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Your Gateway to Afghanistan & the Region Monday, April 12, 2021 Issue No. 947 www.heartofasia.af 10 afs Guiding Principles for Turkey Summit Shared with Negotiators Rashid ‘Ready’ for real coexistence, implementation Sunrisers Opening of balanced social and economic Match in IPL plans, allowance of humanitarian workers’ activities, maintaining Afghanistan’s star of Afghanistan’s friendly relations is “ready” for Sunrisers ’s with the region and the world, opening match of the Indian Premier prevention of Afghanistan from League (IPL) against on Sunday. becoming a source of threats to The 14th edition of the cash-rich league other countries, and protecting kicked off on Friday with a thrilling Afghanistan from external encounter between Indians and interference. Royal Challengers . The document says that Islam, will begin their people’s traditions and preserving campaign in the third game of this IPL Afghanistan form the basis of on Sunday. national unity in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s spinner Rashid Khan on Regional and neighboring Saturday shared pictures from Sunrisers’ countries should prevent the practice game played as the build-up to infiltration of foreign fighters to their tournament opener. “All ready for tomorrow’s game,” Rashid Afghanistan. tweeted. Transparent and free elections This year, another Afghan cricketer should guarantee Afghanistan’s also joined Sunrisers political future and there should with Rashid and . Nabi be a guarantee to prevent the and Mujeeb may have to wait for getting repeat of a civil war. an opportunity in this IPL season. P2 Meanwhile, Abdullah Abdullah, TOLOnews has obtained details and the relevant parties to Afghan for peace without mutual blaming, head of the High Council for of the guiding principles for the peace are expected to reach a political participation under National Reconciliation, said he Turkey conference shared with the unified stance on it ahead of the Islamic principles, transitional has received the final draft of the Afghan Republic and the Taliban Turkey conference. administration, equal rights for republic’s peace proposal from the negotiators by the US, Qatar, The guiding principles include all citizens without discrimination, sub-committee of the Leadership Turkey and the UN. a permanent and countrywide support for the rights of all Committee of the reconciliation The document has nine articles ceasefire, conducting joint efforts Afghans, sincere efforts to achieve council. UNICEF’s Afghanistan Representative Afghanistan, Iran Afghan Schools Need at Least Presented His Sign MoU to Build Credentials to Mofa 2nd Cross-Border 50,000 Teachers: Ministry United Nations International Bridge The Ministry of Education on Children’s Emergency Fund on Sunday A memorandum of understanding Saturday said that there is a need announced that Hervé Ludovic De Lys has been signed between Iran and for at least 50,000 new teachers newly appointed UNICEF Afghanistan the neighboring Afghanistan for for the country’s schools as the Representative presented his credentials the construction of a second bridge current number of instructors is not to Hanif Atmar, Afghanistan’s Minister of sufficient. connecting Milak and Zaranj counties Foreign Affairs. Afghanistan’s schools have at least in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Province “It is an honor to present my credentials 220,000 teachers for 9.7 million to His Excellency, Mohammad Haneef to Afghanistan’s Nimruz Province to students across the country. Atmar, Minister of Foreign Affairs; I facilitate trade interactions between “One of our priorities is to hire look forward to serving the children of the two sides. teachers on contracts to use them Afghanistan to the best of my ability,” “The 320-meter bridge will be built in areas where we face shortage De Lys was quoted in the released parallel to the other existing bridge of teachers,” said Najiba Arian, a statement. and construction will begin by ... P2 spokesperson for the Ministry of “I would like to express my gratitude Education. for the strong partnership shared by the Among lack of school buildings, Robina said she has not been hired Sonila, a teacher. Government and UNICEF in support of textbooks and other educational officially as a teacher despite her Roqia 11, who studies at a primary every child in Afghanistan, especially facilities, lack of teachers is also said years of experience in this field. school in Kabul said that in many the most disadvantaged. I am excited to to be one of the major challenges “What is the difference between us days she has left school because of work with all partners to promote the facing the education sector in the and the permanent teachers. We the absence of their teachers. rights of children, wherever they are, country. both teach, but we are not given the “We ask the Ministry of Education and make sure they have the best start Robina, a schoolteacher in Kabul same salary,” she said. to provide teachers to us,” Roqia in life so that they become productive said that lack of teachers is one of “We are faced with lack of added. “We need a regular teacher citizens in the Afghanistan of tomorrow. the major challenges in the way of classrooms. We combine two or to be present daily and teach us,” I particularly look forward to ... P3 education in Afghanistan. three classes under one roof,” said said Zahra, a student. April 12, 2021 Heart of Asia NATIONAL MONDAY 2 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost Rashid ‘Ready’... By Mark Hannah and Adam Weinstein But Rashid is in tonight’s squad. Mujeeb was bought by Sunrisers in the IPL 2021 If Americans Want Lasting Peace in auction who played the last two seasons for Kings XI Punjab. Afghanistan, We Should Leave by May 1 Rashid and Nabi have been playing for Sunrisers in the Afghan government officials and Taliban IPL since 2017. representatives are expected to arrive in Turkey this “From the overseas month to try to negotiate a path forward for their perspective, having Mujeeb country: For two decades, the United States has there (in the side). He is struggled to gain the upper hand in Afghanistan’s obviously a very very effective long-running conflict or successfully secure consensus T20 bowler, and he has shown among its factions. In recent days, Afghan and Taliban that throughout his franchise forces have exchanged strikes, trying to gain leverage career and obviously playing ahead of the talks, which may or may not generate for Afghanistan,” explained an alternative to the agreement reached last year Sunrisers’ Director of Cricket, between the Taliban and the Trump administration. in a video released That agreement calls for all American forces to leave by team four days ago. by May 1 — weeks away. This violence doesn’t bode “I think he gives us greater well for the possibility of intra-Afghan compromise depth and certainly, he is and reconciliation after the U.S. military leaves. going to keep everyone on Those in Washington who want to keep American their toes to you know try and troops in Afghanistan past the May 1 deadline are keep their spot in the eleven,” likely to portray this latest fighting as a prologue to he said. the violence they warn will follow a U.S. forces exit. Sunrisers Hyderabad ended as But this view’s premise is gravely flawed. Keeping the third-ranked side in the IPL American forces in Afghanistan isn’t helping bring that 2020. nation’s opposing factions closer together. Rather, rule. Promises of sanctions relief and aid from the move the peace process forward to the second step — The 2016 champions would be continuing to stay actively harms the prospects for United States and its partners could possibly entice compromise and power-sharing. This will require trust expecting to go miles in this a meaningful and durable peace. As it stands now, the Taliban to some compromise — allowing it to between the Taliban, the government and Afghan upcoming season. the Taliban negotiates at gunpoint, while the Afghan pursue power through international recognition citizens in a country traumatized by decades of war, They will open their campaign government negotiates from behind a shield that rather than armed dominance of what would become, foreign meddling and unpunished abuses. against Kolkata Knight Riders Washington may remove at any moment. Meanwhile, once again, a pariah state. And any deal that comes out of peace talks in Turkey on April 11. Afghan soldiers and civilians suffer as the months and There is, understandably, a temptation for the will likely be an interim one, vulnerable to the same years pass with no end to the violence in sight. Biden administration to maintain a troop presence violence and recalcitrant politics that have stymied The United States’ ongoing intervention in Afghanistan in Afghanistan to try to avert greater violence. But the peace process up to now. Keeping American Afghanistan,... distorts the country’s balance of power: As long as doing so could mean another escalation of deadly troops in Afghanistan while this unfolds will thwart U.S. troops are on the ground, the Taliban will try U.S.-led combat operations, and to little avail. The progress toward a mutually acceptable compromise June,” Hossein Mirshafi, to wait them out, and the Afghan government will Taliban isn’t going anywhere. It has a greater stake in while making those troops vulnerable to a fragile an advisor of the Ministry deploy alarmist rhetoric, warning of all-out civil war the military and political outcome and is working with peace. One car bomb, raid, assassination attempt or of Roads and Urban to convince American and coalition leaders to stay. a very different — nearly interminable — timetable. inflammatory public statement and everything could Development, was quoted Afghan government officials have equated the Taliban Whatever chaos might follow after May 1 would likely fall apart. President Biden would then find himself as saying by News.mrud.ir. with the Islamic State, and Kabul dismissed a recently also ensue if the U.S. military leaves in a year, or 10. pressured to keep troops in Afghanistan in an effort The official noted that given circulated U.S. peace plan. Political scientist Barbara F. Walter outlines three to stabilize the country, further tanking the prospects the expanding volume of As long as the Afghan peace process is backstopped by distinct steps for successfully ending civil wars such as for a lasting settlement. A self-perpetuating cycle of trade between the two the U.S. military, the two sides may reach a deal that the one in Afghanistan: initiate talks; compromise on violence would continue. countries, the construction of looks good on paper but will likely collapse promptly an agreement; and implement it. Afghans have found For Biden, either option in Afghanistan — stay or a second bridge, which would after American troops leave. themselves stuck at the first step, which should not be go — presents political risks. And whatever he make commuting of more It’s true that if U.S. forces are withdrawn before a surprising given the Taliban’s strongly held ideology decides, history will not judge him in a vacuum. Like trucks possible, is necessary. settlement is reached, violence might intensify in the and battlefield advantage — an insurgency can “win” his two predecessors, the president inherited this The bridge will pass over the short term. The Taliban would likely claim victory, merely by continuing to fight, and Taliban recruits, imbroglio, and just as no serious historian blames common river of Hirmand at taking credit for pushing out the Americans and and leaders, have a strong resolve to do just that. The President Gerald Ford for the fall of Saigon, the war the Milak border crossing. potentially subjecting more Afghans to its reactionary upcoming negotiations are a long-shot attempt to in Afghanistan won’t become ... P3

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leave ‘now nor tomorrow’. A super are sufficient statements, from Can US Ignore ‘Moscow Format’ power enters a major theatre with Washington that the deadline one set of interests but, over a is not cast in stone. President On Afghanistan? period of time, develops multiple George W Bush, vice-president Dick compelling interests. Cheney, surrounded by the ‘neo- THE ‘Moscow Format’ for New Delhi habitually clubs with: The in the draft proposed by Khalilzad. The US entered Afghanistan in its very cons’ saw an American century Afghanistan spelt out by foreign Quad, for instance. He was, in other words, compelled heady sole-superpower moment. right there, within grasp when the minister Sergei Lavrov in New An almighty fly in the American to include the phrase even though Reality dawned with the end of occupation began. And now the US Delhi is straightforward. Russians ointment for Afghanistan is there it made the US envoy look like a Lehman Brothers in September is contemplating withdrawal from its want all the Afghan ethnicities, for all to see. Ghani, like Barkis, may diplomatic eager beaver. 2008, signaling the climax of the 20-year involvement at a time when religious groups, political parties, be willing to sup with the Taliban. Russians, in their Soviet avatar, have subprime mortgage crisis and the its plummeting self-esteem is being plus neighbouring countries to But the Taliban are obstinately actually administered the country subsequent free fall of capitalist maliciously watched globally. Is this participate in a process for an all- opposed to such a feast. Should during the period of their occupation economies; hence Obama’s urgency the right psychological moment for inclusive Kabul. Americans on anyone still anchor optimism on from 1980 to 1989. Soon after 9/11, to cut costs and withdraw. Trump’s it to pick its chips and walk away the other hand would like to yoke Zalmay Khalilzad’s capacity to the US found reasons to bomb their sidekick Steve Bannon during his from the game? president Ashraf Ghani and Taliban pull a diplomatic rabbit out of the way into that strategic real estate. spell of glory, even encouraged Erik Why then would the US military into a power sharing arrangement hat should glance at the Peace Both know the terrain. Prince, former US navy seal officer industrial complex not sketch a in Kabul. From this arrangement Agreement Khalilzad coaxed out of For announcing initiatives and not and founder of the world’s largest posture of greater aggression, will flow a new constitution and the Taliban in February last year in being able to implement them, military company, Blackwater, to quite the opposite of withdrawal? an invitation to broad base the Doha. So eager was he to flourish an Barack Obama holds something dream dreams of privatizing the After all, the Obama-Kerry team stakeholders. agreement that he harmed his own of a record. Remember how war in Afghanistan. In his 100-page had brought Iran into a West Asian Too much should not be read into credibility. demeaning of the American image, project report, studied by the White balance of power by signing the the fact that Lavrov was not given The headline or the title given to in his oft repeated utterances, House, Prince envisaged a ‘Viceroy’, nuclear deal, because the ‘pivot-to- time by prime minister Narendra the ‘agreement’ only amplifies was Guantanamo Bay? That exactly as the British had in India. Asia’ was beckoning the White House Modi, something that foreign disagreement. dehumanizing torture center and After going through a series of for a more hands-on engagement to ministers from Washington, London ‘Agreement for bringing Peace to prison would be shut down the day gyrations, the Trump administration manage China. Alarm bells on that or even the Gulf states take for Afghanistan between the Islamic he entered the White House, he set May 1, 2021 as the date for final count have reached a deafening granted. American exceptionalism, Emirate of Afghanistan which is not promised. That facility remains in troop withdrawal. Qualifications pitch. Harvard professor Graham particularly when its underlying recognized by the United States as operation. attended even these intentions: Allison’s Thucydides Trap is only one basis is being persistently a state and is known as the Taliban With what fanfare he announced that ‘interests’ would be left behind to be of the dreadful images being cited. questioned, has to be sensitively and the United States etc.’ Obviously, US troops would start withdrawing quickly mobilized, should a post-US Allison’s thesis based on the Greek handled. Holding back on symbolic the Taliban threw a ginger fit when from Afghanistan ‘from July 2011’. Afghanistan be gripped in need. historian’s insights is not to be trifled signs of upgradation of rising power they did not see their definition of Even then this reporter had predicted President Biden is abiding by with: when an established power is centres will be noticed in capitals themselves as the ‘Islamic Emirate’ that the Americans were not going to the May first deadline but there challenged ... P3 April 12, 2021 Heart of Asia ECONOMY MONDAY 3 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost

Formal Dairy Sector Tops 2 Million Exchange Rates Liters of Milk For 1399 77.5 77.6 Afghanistan hit a milk production record in 1399, the last solar year, 91.9 92 which reducing the amount of milk needed to be imported. 105.1 105.1 According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock 498 499 (MAIL), the total volume produced was 2,170,973 liters. 21 21.1 The top dairy province last year was Faryab, which produced 200 metric tons of milk, followed by Baghlan with 1055 1065 184; and Takhar with 182. Maidan Wardak, Herat, Balkh, Kandahar, Kunduz and Samangan Contact Numbers provinces also produced large quantities of milk, MAIL officials said. Kabul Police -119 According to MAIL data, there are Kabul, Nangarhar, Paktia, Ghazni and and in a more traditional way. Afghanistan is a farming country with currently 1,819 dairy farms in the Laghman are also growing in terms of According to MAIL officials, Afghanistan a high capacity for raising cattle and Kabul Ambulance - 112 country. dairy farm numbers. needs 2.9 million liters of milk annually currently has about four million cows Kandahar province has the most In other provinces, dairy farming is and is currently importing about one and nearly twenty million goats and dairy farms, with 618; while Herat, done more on a subsistence basis – million liters to meet demand. sheep. Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital 0202301360 If Americans Want... UNICEF’s... province. million students will enrol in the “Biden’s War” — unless he prolongs it. He should, then, promoting innovative Thousands of children are schools of the country this year. Ata Turk Hospital choose the least bad option: withdraw all American troops programming including 21 st expected to be given access to The government has planned high quality education facilities, to establish 1800 new schools by the U.S.-Taliban agreement’s May 1 deadline or soon century skills, such as digital 0202500312 thereafter. learning and problem solving, MRRD said. and appoint 1100 new teachers No doubt, Biden will factor public opinion into any decision. and environmental protection.” The head of the development across the country during the Corona call center - 166 And recently, giving cover to any potential decision to De Lys said. According to the council for Ghorian district, year 1400. remain in Afghanistan, more than one think-tanker has UNICEF statement, De Lys Mohammad Nader hailed the The devastating effects of war tried to counter the conventional wisdom that Americans has more than 30 years of completion of the projects and and conflict in the country have are war-weary and want the troops to come home. Some professional experience, he stressed that this means that deprived many children of of them may be right when they note that there’s no visible has worked in complex socio- children in the suburbs will not gaining knowledge, especially groundswell of support for withdrawal — no campus political, development, and study outdoors. for girls, completing their protests; no antiwar pop anthems topping the charts. security environment. 117 other schools are under primary learnings remain a But a lack of mass protests hardly suggests a popular De Lys’s experience in construction and planning dream in the rural areas. mandate to continue trudging along in Afghanistan. A humanitarian affairs and stages to be built under the UNICEF indicated an estimated Eurasia Group Foundation survey released in September development includes AQRA project in the region. 3.7 million children are deprived found substantial bipartisan support for the details of the humanitarian diplomacy, Students wherein new schools of educational facilities in U.S.-Taliban agreement that brings troops home by May 1. capacity building, community were built, studied in unfavorable Afghanistan, and girls make 60% More than 60 percent of Americans support the terms of development, peace and and harsh conditions but of them. the deal, compared with only about 8 percent who oppose security, strategic planning, and with the construction of these Lack of schools, transportation, them. And if, in fact, the American public has become managing change for the benefit educational facilities, their cultural and traditional believes, indifferent to the longest war ever fought in its name, it of children. problems were “solved”, Nader and insecurity is reported to be speaks as much to how Washington sells war as to how or This comes as The Ministry told media. the main reasons to prevent girls whether the public buys in. of Rural Rehabilitation and Out of 206 schools, 89 have from going to schools. For the Biden administration to hold out hope for a more Development (MRRD) has already been built, 62 are Meanwhile, worsened economic favorable, U.S.-orchestrated political settlement is an reported the completion of 89 under construction and another conditions of Afghanistan have understandably tempting, if unduly rosy, response to school constructions under 55 are in the planning and also caused many families not a nearly intractable problem. A hole-in-one solution to the chamber of national development stage. to send their children to schools Washington’s Afghanistan woes in the form of a negotiated citizen charter project in Herat It is expected than over one for gaining knowledge. settlement followed by a swift U.S. withdrawal would be ideal. But the peace deal that Afghanistan needs cannot be masterminded by an outside broker and, historically, Three Shootings... approached him, he pulled out U.S. President Joe Biden most settlements fail before they are fully implemented. Missouri, was arrested about a handgun and shot at them. on Friday announced new In order for peace talks to generate a sturdy compromise, four hours later in neighboring Both deputies were shot in the measures to tackle gun they can’t take place under conditions of armed coercion. Howell County, King said. face and taken to the hospital. violence across the country Some might claim that the presence of American troops Authorities do not believe One shot back and killed the in what the White House has simply creates leverage for the Afghan government, a anyone else was involved. suspect. The motive for the described as a first step to curb benign thumb on the scale in favor of the “good guys.” The suspect and at least one of shootings is unknown. mass shootings and suicides. But by exerting outside and temporary pressure, the the victims knew each other, One deputy was hit in the cheek In March, the New York Times United States distracts Afghans from the urgent work of the sheriff said. Three of the and is in stable condition. reported on the relationship their domestic statecraft with the more expedient work of He sustained “quite a bit of between gun violence and international stagecraft. Ironically, it is the presence of U.S. victims, including the person forces — not their departure — that ultimately hampers who died, were from out of damage” to his face, Sheriff gun availability in the United the prospects for peace in Afghanistan as Biden looks for state. Rosie Rivera said Saturday States. a way out. Utah afternoon, but he is expected to “It’s not just that every other In Utah, two deputies were be released from the hospital high-income country in the WAYGAL Printing Co. patrolling a complex that soon. world has many fewer guns includes the Salt Lake County The other, who got shot in the and many fewer gun deaths. If You Can Think It, Metro Jail, when the shooting eye, was a critical condition. It’s also that U.S. states with We Can ink it. occurred. He will remain in the hospital fewer guns – like California, They encountered a man for surgery, but is expected to Illinois, Iowa and much of the Chief Editor : M. Hamid Hamdard on the grass near the north survive. Northeast – have fewer gun Reporters: Safiullah Nasary, Shafiq Amirzay, parking lot, and as they Gun violence in U.S. deaths.” Jawad Temori & Hameedullah Hamidi Graphic & Design: Arman vulnerabilities in Xinjiang. the Russians in Kosovo, the Phone: +93-202502100 - +93-777989696 Can US Ignore... by a rising power, war takes What better launching pad to Russians defiantly barged in Website: www.heartofasia.af place. According to Allison, in insert Islamic militants, freshly and occupied Pristina airport the past 500 years, there have flown from Syria, for instance, in 1999. In 2015 Russians again Email: [email protected] been 16 cases in which a rising to mingle among the restive spoilt America’s game in Syria. Address: Behind Rahman Baba High School power threatened to displace Uighurs? Again, the might of And now when not just Xinjiang the US will be pitted against but even the Caucasus can be - Opposite to 3rd District, a ruling one. Twelve of these ended in war. the consolidated power of exposed to imported Islamism, Kabul - Afghanistan Against this perspective, why China and Russia. Even during will Moscow, backed by China, the sole superpower days, allow the US to do as it pleases Print: Waygal Printing .Co - +93 - 202512626 would the hawks in Washington not salivate at China’s when the US tried to sideline in Afghanistan? April 12, 2021 WORLD MONDAY Heart of Asia 4 [email protected] fb/heart of asia twitter/@heartofasiapost

China Administers Nearly 165m COVID-19 Vaccine Doses, 2nd Highest in World

China has administered 164.47 million The key groups include people at high risk doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Saturday, of virus exposure at work, people at risk of becoming world’s second most-vaccinated infection from abroad, people who work country, said Wu Liangyou, deputy director at key positions that maintain the basic of the National Health Commission (NHC)’s operation of the society, individuals aged disease control bureau on Sunday in Beijing, over 18 who are in border regions or work China. in services or labor-intensive industries, and The U.S. had administered 183,467,709 elderly who are in good physical condition doses of COVID-19 vaccines and distributed and need to be vaccinated for special reasons. 237,791,735 doses as of Saturday morning, Meanwhile, China’s National Health said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Commission also encourages more people Prevention. to get vaccinated against COVID-19 on China is undertaking vaccination in an orderly a voluntary, informed basis instead of a manner, prioritizing key groups, high-risk compulsory one, said Mi Feng, a spokesperson groups and other groups, thereby steadily for the commission, at the Sunday press improving vaccine coverage, according to Wu. conference.

A look at the world Three Shootings in U.S. Turkey Successfully Erdogan Tells Zelensky Within 24 Hours; Two Tests Its 1st Hybrid Turkey Will Not Dead, 10 Injured Engine for Moon Recognize ‘Crimea’s Three incidents involving gun violence have Mission Annexation’ taken place in the United States within 24 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hours. said on Saturday he told his visiting One person was killed and at least five others Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, were injured on a Fort Worth freeway in that Ankara will not recognize “Crimea’s Texas on Friday night. annexation.” Hours later, on Saturday morning, one person was killed and three others “We stand for Ukraine’s territorial were critically injured in a shooting at a integrity and sovereignty. We reiterated convenience store in southern Missouri. our principles decision not to recognize English Academy At around the same time, two deputies were Crimea’s annexation. We said we support shot in South Salt Lake, Utah. Ukraine’s initiative of the Crimean Platform Texas geared to consolidate the international American In Texas, two vehicles, which police said ENGLISH FILE

Turkey has successfully tested its first hybrid engine that will be used in the Moon Mission, the country’s technology and industry minister said on Sunday. each had several occupants, were traveling Mustafa Varank received information eastbound on the Southwest Loop of the about the system in the Sile district of community around Crimea. We hope this 820 freeway just after 10 p.m. local time Istanbul. initiative will yield positive results for all when people began shooting for unknown The county is planning to send the Crimean peoples, including Crimean Tatars, reasons, according to police. unmanned spacecraft to make a hard and for Ukraine,” he told a news conference Stray bullets hit a woman driving an landing on the moon in 2023, within the after talks with Zelensky that was televised unrelated vehicle and a man who was inside scope of the country’s National Space by TRT TV. his house, police said. Program. The Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, a CNN reported that a 19-year-old male died Varank told Anadolu Agency that they city with a special status on the Crimean early on Saturday in the ICU, according to the made two successful firings, both the Peninsula, where most residents are Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s records. Probe Rocket System (SORS) ignition Russians, refused to recognize the At least five other people were shot and and the first ignition of the hybrid legitimacy of authorities brought to power taken to hospitals, police said, where they engine planned to be used in the lunar amid riots during a coup in Ukraine in Western Street of were being treated for gunshot wounds that mission. February 2014. Kabul University Close to were not life-threatening. Underlining that there was a targeted Crimea and Sevastopol adopted Dehbori Park. Missouri time of 50 seconds in the tests, Varank declarations of independence on March The Missouri shooting occurred at a Snappy said: “This 50-second ignition has 11, 2014. They held a referendum on March Mart convenience store in Koshkonong, a successfully completed. As of today, we 16, 2014, in which 96.77% of Crimeans town of about 200 people on the Missouri- can say that the first tests of the engine and 95.6% of Sevastopol voters chose to +93 (0) 789 98 9696 Arkansas border. that can be used in the lunar mission secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Officers were alerted when a clerk inside the have been successfully done.” Federation. Russian President Vladimir store called 911. The suspect walked into “We have carried out the first fire of the Putin signed the reunification treaties [email protected] the store and started firing with a handgun. hybrid rocket motor that can be used on March 18, 2014. The documents were Several witnesses inside the store escaped on the lunar mission at the same time ratified by Russia’s Federal Assembly, or without injury, Oregon County Sheriff Eric today,” he said, adding that a sample of bicameral parliament, on March 21. Ukraine Shigal English Academy King said. the rocket engine will be launched from keeps on refusing to recognize Crimea as A 28-year-old suspect from Thayer, ... P3 the northern Sinop province in May. part of Russia.