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AT News Report he Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) reopened a small AT News Report Zwak. “The incident occurred an airstrike in the Gereshk district We have notified Afghan Thealth clinic in the northern while Afghan forces were engaged in Helmand province late Friday officials of this incident. An Kunduz province, a step to KABUL: At least 16 police in an operation against Taliban afternoon,” the US forces said in a investigation will be conducted to maintain activities in Afghanistan officers were killed and two others militants in the area,” Zwak added. statement. determine the specific after a delay following the bloody wounded in an airstrike carried out “The area is now under control “We like to express our circumstances that led to this US airstrike that targeted a hospital by the US forces in southern of Taliban and the incident is under deepest condolences to the families incident. in the Kunduz city, the provincial province of Helmand, provincial inquiry.” affected by this unfortunate It is pertained to mention that capital that killed and wounded officials said. “The strike was The US forces-Afghanistan incident.” often such incidents took place in scores of patients in 2015. carried out on Friday afternoon in This is the first health MSF’s confirmed the Afghan casualties It said that during a US the past, which have been resulted Parchaw locality of Greshk resulted during airstrike. supported ANDSF operation, at killing of civilians and Afghan MPs said if President Ghani feels that he is healthcare facility after destroying district, after they came under of MSF’s hospital in 2015 in the “We can confirm local security aerial fires resulted in the deaths forces, but still foreign forces not able to lead the country, he should send province. foreign forces airstrike,” said personnel aligned with Afghan of the friendly Afghan forces who particularly US forces failed to his resignation to the parliament “The Medecins Sans Frontiers provincial spokesman, Omar government forces were killed in were gathered in a compound. avoid such attacks repetition. has reopened a small medical clinic in northern Kunduz province,” The Wolesi Jirga’s (Lower House legislations which include the said head of the organization’s Taliban closing in 6 Afghan soldiers of Parliament) administrative approval of two law amendments, programs in Afghanistan, Silvia board on Saturday accused six legislative decrees and 12 Dallatomasina. on Khanabad among 18 dead in President Ashraf Ghani of international documents,” said She said that this clinic will inability to lead the country and Abdul Qader Zazai, the secretary be opened during week days and centre: Public reps Taliban attack said he has an autocratic behavior of the Wolesi Jirga. have no hospitalization capacity. towards the parliament. Another MP, Farooq Majroh, She said that this clinic will KUNDUZ CITY : A public FARAH CITY : Six Afghan The MPs said the president said the MPs were ready to cancel receive small wounds and small should step down if he cannot lead their summer recess “if the representative on Saturday said the National Army (ANA) soldier the country. “Government has president wants to complete the burns. Taliban were closing in on the have been killed and three others The clinic reopened away been damaged under your cabinet and the legislations”. centre of Khanabad district of injured in a fierce clash with the administration and your Meanwhile, the Presidential from the compound MSF hospital northern Kunduz province, calling Taliban in western Farah province, destroyed during airstrike in BEIJING : Journalists from He, however, said the OBOR leadership,” the Wolesi Jirga first Palace said Ghani has always on the government to pay urgent Afghanistan and China held a joint project was not given a fair an official said on Saturday. A deputy speaker Humayun cooperated with the MPs. 2015, completely different attention to the situation. structure in another part of the meeting and talked about various coverage in the media. The Afghan dozen insurgents were also killed Humayun said. “If you (President “President (Ashraf Ghani) believes city, she added. The Provincial Council (PC) opportunities that could help diplomat said Afghanistan was not and six others injured as the group Ashraf Ghani) are unable to run in cooperation between the three In the clinic Afghan doctors member, Safiullah Ameri, in an improved relations between the central to OBOR project but tried to capture the Pashtunkot the country or it is above your pillars of the government. He has are working and we have exclusive interview told Pajhwok two countries. efforts were being made to make district of the province, said Nasir capability, please send your had consultative meetings with the international staffs in the clinic as Afghan News that militants Mehri, the governor’s spokesman. resignation to the parliament.” parliament members and he has First secretary of the Afghanistan a central point of the “Let us give a medal to the respected every decision made by well, she noted. attacked on the district and Afghanistan Embassy in China, mega connectivity project. Manadi But local residents claimed the She said that we have captured several villages and Taliban entered the district National Unity Government the MPs,” said Dawa Khan Syed Mehdi Manadi, was present said economic development was (NUG) – the medal of Minapal, a Presidential Palace negotiated on reopening of MSF closed the Kunduz-Takhar at the meeting on Friday in Beijing, vital for peace and stability headquarters but were pushed hospital, but it is not completed highway on Friday morning. “The back by security forces after hours incompetency, because the spokesman, said. Meanwhile, the the capital of China. therefore the Afghan media should country’s situation has worsened Wolesi Jirga’s first deputy speaker we need commitment to assure the district has been under siege since Manadi said media’s role in strive to attract Chinese investors of a gun-battle. Some locals said safety of our staff and our since the NUG’s establishment,” raised the issue of corruption in two days, we have contacted the improving relations between the to Afghanistan. He added the the Taliban attacked the district patients. We are willing to restart authorities to send reinforcements, centre on Friday night. According said Sadiqizada Nili, an MP from the parliament’s secretariat. He trauma center in 2018, she noted. two countries was vital because Afghan mission in Beijing would Daikundi. said there is corruption in contracts but unfortunately there has been media could attract Chinese strive to pave the way for Chinese to other sources, the militants The Wolesi Jirga and appointments of the This clinic just opened today and no positive response. If proper entered the facility Saturday we are expecting that around 50 investors and inform people about journalists to visit Afghanistan administrative board also criticized secretariat, adding that he will send attention is not paid, the chance is the China’s One Belt One Road thought the Information and morning and carried out some the president over lack of the evidences, about this claim, to patients will be received a day, she the insurgents will overrun the blasts, burnt a military tank and a noted. (OBOR) initiative. Culture Ministry. (Pajhwok) cooperation with the parliament. the Attorney General’s Office. district,” he warned. (Pajhwok) Ranger pick-up. (Pajhwok) “Parliament has worked on 36 (ToloNews) SUNDAY . JULY 23, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

Sayed Saddat and his family fled the Taliban in Afghanistan to come to Germany two years ago. They applied for asylum and tried to integrate fast. After their application was rejected, they appealed to a lawyer for help.

Sayet Saddat used to work as a translator for NATO in Afghanistan. He risked his life going on patrol with NATO soldiers and thus the Taliban consider him a traitor. One day, they threatened to kill him and his family if he didn't join them. He escaped to Germany with his pregnant wife and their small The Trump administration seems in no hurry to devise daughter. Nine months later, their application for asylum was a strategy for America’s longest-running war. rejected. This came as a shock and they have appealed the decision. Sayet Saddat is learning German and has found an apprenticeship in a supermarket. He and his family are in temporary accommodation in Falkensee near Berlin. They have no desire to return to Afghanistan but their chances of being able to remain in Germany are limited. On Borrowed Time - An Afghan in Germany A Report by Linda Vierecke. (DW) Football: Gold prices up, Afghanistan fail to qualify flour down in Kabul for AFC U-23 Championship

Afghanistan have failed to qualify for 2018 AFC Championship after falling to 8-0 defeat by hosts Saudi Arabia on Friday. The match was played in Prince U.S. armored vehicles patrol near the site of a U.S. bombing during an operation Faisal Bin Fahd Stadium in Saudi capital Riyadh. against ISIS in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on April 15. Saudi scored five goals in the first half and the remaining three Addressing the subject of services’ most skilled and methods. This involved, above all, in the second half. Afghanistan this week, President successful officers on the helping the new government In their first match of the Donald Trump said that he’d like battlefields of Iraq. McMaster, at provide basic services to the qualifier, Afghanistan were “to find out why we’ve been there the time, was a colonel who Afghan people, thus earning their defeated Iraq 8-0. for 17 years, how it’s going, and commanded an Army regiment; allegiance (“winning hearts and With the two successive what we should do in terms of Mattis was a two-star general who minds,” we used to call it) and losses, Afghanistan have failed to additional ideas.” These are all good commanded a Marine division and turning them against the Taliban qualify for the major event. They questions, though if he really ended the war as a four-star who and other insurgents. are at the bottom of Group B. wanted to know, at any point over commanded all U.S. military The effort worked in limited Saudi Arabia and Iraq top the the past six months he could have operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, areas for a brief time, but it table and have qualified for the final called any of the hundreds of and throughout the Middle East, ultimately collapsed for four main tournament. officers and intelligence analysts Central Asia, and North Africa. A reasons. First, the Afghan KABUL : The price of gold edged kilogram of Indonesian green tea a litre of diesel cost 40afs and the Afghanistan will face Bahrain at his disposal—or the many regiment commander’s motto government, led until 2014 by up while that of Kazakhstani flour cost 200afs and the same amount same amount of petrol 44afs. in their next match on Sunday. outside experts who, regardless of might be: I will win with whatever President Hamid Karzai, was dropped during the outgoing week of African black tea 300afs -- same The gas price also remained Bahrain have also failed to qualify their politics, couldn’t resist an you give me, and my job is to win. brazenly corrupt and could never in Kabul, market sources said on as last week’s. unchanged. Ahmad Javed, a gas for the major event. (1tvnews) invitation to brief the commander The chief of a regionwide win the loyalty of many citizens. Saturday. Sometimes a slight difference seller in the 4th street of Taimani in chief. combatant command might Second, U.S. economic assistance Food Traders Union head is observed in retail and wholesale area, one kilogram of the But he’s shown little interest possess this same can-do spunk, overheated the local economy, Fazal Rahman told Pajhwok prices but in some areas, the commodity cost 50afs. in the state of America’s longest but he would also reflect in a memo saturating the place with money, Afghan News the price of a 50-kg difference is huge. Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller ongoing war, which has rarely to the highest authorities: Tell me much of which was skimmed off Kazakhstani flour fell from 1,120 Ahmad Wali Panjsheri, who in Timor Shahi area, said the price broken out of stalemate and has what the strategy is; I’ll tell you by Karzai’s minions, thus afs to 1,100 afs because of owns a grocery shop in Dahn-i- of one gram of Arabian gold edged often been slowly deteriorating. what I can do with what I have worsening the corruption. (When increased imports. Bagh area, sold a 50-kg bag of up from 2,250 afs to 2,300afs. Sometime in June, Trump and what I need to do more. Gen. David Petraeus was However, he said, the rates of Kazakhstani flour for 1,280afs and However, the rate of same delegated all such matters to At a recent hearing, Democratic commander, he brought in other food items remained steady. a 49-kg sack of Pakistani sugar for amount of the Russian variety Secretary of Defense (and retired Sen. Dick Durbin asked Mattis, McMaster, then a one-star The whole sale price of a 49-kg 2,200 afs. He sold a 16-litre tin of increased from 1,800 afs to 1,850 four-star Marine general) James “What are the likely prospects that general, to head an anti-corruption Pakistani sugar sack remained Khurshid ghee for 1,200afs, a due to a global market jump. Mattis. It is one thing for a sending more troops will make any task force. It produced many unchanged at 2,100afs. 24.5kg sack of Pakistani rice for According to the moneychangers’ president to decide on a policy or more difference now than it has in warrants and proposals but few A 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice 2,000afs, a kilo of Indonesian green union in Sara-i-Shahzada, one US strategy, then let the military the last 16 years?” Mattis replied, arrests or reforms.) accounted for 1,800afs and a 16- tea for 300 afs and the same dollar accounted for 68.43afs and calculate how best to get the job “It’s a fair question.” Though he Third, in retrospect, the whole kg tin of Khurshid ghee for quantity of African black tea for 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 635afs done. It’s an abdication of duty to didn’t elaborate, a fuller answer approach was mistakenly 1,120afs, same as last week’s. 350afs. Fuel prices also remained against last week's rates of 68.40afs shuffle off the whole portfolio of would be that the prospects are conceived. David Kilcullen, a Noor Ahmad Khairkhwa, a tea steady. Abdul Hadi, a worker at and 634afs respectively. issues—with its questions of life shaky, even with a strategy—and scholar and fighter of seller in Kabul Mandavi, said a the Wazirabad Pump Station, said (Pajhwok) and death, war and peace, stability impossible to gauge without one. counterinsurgency campaigns who and chaos—for which a head of What is the aim of our was a U.S. military adviser at the state should stand accountable. involvement in Afghanistan: to time, observed a few years into the A month has gone by, and the defeat the Taliban (scant chance, fighting that many Afghan people nation still has no Afghanistan given that we couldn’t manage the wanted justice more than “basic strategy. This should be no feat with 100,000 troops during services” and that—harsh and cruel Delay in launch of solar power surprise. Disparate factions in the Barack Obama’s first term), though they were—the courts in Trump administration claim a negotiate a settlement (with Taliban-controlled areas delivered stake in national security policy: whom, to what end), help reform justice more fairly and less Mattis and the Joint Chiefs of Staff the Afghan government (we tried corruptly than many Karzai-clique project sparks resentment in the Pentagon; Trump’s national doing that for a long time, too, to judges. This was why Kilcullen security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. no end), collaborate with old foes thought, earlier than many who KANDAHAR CITY : Land has progress had been made yet. power. Currently, the dam 3MW. Most of factories had McMaster, and his mainly to fight off the growing presence were on the ground, that the Taliban been acquired and cable stretched Baqi also provided information produces 33MW of electricity. stopped production due to non- professional National Security of ISIS (about which much has could win. I thought the Trump as part of a 10-megawatt solar about the installation of the third A third option is electricity availability of electricity, they Council staff; Steve Bannon’s been said lately), or simply train plan was to pay Betsy DeVoss's power project in southern turbine at the Kajaki dam, saying supply from Kabul to Kandahar complained. America Firsters elsewhere in the and supply the Afghan army brother lots and lots of money and Kandahar province, but the donor 40 percent of the work had been via Ghazni. Kandahar currently Abdul Rahman, a resident of White House; and whatever slot (which, again, we’ve been doing for let him take care of it. More... stopped work on the plant’s done. But a few months back, consumes 15 MW of electricity -- the 5th municipal district, said the son-in-law Jared Kushner occupies a long time, to little avail)? No Finally, the Western powers’ installation in winter. work on the third turbine was - three MW produced by diesel- president had pledged the on an issue. In the absence of a decision can be made about troop fatal sin, after disposing of the Residents of Kandahar postponed due to insecurity, he powered generators and 12 MW completion of the 10 MW solar “decider” (as George W. Bush levels without first answering Taliban, may have been that they complain of the inordinate delay explained. from Kajaki dam. power project by summer. described himself, prompting those questions. established a centralized in completing the solar power With the installation of the Industrialists in Kandahar City However, He e lamented no howls of derision at the time After those questions are government modeled on Western project. They want the authorities third turbine, the dam would said they needed 10MW of progress could be seen on the though now the malapropism asked, a more basic question must capitals—unaware that such an concerned to avoid negligence in produce 18.5 MW of additional electricity but were provided only scheme. (PAJHWOK) arouses a pang of nostalgia), be answered: How long are we entity could never gain control, this regard. decisions aren’t always accepted going to keep at this? How many much less democratic control, over The plant worth $15 million or enforced. more billions of dollars, or such a vast, dispersed, largely rural was supposed to be built with the Even Mattis and McMaster, hundreds of lives, is the contest and illiterate mesh of provinces help of USAID and completed by widely hailed as the grown-ups at worth? What are the stakes of this ruled by warlords. Though 2016 summer, but little progress the table, are divided on key fight, compared with the stakes of American strategists in has been done so far. questions. McMaster wants to add many other fights and interests in Afghanistan were enamored of Eng. Syed Rassoul Baqi, the about 4,000 U.S. troops to the the world? At the beginning, the T.E. Lawrence (aka “Lawrence of Breshna Shirkat director for 8,400 (plus 5,000 NATO allies) in stakes were indisputable: Our aim Arabia”) and his writings on Kandahar, told Pajhwok Afghan Afghanistan already. Mattis hasn’t was to crush al-Qaida (which was insurgency warfare in distant News the USAID had pledged yet advocated a number or an using the country as a base for lands, they never really grasped the launching work on the power increase of any order. plotting terrorist attacks, including key lesson of Lawrence’s writing: project in February 2016. But the Get Slate in your inbox. 9/11), oust the Taliban (which the importance of knowing and promise is yet to be kept. According to officers and controlled the government and adapting to the local culture and He said the USAID had former officials who know both hosted al-Qaida), and help stabilize local style of politics. Barnett demanded land, on which the men, McMaster’s view is that, a new regime so that no terrorist Rubin, a professor at New York project would be executed, should whatever the ultimate decision on group could use the country as a University and former State be owned by the Breshna Shirkat. strategy, it will probably require sanctuary again. But now that Department official on Afghan The USAID has also asked for more troops, so let’s send more terrorists have sanctuaries all over policy who still has many contacts wires to be extended to the defined troops now, before the Afghan the world, including in Western inside the national security realm, location. army’s position weakens further. Europe, how important is tweeted on Thursday: “Leak from Both demands had been met Mattis isn’t hostile to that notion, pacifying Afghanistan? the Deep State: The Trump and only the launch of work on and he strongly favors maintaining And on that last point, do we administration will postpone the project remained, Baqi said, the U.S. commitment to Afghan really know how to pacify announcing a strategy for adding 80 acres of land has been security—but he’s not inclined to Afghanistan? Soon after a joint Afghanistan until it is in a stronger acquired for the project and 135 pour in more troops without first campaign by the CIA, U.S. Special position.” This seems like an pylons had already been installed. having a better idea of what they’re Forces, and Afghan rebels took evasion, to say the least; for one He recalled President Ashraf supposed to do. back Kabul and other Afghan cities, thing, what’s the strategy for Ghani, during his last visit to the The two generals’ differences American commanders tried to attaining “a stronger position”? It province, had pledged work on the stem, in part, from their different stabilize the country through the tweet weren’t so sad, it would solar power project would be experiences. Both were among their classic counterinsurgency be a funny joke. (SLATE) completed till summer, but no SUNDAY . JULY 23, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

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USA,says Martin An additional district and sessions tics and public service to his or remaining silent on the issue of judge again issued a notice to PTI credit. He said after the gener- Panama paper’s case. He claimed chief Imran Khan by August 21 in al elections 2013, he was again the defendant ruined his image not a defamation suit filed by Punjab elected an MPA and then as only in the eyes of Pakistani na- Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif the Punjab chief minister for tion but also in the people of the Luther KingIII seeking Rs10 billion damages for the third term and has served world. He implored that on April tarnishing his reputation. On Fri- twice as president of PML- 28, Imran Khan held a public gath- day, Additional District and Ses- N. He implored he was wide- ering in Parade Ground where he sions Judge Azfar Sultan asked the ly known and respected for again repeated the “false allega- process server (a court employee) his credibility, hard work, in- tions”. He continued to call them where he had gone to deliver the tegrity and competence. He “a mafia” and claimed he would notice and who had received it, he informed the court that the de- not disclose the name of that per- replied that he visited Imran fendant Iman Khan, in last son who offered him as he knew Khan’s residence in Zaman Park week of April 2017 started ut- the PML-N leadership would cre- where a man named Zahid had re- tering, spreading, and resort- ate problems for him. He further ceived the notice and had assured ing to the publication, com- said false and defamatory state- him it would be handed over to munication and circulation of ments widely communicated, cir- Imran Khan. However, the judge maliciously false, baseless and culated and disseminated through directed the process server to de- unfounded oral statements print and electronic media have liver the notice to Imran Khan and representations against caused him extreme mental torture, through TCS and other services. the plaintiff to the effect that agony and anxiety. He appealed the He issued again the notice to Im- the plaintiff had, through court that a decree for recovery of ran Khan by August 21. In his some persons/relative appar- Rs10 billion as compensation for complaint before the court, Sheh- ently known to the defendant the publication of the aforesaid baz submitted that he belonged to as well, offered to pay a sum defamatory content be passed a noble family and enjoyed an ex- of Rs10 billion to the defen- against the defendant and in his cellent reputation in both national dant in exchange for his with- favour. and international circles, having a drawing and backing off from, (TRIBUNE) long and illustrious career in poli- BENGALURU: Human rights ad- world history. He said the dalit vocate and the son of American civil leader wasn’t as well known out- rights leader Martin Luther King side India as he deserved to be, Jr has equated Prime Minister pointing out how the leader hard- Narendra Modi with US President ly appears in Richard Attenbor- Donald Trump. Martin Luther ough’s film ‘Gandhi’. King UN assures Sri Lanka King III, who was speaking at the brought up several similarities be- inauguration of the three-day Dr tween his father, Martin Luther B R Ambedkar International Con- King, Jr., and Ambedkar in their continued support for ference 2017 in Bengaluru, said work and ideology. “ferocious animosity against mi- Drawing another parallel, he said, norities” was unleashed in both the “What slavery and racism is to the development and countries after their respective American Civil Rights Movement, elections. King went on to say that and now the Black Lives Matter, “all those who envisioned a Hindu untouchability and caste are to the country were being elected to in- Indian freedom movement.” reconciliation stitutions of democracy in India”. “If my father was alive today, he “What goes on in the US goes on would support the dalit demon- The United Nations will continue cept land and houses offered to in India,” said King, adding that strations and labour strikes in In- to extend its full support to Sri them by the government and to free press was under attack in both dia. The caste system was out- Lanka's development process and demand lands from other areas. countries. “Regular lynchings have lawed 58 years ago, and yet, how reconciliation, the visiting UN Similarly some political opportun- become the new normal. Cow vig- much has changed?” He termed the Under-Secretary-General for Po- ists in the South level baseless al- ilantes lynch Muslims while po- conference “a watershed moment” litical Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman has legations against the government. lice stand by,” he added. Attacking in history. assured Sri Lankan President But the government is determined the right-wing, he said “reaction- Commenting on the phenomenon Maithripala Sirisena when he to implement its programs for rec- ary forces which determine socio- of gau rakshaks, writer Ramachan- called on the President on Friday onciliation and development, the economic powers must be resist- dra Guha dismissed them as ‘gau at the President's Official Resi- President said. The strengthening United Nations in the past and dent Sirisena said that he travelled the change of government. He also ed”. He recounted the Una cow goondas’ and said that Prime Min- dence. The UN Official expressed of democratic institutions and en- assured continuous support. He to Kantale today and some areas accompanied the then UN Secre- vigilantism incident, a Mumbai ister Modi has not done enough to appreciation over the progress hancing strategic communication to also referred to the Sri Lanka's con- had not received rains for nearly a tary General Ban Ki Moon to Sri girl’s arrest in 2013 over a Face- control it. Guha was speaking dur- made by Sri Lanka in many areas make people aware of progressive tribution to the UN Peace Keep- year and many cultivations were Lanka. Foreign Minister Ravi book post on the shutdown in the ing the relaunch of his book ‘India despite challenges of natural calam- development activities of the gov- ing Force. The President urged the destroyed. The UN Under Secre- Karunanayake, Secretary to the city following Bal Thackeray’s After Gandhi’. He said though ities, adverse weather conditions ernment were also discussed dur- UN to increase the intake of Sri tary-General assured that assis- President, Austin Fernando, For- death and other instances to but- South India has been isolated from and small groups of political hard- ing the meeting. President Sirisena Lankan soldiers to the UN Peace tance would be provided under the eign Secretary Esala Weerakoon and tress his argument. In what he it, it might affect lives here too as liners in the North and South. Pres- said Sri Lanka is committed to the Keeping Force. Mr. Feltman said UN Development Programme. UN Resident Coordinator and termed “a great oversight in Amer- ‘epidemics (of the nature) spread ident Sirisena pointed out that few United Nations Charter as a long that when he flew to Trincomalee This is the Under-Secretary-Gen- UNDP Resident Representative, ican scholarship,” King lamented fast’. extreme elements in the North standing member nation. Mr. Felt- he could see the devastation due eral's third visit to Sri Lanka and is Una McCauley were also present on the omission of Ambedkar in (HINDUSTAN TIMES) compel the innocent poor people men expressed appreciation over to droughts in the East, and Presi- a follow up to his 2015 visit after on this occasion. in displacement camps not to ac- Sri Lanka's contribution to the PTI leader in Umerkot arrested after court denies him bail An Umerkot-based Pakistan Te- officer Vijay Kumar had arrested hreek-e-Insaf leader, who faces Talpur and the other two men nom- charges of misbehaving with po- inated in the FIR. lice officers on May 2, was arrest- Talpur had earlier obtained an N o possibility ed on Saturday after a court de- interim bail from the Sindh High nied him bail. Nawab Zaid Talpur, Court and the Balochistan High nephew of Pakistan People’s Par- Court. Talpur’s son, Hassan ty MNA Nawab Yousuf Talpur Talpur, is also nominated in the of con stitu tion and cousin of MPA Taimur Talpur, FIR. and two other co-accused were ar- Earlier, Talpur had claimed that rested outside the Umerkot district he was falsely implicated in the and sessions court. case. “What was shown to have Talpur was booked after a video transpired at Kunri police station am en dm en t went viral showing him, accompa- [in Umerkot district on May 2] nied by his son Nawab Hassan was just one aspect of the situa- Talpur, sitting in the chair of the tion,” he said. Umerkot police station SHO Tas- “Our political opponents befor e polls: sawur Jatt, admonishing him for couldn’t tolerate our politics. They rounding up his supporter. are using the police against us. I He was also seen threatening was trapped in this incident police officers in another video. through a conspiracy by the ruling SSP Umerkot Usman Bajwa PPP’s local leaders,” he added. N epal told reporters that investigation (DWAN) D epu ty P M Sri Lankan national held for not possessing valid documents

Nitish Kumar meets Rahul Gandhi amid reports of rift in Bihar's Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister pressed hope that the Constituen- 'mahagathbandhan' and Federal Affairs Minister Bi- cy Delimitation Commission jaya Kumar Gachhadar has said would work without prejudice. New Delhi: Amid speculation over there is no possibility of the Con- Gachhadar said that the success- a rift in the 'grand alliance' in Bi- stitution Amendment before the ful completion of all three phases A Sri Lankan national was today country without any valid docu- har, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar third phase of local level elections of local level polls would pave the arrested at Erwadi in the district ments, police said. He told police on Saturday met Congress vice scheduled to be held on Septem- path for development in the coun- for allegedly entering the country that he had come by a regular Air president Rahul Gandhi and is ber 18. Speaking to media on Fri- try. without valid documents, police Lanka flight and landed at learnt to have discussed the cur- day, Gachhadar said that all de- "Young leaders have got the said today. Police are maintaining Tiruchirappalli and that he had lost rent political situation. Party mands put forth by the disgrun- opportunity to lead the local lev- tight vigil in the district in view of his passport, they said. sources said Kumar drove to Gan- tled Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal els after the civic polls held after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's However, police said he was dhi's Tughlaq Lane residence in would be addressed before the elec- two decades. The new energy and visit to inaugurate the memorial of giving contradictory replies to var- New Delhi and discussed about when there are differences over the tinuance as it dents his "anti-cor- tions except the constitution determination of the youth will former President A P J Abdul ious questions including purpose graft charges against Bihar Depu- amendment. He said a conducive lead the country towards prosper- Kalam at Rameswaram on July 27. of his visit, and suspected that he continuation of Tejashwi in the ruption" image. Kumar-led JD(U) ty Chief Minister and RJD chief state cabinet, thus posing a "threat" had also crossed swords with the environment is being created by the ity," the Himalyan Times quoted Police, who got suspicious could have come by an illegal fer- Lalu Prasad's son, Tejashwi Yadav. government for RJP-N's participa- Gachhadar as saying. about his movements at Erwadi ry. to the grand alliance between the opposition over its support to Kumar is in the national capital to JD(U), RJD and Congress in Bi- NDA's presidential nominee Ram tion in the third round of civic polls. He noted that a significant role where he is staying in a lodge, found (This article has not been edit- attend a dinner hosted by Prime However, Gachhadar claimed was played by him in drafting the that he had come about a month ed by DNA's editorial team and is har. While the RJD supremo has Nath Kovind. The opposition had Minister Narendra Modi in honour rejected demands of resignation of pitched for Meira Kumar as its that the third phase of local polls new Constitution Amendment ago. Kasim Bai (60), hailing from auto-generated from an agency of outgoing President Pranab in Province 2 would not be post- which would bring stability in the Ul Bandal Street in Colombo, was feed.) his son, Kumar is learnt to have joint candidate for the presidential Mukherjee. His meeting with reservations about Tejashwi's con- polls. (BBC) poned even if the RJP-Nepal boy- country. arrested for allegedly entering the (DINDAI) Rahul Gandhi comes at a time cotts the elections. He also ex- (ANI) SUNDAY . JULY 23, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief I r a n sk ip s op p or t u n ity Spain Trump warns court Iran over to u pset n u clea r dea l detained over U S sa n ct ion s drops Americans complaint U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face “new against and serious consequences” unless all unjustly detained American citizens were released and re- turned, the White House said in a Syrian statement on Friday. Trump urged Iran to return Robert Levinson, an American former security Egypt sentences law enforcement officer who dis- appeared more than 10 years ago in Iran, and demanded that Te- forces hran release businessman Siamak 28 todeath Namazi and his father, Baquer. A Spanish court on Friday The statement capped a week of dropped a criminal complaint rhetoric against Tehran. On Tues- brought against members of the day, Washington slapped new for killingtop Syrian security and intelligence economic sanctions against Iran forces by a woman seeking justice over its ballistic missile program for her brother, ruling it lacked ju- and said Tehran’s “malign activi- risdiction over the case. The com- prosecutor ties” in the Middle East undercut plaint was raised by a Spaniard any “positive contributions” who said her brother was arrested, coming from the 2015 nuclear tortured and executed in 2013 at a accord. Those measures signaled centre in Damascus under the con- trol of Syrian security forces. The in 2015 that the Trump administration Iran decided on Friday for the sec- meetings held every three months ing, said Iran did not use the ple- Spanish woman filed her case af- was seeking to put more pres- ond time since January not to up- in Vienna to trigger a formal dis- nary session comprised of envoys sure on Iran while keeping in ter identifying her brother from a Twenty-eight people have been 15 years, and 15 others were hand- set its nuclear pact with six world pute resolution mechanism set out from Iran, the United States, Rus- cache of more than 50,000 photos sentenced to death on Saturday in ed 10 years, security and judicial place an agreement between Te- powers, two informed sources for cases where one party feels sia, China, France, Britain, Germa- smuggled out of the country by a hran and six world powers to curb Egypt for the murder of the coun- officials said on Saturday. said, despite public statements by there is a breach of the deal. Iran’s ny and the EU to start a dispute Syrian forensics officer showing try’s top prosecutor Hisham Bar- The death sentences have al- its nuclear program in return for Tehran accusing the United States nuclear envoy Abbas Araqchi de- resolution. This mirrored Tehran’s more than 6,000 people who had lifting international oil and finan- akat in 2015. Barakat was killed in ready been approved by the muf- of violating the deal. Iranian Pres- clined to answer whether he had actions in January at a previous been tortured and mutilated. A a car bomb attack on his convoy in ti, Egypt’s official interpreter of cial sanctions. ident Hassan Rouhani said on used the meeting to trigger the so-called Joint Commission meet- judge at the Madrid-based High (AP) Court agreed in March to investi- Cairo, an operation which Egypt Islamic law, whose opinion is le- Wednesday new US economic mechanism. But he said: We were ing, which is held in Vienna every blamed on the Muslim Brother- gally required, but not binding. The sanctions imposed against Iran not satisfied with three months, when Iranian offi- gate the lawsuit in March, the first case against Syrian security forces hood and Gaza-based Hamas mil- rulings can still be appealed. Egypt contravened the nuclear accord America’s…broken promises cials opted not to escalate a stand- itants. has struggled to quell an extremist Russia not reached with world powers in 2015 and…announced that we’re not off over the extension of other U.S. taken up overseas. But a higher panel within the High Court ruled Both groups have denied it. insurgency since the military over- and he pledged Tehran would “re- convinced that America has prop- sanctions. The US measures sig- on Friday that the investigation The attack was spurred by threw Muslim Brotherhood Pres- reason for US sist” them while respecting the deal erly carried out its duties. He add- nal that the administration of Pres- should be dropped following an extremist calls for attacks on the ident Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and itself. The Trump administration ed: “Iran maintains its right to ident Donald Trump is seeking to appeal by Spain’s state prosecu- judiciary to avenge a crackdown cracked down on his supporters. ending CIA slapped new sanctions on Iran on show any reaction toward these increase pressure on Iran while tors. The woman’s legal represen- against them. No group claimed re- Egyptian courts have sen- Tuesday over its ballistic missile bad promises.” A source with keeping in place the deal designed tatives, London-based Guernica sponsibility for the attack, but tenced hundreds of Morsi support- arms to Syria programme and said Tehran’s “ma- knowledge of the matter said “the to curb its nuclear activities in re- 37, said they had not received any police later said they had arrested ers to death since his overthrow, lign activities” in the Middle East Iranians did complain a lot and the turn for a lifting of international notification of the decision, but the perpetrators, charging they but many have appealed and won rebels undercut any “positive contribu- Russians supported them, but they sanctions. The Trump administra- might lodge an appeal to the Span- were members of the banned Mus- new trials. tions” coming from the nuclear ac- won’t play along to Washington’s tion is reviewing policy on Iran, ish Supreme Court “This is a set- lim Brotherhood. The Cairo crim- Morsi and other top figures of cord, which was reached during the game and be turned into killjoys.” not only looking at Tehran’s com- back and we are of course disap- pointed, but this is just a step in inal court also sentenced 15 defen- his Muslim Brotherhood have also Obama administration. Iran can use This source, and another one pliance with the nuclear deal, which dants to life in prison in the same faced trial. A US decision to halt a CIA pro- the so-called Joint Commission with knowledge of Friday’s meet- it has certified. (AP) the legal process. gram equipping and training cer- (BBC) case, while a further eight received (CNN) tain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not done as a concession to Assad ally USinvestigators seek toturn Manafort in Russiaprobe:Sources Russia, a top US general said on Friday. Earlier this week a US official said the decision was part WASHINGTON- U.S. investiga- tactic is often used as a means to of his senior role in the campaign of an effort by the Trump ad- tors examining money laundering hide the origin of funds gained ille- and his participation in a June 2016 ministration to improve rela- accusations against President gally. Reuters has no independent meeting that included the presi- tions with Russia, which along Donald Trump’s former campaign evidence that Manafort did this. dent's son, Donald Trump Jr., close with Iranian-supported groups manager Paul Manafort hope to The sources also did not say adviser Jared Kushner and Russian has largely succeeded in preserv- push him to cooperate with their whether Mueller has uncovered lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. The ing Assad’s government in the probe into possible collusion be- any evidence to charge Manafort meeting was called after the law- six-year-long civil war. “It was, tween Trump's campaign and Rus- with money laundering, but they yer offered damaging information I think, based on an assessment sia, two sources with direct knowl- said doing so is seen by investiga- about Democratic presidential on the nature of the program, edge of the investigation said. tors as critical in getting his full candidate Hillary Clinton. what we’re trying to accomplish, Special Counsel Robert cooperation in their investigation. Mueller's team asked the the viability of it going for- Mueller's team is examining "If Mueller's team can threaten White House on Friday to preserve ward,” US Army General Ray- Manafort's financial and real es- criminal charges against Manafort, all of its communications about mond Thomas, head of the Spe- tate records in New York as well they could use that as leverage to that meeting. Mueller is examining cial Operations Command, told as his involvement in Ukrainian convince him to cooperate," said contacts between Russian officials the Aspen Security Forum in politics, the officials said. Be- one of the sources. Manafort’s and Trump associates during and Colorado. The decision was tween 2006 and 2013, Manafort spokesman, Jason Maloni, said, after the Nov. 8 presidential elec- “absolutely not a sop to the bought three New York properties, “Paul Manafort is not a cooperat- tion as part of a broader investiga- Russians,” Thomas said. Tho- including one in Trump Tower in ing witness. Once again there is no tion into whether Russia tried to mas, offering the first on-the- Manhattan. He paid for them in truth to the disinformation put sway the election in favour of record commentary on the mat- full and later took out mortgages forth by anonymous sources and Trump. ter by a US official, described it against them. A former senior U.S. leakers.” Manafort is seen as a key (REUTERS) as a “tough, tough decision.” He law enforcement official said that figure in the investigation because noted some critics thought the rebels had no chance of remov- ing Assad from power. (REUTERS) USpraises Qatar’s fight against terrorism Greece and and calls for blockadetobelifted Turkey The US Secretary of State said on Friday that America is satisfied struggle in with Qatar’s efforts to implement an agreement signed last week aftermath of which aims to combat the financ- ing of terrorism. Rex Tillerson also quake that called on Arab countries to lift the “land blockade” imposed on Doha. killed two Tillerson has visited a number of Gulf States to persuade them to help solve the worst regional po- Kos is dealing with the aftermath litical crisis in years, but he left of an earthquake that killed two without any clear signs that a res- people and injured hundreds on olution is on the way. Neverthe- the Greek holiday island. The less, he did sign the agreement with 6.7-magnitude quake left hun- Four German Qatar in an attempt to ease the cri- dreds more injured in the Turk- sis, although those opposed to ish resort of Bodrum, about 12 Doha said that this was “not miles (20km) across the sea from enough” to dispel their fears. The Kos. Tourists have faced flight women who Secretary of State told reporters delays and the damaged main before a meeting with Oman’s harbour was closed for a second Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf day. “Given the amount of peo- Bin Alawi that the Qataris are im- ple outside at the time, having joined Islamic plementing the agreement “fully, and unworkable.” The conditions only two victims is a miracle,” so I think we are satisfied with their have subsequently been reduced to Trump accuses New said the deputy Kos mayor, Dav- efforts,” Reuters reported. “Qatar a commitment to six principles al- id Yerasklis. The undersea quake is ready to negotiate with the four ready agreed by Gulf Cooperation struck at 1.31am on Friday be- State detained countries [Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Council members, including Qatar. York Times of foiling tween Kos and Bodrum, when Bahrain and Egypt] and discuss According to Saudi Arabia’s Min- many tourists in both places had their demands. But it is important ister of Foreign Affairs Adel Al- been out enjoying the nightlife. in Iraq: Report for Doha to respect the sovereign- Jubeir, “There is no room for ne- plot to kill ISIS leader On Kos, a wall collapsed on ty and dignity of [itself as well as gotiations with Qatar, because it people in the courtyard of a the other four] during these dis- is not about negotiations, but about nightclub, killing a 22-year-old cussions.” He expressed his hope whether there is support for ter- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Swedish man and a 39-year-old Four German women, including a on Tuesday they were checking re- 16-year-old girl, who joined Islamic ports that a 16-year-old under in- that the four blockading countries rorism or not.” He made his com- President Trump weighed in on a a segment about leaks aired on Fox Turk. Another 120 people were will consider, as a gesture of good- ment at a joint press conference in hurt, seven of them seriously, State in recent years are being held vestigation for supporting Islamic number of hot-button topics in a News' "Fox and Friends." At one in an Iraqi prison and receiving State was among five women ar- will, the lifting of the land block- Rome with his Italian counterpart string of tweets Saturday morn- point, the chyron read "NYT while some 360 people were in- ade. “I think that this has the worst Angelino Alfano. “Saudi Arabia, jured in Bodrum, many after consular assistance, Der Spiegel rested in the Iraqi city of Mosul, ing, the day after naming a new FOILS U.S. ATTEMPT TO magazine reported on Saturday. It where Iraqi forces declared victo- impact on the people of Qatar,” Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE have White House communications di- TAKE OUT AL-BAGHDADI." jumping out of windows. The Tillerson added. On 5 June, Saudi clear principles that must be im- badly injured on Kos were flown said diplomats had visited the four ry over Islamic State earlier this rector and accepting the resigna- Mr. Trump is an avid consumer of in a prison at the airport in Bagh- month. Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab plemented,” he added. “Qatar must tion of press secretary Sean Spic- cable news. His hiring of commu- to hospitals in Athens and Crete, Emirates and Bahrain severed re- stop supporting or funding terror- including two men from Sweden dad on Thursday and they were Der Spiegel said one of the er. The president took aim at some nications director Anthony Scara- doing well given the circumstanc- Germans had Moroccan roots and lations with Qatar on the grounds ism, providing shelter to terrorists familiar targets: the "Amazon mucci was reportedly based in and Norway who were in critical of its alleged support for terror- and stop the hate speech.” condition. Medics said the Swede es. They could face the death pen- another seemed to come from Washington Post," leaks, Hillary part on Scaramucci's performance alty in Iraq for belonging to the Chechnya but had a German pass- ism. The government in Doha de- Last week, Qatari Minister of For- Clinton, "Special Council" Robert in defending the administration on lost his lower leg, and doctors nied the allegations, saying that it eign Affairs Shaikh Mohammed are struggling to save his other militant group, the magazine add- port. Mueller and others. But one mis- television. In the Fox segment ear- ed. The BfV domestic intelligence faced a “campaign of fabrications Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani said sive in particular left observers ly Saturday, the anchor cited com- leg. that his country is ready to talk The Norwegian has serious It said Iraqi authorities had given agency estimates that 930 people and lies” which aims to control its scratching their heads. In a cryptic ments made by the commander of head injuries. Kos is one of Germany a list with the women's have left Germany in recent years national decision-making. A list of with the blockading countries on tweet, Mr. Trump accused "the U.S. Special Operations Command Greece’s top travel destinations, names at the beginning of the week, to join Islamic State in Iraq and 13 conditions for the restoration the basis of mutual respect and in- Failing New York Times" of foil- (SOCOM) at the Aspen Security particularly popular with Brit- identifying the teenager only as Syria. About 20 percent of them of diplomatic and other ties were ternational law. “Whoever has ing an attempt to kill Abu Bakr al- Forum in Colorado. During an ap- ish, German and Scandinavian Linda W. from the small town of are women. Minors account for submitted to Qatar on 22 June been following the Gulf crisis,” he Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic pearance onstage with Fox News' tourists. The quake struck at the Pulsnitz near the eastern city of about 5 percent of the total num- through Kuwait; these included the explained in Ankara, “will be sure State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). While Catherine Herridge on Friday, height of the tourism season. Dresden. Germany's Foreign Min- ber, of which half are female, it reck- closure of the Al-Jazeera network. that it was built on fabrications and Mr. Trump did not provide more Gen. Raymond Thomas revealed (BBC) istry declined to comment on the ons. Doha dismissed the demands as not facts or discussions.” detail about the accusation, the the U.S. had valuable intelligence. report. German prosecutors said (ALJAZEERA) “unrealistic, unbalanced, illogical (AP) tweet came about 20 minutes after (AA) SUNDAY. JULY 23, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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Email: [email protected] By Ambassador Dr. Zia Nezam, cessful, modern nation states sup- council officials outside Kabul is efficient delivery of services to cit- port this view, indicating also that wholly insufficient for successful izens where they live. Moreover, www.afghanistantimes.af only with long-term decentralized nation building. Only by fostering with locally elected leadership, there power-sharing can economic devel- the development of local govern- is greater accountability and trans- Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi opment can democratic institutions ments in their various administra- parency of public spending to the take root and evolve. The Afghan tive and different functional capac- people served. What is purposed people have had to endure four de- ities can there be a solid, broadly here is echoed by many Afghans in Advisory editorial board cades of conflict. There has been a based foundation for national gov- prominent political and economic relentless struggle to create a na- ernance. In addition, the more the prominence. Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, tional government that can sur- countryside is trusted by the central Likewise, much greater decentrali- mount regional, ethnic, tribal, po- government to participate meaning- zation is suggested by disinterested Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal, Saboor Sarir Former Afghan Ambassador litical, and/or religious differences fully in nation building, the less in- think tanks and has been urged by to Vienne, Brussels and Rome in order to forge a modern nation- fluence terrorists have to exploit the EU ambassador and the UN rep- Graphic-Designers: state. Even after the last 16 years discontent and resistance to central- resentative in Afghanistan. Repeat- Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi and Basir Qazizada of international intervention, the ly directed governance. ing for emphasis, the military fight Throughout most of its history, high- United Nations reports that the se- Decentralization is a challenging must be directed centrally, but to Mar ket i ng & Adver t i si ng: ly centralized regimes governed Af- curity situation in all Afghanistan process, for Afghanistan, which “has build a strong sense of ownership in ghanistan. Allegiance to a king, aid- lacks stability. The Afghan people one of the world’s most highly cen- the Afghan state, more day-to-day Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 ed by a hierarchy of his chosen sub- recognize that we must have a na- tralized governments.” control of their lives must be given tional army led from the head of (US Institute of Peace, Special Re- to all our citizens who want an end Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan ordinates, sometimes provided po- litical stability with national identi- our presidential system to combat port, July 2017) Our greatly cen- to hostilities. With increasingly de- Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 ty greater than ethnic affiliation, terrorist elements in Afghanistan tralized political system – again, dis- volved participation in the mean- yet this partly feudal system was a and surrounding countries who will tinct from our centralized armed ingful decisions of their daily lives, Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press continuing obstacle to economic not accept democratic rule and forces – has further deepened our elected provincial can improve the development, which was rare, piece- peaceful political conflict resolu- continuing national crisis. Resistance delivery of essential services (com- meal, and centered in the capital. tion. At the same time, however, to centrally concentrated political munications, schools, roads, bridg- However, today a robust majority our presidential system must de- power engenders tension and can es, hospitals, etc.). of Afghani in all provinces realize volve autonomy to the provinces lead to chaos as local, whether pro- Corruption can be reduced with great- The constitution says that decentralization, that is prov- and districts, so these entities can vincial or distrital, priorities often er local monitoring and accountabil- ince-level power sharing, must oc- elect their governors as they now are at odds with those emanating ity, longer-term economic develop- cur to stabilize Afghanistan. Only do with their ruling councils. Cur- from Kabul. More substantive ad- ment projects can be undertaken, Article 162: in this way can nation building and a rently, however, Afghanistan’s pro- ministrative and governmental and of fundamental importance, the Article One Hundred Sixty-Two: This Constitution shall be enforced from the date truly national economy develop sus- vincial ruling councils have only a functions power sharing, as wit- destructive influence of terrorists tainably. Thorough analyses of suc- consultative role, and a consultative nessed in developing countries with can be thwarted. In so doing, the of approval by the Loya Jirga, and endorsed and proclaimed by the President of the role for locally elected provincial expanding economies, means more country will become more stable. Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan. Upon the enforcement of this Consti- tution, laws and legislative decrees contrary to its provisions shall be invalid.

here should an end to the politics of symbolism. Every stan. Many Indians believe that in- By Barkha Dutt frastructure, power projects, high- thing has limitations and this imagery has to be ended. By ways in Pakistan are the instruments of Chinese neo-colonialism. giving promises to improve the burning issue of insecurity “The United States does not recog- Beijing’s protectorate over Paki- at best level, however, a mere pledged that doesn’t see the light nize our countries as great powers.” stan, Islamabad, is now seen as a vir- Chairman Mao Zedong, the Com- tual colony of China, locked into of the day so far. This is only in words, and even not seems to be munist revolutionary and the found- inescapable dependence. Yet, despite ing father of the People’s Republic the Indian military chief asserting turned into a practical silhouette. We are in fighting against ter- of China, said this to Jawaharlal his readiness for a “two-and-a-half- Nehru, India’s first prime minister, front war” (a reference to Pakistan, ror for longtime, and still our brave security forces, despite ci- in 1954. The two leaders met in China and internal threats), some vilians, are losing their lives in their (militants) coward attacks. Beijing and bonded over a shared believe that Indian Prime Minister sentiment of anti-imperialism. Narendra Modi’s observation that The current war strategy may not make any major gains, rather “The ruler that the United States India and China have not fired a sin- uses to measure other countries will gle bullet in 40 years will remain takes more lives and properties. The National Unity Government no longer be useful in the future,” true. India is China’s largest trading Nehru agreed with Mao, according partner; a sixth of India’s imports (NUG) has failed to have an update war strategy. Were not turn- to archives now declassified and re- are now Chinese. “China is no ing blind eye over some achievements made during this period, leased by the Wilson Center. “In monolith,” said Alok Bansal with the addition to money there are other India Foundation, a think tank linked but we have long way to go to eliminate terrorists one and all. factors, the human factor is the most epicenter of the growing crisis is the top-ranking diplomatic official. to the government. “We have to important,” he said idealistically; “ Doklam plateau, which sits at the “The gauntlet thrown is not direct- look at the subterranean currents; The Afghan masses voted for the leaders of the NUG at the most … our two countries should play tri-junction of India, China and Bhu- ed against Bhutan, but against In- Chinese society today is extremely more important roles in Asia. In any tan, near the northeastern Indian dia,” she told me in an interview. driven by commercial interests. I critical environment, even some patriots Afghans lost their fin- case, the population of our two state of Sikkim. In June, the Bhu- The entire Indo-Pacific region is don’t think the people there want gers. But still voted, showing their determination to elect a gov- countries reaches one billion. This tanese army objected to the Chi- now the gladiatorial ring where a conflict with India. Indian soft pow- will lead to immense influence.” nese constructing a road in territo- global joust is unfolding, pulling in er has also made its own ingress.” ernment to address the current challenges, moreover to improve More than six decades later, between ry that it says is within its sover- countries well beyond Bhutan. The Bansal said that what really bothers them, China and India make up 36 eignty. It asked the Indian military United States, India and Japan just the Chinese is India’s growing prox- security situation, beside economy nationwide. But the current percent of the world’s population for help to resist the Chinese ag- completed trilateral naval exercises imity to the United States and points and are the globe’s fastest-growing gression, and Indian troops moved amid reports of Chinese submarine out that any maleficent aggression situation is on the table to us all that exhibiting the escalation of economies, with a recent report plac- into the construction area in Bhu- presence in the Indian Ocean region. will achieve precisely that. There insecurity. The politics of symbolism and populism fails when it ing India ahead. Nehru was prescient tan. India says China has violated Tibet — and India’s support for the are also murmurs in strategic circles about the influence they would wield an agreed-upon status quo and is in Dalai Lama — has been another about overdependence on Washing- is not padded with concrete plans to fulfill and aspirations of the — he coined the phrase “Hindi-Chini violation of a 2012 boundary agree- flashpoint; as China sulked, India ton. “If ever there was a war with bhai bhai” (the Indians and Chinese ment. Beijing has referenced a much allowed the Buddhist leader, who has China, America would never come masses. NUG has failed on this count at some stage. To get clear are brothers) — but absolutely mis- earlier colonial treaty signed be- championed independence for Ti- to our rescue,” one government of- judged their imagined partnership. tween Great Britain and China. The bet, to visit Tawang in the eastern ficial said. India’s road to equality picture of what happened in the past 24 hours one needs to look His naiveté about China resulted in Indian military maintains a perma- Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, with China may eventually route a war in 1962 that caught India off nent training presence in Bhutan; which China claims to have rights itself not through Washington or the across the country with open-eye. Six Afghan National Army sol- guard. This year, as Chinese and In- its current king was a graduate of over. Regional provocation is also West, but through the East; Modi diers have been killed and three other injured in a fierce clash dian soldiers stand eyeball to eye- the National Defense College in spinning along the Sino-Pakistan has invested energy in building rela- ball in the Himalayan kingdom of Delhi. China, for its part, has for axis. tionships with Japan, Vietnam and with the Taliban insurgents in western Farah province. At least Bhutan in a month-long standoff, years wanted full diplomatic ties with China has regularly blocked action South Korea, all of whom are suspi- the state-run Chinese media has Bhutan. But still, Bhutan may sim- at the United Nations against Paki- cious of China. 16 policemen have been killed and two others wounded in for- threatened India that “it will suffer ply be a decoy for a bigger play: stan-based terrorist groups. China’s Amid current fears of a second greater losses than in 1962.” But, as Who will lead Asia? “The larger bat- ambitious “one belt, one road” ini- Sino-Indian battle between two nu- eign forces airstrike in southern Helmand province. 30 Afghan Indian Defense Minister Arun Jait- tle is essentially about strategic com- tiative passes through territory that clear-armed giants of Asia, the only Local Police (ALP) members were killed in Taliban’s ambush ley said, “India of 2017 is very dif- petition for geopolitical space and India regards as sovereign, angering denouement can be a mutual with- ferent” from the India of 1962. In- influence in Asia between India and New Delhi. Beijing has used the Sik- drawal of soldiers from the contest- in northeastern Badakhshan province. It is enough to prove that dia has refused to kowtow to Chi- China,” said Nirupama Rao, who kim-Bhutan standoff to threaten ed Bhutan region. Anything else na’s entitled assumptions about a served as India’s ambassador to Chi- India on possible interference in the could be cataclysmic. we are lacking war strategy as our brave Afghan security forces hegemonic control of Asia. At the na and retired as the government’s Kashmir Valley, in support of Paki- (WP) are losing lives in different attacks. This trend is absolutely not in the interest of Afghan mass neither to the NUG leaders. People would become outrages against government if situation prevails. Still there is time. The government should take this as wake-up call. Further negligence would trigger this country toward deep crisis. From here on, the government should come up to the fore with a clear war strategy aimed at putting a fully standstill to military and civilian casualties. No more room left for the Af- ghan people to mourn after their dearest and nearest one. Many innocent lives have been taken in the global campaign of war on terror. It has to be stopped. 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By Khan Wali Khan Basharmal trained staff members. The aca- srael has been using the pretext of demic and professional sectors must security to quietly continue the ethnic a bou t t o ch a n ge. be enlisted to ensure appropriate budgeting and funding of this pro- cleansing of Palestinians from their By George F. Will and sometimes the only, recourse spective system. Leaders, entrepre- land. of presidents. In 1991, six weeks neurs, and innovators, like Mirwais of air attacks enabled U.S. ground Alizai, who came with a well-disci- forces to finish Iraq’s army in 100 plined experience on an internation- By Diana Buttu hours. In 1999, in three months of al level can surely devote and con- combat over Serbia and Kosovo, The influence and interruption of tribute on fixing the bureaucratic problems of Afghanistan. The per- air power sufficed to enable diplo- the warlords, corrupt bureaucrats and macy to attain the political objec- tribal leaders in the social, econom- son who may be known for every- ic and bureaucratic system of the one came with a complete profes- tives. In 1991, in the first night of government of Afghanistan, have sional team and system, Ravan Ser- The aircraft arrayed around the the Gulf War air campaign, U.S. to go; many such instances derail- vices (Rawan Khidamaat), where his spacious lawn of Maxwell Air air power struck more targets than ing the progress of Afghan society. team is striving and enduring to Force Base, home of the Air Uni- the Eighth Air Force struck in Eu- Our weak bureaucratic structure and present solutions to the bureaucrat- versity, mostly represent long-re- rope in all of 1942 and 1943. These tribal-based non-technological sys- ic problems of the Ministry of For- tired types. The largest, however, recent episodes may, however, be tem of institutional hiring comprise eign Affairs of the Islamic Republic is a glistening B-52 bomber, which remembered not as harbingers of a serious bone of contention for of Afghanistan. Notably, his team Diana Buttu is a represents a still-employed com- future conflicts but as punctua- well-qualified Afghan youth, educat- introduced the latest and update sys- ponent of the Air Force’s aging tions ending an era. In this, its 70th ed in good universities in India, Iran, tem for fulfilling and benefiting the Palestinian lawyer and fleet: The youngest B-52 entered year as an independent service, the Pakistan and the Central Asian re- customers’ desires; with the latest analyst who served as a Air Force, like the other branches technology and service in 1962. Sons have flown publics. Meanwhile, the already ex- legal advisor to the Pales- the same plane their fathers and of the military but more than any isting bureaucratic system in Af- work like management in order to tion charges are deflected. To be tions. In short, Israel seeks to turn enable the people to realize the taste tinian negotiating team. grandfathers flew. But, then, the other, is being required to rethink ghanistan, making worst the lives clear, no Palestinian wants to see Jerusalem into Hebron: blocked off its mission in light of rapidly of the people of Afghanistan in of modern bureaucratic system. This their holy sites turned into places from Palestinians, with convenience average age of all the Air Force air- terms of providing them underpriv- leading and pioneer role can also be craft is 27 years; fighters, more evolving threats and technologies. of armed conflict. But using the guise for Israeli Jews taking precedence The Air Force is in charge of ileged services and anguishing them a track line for many other stake- of "security", Israel has ensured that over Palestinian rights. So as Israel than 30 years; bombers and heli- mentally because of institutional holders in Afghanistan to address the Yesterday, thousands of Palestinians copters, more than 40 years; refu- two legs of the nuclear deterrence came to Jerusalem to perform the we, Palestinians, live as prisoners in continues to gun down Palestinians, ineffectiveness and inability in un- problems of the people of Afghani- our homeland. who will provide security to Pales- eling tankers, more than 50 years. triad — strategic bombers and derstanding the modern ways to de- stan through restructuring the bu- most simple, most peaceful act: America’s security challenges Minuteman intercontinental ballis- prayer. Palestinians - Muslims and In the name of "security," Israel ex- tinians? This security will not come liver to the people. This is an open reaucracy. There is already a bunch propriates Palestinian land. In the from the current unelected Pales- change much faster — think of the tic missiles — but also has been secret that e-governing comes of writing in view revealing the fact Christians, women and men, young delivering 70 percent of the bombs and old - prayed in the streets after name of "security", Israel builds Is- tinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who Soviet Union’s demise and the Is- through modernizing, digitalizing to the people and other ministries raeli-only settlements on stolen spent four days in China as Pales- lamic State’s rise — than technol- against the Islamic State. For de- and improving the quality of educa- that how Ravan Services (Rawan refusing to enter through the new cades, the Air Force’s strategic role metal detectors and barricades erect- Palestinian land. In the name of "se- tinians were barred from accessing ogies can be conceived, designed, tion. These young would-be civil Khidamat) benefit the people. curity" Israel demolishes Palestin- al-Aqsa compound and as Gazans was defined by President Dwight It is encouraging that not some ed by Israel in front of the al-Aqsa approved, built and deployed. The servants, administrators, and pro- ian homes and schools and in the suffered under a siege that he has F/A-18 and the F-16 were designed Eisenhower’s configuration of U.S. fessionals have unnecessarily be- but most of the elements within the compound. Israeli forces, armed with live ammunition, stun grenades, name of "security" Palestinians are openly supported. Nor, of course, about 45 years ago. On April 15, forces for long-range deterrence of come victims of depression, frus- government system is crying for all besieged in Gaza, forced to live with- will it come from a silent interna- moonshine because they have been sound bombs, water cannon and tear 1953, two U.S. soldiers in Korea the Soviet Union in order to re- tration and other psychological dis- out electricity, adequate medical tional community that only knows duce the need for massive forward- orders as a consequence of the un- deprived of their all those motiva- gas, came prepared to kill. And they were attacked and killed by a pro- did: by the day's end Israeli forces supplies or water and even barred how to wring its hands and meekly based forces. In 2009, Defense planned and wrong-headed policies tional fees or clearly corruption in from accessing the sea. And, when condemn Israel. peller-driven aircraft supporting of our Ministry of Labor and other form of bribe to whom they were and armed settlers had killed three Chinese and North Korean troops. Secretary Robert M. Gates, who young Palestinian men and injured Palestinians are gunned down by Rather, Palestinians will contin- relevant stakeholders. Such mis- subservient and were taking from the mass murderers, as they were in the ue to bravely stand and defend them- Since then, no U.S. ground troops perhaps possesses broader knowl- guided bureaucratic administration people in figure of keeping their more than 450 others, some of have been attacked by an enemy edge and experience of national them very seriously. Israeli forces 1990s in Hebron by Baruch Gold- selves, bowing down only to the God not only gives rise to despondency paper work in pending, so the cor- stein, in the name of "security", they worship and never to Israeli aircraft. Such has been the permis- security matters than any Ameri- among the unemployed and under- rupt officials could make money in even raided a Palestinian hospital sive environment guaranteed by can has ever had, said: “If the De- in an attempt to arrest those in- Palestinians - and not Israelis - are diktats. employed youth but unintentional- this way. Let the entity thrive, shine subject to increased security restric- (Aljazeera) U.S. air dominance, not since Viet- partment of Defense can’t figure ly drives our best and brightest to and effectual in fixing the already jured by their weaponry. Israel claims out a way to defend the United that the metal detectors are neces- nam has a U.S. pilot used his air- seek employment in developed old-fashioned paper based bureaucra- craft’s bullets to down an enemy States on a budget of more than countries, while gifting our enemies cy through e-governance providing sary for Israel's "security" follow- ing an incident last week in which fighter plane (although air-to-air half a trillion dollars a year, then with a strong assist in the recruiting excellent, easy, and reliable services our problems are much bigger than with a great credibility. two armed Israeli officers were missiles downed enemy aircraft activities of anti-Afghan terrorist US gen eral says over the Balkans). The Air Force’s anything that can be cured by a organizations. The struggle __ un- For very sure, all those ele- killed. These metal detectors are not ments are creating hindrance in the about security, but rather about de- dominance in controlling the air and few more ships and planes.” In- wavering efforts of NUG in regards deed, safety might come from buy- of bestowing the services to way of modern bureaucracy believe liberately attempting to bar Pales- in supporting ground troops might the private entities is a hallmark, in corruption, unchangeable rigid be- tinians from their places of worship. en din g the CIA’s have been what an F-16 pilot here ing fewer ships and planes, and and optimistic approach but still havior and obsolete system. Contrast, for example, Israel's re- calls a “catastrophic success,” dis- more drones. And developing hy- needs careful attention of the gov- It is in the highest interest of cent stance towards the Temple tracting attention from the rapidly personic (at least five times the ernment in order to ensure and real- the Afghan government to come Mount Faithful - a group of Jewish evolving challenge of multi-do- speed of sound) weapons that can ize the people that they are the ul- with intrepid and moderate percep- extremists who have openly an- Syria pro gram main, combined-arms warfare on strike anywhere in the world in less timate necessary focus to be satis- tion and action in all areas of pro- nounced that they seek the destruc- land, on and under the sea, in the than an hour. And electromagnetic fied through providing good servic- moting Afghanistan’s bureaucratic tion of the al-Aqsa compound in air, and in space and cyberspace. kinetic weapons (railguns) with es in all walks of life in lines of system. order to build a Jewish temple in its muzzle velocities of 5,000 miles place. Yet, while openly advocating From Dec. 8, 1941, through Aug. modern technological age. President All those suggestions have been w as ‘n o t a so p’ 5, 1945 — the day before Hiroshi- per hour, twice as fast as the muz- Ashraf Ghani and his team need to made in the initial paragraphs should for the ethnic cleansing of Pales- tinians and the destruction of Mus- ma — there were no radical tech- zle velocity of a high-caliber bul- restructure the bureaucratic system. take practical shape as soon as pos- let. Directed-energy laser-based sible through a determined staying lim holy sites, the Israeli govern- nological disjunctions during We need to establish a responsive World War II. Aircraft, aircraft car- weapons operating at the speed of public services commission as well power and will. Independent Admin- ment continues to allow this group to Russia istrative Reform and Civil Service to enter the al-Aqsa compound (in- riers, tanks and radar were pre- light are about 134,000 times fast- as a trustworthy public reforms er than railguns. What Air Force commission. A rational, well-or- Commission of the Islamic Repub- cluding with arms) under the guise Pearl Harbor technologies. Future of "freedom of religion". In 1990, ture of the program and what we are wars, however, will be won by in- people call “fast movers” — fighter dered civil service system needs to lic of Afghanistan need to take all By Josh Rogin trying to accomplish and the viabil- be developed and utilized by the gov- the necessary measurements to fix this group attempted to lay a cor- formation superiority that produc- planes, the fastest bombers — are nerstone for a Jewish temple at the ity of it going forward. And a tough, mere plodders compared with ernment to reassess all the existing the problems of Afghanistan. The tough decision.” Thomas acknowl- es superior decisions. Which government servants and critical Afghan state should design and ap- compound triggering protests in ASPEN, Colo. — Special Operations means that China gave a chilling weapons that are not far over the which some 20 Palestinians died. edged that his organization was not employees in responsible sectors. It ply effective programs to foster and Command chief Gen. Raymond directly involved with the program glimpse of the future when in Jan- horizon. And compared with the is evident that the current outmod- develop all the areas of progress The demand for freedom of religion “Tony” Thomas defended the uary 2007 it successfully launched pace of geo-strategic and techno- for Palestinians - the ability to wor- but said that the organization that ed and counter-productive system while ensuring equal development. Trump administration’s decision to was in charge had struggled to im- an anti-satellite weapon. Beginning logical changes that challenge even of delegating authority to deputy If such steps are not taken, ship without the interference of Is- the fine Air University’s capacity rael's armed forces - is convenient- end the CIA program to arm Syrian plement it. “That’s not necessarily with the liberation of Kuwait in ministers and directors hired on the then we should not expect any ac- rebels in public remarks here at the an organization that I have been af- 1991, air power has been the first, to comprehend them. basis of political or religious con- quiescence in our system by the rank ly ignored. The metal detectors must be viewed in their proper context: Aspen Security Forum on Friday, filiated with,” Thomas said, seem- (WP) nections has to end, and that future and file of the Afghan people, for it arguing that the program had prob- ing to refer to the CIA. “But a sister staffing decisions must be based on would continue to be a system pri- as another of Israel's settler-colo- nial acts of erasing us, the indige- lems and ending it was not a gift to organization, a parallel activity, that talent, merit, and genuinely relevant marily serving the singular interests Russia. Some audience members were had a tough, some would argue im- of warlords and privileged elites. nous population, erasing our homes, qualifications. It is in the nation’s surprised that Thomas spoke pub- possible mission, based on the ap- utmost interest that a national pub- The writer is a political our culture and our religious sites and replacing us with settlers. For his licly about the still-classified pro- proach that we took.” After the ses- lic services academy for training civ- economist engaged in the Af- gram, considering that CIA Direc- ghan and international spheres part, Israeli PM Benjamin Netan- sion, I asked Gen. Thomas if he re- il servants be formed, an institution tor Mike Pompeo and White House alized that he had become the first that could likewise monitor the na- while writing on relevant con- yahu is happy to see Jerusalem erupt in violence. Facing a corruption in- counterterrorism adviser Tom Bos- senior U.S. official during the Trump tional progress towards achieving a cepts and strategies. Mr. Bas- sert refused to do so in separate ses- harmal currently acts as the vestigation for a submarine scandal, administration to acknowledge the sensible and transparent process of sions here in Aspen on Thursday. classified CIA program to arm the hiring talented and qualified individ- General Director of the Strate- Netanyahu is refusing to remove the metal detectors so as to ensure that But when Fox News correspondent Syrian rebels on the record. Tho- uals in meaningful gic Center for International Catherine Herridge asked Thomas Relations and Editor-in-Chief attention is deflected from this deal mas claimed that he was just oper- positions. Likewise, it is of utmost if the ending of the program, first ating off of open source informa- importance to quickly redress the of its quarterly publication. He and instead focused on violence. You see, in Israel, "security" sells - it en- reported by The Washington Post tion. “I didn’t acknowledge any- current inequities in hiring and pro- can be reached at this week, was a gift to Russia, he [email protected] sures votes and ensures that corrup- thing,” Thomas said. “She asked me moting qualified and properly insisted that was not why the deci- about the closure, which was put out sion was made. “Absolutely not, at in the press two days ago. … But my least from what I know about that assessment is that it wasn’t to give program and the decision to end it, the Russians anything. I think the absolutely not a sop to the Rus- program was just having challeng- LETTER TO THE EDITOR sians,” Thomas said. “It was, I think, es.” based on an assessment of the na- (WP)

safety in numbers. David Ndii, one By Patrick Gathara the country’s top economists, says DidtheUnited flights out of the country on dates RemoveTaliban Driving in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, surrounding the election are already can be a nightmare. Not only is one fully booked. More disconcerting has prone to spending endless hours in been the impugning of the impar- Since the Taliban insurgent increased coordinate attacks in different parts of the country Statesinterferein traffic jams, but also the roads are tiality of the judiciary. In 2007, the during last year war, the related military officials should take a bold step in a bid to menaced by brilliantly colored, in- opposition refused to entrust the remove Taliban from Afghanistan permanently. The Taliban militants don’t deserve any sanely driven, hulking deathtraps electoral dispute to the courts, pro- privileges after this, as they repeatedly showed that don’t believe in peace process. The that pass for the city’s public trans- viding the spark for the violence. Russianelections? port system. Terrifyingly oblivious Alongside its poor handling of the Taliban insurgent are still hell-bent on killing innocent people, despite there is a chance of to the dangers they pose to both 2013 petition against Kenyatta’s peace through Afghan-lead and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process. But racy in other countries, efforts for their passengers and other road us- election, the judiciary has had to they (Taliban) never nod to the process. When it is apparent that Taliban are not re- By Tom Malinowski which I was responsible as a State ers, the matatus — as the beasts are endure continuing allegations of Department official. But from Pu- called — are a perfect metaphor for corruption. Public infighting has nouncing violence, the government forces with support of foreign troops should increase tin’s frame of reference, the dis- Kenya as it hurtles toward elections broken out within the Supreme operations and kill Taliban in ever parts of the country. Russia President Vladimir Putin next month. With three weeks to Court, which was specifically estab- denies meddling in U.S. politics — tinction is without a difference. lished in the aftermath of the 2008 The time is ripe for the security forces to carry ground and air operations across the And therein lies a larger truth about go, domestic and international ob- though he sometimes suggests, servers are concerned with whether violence to deal with electoral dis- country to suppress them (Taliban). with a wink, that “patriotic” Rus- U.S.-Russian relations that we putes. Now, the opposition has al- have been slow to realize. The U.S. the polls will be peaceful and fair. Tahir Ahamd, Kabul, Afghanistan sians may have done so. But there Kenya is still haunted by the the ready declared that if it suspects the is one point that he always insists government never hacked into post-election violence of a decade election to be rigged, it would not be on: that the United States does the Russian leaders’ emails and re- ago, in which at least 1,300 people returning to the courts, as it did in same to others. He has charged that leased them selectively to favor died and more than 600,000 were 2013. Many fear that this is code the U.S. government interfered one side in their elections, or flood- displaced from their homes. Many for a resort to street protests that “aggressively” in Russia’s 2012 ed Russian social media with fake are fearful of a repeat of violence if may potentially degenerate to vio- presidential vote, which Putin won stories to discredit their ruling par- the credibility of the election is in lence. The real fuel for the fire in Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must ty. What it did do, until the U.S. doubt, as it was in 2007. There is 2007 was the unresolved legacy of after a year of protests against him. the country’s colonial past, which have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: He claims that Washington “gath- Agency for International Develop- good reason to worry. Just like in [email protected] ment was expelled from Russia in 2007, the campaigns of incumbent manifests in the form of land con- ered opposition forces and fi- flicts and massive class and regional nanced them.” At the recent Group 2012, was to help fund some of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his the country’s leading nongovern- main challenger, Raila Odinga, have inequalities. By the time of inde- of 20 summit, Putin apparently got deeply polarized Kenya along eth- pendence from Britain in 1963, President Trump to agree to a mental organizations. These in- about 60,000 European settlers cluded the human rights group nic lines; the nation is split down Disclaimer: mutual commitment that neither the middle, with polls showing the owned half of all agricultural land in country would interfere in the oth- Memorial, the Committee Against race tightening as election day ap- Kenya. Since then, successive klep- er’s elections. Is this moral equiv- Torture and, most important, giv- proaches. Across the country, there tocratic governments have pre- The views and opinions expressed in the articles are alence fair? In short, no. Russia’s en the drama to come, a group are reports of people moving their ferred to concentrate these areas in those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or interference in the United States’ called Golos, Russia’s main non- families away from ethnically mixed the hands of a small elite, further 2016 election could not have been government organization for elec- neighborhoods in areas anticipated exacerbating land hunger as the pop- opinions of the Afghanistan Times. more different from what the Unit- tion fraud monitoring. to be flashpoints of violence, and ulation has grown ninefold. ed States does to promote democ- (TRUTHOUT) into tribal enclaves where there is (TRUTHOUT) SUNDAY. JULY 23, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

There are conflicting reports about the US intelligence agencies’ inves- tigations of the leaks of emails sent by the UAE ambassador in Wash- Russianpresident approvesnew ington, Yusuf Al-Otaiba, which in- clude communications from 2014 to May this year. The leaks revealed details of the UAE Embassy’s con- tacts with public relations compa- naval strategy,USseenasthreat nies to limit Qatar’s regional role in the Arctic and also to reach an and the targeting of its political se- intimidating supremacy with its curity. The emails also accused Qa- naval forces.” The strategy, which tar, along with Kuwait, of financing terrorist acts, and included incite- will remain binding until 2030, ment against Turkey, the Muslim comes in addition to earlier an- Brotherhood and the Palestinian nouncements by Russian navy Hamas movement. The latest in- authorities who have designated formation was preceded by leaks the Arctic “a priority development published by the Washington Post a area for Moscow.” few days ago confirming Abu Dha- The document says that the re- bi’s responsibility for the hacking source-rich Arctic region is the sub- of the Qatar News Agency. This was ject of claims by Russia and four intended to fabricate a reason for other nations that are all US allies. Ar e we seein g a the blockade of Qatar led by Saudi The strategy paper further states Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and that other nations are trying to Egypt, and the placing of impossi- “limit Russia’s access to resourc- ble demands on the political, mili- es at sea and its access to vitally cou p a ga in st t h e tary and media establishments in important naval transport commu- Doha. The leaks appeared to con- nications.” firm the personal interests of Donald The document also warns that the Trump’s family in the blockade of Qatar. The US President’s son-in- world is in for a rough ride by 2030, p r eva ilin g win d law, Jared Kushner, apparently failed foreseeing “an unstable military- to obtain a $500 million loan from political environment, character- the wealthy Gulf State. The author- ized by the increase of global com- ities in Doha decided that there were petition, rivalry in the world power in r ela t ion s insufficient justifications for such a centers” due both to the rise of ex- loan and declined the application. Russian President Vladimir Putin by Russian leader on Thursday. It offers more details on where Russia’s tremism and international power approved a new state policy for navy sees potential international friction and conflict, US-based news Kushner is not only Trump’s close plays. Putin’s decree also points adviser, the husband of his daughter the country’s naval forces that magazine Newsweek reported. “The Russian Federation continues to out that Russia’s navy is “one of between t h e U S Ivanka and his special envoy to the points to the US as intent on dom- retain its status as a great naval state, whose naval potential ensures the the most effective tools of strate- Middle East, but he is also a close inating the world’s oceans and thus defensive of its national interests in any part of the World Ocean,” the gic (nuclear and non-nuclear) con- friend of UAE Crown Prince Mo- posing a threat to Russia. A docu- 22-page document says. According to the report, among the direct naval tainment, including in preventing hammed Bin Zayed and his ambas- ment detailing the strategy took threats to Russia is “the striving of a series of governments, above all the a global strike.” a n d UAE ? sador in Washington. (CNN) immediate effect after being signed United States of America and its allies, to dominate the oceans, including (AP) Stop playing games with the Iranian nuclear deal The Trump administration last supporting Iran’s armed services week certified that Iran is comply- and Islamic Revolutionary Guard ing with the international agree- Corps, a force commanded by ment placing limits on its nuclear Iran’s Supreme Leader. The agree- program – but for a while it looked ment itself was never conditioned as if the certification wouldn’t on Iran’s good behavior in other happen. Administration officials areas. had distributed t????alking points But this wasn’t a case of all’s well explaining the decision and sched- that ends well. Although Trump uled a conference call for report- hasn’t followed through with a ers. But then President Trump campaign promise to dismantle the balked at signing off on the recom- Iranian nuclear agreement, he clear- Azerbaijan violates ceasefire mendation of key advisors, includ- ly remains deeply suspicious of ing Secretary of State Rex W. the deal, even though it has accom- around 9,000 times in first Tillerson, Secretary of Defense plished its purpose of preventing James Mattis and national Securi- Iran from obtaining a nuclear weap- ty Advisor H. R. McMaster. Even- on and even though Iran generally half of 2017 tually Trump agreed to the certifi- has complied with its terms. Azerbaijani side violated ceasefire attempts that were prevented by cation, after being presented with (There have been some violations; around 9,000 times at the line of the Karabakh army. The adversary a plan for tougher measures against for example, Iran has at times ex- contact in the first half of 2017, troops were thrown back to their Iran in other areas. The next day ceeded limits on its heavy water Karabakh army said in a statement. positions. the Treasury Department im- stockpile. But in general the agree- Overall, Azerbaijani side fired over On February 25 Azerbaijani armed posed financial sanctions on 18 ment has been a success.) 121,000 shots towards Karabakh forces attempted to attack in two additional people and entities for (LT) positions. directions of the line of contact with During the mentioned period, ad- NKR. The Karabakh army detect- versary used SPIKE anti-tank guid- ed the advancement and drove ed missiles, TR-107 missile sys- them back their starting positions tem, D 30 and D 44 guns, 60, 82 while causing them five casualties. Donald Trump accuses New and 120 mm mortars and different The bodies were left in the neutral types of grenades. Azerbaijani spe- zone. cial units made several infiltration (Trend) York Times of foiling attempt Kyrgyz Embassy asks migrants in Russia to deliver biometric data tokill Isis leader Al-Baghdadi The Embassy of Kyrgyzstan asks October 15, and preparing a list of Donald Trump has attacked the those citizens working in Russia, citizens of the poll in Moscow, the New York Times for allegedly foil- who have not delivered their bio- report said. The Embassy employ- ing an attempt to kill the Isis lead- metric data, to undergo the biomet- ees reminded that the citizens in er Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In a tweet ric registration, the press service Russia, who did not deliver bio- issued on Saturday morning (22 of the Embassy said. According to metric data, can not vote in the elec- July), he said: "The Failing New the Embassy, its employees on tions. Citizens, who previously York Times foiled US attempt to July 5-19 visited institutions and undergone biometric registration in kill the single most wanted terror- enterprises of the city of Moscow Kyrgyzstan, must fill out an ap- ist, Al-Baghdadi. Their sick agen- and Moscow region, where Kyr- plication in the consular service of da over National Security." gyz citizens work. They are car- the Embassy to change the elec- Why advertise with us rying out registration works amid tion address for inclusion in the It comes just days after Trump the presidential elections of Kyr- list of voters in the city of Mos- took part in a wide-ranging inter- gyzstan, which will be held on cow. view with the New York Times to (AKPRESS) discuss issues such as Europe, Isis and the economy. His attack on the NYT was preceded by a a sim- Kyrgyzstan's presidential ilar slight against the Washington Post where he said: "A new IN- election: A crowd of candidates, TELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post,this featured Defence Secretary Jim pointment of Anthony Scaramuc- split parties, and a bit of time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. Mattis suggesting that despite ear- ci as the White House communi- These illegal leaks, like Comey's, lier news reports, the jihadist was cations director. After his resigna- chauvinism must stop!" It is unknown how still alive. The latest tweets come tion, Trump praised Spicer say- Tel Aviv deploys more troops to Mosque compound in East Jerus- the NYT may have foiled an at- just hours after press secretary ing: "Sean Spicer is a wonderful Campaigning has not even started the race. And although campaign- the occupied West Bank as ten- alem al-Quds. "I, on behalf of the tempt to kill al-Baghdadi; the last Sean Spicer resigned from his post person who took tremendous for Kyrgyzstan's presidential ing has not yet started, the specter sions escalate between Israelis and Palestinian leadership, announce... story the paper wrote about the after "vehemently" disagreeing abuse from the Fake News Media race, in fact the registration pro- of nationalism is already hanging Palestinians over the regime’s im- a freeze of all contacts with the Isis leader was on the 21 July which with the president over the ap- - but his future is bright!" cess for candidates is not even fin- over the presidential race. One of position of restrictive measures on occupation state on all levels until ished yet, but it already seems clear the most unexpected twists of the the entry of worshipers into the Israel commits to cancelling all the this is going to be a wild ride. Two presidential election so far is the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in measures against our Palestinian of the biggest parties in the coun- seeming rifts in the Social Demo- East Jerusalem al-Quds. The Is- people in general and al-Quds and AustraliaspotsChinesespyship try, one of them the president's cratic Party of Kyrgyzstan raeli military made the announce- al-Aqsa Mosque in particular," former party, seem to be on the (SDPK) and the Ata-Jurt party. ment on Saturday, saying the deci- Abbas said in a brief televised verge of splitting less than three These two parties won the most sion had come after a meeting of speech on Friday after meeting his months before polling stations seats in the 2010 and 2015 parlia- military officials in the wake of an aides, presstv reported. Abbas add- near joint militaryexercises open on October 15. The number mentary elections, albeit in the alleged stabbing attack a day earli- ed that the measures were "falsely The Australian Defence Depart- telligence vessel has remained out- gation in international waters in of people who have declared they 2015 election Ata-Jurt teamed up er, presstv reported. It declined to presented as a security measure to ment confirmed reports Saturday side Australian territorial waters accordance with international law.” wish to be candidates, as of the with the Respublika party in a elaborate on the matter but said take control over al-Aqsa that a Chinese spy ship has been but inside its exclusive economic Talisman Sabre, a biennial joint writing of this report, had reached union that has since broken up the troops were in addition to hun- Mosque." operating off the country’s north- zone in the Coral Sea, the Defence military exercise, involves more 35 (RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service has (though the Respublika-Ata-Jurt dreds of forces already deployed The Palestinian Authority and Is- east coast in the vicinity of joint Department said in a statement. than 30,000 troops from the Unit- a list here), though by election day faction in parliament remains in- to the holy site. Palestinian Presi- rael have a series of contacts on military exercises involving Aus- “The vessel’s presence has not ed States and Australia, with per- most of these presidential hope- tact). dent Mahmoud Abbas said he will different issues, including recent tralian, U.S., Japanese and other detracted from the Exercise objec- sonnel from Japan, New Zealand fuls will certainly be long out of (TREND) suspend all contacts with Israel deals related to water and electric- troops. The Chinese People’s Lib- tives,” the statement said. “Aus- and Canada embedded with Aus- until it puts an end to its new re- ity. eration Army-Navy Type 815 tralia respects the rights of all tralian and U.S. units. Japan rendering assistance to straining measures at the al-Aqsa (REUTERS) Dongdiao-class auxiliary general in- states to exercise freedom of navi- (AP) Turkmenistan in seismology Cyber -secu r ity com petition u n cover s n ew ta len t to m eet gr owin g n eed for defen ce a ga in st th r ea ts SINGAPORE - Almost invisible one of 23 people fixated on com- years under a memorandum of un- yet highly dangerous, a cyber at- puter screens with code in a room derstanding (MOU) on Cyber Se- A project has been started in Turk- Agency will give Turkmenistan tack is nightmare for computer sci- at the Ministry of National De- curity Cooperation signed between menistan to improve the system modern seismological equipment, entists, let alone a 17-year-old boy. velopment building at Maxwell Singapore and the United Kingdom of seismological observations in digital seismic stations and soft- Yet when NUS High School Road on Saturday (July 22). They in 2015. The competitors on Sat- Ashgabat and around the city, the ware tools for processing and in- fifth-year student Chandrasekaran were waging war on virtual foes in urday (July 22), who ranged from Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper terpreting data. It is planned to Akash was faced with one, he re- the first Cybersecurity Challenge polytechnic students to mid-career writes July 22. The project is be- install three digital seismic stations mained calm, worked out the prob- Singapore, an initiative by the executives aged 17 to 41, were se- ing implemented under the joint in Turkmenistan. Turkmen experts lem and won a prize in a cyber- Cyber Security Agency of Sin- lected from more than 770 players statement signed by Turkmenistan are expected to undergo training in security competition designed to gapore (CSA). The Challenge was who, in March, had pitted their and Japan to further develop Japan to familiarize themselves uncover talent and open new op- modelled after a similar initiative wits against one another in the first friendship and partnership. The with modern technology for pro- portunities for them in the cyber- in the United Kingdom, and will stage of the Challenge. Japan International Cooperation cessing of seismic data. security profession. Akash was be held annually for two more (SBA) SUNDAY . JULY 23, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

WASHINGTON — China and the R B I D epu ty G over n or United States agreed to step up trade cooperation in civilian high- tech sectors at a key economic and Vir a l Ach a r ya says trade talks concluded on Wednes- day. The two countries pledged to relax export controls under the pre- clea n in g of ba n ks’ condition of guaranteeing the ci- vilian nature of related goods and implementing the protection of balance sheet intellectual property rights so as to expand and balance two-way top pr ior ity trade, according to the Chinese delegation attending the first Chi- na-US Comprehensive Economic BI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya today said Dialogue (CED). the cleaning of banks' balance sheet is the The CED is one of the four major "number one priority" for the central bank. dialogue mechanisms established by the two countries in April dur- ing the Mar-a-Lago meeting be- RBI Deputy Governor Viral section of society towards the tween Chinese President Xi Jin- Acharya today said the cleaning black money and preference for ping and his US counterpart, of banks’ balance sheet is the “num- financial products are on the rise Donald Trump. US trade deficit with China would US Treasury Secretary Steven ber one priority” for the central post that. Washington has for decades set narrow by up to 24 percent and Mnuchin said at his opening re- bank. Banks are saddled with non- He further said that more than numerous bans on the export of 34 percent respectively," Chinese marks at the CED that the two performing assets (NPAs) of over 80 per cent of Indian households high-tech products to China citing Vice Premier Wang Yang quoted an countries need to work together to Rs 7 lakh crore. According to the savings is in the form of property "national security" concerns. article published by the Carnegie maximize the benefits for both government, NPAs have reached instead of structured financial sav- "If the United States were to Endowment for International sides and develop a fair and bal- unacceptably high levels and need ings. “They keep building up a pile liberalize its export barriers against Peace when delivering a speech at anced economic relationship be- urgent measures for their resolu- of black money as soon as their China to the same level as those a China-US business luncheon on tween the two countries. tion. The gross NPAs of the pub- first salary hit their pockets. We applicable to Brazil or France, the Tuesday in Washington. (AP) lic sector banks were more than seem to have a very clever innova- Rs 6.41 lakh crore at March-end. tion or ‘jugaad’ that we by and large The gross NPAs of the banking don’t store cash that much. We Pakistan's central bank held its Ishaq Dar, who was infuriated by sector stood at around Rs 7.28 lakh have figured out a system of gold main policy interest rate steady at the bank's decision to allow the crore. In the recent past, the Re- and real estate holding that we just 5.75 percent on Saturday, the rupee to devalue. Pakistan's $300 CanadahostingAsia-pacific serve Bank of India (RBI) has an- keep moving in the system like a bank's new governor said, citing billion economy has made vast nounced several measures to ease hot potato,” he said. low inflation expectations and the strides since a balance of payments NPA burden on banks. “That is The cash is just constantly lu- gathering pace of economic activi- crisis forced Islamabad to seek certainly our number one priori- bricating all these transactions, he ty Tariq Bajwa, who was appoint- help from the International Mon- business forumon July ty,” Acharya said when asked if said, adding the demonetisation ed earlier this month, predicted etary Fund (IMF), with growth in cleaning of books of the banks takes has halted this process slightly. consumer inflation to track around 2016/2017 hitting 5.3 percent, its precedence over rate cut by the “One observation that I had about 4.5 to 5.5 percent for fiscal year fastest pace in a decade. Bajwa said RBI. Last month, he had said that the recent Indian experiment has ending in June 2018. "This projec- the economy remains in an "expan- targeted interventions like reduc- been that there is something inter- tion is explained by lower than sionary phase". But the IMF has ing standard asset provisions for esting going on in terms of finan- anticipated increase in internation- recently warned that the macro- home loans, which will make them cialisation of savings….this (sav- al oil prices," Bajwa said in a press economic gains made during 2013- cheaper, will help revive the sag- ings) seems to have had a pretty conference in the city of Karachi. 2016 have "begun to erode" and ging growth rather than rate cuts. non-linear shift since November Pakistan's economy is heavily pose a risk to economic outlook. Speaking about Open Market and December,” he said. sensitive to global oil prices, part- The fund has singled out Paki- Operation (OMO) for managing The flows that are going do- ly as many of the country's ener- stan's ballooning current account liquidity in the system, he said, “I mestically into mutual funds, gy plants use furnace oil to pro- deficit as a source of concern. The think we are doing it on a fairly structured investment programmes duce electricity, and low oil prices deficit hit $12.1 billion in 2016/ regular basis. It’s gone off only by as a form of savings, insurance pre- are seen helping maintain macro- 2017, widening 148 percent on the a week, only because of monetary mia collections over 7-8 months economic stability. Pakistan has previous year, while foreign ex- policy cycle. these are all massively on the rise, maintained the record-low rate at change reserves have been falling. I think we are constantly recali- he said. “I sense from the flow in 5.75 percent since May 2016, and But Bajwa said the balance of brating based on what we think will the financial assets that something analysts do not foresee major payments (BoP) issues that have be the steady surplus of liquidity has changed the way people changes any time soon. Bajwa's dogged Pakistan in the past will be The Canadian government is set in the next one year down the viewed black money transactions. appointment as the governor of the kept under control. "For the time to host a forum next week on trade road.” Speaking at the Delhi Eco- Ease of just going and buy another central bank has stoked concerns being the overall BoP is expected and economic cooperation in the nomics Conclave here, the deputy property has become very diffi- the central bank's independence is to stay at manageable level in Asia-Pacific region, according to governor said demonetisation has cult to hide,” he said. being eroded. Bajwa has worked FY18," Bajwa said. Canadian Foreign Ministry. changed the perspective of some (Hindustan times) closely with Finance Minister (Tribune) The USS Normady sails in the Bay of Bengal during Exercise Malabar 2015, some 152 miles off eastern coast of Chennai, India The Canadian government is set to host a forum next week on trade and economic cooperation Lavrovrules out support for sanctions seeking to'suffocate' N-Korea's economy in the Asia-Pacific region, Global Affairs Canada said in a press re- Russia will not support the intro- consistently supported all UN lease. duction of sanctions against North Security Council resolutions aim- "From July 24 to 28, 2017, Korea which would "suffocate" the ing to halt North Korea’s missile Armenia's Canada will host a meeting of the country’s economy, Russian For- and nuclear programs. Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera- eign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "And it was agreed from the tion Business Advisory Council Earlier in the day, South Ko- very beginning that all these sanc- ruling party (ABAC) in Toronto," the release rea's Bank of Korea (BOK) said in tions would be targeted to make it stated on Friday. "The meeting is a report that despite international impossible to continue with these says no the third of the year and will bring sanctions North Korean economy programs. together business leaders from increased by 3.9 percent in 2016, The people who have been Canada and other Asia-Pacific showing a record-high growth in engaged with these programs, who economic economies on matters related to 17 years. "When proposals have are engaged with these programs, trade and economic cooperation been put on the table basically de- the people who provide finances and connectivity in the APEC re- signed to completely suffocate for these [programs], you know, and political gion in advance of the APEC lead- North Korean economy prohibit- the targets of the sanctions must ers’ meeting in Vietnam in Novem- ing any imports from North Ko- be related, must be linked to what ber." Canadian Parliamentary Sec- rea, any exports into North Ko- has been prohibited by the Securi- reasons to retary to the Minister of Interna- rea, any transport links with North ty Council," he added. tional Trade Pamela Goldsmith- Korea, prohibiting any contacts Two weeks ago, leaders of the leave Jones stated in the release that with anybody of any importance United States, Japan and South through cooperation with the in the leadership of North Korea, Korea met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific council, Canada has we cannot obviously support this G20 summit and agreed to press Eurasian been able to expand its trade and kind of the approach because it for prompt adoption of a new res- investments with nations in the contradicts the basic premise. The olution by the UN Security Coun- Pacific and growing Asian market. basic premise being that we have cil that would impose additional Union Goldsmith will attend the to stop nuclear and missile pro- sanctions on North Korea. ABAC meeting to promote Can- grams but we cannot do this at the France and the United King- ada’s trade agenda and talk with expense of hundreds and thou- dom have also called for new re- F -3 5 allies con ven e There are no economic and politi- representatives of business in the sands of lives of North Koreans," strictive measures against Pyongy- cal reasons for Armenia’s with- Asia-Pacific region. Lavrov told the NBC network. ang. drawal from the Eurasian Economic (Spuntak) Lavrov noted that Russia had (CNN) in B er lin to m ap ou t Union, deputy chairman of RPA Armen Ashotyan told reporters. Commenting on the statement by E u r ope str ategy, oper ation s the member of parliamentary op- position bloc Edmon Marukyan Iraqexpectstoproduce250,000 who spoke about the need for Ar- “We’ve come together as a team of menia’s withdrawal from Eurasian allies and partners to begin to set the conditions on … operating the Union, Ashotyan noted this was tonsof ricein2017season F-35 in the European theater,” Maj. not a statement of Yelk Gen. Timothy Fay said this week. bloc.“Individual deputies can ex- The US is planning F-35 ca- press an opinion. I'm not going to pabilities, operations and commu- comment on the statements of nications integration with seven some MPs, this is the opinion of European allies even though zero one MP, not the political force rep- US Air Force F-35s have been resented in the parliament,”Armen moved to the continent. "We have Ashotyan said. In his opinion, the to find a way to nest it all togeth- Eurasian Union is a format for eco- er," Gen. Tod Wolters said at a nomic cooperation, which, of two-day F-35 forum held in Ger- course, has a geopolitical charac- many this week. US officials from ter. Iraq’s Agriculture Ministry said on will be close to this,” Agriculture ers away from its tenders. Iraq’s the Army, NATO, the Marine “Small countries are not competi- Saturday it expected to produce Ministry spokesman Hamid al- Trade Ministry is responsible for Corps and Lockheed Martin com- tive in the world unless they have 250,000 tons of rice in the 2017 Nayif told Reuters. Around procuring strategic commodities, officials described the joint strike said. Fay was the official host of prised Washington’s delegation. free economic relations in broader season. The figure suggests gap to 200,000 dunums (20,000 hectares) including rice, for the country's The conference may have been fighter as a "power tool," "force the forum. Lockheed Martin is the be filled by imports of about 1 have been planted with rice, Nayif ration program. The rationing pro- multiplier" and "game changer for only firm with contract rights to formats,” Ashotyan said. as much about fusing the capabili- He added that European Union million tons, as demand annually said. The planted area varies from gram, created in 1991 to combat ties of F-35 aircraft belonging to missile defense." build the US government’s F-35 stands at between 1 million to 1.25 one year to the next according to UN economic sanctions, includes Denmark, Israel, Norway, the "Bringing the F-35 into this designs. During the firm’s Q2 earn- is not expecting either Armenia, or million tons, according to govern- water availability. Iraq, a major rice flour, cooking oil, rice, sugar and Netherlands, Italy, Turkey and the theater will really change the way ings call, CEO Marilyn Hewson other countries that have signed the ment sources. “The expected pro- importer, has been struggling to baby milk formula. Impoverished UK as displaying the F-35 to Eu- we do business here in a way that said Lockheed anticipates—as a Association Agreement, such as, duction is around 250,000 tons for buy the grain from abroad this year Iraqis continue to depend on the ropean clients. Germany, Finland we haven’t seen for decades," US complement to US sales—"a sep- for example, Georgia, Ukraine or this year, the harvest should start after introducing new payment and system, which analysts say is cor- and Switzerland are eyeing pur- Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) arate award later this quarter. Moldova. in October and we hope the figure quality terms that have kept trad- rupt and wasteful. (Alarabiya) chases of F-35 aircraft. Military Vice Commander Timothy Fay (AP) (BBC) SUNDAY. JULY 23, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Beauty standards vary from culture to culture – but for us South Asians, long lustruous locks have long been associated with beauty and charis- ma. But looks like new-fangled trends are up for grabs and shorter, more Ankit Gera: sleek hairdos are all the rage this season. Marx, ‘Kelay’ and Khaadi Long hair, after all is hard to maintain and not always desirable. Maintaining Whether it is to beat the summer heat or try a new look, its time redefine hair fashion! The Edge Of Tomorrow diva’s hairline braid is not just simple and convenient to replicate, but also uber chic and stylish. It sanity amid works as a rejuvenated spin to ‘work hair’ plus can make you a head- turner at an evening party. And you don’t have to spend a bunch at a salon to get it! If you know how to make a simple braid, that’s all it’ll negativity take! Margot Robbie Or… you could style your hair in a loose, casual bun by tying a inside the pony-tail at the nape of your head and then looping the rest of the length through the strands. Make sure to pull out a couple strands around the forehead to look effortlessly dapper – like this Suicide Squad hottie. Bigg Boss Deepika Padukone deepika-in-a-ballerina-bun-tbd Looking for a classier, more polished look that radiates finesse? A house was ballerina bun with pearl earrings will surely be the ultimate look for you – and it is a piece of cake to make! Twist your hair in a tight bun and take a thin lock of hair to loop around the bun, covering the elastic band and difficult there, you have it. To go ultra sleek, grab a dash of hair serum before styling to get that dazzling shine. Actor Ankit Gera says his Armeena Khan For the ultimate nonchalant street style, look no further than the Bigg Boss stint wasn’t a Janaan stunner. This bride-to-be just revamped her hair, giving plenty of pleasant experience and he us hair-transformation goals. All you need to do is go to a stylist to get is happy that he didn’t stay this edgy lob – and once that’s done, you need some styling mousse to add texture to the waves and you’re all set to slay. (Tribune ) inside the house for long.

Not everyone who has been a part of reality show Bigg Boss has good things to share about it — actor Ankit Gera is one of them. Unlike other actors who say that the show boosted their career, Ankit says that this wasn’t the case with him. Bigg Boss winners over the years: Where are they now? “Try- Jab HarryMet Sejal trailer: ing new things has always been on my mind. After playing positive characters in Mann Kee Awaaz Shah Rukh Khan,Anushka Pratigya and Sapne Suhane Ladak- pan Ke, I opted to portray a nega- tive role in Maharakshak: Devi. Sharma are two lost souls Soon after the show, I got an offer from Bigg Boss. I really liked the show hence decided to take it up. in search of love Priyanka Chopra will headline the hopra will be the guest of honour in support of a ment maxine bailey. In recent So my career was already going in kickoff event for the 42nd edition new campaign to support female voices in screen years, many of the films from In- the right direction and it won’t be he new 3-minute trailer of Jab Harry of the Toronto International Film industries. dia at TIFF have had women di- true to say Bigg Boss helped me in Met?Sejal shows Shah Rukh Khan and Festival (TIFF) in September. The rectors. Last year, for instance, A getting better roles,” he says. event, the TIFF Soiree, is aimed at Death In The Gunj was Konkona “Rather I feel your talent counts. Anushka Sharma in search of a lost ring. raising funds for a new initiative Sen Sharma’s directorial debut. As Among the contestants who par- The film will release on August 4, 2017. to promote gender parity in the bailey said, “The people who pro- ticipated in the season that I did, film industry. Chopra will be the gram and go over to India have an only Prince (Narula) got a TV show guest of honour at the Soiree in affinity to really, really smart, offer, while most of them were al- support of the new programme, warm stories, interesting art piec- ready working or had taken a Share Her Journey, which is a es and we’ve been lucky and break. Also, I am glad that I didn’t “campaign to support female voic- blessed that some of them happen stay inside the house longer. Oth- es in screen industries”. Launched to be directed by women. So, we’re erwise it would have been difficult on July 10, the Soiree will be the thrilled, we’re obviously on the for me to survive amid the nega- first major fund-raising activity to right track and India is a place to tivity,” says Ankit, who is current- propel that programme forward. keep looking.” Priyanka Chopra is ly playing the role of Anurag in Speaking to Hindustan Times, no stranger to TIFF. Her films, Agnifera. Ankit says that while maxine bailey, VP of Advancement What’s Your Raashee? (2009) and he understood that everyone in the at TIFF, said they were excited to Mary Kom (2014) have premiered house was vying for the trophy, have Chopra at the Soiree since at the festival but since then she he found it hard to deal with the “she’s the epitome of what we’re has acquired an international pro- constant bickering over food and trying to do with Share Her Jour- file with the TV drama Quantico other things. (SANTA BANTA) ney – she is strong, she’s talented, and her role in the film Baywatch. she’s smart, she’s diverse. She not only acts but she produces, she works in different media.” While announcing Share Her Journey, Amitabh Bachchan hits TIFF had pointed out that of the top 250 films of 2016, only 7% were directed by women and of 28 million followers on the top 100, just 29% of all pro- tagonists were female. This initia- What you seek, is seeking you. This her against it. It is quite possible tive is targeted at developing tal- Twitter, Shah Rukh famous Rumi quote makes the cen- that the movie revolves around ent over a five-year period to en- tral thread of Imtiaz Ali’s next, Jab Anushka’s search for the ring. hance participation of women in Khan narrows the gap Harry Met Sejal, starring Shah They begin to know each other the industry. As bailey - who Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma. through friendly banters and beau- spells her name in the lower case - Though the film’s long teaser tiful locales till the day of her re- said, “Women make up 52% of the ith 26.3 million followers, Shah Rukh and songs are already out and film turn arrives. We have seen similar world. Why aren’t we hearing their enthusiasts know about the film’s plots in Imtiaz Ali’s previous films, Khan is the second most followed In stories and what can we do to dian film actor on Twitter after Am- backdrop, still the makers have so nothing comes as a shocker, but change that? And that’s where released a new 3-minute trailer. It Shah Rukh and Anushka’s comfort Share Her Journey came from. itabh Bachchan. features Shah Rukh Khan as tour level with each other gives the trail- “We’ve been in the film indus- guide Harinder Singh Nehra who er a much desired flow. The film try for 42 years and we’ve just is slowly falling for a Gujarati tour- was shot in Budapest, Punjab and come to realise there’s not a lot of ist Sejal (Anushka Sharma). The Prague. Shah Rukh and Anushka women’s voices in positions of twist in the tale is that Sejal is al- earlier worked together in Rab Ne power within the film industry,” ready engaged to somebody and Bana Di Jodi (2008) and Jab Tak bailey added. Nearly 30% of the seems like a traditional homely girl. Hai Jaan (2012). The film will hit films selected to be featured in the Anushka is seen looking for a movie halls on August 4. 2016 festival were directed by ring even as SRK tries to convince (Tribune) women. TIFF’s VP of Advance- SonamKapoor trolledfor her 'Nepotism' tweet Karan Johar, Saif Ali Khan and Varun Dhawan sparked off the debate on nepotism once again after they took a jibe at Kangana Ranaut at IIFA Awards 2017. Although the trio issued a public apology after receiving severe backlash, the debate on nepotism refuses to simmer down. Not just the public, even celebrities are trying to share their opinion on the The undisputed king of social me- the Pink star, Shah Rukh Khan has much-discussed topic. Sonam Kapoor tweeted the definition of nepo- dia, megastar Amitabh Bachchan 26.3 million followers, followed by tism, misspelling the word and the reactions trolling her for the mistake has now reached the 28 million Salman Khan, who has 24.1 mil- are hilarious, reports ibtimes. It wasn’t until 24 hours that the actor mark on Twitter. The Shahenshah lion and Aamir Khan who has 21.4 deleted her post, but till then it was too late and twitter was a buzz of Bollywood took to his Twitter million followers on the social with witty reactions. But it’s not just the misspelling that added fuel to account to thank his fans and well media platform. the fire but the fact that the Neerja actor’s tweet made no sense at all – wishers and wrote, “28 MILLION On the work front, Big B is cur- like how was it relevant to anything, we ask? No surprise as such now on Twitter .. !!! this is just the love rently working on Thugs of Hin- that this born-and-bred Bollywood kid was trolled for not only being and affection of well wishers .. dostan alongside Aamir. He will preachy about nepotism but also having forgotten that her father veter- thank you all .. NEXT 30 MIL- also be sharing screen space with an actor Anil Kapoor played a great part in launching and promoting her LION !! hehe” The 74-year-old is his old friend, Rishi Kapoor in 102 career! extremely active on social media Not Out. (TRIBUNE) and is even an avid blogger. After (SANTA BANTA) SUNDAY. JULY 23, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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ut Australian inquisition into semi-final loss will be long and grisly

Manchester City have agreed a fee ule in the International Champi- naco following a £13m move from worth more than £51m to sign ons Cup. City have been keen on Marseille last summer, has Monaco left-back Benjamin Mendy since the beginning of the emerged as one of the best left- Mendy, Sky Sports News under- transfer window and he is set to backs in the game within the last stands. beat the Kyle Walker's recent sign- 12 months and one of a number of Cleveland point guard Kyrie Irv- Heat to four finals in four years, The 23-year-old France interna- ing in excess of £50m as the most Monaco players of interest to oth- ing has requested a trade, shocking then returned to the Cavaliers. Irv- tional is set to fly out to Los An- expensive defender in Premier er clubs following the French Ligue Cavaliers superstar LeBron James, ing's agent, Jeff Wechsler, did not geles to undergo a medical and join League history. Mendy, who has 1 triumph. US media reported Friday. ESPN, specifically confirm a trade request up with City's pre-season sched- spent just a single season at Mo- (SKY SPORT) citing unnamed sources, first re- in comments to Cleveland.com. ported that the Australian-born US "We met with Cavs' leadership and India's progression to Sunday's destructive innings in cricket his- point guard told team owner Dan we discussed many different sce- ICC's World Cup final signals the tory, as India's Harmanpreet Kaur Gilbert last week that he wanted narios in reference to Kyrie and growth of an exciting new order in struck an incredible unbeaten 171 to be traded. Cleveland.com then his future with the team," Wech- the women's game, says Francis off a mere 115 balls, they now re- Peter cited two sources as saying the 25- sler said. "There were a bunch of Kelly. There is no telling the exact turn home to an uncertain future. year-old told Gilbert he wanted to scenarios, and I'm not going to dis- point empires topple, simply a The Australian inquisition into escape James' shadow and be the cuss anything that was said. I don't collection of events over a period why such an outcome occurred focal point of a team. The news know where this is coming from." of time that only reveal themselves will be long and grisly. These events Doohan comes shortly after Irving told Irving was the top overall NBA after the old guard are replaced by always are. When you've enjoyed Sports Illustrated that the Cava- Draft pick in 2011 after one sea- new rulers. So it is with the de- such a monopoly, it makes it all liers were "in a peculiar place" in son at Duke University. Cleveland cline of World Cup reigning cham- the harder to comprehend defeat. the wake of their NBA Finals loss recorded losing records in his first pions Australia. Since 1978, when In the post-match press confer- dies at to the Golden State Warriors. Since three seasons before James re- Australia beat England in the sec- ence, captain Meg Lanning glow- then, the Cavs' have endured an turned. The Cavs reached the NBA ond edition of the World Cup, ered into the middle distance, re- awkward off-season. No replace- Finals each of the past three sea- women's cricket has contested 15 playing the last six hours over and ment has been named for general sons, falling to the Warriors in international tournaments, with over again in her mind. Questions 56 manager David Griffin, who de- 2015, beating them in 2016 and Australia victorious in nine of about decisions in this match and parted when the two sides failed surrendering the title to them in them. Yet for the first time in eight others before it prompted grimac- to reach a contract extension. James June. Irving has three years and years, they will not even be es, her face contorted as if watch- has reportedly voiced concern $60m remaining on his contract. present at a tournament final. In ing a horror film. Changes will be The Open : Alfie about the team's future, fuelling He can opt out of the final year an era of Australian dominance, it made. The argument for not includ- speculation that he might leave his prior to the 2019-20 season while is unthinkable to imagine the sil- ing an extra pace bowler will be hometown club a second time. He James could opt out after next sea- verware decider not decked out in contested, following all-rounder Plan t ecstatic famously departed in 2010 for son. green and gold. But after being on Elyse Perry's difficulties with the Miami, won two titles and led the (BBC Sport) the receiving end of one of the most ball this tournament. that 'hard w o rk' (CRICKET NEWS) pays o ff as he Broner vs Garcia: Jermall Charlo insists he will Former tennis pro Peter Doohan, carry his power up to the middleweight division who created one of the biggest shocks in Wimbledon history in m akes cut as Jermall Charlo insists that his power will translate to 1987, has died at the age of 56. the middleweight division as he sets his sights on be- The Australian passed away on coming a two-weight world champion. Charlo will take Friday, just nine weeks after being so le am ateur on Jorge Sebastian Heiland in a middleweight world diagnosed with an aggressive form title eliminator on July 29 on the undercard to Adrien of motor neurone disease, known Alfie Plant is pleased that all his down south so I am glad I could Broner's super-lightweight showdown with Mikey as Lou Gehrig's disease. Doohan hard work has paid off after be- get through to the weekend for Garcia, to be shown live on Sky Sports. The contest is best known for beating Boris coming the only amateur to make them." Plant admitted to feeling will mark former IBF super welterweight champion Becker at SW19 in 1987 when the the cut at The 146th Open at Royal more composed during his second Charlo's first fight at the 160lbs weight limit and the 19-year-old German was aiming Birkdale. The 25-year-old Europe- round which included an eagle at unbeaten Texan has set his sights on becoming a multi- for a hat-trick of Wimbledon sin- an Amateur champion shot a three- the par-five 15th, on a blemish- weight world titlist. "It was a matter of time before I gles titles. Meeting in the second over-par second-round 73 to make free back nine. "They were a bit moved up and I felt like there were greater opportuni- round on July 1st, on the old No 1 sure of his participation over the better than yesterday," Plant said. ties for me at middleweight," the 27-year-old said when Court, Doohan won 7-6 4-6 6-2 6- weekend at four over. "Yesterday, inside I was going a speaking in a media conference call. 4. The New South Wales star went Plant will secure the silver medal bit crazy but today they seemed "I have to do what I did at super-welter and I on to reach the last 16 where he if he manages to avoid injury and to have settled down a bit. "Down expect my power to translate to 160bs, knockout pow- was beaten by the big-serving Yu- complete all four rounds of the the last my adrenaline was defi- er is God-given. "I'm feeling a lot better and my focus goslavian Slobodan Zivojinovic. tournament. nitely pumping." When asked now is sharpening up myself and then fulfilling my Doohan won one title on the ATP "It's great. Through all these about his reaction to all but secure dream of becoming a two-time, two-division world Tour, reached a career-high singles hours I practice in the winter - in his silver medal, Plant was in no champion." Charlo's contest with Heiland has been ranking of 43, and lost in the final weather like this actually," Plant doubt about how highly he regard- ordered as an official eliminator by the WBC, with the of the men's doubles at the Aus- told Sky Sports' Sarah Stirk when ed his achievement. victor becoming the mandatory challenger to the win- tralian Championships of 1987. asked about his emotions after his Plant said: "It's a great feeling ner of Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin's unifi- The year he beat two-time defend- opening two rounds. "It's nice to and I'm sure it is only going to get cation bout this September. "I'm not really focused on ing champion Becker on grass, he know all the hard work has paid better as the night goes on. "I'd like [Canelo or GGG] right now. I'm focused on getting to had started the season ranked out- off and I'd like to be back here to see the list to see who's won it where they can't avoid me," Charlo added. side the top 300 and arrived at again, definitely." before. It's a great achievement and "Heiland is a seasoned, good fighter. He's strong Wimbledon as the world No 70. He added: "A lot of family and I'm really proud." and comes to fight. I'm not taking him lightly at all." (Sky Sport) friends have travelled up from (FOX NEWS) (SKY SPORT)

Stalls handler Stephen Yarbor- friends and his colleagues at at the track to conduct their cident to contact the Mer- ough has died from injuries suf- this very sad time. inquiries". seyside Police on 101 or fered in an incident before the "Stephen was an experi- The matter is in the Crimestoppers, anonymous- fourth race at Haydock on Fri- enced and popular member of hands of Merseyside Police, ly, on 0800 555 111." day, his employers RaceTech the team; he will be hugely who confirmed "that a man Nick Rust, chief executive have said in a statement. Yar- missed by everyone. We are has died following a colli- of the British Horseracing borough was in his role as team doing all we can to support sion involving a vehicle at Authority, expressed his leader at the Merseyside Stephen's family and the inves- Haydock Racecourse today shock at the news. course when he was involved tigation at this stage." Yarbor- (Friday)". "This is a tragic incident in an accident with the starting ough had been flown to Whis- Their statement went on: and we are all shocked and stalls before the running of the ton Hospital by air ambulance "Emergency services were saddened," he said in a state- fourth race, which was sched- and admitted to intensive care. called at around 3.40pm to ment. uled for 3.30pm. His employers The remainder of the meet- reports that a starting stall "Stalls handlers carry out RaceTech said in a statement: ing was abandoned, with the coupled up to a tractor had a brave and important job "Following a tragic accident police arriving to the scene. been in collision with a male each day looking after the today our dear friend and col- The stewards held an inqui- employee on the racecourse. safety of the horses and rid- league Stephen Yarborough ry, at which they interviewed "The man, who was aged ers and we are grateful for sadly passed away following the race starters and clerk of the in his 50s, was pronounced their work. serious injuries incurred in his course Kirkland Tellwright, dead at the scene. Next of kin "British racing will come role of Team Leader of the Start- who represented the Race- have been informed. together in grief at this inci- ing Stalls at Haydock Park course Executive. "An investigation into dent - we are one family and Racecourse." Tellwright informed the the circumstances of his today we have lost one of John Bozza, chief executive stewards the executive had tak- death will be carried out by our own. Our condolences at RaceTech, expressed his en the decision to abandon the detectives and the Health and sympathies are with his shock and sympathy, saying: rest of Friday's card as "the and Safety Executive. Stephen's family and "Our thoughts are very much police had been informed of the "Officers are urging any- friends." with Stephen's family, close accident and were due to arrive one who witnessed this in- (SKY SPORT) SUNDAY . JULY 23 . 2017-Asad 01, 1396 H.S Vol:XI Issue No: 343 Price: Afs.20

56 insurgents killed in raids AT News Report

t least 56 militants were killed and 30 others were Awounded in different P-03 crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces within past 24 hours. AT News Report In a press release issued here, Intelligence official,teacher among 8 killed in Nangarhar the Ministry of Defense (MoD), KABUL: Former President, said that Afghan National Army Hamid Karzai congratulated the JALALABAD : The National incidents in eastern Nangarhar his wounds after he was shot by (ANA) in collaboration with province, officials said on two motorcyclists on Saturday in achievement of the Afghan girls’ Afghan National Police (ANP) and Directorate of Security (NDS) robotic team in a match held in the officer, a teacher and some militants Saturday. Jalalabad, the provincial capital. National Directorate of Security NDS personnel succumbed to (Pajhowk) United States. (NDS) personal has conducted have been killed in separate “With great happiness, I joint operations against insurgents learned that the Afghan girls’ in different areas Nangarhar, robotic team who participated in Kapisa, Logar, Urzgan, Faryab, an international robot contest in Kunduz, Badakhshan, Baghlan, the United States of America, Kandahar and Helmand province. gained the silver medal and showed Statement said that in these the brave Afghan girls’ talent to operations 56 Taliban were killed the world.” Karzai said in a and 30 others were injured. statement. This joint operation of the “I would like to congratulate Defense Security Forces was this great victory that the indicator supporting by the artillery and air of our youth’s interest in learning forces, added statement. ANA knowledge to the Afghan robotic discovered and confiscated team and the Muslim nation of weapons and ammunition in the Afghanistan. I hope further successes for this team and other Afghan youth.” operations as well.

AT News Report said provincial spokesman, Nik Parliament Nelofar Ibrahimi. She Zaki confirmed the incident and Mohammad Nazari. He said that said that beside mismanagement said that security plans must be KABUL: At least 11 local operation started to find missing lack of coordination among revised for further security policemen were killed and 20 policemen. Taliban also sustained security organs were main factor reinforcement. others went missing in northern casualties during clashes at least behind killing of aforementioned 40 Taliban on twitter account Badakhshan province on Friday, 18 Taliban killed in the incident, local police in Tagab district. She claimed responsibility for the said officials. he added. “35 to 40 local police asked all related organs to hold step incident and they said that Key “Taliban attacked a checkpoint were killed in Tagab district of and boost up coordination among Arbaki or local police commander, in Tagab district of Badakhshan, Badakhshan yesterday,” said security organs across the country. Zamir, of Kishm Badakhshan also which as result 11 local police were Representative of Badakhshan in Meanwhile another Member among 46 killed yesterday in Tagab killed and 20 other are missing,” Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of of Wolesi Jirga General Nazifa district. Mining industry’s incomes decline due to ‘embezzlement’ Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi says government should put in place effective plans to prevent the “embezzlement” of the mining industry’s incomes. individuals; therefore, he added, many problems. This is what you the incomes are reducing. The mentioned about. Mining Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi has the “embezzlement” of the mines finance minister said he is industry’s incomes are being expressed his concerns over a revenues. In an interview with optimistic about a new leadership embezzled by powerful descending incomes from the mining TOLOnews, Hakimi said part of in the Ministry of Mines, but individuals. These incomes are industry, urging the relevant the revenues of the mineral added that state organizations national incomes and must be government organizations to put in resources, which are national “must work to maintain national saved from embezzlement,” he place effective plans in order prevent assets, are being embezzled by assets”. “Our mines are faced with stated. (ToloNews)