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Addressing the UN General Assembly Ghani said it was time for dialogue with Afghanistan’s neighbors on how to work towards eliminating terrorism.

Addressing the United Nations us on a comprehensive state to enduring peace and I call upon all government is committed to has now set us on a pathway to General Assembly, President state dialogue on peace, security ranks of Taliban to engage in intra- fighting the endemic corruption certainty. The Afghan people have Ashraf Ghani called on countries and regional cooperation leading to Afghan dialogue," he added. and strengthening the good looked to the United States for this in the region to change their mind prosperity," he said. He said the roots of terrorism governance. He said Afghanistan’s type of resolve for years," he said. on the war against terrorism in He said the Taliban would not are outside Afghanistan’s borders. relations were strengthened with "The strategy consolidates all Afghanistan and that it is the time win through war and that there is a "But this war is not within our the new US strategy. "With instruments of American power, for talks between regional nations need for them to follow their goals soil, it is over our soil. Today, there President Trump's recent conveying a message that the and Afghanistan. through political ways. are over 20 international terrorist announcement of his strategy to Taliban and their backers cannot “We now also have an "The strategy consolidates all groups with an imposed presence counter terror and stabilize South win militarily. Only through opportunity for a dialogue with our instruments of American power, on Afghan soil. The future of Asia, Afghanistan's enduring political settlement can we achieve neighbors on how we can work conveying a message that the Afghanistan matters because we partnership with the United States enduring peace and I call upon all together earnestly to eliminate Taliban and their backers cannot are on the frontlines of the global and the international community ranks of Taliban to engage in intra- terrorism and contain extremism. I win militarily. Only through effort to eradicate the threat of has been renewed and redirected. Afghan dialogue," he added. call upon Pakistan to engage with political settlement can we achieve terrorism." He said the Afghan We welcome this strategy, which (ToloNews)

Jens Stoltenberg said while at the UN General Assembly that NATO will also increase troop numbers to train US President Donald Trump on length and the scope of military GANSU,CHAINA : The Bamyan Afghan forces. governor has sought Chinese Tuesday addressed the UN General operations not arbitrary Assembly in New York where he benchmarks and timetables set up investment in areas like tourism, NATO Secretary-General Jens touched on a wide range of issues by the politicians." Trump said agriculture, mines and handicrafts Stoltenberg said in an interview with special focus on North Korea that a major part of the world faces for the overall development of the with The Associated Press (AP) and the threats emerging from conflict, and some, in fact, are going province. that he welcomed the militant groups across the world to hell. “We must deny the terrorist Addressing the opening announcement by US President including the Taliban and al-Qaeda. safe havens, transit, funding and ceremony of the 2nd Silk Road Donald Trump that the US is now He warned that the United any form of support for their vile (Dunhuang) International Cultural going to be in Afghanistan on a States will be forced to “totally and sinister ideology. We must Expo in Dunhuang on Wednesday, condition-based mission and said destroy” North Korea unless drive them out of our nations. It is Tahir Zuhair said Banyan had the NATO will also increase troop Pyongyang backs down from its time to expose and hold required capacity for development numbers to train Afghan forces. He nuclear challenge. responsible those countries who in different areas. did not however reveal details as He also said the United States support and finance terror groups to the number of troops to be will act against countries providing like al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the He urged Chinese investors to deployed. This comes after the invest in those areas. "Using this safe havens to al-Qaeda, Hezbollah Taliban and others that slaughter US announced earlier this week and the Taliban. innocent people,” he said. opportunity, I would like to call that it would be sending in more for the investors to conduct “The United States and our Trump stated that the US has In his recent speech to than 3,000 extra troops. They allies are working together... to changed the rules of engagement inquiries to find ways of would not give exact numbers the Senate John Bass said investment in any area. "The crush the loser terrorists,” he said. with the Taliban and all other however. According to AP, On his new war strategy on terrorist groups. his top priority would be Bamyan local government would Stoltenberg said on Tuesday: "I Afghanistan, he said, “last month “I have also totally changed the to improve ties between appreciate investors and welcome the announcement by I announced the new strategy for a rules of engagement with the the Afghan and Pakistani constructively support them," he President Trump that the US is victory in the fight against this evil Taliban in our fight against the promised. techniques used for preservation by UNESCO. now going to be in Afghanistan on governments. in Gansu could transfer to Bamyan Similarly, Bamyan's sister in Afghanistan, from now on, our Taliban and other terrorist groups,” More than 1200 government a condition-based mission. security interests will dictate the he said. (ToloNews) officials, business leaders and as “a precious everlasting gift”. province Gansu has also seven (ToloNews) The Foreign Relations Committee cultural elites from all over the Bamyan has a total of eight historical sites being registered by for the United States’ Senate has world attended the opening jostorival sites, including the UNESCO. However, the heritage approved the nomination of John ceremony. Buddha Statues, and seven others, in Afghanistan faces preservation Bass, a veteran diplomat, to serve already registered as world heritage challenges. (Pajhwok) as President Donald Trump's Zuhair also said models and ambassador to Afghanistan. The panel recommended by voice vote on Tuesday that the Senate consider the selection of John Bass for the post, AP reported. Bass has until now been serving as the US ambassador to Turkey. His State Department biography says he served as the Lawmakers called for action to be taken after a State Department's executive document indicating discrimination, within the Kandahar businessmen secretary from 2012 to 2014 and KABUL : As many as 121 cold 14 in Khak-i-Jabbar district and Administrative Office of the President, was leaked. claim customs officers have ambassador to Georgia from 2009 stores built at total cost of 55 three in Bagrami district in a span failed to clear at least 5,000 to 2012. million Afghanis in five districts of of six months. Zamir said the cost According to AP Bass began containers coming in to central Kabul province were put of the projects was shared 50-50 Afghanistan from his diplomatic career in 1988. He's into service on Wednesday, an by the ministry and residents of also served in positions in US official said. A ceremony to the areas. The minister said 116 of neighboring countries. missions in Iraq, Italy, Belgium and Chad. inaugurate the cold stores was held the total constructed cold stores in Chahar Asyab district. were small and the remaining five A number of businessmen from In an address to the US KABUL : The UN Assistance Kandahar province, in Senate on September 12, John Addressing the gathering, were large. According to him, the Mission in Afghanistan Agriculture Minister Asadullah small facilities have the capacity Afghanistan’s south, said the Bass said he will try to improve (UNAMA) has welcomed the failure by customs officials to clear Kabul-Islamabad ties. Zamir provided the details of the to store 12 to 15 metric tonnes and launch of the National Electoral thousands of containers of He said his top priority will constructed cold rooms. He said 61 the large ones could reserve 50-60 Forum by the Independent imported goods through Spin be to improve ties between the cold facilities have been built in tonnes of onions. The refrigerated Electoral Commission (IEC), Boldak from Pakistan, and Herat Afghan and Pakistani Mosihi district, 27 in Qarabagh units could also be used for storing UNAMA statement said on port from Iran, has had a severe governments if he was given a district, 16 in Chahar Asiab district, potatoes, he added. (Pajhwok) Wednesday. The launch of impact on their businesses. vote of confidence. (ToloNews) National Electoral Forum would The investors said proved to be an important step Parliament members (MPs) on officials, from the Administrative ‘convoluted’ processes in the towards elections seen as credible, Wednesday said provoking any Office of the President, in a customs offices have resulted in a transparent, and inclusive in the type of ethnic, linguistic or different Telegram group, but loss of up to 70 percent in trade eyes of the Afghan people, the g e o g r a p h i c a l l y - b a s e d instead was accidentally posted to turnover for them as almost 5,000 statement said.. It added, the containers have not been cleared forum was intended as a series of discrimination against Afghans is another group. The document, a crime and those involved in this called Main Deliverables, has 12 through Herat and Spin Boldak regular and meaningful customs offices in the past three consultations to build consensus need to be prosecuted. MPs articles and appeared to refer to claimed that groups within the discrimination in the appointment months. on the way forward for elections. “We call on the Afghan “Today’s event in Kabul brought Presidential Palace act against the process of officials in the national interests and incite ethnic Administrative Office of the government to resolve the problem together electoral commissioners of the containers which have been KABUL : The prime minister of Presidential Palace in Kabul said Lars Løkke Rasmussen replied with political stakeholders, civil division in the country. Their President. “The Herat Pashtuns Denmark says his country is ready on Wednesday the two sides his country was ready to support stopped for the past three months; society and others.” “A credible remarks come after a classified who cannot speak Pashto shall be they carry goods belonging to local to provide technical support to exchanged views on the stability Afghanistan in the energy sector. election is not simply a technically document was accidentally shared appointed and we shall investors. The investors are faced Afghanistan’s energy management. of regional countries, economic Ghani invited Rasmussen to visit well-organized election, but one in to a social media chat group - symbolically appoint Tajiks and with a big problem in this respect,” Danish Prime Minister Lars cooperation. Afghanistan at a proper time. which citizens have confidence Telegram - by Sawabdin Uzbeks who will definitely work said Abdul Baqi, one businessman Løkke Rasmussen signalled the Ghani said Afghanistan had The Danish prime minister, that the results represent their Makhkash, the deputy chief of based on our demand in order that in Kandahar. willingness at a meeting with enough capacity to transfer and evincing an interest in visiting will,” Pernille Kardel, the monitoring and observation at the people would think that the The importers who gathered President Ashraf Ghani on the produce energy. He added Kabul, said he would like to Secretary-General’s Deputy Administrative Office of the officials of the Administrative at their union office in Kandahar margins of the 72nd UN General Afghanistan needed to benefit discuss important issues with the Special Representative for President. The document was Office of the President are from all on Tuesday said they will stage Assembly. from Denmark’s experience in Afghan leaders in detail. Afghanistan, said in opening reportedly meant to be shared only ethnic groups,” reads the 9th article protests if government remains A statement from the energy management. (Pajhwok) remarks at the forum. (Pajhwok) with a select group of senior of the document. (ToloNews) silent. (ToloNews) THURSDAY .SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Nancy Hatch Dupree, 90; American sought to And Harrigian plans to "optimize" drones, such as MQ-9 Reapers, operating in the area. preserve Does that mean more remotely piloted flight time? Not necessarily, he said. It's about, "are we optimizing them to understand the enemy and Afghan then be in the position to take advantage of what we're seeing to pressure the enemy?" Harrigian said. heritage President Donald Trump on Aug. 22 announced the U.S. will KABUL : Nancy Hatch Dupree, send more troops to Afghanistan who spent decades in Afghanistan to step up the fight against the working to preserve the heritage Taliban and the offshoot of the of the war-torn country, died Sept. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria 10 in Kabul. She was 89. called Islamic State-Khorasan Ms. Dupree amassed a vast province, or IS-K. collection of books, maps, The president would not cite photographs, and even rare specific numbers, but defense recordings of folk music, all now officials have said 3,500 to 5,000 housed at a center she founded at library at Kabul University that additional troops are likely as part Kabul University. She also wrote could be accessed electronically of the plan, which has been five guidebooks and with her from other universities. ‘‘With deep endorsed by Mattis. Any husband, Louis, authored the sadness, we mark the loss of the additional airpower won't be definitive book on Afghanistan, an honorary ‘grandmother of limited to backing U.S. ground encyclopedic look at the country Afghanistan’ and stand in homage troops, Harrigian said. While plans they had adopted as their own. to a woman of exemplary grace, are still in flux, he noted, "There's Ms. Dupree came to dedication, humor, and humanity,’’ going to be opportunities to better Afghanistan as the wife of a the center said in a statement. support the Afghans and our own diplomat, but later fell in love with She also launched a mobile force as we distribute across the Louis Dupree, an archaeologist and library program that brought battlespace." Meanwhile, Gen. anthropologist. They married and thousands of books, including Carlton Everhart II, head of Air lived for decades in Afghanistan, easy-to-read volumes in Pashtocq Mobility Command, confirmed visiting historical sites across the and Dari, to communities across An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 555th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron takes off Tuesday that the service has sent country, retracing the footsteps of the largely rural country, often on from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2017. a number of tankers back to the ancient explorers and documenting the backs of donkeys. theater. Everhart -- who didn't it all. Many Afghans viewed Ms. NATIONAL HARBOR: The Air The Air Force now has 18 "Our close-air support role Airspace Poses Challenges: disclose how many, or if they were Ms. Dupree lamented the fact Dupree as one of their own, and Force has begun shifting assets multi-role F-16 fighters in country, continues and, as you look at the General Harrigian said there has KC-10 Extenders, KC-135 that young people in Afghanistan, hundreds of people posted back into the Afghan theater, two Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, strategy coming forward, we're been a large focus in the Stratotankers, or both -- said many of whom had grown up as condolences on social media. The generals said Tuesday at the Air commander of U.S. Air Forces actually right now working with northeastern part of Afghanistan roughly three weeks ago the refugees in neighboring countries, US Embassy also lamented her Force Association's Air, Space and Central Command, told reporters [Commander of U.S. forces in in provinces such as Kunar and refueling craft came from outside knew little about their history. passing. ‘‘We are deeply saddened Cyber Conference. at the conference. Afghanistan] Gen. John Kunduz. "But there's a recognition the Middle East. "They're flying ‘‘So many young Afghans by the loss of Nancy Dupree, a Air refueling tankers are in "We just plussed up our Nicholson's staff on how to best that we're going to have to in there, and it's economies to scale know more about the histories of pillar of the American community Afghanistan for the first time in number of fighters. We had 12 F- synchronize his advise-and-assist distribute our force, and that's going ... it's getting gas up in the air faster the countries where they lived as in Afghanistan for many decades, about five years, and the theater 16s; we now have 18," said strategy going forward to optimize to require a lot of airpower to support troops in contact with refugees than their own country’s whose love for this country and has just welcomed more F-16 Harrigian, who oversees missions the placement of the air assets," support." The emphasis will be on [aircraft] and it's proven itself well history,’’ she said. ‘‘It makes me dedication to its culture and history Fighting Falcons to the area of at the Combined Air Operations he said. supporting ground forces as they right now," Everhart said. sad because their own history is will be forever remembered,’’ it said responsibility, they said. Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. 'Contested,' 'Congested' Syrian position throughout the country. (MILITARY) so rich.’’ She created an extensive in a statement. (bostonglobe)

(Project Coordination Unit) Irrigation Restoration and Development Project NATIONALCOMPETITIVEBIDDING Invitation for Bids (IFB) For Procurement of Works for Construction and Repairing of Nooristan River basin (B-51) in Nooristan province IFBNo: MEW/PCU/IRDP/B-51/NCB Date:21- Oct-2017

1. This Invitation for Bids follows the General Procurement Notice for this Project that appeared in Development Business published on 11 January 2011. 2. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Ministry of Energy and Water has applied for a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) andAfghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) toward the cost of Irrigation Restoration and Development Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this grant to payments under the Contract for the Sub project packages/lots given in para 3 below. 3. The Project Coordination Unit, acting on behalf of the Ministry of Energy & Water, now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified bidders for the following package/lotsThe construction period is as mentioned against each lot which includes slack period of 4 months for flood/adverse weather conditions and resolving community/farmers needs/disputes etc.Completion Period 15 months. 4. Bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive Bidding (NCB) procedures specified in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits,dated January 2011 and revised in July 2014and is open to all bidders from Eligible Source Countries as defined in the Bidding Documents. 5. Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from Procurement Section,(email:[email protected] Mobile No:+93(0)700686110), Project Coordination Unit, Main office, Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 to 16:30Hrs from Saturday to Wednesday (Except public holidays). 6. Qualifications requirements include:

(a) The minimum (b) Experience as prime (c) liquid assets and/or required annual volume contractor in the credit facilities, net of other Requirement---> of construction work construction of at least contractual commitments Lo Lot Id for the successful one works of nature and and exclusive of any t bidder in any of the last complexity equivalent to advance payments which No five years (in AFN) this work during the last may be made under the five (5) years (in AFN). Contract (in Million AFN). 1 -- 17 Million 9.2 Million 3.8 Million (d) Proposals for the timely acquisition (own, lease, hire, etc.) of the essential equipment as given in the bidding document. (e) Contract Manager with five years’ experience in works of an equivalent nature and volume, including no less than three years as Manager.

For detailed post qualification verification please refers to Section I - Instructions to Bidders and Section II- Bid Data Sheet of the bidding documents. A margin of preference for eligible national contractors/joint ventures shall not be applied. 7. A complete set of Bidding Documents in English may be purchased by interested bidders on the submission of a written Application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of 2,500 AFN. The method of payment will be Cash/Direct Payment. The Bidding Documents shall be collected by the bidders from the address below. 8. The bidders or their authorized representatives are invited to attend a pre-bid meeting which will take place on11-Oct-17at 10 AMin the meeting room (Basement) at the address given belowto explain the procedure of proper preparation and submission of bid, clarify issues and to answer questions on any matter that may be raised at that stage. 9. Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before 10 AMof23-Oct -17 (if this date is announced an official holiday, then bids must be submitted next working day at the same time and venue). Electronic bidding shall not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened physically in the presence of the bidders’ representatives who choose to attend in person at the address below at 10 AMof23-Oct -1710. All bids shall be accompanied by a “Bid Security” of amounts 600,000Afghanis. 11. The address referred to above is: Eng. Nasir Ahmad ”Ahadi” Acting Director and Procurement officer, Project Coordination Unit Ministry of Energy and Water, DarulAman Road, Kabul Email:[email protected]; Mobile No:+93(0)700686110), THURSDAY .SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

said. Similar complaints of harassment come from Reza Wahidi, the manager of Radio US air force generals also stated that air Nasim and his staff members. Usually the threats cannot be refueling tankers are also back in traced to any specific person, and Afghanistan, for the first time in about the local authorities have been five years. slow to investigate, he said. EMERGENCY “Most importantly, we don’t have the access to the information CALLS that we need,” said Wahidi, 32, sitting with a group of fellow Police reporters in popular kebab house. “We want to report on corruption and with an ability to dig deeper.” 100 - 119 Wahidi said that Daikundi government officials do not make a habit of explaining anything. Hospitals “When a senior agricultural department was picked up by the FMIC Hospital National Directorate of Security Behind Kabul Medical (NDS), apparently on charges of corruption, we could get no University: details,” he said. “All they would 0202500200-+93793275595 tell us is that he had been ‘warned,’ The United States Air Force has synchronize his advice-and-assist but about what we don’t know. increased the number of F-16 multi strategy going forward to optimize In a remote Afghan province in the central highlands, the UN seeks That’s not the kind of news we task Fighting Falcons to 18 from the placement of the air assets." Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital resolution to a conflict between the media and a female governor. can use in a serious report.” 12, two generals, quoted by Harrigian said there has been a Pule Bagh-e- Umomi Like other members of the Military.com said Tuesday at the large focus in the north and eastern young press corps, Wahidi does Air Force Association's Air, Space part of Afghanistan in provinces 070263672 A private radio manager contends Afghanistan’s newest, poorest, and journalists to pose their questions not have formal training in and Cyber Conference. such as Kunar and Kunduz. that his station, which the governor most challenged provinces. in an open forum. In addition, journalism, but he is a computer In addition air refueling tankers "But there's a recognition that Khairkhana Hospital has sharply criticized, is slated to Masooma Muradi, who is leading government figures have technology expert and he comes are in Afghanistan for the first time we're going to have to distribute be bulldozed in favor of a proposed currently Afghanistan’s only provided Afghanistan’s state across as savvy and dedicated to in about five years, they said. our force, and that's going to require 0799-321007 public road project, and that he is woman governor, claims that her television with regular interviews. his new profession. The Air Force now has 18 a lot of airpower support." The 2401352 receiving constant threats from work is hampered by a highly- For its part, the media says “We have a responsibility to multi-role F-16 fighters in country, emphasis will be on supporting anonymous Facebook users. critical media that has gone to that it is being more careful about cover social issues, but we don’t Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, ground forces as they position Another station manager extremes to discredit her – using anonymous sources and get much help with those either. commander of US Air Forces throughout the country. And Indira Gandhi Children insists that unknown assailants, including through innuendo on taping government officials For example, we have a serious Central Command, told reporters Harrigian plans to "optimize" alleged enemies of the free press, Facebook and by secret taping of without their knowledge. problem with violence against at the conference. drones, such as MQ-9 Reapers, Hospital, Wazir Akbar kidnapped and beat him. private discussions, including Still, efforts to repair frayed women and we see the statistics, "We just plussed up our operating in the area, reported Khan, Kabul 2301372 The threats are taking place in those of her husband. relations between the government but no one is ever willing to talk to number of fighters. We had 12 F- Military.com. The US Defense Daikundi, a rugged central highland “When I arrived, here there and the media are still a work in us about the reasons for his kind 16s; we now have 18," said Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday province, where tiny villages are was so much opposition – some progress. Media representatives of violence, which sometimes leads Harrigian, who oversees missions the United States will send in more Ibn-e- Seena connected by goat paths along a people just didn’t want a lady as remain disgruntled and upset at the to self-immolation.” at the Combined Air Operations than 3,000 additional troops to stunning moonscape of immense their leader,” she said. “Political Governor’s office for not providing Though progress is being made, Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Afghanistan. Mattis told reporters Pul-e-Artan, Kabul boulders set in the mountains amid parties opposed me and civil the timely information they seek the broader public fear across According to Military.com, at the Pentagon he expected to sign 2100359 almond groves lining dusty valleys. society as well, but my main and for what they contend have Daikundi is that without a focus Harrigian said: "Our close-air an order sending the troops soon, In many respects, Daikundi is problem was the media. They been a series of indirect threats. on free press and an open support role continues and, as you but offered few details. "The a microcosm of the rest of the didn’t understand what their role For her part, the governor must government, citizens will lose faith look at the strategy coming president has been very clear that Wazir Akbar Khan country and a test case for should be.” also persuade security services, in their own government, giving rise forward, we're actually right now we are not going to broadcast to Afghanistan’s future stability. In Enter the UNAMA strategic who often work through back to more disputes and the working with [Commander of US the enemy how many [troops] are Hospital roadside tea shops, weary travelers communication team, which channels with the judiciary, to join encroachment of armed conflict. forces in Afghanistan] Gen. John going [and] where exactly they are 2301741, 2301743 stop to exchange stories about a brought together a beleaguered a more open and transparent This remote and often- Nicholson's staff on how to best going," he said. (ToloNews) grinding war that surrounds – but press corps with the lady governor government. overlooked region of Afghanistan has not yet engulfed - the province in a make-shift conference room at “We are not permitted to work appears, in any case, open to a Ali Abad and an influx if newly-displaced a local roadside restaurant. freely and I am being threatened robust UN effort aimed at helping Shahrara, Kabul Afghans asking for shelter. “We saw the problems getting by persons close to the governor,” to resolve roiling disputes. United Nations officials here worse, and so I asked, ‘What can said Anwar Shahab, the owner and “The UN was able to do the 2100439 say that for Afghanistan to the United Nations do to help?’” manager of Radio Daikundi, a local one thing that is most needed – stabilize, government, on a local said Jaffar Rahim, UNAMA’s FM station. provide a platform for all sides to level, needs to prove itself worthy Public Information officer in the Shahab, 38, and a long-time present their ideas and Malalai Maternity of the trust and respect of all its central highlands region, who has journalist in Nili, said his latest recommendations,” said Hospital citizens. For that to happen, a new worked for the UN in Afghanistan woes began when he posted on his Rahmatullah Shariati, who culture of openness – one in which for more than a dozen years. “I personal Facebook page a rumor represents two major civil society 2201377/ 2301743 the media is allowed to operate said, ‘So let’s have a dialogue and from inside the governor’s offices groups in Nili. without threats will be essential. let’s talk about ethics and how the that someone had raided the safe “We want to see this worked To this end, working through the press can access the information it and stolen the carpets after hearing out because it is the public that DUNHUANG, China : A center Banks governor’s office and a panoply of needs to inform the public. the governor would soon be needs to know and has the right to to strengthen cooperation among local media representatives, the Basically, we needed to help both removed from office. The know.” domestic and international media Da Afghanistan Bank UN Assistance Mission in sides in this dispute determine their governor’s office has denounced the About this Feature Story: The on China’s Belt and Road initiative 2100302, 2100303 Afghanistan (UNAMA) is trying own interests and think about allegations. UN Assistance Mission for would be established by the to help instill the principles of standards for working openly “Since then, I’ve had Afghanistan (UNAMA) has a People’s Daily, announced the Bakhtar Bank ethical journalism, as well as the together.” anonymous posts, which have mandate to support the newspaper’s president on public’s right to access information Rahim went to work with a ‘tagged’ the governor, saying that Government of Afghanistan and its Tuesday. 0776777000 as key pillars of an open society conscientious senior reporter from my wife and daughter were raped,” citizens in a shared goal of Yang Zhenwu, president of the and a responsive government. nearby Bamyan, Hadi Ghafari, Shahab said. becoming a stable, open, and People’s Daily, made the Azizi Bank In her long office set with a who insists, “One bad doctor can “I’ve informed the police of peaceful nation. The following announcement at the launch of the 0799 700900 dozen matching tea tables, kill a patient, but a bad reporter these threats against me, but they news feature is meant to tell a 2017 Media Cooperation Forum Daikundi’s governor speaks with can upset an entire society.” continue, nevertheless.” His FM human interest story related to kicked off in Dunhuang, northwest Pashtany Bank the cautioning words of a high As a result of the UN efforts, radio station sits atop one of the how Afghanistan and the UN are China's Gansu province on 2102908, 2103868 school head mistress, the post she the Daikundi governor’s office has largest hills in Nili and the working together to overcome the Tuesday (Sept. 19). occupied before being appointed implemented a series of regular government is now threatening to many challenges to achieving this The event is attended by over Road, opening up more two years ago to govern one of press conferences in order to allow run a road through his studios, he goal. (ToloNews) 300 media outlets from 127 opportunities for co-construction Air Services countries and international and co-sharing, as well as mutually organizations, making it the largest beneficial and win-win Safi Airways and most influential gathering of cooperation, Yang said. District media outlets ever hosted by The Belt and Road Forum for 020 22 22 222 China’s mainstream media. International Cooperation held in intelligence The People’s Daily will take May has promoted collaborations Ariana six specific actions to promote featuring a wider scope, a greater chief gunned media cooperation, Yang pledged, variety of fields, and a higher 020-2100270 elaborating that the efforts will standard among participating down in Takhar include releasing a blue paper on countries, Yang added. Kam Air Belt and Road media cooperation, The Belt and Road Initiative TALOQAN: Unidentified gunmen launching an international research has created a new concept for 0799974422 have shot dead the intelligence chief center, starting a Belt and Road global governance, broadened room for the Warsaj district of media cooperation center and a Belt for international cooperation, and Hotels northeastern Takhar province, and Road joint interview set a model in which different officials said on Wednesday. Police mechanism. civilizations could learn from each Safi Landmark spokesman Maj. Abdul Khalil Establishing a cooperation other. KABUL : Austria is ready to Aseer told Pajhwok Afghan News union for Belt and Road regional “The building of the Initiative 020-2203131 cooperate with Afghanistan in that the intelligence officer, Ghulam cooperation, setting up a culture is set to be prosperous,” Yang collecting renewable energy and Rabbani, was gunned down in front research institute, and publishing noted. SERENA imparting vocational skills to the of his house in Trasht area on the English version of the book Conforming to this trend, the Afghan youth. Tuesday night. Warsage district series Ode to Silk Road were part People’s Daily hosted the first 0799654000 Austria President Alexander chief Abdul Rashad said two of the program. Media Cooperation Forum on Belt Van der Bellen met President accused had been arrested in In 2013, Chinese President Xi and Road in 2014 in a sincere bid New Rumi Restaurant Ashraf Ghani on the sidelines of connection with the murder. Jinping proposed to jointly build to formulate an information the 72nd UN General Assembly However he said Rabbani was the Silk Road Economic Belt and expressway, tear down emotional 0776351347 meeting in New York. killed due to personal enmity. the 21st Century Maritime Silk barriers. (Pajhwok) A statement from the Internet Services Presidential Palace in Kabul on Wednesday said the two UA Telecom presidents discussed regional 0796701701 / 0796702702 cooperation, transit trade and other issues of mutual interest. Ghani thanked Austria for her Exchange Rate cooperation with Afghanistan in various fields and urged Austria’s 1.00 USD contribution towards development 68.50AFN of professional education and renewable energy in the war-torn country. 1000.00 IRR He said Afghanistan has the 18.00AFN capacity to collect renewable energy and in this regard Austria’s help could be effective. Van der Bellen was pleased The UAE FM said: “We will fought. 1.00 UAE meeting Ghani and said his always be a partner with the Sheikh Abdullah invited 18.60AFN government and people of Austria people of Afghanistan, and we will President Ghani to attend the always stood with Afghanistan and support Afghanistan in fighting inauguration ceremony of the UAE his country was ready to cooperate terrorism.” Museum in November, or to send 1.00 EUR with Afghanistan in the He called the new US strategy a delegation from Afghanistan. 82.20AFN development of vocational for Afghanistan as “beneficial” for Ghani praised UAE’s education and renewable energy. the stability and security of cooperation with Afghanistan in Meanwhile, President Ghani Afghanistan and the region. various fields and called the UAE 1000.00 INR also met UAE foreign minister He expressed concern over as a friend and brother of 1055.00AFN Sheikh Abdul bin Zayed Al- distinguishing between “good” and Afghanistan. “UAE is one of Nahyan on Tuesday noon on the “bad” terrorism in the region and Afghanistan’s strong partners in margin of the UN General said the threat of terrorism in had combating terrorism.” 1000.00 PKR Assembly at the UN headquarters. to be understood and jointly (Pajhwok) 641.00AFN THURSDAY . 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his focus is now on Sindh. “In December, we will organise a huge public gathering at Mazar-e- Quaid,” he vowed.Khan lashed out at PPP for corruption in Sindh and said that corruption is rampant in the province than any other province of the country. “There is a commission on every project in Sindh and the money is being laun- dered to Dubai by [Zardari’s sister] Faryal Talpur,” he alleged. Citing the need of a “genuine opposition leader” to keep a check on government, the PTI chief accused the federal government of giving massive development funds to Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah. Nawaz destroyed every institution of the country by placing his friends as their head in view of protecting his corruption, he said. While accusing the government of maligning the army as well, he said, “It is the first time that the army chief is repeatedly saying that ‘we won’t impose martial law’, ‘we KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e- ble for the country’s adverse situ- tire country is in debt but they have stand with democracy’, but they Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ation. While speaking to journal- become billionaires,” he said. “Look have issues because the army has on Wednesday said that Pakistan ists here, Khan criticised the PML- at the children of Ishaq Dar, Nawaz not become Punjab Police and the People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman N and PPP, saying both parties loot- Sharif and Zardari – they are all judges today are not Justice Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan ed the nation. “The [2006] Char- billionaires,” he added. Announc- Qayyum who used to write deci- Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ter of Democracy was an under- ing his visit to various districts of sions on their telephone calls.” leader Nawaz Sharif are responsi- hand deal between them. The en- Sindh after Muharram, he said that (Tribune) Panaji: The Goa Congress on in Goa seeks to implement through ism", Parrikar had also assured the Wednesday accused Chief Minis- back door," Naik said in a state- MLAs that he would take prompt ter Manohar Parrikar of fascist ment issued. Parrikar in a note ear- and strict action if they passed on tendencies, saying a letter from him lier this week to ruling MLAs and information about drug-related ac- asking MLAs not to comment ministers had said: "Such public tivities to him. "Given the sensi- Six Ban glad esh publicly on a police-drug mafia statements lead to dampening of tive nature of the issue and firm nexus in the state amounted to cen- morale of police force, unwarrant- resolution of the state government sorship of legislators. State Con- ed sensationalism, dent in the im- to make Goa a drug-free state, it is n at ion als, gress president Shantaram Naik age of the state and do not help us requested that such information said Parrikar's controversial writ- in resolving the issue, as criminals about drugs or related activities be ten note to all MLAs, which said become alert by such statements." brought to the notice of the under- that commenting publicly on the In the recent past, both ruling and signed, so as to jointly fight this 16 Niger ian s nexus was affecting the morale of Opposition legislators have been menace," Parrikar said. Naik, how- the Goa Police, was tantamount complaining of the proliferation of ever, claimed that such a clamp- to restraining the democratic rights the drug trade in the state and the down on MLAs was shocking and of the legislators. File image of nexus of the drug mafia and police amounted to censorship. ar r est ed Manohar Parrikar. PTIFile image officials. Ruling MLAs from Ca- "It is surprising that Parrikar of Manohar Parrikar. PTI "Chief langute (Michael Lobo) and Siolim should issue a censorship order minister writing a note on his file, (Vinod Palienkar) constituencies against his own MLAs restraining for alleged restraining his MLAs from exer- have also criticised the police for them from criticising the police- cising their democratic rights of free not being tough on the drug trade. men in Goa on the drugs issue," speech, is yet another example of Claiming that such comments trig- Naik said. d iver sion fascism that the BJP government gered "unwarranted sensational- (Hindustan Times) of AGO Six Bangladesh Nationals and 16 Nigerians have been arrested in Calabar for alleged diversion of 22 metric tonnes of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO). The suspects were in vessel, MV Princess Oge. The Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship Victory in Calabar, Commo- HETAUDA: Rastriya Prajatantra tions from Makwanpur-1 if the tion and against the election code tion Commission for giving ap- dore Salihu Jibril said the ship was proval to Rastriya Prajatantra Par- caught carrying out illegal activi- Party Chairperson Kamal Thapa central Committee decides to field of conduct,” Thapa lamented. He has urged the Election Commis- him there. Former Foreign Minis- also expressed dissatisfaction that ty-Democratic even it lacks 40% ties and was immediately arrest- signatures of its cadres. As per the ed. He said the vessel was given sion to hold the upcoming Provin- ter Thapa claimed that the PM PM Deuba had directly violated cial and Parliamentary elections on Deuba-led government is indulged the election code of conduct and constitutional requirement, the permission to move AGO cargo to government should hold provincial Calabar. stipulated date. Speaking with me- in organised corruption in the coun- political ethics at a time when civil dia in Hetauda today, Thapa ex- try. He also termed PM Deuba’s servants cannot be transferred and and parliamentary elections by While handing over the sus- January 21. The Provincial and pects and the vessel to the Police, pressed optimism that RPP would Cabinet expansion as shameful and appointed.“RPP and other politi- get results in upcoming polls. claimed the ruling government as cal parties have been protesting Parliamentary elections are sched- the Commander said that the sus- uled on November 26 and Decem- pects indulged in illegal diversion Former DPM Thapa also shared irrelevant. “Cabinet expansion was the government moves,” Thapa that he could possibly fight elec- against the spirit of the constitu- added. Thapa also accused the Elec- ber 7 respectively. of 22 metric tonnes of diesel in an (thehimalayantimes) illegal ship to ship transfer along the Calabar water channel. “The ship was caught carrying out the illegal activity and was immediately arrested. The vessel was given permission to move AGO cargo to P r esiden t Calabar,” he said. When contact- ed, the state Commissioner of Po- lice, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, said investigation was still ongoing and u r ges U N would only comment after investigation had been completed. But a top police source alleged on Tues- No p olit ical day that the Navy did not carry to su ppor t out thorough investigation before confiscating the vessel. m ot ive b eh in d b id The source said, the receiving ship was not arrested alongside the S r i L a n ka MV Princess Oge which gave room for suspicion. “The ship had ev- t o p oison m ad r asa ery document, otherwise, where is the other vessel that they were towa r ds doing ship-to-ship transfer with?” w at er cooler : “There is more to the arrest. They were probably not satisfied with the security operatives they dis- r econ ciliation Salm a An sar i covered aboard the ship, otherwise they did not discover anything,” President Maithripala Sirisena called upon the international commu- ALIGARH: Salma Ansari, wife of years, said she would recommend the source said. nity to seriously consider the tremendous progress made by the former vice president Hamid An- the name of the boy for a National (AFP) government towards reconciliation, restoration of democratic free- sari, has dismissed the possibility Bravery Award."The incident ap- doms, human rights and the rule of law. He asked the UN members to of any "political motive" behind pears to be a well-planned move extend the fullest support to the slow, but the steady forward march the alleged attempt to poison a to defame this institution and in of Sri Lanka to build a progressive, democratic, free and equal society water cooler in a madrasa run by a the process cause damage to me with high morals and discipline. Addressing the 72nd Session of the trust headed by her. "I do not think also," she said. There are 4,000 Parties can be led from United nations General Assembly in New York on September 19 any political group would have students including boarders who (20th morning in SL time), he pointed out that we all are aware that stooped to this level," she told re- are receiving education in the ma- haste will not yield good results and the slow and steady path is the porters here last evening. On Sat- drasa free of cost. The school au- most suitable one to restore religious and communal harmony so that urday, a vigilant Class 8 student of thorities have decided to step up abroad, says Mushahidullah people of all communities could live in peace and harmony as equal the Chacha Nehru Madrasa here security measures in the institu- citizens. He said that during the last two and a half years, the govern- had averted a major tragedy by tion by installing CCTV cameras Muttahida Qaumi Movement- ment has taken several important steps that are necessary for consol- alerting his principal that rat poi- at different strategic points in the London chief Altaf Hussain. “The idating democracy, freedom, good governance, and the rule of law. son had allegedly been mixed in the compound of madrassa, Salma, the parties have been led for more than “Through such transformative steps, we have laid the foundation container of the school's water chairperson of the trust, said. City 20 years from London, with ad- necessary to forge national reconciliation, and ensure non-recurrence cooler by two unidentified men, Superintendent of Police Atul vanced technology now at hand it of conflict in our country,” he said. according to the police. The 13- Srivastava said that efforts were is not an issue anymore,” he said, “As a country that has suffered violent conflict for 30 years, we are year-old boy noticed two men tink- on to identify the two men and the indicating that other parties could drawing from experience and lessons learned to strengthen national ering with the water cooler and motive behind the crime. "We will also do the same. reconciliation, and we are determined to prevent the recurrence of emptying some white powder also investigate the lapses, if any, The PML-N leader maintained conflict. We have given priority in this context to consolidate free- from a packet with a 'rat poison' of the school authorities that led that former prime minister Nawaz dom and democracy in our country, and through a strong foundation label into the container of the ma- to a major breach of security and Sharif will soon return to Pakistan, of national reconciliation forged through unity and friendship among chine, they had said, quoting an the entry of mischievous elements saying that Nawaz has an experi- communities,” the President said. President Sirisena stressed that the FIR filed by Rashid Ali, the public inside the school despite the presence of facing such political situa- vision of the government is to ensure sustained economic develop- relations officer of the school run ence of the security staff," he said. tions. “It is not something new. ment through the increase of domestic agriculture and industry under by the Al-Noor Trust. Sensing "We will also investigate as to why KARACHI: Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan We have seen jail, political exiles, an environment friendly policies and programs. He emphasized the mischief, he rushed to the princi- the water tank of the cooler was on Wednesday denied rumours of a rift within the party, adding that we have experienced all these imperative need to adhere to the Paris Protocol on Climate Change pal's office to inform him about left unattended to by the school former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is part of the party things and can face it again,” he for the sake of the future of the human beings as well as flora and the incident, the police had said. authorities. This could have led to and is loyal to Nawaz Sharif. Speaking in a TV programme, he said that added. fauna. Salma, who has been running the a serious situation," he said. in the past political parties have been led from London, referring to (Tribune) (LBO) charitable institution for over 18 (Dindia) THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief EU transfers $1bn to support Syria refugees in Turkey

The European Union has transferred €838 million ($1 billion) out of the €3 billion ($3.6 billion) it had pledged as a first stage payment to support Syrian refugees in Turkey, the Anadolu Agency reported sources in the EU as saying. According to the sources, the date of future pay- Donald Trump has accused Hill- ments remains unknown. In No- ary Clinton of "allowing North vember 2015 and March 2016, Korea to research and build" nu- the European Union pledged to clear weapons, after the former transfer two financial packages election rival criticised his open- to the Turkish government by the ing speech to the UN General As- end of 2018, each worth €3 bil- sembly. The president's comments lion, to support Syrian refugees came after Ms Clinton called his and meet their needs. The two address to the General Assembly sides agreed at the 2015 summit “very dark, dangerous,” and “not to allocate €1.3 billion ($1.56 bil- the kind of message that the leader lion) for humanitarian relief and of the greatest nation in the world €1.7 billion ($2 billion) for edu- should be delivering” while ap- cation, health and infrastructure, pearing on Stephen Colbert's The migration management and social Late Show. The president chose and economic support projects. to attack Ms Clinton on Twitter (AP) the next morning, claiming: “After allowing North Korea to research and build Nukes while Secretary Philippine of State (Bill C also), Crooked Hil- lary now criticises.” He then soldiers kill retweeted a comment from an ac- UN General Assembly. When asked what she made of the president's Russia plans to assist Somalia in and bolster international efforts to civil war tore through Somalia in count called “EaglePundit”, which alleged that she and former Presi- speech, the former secretary of state said: “You are both required to nine Maoist its fight against terrorism, Soma- establish peace in the country. 2009 and is ongoing. The Al-Qae- stand up for the values of what we believe in – democracy and opportu- lia’s Garowe news site reported. “The Russian side expressed sup- da affiliated Al-Shabaab group has dent Barack Obama effectively gave nuclear weapons to North nity – as a way to demonstrate clearly the United States remains the rebels in Foreign Minister Sergey port to the anti-terrorism efforts been battling the Somali govern- beacon that we want it to be,” adding that even dangerous situations Lavrov met with Somalia’s Prime of Somalia’s federal authorities and ment in an effort to govern by a Korea. “It is the height of hypocrisy. Obama and Clinton in effect such as that of North Korea should be led with diplomacy. After allow- gunbattle Minister Hassan Ali Khaire in a the African Union peacekeeping strict interpretation of Islamic law. ing North Korea to research and build Nukes while Secretary of State sideline meeting at the United Na- mission in Somalia”, said the Rus- Since 2013, Al-Shabaab pledged gave nuclear weapons to North Korea by their policy of appease- (Bill C also), Crooked Hillary now criticizes. It is the height of hypoc- tions General Assembly yesterday. sian Foreign Ministry. Russian and allegiance to Al-Qaeda, attracting risy. Obama and Clinton in effect gave nuclear weapons to North Korea Russia discussed the need to con- Somalia seek to develop greater the United States to execute raids ment,” the tweet read. Ms Clin- ton made her remarks in the wake by their policy of appeasement. Philippine soldiers killed nine tinue efforts to ensure the stabili- bilateral cooperation for econom- and airstrikes against the group. (CNN) Maoist rebels in one of the fierc- ty of Somalia’s federal government ic, political and trade relations. A (AFP) of Mr Trump's first address to the est clashes since peace talks to end nearly five decades of conflict broke down in May, an army spokesman said on Wednesday. An army corporal was also Kenyanelectionmust bererunbecause slightly wounded in the 25- minute firefight in rural area of Nueva Ecija province, some 220 it wasnot transparent,sayscourt kilometres (137 miles) north of the capital Manila, army spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Isagani upreme court blames failings by electoral commission for its deci Nato said. Nato said the soldiers rushed to the village after receiv- sion to annul results of August vote ing a report of armed men in the area. Confronted by a band of rassed local, African and western around 15 guerrillas from the observers who said they had found New People’s Army (NPA), the no major problems with the elec- soldiers killed nine. More than tion. On Wednesday, the court of- 40,000 people have died in the fered a detailed explanation of why long-running insurgency, and it annulled the 8 August election – peace negotiations have sput- the first decision of its kind in Af- tered on-off. Talks, brokered by rica. Reading out portions of the Norway, resumed in August last judgment, Philomena Mwilu, the year, days after President Rod- deputy chief justice, said the court rigo Duterte freed senior commu- had upheld the opposition claim nist figures and militants. A that the election result was declared ceasefire agreement held for al- before all results from Kenya’s most four months. But, Duterte more than 40,000 polling stations suspended talks in January after had been received. The poll had rebels resumed and stepped up therefore not been “conducted in attacks on security forces, as well accordance with the constitution”, as on businesses in the country- leaving “no choice but to nullify side, including mines, plantations it”. The court’s decision has sharp- and construction companies. In ened the political divide in Kenya, May, the president scrapped one of Africa’s biggest economies, peace negotiations saying he will and risks a constitutional crisis. only agree to resume talks if Odinga, who lost by 1.4m votes, rebels sign a negotiated ceasefire, has said he will not take part in the and stop recruitment and extor- new elections scheduled for 17 tion. (CNN) October unless some staff at the electoral commission are fired, Saudi university Kenya’s supreme court has said it Uhuru Kenyatta, the incumbent elections in October, and possible among other demands. Electoral annulled presidential elections held president of the east African state, lengthy political instability. The officials may struggle to meet the to dismiss in August because the polls were won a second term by a margin of court’s majority decision to annul deadline as the French company “neither transparent nor verifiable” 9%, defeating his long-term rival, the poll – the result of which was responsible for the technological suspected and blamed the country’s electoral Raila Odinga, in the election last announced three weeks ago – sur- systems used for elections has said commission for the shortcomings. month. The country now faces new prised many observers and embar- it cannot be ready in time. (WP) Brotherhood- Switzerland’s putative new foreign political and economic issues with minister called on Wednesday for the EU. Brussels wants a compre- linked a fresh start to tortuous talks on hensive “framework” treaty to re- cementing ties with the European place the patchwork of more than academics Union, the neutral country’s most 100 bilateral accords that now gov- Israel holds 10 important trading partner. Parlia- ern ties. But mainstream Swiss A large Saudi public university ment elected Ignazio Cassis, 56, parties have got cold feet about the announced it would dismiss em- as the first minister in 18 years idea ahead of Britain’s divorce talks ployees suspected of ties to the from the Italian-speaking Swiss with the EU. Cassis - who raised banned Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian girls canton of Ticino. He is likely to be eyebrows in his acceptance speech adding to concerns that the gov- named Switzerland’s top diplomat by citing Marxist theorist Rosa ernment is clamping down on its when the four-party coalition gov- Luxemburg’s comments on re- critics in academia and beyond. ernment allots portfolios on Fri- specting people with different Activists and rights groups say in harsh prison day. The polyglot physician and opinions - said it was time to aban- security forces have rounded up member of the pro-business Lib- don a “poisoned” vocabulary in some 30 clerics, intellectuals and eral Democrats is to replace For- the debate about EU links. others in the past 10 days, in eign Minister Didier Burkhalter, “We must have the courage to what Human Rights Watch has conditions who announced in June he would make a new start,” he told report- described as “a coordinated resign. Should Cassis get the for- ers, noting no one knew in detail crackdown on dissent”. Authori- Human rights sources said yesterday that 35 Palestinian females are still being held in Israel’s HaSharon Prison, 10 of eign ministry - Swiss cabinet mem- what a framework treaty would ties have not explicitly acknowl- bers get to pick their portfolios by entail as the partners seek to rede- edged the detentions, which come whom are girls under the age of 18. They named the minors as Iman Ali, Merah Jaidah, Isra Jabir, Lama Al-Bakri, Amal Kaba- order of seniority - he will be point fine relations. amid widespread speculation - man in navigating several open (Reuters) denied by officials - that King ha, Manar Shweiki, Malak Al-Ghalith, Hadiya Arinat, Malak Salman will abdicate in favour of Souleiman and Noor Zerikat. The Palestinian Commission for his son as well as deepening ten- Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs pointed out that the pris- sions with neighbouring Qatar, oners are suffering from harsh conditions. Like other detainees, which is accused by Riyadh of they are subjected to flagrant violations of their rights, such as supporting Islamists, including medical negligence, solitary confinement and constant incursions the Brotherhood.The governing into their rooms. The official human rights organisation noted council of Al-Imam Mohammed that Israel’s Nahshon Forces, which guard prisoners and trans- Ibn Saud Islamic University in fer them between the courts and prisons, beat women while Riyadh advised against renewing they are being transferred and abuse them verbally. The Israeli contracts for employees it said authorities, the commission added, have also installed CCTV in were “influenced by the ideolo- women’s prisons, violating their right to privacy. In total, Israel gy of the terrorist Muslim Broth- is holding 58 Palestinian females in prison. Israeli occupying authorities are planning to increase the ownership of erhood organisation.”The state- The Palestinian Prisoners’ Centre for Studies said that the occu- firearms amongst Jewish settlers in an effort to confront alleged attacks ment, posted online on Tuesday, pation authorities issued 17 administrative detention orders by Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Information Centre. Min- did not name the employees or against Palestinian women during the 2015 uprising in Jerusa- ister of Public Security Gilad Erdan is campaigning for an expansion in specify their number, but said lem. The prisoners targeted by such orders are being held with the system that would allow more settlers, particularly those who spent they included Saudis and foreign- neither charge nor trial. their military service in combat units, greater access to guns and rifles in ers. The employees’ removal According to the Human Rights Centre NGO, the use of admin- order to confront “lone wolf attacks” from Palestinians. This would “aims to protect the minds of istrative detention orders violates the principles of international enable Israelis who are militarily trained to shoot Palestinians under the students and university employ- law. Israel, it alleges, uses administrative detention as a means of pretext that they were possibly going to commit an attack. Firearms are ees from those deviant, partisan collective punishment. already prevalent among settlers; former high ranking army officials are ideas and dangerous, destructive The Palestinian Authority has been called upon to take this permitted to carry weaponry and summer camps in Israel have also trends”, it added. (CNN) issue to the International Criminal Court. been known to teach children as young as ten how to use rifles. (BBC) (Reuters) THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy Phone No: +93-797070563 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.afghanistantimes.af Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Advisory editorial board Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal, Saboor Sarir USairstrikes in Afghanistan Graphic-Designers: Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi and Basir Qazizada boom under Trump:New Mar ket i ng & Adver t i si ng: Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 victims,no efficiency Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan By John Weight spent on the peace process, there "Protests in Afghanistan have no my positions during Operation Sa- will be a possibility of peace and se- effect on the government, public ray Has July 19 near Forward Oper- Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 curity being in place in Afghanistan." organizations or the media. The in- ating Base Naray, Afghanistan. The Bureau of Investigative Jour- "Unfortunately, the Afghan Presi- ternational community and Afghan On August 21, Trump an- Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press nalism reported a significant in- dent, who should deal with the cases allies should demand the punishment nounced in a speech a new US strat- crease in the US airstrikes in Af- of all those injured and killed by these of the perpetrators so that these egy for Afghanistan. Trump explic- ghanistan under President Donald attacks including civilians and chil- crimes can no longer be commit- itly scrapped the avowed nation- Trump. Speaking to Sputnik, Afghan dren, as well as find the perpetra- ted," Zaki concluded. According to building goals of previous presidents The constitution says experts said that all this adds to the tors, does not want to investigate the Bureau of Investigative Journal- George W. Bush and Barack Obama, exacerbation of the situation in the these cases, so as not to upset for- ism, since early 2017, the US Air and vowed to fight terrorists. To country. Commenting on the Bu- eigners, the US embassy or other Force has launched a total of 2,353 that end, he pledged to increase US reau of Investigative Journalism's international organizations," airstrikes across Afghanistan, com- troop levels in Afghanistan though Article 55: report about the stepping up of US Alokozai added. He was echoed by pared to 1,072 such strikes in 2016. would not disclose any numbers. Defending the country shall be the duty of all citizens of Afghanistan. Conditions for compulsory airstrikes in Afghanistan in an in- General Nazif Zaki, a member of The bureau also cited 1,984 missiles Trump refused to set any deadlines military service shall be regulated by law. terview with Sputnik, Mohammad the Afghan parliament, who attrib- and bombs that the US Air Force for US reductions in force levels or Hashem Alokozai, head of the Af- uted the flop and negative conse- dropped in Afghanistan in 2017, military withdrawals from Afghani- ghan parliament's Homeland Secu- quences of the US airstrikes in Af- "nearly three times the number it stan. rity and Defense Committee, point- ghanistan to lack of coordination had released at the same time last He also emphasized that he ed out that such operations fail to between the US military and Afghan year." The United Nations Assis- would give his military command- improve the situation in his coun- security and defense forces. "Ene- tance Mission in Afghanistan ers the freedom to wage war more try. According to him, an increase mies use women and children as hu- (UNAMA) registered a 43-percent rapidly and ruthlessly in order to in the number of US airstrikes is out man shields, which is why foreign increase in civilian casualties from destroy alleged terrorist targets. Af- of sync with the will of the Afghan forces' airstrikes [also] kill civilians. aerial operations during the first six ghanistan is in a state of political people. "During the airstrikes, Thus far, the US air operations in months of this year compared to and social turmoil, with government which are launched in accordance Afghanistan have been ineffective, the same period in 2016; 95 people forces fighting the continuing Tali- with Trump's new strategy, civilians, and in most cases they've resulted were killed and 137 more injured in ban insurgency. The instability has including children, have been killed. in casualties among civilians and these operations, according to persisted in the country since the These operations led to a situation Afghan soldiers," Zaki said. He add- UNAMA. 1st Lt. Chris Richelderf- 2001 US-led invasion to defeat the where the authorities and people ed that "no one will complain about er, Executive Officer of Headquar- Taliban and al-Qaeda in the wake of have distanced themselves from each the killing of innocent people" giv- ters and Headquarters Troop, 1st the 9/11 attacks in the United other," Alokozai said. He did not en that the United States remains Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment States. rule out that "if military spending is "one of the world's superpowers." (Airborne), looks at possible ene- (Spuntak)

f one is intent on committing suicide, there are few practical matters In Germany,immigrants are that need to be considered before taking this deadly step as there will be no time to be regretted. Be sure, really sure, and even think twice that becomingaseriouspolitical force there is no other way to get over the pain you are experiencing, other than By Jessica Bither the Social Democrats and the difference. If these appeals to mi- exact figures on how many within suicide. Surely, you would find plenty of other ways to rid from frustration, Greens, calling all of them “enemies nority voters work, it will hurt Ger- this group are eligible to vote, work- and confidently people around you will help you in this crucial time. If sui- of Turkey.” Meanwhile, the Alter- many’s two mainstream parties, the ing estimates used by government cide was right way, the problem of those people who committed suicide As Germans head to the polls on native for Germany, poised to be Christian Democrats and the Social officials hover at roughly 800,000. Sept. 24, nearly 6 million eligible the first far-right party to enter par- Democrats, while potentially open- This would be roughly 1.2 percent could have been resolved. Of course not, rather the reaction of her/his, family voters, or 10 percent of all eligible liament in post-war Germany, has ing up opportunities for the far right. of the entire German vote. Thus, if members, especially parents is more disturbances. Some report says that voters, are themselves immigrants been busy courting potential voters According to the microcensus of voters of Turkish origin follow Er- or the children of migrants — a from the immigrants of the former 2016, there are currently 2.8 mil- dogan’s advice, the Social Demo- each suicide intimately affects at least six other people, so consider care- number that is sure to grow in years Soviet bloc. In keeping with the past lion people of Turkish descent in crats stand to lose the most votes in fully the impact on them. Another thing which is very much important to to come. In contrast with their coun- neglect of these constituencies, Germany, including former guest total numbers from this group. At terparts in the United States or Brit- there is a conspicuous lack of data workers, their children and grand- the same time, the impact in terms bear in mind is that Allah, the Almighty have not created us in vain. Suicide ain, however, German political par- on migrant voters. It would be wrong children. A recent study in 2016 by of percentages would truly only attempt comes in mind after severe depression always accompanied by a ties have no history of targeting to paint these groups as monolithic the Expert Council of German Foun- matter for the smaller parties fight- pervasive sense of suffering as well as the belief that escape from its hope- minority groups in political cam- blocs, easily swayed by the promis- dations on Integration and Migra- ing around the 9 percent to 10 per- paigns. But recent appeals to the es and positions of one party alone. tion indicated that this group has a cent mark. Approximately 3.1 mil- less. But, while dedicating ourselves to worship or creator (Allah the Al- country’s two largest migrant com- Current polling suggests that Chan- strong affinity for the Social Dem- lion immigrants from countries of mighty) and also in pursing education and to be in the service of people in munities indicate that this might be cellor Angela Merkel’s Christian ocrats, nearly 70 percent. Ninety the former Soviet Union live in Ger- changing. Less than six weeks be- Democrats will win a solid victory, percent of these Turkish Germans many. The overwhelming majority the surface of this planet, so this deduction would help and even not let the fore the election, Turkish President followed by the Social Democrats. support left-leaning parties com- of them came as so-called Aussiedler depression to force you commit suicide. The pain of existence often be- Recep Tayyip Erdogan called upon The truly competitive race in this bined (Social Democrats, Greens and (“emigrants”) in the 1990s, because voters of Turkish descent in Ger- election is for third place, with four the Left Party), while only 6 per- they were able to claim German cit- comes too much for severely depressed people to bear. Depression gives many to withhold their votes from parties running neck and neck cent indicated that they support izenship under German ancestry birth to a suicidal thought. Every year, one million adults, report making a three of Germany’s main political around the 10 percent mark. Here, Merkel’s more conservative Chris- laws. They form the single largest parties, the Christian Democrats, even small numbers could make a tian Democrats. While there are no immigrant group of eligible voters suicide attempt, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Pre- (an estimated 2 million-2.4 mil- vention. Worldwide, 800,000 people die due to suicide every year, accord- lion), or about 3 percent of the voting to the World Health Organization. For reason we don’t fully understand, ing population. Traditionally, the Soviet Germans overwhelmingly some people reach such depths of despair and pain that they begin to be- supported the conservative parties. lieve that they would be better off dead. In Afghanistan, despite so many But a poll last year by the Expert Neighbor ing I nt er f er ence Council on Integration and Migra- other challenges, suicide attempt is also here. Around 3,000 people com- tion showed a “dramatic collapse” mit suicide in Afghanistan every year, officials said, adding majority who in this support, which fell to 45 percent. According to a survey from commit suicide are females. Qadria Yazdan Parast, a member of Afghani- October 2016, nearly 40 percent stan Independent Human Rights Commission said that most of the suicide consume solely Russian-language cases go unreported. Families avoid reporting cases of female suicide due online media. The far-right Alter- native for Germany (AfD) has made to fear that it would tarnish their honor. This is absolutely annoying to see a particular effort to target this Afghans committee suicides in that majority of them women. This is re- group of disenchanted conservative voters by pandering to identity is- sponsibility of male members of a family to take care of their female mem- sues, calling for a lifting of sanc- bers. If you suspect someone might be depressed, don’t allow your tenden- tions against Russia, and heavily fan- ning dissatisfaction with Angela cy to deny the possibility of suicidal ideation prevent you from asking about Merkel’s handling of the refugee it. Everyone feels down at times. The breakup of a relationship or bad grade crisis. It has published its election can lead to low mood. Sometimes sadness comes on for no apparent rea- program and flyers in Russian, created its own network of “Russian- son. Depressed people may also fail to live up to their potential, doing poorly Germans in the AfD” with regional in society. There are several experiences of depressed individuals such as sub-branches and touts Russian Ger- mans as AfD candidates. In August, losing of pleasure in virtually all activities, feelings of fatigue or lack of it held a “Russia Congress” in Magde- energy, frequent tearfulness, difficult with concentration or memory, a burg, complete with pro-Russian slo- gans and policy recommendations. change in sleep pattern, with either too much or too little sleep, the person Last year, the AfD played a promi- may wake up in the night or early morning and not feel rested the next day, nent role in disseminating the spu- feelings of worthlessness and self-blame or exaggerated feelings of guilt, rious story of a Russian German girl who claimed to have been raped by unrealistic ideas and worries, thoughts of suicide and so on…which must Middle Eastern migrants (the so- be closely monitor by all members of a single family, and take immediate called Lisa Case). Germany does not collect data on affiliation with a step in case find anyone going through it. We should keep open eye in a bid particular minority or migrant com- to save our parents, brothers, and especially our sister and wife as suicide munity during the vote, so it will be difficult to tell how the votes of among women reported high. This is our moral responsibility to take care these groups have an impact on the of our female family members, provide them every necessary need they outcome of the election. It does seem safe to say that the required. issue of minority voting will grow in importance. Currently, 22.5 percent of all people in Germany are Nation migrants or have at least one par- ent who is an immigrant. Thirty- Subscription Rates eight percent of all children under 10 in Germany are foreign-born or Note: The following rates will apply from January 01, 2017. second generation, and in some cit- Categories Fee ies the “migrant background” children proportion is even higher, such Afghanistan Times as in Bremen, where it is 58 per- Annual Afg: 5400 cent. It is correspondingly clear that at your door step the targeting of minority groups will Six Months Afg: 2700 For fast delivery service become increasingly important in Afghanistan Times seeks the German campaigns — and with it names, addresses of your will come more potential for the International Organization $240 per year organizations and the number of political exploitation of cultural di- copies you want. vides. (WP) THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

lame for the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar is very easily Trump's UNspeech: Btraceable to British Colonial times. By Salma Yaqoob mar, the UK should be leading ef- Myanmar, which could very well be forts, as blame for the conflict in used against the Rohingya now. those lands is very easily traceable £250k was taken from the UK's aid Rome has spoken, back to British Colonial times. Even budget to train the army there, which without knowing the dark secrets of in this climate of violence is com- British involvement, people are pletely inexcusable. Aung San Suu horrified about what is happening Kyi has personal as well as political By John Weight the matter is finished in Myanmar, with hundreds of thou- ties with the UK, having a British sands of people forced from their husband and two sons born and raised homes by violent vigilantes, either in the UK. She not only graduated The time for equivocation and sat- measure, include a nation which woman holds her infant as she casts affront to the nation's economic and Salma Yaqoob is an led by or with help from the army from Oxford University with a de- ire where Donald Trump is con- counts the use of nuclear weapons, her vote in front of a mural of the hitherto political elite. In point of and stories of rapes and murder com- gree in Politics, Philosophy and cerned has passed. Indeed if the cur- the mass destruction of entire coun- late Venezuelan President Hugo fact, the grotesque verbal broadsides activist, commentator and broadcaster. monplace, alongside the dramatic Economics, but returned to live in rent US President's address to the tries — North Korea, Vietnam, Af- Chavez at a polling station during Trump unleashed concerning human footage of burning villages. The the UK after working briefly at the 72nd UN General Assembly in New ghanistan, Iraq, and Libya — as part the Constituent Assembly election rights and democracy when it comes hatred which has been stirred up by UN. She married British scholar York confirms anything, it is that of a legacy so foul with the stench in Caracas, Venezuela, July 30, 2017. to Caracas merely conceals and elides Condemnation of the brutal cam- nationalists is all too obvious in the Michael Aris in 1972, and lived in satire must now give way to a sober of hypocrisy it requires that we Meanwhile, the Venezuelan govern- a truth that dare not speak its name TV reports and the Islamophobia the UK until 1988, giving birth to and serious appreciation of the clear pinch our collective nose before en- ment of Nicolas Maduro currently — namely that Washington wants paign of ethnic cleansing being car- and present danger his administra- gaging with it. Not satisfied with de- finds itself under siege by a Wash- its country back. When it comes to ried out against the Rohingya Mus- that has been created by (among oth- and raising their two sons Alexander tion poses to the world. When Trump stroying North Korea once — in a ington-funded and supported oppo- the list of nations and governments lims in Myanmar is growing around ers) Ashin Wirathu, a monk who calls and Kim Aris there. Her sons con- arrived at the podium at the UN to war unleashed on its people by the sition comprised of an entrenched against which Trump vented his ire the world, with the Dalai Lama, the himself the "Buddhist Bin Laden", tinued to be raised in the UK by their deliver his address to the world lead- US and its allies between 1950 and oligarchy that has never once resiled in his UN speech — North Korea, Pope, Nobel Laureates and world is truly frightening. If the UK and father when she returned to Burma ers and diplomats in attendance, it 1953 — Trump leveled the threat from its hatred of the country's poor Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, and by leaders from many countries calling other western countries do not tack- to first look after her ailing mother was impossible to resist pondering that Washington may do so again, and indigenous masses. This is the implication Russia and China — the for an end to hostilities. There is no le this and condemn the attacks on and then to lead the political oppo- how it is that a man with zero polit- declaring that "we will have no true locus of the ire in which the inescapable fact is that for all their easy way to end the suffering there, a Muslim minority people, this in- sition, and hence are British citi- ical experience, whose dysfunctional choice but to totally destroy North Bolivarian revolution is held, a rev- differences they share a refusal to but it is imperative that the world action will again be seized upon as zens. When the Taliban blew up an- relationship with the English lan- Korea." Listening to this in Pyongy- olution that was authored by the submit to the writ of Washington. speaks out as one against such atroc- evidence of the West's hatred of Is- cient monuments to Buddha in Af- guage you would imagine would dis- ang, you can bet the decision was now departed Hugo Chavez on the This is their ‘crime' in the eyes of ities, yet the UK government's voice lam by extremists with another agen- ghanistan, there was an immediate qualify him from political office of instantly taken to ramp up the coun- back of popular support in the late an administration whose grip on re- has barely been heard at all. Of all da. They will do nothing to help the angry reaction to the desecration any kind, could possibly find him- try's on-going efforts to establish a 1990s, designed to redistribute the ality becomes evermore tenuous by the countries that should be playing Rohingya but will use their name for of such important artefacts of cul- self thrust onto the world stage in nuclear capability for the purposes country's oil wealth for the benefit the day. a role in protecting the vulnerable propaganda and recruiting more tural significance - rightly so. The command of the largest economy of defending itself. The anti-Iran of those whose very existence is an (Spuntak) Muslim minority people in Myan- fighters for their cause, just as they problem is that rape, murder, and and military, including nuclear weap- section of Trump's speech could well have with previous examples of the destruction of people's homes ons, ever known. Some have at- have been written for him in Tel Muslims being persecuted. We must in Myanmar has not inspired the tempted to posit Trump's election Aviv and Riyadh, such was its in- stop using the language of "ethnic same level of reaction. The UK to the highest political office in the temperance and brutal indifference tensions", as this is misleading and needs to step up and provide leader- United States as confirmation of the to the facts. And the salient where Regional implications of the disingenuous; instead, we must join ship in alleviating the suffering in unyielding magic of the American Iran is concerned is that it has not the coalition of genocide charities, Myanmar: 1. The Myanmar gov- dream, the power it has to make the attacked any of its neighbors in 200 Nobel Peace Prize winners, and faith ernment is stopping UN aid from seemingly impossible eminently years. Moreover, in our time Iran leaders in condemning what is hap- getting in: we must demand that possible, carrying with it the source has played a major part in the strug- Kurdish independencevote pening in the strongest possible blocks are removed immediately so of America's promise. However gle against the barbarism of Salafi- terms. The Rohingya have been liv- that humanitarian aid can reach peo- those of us who refuse to succumb jihadism in Iraq and Syria, shedding ing in those lands for over two hun- ple. Charities are raising money al- to such illusions understand Trump's the blood of its soldiers in the pro- raqi Kurdistan's neighbours will not allow the upcoming referendum dred years, but resentment over the ready, so we must ensure it gets to election as evidence not of Ameri- cess. In return the world, including to trigger wholesale changes in the regional order. internal displacement of Buddhists where people need it most. There is ca's greatness but of its weakness and Washington, owes it a debt of grat- stems back to 1826 when Britain also a huge humanitarian crisis in decline. To put it another way, if itude. But the world painted in lurid annexed the part of Myanmar where Bangladesh where the UK must play Obama was our Emperor Augustus, colors by Trump from the podium most Rohingya Muslims live today. a leading role in aid efforts. 2. Our a president who managed to succeed of the UN General Assembly is a By Ranj Alaaldin (PUK), to establish their own au- ly export its hydrocarbons and that, Bengali Muslims arrived in large government must acknowledge the in cloaking the snarling beast of US world in which injustice and untruth tonomous region, complete with its as a result, has helped integrate Kur- numbers to become labourers and ad- UN findings of ethnic cleansing and imperialism and hegemony with the reigns. In this regard, does anyone own political system (including elec- distan into the international system ministrators for the British, but it is "slow genocide" and the hate speech patina of peace and stability — a believe it is any coincidence that tions), institutions, and foreign - despite knowing that this could one not the colonists who are blamed being used by the military, Buddhist Pax Americana if you will — Trump the two states in the Middle East relations.Despite the unhelpful geo- day transform the region into an for this in today's nationalist narra- extremists and nationalists against is our Nero, a leader whose depar- which rest on foundations of eth- political environment of the 1990s independent Kurdish state. There tive, but the descendants of these Rohingya Muslims. We must stop ture from reality knows no bounds. no-religious supremacy — Israel and that saw Kurdistan surrounded by will continue to be words of warning migrant workers. Myanmar gained using the language of "ethnic ten- America with its mask removed, is Saudi Arabia — are mortal enemies powerful, resource-rich neighbours from Ankara, perhaps even threats, independence from Britain in 1948, sions", as this is misleading and dis- how I described the 45th President of a government in Tehran whose and their powerful armed forces - but that has far more to do with but the position of the Rohingya ingenuous; instead, we must join the of the United States during the pres- only crime is that it is a pillar of who were far better positioned then, Turkey's own Kurdish politics and Muslims has become ever more per- coalition of genocide charities, No- idential election campaign last year, resistance to the axis of regime Ranj Alaaldin is a Visiting than they are today, to invade and the ongoing conflict against the ilous. The United Nations has de- bel Peace Prize winners, and faith and never have I written a truer change of which both are card car- Fellow at Brookings Institu- militarily end the de-facto Kurdish PKK. While a Kurdish state could scribed the Rohingya Muslims as the leaders in condemning what is hap- word. At least in this respect he has rying members? tion Doha. state - the 1992 Iraqi Kurdish elec- embolden the PKK and its sister most persecuted minority in the pening in the strongest possible done the world a favor in disabusing To ask is to answer. tions, the first of its kind in Iraq's groups in Syria, Turkey is in a far world. Attempts at creating an in- terms. 3. We must demand unequiv- it of the myth that Washington is Moving on, listening to a bil- history, established the path towards stronger position to forestall Kurd- dependent state for themselves have ocal condemnation from Aung Sang or has ever been a force for good in lionaire poster child for capitalism A historic independence vote later sovereignty that the Kurds are cur- ish secession in Turkey and has both failed, and they have been denied Suu Kyi: A UN report has already the world. In truth what we are deal- providing the UN with a disquisi- this month in Iraqi Kurdistan could rently moving along today. Despite regional and international support citizenship in their own country gathered damning evidence. Its rec- ing with is a juggernaut of chaos and tion on the evils of socialism and accelerate the Kurdish path towards the landmark elections and contin- to suppress a potential domino ef- since 1982 and with it the right to ommendations need to be imple- destruction which, during the Obama communism, which he did when rail- sovereignty and finally gift Iraq's ued Western enforcement of the no- fect that could encourage Iranian, education, healthcare or even prop- mented, and the UK should use its years, was led by a president who ing against Cuba and Venezuela, was Kurds with a state of their own after fly zone, governance was not with- Turkish and Syrian Kurdish seces- erty ownership. Far from speaking place on the Security Council to perfected the art of speaking the nothing if not surreal. Here, Alan a century's worth of conflict, mass out its challenges. Kurdistan's polit- sion, at least for the foreseeable fu- out against the violence, Aung San more effect. 4. We must demand that language of conciliation while fol- Badiou usefully reminds us of the atrocities and genocide. While the ical process was still nascent. Hos- ture. Contrary to the simplistic, of- Suu Kyi has hidden behind the same citizenship rights be immediately lowing the agenda of state long im- fact that "the huge colonial geno- referendum could generate the mo- tile neighbours surrounded the Kurds ten sensationalist analysis that Kur- language of having to fight terror- given to Rohingya Muslims, the de- bued with the ethos of might is right. cides and massacres, the millions of mentum for Kurdish independence, and had no interest in seeing this dish independence would somehow ists as was used by Bosnian Serbs in nial of which over many decades has In Trump's case, we are dealing with deaths in the civil and world wars as well as formalise the process, it new emerging democracy advance precipitate the end of Iraq and oth- the 1990s, Western leaders in the made this latest persecution easier. a president who foregoes the lan- through which our [capitalist] West will have no immediate administra- further, for both domestic and geo- er states - despite the lack of empir- "War on terror" in Iraq and Libya, 5. UK aid to Burma must be stopped guage of conciliation, opting instead forged its might, should be enough tive and organisational impact, since political reasons. Inevitably, region- ical evidence that would support such Israel's persecution of Palestine and (especially military training) until for the kind of violent rhetoric and to discredit, even in the eyes of 'phi- the vote will not be legally binding. al powers, including Turkey, Iran and a scenario - there is simply too much Saudi Arabia destroying the lives of the situation is acknowledged and a bombast commonly associated with losophers' who extol their morali- But, the Kurdish push for statehood Syria, alongside the Baath regime, resistance regionally and interna- the poor people in Yemen. Although way of measuring the results of any head of a New York crime family — ty, the parliamentary regimes of will not be without its challenges, began their efforts to destabilise the tionally to any wholesale changes she is not alone in her hypocrisy, as such training is established. 6. We a gangster in all but name. During a Europe and America." Cuba's record least of all resistance from regional region, principally through foster- to the state system in the Middle a Nobel Laureate, expectations of should propose the re-implementa- speech that was more akin to an and legacy of exporting solidarity powers. Turkey and Iran, in partic- ing division among the parties, ma- East. Others, like Iran, will need her are much higher. Yet her re- tion of sanctions which were lifted incoherent rant, Trump said, "If the instead of cruise missiles to coun- ular, have historically resisted Kur- nipulation and by offering patron- more convincing. The notion of a sponse so far has been mealy- when "democracy" was supposed to righteous many do not confront the tries around the world is not in dis- dish self-determination, often age to rival parties and movements. US-aligned Kurdish state that has mouthed, and the British govern- have been introduced. The current wicked few, then evil will triumph. pute. Neither are its achievements through armed confrontation. Iraqi However, at the same time, Iraqi vast hydrocarbons, a viable econo- ment have not held her to account human rights violations are not just When decent people and nations be- in the fields of healthcare, educa- Kurdistan's neighbours have been Kurdistan has, since the 1990s, been my, strong ties to the US and the when they most certainly have the on a par with, but even worse than come bystanders to history, the forc- tion, and science — all of which stuck between a rock and a hard place regarded by regional powers like Gulf and sits adjacent to its borders opportunity to do so. Last year the those that had been taking place es of destruction only gather power have been reached despite the dep- ever since a Western-imposed no- Turkey as a conduit through which constitutes a nightmare scenario for UK sold weapons worth half a mil- under the military regime. and strength." What are we to make redations of the sustained econom- fly zone was established over north- to counter and manage its own Kur- the Iranian regime. lion pounds to the government in (Aljazeera) of a passage that could have been ic embargo and sanctions enforced ern Iraq in 1991, which allowed the dish issue and the Kurdistan Work- (Aljazeera) lifted verbatim from the Old Testa- against the island by the US, an two dominant parties, the Kurdis- ers' Party(PKK), the Kurdish rebel ment? "The righteous many" Trump embargo and sanctions that have tan Democratic Party (KDP) and group that has fought the Turkish refers to does not, by any objective been in place since the 1960s. A the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan state for the past forty years. Both the KDP and the PUK worked alongside Turkey to combat the PKK, whose Marxist-orientated vision of Kurdish nationalism runs LETTER TO THE EDITOR contrary to their social-democratic and liberal outlook. Both Barzani and Talabani were provided with Turkish passports, which allowed them to travel freely outside of Iraq and Turkey, and were even allowed By Tomas King Japan could witness its doom and popularity at 26 percent. to establish official representation Japanese voters have gotten more Opposition Parties in Disarray Unemployment in Ankara. Turkey is not actively Just two months ago, Japanese inclined to give Abe the benefit of Abe and the ruling Liberal Dem- encouraging Kurdish statehood but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood the doubt as he takes a tougher stand ocrat Party (LDP) had endured tur- has transformed its 1990s econom- below 30 percent in popularity polls against Pyongyang. Additionally, moil in recent months, but the na- Unemployment is the core reason behind drug addiction in the country. A number of youth across the ic relationship with the KRG into a and faced a tidal wave of scandals Abe was one of the first heads of tion’s opposition parties, including country blamed government for ignoring them by not creating jobs. According to several youths, jobless- regional security arrangement of over alleged cronyism. But times state to meet Donald Trump face- the main rival Democrat Party, are ness has forced young men into using drugs and migrating to foreign states. The government should pay which Iraqi Kurdistan is a key pillar. have changed and Abe is now enjoy- to-face, shortly after his election in much worse shape. Japan’s Prime serious heed to this issue and spare no efforts in a bid to generate jobs for them. The young generations are Today's political cooperation being the stronger support and poised last November. The prime minis- Minister Shinzo Abe waits for US playing key role in building or damaging of a country. tween Ankara and the KRG is an to call for snap elections to run for ter’s gesture delivered swift rewards President to arrive for a bilateral The government should leave no stone unturned to create jobs for the youths as they are the future extension of these ties. Since 2003, re-election and win in October. Tom since the export-driven country has meeting on the sideline of the G20 Turkey has slowly moved towards McGregor takes a closer look. Ru- avoided a trade war so far against a summit in Saint Petersburg on Sep- maker of this war-turn country. Putting a glance to every development countries, you would find that all accepting what many regard as the credits for that progress directly goes to its youth’s indefatigable efforts. We want the government to pay mors were swirling in Tokyo’s po- populist US President. tember 5, 2013. The DP had re- inevitability of Kurdish statehood, litical circles over the weekend. On Bumps on the Way cently elected Saeji Maehara to lead serious attention in providing jobs for youths. yet one that will be heavily aligned Sunday, Japanese Prime Minister Omar Khan, Kabul, Afghanistan Abe was sworn into the prime the Party, but that ignited a revolt with Ankara and that will constitute Shinzo Abe had sent signals he may minister’s office in 2012 and learned among party members, who resigned a crucial source of natural gas and dissolve Japan’s lower house in the lessons a from his earlier experienc- in protest. Such actions forced Saeji an important buffer between Tur- Diet (Parliament) and call for snap es as Japan’s leader from 2006 to Maehara to seek alliances with the key and an Iran-aligned Baghdad elections either on Oct. 22 or 29 in 2007 when he resigned under a cloud Social Democratic Party (SDP) and government. In addition to Turkey, a re-election bid one year ahead of of disgrace. Lesson learned: Don’t Liberal Party (LP) to fight a united the Gulf has also positioned itself in schedule. The news shocked Japa- worry about low popularity numbers front in the Diet against the LDP a way that allows it to capitalise on nese politicians and voters, since just since outside events can make you and their partner Komeito Party. Iraqi Kurdistan's hydrocarbons, two months ago, Abe was embroiled popular again. Abe’s reversal of for- Nonetheless, opposition parties Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must which, with sovereignty, the Kurds in controversy over allegations that tunes seems stunning. The Guardian lack unity and extreme opinions have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: could export without suffering pu- he helped friends secure lucrative newspaper reported last July that his from coalitions add to deeper prob- [email protected] nitive political and economic mea- deals with government approval, administration was rocked by scan- lems. For example, Japan’s Com- sures from Baghdad. Turkey is not while his efforts to revise the coun- dals and many were expecting him munist Party has no chance of elec- actively encouraging Kurdish state- try’s pacifist Constitution to boost to resign. His lifelong friends — toral success, given their sympathies hood but has transformed its 1990s the military was waning in support. Moritomo Gakuen and Kotaro Kake for the North Korean regime. And economic relationship with the KRG Tsunami of Change — stood accused of receiving a cut- even in July, DP could only garner Disclaimer: into a regional security arrangement But then along came North price land deal from the finance 6.7 percent support in voters’ pop- of which Iraqi Kurdistan is a key Korean Kim Jong-un and his prov- ministry to open a new veterinari- ularity polls. The views and opinions expressed in the articles are pillar. Despite its initial intransi- ocations by launching ICBM mis- an department at a private univer- Ripe Time to Strike gence after the Kurds gained auton- siles that crossed over Japanese ter- sity. The prime minister denied any Accordingly, the time is right those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or omy in 1991, Ankara has invested ritorial waters. Although nobody was direct involvement, but he struggled for Abe to dissolve the lower house extensive resources in Kurdistan's hit, such actions served as a wake- to disprove perceptions of crony- when they gather for the special opinions of the Afghanistan Times. economy, has helped build a pipe- up call for all Japanese. The North ism. In July, the newspaper Maini- session on Sept. 28. line that enables it to independent- Korean nuclear tests had proven that chi published a poll showing Abe’s (Spuntak) THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

China appears to be coming into consultative report. The statement ous pace, intermediated through growth, the IMF staff said it had increasing conflict with the Inter- marked at least the third time in a an increasingly opaque and com- identified 43 cases of countries national Monetary Fund as it ig- little over a year that the fund has plex financial sector." The latest with increases of more than 30 nores warnings about "dangerous" used the highly-charged term "dan- signal comes with a sharp rise in percentage points in their credit- levels of debt. On Aug. 15, the gerous" to describe trends in Chi- China's projected debt levels as to-GDP ratios over a five-year IMF said that China's attempts to na's debt-fueled growth policies. compared with gross domestic period. spur economic growth with loose In August 2016, James Daniel, product since the last forecast. The Only five of the cases ended lending policies have put it on a IMF mission chief for China, said fund now estimates that total do- without a "major growth slow- perilous path. "International expe- the country's "vulnerabilities are mestic non-financial sector debt down or a financial crisis immedi- rience suggests that China's credit still rising on a dangerous trajecto- will rise from 251 percent of GDP ately afterwards," the paper said. growth is on a dangerous trajecto- ry" due to debt problems, The Wall this year to 296.7 percent of GDP Even with those exceptions, all of ry, with increasing risks of a dis- Street Journal reported. Last Oc- in 2022. The IMF previously es- the credit booms that started when ruptive adjustment and/or a tober, the fund warned in its up- timated that debt would peak at credit-to-GDP ratios topped 100 marked growth slowdown," the dated World Economic Outlook 270 percent of GDP, the Financial percent "ended badly," the IMF multilateral lender said in a staff that "the economy's dependence Times said. In supporting its con- said. paper accompanying its annual on credit is increasing at a danger- clusion of "dangerous" debt (Reuters) European shares little changed in

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to- take stock of the situation and firm tion as when the situation demand- cautious day said the government is con- up steps to push up growth. "We ed. "We have been taking appro- sidering additional measures to have taken note of all economic priate actions... we have been con- bolster economy that has hit a indicators which are available... the sistently moving on the reform trade three-year low of 5.7 per cent in government will take any additional agenda," he stressed.Two years European stocks were little the first quarter of the current fis- moves which are necessary. I am ago, India was touted as a rare bright changed on Wednesday ahead of cal. The minister said an announce- not in a position to announce to- spot in a gloomy global economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve's mone- ment with regard to the additional day in the press conference. I will with GDP growth outpacing a tary policy decision due later in steps will be made after consult- be certainly consulting the prime slowing China. But since early the day, with many expecting no ing Prime Minister Narendra minister before that and when we 2016, GDP growth has fallen for Modi. Jaitley has held a series of decide, you will come to know," six consecutive quarters, slumping change in interest rates. That said, meetings in the last few days with he told reporters here. He further to a three-year low of 5.7 per cent the accompanying statement may some of his ministerial colleagues said this is a proactive government in the April-June quarter. offer the details of how the central and senior government officials to and has been reacting to the situa- (Hindustan Times) bank plans to start shrinking its $4.5 trillion balance sheet. The pan-European Stoxx Europe 600 index was marginally lower at Qatar has announced that it has 382.04 in late opening deals after signed a memorandum of under- closing little changed the previous standing with the British govern- day.The German DAX was also S wiss sh u t down ment to buy 24 British Typhoon down slightly while France's CAC 40 and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 were warplanes. The arms deal between up around 0.1 percent each in lack- Qatar and Britain was signed dur- luster trade. The pound surged ing the visit of the Qatari Minister against both the dollar and euro ‘fa ke’ E -Coin in of State for Defense, Khalid bin after official data showed U.K. re- Mohammed Al-Attiyah, to the tail sales increased at a faster pace British capital to strengthen coop- in August. Retail sales volume in- la test cr yptocu r r en cy eration between Qatar and the cluding auto fuel advanced 1 per- United Kingdom in the field of cent from July, the biggest growth defense and counterterrorism, ac- in four months and up from July's cording to a statement by Qatar’s increase of 0.6 percent. Spanish cr ackdown government. The deal is part of a multinational clothing company QUID PRO QUO Association series of agreements Doha has Inditex dropped 1.8 percent after Switzerland’s financial watchdog issued and usually controlled by shut down by FINMA had pro- spent billions of dollars on since its first-half net profit came in has closed down what it said was their developers and not backed by vided so-called E-Coins for more the beginning of the crisis. The slightly below estimates. Cairn the provider of a fake cryptocur- a central bank, are hailed by their than a year and had amassed funds British defense and security orga- Energy fell almost 2 percent in rency and is investigating around a supporters as a fast and efficient of at least 4 million Swiss francs London after issuing a procedural dozen other possible fraud cases, way of managing money. But reg- nization, announced that Qatar has ($4.2 million) from several hundred become the third largest importer update on its dispute with the in the latest clamp-down on the ulators and traditional banks are users, FINMA said in a statement of weapons in the world, and its Government of India under the UK risks involving virtual money. The increasingly concerned about the on Tuesday. “This activity is sim- India Bilateral Investment Treaty. military spending has increased move by the FINMA watchdog risks of fraud in the burgeoning ilar to the deposit-taking business Ryanair Holdings shares declined comes on the heels of Chinese au- online cryptocurrency under- of a bank and is illegal unless the significantly during the past two 1 percent on reports that the dis- thorities’ ordering Beijing-based world. JPMorgan Chief Executive company in question holds the rel- years. The report drew attention count airline has offered its pilots cryptocurrency exchanges to stop Jamie Dimon last week said Bit- evant financial market licence,” to the sudden rise in Qatar’s arms trading and immediately notify coin, the original and still the big- a one-off bonus of up to 12,000 FINMA, Switzerland’s Financial imports arms by nearly 300% be- euros in a bid to avoid the damage users of their closure. Virtual cur- gest cryptocurrency, “is a fraud” Market Supervisory Authority, tween 2012 and 2016. rencies such as Bitcoin, which are and will eventually “blow up”. The caused by flight cancellation said. (Reuters) (AFP) through the end of October. (WP) Egyptian banks have provided $55.1b to South Korea and the Czech Republic agreed Wednes- day to step up their cooperation in science, energy and the defense industry, the foreign ministry said. During their third joint economic committee meeting, fund trade since the two sides agreed to expedite talks on the sale of South Korea's domestically developed K-9 self-pro- pelled howitzers and a project to build a new nuclear power plant in the European country. currency float The Czech side also agreed to help South Korean companies invest in their country more easily, the Egyptian banks have provided about Ministry of Foreign Affairs here said. The meeting $55.1 billion to fund trade since the country floated its currency in No- was led by South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Cho vember last year, a central bank offi- Hyun and Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and cial told Reuters on Tuesday. Trade Eduard Muricky. "The Czech Republic is an The banks were able to extend important investment destination for South Korea up to $40 billion in documents for and a base for our inroads into Europe," Cho said. collections (IDCs) and letters of cred- "South Korea wants to maintain the momentum for it, and open new letters of credit for bilateral cooperation through two-way channels in- up to $15.1 billion dollars, the source cluding the joint economic committee," he noted. said. (AP) (BBC) THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

China appears to be coming into consultative report. The statement ous pace, intermediated through growth, the IMF staff said it had increasing conflict with the Inter- marked at least the third time in a an increasingly opaque and com- identified 43 cases of countries national Monetary Fund as it ig- little over a year that the fund has plex financial sector." The latest with increases of more than 30 nores warnings about "dangerous" used the highly-charged term "dan- signal comes with a sharp rise in percentage points in their credit- levels of debt. On Aug. 15, the gerous" to describe trends in Chi- China's projected debt levels as to-GDP ratios over a five-year IMF said that China's attempts to na's debt-fueled growth policies. compared with gross domestic period. spur economic growth with loose In August 2016, James Daniel, product since the last forecast. The Only five of the cases ended lending policies have put it on a IMF mission chief for China, said fund now estimates that total do- without a "major growth slow- perilous path. "International expe- the country's "vulnerabilities are mestic non-financial sector debt down or a financial crisis immedi- rience suggests that China's credit still rising on a dangerous trajecto- will rise from 251 percent of GDP ately afterwards," the paper said. growth is on a dangerous trajecto- ry" due to debt problems, The Wall this year to 296.7 percent of GDP Even with those exceptions, all of ry, with increasing risks of a dis- Street Journal reported. Last Oc- in 2022. The IMF previously es- the credit booms that started when ruptive adjustment and/or a tober, the fund warned in its up- timated that debt would peak at credit-to-GDP ratios topped 100 marked growth slowdown," the dated World Economic Outlook 270 percent of GDP, the Financial percent "ended badly," the IMF multilateral lender said in a staff that "the economy's dependence Times said. In supporting its con- said. paper accompanying its annual on credit is increasing at a danger- clusion of "dangerous" debt (Reuters) European shares little changed in

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to- take stock of the situation and firm tion as when the situation demand- cautious day said the government is con- up steps to push up growth. "We ed. "We have been taking appro- sidering additional measures to have taken note of all economic priate actions... we have been con- bolster economy that has hit a indicators which are available... the sistently moving on the reform trade three-year low of 5.7 per cent in government will take any additional agenda," he stressed.Two years European stocks were little the first quarter of the current fis- moves which are necessary. I am ago, India was touted as a rare bright changed on Wednesday ahead of cal. The minister said an announce- not in a position to announce to- spot in a gloomy global economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve's mone- ment with regard to the additional day in the press conference. I will with GDP growth outpacing a tary policy decision due later in steps will be made after consult- be certainly consulting the prime slowing China. But since early the day, with many expecting no ing Prime Minister Narendra minister before that and when we 2016, GDP growth has fallen for Modi. Jaitley has held a series of decide, you will come to know," six consecutive quarters, slumping change in interest rates. That said, meetings in the last few days with he told reporters here. He further to a three-year low of 5.7 per cent the accompanying statement may some of his ministerial colleagues said this is a proactive government in the April-June quarter. offer the details of how the central and senior government officials to and has been reacting to the situa- (Hindustan Times) bank plans to start shrinking its $4.5 trillion balance sheet. The pan-European Stoxx Europe 600 index was marginally lower at Qatar has announced that it has 382.04 in late opening deals after signed a memorandum of under- closing little changed the previous standing with the British govern- day.The German DAX was also S wiss sh u t down ment to buy 24 British Typhoon down slightly while France's CAC 40 and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 were warplanes. The arms deal between up around 0.1 percent each in lack- Qatar and Britain was signed dur- luster trade. The pound surged ing the visit of the Qatari Minister against both the dollar and euro ‘fa ke’ E -Coin in of State for Defense, Khalid bin after official data showed U.K. re- Mohammed Al-Attiyah, to the tail sales increased at a faster pace British capital to strengthen coop- in August. Retail sales volume in- la test cr yptocu r r en cy eration between Qatar and the cluding auto fuel advanced 1 per- United Kingdom in the field of cent from July, the biggest growth defense and counterterrorism, ac- in four months and up from July's cording to a statement by Qatar’s increase of 0.6 percent. Spanish cr ackdown government. The deal is part of a multinational clothing company QUID PRO QUO Association series of agreements Doha has Inditex dropped 1.8 percent after Switzerland’s financial watchdog issued and usually controlled by shut down by FINMA had pro- spent billions of dollars on since its first-half net profit came in has closed down what it said was their developers and not backed by vided so-called E-Coins for more the beginning of the crisis. The slightly below estimates. Cairn the provider of a fake cryptocur- a central bank, are hailed by their than a year and had amassed funds British defense and security orga- Energy fell almost 2 percent in rency and is investigating around a supporters as a fast and efficient of at least 4 million Swiss francs London after issuing a procedural dozen other possible fraud cases, way of managing money. But reg- nization, announced that Qatar has ($4.2 million) from several hundred become the third largest importer update on its dispute with the in the latest clamp-down on the ulators and traditional banks are users, FINMA said in a statement of weapons in the world, and its Government of India under the UK risks involving virtual money. The increasingly concerned about the on Tuesday. “This activity is sim- India Bilateral Investment Treaty. military spending has increased move by the FINMA watchdog risks of fraud in the burgeoning ilar to the deposit-taking business Ryanair Holdings shares declined comes on the heels of Chinese au- online cryptocurrency under- of a bank and is illegal unless the significantly during the past two 1 percent on reports that the dis- thorities’ ordering Beijing-based world. JPMorgan Chief Executive company in question holds the rel- years. The report drew attention count airline has offered its pilots cryptocurrency exchanges to stop Jamie Dimon last week said Bit- evant financial market licence,” to the sudden rise in Qatar’s arms trading and immediately notify coin, the original and still the big- a one-off bonus of up to 12,000 FINMA, Switzerland’s Financial imports arms by nearly 300% be- euros in a bid to avoid the damage users of their closure. Virtual cur- gest cryptocurrency, “is a fraud” Market Supervisory Authority, tween 2012 and 2016. rencies such as Bitcoin, which are and will eventually “blow up”. The caused by flight cancellation said. (Reuters) (AFP) through the end of October. (WP) Egyptian banks have provided $55.1b to South Korea and the Czech Republic agreed Wednes- day to step up their cooperation in science, energy and the defense industry, the foreign ministry said. During their third joint economic committee meeting, fund trade since the two sides agreed to expedite talks on the sale of South Korea's domestically developed K-9 self-pro- pelled howitzers and a project to build a new nuclear power plant in the European country. currency float The Czech side also agreed to help South Korean companies invest in their country more easily, the Egyptian banks have provided about Ministry of Foreign Affairs here said. The meeting $55.1 billion to fund trade since the country floated its currency in No- was led by South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Cho vember last year, a central bank offi- Hyun and Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and cial told Reuters on Tuesday. Trade Eduard Muricky. "The Czech Republic is an The banks were able to extend important investment destination for South Korea up to $40 billion in documents for and a base for our inroads into Europe," Cho said. collections (IDCs) and letters of cred- "South Korea wants to maintain the momentum for it, and open new letters of credit for bilateral cooperation through two-way channels in- up to $15.1 billion dollars, the source cluding the joint economic committee," he noted. said. (AP) (BBC) THURSDAY .SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Salman It’s no secret that many Indians and Pakistanis tend to buy a shade or two lighter than their actual skin colour in order to look fairer. Regard- less of everyone’s obsession with such a notion, it’s always better to Khan is stick to a shade closest to your skin tone. Moisturiser searching Priyanka Chopra’s former make-up artist Uday Shirali believes moisturising the skin is key. It should always be on the top of the list and the first step to make-up application. for his lead Rihanna launches brand new beauty line for ‘all skin tones and races’ To no surprise, Mickey Contractor seconds that and states mois- lady on his turising will help in the smooth application of foundation and concealer. (Tribune) new app Salman Khan Films is looking to give an aspiring young female a big Pop singers Avril Lavigne and 2017 – her first in four years – Bollywood actors always have to be on their A game and look their break. Yes, you heard it right. This Bruno Mars topped a list of ce- apparently leading to increased online solicitation of applications best. And their make-up artists are usually hard at work to do exactly lebrities on Tuesday ranked the searches for news about her mu- that! Compiled by International Business Times, here is a list of is being done on Salman Khan's most dangerous to search for on- sic. The 2017 McAfee study was app on Android by the name of Bollywood’s most trusted beauty artists’ secrets who have given us line because of results that could dominated by musicians but actors an insight into their mind: #BeingInTouch inspired from Sal- expose fans to malicious websites. who made the top 25 list included man Khan's retail business venture Foundation shade Cyber security company McAfee Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick, Mickey Contractor, who has worked with top actresses like Ka- #BeingHuman. Here everything said singers Carly Rae Jepsen, Jennifer Lopez and rising star Hai- related to this superhero of Bolly- reena Kapoor Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Alia Bhatt, says buying the Zayn Malik and Celine Dion were lee Steinfeld. right shade of foundation is very important. wood is shared with his fans and also in the top five of their annual Never really spoke to Harry audience. Finding a female lead for list because searches for their Styles in One Direction: Zayn his next venture is the first talent, names can lead fans to click on Malik his production house is looking for suspicious links that expose them “In today’s digital world, we through this app. Considering the to malware. It said that searching want the latest hit albums, videos, popularity of Salman Khan the for “Avril Lavigne free mp3” re- movies and more immediately world over, this app is going to get sults in a 22% chance of landing available on our devices,” Gary a lot of eyeballs. #BeingInTouch on a malicious website. Davis, McAfee’s vice president of gives fans access to all things about Lavigne, 32, who found fame in global consumer marketing, said in Salman Khan, from all his social 2002 with the hit single Compli- a statement. He said consumers media pages (Facebook, Instagram, cated, has been off the celebrity should slow down and consider Twitter) to never seen before pic- scene for a number of years be- the risks. tures, to videos of the star directly cause of Lyme disease which she “Thinking before clicking goes speaking to his fans and sharing has said left her bedridden. How- a long way to stay safe online,” he interesting bits of his life with ever, she said in 2016 that she is said. them. The app allows fans to be in planning to release a new album in (Tribune) touch with Salman; be it the actor, the artist or the humanitarian, giving them a unique insight into different aspects of his personality. Apoorva Lakhia A unique destination for all fans and followers of the star to see him at his candid best, the #Be- prepped me for ingInTouch app will have all the information on Salman from his movies to personal fitness, family two year: Shraddha and friends. The app will also have Work is priority, but family is very yet unseen pictures of the star and videos of Salman, directly address- Kapoor on ing his fans showing them a glimpse of his true self, while talk- important: Kareena Kapoor Khan ing about his hobbies, his art, his Haseena Parkar pets, his life, his likes and his dis- Be it taking up films like Chameli likes. This app shall soon be avail- at the start of her career, going on a hraddha Kapoor shares her experience of essaying the able on Apple App store as well. size-zero spree or talking her heart role of Dawood’s sister. #BeingInTouch will not only give out in chat shows and working fans access to exclusive content non-stop till the last trimester of S directly from Salman Khan but her pregnancy – Kareena Kapoor also allow registered users to ac- Khan has always chosen her own cess their own Facebook and Twit- personal or professional path. Now ter account on the app. Besides that she has become a mother, the being an extraordinary experience actor says work is her priority, but family is imperative too. As her for Salman Fans, #BeingInTouch son Taimur Ali Khan will witness app will also give back to the enor- his first Diwali this year, she was mous fan following that the Dab- asked about how she plans not to bang actor has garnered in his life- miss the occasion given she has a time. This app also promises its busy shooting schedule for Veere registered users who download the Di Wedding. “We will be finishing app fabulous discounts from vari- our Delhi schedule a few days be- ous Brands on the app. fore Diwali, so I will be spending (Santa Banta) time with my family. Work is a priority but family is very important to me,” Kareena retorted. Bollywood actor Shraddha portray her character onscreen,” she said. Actors Siddhanth Kapoor, Taimur was born to Kareena and Kapoor, who began her Bollywood Shraddha Kapoor and Ankur Bhatia during a press conference to pro- her husband Saif Ali Khan in De- cember last year. The Lakme brand journey with Teen Patti and Luv mote Haseena Parkar in Greater Noida on Sept 19. (IANS) Lauding her ambassador, who considers Taimur Ka The End and later worked in director Apoorva Lakhia, Shraddha further said, “He prepped for the as the most amazing and cutest movies Aashiqui 2, followed by film for about 2 years and also spent time with Haseena Parkar and that child, says he loves hanging out super hits like Ek Villain, Anybody in itself was helpful for all of us because he was too close to film and her with the family. “I’m sure (he) will Can Dance 2 and Baaghi is all set story.” Haseena Parkar is Shraddha’s first biopic in which she has got an enjoy the family gatherings. Apart to woo her fans with Haseena extreme makeover and bears an uncanny resemblance to Dawood Ibra- from getting him goodies and gifts Parkar, the film in which Shraddha him’s beloved sister.The film revolves around the dramatic life of Da- for the season, I would love to play will be seen in a grey character for wood Ibrahim’s sister, who was formerly known as The Queen of dress-up with him and get him into the first time. “Primarily it was Mumbai. Siddhanth Kapoor, son of actor Shakti Kapoor, will be seen the most adorable traditional out- the story which convinced me to portraying Dawood Ibrahim alongside his sister Shraddha in the film fits,” the fashionista said. do this film as it was very emo- and it’s for the first time that we will see Shraddha playing a grey (Tribune) tional. Being the sister of the most character on screen. Directed by Apoorva Lakhia, the film also features wanted person, Haseena has gone Ankur Bhatia, who will essay Haseena’s husband Ibrahim Parkar in the through a lot and so it became very film. Haseena Parkar is all set to hit the theatres on September 22. Leonardo DiCaprio challenging for me as an actor to (Hindustan Times) announces $20 million Priyanka Chopra bats for environmental grants girl empowerment at UN Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has announced that his Foundation will give GeneralAssembly $20 million in grants to more than 100 environmentally focused organ- isations. The new grants, ranging from wildlife and habit conservation Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra, a UN Goodwill Ambassa- and combating climate change to the defence of indigenous rights, in- dor, spoke up for girl empowerment and felicitated an Indian crease the organisation’s total direct financial impact to over $80 million woman working towards supporting acid attack victims, at the since 1998, reports Variety. “These facts have been presented to the Global Goals Awards at the UN General Assembly. Priyanka world time-and-time again for decades. Quite simply, we are knowingly Chopra’s wardrobe to the Emmys was so understated, it actual- doing this to ourselves, to our planet and to our future, and the cost of ly made a statement Priyanka, who has often spoken on girl our inaction is becoming clearer,” DiCaprio said during a Yale Climate child rights and gender issues, on Wednesday shared on social Conference hosted by John Kerry on Tuesday. (Santa Banta) media a photograph of herself from the event, which highlighted the roles played by a girl to make progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Honored to have par- ticipated in the Global Goals Awards tonight at the UN General Tiger opens up about his bond with Sajid Nadiadwala Assembly in NYC. These awards highlight the role girls play in changing their lives and in making progress towards achieving Sajid Nadiadwala's 'Baaghi 2' will mark the third collaboration of the the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Equally proud to filmmaker with Tiger Shroff. The duo had earlier delivered huge hits like have presented the Leadership Award to the amazing 'Heropanti' and 'Baaghi'. 'Heropanti' was Tiger Shroff's debut film, @ria13sharma from India for her stellar work for acid attack produced by Sajid Nadiadwala the action film paved Tiger's way to survivors. Ria founded Make Love Not Scars (MLNS) which is success. Tiger Shroff shared his thoughts on the same saying, "I'm an organization that actively supports survivors of acid attacks excited to work with Sajid sir again. I missed working with him. He's physically and mentally, and campaigns to raise awareness of family to me, not because I made my debut with his production, but he the issue. Ria’s efforts are contributing to change the lives of has been my mentor throughout my journey . Baaghi 2 is like returning many women who have survived acid attacks. MLNS have en- to the home turf." The actor-filmmaker duo have created magic together sured that survivors receive free treatment under the Supreme onscreen with their super entertaining and power packed films 'Hero- Court order for the welfare of acid victims passed in April 2015. panti' and 'Baaghi'. (Santa Banta) (Hindustan Times) THURSDAY . SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES Du r h am 's Pau l Cou gh lin sign s for Not t in gh am sh ir e on t h r ee-year d eal

urham chair man and Sky Sports Cricket's Sir Eni Alukoaccuses England Ian Botham says counties Women of 'selfish' attitude need to be re- warded for over Mark Sampson celebration nurturing players Eni Aluko accused the England gations of racism, harassment and world tonight's "message" only team in the world tonight's 'mes- Women team of a "selfish" attitude bullying in the Lionesses camp shows a level of disrespect that sage' only shows a level of disre- after their public show of support sparked an investigation into Samp- represents division and selfish ac- spect that represents division and for under-pressure boss Mark son's alleged conduct. Sampson has tion. Aluko was not present at selfish action." Sampson was sur- Sampson during the 6-0 win over been cleared twice, by a Football Tranmere's Prenton Park for En- prised by the team's reaction to- Durham T20 captain Paul Cough- County Championship. Durham voiced his displeasure at Cough- Russia. Every member of the start- Association review and an inde- gland's opening 2019 World Cup wards him, saying: "I didn't fore- lin will join Nottinghamshire on a sit second-bottom in Divison Two lin's transfer and has urged the ECB ing XI raced to the bench after Ni- pendent investigation, and he firm- qualifier. But after seeing footage see anything coming really, in three-year deal after rejecting a new following their 48-point deduction to implement a transfer system kita Parris netted the 11th-minute ly denies any wrongdoing. How- of the celebrations, she wrote on terms of that." He lavished praise contract at Emirates Riverside. The for accepting a financial bailout that gives counties greater finan- opener, and the exuberant scenes ever, anti-racism campaigners Kick Twitter: "It goes without saying on his players, for whom further 24-year-old, who will miss the rest from the ECB and also suffered cial reward for nurturing players. were the clearest indication yet that It Out and the Professional Foot- I'm delighted, relieved, blessed to goals came from Jodie Taylor, Jor- of this campaign with a side strain, points penalties the NatWest T20 "It concerns me that the current Sampson has the full support of ballers' Association have both be sat where I am right now. Bless- dan Nobbs, Lucy Bronze and Toni has joined Notts with the county Blast and One-Day Cup. Durham arrangements within cricket do not his players. Aluko is the 102-cap called for a fresh look at evidence. ings in disguise are often the best Duggan, who struck twice in the on the verge of promotion back to chairman and Sky Sports Cricket reward counties that invest in acad- former England player whose alle- For the most together team in the blessings. "For the most together second half. (Sky Sport) the top flight of the Specsavers commentator Sir Ian Botham emies and produce exciting young English players." Sir Ian Botham "Despite offering Paul - a play- the round I did on Sunday, to gain er we have nurtured through our some momentum, to maintain the academy system and someone we No 1 spot," he added. "I was a hold in extremely high regard - a little bit off at the start of the week very competitive contract exten- in my striking. But I feel pretty sion, our devoted support during close right now to where I was in periods of injury, continuous de- the first two Play-Off events. velopment and leadership oppor- Things feel good. If this were a tunities, the player has chosen to major championship I'd be pretty leave Durham," said Botham in a pleased with how things are feel- statement on the county's official ing. "In 2014 and 2016 I remember website. "I respect Paul's right to being completely worn out by the move clubs and understand that time I got to the Tour Champion- players at certain times in their ship. There's a lot on the line. It's careers may want to move on essentially a major after coming off "However, it's without question a pretty hectic schedule in the last that our second-division status, six or seven weeks." Spieth will points penalties and difficult finan- play the opening round with close cial situation has created an op- Jordan Spieth insisted he would title if his closest rivals also have a pion Marc Leishman at last week's friend Justin Thomas Spieth will portunity for rival counties and not be taking his "foot off the gas bad tournament. But Spieth wants BMW Championship, although go out in the final group on Thurs- intermediaries to unsettle players pedal" as he looks to wrap up the to take the performances of his ri- the young Texan's closing 65 at day alongside second-placed Jus- with promises of first-division FedExCup title with a victory at vals out of the equation and de- Conway Farms gives him confi- tin Thomas, with Dustin Johnson cricket, greater England opportu- the Tour Championship in Atlan- clared he will be playing to win dence and momentum to take into and Leishman in the penultimate nities and immediate financial re- ta. Spieth tops the standings head- the season finale once again. "If Atlanta. "I was pumped to have pairing. (Fox News) ward. "It concerns me that the cur- ing into the final event of the PGA you start playing for position rent arrangements within cricket do Tour season, although any one of that's when you take your foot off not reward counties that invest in the top five would land the $10m the gas pedal a little bit, and that's academies and produce exciting bonus if they win at East Lake, not how we normally play," Spi- young English players. "The ECB regardless of where Spieth finish- eth said at his pre-tournament is currently reviewing its partner- es. The Open champion, who won press conference. "I'm comfortable H u go P alm er ship agreement with the counties the Tour Championship and the at East Lake, and I'm in a great and Durham will be making strong FedExCup crown to cap a memo- position." Spieth was runner-up representations to properly re- rable 2015, could actually finish in each of the first two FedExCup ward those that invest in the de- as low as 29th of the 30 starters Play-Offs events before finishing cool on Ayr velopment of local talent. "They this week and still win the overall 10 strokes behind runaway cham- need to introduce a transfer or similar system of compensation, to remove the potential for conflict G old Cu p bid of interest by preventing serving directors of cricket acting as selec- tors and to better regulate the be- haviour of agents." (BBC Sport) Team Sky take bronze in team trial at Road World Championships

Rio Ferdinand has confirmed he is to take up professional boxing at the age of 38. The former England captain made the announcement on social media on Tuesday morning saying: "It's happening…can't wait to get started." Ferdinand, who is just two months away from his 39th birthday, is an avid box- Hugo Palmer is unlikely to ask Listed Hopeful Stakes at Newmar- ing fan and has regularly posted Gifted Master to carry the welter ket on his latest start. "I doubt he'll videos on his social media accounts weight of 10st in the William Hill go," said Palmer. Chris Froome's Team Sky took showing him in boxing training. He Ayr Gold Cup on Saturday. The "It would have been more bronze in the team trial on the first was at Wembley in April to see prospect of soft ground is sway- tempting if the forecast had not day of competition at the UCI Anthony Joshua's epic heavy- ing Palmer away from sending the changed, but I think top weight on Road World Championships in weight contest with Wladimir Kl- four-year-old gelding to Scotland soft ground would be a lot to ask Bergen. Team Sunweb won both itschko. The centre-half won 81 for the valuable and prestigious of him." The likelihood of easy the men's and women's races, with caps and made over 300 appear- six-furlong handicap. conditions has resulted in plenty Sky trailing them and BMC Rac- ances for Manchester United be- Gifted Master would have to of interest in Donjuan Triumphant ing in the men's. Froome was joined fore retiring in 2015. He also played shoulder the welter burden thanks at odds or around 14-1. in the Team Sky team by Geraint for West Ham, Leeds and Queens to a 5lb penalty for victory in the (BBC Sport) Thomas and Owain Doull but it Park Rangers in a career spanning was not to be, with the latter pair 19 years. Ferdinand's wife Rebec- dropping off leaving Froome, Va- ca died of breast cancer shortly sil Kiryienka, Michal Kwiatkows- before his retirement and he has ki and Gianni Moscon to battle since lost his mother, also to can- BritishBobsleigh refuses to manfully. "Like we said from the cer. "I've been through quite a few start it was never going to be easy. things in my life," Ferdinand said. Teams have always stepped up a "This is a way of trying to channel denywomen's teamcould be lot in this event," team director that aggression, that anger some- Brett Lancaster said. "The guys did times, into something I can be re- their best effort and at the first split ally focused on. "I've probably axedahead of Winter Olympics they were up by a second. We been searching for that since I re- waited a bit on the climb as we tired. I miss that competitive edge. British Bobsleigh has refused to deny reports it is set to withdraw funding from its women’s team ahead of knew ideally we needed five guys It's something for me to focus on the Winter Olympics. Britain's top female bobsledder accused the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Associa- for the end, but the guys did a su- after the last couple of years." A tion (BBSA) of "mismanagement" after it emerged the women's team may lose their funding just five months per job to bring it home. "Third is new sport. A new goal. #Defend- before the Games. Mica McNeill, a silver medallist at the 2012 Youth Winter Olympics and 2017 world a bit of a consolation prize. Sun- erToContender @RioFerdy5: junior champion, posted a message on Twitter to say they are "devastated to be put in this situation" and web are a really well-drilled team "I’ve won titles, now I’m aiming included a link to an online fundraising page. McNeill's social media post comes only days after the BBSA and hat's off to BMC who were for a belt." Ferdinand added: "I've appointed Lee Johnston as the new head coach of the bobsleigh programme.I am the pilot (driver) of Great great. It's the first time Quick-Step got the utmost respect for the box- Britain’s #1 women’s bobsleigh team from Consett, County Durham. In a statement released to Sky Sports, have been out of the medals since ing fraternity and I'm not saying the BBSA said: "The GB Bobsleigh programme is currently focusing resources on winning medals at the the race began so it just shows how I'm going to be a world champion. 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. "We are actively seeking commercial funding to further support our every team has stepped up." World Class Performance Programme and we will continue to do so." (Fox News) (Sky Sport) THURSDAY . SEPTEMBER 21. 2017-Sunbula 30, 1396 H.S Vol:XI Issue No: 55 Price: Afs.20

Local army is the Afghan government initiative and according to assessment over 20,000 local army needed to reinforce security in all insecure regions, he noted. According to report the Army and Afghan police strength is 336,042, which out of them 180,031 are army. Based on report of SIGAR in May 7, 2017, the Afghan Local Police (ALP) has 28,986 guardians. Afghan Local Police members, known as “guardians,” are usually local citizens selected by village The quake hit on the 32nd elders or local leaders to protect anniversary of Mexico’s their communities against insurgent deadliest every earthquake, attack, guard facilities, and conduct local counterinsurgency missions. in 1985, that killed Although ALP forces were thousands of people. positively operated in most of the Rescuers and volunteers are districts and provinces throughout frantically digging through rubble the country, but in some cases they of collapsed schools and homes also caused some challenges, such looking for survivors of Mexico’s as allegedly they were blamed with deadly 7.1 magnitude earthquake killing of innocent people duty that hit Mexico City last Tuesday personal enmity and some other night Kabul time. crimes. Already the death toll is Also according to the report reported to be over 240. from January 1, 2017, through The earthquake hit on the By Farhad Naibkhel army to boost up security in their The local army would have May 8, 2017, there were 2,531 32nd anniversary of Mexico’s own region,” said Deputy their own uniforms and will Afghan National Defense and deadliest earthquake that killed an KABUL: Ministry of Defense Spokesman for MoD Mohammad operate at the frame of MoD Security forces (ANDSF) service estimated 9,500 people. KUNDUZ CITY : The residents He added: “Besides other (MoD) plans to establish the local Radmanish. shoulder to shoulder with Afghan members killed in action and an Wednesday’s quake hit just two of northern Kunduz province say issues in Kunduz, speedy military army in order to boost up security He said that the retired officers police and army in the districts, he additional 4,238 wounded in later than the earthquake of 1985. security forces’ vehicles have never vehicles have worried residents. in remote districts across the and soldier are trained and capable, added. action. These figures are consistent As buildings started to shake, obeyed traffic rules and their Over 20 people were killed in the country, officials said Wednesday. thus the MoD will use them as He stated that local army with ANDSF casualty figures thousands of Mexico City reckless driving often result in fatal past one month due to high speed.” “Retired army officers and local army to reinforce security in would have salary, but still it is provided for the same period as residents fled into the streets in accidents. Amruddin Wali, the Police in Kunduz acknowledged soldiers will be hired in the local a better manner in the country. early to elaborate further. last year. panic, and many stayed to help Provincial Council (PC) head, told high speed driving by military rescue those trapped. Pajhwok Afghan News that vehicles. Police Chief Brig. Gen. Rescue workers however military vehicles were often Abdul Hameed Hameedi said all have been frantically searching for involved in accidents in which military officials had been directed children and teachers at a school human lives were lost. He stressed to get driving licenses. He said in the capital where one wing of a halt to illegal and self-styled military personnel like common the three-story building driving on roads and streets. people should drive according to collapsed. According to AP the Some residents of Kunduz rules. “All vehicles carry education department reported City, the provincial capital, also registration numbers and drivers that at least 25 bodies had been complained against inappropriate who violate traffic rules, their recovered from the school. They driving by some people and numbers should be noted and said 21 of these were children. During a visit to the site, President military personnel. shared with us,” he said. At least MAIMANA : Gunmen shot dead Qaisar district chief. He said the that police had killed the three Enrique Pena Nieto said 30 Bashir Khan Safi, a resident, eight people have been killed and a father and his two minor children dead included a father, his 4-year- persons. According to him, four children and eight adults were told Pajhwok Afghan News that 14 other injured during the past as young as four years old in old daughter and a 7-year-old son. Afghan National Police (ANP) reported missing at that point. military vehicles were driven in the one month in accidents blamed on Qaisar district of northern Faryab Qaisari said the dead and a personnel joined the Taliban on The Afghan Intelligence Agency (ToloNews) city with high speed which should reckless driving by military province, an official said on fourth person wounded in the Monday and on Tuesday, one of says a suspected Taliban militant be prevented. personnel. (Pajhwok) Tuesday. Nizamuddin Qaisari, attack had been displaced due the rogue policemen’s relative, who was involved in killing the Qaisar district police chief, said the cruelty of the district chief in Jorliq Mullah Anwar, wanted to transfer head of Kapisa Ulema Council incident took place at around 4pm area. their families and children to the arrested on Wednesday. NDS in a in Jorliq village of the district. He However, Rahamatullah, the Taliban area, but police opened fire statement said, the arrested claimed the armed individuals were district chief, denied the allegations at the families, resulting in the said Taliban insurgent identified as affiliated with Rahmatullah, the and told Pajhwok Afghan News casualties. (Pajhwok) Abdul Muqim also alias as Muhajir was arrested in the second vicinity of Kohestan district of Kapisa province. The arrested Taliban militant has admitted HERAT CITY : The Hezb-i-Islami individual and those fought against hands for saving the country from about his membership in the Afghanistan (HIA) leadership says the HIA in the past were now again slipping into a new crisis. Taliban group, saying Khan Aqa it doesn’t seek unhealthy out to start a war. “However, the The HIA leader, criticizing known as Mavlawi Nusrat, Taliban competition or war with any HIA forgives them.” what he said the lack of district shadow governor for the group, asking all political parties “We don’t want unhealthy government’s control over all province has ordered him to to become united for the sake of competition with any political Afghanistan, said parallel assassinate the Kapisa Ulema emerging the country from crises. party and we also do not have any governments and departments had JALALABAD: Two Pakistani the strikes. Nangarhar governor’s insurgents were eliminated when a leader, Gul Muhammad Hanif. The HIA supreme leader, Gulbadin intention of engaging in war. War been established on provincial and militant group, Lashkar-i-Islam, spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, drone targeted them in Chahardehi head of Kapisa Ulema Council was Hekmatyar, on his first trip to isn’t a solution.” ministerial levels and that should and as many Taliban insurgents told Pajhwok Afghan News the area of Batikot district. He said a gunned down by the arrested western Herat province since Hekmatyar alleged some be eradicated because it was in have been killed in NATO drone drone struck a Lashkar-i-Islam third rebel was wounded in the suspected Taliban militant who joining the peace process, circles who were part of the favour of none. airstrikes in Achin and Batikot hideout in Bandar area of Achin blitz and a motorbike of them was came on motorcycles and opened addressed a gathering of HIA system were attempting to weaken Hekmatyar called on districts of eastern Nangarhar district on Monday, killing two of destroyed. He said both the fire on him. A number of local supporters in the huge central the system, requesting such insurgents to tolerate the province, officials said on its members, who were both airstrikes were conducted by government and security officials mosque. people to shun their actions in the incumbent government for another Tuesday. foreign nationals. Meanwhile, foreign forces and that civilians and have been killed in different In his speech, the HIA leader sensitive situation the country 10 months. “You can attain power According to officials, police spokesman Hazrat Hussain security personnel escaped unhurt incidents in Kapisa province in the said they had never opened a war was passing through. He asked all by contesting elections.” civilians suffered no casualties in Mashriqiwal said two Taliban in the raids. (Pajhwok) past few months. (ATN) front warfare against any group or groups and political parties to join (Pajhwok)

KABUL : President Ashraf Ghani Finland’s experiences would teams of both countries could met his Finnish counterpart on the be useful in rehabilitation of the prepare a plan in this regard. The KABUL : Second vice-president sidelines of the 72nd United war-ruined forests in his country, two leaders also exchanged views Sarwar Danish on Tuesday said a Nations General Assembly and the president believed. on strengthening economic policy to ensure security of discussed cooperation in different Sauli Niinistö promised the cooperation, ensuring peace and religious centers has recently been areas, including forest government of Finland, which had improving commerce and transit, approved by the National rehabilitation in Afghanistan. A supported Afghanistan in various according to the statement. Ghani Security Council (NSC) and statement from the Presidential areas during the past 15 years, said Afghanistan was transforming would be enforced over the next Palace in Kabul said on would continue cooperating with into an regional intersection. two years. Danish, who chaired a Wednesday, Ghani thanked Sauli the conflict-torn nation. Considering its strategic location, meeting, discussed security Niinistö for Finland’s continued Finland was ready for any type Afghanistan could help boost measures for mosques and cooperation with Afghanistan. He of technical support for the economic, transit and commercial implementation of the said Afghanistan's forests had been rehabilitation of Afghanistan's cooperation. in the region, he government’s policy on ensuring damaged during decades of war. jungles, he said, adding technical concluded. (Pajhwok) security of Shiites religious places. The meeting on the eve of Muharram and the 10-day mourning by Shiites was attended by the ministers of interior, refugees and repatriation, transport, the Chief of Army Staff, deputy interior minister, garrison commanders, Kabul ASADABAD : Daesh militants police chief, Kabul security team have killed two brothers over and members of security having links with government and commission of mosques. gunmen have killed a couple in Danish briefed the meeting eastern Kunar province, an official said on Wednesday. about the government’s new Police Chief Maj. Gen. security policy for mosques and Jummah Gul Hemat told Pajhwok said cooperation of local people Afghan News rebels kidnapped the with security organs in protecting two brothers from the Shatan Islamic centers was part of the district and killed them on Tuesday policy. evening. He said the slain brothers “The implementation of this were common people and had no policy will never reduce links with the government. It is Chapai Dari district. The couple kidnapper who abducted people responsibility of security organs, pertinent to mention that Daesh had just returned from Hajj. for ransom. The detained man particularly the Ministry of rebels last week killed a civilian Two persons had been hailed from the Badakhshi village Interior (MoI), towards security over spying charges. arrested in connection to the killing of Najrab district, said Police of the public”, he said. Separately, gunmen have killed of husband and wife, he said. spokesman Mohammad Ayub (Pajhwok) a couple and their driver in the In Kapisa, police have arrested Yousufzai. (Pajhwok)