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Afghanistan, India hold renewable energy summit KABUL: The Afghanistan Re- various Afghan Ministries, includ- newable Energy Union and the ing, the Ministry of Power, Coal Ministry of Energy and Water and New and Renewable Energy hosted a two day Afghanistan-In- of India, as well as the Ambassa- dia Renewable Energy Summit in dor of Afghanistan in India and New Delhi aimed at promoting the Ambassador of India in Af- Afghanistan s energy sector. The ghanistan attended. The Summit United States Agency for Inter- introduced Indian businesses from national Development (USAID), the renewable energy sector so- the Embassy of India in Afghani- lar, wind, biomass, geothermal and stan and the Federation of India hydro to renewable energy in- Chamber of Commerce and Indus- vestment opportunities in Af- tries supported the event which ghanistan and included a presen- was held on August 6 and 7, a tation by the Afghan delegation statement from the USAID said of the Kandahar Solar Project. on Monday. Representatives from This 10-megawatt hybrid so- By Akhtar M. Nikzad with great zeal. There is a scene homes, streets and shops with 19 as a reminder that how the an- try s foreign policy back in 1919. the Indian renewable energy sec- lar photo voltaic power project, of competition among residents of posters and flags. Scores of Kab- cestors fought for freedom of the They said that public and the gov- tor, Afghan enterprises, financial aims to replace diesel generators KABUL: Afghans are preparing different cities. Dwellers of Kab- ul residents termed the Indepen- country to defeat the British Em- ernment shall celebrate the Inde- institutions, Da Afghanistan as a source of electricity in Kan- to mark the Independence Day ul are also busy in decorating dent Day celebrations on August pire and take control of the coun- pendence Day magnificently ..P3 Breshna Sherkat, officials from dahar. (Pajhwok) Flash floods in Nangarhar killed 8, damaged 300 houses AT News Report KABUL: Flash floods in eastern Nangarhar province killed at least eight people and damaged more than 300 houses. Head of the Red AT News Report kistani members of the militant group. In a Crescent Society office in Nan- video clip sent to media outlets, the arrested garhar, Nangialai Yusoufzai, said KABUL: The National Director- men have confessed that they were mem- that flash floods in Ghanikhel, ate of Security (NDS) arrested a bers of the deadly terrorist group. One of Dur Baba, Nazian and Mohm- commander along with two Paki- the Pakistani members of the group said that and districts of the province have stani members of the Islamic State he has joined the IS through internet web- caused loss of life and property. (IS), when trying to enter Afghan- sites. The statement said, the NDS opera- According to our volunteer istan through Torkham gate. tives have also destroyed a hideout of the workers in the flood-hit areas, as The NDS in a press statement Taliban militants in southern Helmand prov- many as 170 houses have been issued on Monday said that their ince. It added that the hideout belonged to damaged in Ghanikhel district, 60 operatives arrested an IS com- fighters of Abdul Jabar, a Taliban command- houses in Dur Baba district, five mander named Hayatullah, known er. Security forces also recovered several to 10 houses in Nazian district as Mansoor, along with two Pa- and 60 to 70 houses in Mohm- bombs from the hideout. and district, he added. He said that at least eight people have died in the flash floods. Yusoufzai Foreigner 7B AFGHANIS said that the floods have also de- stroyed hundreds of Jirebs of female aid DECLINE land in the areas. Ahmad Zia Ab- dulzai, the spokesman for Nan- worker garhar governor office, said that IN REVENUE they have directed the concerned kidnapped in KABUL: The Ministry of Finance (MoF) organizations to provide aid to on Monday registered seven billion Afghanis the affected people.However, the decline in revenue this year and directed cos- affected people said that they Kabul tume officials to complete the target in the haven t received any aid so far. AT News Report next three months or resign from their posi- tions. Finance Minister Aklil Hakimi during 18 militants KABUL: Unidentified gunmen assessment of financial performances of last kidnapped a female aid worker at year and review of the first six months of the killed in Baghlan gunpoint on Monday morning in fiscal year told costume and revenue officials Kabul. Fraidun Obaidi, head of that they failed to achieve the target of reve- AT Monitoring Desk Kabul police criminal investiga- nue generation despite their promises with tion department, said that the in- the international community. He said that KABUL: At least 18 Taliban mil- cident took place around 9:15 am around six to seven billion Afghanis which itants have been killed in fighting in Qala-i-Fathullah area of Kabul should be collected in revenue was not with Afghan security forces in city. He said that they have achieved because the revenue was collected northern Baghlan province over launched an investigation into the less than the target in some provinces. He the past three days. The clashes incident and whereabouts of the did not name any province but directed cos- took place in Dand-e-Ghori area kidnapped aid worker. He didn t tume and revenue officials: You should of Pul-e-Khumri, the capital city disclose nationality of the kid- achieve the target. You should gain more than of the province, said the provin- napped foreign national. Howev- that and those who collect more than the tar- cial police chief. Abdul Jabar Pur- er, foreign media outlets reported get will be rewarded but those who failed dely said that security forces that the female aid worker was will be fired. Hakimi did not share details have cleared over 10 villages of national of Germany and was about the target for each costume and the the Taliban militants. working in GIZ. No one has revenue collected. However MoF spokesman He added that one Afghan claimed responsibility of the kid- Abdul Rahmizai on July 4 had said that 123 soldier has been killed and three napping so far. Another worker billion Afghanis was revenue target for this others wounded in the clashes. of the organization was abducted year. He had said that 54.68 billion Afghanis He said that fighting between se- in Kunduz province earlier this was collected in the first six months of the curity forces and the Taliban are year, who managed to escape af- fiscal year while the amount last year stood still going on. ter six weeks in captivity. at 51 billion Afghanis. (Pajhwok) This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. TUESDAY . AUGUST 18, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

Gh an i s approval rating continues to slide: Survey The findings of the fourth survey in a series conducted by ATR Con- sulting and TOLOnews shows Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's popularity has further dipped, il- lustrating a decrease of 5.7 percent as compared to results published in May. According to the findings released on Sunday, slightly less than 20 percent of the entire pop- ulation in Afghanistan is "very sat- isfied" with the performance of Ghani since he assumed office last year in September this is down from 25.5 percent in May. HAHRANA: Local resi Combined Military Hospital in one of the participants, said Ha- said the Pakistani leaders were in- their security forces and would al- Taliban and was sometimes re- Approximately one person out dents on Sunday celebrated Muree late on Saturday. A large mid Gul s death was in the inter- volved in recent incidents of vio- ways assist them against those cre- ferred to as the father of the Tal- of five is or 22.8 percent are Sformer Pakistani spymaster number of people rallied in the est of Afghanistan because he had lence in Afghanistan. Gul Khan, ating insecurity in the country. iban . "moderately satisfied" with Gen. Hamid Gul s death with capital of Paktika province, danc- been creating problems and hur- another participant, asked Paki- Gen. Hamid Gul, who headed the In an interview with the BBC Ghani's performance, the report pump and show in southeastern ing at drum beats for an hour and dles all his life for Afghanistan. stan to shun it dual-faced policy Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI in 2010, Gul had remarked: said. But the largest percentage of Paktika province. chanting slogans like Down with He said Afghans would celebrate toward Afghanistan and focus on from 1987 to 1989, had been ac- America is history, (then Afghan the population - 52.1 percent - is The ex-director general of the Pakistan. They also raised slo- the death of every Pakistani lead- security and stability in its neigh- cused for supporting armed mili- President Hamid) Karzai is histo- "not satisfied at all" with the gov- premier Pakistani intelligence ser- gans in support of the Afghan se- er until they played a sincere role bouring country. He said the Af- tants in Afghanistan. Gul also ry, the Taliban are the future. ernment of Ghani that came into vice died of brain hemorrhage in curity forces. Mohammadullah, in the Afghan peace process. He ghan youth was ready to support played a part in the rise of the (Pajhwok) power after a disputed election with rival Abdullah Abdullah, who then became Afghanistan's Chief Executive Officer. Meanwhile, six percent of the population refrained Improving sports from commentating or had no opin- ion on the matter. The first survey published in November 2014 had means helping peace however showed 59.9 percent of the respondents were "very satis- fied" with Ghani's performance in office. "This survey shows a dra- matic change and decrease in the level of public support and their KANDAHAR CITY: Education problems which had been shared He said education department ty of education in districts had satisfaction with both the leaders officials said on Monday nearly with the Ministry of Education. officials were trying to overcome been low because most schools of National Unity Government," 25,000 out-of-school children He said the majority of the teachers shortage problem and had no buildings, professional TOLOnews Director Lotfullah both boys and girls would be schools in Kandahar had no build- pave the way for reopening of teachers and books. A resident of Najafizada said. "The important brought to schools as part of an ings and most of such schools ex- closed schools in districts. He said Char Bagh area of Arghandab dis- point is that approximately 65 enrollment campaign during 2015- isted in districts. However, he said some aid organizations had opened trict, Fida Mohammad, said the percent of Afghans talk of a dete- 16 academic year in southern the Education Ministry had prom- schools in districts where govern- education department besides re- Afghanistan is an interesting land matches here one day. While talk- rioration in their living [stan- Kandahar province. Kandahar is ised to construct buildings for 26 ment-run schools had been closed. solving other problems should which has different seasons and ing to the owner of Zarmalwal dards]." ATR Consulting random- one of Afghanistan s warmer schools during the ongoing aca- Both boys and girls were study- work on improving the quality of different mindset of generations. Cricket Stadium, he said: I have ly called 2,374 people across all provinces where the nine-month demic year. Several school build- ing in the NGOs-run facilities, he education. He said six schools, The inhabitants of Afghanistan are kept the foundation of entertainment 34 provinces to ask "How satis- academic year starts in Septem- ings in Kandahar City needed re- added. He said schools in insecure which had been closed due to in- quite interested in the aesthetic and cricket; this means peace and fied are you with President Ashraf ber and in the colder areas in habilitation, the official said, add- areas lacked buildings and anoth- security in the past, had reopened sense and daily life activities. But stability. I am happy to state that Ghani's performance?" The re- March. Kandahar education de- ing that the problem of textbooks er problem was displacement of and seven new schools in the dis- unfortunately, they have been the national team members come and spondents could select only one partment s spokesman Nazar shortage for primary schools had families due to insecurity. Mean- trict had also been made opera- kept under severely frustrating and go with a lot of learning from here. out of four possible answers: 'very Mohammad Samimi told Pajhwok been resolved, but students of while, Kandahar residents said the tional, taking the number of undeveloped conditions for the When I asked about the funding and satisfied,' 'moderately satisfied,' Afghan News the enrollment drive class 7, 8 and 9 still faced the prob- Education Department should re- schools to 30. last three decades, where their government attention, he replied 'not satisfied at all,' or 'I don't know had already been launched right lem. He said the shortage of books solve problems in the sector ahead But it was not enough, he said, enlightened, well-to-do and rich with desperation that he was very / No opinion.' The survey which away in Kandahar City and dis- for these classes was not only of the start of the new academic asking the government to improve cultural and thinking traditions unhappy to say that the stakehold- took place between August 2 and tricts. He said it was expected that confined to Kandahar, but schools year. They also asked the depart- the situation of functional schools were hijacked and suppressed by ers and majority of the government 9 showed those who were satis- proxies through war. Their natu- officials are not interested in the about 25,000 out-of-school chil- in central capital Kabul also strug- ment to do more on improving the instead of trying to reopen the ral style of smiling and kidding, as promotion of sports and especially fied with Ghani's performance dren would be enrolled in schools gled with the issue. There are a quality of education. Haji Moham- closed schools. Provincial educa- well as fun, made fun of buffer cricket. I think that cricket is the come from the eastern parts of the this solar year in Kandahar to in- total of 454 schools across Kan- mad Din, who lives in Sanzari area tion officials say the Governor s states. The locations and open only source of national and interna- country. While, those who were crease their number to nearly dahar province, but 147 of them of Zheri district, told Pajhwok House has created a consultative grounds where they played buz- tional dignity for Afghanistan and not satisfied at all were mostly 290,000 this year from last year s have been closed due to insecuri- Afghan News that the most im- mini-jirga aimed at implementing kashi, football, volleyball and oth- the national team players are doing from the central parts. The ana- 260,000 students, including ty. Samimi said the major prob- portant job the education depart- reforms and preventing corruption er sports were seized by barbaric very well. What I want to say about lysts, meanwhile, said the Nation- 78,000 girls. The education offi- lem behind the closure of these ment should do was to overcome in the education sector. The jirga forces, and they were converted funding, to be honest, nobody else al Unity Government (NUG) cial said all preparations for the schools was the shortage of teach- the shortage of professional teach- meets after every fortnight to dis- into killing grounds. But now, with paid for construction of cricket sta- failed to improve the living condi- new academic year had been fi- ers and that problem plagued ers and textbooks ahead of the new cuss progress, they say. (Pajh- the introduction of the new dem- dium, he said. Speaking about fa- tion of the citizens which has nalized and that there were some schools in Kandahar City as well. academic year. He said the quali- wok) ocratic government by the inter- cilities at the stadium facilities, he caused a consistent decline in its national community, the situation said that there is need for a dressing popularity. "Security and employ- is changing with the passage of room, proper walls, transport, ad- ment are the basic factors for peo- time. Grounds of dust and mud ditional quality equipment and much more, but unfortunately nobody, in- ple's welfare but the government Govt asked to drive rebels from Shinwari zone have reopened for the Afghan peo- only focuses on fighting insurgen- ple; however we are lacking the cluding the government promised to help at this juncture. But I am hap- cy. Thus, the government failed to JALALABAD: The National Council on Monday held a gath- They provide us reports about the mander Gen. Mohammad Ali Shu- basic facilities and resources for provide the people with good wel- Movement and Change Council on ering in Jalalabad, the capital of security situation in their areas, jai told Pajhwok Afghan News the satisfactory playing. In this new py that many young people come era, a cricket stadium named and join us while leaving addiction fare," political analyst Mia Gul Monday asked the government to Nangarhar province, saying the but they cannot attend meetings operation in Khogyani had been and violence and now they are com- Waseeq told TOLOnews. In addi- conduct operations to prevent security situation in the Shinwari due to security concerns. Anoth- launched on the basis of necessi- Zarmalwal Cricket Stadium is a nonprofit project with a lot of fa- ing to peace and stability and I am tion, the respondents said that possible infiltration of armed mil- zone was worsening with the pas- er participant of the gathering, ty. We conduct all operations happy for this. We feel happy when there was not a very big difference itant groups into the Shinwari zone sage of time and many people had Abdul Rahman Moawin, said: on the basis of necessity. Several cilities, such as 5000 to 7000 seats for spectators, a modern night we say we have made a great contri- between the performance of Ghani of eastern Nangarhar province. suffered losses as a result. The The security situation has dete- insurgents have been killed in the lighting system, proper greenery, bution in national team training. and Abdullah. According to the Clashes that erupted between group s leader, Haji Noor Agha riorated in the Shinwari zone, but Khogyani operation and the area a modern pitch and security, lo- Many of our dear young people findings, there is a five percent Taliban and Islamic State fighters Malakzai, told the gathering: Ac- operations have been launched in has been cleared of their presence. cated at Ahmad Shah Baba Mee- come and see the cricket matches decline in Abdullah's performance few months ago in the Shinwari cording to our information, weap- the Khogyani district. Such oper- Similar operations will be na, Kabul. Akram Quarishi, 22, and we have arranged almost 220 rating, bringing the total figure of zone had displaced many families. ons are being supplied to these ations should be carried out in the launched in other areas if need- says about the ground facilitators: T20 matches on the national lev- the entire population not satisfied It is said many civilians have outfits (Taliban and Daesh) and Shinwari zone. The operation ed, he said. I really appreciate the step tak- el, he elaborated. Jaylani Zarmal- with Abdullah's performance to suffered casualties besides dam- military uniforms being sewn for Iron Triangular was launched in The emergence and clashes wal is a writer and philanthropist. en by a local businessman, Jay- He has spent millions of Afghanis 48.2 percent. Only 24 percent of ages to their properties as a result them possible in the same dis- the Khogyani zone about 20 days between armed militant groups lani Zarmalwal. You know here on the cricket ground. We really need the population is said in the re- of the clashes, but exact figures tricts. Malakzai did not provide ago. Security officials say the of- have terrified local residents in the people don t spend on entertain- businessmen to spend in the areas port to have been "moderately sat- are not known. However, a pow- further details in this regard and fensive is aimed at purging the area Shinwari zone. A day earlier, a big ment but he has played a pioneer- of peace, entertainment, cinema and isfied" with Abdullah's perfor- erful lawmaker from Nangarhar, the governor s house has so far from militants. Moawin added gathering in Jalalabad accused the ing role in this sector. Another theater, but such matters are not giv- mance as the Chief Executive of Hazrat Ali, on Sunday claimed the not reacted to his claim. Malakzai such an operation in the Shinwari government of negligence in deal- spectator said before coming to en priority by the cream of society. Afghanistan. Those who are satis- Daesh fighters had so far killed said many tribal elders in the Shin- zone was crucial because the se- ing with the situation in the zone. see a T20 match: I am very hap- The government and other stake- py that there is an international fied with Abdullah's performance more than 600 civilians and held wari Zone had been forced to flee curity situation there had histori- The participants said the govern- holders need to think about such are mostly from the northern parts, captive another 270 in the Shin- homes to avoid being captured or cally worsened. Other speakers ment should take action against playing ground in front of my activities and investment motivation house, and sometimes I really feel the survey revealed. "Dr. Abdul- wari zone, urging people of east- killed by the armed militants. held similar views and said the sit- Daesh in Nangarhar, otherwise and appreciation. The new govern- lah, despite having people's sup- ern provinces to stage uprisings The elders and residents of the uation in the Shinwari zone they would themselves pick up proud that we are also able to play ment needs to give full attention to on an international level, and I the promotion of sports activities port, once again failed to keep pub- against the group. Members of the Shinwari Zone have been in con- threatened nearby regions. Selab guns to stage uprisings against the hope this ground will help in for the encouragement of peace, sta- lic trust and defend their votes," National Movement and Change tact with us over the telephone. Military Corps deputy com- group. (Pajhwok) bringing international cricket bility and democracy. said Dawood Muradian, head of Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies. "He was mostly busy with small issues which disappoint- Rampant corruption ed the people." Furthermore, when asked about change in their living condition, 63.5 percent of respon- in Paktia irks residents: PC dents said their economic situation KABUL: People in southeastern Paktia province people s problems, but the prob- has deteriorated during the govern- have complained they were facing with serious prob- lem has now resolved to some ex- ment of national unity. The sur- lems while doing their official work because govern- tent, he added. Mangal said that vey findings showed 24.4 percent ment employees demanding bribe. In an exclusive district officers also did not at- of the population didn't feel any interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Paktia pro- tend their offices on time, leading change in their living standard, 2.9 vincial council member Taj Mohammad Mangal said residents of the district to face percent had no opinion on the that despite efforts to bridge the gap between peo- problems. Our efforts yielded matter while only 9.8 percent of ple and government, people were still facing prob- fruits as most of the officers come the respondents reported a posi- lems to do their legal work without greasing the palm to their offices on time and ad- tive change in their living standards. of government officers. He said the provincial coun- dress people s problems, he said, Failure to fulfill electoral campaign cil efforts had removed anarchism and arbitrary ac- adding that in the past people promises is said to be the major tions in government offices to some extent. The were waiting for months for a reason for NUG leaders losing government offices in the past did not respond to small issue. (Pajhwok) popularity. Afghan cricket fan formally named Cricket Baba

KABUL: Raza Khan, who has been conferred with the title of Cricket Baba by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), said he has indebted thousands of Afghanis because he used to travel to many coun- tries to watch his national cricket team s matches abroad. Hailing from the Samkani district of south- eastern Paktia province, Raza Khan has been living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where he worked as daily wage laborer. Khan never missed a chance to watch cricket match of Afghanistan since the na- tional team had begun playing in the gulf nation. He used to wear special uniform made of Afghan na- tional flag to support the national heroes. The ACB Director Nasimullah Danish in a press conference conferred Raza Khan with the title of Cricket Baba (father of cricket). Danish said that Raza Khan supported player inside and outside the country and he contributed to the success of national cricket team. He praised the cricket Baba love and passion for the game and said Khan appeared with Afghan flag in every game and was active supporter of Afghan players. Raza Khan praised the ACB for giving him the Baba-i-Cricket title and said he wished to see national team playing on international level. According to Khan, earlier he used to see Paki- of their team and he was really disappointed at the time because Af- stani people going to stadiums in UAE in support ghanistan had no team at that time. (Pajhwok) This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. TUESDAY . AUGUST 18, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

You might forgive Khatera, a laborer in neighboring Iran. Hal- she told anyone or otherwise start implementing this law. in a stream. Nobody will even ask I am happy because scum like him grown mother of two, her belief eem was among the millions of sought help. Three times, she Women s rights activist Samira about you. At one point, she should be removed from Afghani- EMERGENCY in monsters. After all, she says, Afghans to have fled after the Tal- says, he hung a rope in the house Hamidi The report, which docu- says, her father dragged Khatera stan, she says, before seemingly one haunted her childhood. She re- iban came to power in 1996, met- vowing to kill his wife and daugh- mented the experiences of 110 and her mother into the kitchen, realizing how shocking that might CALLS calls how, on good days, he lashed ing out summary justice and seek- ter. Still, Khatera says, she told women who sought judicial re- where he had hung a rope. He sound from a condemned man s out at her or her long-suffering ing to impose a strict interpreta- everyone in the family about the dress for violence committed forced the rope onto my neck and daughter and adding, The abuse Police mother, beating them or simply tion of Shari a law on the coun- rapes, which would continue for against them, found that allega- said, If you go to the police again, my father inflicted upon me reminding them that no one cared try. After the Taliban was ousted the next decade: her mother, un- tions of corruption, abuse of pow- it will be your last time. I won t who knows how many fathers whether they lived or died. On bad by a U.S.-led coalition at the end cles, aunts, her grandmother. She er, and lack of professionalism let you live. This is the best life have abused their daughters this 100 - 119 days, she says, he inflicted inde- of 2001 in response to 9/11, he was called a liar and told to keep influenced their preference for you can have here. But after she way and have resources and mon- scribable pain while beating her came back to the family home that quiet. Of her mother, she says, mediation, rather than criminal became pregnant by her father a ey and roam free. Such people to silence her muffled cries. On Khatera and her mother shared She was not able to help herself, prosecution, to address their cas- second time, Khatera gave an in- should be removed. She says she Hospitals worse days, family members with her paternal grandmother and let alone me. Nobody listened to es. Women s rights activist Samira terview to a local television sta- feels her honor has been restored branded her a liar and insisted she aunts and uncles on her father s her. Treated Like Criminals Hamidi says violence against tion, essentially shaming authori- and that the verdict confirms she keep her talk of any monster side. But if there was joy for 9- or Heather Barr, a senior researcher women continues with impunity ties into taking her father into cus- was no villain, but a victim. Saeeq FMIC Hospital among them to herself. This is 10-year-old Khatera and her on women s rights in Asia and a because so many women don t tody. Khatera also attracted the Shajjan, an Afghan lawyer and Behind Kabul Medical how every father shows his af- mother, it was short-lived. When former Afghanistan researcher for understand their rights. She argues attention of an activist who helped Harvard law graduate, says judi- University: fection for his daughters, Khat- I would shout and cry for help, Human Rights Watch (HRW), that while there is corruption in her seek legal advice from a non- cial reforms are changing the legal era remembers her paternal grand- he would beat me and my grand- says that while Khatera s case is the formal judicial system, the profit group called Justice For All. landscape in Afghanistan. Since 0202500200-+93793275595 mother saying when, as an 11- mother would warn me not to particularly awful, it is not unlike continued existence of informal Then, more than a decade after her last year, the judiciary and politi- year-old, she told her of her rape raise my voice. Khatera other cases in which violence gatherings and councils shuras father began the sexual assaults cal will has been very positive, at the hands of her father. He had taken to calling him- against women is treated lightly and jirgas that compete with that had left her with two children, he says, citing five death sentenc- Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital And for a long time she be- self by a different name, Jameel, or victims are treated as criminals. official courts for authority is part Khatera was vindicated when her es for a gang-rape in Paghman that Pule Bagh-e- Umomi lieved it, and suffered in silence and was burning with rage at his There is so much to be done of the problem. We have always pro bono lawyer arranged pater- sparked national outrage and oth- and shame growing up surround- family, regularly abusing both to make the police and the prose- insisted that we have a law which nity tests in the United States that er high-profile executions. This 070263672 ed by her father s extended fami- Khatera and her mother, she says. cutors behave properly in these is a powerful law, Hamidi says. essentially confirmed her allega- shows that the judicial system is ly in a three-room brick home in She recalls on numerous oc- cases and take seriously violence Now we should start implement- tions. Day In Court On a sunny starting to function slowly but the Afghan capital, Kabul. casions seeing her father beat her against women, she says. ing this law. Khatera s story took day in Kabul in May, Khatera gradually, Shajjan says. All this Khairkhana Hospital But she knows better mother, Zahra, until she lost con- Barr notes Afghan authorities a dramatic turn five years ago approached a Kabul courthouse gives me a lot of hope for the fu- now and is determined to put a sciousness. She thinks she was continued misuse of laws against when, in her late teens, she be- holding the hand of her 4-year- ture of the judicial system to be 0799-321007 decade of incest and rage behind first raped by her father when she adultery, known as zina, to treat came pregnant by her abusive fa- old daughter and with her mother independent, to make sure to gain 2401352 her. She expects one final act in was 11. Khatera says two of the women as criminals when they ther. She had complained once to alongside her, holding Khatera s people s lost confidence in the this tragedy, however, when Af- house s three rooms were occu- have actually been raped and sex- police already but been sent infant son. When he was sen- system. Afghan lawmaker Shin- ghan authorities execute the man pied by her uncles and their fam- ually assaulted. The police are away. After the birth of her tenced to death, I was so happy kai Karokhel says of Khatera s who is at once both her own fa- ilies. She lived in the third with a part of the problem in a lot of daughter four years ago, she says, that I left the courtroom and case that people who commit Indira Gandhi Children ther and the father of her two her mother and father, her two lit- these cases, she says, citing the her father accused her of consen- came outside. I am happy be- such crimes should be punished Hospital, Wazir Akbar young children. The condemned tle brothers, her aunt, her unmar- case of one woman she interviewed sual sex with someone from the cause scum like him should be severely so other don t dare to man, Haleem Khan, is sitting in a ried uncle, and her grandmother. who went to the police station streets, foisting a badge of shame removed from Afghanistan. repeat such abuse. This is an act Khan, Kabul 2301372 Kabul prison awaiting word on an He would drag me to the room after being raped, only to be raped on his daughter in Afghanistan s Khatera She had gained confi- against Islam, an act against hu- appeal against his death sentence, where we lived. Day or night by a police officer who was sup- conservative society. He was dence throughout an emotionally manity. Such people should be handed down in May. It is a rare didn t make any difference to posed to be investigating the merely looking after Khatera s grueling trial that had left the punished publicly so it s a lesson Ibn-e- Seena conviction for a country where him, Khatera remembers. My crime. But the problem extends daughter, he would tell neighbors. brown-eyed young woman look- to others. Khatera s father has men traditionally dominate reli- uncles and aunt, my grandmoth- beyond the local level, she adds. Three more times, sneaking out ing far older than her 23 years. appealed the sentence, and she Pul-e-Artan, Kabul gious and political life and decades er, everyone used to be in the same This was a real failure of Hamid of the house with her daughter in Unlike at earlier proceedings, she says she lives in fear that he will of warfare have left the justice house. When I would shout and Karzai s government, she says, tow when other family members says, this judge never recommend- somehow walk free once public 2100359 system and other institutions cry for help, he would beat me in a reference to the man who ruled were away, she went to the police ed that she commit suicide after attention to the case fades. She weak or riddled with irregularities. and my grandmother would warn Afghanistan for 13 years. The and was met with disbelief. She killing your children. No officer also fears retribution against her Wazir Akbar Khan Women s rights and other activ- me not to raise my voice. failure to take really seriously the recalls officers asking how it was of the court had whispered to her or her siblings from her father s ists express hope that Khatera s She recalls asking her father violence against women in spite possible that a man could commit that first you should be pun- side of the family, of whom she Hospital and similar cases in which female why he would act that way to- of having passed this new [Elimi- such an act on his own child, par- ished. She had also listened as says you feel either they will cut Afghan victims have successfully ward his own daughter. He would nation Of Violence Against Wom- ticularly one who prays five her defendant father testified that you into pieces or eat you alive. 2301741, 2301743 pursued justice against their abus- tell me that God has given you to en, or EVAW, law], Barr says. times a day and holds prayer Khatera committed adultery But as Khatera and her mother ers signal at least a gradual change me for this reason. If I do not en- This is something that s urgent beads. They concluded that with someone. She had heard him struggle to support themselves for the better. joy your beauty and youth, who that [current President] Ashraf Khatera must have had an affair call her a prostitute [who]...earns since moving out of her father s Ali Abad No Fatherly Love For Me else should? She claims her fa- Ghani needs to take up. The Unit- with someone. Her father re- dollars and pays bribes to law- former home, she says her over- Shahrara, Kabul I once asked my mother ther even confessed to her on one ed Nations has noted significant mained defiant and threatening in yers and prosecutors and she re- riding concern is for her children, which mournful day was it when occasion of having sexually abused distrust among Afghan women of the face of her allegations, she sponded tearfully that she didn t born of tragedy but blameless. 2100439 you gave birth to me? Which un- a young girl in Iran. He decided to the country s judicial system, says. He would tell me that the even have the money to get treat- How should I tell them? It s dif- lucky cloth was it that you return to Afghanistan, as she tells saying in a report issued in government will be on my side if ment for her jaundiced daughter. ficult for me and for them, [but] it wrapped me in that God gave me it, only after learning that the girl April that women viewed the fail- you seek help there. ... You will But on this spring day, the judge will be far more difficult when Malalai Maternity such a bitter life? Khatera, who was pregnant. He used to look ure by Afghan law-enforcement be imprisoned and I will be the in Kabul s First District Court they come to know, she says. estimates her age at 23, recalls. at me in a way that I would worry and judicial authorities to enforce one who goes free, she recalls would convict Khatera s father, [My daughter] asked me the oth- Hospital My father destroyed my fate. he wanted to do something sinful legal measures in a timely manner him saying. He told me, I will Haleem Khan, and order that he er day where her father was. ... 2201377/ 2301743 He turned me into a wretched be- to me, Khatera says. He had no with disappointment as well as get you jailed. There, police will be executed for his crimes against Then she asked me, Where is your ing. She has testified that the sex- fatherly love for me. fear. We have always insisted sexually assault you and when her. When he was sentenced to father? I told her that my father ual abuse began after her father She remembers him choking that we have a law which is a you are unable to move, they will death, I was so happy that I left is in prison and your father has Banks returned from years as a migrant her and threatening to kill her if powerful law. Now we should shoot you and throw your body the courtroom and came outside. died. (Courtesy: RFERL) Da Afghanistan Bank Independence Day MoCN launches projects to counter narcotics 2100302, 2100303 preparations in full swing Kabul Bank Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi one year. Minister of Counter 222666, 070285285 AT News Report A flag-hoisting ceremony will Narcotics, Salamat Azemi, said the also be held at the Presidential KABUL: The Ministry of projects are part of her 100-day Azizi Bank KABUL: With the Independence Palace which would be followed Counter Narcotics (MoCN) on action plan which will cost Day round the corner, the nation- by the speech of President Monday signed contracts with Afs394.5 million, pledged by the 0799 700900 alist fervor is gripping the atmo- Ghani. National and internation- different firms for implementation United States of America to the Pashtany Bank sphere and preparations for cele- al dignitaries and guests will at- of 20 uplift and livelihood Good Performance Initiative brating the national festival are tend the ceremony. Khairi said projects. The uplift schemes are (GPI). She said that 27 other up- 2102908, 2103868 picking up in the private and state that preparations are underway for part of the ministry s anti-narcot- lift and livelihood projects which institutions. Preparations for the the ceremony. A special commis- ics drive. Construction of schools, were part of the action plan have 96th Independence Day in Afghan- sion comprising of four commit- clinics, hospitals, irrigation, sport been completed. About 30 other Air Services istan has begun in the different tees (protocol, procurement, cul- stadium, bridge, teaching institu- livelihood projects are part of the places of the country. Major cit- tural and security) has been es- tion, dormitory, public health in- second 100-day action plan. Safi Airways ies in the country will be on high tablished in this regard. The com- stitute and a protection wall are MoCN has initiated 282 livelihood tide security during the Indepen- mission is headed by the first vice- the major projects to be imple- projects through the GPI program 020 22 22 222 dence Day. The Independence president, Gen. Abdul Rasheed mented in 15 provinces. The in 34 provinces since its beginning. Day is celebrated every year on Dostum. He said that imams have projects are going to be launched As many as 218 projects have Ariana August 19. This year s theme is been urged to focus on importance in Nuristan, Khost, Sari-Pul, Pa- han, Baghlan, Kapisa, Panjshir, Badghis and Faryab. These been completed and 64 others to the Day of National Defense . of the country s independence. He ktia, Maidan Wardak, Badakhs- Ghazni, Helmand, Logar, Ghor, projects will be completed within be completed soon, said Azemi. 020-2100270 The nation will pay rich tribute asked media for special transmis- to the Afghan security forces who sion and coverage on the Indepen- rendered matchless sacrifices in dent Day. The deputy spokesman Several Baghlan civilians feared Afghans gear up for Kam Air the war against terrorism to de- of Ministry of Defense, Dawlat 0799974422 fend the country. Despite having Waziri, said that the Independent dead, wounded in clashes Independence Day celebrations little or no air support and lacking Day would be celebrated with PUL-I-KHUMRI: The residents concerns about a rise in civilian ...P1 to recall sacrifices of the ancestors fought against the then Hotels modern weapons, Afghan Nation- pomp and show. He said that am- in northern Baghlan province on casualties and displacements of brave Afghan heroes who stood super power with unity and never al Security Forces (ANSF) had bassadors and other high-ranking Monday voiced concerns about several families. Arbab Nazir, a like an iron wall against the then allowed the invaders to take con- Safi Landmark stunned many while exhibiting foreign and national officials spike in civilian casualties during resident of Safi Khan village, said powerful empire of the world. trol of the country and decide their tremendous capabilities. The vice would attend the Independence the clashes and urged warring par- two men and a young girl were The late king of Afghanistan, fates. Now it is our duty to work president s office said the Inde- Day ceremonies. Singers and stu- ties to consider safety of civilians. killed and 23 more wounded in the Amanullah Khan, proclaimed the together and hard for prosperity 020-2203131 pendence Day would be celebrat- dents will sing patriotic songs on Clashes between insurgents and clashes since yesterday. independence of Afghanistan from of our country and once again ed with great zeal. In a consulta- the Independence Day. Residents Afghan security forces started on He told Pajhwok Afghan Great Britain in 1919. After fail- prove that Afghans are united as a SERENA tive meeting with media, the dep- of all major and small cities and Sunday in Dand-i-Ghor locality News the three people had been ing repeatedly to subdue Afghans one nation and nobody could sub- uty chief of staff at the vice presi- towns, including but not limited in the vicinity of the provincial laid to rest in Postak locality of by force, the British Empire for- due it, he said. In the last few 0799654000 dent s office, Homayoon Khairi, to Jalalabad, Kabul, Mazar-e- capital Pul-i-Khumri. Dand-i-Ghori. Arbab said he him- mally recognized Afghanistan as years the Independent Day of Af- said that President Ashraf Ghani Sharif, Herat, Kandahar, Ghazni an independent country and ghanistan was not marked with a Since last month Dand-i- self along with some other men signed a treaty. The empire waged huge official ceremony. While in New Rumi Restaurant has issued a decree, ordering rele- City, and Gardez, are busy in dec- Ghori has been under control of had come to Postak locality from vant authorities for preparations. orating markets, public and pri- three wars (1839 42; 1878 80; the past the Independent Day was insurgents and the government has Safid Khan and they did not know 1919) against Afghanistan but celebrated with pomp. Citizens 0776351347 A major ceremony will be orga- vate institutions and buildings launched operations to retake the about the fate of their families. nized at the Presidential Palace. with national flags. suffered humiliating defeats de- across the country came out from area. Local residents expressed (Pajhwok) spite having a large and well- their homes and participated in the Internet Services equipped military. Since then Af- ceremonies and the government 27 Afghan ghans celebrate the Independence held military parades when Af- UA Telecom Day with great pomp and show. ghanistan was at peace. These all 0796701701 / 0796702702 children handed Over $480m embezzled This year s theme for the Inde- activities conveyed a clear message pendence Day is Day of Nation- about the importance of the inde- over to relatives al Defense to honor the Afghan pendence. Noor Mohammad, a car Exchange Rate Kabul Bank money recovered security forces for their sacrifices driver, said that although some KABUL: Police in Khyber Pakh- in the line of duty and commend people might not have the oppor- Purchase: tunkhwa of Pakistan on Sunday KABUL: The Attorney General s AGO spokesman told Pajhwok squandered money, the government them for their capabilities. tunity to celebrate the Indepen- handed over 27 Afghan children to Office (AGO) on Monday claimed Afghan News that all those small says it has so far recovered $437 Najiba Arian, a resident of dence Day with huge celebrations, their parents on personal sureties, recovering over $480 million em- and big debtors who failed to clear millions. Twenty-four defaulters Kabul City, said that August 19 but it does not mean that the day One US$ = who were taken into custody bezzled money of Kabul Bank their dues had been barred from have paid their debts until now. is a day of national pride for Af- is not seen as important or will be 63.68Afs when a pickup truck was trans- ghanistan. It s the day when Af- forgotten. He said that Afghani- money with 50 suspects had been leaving the country. He added the Some of the major shareholders One Pound Sterling= porting them to refugee camp in detained in this connection. AGO had sent letters to munici- including Mahmood Karzai, Gul ghans gained the independence stan is facing many challenges in- Akora Khattak a day earlier, me- Speaking to reporters, acting palities and Da Afghanistan Bank Bahar Habibi, Hassin Fahim, Daud from the British Empire. This cluding insecurity, corruption, vi- 97.06Afs dia reports. Pakistani media re- year, we will mark 96th Indepen- olence against women, inadequate ported said that Awami National Attorney General Noor Habib branches, asking them to freeze Nassir, Mohammad Anwar dence Day since the Great Brit- employment opportunities, weak One Euro = Party (ANP) and Pakistan Peo- Jalal said of 227 accused, 50 had assets of the defaulters. The de- Jigdalak, Mohammad Tahir Zahir, ain signed the Anglo-Afghan Trea- economy and poverty, all of which 69.49Afs ple s Party (PPP) district presi- been detained by police while po- faulters are obliged to pay their Mahboob Frotan, Mohammad Is- ty in 1919 with Afghanistan, she pose a threat to Afghanistan s dents Juma Khan and Ijaz Muham- lice had been raiding to nab the rests debts. They can t possess even a mail Ghazanfar and Amrullah have said. Our library is a critical part peace and stability. 1000 Pak Rs = mad were returning to their resi- of the suspects. single Afghani from the national started paying their debts in in- of our history, and it is important Nevertheless, this year, on 604Afs dences after attending a function Efforts were on to recover all exchequer, he remarked. Once the stallments. According to the AGO, to remember it ,96 years ago Af- August 19, Afghans has the op- when they spotted a pickup truck the money lost to the infamous country s largest lender, the bank the assets of these individuals are ghans came together to fight for portunity to celebrate their inde- Sale: carrying children on the Nowshera- Kabul Bank scandal, revealing an- plunged into deep crisis in 2009, not frozen anymore. In October independence with a vision of pendence as a unified proud na- One US$ = Mardan Road. It said that the two other two accused in the case had when it lost $987 million in fraud- 2014, the president ordered re- unity and prosperity, and yet, it tion at any level, he said. He fur- 63.88 Afs leaders informed the police who been referred to the primary court. ulent property deals, massive off- opening of the Kabul bank case and is deeply unfortunate that in re- ther said that the day represents reached the spot, arrested driver He said the AGO had made it book loans and credit to fake cor- reinstating its assets. cent years our political leaders acts all the history, culture, and the her- One Pound Sterling= and helper and shifted the children clear that not a single penny loot- porations, prompting the govern- Prior to Ghani s order, the In- are based on ethnicity, language oism of the Afghan people and it 97.86Afs to the Nowshera Kalan Police Sta- ed from the once largest private ment to take over the bank s af- dependent Joint Anti-Corruption and religious sectarian, Ms Arian sends an obvious message to the One Euro= tion. The police arrested parents bank would go unaccounted for and fairs and change its name to New and Evaluation Committee re- said. Ahmad Wali, a shopkeeper world that despite a lot of chal- of the children and but they were that the 155 defaulters should be Kabul Bank. The government had vealed that the New Kabul Bank in the capital city, said that Inde- lenges, still Afghans are commit- 70.09 Afs freed later on personal sureties. barred from leaving the country to finance a bailout of $825 mil- had lost around $47 million during pendence Day is a great pride for ted to defend their homeland as 1000 Pak Rs= 612Afs (Pajhwok) and their assets frozen. Earlier the lion to the bank. Of $987 million the past four years. (Pajhwok) Afghans and it reminds how the their ancestors had been done. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. TUESDAY . AUGUST 18, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES PM Nawaz accepts Bangladesh sentences six to jail for Mushahidullah’s resignation deadly children’s medicine DHAKA: A Bangladesh court sen- The tragedy was first exposed tenced six senior employees of a in the 1990s when doctors said drug company to jail Monday for hundreds of children died, forcing making toxic paracetamol syrup the government to crack down on that doctors say killed hundreds the local drugs industry. But doz- of children in the 1990s, a prose- ens more children died in 2009 cutor said. when the chemical was again dis- Shahjahan Sarker, a director of covered in paracetamol syrup. now closed BCI Bangladesh, and Five local companies were orig- five colleagues were handed 10 inally implicated in the scandal, years in prison, the latest verdicts which one top paediatrician says in the tragedy that saw children dates back as far as the 1980s and suffer kidney failure after drinking could have killed as many as sev- the syrup. eral thousand infants. "They were given the penal- Three employees of Adflame ties for adulterating paracetamol Pharmaceutical Limited were jailed syrup used for babies," prosecu- last year. But the trial of the six tor Nadim Miah told AFP of the from BCI Bangladesh dragged for drug court's ruling in Dhaka. several years until Monday's ver- However only Sarker will be dict and sentence. sent to jail. His five fellow direc- Mohammed Hanif, a top pae- tors and managers are still on the diatric nephrologist, has told AFP run after being charged in 2009 that local hospitals first started over the scandal that saw the med- seeing children with kidney failure ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister the meeting and played the tape in icine adulterated with diethylene in late 1982. But it took another Nawaz Sharif on Monday accept- front of him, said Mushahidullah. glycol, commonly used in the ten years to establish the deaths ed Federal Minister for Climate When Zaheerul Islam confirmed leather industry. were due to diethylene glycol. Change Senator Mushahidullah that the voice was his own, the The toxic solvent was used as By then, Hanif, who wrote an Khan's resignation, according to a army chief asked him to leave, a cheaper alternative to the safe article in the British Medical Jour- statement issued by PM Office. claimed Mushahidullah in his in- propylene glycol, which is 10 nal on the issue, says several thou- Mushahidullah explained his terview with BBC. Taking notice times more expensive. sand children had died. position with regards to his earlier of the minister’s statements, the BBC interview in a meeting with PM House had issued a news re- Premier Nawaz Sharif at PM lease, asking Mushahidullah Khan House. The prime minister then to explain his remarks and tender accepted his resignation from the his resignation. The release also Cabinet. Federal Information Min- said that Prime Minister Nawaz ister Pervez Rashid on Saturday Sharif had never heard such an au- had said that the senior cabinet dio tape, nor was he aware of its member had tendered his resigna- existence. The minister had been tion to the PM. immediately summoned from what An official from the PM Of- was to be a three-day official visit fice had confirmed to Dawn that to the Maldives, sources at the PM the government had received the Secretariat told Dawn. Sri Lanka’s controversial invest- terms set down by us.” Sri Lanka form,” one said. and Myanmar will be the low- GDP fell from nearly 40 per cent resignation on Saturday, but had Also read: Nawaz seeks expla- ment ties with China are set to heads to the polls on Monday in a Big new Chinese-backed wage manufacturing bases, so we in 2000 to 22 per cent in 2013, said it would be processed on nation from Mushahidullah over continue amid a broader push to closely-fought contest pitting Mr projects could include a large dock- have to have higher skills and higher according to Colombo-based JB Monday due to public holidays. BBC interview Inter Services Pub- attract foreign capital if the coun- Wickramasinghe and his coalition yard in the island’s south as well wages.” Securities. Mushahidullah had, in an ear- lic Relations (ISPR) Director Gen- try’s current government prevails ally President Maithripala Sirise- as elements of Mr Wickramasing- Sri Lanka is south Asia’s Harsha de Silva, an economic lier interview with BBC, alleged eral Major General Asim Bajwa in Monday’s parliamentary elec- na against Mahinda Rajapaksa, the he’s plan to turn Colombo and its wealthiest country measured by minister in Mr Wickramasinghe’s that the former Director General had also said that “the story about tion, Prime Minister Ranil Wick- country’s former president and surrounding region into a “megap- gross domestic product per capita administration, said Sri Lanka Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt any tape recording as being dis- ramasinghe says. architect of its closer ties with olis”. The megapolis scheme in- but it has struggled to develop new aimed to double its inward foreign Gen Zaheerul Islam Abbasi want- cussed in media is totally baseless, The island nation’s reliance on China. The results are expected on cludes a raft of urban transit, prop- export industries to replace its tra- direct investment to about $2bn ed to overthrow the country's civ- unfounded and farthest from the infrastructure funding from Beijing Tuesday. erty and logistics projects, all ar- ditional reliance on garments, rub- over the next few years, and would il and military leadership during truth.” The chief of army's media has caused alarm in both India and A number of large Chinese- eas in which Chinese state compa- ber and tea. Its ratio of exports to target $5bn over the medium term. last year’s sit-ins by the PTI and wing had gone on to say that “such the west, where it is viewed as a backed projects remain either half- nies have won contracts in other the Pakistan Awami Tehreek rumours are irresponsible and un- sign of creeping Chinese influence finished or on hold, after a spate Asian countries. (PAT). In his interview, Musha- professional.” Meanwhile, Mush- throughout south Asia. of reviews and anti-corruption in- If, as many analysts expect, hidullah alleged that during PM ahidullah had downplayed his But Mr Wickramasinghe, a vestigations following Mr Raja- he returns as prime minister fol- Nawaz's meeting with Chief of claims, saying that he had never leader viewed as pro-western by paksa’s defeat in presidential elec- lowing Monday’s poll, Mr Wick- Army Staff General Raheel Sharif heard the audio recording himself most analysts, told the Financial tions in January. ramasinghe has said he would strike on July 28, 2014, an audio tape and was told about it by “other Times that his centre-right United Mr Wickramasinghe said the trade agreements with China and was played in which Lt. Gen Za- sources.” He said he had clarified National party would continue to project was now “dependent” on India as part of attempts to per- heerul Islam could be heard giving in his interview that he had him- seek Chinese funds if it retained an environmental review but he suade global companies to estab- orders to ransack the PM House self not heard any audio tape. The power. also noted that he had backed a lish new export-focused facilities and spread chaos. senator said his interview with the “We have told the Chinese, the similar scheme during his previous in the country to target Asia’s two The tape, claimed the federal BBC was almost a week old and Japanese and everyone else that term as prime minister between largest emerging markets. minister, was obtained by officials questioned the motives behind re- all loans must be on competitive 2001 and 2004. “We will be calling for invest- of the civilian intelligence agency leasing it on Independence Day. He terms,” he said. “But if there are Two other senior government ment and we must go for the next – Intelligence Bureau. said he had given the same expla- other [new] investment officials told the FT they did not generation of reforms,” he said. “It On hearing the audio tape, Gen nation to the premier over a tele- projects?.?.?.?the Chinese or any- expect the Port City to be looks as if the Bay of Bengal re- Raheel summoned the ISI chief to phone call. one else are free to come in, on scrapped. “It will go ahead in some gion is changing, where Bangladesh India, EU working to end Nepal grinds to a halt amid general trade huff over generic drugs strike protesting draft constitution India and the European Union are maceutical firms who lobby their time on the Transatlantic Trade and taking steps to end a trade row governments to stop what they see Investment Partnership (TTIP) sparked by an EU ban on Indian as innovation-stifling attacks on with Washington. Another with dividing country into provinces pharmaceutical products that New their patents. Japan is in the works. Delhi responded to by cancelling Indian officials have described "It is better to try to raise An alliance of smaller parties led talks on a free trade accord with the E.U. move as a part of an of- these issues within talks than try by a radical Maoist group shut its largest trading partner, officials fensive against its $15 billion ge- to resolve them outside," said Shy- down Nepal on Monday with a said. Indian Prime Minister Naren- neric drugs industry, as well as bad am Saran, an expert on global trade general strike, protesting prepara- dra Modi's office wrote to the E.U. faith by its top trading partner just and India's top diplomat when tions by major political parties to Trade Commissioner to intervene when Modi had staked his name Modi's party was last in power. finalise a draft constitution divid- when the ban on around 700 phar- to a revival of the long-stalled free "The European Union is very im- ing Nepal into six provinces. maceutical products was formal- trade deal. portant, it is our largest trade part- Schools and markets were shut- ized in May, two government India has used tough tactics ner, given that negotiations are go- tered, and the streets were mostly sources in New Delhi said. There before in trade talks - soon after ing on with TTIP, it is better to empty in Kathmandu and most was no response, so the govern- Modi took office last year New have a FTA (free trade agreement) parts of Nepal. Police have arrest- ment canceled an Aug. 28 meeting Delhi came close to scuppering the deal before that." India's goods ed 51 strike enforcers involved in to discuss restarting talks on the first ever global trade deal in order trade with Europe declined by allegedly intimidating people to free trade accord that stalled in to win a concession from the WTO about 4 percent in the fiscal year comply with the strike, police 2012, the sources said. on farm subsidies. 2014/15 to $98 billion, while trade spokesman Kamal Singh Bam told The E.U. Trade Commission Some Indian officials, buoyed in services slipped 2.5 percent to Kyodo News. “The strikers van- says it did not get the letter from by the success at WTO, believe $26 billion in 2013. dalised four vehicles and attempt- Modi's office on the ban, which is the tactics can be repeated. But while the EU is India's ed arson on two other vehicles in linked to flaws in clinical tests done But the delays risk leaving In- largest trade partner, it ranks only Kathmandu but were unsuccess- by India's GVK Biosciences for dia isolated. While Modi is trying ninth among the bloc's partners, ful because of police intervention,” other companies to make sure ge- to double India's global exports to accounting for about two percent Bam said. Following devastating neric drugs are as good as the pat- $900 billion in five years, Europe's of its total merchandise trade in earthquakes in April and May, ented originals they emulate. top negotiator now spends more 2014. Nepal’s major political parties Coming after a trip to Germa- agreed on an eight-province feder- ny where Modi personally argued al model in June and came up with that the long-stalled talks on a free Joint Statement between an agreement to promulgate a new trade accord should be revived, constitution, leaving the conten- India's about-turn was a shock for tious topic of demarcating prov- the 28-nation grouping, which in- the United Arab Emirates inces to a federal commission. sisted the ban was a minor, techni- Under the pressure of widespread cal issue unconnected to trade. and the Republic of India criticism and a court ruling that said Police registers case for India though, sees the move as a constitution without names and veiled protectionism and support Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi visited the United Arab boundaries of provinces would not for major European drug manufac- Emirates from 16-17 August 2015 at the invitation of His Highness be valid, they came up with a six- turers. "We are disappointed and Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Zayed AI Nahyan. Khanzada attack province federal model with concerned over the EU action in The visit of an Indian Prime Minister to UAE after 34 years boundaries earlier this month, imposing a ban on the sale of marks the beginning of a new and comprehensive strategic partner- prompting various groups disgrun- Police have registered a case fol- drugs," said Rajinder Chaudhary, ship between India and UAE in a world of multiple transitions and tled with the boundaries to launch lowing a deadly attack at Home spokesman of India's Ministry of changing opportunities and challenges. protests. Pampha Bhusal, spokes- Minister Punjab Shuja Khanzada’s Commerce and Industry. In recent decades, UAE's economic progress has been one of the person of the Communist Party political office in Attock on Sun- But both sides are working to global success stories, transforming the nation into a regional leader of Nepal-Maoist, said the draft day which left him along with 16 end the row, officials said. The and a thriving international centre that attracts people and business constitution disregards many past others dead. European Union said in its May from across the world. India has emerged as one of the major world agreements. “It does not reflect the The case was registered on ruling against the India-made phar- powers, contributing to the advancement of global peace and stabili- aspirations of marginalised groups behalf of Station House Office maceuticals that drug makers can ty. India's rapid growth and modernization, along with its talented and is therefore unacceptable,” she Rangu Ghulab Shabbir and includ- avoid the ban by submitting fresh human resources and large markets, make it one of the anchors of the said. The party broke away from ed provisions of the Anti-Terror- test results. global economy. The dynamism of the two countries have translated the Unified Communist Party of ism Act, Sections 7, 427, 324, 436 "The Commission hopes that into a rapidly expanding economic partnership, making India UAE's Nepal-Maoist in 2012, accusing and 302, Section 16 of Pakistan a solution will be found to the cur- second largest trading partner; and UAE not only India's third largest the latter of giving up agendas of Protection Act, provisions of Ex- rent deferral," said Daniel Rosar- trading partner, but also India's gateway to the region and beyond. the insurgency, and boycotted elec- plosives Act, murder and attempt- io, a spokesman at the European India and UAE share centuries-old ties of commerce, culture and tions in 2013. The Maoists fought ed murder, Express News report- Commission, adding that Europe kinship. Today, the Indian community of over 2.5 million is a major state forces for 10 years until 2006. ed. Khanzada, Deputy Superinten- was committed to reaching a trade part of UAE's vibrant society and its economic success. It also makes The insurgency cost over 17,000 dent Police Shaukat Shah and 16 deal. Privately, New Delhi ex- a significant economic contribution to India and constitutes an indel- lives. Monday was the second day other people were killed when two pressed the same sentiment ible human bond of friendship between the two nations. of the general strike enforced by suicide bombers blew themselves "It is not a permanent defer- An extensive framework of agreements, including economic, de- the alliance led by the Communist up near the late home minister’s ral," said a top Indian government fence, security, law enforcement, culture, consular and people-to- Party of Nepal-Maoist. On Sun- political office in Shadi Khan vil- official with knowledge of the de- people contacts constitute solid bedrock for elevating bilateral coop- day, 117 strike enforcers were ar- lage of Attock. velopments, asking not to be eration across the full spectrum of our relationship. rested in the course of the strike UN, EU condemn incident Condemnations of the heinous act named because of the sensitivity Today, as India accelerates economic reforms and improves its that saw 16 vehicles vandalised Asserting that “nothing justifies terrorism”, Ban said he sympa- of the matter. investment and business environment, and UAE becomes an increas- across the nation, according to continued on Monday as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki thised with the government of Pakistan and its people, the bereaved India-made generic drugs have ingly advanced and diversified economy, the two countries have the police spokesman Bam. families and wished those injured an early recovery. brought down the cost of medi- potential to build a transformative economic partnership, not only Voting on a final draft is ex- Moon called for bringing the cul- prits to justice, Radio Pakistan re- Separately, the European Union, besides denouncing the heinous cines globally, but they attract the for sustained prosperity of their two countries, but to also advance pected to take place at the constit- act, conveyed sympathies to the families of those killed. ire of big U.S. and European phar- progress in the region and help realise the vision of an Asian Century. uent assembly later this month. ported. 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Indonesian plane 'was carrying nearly $500,000 in cash' An Indonesian passenger plane that crashed at the weekend in Papua was transporting about DUBAI: Iran will remain closed "Khamenei wants to keep the 6.5 billion rupiah ($470,000) to U.S. influence and continue to deal with the U.S. purely nuclear. in cash to distribute to poor oppose U.S. policies in the Mid- He is worried about economic, families in the eastern province, dle East after its nuclear deal with political and cultural intrusion af- a post office official has said. big powers, Supreme Leader Aya- ter the deal," said Hossein Rassam, "Four of our personnel were tollah Ali Khamenei said on Mon- former Iran adviser to Britain's escorting the funds," said Hary- day, noting either country can still Foreign Office. "He fears integra- ono, the head of Jayapura post block the accord. tion into the international econo- office, who goes by one name. The 76-year-old cleric, Iran's my could make the Islamic Repub- Iran's Supreme Leader The money was in four bags, highest authority, has refrained lic vulnerable and potentially lead he added, according to the AFP from making decisive statements to its collapse." If the deal is fully Ayatollah Ali Khamenei news agency. An Indonesian on the July 14 nuclear agreement, implemented, Iran's market of near- departs after casting his search and rescue plane spot- but gave President Hassan Rou- ly 80 million people would be ted debris believed to be from hani crucial political cover to pur- opened up to foreign investment - ballot in the parliamen- the aircraft that went missing sue talks with the six powers.. - after protracted isolation. tary election in Tehran on Sunday with 54 people on Tehran agreed to verifiable lim- But unlike European compet- board in Papua province. its on its atomic energy program itors, U.S. firms will struggle to The wreckage thought to to create confidence that it will not gain any toehold in Iran due to fear be from the Trigana Air Service be put to developing nuclear weap- among Iranian officials of being plane was sighted on Monday ons, in exchange for lifting interna- seen to be coming under any Amer- morning in the heavily-forest- tional sanctions crippling its oil- ican influence, and because U.S. ed Bintang Mountains region, based economy. "They thought economic sanctions not related to local police chief Yunus Wally this deal - and it is not clear if it the nuclear program will remain in said. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, will be passed in Iran or in Ameri- place. "It will be a long time, re- reporting from Jakarta, said a ca - will open up Iran to their in- gardless of whether the deal goes rescue plane had identified fluence," Khamenei was quoted on through, before U.S. businesses smoking wreckage and another his website as saying at a meeting will fully operate in Iran," said smaller plane was on its way with members of the Islamic Ra- Sarah Dayan, an analyst at con- to get a closer look. "At the dio and Television Union. "We sultancy The Risk Advisory same time two teams have gone blocked this path and will definite- Group in London. overland but it's a very moun- ly block it in the future. We won't Even if the nuclear issue is suc- tainous area and they're not allow American political, econom- cessfully resolved, Iran and the sure how long this journey is ic or cultural influence in Iran." United States are likely to remain going to take to get there," our Most analysts see the chance locked in a struggle for influence in correspondent said. A helicop- of Khamenei rejecting the deal as the Middle East. They support ter may also be sent - depend- small so long as it passes through opposite sides in Syria's civil war ing on what the smaller plane the U.S. Congress, where opposi- and the Saudi-led intervention in finds - to see if it is possible to tion Republicans aim to block it. Yemen. "The Americans want to land near the crash site. The But Khamenei has always dis- gain influence in the region and Trigana Air Service ATR 42- missed the notion that the agree- reach their goals. We will not let 300 plane's disappearance is ment could reconcile the Islamic them," said Khamenei, who has the latest in a string of aviation Republic with the United States, previously said U.S. regional pol- disasters in Southeast Asia. its arch-adversary since the 1979 icies are "180 degrees" opposed to The passengers on the plane, Islamic Revolution. those of the Islamic Republic. reported to be an ATR-42 mod- el, include 44 adults, two chil- dren, three toddlers and five crew members. Hours after the Civilians, soldiers die in plane's disappearance, villagers in eastern Indonesia's Papua east Ukraine fighting, region claimed to have found the wreckage, the transport Putin in Crimea ministry's director-general of air transportation, Suprasetyo, who goes by one name, said. World powers slam ‘barbaric’ ISIS attacks in Libya The governments of America, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain issued a joint state- ment Sunday condemning “bar- baric” acts carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in Libya. ISIS militants seized con- trol of the Libyan coastal city of Sirte in June and militants beheaded 12 local militiamen who had been battling them in the east of the city and hung their bodies on crosses, the official news agency LANA has said. “We are deeply con- cerned about reports that these fighters have shelled densely populated parts of the city and committed indiscriminate acts of violence to terrorize the Lib- yan population,” reads the joint statement released late Sunday by the U.S. State De- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah cials, reported that dozens of Critics say the steep fines may principles of the profession.” It did partment. The governments al-Sisi ratified on Sunday an anti- troops had been killed in the Sinai shut down smaller newspapers, not specifically mention journal- want parties in Libya “to join terrorism law which stipulates ex- attack. The military’s official death and deter larger ones from inde- ism. The law also lays out the death efforts to combat the threat orbitant fines, and possible sus- toll was 21 soldiers and scores of pendently reporting on attacks and penalty for those convicted of lead- KIEV: Fighting flared between The separatist website, DAN, posed by transnational terror- pension from employment, for militants. The controversial law, operations against militants. The ing “terrorist groups” or financing Ukrainian forces and Russian- said at least three people had been ist groups exploiting Libya for “false” reporting on militant at- published in the government’s of- government had initially proposed attacks. Hundreds of Islamists backed rebels in separate parts of killed and four wounded as a re- their own agenda.” The situa- tacks. The government had sped ficial gazette, sets a minimum fine a jail sentence for offenders, but have been sentenced to death in eastern Ukraine overnight, killing sult of government shelling of Hor- tion in Sirte underscores the up the passage of the law after the of 200,000 pounds (about $25,000) backed down after a backlash from mass trials since Sisi, a former army at least two Ukrainian soldiers and livka, a regular front-line hot spot “urgent need for parties in Lib- state prosecutor was assassinated and a maximum of 500,000 pounds Egyptian media. The ratified law, chief, overthrew Islamist president several civilians, Kiev's military north of the main rebel stronghold ya to reach agreement on form- in a car bombing in late June, fol- for for anyone who strays from however, added another clause al- Mohammad Mursi in July 2013. and separatist sources said on of Donetsk. "They were using ing a government of national lowed by a large-scale militant at- government statements in publish- lowing courts to “prevent the con- Many of them have won retrials, Monday. The clashes, near Mari- heavy weapons. We have three men accord that, in partnership tack in the Sinai Peninsula days ing or spreading “false” reports on victed from practising the profes- and Mursi himself, sentenced to upol in the southeast and at Hor- dead. Another four have various with the international commu- later. The military was infuriated attacks or security operations sion for a period of no more than death last June, has appealed his livka, a rebel-held town, formed injuries," DAN quoted the sepa- nity, can provide security after media, quoting security offi- against militants. one year, if the crime violates the verdict. part of a resurgence in violence that ratist mayor of the town as say- against violent extremist further frayed a tenuous ceasefire ing. Lysenko said the rebels had groups seeking to destabilize and drove up tensions in Kiev in used heavy weapons including the country. Pentagon to ‘ the run-up to celebrations for In- Grad rockets in attacks on govern- UN ‘horrified’ by attacks increase military dependence Day. ment forces around Horlivka. The Chemical watchdog Kiev accused the separatists upsurge in fighting dogged Russia's drone flights’ of using howitzer artillery against rouble on Monday. It touched a ‘concerned’ by Iraq civilians on the outskirts of the six-month low against the dollar, on Syrian civilians The U.S. military will drastical- port city of Mariupol. In Mos- dropping 1 percent early in the attack reports ly increase drone flights over the cow, Russian Foreign Minister session. "We are worried by the next four years, in a bid to boost Sergei Lavrov blamed Kiev for the developments in recent days which The Organization for the Pro- intelligence and strike capabili- violence, giving no detail but say- strongly recall preparation for hibition of Chemical Weapons ties across a growing number of ing he suspected Ukraine was pre- more military action," Lavrov said, on Monday voiced "serious conflict zones, the Wall Street paring a new offensive against the accusing Kiev of breaking terms of concern" over reports that the Journal reported . separatists. the truce. U.S. Secretary of State Islamic State group has used The Pentagon is planning to The escalation has drawn ex- John Kerry last week expressed chemical weapons in Iraq. expand the number of daily flights pressions of concern from West- "grave concern" to Lavrov over a "Recent reports of possible from 61 at present to as many as ern governments, which regard the rise in separatist attacks and urged use of chemical weapons in 90 by 2019, a senior defense of- ceasefire and tentative peace agree- an immediate halt to shooting. Iraq by non-State actors are a ficial told the Journal. ment worked out in Minsk, Be- Germany's foreign minister said matter of serious concern," The move represents the larus, in February as still the best the situation was explosive and he The Hague-based OPCW said first significant increase in the chance of ending the rebellion in urged both parties in the conflict in a statement.German officials controversial U.S. drone program eastern Ukraine. to come together quickly to pre- said last week that Kurdish since 2011, reflecting the rise in Ukrainian military spokesman vent a spiral in violence. Many ar- fighters had been attacked on global hotspots. Andriy Lysenko said the rebels tillery guns, tanks and other heavy Tuesday with chemical weap- As well as providing extra used howitzers with a range of 15- weapons have been withdrawn by ons, possibly chlorine or mus- surveillance in regions such as 16 km (10 miles) to shell Sartana, both sides under the terms of the tard gas, in northern Iraq, leav- Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, the South on Mariupol's northern edge. Minsk agreement, but deaths oc- ing many Peshmerga suffering China Sea and North Africa, the "The enemy was not shelling cur regularly in sporadic outbursts from "respiratory irritation. new plan would expand the Pen- Ukrainian positions, but a civilian of fighting. More than 6,500 peo- The allegations, deemed tagon's capacity for lethal drone town," he told a briefing. "The en- ple have been killed in the conflict, "plausible" by a US official, air strikes. emy has now adopted the tactic of which erupted in April 2014 after follow claims in March by the That program, which has ex- firing and then quickly withdraw- Russia annexed Crimea, in reaction autonomous Kurdish govern- panded massively under Presi- ing. The next time they'll get a quick to the fall of a Moscow-backed ment in northern Iraq which dent Barack Obama, is the sub- response. What has happened in president in Kiev, and threw its said it had evidence that the ject of frequent criticism from Sartana is a challenge to our forc- support behind separatists in the jihadist group used chlorine in observers who say the highly es." Two Ukrainian soldiers had east. In a move Kiev was certain a car bomb attack on January The U.N.'s humanitarian chief Douma, and said attacks on civil- and every party to this protracted secretive drone raids have killed been killed and seven wounded in to see as a deliberate insult as it 23. The Wall Street Journal cit- fiercely condemned attacks against ians "must stop". At least 96 peo- conflict to protect civilians and re- many innocent civilians. attacks by separatists in the past prepared to mark Independence ed US officials as saying they civilians in Syria at a press confer- ple were killed on Sunday in 10 spect international humanitarian Nonpartisan groups say U.S. 24 hours, Lysenko said. Day on Aug. 24, Russian Presi- believe last week's attack used ence in Damascus on Monday, a government raids on Douma, ac- law." The statement said O'Brien drone strikes have killed at least "On one street there were five dent Vladimir Putin visited Yalta mustard gas, which may have day after one of the bloodiest gov- cording to the Syrian Observatory had discussed strengthening the houses which were really badly in Crimea on Monday to promote 3,000 people, the Journal report- damaged by shell fragments. One tourism there, according to the come from stockpiles of ernment raids in the four-year war. for Human Rights. O'Brien's press U.N.'s humanitarian operations ed. banned poisons that Syrian "I am horrified by the total disre- conference concluded his three-day with Syrian officials, but remained house had a well-tended garden Kremlin's website. Under the new plans, the with vines and a vegetable patch. "The criminal is always drawn President Bashar al-Assad spect for civilian life in this con- visit to Damascus, his first to the "concerned" about 4.6 million Syr- U.S. Air Force, which currently was forced to get rid of after But the house had been wrecked back to the scene of the crime," flict," Stephen O'Brien said in a war-torn country since his ap- ians stuck in hard-to-reach and carries out the bulk of drone mis- joining the OPCW in 2013. statement. He said he was "par- pointment in May. In a statement besieged zones. At least four mil- by shells and I saw an enormous Renat Chubarov, leader of Crimea's The OPCW said it was in con- sions, would get help from the pool of blood," a local news pho- Tatars who regard the peninsula ticularly appalled" by reports of released by the U.N.'s Office for lion Syrians have been forced to Army, Special Operations Com- tact with the Iraqi government civilian deaths in Sunday's air the Coordination of Humanitarian flee the country, and millions of tographer, Mykola Ryabchenko, as their homeland, said on his Fa- and . mand and government contrac- told Reuters by telephone. cebook page. strikes on the rebel-held town of Affairs, O'Brien appealed "to each others are internally displaced. tors. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.

TUESDAY .AUGUST 18, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES We a r e a n a t ion a l in st it u t ion a n d n ot t h e voice of a gov t or a p r iva t e or ga n iza t ion Is Afghanistan backsliding? AFGHANISTAN TIMES By Hannah Bloch Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Amid the horrors of war in Syr- Phone No: +93-772364666 ia, Yemen and Iraq, it’s become E-mail: [email protected] easy to overlook Afghanistan. Remember Afghanistan? Back Email: [email protected] in the mid-2000s, it was known as the “forgotten war,” eclipsed www.afghanistantimes.af by the bloodshed in Iraq. Now it’s overshadowed all over Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi again. But there’s plenty of rea- son to pay attention. Advisory editorial board Since taking office 10 Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, months ago, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has made a con- Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal certed and politically risky ef- Graphic-Designers: fort to improve his country’s fraught relations with neigh- Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari boring Pakistan, where the Tal- Marketing & Advertising: iban have long enjoyed safe Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 haven. The two countries’ re- lations, which deteriorated over Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan the years, are key to the re- Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 gion’s stability. Ghani visited Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press Pakistan soon after he became president and canceled an arms deal with India that his The constitution says predecessor, Hamid Karzai, had requested. Perhaps most trou- Article 31: bling to his opponents, Ghani In criminal cases, the state shall appoint a defense attorney for the indigent. also supported a memorandum Confidentiality of conversations, correspondence, and communications between of understanding for intelli- the accused and their attorney shall be secure from any kind of violation. The duties gence sharing with Pakistan so and powers of defense attorneys shall be regulated by law. the two countries could fight terrorism. Ghani faced criticism and opposition at home. But unlike be a signal from a disarrayed In the first half of 2015, the is once again becoming a ha- Karzai, who rarely missed an movement that its fighting ca- number of civilians injured or ven for transnational terrorist opportunity to lash out at Pa- pacity remains undiminished. killed reached 4,921,according groups, including the brutal kistan, he has favored a concil- to the U.N. Assistance Mission Islamic State.” iatory tone. Or this could be violent in Afghanistan. It’s a discomfiting reminder “We will not permit the past posturing in hopes of securing The U.S. combat mission of what happened in Afghani- to destroy the future,” he said a powerful seat at a future ne- officially ended last Dec. 31. stan in the 1990s, when al-Qai- during his Islamabad visit last gotiating table. After Mullah The U.S. still has 9,800 troops da gained its foothold there Boycotting Pakistani year. Omar’s death was in Afghanistan and is spend- and the country became in- The problem is the confirmed, hopes had risen for ing nearly $60 billion this year creasingly isolated under Tali- present. Starting Aug. 7, a se- continuing peace talks, but on war-related costs, but Amer- ban rule. products ries of back-to-back bomb and those talks are scuttled for now. icans are serving only in advi- Prospects For Peace suicide attacks in and around Mullah Akhtar Mansour, sory and training roles. Air sup- Despite the turbulence of Kabul left hundreds wounded Mullah Omar’s successor, had port and surveillance capabili- recent weeks, the door to Af- Why shouldn’t we boycott Pakistani products even if they are the life saving drugs? and more than 50 dead. And seemed to favor the talks. He ties support have ended. Most ghanistan-Pakistan peace isn’t Perhaps, during the past 14 years, since the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, this is the Ghani finally reached his limit. authorized a first round of Pa- NATO forces have left the shut. Both countries are keep- first ever effective step taken against an intruding state like Pakistan. If we continue A Turning Point? kistan-brokered talks between country. ing lines of communication the economic boycott, we can force them review their Afghan policy. Either they At an Aug. 10 press con- Taliban and Afghan represen- Afghan forces are now re- open, and on Thursday, Ghani ference and on Twitter, he di- tatives and U.S. and Chinese sponsible for the country’s se- dispatched a delegation includ- yield to our demand—stop exporting terrorism, or else we will stop importing their rectly blamed Pakistan for the observers, which took place on curity, and they’ve endured ing his foreign minister, intelli- products. Now they will have to decide either they give us what we seek and what is carnage. July 7. But he pulled the plug heavy losses so far this year. gence director and acting de- our need or they will lose our neighborly bond. This is too unfortunate that people on “We hoped for peace, but on the next round, scheduled fense minister to Islamabad. the other side of the River Indus have always misinterpreted our sincerity and at- war is declared against us from for July 31. The talks are now “It’s been a very difficult Pakistan would like peace Pak territory,” he postponed indefinitely. fighting season,” says the talks to resume. “Everyone re- tempted to allay our concerns merely with lip service. The ends they serve are selfish tweeted.”This in fact puts into Mansour is not a unifying USIP’s Smith. More than 4,000 alizes an unstable Afghanistan that’s why they are not taking them no further than themselves and the ends we serve a display a clear hostility figure in the way Omar was and Afghan soldiers and police is not in their interests any- are for all those living in the region, in common. That’s why our ends are taking us against a neighbor.” He called lacks universal Taliban sup- were killed and nearly 8,000 more,” says Smith. the violence “a turning port. wounded in the first half of the But it’s impossible to pre- into eternity, but this is something Islamabad has issues with. Now that the call for a point for Afghanistan.” But al-Qaida leader Ayman year, 50 percent more than last dict how all this will play out. If boycott of Pakistani products in the wake of the recent series of deadliest attacks in But is it? al-Zawahiri was reported to year. the Taliban splinters, writes Kabul has taking place, it needs to be taken to its logical end. Now we must not “It’s really, if anything, a have pledged his allegiance to “The army,” says Smith, “is Michael Semple, a former U.N. surrender even if there is inflation and the prices are rocketed. And now that the turning-back point,” warns Mansour on Thursday, a reaf- stretched to its limit.” official who’s worked in both Scott Smith, director of the Af- firmation of old ties between The nature of the enemy is Pakistan and Afghanistan, “ul- boycott has begun, we must look for alternatives. We can focus over energies on ghanistan and Central Asia two groups that now share a changing, too, he says, with timately the Afghan govern- growth and promotion of local products and increase imports from Iran, Turkey and program at the U.S. Institute of common rival in the self-pro- the arrival in Afghanistan of ment, with continuing interna- other countries. Traders say they have started importing life saving drugs from other Peace in Washington. He says claimed Islamic State, which is militants from other parts of the tional support, should be far countries instead of Pakistan. The Deputy Chairman of Afghanistan Chamber of recent events could jeopardize slowly making inroads into Af- world. more confident of ultimately the progress of the past 10 ghanistan and is trying to en- This is “something not en- prevailing over a fragmented Commerce, Khan Jan Alokozai, called on traders to find out alternatives so that months. courage defections and exploit visioned in the planning for the insurgency than in a fight general public is not affected in a bad manner. Alokozai said the chamber welcomes The past week’s attacks, Taliban and al-Qaida weak- security transition,” Smith’s against a unified Taliban move- the “No to Pakistani Medicines” campaign initiated by infuriated medicines import- some of which were claimed by nesses. USIP colleagues Stephen Had- ment.” the Taliban, came in the wake Stretched To The Limit ley and Andrew Wilder wrote The key words here: “with ing companies in retaliation to the interferences and an undeclared war of Pakistan in of a late-July revelation that Meanwhile, this continues in the Washington Post. continuing international sup- Afghanistan. To fight injustice, interference, and terror, economic boycott and peaceful Taliban leader Mullah Omar is to be a year of heavy violence During a recent visit to the port.” That means not forget- protests are still the effective tools. Oppressed people have to organize in larger not only dead, but has been in Afghanistan, with both civil- region, “Perhaps the most trou- ting Afghanistan, as the world masses to make such campaigns of protests work and if not the campaigns will just gone from this world for a full ians and Afghan forces suffer- bling thing we learned,” they largely did in the 1990s. We all two years. The bombings may ing unprecedented casualties. wrote, “was that Afghanistan know what happened next. raise awareness and fail to resolve the significant problems. On the part of the gov- ernment, there must be a paradigm, a practical model for this biggest change in public mood against our eastern neighbor. This positive shift in mood is not only about transforming people’s thinking but the government’s thinking and policies as well. The government now must also increase check on the illegal trading routes as the chamber says that products worth three million dollars have been imported to Afghanistan via these routes. The Medicine Importing Companies’ Union of Afghan- istan says that the boycott has already started showing positive signs as Pakistani traders have asked their government to stop interfering in Afghanistan’s internal af- fairs and supporting the killers of Afghans. According the report of the chamber, Afghanistan imports worth four million dol- lars medicines from Pakistan annually. And according to a wild estimation of the Commerce and Industries Ministry, Afghanistan’s annual imports of different prod- ucts from Pakistan stand at $US2.5 billion. The Deputy of the Medicines Importing Companies’ Union, Abdul Sattar Sapi, said that Afghan traders have turned their face towards China, Central Asia, and Russia to fill the vacuum and tackle with the drug shortage. Though, the “no to Pakistani products’ campaign is the first ever drive that received a powerful support from the traders community, but until Afghanistan becomes a producing state, it doesn’t have the capacity to prolong such kind of campaigns. Therefore, onward the government must mull over how to reduce Af- ghanistan’s consumption of foreign products. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. TUESDAY .AUGUST 18, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Iran’s positive role in the Middle East By Daoud Kuttab rather than extremism - in the Mid- dle East. Unhappy with the Iran nuclear A more confident Iran that agreement, the United States Re- does not feel an existential threat publican Party and Israel are fo- from the US should no longer be By Jayalakshmi caliphate all over the world, can and politics. A stable Afghanistan (TAPI) pipeline and the connec- They wonder if this macabre fes- cusing the bulk of their opposi- seen as the troublemaker in region. Sengupta only be deterred in India, if Af- can have significant impact on sev- tivity project to the Chabahar port tivity is a celebration and a clarion tion on two fronts. While all the above might not ghanistan has a stable government. eral of its internal and external is- in Iran will benefit the neighbour- call to what is to follow. Will an For them, the agreement fails be conclusive proof that Iran has India’s need to be part of the peace sues and an equally strong bearing ing countries as well. Any adverse independent, stable Afghan regime Besmillah Jahed, a young devel- further moderated its position since talk is therefore legitimate, even if on South Asia as whole. development in Afghanistan, on the remain a pipe dream? Can Kabul to totally eliminate the Iranian opment professional in Afghani- the signing of the nuclear deal, it as an observer. The $2 billion invested in the other hand, will not only under- wrench away from the tightening nuclear threat. They also believe stan, was returning from Bamiy- goes to show that it is certainly India undoubtedly has a huge process of Afghanistan’s recon- mine the Indian effort in establish- grip of Islamabad? How many that the lifting of sanctions might an, when a massive explosion hard to prove that Iran will become stake in Afghanistan, but not mere- struction is meant to generate good- ing peace in this region, it will open more lives need to be lost before potentially cause further havoc in rocked the entrance of the Kabul more radical, as opponents to the ly as a gateway to Central-Asia, will for India. But by restoring sta- up a hornet’s nest for both Central Afghanistan is stable at last? An the Middle East. Airport on 10 Aug 2015.He had deal claim. like adversaries think. As an im- bility and growth it will pay divi- and South Asia in the years to inescapable time bomb continues While many scientists, former narrowly escaped death, while Unified response portant member of South Asian dends to not only the Indians and come. to tick as they watch the sky light diplomats and members of the in- dismembered bodies flew around Another reason for a relative Association for Regional Cooper- the Afghans but to South Asia at Meanwhile, for those who up with deathly explosions, with telligence community in the US and him. 3000 kms away his message, ease at some conflict hot spots in ation (SAARC), India plays an large. The success of the Turkmen- have had a close shave with death no solutions in sight.—(The Huff- Israel have spoken publicly about “I am lucky, I survived,” sent a the region since the agreement is important role in regional peace istan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India in Afghanistan, luck is running out. ington Post) the technical parts of the deal, few splinter through a festering wound. the fact that local fighters are fi- have tackled the unproven claims Where is Afghanistan headed is the nally seeing a unified international that an emboldened Iran is creat- obvious question. But the other will. The 48-hour ceasefire in Syr- ing further troubles in an already looming threat of the Islamic ia with the Iranian initiative was a burning region. State’s plan to take over the world starting point. Opponents rattle that Iran is can no more be ignored. By Maria Dubovikova has already revealed about its po- Syrian army united, thus enabling volvement comes not only from While the agreement in the Vi- the leading sponsor of terrorism Earlier this May when Mar- sition on the conflict, which has ISIS to spread further. However, rising great-power ambitions, but enna deal does not deal with any in the world, and that the influx of tha Farrell (Director, Society for Russia is very sceptical about the remained unchanged despite glo- this does not mean that Russia in- from greater threats to Russia. of the other ongoing issues in the billions of dollars into its coffers Participatory Research in Asia) effectiveness of the U.S.-led coali- bal and regional developments. sists on him staying in power in- More than 2,000 of its citizens are Middle East, the unification of the will somehow encourage Iranians was shot in her Kabul guest house, tion against the Islamic State of Iraq The plan calls for a broader definitely - on the contrary. This fighting for ISIS, and this number international community for find- to expand their influence at the it occurred what infinite luck had and Syria (ISIS), not least because coalition to fight ISIS, including has been demonstrated by the is rising. However, involvement in ing a diplomatic solution to this expense of the moderate Arab re- favoured some of us Indians who it is not U.N.-approved, so it lacks Syrian government forces, the Ira- Moscow-I and Moscow-II meet- the coalition it proposes does not particularly difficult nuclear issue gimes around them. had been travelling into the remot- an overall vision and communica- qi army and the Kurds. What is ings. Russia believes in transition imply Russian boots on the ground sends a powerful message to the The events and actions of Te- est corners of northern Afghani- tion between the various ground remarkable is that Iran was not in post-war Syria, but its priority or warplanes over Syria and Iraq. region at large. hran and the reactions in the re- stan. Opportunities to work in the forces. mentioned, apparently in order not now is to fight ISIS as a step to Moscow is only willing to be in- Civil wars are often perpetu- gion ever since the signing of the process of Afghanistan’s democrat- The decision to carry out air- to upset Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, resolving the conflict. volved diplomatically. Most like- ated as a result of direct or indirect agreement in Vienna last July point ic governance may be fulfilling, but strikes against anyone who attacks Tehran will soon present its own Russian diplomacy Moscow’s ly, the “Putin Plan” will not be regional and international interven- in the opposite direction. they come with a caveat. Hired rebels trained by Washington to plan to resolve the Syrian conflict. contribution in reaching the Iran accepted because of its stance on tions. So long as the world com- A look at the Syrian, Yemeni resource personnel, experts and fight ISIS is considered provoca- Assad’s fate Russia is trying to nuclear deal was enormous, and the fate of Assad. The need to unite munity is divided, this division is and Palestinian conflicts all point engineers from India have been in- tive, as it automatically puts Syr- convince others that the only way made the West speak positively against ISIS is less powerful than to the fact that the agreement has often reflected on the ground in creasingly targeted by the Pakistani ian government forces at risk, and to fight ISIS effectively is to “for- about Russia practically for the most countries’ common hatred of been playing a positive, rather than places like Syria, Yemen and Lib- military intelligence agency ISI, of could further escalate the situation. give” Syrian President Bashar al- first time since the start of the him. Maria Dubovikova is a Pres- a negative, role. ya. late. Tired of numerous attempts Assad. However, it has failed to Ukraine crisis. This has inspired ident of IMESClub and CEO of Changing dynamics However, when the same fight- This has led to the specula- by global powers to involve it in convince the Americans or the Sau- Moscow to further persuade the MEPFoundation. Alumni of MGI- In the Syrian conflict, where ers see their sponsors and the spon- tion that Pakistan intends to hi- the coalition, Russia has proposed dis. Turkey has also strongly crit- West that it is a needed and peace- MO (Moscow State Institute of the Iranians and Russians have sors of their enemies establishing jack the peace process in Afghani- its own vision of what the “right” icized the Russian plan, as Ankara ful partner in conflict-resolution. International Relations [Universi- supported Bashar al-Assad ever dialogue channels and signing trea- stan, by working against India. The coalition should look like. This vi- opposes Assad remaining in pow- Putin’s attempts to resolve the ty] of Ministry of Foreign Affairs since the popular revolt began, Iran ties, they quickly realise that they fact that Mullah Akhtar Mansour sion was shared by Russian Pres- er and his involvement in any ef- Syrian conflict puts him at the cen- of Russia), now she is a PhD Can- succeeded in brokering a 48-hour cannot depend on their patrons the new Taliban chieftain is a close ident Vladimir Putin with Saudi fort to counter ISIS. Turkey also ter of a total mess, but he feels didate there. Her research fields are ceasefire in three important cities forever. ally of ISI that created the Taliban Crown Prince Mohammad bin Sal- opposes Kurdish involvement. confident. He already has one pos- in Russian foreign policy in the on August 12, a day before a visit The Iran deal is an important in the 1990s, corroborates this fear. man al-Saud during the Saint Pe- The need to unite against ISIS is itive experience in the crisis, when Middle East, Euro-Arab dialogue, by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mo- watershed in global efforts for His sudden anointment this July, tersburg International Economic less powerful than most countries’ his initiative to remove all chemi- policy in France and the U.S. to- hammad Javad Zarif to the Syrian peace. It shows that the interna- after the mysterious disappear- Forum. Details were not revealed common hatred of him. Russia in- cal weapons from Syria saved the wards the Mediterranean, France- capital. tional community is genuinely ance of Mullah Omar in 2001, is a until Russia’s foreign minister vis- sists on Assad staying in power country from becoming like Lib- Russia bilateral relations, humani- In fact, the ceasefire, part of opposed to nuclear proliferation, red alert for all. His explosive en- ited Qatar earlier this month. and continuing to fight ISIS. Mos- ya, and saved the world from ca- tarian cooperation and open diplo- an effort by Tehran to help resolve signalling that diplomacy still has try, literally so, makes it amply At its core, the “Putin Plan” cow believes that if he steps down, tastrophe. However, that was eas- macy. She can be followed on the Syrian civil war, was extended a place in solving world conflicts. evident that matters can turn for adds nothing new to what Russia no one will be able to keep the ier than fighting ISIS. Putin’s in- Twitter: @politblogme for a further two days. Wars often become inevitable the worse, anytime. Under the In Yemen, popular forces loy- when diplomacy and the art of re- leadership of the deceased Mullah al to the country’s legitimate Pres- solving conflicts fail. Omar (who had sheltered Osama ident Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi Those who oppose the Iran bin Laden’s al-Qaida in the wake Who should go first, Assad or ISIS? have been making impressive gains deal need only to look at the im- of Sept 11), the Taliban have been mostly in the south of the coun- mediate results in the region to re- making fierce inroads into the By Jamal Khashoggi soon as a Syrian volunteer by Riyadh - launched a vicious pression of the Syrian revolu- try. alise that the deal has already con- northern territories, away from its hears that his job is to only fight attack on ISIS in eastern Dam- tion and allowing Assad and his Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al- But the much talked about al- tributed to an easing of tensions traditional bastions in the south. ISIS instead of the regime, he ascus. sectarian allies to massacre the liance between the Houthis and and a spike in diplomatic activi- This summer, things heated up Jubeir put an end to suspicious withdraws from the program. The Army of Islam, one of Syrian people? Only a national Iran - who were expected to move ties. Contrary to opponents of the some more and witnessed one of rumors in many Arab capitals Whoever is left of them has the biggest factions in the Syrian force that can even in- in support of their co-religious deal, who claim that it will inflame the heaviest civilian casualty—of that Riyadh is now willing to entered Syria heavily armed south, is unwilling to accept clude what is left of the army is Yemenis - has never surfaced. the region, the developments make 5000 dead as against 3,699 report- approve of Syrian President and is suspected of robbing ISIS even if they seem to be capable of fighting ISIS, as No strong evidence shows that sure that a post-deal Iran is play- ed by UN in 2014—over and above Bashar al-Assad. In Berlin then other factions. However, if the fighting the same enemy, and it Jubeir proposed in Moscow. ing a much more moderating role Tehran is aiding the anti-Hadi forc- the routine targeted killings of po- in Moscow during a few con- U.S. government accepts the is not alone. In Aleppo, there is This will not happen until after than before. lice and military personnel esca- es. On the contrary, the Iranians secutive days, Jubeir made as- Saudi and Turkish call for a coalition of courageous op- Assad’s fall. have been supportive of the UN There is no ironclad guarantee lating every day. surances that Riyadh did not that this deal with Iran, which will “Bashar first,” those people will position factions halting the There is no doubt that ISIS led peace talks in Geneva and are By keeping India away from accept any future role for As- eventually lift sanctions, will sud- the peace talks, Pakistan may gain become heroes in the eyes of advance of ISIS and at the same is an ugly entity representing a not viewed as serving much of a sad, not even in a Syrian inter- denly turn the Islamic Republic strategic depth in Afghanistan, but their societies and will attract time fighting the regime. In re- threat to both Russia and Sau- role in that crisis. im government. On the Palestinian front, a se- into a multi-party democracy that will that ensure a safe and secure more volunteers. turn, the latter receives inter- di Arabia, as Moscow’s Foreign However, the Russians and nior Palestinian Liberation Organ- respects human rights and grants Afghanistan is the question. If In- Amid these events, Saudi nationally-prohibited barrel- Minister Sergei Lavrov said last isation (PLO) leader visiting Te- all sorts of freedoms. dia is left out of the peace process, Americans are promoting the Arabia will be directly and bombs without anyone raising Tuesday. However, Assad’s hran said that Palestinian President But contrary to warmongers’ will the second round of peace talks “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria closely affected by the collaps- a finger to stop it! threat is no less dangerous. Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to arguments, since the July agree- to be held in China have anything [ISIS] first” theory, which is ing situation in Syria and its In short, the group fighting Statistics indicate that the num- visit Iran in the coming two ment in Vienna, the forces of di- to do with a democratic, indepen- wrong politically and practical- consequences such as the war ISIS today is the Syrian oppo- ber of Syrians killed by his forc- months. plomacy and political solutions are dent Afghanistan is another ques- ly. The Americans should have on ISIS, chaos, smuggling, and sition, not Assad’s army. Why es is three times that of ISIS. now stronger than the proponents tion. The visit followed a much admitted that well before the human and arms trafficking. is Riyadh the only one aware Assad’s regime is one of the publicised detachment between of violence and war. For those who see India’s need Russians, after they saw how If this trend continues, the in- to play a leadership role in the Riyadh is also fully aware of of that? Why can Moscow and reasons behind the spread of Tehran and Hamas, and a move by difficult it was to form special the reality of the situation Washington not recognize ISIS. The idea of ISIS would Hamas to get closer to Saudi Ara- ternational community can be con- peace process as an intervention- Syrian forces to fight ISIS de- there, so it is necessary to lis- that? If the Russians and Amer- have remained forever re- bia. These developments in the af- vinced that the Iran deal has had a ist step may be reminded that the moderating influence on the Mid- splinter group in ISIS, getting ready spite all the temptations of ten when it says “Assad first.” icans succeed in convincing pressed by us, but an unsuc- termath of the nuclear deal signal money, training and arms. As that Iran is a force of moderation - dle East. in the shadows to announce its Stopping ISIS Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qa- cessful authoritarian system No one will fight ISIS in situ tar of the “ISIS first” theory, came and lost control over its other than Syrians. Neither the who will fight this organization country, allowing ISIS to spread Saudis nor the Russians will do in situ and complete the coali- like bacteria. This bacteria, if ETTER TO THE EDITOR that. tion forces’ aerial campaign neglected, will contaminate The Syrians are the great- other than the Syrians? neighboring regions too. This est beneficiary of getting rid of The results of such a tactic is why I choose “Assad first.” ISIS. They have had enough of were illustrated last Tuesday, This article was first pub- ‘No to Pakistani Products’ campaign this organization, and they when the coalition bombed the lished in al-Hayat on August know that it will stand between site of an opposition faction 15, 2015. them and their dream of build- that had nothing to do with ISIS Jamal Khashoggi is a Saudi After an increase in suicide bombings in Afghanistan for which Pakistan has been blamed, Afghans started the “No to Pakistani Products” ing a free Syria for all Syrians. or even Al-Nusra, and led to the journalist, columnist, author, campaign through social media. They share photos of Afghan products and encourage others to use them in a bid to suppress the foreign products in local markets. It is said that there are more than 17 local products that can compete with foreign products. The products include shoes, diary, They do not want to replace deaths of many, leaving Syri- and general manager of the clothes, detergents, painting color, and so on. In the meantime, Union of Medicine Importing Companies on Sunday announced that no company Assad’s tyranny with ISIS. ans angrier than ever. This will upcoming Al Arab News Chan- – affiliated to the union – should import Pakistani medicines. Russia’s argument that Syria make them reluctant to support nel. He previously served as a The diary products have very high quality compared to the imported products from neighboring countries. The other day, I went to a shop will gradually fall into the hands such an alliance, and will in- media aide to Prince Turki al and asked for home-made milk. He told me that he doesn’t have the local milk because it was banned due to some unknown reasons. The of ISIS if the Assad regime falls crease the popularity of ISIS Faisal while he was Saudi Ara- government should support the local products. The home-made products should be tax-free and all the people should try to purchase them. is not true. and spread extremism among bia's ambassador to the United This is a good attempt and one of the effective ways to support the local products in a country like Afghanistan where every country tries Assad’s regime is one of the them. States. to interfere and everyone wants to sell their own products here. The success will not be far away if we take the first steps, reasons behind the spread of Certainly, neither the Amer- Khashoggi has written for and soon the next steps will be taken by others anymore. ISIS icans nor the Russians will various daily and weekly Arab Hosai Amini, 3rd Macroryan, Kabul Jamal Khashoggi send men to the Syrian swamp, newspapers, including Asharq The Syrian opposition, with nor will the Saudis and Jorda- al-Awsat, al-Majalla and al- Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] its nationalists and Islamists, is nians. Even the Egyptian army, Hayat, and was editor-in-chief the one fighting the spread of eager to join “unified Arab forc- of the Saudi-based al-Watan. ISIS in their country, not regime es” to fight terrorism and main- He was a foreign corre- forces, which collapsed in front tain Assad’s regime, will most spondent in Afghanistan, Al- Disclaimer: of the terrorist organization a likely not participate. geria, Kuwait, Sudan, and oth- few weeks ago in Palmyra. Dur- Who will then fight on Syr- er Middle Eastern countries. He The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) ing the meeting between Saudi ian ground other than Assad’s is also a political commentator and Russian ministers in Mos- army, his Iranian allies and for Saudi-based and interna- and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. cow, the Army of Islam - an Is- Hezbollah? Does that mean tional news channels. Twitter: lamist faction said to be backed anything other than the sup- @JKhashoggi This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. TUESDAY . AUGUST 18, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

In a climate that makes concentrat- teachers should be working here ing near impossible, and hand- now, but says a lack of funding books do not distract from the heat, has meant only five make it in ev- dozens of Iraqi children are doing eryday. His wife, Abeer Shaaban, their absolute best to learn. who is leading an English class in As they recite numbers writ- the adjacent tent, is also a teacher ten on a white board that is here. During her lesson, she ex- propped up by cinder blocks, stu- presses even more concern for the dents attending summer school at welfare of her students. Baghdad's Al-Takya Al-Kasnaza- "We feel that this is a crime niya camp for the internally dis- against those poor children," Shaa- placed say classes are far tougher ban tells Al Jazeera. "What did than they should be - and for rea- these children do to deserve such sons that have nothing to do with harsh conditions? "They do feel a the curriculum. "We used to live in bit happier than before since at our own neighbourhoods and it least they now have a makeshift was like heaven," 12-year-old school to go to, but these schools Murtada Taleb remembers. "We lack the basic requirement to teach used to go to clean schools and them adequately." While the boys these schools would have proper here worry the world has forsaken roofs." Now, he and his classmates them, they are determined not to study inside a tent. During this give up on their education. Despite record heat wave in Iraq, power support from UNICEF and other outages are frequent and air condi- aid groups, even a brief glance tioning has become a luxury - and around quickly underscores just on the day Al Jazeera visited, over- how dire the situation is and how heated students often used their few the resources are. Twelve- workbooks to fan themselves. year-old Mohammed Aidan says Taleb, who along with his fam- much, much more is needed. "It is ily fled Anbar province once ISIL very, very hot, the electricity took it over in April, is just one of comes and then it goes, and some- the approximately 850,000 inter- times it just doesn’t come at all," nally displaced school-aged chil- he says. While the boys here wor- dren in Iraq. According to ry the world has forsaken them, UNICEF, 650,000 of those kids they are determined not to give up have missed at least a year's worth on their education [Mohammed of classes. "If we were back home," Jamjoom/Al Jazeera] Taleb tells me, as he points disap- 'Impossible conditions' provingly to his worn T-shirt and With more than three million slippers, "I would wear a proper people displaced in Iraq since the uniform to school - I would not start of 2014, the UN is extremely dress like this. And we would not concerned about the humanitarian be living now in tents." Teacher crisis worsening in the country. Jalal Badr Aziz says the situation Lise Grande, the UN’s humanitar- is even worse here than it looks, ian coordinator for Iraq, told Al nity, they have a sense that their the UN to close 84 percent of its ing to receive them," she explains. it is that health facilities are open and tattered workbooks wither in that they do not have even the Jazeera that access to education for family, you know, still has a frontline health programmes. "It means that all the kids who and that schools are open and that the sun, mothers bake bread for an most basic requirements for the children, even amid the extreme chance. When kids are out of Grande calls the closures devas- were gonna be immunised aren't food is provided." For the hun- encampment where there is far too classrooms. conditions that exist in Iraq, is a school, they don't have any of tating and says it was a decision gonna be immunised. It means all dreds of families at the camp, life much hunger, and the thirst for "We have 90 students in three priority for the organisation. that." Aid workers insist that for the UN did not want to make. "You the pregnant women who needed is already too hard as it is. Con- knowledge has not come close to different classes and only 30 text- "When families, even if they are in children in Iraq, access to educa- know when we had to close the help during birth, and before birth cerned parents watch over children being quenched. Aid workers say books were distributed," he says the most impossible conditions, if tion is as important to access to 184 health activities and health clin- and after birth, they are not gonna who are no longer carefree, and a that for children in Iraq, access to exasperatedly. "How can you they have their children in school, medical care. Complicating matters ics, what that meant is that a mil- receive that assistance. "You know community, stripped of almost ev- education is as important as ac- teach 90 students with 30 books?" they have a sense of hope," said further now, though, is a major lion people who would have re- when you look at the conditions erything, attempts to rebuild. Out- cess to medical care [Mohammed Badr Aziz explains that 20 Grande. "They have a sense of dig- funding shortfall that has forced ceived health services are not go- in Iraq, you realise how important side, as the next class queues up Jamjoom/Al Jazeera] Al Jazeera Lebanon grapples with ‘export ‘I look forward to dying:’US veteran fights Gulf War syndrome deadlock’ amid Syrian war Glenn Stewart, a U.S. veteran of the nosed with a presumptive condi- were dispatched from green Ger- first Gulf War a quarter of a cen- tion, he or she is then entitled to many to Iraq, Christense did not The Lebanese government has approved a subsidy to help export companies after the closure of the Jordan-Syria border. tury ago, has a deadly dilemma. medical or disability benefits as- receive proper training in a desert Stewart, who served as a communi- sociated with the diagnosis. “The environment, leading him at the uring a heated meeting last bles," Riachy said. So far, he has ture, 900 tonnes of agricultural We are losing our share in just cation specialist in the U.S. forces bottom line is we seek justice and time to believe that the weapons month, the Lebanese gov been paying the costs of weekly produce were being thrown out three months, and other companies tasked with taking back Kuwait to help many of those like me who used were “mini nukes.” “When I Dernment agreed to subsidise shipments to the Gulf. Surrounded daily due to the deadlock [Nicolas from different countries are replac- from the clutches of Iraqi dictator are extremely sick and dying,” went to Iraq just to observe, I saw the shipping of agricultural goods by stacks of papers and files at his Lupo Sonnabend/Al Jazeera] One- ing us. Imad Riachy, founder of ag- Saddam Hussein in 1991, wants to Stewart said. Military personnel an Iraqi soldier. One half of him by sea, three months after the clo- office in Beirut, Riachy has been third of the 4,500 trucks in Leba- riculture company Greenette From see his grandchildren grow. But at examine the remains of a Scud dur- was normal but other half was a sure of the Syrian-Jordanian bor- looking for alternatives in recent non that operate on international the moment vegetables are loaded the same time, he also waits daily ing the Gulf War. (Photo: skeleton… ash, that is not normal. der. Before the war in Syria, ex- months, as 90 percent of Greenette's routes are refrigerated, which are into shipping warehouses, it takes to hear the “good news” of his im- Wikimedia) Daunting stories, be- It means that the arms used were ported goods from Lebanon would crop is intended for export. "Com- the kinds needed to export vegeta- five to seven days for trucks to reach pending death. The 54-year-old suf- trayal While suggested causes for hotter than the sun, and basically travel through Syria towards Iraq pared to last year, we are now ex- bles. However, some like Ayman their destinations in the Gulf. "The fers from what is commonly known GWI included depleted uranium, it was a mini small nuclear bomb,” and Turkey. But passage to both porting roughly 10 percent of what Halawi, a member of the Lebanese constraint with ships is that you as Gulf War syndrome (GWS) or sarin gas, smoke from burning oil he said, reaffirming that “moisture countries has been closed since the we used to," he explained. As a re- Refrigerated Trucks Owners need to plan the shipment in ad- Gulf War Illness (GWI), a cocktail wells, vaccinations, combat stress was turned into dust.” He added: outbreak of violence. The subsidy sult, Riachy reduced the amount of (LRTO) syndicate, claim that the vance, [and] to have a Ro-Ro ready of ailments. Its multiple symptoms and psychological factors, veter- “We were never told what was decision, aimed at easing the eco- land his company cultivates, and actual problem goes beyond the for the departure as soon as the veg- are both physical and psychologi- ans also blame a mixture of injec- going on, there is a lot of mind nomic pressure on Lebanon's strug- switched parts of it to grow longer- sector. Farmers who cultivate land, etables are collected," Riachy said. cal - chronic fatigue, insomnia, neu- gling agricultural sector, has helped lasting, but less profitable vegeta- engineers who provide the ma- Ro-Ros are vessels designed to car- rological problems, and extreme lev- to relieve the export deadlock in bles, such as potatoes. The conse- chines needed, the mechanics fix- ry wheeled cargo, such as trucks. It els of stress. It is not that I will effect since Syrian opposition quences of the export deadlock are ing the trucks, and the clearance takes three days for Ro-Ros to travel commit suicide or want to die, but I fighters overran the Nassib border affecting people working in other companies that value the goods at from Lebanon to Jeddah, Saudi Ara- look forward to dying because it will crossing on April 1. The Nassib sectors, too. the border are all suffering the con- bia. The trucks on board must then end my daily pain and torture Glenn crossing was the last available bor- In a car park in Bar Elias, a town sequences of the export deadlock. embark on a second leg of their jour- Stewart, a Gulf War U.S. veteran, der crossing for land exports from in the Bekaa Valley, Walid Tarraf Last month, the LRTO had organ- ney to the destination country, who suffers from GWI “I do want Lebanon, and though there are no approached one of the 50 dusty ised a protest to pressure the gov- which can take up to two more days. to live long to see my grandchildren reliable figures on what percent- trucks that have been immobilised ernment into taking measures to But what makes the difference are grow up and graduate high school, age of agricultural exports passed since April 1. "Around here, you can subsidise the export of agricultur- the "very high prices" that erase any but I am hoping for the good news through Nassib, Jordan and the find 10 more parking lots like this al goods. Their gathering cut the benefit, Halawi said. And with only from a doctor that I will die soon,’” Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) one," he said. The 46-year-old Tar- Beirut-Damascus road for an hour. one Ro-Ro a week leaving Lebanon, Stewart told Al Arabiya News. countries accounted for more than raf has spent half of his life driving Another protest, days later, agricultural companies cannot ex- Stewart argued this “sounds irra- tions and pills – which were origi- games.” The Gulf War saw the first 60 percent of these goods, accord- trucks from Lebanon to the GCC brought together employees from port fresh vegetables, as the goods tional and insane to normal every- nally supposed to protect them use of depleted uranium by Allied ing to the Investment Develop- countries, barely seeing his wife and clearance companies and farmers, would have to wait at a warehouse day people,” but said other veter- against chemical attacks. In the forces, exposing both Gulf War ment Authority of Lebanon.The four children for more than 10 days in addition to truck drivers. "We and could expire. Another problem ans would be able to relate. “It is UK, one of the biggest partners in veterans and Iraqis to long-term $21m subsidy will pay shipping each month. Now, he sits at home will increase the level [of the pro- arising from shipping by sea is the not that I will commit suicide or the U.S.-led Gulf War coalition, health consequences. Experts be- companies the difference in cost jobless and worries about their mea- test] if nothing is done," Halawi excess of supply. So far, there has want to die, but I look forward to 50,000 British servicemen and lieve the 350 tons of depleted ura- of exporting by land and by sea. gre savings. "I had $6,000 when the said. The LRTO met with Leba- been only one ship leaving Lebanon dying because it will end my daily women blame these injections and nium used in the Gulf War by Al- The measure will be in effect until crisis started, and now I just have nese Prime Minister Tammam Sa- each week carrying export techno- pain and torture,” he lamented. The pills for their current health issues. lied forces have led to high rates of December. According to Imad Ri- $1,500," he explained. "We had to laam in June and gave him a list of logical and industrial goods, flood- veteran described the pain suffered “I took stuff so my body does not cancer and congenital birth defects achy from the agriculture compa- cut expenses on everything, such as demands to resolve the situation. ing GCC markets with goods on the by those with GWI as “extreme,” react to anthrax and all others mus- in Iraq. In 2014, the Department ny Greenette, which mainly culti- clothes, food, and other daily prod- The main demand was to press the day of arrival. Unloading all the car- with some of them taking their own tard gas and whatever the Iraqis of Veterans Affairs rejected links vates iceberg lettuce, the extra cost ucts." He recently had to take out a United Nations to secure a route go at once drives prices down. When lives as they can no longer tolerate might use against us,” Christense, between Gulf War service and can- of exporting by sea is between 15 loan in order to make the $600 per through Syria from Lebanon's Be- goods arrive by truck, prices are its toll. Another Gulf War veteran, who was specialized in communi- cer. But the year before, several and 30 percent higher. The pro- month payment on another loan for kaa Valley to Jordan. Shipping veg- higher because shipments are not as Richard F. Christense, who cur- cation, artillery field, sid. “Basi- former U.N. and WHO officials posal's promoter, Lebanese agri- his refrigerated truck, which cost etables by sea is the only feasible big. rently lives in Germany, complained cally, we took all kind of stuff, like claimed there was political inter- culture minister, Akram Chehayeb, $100,000. "All the truck drivers are alternative to getting Lebanese The new subsidy would allow about his inability to sleep. “[Only] experimentation.” Stewart also ference to suppress scientific evi- said that before its approval, 900 in despair. We just want alternatives products to market. But even with the shipping of goods every day. every four days I can sleep. I am cited a story of betrayal during the dence of the post-war environmen- tonnes of agricultural produce were to stay alive," said Tarraf, who was the subsidy in place, which would "The price shrinks because the of- always tired,” he said. The 51-year- time “when Iraqi forces used tal health catastrophe, UK paper being thrown out daily due to the stuck in Saudi Arabia for 46 days cover the increased costs of ship- fer exceeds the demand. So does old Christense, who described his chemical and biological weapons” The Guardian reported at the time. deadlock. The agricultural sector, when the Jordanian-Syrian border ping by sea, other issues remain. your profit," said Riachy, who has “bad nerves” as “rattled,” rejects against U.S. troops. “Our chemi- The lack of acknowledgement of which makes up 5.5 percent of was shut. He remained there until "The biggest issue is flexibility," slowly built a market in the GCC taking sleep pills and is trying his cal alarms were continually going the lethality of arms used in the Lebanon's gross domestic product an agreement was struck with the explained Riachy. "Fresh vegeta- since establishing Greenette 12 best follow to combat his symp- off, but we were being told by Gulf War meant that current suf- (GDP) and 14.4 percent of total Lebanese government, which paid bles, as the ones we cultivate, ex- years ago. "We are losing our share toms with a healthy lifestyle. But higher command that those were ferers must depend on themselves exports, has been deeply affected $1m to bring back drivers together pire after 14 or 15 days of the har- in just three months, and other com- GWI does not present a consistent false alarms,” he said. The former for much of their treatment. In a by the export deadlock. Just three with their nearly 300 trucks. Accord- vest, and the trucks facilitate a fast- panies from different countries are cluster of symptoms and can be dif- head of the Pentagon’s Depleted previous interview with Al regional countries receive more ing to Lebanon's minister of agricul- er shipping of goods." replacing us." Al Jazeera ficult for doctors to fully diagnose, Uranium Project, Doug Rokke, Arabiya News, Yahya al-Nasiri, than one-third of the vegetables and according to the Veterans Law and who become a U.S. army governor of the southern Dhi Qar fruits exported, and the only way Benefits blog, propelling the Vet- whistleblower, blamed these toxic province, said Iraq was studying for trucks to reach the area cover- eran Affairs Department (VA) to exposures on the “deliberate ac- new plan on where to bury its piles ing Jordan and the GCC is through continually designate it as “undiag- tions” of the U.S. military in an radioactive waste, which “exacer- Syria, the only country that has nosed illness and medically unex- address he gave in 2003. Rokke said bated people’s health including an open border with Lebanon. The According to Lebanon's plained chronic multi-symptom ill- that “Department of Defense of- high rates of cancer.” subsidy measures could prove es- minister of agriculture, ness.” “I had been fighting with the ficials still claim that alarms were “The U.S. army unfortunately sential for a sector that employs 900 tonnes of agricul- Veterans Affairs (VA) for about 5 all false alarms.” Citing the mem- caused an increase in these radio- 20 to 30 percent of the Lebanese tural produce were years trying to get help and I was oirs of U.S. top General Norman active material by using uranium workforce. Yet despite the July 2 kept being told that my problems Schwarzkopf, Rokke said that the and its advanced arms that use a being thrown out daily were mental in nature and stress re- military had taken the fateful deci- lot of harmful radioactive mate- approval of the proposal, not ev- due to the deadlock erybody in Lebanon's agriculture lated,” Stewart said. “I have been sion of blowing up Iraq’s stock- rial,” Nasiri said. “But the U.S. sector is confident. "I don't really [Nicolas Lupo advocating for some years now on piles of chemical and biological army did not help nor support our know when the government will Sonnabend/Al Jazeera] reform of the VA to have them fol- weapons with air strikes and artil- projects to get rid of these pollut- start funding the export of vegeta- low the law.” If a veteran is diag- lery fire. Like his colleagues who ants.” This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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About half the energy burned in the U.S. is used to make hot water and heat (most of which is below the boiling point), yet PV solar and wind energy do little to provide it aside from electric water tanks and The United Arab Emirates is open open to meet demand for any oil dia worth $1 trillion. "The UAE funds, is already an investor in In- countries in different areas, main- ment sources said last year. India inefficient baseboard heaters. to meeting any demand for oil from from India," Mansouri said, add- can focus on certain areas such as dia and further investment will ly economic and investments," imports about 80 percent of its oil Does that mean natural gas is India, the Gulf OPEC member's ing that the issue would be dis- infrastructure, railways, medical, depend on what India provides, Mansouri said. "We are address- needs and is building emergency here to stay? Solar thermal, as the economy minister Sultan bin Saeed cussed further by representatives tourism, real estate," Mansouri Mansouri added. Modi said he ing some challenges of the past and storage capacity to hedge against term is generally used, is a bit of a al-Mansouri told Reuters on Mon- of the two sides. Abu Dhabi cur- said, adding that the tourism sec- would send India's minister of com- creating a new vision for India- energy security risks. misnomer, since the thermal out- day. Mansouri was speaking after rently provides 9 percent of In- tor had huge untapped potential merce to the UAE shortly to dis- UAE in the future." A UAE industry source said put is used to make electricity. It meeting with Indian Prime Minis- dia's energy needs and India is the but needed rules and regulations cuss investment, the UAE minis- India is in talks to lease part of this week that negotiations be- becomes part of the same process ter Narendra Modi, who is in the world's fourth biggest oil consum- to develop it. The Abu Dhabi In- ter said. its planned strategic oil storage fa- tween ADNOC and India were as a conventional steam or gas tur- UAE on a two-day visit. "India is er. Mansouri said Modi presented vestment Authority, one of the "There's a new momentum in cilities to Abu Dhabi's state oil continuing but no final agreement bine plant, but instead of burning importing oil now and the UAE is proposals for investments in In- world's largest sovereign wealth the relationship between the two company ADNOC, Indian govern- had been reached yet. natural gas, or coal, the steam comes from a liquid heated by con- centrated sunlight. In the case of Bahrain to troughs, the so-called concentra- A declin in g go ld dem an d in Pakistan tion ratio is about 60 to 1. Three to five ‘suns’ from a magnifying remove meat glass will start a fire. Sixty suns KARACHI: Gold’s consumer de- up at 3.5 tonnes in April-June, the Express Tribune, All Sindh Saraf will produce enough high quality subsidies as mand in Pakistan remained 9.5 demand for gold bars and coins and Jewellers Association Presi- steam to run a power plant. (PV tonnes during the second quarter showed a year-on-year decline of dent Haroon Rasheed Chand said power comes from one-sun, i.e. cheap oil hits of 2015, which is down 22.7% 30%. Pakistan’s share in the glo- the spell of slow demand in the what you see is what you get). from a year ago. According to sta- bal consumer demand of gold is gold jewellery market seems to be Concentrated sunlight is no trifling tistics on global gold demand re- miniscule. With world consumer finally over now. “People have matter. A few years ago in Lon- budget leased by the World Gold Council demand at 714.9 tonnes, Paki- started buying jewellery again. I don, windows on a curved high rise (WGC) on Thursday, gold’s con- stan’s share was only 1.3% in the foresee a bullish trend in the saraf focused enough light on a Jaguar Bahrain will remove government sumer demand in Pakistan clocked second quarter of 2015. market in coming months,” he said. to start melting it. Did it have to subsidies on meat from Sept. 1, up at 17.8 tonnes in the first half The decrease in Pakistan’s gold Gold traded at Rs45,200 per tola be such an expensive car, in sun- allowing domestic prices to rise, of 2015, showing a decline of 8.7% consumer demand in April-June (11.6 grams) on Saturday, accord- starved London, of all places? The state news agency BNA reported on a year-on-year basis. On a se- was in line with the global trend. ing to ASSJA. story would have made more sense as the government sought to save quential basis, however, quarterly Overall consumer demand of gold The local gold market was in if it had been a pickup truck in money as low oil prices pressure consumer demand of precious met- in the second quarter decreased the grip of a long bearish trend, as Phoenix. (Assuming the Haboob its budget Like other oil exporting al in the country increased 14.4%, 14.1% internationally because of its price declined more than 25% season had ended.) There is a leg- Gulf states Bahrain has for many WGC data shows. The year-on- China and India, the two dominant in last four years, data compiled end that in 212 BC, Archimedes years subsidised goods and ser- year decrease in the overall demand players in the global gold market. by ASSJA shows. and friends pointed enough pol- vices such as meat, fuel, electric- of gold was caused by a notable WGC noted that extreme Each of the two gold-based ished shields at a Roman sailing ity and water, keeping prices ul- drop in the demand for jewellery weather patterns in India over- mutual funds being managed by ship to set it on fire. Today we tra-low in an effort to buy social in the April-June quarter. Jewel- shadowed the second-quarter de- Pakistani asset management com- would call that a heliostat array, peace. Since last year the subsi- lery demand in Pakistan equalled mand and had a direct impact on panies has posted a negative re- and it concentrated the power of dies have become increasingly dif- six tonnes in April-June, down incomes in the rural population, turn in the last 365 days. Atlas many suns. This was applied math ficult for governments to afford as 17.8% from a year ago. Jewellery which accounts for more than half Gold Fund and UBL Gold Fund at its best but the Romans were oil prices have plunged, slashing demand in the country for the first of the Indian gold demand. As for have posted absolute returns of - the trend in the international mar- the international gold price has not amused and they caught and export revenues. Bahrain, with six months of 2015 remained 11.1 China, WGC said the drop of about 6.7% and -7.8%, respectively, over ket where gold prices are now hov- touched a three-week high, as a killed Archimedes. In this article, much smaller oil and financial re- tonnes, down 3.4% from last year. 5% in demand during the second the one-year period, according to ering around $1,120 per ounce af- weaker Chinese yuan kept equi- unless otherwise indicated, solar serves than its Gulf neighbours, The rest of the overall con- quarter was because of the domes- the Mutual Funds Association of ter reaching the peak of $1,895 per ties under pressure, thus encour- thermal will refer to thermal-only, has been particularly hard hit. So sumer demand in Pakistan came tic economic conditions and stock Pakistan. The downturn in local ounce in September 2011. aging investors to seek safe-haven i.e. heat, for the sake of heat, hot Bahrain has been examining pos- from gold bars and coins. Clocking market volatility. Speaking to The gold prices was largely in line with Reuters reported on Thursday assets like gold. water and even air conditioning. sible subsidy cuts and the removal The ‘light water reactor’ referred of subsidies from meat could even- to in the title simply means that tually be followed by similar UK economy: sunlight is concentrated on a steel moves on other goods and services. Wall Street Japan’s economy shrinks tube, filled with water and painted However, Bahraini citizens will be the low-interest black, at the focal point of a trough. compensated for the higher meat in second quarter And in the case of troughs, the ‘fo- prices, BNA quoted Industry and eyes Fed m in utes rate era is far cal point’ is actually a line, which Commerce Minister Zayed bin runs parallel to the trough itself. (I Rashed al-Zayani as saying late on Slumping exports, household spending raise from over see a steel pipe and I want to paint Saturday. Zayani did not specify after vo latile w eek possibility of government stimulus it black -- with apologies to Mr. how much prices might rise by or Ban k o f En glan d Jagger, a former student at the Lon- give details of the compensation Go ve rn o r Mark Carn e y don School of Economics.) The for citizens. Previously officials TOKYO: Japan’s economy con- especially weak, reflecting a slow- m ay h o pe o th e rw is e bu t term ‘light water reactor’ generally have said citizens would receive tracted in the second quarter as down in the world’s second-big- it’s a s afe be t th at refers to a type of nuclear power cash payments; foreigners, who overseas demand for Japanese gest economy. Japanese car exports ro ckbo tto m rate s w ill plant design. In this case, though, comprise about half of Bahrain's goods slumped and households to China fell more than 30% on a s tay ro ckbo tto m th is the reactor is a trough collector population of roughly 1.3 BNA spent less, raising the possibility dollar basis in the first half of this ye ar an d n e xt where the sunlight meets water quoted Zayani as saying the re- the government will act to bolster year, according to Japan External running through a pipe, courtesy moval of subsidies would help to an anemic recovery. Trade Organization. Weaker crude- of the reflective surface that de- Japan’s gross domestic prod- oil prices damped investment in It’s a safe bet that Britain’s rock- stimulate meat imports into bottom interest rates are going to fines the trough. The phrase was Bahrain by encouraging more im- uct shrank 1.6% on an annualized oil and gas development, reducing coined, tongue-in-cheek, by Dr. basis in the April-June quarter, demand for Japanese construction stay at rock bottom, this year and porters to get involved. He did not next. That is the message from the Barry Butler who was the first elaborate. Also Zayani did not re- according to data released on Mon- equipment such as excavators. The head of the Solar Thermal division day by the Cabinet Office. That export slowdown had knock-on global economy, where all the signs veal how much money the govern- point to low inflation for years to of SERI (the Solar Energy Research ment expected to save by remov- compared with a 1.9% contraction effects on the domestic economy, come, robbing central banks of any Institute established by the Carter ing meat subsidies. A state budget forecast by economists surveyed reducing overtime for workers and reason to raise the base rates that Administration), which later approved last month envisaged a by The Wall Street Journal. wages, government officials said. set the benchmark for mortgages, changed its name to NREL. It deficit of 1.50 billion dinars ($3.98 The data show that a sustain- According to the GDP data, em- overdrafts and loans. Some central seems there were other renewable billion) in 2015, up from an origi- U.S. stock index futures indicated clarity. Data releases due on Mon- able recovery in the world’s third- ployee compensation declined banks might even be forced to sources of interest than the sun. nally planned deficit of 914 mil- a flat open on Monday, with mar- day include the Empire State sur- largest economy has been elusive, 0.2% on quarter after adjustment pump more funds into their econ- The trough above is the brainchild lion dinars last year. Passage of the kets looking ahead to the minutes vey at 08.30 a.m. ET, followed by despite efforts by Prime Minister for inflation, after a 0.6 gain in the omies through those inelegantly of Ken May, who was once a tech- budget was delayed by six months of the Fed's July meeting, in what the NAHB Housing Market Index Shinzo Abe and the Bank of Japan first quarter. Private consumption, titled quantitative-easing pro- nician under Dr. Butler’s wing at partly because parliament op- could be a more muted week of and net long-term Treasury Inter- to stimulate growth. Japan’s econ- which accounts for more than half grammes just to keep inflation from SERI. Mr. May founded IST (In- posed the cabinet's intention to cut trade amid lighter volumes and low national Capital (TIC) flows at omy expanded the previous two of economic output in Japan, fell sinking again into negative territo- dustrial Solar Technology) in 1983, subsidies. staffing. Futures rise amid Greek 10.00 a.m. and 4.00p.m. respec- quarters, but that growth followed an annualized 3.0% from the pre- ry. Even were Bank of England which was bought by Abengoa in bank news CNBC US Treasury tively. There are also two Fed of- two quarters of contraction. vious quarter. In addition to slug- governor Mark Carney able to save 2006, and he is now the head of yields higher amid Lockhart speech ficials speaking, with Minneapo- “There is no engine of growth gish wage growth, poor weather some face by announcing, say next the Spanish giant’s Thermal divi- CNBC Atlanta Fed's Lockhart: lis Fed President Narayana for Japan right now, either in or and low temperatures in June hurt February, that the Bank of En- sion, based in the U.S. Abengoa is Samsung Only major weakness would pre- Kocherlakota speaking Thursday outside the country,” said Yuichi spending on air conditioners and gland’s monetary policy commit- currently building the world’s first vent him backing September hike in South Korea, and San Francisco Kodama, chief economist for Meiji summer clothes. Japan’s weak yen tee had voted to increase base rate large scale solar desalination plant unveils Galaxy MarketWatch Fed to hog Wall Fed President John Williams also Yasuda Life Insurance Co. “Any also raised the prices for many food from 0.5% to 0.75%, subsequent in Saudi Arabia. That plant will use Note 5 and Street spotlight CNBC After suf- on Thursday in Indonesia. Other- economic rebound would be a sub- items—such as ketchup, mayon- rises currently forecast for the rest PV to drive the standard reverse fering a volatile start to week last wise the data flow will be domi- dued one.” The latest figures could naise and curry sauce—prompt- of 2016 – to around 2% to 2.5% – osmosis process. However, it is Galaxy Edge Plus week as fears about Chinese nated by housing market releases, spur calls for a government stimu- ing households to tighten their could be delayed for several years. possible to get salt out of water growth and currency devaluation including August's NAHB index lus package toward the end of the purse strings. Economists have It is possible he may finish his five- using heat, and time will tell if the Samsung has unveiled the new rocked markets, stocks managed to Monday, housing start figures for year, though economists expect said households have spent less as year term in 2018 without once price of water will be set by the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 end slightly higher, with traders July on Tuesday and existing home growth to pick up in the second wage increases failed to keep up raising rates. A look at the broad cost of power from the sun or sim- Edge+ smartphones at the Galaxy refocusing their attention on sales numbers on Thursday. In half. Speaking shortly after the fig- with prices after the national sales sweep of economic activity in the ply from solar heat, which may Unpacked 2015 event in New York whether the U.S. Federal Reserve Europe, equities traded higher on ures were released, Economy Min- tax rose to 8% from 5% in April UK provides all the reasons need- turn out to be cheaper, and will last on Thursday. Both models are will start raising rates in Septem- Monday as investors watch for ister Akira Amari said the contrac- 2014. “Since the April sales tax in- ed to keep the tap of cheap credit certainly be able to produce fresh ber. These are the 3 things worry- progress being made in concluding tion is likely a temporary one, crease, wage growth stayed behind flowing. Inflation for July is ex- said to be packed with the latest, pected to be zero when the official water on a smaller scale. “Florida top mobile hardware, including 5.7- ing markets in the week ahead The a third bailout program for Greece. pointing to strong sales of air con- inflation, keeping consumers’ pur- Power & Light’s Martin Next Gen- timing of the U.S. central bank's Investors will be keeping an eye ditioners in July and August. “The chasing power weak,” said Toru figure is published this week – a inch quad HD displays and 4GB long way from the 2% target Car- eration Solar Energy Center, with of RAM. The Galaxy S6 Edge+ is first rate hike in nine years has been on developments on the conclu- government is not considering im- Suehiro, economist with Mizuho 75 MW of parabolic trough CSP a constant source of debate in the sion of a third rescue plan for mediately implementing extra Securities. ney is supposed to have in his targeted at those who want a sights. With the return of ultra-low [concentrated, or concentrating "phablet"-sized handset with markets, as traders await the final Greece, with national parliaments stimulus measures,” he told Capital Economics, a London- solar power], is the first hybrid pieces of economic data the Fed voting this week on whether to reporters.Exports acted as the big- based research house, said in a note oil prices in recent months, infla- curved sides, be better suited for tion could even be negative. The combined cycle natural gas + con- multimedia lovers, with it’s will take to its September rate ratify the deal. The Greek parlia- gest drag on Japan’s economy dur- Monday that “the slump in out- centrating solar power plant to be ing the quarter, falling a worse- put last quarter should be fol- MPC might say it expects infla- stretched out S6 edge and big meeting. Minutes of the Fed's July ment and euro zone finance minis- tion to be higher in a couple of developed in the United States and screen, including all the familiar meeting, to be released Wednesday ters approved a draft deal on Fri- than-expected 16.5% on an annu- lowed by a tepid recovery in the is also the world’s largest such alized basis. Exports to China were second half of the year.” years, justifying a rate rise sooner. dual edges. Samsung believes that afternoon, could give them some day. It will also point to the pressure hybrid power plant. At the time the Note 5 will be the right choice on wages (and therefore inflation) of its completion in 2010 it was for multitaskers, as it easily fits in from the economic miracle of the also one of the world’s largest para- one hand despite its size and Problems for China’s economy extend far beyond currency last few years that has created al- bolic trough solar CSP plants. The comes equipped with a new and most 2m jobs. Of course, a high hybrid renewable energy power improved S Pen. rate of employment is not to be plant includes a field of 190,000 The "plus" in its name refers he sudden fall in China’s cur same challenge, suggesting that the growth in Chinese gross domestic tos/Getty Images) dismissed. The problem for the parabolic mirrors that heat a syn- to the fact that its screen is both rency last week spurred a underlying problem is sluggish product on average from 2004 to The IMF set the stage for MPC is that it has brought little in thetic oil thermal fluid to tempera- 0.6in (1.5cm) larger than the ear- Tlively debate about whether demand in developed markets”. 2014. Meanwhile, investment Beijing’s currency policy shift by the way of wage pressure, except tures of 398C. The superheated lier edition and more scratch-resis- the move was a victory for mar- China’s economy officially grew contributed an average of 52 per warning Chinese authorities in in certain sectors of the economy thermal fluid is run through a heat tant The two new phone models ket reform or a competitive de- at an annual rate of 7 per cent dur- cent of growth each year. IMF set May that it was becoming ‘in- where skills shortages are emerg- exchange system and used to gen- also introduce new features. valuation designed to shore up ing the first half of this year, neat- stage for China currency shift A creasingly critical’ for Beijing to ing. Moreover, we hear little about erate steam to supplement the ex- A button in their camera apps flagging exports. ly in line with the government’s bank teller counts Chinese curren- allow its currency to trade more how industrial production still re- isting natural gas/ oil plant’s (4) activates a live broadcast mode, But even those who believe full-year target. However, some cy 100 yuan (or Renminbi) notes freely, according to an IMF re- mains 10% below its previous combined-cycle steam turbine which streams high definition the 3 per cent drop was aimed at doubt that figure — Capital Eco- on May 26, 2005 in Chengdu of port. peak (in January 2008); that real units.” The troughs below, now video to YouTube. exporters acknowledge that a nomics, for example, reckons it is Sichuan Province, China. China is The importance of investment average earnings have only recov- also owned by Next Era, were built The phones also support the weaker renminbi by itself is radi- 5-6 per cent — and there are wide- under fierce pressure to free up explains why data released last ered to their August 2004 level; and at Kramer Junction in the Mojave ultra-high quality audio (UHQA) cally insufficient to cope with the spread suggestions that further the yuan, particularly from the week will keep Premier Li Keqiang that to buy a sofa or car millions Desert 30 years ago. The steam format. A new hardware compo- challenges facing China’s econo- stimulus will be needed to pre- United States. China’s central awake at night. Fixed-asset invest- of households remain so strapped output is used to make power; the nent which means there should be my. “Currency depreciation to vent a slowdown. Yet an export bank, the People’s Bank of China ment grew at its slowest pace for cash they must take out a loan. Kramer Junction array is rated at less sound distortion when files stimulate export growth is neither revival would boost growth only said in its first quarter report that since 2000 in the first seven According to the Office for Bud- 310 MW and feeds the grid via saved in the codec are played. The useful nor necessary,” said Qu marginally. Contrary to received China will keep its currency sta- months of 2015, led by a collapse get Responsibility, household debt Southern California Edison. two smartphones will be available Hongbin, HSBC chief China econ- wisdom, China has not pursued ble at a ‘reasonable and well-bal- in property investment. Factory is ratcheting upwards to a new peak Though power markets came first in select markets by the end of the omist. He notes that while Chi- so-called “export-led growth” for anced level’ while improving the output in July was also barely of 183% of GDP in 2020, surpass- for big trough arrays, it is worth month, with wider availability from na’s exports have fallen this year, the past decade. Net exports sub- yuan’s exchange rate above the four-year low touched ing the credit-boom years of 2005- noting that large scale thermal only September. “exporters across Asia faced the tracted 3 per cent from annual mechanism.(Photo by China Pho- in March. 08 when it reached 175%. applications are coming on line. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. TUESDAY . AUGUST 18, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Spotlight: The trundling ways of the Lux Style Awards

Singer Miley Cyrus and rock band heard rapping in the background, Coyne in an interview with Bill- The Flaming Lips' upcoming joint "All I see is warm champagne/ board magazine last May. album will likely have a guest ap- Confetti on the floor of a mess that Back then, he said the project pearance from rapper Big Sean. I'm still in/ The same playlist on was nearly done. It would include The Flaming Lips' frontman my phone." "Yessss!!! Big Sean seven songs which were written Wayne Coyne teased the rapper's on Tangerine!!! Cool s**t comin and recorded by Cyrus and the cameo when he shared a video fea- motherf***ers!!" Coyne wrote in band together. turing a snippet of his verse on the caption of the video and tagged "She does the pop thing so photo-sharing website Instagram, several names including Sean him- great, so it still feels pop, but a reports aceshowbiz.com. self, Cyrus and Ariel Pink. How- slightly wiser, sadder, more true The 15-second clip shows ever, he didn't explain what "Tan- version. Some of it reminds me of Coyne hanging out in a studio. Sean gerine" really is. The collabora- Pink Floyd and Portishead," Coyne is nowhere to be seen in it, but he's tive album was first revealed by said. Just when you were wondering if in a once very prestigious award.” lessly got confused with Pret and unstitched lawn nominations, they would ever surface, the Lux Other contenders, specifically pro- Luxury-pret. This year also marks though. Debates inevitably follow Style Awards (LSAs) nominations ductions by Hum TV, have also the apt return of the bridal fashion the nomination announcements and for 2014 were announced, bring- blatantly backed out. Meanwhile, category to the LSAs. It’s a long though they continue to be rivet- ing with them the usual spate of the cinematic categories reflect the overdue change: bridal fashion has ing, it’s fast becoming difficult to Ariana Grande, Ricky wounded egos, controversy and growth within local cinema, pit- thankfully become more experi- get excited about the LSAs. For tirades. The Television nomina- ting the commercial hit Na Maloom mental and bridal events consis- how does one associate credibility tions particularly have come un- Afraad against the not-so-success- tently dot the local fashion roster. with a platform that refuses to take der fire, with the initial list exclud- ful Operation O21 and thought- Also welcome is the elimination itself seriously? The high-tea that Alvarez ‘officially a couple’ ing Geo TV’s Bashar Momin from provoking Dukhtar. However, of the confusing High Street cate- took place last year — an ‘under- the Best Satellite Play category eyebrows have been raised because gory which endlessly got confused stated, elegant affair’, as described and the lion’s share of nominations of the omission of Mohib Mirza with Pret and Luxury-pret. The by the LSA organisers — couldn’t being dedicated to ARY Digital. for Dukhtar in the Best Film Ac- fashion nominations uncharacter- possibly compare to the grandiose Also read: Too little, too late? Lux tor nominations while Ayub Kho- istically remain non-controversial galas of previous years. The LSA Style Awards upsets Bashar Mo- sa has been recognised for a role in although one does notice the omis- platform has been built brick by min again Subsequently, Faysal Operation O21 that didn’t impress sion of some seasoned players. brick with veterans like Frieha Al- Quraishi was nominated as Best many. This year also marks the apt Khaadi’s ready-to-wear, winner of taf and Fareshteh Aslam working Actor for his role in 'Bashar Mo- return of the bridal fashion catego- 10 Luxies thus far, is no longer in hard to steer the event on, adding min' only for the actor to refuse ry to the LSAs. Also welcome is the running now that the ‘High heavy doses of glamour, plenty of the nomination, complaining open- the elimination of the confusing Street’ category has been eliminat- scintillating performances and the ly on social media of the “bias with- High Street category which end- ed. The brand does figure in the requisite whiffs of high fashion. And the dosti

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood’s the biggest and the best one yet”. carries on beloved ‘pirate’ Johnny Depp Along with the Hollywood surprised the audience at the D23 stars, seven other people associ- Expo 2015, where he and Star Wars ated with Disney, such as veteran director George Lucas, were ho- animator Andreas Deja, All My noured with the Disney Legend Children star Susan Lucci, and the Award for bringing a world beyond first Disneyland ambassador Julie imagination onto the big screen. Reihm Casaletto were also ho- Known for his stint as Cap- noured for their contribution to the tain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of company’s journey to success. the Caribbean franchise, Depp Among the other awardees were appeared on the stage at the event Danny Elfman, who provided in Anaheim, leaving the crowd en- score for films, such as Alice in amoured. “I don’t know why I’m Wonderland and Avengers: Age of here,” he quipped after receiving Ultron. While Lucci said the best the honour, adding he “never real- Disneyland ride based on her char- ly likes the word ‘fan’ because it acter would be a roller-coaster, implies that someone is above and Reihm Casaletto remembered Walt Singer Ariana Grande is reportedly Dare. Grande's friends have put They are keeping their relationship someone is below.” He added, “I’d Disney, the mind behind the en- dating her back-up dancer Ricky an end to the speculation and con- on the down low though and try- say that you’re my employer. tertainment company. “Some- Alvarez and the two `couldn't be firmed she and Alvarez are seeing ing to be as private as they can. Thanks for giving me this oppor- where, I know Walt may be look- happier` than ever. each other. The way the two act around each tunity. I’m honoured to be a [Dis- ing down and smiling. He would The 22-year-old has been `The duo have been friends for other is very affectionate. You can ney] legend.” be very proud as the company rumoured to be romancing Alvarez some time now but have only re- tell Ricky really cares about her,` Meanwhile, Lucas shared a continues to spread happiness and ever since the infamous `doughnut cently been linked romantically,` the source added. trivia about his popular space saga magic to the world,” said Casalet- video` at Wolfee Donuts in Cali- eonline.com quoted the source as Grande's new romance is her Star Wars. “Disney has given me a to. fornia which saw the pair lick a saying. first relationship since she split lot of inspiration through the ex- Deja, who has time and again selection of baked goods without `They couldn't be happier. She from rapper Big Sean in April. The perience I had with their movies, delved into the darker realms of buying them before sharing a kiss and Ricky have gotten pretty close pair split due to work commitments as they played a game of Truth or and they are officially a couple. keeping them apart. MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Super- two characters in the film, star Amitabh Bachchan says the Bachchan defined friendship as bond he shares with Sholay co-star “Friendship is that kind of a coin Dharmendra is like the iconic pair- where both sides have the same ing of Jai-Veeru even today. image. And friendship for me is the Justin Bieber’s new album About his friendship with kind where I’ll always wish that Dharmendra in real life, Bachchan my friend lives on forever.” said: “What you saw in the film is Bachchan also shared anecdotes the kind of bond Dharam ji and I about the film, including mulling TO RELEASE IN NOVEMBER share even today. We meet today numerous changes to ensure its Singer Justin Bieber's new album The forthcoming record will be Mean", which will be released on not just as co-actors but as Jai- success and the friendly interac- Veeru.” The bond of Bachchan as tion with the entire cast. Read: now has an official release date - led by the single "What Do You August 28. Jai and Dharmendra as Veeru was Amitabh Bachchan: At work with Nov 13. Sources have confirmed the highlight of Sholay. The song the wonder called Kangana Ranaut to Billboard that the Canadian picturised on them, Ye Dosti Hum The revenge drama was one of the superstar's highly-anticipated Nahin Chorenge is one of the most best examples of a masala film. project is scheduled to hit the popular friendship songs in the Written by renowned writer duo stores on Friday, November 13, history of Indian cinema. Read: 40 Salim-Javed, the movie was di- reports aceshowbiz.com. Previ- years on: Sholay through the eyes rected by Ramesh Sippy and also ously, the yet-to-be-titled album of Big B About the benchmark the starred Amjad Khan, Hema Malini television and art. I refer to them animation by designing villains, was announced to come out some- Jai-Veeru friendship set, Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar among others. as catalogs. In fact, here’s a secret: such as Gaston from Beauty and time in September. Bieber himself said: “Once people love a particu- He had a perfect real Veeru in Goofy [cartoon character] was the the Beast, Jafar from Aladdin, and predicted the release month dur- lar thing, it becomes an example. Dharmendra in Sholay forty years inspiration for Jar Jar Binks,” he Scar from The Lion King, became ing an appearance at last week's The first thing gets stuck in the ago. However in real life, megastar said. emotional. He recounted that one iHeartMedia Music Summit in minds of people and they feel that Amitabh Bachchan shares the D23, a three-day biennial of the best compliments he re- Burbank, California. At that time, this example should be followed.” Veeeru bond with his son event, which is being held in Ana- ceived was when one person he also talked about his new music Dharmendra perhaps helped Abhishek. When the Big B was heim Convention Centre, has at- walked up to him and said, “Thank a little bit, describing it as "very Bachchan being finalised for the asked “Who’s your Veeru in real tracted hordes of Disney fans that you for drawing my childhood.” awesome". "I've been working re- film. life”, he responded, “My son walk around the venue in costumes A musical wire was also “When I was unsure if I’ll get Abhishek” Their chemistry and of princesses, superheroes, vil- plugged into the event with Rich- ally hard on it. I've been taking my cast in the film, I even visited ability to work together as a team lains, and even in a Star Wars ava- ard Sherman, songwriter and mu- time. I haven't put out an album in Dharam ji’s home and told him that has also translated on screen in tar. While giving a head-start to the sic director, who even called ac- over three years," he said. I deeply wish to work in this film films like Bunty Aur Babli and Paa. expo with the award ceremony, tress Ashley Brown, known for Bieber's next album will serve and if you could recommend me For Amitabh, it’s an emotional Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of her work in the Broadway produc- as a follow-up to "Believe", which that would be great,” he said. In a experience to look back at Sholay, The Walt Disney Company, said tion of Mary Poppins, to croon debuted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 reference to the coin tossed by the an iconic Bollywood film. the fourth edition of the event “is his new song Kiss Goodnight. following its release in 2012. 'Brothers' mints over Rs.36 crore in two days Complaint filed against ‘Hero’ makers "Brothers", which shows Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra as Family members of original 'Hero' reached them yet." A friend of the Kelkars, reveals on the condition of anonymity that a complaint has warring siblings, has earned scriptwriter files complaint against been registered with the Film Writ- Rs.36.63 crore at the box office. Salman Khan and Subhash Ghai for ers' Association and Indian Mo- "Brothers" recorded a 40 per- allegedly reneging on their prom- tion Pictures Producers Associa- cent jump on Saturday by collect- ise for 'legit payment' tion against Ghai's Mukta Arts and ing Rs.21.43 crore net at the box Family members of late Ram Salman Khan Productions for go- office. After raking in Rs.15.20 Kelkar, who penned the screen- ing back on their promise. "We crore on day one, the total collec- play for 'Hero' (1983), have filed a have also asked them to give credit tion now stands at Rs.36.63 crore, complaint with two film associa- to Ram Kelkar as the original read a statement. tions against Salman Khan and screenplay writer," says the friend. The Karan Malhotra directo- Subhash Ghai for allegedly not Ghai and Amar Butala from rial has become the second double paying royalty even as they ready Salman Khan Productions chose digit opening film for Sidharth. His the remake for release. Says a not to comment on the issue. Docu- last year's film "Ek Villain" had a source, "Kelkar's family was as- ments related to the complaint are massive opening of Rs.16.72 crore. sured a royalty payment when in mid-day's possession. "Brothers", presented by Fox Salman and Ghai announced Hero's The remake, which stars new- Star Studios and produced by remake. The upcoming film's comers Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Dharma Productions, also stars promo has long been released, but Shetty, is slated to hit the theatres Jacqueline Fernandes. the promised dues have not next month. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. TUESDAY . AUGUST 18, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Man City thrash ho lders Chelsea TO GO TOP OF Scot moves to second in the rankings after win; Halep retires in deciding set as teenager Bencic wins women's title. TH E LEAGUE Arsenal edge out Crystal Palace in earlier game to seal first points of the new season.

Ben cic had beaten Ivanovic, Wozniacki and Serena Andy Murray ended a long drought against Novak Djokovic when he en ro ute the beat the Serbian 6-4 4-6 6-3 in a final [AP] draining final of the Rogers Cup. The British right-hander ended an eight-match, 25-month losing streak against Djokovic and im- proved from third to second in the world rankings. He had not beaten the world number one since the 2013 Wimbledon final. Djokovic, who lost for just the fourth time this year, had won 12 consecutive Masters Series finals since he fell to Roger Federer in Cincinnati in 2012. 10. Milos Raonic (Canada) Murray and Djokovic embraced at the net Sergio Aguero's exquisite solo strike home by West Ham United on the after a three-hour battle of attrition and late goals by Vincent opening weekend of the season, that left them exhausted as courtside Kompany and Fernandinho earned dominated the early exchanges and temperatures reached 40C. "Every- Manchester City a 3-0 win over deservedly took the lead with body wants me and Novak to dis- Chelsea in the first heavyweight Olivier Giroud's 16th-minute vol- like each other and people always showdown in the Premier League, ley. The hosts equalised against the try to stir things up between us," compounding the defending cham- run of play 12 minutes later when Murray, 28, said in a courtside in- pions' early-season problems. Joel Ward drilled home a low shot terview. "It's impossible to be ex- Aguero made amends for a from outside the area. Arsenal had tremely close when we're playing slew of early misses by exchang- lost their opening game to West in these sorts of matches because ing passes with Yaya Toure, twist- Ham [Getty Images] it's so mentally challenging and ing inside his marker and placing a Palace had recovered from an physically demanding and you need pinpoint shot inside the far post early mauling by a fired-up Arse- to try to still have that competitive in the 32nd minute. nal and had started the second half edge as well. "But it's not easy, not "Andy is deservedly a winner to- when a distressed second seed marker as a player to watch at the Ana Ivanovic. Halep produced a Such was City's dominance brightly only for Irishman Delaney only because we get on but because day on the court," he said. "I Simona Halep was forced to retire US Open. The 18-year-old's Rogers gutsy effort but the Romanian ap- and attacking threat in the first half to turn Alexis Sanchez's downward he's bloody good, he's number one thought what made the difference from the final trailing 7-6(5) 6-7(4) Cup debut was a memorable one as peared in trouble right from the start that Chelsea manager Jose header into his own net after 55 in the world and he hasn't lost in a was his serve and my serve. I didn't 3-0. Bencic needed nearly two hours Bencic's drive to the title included a as she struggled with the heat and a Mourinho substituted captain minutes. Palace struck the wood- Masters Series this year. To win serve well the first set and a half." and 30 minutes on a sweltering cen- stunning semi-final upset of world sore left thigh that required treat- John Terry at halftime to shake up work through new signing Conor against him is extremely tough." The Elsewhere, Swiss teenager elinda tre court to see off a determined number one Williams and two ment throughout the match, includ- his team. Wickham shortly after the break vanquished Djokovic said sub-par Bencic capped a fairytale run to Halep and claim the biggest title of former number ones in fourth seed ing a medical time out when medical A hungry-looking City kept but once Arsenal went back in serving had cost him the match. the Rogers Cup women's title her young career, putting down a Caroline Wozniacki and fifth seed staff checked her blood pressure. the initiative, though. Kompany front they assumed control and lim- headed in David Silva's corner in ited Palace to a late flurry. the 79th minute and Fernandinho "I'm very pleased with the drove in a third six minutes later three points. If we had gone two for a victory that could have a big games and zero points it would be psychological effect in the title absolutely difficult and we knew H erath sen ds Cordina w ins European gold race. Earlier, Damien Delaney's this would be a tricky one," Arse- own-goal allowed Arsenal to be- nal manager Arsene Wenger told the Welsh lightweight Joe Cordina led latedly kickstart their league sea- BBC. "Last week we had a bit of a In dia crashin g to the way by winning gold at the Eu- son with a 2-1 away victory in the stroll and thought we would win ropean Championships in Sofia as London derby against Crystal Pal- the game. Today we played real Great Britain produced their best- ace. Arsenal, in need of a quick re- Premier League football from the Test defeat ever medals haul at the event. sponse after being beaten 2-0 at first minute to the last." Cordina, 23, won a Common- wealth Games bronze in Glasgow Spin n er picks up seven w ickets as Sri Lan ka last year but finished top of the po- claim u n like ly 6 3 -ru n w in in th e o pe n in g Te s t. dium in Bulgaria by overcoming Caven dish third Georgia's Otar Eranosyan in a unani- mous points decision. Four other British boxers from a seven-strong at m idw ay po in t team reached the finals at their re- spective weights, with Harvey Horn, Muhammad Ali, Qais Ashfaq and Pat McCormack all winning sil- ver. Leeds bantamweight Ashfaq, 22, fell just short in his bid to gain re- venge over Northern Ireland's Michael Conlan in a repeat of their Commonwealth Games final last year. Olympic bronze medallist Conlan was handed the verdict on points after a cagey encounter. Light- flyweight Horn, 19, and light-wel- terweight McCormack, 20, lost their respective finals to Russian oppo- Dunaytsev, while Ali, 19, also had Asenov. All three were boxing in nents. Horn was beaten by Vasilii to settle for silver after losing out their first senior European Cham- to Bulgarian top seed Daniel Panev pionships. Rangana Herath picked up seven a first-innings lead of 192 but Egorov and McCormack by Vitaly wickets in a sublime display of left- Dinesh Chandimal's swashbuck- arm spin bowling to power Sri ling unbeaten 162 allowed them to Lanka to a spectacular comeback stage a fightback and set India a Big n am es in In tern atio n al field Mark Cavendish is in contention ing in an omnium event for about win by 63 runs against India on victory target of 176. "What an in The Sir Dave Brailsford Om- 15 years today in Derby the fourth day of the opening Test absolute turnaround it was," home nium going into the second day of @RevolutionUK. Just a little bit A final field of eight has been de- the Revolution Series in Derby af- nervous." at Galle. Trailing for most of the captain Angelo Mathews said at clared for the Juddmonte Interna- match after being all out on the the presentation ceremony. "I ter making his long-awaited return Cavendish was just 11th in the opening day for 183, the hosts thought Chandimal was outstand- tional, with Joseph O'Brien set to to track cycling. 60-lap scratch race but recovered scythed through the Indian order ing. He single-handedly got us a ride Gleneagles. The only horses The Manx rider is taking part well and made gains in the other with 37-year-old Herath adding six fighting score. We were down and pulled out at the final declaration in the competition as he eyes par- two events to finish on 92 points wickets to his overnight dismissal out for past three and half days stage on Monday morning were ticipation in the format at next with Clancy on 108 and Stewart of opening batsman Lokesh Rahul and we had to give it our best shot." The Corsican and Mahsoob, with summer's Olympic Games in Rio. on 94. for his 22nd five-wicket haul in The hosts, who lost their last Test big guns Golden Horn, Gleneagles He had a low-key start on day Sunday will see riders compete Tests. Off-spinner Tharindu series at home to Pakistan, put and Time Test all standing their one and is currently 16 points off in the time trial, flying lap and Kaushal, who took five wickets in immense pressure on India with ground in what promises to be the the pace in third place, with Ed points race, with Cavendish also the first-innings, provided superb tight bowling and some smart race of the season. With Glenea- Clancy - a bronze medallist in the racing separately in the madison. support by picking up three more catches in the first session on Sat- gles set to carry 8st 12lb, it had discipline at London 2012 - lead- A total of at least 90 UCI in the second innings as India, who urday. Amit Mishra was the final been considered unlikely that Jo- ing. Cavendish, a 26-time Tour de points are required to qualify to resumed the day on 23-1, were man out to Kaushal, sparking wild seph O'Brien would be able to take France stage winner, will try to race in the World Cup events with shot out for 112 an hour after lunch. celebrations by the Sri Lankans. the ride, but the surprise news an- er this season that has seen him Ascot last month due to unsuit- Ajinkya Rahane (36) was the only "We got no one or nothing to blame catch up with him and second- Great Britain this season. nounced on Monday morning was struggle to ride at even 9st in re- able ground. A stablemate of Gold- placed Mark Stewart in the final Winning in Derby would give Indian batsman to provide some but ourselves," Kohli said. that he will partner the dual 2000 cent months. Standing in the way en Horn, Dick Doughtywylie was resistance but he too fell to Herath, "We failed to capitalise on taking three events on Sunday. The 30- Cavendish 90 of those, although Guineas winner, with Seamus Hef- Gleneagles is Golden Horn, the out- supplemented last week as a pace- year-old tweeted his thoughts be- road racing remains his priority for edging the wily spinner to home the first five wickets (in the sec- fernan aboard Cougar Mountain. standing unbeaten colt who was a maker for the Anthony Oppenhe- captain Angelo Mathews at slip. ond innings). We should have fin- fore Saturday's scratch race, indi- now. He is out of contract with his O'Brien junior endured a well-pub- late absentee from the King George imer-owned three-year-old and has vidual pursuit and elimination race. Etixx-QuickStep team at the end Sri Lanka looked dead and buried ished the game off in that particu- VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at also been declared. on 95-5 on Friday after conceding lar session. licised battle with the scales earli- He said: "First time compet- of the season. H ard kn o cks: Pakistan i bo xers dare to dream o f Olym pics Boxing coaches around the world World Boxing Championship it’s not about which one of us humble smile. Arshad along with sun comes up. After a quick break- er. In fact, we’re going to watch versity into positivity. “It’s use- operate like generals; shouting or- which will give fighters around the makes it to the top. We’re all like his fellow boxers, staying at the fast of dates, apples and milk, all the movie 'Shah' along with our less to expect anything from the ders and even mocking fighters if world an opportunity to compete brothers here and we’ve gotten Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) the boxers start their workouts and coach.” 'Shah' is based on the in- government, as they have already they feel they can get more out of at next year's Rio Games. Hussain close over the course of these hostels, follow a strenuous regime. continue with two-hour intervals. spiration tale of Hussain Shah who given up on our scarce demands,” their charges. In Pakistan, the Shah the inspiration ightening his months,” exclaims Arshad with a Their day starts well before the “We fight, struggle and eat togeth- grew up to a rough life in Karachi's Bux says. The PBF had requested coach does a little bit more. Armed yellow strappings, Arshad Hus- Lyari Town in the 60s to become funds from the government to hire with a needle and thread, the train- sain jolts his neck sideways as a Pakistan's boxing legend. Hussain a Cuban coach but the Pakistan er, Ali Bux, can be seen stitching trainer puts on his gloves. Seven Shah's life-changing moment came Sports Board only agreed to pay worn out equipment alongside the fighters, chosen from all over Pa- when he won bronze at the 1988 up to $3,000. Sameer Hasan Khan, ring. Punching pads and sparring kistan, wait for him in the ring as Olympics, Pakistan's only medal a former kickboxing champion and gear is nowhere in sight. “I keep he completes the combination for in boxing at the Games to date. now a boxer, trains with at the na- telling him that he looks more like a sparring session. Arshad Hussain Riding on spirit alone 'Inspiration' tional camp in Karachi. — Photo a cobbler than a boxing coach,” Pa- hopes the feats of Hussain Shah is what Pakistan boxing coach Ali by Ibtisam Zahid Sameer Hasan kistan's heavyweight prospect will inspire him in his pursuit of Bux is looking to tap into as he Khan, a former kickboxing cham- Sameer Hasan Khan jokingly says. an Olympics dream. — Photo by trains his fighters with meagre re- pion and now a boxer, trains with For Sameer and the 17 other Paki- Ibtisam Zahid rshad Hussain sources. Bux, who won gold for at the national camp in Karachi. stani boxers vying for a ticket to hopes the feats of Hussain Shah Pakistan at the Asian Amateur — Photo by Ibtisam Zahid Box- the 2016 Rio Olympics, the air of will inspire him in his pursuit of Championships in 1980 and two ing remains one of the few Olym- skepticism surrounding the nation- an Olympics dream. — Photo by bronze medals at the 1978 and pics prospects for Pakistan after al camp has gradually transformed Ibtisam Zahid The 24-year-old 1982 Asian Games, knows a thing the much-decorated hockey team into optimism. Arshad is a Lyari local, who ob- or two about coming up against failed to qualify for the Rio Games. The run-down facilities, a lack tained his training from the Kan- the odds. He carved a successful — Photo by Ibtisam Zahid The of funds and even the torn boxing kari Ground. After having repre- career amid similar circumstances air of skepticism surrounding the gloves represent another challenge sented Pakistan in numerous in- and remained unbeaten on the na- national camp has gradually trans- for Sameer and his compatriots ternational games, he is now at the tional circuit for 14 years. Expect- formed into optimism. — Photo training in Karachi for the upcom- peak of his career. But he remains ing the government to play an ac- by Ibtisam Zahid The air of skep- ing Asian Boxing Championship. focussed at the ulitmate prize: a tive role in the upliftment of box- ticism surrounding the national The Asian Boxing Champion- ticket to Rio. “We have been train- ing is futile, according to Bux. He camp has gradually transformed ship is a qualifying event for the ing here for seven months now. But is teaching his fighters to turn ad- into optimism. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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