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AT News Report KABUL: A US presidential candidate has claimed that Afghanistan had been torn into three parts, speaking on a decentralized system in the war- hit country. Joe Biden, former vice president who now runs for presidency representing the Democrat party, said in an electoral debate that Afghanistan is an incorrigible country. Biden also offered a federal system in Afghanistan, arguing that the country has already divided into three parts, with three provinces in the east being under Pakistan control through the Haqqani terrorist network considered as Pakistan’s proxy.... US presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

“We are one, united nation” ...P1 Political experts and Afghanistan for many many members of parliament denounce years, but the situation there has Biden’s statement as an not changed. Afghanistan has been explanation of the United States’ divided into three parts and a “incorrect will”. President federal system there is suggested. Ghani’s office also reacted to the The US needs to pull its troops remarks, saying that Afghanistan out of there and establish fortified has a united geography and bases in Pakistan so that from Pakistan has control on no there, it fight against terrorists,” Afghan area. he said. Biden has claimed that no Political analysts in change was brought in Afghan Afghanistan condemn Biden’s situation despite the US military words as an indication of the US and political presence. incorrect wills, killing of Afghans Independent Election had now ensured security for presidential election would be and Afghan forces control areas said the Taliban had also warned He suggested that American and disintegration of Afghanistan. Commission (IEC) officials in around 282 polling sites. transparent and asked people to related to the center of the district,” people not to participate in any troops should withdraw from They said that Afghans are a northern Balkh say 33 out of total “A total of 315 polling sites make the process a success by he said. Afghan security forces election process. Meanwhile, Afghanistan and establish strong united and inseparable nation. 315 polling sites in the province are designated in Balkh province, their wide participation. could not keep security for the Balkh security officials assured bases in the neighboring Pakistan, The government has said that would be shut on the Election local security officials in a recent However, some people fear election or pave the ground for that they were committed to from where they can launch Biden’s words are unacceptable. Day. IEC head for Balkh security meeting assured us that more polling sites would be shut people to exercise their right to ensuring security for election. counter-terrorist operations in Biden had earlier expressed Mohammad Ayub Bayani told there would be no threats to 282 in Balkh province on the Election enfranchise in a safe environment Adil Shah Adil, Balkh police Afghan soil. the federal system idea in Iraq Pajhwok Afghan News that polling sites on the Election Day Day due to increasing insecurity. in the next two weeks, he said. spokesman, said that Afghan “We have presence in that was rejected by Iraqis. polling centers in Chamtal, and only 33 sites will probably Haji Abdul Shakoor, a tribal “The war has been ongoing for a forces were currently clearing Charbolak, Dawlatabad, Shurtipa remain shut,” he said. elder from Charbolak district, said year in Charbolak district, the areas where polling stations were Kabul stops peace efforts as Taliban... and Shulgara districts would stay Bayani said sensitive electoral that 20 polling sites in their Taliban now also influence Mazar- under threat. He said that ....P12 with US. Taliban Doha, US envoy closed. materials had reached the province district alone would stay closed Shiberghan highway, they search security in areas many areas representatives visited Russian ZalmayKhalilzad said earlier this He said half of the polling and they would deliver them to if the situation did not improve. people on the route, going to which were under Taliban threat and held discussions with month a peace agreement was sites had been previously under districts based on the schedule. He “Currently all villages of the polling stations in such a situation would be ensured until the Russian officials in Moscow who finalized “in principle”. Shaheen, security threats but Afghan forces assured that the September 28 district are under Taliban control is impossible,” he said. Shakoor Election Day. expressed willingness to resume the Taliban spokesman, said talks with US. Taliban’s Qatar- Trump’s move came as a surprise based spokesman SuhailShaheen to the group as the peace confirmed the meeting in the negotiations had concluded Russian capital on Friday, saying “successfully” and a deal was to the group’s delegation held be announced soon. “It was c o n s u l t a t i o n s astonishing for us because we had w i t h Z a m i r K a b u l o v , already concluded the peace Russia’s special envoy for agreement with the American GARDEZ: The residents of Civil society activity Noor Afghanistan, foreign media negotiating team,” Shaheen told southeastern Paktia province say Gul Noori said transparency, reported. At the meeting, Russia Al Jazeera. He added that the people’s trust was badly security, use of biometric devices stressed the necessity of the group wanted Qatar to announce tarnished in the presidential and and facilitating women to vote resumption of talks between the the agreement before attending parliamentary elections and needs were important steps for elections. US and the Taliban, while the any meeting at Camp David. to be restored. The matter was He said most people wanted group’s delegation reiterated When the talks dead for now with echoed during a meeting between to participate in polls but they their readiness to renewing the Taliban group pledged to Independent Election wanted their democratic right to dialogue with Washington, an continue war, Mr, Sediqqi said Commission officials, women be honoured. unidentified Russian foreign there will be a big change in the rights activists and members of “People are not as interested ministry spokesman country’s security within the next political parties. in polls as they were in the past, was quoted as saying by the 10 days. Abdul Sammad Paktin, a civil their trust should be restored by TASS news agency. Peace talks Taliban’s attempt to visit between the US and the Taliban Moscow and other countries society activist, said in the improving security, information to began last October in Qatar, with exhibited the group’s failure in the previous elections people were the masses regarding IEC election the aim of ending the 18-year- peace process, Sediqqi said, not assured their vote would be plan and to facilitate women to old war in Afghanistan. After adding, “the Taliban has lost the respected. vote,” he said. nine rounds of negotiations in main venue for peace.” “Trust is an important IEC head for Paktia element, the Independent Election Naqibullah Haidari said changes in 11 police killed in Kandahar insider attack Commission (IEC) and the top leadership of the IEC and huge government must assure the reforms undertaken in the election ...P12 weapons and ranger vehicles and ran away.” Security officials masses that this election will not body showed that future polls in Kandahar said the attackers had lately joined police. Shah Wali Kot be conducted like the past would be free and fair. lies in northern Kandahar and borders Uruzgan and Zabul provinces. Taliban are said to control parts of the district and attack security parliamentary polls. If people are He said the number of polling forces. kept unaware regarding stations had been increased by two stations in Laja Mangal, Janikhel, Rohani Baba and Zurmat districts were under huge security threat. transparency of polls, they may fold this time in Paktia compared “In the past, there were administrative lapses in the central IEC office, but a positive change has been Govt. oppose peace process: Hekmatyar not show interest in participating to polling stations in the Wolesi brought now and reforms implemented, which will help improve the operational and administrative in the polls.” Jirga polls. He added some polling capabilities of the commission,” he said. ....P12 called on the group’s negotiation with the US Afghanpeople not to let the diplomats have been failed, countrybe led by the traitors. Hekmatyar asked the militants to Expressing his concerns get ready to jointhe the intra- Taliban ’s bom b m aking factory destroyedin Helm and about the insecurity in the Afghan talks to end the ongoing country, he said that Afghanistan conflicts in the country. His ...P12 Kachi region, NehrSaraj District of Helmand. Over 2,250 kilograms of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and some amount of light and heavy rounds of ammunition and has beenin its worst situation ever. remarks come as the Afghan military equipment were also seized. Afghan security forces also cleared several villages of NehrSarajfrom militants during the operation, the statement added. Hekmatyar accused the leaders of government announced on the National Unity Government Saturday that the peace talks have of seeking their interest in the been postponed until the ongoing war in Afghanistan. presidential polls scheduled for Private secto rs to in vest $ 20 m o n chro m ites m in in g “Some says that they have September 28. After years of ...P12 chromites within Afghanistan. However, Afghanistan has been predicted to totally have over $1 trillion undergroundresources, but the corruption, insecurity, power, and incomplete the tasks and are negotiation, the leader of Hezb-e- infrastructure have so far been the main challenges against the development of these resources. Meanwhile, the acting minister of mines, Nargis Nehan said that local power full seeking another presidential term, Islami Afghanistan, Gulbuddin individuals and militants have been illegally extracting the mines mostly in southern part of the country. She also added that a technical team would be sent to Lapis Lazuli mine which means they want to kill the Hekmatyar signed a peace deal in Keran-o- Munjan district of northern Badakhshan province to implement the essential needs in regards. rest of the people of Afghanistan with President Ashraf Ghani in as well,” he added. As the Taliban September 2016. Afghan s beat Zim babw e by 28 run s in T20 tri-series Blast on Kapisa volleyball ground ...... P12 aged between 18 to 22 years were killed and two others were ...P12 the side post 197-5. A 18 balls with four sixes before being aggression amassed 88 runs in the whose 24-ball 43 set up the Nabi tormented the Zimbabwe wounded in the blast. He said the injured players had been evacuated clinical bowling performance then dismissed on the last ball. During last five overs. "The wicket was platform for Zadran and Nabi after bowlers. Fast bowler Fareed to emergency hospital in Panjsher province. Separately, seven Taliban saw them restrict Zimbabwe to their partnership, Nabi and slower when I walked in to bat, Zimbabwe opted to bowl first. Malik took 2-35 and strangled insurgents were killed, including a notorious commander, in an airstrike 169-7, handing the southern Zadran, who struck five fours and so we targeted the last three to Zimbabwe clawed back with to the Afghan top order after opener in Qush Tepa district of northern Jawzjan province. Police chief African side a second straight six sixes, hit seven sixes in a row four overs," Zadran said. But it reduce Afghanistan to 90-5 in the Brendan Taylor made a 16-ball Abdul Wahid Wijdan told Pajhwok Afghan News the airstrike was defeat. Nabi contributed 38 off in the 16th and 17th overs. Their was opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz 14th over, after which Zadran and 27. carried out on Friday evening. Trum p co nfirm s that Bin... US forces apologize for civilian deaths in Wardak airstrike ...P12 issued by the White House Hamza bin Laden had put out on September 14. Media reports audio and video messages calling ...P12 killing of innocent people province, a statement from the ability to fight face-to-face with The statement quoted the NATO to avoid civilian casualties. had quoted U.S. intelligence for attacks on the United States caused anger of the residents, in corps said. It said the military security forces and instead they commander for the zone as Unfortunately, the Taliban often officials on July 31 as saying that and other countries, especially to which they closed Kabul- officials met with public used people as human shield, apologizing to people over the hide amongst innocent civilians, Hamza bin Laden had died. But avenge his father’s killing by U.S. Kandahar high for traffic in representatives and relatives of the resulting in such incidents. airstrike which he called a mistake. increasing the risk to those they gave no details of the date special forces in Pakistan in May protest over their deaths. Brig. victims. Shuja told the “Avoiding civilian casualties is He vowed not to repeat such Afghans”, RS spokesperson said or place of his death. Secretary 2011. Gen. HarabKhanullahShuja, the participants that the security our priority and I promise you incidents and extended deep in a statement. “This meeting is of Defense Mark Esper On March 1, Saudi Arabia Afghan army’s 203rd Thunder forces’ aim was to ensure people’s that we will never be witnesses condolences to the relatives of the an example of the coalition and confirmed his death in August, announced that it had revoked the Military Corps commander and security, not to harm them, to such incident and this is my victims. “As we have said in the our Afghan partners reaffirming saying it was “his citizenship of Hamza bin Laden. NATO commander the zone, Pajhwok Afghan News reported. order to all security and defense past, Coalition forces and our our commitment to reducing understanding” that Bin Laden Riyadh did not provide traveled to MaidanWardak He said the Taliban had lost the forces in the south,” he added. Afghan partners take great measures civilian casualties,” she added.” was dead. But Trump and other specifics about why it stripped senior U.S. officials had not Hamza bin Laden of his publicly confirmed the news. citizenship, but said it made the Hamza bin Laden was the 15th move on February 22. 6 5 m ilitan ts killed in fresh m ilitary o ps of Osama bin Laden’s 20 children The Saudis had also stripped and a son of the Al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden’s citizenship in founder’s third wife. He was 1994 while he was living in exile ...P12 Defense in a statement Badghis provinces, in which killed in Warmamai district of Explosive Devices (IEDs) were province. thought to be about 30 years old in Sudan. saidthe Afghan NationalArmy 65militantswere killedand 11 Paktia—16militants killed in discovered and defused in Khan In past 24 hours, 18 planed at the time of his death. In A 2018 United Nations (ANA) in collaboration with others wounded. Nirkh district of Abad district of Kunduz—six clearing operations, and 91 February, the U.S. government report highlighted that “Al-Qaeda Afghan NationalPolice (ANP) The Afghan National Defense MaidanWardak—11insurgents insurgents were killed and some Special Forces operations put a $1-million bounty on Bin propaganda continues to highlight and National Directorate of and Security Forces shelled and killed and three others wounded amount of weapons and conducted in different provinces; Laden’s head, saying the man a new generation of potential Security (NDS) bombed the enemies’ positions and in Anar Dara district of Farah ammunition were destroyed in also, sometimes dubbed the “crown leaders, such as Hamza bin personalconducted joint sanctuaries by artilleries and Air province. QushTepah and Qarqeen districts Air Forces conductedaerial prince of jihad” was “emerging Laden...in an apparent attempt to operations against insurgents in Forces. Similarly, seven insurgents of Jawzjan and four rebels were operations supporting Afghan as a leader in the Al-Qaeda project a younger image to its different areas of Paktia, Wardak, During operations in the past killed, three others injured and killed and four others injured in National Army, including 28 franchise.” sympathizers.” Farah, Kunduz, Jawzjan and 24 hours, 21 Taliban fighters were eight rounds of Improvised Balamurghab district of Badghis strikes on enemy’s sanctuaries. Convoy of electoral materials attacked in Balkh “Peace is on the horizon” ...P12 achieve our security nor peace can be ...P12 in Samangan and faced Friday from Mazar-e-Sharif city, goals.”Rahmani said. She delivered by a settlement with any attack in Balkh’s district of the provincial capital of Balkh expressed the remarks in one group alone,” she added. Keshenda. Officials said that two to the lower and upper Dara-e- Washington at United States This comes as Russia’s soldiers of an escort team were Soof districts in Samangan. Institute of Peace discussion TassNews Agency reported that injured and a military tank was Ahmadi said the convoy came panel on a potential US-Taliban a Taliban delegation has held talks damaged, but the materials under attack by armed peace deal. with the Russian special envoy remained undestroyed. opposition groups in the Rigi Rahmani has expressed for Afghanistan peace affairs, The process of transporting pass of Balkh’s Keshenda appreciation for US supports to ZamirKabulov over the Afghan of electoral materials to the district. He added that two Afghanistan and its people, peace process. provinces began on August 30 and soldiers were slightly wounded saying that the share efforts Earlierthis month, the US was supposed to end on and one of their tanks was control the major threats these President Donald Trump September 13, according to damaged, but they managed to groups pose not only to cancelled the peace talks with the electoral calendar, which says the reach to the center of the lower “Afghans but the entire world”. Taliban group, however the two materials would be then taken to Dara-e-Soof district by “The people of Afghanistan sides were closed to sign a peace the districts. Abdul Yaqin Ahmadi, evening.Parts of the materials are are well aware that neither agreement. district governor for Dara-e-Soof, planned to be transported to the The Project Coordination Unit, Ministry of Energy and Water (PCU/ said Saturday that the army was upper Dara-e-Soof district on the MoEW)intends to award the contract,GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY AND 15 carrying electoral materials on next days. 26 m ilitants killed, huge...... P12 Unit 703 with support motorbikes and one Corolla TESTS WELL (BASELINE SURVEY, DRILLING, INSTALING OF Afghan security chief warns of ... from the Air Force carried out vehicle, the statement added. CASINGS, COMPRESSOR TEST, PUMPING TEST) MEW operationin Moqor district, in “The materials were ...P12 issued a sober warning to Americans. which one of the major transferred to Ghazni from the (JALALABAD)under the contract No, MEW/IRDP/HQ/IFB/MIS/W- “We have seen connections, communications between ISIS fighters strongholds of Taliban insurgents neighboring country. Skilled 54withM/S Rotary and Drilling Company of Latify. address: Shahr-e- Naw and some al Qaeda here and Europe and the United States,” Sadat and a major explosive cache of explosive experts of the terrorist rd said. the group were destroyed, said a group of ‘Al-Qaeda in the Indian Haroon Market 3 floor KAB,licenseNo.D-3594-4,in the amount of Contact between ISIS and al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan and statement issued by Special subcontinent’ were to use the AFN11,006,845 Afs(Eleven million Six thousand and eight hundred the U.S. is the very reason why U.S. forces invaded the country in the Operation Corps. materials to prepare explosives first place. The mission then and now, is to destroy Osama bin Laden’s According to the statement, for attacks in the capital and major forty five only ) Afs. Bidders who want to appealfor reconsideration or al Qaeda network. Eighteen years on, that terrorist group is still in the explosive warehouse was cities across Afghanistan, the have any objection, can submit their application within 7 days tothe Project Afghanistan. controlled by Hafiz Jahangir - statement added. The terrorists’ The Taliban has promised to never again harbor America’s enemies, Head of Taliban’s military sustained heavy losses during Coordination Unit/ Ministry of Energy and water (PCU/ MEW) Darul Aman but National Security Advisor HamdullahMohib said that’s a non- operations in the area. these operations as 26 of them starter. During the operations, two were killed during operation in the Road Kabul Afghanistan from the date of announcement. “In their ranks today there are all kinds of terrorists fighting from of the terrorists’ bases were district, it added. This notification does not constitute award of contract. The contract all around the world. They have Chechens, Uzbeks, Arabs, Pakistanis, demolished along with 120 Unfortunately, one brave you name it,” he said. Mohib warns those same terrorists responsible barrels full of explosive materials, ANDSF member sustained shall not be awarded until the notice provided elapsed and complaints, if for such bloodshed in Afghanistan would extend their reach far from around 2000 kilograms of injuries during operation, the any received, is addressed in compliance with appeal and review manual. these battlefields in a heartbeat. primary explosive substances, 26 military corps lamented. SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

NEILI: Local officials say violence against women recorded a 30 percent increase during the first six months of the ongoing solar year in central Daikundi province. Figures provided by the Daikundi Women Affairs Department show that 106 cases of violence against women were registered during the first six months of the ongoing 1398 solar year. The department says these cases include beatings, sexual assaults, forced marriages, exchange marriages, Baad In 2001, the US marriages and others. Victims of the violence pledged to remake Qamar Gul, 35, a resident of Afghanistan as a Kiti district of Daikundi, talking currently she lived in a relative’s increasing public awareness to Pajhwok Afghan News, said, house in Khushal Khan area. programs about women rights in place where women “My husband is addicted to “I cannot go to my father’s Islam, there was also need for could thrive. But drugs, he beats me when he runs house because he will not let me enforcing laws and punishing they had no voice out of narcotics or have no in, I do not know what to do, I perpetrators of the violence. money.” Pointing to the signs of am waiting for someone to take Latifa Sultani, a commissioner of during peace talks torture on her body, she said, me to a shelter house,” she said. Afghanistan Independent Human with the Taliban — “Besides beating me, he also does Why women are subjected Rights Commission (AIHRC), not provide me daily expense, I to violence? said the problem of violence nor when Trump am living with him because of our Women rights experts have against women would not be abruptly canceled six children.” different views about violence solved until the perpetrators were Firozan, 37, a resident of against women. punished. them 18 years later. Neili city, said she was married Ruqia Rasikh, a women’s She said around 5,000 cases 10 years ago and her husband rights activist in Daikundi, of violence against women were have long been cajoling, later married a second woman. expressed concern over the registered with the commission negotiating, and even working She said her husband physically increasing violence against the annually and most of the cases with the Taliban behind the harassed her for years since his gender in the province. were about physical harassments. scenes to push for their rights and second marriage. “The level of literacy in our Responses of officials autonomy. Afghan women now “My life was ruined after my society is very low while concerned Benazir Jaafari, acting want the US to fulfill what it set husband married a second wife. violence against women is very Daikunid Women Affairs director, out to accomplish, to be an ally He provides us expenses high, women cannot complain was also worried about the and to amplify their voices, whenever he likes, otherwise he to courts their problems due to increased violence. instead of playing to the trope of does not care about us, when I our wrong traditions,” she said. She said 106 cases of violence a weary savior. ask him for something to bring, Laila Hussaini, a civil against women were registered in “We’re tired of the narratives he assaults me and pulls my society activist and a women the province in the first six of victimhood assigned to us as hairs,” she said. rights activist in Daikundi, said, months of ongoing solar year. Afghan women and we will no About the reason why his “Unfortunately the violence She said 50 percent of the longer accept others speaking for husband married another woman, against women is on the increase cases were about physical us. Afghan women resisted the she said, “I have six daughters in districts of this province,” violence. She said that only 109 Taliban long before the US got and lately gave birth to a son, my She said there were many cases of the violence were involved in Afghanistan, and mother-in-law encouraged my examples of forced marriages, registered in the entire last year. continue to fight for our rights husband to get another wife, I child marriages and exchange Jaafari said the number of and spaces every day,” said the have no problem with his second marriages in remote areas of cases would possibly increase Afghan writer and human rights wife but I want him to give me Daikundi. significantly until the end of campaigner Sahar Halaimzai. my expenses and not harass me.” In remote areas, women do ongoing year. She said poverty, Maryam Sama, a member of Parliament: “We might lose what we have earned in our government, one Parwaneh grew up mostly in Not only in Daikundi, but hard labor the same as men and joblessness, low awareness about that is based on democratic values, providing equal rights and justice to its citizens.” Bandar Abbas, an Iranian seaside women in other parts of the they are still not treated good, women’s rights, illiteracy, city that lies on the narrow Strait country have been faceing similar she said. Shahla, a law lecturer addiction and some other issues fate from centuries. in Kabul University, said that were behind violence against KABUL: On the 16th day that tell. The US first carried out then changed his mind after he was of Hormuz near the Persian Gulf. She did well in school; after she Ziba, 16, a resident of poverty, bad cultures, illiteracy, women. She added Daikundi Parwaneh was locked in her room, airstrikes as part of Operation shown a picture of Afghan women Khairkhana area of Kabul city, low awareness about women’s Women Affairs Department had a group of armed men visited her, Enduring Freedom in October in miniskirts in the 1970s, before was finished studying, she would often read late into the night. She said she was forcibly married two rights were main reasons of launched programs for reducing banged on the door, and 2001 in response to 9/11. The later suggesting that he might decide years ago to a businessperson violence against women. violence against women in rural demanded she followed their objective was bombing the to “wipe Afghanistan off the face inhaled anything she could get her hands on at the market — often who was then 40 years old. “Lack of punishment for areas and the department also orders. It was 2016, and Parwaneh training bases and strongholds of of this earth.” She said her husband who perpetrators of violence and law followed cases of violence in the had been taken hostage after she al-Qaeda and the Taliban across The US has sunk more than Reader’s Digest–style magazines with stories about ordinary lives. had another wife as well was enforcement are other factors of province’s courts. Seventeen refused to marry the man to whom Afghanistan, and capturing al- $132 billion into reconstruction in killed in an incident two months violence,” she said. victims of violence who are more her father had promised her — Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden Afghanistan, on top of an Parwaneh’s parents supported and encouraged her ago and his second wife expelled Solutions vulnerable are protected in shelter hardly surprising given he was dead or alive. But in November estimated $800 billion on a war her from her spouse’s home and Shahla said besides houses, she said. much older than her and already that year, the White House that has cost thousands of and her younger sister in their had one wife. Worse, he was a assigned first lady Laura Bush American lives. Nearly 40,000 studies. The family had a member of the Taliban, the to deliver its weekly radio Afghan civilians have been killed, bookcase made out of dark wood, Islamist group that has long made address so she could make an and thousands more injured. And and she filled it slowly — the Afghanistan one of the worst emotive appeal to the the violence may yet escalate: A bottom shelf with old magazines, places in the world to be a woman. international community on suicide bombing at a wedding in another shelf with textbooks, and If Parwaneh refused to marry behalf of Afghan women. Kabul recently confirmed fears at the top, her favorite novels. him — as she had done each day “Only the terrorists and the about the growing threat of fighters Parwaneh and her family had she had been held captive at her Taliban forbid education to for the Islamic State in Afghanistan. come to Iran as refugees in the uncle’s home in northern women. Only the terrorists and Whether a peace deal is signed or ’90s, fleeing the Taliban- Afghanistan — she would be the Taliban threaten to pull out not, the possibility of a civil war controlled Afghanistan. When she martyred inhumanly and we taken by force. She was warned women’s fingernails for wearing looms large, with the Taliban, the was 17, in her last year of high wanted to honor and remember that her father, who had already nail polish. The plight of women Islamic State, and the Afghan school, her father was forced to them at least with one tulip,” Mr. been paid for the promised and children in Afghanistan is a government forces all vying for return to Afghanistan by Iranian Sharifi said. Afghanistan’s engagement, would be killed. matter of deliberate human power. But there may be no bigger authorities. ArtLords, a group of Afghan Nearly three years later, cruelty, carried out by those who admission of defeat for the US than He sent for his wife and activists and artists in Kabul, was Parwaneh, 21, is now in hiding at seek to intimidate and control,” the results of its other war: the one children to join him. Parwaneh nominated for 2019 Freedom of a women’s shelter in the Afghan she said. Immediately after the waged for women’s rights. Amid was nervous — she had spent her Expression Awards. The group has capital of Kabul. Wearing a black speech ended, the US State the focus on the return of the whole life in Iran and it was home painted a series of murals on headscarf loosely over her long Department released an 11-page Taliban and the deaths of US to her. But she also knew that, as Kabul walls, highlighting social brown hair, she told the story of report on “the Taliban’s War soldiers, barely a word has been a refugee, it would have been hard problems, supporting Afghan her forced engagement as coolly Against Women.” spoken about the future of Afghan for her to gain access to a forces, defending freedom of and evenly as if she were speaking The narrative of rescuing women, who have been almost university in Iran, and her father expression and women’s rights. to friends at a dinner party, Muslim women, oppressed not entirely excluded from the peace promised her she could continue Index on Censorship’s Freedom of dropping in the occasional bitter just by patriarchy but by talks. The US is the primary her education at a university in Expression Awards exists to joke. It’s a story that took her terrorists, found universal appeal outside power capable of Kabul. Parwaneh and her family celebrate individuals or groups from the southern coast of Iran, in the US — including in pressuring the Taliban and the packed up their most important who have had a significant impact where her family lived as Hollywood, where celebrities Afghan government to give women possessions and prepared to fly fighting censorship anywhere in refugees, to a Taliban-dominated and journalists mingled at benefit a say over their futures. But to Kabul. Artists from Afghanistan’s Afghanistan’s Human Rights the world. ArtLords is a grassroots town in northeastern Afghanistan, parties, pledging their support. instead, the subject is now being Her mother told her that her ArtLords painted tulips murals Commission. He said each tulip movement of artists and where her once-loving father tried Nearly 18 bloody, turbulent treated as an internal dispute, book collection would be too in Kabul and three other represents a victim of war in the volunteers in Afghanistan who to sell her to a man she had never years later, the future of something that the women of heavy to take, but she and her provinces to honor the victims country. “The people of encourage ordinary citizens, met. But it’s also a story of Afghanistan lies in the balance Afghanistan must take up with younger sister picked up as many of the war in the country. Afghanistan are killed and especially women and children, to triumph and possibility. A brilliant this week after President Donald their own leadership at another set as they could and shoved them ArtLords chairman Omaid martyred every day. This is not paint murals on issues which student who spent her childhood Trump tweeted that he had of talks, to take place if the US into the backpacks they took on Sharifi said that so far 25,000 a statistics only; they all were concern them. ArtLords immersed in Persian novels, secretly organized and then does end up signing a deal with the the plane. tulips have been painted on the humans with many completed over 400 murals in 16 Parwaneh escaped her captivity canceled peace talks with the Taliban. “Nobody can change When they arrived in Kabul, surroundings of main some ambitions and hopes and provinces of the country. In with the help of a borrowed Taliban and, separately, the Afghanistan in 20 years to make it the family stayed for just one offices in Kabul and other wanted to live, but March 2018, for International cellphone and a lie told via text to Afghan government at Camp Switzerland,” said Sima Samar, night. (BUZZFEEDNEWS) provinces, including the office of unfortunately, they are Women’s Day. (TOLONews) the man she was being forced to David. According to his tweets, who was until recently the head of wed. Her father once burned her Trump called off the meeting the Afghan Independent Human schoolbooks, but she’s now after a series of attacks Rights Commission. “We want a studying to become a computer orchestrated by the Taliban killed country where people can live programmer. Someday she hopes at least 100 people, including a without fear — if the US doesn’t to visit Paris, go to grad school in US soldier. achieve that, then all this time has the United States, and run her own Peace talks between the US been wasted.” tech company. and the Taliban have been going Over the years, narratives Saving women like Parwaneh on for the better part of a year, about Afghan women have focused — young, educated, and with a and this latest development only mostly on their helplessness and bright future ahead of them — has follows the pattern of Trump’s victimhood, and now their fear that always been at the heart of the reckless approach to diplomacy the Taliban are set to return to US rationale for invading and then as the US tries to pull out of the power. But feminism was not remaining in Afghanistan. seemingly never-ending war in exported to Afghanistan by the US Or at least that’s the story the Afghanistan. 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The decision was taken as off Karachi there has been no violence in Assam ever since the rescue mission NRC, which validates bona fide Indian citizens of the northeastern state, was published on August 31.

Amid the rising political temper- the issues being faced by the citi- ature following the federal law zens for the last decade or so. The minister, Farogh Naseem’s re- PPP claims it was never consult- marks hinting at the possibility ed or approached by the commit- of the federal government assum- tee. ing some role in the port city’s PPP cries foul affairs by invoking Article 149, On Friday, former Senate Prime Minister Imran Khan put chairman, Senator Mian Raza off his trip to Karachi, where he Rabbani said that Pakistan Te- was supposed to meet members hreek-e-Insaf government has of the Karachi Strategic Commit- failed to deliver and it should re- tee today. Ever since, the Paki- sign and hold fresh elections in stan Peoples Party (PPP) lead- the country. Addressing a joint The Centre has withdrawn 10,000 published on August 31, they said. prevail in Assam, a review has the BSF, 10 CRPF, 16 ITBP and of about 19 lakh residents were ership, as well as Sindhi nation- press conference with Sindh In- paramilitary personnel deployed The updated final NRC excluded been carried out by the Ministry 24 SSB. A company of a paramil- excluded from it. Those who alist parties and political activ- formation Minister Saeed Ghani, in Assam before the publication names of 19 lakh applicants. A of Home Affairs on Friday on the itary force comprises around 100 failed to make it to the final NRC ists have been up in arms against Senator Rabbani reiterated that of the final National Register of Home Ministry official said a de- situation in the state. After the personnel. The troops were direct- list have been given 120 days to what they term as the Centre’s the Pakistan Peoples Party gov- Citizens (NRC), officials said on cision was taken on August 19 to review, a decision has been taken ed to return to their respective appeal against their exclusion at attempts to interfere in the af- ernment will not let anyone “roll- Saturday.The decision was taken deploy 218 companies of paramil- to withdraw 100 companies of bases prior to the deployment in the Foreigners Tribunals. If not fairs of the provincial govern- back” the 18th Amendment. as there has been no violence in itary forces in Assam for mainte- paramilitary forces with imme- Assam, another official said. Ac- satisfied with the verdict of the ment’s affairs. The federal law “Those who wish to roll back the Assam ever since the NRC, which nance of law and order situation diate effect, the official said. cording to the final NRC, out of tribunals, they will have the op- minister later retracted his state- 18th Amendment and abrogate validates bona fide Indian citizens ahead of the publication of the fi- Among the 100 companies of the the total 3.3 crore applicants, 3.11 tion to move the High Court and ment, saying he was quoted out provincial autonomy live in fool’s of the northeastern state, was nal NRC. As peace continues to paramilitary forces, 50 belong to crore figured in the list and names the Supreme Court for redress. of context. The issue, however, paradise,” said the senator, who goes much deeper. It all started is the chief architect of the 18th with the Karachi Mayor Wasim Amendment. According to Rab- New penal Akhtar writing a letter to the fed- bani, before the 18th Amendment, MonsoondestroysRohingyashelters,sparkingrecord eral government, complaining there was a provision in the Con- about lack of authority and re- stitution that allowed the federal code fails sources to resolve the city’s civ- government to intervene in pro- UNemergencyfoodagencyresponseinBangladesh ic issues. Days later, it seemed, vincial governments’ affairs, but minor rape federal minister for ports and that clause had now been annulled. Unusually heavy monsoon shipping, Ali Zaidi, rose to the “A debate is going on over invok- rains have inundated shelters challenge and announced the ing Article 149 and assuming con- victims: in refugee camps in southern launch of the ‘Clean Karachi trol of the provincial government’s Bangladesh creating “havoc”, Campaign’, pledging that he matters, which is not possible. Lawyers the World Food Programme would clean the city in two The federal government has no (WFP) said on Friday, as it weeks. Though he had the PM’s authority to intervene in provin- Existing provision of the new launched its biggest emergen- blessings, however, the federal cial affairs and can’t even issue penal code regarding statute of cy response of the year for dis- government did not have a stake directives. It will be an unconsti- limitation for filing first informa- placed Rohingya families. in the drive, with Zaidi clarify- tutional and illegal act,” he said. tion report in rape cases, particu- ing that he had started the initia- The former Senate chairman larly in cases where victims are tive in his own capacity and as a said that the purpose of the 18th minor, is flawed and needs to be At a regular briefing in Geneva, citizen of the city. Amendment was to revive the amended, say lawyers. WFP spokesperson Hervé Ver- On September 8, Prime original 1973 Constitution and Section 229 of the penal code hoosel said that 16,000 people had Minister Imran Khan constitut- empower provinces to run their stipulates that an FIR should be received food assistance in just 24 ed a committee, headed by the own affairs. “The incumbent fed- filed within a year from the date a hours - more than all those reached federal law minister, to formu- eral government does not have a crime of rape is committed against since the monsoon season began late short-, medium- and long- two-third majority to revoke the a victim. Advocate Bishnu Pras- in June. The flooding was “much term plans to resolve the issues 18th Amendment,” he remarked, ad Pokharel and Raju Chapagai bigger” than usual, Mr. Verhoosel Mr. Verhoosel said that some hoosel insisted. “They have noth- For the time being, the agency faced by the people of Karachi. adding that the main element of said the current provision of one insisted, adding that the area of families had lost everything. Host ing to cook (with), they have noth- has supplies prepositioned at A day later, Naseem enlist- the country’s Constitution was year statute limitation encouraged Teknaf was worst-affected, thanks communities have also been bad- ing to sleep (on), most of the strategic locations around the ed the help of lawmakers affili- the parliamentary system which impunity as minor victims were to record rainfall this week. Re- ly affected, with more than 800 clothes have been lost. Basically, camps which can be distributed ated with the PTI and Muttahi- was not easy to be abolished. unable to file FIR within a year. laying information from colleagues people temporarily displaced by the little things that they’ve re- quickly. da Qaumi Movement-Pakistan Rabbani said that Pakistan could Pokharel said there were cases in Cox’s Bazar – a series of camps flooding receiving food assis- built since they arrived in the camp But without the continued sup- (MQM-P) and formed another not afford further instability. “For where police had refused to file that have been home to hundreds tance. “All that was in the house was lost in one night of rain.” In port of the international commu- committee that would send its God’s sake, do not create linguis- minor victims’ FIRs against their of thousands of mainly Rohingya was basically washed away; an appeal for funding, the WFP nity, their situation could deteri- recommendations to the PM. Ac- tic and ethnic divisions. The perpetrators as the victims ap- refugees since they fled a military what they use as a bed or what official explained that it costs $16 orate rapidly, Mr. Verhoosel cording to Naseem, the commit- whole country will suffer,” he proached the police after the stat- operation led by the Myanmar they use to cook, or everything million every month to feed almost maintained. tee has decided to look at the le- pleaded. ute of limitation elapsed. “If a rape military in the summer of 2017 – was basically lost,” Mr. Ver- 900,000 refugees in Cox’s Bazar. (BBC) gal and constitutional aspects of (Tribune) is committed against a minor girl, incapacitated or mentally chal- lenged woman, statute of limita- tion should not be considered. If Sri Lanka’sCommitment to statute of limitation is considered Nepali Congress stages rally to in the case of minor victims, the time limit of filing complaint promoteHRremainsstrong should start from the day the ju- venile victim becomes an adult,” protest attack on Banke president said Pokharel. As per new law, despiteconstraints people are deemed adult after at- Sri Lanka’s national commitment within a short time span of only Leaders and cadres of the opposi- res demanded that guilty be taining 18 years of age. Pokharel and resolve to make continued four years. tion party Nepali Congress today booked. President Koirala had said the penal code’s provision progress towards reconciliation, Sri Lanka’s statement is as staged a rally in Nepalgunj to pro- led the protest rally. NC leader relating to statute of limitation in development and protection and follows: We would like to refer test attack on NC President of Krishna Prasad Poudel claimed rape cases violated children’s right promotion of human rights remain to the follow-up report of the Banke Kiran Koirala. Koirala was that the ruling Nepal Commu- guaranteed in Article 39 (8) and strong despite constraints, the Working Group on enforced or attacked at a programme organised nist Party (NCP) cadres had as- 39 (9) of the constitution. Article country told the UN Human involuntary disappearances on as a part of party’s second phase saulted Koirala and other lead- 38 (8) stipulated that every child Rights Council.Deputy Perma- the implementation of the recom- of awareness programme at Sita- ers, saying that they would not shall have the right to juvenile- nent Representative of Sri Lanka mendations made after its visit pur of Khajura Rural Municipali- allow the NC to organise the pro- friendly justice. Article 39 (9) stip- to the UN, Dayani Mendis said to Sri Lanka in 2015.Sri Lanka ty. Koirala’s hand got fractured in gramme as the area fell under ulated that the child who is help- thus making a statement to the received the Working Group on the incident. This image shows their sphere of influence. less, orphan, conflict victim, dis- ongoing 42nd Session of the UN enforced or involuntary disap- Nepali Congress Banke President “NCP cadres attacked Koira- placed or vulnerable or disable, Human Rights Council in Geneva. pearances in November 2015. It Kiran Koirala whose hand got frac- la, central representative Bidhya shall have the right to special pro- Sri Lanka’s statement was was as part of the Government’s tured in alleged attack by Nepal Prasda Khanal and a dozen of tection and facilities from the made in reference to the follow- policy of open and constructive Communist Party (NCP) cadres cadres in premeditated manner,” state. Denying minor girls’ right up report of the working group on engagement with all UN human during a programme organised in Poudel said. Banke District Po- to justice just because they failed enforced or involuntary disap- rights mechanisms, an approach Nepalgunj, on FridaySeptember lice Office has arrested three per- to file FIR within one year, vio- pearances on the implementation that was further manifested only 13, 2019. Photo: THT Protesting sons allegedly involved in the lated the spirit of Article 38 and of the recommendations made af- a month after the Working the attack, NC Banke took out a incident. Some people involved 39 of the constitution, Pokharel ter its visit to Sri Lanka in Group’s visit, when Sri Lanka ex- rally and staged a chakkajam for in the incident were absconding argued. Advocate Chapagai said 2015.Deputy Permanent Repre- tended a standing invitation to all one hour at BP Chowk of Nepal- and a manhunt has been launched increasing the statute of limita- sentative Mendis said Sri Lanka’s special procedure mandate hold- gunj. Protesting leaders and cad- to arrest them. tion in rape cases was necessary decision to sign the International ers in December 2015. We are because it was possible that Convention on the Protection of pleased to note that, in keeping minor victims did not understand All Persons from Enforced Dis- with this policy, since 2015, Sri Sunil Jakhar’s resignation as Punjab Cong the crime committed against them appearance in December 2015, less Lanka has received 10 UN spe- or they could be easily intimidat- than one month after the working cial procedure mandate holders, ed into silence by their perpetra- group’s visit, was a salient point with one more visit scheduled for chief rejected, told to carry on ‘good work’ tors. of the progress made by Sri Lanka October this year. The Congress on Saturday re- asked to continue as Punjab Con- jected the resignation of Sunil Ja- gress chief. Jakhar had sent his res- khar, who had resigned as Pun- ignation to then party president Khawaja brothers’ remand extended jab chief after losing to BJP’s Rahul Gandhi, a day after 2019 Lok Sunny Deol on Gurdaspur Lok Sabha election results were de- An accountability court has ex- submitted a response to an appli- indicted the Khawaja brothers Sabha seat. “You have submit- clared on May 23. Jakhar lost the tended the judicial remand of cation filed by Khawaja Salman who pleaded not guilty. Besides ted your resignation as Presi- Gurdaspur seat to actor-politician former railways minister Khawaja Rafique. However, a counsel, on the Khawaja brothers, Nadeem dent, Punjab PCC. Congress Deol by a margin of 82,459 votes. Saad Rafique and his brother Kha- behalf of Saad Rafique, also filed Zia, Umar Zia and Farhan Ali party does not accept your res- He had won the seat in by-polls in waja Salman Rafique for four an application to seek an order to were also nominated in the refer- ignation and you are expected to October 2017. It had fallen vacant more days. The court also fixed set aside the indictment of the ence. The reference stated that carry on the good work as usu- after the death of BJP MP Vinod September 17 as the date to hear brothers, saying all allegations lev- the Khawaja brothers, through al,” a letter issued by Congress Khanna. Punjab Chief Minister arguments on the brothers’ ap- elled against his clients were base- their ‘benamidars’ and with the in-charge of Punjab affairs Asha Amarinder Singh had also de- plication for acquittal. Saad less. Meanwhile, former attorney- abetment of former MPA Qaiser Kumari said. When contacted, scribed Jakhar’s resignation as “to- Rafique and Salman Rafique were general Ashtar Ausaf Ali filed his Amin Butt and Nadeem Zia, es- Kumari said Jakhar has been tally unnecessary”. arrested in the Paragon Housing power of attorney on behalf of tablished a housing project in the Society scandal and presented Saad Rafique. After hearing the ar- name of Air Avenue. The project before Accountability Court guments, the accountability court was later converted into a new Bangladesh: Internet blackout on Rohingya refugees Judge Jawadul Hassan after the issued notices to NAB and sought housing project namely Paragon expiry of their nine-day judicial a reply. It also adjourned proceed- City (Pvt) Ltd, which NAB said New telecommunications and internet restrictions on Rohingya refu- Bazar severely limits communi- Bangladesh Telecommunication remand. As proceedings kicked ings till September 17. Strict secu- was an illegal society and not gee camps in Bangladesh will disrupt critical humanitarian and emer- cations and access to informa- Regulatory Commission directed all off, National Accountability Bu- rity arrangements were for the hear- approved by the Lahore Devel- gency services, Human Rights Watch said today. The network shut- tion for nearly one million refu- telecommunication operators to reau (NAB) Prosecutor Tipu Ali ing. At the last hearing, the court opment Authority. down imposed on camp locations in Teknaf and Ukhiya in Cox’s gees. On September 9, 2019, the shut down 3G and 4G services. SUNDAY .SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTANTIMES News-in-Brief USimposessanctions T urkey orders Nine people killed, 28 injured arrest of 223 on North Korean military personnel as truck crossing into oncoming hacking groups over suspected Gulen links lane hits bus in Russia blamed for global Turkey has ordered the arrest of 223 serving military personnel attacks across the country and in the The U.S. Treasury on Friday The United States has been at- breakaway state of Northern announced sanctions on three tempting to restart talks with Cyprus over suspected links to North Korean hacking groups it North Korea, aimed at pressing the a network Ankara accuses of or- said were involved in the Wan- country to give up its nuclear ganizing an attempted coup in naCry ransomware attacks and weapons. The talks have been 2016, state media said on Satur- hacking of international banks stalled over North Korean day. Authorities are seeking the and customer accounts. It demands for concessions, includ- suspects across 49 provinces in named the groups as Lazarus ing sanctions relief. Turkey and in Northern Cyprus, Group, Bluenoroff, and Anda- Earlier this month, North Korea state broadcaster TRT Haber riel and said they were controlled denied U.N. allegations it had ob- said. It said 100 of those facing by the RGB, North Korea's pri- tained $2 billion through cyberat- arrest were from the army, while mary intelligence bureau, which tacks on banks and cryptocurren- 41 from the air force and 32 from is already subject to U.S. and cy exchanges, and accused the the navy. Ankara blames U.S.- United Nations sanctions. United States of spreading ru- based Muslim cleric Fethullah The action blocks any U.S.-re- mors. Gulen, who has lived in self-im- lated assets of the groups and Lazarus Group posed exile in Pennsylvania since prohibits dealings with them. The Treasury statement said Laz- 1999, of masterminding the The Treasury statement said arus Group was involved in the failed putsch on July 15, 2016. any foreign financial institution WannaCry ransomware attack that that knowingly facilitated sig- the United States, Australia, Can- Congo police nificant transactions or services ada, New Zealand and the United for them could also be subject Kingdom publicly detain former to sanctions. "Treasury is tak- attributed to North Korea in De- ing action against North Korean cember 2017. It said WannaCry health minister hacking groups that have been affected at least 150 countries and perpetrating cyberattacks to shut down about 300,000 com- in Ebola probe support illicit weapon and mis- puters, including many in Britain's A former Congolese health min- sile programs," said Sigal Man- National Health Service (NHS). ister was taken into custody on At least nine people were killed there are a total of 30 people af- dent occurred because of a truck driver of a MAN truck crossed delker, Treasury undersecretary The NHS attack led to the cancel- Saturday over alleged misman- and 28 others were injured on fected by the accident, nine of driving into the oncoming lane, into the lane intended for oncom- for Terrorism and Financial In- lation of more than 19,000 ap- agement of funds for the coun- Saturday in a road accident in them died. There is a child among the traffic police press service ing traffic and collided with a telligence. "We will continue to pointments and ultimately cost the try’s response to the Ebola epi- Russia's Yaroslavl Region, where those injured. His age is being clar- said. PAZ bus," the report said. Em- enforce existing U.S. and U.N. service over $112 million, the big- demic, police said. Oly Ilunga a bus collided with a truck, a ified," the spokeswoman said. “According to preliminary data, ployees of the state traffic in- sanctions against North Korea gest known ransomware attack in oversaw Democratic Republic of spokeswoman for the local de- According to the spokeswoman, on 14 September 14, at 11.00, on spectorate were rushed to the and work with the international history. The Treasury said Laz- Congo’s handling of the out- partment of healthcare said. "Ac- nine ambulance crews are working 20 km of the Yaroslavl-Zayachiy scene, the press service added. community to improve cyber- arus Group was also directly re- break, the second deadliest in his- cording to the latest information, at the scene. Meanwhile, the acci- Kholm-Ivanovo highway, the (BBC) security of financial networks." sponsible for 2014 cyberattacks tory, for nearly a year. He was stripped by the presidency of that responsibility in July and resigned from the government Algerian parliament Roadside days later. Earlier in September, his lawyers said he had been Indonesia sealsoff 30 questioned by police. approves legal provisions blast kills 5 Syria govt offers for elections in Somalia companiesover forest fires way out of rebel MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least Indonesia has sealed off 30 com- The fires are often started by mediately, telling Indonesia "not area; no one five people -- including a deputy panies amid a row with Malay- smallholders and plantation to be in denial." She cited data that governor and a former minister -- sia over forest fires that are owners to clear land for plant- showed that the haze impacting shows up were killed and several others spreading a thick, noxious haze ing. Indonesia's forestry and en- parts of Malaysia originated in wounded in a roadside blast tar- Syrian state media is accusing around Southeast Asia, officials vironment minister, Siti Nur- Indonesia. The head of Indonesia's militant groups of preventing ci- geting their vehicle in the Middle said Saturday. The plantation baya Bakar, told reporters Fri- Meteorology, Climatology and vilians on Saturday from leaving Shabelle region of Somalia on companies, including a Singapore- day that the government will Geophysics Agency, Dwikorita the last rebel-held stronghold in Sunday, police said. Mahamud based company and four firms prosecute a number of compa- Karnawati, dismissed claims by the country's northwest through Dhuhlow, a police officer in the affiliated with Malaysian corpo- nies as a deterrent to setting fires. Malaysia that haze from Indone- a corridor government troops are region, told Anadolu Agency over rate groups, are under scrutiny Explore where you live. sia has drifted to the neighboring securing. The government has the phone the incident took place and waiting for decisions on pos- Subscribe for 12 FREE weeks nation for days. She said the haze used such passageways before to near the town of Bal’ad, located sible punishment, said Sugeng of unlimited digital access. began to enter the area above pen- allow residents to flee areas it is 40 kilometers (24 miles) north- Riyanto, the law enforcement The move came days after she insular Malaysia and Serawak besieging ahead of a military of- east of Somali capital Mogadishu. director at Indonesia's Forestry disputed that the smoke was state on Thursday morning. She fensive. Last month, Syrian offi- Hirshabelle State President Mo- and Environment Ministry. Near- coming from Indonesia, noting said the agency's satellites and its cials declared a "humanitarian hamed Abdi Ware confirmed the ly every year, Indonesian forest that hotspots were also detect- Geohotspot analysis on Thursday corridor" at the southern tip of attack and the deaths of Deputy fires spread health-damaging haze ed in Malaysia's Sarawak state. detected 1,231 hotspots on the stronghold while troops be- Governor of Middle Shabelle re- across the country and into neigh- Malaysia's environment minis- Sumatra island and 1,865 on sieged the area. State-run TV al- gion Abdullahi Sitawe. boring Malaysia and Singapore. ter, Yeo Bee Yin, responded im- Borneo. Ikhbariya said no civilians came On Friday, the Council of the session devoted to their presenta- out via the corridor. Nation (the second chamber of tion, and the opening of a debate the Algerian parliament) ap- on them, by Minister of Justice Germany, France proved by a majority a bill to Belkacem Zeghmati. For the first Erdogan says talks started with Trump Russia's world establish a supreme electoral au- time in the country’s history, a bill defend sovereignty thority, for the first time in the for the formation of an Indepen- first floating against Libra country’s history. This is in ad- dent National Electoral Authority over purchase of Patriot missiles dition to amendments to the elec- has been approved. The Electoral nuclear plant The prospect for the U.S. inter- Turkish President Recep Tayy- the United Nations General As- defense ties between Turkey net giant Facebook to adopt its toral law in preparation for the Authority will oversee, organise ip Erdogan said in an interview sembly. The Patriot air defense and Russia strengthened in de- arrives at planned cryptocurrency Libra in presidential elections, expected and monitor the elections, instead on Friday that he has started to system is meant to intercept both fiance of Ankara’s NATO ally Europe worsened this week fol- to be held before the end of the of the government represented by discuss the possible purchase of incoming aircraft and long-range the United States. US Treasury Siberian port lowing public opposition by year. This was announced in a the Ministry of Interior. The Patriot missiles with US Presi- ballistic missiles. “I said no mat- Secretary Steve Mnuchin France and Germany. On the side- public session chaired by the amendments to the electoral law dent Donald Trump, and will con- ter what package of … S-400s warned Turkey last week that MOSCOW – Russia’s world first lines of the EU finance ministers Council’s Acting Speaker Salah concern the new requirement of a tinue the talks at a meeting this we get, we can buy from you a Washington is considering im- floating nuclear power station on meeting in Helsinki, German Fi- Goudjil, in the presence of Jus- university degree for candidates month. In an interview with the certain amount of Patriots,” Er- posing sanctions on the coun- Saturday completed a 5,000-kilo- nance Minister Olaf Scholz and tice Minister Belkacem Zegh- wishing to run for the presidential Reuters news agency, Erdogan dogan said. “But I said we have try over Ankara’s purchase of meter (3,100-mile) Arctic transfer his French counterpart Bruno Le mati, a day after the first cham- elections, in addition to the assign- said he had already raised the pos- to see conditions that at least the S-400 missile defense sys- to the country’s far east, the Ro- Maire talked to media about the ber of parliament (the People’s ment of the task of studying the sible purchase in a phone call with match up to the S-400s,” Erdogan tem from Russia. Speaking with satom nuclear agency said. “The risks of Libra late on Friday. The National Assembly) approved candidacy files to the Independent the American leader two weeks added. “He [Trump] said, ‘Are journalists, Mnuchin said that, Akademik Lomonosov floating ministers warned against the "in- the two laws. The ratification of Electoral Authority, instead of the calculable" risks involved that ago, and that he will follow up on you serious?’ I said: ‘Yes,’” Er- while no decision has yet been nuclear plant arrived … at Pevek, the laws at the Council of the Constitutional Court. the matter when the two men are dogan told the outlet. The Turk- made, the Trump administra- in the autonomous district of have not been adequately taken Nation occurred after a morning (BBC) into account. "We are both deep- in New York later this month for ish leader’s remarks came after tion is “looking at” penalizing. Chukotka,” where it is to start ly convinced that the currency operating by yearend once con- matters should remain in the nected to the local electricity grid, hands of governments." Rosatom said. What will be the Ukrainian President: Elections in Donbas will world’s northernmost nuclear Malaysia queen Italy'snewgovt allows power plant left Murmansk in denounces arrest of be held after withdrawal of Russian troops Russia’s far north on Aug. 23 af- ter being loaded with combustible At a press briefing, after a meet- there another option?" Zelensky ident. Zelensky emphasized that online critics rescuedOceanViking nuclear fuel. The 21-ton, 144- ing with Estonian President Ker- noted that this is a problematic is- the Donbas belongs to Ukraine, meter-long (470 feet) and 30- Malaysia's queen has briefly re- sti Kaljulaid, Ukrainian President sue, that includes not only the elec- and local elections should be held meter-wide platform, which is Volodymyr Zelensky said that tions. "The most important issue according to the Ukrainian legis- turned to Twitter to express dis- migrantstodisembark designed to meet the energy needs local elections in the Donbas is the exchange of prisoners, then lation. "At the moment, I can't appointment at police arresting of remote communities, was people for allegedly insulting her would be held after the with- we will discuss the withdrawal of discuss with you all the details A migrant rescue ship received launched by Libyan-based mi- on social media. The Raja Per- drawal of the Russian troops. towed into Pevek by a clutch of troops. Now we are talking about and terms," he specified. On Au- permission Saturday to sail to a grant smugglers, on Sept. 15. vessels. The station houses two maisuri Agong said she and the Ukrainian President also added the troop's withdrawal in Zolote gust 13, Ukrainian Foreign Min- southern Italian island, but Ita- The others were rescued the 35-megawatt reactors, more in line king had not asked the police to that he will be able to give more and Petrovske. The next stage ister Vadym Prystaiko declared ly's foreign minister cautioned next day. Among the migrants is with the power of nuclear-pow- act and she was very upset at the information only after reaching would be the troop withdrawal in that Ukraine wants to hold next against interpreting the OK as a a 1-year-old boy from Somalia. ered ice breakers than typical new news. This followed Friday's ar- the agreement in the Normandy all areas, which includes the terri- local elections not only in the con- sign the new government is eas- "We just heard that we have generation nuclear plants boasting rest of an activist in the western format talks. Answering the tory of 400 km. And only after trolled territories but also in the ing its crackdown on such ves- been assigned a place of safety, nearer 1,000 MW capacity. The city of Klang for allegedly post- question, whether the withdraw- that we can talk about the format territories of the Donbas con- ing insults. The Raja Permaisuri sels. Ocean Viking's crew said Ital- we are now on our way" to Akademik Lomonosov will pro- al of troops would precede the of the elections in the occupied ter- trolled by pro-Russian militants. ian authorities instructed the ship Lampedusa, said Erkinalp vide energy for around 100,000 Agong is thought to have first elections, Zelensky said: "Yes. Is ritories," explained Ukrainian Pres- (BBC) deleted her account on Wednes- with 82 migrants aboard to sail Kesikli, of Doctors Without people and also power oil plat- day. It prompted thousands of to Lampedusa. It was expected Borders." Migrants clapped forms as Russia develops extrac- Malaysians to urge her to recon- to arrive at the island later on with joy and excitement. tion of natural resources in a min- sider and continue posting up- Saturday. The Norwegian-flagged "We are very happy about the eral-rich area whose eastern tip is dates. The mystery of screaming Congo: Confirmed Ebola deaths ship, which had appealed for news this morning. It amazes us. only a few dozen kilometers from schoolgirls in Malaysia. days for a port of safety, is oper- This news amazes us," said Alaska. “It is perhaps a small step ated by two humanitarian groups, Myriam Annie Malang, one of toward sustainable development WHO investigating near 2,000, cases over 3,000 Doctors Without Borders and the migrants. "We are arriving at in the Arctic — but it’s a giant SOS Mediterranee. Ocean Viking a place where people understand step toward decarbonization of death in Tanzania due Congo’s National Ebola Re- Church about efforts to help stem The committee reported 3,002 carried out its first rescue, of 50 and listen to us. We are very remote, off-grid zones and a turn- to unknown illness sponse Committee says con- the spread of Ebola in communi- confirmed Ebola cases with 1,974 migrants who were struggling in happy to learn that we are dis- ing point in the global develop- firmed Ebola deaths in the east ties. deaths. The World Health Orga- an unseaworthy rubber dinghy embarking in Lampedusa." ment of small modular nuclear. of the sprawling African nation A mistrust of health workers and nization said Friday they record- A woman whose death in Tanza- are nearing 2,000 and confirmed widespread security issues still ed the lowest weekly incidence nia is being investigated by the cases of the virus have exceeded threaten the fight against the sec- of Ebola since March 2019 with World Health Organization prob- ably did not have Ebola, a spokes- 3,000. The committee released ond deadliest outbreak of Ebola in 40 new cases, but said it was un- H a ft a r for ces a tt a ck in t’l man for the U.S. Centers for Dis- the latest numbers Friday after a history in a region where armed clear if this positive trend would ease Control and Prevention said discussion in Goma by the Cath- groups have fought for decades continue. on Friday.There is increased vig- olic Church and the Anglican over the mineral-rich land. (BBC) a ir p or t in L ibya 's T r ip oli ilance across the region because of an outbreak of Ebola in Dem- ocratic Republic of Congo, and Libya’s UN-recognized govern- jets struck the main headquar- 5,500 wounded, according to the the WHO said on Thursday it Malaysian opposition parties forge alliance ment on Saturday said forces loy- ters of Haftar’s forces in Al-Ju- World Health Organization was looking into the death of a al to rival military commander fra Airbase. The UN-recognized (WHO). The oil-rich country has patient in Tanzania. Malaysia's two major opposition President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi ties, although critics say the pol- Khalifa Haftar attacked Mitiga government forces’ attack in- remained beset by turmoil since The woman who died in Dar es parties inked a formal pact for said his party had common ground icies have bred resentment among International Airport in the cap- flicted heavy blow on the head- 2011, when longtime ruler Mua- Salaam on Sept. 8 presented cooperation on Saturday, ending with PAS as UMNO focused on the country's Chinese and Indian ital Tripoli. quarter and six foreign military mmar Gaddafi was ousted and symptoms common to several decades of political rivalry and Malay-centric agenda, with the minorities and have stifled com- In a statement, the Government figures were killed, according to killed in a NATO-backed uprising diseases, including dengue or posing a potential challenge to Malays being predominantly petitions. Also present were PAS of National Accord said the in- the spokesman’s statement. after four decades in power. Lib- malaria, both endemic in East the incumbent government. Muslim, while PAS focused on an President Abdul Hadi Awang, ternational airport -- open to ci- Haftar’s forces launched a cam- ya has since seen the emergence Africa, said Justin Williams, the Former ruling party United Ma- Islamic agenda. Malaysia's ethnic former Prime Minister and vilian use -- was hit by a Grad paign in April to capture Tripo- of two rival seats of power: one in director for communication and lay National Organization Malays majority receive affirma- UMNO president Najib Razak missile. li from Libya’s internationally eastern Libya, with which Haftar policy at the Nairobi office of (UMNO) and Pan-Malaysia Is- tive-action privileges, such as hous- as well as top brass from both This came a day after Mu- recognized GNA. is affiliated, and the Tripoli-based the U.S. Centers for Disease lamic Party (PAS) singed the ing discounts and preferential ac- parties, joined by several thou- hammed Kununu, the military Clashes between the two sides GNA, which enjoys UN recogni- Control and Prevention. agreement to formalize their co- cess to education and business, sand supporters to witness the spokesman of the GNA, an- since then have left more than tion. (BBC) operation. In his speech, UMNO meant to tackle income inequali- signing of the charter. nounced the government fighter 1,000 people dead and about (BBC) SUNDAY .SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTANTIMES What weoweAfghanistan Our mission there began in response to 9/11, but it became a partnership. By Elliot Ackerman also to admire the progress that opium trade, the incompetence By Dr. John C. Hulsman had been made. It might sound bordering on negligence in their absurd, but the idea of an inter- high command). The question re- national ski clientele zipping mains what type of partners they As opposed to the lofty, but less down a black diamond where I’d might be in peace. Given the sac- practical, academic view, anyone once been ambushed fills me rifices made by Americans to cre- actually involved in real-world with emotion, not unlike what I ate that chance, the Afghans have politics unerringly knows that During my last deployment to would imagine a D-Day veteran an obligation not to squander it Afghanistan, in 2011, I spent a people (as much as historical forc- today feels when visiting a through the cynicism that has char- lot of time talking about skiing: beach in Normandy packed with acterized so much of the war ef- es) make policy. In this case, un- the economics of chairlifts vs. derstanding the inside story of the sunbathers. Troops coming fort. gondolas at a resort; to allow History to Trump: CIA was aid- firing of US National Security home? That’s more likely to snowboarding or not to allow mean a war is lost than won. ing Afghan rebels before the Sovi- Adviser John Bolton is a vital snowboarding; the ideal price of This past week, however, Pres- ets invaded in ‘79 A peace deal, piece of the puzzle in determin- a lift ticket. The logistics officer ident Trump called peace talks then, should equip all sides (in- ing what the US is likely to do for the Afghan counterterrorism with the Taliban “dead” after si- cluding the Taliban) to fulfill their about ending its longest war: The unit that I advised, a fast-talking, multaneously announcing and obligations to one another. Our good-looking Tajik named Aziz 18-year trauma in Afghanistan. canceling, via Twitter, a Camp recent negotiating strategy, how- with a knack for doing complex David meeting with Taliban lead- ever, in which the Afghan govern- Sometimes, having first-hand arithmetic in his head, was fixat- knowledge of how Washington ers, in apparent response to the ment hasn’t been a direct party to ed on the subject. It wasn’t the recent attack that killed Army discussions with the Taliban, works (or doesn’t) pays off in all sport itself that had captured his Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto might make it easier to reach a deal, sorts of unexpected ways. I have imagination but rather the idea of Ortiz. But peace in Afghanistan but it undermines the prospects (peripherally) known Bolton, opening a ski resort when the war remains as close as it’s been in for a lasting peace. Donald Trump’s ultra-hawkish was over. Anyone who has spent nearly two decades. Our fatigue, This strategy resembles the flawed time in Afghanistan, particularly as well as the Taliban’s, has American negotiations leading up outgoing national security advis- in the east, can attest to the beau- er, since we crossed swords over brought both sides to the table. to the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, ty and scale of those mountains, Estimates put the number of in which national security adviser the Iraq invasion in 2003. Then, as dramatic as anything you as now, Bolton had one answer to their dead around 60,000. After Henry Kissinger cut out the gov- might find in the Rockies or the 18 years of war with more than ernment of South Vietnam. To end every question on American for- Alps. The fantasy of one day ski- 2,000 Americans killed and more that war, we negotiated directly eign policymaking: Armed military ing down the jagged slopes, than 20,000 wounded, plus a with North Vietnam and present- might, and sustaining American whose sides we often clung to in price tag estimated in the tril- ed final terms to South Vietnam’s military operations however bad- firefights, was a welcome diver- lions, it’s tempting to argue that President Nguyen Van Thieu as a going to be a good fit in a Trump partial agreement to draw down soil would amount to a major win sion from the grim reality of our ly they were going. Trump has administration determined to end American forces from their present for the president. A point once our government and the fait accompli. He had days to ac- war. With Aziz, though, this Afghan government reach a cept them or America would cut come to understand that Bolton promiscuous interventions that level of 15,000 to about 8,500 Trump’s virulent critics have dream was not escapism. He is a one-note analytical orchestra. peace agreement with the Tali- off aid to the South, whose gov- frittered away American strength troops by the time of the Novem- missed is that, more than most could navigate any environment ernment Washington had long As Axios reported, the president ban, our obligation to Afghani- even as a new Cold War contest ber 2020 presidential election. presidents, he has done all he can — procuring materiel from the stan is over. But our war in Af- treated with scant regard. Those wryly noted during one Oval Of- with China beckoned. The won- There are two basic reasons for to keep his foreign policy cam- U.S. military’s labyrinthine sup- ghanistan represents 18 years terms were ultimately accepted, fice meeting: “John has never seen der of it, given these unbridge- this, ranging from high strategic paign promises to his very loyal ply system, looking for weap- of promises: to local leaders which further undermined the le- a war he doesn’t like.” able intellectual differences, was principle to low political cunning. base. In true Jacksonian form, the ons in a Waziri black market, who’ve allied themselves with gitimacy of Thieu’s already frag- This is what makes his firing as hooking me up with a new pair us at great personal risk; to ile government and paved the way that Bolton lasted so long. Strategically, part of Trump’s pop- president has refrained from em- of ear buds when I lost mine. If predictable as it is important. For, For, in jettisoning Bolton, Trump ulist appeal is to denigrate the for- broiling the US in any more wars women who’ve taken steps to- for the fall of Saigon only two anyone could make this happen, ward equality; to soldiers in the years later. American negotiators despite unthinking accusations to has remained true to his basic eign policy establishment, of which of choice. He has taken the prom- he could. Such was his talent that the contrary, Trump is far re- Afghan National Army who’ve today are treating Kabul the same noninterventionist Jacksonian former Secretary of State Hillary ised tough line with China and no one called him Aziz. Every- bled to keep their country from way. They’ve taken the liberty of moved from his caricature as a roots. The straw that broke the Clinton is a charter member, for its chided America’s allies to do one called him “Big Cheese,” as falling apart; and to the Afghan offering the release of thousands standard-issue right-wing war- camel’s back proved to be the as- truly appalling record. Be it failed more in terms of paying for their in the big cheese, which half-jok- government itself. If Americans of Taliban prisoners held in Af- monger as it is possible to be. tonishing peace talk proposal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or the own defense. While a drawdown ingly (but also half-seriously) want a sustainable peace in Af- ghan prisons — without the con- Trump — overturning the hawk- that Trump offered to broker American establishment’s failure to in Afghanistan does not entirely became the name of the ski re- ghanistan, we can’t achieve it by sent of the Afghan government. An ish neoconservative consensus in sort he was assiduously planning: turning our back on these prom- agreement with the Taliban that with the Taliban at Camp David, protect US workers from unfair pull the plug on the war, it is an “Big Cheese Skis.” One night, to- the Republican Party (of which just days before the anniversary trade practices, the president has intellectual down payment the ises — if we do, the likeliest delegitimizes Ghani will weaken ward the end of that deployment, outcome will be an escalation his central government, increasing Bolton was a strong proponent) of 9/11. Bolton, horrified at craft- made a powerful argument that the Trump White House is making the two of us sat drinking by the that had predominated under the into civil war. For good or ill, the likelihood that Afghanistan ing a deal with a mortal Ameri- American elite has failed in the to its base, signaling he is wind- fire pit at our remote outpost. we have a moral obligation to will return to a state of civil war administration of George W. Bush can enemy, vigorously opposed post-Cold War world. The 2016 ing down conflict there, just as Aziz had again been holding forth our Afghan partners. Although after an American withdrawal. — was elected by a very differ- Trump’s pet plan. The president presidential election saw this com- he promised to. So ignore today’s about his plans, the braid of trails our war began as a direct re- Honoring our obligations might ent anti-interventionist Jackso- wanted to stage a media spectac- mon populist narrative effectively headlines; the real story here is that would connect certain val- sponse to the 9/11 attacks and mean an enduring commitment of leys, how his resort wouldn’t be nian base, keen to avoid wars of ular, claiming credit for a year’s- advanced by Bernie Sanders on the not the failure of the Camp Dav- the Taliban’s harboring of al- military and nonmilitary aid, if more than three hours’ drive from Qaeda, along the way it mor- Kabul wants it. For the Afghan choice and the costly social engi- worth of painstaking diplomacy left and Trump on the right. It is id talks, but the beginning of the Kabul’s international airport, neering that went with the nation- spearheaded by his envoy for Af- part of the core of what Trump US winding down of the seem- phed into a sincere effort to sta- government, it will mean retiring when he turned to me and asked, bilize a fractured society. Our decades-old tribal and ethnic an- building so popular (among both ghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad. thinks and why he is popular. In ingly endless war in Afghanistan. “If I built it, would you come parties) in the heyday of the con- obligation is to see that effort tipathies while reintegrating the With North Korea talks in stale- Afghanistan, an 18-year war with Dr. John C. Hulsman is the pres- with your family?” through. This doesn’t mean Taliban into political life. flicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. mate, and with the Sino-Ameri- no end in sight is exhibit A for ident and managing partner of “Of course,” I said. “So long as building a perfect democracy but It’s a tall order, for all sides. As a Because ideology matters, this can trade war in full swing, the Trump as to what ails the US for- John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a it’s safe.” We shook on it. establishing a system that’s sta- veteran of the war, I will of course meant Bolton — recently an ad- White House desperately needs eign policy establishment. In terms prominent global political risk In recent months, I’ve been ble enough to endure beyond our be watching. Specifically, I’ll be vocate of attacking North Korea, thinking about that handshake, withdrawal. At the same time, watching one scenic valley in the a success to sustain its thorough- of politics, even cutting the partial consulting firm. He is also senior and whether I’m really obliged threatening the wobbling Venezu- ly different foreign policy. deal of a rough halving of Ameri- columnist for City AM, the our Afghan partners have a moral Hindu Kush, wondering if years to visit Aziz if he ever builds his obligation to us. Years of cor- from now I’ll see a certain ski va- elan regime with force, and deter- Despite the Camp David talks can forces in return for the Taliban newspaper of the City of Lon- resort. In the years since I left mined to stay in Afghanistan ruption and double dealing with cation advertised around there by falling apart, it is still odds-on promising not to allow attacks on don. He can be contacted via Afghanistan, the idea of return- an old war buddy. If I do, I’ll be seemingly forever — was never adversaries such as Iran and Pa- that Trump will reach at least a America or its forces from Afghan chartwellspeakers.com. ing in peacetime — even the idea, kistan have strained our relations packing up my family and buying 18 years in, of “peacetime” — under Presidents Hamid Karzai airline tickets. But if I ever get to has held a powerful allure. I’ve and Ashraf Ghani. The Afghans make that trip, it won’t be because imagined what it would be like to haven’t always been reliable I’m honoring a promise to Aziz. see visitors come to my old bat- partners in war (their siphoning It’ll be because we honored a tlefields, not only to learn the his- of billions of dollars in aid, their promise to each other. tory of what took place there but acquiescence to the Taliban’s (WP)

Amidst political posturing, aerial terrorism and street bomb- The US Has “Disappeared” More Than ings, Afghan citizens pursue their daily work toward peace. 42,000 Migrants. Where’s the Outrage? By Kathy Kelly er parents’ names, and, if possi- to plan for an upcoming “On the home, insisting that Obaidullah, BY David L. Wilson into cities with high crime rates ty attacks on immigrants have of- ble, mobile phone numbers. Sev- Road to Peace” conference. This the householder, let them in. He like Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez. ten backfired, as happened in June KABUL - On a very warm Sep- eral women seek Masoma’s help will be the Afghan Peace Volun- pleaded with them to leave, but In July, the program began send- 2018, when the family separation tember morning in Kabul, several to write their names. She assures teers’ third annual gathering of par- instead the Taliban fighters fired The most successful of Trump’s dozen men, women, and children them she will stay in touch. A ticipants from each of Afghani- on a joint United States and Af- anti-immigrant measures up un- ing many to Nuevo Laredo and policy provoked popular outrage. sit on the carpeted floor of a room tall young man, Habib, carrying stan’s thirty-four provinces. The ghan military convoy. Shortly til now — and possibly the most Matamoros, two cities in MPP may be an even more egre- at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ a large tray of bananas and ap- conference offers four days of in- thereafter, a United States A-10 vicious — hasn’t been getting the Tamaulipas state. The U.S. State gious flouting of U.S. asylum law: Borderfree Center. The women ples, politely offers fruit to each tensive learning and discovery Warthog plane strafed Obaidul- attention it deserves. In opera- Department assigns Tamaulipas It impacts many more people, and cluster together. All wear burqas, guest. Six years ago, Afghan about cross-cultural understanding, lah’s home. tion since late January, Migrant a Level 4 “do not travel” warn- it’s likely to have a deadlier effect, but because of the heat they push Peace Volunteers members had nonviolence, and ways to abolish “Hundreds of rounds of ammu- Protection Protocols (MPP), ing — the same as for Afghani- but it’s out of sight and therefore the steel blue veils back, revealing befriended Habib when they met war. Yesterday, Dr. Hakim and I nition—bullets the size of large originally called “Remain in Mex- stan, Iraq and Syria. — the administration hopes — out their faces. Most of the men wear him in a busy market-place. His asked for complete quiet inside the carrots—fired by a weapon de- In their August report, Human of mind. traditional tunics and pakol hats. father had been killed when a center’s “office”—a large room signed to disable armoured tanks, ico,” allows the U.S. government to push most non-Mexican asy- Rights First’s researchers docu- More than 42,000 human beings Parents and children alike listen bomb exploded in Kabul. I re- lined with bookcases, file cabinets, poured out of the plane’s Gatling mented 42 cases of rape, kid- legally applying for asylum in the intently to Masoma, a young Af- member watching him work on a mats, and sturdy pillows. In the gun,” Quilty wrote. “The two lum seekers into Mexico once immigration officials have cleared napping, assault and/or criminal United States have been made to ghan woman who coordinates the dusty, crowded street during a center of the room, a jumble of Taliban fighters had fled. Instead, pursuit affecting migrants placed “disappear” into Mexico. Media Center’s “Street Kids School.” chilly afternoon shortly after he cords and power strips are con- Obaidullah and his fifteen-year- them to make an asylum claim. As of early September, the num- in Mexico under MPP, and in outlets have carried some excel- She explains the importance of and his family had taken up res- nected to a solar power battery, a old son Esmatullah were killed; publicly available materials, lent reporting on MPP, and there’s steady attendance, and parents idence in a miserable shack in fan, a router, and a collection of thirteen others suffered broken ber of people forced into Mexico nod in agreement. Most of the 100 Kabul. His little brother walked cell phones and laptops. Earlier, bones and shrapnel injuries from under MPP had reportedly risen they found another 74 cases of been legal and political pushback. students come on time for their alongside him, holding his hand, Amy Goodman of Democracy head to toe. One boy, fourteen- to more than 42,000. violence or threats. The report’s In February, the American Civil Friday classes, but a handful had while Habib carried a scale and Now! had invited Dr. Hakim and year-old Ehsanullah, lost both his Immigration authorities say that authors said these numbers were Liberties Union challenged the recently skipped, showing up asked people to weigh them- me to participate in interviews re- eyes.” In a report on civilian ca- these migrants are able to pursue “likely a gross underestimate of program with a suit (Innovation only on the day when the center selves on it. Habib looked for- garding President Trump’s sudden sualties, the United Nations As- their asylum cases while waiting the harm to returned asylum- Law Lab v. McAleenan) filed in distributes monthly food rations lorn and worried. The shy, anx- decision to call off a secret meeting sistance Mission to Afghanistan in Mexico, but this is nonsense. seekers given the limited moni- San Francisco federal court — an for the Street Kids families. The ious youngster had been regular- he claimed to have arranged be- attributed a rise in civilian deaths It’s difficult for impoverished toring of the program to date.” action backed by the union for the previous Friday, those who had ly beaten by an uncle who tried tween himself, Afghanistan’s Pres- in 2019 to an escalation of the It’s difficult for impoverished government’s own asylum offic- missed more than two classes pri- to force him to join a militia; he ident Ashraf Ghani, and represen- US air war in the country. In ad- asylum seekers to get legal rep- resentation even while inside the asylum seekers to get legal rep- ers. Likewise, in August, a group or to the food distribution day now recognizes that Habib was tatives of the Taliban who have dition, countless night raids car- resentation even while inside of 24 senators sent the adminis- walked away empty-handed—a wise to run away from the mili- been meeting with United States ried out by joint US/Afghan forces United States; from across the border, it’s virtually impossible. the United States; from across tration a letter calling on it to end hard lesson, but the volunteer tia. Today, Habib towers over envoy Zalmay Khalilzad. Sitting have struck terror in families the border, it’s virtually impos- the policy. But Trump’s officials teachers felt they must abide by me. Yesterday, he spoke eagerly on the floor, we huddled over Dr. whose loved ones were killed in At the end of June, a grand total of 1.3 percent of these asylum- sible. On September 11, the aren’t known for responding to the short list of rules governing at a small group meeting he had Hakim’s well-worn laptop wait- front of them. Ordinary Afghans U.S. Supreme Court issued an reasoned arguments, and in May, the center. Anyone who misses helped plan about ways to build ing for Democracy Now! engineers whom I have met with in the past seekers had succeeded in finding classes two or more times in a caring relationships. Over the to contact us by Skype. Hakim and week are acutely aware of the a lawyer, according to an August order allowing the government a three-judge panel of the Ninth month won’t receive the ration. past three years, he has learned I suggested that neither Trump nor night raids and link the gruesome report by the U.S. nonprofit to go ahead — for now, at least Circuit Appeals Court overturned Then Masoma’s colleague, Dr. to read and write and has been at any of the negotiators in Doha were pattern of killing civilians to Unit- Human Rights First. So far, only — with another measure against a stay the San Francisco judge had Hakim, stands and poses two the top of his classes at a gov- participating in a genuine peace ed States trainers and the CIA. one of the applicants is known non-Mexican asylum seekers. placed on the program. The sup- blunt requests. “Please raise your ernment school. He has also de- process. Rather, it was a cruel cha- Before Donald Trump pulled to have won asylum. Moreover, Like MPP, the new policy keeps posedly ultra-liberal Ninth Circuit hand,” he says, “if you and your veloped some construction skills. rade, with each side seeking great- back US participation, there had these migrants need a way to live the migrants hidden away in has put off oral arguments in the family have at least enough re- When I remark that several walls er leverage by demonstrating their been nine rounds of talks, and the if they’re going to pursue their Mexico, but it bars them from case until October, leaving tens of sources to meet your basic needs.” at the center were repaired and willingness to kill innocent peo- United States special envoy Zal- even applying for asylum. While thousands of asylum seekers in About six hands are raised. Next newly painted, Masoma smiled ple. Many people living in Afghan- may Khalilzad was supposedly claims. Many planned to stay with U.S.-based family or friends it’s uncertain what effect this Mexican limbo. Meanwhile, the he asks people to raise a hand if happily. “Habib!” she says. “He istan greatly fear increased Taliban edging closer to a “peace” deal will have on MPP, clearly ac- Supreme Court’s September 11 they couldn’t make ends meet. was a big help.” power over their cities, villages, with the Taliban. A genuine peace when they came to this country; in Mexico, they have no support tivists need to fight back against order allows the government to bar Seven hands go up. Hakim says A few adults linger alongside the roadways, and crumbling infra- process would hold all warring both policies. new asylum seekers at least until his organization wants to help center’s shady garden, filled with structure. Taliban war crimes are parties accountable for crimes networks. Lacking Mexican work permits, they can at best scrape Out of Sight, Out of Mind? December. As immigration attor- families become self-reliant so fruit trees, grapevines, herbs, and frequently covered in global me- against humanity and would call There’s hardly any information ney Shouan Zhoobin Riahi notes, that after their children leave the flowers. Some of the Afghan dia. Less obvious to people in the for an immediate end to US and by with jobs in the informal econ- Street Kids School, they will have Peace Volunteers used permac- US, but horribly real for people in NATO militarism in Afghanistan. omy that barely cover the neces- about what happens to people “We need to be organizing large- another way to acquire essentials ulture methods to design and cul- Afghanistan, are acts of aerial ter- It would urge the United States sities, if that. Some turn to Mex- in the MPP program. How scale protests against the MPP, like beans, rice, and cooking oil. tivate the space. Others recently rorism regularly waged by the to humbly acknowledge the reck- ico’s shelters for migrants or many have been victims of Trump’s concentration camps, Hakim now asks people to raise dedicated themselves to a “re- United States military. Writing for lessness of its invasion and occu- homeless people, but the shel- crime? Have any been killed? and the new asylum ban.” their hands if they could send one newable energy team.” Last year, The Daily Beast earlier this year, pation. Reliable non-governmen- ters in Mexican border cities are How many have given up and Indeed, the one thing that can turn family member, like an older the team helped forty-four fam- Andrew Quilty described how one tal parties would be asked to de- already overwhelmed. Many returned to their home countries, this situation around is militant brother, to a three-month course ilies acquire solar energy. This Afghan family in the Helmand velop ways for Afghans to receive and have they become crime vic- activism of the sort that confront- year they hope to expand the province suffered a vicious attack reparations from all countries asylum seekers — including chil- on how to repair mobile phones. dren, pregnant women and peo- tims there? No one knows. U.S. ed the Muslim ban and the family The idea is well-received. Note- effort. Over the past week, on their home last November. Two who’ve participated in the past and Mexican authorities aren’t separation policy. The resistance book papers are circulated to gath- young volunteers have gathered Taliban fighters had come to their eighteen years of war. ple with disabilities — end up sleeping in tent encampments or keeping track of these out- may understandably be suffering in the open air. comes, and it’s extremely diffi- from outrage fatigue, but this is Disclaimer: Even if they find work and shel- cult for reporters, immigration no time to let up the pressure. If ter, migrants are in constant dan- lawyers and human rights re- activists don’t seize the initiative, The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) ger; the only protection MPP searchers to get more than anec- the Trump administration will offers is in the program’s Or- dotal accounts. For the Trump have gotten away with two of its and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. wellian name. For months, asy- administration, this is a feature. gravest human rights violations to lum seekers have been pushed The government’s high-visibili- date. (Truthout) SUNDAY .SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTANTIMES What weoweAfghanistan Our mission there began in response to 9/11, but it became a partnership. By Elliot Ackerman also to admire the progress that opium trade, the incompetence By Dr. John C. Hulsman had been made. It might sound bordering on negligence in their absurd, but the idea of an inter- high command). The question re- national ski clientele zipping mains what type of partners they As opposed to the lofty, but less down a black diamond where I’d might be in peace. Given the sac- practical, academic view, anyone once been ambushed fills me rifices made by Americans to cre- actually involved in real-world with emotion, not unlike what I ate that chance, the Afghans have politics unerringly knows that During my last deployment to would imagine a D-Day veteran an obligation not to squander it Afghanistan, in 2011, I spent a people (as much as historical forc- today feels when visiting a through the cynicism that has char- lot of time talking about skiing: beach in Normandy packed with acterized so much of the war ef- es) make policy. In this case, un- the economics of chairlifts vs. derstanding the inside story of the sunbathers. Troops coming fort. gondolas at a resort; to allow History to Trump: CIA was aid- firing of US National Security home? That’s more likely to snowboarding or not to allow mean a war is lost than won. ing Afghan rebels before the Sovi- Adviser John Bolton is a vital snowboarding; the ideal price of This past week, however, Pres- ets invaded in ‘79 A peace deal, piece of the puzzle in determin- a lift ticket. The logistics officer ident Trump called peace talks then, should equip all sides (in- ing what the US is likely to do for the Afghan counterterrorism with the Taliban “dead” after si- cluding the Taliban) to fulfill their about ending its longest war: The unit that I advised, a fast-talking, multaneously announcing and obligations to one another. Our good-looking Tajik named Aziz 18-year trauma in Afghanistan. canceling, via Twitter, a Camp recent negotiating strategy, how- with a knack for doing complex David meeting with Taliban lead- ever, in which the Afghan govern- Sometimes, having first-hand arithmetic in his head, was fixat- knowledge of how Washington ers, in apparent response to the ment hasn’t been a direct party to ed on the subject. It wasn’t the recent attack that killed Army discussions with the Taliban, works (or doesn’t) pays off in all sport itself that had captured his Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto might make it easier to reach a deal, sorts of unexpected ways. I have imagination but rather the idea of Ortiz. But peace in Afghanistan but it undermines the prospects (peripherally) known Bolton, opening a ski resort when the war remains as close as it’s been in for a lasting peace. Donald Trump’s ultra-hawkish was over. Anyone who has spent nearly two decades. Our fatigue, This strategy resembles the flawed time in Afghanistan, particularly as well as the Taliban’s, has American negotiations leading up outgoing national security advis- in the east, can attest to the beau- er, since we crossed swords over brought both sides to the table. to the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, ty and scale of those mountains, Estimates put the number of in which national security adviser the Iraq invasion in 2003. Then, as dramatic as anything you as now, Bolton had one answer to their dead around 60,000. After Henry Kissinger cut out the gov- might find in the Rockies or the 18 years of war with more than ernment of South Vietnam. To end every question on American for- Alps. The fantasy of one day ski- 2,000 Americans killed and more that war, we negotiated directly eign policymaking: Armed military ing down the jagged slopes, than 20,000 wounded, plus a with North Vietnam and present- might, and sustaining American whose sides we often clung to in price tag estimated in the tril- ed final terms to South Vietnam’s military operations however bad- firefights, was a welcome diver- lions, it’s tempting to argue that President Nguyen Van Thieu as a going to be a good fit in a Trump partial agreement to draw down soil would amount to a major win sion from the grim reality of our ly they were going. Trump has administration determined to end American forces from their present for the president. A point once our government and the fait accompli. He had days to ac- war. With Aziz, though, this Afghan government reach a cept them or America would cut come to understand that Bolton promiscuous interventions that level of 15,000 to about 8,500 Trump’s virulent critics have dream was not escapism. He is a one-note analytical orchestra. peace agreement with the Tali- off aid to the South, whose gov- frittered away American strength troops by the time of the Novem- missed is that, more than most could navigate any environment ernment Washington had long As Axios reported, the president ban, our obligation to Afghani- even as a new Cold War contest ber 2020 presidential election. presidents, he has done all he can — procuring materiel from the stan is over. But our war in Af- treated with scant regard. Those wryly noted during one Oval Of- with China beckoned. The won- There are two basic reasons for to keep his foreign policy cam- U.S. military’s labyrinthine sup- ghanistan represents 18 years terms were ultimately accepted, fice meeting: “John has never seen der of it, given these unbridge- this, ranging from high strategic paign promises to his very loyal ply system, looking for weap- of promises: to local leaders which further undermined the le- a war he doesn’t like.” able intellectual differences, was principle to low political cunning. base. In true Jacksonian form, the ons in a Waziri black market, who’ve allied themselves with gitimacy of Thieu’s already frag- This is what makes his firing as hooking me up with a new pair us at great personal risk; to ile government and paved the way that Bolton lasted so long. Strategically, part of Trump’s pop- president has refrained from em- of ear buds when I lost mine. If predictable as it is important. For, For, in jettisoning Bolton, Trump ulist appeal is to denigrate the for- broiling the US in any more wars women who’ve taken steps to- for the fall of Saigon only two anyone could make this happen, ward equality; to soldiers in the years later. American negotiators despite unthinking accusations to has remained true to his basic eign policy establishment, of which of choice. He has taken the prom- he could. Such was his talent that the contrary, Trump is far re- Afghan National Army who’ve today are treating Kabul the same noninterventionist Jacksonian former Secretary of State Hillary ised tough line with China and no one called him Aziz. Every- bled to keep their country from way. They’ve taken the liberty of moved from his caricature as a roots. The straw that broke the Clinton is a charter member, for its chided America’s allies to do one called him “Big Cheese,” as falling apart; and to the Afghan offering the release of thousands standard-issue right-wing war- camel’s back proved to be the as- truly appalling record. Be it failed more in terms of paying for their in the big cheese, which half-jok- government itself. If Americans of Taliban prisoners held in Af- monger as it is possible to be. tonishing peace talk proposal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or the own defense. While a drawdown ingly (but also half-seriously) want a sustainable peace in Af- ghan prisons — without the con- Trump — overturning the hawk- that Trump offered to broker American establishment’s failure to in Afghanistan does not entirely became the name of the ski re- ghanistan, we can’t achieve it by sent of the Afghan government. An ish neoconservative consensus in sort he was assiduously planning: turning our back on these prom- agreement with the Taliban that with the Taliban at Camp David, protect US workers from unfair pull the plug on the war, it is an “Big Cheese Skis.” One night, to- the Republican Party (of which just days before the anniversary trade practices, the president has intellectual down payment the ises — if we do, the likeliest delegitimizes Ghani will weaken ward the end of that deployment, outcome will be an escalation his central government, increasing Bolton was a strong proponent) of 9/11. Bolton, horrified at craft- made a powerful argument that the Trump White House is making the two of us sat drinking by the that had predominated under the into civil war. For good or ill, the likelihood that Afghanistan ing a deal with a mortal Ameri- American elite has failed in the to its base, signaling he is wind- fire pit at our remote outpost. we have a moral obligation to will return to a state of civil war administration of George W. Bush can enemy, vigorously opposed post-Cold War world. The 2016 ing down conflict there, just as Aziz had again been holding forth our Afghan partners. Although after an American withdrawal. — was elected by a very differ- Trump’s pet plan. The president presidential election saw this com- he promised to. So ignore today’s about his plans, the braid of trails our war began as a direct re- Honoring our obligations might ent anti-interventionist Jackso- wanted to stage a media spectac- mon populist narrative effectively headlines; the real story here is that would connect certain val- sponse to the 9/11 attacks and mean an enduring commitment of leys, how his resort wouldn’t be nian base, keen to avoid wars of ular, claiming credit for a year’s- advanced by Bernie Sanders on the not the failure of the Camp Dav- the Taliban’s harboring of al- military and nonmilitary aid, if more than three hours’ drive from Qaeda, along the way it mor- Kabul wants it. For the Afghan choice and the costly social engi- worth of painstaking diplomacy left and Trump on the right. It is id talks, but the beginning of the Kabul’s international airport, neering that went with the nation- spearheaded by his envoy for Af- part of the core of what Trump US winding down of the seem- phed into a sincere effort to sta- government, it will mean retiring when he turned to me and asked, bilize a fractured society. Our decades-old tribal and ethnic an- building so popular (among both ghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad. thinks and why he is popular. In ingly endless war in Afghanistan. “If I built it, would you come parties) in the heyday of the con- obligation is to see that effort tipathies while reintegrating the With North Korea talks in stale- Afghanistan, an 18-year war with Dr. John C. Hulsman is the pres- with your family?” through. This doesn’t mean Taliban into political life. flicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. mate, and with the Sino-Ameri- no end in sight is exhibit A for ident and managing partner of “Of course,” I said. “So long as building a perfect democracy but It’s a tall order, for all sides. As a Because ideology matters, this can trade war in full swing, the Trump as to what ails the US for- John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a it’s safe.” We shook on it. establishing a system that’s sta- veteran of the war, I will of course meant Bolton — recently an ad- White House desperately needs eign policy establishment. In terms prominent global political risk In recent months, I’ve been ble enough to endure beyond our be watching. Specifically, I’ll be vocate of attacking North Korea, thinking about that handshake, withdrawal. At the same time, watching one scenic valley in the a success to sustain its thorough- of politics, even cutting the partial consulting firm. He is also senior and whether I’m really obliged threatening the wobbling Venezu- ly different foreign policy. deal of a rough halving of Ameri- columnist for City AM, the our Afghan partners have a moral Hindu Kush, wondering if years to visit Aziz if he ever builds his obligation to us. Years of cor- from now I’ll see a certain ski va- elan regime with force, and deter- Despite the Camp David talks can forces in return for the Taliban newspaper of the City of Lon- resort. In the years since I left mined to stay in Afghanistan ruption and double dealing with cation advertised around there by falling apart, it is still odds-on promising not to allow attacks on don. He can be contacted via Afghanistan, the idea of return- an old war buddy. If I do, I’ll be seemingly forever — was never adversaries such as Iran and Pa- that Trump will reach at least a America or its forces from Afghan chartwellspeakers.com. ing in peacetime — even the idea, kistan have strained our relations packing up my family and buying 18 years in, of “peacetime” — under Presidents Hamid Karzai airline tickets. But if I ever get to has held a powerful allure. I’ve and Ashraf Ghani. The Afghans make that trip, it won’t be because imagined what it would be like to haven’t always been reliable I’m honoring a promise to Aziz. see visitors come to my old bat- partners in war (their siphoning It’ll be because we honored a tlefields, not only to learn the his- of billions of dollars in aid, their promise to each other. tory of what took place there but acquiescence to the Taliban’s (WP)

Amidst political posturing, aerial terrorism and street bomb- The US Has “Disappeared” More Than ings, Afghan citizens pursue their daily work toward peace. 42,000 Migrants. Where’s the Outrage? By Kathy Kelly er parents’ names, and, if possi- to plan for an upcoming “On the home, insisting that Obaidullah, BY David L. Wilson into cities with high crime rates ty attacks on immigrants have of- ble, mobile phone numbers. Sev- Road to Peace” conference. This the householder, let them in. He like Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez. ten backfired, as happened in June KABUL - On a very warm Sep- eral women seek Masoma’s help will be the Afghan Peace Volun- pleaded with them to leave, but In July, the program began send- 2018, when the family separation tember morning in Kabul, several to write their names. She assures teers’ third annual gathering of par- instead the Taliban fighters fired The most successful of Trump’s dozen men, women, and children them she will stay in touch. A ticipants from each of Afghani- on a joint United States and Af- anti-immigrant measures up un- ing many to Nuevo Laredo and policy provoked popular outrage. sit on the carpeted floor of a room tall young man, Habib, carrying stan’s thirty-four provinces. The ghan military convoy. Shortly til now — and possibly the most Matamoros, two cities in MPP may be an even more egre- at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ a large tray of bananas and ap- conference offers four days of in- thereafter, a United States A-10 vicious — hasn’t been getting the Tamaulipas state. The U.S. State gious flouting of U.S. asylum law: Borderfree Center. The women ples, politely offers fruit to each tensive learning and discovery Warthog plane strafed Obaidul- attention it deserves. In opera- Department assigns Tamaulipas It impacts many more people, and cluster together. All wear burqas, guest. Six years ago, Afghan about cross-cultural understanding, lah’s home. tion since late January, Migrant a Level 4 “do not travel” warn- it’s likely to have a deadlier effect, but because of the heat they push Peace Volunteers members had nonviolence, and ways to abolish “Hundreds of rounds of ammu- Protection Protocols (MPP), ing — the same as for Afghani- but it’s out of sight and therefore the steel blue veils back, revealing befriended Habib when they met war. Yesterday, Dr. Hakim and I nition—bullets the size of large originally called “Remain in Mex- stan, Iraq and Syria. — the administration hopes — out their faces. Most of the men wear him in a busy market-place. His asked for complete quiet inside the carrots—fired by a weapon de- In their August report, Human of mind. traditional tunics and pakol hats. father had been killed when a center’s “office”—a large room signed to disable armoured tanks, ico,” allows the U.S. government to push most non-Mexican asy- Rights First’s researchers docu- More than 42,000 human beings Parents and children alike listen bomb exploded in Kabul. I re- lined with bookcases, file cabinets, poured out of the plane’s Gatling mented 42 cases of rape, kid- legally applying for asylum in the intently to Masoma, a young Af- member watching him work on a mats, and sturdy pillows. In the gun,” Quilty wrote. “The two lum seekers into Mexico once immigration officials have cleared napping, assault and/or criminal United States have been made to ghan woman who coordinates the dusty, crowded street during a center of the room, a jumble of Taliban fighters had fled. Instead, pursuit affecting migrants placed “disappear” into Mexico. Media Center’s “Street Kids School.” chilly afternoon shortly after he cords and power strips are con- Obaidullah and his fifteen-year- them to make an asylum claim. As of early September, the num- in Mexico under MPP, and in outlets have carried some excel- She explains the importance of and his family had taken up res- nected to a solar power battery, a old son Esmatullah were killed; publicly available materials, lent reporting on MPP, and there’s steady attendance, and parents idence in a miserable shack in fan, a router, and a collection of thirteen others suffered broken ber of people forced into Mexico nod in agreement. Most of the 100 Kabul. His little brother walked cell phones and laptops. Earlier, bones and shrapnel injuries from under MPP had reportedly risen they found another 74 cases of been legal and political pushback. students come on time for their alongside him, holding his hand, Amy Goodman of Democracy head to toe. One boy, fourteen- to more than 42,000. violence or threats. The report’s In February, the American Civil Friday classes, but a handful had while Habib carried a scale and Now! had invited Dr. Hakim and year-old Ehsanullah, lost both his Immigration authorities say that authors said these numbers were Liberties Union challenged the recently skipped, showing up asked people to weigh them- me to participate in interviews re- eyes.” In a report on civilian ca- these migrants are able to pursue “likely a gross underestimate of program with a suit (Innovation only on the day when the center selves on it. Habib looked for- garding President Trump’s sudden sualties, the United Nations As- their asylum cases while waiting the harm to returned asylum- Law Lab v. McAleenan) filed in distributes monthly food rations lorn and worried. The shy, anx- decision to call off a secret meeting sistance Mission to Afghanistan in Mexico, but this is nonsense. seekers given the limited moni- San Francisco federal court — an for the Street Kids families. The ious youngster had been regular- he claimed to have arranged be- attributed a rise in civilian deaths It’s difficult for impoverished toring of the program to date.” action backed by the union for the previous Friday, those who had ly beaten by an uncle who tried tween himself, Afghanistan’s Pres- in 2019 to an escalation of the It’s difficult for impoverished government’s own asylum offic- missed more than two classes pri- to force him to join a militia; he ident Ashraf Ghani, and represen- US air war in the country. In ad- asylum seekers to get legal rep- resentation even while inside the asylum seekers to get legal rep- ers. Likewise, in August, a group or to the food distribution day now recognizes that Habib was tatives of the Taliban who have dition, countless night raids car- resentation even while inside of 24 senators sent the adminis- walked away empty-handed—a wise to run away from the mili- been meeting with United States ried out by joint US/Afghan forces United States; from across the border, it’s virtually impossible. the United States; from across tration a letter calling on it to end hard lesson, but the volunteer tia. Today, Habib towers over envoy Zalmay Khalilzad. Sitting have struck terror in families the border, it’s virtually impos- the policy. But Trump’s officials teachers felt they must abide by me. Yesterday, he spoke eagerly on the floor, we huddled over Dr. whose loved ones were killed in At the end of June, a grand total of 1.3 percent of these asylum- sible. On September 11, the aren’t known for responding to the short list of rules governing at a small group meeting he had Hakim’s well-worn laptop wait- front of them. Ordinary Afghans U.S. Supreme Court issued an reasoned arguments, and in May, the center. Anyone who misses helped plan about ways to build ing for Democracy Now! engineers whom I have met with in the past seekers had succeeded in finding classes two or more times in a caring relationships. Over the to contact us by Skype. Hakim and week are acutely aware of the a lawyer, according to an August order allowing the government a three-judge panel of the Ninth month won’t receive the ration. past three years, he has learned I suggested that neither Trump nor night raids and link the gruesome report by the U.S. nonprofit to go ahead — for now, at least Circuit Appeals Court overturned Then Masoma’s colleague, Dr. to read and write and has been at any of the negotiators in Doha were pattern of killing civilians to Unit- Human Rights First. So far, only — with another measure against a stay the San Francisco judge had Hakim, stands and poses two the top of his classes at a gov- participating in a genuine peace ed States trainers and the CIA. one of the applicants is known non-Mexican asylum seekers. placed on the program. The sup- blunt requests. “Please raise your ernment school. He has also de- process. Rather, it was a cruel cha- Before Donald Trump pulled to have won asylum. Moreover, Like MPP, the new policy keeps posedly ultra-liberal Ninth Circuit hand,” he says, “if you and your veloped some construction skills. rade, with each side seeking great- back US participation, there had these migrants need a way to live the migrants hidden away in has put off oral arguments in the family have at least enough re- When I remark that several walls er leverage by demonstrating their been nine rounds of talks, and the if they’re going to pursue their Mexico, but it bars them from case until October, leaving tens of sources to meet your basic needs.” at the center were repaired and willingness to kill innocent peo- United States special envoy Zal- even applying for asylum. While thousands of asylum seekers in About six hands are raised. Next newly painted, Masoma smiled ple. Many people living in Afghan- may Khalilzad was supposedly claims. Many planned to stay with U.S.-based family or friends it’s uncertain what effect this Mexican limbo. Meanwhile, the he asks people to raise a hand if happily. “Habib!” she says. “He istan greatly fear increased Taliban edging closer to a “peace” deal will have on MPP, clearly ac- Supreme Court’s September 11 they couldn’t make ends meet. was a big help.” power over their cities, villages, with the Taliban. A genuine peace when they came to this country; in Mexico, they have no support tivists need to fight back against order allows the government to bar Seven hands go up. Hakim says A few adults linger alongside the roadways, and crumbling infra- process would hold all warring both policies. new asylum seekers at least until his organization wants to help center’s shady garden, filled with structure. Taliban war crimes are parties accountable for crimes networks. Lacking Mexican work permits, they can at best scrape Out of Sight, Out of Mind? December. As immigration attor- families become self-reliant so fruit trees, grapevines, herbs, and frequently covered in global me- against humanity and would call There’s hardly any information ney Shouan Zhoobin Riahi notes, that after their children leave the flowers. Some of the Afghan dia. Less obvious to people in the for an immediate end to US and by with jobs in the informal econ- Street Kids School, they will have Peace Volunteers used permac- US, but horribly real for people in NATO militarism in Afghanistan. omy that barely cover the neces- about what happens to people “We need to be organizing large- another way to acquire essentials ulture methods to design and cul- Afghanistan, are acts of aerial ter- It would urge the United States sities, if that. Some turn to Mex- in the MPP program. How scale protests against the MPP, like beans, rice, and cooking oil. tivate the space. Others recently rorism regularly waged by the to humbly acknowledge the reck- ico’s shelters for migrants or many have been victims of Trump’s concentration camps, Hakim now asks people to raise dedicated themselves to a “re- United States military. Writing for lessness of its invasion and occu- homeless people, but the shel- crime? Have any been killed? and the new asylum ban.” their hands if they could send one newable energy team.” Last year, The Daily Beast earlier this year, pation. Reliable non-governmen- ters in Mexican border cities are How many have given up and Indeed, the one thing that can turn family member, like an older the team helped forty-four fam- Andrew Quilty described how one tal parties would be asked to de- already overwhelmed. Many returned to their home countries, this situation around is militant brother, to a three-month course ilies acquire solar energy. This Afghan family in the Helmand velop ways for Afghans to receive and have they become crime vic- activism of the sort that confront- year they hope to expand the province suffered a vicious attack reparations from all countries asylum seekers — including chil- on how to repair mobile phones. dren, pregnant women and peo- tims there? No one knows. U.S. ed the Muslim ban and the family The idea is well-received. Note- effort. Over the past week, on their home last November. Two who’ve participated in the past and Mexican authorities aren’t separation policy. The resistance book papers are circulated to gath- young volunteers have gathered Taliban fighters had come to their eighteen years of war. ple with disabilities — end up sleeping in tent encampments or keeping track of these out- may understandably be suffering in the open air. comes, and it’s extremely diffi- from outrage fatigue, but this is Disclaimer: Even if they find work and shel- cult for reporters, immigration no time to let up the pressure. If ter, migrants are in constant dan- lawyers and human rights re- activists don’t seize the initiative, The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) ger; the only protection MPP searchers to get more than anec- the Trump administration will offers is in the program’s Or- dotal accounts. For the Trump have gotten away with two of its and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. wellian name. For months, asy- administration, this is a feature. gravest human rights violations to lum seekers have been pushed The government’s high-visibili- date. (Truthout) SUNDAY .SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTANTIMES Ukrainefears forcedconcessions at talkswithRussia

Back on July 1, 2011, I wrote a piece headlined “Obama 2012: Never Underestimate the Power of Incumbency.” After re-reading it while researching for this piece, it became apparent to me that eight years later, I could substi- tute Obama’s name with Donald Trump’s, change a few details, replace the word “Republicans” with “Democrats” and repost the piece. Given how Obama suc- cessfully leveraged the power of incumbency to win reelection with a permanent self-centered cam- The Ukrainian president's envoy people." As the first step toward paign that spewed aggressive par- for peace talks with Russia- seeking a solution to the conflict, tisan rhetoric, it appears that backed separatists expressed Zelenskiy negotiated a major pris- Trump is following Obama’s concern Friday that the leaders oner exchange with Russian Pres- playbook, only on steroids. of France and Germany will push ident Vladimir Putin in which 35 Setting a precedent that Trump Ukraine to make unacceptable people from both sides were re- has emulated, Obama was the concessions to Russia. Ukraine leased and flown home on Satur- first president to blatantly and and Russia have been locked in a day. Some of the prisoners had unabashedly continue his victo- bitter standoff since 2014, when been incarcerated in Russia for five rious 2008 campaign organization Russia annexed the Crimean Pen- years. European leaders includ- -- Obama for America -- with only insula and threw its weight be- ing German Chancellor Angela a minor name change. hind separatists in eastern Merkel hailed the prisoner swap Organizing for America, the Ukraine. Hopes for a solution to as a "sign of hope" for implement- grassroots organization that the separatist conflict in eastern ing the peace accords. Kuchma, Obama announced on Jan. 17, Ukraine, which has claimed more Ukraine's president between 1994 2009, before he took office, be- than 13,000 lives, were revived and 2005, said Friday that gan with an email list of 13 mil- after political novice Volodymyr Ukraine is being asked to agree to lion names. It was “run” (wink- Zelenskiy was elected Ukraini- "all the demands that Moscow is wink) by the Democratic Nation- an president in April. But his en- making," including giving wide al Committee to mobilize support voy, Leonid Kuchma, told The powers to the separatists in east- for the president’s policies and Associated Press he is concerned ern Ukraine. Ukraine is commit- Just over a year later, on Feb. 27, a victory trend that includes the “Like a good salesman, Obama the trappings of power, the that France and Germany, who ted to the peace accords it signed of course, raise money. Harness- 2018, he made his reelection plans last three officeholders. Whether cannot stop selling his product — White House and Air Force One, ing, embracing and refining the are mediating the talks, will push with separatists in the Belarusian official – earlier than any presi- Trump ends or lengthens the cur- himself — long after the sale is all harnessed to raise more mon- President Zelenskiy to make capital, Minsk, in 2015, Kuchma new technology of email blasts, dent in history. (The real reason rent streak is anyone’s guess. At finalized. It’s as if he knows his ey than any political campaign Team Obama reached millions of trade-offs, such as approving a said, but he insisted that Russia for that timing was explained to this writing, I could equally ar- God-given talents are more suited in the history of the world, while plan for the separatists to hold should pressure separatists to lay supporters with one click, always me by a Trump insider.) gue both ways, but that is for a to ‘campaigner in chief’ than the on ‘official business’ by day and testing and honing the president’s local elections in the areas they down their arms and allow Ukrai- Practically every day since Trump future column. Instead, let’s re- expected chief executive/com- as ‘fundraiser in chief’at night - control without any oversight by nian troops to take control of the reelection message. (As a “spy” took office, I receive a text mes- visit my July 1, 2011 criticism mander in chief.” “All Obama will - usually in the same town, of on their list, I was a first-hand the Ukrainian government. border first, before a political so- sage asking me for a campaign do- of Obama’s “early” run for re- continue to do up until November course.” “Since he took office in "I don't have a lot of hope," lution is discussed. "Let's com- witness.) Then along came Presi- nation. Do voters ever get a break? election and in your mind substi- 6, 2012, is recite the same old red- January 2009, President Obama dent Trump, who started running Kuchma said when asked about ply with the Minsk accords," Obviously, incumbent presidents tute Trump’s name. These quotes meat rhetoric about how those has never stopped campaigning.” a much-anticipated meeting of Kuchma said. "Security comes for reelection on Inauguration always have a reelection advantage; should please Trump support- scary Republicans messed things “With Obama, it is always us Zelenskiy with the leaders of first. You need to pull out the Day. On Jan. 20, 2017, the Wash- they have a 68.7% success rate, ers, considering that Obama’s up so bad; thus, why on earth vs. them.” “I believe Obama’s Russia, France and Germany. troops, pull out the heavy weap- ington Post reported, “President starting with George Washington narcissistic, antagonistic, parti- would you let them back into the carefully calculated partisan be- "Zelenskiy will have a very hard onry, give us back the border and Trump tells the FEC he qualifies winning his second term in 1792, san style got him reelected: White House?” “Obama will have havior will actually.” time — it will be one against three then we will hold a free election." as a candidate for 2020.” How will the Saudi- Why Iran’s leader has UAEalliance react to a rising Houthi threat blocked negotiation with US Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Seyyed to a war, which would be detri- Iran on regional issues and on lim- Ali Khamenei has defined the mental to Iran’s national securi- iting its missile program. in south Yemen? current status of relations be- ty and its interests. Second, the “no war, no negotia- Last Thursday, Yemen’s Houthis military march towards Taiz and tween Iran and the United States The main argument made by op- tion” policy shows that Iran is claimed two lethal attacks against other fronts. Moving forward, we as “no war, no negotiation.” ponents of this view has been prepared to face a possible con- a military parade in the southern should expect another shift from His position, in addition to that the imminence of a possible flict with the US under any cir- Yemeni city of Aden and a mili- the UAE: a reversal of the prema- showing Iran’s indomitability or war between Iran and the US in cumstances. Iran believes that it Kyrgyzstan’s Permanent tary site in the eastern Saudi city ture drawdown and "peace-first" resistance against President essence relies upon a mistaken has the capability to defend itself of Dammam. Shortly afterwards, strategy Mohammad al-Bukhaiti, Trump’s and his favorite region- assumption. Donald Trump, against the US through both sym- suicide bombers targeted a po- a senior member of the Houthis’ al allies’ so-called “maximum they argue, is unlikely to act metric and asymmetric means, via Representative to lice station in Aden’s Sheikh Oth- political bureau, told MEE that the pressure” policy, is aimed at uni- against his presidential campaign its conventional military means man neighbourhood, killing more military parade was “destined to fying Iran’s foreign policy ap- promises to reduce the US mili- and through its friendly forces in NATO appointed than 10, but the Houthis did not fight us on the fronts”. He added proach, as well as convincing the tary footprint overseas. Trump, the Middle East that can, if nec- claim this. Suicide operations that the UAE’s drawdown “was country’s political factions that according to this view, under- essary, endanger US interests. it is futile to negotiate with the stands the potential cost of a Third and most significantly, this President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbay Jeenbekov on Friday, have not been the Houthis’ modus positive, but we didn’t target US in a time of political inequal- risky and unpredictable war with approach minimizes political po- Sept. 13 signed a Decree, according to which Muktar Dzhumaliyev operandi, but we have seen such them for this reason. They are not attacks from al-Qaeda in the Ara- granted immunity for withdraw- ity. Over the past year, the issue Iran, and realizes that it could be larization within Iran when con- has been appointed Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Grand of possible negotiation with the detrimental to his chances of be- fronting US sanctions. By con- Duchy of Luxembourg and Permanent Representative of the Kyrgyz bian Peninsula (AQAP). The Is- ing, as they’re still fighting us”. lamic State in Yemen ultimately Houthi leader Sayyid Abdul-Ma- US has been heavily debated by ing reelected. In that framework, necting the issue of US economic Republic to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in con- claimed the police station attack, lik al-Houthi this week issued a Iranian politicians. Proponents adopting the Leader’s position sanctions to the more significant junction with the residence in the city of Brussels, Trend reports with although the group’s presence in stark warning to the UAE to abide of negotiation depict the status of “no war, no negotiation” issue of national security and the reference to Kabar which cited the press service of the Kyrgyz Pres- the conflict has been peripheral. by its drawdown commitment in of Iran-US relations as the “di- achieves several aims. First, unit- broader threat of instability and ident. Dzhumaliyev is the Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the AQAP currently seems to be re- order to preserve its “economic lemma of either war or negotia- ing Iran’s foreign policy ap- even the possible collapse of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the French focusing its lethal operations situation”. This echoes the tion,” meaning that Iran should proach can shift Iran’s domestic “state,” the Leader has been able Republic, Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the European against the UAE-backed Securi- Houthis’ position of striking coa- negotiate with the Trump admin- politics to resist Trump and to enhance the logic of “maximum Union, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Orga- ty Belt Forces in Abyan’s al- lition targets if coalition forces do istration on matters of regional those European countries that resistance” in Iranian politics. nization (UNESCO) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chem- Mahfad region. A string of at- not halt hostilities in Yemen. Sig- significance—in return for a re- believed, at least initially, they This is made easier because, from ical Weapons (OPCW). tacks have already been claimed. nificantly, the Aden attack killed duction in US economic pres- could benefit from Trump’s hard- the Iranian perspective, blame for Lethal operations Brigadier General Munir al- sure—lest the tensions between line “maximum pressure” policy the new wave of hostility be- There are two overarching rea- Mashali, a leading figure within the the two countries ultimately lead to gain further concessions from tween Iran. sons for the Houthis’ attack on southern separatist movement. Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan the military parade in Aden. His killing marked a significant Firstly, the UAE’s drawdown has victory for the Houthis - retribu- Libyan self presents his credentials to left the UAE-backed southern tion for the Saudi-UAE coalition’s EU follows Turkey, Yemeni forces vulnerable. Sec- killing of senior Houthi figure Saleh styled army says Belarusian President ondly, the attack came as a pre- al-Sammad in 2018. 3 fighters killed emptive strike, aiming to avert a (BBC) US talks on safe Lukashenko near Tripoli The solemn ceremony of presenting credentials by Ambassador of The self-styled Libyan National zone in Syria Kyrgyzstan to Belarus Ermek Ibrayimov to President Alexander Boris Johnson ‘cautiously Army says three of its forces, Lukashenko took place at the Independence Palace, Trend reports including two commanders, were European Union follows the requires “genuine political transi- with reference to Kabar which cited the press service of the Ministry optimistic’ of getting killed in a drone attack by mili- talks between Turkey and the US tion in line with the relevant UN of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan. The Belarusian leader pointed out tias loosely allied with the U.N.- on a safe zone in Syria along Security Council resolution.”On that Belarus pursues an open, peaceful and multi-vector foreign pol- fresh Brexit deal supported government. It says Turkey’s border, an EU official August 7, Turkish and US mili- icy and is ready for close and mutually beneficial cooperation with all the attack took place Friday in said on Friday, says Reuters. tary officials agreed to set up a foreign partners regardless of their political influence, geographical the town of Tarhuna, around 88 “Obviously, we do follow the safe zone in northern Syria and remoteness and economic potential. kilometers (55 miles) southeast discussions between the US and develop a peace corridor to facil- of the capital, Tripoli. Turkey and are trying to under- itate the movement of displaced Addressing Ambassador Ibrayimov, the President of Belarus noted Tarhuna is controlled by the Kyrgyzstan is traditionally an important ally and partner for the LNA, whose leader, Khalifa stand in more detail what this Syrians who want to return home. country. The priority in bilateral relations is to increase trade turn- Hifter, launched an offensive to would mean and entail,” EU’s They also agreed to establish a over using the potential of the EAEU. “The opportunities for this are take the nearby capital in April. Foreign Affairs and Security Pol- joint operations center. The agree- evidenced by the growth of mutual trade over the past two years by The months-long fighting has icy spokeswoman Maja Koci- ment also envisaged setting up more than 2.5 times,” President Lukashenko said. killed hundreds and displaced jancic said at a press briefing. necessary security measures to Having conveyed his best wishes to President of the Kyrgyz Repub- thousands of people. Hifter's Kocijancic said the EU believes address Turkey’s security con- lic Sooronbay Jeenbekov, Lukashenko wished stability and develop- forces already control large that “the goal needs to be to cerns, including clearing the zone ment in the country and assured that Belarus had been and would be BORIS JOHNSON has said he premier Leo Varadkar, German swathes of the country's east and avoid any renewed armed hostil- of the terrorist YPG/PKK, a a reliable partner for Kyrgyzstan. is ‘cautiously optimistic’ of get- Chancellor Angela Merkel and south. The fighting threatens to ities” in Syria’s northeas group the US has sometimes been ting a Brexit deal as he prepares French President Emmanuel Ma- plunge Libya into another bout She added that any sustainable allied with, over Turkey’s objec- for talks with European Com- cron had made ‘a good deal of of violence on the scale. solution to the conflict in Syria tions. mission president Jean-Claude progress’ towards an agreement. Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan discuss Juncker. The prime minister will But he made clear that if he was travel to Luxembourg on Mon- unable to get a new deal, he would creation of joint business council day for his first meeting with Mr not be deterred by ‘shenanigans’ New Italy government lets Juncker and EU chief negotiator at Westminster from taking Brit- Ashgabat has hosted the fifth meeting of the intergovernmental Turk- Michel Barnier since taking of- ain out of the EU by the October men-Azerbaijani commission on economic cooperation, Trend reports fice in July, Downing Street said. 31 deadline. rescued migrants disembark with reference to Turkmen Foreign Ministry. The meeting was headed Speaking in Rotherham at the His comments came after Com- by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Purli Agamyradov from launch of his plan to re-vitalise mons Speaker John Bercow the Turkmen side and by First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan the Northern Powerhouse initia- warned yesterday that MPs Italy on Saturday agreed to al- been reached to allow the land- try's ex-interior minister Matteo Yagub Eyyubov from the Azerbaijani side. The parties considered the tive, Mr Johnson said there was would act ‘forcefully’ to prevent low rescue ship Ocean Viking to ing," said French Interior Minis- Salvini last year.Under far-right possibilities of increasing trade and creating joint ventures of various the ‘rough shape’ of a deal in the prime minister pushing disembark 82 migrants on south- ter Christophe Castaner, refer- leader Salvini, charity vessels profiles, the report said. In particular, the discussions included the place.However, he was heckled through a no-deal Brexit against ern islands Lampedusa after six ring to the division of the mi- with rescued migrants on board exchange of trading houses and the creation of Turkmen-Azerbaijani by a member of audience who the will of the House. In response days at sea following a Europe- grants between the five countries. faced fines of up to a million eu- business council. The meeting participants talked about the need for told him to ‘get back to parlia- to reporters’ questions, Mr an deal to distribute them. "The "We now need to agree on a gen- ros as well as the arrest of the organizing mutual visits at various levels to share best practices, in- ment’ to sort out ‘the mess that Johnson said his meetings with Mr Ocean Viking just received in- uine temporary European mech- captain and impounding of the cluding in the areas of high technology and machine engineering. Inter- you have created’. Mr Johnson Juncker and Mr Barnier would be structions from the Maritime anism," Castaner added. France boat. est was expressed in establishing car-ferry and rail-ferry services be- brushed off the interruption, in- an opportunity to discuss the Rescue Coordination Centre of and Germany have agreed to take - 'Abusive ministers' - tween the two countries and activating the work for the implementa- sisting MPs would have ‘ample ideas they had been working on. Rome to proceed to Lampedusa," 25 percent of the migrants each, "Here we go, ports open without tion of transport operations through airports. The parties noted the time’ to consider Brexit when We are working incredibly hard to SOS Mediterranee tweeted. with Italy to take 10 percent. limits," Salvini tweeted after the high level of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, based parliament returns next month get a deal. There is the rough shape "An ad hoc European agreement The offering of a safe port to the safe port announcement. "The on the principles of equality, good neighborliness and mutual respect, after a five-week suspension. He of the deal to be done. I would say between Italy, France, Germany, Ocean Viking is a reversal of the new government is reopening the the report noted. said recent meetings with Irish I’m cautiously optimistic,’ he said. Portugal and Luxembourg has hardline stance taken by the coun- ports, Italy returns to being. SUNDAY .SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTANTIMES Paris, Berlin agree to fight Facebook’s cryptocurrency No private entity can claim monetary power, inherent to sovereignty of nations, two countries say in statement UAE, should take advantage of the lower cost of investment, operations and higher return on investment in Bangladesh." Bi- France and Germany in a joint the two countries stressed. lateral relations between Bang- statement on Friday opposed Paris and Berlin said there is a need ladesh and the UAE is set to reach the launch of Facebook’s up- to improve the effectiveness of to a completely new level this coming digital currency Libra. international payments, and add- year with the $10 billion worth "France and Germany consider ed: "At European level, we call of investment pledged by UAE that the Libra project, as set out today on banks to work on im- investors into Bangladesh’s en- in Facebook’s blueprint, fails to proving European payment sys- ergy, ports, power and infrastruc- convince that those risks will be tems." In June, Facebook an- ture sectors that will help fuel properly addressed," said the nounced the new digital currency, the economic growth of Bang- statement. "We believe that no which aims to provide financial ladesh. Bangladesh and the UAE private entity can claim mone- services that will let people make signed four memoranda of under- tary power, which is inherent payments via Facebook apps and standing, MoUs, on establishing to the sovereignty of Nations," the WhatsApp messaging service. a port, industrial park, supply and setting up a liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal, power plants, and a special economic Turkey, Thailand zone in Bangladesh, during a three-day visit by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the UAE in February this year. seek to boost "These investments will strengthen the bilateral relation- ship between Bangladesh and the economicties UAE and will deepen our eco- nomic relations to a strategic part- nership level," said Muhammad Imran, Ambassador of Bang- ladesh to the UAE. "The Bangladesh economy last A number of UAE business investment between the UAE and the second edition of the Bang- its economy growing at over eight year grew at 7.9 percent and we groups are set to invest $10 bil- Bangladesh. Bangladeshis are ladesh Economic Forum. He is lead- percent in the next few years. expect it to grow at 8.3 percent lion (AED36.7 billion) into Bang- major investors in the UAE econ- ing a 20-member government dele- "Bangladesh is more than ready this year. This will make Bang- ladesh, according to data compiled omy where more than 50,000 gation comprising of officials of to receive a higher level of For- ladesh the fastest growing econ- by Bangladesh Economic Forum. businesses are owned and suc- Bangladesh Investment Develop- eign Direct Investment that omy in the world and we would The Forum will kick-off in Dubai cessfully run by Bangladeshi ex- ment Authority, Bangladesh Eco- jumped 69 percent last year to like our brothers in the UAE to on 15th September 2019, with patriates who employ more than nomic Zones Authority and Bang- $3.61 billion," said Rahman. "We benefit from our growth in the more than 300 government offi- 150,000 people collectively. Sal- ladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority. have seen large investments com- coming years. It is heartening to cials, business leaders, investors man Fazlur Rahman, Advisor to According to Pan Asia Media, the ing from China, Japan and the see that our relationship is mov- and entrepreneurs participating. Bangladesh Prime Minister for Bangladesh economy saw a growth United States. We believe, inves- ing towards the right strategic The one-day conference aims to Private Industry and Investment of 7.9 percent in 2018, experienc- tors from the GCC countries, es- direction where both countries strengthen the flow of trade and will deliver a keynote address at ing a growth overdrive that will see pecially Saudi Arabia and the could be partners. Viet Nam A group of Turkish business- Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Lebanon:Thousandsof studentsenrollin needs renewal people from various sectors Jatusripitak told the Turkish del- have visited senior Thai govern- egation that Thailand welcomes ment officials in Bangkok to investments from all countries on of property learn more about investment the basis of “first come, first publicschoolsover direeconomicsituation opportunities in the country served.” “If you are based in Thai- market to lure and seek mutual partnerships land, it means that you have also More students were seen enroll- of the Union of Parents’ Com- until the intermediate level, while in Lebanon). It reached its low- with Thai companies. The meet- invested in the Asia market. We ing in public schools at the start mittees in Lebanon, Abdo Ge- students pay less than $200 for est of 29.5 percent in 2010-2011. more foreign ings, organized by the Thai are a hub; that is why we invest of the new academic year in Leb- brayel said. Private school fees higher levels. Lebanon has 1,261 In the 2018-2019 academic year, Embassy of Turkey, also host- so much in infrastructure – to im- anon due to the dire economic sit- have reached unprecedented lev- public schools. In the past years, 31 percent of students registered capital ed a group of Turkish media prove connectivity [with neigh- uation and the inability of par- els in the past few years mainly only 30 percent of students were in public schools. Sources told Viet Nam needs to renew its real members from Istanbul and An- boring countries],” said Jatusripi- ents to pay the fees of private as a result of the government’s enrolled in such institutions. How- Asharq Al-Awsat that a few days kara. During the meetings that tak. There are already three big educational institutions. “A recent approval of a law to raise the ever, a survey conducted by the after the Education Ministry an- estate market to attract more for- eign investors and increase the took place between Sept. 4 – 9, Turkish companies operating fac- survey reveals that 12 percent of salaries of teachers. The average Beirut-based research firm, Infor- nounced the start of registrations quality of foreign direct invest- Thai officials emphasized that tories in Thailand: White goods students moved this year from yearly fee of a private school is mation International, said that 42.4 at public schools, there was a high ment (FDI) in the sector, accord- the country was Southeast maker Arçelik, the owner of the private to public schools because around $2,600, adding to that percent of students were enrolled turnout at registrars across the Asia’s logistics hub and there- Beko brand; HIDROMEK, a lead- ing to experts. Director of Jones fore an ideal candidate if Turk- ing manufacturer of construction parents lack the finances to pay stationary, uniforms and books. in public schools in the 1974-1975 country and not in a specific re- Lang LaSalle (JLL) Vietnam, Dang for private schools,” coordinator Public schools are tuition-free academic year (before the civil war gion. ish businesspeople wanted to machinery; and Kordsa, a global Van Quang said regulatory re- penetrate into the region. player of tire, construction rein- forms will help improve trans- “If you [Turkey] want to have forcement and composite technol- Singapore, parency, making Viet Nam's real a foot in this region, we [Thai- ogies. But both Turkish business- estate market more attractive to land] can be important for you,” people and Thai officials ex- Kazakhstan to IMFofficial claimsglobal economy'far foreign investors. This is because said Thai ambassador to Tur- pressed their wishes during the finding available land areas for key Phantipha Iamsudha Ekaro- meetings that this number would link innovation fromrecession' despite lowgrowth:Report investment will be a challenge for hit during the Turkish delega- increase further in the future as developers and investors next tion’s meeting with Thai Indus- the share of Turkish investment ecosystems As the trade war between the US member talking to Reuters on Fri- last, and we are monitoring care- year, he said. Authorities need to try Ministry officials. During a in total foreign direct investment and China continues following a day, as the global financial body fully all indicators”, the anony- continue reforms of administra- meeting held at the Government in Thailand for the period of Jan- The Intellectual Property Office halt in negotiations between the gears up to release a new economic mous official said, cited by Reu- tive procedures to support for- House, which refers to the of- uary-June of this year stands at of Singapore (IPOS) has signed a two antagonists, and the US outlook report. The official, who ters. This statement differs sig- eign investors pouring capital to fices of the prime minister of mere 0.05 percent, while it was tripartite memorandum of under- stock market shows hints of an is not authorised to make public nificantly from what was assert- Viet Nam, according to experts. Thailand and cabinet ministers, zero in 2018. standing with the Astana Finan- upward swing, the suggestion of statements, explained that while ed by IMF spokesman Gerry cial Services Authority (AFSA) a sharp drop in the Dow Jones "trade tensions are weighing on Rice at a press briefing on Thurs- and the Ministry of Justice of and current slow economic growth [...] we really don’t see re- day in which he spoke of "a weak- Kazakhstan aiming to link their growth has led many economists cession in the current baseline. I ening in manufacturing activity. In innovation ecosystems, IPPro to consider that a recession is think we’re far from that”. “While particular, to levels not seen since R u ssia , I r a n coor d in a t in g Magazine reports. The agreement imminent. A suggestion that the manufacturing activity has been the global financial crisis actual- proposes the establishment of an global economy will fall into a weak, we also see resilience in the ly". Rice also announced that the IP and innovation service centre t h eir p a ym en t syst em s a s in the Astana International Finan- recession is false, however, ac- services sector and consumer con- IMF team would visit Washing- cial Centre (AIFC) where IPOS cording to an unnamed Interna- fidence is holding up. The ques- ton later this month in a bid "to will lend its deep IP expertise and tional Monetary Fund (IMF) tion is how long that resilience can continue the discussions. S W I F T a lt er n a t ive services as a partner and advisor to the AIFC in building its IP and SWIFT, an international messag- "To protect bilateral trade and would sever ties with individual innovation ecosystem. IPOS and ing network for communications economic ties from the sanc- Iran-based banks for the sake of AIFC will also examine the pro- K ey E U m in ister s ign or e between banks, suspended access tions of third states: we are tak- the "global stability of the sys- vision of IP management consul- for several Iranian-based banks ing measures to expand direct tem," without elaborating. tancy services and customised in November in the wake of US settlements, use national curren- The announcement came on the training programmes to support bu dget r u le r eva m p for I ta ly sanctions against the Islamic Re- cies, and to establish interaction same day as the US Treasury De- innovative enterprises to use the The EU’s most powerful mem- week for the EU’s Stability and ly splits Italy from the EU’s rich- public. Russia and Iran are orga- between the Russian financial partment imposed sanctions AIFC to commercialise its IP and nising cooperation between the messaging system and Iran's against the Iranian economy's en- intangible assets as well as ex- bers on Saturday ignored a call Growth Pact, which limits budget er numbers that are loathe to ease by Italy to reform the European deficits to three percent of gross the pressure on Rome’s chronic Russian financial messaging sys- SEPAM, as an alternative to ergy, banking and shipping sectors. panding into global markets. Sin- tem and Iran's SEPAM as an al- making payments through Several days prior, the US had gapore and Kazakhstan signed a Union’s budget rules, handing an domestic product in member overspending. French Finance bilateral investment treaty in early setback to the pro-Euro- states, to be “improved” and sim- Minister Bruno Le Maire said ternative to making payments SWIFT", Ushakov said. warned that SWIFT, like any oth- November last year. This new pean government in Rome. plified. The pact was the main bone any attempt to modify the rules through SWIFT for protection The Society for Worldwide In- er entity, must abide with the US agreement will further strength- EU finance ministers meeting in of contention between the Euro- would be too contentious and the against third countries' sanctions, terbank Financial Telecommuni- sanctions regime against Iran, or en the economic linkage and in- Helsinki discussed a possible pean Commission and the previ- EU must prioritize other challeng- Russian presidential aide Yury cation, known as SWIFT, an- risk falling under secondary US novation flows between the two update to the EU’s rules on pub- ous populist government in heavi- es, especially investment. “I am Ushakov told reporters Friday. nounced in November that it sanctions. economies. Singapore and Kaza- lic spending, but key countries ly indebted Italy, which must sub- very cautious on ideas to change khstan are also part of on-going Germany, France and the Neth- mit a balanced budget to Brussels the rules,” Le Maire said in Hels- negotiations on the Eurasian erlands were represented by sub- in the coming weeks. Reforming inki on Friday before jetting off Bulgarian PM Union-Singapore Free Trade ordinates. Italian Prime Minis- the rules, which also include a 60 early from the two-day meeting. Georgia moves one Borisov: The Agreement (EAEU-Singapore. ter Giuseppe Conte called this percent of GDP cap on debt, sharp- (BBC) economy is moving step forward on the at such pace that Economic Freedom we cannot manage Italy's economy with the of the World index infrastructure minister urges caution Georgia has moved one step for- sumption, transfers and subsi- The economy is moving at such ward on the rankings of countries dies compared to 2016. Also, pace that we cannot manage with based on the Economic Freedom Georgia has improved legal the infrastructure, said Prime Min- of the World index published by structure and security of prop- ister Boyko Borissov in Ruse. He over privatizations the Fraser Institute. The institute erty rights by 0.03 points (from said the government is working on ranks countries based on five ar- 6.31 to 6.34) which was reflect- a number of infrastructure eas: size of government, legal ed by a more impartial court, projects, including motorways, Italy’s economy minister Rober- the anti-establishment 5-Star and tive supported by 5-Star and the cause it could harm public com- structure and security of prop- increased protection of proper- to Gualtieri said on Saturday that the far-right League, which quit center-left Partito Democratico, panies which are “strategic” to said the government press office. erty rights, access to sound mon- ty rights and increased assess- "We are building seven motor- privatization targets set by the the coalition in August, had set a said privatizations were not a tool the Italian economy and indus- ey, freedom to trade internation- ment of police credibility. Cri- ways at the same time," the prime previous Italian government were target of raising 18 billion euros he wanted to use to meet immedi- trial policy. Gualtieri, speaking ally, and regulation of credit, la- teria for freedom of internation- minister said. In Ruse, he is in- “unrealistic”, and warned the sale ($19.93 billion) this year from ate financial needs. He said the sale after his first meeting with EU bour and business. The report of al trade has improved by 0.18 specting construction works on of government shares in public the sale of public assets. Gualt- of public assets could be a way of finance ministers since the new 2019 compares 162 countries and points (from 8.56 to 8.74) in the new section of Pridunavski companies should be handled ieri, who last week took office as reducing Italy’s large debt, but Italian government took office territories. According to the Eco- Georgia. This was the result of Boulevard. It is part of the project with caution. The government of finance minister in a new execu- should be used with caution be- last week. nomic Freedom of the World in- increased tax revenue from pub- Integrated Urban Transport Sys- dex for 2019, Georgia's situation lic sector, less barriers in inter- tem of Ruse - Phase 2, under Re- US momentarily overtook Saudi Arabia and Russia as top oil exporter: IEA improved by 0.6 points in 2017 national trade and improved cri- gions in Growth OP, worth BGN compared to 2016, shifting Geor- teria in controls of the move- 24,344,185.59. The US momentarily overtook bound in the country’s output overtook Saudi Arabia and Russia “no further deterioration in the gia from 13th to 12th position. ment of capital and people. "The change in Ruse is clearly Saudi Arabia and Russia as the following Hurricane Dorian and as the world’s number one gross economic climate and in trade Improving the position of the Regulation of credit, labour and visible. Major repairs of the street world’s largest gross oil exporter the impact of OPEC+ supply oil exporter,” said the IEA. The disputes,” suggesting demand country in the Economic Free- business has improved by 0.05 network and the sidewalks are in June, according to preliminary cuts. “A reminder to the produc- agency also said that its 2019 and forecasts need not be revised dom of the World index is due to units (8.1 to 8.15) in Georgia. underway. For 8 years, more than data from the International Ener- ers that competition for market 2020 global oil demand growth fore- down. Oil supplies have rebound- improvement of the size of gov- This is the result of improved 200 million euros has been invest- gy Agency (IEA) monthly report share is getting tougher comes casts are unchanged at 1.1 million ed, with global oil supply increas- ernment by 0.08 (from 7.5 to regulations of private sector ed in Ruse under various pro- released. The US’ brief stint as from preliminary data showing barrels per day (mb/d) and 1.3 mb/ ing to 100.7 mb/d, an increase of 7.58) points which was reflected loans, credit market regulations, grams," said Mayor of Ruse Pla- the largest producer reflects a re- that in June the US momentarily d respectively as the IEA assumes, 530,000 barrels per day (bdp). in the decrease of public con- employment. men Stoilov. SUNDAY .SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Shraddha Kapoor has currently taken over Bollywood with two back to back superhits 'Saaho' and 'Chhichhore'. The powerhouse of Director James Gunn revealed ten the sequel of the 2016 film, talent has recently, broken her the full cast of The Suicide Squad which again shows how a group own record as 'Chhichhore's' on Twitter, with a warning. Gunn of villains being forced by the gov- first-week box office numbers revealed the 24-member cast that ernment to work for good. have exceeded that of 'Stree'. includes actors Margot Robbie Directed by David Ayer, Sui- Stree, a film for which the ac- (Harley Quinn), Viola Davis cide Squad earned $768 million tress is well remembered as well (Amanda Waller), Joel Kinnaman worldwide despite negative re- had received 59.31 crores in its (Rick Flag) and Jai Courtney views. The Suicide Squad is set first week while her latest re- (Captain Boomerang) who will to release in August, 2021 and the lease, Chhichhore has gathered a reprise their roles. New cast shoot will begin later this month whopping 68.83 crores. Chhich- members are Taika Waititi, Peter in Atlanta. Gunn’s film has been hore, a film that will walk you Capaldi, Idris Elba, John Cena, called not-a-sequel to the Ayer down the memory lane of your Storm Reid, Pete Davidson, film, which received a dismal 27% college days has been receiving David Dastmalchian and Danie- rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Pro- love from audiences all across. la Melchior. Will Smith will not ducer Peter Safran earlier said that The actress who played the role be returning to play Deadshot. Gunn’s film is “not a sequel.” “It’s of 'Maya' in the film too was It was earlier reported that called The Suicide Squad. It’s not well appreciated for her tremen- Elba may play Deadshot in the Suicide Squad 2. It is not a sequel. dous performance on screen. sequel. However, a Variety re- I will leave that alone but, yes, Shraddha Kapoor who has been port confirmed that Elba is play- it’s called The Suicide Squad.” making it to the news for all the ing a new character with Storm Later, when asked whether his right reasons is receiving im- Reid as his daughter. Along with film is a sequel or reboot, Gunn mense love from fans who are the list of supervillains, The had replied that the terms are “all The recent announcement that verse. Marvel directors Anthony it’s a tragic mistake on Sony’s part difficult to get him into Civil War. extremely happy to see their Guardians of the Galaxy direc- so narrow. There are so many Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has and Joe Russo are clearly just as to think that they can replicate It was an extremely long and hard icon take over the silver screen tor also had a warning for fans: terms. It is what it is. You’ll see left the Marvel Cinematic Uni- disappointed as fans at Holland’s Kevin’s penchant for telling in- process. But we were driven to with Chhichhore and not so long “Don’t get too attached. #The- in two years when it comes out.” verse provoked a furious reaction departure. But while they expect credible stories and the amazing help make it happen. But Kevin ago with Saaho as well. Looking SuicideSquad”. He has also writ- (Hindustan Times) from Marvel fans. Having seen Marvel to be just fine, Joe Russo success he has had over the years. Feige pulled it off, somehow. Dis- forward, Shraddha Kapoor has Holland as Peter Parker in Cap- has now predicted that Sony will I think it’s a big mistake.” An- ney and all the good people at Street Dancer 3D and Baaghi 3, tain America: Civil War, Aveng- eventually deem their decision to thony Russo also opened up to Sony found a way to make it work both of which are sequels and ers: Infinity War, Avengers: End- disintegrate their creative relation- the Toronto Sun about just how and it lasted a few films.” “We had look extremely interesting. The Kar Har Maidaan game, Spider-Man: Homecoming ship with Marvel president Kevin difficult it was to get Spider- a wonderful experience with that actress who has just begun and Spider-Man: Far From Home, Feige a “tragic mistake.” “It was a Man into the Marvel Cinematic and I think audiences really ap- shooting for the latter had shared Fateh fame Vikram they believed that he was the tenuous, fraught union throughout Universe in the first place, which preciated that marriage. But we some pictures on her social me- rightful heir to Robert Downey the whole process. But, I will say, is why the pair aren’t surprised know how hard that marriage was dia handles which have just in- Jr’s Iron Man as the de-facto lead- stepping back and trying to be that Sony and Disney’s deal has to make in the first place, so the creased the excitement levels of Montrose lends music er of the Marvel Cinematic Uni- objective as possible, that I think now come to an end. “It was so fact that the marriage. the fans. to Sanjay Dutt's This is what Dream Girl box office day 1: Ayushmann Khurrana posts Salman Khan Prassthanam learned during his biggest opener ever at Rs 10.05 cr, Chhichore is a hit the last schedule Dream Girl box office collection day 1: Ayushmann Khurrana and Nushrat Bharucha’s quirky com- of the climax edy has earned Rs 10.05 crore on opening day as Chhichore gets more love at the ticket windows. sequence for Ayushmann Khurrana got quite the birthday gift on Saturday. The Dabangg 3 actor’s latest release directed by Raaj Shandilya, Dream Girl, has earned Rs 10.05 crore on the open- ing day, which is the highest ever for him. As per trade analyst Ta- ran Adarsh, Dream Girl’s box of- fice collection is Rs 10.05 crore, which broke the opening records of films such as Chhichore star- ring Sushant Singh Rajput, Kartik Aaryan’s Luka Chuppi, Uri - The Surgical Strike and De De Pyaar De. Dream Girl got excellent re- ception in Delhi-NCR and the Vikram Montrose's Kar Har Prassthanam.'' Commenting on the northern market, a Box Office In- Maidaan Fateh which became an album, an ecstatic Vikram added, dia report said. Adarsh wrote, anthem form the super hit film ''I've composed three songs for Salman Khan has been creating “DreamGirl takes a heroic start... Sanju has now collaborated with Prassthanam. One of them is Dil immense buzz amongst the audi- Emerges #AyushmannKhurrana’s the real Sanjay S. Dutt for the Bevda which is already out and ence ever since the makers shared biggest opener to date... Has also actor's upcoming film Prasstha- two more are yet to come. The some stunning posters of Dabangg opened bigger than several mid- nam. The song was widely ap- music for the film is composed 3. The shoot of the last schedule range films [2019] like #Uri [? 8.20 preciated as it struck a chord with with a lot of energy and I'm sure of climax sequence took place cr], #LukaChuppi [? 8.01 cr] and the audience owing to its moti- the audience will accolade my during the period of 4th to 8th #Chhichhore [? 7.32 cr]... Fri ? MangalSaavdhan ? 2.71 cr, 2018: collections. Buoyed by excellent content... Excellent trending! vational theme. Speaking about work.'' Directed by Deva Katta, September. Not only this, Salman 10.05 cr. #India biz.” He also #AndhaDhun ? 2.70 cr, 2017: word-of-mouth, the film showed Chhichhore surpasses all expec- working with Dutt, music-com- Sanjay S. Dutt's presents, pro- Khan even did bare body shots shared the opening day box office #BareillyKiBarfi ? 2.42 cr. #In- a slight drop from Thursday, tations, estimations and calcula- poser Vikram Montrose says, `It duced by Maanayata Dutt, and had an intense hand to hand collection of Ayushmann’s films. dia biz.” Meanwhile, Chhichhore which was a holiday in some parts tions... Packs a fantastic total in has been a great experience work- Prassthanam stars Sanjay S Dutt, combat which required strength “Ayushmann Khurrana versus -- directed by Nitesh Tiwari and due to Ganesh Visarjan festivities. Week 1... En route ? ?? cr... Fri ing with Sanjay Sir. He was the Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff, and training. Salman Khan who is Ayushmann Khurrana... *Day 1* with Shraddha Kapoor in the lead Till Thursday, the film’s collec- 7.32 cr, Sat 12.25 cr, Sun 16.41 one who introduced me to Raj Chunky Panday, Ali Fazal, Amyra already a fitness enthusiast, the biz... 2019: #DreamGirl ? 10.05 -- is showing no signs of slowing tions stood at Rs 68.83 crore. As cr, Mon 8.10 cr, Tue 10.05 cr, Kumar Hirani and I owe my suc- Dastur & Satyajeet Dubey. The actor underwent rigorous train- cr, 2018: #BadhaaiHo ? 7.35 cr down. The film earned Rs 5 crore Adarsh shared, “Chhichhore Day Wed 7.20 cr, Thu 7.50 cr. Total: cess to him. He appreciated my film releases on 20th September ing to built his personality and to [Thu; #Dussehra], 2019: #Arti- on its second Friday, which is 7 [Thu] is higher than Day 1 [Fri] ? 68.83 cr. #India biz. HIT.” work in Sanju because of which I 2019. ace his training techniques. cle15 ? 5.02 cr, 2017: #Shubh- comparable to its opening day and Day 6 [Wed]... Power of solid (Sky Sport) got the opportunity to work in (Santa Banta) Latest 'Game of Priyanka Chopra is a stunner on TIFF 2019 Thrones' prequel red carpet as she leads The Sky Is Pink team Walking the red carpet ahead of to focus on House the world premiere of The Sky is Pink at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, actress Targaryen Priyanka Chopra Jonas was a stunner in black and white frill Another story from the Game Of ported The Hollywood Reporter. erys Targaryen (essayed by Emil- gown. She walked the red carpet Thrones universe is all set to It is also reported that Ryan Con- ia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit with Farhan Akhtar and his girl- come alive, with HBO giving the dal, along with Game Of Thrones Harington) in the hit series. The friend Shibani Dandekar, Rohit green signal to a prequel that will author George RR Martin, will Targaryen prequel is not one of Saraf and the film’s director, Sho- focus on House Targaryen. The pen the script for the prequel, the previously reported prequels nali Bose. The Isn’t It Romantic cable network will soon be clos- which is based on Martin’s book that had been in the works at actor took to social media to share ing the deal on a pilot order for a Fire & Blood. The book narrates HBO since 2017. HBO first an- a series of Instagram stories, where prequel set 300 years before the stories of previous Targaryen nounced four prequel series in the she can be seen signing autographs. events of the flagship series, kings, like Aegon – the first ruler works and added a fifth later on. Speaking to Reuters, the actor con- which tracks the beginnings and of Westeros – and Aegon the Drag- The other prequel, which is mov- trasted her life while filming with the end of House Targaryen, re- onbane – the ancestors of Daen- ing forward. the experiences of the characters attend The Sky Is Pink premiere. Chaudhary, and Farhan Akhtar of a child, which is such an unnat- in the movie. Priyanka Chopra and Niren Chaudhary, from left, attend The Sky Is Pink premiere. ural way of being.” She added Farhan Akhtar attend The Sky Is Priyanka Chopra, Aditi “It was a really hard juxtaposi- that, although the experience Pooja Hegde to star with Akhil Akkineni’s Pink premiere during the 2019 Chaudhary, and Farhan Akhtar tion of real life for me,” Chopra “was very trying,” the support Toronto International Film Festi- attend The Sky Is Pink premiere. said, “Especially because I was of husband, Nick Jonas, whom next film with Bommarillu Bhaskar val. Farhan Akhtar, director Sho- Niren Chaudhary, from left, getting married and at the same she married in December, helped. nali Bose and Priyanka Chopra Priyanka Chopra, Aditi time this film deals with loss, loss (Hindustan times) Actor Pooja Hegde has been signed opposite Akhil Akkineni for upcoming Telugu romantic comedy, which is being directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar. The project, Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar's 2.0 flops in which has already gone on floors, marks Bhaskar’s return to direction after a hiatus of three years. His last China but Bollywood can avoid the mistake directorial venture was Bangalore Naatkal; the Tamil remake of Malayalam hit Bangalore Days. On Satur- Two of India's biggest blockbust- Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar collected a meagre Rs 22 crore in day, the makers released a poster welcoming Pooja on ers have ended up as disasters in had done spectacular domestic its first week in the Chinese mar- board. It’ll mark her first time collaboration with Akhil, China, in what could be a serious business in Hindi, Tamil and Tel- ket. The failure of "2.0" follows who has starred in films like Hello and Mr. Majnu. It setback to mainstream cinema's ugu versions. However, the film the no-show of another domes- was earlier reported that Rashmika Mandanna, recent- ongoing attempt to foray that opened on September 6 in Chi- tic recordbuster -- "Baahubali 2: ly seen in Dear Comrade. market. Shankar's "2.0", starring na, only to flop miserably. "2.0" The Conclusion". SUNDAY .SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 AFGHANISTANTIMES Welookat other great

Watch Norwich vs Man sportingcomebacks City live on Saturday Night Football from 5pm followingKimClijsters' on Sky Sports Premier League; Kick-off 5.30pm returntotennis Four-time Grand Slam champion Clijsters is heading back to the Tour - which other superstars returned to chase more glory? Kevin Chappell shoots 59 at The Greenbrier Kevin Chappell shot an 11-under 59 on Friday in the second round of A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, to record only the 11th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history. In doing so, the Ameri- After 36-year-old Kim Clijsters CV the following year. A second can equalled his compatriot Mark announced her return to tennis retirement was announced in 2012, Calcavecchia's record of nine con- in 2020, we look at other great this time owing to family commit- secutive birdies in a round on the sporting comebacks. Clijsters, ments as Clijsters did not wish to PGA Tour, set at the 2009 Cana- who turned professional in continue to tour while her daugh- dian Open. Chappell - playing in 1997, has stepped away from ter started school. After a seven- his first tournament since return- the sport twice, initially retir- year hiatus and the birth of her ing after 10 months out after back ing in 2007 due to persistent two sons, Clijsters began training surgery - missed a 10-foot birdie After announcing in the summer "I feel here like home," he says. David Silva. Since his £28m ar- had to do this to make them injury troubles. Following a in early 2019 and has announced putt on the par-four ninth at the this would be his final season with "Not for the weather, obviously, rival from Valencia in July 2010, wrong. " He says he could not two-year hiatus and the birth of her return to the sport in 2020. course in West Virginia to fall a Manchester City, David Silva but for the people, for the football he has been pivotal to City's suc- have foreseen that he would stay her daughter, Clijsters returned Clijsters is not the first superstar stroke short of Jim Furyk's Tour spoke exclusively to Sky Sports it's like home. It's going be difficult cess. Back then, however, even for so long. In truth, he might not to action in 2009, relying on to make a sporting comeback... record. The 33-year-old opened about his stellar Premier League after this year when I move to an- his current coach Pep Guardiola have joined City at all. At the time wildcards to regain her ranking. Michael Jordan with a par at the 10th, then bird- career. To his team-mates he's other place, but life carries on. "I feared he might not make a big both Real Madrid and Guardio- The Belgian swiftly reclaimed Widely regarded as the NBA's ied the next eight holes to make known as 'The Wizard' - a little think the respect that the people impact on the Premier League la's Barcelona were pursuing him. the US Open title she had first greatest player of all time, Jordan the turn in 28, before adding fur- magician blessed with the talent have for me is something that you stage. "I think not only him," Sil- Only the persistence of the then won in 2005 by defeating Caro- hung up his sneakers in 1993 to ther birdies at the first, fifth and both to score and create goals for can't pay for. For me that is one of va says with a smile. "But in foot- City manager Roberto Mancini line Wozniacki in 2009. Clijsters give minor league baseball a try. seventh and is now 10 under for the players around him. Billion- the most important things." It's ball you have to do better in this persuaded him to choose then successfully defended the But he returned to the Chicago the tournament, having opened aire Inventor James Dyson Buys been an era in which few players kind of situation to prove that Manchester over staying in title in 2010, before adding an Bulls two years later to pick up with a 71. Singapore’s Most Expensive… have shone more brightly than people are wrong. Inside of me I Spain. (Sky Sport) Australian Open victory to her where he left off.

County Championship: RonnieO'Sullivan Essex draw at Edgbaston HaneyvsAbdullaev:Punch-perfect DevinHaney stages comeback win but trail Division One leaders at Shanghai Masters Somerset by eight points stopsZaur AbdullaevtowinWBCInterimbelt Having improved his record to 23-0, the 20- year old Haney went on to call out the WBC's full champion Vasiliy Loma- chenko.

Devin Haney once again showed Ronnie O'Sullivan staged a remark- his star quality as he forced a stop- able comeback at the Shanghai page of Zaur Abdullaev to win the Masters to maintain his grip on WBC 'Interim' lightweight world the title he has won for each of the title in New York. 'The Dream' was last two years. O'Sullivan looked a class above the unbeaten Rus- down and out in the quarter-finals sian at the Madison Square Gar- when he fell 5-1 behind against den Theater, completely dominat- Kyren Wilson, who peaked with Tom Westley led the way with completing a seven-wicket vic- ing proceedings before Abdullaev's a 131 break in the second frame. 237 runs in the match as Essex tory over Leicestershire at Grace corner pulled their charge out after But he kept himself alive with a batted out for a draw against War- Road. Leicestershire vs four punishing rounds of action. 102 to narrow the deficit, and com- wickshire in the Specsavers Northamptonshire scorecard Having improved his record to 23- pleted his recovery with a break County Championship Division Chasing 141 to win, former skip- 0, the 20-year old Haney went on of 60 in the decider after Wilson One at Edgbaston. Having been per Alex Wakely struck an un- to call out the WBC's full champi- had wasted a good chance to win the match. O'Sullivan will take on bowled out for 324, 193 behind, beaten 44 as his side moved sec- on Vasiliy Lomachenko. It was a Abdullaev. The 20-year-old rights quickly following, every throughout three torrid minutes. Essex followed on and closed the ond in the table. Beginning the comfortable start for the Las Ve- Australian Neil Robertson, for American was too quick and too punch seeming to land with pre- Abdullaev went back to his cor- whom a 115 break was a highlight final day on 158-2 as the match day on 22 without loss, openers gas-based lightweight, 'The Dream' good for the Russian The visitor sumptuous ease. ner after that fourth and his petered out in the Birmingham Ben Curran and Rob Newton ex- quickly taking control of the open- in a 6-2 win over Barry Hawkins. looked to initiate attacks in the After a minute's interval, Haney, team decided to pull him out of World champion Judd Trump saw sunshine. Warwickshire vs Essex tended their partnership to 68 ing rounds with a snapping ram- third, walking his man down, but constantly peppering away with the lightweight clash with a pos- scorecard Westley added a sec- before the latter went leg-before rod jab, Abdullaev offering very lit- his 13-match winning streak come it proved to little avail, the Amer- the jab, again walloped his in- sible fractured cheekbone. to an end as he was thrashed by ond-innings 97 (161 balls, 14 to an Alex Evans delivery that tle in response. Devin Haney ican star countering with a lash- creasingly reddening target with Haney confirmed afterwards fours) to his first innings 141 (266 came back in to the right-hander. showed his class in his WBC in- Mark Allen. Allen racked up five ing double-left attack to the body, more savage right hands, the Rus- that he is likely to next fight on breaks over 50 in a comprehen- balls, 18 fours) as he and Alastair Curran, on 40, edged a flat-foot- terim world title clash against Zaur a flash uppercut and two straight sian's knees sagging further November 9 in Los Angeles. Cook (57 not out) added 157 in ed drive at Will Davis to Colin sive 6-1 win which dealt. 54 overs to shepherd their side to Ackermann at second slip and safety. The draw secured War- Ackermann then held a second wickshire's Division One status, catch when first-innings centuri- condemning Nottinghamshire to on Rob Keogh edged a drive at Manchester Thunder Spaincomefrombehindto relegation, but meant that Essex left-arm spinner Callum Parkin- relinquished the initiative to Som- son. The odd ball was beginning beat AustraliainWorldCup erset in the race for the title. to turn for Parkinson, but by that bolster Superleague squad Northamptonshire have promo- stage Wakely was well estab- tion from County Championship lished, and the right-hander saw semi-final thriller Division Two in their sights after his side across the line. with double signing Queens squad for the Netball World Cup in Liverpool this Andy Murray targets summer and were influential at opposite ends of the court in se- curing a sixth-placed finish for the level of Rafael Nadal African side. Thunder's Director of Netball Karen Greig said: "I and Roger Federer am so excited to have Joyce back with us for 2020 and for her to be joined at the other end of court in next five months by Lauren. "Joyce has developed so much in her time at Thunder over time I get a little bit faster and securing her shooting skills and I think I will. for the new season is a huge Andy Murray boost as we look to defend our The Scot describes his own cur- title, especially as I know her per- rent standard as "around world formances have been noticed No 150" and says patience will Manchester Thunder's squad for for a fourth season. Vitality Su- across the netballing world. "With be important if he is to be back the defence of their Vitality Net- perleague Ins & Outs May swaps our legendary defender Kerry competing alongside world No 1 ball Superleague title will be boost- Wasps for Lightning She will be Almond retiring, I had a big gap Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer ed by two of Malawi's leading net- joined by her fellow Malawian, to fill in defence and Lauren was and Rafael Nadal, who won his ballers. Instrumental shooter Joyce defender Lauren Ngwira, who the outstanding candidate. She 19th Grand Slam title at the US Mvula, the 2019 fans' player of joins the Superleague champions makes her presence felt on court Marc Gasol netted 33 points and into the game to force overtime. Open. "For years, obviously, I the season across Superleague, will from London Pulse. Joyce and and will be pivotal to our perfor- Ricky Rubio dished out 12 as- The first extra period ended even competed against them, although return to the Black and Yellows Lauren were part of the Malawi mances next year. sists as Spain came from behind but as Australia's shooting touch I haven't won every time against to beat Australia 95-88 in a dou- around the basket deserted them, them. I have lost more than I have ble-overtime thriller and reach Spain finally found their offensive won [but] I always went out Sunday's FIBA World Cup fi- rhythm to pull away in the sec- Andy Murray believes he can re- onto court feeling like I could win. Logician goes into the unknown turn to the level of Rafael Nadal nal against Argentina. ond and go through to Sunday's Andy Murray was speaking to Contesting their first semi-final final where they will face either and Roger Federer again within Sky News' sports presenter Jac- John Gosden admits Logician fac- the next four to five months. The es a step into unknown territory since winning the tournament in Argentina or France. quie Beltrao at Queen's Club 2006, Spain led by a single point Luis Scola scored a game-high 28 former world No 1 dropped down Andy Murray was speaking to as he bids to provide him with a to the Challenger Tour - for the fifth victory in the William Hill St after the first quarter but suf- points and grabbed 13 rebounds Sky News' sports presenter Jac- Leger. It is 23 years since the mas- fered a shooting slump in the as Argentina breezed past France first time in 14 years - in Mallor- quie Beltrao at Queen's Club ca last month, where he won the ter of Clarehaven first landed the second that enabled the Austra- 80-66 to book their place in Sun- "I don't know if I would enjoy world's oldest Classic with Shan- lians to open up an eight-point day's showpiece event. first two matches of his comeback going out on the court against tou. He has since added to his tally to singles. Murray, who under- lead. France blew the tournament wide them knowing that I am going to with three wins in five years cour- Things were looking bad for open by beating favourites and went hip surgery in January, has lose or feeling like I had no tesy of Lucarno (2007), Arctic signed up to compete in a series Spain as reigning champions USA in the chance! "That would probably Cosmos (2010) Masked Marvel Australia increased their lead to quarter-finals, but they never got of tournaments in China on the be psychologically quite chal- (2011). The Khalid Abdullah- ATP Tour, including next month's owned Logician made his race- double digits in the third, but going here as star centre Rudy lenging for me. But maybe in four they upped the tempo on de- Gobert struggled and shots from Shanghai Masters. The skill is still or five months, I can get there. I course debut only in May, but cre- there, I just physically need to ated a big impression in winning fence, shackling Australian ball- beyond the arc would not drop need to be patient and not ex- handler Patty Mills as Gasol and for them. get a little better and hopefully pect too much too soon. his first three starts - with a pair of emphatic wins. Rubio dragged their team back (Sky Sport) SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 15. 2019 -Sunbula 24, 1398 H.S Vol:XIV Issue No:48 Price: Afs.20

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KABUL: The leader of Hezb-e- Isami Afghanistan and presidential hopeful, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Saturday termed the National Unity Government as a main hurdle against the peace process. Giving speech at his presidentialcampaign rally in Kabul, Hekmatyar...

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fter US President Donald Trump declared peace talks with Taliban ‘dead’, tAhe Kabul administration AT News Report following the suit said it has suspended peace efforts until KABUL: At least three volleyball election slated for 28 September. players have been killed and same President Spokesman Sediq others received injures in a Sediqqi in a press briefing on landmine explosion in Tagab Saturday has put election as AT News Report Jamal Barakzai, provincial police district of central Kapisa province, priority of the government, spokesman. He said of an an official said Saturday. Police adding peace efforts will be KABUL: At least 11 police investigation of the incident. spokesman Shaiq Shourish said the commenced after presidential officers were killed by their own Another security official in incident took place in Kakar village polls. He emphasized over timely comrades in Kandahar province, Kandahar said on condition of on Friday evening. He accused the election, dismissing idea of an local officials confirmed. anonymity that the attackers Taliban of planting the landmine interim step up. “Those who call The incident took place were Taliban infiltrators. He said on the volleyball field, Pajhowk for interim-government are Friday night when two officers that Saifullah, commander of the reported. But the militant group against the Afghans and Republic took guns and opened fire at their outpost was among the dead. has not yet commented in this system,” Sediqqi told newsmen. colleagues at an outpost in Damani “The incident happened at regard. Azizullah Safi, deputy Peace efforts is ended for now as area of the southern province’s 11:30pm local time and the Provincial Council chairman, said In this file photo taken on May 28,2019,Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,the Taliban group's top political Taliban group scrambling to district of Shah Wali Kot, said attackers took... three players... leader, second from left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow. resume talks...

AT News Report troops from allies had been deployed to Afghanistan to counter the terrorism after the 9/ KABUL: In a telephonic th conversation with President, 11 tragedy. “Soon after 9/11, Ashraf Ghani, NATO Secretary allies deployed to General, Jens Stoltenberg has Afghanistan. Hundreds of reiterated alliance’s support to thousands of troops, from Afghanistan, saying that NATO Europe, Canada and beyond, have AT Monitoring Desk point. “The loss of Hamza bin wouldtrain, fund and help Kabul served shoulder-to-shoulder with Laden not only deprives Al- to create a proper condition for US troops,” he said, adding KABUL: President Donald Qaeda of important leadership peace. “Good to speak with “many have paid the ultimate Trump says he can now confirm skills and the symbolic P r e s i d e n t A s h r a f price. And many more have been that Hamza bin Laden, the son connection to his father, but G h a n i o f A f g h a n i s t a n . seriously wounded. We of the deceased Al-Qaeda founder undermines important NATO Allies and partners remain remember them. And we must Osama bin Laden, has been killed operational activities of the fully committed to supporting make sure that their sacrifice was by a military operation along the group,” Trump said in a Afghanistan,” Stoltenberg twitted not in vain.” Afghanistan-Pakistan crossing statement... Friday. Secretary General has Stoltenberg called the fight AT News Report once again renewed NATO’s the Taliban group, following a Talking at the commemoration against terrorism as a global commitment to the country after militant’s attack that killed 12 ceremony of 11th of September at generation war, saying that fghanistan Ambassador to the USPresident, Donald Trump people, including a US soldier in NATO headquarter in Brussels, NATO remains committed to the United States, Roya has cancelled the peace talks with Kabul. Stoltenberg said that thousands of Afghanistan. Rahmanisaid that Kabul Ahas made “significant strides” to AT News Report by the Afghan security forces pave the ground for peace and that in southern Ghazni province, the country believes”peace is on KABUL: At least 26 Taliban official said Saturday. the horizon.” “For the first time fighters have been killed and a big Commandos and National in generations, we have the vision, explosive cache was demolished Directorate of Security the will and the human capital in a fresh crackdown carried out (NDS)Special... necessary to... AT News Report KABUL: A U.S. airstrike killed a Afghanistan. The Taliban may inflicted a huge amount of KABUL: A convoy of trucks major ISIS recruiter in eastern have doubled down on their efforts casualties, it’s been carrying electoral materials to Afghanistan. No other details are to gain leverage over the U.S. in unprecedented. Within a matter Samangan province, came under known, but this comes as ISIS, recent talks, but Brigadier General of hours, hundreds of them just armed attack in the neighboring al Qaeda and the Taliban are all Khoshal Sadat told CBS News gone,” Sadat said. The country’s province of Balkh, officials in increasing their attacks in they paid a heavy price. “We top security chief.... Samangan said Saturday. The trucks were heading to Dara-e- Soof district...

DHAKA: Najibullah Zadran smashed a career-best 30-ball 69 AT News Report AT News Report the Afghan military said Saturday. not out against Zimbabwe as Last week an American drone Afghanistan made a winning start KABUL: At least 65 militants KABUL: American forces carried out an airstrike in Sayedabad to the Twenty20 tri-series with a have been killed and 11 others commander in the southeast district, in which nine civilians 28-run win on Saturday. Zadran received injuries inmultiple apologized for recent civilian were killed. The drone targeted a and Mohammad Nabi combined extensive military crackdowns deaths caused by an airstrike civilian vehicle, killing a man Abdul for an Afghan record 107 off 40 conducted by the Afghan security conducted by collation forces in Rahim, his two sons and other balls in a six-laden, fifth-wicket forces in the past 24 hours, central MaidanWardak province, civilians. The... stand to help... security official said Saturday. Ministry of...

amended contracts have been signed between the ministry of AT News Report mines and petroleum and five private sectors are allowed for KABUL: A Taliban bomb making investment across the country. factory has been destroyed during The projects will be under a crackdown carried out by progression in capital Kabul, Afghan security forces in southern Logar, northern Parwan southern Helmand province, and central Wardak province. official said Saturday. Ministry The ministry has cut downed the of Interior in a statement said a payment from 30 to 7.5 to Taliban bomb making factory was encourage the investors for destroyed following an Afghan AT News Report invested by private sectors on putting money on Afghanistan’s National Defense and Security extraction and processing of mines. Also, the companies are Forces (ANDSF) joint clearance KABUL: An amount of chromites mines in Afghanistan, committed to process the operation in... $20million US dollars will be officials said Saturday. The extracted ...