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Growing IS, Taliban influence a US, China support matter of concern, Putin tells Karzai peaceful, stable Afghanistan WASHINGTON: The United KABUL: Russia is seriously States and China on Wednesday concerned about increasing in- pledged their support for a peace- fluence of Islamic State and ful, stable and unified Afghanistan. Taliban in Afghanistan, Presi- The two countries said this in dent Vladimir Putin said a joint statement at the conclusion Wednesday during talks with of their annual US-China Strategic former Afghan president Ha- and Economic Dialogue. mid Karzai, sputniknews re- The United States and China ports. During the meeting, continued their close cooperation Karzai told Russian president in support of Afghanistan s gov- that Daesh or the Islamic State ernment of national unity, econom- was posing serious threat to ic development, and security forc- the peace and stability of Af- es, the statement said. ghanistan and the entire region, To advance this vision, US and a statement from the former president said. Chinese counterparts agreed to continue convening a trilateral con- to reform its economy and to pro- today, we agreed to launch a Putin said that Taliban has tect its people from the threat that new joint training program for boosted its operations in Af- sultation with Afghanistan, and the ghanistan after NATO ended two sides agreed to launch new is posed by violent extremists. Afghan medical and veterinary its International Security As- joint training programs for Afghan And that s why we ve pur- professionals, Kerry said. sistance Force (ISAF) mission trolling a large part of [Afghan] fortable there," the president said. ghanistan. In a letter posted online medical and veterinary profession- sued multiple rounds of trilateral The Chinese State Councilor in late 2014 and launched a territory, many border crossing He said that ISIL is currently last week, the Taliban warned the als, the joint statement said. talks with the Afghan government Yang Jiechi said China is ready non-combat mission in the points. What is more worrying, present in 25 out of 34 Afghan Islamic State against recruiting in- In his remarks, the Secretary in order to expand our coopera- to work with the U.S. and the country. "We are witnessing however, is the fact that the so- provinces. The Islamic State mili- surgent fighters in Afghanistan. In of State, John Kerry, said on Af- tion regarding an Afghan-led and rest of the international com- processes that cause serious called Islamic State organization is tant group, which captured large May 2015, clashes between the ghanistan, US and China share a Afghan-owned reconciliation pro- munity to advance the recon- concern Taliban is actively working more and more actively swathes of Syria and Iraq, has re- Afghan Taliban and Islamic State mutual interest in supporting ef- cess, as well as Afghanistan s eco- ciliation process in Afghani- spreading its influence, con- in Afghanistan, feeling more com- cently been making inroads in Af- left at least 27 dead. (Pajhwok) forts by the government in Kabul nomic development, he said. And stan. (Pajhwok) Kingpin of kidnapping US to manage Afghan Girl commits suicide gang arrested ghanistan's public health min- Zaki Dako, the kingpin of kidnap- in Jawzjan istry statistics over 9,000 sui- AT News Reporter ping gang and his friend Nesar airspace till mid-September cide attempts were recorded Ahmad. According to the media KABUL: The National Direc- statement, the intelligence agency young girl reportedly across the country since the torate of Security (NDS) on conducted a special operation in By Akhtar M. Nikzad company to take the airspace con- the responsibility of controlling the hanged herself in northern beginning of last year. Since Thursday said that leader of Kabul to arrest the kingpin, who trol over from the United States yet airspace fall on shoulders of the A Jawzjan province on the beginning of last year kidnapping gang has been de- was also involved in armed rob- KABU: The Afghanistan Civil Wafayezada said an American com- Afghan government. However, the Wednesday, officials said Thurs- 4,466 cases of self-poisoning tained in the capital city, Kab- beries. Zaki was allegedly in- Aviation Authority (ACAA) on pany has won the contract. After government lacks the capacities to day. Abduhafiz Khashi, a Jawzjan and 707 cases of self-immola- ul. In a press statement issued volved in 21 cases of murder, kid- Thursday said that United States gurantee, the company will under- control the airspace on its own. security official, has confirmed the tion were recorded in the cap- here, the NDS said that its napping and armed robbery in dif- will continue to guide Afghan air- take controlling our airspace for the Therefore, it stirred concerns that incident and that the girl was a Class ital, while 4,136 cases of self- operatives succeeded in ar- ferent parts of Kabul. The sus- space and air-traffic control for next two years, he said. Paper- international airlines would cancel 7 student but did not know her immolation were recorded in resting Zaki alias Pahlawan pect confessed to his crimes. another two-and-a-half months work and talk over details are on- flights into the country and over age. He said the reasons for the the provinces. after its current contract expires going and the contract will be signed its aerial territory. To tame the con- According to the health soon he said. He underlined the cerns, the government started bid- suicide is not clear. In addition, at the end of June. Deputy Direc- Khashi said at least five women officials about 166 victims 374kg heroin seized in tor General on Policy and Plan- company will work under the di- ding to hire the services of interna- died as the result of severe ning in ACAA, Mohammad rectives of the government, how- tional companies. He said that by have lost their lives as the result of big consignment of heroin was Qassim Wafayezada, told Afghan- ever, its personnel will be foreign signing an agreement with a win- domestic violence in the province burns and the majority of the Nangarhar discovered and confiscated in Be- istan Times they have the remedy experts. However, we have set ning company there is no need for so far this year. victims were females. hsood district of Nangarhar prov- This comes after an earlier sui- In addition to violence, AT News Reporter now how to control the airspace. some conditions including training worries anymore at least for the ince. The heroin was skillfully The United States will continue of Afghan personnel, he said. Since coming two years. So far the U.S cide by a young girl who reported- Public Health officials cited KABUL: The Counter Nar- placed in a Hino vehicle, which to manage our airspace till Sept. 2001, Afghan airspace, a key air cor- officials have not commented over ly hanged herself over not getting forced marriage, often between was on the way to Kabul. The 16. By then we will have devised ridor between Europe and Asia has the extension of airspace control a new dress to wear to a relative's pre-adolescent girls and adult cotics Police (CNP) has seized CNP stopped the vehicle and 374 kilograms of heroin in our own mechanism and program. been controlled by the US-led in- for two-and-a-half months. wedding party. men, as well as widespread il- seized the illicit drug. A person literacy as the main challenges eastern Nangarhar province. was arrested in this connection It will be a smooth transition and ternational military coalition and Wafayezada said that air traffic via According to local security A press release issued by and was handed over to the rele- another well-experienced interna- foreign companies paid by donor Afghanistan, as well as from the officials, this girl had been a high facing female Afghans that CNP department of Ministry vant judicial body for interroga- tional company will take it over, countries. After the US and its co- Central Asian countries, generates school student in Class 11 in She- contribute to the startling rates of Interior (MoI) said that a tion, the statement said. he said. He didn t name the likely alition troops started withdrawal, about $33 million a year. barghan city. According to the Af- of suicide. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] Nepal's donors must help to pay for the recovery without inadvertently bankrolling the country's structural problems. Email: [email protected] www.afghanistantimes.af Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Advisory editorial board Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal Graphic-Designers: Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari Marketing & Advertising: Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press The constitution says Article 103: The Ministers can participate in the sessions of either House of the National Assembly. Either House of the National Assembly can demand the participation of the Ministers in its session.

A delegate walks in front of a damaged palace ahead of the International Donors' Conference [Getty]

By Thomas Bell ered government mechanism op- Then there was the Nepal Peace pects of relief operations, to the Editorial erating through regular ministries Trust Fund (NPTF), into which point of thwarting the efforts of Two months to the day since the (such as health and education), to donors poured hundreds of mil- others. Much of the money used first earthquake struck Nepal, the avoid the risk of establishing a lions to compensate victims of the will come from national revenues, representatives of foreign govern- multibillion dollar parallel admin- conflict and rebuild destroyed in- not the donors. Could this help? ments and multilateral agencies, istration, with all the chaos that frastructure. Again, due to politi- Nevertheless, there are things Illegal mining sites and the such as the World Bank, are gath- could entail. The finance ministry, cal interference, the money went the donors can do to help make ering in Kathmandu on Thursday, pointing out that the ministries to the wrong people; and though the recovery as successful as pos- for a donor conference to help fund can't even spend the budget they've the infrastructure money is gone, sible. They should recognise that govt s lack of concern the country's recovery. While they already got, wants to establish a the infrastructure wasn't all rebuilt. only a close study, and frank eval- struggle to fix upon a plan, the parallel reconstruction authority. One result of such failures is uation, of Nepali experience can The last forty years have been deadliest, full of troubles, and intimi- humanitarian situation beyond the There are deep problems in the not to strengthen the country, but usefully inform their policy, not dating in many ways. They unfolded the storms of troubles. We lost city is desperate. Millions of peo- relationship between the govern- to fund the political corruption generalised "lessons" from other ple, who lost their mountain ment and the donors, and in the which keeps it weak. countries. An obvious conclusion a whole generation to the war and those who survived are the ruling homes, are now huddled in the way they have jointly tried to de- No public evaluation would be to scrap the cascading elite now. Though, no one can go back and make a restart, but the monsoon. Some have received no liver 'development' in the past. By coincidence, on the eve the layers of administration...I n ob- relief aid, and many have received It looks like they're both right. earthquake, most of the donors vious conclusion would be to ones who started off building our present were either deliberately very little. The tarpaulins and plas- The donors will have a hand in withdrew from the discredited scrap the cascading layers of ad- clueless on a promising future or preferred closing their eyes over tic sheets they've been given for whatever ungainly fix is finally NPTF. Characteristically, they ministration used in the LGCDP, what has been happening in the country over the last 14 years. Per- shelter are utterly inadequate. agreed upon, and then - despite the gave no explanation. There has been and perhaps keep local politicians Much has been said in the past evident lack of trust and belief no thorough public evaluation of occupied with separate funds to haps they remained silent spectators and if sometimes they raised two months about the failures of among all concerned - they'll put how these giant schemes worked, manage. They should also be less their voices against something wrong, the voices were so faint that the relief operation: the widely al- their money into it. India and Chi- or failed to work. It's not clear that afraid to question whether the dis- leged misuse of resources, the un- na, whose aid increasingly out- any lessons have been systemati- tribution of their resources dis- they couldn t be heard in the snarled up life or they were suppressed. due delays and inefficiency, the weighs the Western donors' and the cally learned. The donors' typical criminates against certain castes And the result is insecurity, corruption, land grabbing and illegal min- lack of any workable plan, the lack multilaterals', will pour in funds public position was to deny re- and ethnic groups - however much of data. The government and the for their own strategic reasons. ports of problems, and then main- the government might protest that ing. Representatives of the Afghanistan Natural Resources Oversight international agencies have tried to Don't do it like last time One great tain a stony public silence as the this is too "sensitive" to acknowl- Network on Wednesday reported there were over 2,000 illegal min- blame one another, while public fear is that whatever emerges will evidence mounted. Nepal's prime edge. They should demand far ing sites across the country. The network members called on the opinion blames them both. Nepal closely resemble the failed arrange- minister along with the ministers greater openness and transparen- health volunteers struggle to pro- ments that came about the last time of finance and foreign affairs ob- cy, not only of the government but government to take notice of the illegal mining. The Ministry of Mines vide services If only the solution the internationals and the govern- serve a minute of silence in memo- of themselves, for how every dol- and Petroleum (MoMP) is clueless about the exact figures regarding were simply to spend more mon- ment put their heads together to ry of earthquake victims during the lar is spent. All payments should ey. Nepal's foreign friends would fund national reconstruction - af- conference in Nepal [REUTERS] be promptly disclosed online, in the number of sites where mineral resources are extracted illegally. be far more willing to hand over ter the Maoist insurgency ended "Now it's going to be the same all full detail. There should be a con- Nevertheless, the ministry officials vow to make a comprehensive the dollars which are sought, and in 2006. One programme, sup- over again, but worse," moaned a tinuous, public process of evalua- report drafted identifying sites, within three months. There are media the government (which already has posed to fund local infrastructure, senior foreign official. tion built into programme design, more money than it can spend) was known as the Local Govern- The government has also with robust provisions for the reports that part of the income from this sordid boon, ends up in would have the situation under ment and Community Develop- missed chances to reform. A nine- public and civil society to seek Taliban s pockets. The poor response of the government is irksome. better control. A problem without ment Programme (LGCDP). Al- year peace process now appears answers and publicise issues. At- an answer? But the situation is that though some donors cling to the to be drawing to an end. A new tempting meaningful accountabil- Afghanistan, famous for its huge natural resources deposits in the there are deep problems in the re- idea that this was a success, the constitution was supposed to "re- ity wouldn't make life easy for world, has been plagued by illegal extractions of mines. This illegal lationship between the government more common view was expressed structure" the state, to resolve "the those in authority, either on the mining is particularly endemic in northern and eastern parts of the and the donors, and in the way by an international employee like prevailing problems related to class, "national" or the "international" they have jointly tried to deliver this: "Three hundred fifty, four ethnicity, regional and gender dif- side of the equation. But it might country where there are huge reserves of natural resources including "development" in the past. Every- hundred million dollars! We have ferences", and ensure "democracy, at least mean that the coming mas- tourmaline. Given the problems in contract awards and the growing one who is sincerely grappling with no idea where it went." The prob- peace, prosperity economic and sive influx of funds helps promote this conundrum deserves great lem was that committees of local social transformation". But re- democratic practices and the pub- trend of illegal mining, the wealth coming from this sector will pile up sympathy and consideration. politicians known as All Party forms have been resisted by those lic interest, rather than strength- in a few hands. A few families will thrive economically and the nation What to make, for instance, of Mechanisms (APMs) divided the in power, and few changes have ening the opaque networks of pa- will remain deprived of its benefits. These affluent families will rule the tussle between the finance min- money among themselves. Since occurred. In this discouraging sit- tronage and resource extraction istry and the National Planning the earthquake, the LGCDP has uation a perfect outcome is clearly which work to defeat those ends. the country for years to come. Many people in the government know Commission (NPC) over institu- again been used to distribute do- not possible. The primary respon- Thomas Bell has reported on that the nexus of the Taliban and some powerful individuals is re- tional arrangements? The NPC nor money to affected villages, and sibility obviously lies with the Nepal for over a decade. His new thinks that reconstruction should there is government talk of expand- government - especially since it book of history and reportage is sponsible for the grab of natural resources, but their silence is a sin. be managed by a specially empow- ing APMs on a massive scale. worked so hard to control all as- 'Kathmandu'. In a country where there is lack of coordination among the govern- ment, legislative and judiciary, illegal mining, kidnappings for ran- som, insecurity, corruption and certain other social and economic evils happen frequently with no fear of law. When the illegal mines Made in Pakistan substandard medicines extractions by some big-wheels is making headlines from time to time, the weaker reaction from the government, is beyond under- standing. It s believed that these powerful individuals have backing from the Taliban and also from the government officials. All this is Nation happening under the very nose of the government within the frontiers of Afghanistan. Then at last what the government is up to? If transparency and accountability is not heightened, the plunder of natural resources will increase manifold. To address the issue of the endemic corruption, plunder of natural resources the government must maintain security and establish its writ at least to a level that allows the people to engage in normal economic activity without fear of being killed, kidnapped, tortured, robbed of, or having its invest- ments destroyed or usurped. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . JUNE 26, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

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port however forecast an 11pc rise in FDI this year to $1.4tr, spurred by higher investments by multi- national organisations. Expecta- tions are for further rises to $1.5tr in 2016 and to $1.7tr in 2017, it said. The share of MNEs (multi- national enterprises) intending to increase FDI expenditures over the next three years (2015-2017) rose from 24 to 32 per cent. But it also warned that the projected re- covery could be upset by a num- ber of economic and political risks, including ongoing uncertainties in the eurozone, potential spillovers from conflicts, and persistent vul- nerabilities in emerging economies. FDI flows to developed countries DUBAI: Construction of the Sharq Qatar who spoke on condition of nancially liable for several years af- fell 28pc last year to $499bn, Crossing, Qatar s $12 billion anonymity. It s indicative of how ter the project has been delivered. UNCTAD said, adding that flows bridge and underwater tunnel link the country s grand aspirations Construction companies and con- to Europe dropped 11pc. The re- across Doha bay, was due to start have been toned down a little bit. sultants are bank-rolling the port said overseas direct invest- this year to be ready for the 2022 Corruption allegations that have projects for their clients, said the ments in services had grown steadi- World Cup, but that deadline has rocked soccer s governing body source. Project exposure is tens ly over the past decade due to in- slipped as the government shifts FIFA, have put renewed media of millions of dollars, which be- creasing liberalisation of the sec- priorities. The Gulf state s plans focus on Qatar and its hosting of comes untenable they tie us up lobal foreign direct invest annual report. The past year saw FDI in 2014, it said. I think for- tor. In 2012, services accounted to splurge $200bn on infrastruc- the 2022 football World Cup, al- in their approvals process ad infin- ment is expected to re an unprecedented rise in conflicts, eign direct investment will contin- for 63pc of global FDI stock, more ture as part of its 2030 develop- though Qatari officials say they are itum, said the source. The mon- Gbound in 2015 after falling according to the UN, including the ue to grow steadily, Shen Dan- than twice the share of manufac- ment plan has lured foreign con- confident the event will go ahead ey trickles out eventually, but you 16 per cent last year due to a frag- Ukraine conflict which pitted Rus- yang, ministry spokesman, said re- turing, it said, adding that the pri- tractors to what promised to be as planned. The World Cup direct- want a fair day s pay for a fair day s ile world economy and political sia against the West in the worst cently. Asia drew a total of $465bn mary sector represented less than big profits, but project delays and ly accounts for only about $10bn work. They (Qatar) try to shave it and military crises, the UN said. post-Cold War standoff. in FDI, the report said. The big- 10pc of the total. problems with contracts and bu- of the $200bn development pro- off at various stages. Middle East FDI flows worldwide dropped to But flows to developing nations gest recipients of overseas invest- The report noted that there reaucracy have left many in diffi- gramme, but uncertainty about the firms and local joint ventures seem $1.23 trillion (about 1.1tr euros) reached their highest level at $681 ment after China were Hong Kong was a worldwide trend to tailor culties and their returns uncertain. tournament is adding to a testing to fare better in Qatar because they in 2014, largely due to shaky in- billion a 2pc rise, the World In- at $103bn, the United States at policies to attract investment with The government, too, appears to environment for foreign contrac- are seen as long-term investors in vestor confidence, the United Na- vestment Report 2015 said. Chi- $92bn, followed by Britain, Sin- measures to ease red tape and oth- be reassessing its plans, although tors in the Gulf state. While Qa- the country. We prefer somebody tions Conference on Trade and De- na, the world s second biggest econ- gapore, Brazil, Canada, Australia, er irritants and boost investor con- officials allude to a temporary but tar s vast wealth from natural gas who comes to work with us, not velopment (UNCTAD) said in its omy, drew a total of $129.6bn of India and the Netherlands. The re- fidence. indefinite halt to projects rather production has enabled it to splash only for one job and then leaves, than cancellations. Other schemes out on new infrastructure, it is said Jalal Salhi, infrastructure affairs that have been put on hold include doing so on strict terms. Qatar ... director at Qatar s Public Works a multi-billion dollar chemicals fears being taken for a ride by in- Authority (Ashghal), which is in End oil export ban, Asian shares edge down plant north of the capital Doha and ternational consultants that this charge of the Sharq Crossing and Doha Grand Park, modelled on is a gold rush, a boom town, and other projects. International con- as markets monitor Greece New York s Central Park. Qatar companies are going to fleece them struction firms or consultants can or face competition has mothballed a lot of vanity for as much money as they can, only apply for projects worth more TOKYO: Asian shares edged down Rim trade pact. Japan would be projects, said a source at a con- said the source. Clauses in some than about 200 million riyals on Thursday and the dollar was the second-largest economy in the struction company operating in contracts can make consultants fi- ($54.93 million), said Salhi. from Iran treading water, with investors on scheme, and investors hope its ice ahead of a meeting of European passage would life a broad range Union leaders later in the session of Japanese companies. Wall Street as Greece continued last-minute logged losses overnight, but U.S. Pak govt must save efforts to avert a default. stock futures edged up about 0.2 Financial spreadbetters pre- percent in Asian trade. The dollar dicted the cautious mood would index, which tracks the greenback TEXTILE EXPORTS: PTEA carry over into European trade, against a basket of six major rivals, with Britain's FTSE 100 seen was steady on the day at 95.264. opening 11 to 12 points lower, or The euro inched down slightly to down 0.2 percent; Germany's $1.1201, while the dollar slipped DAX expected to fall around 41 about 0.2 percent on the day points, or 0.4 percent; and France's against the yen to 123.61. "Euro/ CAC 40 to drop 19 points, or 0.4 dollar responded less compared to percent. Athens' talks with credi- dollar/yen as underlying optimism tors bogged down on details, with that a [Greek] deal will be sealed next week's deadline to repay 1.6 by the month's remains intact amid billion euros ($1.79 billion)to the pessimism over the talks breaking International Monetary Fund down," said Junichi Ishikawa, mar- looming, and threatening to trigger ket analyst at IG Securities in To- WASHINGTON: If the United report by Senator Lisa Murkows- Greece's removal from the euro kyo. Wednesday's U.S. gross do- States does not lift its 40-year ban ki s staff said. zone. The EU leaders are sched- mestic product data revealed that on crude exports, Iran could soon In the absence of lawmakers uled to convene in Brussels later the final figure for the first quarter be competing in global markets that passing a bill to overturn the ban, on Thursday. "Optimism around was a 0.2 percent contraction, a would be mostly shut to US oil or President Barack Obama relax- a Greek deal had been driving price smaller drop than the previously companies, a report prepared for ing the trade restriction, a return action all week but a stall in the estimated 0.7 percent. That rein- the head of the Senate energy com- of Iran to the oil market would negotiation process has put the forced expectations that the U.S. mittee said. The United States and grant Iranian oil producers access brakes on the rally," IG market Federal Reserve is on track to raise five other global powers could reach to global markets but deny it to strategist Stan Shamu wrote in a interest rates this year, perhaps as a deal with Tehran over its nuclear American producers. note. MSCI's broadest index of early as September. In commodi- program in early July. If a deal is The report called Cross-Cur- Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan ties trading, U.S. crude was down reached, the Opec member could rents: Iranian oil and the US ex- was down about 0.3 percent. Ja- about 0.1 percent at $60.19 a bar- be producing significantly more oil port ban pointed out that Ameri- pan's Nikkei stock index ended rel after plunging more than 1 per- by the end of 2016, pushing down can crude is not a perfect re- down about 0.5 percent after hopes cent on Wednesday on a govern- global crude prices. placement for Iranian oil. for a resolution to Greece's debt ment report showing that an eighth LAHORE: The Pakistan Textile exports appeared to be a herculean Know more: Non-textile ex- The United States is in the However, US shipments of crisis had helped propel it on straight weekly drop in U.S. crude Exporters Association (PTEA) on task in the perspective of 5.91 per ports dive in July-May midst of a six-year oil boom, but certain grades could be competi- Wednesday to its highest level stockpiles was offset by a large Wednesday urged the federal gov- cent drop in textile exports in May Textile exports were also down Washington has banned most crude tive under the right economic con- since 1996. The Nikkei had pared build in refined products. Brent ernment to save textile exports over the same month of previous by 1.70pc in comparison with exports since the Arab oil embargo ditions. its losses earlier in the session, un- crude added about 0.1 percent to from consistent decline, both in fiscal year. Giving details, they said July-May period of previous year, of the early 1970s sparked fears Murkowski, a Republican, has derpinned by news that the U.S. $63.54. terms of value and quantity. that Pakistan exported textile goods they added. Export of value-add- of shortages. The general prohi- introduced a bill to overturn the Senate passed legislation that Spot gold rose about 0.2 per- PTEA Chairman Sohail Pasha worth $1.12 billion in May against ed items witnessed negative bition on exporting domestic crude ban this year, but it is uncertain would help President Barack cent to $1,177.31 an ounce after and Vice-Chairman Rizwan Riaz exports of $1.19bn in the same growth, cotton cloth down by oil amounts to a de facto sanctions whether it will get the 60 votes Obama seal the Trans-Pacific Part- sliding for the past four sessions Saigal, in a joint statement said that month of last year which showed 15.70pc, knitwear 11.32pc, bed- regime against US producers, the needed to pass. nership (TPP), a 12-nation Pacific to a two-week low. achieving targets to double textile decline of 5.88pc. wear 9.80pc and towels 9.23pc. Syria s economy more than Rajan says Indian HALVES DURING CONFLICT economy will see through any IMPACT OF GREECE CRISIS Rajan was addressing a con- Tsipras said some creditors haven't Sensex on Wednesday slipped by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gov- ference at the Stockholm School accepted the country's proposals 75 points to 27,729.67 as market ernor Raghuram Rajan said in of Economics. for a deal. "The insistence of cer- sentiment took a hit in the last half Stockholm that the Indian econo- Concerns on the Street contin- tain institutions of not accepting hour on news that creditors had my would see through any impact ues as Greece's euro zone bailout parametric measures has never rejected Greece's new proposal. of the Greek crisis. According to expires on Tuesday, when it is also happened before - not in Ireland, The rupee ended marginally Rajan, one factor helping India was due to repay ^1.6 billion to the nor in Portugal," Tsipras wrote in stronger against the dollar at 63.60, its stronger foreign exchange re- International Monetary Fund. a Twitter post. Logging its first fall compared with Tuesday's close of serves. Greek Prime Minister Alexis in nine days, the benchmark BSE 63.61. Falling oil prices help BOOST UK ECONOMY

?The commodity s decline in price the 1980s recovery, and the rea- omy continues to grow and there- crease in consumer confidence un- Syrian women wait outside a bakery shop to buy bread in Maaret Misreen, near Idlib, Syria. (AP) has left consumers feeling that son is clear: it s due to the nature fore the number of people who can less you get falling unemployment they have more cash in their pock- of the downturn that we had afford to travel continues to grow and rising employment, and that s et and also lowered costs for busi- Travel companies are also like- alongside it, Williams said. He what the UK has had. Syria s economy has more than the regime has shown increasing government of a key source of rev- nesses. A fall in oil price is like a ly to benefit from the growth in also pointed out that consumer Williams was speaking at a halved in the four years since the signs of strain on both the military enue. As a result it has reined in tax cut. Why? It leaves income in the middle classes, as the econo- confidence remains high, which was joint seminar held by Lloyds Bank civil war broke out, with oil pro- and the economic fronts, said subsidies on fuel and food. the pocket of consumers because mies of the developing world con- aided by a resilient labour market. and the Association of Atol Com- duction dwindling, inflation surg- David Butter, author of the report The think-tank made clear that they re spending less on other tinue to flourish. The world econ- You re not going to get an in- panies. ing and the currency near collapse, Syria s Economy, Picking up the some of the statistics, difficult to things: petrol in their cars, heating a new report said. British think- Pieces . This gives rise to the collate in the circumstances of war, costs, said Trevor Williams, chief tank Chatham House said the fig- question as to whether a dramatic must be approached with caution. economist at Lloyds Bank Com- ures raised the question of whether worsening in the economic situa- With so much turmoil in the mercial. Firms face lowers costs economic crisis might precipitate tion may be the catalyst for the country, including the presence of too because clearly their input pric- a military collapse of the govern- regime s military collapse or for an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria es, either fuel or energy and so on, ment of President Bashar al-Assad, externally imposed political settle- (ISIS) fighters who are battling for are low. So firms and households or if further military defeats could ment against Assad s wishes, or control, the population has shrunk benefit when oil prices fall. While trigger economic breakdown. The whether further military setbacks nearly 17 percent, from 21 million there is widespread optimism that report said the Syrian pound has might be the catalyst for the to about 17.5 million, due to refu- the UK will continue on its cur- lost 78 percent of its value since regime s economic collapse. The gees fleeing. rent path, Williams pointed out the conflict began in 2011, while Chatham House report said the International medical charity that the current recovery was not the year-on-year rate of inflation country s mining and construction Medecins Sans Frontieres said re- as good as previous ones. peaked at about 120 percent in sectors had been among the hard- cently that disruption of fuel sup- The economy is currently 4% July and August 2013. The rise in est hit. Mining, which includes oil plies due to fighting between rebel bigger than it was in the period just prices averaged 51 percent be- production, has suffered a 94 per- groups in northern Syria was prior to the recession. So if we re tween January 2012 and March cent contraction in real terms since threatening the closure of hospi- looking at the 2008 first quarter, 2015. The crisis that erupted in 2010, according to projections it tals and paralyzing the work of the economy is now 4% larger, it s 2011 with protests against Presi- cited from the Syrian Center for ambulances and rescue services. good news. And some revisions dent al-Assad has descended into Policy Research. Oil production The think-tank compiled its recently suggest it may be a bit a civil war that has killed more than under state control has dwindled report with data from the Central bigger than that. But this recov- 220,000 people and displaced mil- from 387,000 barrels per day to Bank of Syria, the United Nations ery is not as strong as previous lions. During the first half of 2015 less than 10,000, depriving the and other sources. recoveries: the 1990s recovery or This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . JUNE 26, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Guinea quarantines villages in reinforced bid to stamp out Ebola

South Korea on Thursday an- CONAKRY: Guinea will put four the disease. "We have already nounced a $14 billion stimulus villages under a 21-day quarantine started to apply the new measures package to boost its troubled econ- as part of a robust strategy to today in Forecariah. The other lo- omy, hammered by the deadly stamp out a lingering Ebola epi- cations will follow from tomor- MERS outbreak which has dented demic after new cases of the dis- row," Fodé Tass Sylla, spokesman consumer spending and business ease were discovered there. for Guinea's Ebola coordination sentiment. In announcing the 15 The worst Ebola epidemic on unit, told Reuters. trillion won programme -- which record has killed more than 11,000 Forecariah, Dubreka and Boké follows a central bank interest rate people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and account for the bulk of new Ebola cut to a record low this month -- Guinea over the last year and a half. infections in Guinea over the past the finance ministry also slashed Liberia became Ebola-free in May, three weeks, according to a situa- its growth outlook for this year. but neighbouring Sierra Leone and tion report issued by the World Finance Minister Choi Kyung- Guinea are still struggling to get to Health Organisation on Wednes- Hwan said the extra move was cru- cial as a recovery in Asia's fourth largest economy hinged on efforts to quickly contain the effects of Middle East Respiratory Syn- drome. As of Thursday the virus had killed 29 people and infected 151 since the first case was con- firmed on May 20, making it the worst outbreak outside Saudi Ara- bia. "We can say that we have over- come the MERS crisis only if our economy rebounds," Choi said, warning that growth could come in below 3.0 percent without sup- port from the extra spending. "The economy is being weighed down by MERS, which earlier projection of 3.8 percent. couraged to spend more on infra- help low-income earners." The South Korea's benchmark KOSPI has seriously hurt consumption The ministry said the MERS out- structure projects, while it will also central Bank of Korea cut interest failed to get a boost from the gov- and the service sector," he said, break could pare up to 0.3 per- be used to help contain MERS, ad- rates this month to a record low ernment's announcement and fell adding the government would use centage point off annual economic dress the effects of a severe 1.5 percent as businesses includ- 0.02 percent to 2,085.06 Thurs- all available resources to prop up growth, vowing to keep close tabs drought and create more jobs. ing shops, restaurants and cinemas day with sentiment weakened by growth, support exports and cre- on rising household debt and en- "We re trying to cope with shocks reported a slump in sales. South stalled talks on a Greek bailout. ate jobs. Choi said the government courage corporate restructuring from non-economic issues by Korea's exports fell 10.9 percent On Thursday the health ministry would issue bonds to fund the ex- that could reduce risks to the econ- boosting fiscal spending sufficient- from a year earlier in May, shrink- reported two more deaths from tra budget, the size of which will omy. The slowing global econom- ly and keeping it expansionary," ing for the fifth consecutive month. MERS and one more new case of be decided after analysing the im- ic recovery and a weak yen and said Lee Chan Woo, a director gen- The ministry forecast this year's the disease. The two fatalities in- zero cases despite hundreds of day. "The area of active transmis- pact of MERS. The finance minis- euro are other risks to South Ko- eral at the ministry. "This supple- exports would fall 1.5 percent from cluded a 65-year-old man who con- millions of dollars in aid. sion within those prefectures has try slashed its growth forecast for rea, it said. As part of the package mentary budget is to offset the ef- a year ago. It also lowered its in- tracted the virus at a hospital at According to a health minis- changed, and in several instances this year to 3.1 percent from an provincial authorities will be en- fect of MERS, the drought, and to flation outlook to 0.7 percent. the central city of Daejon. try document seen by Reuters on has expanded," the report stated. Wednesday, the quarantine will Cases have also been recorded apply to Sikhourou Koloteya in in neighbouring Sierra Leone's cap- the Forecariah prefecture south- ital Freetown following several Five-year window for Cholera outbreak kills east of the capital Conakry along weeks without new infections, of- with Tanéné and Bamba in Dubre- ficials said on Monday, dashing ka prefecture. hopes that the city had vanquished preventing AIDS rebound: Experts at least 18 in S-Sudan The village of Tamarasy in the the outbreak there. At least 18 people have died of Organization (WHO) and aid Boké mining region will also be A health official said on cholera in war-torn South Sudan, workers are carrying out cholera subject to the new measures. Wednesday there were concerns High rates of HIV infection com- the health ministry said Tuesday, vaccination campaigns targeting "In practice, a hooping system that exposure to the disease there bined with rapid population as it declared an outbreak of the over 100,000 people "to prevent a will be organised resulting in a ban may have been greater than initial- growth mean the next half-decade highly contagious infection. potential large scale outbreak and on movement by inhabitants in the ly thought after a pregnant wom- will be critical for rolling back Minister of Health Riek Gai prevent deaths," the ministry add- affected locations," the document an treated at a Freetown hospital AIDS, specialists warned on Kok told reporters that 171 chol- ed. Kok insisted health workers stated. Twenty-one days is the later tested positive for Ebola. Thursday. "The next five years era cases have been confirmed in were better placed to tackle the standard observation period for an "Some 31 members of staff came provide a fragile window of op- the outbreak, which began in outbreak than last year. "The gov- individual believed to have come into contact with this lady, but we portunity to fast-track the re- crowded United Nations bases in ernment is in a better position to in contact with an Ebola-infected haven't managed to track all of them sponse and end the AIDS epidem- the capital Juba and spread else- prevent a potential large scale out- person. Health officials will also down," the source said. "When you ic by 2030," said Michel Sidibe, where in the city. Tens of thou- break this year, largely because of carry out intensive door-to-door think of all the contacts they'll have head of the UN agency UNAIDS. sands of people have sought shel- pre-emptive measures undertaken visits to homes in the quarantined made when they go home, it's "If we don't, the human and finan- ter in the UN camps during 18 with support from WHO and part- areas to try to identify cases of scary." cial consequences will be cata- months of civil war. At least 167 ners," he said. More than two mil- strophic." A report compiled by people died with over 6,400 cases lion people been forced to flee dur- UNAIDS and The Lancet medical reported in an outbreak last year, ing the war, with over 137,000 ci- journal, with the support of lead- which was later contained. "After vilians sheltering in UN peacekeep- ing figures in the 34-year war on subjecting cases to laboratory tests ing bases, including over 34,000 Two big problems AIDS, called for the disease to be it was confirmed that there is a civilians crammed into camps in given high priority in the UN's cholera outbreak," Kok said, add- the capital alone. Two-thirds of post-2015 development goals. It ing that the first case recorded was the country's 12 million people with generic-drug pointed to good news, beginning on June 1. "The confirmation of need aid, with 4.5 million people with the advent in 1996 of antiret- since 1997. But there remain many sential, but we will not treat our- the cases automatically triggers facing severe food insecurity, ac- roviral drugs, which suppress the the activation of a full-scale re- cording to the UN. Civil war be- human immunodeficiency virus concerns, said the report, carried selves out of the AIDS epidemic. "We substitution in The Lancet. In 2013, 1.5 million must also reinvigorate HIV preven- sponse," he added. Stamping out gan in December 2013 when Pres- (HIV). Though not a cure, the ther- cholera -- transmitted through ident Salva Kiir accused his former apy creates a virtuous circle, sci- people died of AIDS-related caus- tion efforts, particularly among pop- A New York court recently reaf- in quality control. The FDA does es, more than 10 million infected ulations at highest risk, while remov- drinking water or eating food con- deputy Riek Machar of planning a firmed an injunction against Act- not (and cannot) closely monitor entists have found. The less virus taminated with faeces or dirty coup, setting off a cycle of retalia- in circulation, the less likely it is people had yet to start HIV thera- ing legal and societal discrimination." avis that requires the pharmaceu- the myriad factors that influence that people become infected. From py -- and out of 35 million people The report also highlighted the need tical company to continue promot- the safety and efficacy of a drug: 2001 to 2013, annual incidence of estimated to be living with the to ramp up funding. Current efforts ing and selling Namenda, an old How was the quality of ingredi- HIV infections decreased by 38 AIDS virus, a massive 19 million cost in the order of $19 billion (17 medication used for treating Alzhe- ents purchased from suppliers test- percent, from 3.4 million in 2001 did not know they were infected. billion euros) per year, "whereas it imer's disease. Actavis wanted to ed? How was manufacturing and to 2.1 million in 2013," said the Coupled with growth in the will take $36 billion annually to downscale its support of the drug transportation controlled? How report. "From 2002 to 2013, the world's population, as more peo- achieve the UN goal" for 2030, it to focus on its new-and-improved old is it? annual incidence of HIV infections ple enter adolescence and become said. In poor, badly-hit African coun- version, Namenda XR. The court's Most of this monitoring is in children decreased by 58 per- sexually active, this imperils the tries, the campaign will require as decision is a landmark ruling be- achieved by self-regulation by the cent, with 240,000 new infections objective of eliminating AIDS as a much as 2.1 percent of gross domes- cause it will force a company to companies themselves, and this is in 2013 compared with 580,000 in public health threat by 2030. "We tic product (GDP) annually and at manufacture, market, and distrib- where the key value of brand 2002. In some parts of the world, must face stark truths," said Peter least a third of government health ute a product it no longer wishes comes in. Companies like Johnson mother-to-child transmission of Piot, director of the London School expenditure. "This clearly demon- to support. We need a better sys- & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Pfizer HIV has been virtually eliminat- of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine strates that international support to tem that has less potential to damp- (NYSE: PFE), Merck (NYSE: ed." In South Africa, one of worst- and Sidibe's predecessor at the the AIDS efforts in these countries en competition and innovation. MRK), and Abbott Laboratories helm of UNAIDS. "Expanding sus- will be needed for many years to hands -- poses an additional major tory killings that has split the pov- Why would the court do this? (NYSE: ABT) have invested bil- hit countries, mean life expectan- challenge for the government and erty-stricken, landlocked country cy rose in 2005 for the first time tainable access to treatment is es- come," the authors warned. To make generic drugs more avail- lions of dollars in building their aid workers. The World Health along ethnic lines. able. There is a widespread belief brands. A problem with a drug can Samsung heir apologizes Malaria killed more people for failing to control deadly MERS outbreak than usual in Ebola outbreak Respiratory disease linked to hospital run by the Samsung Foundation

that generics are always better for result in a tremendous loss of con- consumers, and, in most states, sumer faith and stock market val- pharmacists are allowed to auto- ue. Accordingly, branded pharma- matically substitute a generic drug ceutical firms invest heavily in for a patient's branded prescrip- quality standards and processes to tion. But this is a naïve and dan- protect their brands, and this dili- gerous assumption. At a minimum, gent monitoring is probably the patients should be informed of the most powerful source of protec- differences between their prescrip- tion consumers have to ensure that tion and the generic, and asked if their drugs are safe and of high they want the substitution, just as quality. When patients give up the we would expect in any other con- brand, they give up a billion-dollar sumer transaction. Ideally, we incentive a company has in pro- LONDON: Malaria likely killed compared that to regions without Tuberculosis and Malaria and the would find an alternative to auto- tecting them. The second problem The heir to the Samsung Group ter could not stop the infection and many more people than usual in Ebola and concluded there were U.S. President's Malaria Initiative. matic substitution that does not with automatic substitution is that publicly apologized this week for the spread of the MERS, causing the West African nation of Guinea about 74,000 probable malaria cases It was published online Tuesday in derail innovation and competition. it forces branded companies to sub- failing to control the spread of the so much pain and worries to the during last year's Ebola outbreak, that went untreated. Since the Ebola the journal, Lancet Infectious Dis- There are two big problems sidize generics, undermining com- deadly MERS virus at a hospital public," Lee said. "I bow my head a new study suggests, as tens of outbreak was first identified in the eases. In an email, Franco Pagnoni with the current automatic substi- petition and innovation. Generics run by the company's foundation. to apologize." thousands with potential signs of forests of Guinea in March 2014, of the World Health Organization tution system. First, generics are already have a huge cost advan- As the Associated Press reports, MERS is a respiratory virus the mosquito-spread disease prob- officials estimate the virus has killed said "the collateral damage of epi- not identical to the branded drug. tage over brands because they side- Lee Jae-yong issued the apology that was first identified in humans ably shunned health clinics. The more than 2,400 people in the coun- demics is a known phenomenon" and Generic drugs only have to meet step nearly all of the research and in a nationally televised speech, his in Saudi Arabia three years ago. early symptoms of malaria a try. In 2013, about 15,000 people in that aid workers should try to less- the standard of 80 percent to 125 development and clinical testing first public address since taking Symptoms include fever, cough, fever and body aches are simi- Guinea were killed by malaria, ac- en such effects. He said it was pos- percent of the bioavailability of the expenses of developing new drugs. over the Samsung Foundation last and shortness of breath, though it lar to Ebola. Health workers said cording to Nets for Life Africa, a U.S. sible Ebola could have also caused referenced drug - a large range. For And thanks to automatic substi- month. The Samsung Foundation can lead to more serious complica- many people with malaria were charity. Mateusz Plucinski of the spikes in malaria cases in the other drugs with a narrow therapeutic tution, the brand's marketing ef- owns the Samsung Medical Cen- tions like pneumonia and kidney afraid of catching Ebola at a medi- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and countries heavily affected by Ebola, dosage band, this kind of variation forts benefit generic drugs instead ter, one of the largest hospitals in failure. The virus has since been cal facility or being mistakenly sent Prevention, who led the study, said which could have undermined pre- can be problematic - even danger- of their own. South Korea. Eighty-five of the identified in Asia and the US, with to an Ebola clinic. Experts based it was difficult to say how many vious efforts to curb malaria. Health ous. Furthermore, generic drugs are You do not have to be a rocket 175 MERS cases in South Korea the majority of cases in the Mid- their conclusions in part on things people among the 74,000 suspected officials also worry the stress of the not required to have the same in- scientist to recognize the disaster had connections to the Samsung dle East. Twenty-seven people like how many people with malar- cases might have died of malaria but Ebola outbreak on Guinea's weak active ingredients, meaning that lurking in that kind of system. Medical Center, fueling calls for have died since the outbreak start- ia symptoms were seen at health that it was probably "substantially health system also resulted in a drop binders, flavors, dyes, and preser- Companies will be under-incentiv- an investigation over the hospital's ed in South Korea, making it the clinics in four regions hardest hit higher" than the number of Ebola in vaccination coverage, putting the vatives can be different, posing ized to develop new drugs - it's a handling of its patients. largest outbreak outside Saudi Ara- by Ebola, and how many malaria deaths. The research was paid for country at risk of a resurgence of problems for people with sensi- classic "tragedy of the commons" "Our Samsung Medical Cen- bia. medicines were given out. They by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, diseases like measles and polio. tivities, and creating more variance problem. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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SpaceX is going to try a revolutionary rocket landing this Sunday here's how to watch t looked like an odd lizard with tens of millions of years. a bulky body and only the skel "The belly armor is composed Ietal precursor of a shell, but sci- of thick, rib-like bones that are entists say 240 million-year-old beginning to fuse to each other in fossils unearthed in a quarry in many places," said paleontologist southern Germany represent the Hans-Dieter Sues of the Smithso- grandfather of all turtles. The sci- nian Institution's National Muse- entists on Wednesday announced um of Natural History in Wash- the discovery of the oldest-known ington, calling this "an important turtle, an 8-inch (20-cm) Triassic stage in the evolution of the turtle Period reptile combining traits of shell." its lizard-like ancestors with a set Pappochelys, known from 18 of emerging turtle-like features. fossil skeletons, had a long tail, They named it Pappochelys, broad trunk, and, rather than a beak meaning "grandfather turtle," ow- as in later turtles, a lizard-like skull ing to its position at the base of with numerous peg-like teeth suit- the turtle family tree. able for eating insects and small "Pappochelys indeed forms a lizards. missing link for two reasons. It is It resided alongside a freshwa- far older than all so far known tur- ter lake and may have used its tail tles. And its anatomy is more prim- for swimming and legs for steering itive in many features, showing the in the water. ancestral condition of various body Schoch said Pappochelys, as regions," said paleontologist Rain- a transitional creature between liz- The landing attempt will happen SpaceX's version, the rocket would er Schoch of Germany's State ard-like ancestors and later turtles, minutes after SpaceX launches one remain completely dry and should, Museum of Natural History Stut- provides a much clearer picture of of their Falcon 9 rockets out of in theory, be reusable within 24 tgart. turtle evolution. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station hours after it's retrieved.) This idea It is 20 million years older than "Transitional creatures are the in Florida at exactly 10:21 am ET. of fully-reusable rockets could the previous earliest-known tur- most important contribution that NASA will begin streaming the usher in a new age of future, af- tle, Odontochelys from China. paleontology can make to the event live at 9 am ET and will of- fordable, commercial spaceflight. While Odontochelys boasted a ru- study of evolution. They are of- fer real-time coverage of the The key to this development cen- dimentary shell on its back, Pap- ten unexpected and show surpris- step by step, and also give evi- years before the first dinosaurs, odonsaurus. launch. The live feed is provided ters on rockets that can be launched pochelys bore only the beginnings ing features," Schoch said. "They dence on the sequence of evolu- but plenty of danger existed. The The 20-foot (6-meter) terres- at the end of this post. and re-launched eventually even of this characteristic turtle trait show how complicated structures tionary steps." lake's largest predator was the 16- trial croc relative Batrachotomus For news and video of whether within the same day similar to that evolved in many steps over like the skull or turtle shell formed Pappochelys lived 10 million foot (5-meter) amphibian Mast- prowled the land. the landing was a success, stay how planes are operated today. tuned for updates following the Sunday's attempt will be the launch. The rocket will be carry- third time that SpaceX has tried to ing a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft retrieve one of their Falcon 9 rock- Chin a to w iden draft security law loaded with over 4,000 pounds of ets after a supply mission to the supplies, including food, water, ISS. So, on June 28, we'll see if the and science experiments, for the third time really is a charm. astronauts aboard the International SpaceX's first two landing at- to co ver space, sea, po lar in terests Space Station. One of the science tempts took place in January and experiments includes instruments April of this year. Although both that will allow astronauts to ob- ended with a fiery explosion, BEIJING: China will add its as- come more active in the Antarctic serve meteors penetrating Earth's April's attempted landing was a sets and activities in space, the and Arctic, where it says it has atmosphere. It will be the first time significant improvement on the deep sea and polar regions to its important research and energy in- anyone in space has ever studied first: The rocket actually hovered pending national security law, state terests. Provisions to tighten cy- meteors like this before. After the over the platform before touching media said on Wednesday, the lat- ber security are also core to the China's President Xi Jinping sits Falcon 9 has transported Dragon down. est changes to the sweeping and pending law, and foreign technolo- to space, it will detach from the The only problem was the controversial draft legislation. during the opening session of gy firms are particularly concerned the Chinese People's Political spacecraft and navigate its way rocket fell on its side after landing President Xi Jinping, who that language calling for the use of back using GPS tracking to a and exploded upon impact. heads a newly established nation- Consultative Conference "secure and controllable" products (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of football-field-sized platform, January's landing attempt basically al security commission, has said could force them out of the mar- shown below, floating miles off- ended with the rocket crashing into China's security covers a wide ar- the People in Beijing. ket. In a separate report, Xinhua REUTERS/Jason Lee shore in the Atlantic. If SpaceX is the platform without any hover- ray of areas, including politics, said legislators would also review successful on Sunday they will ing or soft touchdown. These ex- culture, the military, the economy, a new draft cyber security law. have marked a revolutionary break- plosions take a toll on the plat- technology and the environment. This is one of a raft of new Inter- ing point in history: If the rocket form, but after some scrubbing and But foreign business groups net and technology security mea- safely lands on the platform, it sweeping, the platform is ready for and diplomats have argued that the sures Beijing has pursued after should be in good condition to be another go. draft national security law, which former National Security Agency reused for a second launch the Right now, SpaceX is one of could be adopted after a third read- tee, a group of about 200 members and challenges," the official Xin- final law will cover. China insists contractor Edward Snowden dis- first time any rocket will have been two companies in the world who ing over the next week by China's led by the ruling Communist Par- hua news agency said. China that its space program has peace- closed that U.S. spy agencies fully recovered for reuse. (NASA has launched a rocket designed for top legislative committee, is too ty. "Some standing committee would therefore "peacefully ex- ful purposes. But the U.S. Defense planted code in American tech ex- used to reuse some of the rocket reuse. The other company is Blue broad and vague. "Harmful moral members, participants and depart- plore and exploit" space, interna- Department has highlighted its in- ports to snoop on overseas tar- parts that launched their space Origin established by Amazon standards", for example, would also ments suggested that in space, the tional sea bed areas and polar re- creasing space capabilities, saying gets. shuttles in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. founder Jeff Bezos. Neither be handled under the law, state deep sea, polar regions and other gions, and strengthen the security it is pursuing aims to keep adver- "The principle of Internet sov- However, these parts were re- SpaceX or Blue Origin have yet to media said after its second reading strategic new frontiers, China has of "activities, assets and other in- saries from using space-based as- ereignty is a major doctrine for safe- trieved after parachuting into the succeed in their endeavor, but if in April by the National People's real and potential major national terests" there, Xinhua said. It is sets during a crisis. guarding national sovereignty and ocean and were water logged and SpaceX manages it this Sunday, it'll Congress (NPC) standing commit- interests and faces security threats unclear what the wording of the China has also sought to be- interests," Xinhua said. needed time for repairs. With truly be a game-changer. It's no hallucination, that creature is just really weird pace is no longer the fron as the Kessler syndrome, or an uge in escape capsules because of cation. Cold War space systems spending on new space technol- tier, it s the Wild West. ablation cascade. Think about the a near miss by a large piece of an provide us with the instant abil- ogy. SAs the area around Earth fills disaster Sandra Bullock s charac- old Russian rocket. We all take for ity to set up theater-wide guided What does that mean for U.S. up with more and more material, ter faced in Gravity. A missile granted the ability to pull an in- munition battle networks that defense and space strategy? the once limitless volume has strikes a satellite, setting off a cas- credibly powerful computer from is, smart weapons we can employ More money is needed, to start. started to look pretty crowded. cade of fragments colliding at high our pockets (the Apollo Guidance across the entire range and depth The 2015 budget request from the The U.S. military increasingly sees speed with all the other satellites, Computer had 4kB of memory and of the theater enabled by space- White House contains an increase that crowding as a national secu- sending more and more fragments a 1MHz processor; the Apple based capabilities, Work said. in the spending on space defense rity concern. For decades the only flying around the Earth. Depend- iPhone 5S has 64GB and 1.3GHz) What happens if those satel- and technology. From DOD space satellites in near-Earth orbit were ing on the location of the initial and use it to pinpoint our location lites are disabled or destroyed? programs in general to an increase national, and mostly U.S. and So- impact, the debris could effectively to within meters using GPS satel- Even more important than the in Navy spending on satellite com- viet owned. As launch capabilities block all space-based capabilities lites (owned by the U.S. Air Force). loss of the operational high ground, munications to a space fence to became accessible to private en- for years, or generations. Near- Using that computer, you can use you won t be able to download the help track even small objects in terprise, the volume rose. Today, Earth orbit is currently (probably) an app to connect to anywhere on latest Taylor Swift song (assum- orbit, the budget adds billions of there are more than 1,100 active not quite crowded enough to cre- the planet in milliseconds, using a ing she licenses it to anyone online dollars to current spending. government and private satellites ate that massive a cascade, thank- different set of satellites. The mili- in the first place). Many of the An April 2015 60 Minutes re- and 2,600 zombie satellites still fully. How do we know? In 2007, taries of the major powers all have conveniences we take as part of port estimates that while the Pen- swirling around. If a country gets China actually shot down one of additional, even more powerful modern life simply disappear. tagon nominally spends $10 bil- itchy trigger fingers, what could its own satellites, generating tools. At the 2015 GEOINT sym- Since the end of the cold war, lion a year on space, the real cost happen to all that material up enough debris that a NASA report posium, Deputy Secretary of De- the U.S. has had a virtual sanctu- may be more than $25 billion. The there? Think about all the West- that year found the fragments from fense Robert O. Work described ary in space, Work said. The next Pentagon is also opening new cen- erns you ve seen, and how even that destruction accounted for 17 how the U.S. can see how deep a 25 years is going to look a lot dif- tral space command center as part one small thing can escalate into percent of all cataloged objects in ship sits in the ocean to determine ferent. The historic superiority of of a $5 billion increase in yearly full-blown gunfight. And it just orbit. In 2014, the European Space its cargo. If a Russian soldier posts the U.S. in space will be eroded, space security. continues from there, cascading Agency reported over 700,000 photos to social media that appear resulting from a new push in tech- As the modern space race ac- into an increasingly chaotic situa- dangerous items in Earth s orbit. to show him inside Ukraine, the nological capabilities from Russia celerates, if the U.S. wants to main- tion. In space terms, shooting a sat- And in 2012, the International U.S. can immediately use surveil- and China. The U.S., meanwhile, tain its edge, that amount will likely ellite can result in what is known Space Station crew had to take ref- lance satellites to pinpoint his lo- has pulled back on some of its skyrocket. WASHINGTON: It was a crea- There were three pairs of skinny ture so strange that experts liter- tentacles toward the head, perhaps ally could not make heads nor tails used to process food or as anten- of it. But scientists said on nae. The Rosetta spacecraft s extended mission may end with a spectacular crash Wednesday a new analysis of fos- Hallucigenia has long baffled ans of deep space missions, Churyumov Gerasimenko some sils of Hallucigenia, so named for scientists. In the 1970s, it was rejoice the European 300 million miles away. But crisis its fantastical appearance, has thought its back spikes were legs, FSpace Agency just extended hit when it deployed the Philae given them for the first time a com- its legs were tentacles along its the Rosetta spacecraft's mission lander in November to study the plete understanding of this little back and its head was its tail. until September of 2016. Before comet's surface. As the lander de- sea oddball that lived about 508 "The head was once thought today, the plan was to simply scended, the harpoons meant to million years ago. to be represented by a large bal- switch off Rosetta's power this anchor the craft to the comet mal- Hallucigenia is one of the spe- loon-like orb at one end of the ani- coming December and let it orbit functioned. Philae skipped across cies emblematic of the Cambrian mal. We can now show that this the comet indefinitely. the surface and eventually came to Period, a pivotal juncture in the orb was not part of the animal at The ESA still has to decide rest in a dark crevice a bad spot history of life on Earth when most all, but a blob of decay fluids that Rosetta's ultimate fate. A few for a spacecraft that runs on solar major groups of animals first ap- oozed out of the anus during de- weeks ago the scientists in charge power. Philae sent back a surpris- peared and many unusual body cay and burial," Smith said. of Rosetta announced they want ing amount of data, but with little designs came and went. The actual head, the scientists to crash the spacecraft into Comet power it quickly slipped into a "It is nice to finally know have now learned after using so- 67P at the end of the mission deep sleep. Worse, the Rosetta rather fundamental things such as phisticated imaging techniques on an idea that is not as brute as it scientists lost sight of the lander, how many legs it has, and to know the fossils, is at the end of a long seems. By doing this, Rosetta's and only recently found promis- its head from its tail," University and slender neck resembling a cameras and instruments could re- ing evidence of its location on the of Cambridge paleontologist Mar- hose-like tube. Near the end of the turn increasingly detailed results comet. tin Smith said. head were two bean-shaped eyes. before impact. The spacecraft is In the meantime, Rosetta took Hallucigenia, whose fossils "Below the eyes, like an al- also working with a limited fuel some stunning photographs of have been unearthed in the Bur- mighty grin, sits a ring of teeth," supply and will be racing away Comet 67P. It also taught us a lot gess Shale site in the Canadian Smith said. There was a small from the Sun (which powers the about the strange, icy bodies in our Rocky Mountains, belongs to a mouth cavity in front of these teeth electronics) by then, so crashing it outer solar system, and even pro- primitive group of velvet worms, to suck food into the throat. Once into the comet may just be the most vided evidence against the theory animals that still exist today. there, the food was gripped by tiny efficient way to spend the rest of that Earth's water originally came Aallucigenia, 0.4 to 2.2 inches needle-like teeth lining the throat its mission. from comets. long (10-55 mm), possessed seven to speed it to the stomach. Rosetta has been one of the Then, this month, Philae re- pairs of nail-like spines protrud- "It would have been quiet a most fun space missions to follow established contact. The Rosetta ing from its back, with an equal sight," said Royal Ontario Mu- over the last year. In August of team received 300 data packets number of pairs of long, flimsy legs seum paleontologist Jean-Bernard 2014 it completed an epic 10-year from the lander and also found banks, which means it collected presumed hibernation. After more time to pry that data from underneath tipped with claws. Caron. journey to Comet 67P / 8,000 others stored in its memory more data at some point during its today's news, Rosetta has much the lander. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . JUNE 26, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Hrithik Roshan goes We don t look like we think we do! MELBOURNE: Will you believe an extra mile for stunts that we do not know exactly how we look? In comparison, others are a better judge of our appearance, says a study. In the study, an ini- IN MOHENJO DARO tial group of over 130 undergradu- ate students downloaded 10 suit- able photos of themselves from Facebook and ranked them in or- der of the best to worst likeness. These participants took part in a minute long web cam video of their face and two still photos were also taken (one smiling, one neutral). Sixteen participants who did not know the students, watched the webcam videos and afterwards ranked the Facebook photos in order of resemblance to the per- son they had seen in the video. A further 73 participants were then recruited to complete an online face matching test. Results of the study showed that the unfamiliar partici- pants chose a different set of good likeness images compared to those that people had selected of themselves. Surprisingly, the images se- lected by strangers also led to bet- ter performance on the online face- matching test. The size of the advantage in other-selection over self-selection was quite large self-selected im- Bollywood director Ashutosh punching and kicking in the film, its way to cinemas in August 2016 ages were matched seven percent Gowariker praised the actor which also stars new comer Pooja instead. About the current status less accurately compared to other- Hrithik Roshan for working hard Hegde in an epic adventure love of the film, he said: The shooting selected images. to perform stunts in their upcom- story set at the time of the Indus has been going good till now and It seems counter-intuitive ing film Mohenjo Daro. He said Valley Civilization. Mohenjo we ll complete the shooting in Sep- that strangers who saw the photo that Hrithik is pushing all limits Daro, meaning Mound of the Dead tember. rithik, who has been do- of someone s face for less than a to perform them, reported IANS. in Sindhi, is a lost civilisation that ing extensive research about pears that knowledge of one s own said, there were better results pictured smiling and these images minute were more reliable at judg- appearance comes at a cost. Exist- when people were smiling in the are rated as being more like famil- For Hrithik, Mohenjo Daro was abandoned in 19th century. Mohenjo Daro for the film, has ing likeness, said lead researcher has been extremely challenging in The city s ruins lie in the Larkana previously worked with Gowariker ing memory representations inter- photos. Current passport guide- iar faces, it may be beneficial to David White from the University fere with our ability to choose im- lines in most countries prohibit permit expression in passport the wake of his shoulder injury. district of Sindh, and are a desig- in Jodha-Akbar. This will not be of New South Wales (UNSW), We have tried to be careful not to nated Unesco World Heritage Site the first time that the director ages that are good representations smiling in photographs as this may photographs, white said. Australia. Although we live with or faithfully depict our current ap- distort the normal facial features. The study was published in aggravate his injury. And he is since 1980. Although Mohenjo would be delving deep into the past our own face day-to-day, it ap- pushing all limits to perform the Daro was earlier set to release in as he has a penchant for historical pearance. The researchers also Given that faces are generally the British Journal of Psychology. gruelling stunts, Gowariker said. January next year, the director has flicks with Lagaan being the most The audience will see Hrithik announced that the film will make popular film directed by him. Rihanna to launch Ryan Gosling stands Adnan Sami sings his first against cruelty to chickens A FASHION LABEL Actor Ryan Gosling has sent an cages with the mummified corpses open letter to the American ware- of their cage mates - eating, sleep- qawwali for Bajrangi Bhaijaan house club, Costco's CEO Craig ing, defecating, and laying eggs on Jelinek urging the retail company top of dead birds - and hens' wings, to stop selling eggs from caged legs, and necks trapped in the cor- chickens. roded wires of their battery cages," The letter is said to have been Gosling wrote in the letter. written after Gosling watched the The 34-year-old later called Humane Society of the United the company for its "deceptive"

Singer Rihanna will reportedly "Rihanna has already had a suc- launch her fashion label under name cessful clothing line with River Is- $CHOOL KILLS. land and is not limiting herself to The singer will move into the just music and touring for the rest world of fashion designing with an of her life. accessories line before moving into She will continue to release apparel. singles and albums, but she's had The "Rude boy" hitmaker's plans in place to expand in other company Roraj Trade LLC regis- areas, like fashion, for a good few tered and trademarked the brand years now," the source added. Atif Aslam isn't the only Pakistani and it's a qawwali and I'd really in a song that I have sung in a film name in New York last month un- Rihanna, who was pictured who will feature on the soundtrack love you to sing it,'" shared Sami before, even though there have been der the categories -- Leather prod- wearing a T-shirt sporting the slo- of Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi with Times of India, "I loved the so many songs that I have sung ucts and clothing products, reports gan 'School Kills' last month, is Bhaijaan. According to Times of challenge as I have never sung a and it's a pretty common request femalefirst.co.uk. "$CHOOL hoping her accessories line will be India, Adnan Sami Khan will also qawwali before. And then he said, to ask a singer to appear in it, but KILLS will be an accessories range the perfect start to a global "em- lend his vocals to one song, which 'I'd like to have it picturised on you I have never done it. But when covering everything from tote bags pire". States' undercover video showing labelling on their cartons which will be the first qawwali of his ca- too.' I said, 'Okay.' For Salman any- Salman asked me to do it, I cannot to purses and, later on, fashion. "Rihanna has plans to create a the cruel conditions at one of the feature graphics of birds living in a reer. What's more, the singer will thing." say no." The song, titled 'Bhardo She still loves the music and it's fashion empire. She sees herself as chain's egg suppliers, reports green pasture. feature in the film during the song's "I am a typical Pathan," he Jholi Meri', is inspired by the Sabri what launched her, but this is her a completely unique brand and the aceshowbiz.com. At the end of the letter, Gos- performance - another first for his continued, "Pyaar se mangoge, jaan brothers' original qawwali, and ac- focus right now," said a source. The last year has been all about setting "Video footage revealed abhor- ling urged Costco to go cage-free. career. "Salman called and said, haazir hai aur agar dosti ki hai toh cording to the director Kabir Khan, 27-year-old doesn't plan to keep herself up for this," Grazia maga- rent cruelty including rows and Costco is yet to respond to 'Bro, there is this particular song nibhayenge. I have never appeared is Salman's favourite: her music career on back-burner. zine quoted the source as saying. rows of birds confined in filth-laden Gosling's letter. Why can't Spider-man be black? Vidya Balan wishful of

A new batch of documents released by Wikileaks exposes the agree- playing the role Indira Gandhi ment between Marvel and Sony Pictures on mandatory traits for the Spider-man character, includ- ing the requirement for him to be Caucasian and heterosexual . With Hollywood trapped in a web of its own making, the social me- dia has rightly crawled in to feast. Let s be clear: Filmmakers have a right to make their characters any colour they want. Creating a Cau- casian Spider-man doesn t make one racist, but making his white- ness mandatory, as if the plot is somehow hinged on his skin co- lour, is quite disturbing. The rea- son for that is something I can safe- ly illustrate with a personal exam- ple. I ve been an impassioned writ- er and storyteller as far as my memory serves me, and in all my earliest stories and unpublished short novels, I recall almost exclu- sively using white characters. One might ask why a 12-year old Pindi boy, born and raised in a distinctly Western arts into global media has ly white city. Characters of other must remain white and straight. Punjabi household, miles away helped normalise white people for ethnicities, "exotic" geographical After all, how ridiculous would it It seems like a plethora of biopics films based on the lives of late sing- was in Bengali not Hindi and also from the nearest Kevin or people of colour in most parts of locations, "odd" gender types, or be if someone remade Blade with are lining up for Bollywood beau- er Subbulakshmi and late actress because Vidya believed that one of Jane , would rely so heavily on the world, the inverse has not hap- "questionable" sexual orientations, the Daywalker being played by a ty Vidya Balan after immense ap- Suchitra Sen. It was also heard that the granddaughters of Suchitra Sen, white characters living in predom- pened. People nearly everywhere would serve as interesting side-sto- white actor? preciation for her role in Dirty Pic- she was approached for the role of Raima Sen would be fit for the role inantly white countries. would be shocked if I admitted that ries at best. Also read: Muslim su- Authenticity buffs are per- ture where she played a character our late politician Shaheed Bena- because of resemblance with the The answer is obvious. The I don t know what Christmas is, perhero series 'Buraaq' aims to dis- haps not aware that almost every inspired from Silk Smitha. She has zir Bhutto. However, Vidya denied late legendary actress. children of Pakistani upper-mid- but a white American would be pel myths about Islam Being character detail and plot element become the diva-in-demand for being offered the role of Benazir It was a Bengali film. At least, dle class and elite families are drip- easily excused for not knowing white, cis-gender and straight is in the Spider-man franchise has biographical films. Bhutto. I don t know where this if it was a Hindi film, it was still fed American movies, cartoons, Eid and what it represents. relatable. Any other trait on the evolved remarkably from how it According to DNA, Vidya Benazir Bhutto biopic story has okay that I looked completely dif- and imagery of white superheroes. From an early age, I had sub- main character would be too dis- was originally portrayed in the wishes to play the character of come from. I was not even offered ferent from her. But for a Bengali The influx of Japanese anime is mitted to a Eurocentric, heteronor- tracting. After all, we ve witnessed comic book. Indira Gandhi on celluloid. In- the film. How would I even refuse film, I just thought when there is a barely half a generation old, which mative view of the world, realising a similar kerfuffle when Idris Elba, The previous Gwen Stacey, dira Gandhi. I just find her to be so something I have not been of- Raima Sen, it didn t make any much more often than not, is reli- that to optimise my chances of glo- a black British actor, was rumoured played by Mary Jane Watson, was charismatic, powerful and yet so fered? the actress said. sense for me to do it. Though I ant on stereotypical portrayals of bal success, my protagonists to have been chosen to play the a redhead, as opposed to the com- mysterious. You don t know about Read: I am very selfish as an would have loved to play her and Japanese people for the interest would have to conform to the same next James Bond. Many Spider- ic book blonde. And Peter Parker the person Indira Gandhi. So it actor: Vidya Balan the script was very good, Raima and amusement of mostly West- character traits made mandatory man fans have scoffed at my in- meets her at the university, unlike would be a great biopic to star in, However, she was approached looks so much like her grandmom ern audiences. by Hollywood: white, preferably dignation, citing authenticity as in the movie where they meet in expressed the actress. for Suchitra Sen s biopic but she Suchitra Sen and I thought it will While the generous infusion of male, and living in a predominant- the reason for why Spider-man high school. Vidya was also offered to play chose not to do it because the film look more credible, said Vidya. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . JUNE 26, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Sri Lanka trouble Pakistan with two early wickets

COLOMBO: Pakistan lost two the toss and opted to bat first. replacing the injured Dilruwan early wickets in their start to the Senior batsman Younis Khan Perera. second Test against Sri Lanka at made his 100th Test appearance Sri Lanka captain Angelo the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on for Pakistan, who went in with the Mathews was happy to get the Thursday. As umpires called an end same team that won the first Test first use of the pitch for his to the first session, Pakistan were in Galle by 10 wickets. bowlers. We were looking to bowl sailing at 70/2 in 23 overs. Spin is our strength so we are first, Mathews said. It will defi- Mohammad Hafeez and Younis just going to bat first and get the nitely have a bit for the seamers in Khan were unbeaten on the crease advantage of bowling last, the first couple of sessions. at scores of 31 and two respec- Misbah said at the toss while con- Teams Pakistan: Ahmed Shehzad, tively. Ahmed Shehzad was the gratulating the 37-year-old Younis Mohammad Hafeez, Azhar Ali, first man to depart after scoring for the feat. Little bit grass on the Younus Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq one run. Following Shehzad's dis- pitch but still I think in Sri Lanka (captain), Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz missal, Hafeez and Azhar Ali es- with the kind of weather it is going Ahmed, Wahab Riaz, Junaid Khan, tablished a promising stand of 46 to get slower later on and assist Yasir Shah, Zulfiqar Babar Sri runs, before the latter was caught the spinner. Sri Lanka made two Lanka: Kaushal Silva, Dimuth behind on 26. It was a tricky call changes to their bowling attack Karunaratne, Kumar Sangakkara,

BERLIN: Liverpool have agreed to 28 million pounds ($44.13 million). "Liverpool had been watching Following a disappointing sign Brazil international Roberto Firmino has been outstanding all along and acted fastest to put campaign in which the club could Firmino pending a medical that will at Hoffenheim, maturing from an together a deal for Firmino, who only finish sixth in the league, take place after his participation exuberant teenager to team leader will be exhibiting his mesmerising Firmino is the latest player to join at the Copa America, the Premier despite his young age and attract- skills at Anfield from August." Liverpool in a hectic start to the League club confirmed on Wednes- ing the interest of several top Eu- Versatile and skilled, Firmino summer transfer window after the day. The gifted 23-year-old attack- ropean clubs in the process. can play a variety of roles in at- departure of long-time captain ing midfielder is moving to Anfield The Reds have seen off seri- tack and midfield and his develop- Steven Gerrard. from Germany's Hoffenheim, ous competition from rivals in the ment in the past few seasons saw Midfielder James Milner, where he played since 2010, scor- Barclays Premier League and him earn a first Brazil cap last year. striker Danny Ings and goalkeeper referred to the TV umpire as from the first Test and handed a Lahiru Thirimanne, Angelo ing 47 goals in 151 appearances. across Europe to make it Anfield He has also started Brazil's last two Adam Bogdan have all completed Angelo Matthews' men celebrated debut to 23-year-old paceman Mathews (captain), Kithuruwan No details were given regard- where the goalscoring instincts and fixtures at the Copa America, scor- Bosman moves, while promising the decision being turned in their Dushmantha Chameera, replacing Vithanage, Dinesh Chandimal, ing the transfer fee or length of creative flair of Firmino can con- ing the winner against Venezuela defender Joe Gomez joined the favour. For Sri Lanka, Dhammika Nuwan Pradeep. Off-spinner Dhammika Prasad, Tharindu contract, although the deal was re- tinue to blossom, Liverpool said as his country advanced to the last club from Charlton Athletic for 3.5 Prasad claimed both wickets. Pa- Tharindu Kaushal, 22, will also Kaushal, Rangana Herath, ported to cost Liverpool around in a statement." eight of the competition. million pounds. kistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq won play only his second Test after Dushmantha Chameera Becker worried about tennis' India seeking origin future post Federer, Nadal German former world number one unimpressed by the lack of consistent challengers on the men's tour. players to stop football rot

n the wake of a humbling World Cup qualifying defeat by IGuam, India's football associa- tion has approached the govern- ment to allow players of Indian origin to join the national squad, a top official of the national federa- tion said. Insisting it was a short-term measure, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has written to the sports ministry seeking an ex- ception to the existing rule which states only Indian passport hold- ers can represent the country. We need our national team to do well or everybody will lose in- terest and football will lose atten- tion Subrata Dutta , AIFF VP "Two years ago, Guam had no team but their new coach went around the United States looking for players of Guam origin and found 10 who play in Major League Soccer," Tennis' popularity might take a hit Slams. What if Roger decides to 2015 tournament starts on June 29. AIFF Vice-President Subrata Dutta once Roger Federer and Rafa Nad- quit or Rafa is not coming back? Nadal, meanwhile, is a 14-time told Reuters. al announce their retirements giv- Boris Becker, Former world num- Grand Slam winner but has fallen "Those players are much bet- en the lack of consistent challeng- ber one "I think the men's side is in to 10th in the rankings, his worst ter than those who played for the ers, according to former world num- a very healthy state," said the 47- in a decade. He has also been seed- Guam national team. These play- ber one Boris Becker. year-old Becker who is currently ed 10th for Wimbledon which is ers have come from a system and Neither player is showing signs coaching world number one Djok- his lowest at the tournament. Beck- and Turkmenistan. India, boasting badminton's success story India's English coach Stephen Con- play in a competitive league. a population of 1.2 billion and long "But we also need our nation- stantine has already identified sev- of considering retirement but Beck- ovic. "We have an increase in pop- er mentioned that Australian "The coach requested them and er, a six-time Grand Slam champi- ularity from over 10 years ago and youngsters like Nick Kyrgios, who dubbed a sleeping giant of world al team to do well or everybody eral footballers of Indian origin and convinced them to play for their football by FIFA, have lost both will lose interest and football will the AIFF will approach them if on, feared that the sport could not the numbers are staggering. "But famously upset Nadal at Wimble- country and Guam is a much bet- carry on with just Novak Djokov- the question has to be asked: what don last year, and Thanasi Kokki- their matches. Dutta said India's lose attention. Our youth teams they receive approval from the ter team now." national team standards have de- will also need time to be groomed government. ic and Andy Murray who, togeth- if Roger decides to quit or Rafa is nakis had good personalities and Guam, the US territory in the er with Nadal and Federer, are not coming back? It's impossible were exciting to watch. "But clined and needed "emergency for the next level but we can't let While the list includes former North Pacific Ocean with a popu- treatment" to achieve short-term our national team keep losing. Newcastle United striker Michael termed the 'Big Four'. to carry on with only Novak and there's a gap in between and there lation of little more than 170,000, These four have dominated Andy." Federer is currently ranked are players you don't know any- goals. "For the long-term we have "But reinforcing the team with Chopra, 24-year-olds Luciano are coached by Englishman Gary a grass-root and youth football de- home-grown players is not giving Narsingh of Netherlands and men's tennis for the past decade, number two and will target a record thing about. In two or three years' White and have won both their sharing 41 of the last 48 Grand eighth Wimbledon crown when the time, we have to be careful." velopment plan, aided by FIFA. us the desired result." Harmeet Singh of Norway are also matches in the pool against India Feature: Saina Nehwal: Indian Local media has reported that on the radar. Callum Smith hopes to take on Rocky Fielding Former Danish champion cyclist and George Groves after Christopher Rebrasse Nicki Sorensen admits doping past against him. I just want to become a world champion. "I think me beat- Former Danish champion road ing Groves for a world title is a cyclist and Tour de France rider much bigger fight than me beating Nicki Sorensen has admitted dop- some American. Britain loves a ing during the early part of his ca- domestic fight. I'd like him to win reer. The admission comes a day it but if he doesn't, I'll go after ahead of the release of a report into whoever's champion. "There are doping in Danish cycling between many British super-middleweights 1998 and 2015 by Anti-Doping who believe they can go on and Denmark (ADD) and the Sports become world champions so the Confederation of Denmark (DIF) next year or two is going to be re- following a three-year investiga- ally exciting. There are a lot of big tion. Sorensen, a four-time Danish fights in British boxing. If I can be national road race champion be- involved in them then why not?" tween 2003 and 2011, retired last I'm not calling Groves out person- year but remained with the ally I've got nothing against him. Tinkoff-Saxo team as their sport- I just want to become a world ing director. "I've doped, I've champion. Smith was last in ac- admitted that fully and wholly. I'm tion in May when he stopped saddened by it and I wish I could Olegs Fedotovs in the first round go back and undo it," Sorensen told in Birmingham. He is relishing a the Danish daily BT on Monday. Callum Smith looks set to play a hoping to stake his claim for a shot for it and it's a great belt to win. If return to home turf against a tough "It was in the early years of my lead role in a golden age for British at the super-middleweight big that fight comes, I'd jump at it. It's opponent in front of the Sky career and it's more than 10 years boxing starting on Friday night time, Smith revealed he would a fight I'm 100 per cent confident Sports cameras a chance to show behind me. It was my own deci- when he headlines a Sky Sports have no qualms about facing his I'd win." Looking further ahead, fight fans why he is being billed as sion to do it." Sorensen denied that Fight Night by taking on Christo- fellow Liverpudlian for the Brit- Smith is hopeful of seeing Groves the next big thing. Smith said: "I've his former team boss Bjarne Riis, pher Rebrasse. The unbeaten su- ish title later in the year. Bet relieve Badou Jack of the WBC boxed all over the country and en- the 1996 Tour de France cham- tect him. Rasmussen claims the would push me into silence and I per-middleweight will fight in front nowBet £5 get £20 free Smith told super-middleweight title and bring joyed every minute of it but it's pion, was involved in encouraging ADD attempted to selectively edit had to destroy the documents I had of his home fans at Liverpool's Sky Sports: "That is a big fight in it back to Britain to defend it nothing compared to fighting in him to dope in any way. parts of his testimony and sent him received. It is quite unequivocal, Echo Arena and is full of confi- Liverpool. We're both undefeated against a growing swarm of domes- front of my own fans in my own The ADD report has already a letter requesting that he sign a Rasmussen told Ekstra Bladet. dence ahead of facing Rebrasse (23- and there's a lot of demand for that tic 12 stone fighters. He said: "The city. "I never boast about my own been criticised prior to its release new version of the report, while I have declared myself ready 3-3-KO6), who took world title fight. If we both come through Fri- WBC is the one I'm ranked highly power. People see I've got a lot of by Danish rider Michael destroying the copy of the old re- to tell the truth, and I have signed challenger George Groves the dis- day then we'll sit down and talk. with so that's the route I'm going early wins but I don't go out look- Rasmussen who said testimony port which he had signed in April. that I will speak the truth. I have tance in September last year. With "I'd love to win the British title. to go. I'm not calling Groves out ing for it. I'm just improving and regarding Sorensen's doping had It is very clear from the text not signed that I will conceal the Rocky Fielding also on the bill and I've seen my three brothers fight personally I've got nothing maturing. been omitted in an effort to pro- that was sent to me that they truth. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. FRIDAY . JUNE 26. 2015 -Saratan 05, 1394 H.S Vol:IX Issue No:320 Price: Afs.15

ISIS seizes UN urges Israel parts of Syria s to ease travel for Hasakeh PALESTINIANS U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged Is- ty of life of Palestinians." Gaza, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria rael on Wednesday to ease restric- ruled by the Islamist movement (ISIS) group fighters entered the tions on travel for Palestinians be- Hamas and ravaged by three wars northeastern Syrian city of tween the Gaza Strip and the oc- in the past six years, is under a Hasakeh overnight, seizing two cupied West Bank for Ramadan blockade, with Israel maintaining neighborhoods from government prayers. Israel has eased restric- strict control over the entry and forces in heavy clashes, a moni- tions on Palestinians seeking to exit of goods and people. The lat- toring group said on Thursday. enter Jerusalem for Friday prayers est cancellations of travel permits At least 30 regime loyalists and at Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third- only applied to this week, Israel 20 ISIS jihadists were killed in the holiest site, for Ramadan. But the said, meaning it should resume next fighting, which continued into Jewish state announced earlier week allowing up to 800 Gazans Thursday morning, the Syrian Wednesday that it was revoking to travel for Friday prayers to Al- Observatory for Human Rights permits for 500 Palestinians from Aqsa, the third holiest site in Is- said. The Britain-based group said the Gaza Strip to enter Jerusalem lam. Pro-Palestinian activists the ISIS attack began late on for prayers during the holy Mus- aboard a flotilla of boats plan to Wednesday, with the jihadist group lim month because of rocket fire reach the shores of the Gaza Strip using at least one suicide bomber Iranian Foreign Minister Moham- Friday evening to join the negoti- day evening to join the negotiating tions are widely expected to slide from the Palestinian enclave. Ban by the end of the month, in their against a militia checkpoint during mad Javad Zarif will fly to Vienna ating team," ISNA said. Zarif plans team," the ISNA agency reported. past that date. "welcomes Israel's measures to latest bid to break Israel's block- its advance. "Heavy fighting is on Friday evening from Tehran to to join the talks on Saturday, ISNA The major powers in the talks Zarif met with his European ease some restrictions on Palestin- ade of the tiny coastal enclave. continuing, with shelling by both join nuclear talks between Iran and added. U.S. Secretary of State John - Britain, China, France, Germa- counterparts in Luxembourg on ians from the West Bank and But Feltman said the U.N. sides," Observatory director Rami world powers, Iran's ISNA news Kerry will also fly to Vienna on ny, Russia and the United States - Monday and said he saw a good Gaza," Under-Secretary-General secretary-general "continues to Abdel Rahman said. He said ISIS agency reported on Thursday. Friday, the State Department said. reached a framework accord with chance of reaching a final agree- for Political Affairs Jeffrey Felt- believe that a flotilla will not help had taken control of two southern "The head of Iran's nuclear del- "The head of Iran's nuclear delega- Iran in April. A deadline of June 30 ment by the deadline or a few days man told the Security Council. "He to address the dire situation in districts of the city. "Civilians in egation will depart for Vienna on tion will depart for Vienna on Fri- was set for the deal, but negotia- later. encourages Israel to sustain and Gaza." those areas and nearby are fleeing expand these confidence-building A similar attempt five years to the northern parts of the city," measures which enable the legiti- ago ended in bloodshed, after Is- he added. Control of Hasakeh, a mate movement of people and raeli commandos staged a botched provincial capital, is divided be- goods in and between Gaza and pre-dawn raid on a flotilla, killing tween Kurdish militia and govern- Heatwave death toll in Sindh tops 1,000 the West Bank including East- 10 Turkish activists and triggering ment loyalists. Kurdish forces are Jerusalem, and improve the quali- a diplomatic crisis with Ankara. mostly present in the city's north KARACHI: While the punishing evening. Of them, 207 died since Sat- and northwest. heatwave gripping Karachi since urday. The officials said 15 people ISIS has sought repeatedly to Saturday showed signs of subsid- died in Hyderabad, two in Naush- enter Hasakeh, including earlier this ing, the death toll across Sindh rose ahro Feroze and five in Badin, bring- Australia spy agency denies month when it advanced to the to 1,011, with at least 229 fatali- ing the five-day tally to 61 recorded southern outskirts of the city be- ties reported on Wednesday by in other districts of Sindh. Mean- terror maps a security breach fore regime forces pushed it back government and private hospitals. while, moving scenes were witnessed in heavy fighting. Wednesday s figures included in hospitals across the city where the five-day tally of 23 deaths re- relatives were seen crying with am- ported by a private hospital which bulances arriving one after another. Saudi, Emirati had not released it earlier. Officials People, youths in particular, contin- said that about 40,000 people had ued to donate medicines, juices and soldiers killed suffered heatstroke and as many bottled water to patients as well as as 7,500 of them were treated in hospitals. WEATHER: The hot and ON YEMEN Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Cen- humid weather got milder and a change tre (JPMC), where 311 people of wind pattern brought some respite BORDER died. More than 1,000 of the from the suffocating heat. After al- Three Saudi soldiers and an Emir- 40,000 heatstroke victims have recorded in government-run health treated in different health facilities. most a week, the maximum temper- ati have been killed on Saudi Ara- died since Saturday evening, of facilities and 221 in private hospi- The gravity of the situation could ature dropped to 37 degrees Celsius bia s border with Yemen, where which 950 deaths were reported tals. The officials said the number be gauged from the fact that only on Wednes•day. The minimum tem- Riyadh is a leading a bombing cam- in Karachi alone, said a senior of- of patients arriving in hospitals had Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and other perature was 30.5 degrees Cels•ius, paign against Iran-backed militia, ficial. According to the figures col- significantly dropped with the hospitals run by the Karachi with humidity a measure of the state media said Thursday. lected from various hospitals, of weather getting better, yet there Metro•po•litan Corporation treated amount of moisture in the air 63 Two Saudi troops were killed the 950 deaths in Karachi, 729 were were thousands of patients being 17,382 patients till Wednes•day per cent. Australia has been increasingly concerned about the flow of fighters to at sunset Wednesday when a rock- Iraq and Syria to join extremist groups such as ISIS. (Reuters) et landed in the Jizan region, the Saudi-led coalition said in a state- US allows hostages families Australia s domestic spy agency carefully edited and were unclas- ment carried by the SPA state news Indian education Thursday played down concerns sified. The content of the docu- agency. It did not specify the source that maps shown in a media brief- ments did not compromise national of fire but cross-border shelling by to pay ransom to kidnappers Yemeni Shiite Houthi militia has ing revealing the source of home- security. The statement contrasted minister to face court grown fighters travelling to the with earlier comments by ASIO to become frequent since Riyadh WASHINGTON: The White these discussions, said the Com- launched an air campaign against Middle East were classified, after the Australian Broadcasting Cor- House announced a major policy mittee to Protect Journalists while fears their publication was a secu- poration, when it reportedly said them late March. The statement over fake degree change on Wednesday, declaring welcoming the decision. For too said a Saudi border guard was also rity breach. The maps, which re- the maps were for official use that families of American hostages long, American journalists have been vealed the Sydney and Melbourne only following the open media killed at the Alab crossing point in gree but in 2014 ahead of the seeking to negotiate with or pay doubly victimised-first by the kid- the Asir region, without elaborat- general elections she claimed she ransom to the abductors will not napping itself and then by the poor- suburbs where fighters heading to briefing. The ABC said it was also ing. On Monday, an Emirati sol- had pursued a degree in commerce. be threatened with criminal prose- ly coordinated US response to the join jihadists came from, were pho- told ASIO would appreciate if dier died in a border skirmish with Cognisance is taken. The cution. The White House will also tragic incidents, said CPJ Execu- tographed and filmed by journal- you do not publish the docu- Huthi fighters, the statement add- matter be now fixed for pre-sum- create an office to work with the tive Director Joel Simon. Over the ists during a meeting Wednesday ments. However, the ABC and ed. The UAE is part of the Saudi- moning evidence on August 28, families of the hostages. US Pres- years there has been a significant between Prime Minister Tony Ab- other media did publish photos and led coalition that has been pound- judge Akash Jain said, according ident Barack Obama ordered a re- shift in hostage-takings by terrorist bott and spy chief Duncan Lewis. video footage of the briefing, in- ing Yemen militia since March 26 to the Press Trust of India. The view of the policy following the organisations and criminal groups. The Labor opposition attempted cluding the maps. Lewis told Ab- in support of exiled President Abe- murder in 2014 of kidnapped US Instead of engaging in prolonged ne- to move a motion in parliament bott during the briefing that the drabbu Mansour Hadi. At least 43 allegation against Irani comes just weeks after Delhi s law minister, freelance journalists James Foley gotiations, they have started mur- Thursday condemning Abbott and color-coded maps were being used people, civilians and troops, have and Steven Sotloff. There has dering the hostages. They also re- the government. The House con- by the agency for counter-radical- now lost their lives in shelling and from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), was arrested on suspicion of fak- been concern expressed by fami- lease videos of these particularly demns the prime minister and the ization efforts. skirmishes along the border since lies of hostages about potential brutal acts such as burning a pris- the campaign began. ing his law degree. Jitendra Singh government for putting politics The government has been in- Tomar, who held a number of port- prosecutions of family members oner alive or decapitating him to before the security of Australians creasingly concerned about the More than 2,600 people have under the statute prohibiting the bring pressure on the their families been killed inside Yemen in months folios in the Delhi government in- by revealing sensitive information flow of fighters to Iraq and Syria cluding justice, then resigned after provision of material support to and governments. Other less publi- of the Australian Security Intelli- to join extremist groups such as of fighting between the militia and designated foreign terrorist organ- cised cases of Ameri•cans held hos- pro-government forces. NEW DELHI: A Delhi court agreed a court charged him with criminal gence Organization for the sake of Islamic State, with some 120 Aus- isations, said White House Press tage overseas, including several who a media opportunity, read the tralians already in the region. on Wednesday to hear a complaint conspiracy, cheating and forgery. Secretary Josh Earnest while ex- remain in captivity, are no less trag- alleging that India s education min- The latest case has sparked strong plaining the new policy. The ic and have presented the US gov- motion, which was defeated. But Canberra Wednesday pro- Cameron's EU ister lied about her college degree, demands from opposition leaders United States Department of Jus- ernment with a similar set of diffi- ASIO said the maps were not clas- posed a bill to strip citizenship reform drive triggering calls for her resignation. from both the AAP and Congress tice does not intend to add to fam- cult choices. The government s sified. The director-general of se- from dual nationals with links to The petition claims Federal Party for Irani s resignation, say- ilies pain in such cases by sug- handling of these hostage cases curity (Lewis) confirms the docu- terrorism. The new laws, if passed, sidelined at tense Education Minister Smriti Irani ing she had no moral or constitu- gesting that they could face crimi- and in particular its interaction and ments used in the briefing were not could even apply to Australians made contradictory declarations tional or legal right to continue as nal prosecution, said the official communication with families whose the subject of a national security who have never stepped foot out summit about her college degree in differ- education minister. But Prime statement. Journalists working in loved ones have been taken hostage classification, the spy organiza- of the country. About half of the Minister Narendra Modi s govern- British Prime Minister David ent years to electoral authorities. high-risk environments are partic- must improve, said the White tion said in a statement about the Australian fighters overseas are The complaint says that in ment quickly rejected all calls for ularly vulnerable to kidnapping, House while explaining the need for briefing at ASIO headquarters in believed by the government to be Cameron will arrive at an EU sum- her removal. mit in Brussels on Thursday to 2004 Irani said she had an arts de- and so they have a direct stake in a new policy. Canberra. The documents were dual nationals. find his referendum reform push sidelined by twin crises over Greece and migration. Rather than a lengthy conversation about the Chinese who buy children Miracle mother and baby reforms Britain wants, sources ex- pect European leaders to discuss the issue only briefly on Thurs- TO BE PROSECUTED: REPORT survive Colombia plane crash day night before agreeing to move to the next stage in the process -- BEIJING: Buyers of abducted chil- Buyers of kidnapped children from Shanxi province in northern technical talks. Cameron's plans to dren in China will face criminal can be sentenced to up to three China whose daughter was kid- recast Britain's relationship with punishment under proposed laws years in jail, but are exempt from napped in 2008 when she was the European Union before a ref- that would remove an exemption criminal proceedings if they have nine. erendum on leaving the bloc by the from prosecution, reports said not abused the children or ob- I think those who buy chil- end of 2017 have hogged headlines at home since he won last month's Thursday, as authorities clamp structed efforts to rescue them. dren should be punished, and the general election. But for other Eu- down on the flourishing child traf- The revised criminal law will elim- proposed law will promote Chi- ropean countries battling to keep ficking industry. More than 13,000 inate the exception and increase na's anti-baby trafficking cam- Greece in the eurozone and grap- children were rescued by police in penalties for those who buy chil- paign, said Feng, who has set up pling with an influx of migrants China last year, the China Daily dren , the state-run newspaper an information-sharing website from Middle East and African trou- said, with demand for stolen said, without specifying potential which has seen 14children reunit- ble spots, substantive talks on the youngsters fuelled by a traditional sentences. Buyers would receive ed with their biological parents. issue as a group will have to wait. preference for sons and a one-child a less severe penalty if they did Currently people do not break Britain has stayed out of the euro- limit for some couples. Current not abuse the child or attempt to the law if they buy children, so zone and is opting out of a very law imposes harsh sentences for hinder rescue efforts, it added. the trafficking business is rampant controversial programme to relo- child trafficking, including the The revised law was wel- in China, he told AFP. Parents of cate migrants around the EU. Cam- death penalty in certain cases. comed by Feng Jianlin, a father missing children commonly use eron said that Thursday and Fri- the Internet to search for their off- day's summit, the first time the spring, and thousands have post- bloc will discuss the reform push Yudier Moreno, not yet one year old, was uninjured in the accident, while his mother had wounds and minor burns collectively, would "kick off a pro- ed photos of babies and toddlers cess to work through the substance on website Baby Come Home, as well as sharing information on A mother and her infant son who accident," Colonel Hector Carras- statement. The plane's pilot, Cap- and to find solutions." A senior EU disappeared in a plane crash in the cal, the commander of the Colom- tain Carlos Mario Ceballos, died diplomat speaking on condition of Feng's website. Child trafficking has grown into a huge problem in dense jungle of western Colombia bian air force in Antioquia, told AFP in the crash and rescuers found his anonymity added: "I don't detect have been found alive and well five news agency."His mother's spirit body in the aircraft. at the moment, given where we are, China, where this year alone po- lice have broken up criminal gangs days later in what authorities have must have given him strength to They discovered the doors of the that there is an enormous appetite described as a "miracle". Nelly survive." plane ajar and suspected that sur- to have a big, comprehensive dis- found keeping babies in disused cussion of the British question." mortuaries and confining pregnant Murillo, 18, and her son Yudier Murillo and her baby were taken vivors may have clambered out. A Many European countries re- women to factories before selling Moreno, not yet one year old, were by helicopter to a nearby hospital 14-person search-and-rescue team main wary of Cameron's plans. their newborns. Earlier this year, a found on Wednesday close to the with minor injuries, said Carras- scoured the dense forest before French economy minister Emman- Chinese mother in the central prov- site where the Cessna 303 crashed cal, adding that he was stunned finding the mother and child. The uel Macron warned against creat- ince of Henan was charged with on Saturday in thick vegetation they were alive. "The lady has plane was travelling between Nu- ing an "EU a la carte" in a BBC human trafficking for allegedly con- near Quibdo in the province of wounds and minor burns and ap- qui and Quibdo in western Colom- interview Wednesday, expressing spiring with a doctor to sell her Choco. "It's a miracle. It is a very parently the child is unharmed," bia when it crashed. Investigators a concern shared by many. baby boy for almost $7,000. wild area and it was a catastrophic the Colombian air force said in a were looking at the cause. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.