the National after 2002. “Chinese official sta- ident Xi Jinping stressed the im- Mr. Evans-Pritchard said towards a more liberalized ex- struction sector. is organized by Riyadh Exhibitions Bureau of Economic Research, tistics are ‘too smooth,’” it said, portance of preventing fake gov- growth in the third quarter may change rate and reduce fuel subsi- The long-lasting construction Co. Ltd., which is specialized in says the actual rate was an average which it said may be the result of ernment statistics, vowing at a cen- have exceeded 6.7% while the first dies before the IMF board could show in the Kingdom brings to- organizing exhibitions, conferenc- of nearly 11% between 2002 and political sensitivities as well as tral leading group on reform to quarter was lower. “This allows approve the program. gether this year the public and pri- es and other trade events. The com- 2009. Economists say Chinese poor data gathering methods. punish data cheaters, according to China to reverse some massaging Black market traders in Egypt vate sectors, with more than 530 pany caters to several activities for growth data appears to be mas- “Concerns about inflation are the official Xinhua News Agency. they did earlier, bring their data said they were selling dollars at local, regional and international various economic sectors. saged by one or two tenths of a one factor often cited as contrib- Late last year, local officials in closer to reality,” he said. 15.5 pounds on Tuesday, up from exhibitors from more than 30 coun- Throughout its 35 years, REC has percentage point–worth $10 bil- uting to the discontent that lead to northeastern Liaoning, RHB Capital Bhd. economist 15 a week earlier, while the official tries, headed by 13 national pavil- organized more than 440 unique lion to $20 billion in output. Any the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro- Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces Fan Zhang warned: “There could rate is 8.8 pounds per dollar. The ions including Belgium, China, and successful shows and confer- more would draw heightened glo- tests,” it said. “The remarkable admitted doctoring gross domes- be more intervention as growth widening gap is increasing pressure Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, ences renowned for their innova- bal scrutiny, they say. stability of growth and inflation tic product statistics during an an- slows. They’ve set a target of 6.5% on Egypt to devalue its currency South Korea, Morocco, Pakistan, tion, professionalism and attention “There always seems to be a statistics over the past two decades ticorruption probe, Xinhua said. from now until 2020 and need to and end uncertainty that has dis- Portugal, Turkey, and the United to details. tendency to round up rather than has undoubtedly been an impor- Officials have strong incen- make that target.” couraged foreign investment. Exploration firms resist changes to petroleum policy ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of on the investors that were waiting exploration and production activi- Petroleum and oil and gas explora- for the government to process ties and promote foreign direct in- tion companies are locked in a tug their supplemental agreements. vestment in the sector. Frequent of war over the amendments pro- However, the Pakistan Petro- retrospective changes to the poli- posed to be made in the Petroleum leum Exploration and Production cy have caused an uncertain envi- Policy 2012 as the industry terms Companies Association, a body of ronment and will push investors the move an open threat to invest- oil and gas exploration firms, coun- to question the reliability of gov- ments and a deliberate attempt to tered that the move would be dis- ernment policies and the agree- stall hydrocarbon search in the criminatory and it was also likely ments signed under them. country. The industry has also to be challenged in courts. The oil and gas industry point- warned that the proposed amend- The association cautioned that ed out that for the exploration of ments to the petroleum policy proposed amendments to the pe- hydrocarbons their investment may spark a legal battle. Accord- troleum policy would severely in- decisions were based on a project’s ing to officials aware of the devel- fringe on the rights of companies lifecycle and retrospective policy opment, the oil and gas explora- that had already made substantial changes would hurt capital flow tion companies have called the investments by reposing trust in into the exploration work. amendments proposed by the pe- the current policy regime. “The proposals are also con- troleum ministry a breach of the According to the proposals, all trary to the government’s commit- recently executed supplemental pending applications of explora- ment in Section 12 of the petro- agreements. Mari Petroleum bor- tion firms must be re-submitted leum policy that states that any rows Rs9b to step up hydrocar- along with a revised field develop- changes in terms of the policy will bon search The ministry had sug- ment plan. And there will be no not affect any rights that may have gested that if the holders of work- incentive for field development previously accrued under the pol- ing interest in exploration blocks without approval of the develop- icy,” the association said, adding failed to amend the supplemental ment plan. the amendments would create an agreements, they would not remain PPL discovers gas deposits at uncertain environment and shatter eligible for the gas price incentive. Bashar X-I ST investor confidence. In response, the industry However, seeking approval of “We fear that a perception will warned that any attempt to amend the Directorate General of Petro- be created in the industry that the the agreements unilaterally was leum Concessions of the Ministry government is making a deliberate likely to be blocked by courts. of Petroleum will take time. attempt to stall local exploration The ministry also proposed The objective of the Petro- and production activity,” the as- the imposition of a windfall levy leum Policy 2012 is to accelerate sociation said. THURSDAY . OCTOBER 20, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES OMG! Yami astounds us with her intense look in Sarkar 3 After Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her intense avatar from Sarkar 3, Katrina Kaif, Yami Gautam is the so an amazed RGV took to twitter latest entrant to join the bandwag- to praise the actress! on of Sarkar 3. But the quintes- There is indeed a paradigm sential point here is that Yami shift in Yami's image which will be Gautam will be seen in a complete- purveyed to us by Ram Gopal ly different Avatar, Yami's role in Verma's Sarkar 3. Yami Gautams Sarkar 3 will be completely differ- is playing the character of 'Annu ent from her roles in Vicky Donor Karkare' a vexed and ferocious and Badlapur, also withstanding daughter who is set to seek revenge the fact that this will be the very for her father's murder from first time the actress will work in a Sarkar. Yami Gautam will also be sequel. Yami Gautams look from seen performing some jaw drop- Sarkar 3 was tweeted by none oth- ping action sequences in Sarkar 3 er than the ace director Ram Go- for the first time! pal Verma. Even Ram Gopal Ver- So Sarkar 3 definetly promis- ma was amazed by the sudden es us an intense and never seen transformation of Yami Gautam's before avatar of the flawless beau- image from the girl next door to ty Yami Gautam.

The first look of Vidya Balan star- lease the two films together. MUMBAI: Actor Esha Gupta Akshay, even before she joined rer Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh is "Bhatt Sahab (Mahesh Bhatt) is wants to do a romantic film with Bollywood. “Be it his action or out. The film is postponed on associated with us for our leading actor Akshay Kumar. She said once romance. He has an aura and that December 2 and will not have a TV shows 'Udann' and she gets to do that with her Rus- ‘Punjabiness’,” she added. clash with Dear Zindagi starring 'Naamkarann' but more important- tom co-star, she would be satis- Talking about working with her Alia Bhatt and Shah Rukh Khan. ly he and Alia are like family to us. fied with her career in the film in- idol in Rustom, Esha said, “The The first look of Vidya Balan There can never be any competi- dustry. “I really want to do a ro- day I got to know that I am going starrer Kahaani 2 is out. And going tion within families, hence, I have mantic film with Akshay Kumar to be co-starring with Akshay, I by this teaser look, Vidya seems decided to release 'Kahaani 2- Durga wherein I am wearing a sari, Ak- got so excited, but on knowing that to be playing 36-year old Durga Rani Singh' on December 2," Gada shay is singing a romantic song for I won’t be his love interest, I won’t Rani Singh who is a 'wanted' fugi- said in a statement here. me and we are dancing around deny, I was really disappointed.” tive. The police is out looking for "I have known Jayantilal Gada trees. My life will be successful The 30-year-old said she is her for kidnapping and murder. for several years now and we are and I would be satisfied with my looking forward to romancing with After playing a distraught like family. Both 'Kahaani 2' and Bollywood career the day this the Khiladi star. pregnant woman whose husband 'Dear Zindagi' are unique films and happens to me,” Esha said in a TV “I take it as an honour. I really went missing in the prequel Ka- deserve a solo release. And it will interview. The Raaz 3 star shared want to see Akshay singing, laugh- haani, this look presents a com- also help both films in the long that she has been an ardent fan of ing and crying for me,” she added. plete contrast. Vidya's dishevelled run," Mahesh Bhatt said. look creates a curiosity about her While there is a constant character. Kahaani 2: Durga Rani stream of social media updates on Singh and Alia Bhatt's Dear Zinda- Dear Zindagi, one doesn't know gi will not clash at the box office as much about Kahaani 2. Both Alia the former has shifted its release Bhatt and Shah Rukh Khan kept date to December 2. The sequel to their fans updated on the film 2012 hit thriller was earlier sched- through their Instagram and Twit- uled to release on November 25 ter accounts. this year but producer Jayantilal Kahaani 2 is being co-pro- Gada of Pen India decided to shift duced and directed by Sujoy the date in order to avoid a clash at Ghosh. The film also stars Arjun the box office. Rampal in a pivotal role. The first It was recently announced that instalment - Kahaani - not only set Gauri Shinde's Dear Zindagi will new benchmarks for suspense hit theatres on November 25 and thrillers in Hindi cinema but also producers Jayantilal Gada and established Vidya as top Bolly- Mahesh Bhatt decided not to re- wood actress.

Leonardo DiCaprio is looking to bring pollution-fighting hero Cap- tain Planet to the big screen reports The Hollywood Reporter. The Oscar-winning actor’s Appian Way Productions compa- ny is teaming up with Paramount Actress Soha Ali Khan says her mother and to obtain the rights to the popular 1990s cartoon series. Leonardo veteran actress Sharmila Tagore loved her de- DiCaprio urged to step down from glam look in the forthcoming film "31st UN climate change role October" -- based on the anti-Sikh riots in the Jono Matt, known for his work on Sons of Anarchy and Scream aftermath of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Queens actor Glen Powell are in assassination in 1984. talks to write the script. It is unsure yet if Powell, who "My mother came to know about this film was most recently seen in Richard through a friend. She watched the trailer and Linklater’s latest film, Everybody Wants Some, will also star in the loved my non-glamourous look in the film. project. She appreciated my appearance as a Sardarni Leonardo DiCaprio is NOT playing Rumi The show Captain and in the second half she said I am looking Planet and the Planeteers original- like a Bengali while disguising as a Hindu ly aired from September 1990 to during the escape," Soha said at a film's press December 1992. It focused on five main characters from around the conference here. world who were given magical The "Rang De Basanti" actress added that rings that had the power to con- trol natural elements. her mother also expressed her eagerness to Together they could summon watch the film. Captain Planet, a superhero who helps them fight against pollution "She is different from other mothers, so and environmental evils, something when she expressed her willingness to watch DiCaprio himself is known to be passionate about. it,it is the biggest compliment for me," she This Olympic archer looks just said. like Leonardo Dicaprio The movie, which also stars Vir Das, is However if the project goes ahead Matt and Powell’s new scheduled to be released on October 21. A script is rumored to be an interest- petition has again been filed in the Delhi High ing take on the TV show, and will be apparently set years after the With the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) calling for a ban on Pakistani actors in the wake of the Uri Court to stop the release of Hindi film, and show with the once heroic Cap- attack, it was speculated that the makers of Pakistani actor Saba Qamar starrer Hindi Medium will delay the Soha feels "those who have filed a PIL against tain Planet now a washed-up has- film’s release. However, Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan’s spokesperson has confirmed that the film will release been who needs the kids more than the film, haven't seen the film yet". "So, I they need him. on schedule, Gulf News reported. Won’t engage with Pakistani talent under current circumstances, says Karan don't understand why are they offended. Leonardo DiCaprio turns into Johar “Irrfan is currently putting all his efforts and focus on his next [films] with Tanuja Chandra and Homi However, we are happy that film is releasing a crazy fan Leonardo DiCaprio can Adajania. As for the question of any of his films being stalled is not true. He has wrapped up shooting for all his be seen starting October 30 in cli- films with no pending schedules left for any,” the source revealed. Saket Chaudhary’s Hindi Medium is based on on scheduled date. We are thankful that the mate change documentary Before film has been receiving much support, love the Flood, which he also co-pro- the life of a middle-class family in Chandni Chowk, Delhi. Saba is playing the role of Irrfan’s wife. The film is set duced. The film is being distribut- to release next year. and good will," she said. ed by National Geographic. THURSDAY . OCTOBER 20, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Sir Ian Botham says Alastair Cook will be hungry for runs in England's Anthony Joshua will definitely Eddie Hearn Test series in defend his IBF heavyweight title “We are beginning discussions in December, with or without with other opponents now while WladimirKlitschko, says promot- crossing our fingers that Klitsch- Bangladesh er Eddie Hearn. ko takes the fight, regardless of how IBF champion Joshua has many belts are on the line. agreed to face Klitschko at the “In an ideal world, there would Manchester Arena on December be as many belts as possible on 10, but the Ukrainian is yet to the line, but I hope he takes up the commit to the fight as he wants to challenge rather than a soft touch see if a version of the WBA title in Germany.” will be at stake. IBF mandatory challenger Jo- With reports circulating that seph Parker has turned his atten- Klitschko has lined up an alterna- tion to Andy Ruiz Jr tive fight in Germany, Hearn has The WBA is expected to make been forced to draw up a list of a ruling this week on the WBA ‘su- replacement opponents, but re- per’ title, which was vacated by mains hopeful the 40-year-old will Tyson Fury last week, while battle Joshua instead of a “soft Australian Lucas Browne touch”. was granted another fight for the Hearn exclusively told Sky WBA ‘regular’ belt earlier this Sports: ”With the hold up from the year. WBA, we need a little more time, Joseph Parker is the mandato- so regardless of if it’s Klitschko or ry challenger for Joshua’s IBF Sir Ian Botham expects Alastair not, AJ will return on December belt but has opted to target the Cook to add to his terrific run-scor- 10 in Manchester. WBO title and reports suggest he ing record in Asia and help steer In an ideal world there would will fight Andy Ruiz Jr as part of a England to a series win in Bang- be as many belts as possible on four-man tournament, which based ladesh. the line, but I hope he takes up the on current rankings could poten- Cook, who will become the challenge rather than a soft touch tially include Britain’s David Haye most-capped Test cricketer when in Germany. and Hughie Fury. he leads the team into Thursday's opener in Chittagong, has scored more Test runs in Asia than any other non-home-grown player in history. The England skipper has piled Manchester up 2,252 runs in his 21 Tests on the continent at an average of 61 and, despite not playing since the end of the County Championship City defender season in September, Botham is backing the prolific opener to add to his impressive tally in the two- Test series in his Beefy's Bets. John Stones The Sky Sports commentator and Sky Bet tipster said: "I'm go- ing with the captain. He's got a ter- rific record in these hot, humid looking conditions and will be hungry for Heather Watson, who has been lowed by a series of injuries and a runs." upheld as the future of British debilitating bout of glandular fe- Cook, who top scored in the women's tennis since winning the ver. series when England last played in Junior US Open in 2009, has Coupled with Robson's recur- Bangladesh six years ago, can be forward to shown this season she is on the rent wrist issue, Britain was forced backed at 11/4 with the online brink of coming of age. to wait for either of its rising stars bookmaker to be England's top The going has been rough for to realise their potential. run-scorer in the series and 3/1 to Watson, since - as a plucky 17- Watson's last couple of sea- top score in the first innings of the Lionel Messi year-old - she won her maiden slam sons have produced some spectac- first Test. at Flushing Meadows. ular highs, but also showcased Botham enjoyed success in Watson's parents had es- some of the inconsistencies of her tipping Adil Rashid in the three chewed the LTA in her tennis edu- early days. ODIs and thinks the Yorkshire leg- challenge cation, sending the Guernsey-born Last summer, she came within spinner can stake his claim as En- player to Nick Bollettieri's Tennis two points of victory against the gland's premier spinner for this and Academy in Florida aged 12, and all-conquering Serena Williams in the forthcoming five-Test series the results spoke for themselves: the third round of Wimbledon, with India, and is worth backing at a junior Commonwealth gold in bringing the nation to a halt with a 5/2 to be England's leading wicket- 2008, US Open champion the next fearless display of ball striking. taker in the series. year and a third-placed world rank- And yet, just twelve months He added: "Adil has a great ing. later, Watson fans were forced to opportunity to establish himself Her rapid ascent was well- watch through cracked fingers as as the first choice spinner this win- documented and, along with Jun- she was eliminated by Annika ter. He bowled well in the One Day ior Wimbledon Champion Laura Beck in three sets. series and I'd expect him to do well Robson, Watson was swiftly On her day, Watson is a force in the Tests." branded a future star of the game, to be reckoned with, but it is the land's Henri Kontinen and is fresh second set against Marina Erak- Cook is expecting a tough win- gifted with outstanding footwork battle against herself, rather than off the back of a WTA final in Hong ovic in the singles, before clinch- ter with England playing seven and athleticism. between the tramlines, which of- Kong, where she partnered close ing the match with a tie-break. A Tests in eight weeks against Bang- A win in Frinton in 2009, her ten thwarts Britain's No 2. friend and compatriot Naomi past model of Watson, less assured ladesh and India inaugural ITF title, only served to Now, the tide appears to be Broady. than the Grand Slam holder we are The England legend also ex- confirm that a meteoric rise was turning. Watson ended last season Watson has not beaten a top increasingly seeing, might have fal- pects England to maintain their underway, but commentators and ranked 54th in the world, and - al- 100 player since June, but she is tered. 100 per cent winning record the public seemed to forget just though she has since dropped to beginning to progress through Her evident enjoyment of the against the hosts, having won each how tricky the senior tour is to 78 - there is a sense that the pieces WTA draws once more and her re- Wimbledon experience was impos- of their previous eight Tests crack, and such expectations were are coming together, and that we sults in Hong Kong suggest confi- sible to overlook, and her delight against Test cricket's newest na- always unrealistic. are seeing the most complete, dence is returning. at reaching last week's final with tion. "If the weather stays fair, I'd Her first WTA title at the HP threatening and composed version Reaching the final with Broady Broady was similarly apparent as expect England to cruise it," added Open in 2012 clinched the British yet. The Briton is Wimbledon was heartening enough, but she she beamed her way through each Botham, with the 2-0 scoreline a No 1 ranking, but was swiftly fol- mixed doubles champion with Fin- also overcame a 4-1 deficit in the change of ends. 6/4 shot with Sky Bet.

How will Lewis Hamilton handle on both sides, or will Lewis and and Sepang. Ultimately, the Manor team-mates are fighting over meagre scraps at the back of the field. But it's his media engagements? sections of the media remain on a contest which has taken on a new and altogether critical context given the pair could be in a head-to-head As you might have heard, an- frosty ground? contest for a seat at Force India next year. Buoyed by the introduction of a new front-wing, Haas reached the gered by what he regarded as the It's been a long time since heady heights of seventh in qualifying in Japan, their highest position of the year. Can they maintain that "disrespectful" depiction of his Lewis enjoyed a clean weekend upturn in fortunes at their home race? If they were, they would break the 'curse of the home race' which has Snapchat antics in Japan, Hamil- and the portents of Austin break- done devil for McLaren, Red Bull and Ferrari this year. ton walked out of his media brief- ing the run are not promising after John Stones is relishing the pros- Everton in the summer and has fea- ing on Saturday night at the Mer- the Mercedes driver was forced to pect of coming up against Lionel tured regularly under Pep Guardi- cedes motorhome without answer- pull out of tyre testing last week Messi when Manchester City face ola Stones, 22, has played in all ing any questions. "I don't really with a foot injury which was visi- Barcelona at the Nou Camp in the eight of City's Premier League fix- plan on sitting here many more bly apparent during Mercedes' ti- Champions League on Wednesday. tures since joining the club and is times for these kind of things," he tle-winning celebrations on Tues- Stones, who moved to the Eti- certain he will continue to grow at added. day. had Stadium from Everton for the Etihad. Although Hamilton's sched- The team are confident Hamil- £47.5m during the summer, fea- "You can't let your game slip uled press briefing for Sunday night ton will be fit for action in Ameri- tured against Borussia or your focus," he added. "It's was subsequently cancelled, the ca but the injury is another issue Monchengladbach and Celtic in something I'm working on, but that official explanation from Mer- the Mercedes driver could do with- City's opening two Champions comes with age and experience. It cedes, making no mention of out. Thirty-three points clear in League fixtures. And he is looking takes time to learn the game and Hamilton's walkout the previous the standings with four races to forward to testing himself against I'm still learning. There's plenty evening, was that he needed to go, Nico has a straightforward ob- Messi, who made a scoring return more to come. catch an early flight back to Eu- jective over the next month: stay to fitness for Barca in their 4-0 win Pep Guardiola admits it will rope. out of trouble, don't make any mis- over Deportivo on Saturday after be really difficult to try and keep De Bruyne to score, Draw, 5+ takes off the line, and keep his fin- struggling with a groin injury. Lionel Messi quiet in Manchester corners each team and 60+ match gers crossed that none of his en- Manchester City manager Pep City's clash with Barcelona. booking pts150 / 1Messi to score gines go bang. Avoid any drama and Guardiola is expecting a tricky Pep Guardiola admits it will first and Otamendi to be shown the championship will surely be match against his former team Bar- be really difficult to try and keep the first card50 / 1Fernandinho, his. Will any more 2017 pieces celona Lionel Messi quiet in Manchester Otamendi & Sterling to be card- fall into place? Manchester City manager Pep City's clash with Barcelona. ed33 / 1Neymar to score, each team Even after Nico Hulkenberg's Guardiola is expecting a tricky "Watching Barcelona as a kid, 5+ corners and Zabaleta to be card- expected move to Renault was match against his former team Bar- they're a massive team, with top ed18 / 1Neymar to score, over 2.5 made official last week, over half celona players, a great stadium, and it will goals, 7+ Barcelona corners and of the seats for 2017 remain un- "For me, Messi's the best play- be big occasion for me, my family Kolarov to be carded16 / 15+ cor- filled. While we can be 99 per cent er in the world, easily. He's one of and the club. ners each team and Under 60 match sure of the two Williams drivers a kind," Stones said. "I think we, "It was Messi himself and the booking pts9 / 2BTTS, over 3.5 for next year, it's little more than a as footballers, appreciate it even style they play that I liked. Obvi- goals, 9+ match corners and 40+ guessing game for the remaining more when you come up against ously, the gaffer [Pep Guardiola] match booking pts7 / 2 vacancies at Force India and him and see what he can really do. used to work there and I was a big Two weeks on, and Hamilton Renault, while Toro Rosso and "I'll be looking forward to that fan when he was there and the is scheduled to do it all again - with Haas have offered little insight into challenge. But it's not just him, it's players he had." his Saturday and Sunday written their plans. Will more light be shed everyone in that team. 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Next phase of military operation Australia asked to The Envoy:From Kabul to the send helicopters, to begin against Taliban 150 troops back White House, My Journey By Farhad Naibkhel be a supportive step at the thresh- to Afghanistan Through a Turbulent World old of beginning of next phase of Australia has been asked to Though the principals were still calls that I was receiving from Af- Shafaq. reluctant to involve the United ghans drew notice within the ad- While pointing to achieve- send 150 troops and helicopter gunships back to southern Afghan- States in nation building, the dep- ministration. When President Bush ments of Afghan forces, General uties were more forward-looking. saw me at the White House Waziri said that war in Afghani- istan. Uruzgan province governor Hadley ensured that prepara- Charismas party later that year, stan is not only Taliban war, this tions were being made to organize his eyes lit up. “Zal!” he said, turn- is an intelligence war at the level of Mohammad Nazir made the ap- peal during a frank meeting with an international donor’s confer- ing to Laura Bush. “This is the guy region and world. ence, launch key infrastructure I was talking to you about. All the He said that Panjabi, Chech- Australian ambassador Richard Feakes and his counterpart from projects, and provide basic health Afghans call him!” Rice and Had- en, Uzbek, Uyghur and Arab fight- and educational services. ley were firmly against having ers were in the frame of insurgents the Netherlands. The meeting was held last The problem was that the pres- NSC staff carrying out policy in group in different part of the coun- month after the provincial capital ident and principals were not an operational capacity. The les- try, which Afghan forces bravely Tarin Kowt almost fell under Tal- pressing the department s to pre- son had been ingrained in them fought against them and sup- iban control. Speaking to the ABC, pare for the actual logistics of in- since the Iran-Contra scandal, pressed in different provinces. Mr Nazir said Australian person- stalling and supporting a new gov- when NSC staffers, handling mili- He stated that Afghan forces nel could provide invaluable sup- ernment. In the absence of a con- tary and diplomatic operations, jointly conducted hundreds of port to Afghan forces. “[Austra- crete plan, they had different as- nearly brought down the Reagan combat crackdown against Taliban lian troops] have to be more active sumptions about the role we would administration. Hadley and Rice fighters, which through thousands than before,” he said. We don’t play. As the United States planned believed in the Scowcroft model gled to get U.S. attention. The is- of Taliban killed and wounded in have a lot of stuff like helicopters for military operations, I spoke of NSC management, in which sue of arms had been a particular this year. to support by air strike.” It will with leaders of the afghan opposi- operations are left to the secretar- source of frustration for the North- Over 5,500 armed rebels also help our army in the field, the air tion. I knew most of them from ies of state and defense. Seeing my ern Alliance. CIA officers had pre- arrested by Afghan forces during support is very important for our my time in the Regan administra- contracts, however, they made an viously approached Massoud to operations, he claimed. army.” Australia has ‘shared ene- tion, though my relationship with exception in my case. It became request his help in tracking down He insisted that Taliban lost mies’ with Afghanistan: Governor some dated back to my days as a my responsibility to help the pres- bin Laden, yet they refused to pro- student. Amid the uncertainty af- ident monitor the situation through vide the military assistance need- KABUL: The defense ministry try,” ministry’s spokesman Daw- moral as well as will be failure in Forty-one Australian troops died said Wednesday the second phase lat Waziri said. in operations in and around Uruz- ter 9/11, many of my longtime af- a separate channel from the typi- ed to carry out the mission. offensive. ghan acquaintances reached out to cal State Department, Pentagon THE ATTACK AGAINST al of the Shafaq military operation He said that the first phase of Hinting to serious fighting gan before the decade-long mission would begin soon to eliminate Tal- Shafaq continue successfully and ended in 2013. Three hundred Aus- me proactively. For most of the and CIA filters. Qaeda in Afghanistan and the Tal- against corruption in the ministry opposition figures, I was the only When Northern Alliance rep- iban regime started on October 7, iban’s threats and clear districts through this operation Afghan forc- of defense, General Waziri said that tralian personnel remain in Afghan- from insurgents across the coun- es incurred heavy casualties to istan, but mainly in Kabul, in train- connection they had the Bush ad- resentative Haroon Amin arrived 2001. As the war got under way, I Afs 7 billion was saved this year. ministration and the only one with at the White House, I notified him essentially served as an additional try. Taliban in different provinces He said that the money saved ing roles. By some accounts, the “Afghan forces will struggle to throughout the country. Taliban controls more territory whom they felt some rapport. I that the United States would pro- check on our operations, ensuring after contracts revised and imple- clear Taliban from collapsed dis- He said that International now than at any time since it was was also one of the few who could vide arms to the opposition. Amin that they were being implemented tricts and rebuff insurgents threats Community also will submit 700 mented transparently in the min- removed from power by the US communicate with them without was elated. As Massouds ambas- properly. in critical areas across the coun- new armored vehicles, which will istry. military in 2001. an interpreter. The flurry of phone sador in Washington, he had strug- To be continued