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The Russian Presidential Spe- cial Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov has said the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghani- stan are looking to expand to Cen- tral Asia and Russia. Kabulov, who is also the head By Akhtar M.Nikzad KABUL: The night before Kab- ul’s suicide attack, President Ashraf Ghani met some members of the parliament to discuss security sit- uation, the lawmakers said of the Asia and Middle East de- Wednesday. partment of the Russian foreign “President Ghani marked the ministry, said the number of the next six months bloody for Afghan- loyalists of the terror group has istan as militants intensified at- significantly increased in Afghani- tacks,” the lawmakers who met stan. Ghani, told parliament session. “There are now 10,000 IS fight- A suicide bomber detonated ers in Afghanistan. A year ago there his explosive-laden truck near an was a hundred. This growth over a intelligence facility in Pul-e-Mah- year is spectacular,” he told report- moud Khan area in Kabul, in which ers. 64 people mostly civilians were Kabulov further added “The killed and 347others injured. Afghan branch of IS is definitely MPs said that president specialized against Central Asia. Ghani expressed his deep concern Russian is even one of their work- over security situation and asked ing languages,” Kabulov added. them to offer security schemes to “They are being trained against take practical measures against in- Central Asia and Russia.” surgents. The remarks by Kabulov “Ghani said that we can play comes as a spokesman for the US- significant roles in supporting Af- led coalition forces in Afghanistan ghan National Security Forces,” earlier said the Islamic State of Iraq MP, Zahir Sadat said. and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group “Pakistan’s spy agency has has the potential to be an ‘enor- launched a proxy war in Afghani- mous’ threat in Afghanistan. stan,” said Sher Wali Wardak, an- The chief of communications other parliamentarian. “Peace talks for the coalition, Brigadier Gener- are also a trick of Islamabad to al Charles Cleveland, has said the keep our government busy to fur- threat exists despite the group has ther fuel insurgency in the coun- received major setbacks during the try,” Wardak said. recent months, pointing towards Afghans were hopeful to the growing US forces airstrikes peace and security after the Bilat against the loyalists of the terror See P2 group. “Obviously, we’ve all seen them, how rapidly they are able to spread, in other parts of the Iran’s Larijani hails world,” Gen. Cleveland said dur- ing a briefing at Pentagon. Afghanistan’s According to Gen. Cleveland, between January and March, the progress in United States has carried out 70 to 80 airstrikes against ISIS in Af- anti-terror fight ghanistan. Kabul deadliest attack China supports Afghan membership in SCO AT News Report death toll jumps to 64 KABUL: The National Security talks with Atmar, Wang Yi said that firmed that China was supporting that the Afghan government is By M. Sadiq Yousafi Umar Azizi, Chief of the National Adviser, Mohammad Hanif Atmar China supported full membership Afghanistan’s stance and fight thankful to China for supporting Directorate of Security for capital met with Wang Yi, China’s Minis- Afghanistan’s full membership at KABUL: The death toll from the Kabul told newsmen on Wednes- ter of Foreign Affairs, in Beijing SCO. Tuesday’s deadliest Taliban attack day. the other day. “Afghanistan hope this will TEHRAN: Iran’s Parliament incapital Kabul jumped to 64, and See P2 The two sides held in-depth transform Afghanistan into regions Speaker Ali Larijani said the Af- the number of injured persons to talks about expansion of bilateral connecting point,” he added. He ghan government has made some 347, several of them still in hospi- 33 insurgents relation, China’s economic coop- furthered that ANDSF were fight- progress in its fight against terror- tals under treatment, according to eration with Afghanistan and fight ing against terrorists and terrorism ism, calling for regional countries’ security officials. killed, 35 against terrorism, National Securi- threats on behalf of all region and assistance in the anti-terrorism “With regrets to announce in ty Council spokesman, Tawab world. campaign. yesterday’s (Tuesday) attack, 64 wounded in Ghorzang said in his twitter count. “So equipping ANDSF would Larijani held a meeting with his of our innocent countrymen had Wang Yi offered condolences help both.” Furthermore, Atmar re- Afghan counterpart in the Russian been killed and 347 were injured, raids: MoD to Afghan National Security Advi- of Afghanistan at Shanghai Coop- against terrorism and would pro- iterated that Afghan government capital, Moscow, on Wednesday most of them civilians” Sediq Sedi- AT News Report sor, on the barbaric terrorist attack eration Organization (SCO), he vide military aid, training to Af- would not conduct any peace talks on the sidelines of the first meet- qi, spokesman for the Ministry of in Kabul that martyred and injured asserted. ghan National Defense and Securi- with terrorist and those who are ing of Eurasian parliamentary KABUL: The Afghan security forc- Afghan civilians, he said. During He added that Wang Yi reaf- ty Forces (ANDSF). Atmar said supporting terrorism and violence. speakers. es in different crackdowns across During the meeting, the senior the country during past 24 hours, Kunduz: Taliban Iranian official condemned a recent had killed 33 insurgents. In addi- Ghani warns militants of revenge for killing of Afghans terrorist bomb blast in Afghani- tion 35 other militants were re- capture Qala-i-Zal stan’s capital of Kabul and ex- ceived injuries, official said on KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani, swift recovery of the wounded and so,” Ghani said, adding such at- pressed his condolences over the Wednesday. district’s bazaar deaths of tens of people in the trag- while visiting the people injured condemned the massive assault as tacks were carried out by the ene- KUDNUZ CITY: Taliban mili- The Ministry of Defense in Tuesday’s devastating attack on an anti-Islam and inhuman act, the mies of Afghans -- a euphemism ic event. (MoD) in a press statement, said tants captured the bazaar of Qala- Larijani, elsewhere in his re- an elite security agency in Kabul, statement added. for the insurgents. i-Zal district of northern Kunduz that the security forces conducted province and were closing in on marks, pointed to the recent ad- operations against insurgents in has promised revenge for the kill- “All Afghans and I raise our “All Afghans are equal and we vances by the Afghan army in its ing of innocent Afghans. voice daily for peace and reconcil- will seek revenge for each drop of the district headquarters, the different areas of Nangarhar, Ku- town’s police chief said on anti-terror military campaign, and nar, Laghman, Logar, Ghazni, At least 30 people were killed iation. But Allah enjoins upon us our people’s blood,” the president Wednesday. The rebels advanced underlined the need for other re- Maidan-Wardak, Kandahar, Zab- and more than 350 others wound- to stand united and firm against warned. The Afghan nation, hav- on the district bazaar amid an on- gional countries to help in the fight ul, Badghis, Jawzjan, Balkh, Fary- ed in car suicide attack in the Pul- those attacking us,” the statement ing 5,000 years old history and going fierce clash with security against the inauspicious phenom- Interior said in a press conference ab, Baghlan, Kundoz and Helmand i-Mahmood Khan area of the 16th quoted Ghani as saying. known for their strong resistance, forces, Col. Safiullah told Pajhwok enon. The first conference of the on Wednesday. “Some of injured provinces, in which 33 militants police district in the capital. Addressing the militants, the could not be divided, he said. Afghan News. He said at least 200 Eurasian states’ parliament speak- still need to be under treatment in were killed and 35 others were A statement from the Presi- president said they had failed to “You should know we are fol- militants attacked the district and ers, titled Inter-Parliamentary Co- wounded during operations. captured some parts of the district various hospitals of the capital” dential Palace said Ghani visited fight against the security forces on lowing the path of Allah and his centre. Meanwhile, provincial po- operation in the Interests of Joint he said. Four militants were also arrest- Prosperity of the Counties in the the injured at the Sardar Moham- the battlefield as a large number of prophet, but you are headed in a lice chief Gen. Mohammad Qasim The deadly attack which dam- ed during operations, the state- mad Daud Khan Hospital on Tues- rebels had been killed during re- wrong and devious direction,” the Jangalbagh said the Taliban also at- Eurasian Region in the 21st Cen- ment added.Unfortunately, seven aged shops and houses as far as day evening when doctors briefed cent clashes. president told the Taliban, who tacked Dasht-i-Archi district, but tury, opened in Moscow on Tues- army soldiers were killed during hundreds meters away in the cap- him on condition of the injured. “We had no intention to kill claimed responsibility for the Kab- security forces pushed them back, day. Speakers from 19 countries ital was carried out by Pakistan- operations, the statement lament- killing 10 fighters and injuring 15 are attending the meeting. based Haqqani terrorist network, ed. The presided prayed for the you, but you are forcing us to do ul bombing. others.

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Not all Afghan men are violent and disrespect women’s right but there are many who defends and advocate for women’s right. Mujib Wais Ezat’s message is strong enough to be used as a tool to advocate for gender equality and the rights of women, and encourage others to raise their voice and the opportunities they have in order to end violence against women.

A 17-year-old Afghan female mi- riorated and she was transferred gerous for the approximately 4,000 grant died on Tuesday at Laiko back to the hospital where she was refugees and migrants who stay Hospital in Athens from what ap- intubated. there. However, no steps have pears to be a series of complica- According to her parents, the been taken for the improvement tions. young woman had suffered from of the living conditions of refugees The teenager was staying with rheumatoid fever in Afghanistan. as the pertinent state agencies try her family at the makeshift migrant Doctors said this had caused se- to transfer all refugees and migrants We often see or hear in the media on his personal Facebook page on organizations are just symbolic and rights of women, and encourage camp at former Athens airport at vere heart failure, leading to four who camp there to official hospi- about violence and injustice against but the message worth to be superficial. It is not enough to have others to raise their voice and the Elliniko. The young female was cardiac arrests while she was in the tality centers. The coordinating women by men in Afghanistan. spread. women in politics and as leaders, opportunities they have in order taken to the hospital on April 14 Intensive Care Unit. committee for the refugee crisis Many people generalize what is “8th of March! we need an equal mentality to to end violence against women. for suffering abdominal pain due The cause of death is not said that on Tuesday there were happening and think Afghan men I do not want to have just flow- grasp and perceive the role of a This will also help to build posi- to gastroenteritis. Doctors decid- known, as her parents refused an 54,062 registered migrants and ref- don’t believe in gender equality ers to celebrate the “women’s woman as a human, equal to a man tive thinking toward women and ed to keep her in the hospital for autopsy. ugees in Greek territory, with 7,515 and are always violent towards day”, for me every day on the cal- and not a person who needs to be will also build the understanding treatment. Authorities worry about epi- currently on eastern Aegean is- women. This is not true. Not all endar is the eighth of March. supported by a man in order to that not all Afghan men are vio- However, the parents of the demics at Elliniko makeshift mi- lands. On Wednesday morning, a Afghan men are violent against Eight March, is celebrated as a live a secure life. lent, but there are many that re- 17-year-old chose to take her back grant camp According to Greek au- total of 150 migrant arrivals were women, and nor do all of them dis- specific day to perceive the digni- For me empowering women spect and protect women’s right. with them to the camp. During the thorities, the sanitary conditions recorded on the islands of Lesbos respect women. There are many ty and honour of the place and role with equal opportunities is to give Ezat has written that “fight- day, however, her condition dete- at the old Athens airport are dan- and Chios. Afghan men that advocate for gen- of women in society indeed. How- them the opportunity of training, ing for women’s right will always der equality and promote women’s ever, it is the best opportunity to education, employment and active be a priority for”, which shows rights. talk about their role and situation participation in all sectors of life, that he has already started his bat- Kabul deadliest To better reflect on this issue I in the society, we need to gather in this is the short-term goals to be tle in this field by sharing his pos- Use word ‘martyred’ have copied Mujib Wais Ezat – an the whole world and support achieved worldwide. We need to itive thinking toward women attack death Afghan living in Sweden since women in order to bring a signifi- work on mentality of the human through his message. And this is 2006. He received a Master’s de- cant change in their lives and sta- being, both men and women to re- one of the best ways to fight with for slain soldiers: gree in national economy and po- tus of women, a greater establish- spect each other as human being, violence, inequality and injustice toll jumps to 64 litical science from Stockholm ment is needed to fight for more not according to their gender. in relation to women and promote University and has written three equality and women rights. For me, every day on the cal- their rights. Maryam Safi, from Af- From P1 official to media books in Dari/Persian, based on There are millions of women endar is the eighth of March, and ghanistan, worked for Sanayee De- true stories. He doesn’t only be- living under the roof of harassment, fighting for women’s rights will velopment Organization (SDO), a “Initial investigation suggests JALALABAD: The governor of eastern Nangarhar province on Tues- lieve in gender equality but also intimidation, defamation and vio- always be my priority!” member of theGlobal Coalition for Haqqani Network was behind this day urged media persons and outlets to publish stories about insecuri- advocates for women’s right. On lence. In the most countries the Ezat’s message is strong Conflict Transformation, as Pro- attack and the network was in- ties based on truth and counter false enemy propaganda in this regard. International Women’s Day (8th status of women in government enough to be used as a tool to ad- gram Manager for Peacebuilding structed and directed from abroad” Salim Khan Kunduzi was addressing a ceremony that marked grad- March), a statement was posted institutions, political and social vocate for gender equality and the and Conflict Resolution. apparently referring to Pakistan, uation of 130 students from a training conducted by the National Union the official said, adding such at- of Journalists in Nangarhar. tacks take months to be planned The gathering, organized in support of Afghan security forces, was and implemented by the terrorist attended by some local officials and various media representatives. groups. The governor said he was in favour of journalistic activities and However, Sediqi informed that vowed to help reporters access information. an investigation by high-ranking “It is your duty to publish news based on facts and counter baseless officials has been working to de- propaganda of the enemy and work for unity of Afghans.” termine the dark sides of the inci- The governor said the media should use word “martyred” for slain dent, which is the deadliest since soldiers in line with the national spirit. 2011 and the first since militants The graduates were imparted a five-month training in journalism announced their spring offensives. field, according to the Journalists’ union head in Nangarhar, Shershah Primary investigation suggests Hamdard. that terrorists used a mini-truck, A graduate, Fahima, said “working facilities for women journalists full of potent explosives, to target are yet to be provided in our province.” The government should launch the back-wall of the Directorate- a public awareness programme in this regard, she added. (Pajhwok) 10, a special unit of the Afghan forces providing security for the high-ranking Afghan officials. A Taliban bomber after the blast entered to the compound and engaged with security forces for several minutes before to be killed by the Special Forces. Taliban claimed a third bomb- er succeeded to return back to his fellows alive after several hours of fighting with security forces, a claim which is not yet confirmed by the Afghan officials. The militants also claimed that around 100 employees of the spe- cial unit were killed and more than hundred injured, although Taliban exaggerate in providing casualties of the Afghan forces in their at- tacks. Sources say during the attack some personnel of the special unit was under training and most of the casualties were imposed by the powerful blast. The deadly attack which was condemned by the United Na- tions, NATO forces in Afghanistan and several other national and in- Helmand insecurity blamed JALALABAD: Incidents of mo- return home before evening as they len. “We informed the police and Attaullah Khogyani, the pro- ternational institutions also bile snatching and robberies have feared being robbed. they launched investigation, but so vincial government spokesman, sparked anger of the Afghan offi- been on the increase in the capital He said the thieves laced with far we have not been shared any said: “Some time ago many rob- cials. President, Ashraf Ghani, on ‘mismanagement’ will succeed in Helmand,” the pub- of eastern Nangarhar province, the pistols and knives used to wait for progress.” bery incidents would take place in while visiting injured persons few residents and provincial council their prey on roads. The public Shamshad TV reporter Abdul the city, the governor has directly hours after the attack in hospitals lic representative said and warned of increase in insecurities if the lead- members say. representative held police respon- Latif Ihsas recalled: “I few days the military commission to pre- warned to revenge “each drop of Robberies ranging from car-lift- sible for the matter, saying the ago, I was walking in the city and vent them.” blood” of the victims from the per- ership was not changed. However, during the past six ing to snatching mobile phones and force had been unable to prevent was talking on phone, when sud- He said a number of individu- petrators “who sever for others.” looting shops are among growing robberies despite they had many denly someone snatched my phone als had been arrested in connec- “Every day Afghans and I months, the provincial governor, police chief, military commander, incidents the residents are con- times shared people’s concern and disappeared in crowd.” He tion with robberies and theft and raised voice for peace and recon- cerned about. with the police. said such incidents had increased were currently under investigation. ciliation. But Allah enjoins upon the provincial National Director- ate of Security chief and other of- Dr. Nasir Kamawal, a member The provincial council secre- in the city. He did not provide figure for the us to stand united and firm against of the provincial council, told Pa- tary, Zabihullah Zamarai, con- Saifullah Safi, a resident of Jala- arrested persons. those attacking us,” a statement ficials have been replaced with new faces in Helmand. jhwok Afghan News these inci- firmed robberies had increased in labad, said last week he parked his Crime investigation depart- from his press office quoted the dents had lately increased in the Jalalabad, but said the same situa- car in Joy Haft area and a few min- ment has so far said nothing in this president, as saying. Reacting to Atal’s remarks, Governor Hayatullah Hayat said face of little efforts to prevent such tion prevailed in other provinces. utes later found his box containing regard. Police spokesman Hazrat Afghan Chief Executive, Ab- incidents. He hoped police would control the his camera and other tools was Hussain Mashriqiwal said police dullah Abdullah among suspicions though security problems existed in Helmand, they had chalked out “We have held meetings with situation with people’s coopera- missing from the car seat. “Despite had intensified their efforts to curb whether the attack was planned in security officials on the issue and tion. many efforts, I could not find the robberies and had arrested dozens Pakistan “postponed” his official plans to counter them. He said government officials have shared people’s concern with Zhwand civil society organi- box.” of suspects so far. visit to Islamabad, which was them in this regard,” the public rep- sation head and journalist Ikram- Civil society activist Abu “We have launched a search scheduled to be taken place on 2nd had their attention increased to- LASHKARGAH: The provincial wards strengthening security in the resentative said. He said the pro- ullah Ikram said: “About 15 days Bakkar Alizai said he was walking operation in the city and are not and 3rd May at the official invita- council chief on Wednesday said vincial administration should pre- ago, our office which is in front of past the Eid Gah mosque last week allowing pillion-riding, Mashri- tion of Pakistani Prime Minister, province and very soon a positive southern Helmand province would change would be seen. vent robberies. the fourth police district was when some gunmen intercepted tiqwal said, acknowledging robber- Nawaz Sharif. continue to face security problems Another member of the coun- robbed in broad daylight.” him and robbed him of money and ies had increased, but said if any- His office said the visit was “I am working to increase co- until its leadership was changed. ordination among security forces cil, Suhrab Qaderi, told Pajhwok He said the robbery took place his hand box. The incident terri- one had information about sus- planned to discuss mutual issues Karim Khan Atal told a press Afghan News that shopkeepers at 9am and computers and other fied him and now he used to leave pected robbers, they should share including peace and security be- and do away with shortcomings. I conference in Lashkargah, the pro- am confident the people of Hel- used to close their shops early and journalistic equipment were sto- for home early, Alizai said. it with police. (Pajhwok) tween the two countries. vincial capital, that security organs The blow was the first coordi- mand will cooperate with me in lacked coordination in Helmand doing so.” The governor said the nated attack by the Taliban, since and security officials were busy in they launched their so-called Taliban had not yet practically personal affairs. launched their Operation Omari in spring offensives “Operation He said enough security forc- Bloody months ahead: Ghani to legislators Omari” which has been repelled in Helmand but they had started a es and military gear were available mere propaganda in this regard. From P1 dozens of the Afghan provinces by in the province, but it was mis- security forces, according to offi- Hayat said areas fell to the management that had plunged Hel- Taliban during the past decade eral Security Agreement (BSA) Mirdad Nijrabi, another law- put the Afghan masses in an un- stan. Therefore, the government cials. mand into multiple security issues. “This attack by militants was would be retaken soon. was signed with the US. But all maker said that growing insecuri- certain situation. should revise the BAS,” he men- “Due to improper leadership, Currently, the Taliban are in the hopes were dashed to the ty showed that Washington was “The growing insurgency tioned. Some legislators asked for to revenge their clear defeat in bat- the security forces are under pres- tlefields in Kunduz and several control of Baghran, Deshu, Musa ground as insecurity and evil de- not honest with the Afghans. shows that there is no determina- the removal of the High Peace sure and if the same situation con- Qala, Nawzad districts and some signs of the insurgent groups are He stressed that the US silence tion in the US administration for Council, as it had no gains in talks other provinces, where they suf- tinues, Taliban’s Omari offensive fered heavy casualties” Sediqi said. other areas. intensifying. against increasing of conflict has removing terrorists from Afghani- with the militant outfits. 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. THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghanistan’s endless fighting season Bottom Line Up Front: • An April 19 suicide truck bombing outside a government security building in downtown Kabul killed at least 30 people and injured hun- dreds more in the deadliest attack in the capital in five years• The Taliban claimed responsibility for what the UN deputy special rep- resentative for Afghanistan called a possible war crime due to the use of high explosives against ci- vilians • The so-called ‘fighting season’ in Afghanistan might her- ald more high-profile attacks, but EMERGENCY the fighting continues year-round ALLS and the government continues to C struggle to combat the threat• As in Iraq, the U.S. will likely once Police again increase its military involve- ment in Afghanistan, with no near- term prospects for meaningful 100 - 119 improvement..The April 19 sui- cide truck bombing in downtown Hospitals Kabul targeted the government department responsible for provid- FMIC Hospital ing security to high-level officials in a crowded area of the capital. Behind Kabul Medical The attack, which killed at least University: 30 and injured hundreds more, was 0202500200-+93793275595 Ehsan Azizi, a 24-year-old Afghan the deadliest attack in Kabul since man, worked as a translator from Kazakhstan's 2011. It sent the message that the 2012 to 2014 with the NATO mis- government is not only unable to Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital sion in Afghanistan. Daesh fighters from 70 Ambassador to protect civilians, but its own se- Pule Bagh-e- Umomi His employers promised him curity services as well. The capi- and his family safe passage to Eu- Afghanistan says tal has been relatively quiet in 070263672 rope but, as it turned out those terms of attacks in recent months, promises were just empty words. countries, analysis shows about the level though much of the rest of the Ehsan did manage to get to Eu- country faces constant pressure Khairkhana Hospital rope but without any help from Analysis of a windfall of data from The analysis provided not ers, it also needs personnel to fill of diplomatic from the Taliban as well as a resil- 0799-321007 his employers. He was faced with inside Daesh shows fighters of only a composite picture of the roles like conventional soldiers, ient al-Qaeda and, to a lesser de- immense difficulty. Talking about more than 70 nationalities joined fighters but also an insight into how sharia officials, police and securi- security gree, the so-called Islamic State.On 2401352 his treacherous journey from Kab- the ruthless jihadist group, re- Daesh is "attempting to vet new ty or administrative positions," the ASTANA: Extraordinary and April 12, the Taliban announced ul to Europe and his lost hope in searchers said after examining thou- members, manage talent effective- CTC report said. the resumption of the annual fight- NATO, Ehsan spoke to Sputnik Plenipotentiary Ambassador of sands of records. ly... and deal with a diverse pool Thus one personnel officer Kazakhstan to Afghanistan Omir- ing season, naming it ‘Operation Indira Gandhi Children in an exclusive interview. The treasure trove came from of recruits," said the report, which wrote of a new recruit: "Impor- Omari’ after the group’s deceased “In Afghanistan I worked as a tai Bitimov has told about the lev- Hospital, Wazir Akbar translator with the NATO mission a Daesh defector who handed over is available on the CTC website. tant: he has experience in chemis- el of security of diplomats in Kab- leader, Mullah Omar. The notion and I had my own projects: I with some 11,000 personnel files to U.S The recruits ranged in age from try." ul. of a fighting season in Afghanistan Khan, Kabul 2301372 my companions built schools and television network NBC, although 12 to nearly 70, although the aver- But when a 24-year-old Turk- According to him, in view of is more a tradition than an accu- roads in different provinces. When more than half were found to be age age was 26 or 27. ish entrant said his professional the terrorist threat the country rate description, given that the the alliance left Afghanistan I was duplicates. Only 400 were under 18 upon experience was as a drug dealer, takes certain measures to ensure fighting hardly pauses in the off- Ibn-e- Seena left jobless. I wanted to go back NBC then passed 4,600 of the entering the self-declared Daesh the remark was: "May God for- safe operation of Kazakhstan's rep- season. Operation Omari is the Pul-e-Artan, Kabul home to Parvan province but that documents to the Combating Ter- "caliphate". give him and us!" resentative office in the Afghan 15th fighting season since the Tal- didn’t work out. My father is a rorism Center (CTC), which is The leading nationality with Nearly 10 percent reported capital. iban lost control in 2001. Continu- 2100359 staunch communist; he received his based at West Point but indepen- 579 new fighters, was Saudi, fol- having waged jihad previously, in- Omirtai Bitimov said that the ing a long negative trend, Afghani- education in the Soviet Union. He dent from the U.S military acade- lowed by Tunisian (559), Moroc- cluding a Frenchman who said he main guarantor of security is Ka- stan enters the summer months Wazir Akbar Khan just could not come to terms with my. can (240), Turkish (212), Egyp- fought in Mali, while only 12 per- zakhstan's foreign policy of peace with a markedly worse security the fact that his son was working The documents are one of sev- tian (151) and Russian (141). cent said they were prepared to and good relations with all coun- situation than in the previous Hospital with NATO.” eral large-scale leaks from within There were 49 from France, 38 carry out suicide attacks. year.While much has been made of Ehsan stressed that the reason tries of the world. 2301741, 2301743 Daesh this year. from Germany, 30 from Lebanon, The cache also included 431 As informed the Kazakh the emergence of the Islamic State why he started working with Thousands of apparent Daesh 26 from Britain, 11 from Australia "exit forms" for departing jihad- in Afghanistan, the far greater NATO was because he was look- MFA, the political situation in registration documents were leaked and seven from Canada, but none ists, with reasons for leaving in- Afghanistan remains tense amid threat to the country remains the Ali Abad ing for safety. “There were many in January to a Syrian opposition from the United States. cluding the need for medical treat- Taliban. The group has survived people who were like me. When intensification of the armed oppo- we started working with the alli- news website and in March the Thirty percent said they were ment, usually in neighboring Tur- sition in the face of "Taliban" the controversy surrounding the Shahrara, Kabul ance we were always told about German daily Sueddeutsche Zei- married, while 61 percent were sin- key, or for family reasons. movement. delayed acknowledgment of the 2100439 protection of human life and how tung and German broadcasters said gle, with another eight percent un- Other remarks included sim- death of Mullah Omar, and now if there were a real threat to me or they had obtained similar records. known. ply "lied" for two of the fighters; holds, controls, or threatens more my family we would be assisted German security services also had Some 1,371 said they had fin- "If he comes back again, he'll be Iran territory than at any time since Malalai Maternity in moving to Europe. Sadly, all of access to that material. ished high school while 1,028 said imprisoned"; "could not practise 2001. Kunduz in the north remains that was just false promises.” The CTC said that by com- they had attended university. patience"; "does not want the mil- encourages particularly vulnerable to Taliban Hospital He further spoke about how paring the documents it received "The group seems overall to itary life and jihad"; and "confu- assaults, while long-troubled Hel- 2201377/ 2301743 he went to all of the European from NBC against similar Daesh be generally well-educated, espe- sion with matters". mand and Kandahar in the south- embassies in Kabul after NATO personnel records maintained by cially when compared to United More sinister were exit forms entrepreneurs west continue to be strongholds abandoned him but no one there the U.S Defense Department, it Nations data on the average years noting: "Go back to Libya and or- for the extremist group. Al-Qaeda, Banks helped him. “I presented them was able to corroborate "approxi- of schooling in the countries in the ganize the way for the State"; "A to invest in which never left Afghanistan de- with multiple photo evidence of mately 98 percent" of them. dataset," the report said. task" and "Omar al-Shishani spite claims to the contrary, has Da Afghanistan Bank my work as a translator for Dutch The forms, completed by re- The forms showed that Daesh charged him with a job in Turkey". Afghanistan held on to pockets of influence and and Hungarian soldiers but all my cruits in Arabic and often includ- intake officers interviewed the new Shishani, or "Omar the Chech- power in some eastern provinces, 2100302, 2100303 efforts were in vain. They asked ing notes from the assessors, refer recruits to assess their suitability en", who was effectively Daesh's Iranian Ambassador to Kabul, such as Kunar, Nuristan, and Pak- me for a guarantee letter and invi- to around 30 percent of the esti- for a range of roles in its appara- defense minister, was killed last Mohammad Reza Bahrami, said tika. Last October’s raid in Kan- Bakhtar Bank tation letter for receiving the visa. his country has been trying to en- But obviously I had none of that.” mated 15,000 new recruits who tus. month. One line on the entry form dahar against what was described entered Syria during 2013 and "While the Islamic State is left blank, initially at least: Date courage their entrepreneurs to in- by U.S. military officials as a mas- 0776777000 After being rejected from all vest in Afghanistan in order to cre- these embassies, Ehsan had no 2014. (Daesh) needs some suicide bomb- and place of death. sive al-Qaeda training camp raised Azizi Bank way out but to travel with contra- ate jobs for Afghans and provide concerns that a group long-de- band. Talking about his journey to cost-effective products to citizens. scribed as marginalized by the U.S. 0799 700900 Europe, Ehsan said that nowadays The envoy visited Kandahar was actually thriving, and contin- Pashtany Bank from Afghanistan to Europe there in a bid to expand trade relations ues to do so in 2016.The current is a whole system of contraband between the two neighboring na- U.S. military capabilities in Af- 2102908, 2103868 for refugees. tions. ghanistan are primarily focused on “From Afghanistan we were In his meeting with Kandahar counterterrorism, while NATO Air Services passed on to Pakistani contraband- governor, Dr. Mohammad Huma- continues to provide training and ists and from there to Iranians. yun Azizi, on Tuesday, the Irani- equipment to the struggling Af- From Iran to Turkey, five of us an envoy stressed on the develop- ghanistan National Army (ANA). Safi Airways were stuffed into the bus’s petrol ment of the Chabahar port and said The U.S. will come to the aid of 020 22 22 222 cabin and that’s how we traveled. the port was vital for the region as ANA troops, but it is not conduct- In Turkey we lived in a dark attic a whole. ing offensive operations against the losing sense of whether it was day He said Iran, Afghanistan and Taliban. This policy might shift as Ariana or night.” India would soon sign the treaty Ehsan further recalled that, pressure builds on the ANA and 020-2100270 to benefit from the port and added more of the country is threatened. “There we stayed for two weeks that the port would be a strong after which we were passed on to As in Iraq, the train-and-equip the Bulgarians. In Bulgaria I lived business and transit hub in the re- strategy of the U.S. and its part- Kam Air in a forest for days before being gion. ners in Afghanistan has been a 0799974422 transported in the middle of the Governor Azizi called for lengthy and costly effort with in- night to the Serbian border.” strengthening bilateral economic sufficient positive results. And as The Serbian police arrested and trade ties between Iran and with Iraq, the U.S. military will Hotels him and his travel companions and Afghanistan. likely see its combat operations in Safi Landmark told them to leave the country with- He said that a delegation to Afghanistan increase in the fore- in 24 hours. Chabahar port was recently sent seeable future. With continued at- “When we got to Hungary to visit infrastructure and facilities tacks in places like Kunduz, the 020-2203131 from Serbia, the police sent us to a there and inform Kandahar traders Taliban will seek to destabilize the ERENA refugee camp where they told us and entrepreneurs about the facil- fragile national government by S to do some work to get shelter to ities. striking in the heart of the govern- live in. We refused to do that and India, Afghanis tan and Iran ment’s power. The Ring of Steel 0799654000 via contraband traveled to Germa- have finalized the text for a tripar- defense system around central ny. We spent around $8,000 to get tite agreement to develop Chahba- New Rumi Restaurant here,” the translator said. Kabul has been effective in reduc- har in Iran as an international trans- ing mass casualty attacks such as Although after the ordeal Eh- port corridor. This was done at a 0776351347 san managed to get to Germany, the April 19 bombing, but clearly today he is living there as a refugee meeting between the three coun- some component of the system and his struggle is far from over. tries in New Delhi last Monday. failed in detecting what was likely Internet Services “Today I am living in Germa- Chahbahar holds huge prom- a significant truck bomb. Further- UA Telecom ise for all three countries in terms ny; I have a refugee status here. I more, no static defense can hold 0796701701 / 0796702702 am learning the language and I hope of connectivity and opening up of when so much of the surrounding to receive citizenship in time,” he a trade route from Central Asia, area is outside of the government’s concluded. independent of Pakistan. effective control. soufangroup Exchange Rate Purchase:

How a pilot’s NVG case brought down a USAF C-130J in Afghanistan One US$ = A deadly US Air Force C-130J forgot to remove the hard case pri- and the aircraft exploded on im- load/offload and the misidentifica- 68.78Afs crash at Jalalabad Airfield in Af- or to takeoff. pact and was completely de- tion of the malfunction once air- One Pound Sterling= ghanistan on 2 October 2015 that Once the aircraft became air- stroyed, the accident report says. borne,” the report states. “Envi- killed everyone onboard, plus three borne just after midnight, it con- US Air Force ronmental conditions, inaccurate 98.50Afs Afghani security personnel man- tinued to pitch upwards, quickly The aircraft and its cargo were expectations and fixation substan- One Euro = ning the guard tower it struck, was reaching 42° nose up. valued at $58 million. There were tially contributed to the mishap.” 76.78Afs caused by a hard-shell night vision In the 11s from lift-off to the 11 people onboard, including the It had already been a bad night goggle case placed in front of the first stall warning, the pilot and pilot, copilot, two loadmasters, for the C-130J and its crew. The 1000 Pak Rs = yoke. copilot incorrectly assumed it was two fly-away security team mem- report notes that the aircraft expe- 638Afs According to the air force’s a trim malfunction and therefore bers and five contractor passen- rienced a bird strike when taking newly released accident investiga- used the wrong procedures to try gers. off from Bagram Airfield at 21:36 Sale: tion report, the C-130J pilot used and regain control of the aircraft. “The causes of the mishap on the first leg of its journey. It One US$ = the night vision goggle (NVG) The C-130J had been airborne were the pilot’s placement of the returned to Bagram for a mechani- 68.98 Afs case to keep the aircraft’s elevator for just 28s when it careered into hard-shell NVG case in front of cal inspected prior to leaving for One Pound Sterling= up as tall cargo was loaded on the Jalalabad Airfield's perimeter wall the yoke blocking forward move- Jalalabad. The Lockheed Martin- ramp. and guard tower right of the run- ment of the flight controls, the dis- built aircraft (a C-130J-30 stretch 99.30Afs However, over the next 50min way at 112kts (207km/h) and 14° tractions experienced by the pilot version, tail number 08-3174) was One Euro= and during the final preflight check, nose down. The descent rate was and mishap copilot during the from the 317th Airlift Group at 77.38 Afs the pilot and copilot seemingly in excess of 2,438m per minute, course of the engine running on- Dyess AFB in Texas. 1000 Pak Rs= 646Afs 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. THURSDAY . APRIL 21, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

ARREST OF JOURNALIST IN BANGLADESH CONSPIRACY CASE TRIGGERS CONCERNS China has said that it is in close China in May 2015. Police in Bangladesh have arrested contact with India to resolve dif- However, the sources cau- a veteran journalist on charges of ferences over the imposition of tioned that only incremental plotting to kill the formerly U.S.- sanctions on JeM chief, Masood progress can be expected on the based son of Prime Minister Azhar, ahead of National Security resolution of the boundary issue. Sheikh Hasina, and they are pre- Adviser Ajit Doval’s arrival in Ms. Hua, in her briefing also paring to arrest another newspa- Beijing for talks that will cover a pointed out that the two sides at per editor in the same case. string of issues, including the present “are at a crucial stage of Following Saturday’s arrest of boundary question. negotiating a framework for the Shafik Rehman, 82, editor of the In response to a question on resolution of the boundary ques- monthly magazine Mouchake India’s objections to China’s last tion.” Dhil, police said he visited the U.S. minute move not to list Masood Advocating persistence, the in 2012 to facilitate a secret deal Azhar on the UN terror list, Chi- spokesperson said that “China has with an FBI special agent seeking nese foreign ministry spokesper- thoroughly settled boundary issues confidential information about son Hua Chunying said that her through bilateral negotiations with Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy colleagues at China's Permanent 12 out of its 14 land neighbors and and help in the conspiracy to ab- Mission to the UN “are having drawn up approximately duct and kill him. close contact with all parties, in- 20,000km border line, accounting Police said that while Rehman cluding India.” She added, “We will for some 90 per cent of its total was being interrogated, newspa- continue our close communication land boundary”. per editor Mahmudur Rahman, with all relevant parties including She added: “These records and who has been in jail following his India and properly resolve the rel- practices show that it is effective arrest for sedition and other charg- evant issue.” to peacefully solve territorial dis- es in 2013, would be taken in next. In Moscow, External Affairs putes through negotiation and con- Rehman and Rahman both are Ministry spokesman Vikas sultation, which is also advocated known as journalists who are Swarup said, following External by international law including the backed by the opposition Bang- Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s UN Charter.” Pending a final ladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). meeting with her Chinese counter- boundary settlement, clarification Hasina said Monday in Dha- part Wang Yi that the, “External of the Line of Actual Control ka that "American investigators Affairs Minister emphasised that (LAC) is on the agenda of Mr. caught one FBI agent taking a bribe as common victims of terrorism, Doval’s talks on Wednesday. The from a BNP leader. The involve- China and India should cooperate sources said that in order to rein- ment of Shafik Rehman and Mah- in combating the challenge of ter- force border stability, the Indian mudur Rahman in the conspiracy rorism. Both sides agreed to stay side has proposed that the two got exposed in an American court, in touch in this matter [on the is- sides share information on the ac- not in any Bangladeshi court.” sue of Masood Azhar].” tual ground position of troops Upon Rehman’s arrest, Joy, Highly placed sources said that along the LAC in order to prevent who lives in Bangladesh now, while India and China were expect- inadvertent transgressions. How- wrote in a Facebook post Sunday: ed to take up the issue of “terror- ever, the Chinese side has so far “The U.S. Department of Justice ism” during Mr. Doval’s talks with not responded positively to the discovered Shafik Rehman’s direct his counterpart State Councilor proposal, though it insists on involvement in the plot to kidnap Yang Jiechi, the Masood Azhar is- greater elaboration of Confidence and kill me. They provided this sue, specifically, is unlikely to be Building Measures (CBMs) in or- evidence to our government. He the focal point of talks. der to keep the 3488 km Sino-In- was arrested based on this evi- The 19th round of Special dian frontier calm. In tune with the dence.” Representatives talks on the UPA-2 government’s decision to trade. India is specifically interest- Mr.Doval is expected to air India’s nomic Corridor. India is also con- terested in a more detailed conver- Khaleda Zia, former prime boundary question, which the two expand the framework of Special ed in China providing greater mar- security concerns regarding the cerned about China’s involvement sation with the Chinese on the minister of Bangladesh and chair- officials head, is being held in the Representatives talks to include all ket access to items where New improvement of infrastructure in in developing Pakistan’s Gwadar quad dialogue on Afghanistan, person of the BNP, said that by backdrop of a sharp decline in bor- issues of a strategic nature, Mr. Delhi has a comparative advantage Pakistan occupied Kashmir, which port, which is close to the energy which excludes India and Russia, arresting Rehman, the government der incidents, following Prime Doval is likely to raise India’s con- such as pharmaceuticals and Infor- is expected fallout of the develop- sea lanes passing through the Strait but includes China, Pakistan, the had shown its autocratic face. Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to cerns regarding the India-China mation Technology products. ment of the China Pakistan Eco- of Hormuz. Besides, India is in- United States and Afghanistan. “In his writings, Shafik Reh- man relentlessly exposed failure, corruption and other malpractices TAMILS IN SRI LANKA ARE RECENT of this government. Trumped-up ARRIVALS FROM MALABAR COAST AND charges have been slapped against him, and he has been arrested be- COROMANDEL COAST OF SOUTH INDIA cause the government could not Tamils are certainly recent arrivals from the area that is part of today’s restrict him from writing in other Kerala and Tamil Nadu. According to the regulation No. 18 of 1806, the ways,” Zia said in a statement. law applicable to “The Malabar inhabitants of the Province of Jaffna” is Last year, a U.S. court sen- the law of Thesawalamai. This very clearly proves Jaffna Tamils are tenced former FBI Special Agent people that came to Sri Lanka from Malabar coast of Kerala. Apart from Robert Lustyik to five years in jail a very few changes, Thesawalamai law found in Sri Lanka is a carbon for taking bribes from Bangladeshi copy of Marumakattayam law of Malabar Coast, Kerala. In detail, immigrant Rizve Ahmed, a k a Cae- Jaffna Tamils came from the west coast of South India – states of sar. At least 330 million people are af- According to the U.S. Depart- fected by drought in India, the gov- Travencore (tobacco plantations capital in the 17th century) and Cochin and the Districts of Malabar and South Canara. ment of Justice, Lustyik was sen- ernment has told the Supreme tenced “for accepting and solicit- Court Authorities say this num- Another wave of Tamils came to Sri Lanka from Coromandel Coast of Tamil Nadu. They too followed Thesawalamai law in Sri Lanka ing bribes in exchange for provid- ber is likely to rise further given ing internal law enforcement doc- that some states with water short- brought by Malabars with a slight change. They too came to be known as Malabar inhabitants of the Province of Jaffna. uments and other confidential in- ages have not yet submitted sta- formation about a prominent citi- tus reports. The drought is taking In addition to Malabars (Jaffna Tamils), other Tamils in Sri Lanka’s coastal areas were known as Mukkuwas. Mostly fishermen, they too zen of Bangladesh for use by a place as a heat wave extends across political rival. much of India with temperatures came from Malabar coast of Kerala and inherited the Mukkuwa law which is very similar to Thesawalamai. The son of a U.S.-based BNP crossing 40C for days now. leader, Ahmed received a 42-month An 11-year-old girl died of Further readings on Thesawalamai law – Influence of Hindu Law and Marumakattayam Law on the Laws and Customs of the Tamils of prison term in the case and he re- heatstroke while collecting water mains in jail in the U.S. from a village pump in the west- Jaffna by J.M. SWAMINATHAN. Calling this law Thesawalamai is deceptive as it means “the law of After Ahmed was sentenced ern Maharashtra state. last year, police in Dhaka initiated Yogita Desai had spent close the land” whereas it has absolutely nothing to do with the law of the land in Sri Lanka. Even today, Tamil accent of Jaffna Tamils is very a criminal case against some BNP to four hours in 42C temperatures leaders for allegedly attempting to gathering water from the pump on close to Kerala than Tamil Nadu. Given repeated south Indian (mostly Tamil) invasions since the abduct and kill Joy. Sunday, local journalist Manoj Rehman was not named as an Sapte told the BBC. introduction of Buddhism to the island (all Tamil invasions took place after Buddhism was introduced), it is extremely unlikely that Sinhalas accused either in the bribing case She began vomiting after re- in the U.S. or in the case in Bang- turning home and was rushed to allowed Malabar and Coromandel Coast people to land in the island and continue to live in the island. Their attempts to settle in Lankan territo- ladesh. But in the course of the hospital, but died early on Mon- investigation, his involvement in day. ry would certainly have resulted in massacre. However, when the Por- tuguese, Dutch and British invaders neutralised Sinhala military power, the plot was detected, police said. Yogita's death certificate says country, including from the south- Image caption amount of water needed to pre- In a statement, a group of jour- she died of heatstroke and dehy- ern states of Telangana and Andhra Another water train carrying pare pitches. South Indians could have safely landed in the island. Even today, all Tamils in Sri Lanka totally rely on Tamil Nadu made songs, films, nalist union leaders in Dhaka dration. Pradesh which saw more than 2.5 million litres of water is sched- There is growing public con- sought immediate release of Reh- The pump was a mere 500m 2,000 deaths last summer. uled to reach Latur in Maharash- cern over the lack of water in many artwork and everything that can be called part of Tamil culture. The artificial “Ceylon Tamil” or “Eelam Tamil” ethnicity was creat- man and said his arrest in the case from her house, but a typical wait After three years of drought, tra on Wednesday parts of the state following two was “extremely illogical.” for water stretches into hours. arid farmland in Latur, India. A man waits with water con- successive years of drought and ed only in 1911 by a Tamil who was in charge of the census. As such, Eelam Tamils have a history of only 105 years in Sri Lanka and half of “Shafik Rehman is known for India is heavily dependant on Image caption tainers to be filled in Maharashtra crop failures. his writing in support of democra- monsoon rains, which have been The drought is taking place as Image caption The government has asked lo- it is soaked in blood of Sinhalas, Muslims and Indians in their racist quest for a mythical nation called “Tamil Eelam” (interestingly another cy and good governance. His ar- poor for two years in a row. a heat wave extends across much There is growing public con- cal municipalities to stop supply- rest is a blow to the rights to our The government said that near- of India with temperatures exceed- cern over the lack of water in the ing water to swimming pools and, artificial concept created in 1922 by the very same person who created the Eelam Tamil ethnicity in 1911). freedom of expression,” the state- ly 256 districts across India, home ing 40C for several days in a row country in an unprecedented move, a train ment said. Threats to freedoms seen to nearly a quarter of the popula- Water is being loaded in 50 The western state of Maha- carrying half a million litres of Given these facts, it is utterly absurd for Tamils to claim they lived in Sri Lanka for over 500 years in a Tamil homeland within the island. If Rights group campaigners say tion were impacted by the drought. wagons of a train to be sent to the rashtra, one of the worst affected drinking water was sent to the area that the Hasina-led government has Schools have been shut in the drought affected area in and around by the drought, shifted out 13 In- of Latur. at all Tamils had a homeland, it was in Kerala and Tamil Nadu of South India. Tamils are entitled to equal individual rights in Sri Lanka but are been using harsh tactics to crack eastern state of Orissa and more Latur district, at Miraj station near dian Premier League (IPL) cricket Another train carrying 2.5 mil- down on dissent, which, they say, than 100 deaths due to heatstroke Sangli, Maharashtra, India, 19 matches due to be played in the lion litres of water is scheduled to not entitled to a province, Tamil official or national language and a homeland in the island. could threaten freedom of speech have been reported from across the April 2016.Image copyrightEPA state next month because of the reach there on Wednesday. and press in Bangladesh.

KARACHI: Seven police officials military Rangers, cordoned off the guarding polio workers were killed area. in two separate attacks in Orangi Talking to media personnel on Town Wednesday afternoon, offi- a visit to the crime scene, Sindh cials said. Police Inspector General AD Kha- DIG West Feroz Shah told waja said “polio drops will be ad- DawnNews that eight gunmen ministered to our children at all riding four motorcycles carried out costs”, adding that security for the killings in two separate attacks polio teams will be beefed up even in the neighbourhood. more. “The gunmen first opened fire He said police was “ready to on three policemen in the streets render more sacrifices if need be” of Orangi Town, killing them all,” and announced compensation of he said, adding: “Later they shot Rs2 million for the families of each dead four policemen, who were slain official. sitting in a police mobile van” a The Sindh IG also announced few streets away. reward money of Rs5 million for “A policeman intervened anyone who helps police nab those when eight men on four motorcy- behind the attacks. cles came and asked a polio work- Sindh Rangers DG Maj Gen er for his name. In response, the Bilal Akbar said a joint investiga- men opened fire. Although the tion into the attacks will be police fired in response, they were launched by police and Rangers. overpowered,” he said. He said the policemen had laid “The same men killed four down their lives to protect polio members of another police team.” workers – “a sacrifice that will not Abdul Kareem, an official at go to waste”. the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, The Rangers chief said it was where the bodies were taken, also too soon to say who the attackers confirmed the casualties. were affiliated with and where they There are no reports of inju- came from. However, he urged the ries or deaths of polio workers. public to come forward with any The anti-polio campaign in the information they had on the at- area was suspended immediately tackers. demned the attack and appreciated the policemen’s valour. “They laid down their lives to secure the country’s future,” he said. The campaign to eliminate polio in Pakistan has been and heavy contingents of law en- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, fraught with risk, with militants attacking health teams they accused of being spies. A polio worker was shot and wounded in February and in January a suicide bomber killed 15 people forcement agencies, including para- in a statement from his office, con- outside a polio eradication centre in Quetta. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in the world which have been transferring the polio virus to each other. 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. THURSDAY . APRIL 21, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

News-in-Brief CLINTON, TRUMP TAKE BIG STEP Gulf, US agree TOWARD joint patrols to NOMINATION block Iran arms Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton won commanding victories in New York US Secretary of State John Kerry Gulf Cooperation Council state's US presidential nominating and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mo- contests on Tuesday, recapturing (GCC) countries and the Unit- hammad Javad Zarif reported some ed States have agreed to carry lost campaign momentum and progress Tuesday on Iranian com- moving the front-runners closer to out joint patrols to stop any plaints that it’s not getting the sanc- Iranian arms shipments reach- their parties' nominations. tions relief it deserves under last The billionaire businessman's ing Yemen, the bloc's secretary year’s landmark nuclear deal. general, Abdullatif al-Zayani, huge victory in his home state put After meeting for more than 2 Trump in position to win nearly said on Wednesday. 1/2 hours behind closed doors, the Zayani was speaking at a all of the state's 95 delegates, edg- ministers emerged saying they ing closer to the 1,237 delegates news conference with U.S. De- agreed to meet again Friday on the fense Secretary Ash Carter af- needed to win his party's presi- sidelines of a high-level UN cere- dential nomination and avoid a con- ter a meeting between Carter mony to sign the climate change and his counterparts from the tested national convention in July. agreement. Clinton's dominating double- GCC, which includes Saudi Ara- At issue is implementation of bia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the digit primary election win in New the nuclear deal, which was sup- York, which she once represented United Arab Emirates and posed to give Iran relief from crip- Oman. in the US Senate, snapped Demo- pling economic sanctions in ex- cratic rival Bernie Sanders' winning Iran denies accusations by change for curbing its nuclear pro- Gulf states that it is smuggling streak and made it nearly impossi- gram. ble for him to overtake her dele- weapons to Yemen, where GCC Iran says it is locked out of countries are involved in a mil- gate lead. the international financial system Republican U.S. presidential itary campaign against the Te- and that the US isn’t fulfilling its hran-allied Houthi movement. candidate Donald Trump holds a obligations under the agreement. press conference in Trump Tower Carter urged Gulf states to The White House, Treasury do more to battle ISIS and reaf- in the Manhattan borough of New and the State Department have all York. (Reuters) firmed the US’s commitment to said the US has done what is re- Gulf security. The victories in one of the big- quired, but US officials say the gest state nominating contests so Speaking following a meet- Obama administration is consid- ing of Gulf defense ministers, far set up Trump and Clinton for ering easing or formally clarifying another round of strong perfor- Carter said the US will contin- financial restrictions that prevent ue efforts to confront Iranian mances next Tuesday, when they US dollars from being used in trans- are expected to do well in five oth- violations in the region. actions that enable business with The Gulf defense ministers er Northeastern state primaries. Iran. The officials have ruled out Trump captured about 60 per- met ahead of a GCC summit granting Iran access to the US fi- with US President Barack cent of the vote, easily beating Ohio nancial system or direct access to Governor John Kasich, who got Obama on Thursday. the dollar, but they have left the Obama will arrive on 25 percent, and US Senator Ted door open to other steps to en- “We worked on a number of at UN headquarters on Friday for group J Street that supports the lion, which was a mistake, and oth- Cruz of Texas, who had 15 per- Wednesday in Riyadh for meet- courage trade that is now legal un- key things today. We made some a ceremony attended by more than deal. But his comments may have ers thought it would be about $100 ings with King Salman and high- cent, with 95 percent of the votes der the nuclear deal. progress on it,” Kerry said. “We 130 world leaders and ministers put a price tag on Iran’s anger over billion. “We calculated it to be counted. For Trump, it was enough level Saudi officials. Kerry told reporters that he agreed to meet on Friday ... to sort who will be signing the historic cli- sanctions relief. “Despite the skep- about $55 billion, when you really Both sides are expected to to win all 14 statewide delegates and Zarif are working to make sure of solidify what we talked about mate change agreement reached in tics’ most dire predictions, we are take a hard look at the economy and most of the delegates from each consult on the crises in Yemen the nuclear agreement “is imple- today.” Paris in December. In a speech in a place that some people thought and what is happening,” Kerry and Syria. of New York's congressional dis- mented in exactly the way that it Zarif said they focused on how Monday night, Kerry defended the was unimaginable and others un- said. “Guess what, folks? You tricts. is meant to be, and that all the par- to implement the deal “to make nuclear agreement, in which Iran acceptable,” Kerry said. Kerry said know how much they have re- "We don't have much of a race Yemen delegations ties ... get the benefits that they sure that we will draw the benefits curbed its atomic program in ex- some presidential candidates said ceived to date as I stand here to- anymore based on what I'm seeing are supposed to get out of the that Iran is entitled to.” change for sanctions relief, to the the amount of money Iran would night? About $3 billion. So what on television," Trump, 69, told pledge to leave for agreement.” Both Kerry and Zarif will be pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy get under the deal was $155 bil- we said to people was true.” cheering supporters at a victory Kuwait peace talks party at his Trump Tower in Man- hattan. "We are really, really rock- Members of warring Yemeni fac- ing." tions who had stayed in the He said the Republican Party Iran’s army denies establishment forces that have tried capital Sanaa two days past the start date of United Nations- to keep him from a first-ballot vic- backed peace talks announced tory at the convention are "in trou- they would travel to the negoti- direct involvement ble," and repeated his criticism of ations in Kuwait on Wednesday, a "crooked" system that has al- saving the process from impend- lowed Cruz to outmaneuver him ing collapse. in Syria, speaks of and win delegates in a series of re- “We will be leaving tomor- cent state conventions. row afternoon, God willing,” Trump entered the New York Mahdi al-Mushat, a represen- contest with 756 delegates, while tative of the Houthi movement, ‘volunteers’ Cruz had 559 and Kasich had 144, wrote on his Facebook page. according to an Associated Press “We confirm that we will Iran’s army chief said on Wednes- tect the Islamic Republic against ISIS militants seized Syrian gov- count. The count includes endorse- leave for Kuwait, carrying all the day the forces it had deployed in both internal and external adver- ernment-controlled territory in the ments from several delegates who worries, wounds, aspirations Syria in the first such operation saries. eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor are free to support the candidate and hopes of the great Yemeni abroad since the 1979 revolution Major General Qassem Sole- on Tuesday, a war monitor and a of their choice. people,” Yahya Duwaid, a rep- were volunteers working under imani, commander of the Guards’ news agency affiliated with the Trump said his New York win resentative of the ex-president Revolutionary Guards supervi- foreign operations, went to Mos- ultra-hardline extremist group said. would make it almost mathemati- Ali Abdullah Saleh, wrote on his sion, and the regular army was not cow in July last year to help Rus- ISIS took complete control of cally impossible for Cruz, 45, to account. Envoys from Yemen’s directly involved. sia plan its military intervention the city’s industrial district after win the nomination on the first Houthi movement and Saleh’s The Islamic Republic an- in Syria and forge an Iranian-Rus- fierce clashes with Syrian govern- ballot at the party's national con- party had refused to talk peace nounced this month that it had sent sian alliance to support Assad. ment and allied forces, the Britain- vention in July. amid ongoing ground combat and commandos from the army’s Bri- Soleimani was in Moscow based Syrian Observatory for Hu- If Trump cannot secure air strikes by a Saudi-led mili- gade 65 to Syria as advisers, sug- again last week to further cooper- man Rights said. enough delegates to win the nomi- tary coalition which they say gesting it was using its regular army ation on Syria, security sources The militant group captured nation on the first ballot at the July violated a truce agreed a week as well as forces from the elite said. Several said Soleimani also nearly all of Deir al-Zor province, 18-21 conclave in Cleveland, dele- before. But concerted pressure Revolutionary Guards to help wanted to talk about how Russia which borders Iraq, after seizing gates would be allowed to switch from regional and international President Bashar al-Assad’s forc- and Iran could help Damascus take the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014. to other candidates. diplomats has succeeded in es in the country’s civil war. back full control of the city of Alep- The Syrian government, however, Some establishment Republi- bringing the factions to the ta- Iran is Assad’s main regional po. still controls part of the city of cans have been alienated by ble with their enemies from Ye- ally and has provided military and Iranian personnel sent to help Deir al-Zor, which is besieged by Trump's more incendiary propos- men’s government which they economic support for his conflict prop up the Syrian army have at ISIS fighters, and an air base. als, such as building a wall along ousted from the capital in with rebel groups and ISIS mili- times sustained serious losses and Five air strikes and shelling hit the border with Mexico and tem- March of last year. The spread tants. Soleimani has been reported to be the area of fighting that was mov- porarily banning Muslims from of allied Houthi-Saleh militias Some volunteers have been spending time in Syria to help co- ing south towards the city’s mili- entering the country. throughout Yemen sparked a sent to Syria, under the supervi- ordinate operations. tary airport, the Observatory said. "We have shown the all-talk, military intervention by most- sion of the related organization, and The Amaq news agency, affil- no-action politicians that this is a ly Gulf Arab states, and the year among them there might be some iated with ISIS, also said the group movement that cannot be of war that followed has killed of the Brigade 65 forces,” Armed had taken positions previously stopped," Trump said in an email around 6,200 people and Forces Chief Ataollah Salehi was controlled by the Syrian govern- to supporters after his win. 'Vic- plunged the country into a hu- quoted by the Tasnim news agen- ment in the industrial district, and tory is in sight' Clinton's New York manitarian crisis. cy as saying. was pushing south into the next victory followed some of the most “The army has no responsi- district. Syrian state news agency heated personal exchanges of her bility in the military advice given SANA did not mention gains made political duel with Sanders, a US EU stresses Golan to Syria,” Salehi added. by ISIS, but said Syrian forces de- senator from Vermont and Brook- position after Israel Tasnim reported on April 11, stroyed some ISIS arms caches in lyn native who had won seven of shortly after the announcement of the industrial neighborhood. Syri- the last eight state-by-state nomi- remarks the Brigade 65’s deployment, that an and allied forces, supported by nating contests. "The race for the four Iranian combatants had been Russian air support, pushed ISIS Democratic nomination is in the EU diplomatic chief Federica killed in Syria. out of the ancient city of Palmyra home stretch, and victory is in Mogherini stressed that the Iran has two armed forces - a in central Syria last month, erod- sight," Clinton, 68, told a cheer- European Union does not rec- regular army serving as a national ing links between the group’s pres- ing, chanting crowd at a Manhat- ognize Israeli sovereignty over defence force, and the Islamic Rev- ence in the west and east of the tan hotel, noting that she had gained the Golan Heights, after Prime olutionary Guard Corps that was country. The militants seized the more than 10 million votes and won Minister Benjamin Netanyahu created after the revolution to pro- city in May 2015. in every region of the country. said the annexed territory would "forever" remain in his country's hands. "The EU recognizes Israel ‘Concerned’ UN pushes South Sudan’s Machar to return to Juba within its pre-1967 borders, The UN Security Council ex- which measures were envisaged. tics” were to blame for the latest Michael Makuei said the govern- siles” as well as additional troops lays, with some citing difficulties whatever the government's pressed “serious concern” on Under the peace deal, Machar delay. He was unable to say when ment had blocked Machar’s flight in violation of the peace agreement. in getting Machar’s bodyguards’ claims on other areas, until a Tuesday over delays in the return was to join President Salva Kiir in Machar might arrive. South because he wanted to bring “ma- Various rebel officials have given weapons across the border while final settlement is concluded," of South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek a new 30-month transitional gov- Sudan’s information minister chine guns and laser-guided mis- differing explanations for the de- others blamed bad weather. Mogherini said. Machar to the capital Juba as part ernment leading to elections. "And this is a common of a peace deal. The deal is to end a devastat- consolidated position of the The 15-member council met ing war that erupted in December European Union and its mem- behind closed doors at the request 2013 after Kiir fell out with Ma- ber states," she added ahead of of the United States to hear a re- char, who was his deputy. a meeting in Brussels for inter- port on the latest hurdle in the way “The United States is extreme- national donors supporting the of the agreement to end the two- ly disappointed that Riek Machar Palestinian economy. year civil war. has not fulfilled his commitments Netanyahu's cabinet on Council members “urged all under the peace agreement and re- Sunday held its first meeting in parties to quickly form the transi- turned to Juba as he stated public- the Golan Heights, territory tional government and fully imple- ly he would,” said US Deputy seized from Syria in the 1967 ment the peace agreement,” said Ambassador David Pressman. Six-Day War. Chinese Deputy Ambassador Wu “We expect Riek Machar and "The Golan Heights will Haitao, whose country holds the all parties to live up to their com- remain in the hands of Israel council presidency. mitments under the peace agree- forever," Netanyahu said at the UN peacekeeping chief Herve ment and do their part to establish start of the cabinet meeting, in Ladsous told the council that there the transitional government.” comments broadcast on public had been disagreements over secu- Tens of thousands of people radio. rity arrangements allowing rebel have died in the fighting and more Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria's forces to be stationed in Juba in than two million have been driven envoy to the United Nations, advance of Machar’s arrival, which from their homes. denounced the meeting as an was supposed to have been on Machar was supposed to re- "irresponsible provocation", Monday. turn to Juba for the first time since while Arab League chief Nabil But he said he was hopeful the war began from his tribal al-Arabi called it an "escala- that Machar would return on stronghold of Pagak in the east of tion". Israel seized 1,200 square Wednesday, diplomats said. the country to formally take up kilometers (460 square miles) The council called on all sides his post as vice president. of the Golan Heights from Syria to “remain calm” and said it was Speaking to reporters at Juba in the Six-Day War and later “ready to address any obstruction airport, rebel spokesmen William annexed it, a move never recog- of implementation of the agree- Ezekiel said on Tuesday that un- nized by the international com- ment,” although it did not specify specified “issues relating to logis- 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. THURSDAY . APRIL 21, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

We a r e a n a t ion a l in st it u t ion a n d n ot t h e voice of a gov t or a p r iva t e or ga n iza t ion AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] By Paul Seilsa Assad has committed large- Syria has a chance of a better ered in recent years from Syri- scale war crimes and crimes future than many other post- an conflict zones rather than Even as more evidence emerg- against humanity. That he and conflict zones. The first is to simply waiting for a tribunal or Email: [email protected] es about his crimes, Bashar al- Assad received a predictably his colleagues in the Syrian exercise meaningful consulta- other mechanism to be estab- High Command, among others, tion with exiled and displaced lished. www.afghanistantimes.af implausible majority in the pres- should face justice ought to be populations. That documentation should idential elections in Syria last Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi week. At the same time, negoti- unquestionable. Syrian President Bashar be synthesised and analysed. But instead of considering Assad with United Nations It may even be possible to hold ations to resolve the conflict practical steps that make peace envoy to Syria Staffan de Mis- public hearings - in safe loca- Advisory editorial board began in Geneva with a sense of futility hanging thick in the and justice likely, there is a ten- tura in Damascus [AP] tions obviously - where victims Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, dency to descend into disin- Efforts can begin now to are able to tell their stories di- air and expectedly ran into a genuous posturing that fills the discuss and document the rectly, unmediated by journal- Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal dead end very quickly with the opposition representatives void of inaction. plight of people considering ists or other forms of reporting. Root and branch reform return. Where did they come This is not justice, but it has Graphic-Designer: suspending their participation. When we talk of justice we from? Who controls the terri- some real benefits. It would al- Assad says that he might Edriss Akbari consider cherry-picking some need to remember that it con- tory now? What options do low victims to have a sense of sists of more than making sure they have and which of the vi- agency in influencing the Mar ket i ng & Adver t i si ng: opponents for government po- Assad is held to account. It able options do they prefer? broader context in which nego- sitions but a government of Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 national unity is out of the ques- also means making Syria a place Of course this will be a pain- tiations take place, trying to safe to live and where all its cit- ful and fraught process, but if ensure that compromises for Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan tion. Having radically improved izens enjoy the respect and this process begins now, the peace are informed by an ele- Assad's position, Russia has, Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 for the moment, one leg in and protection of the state. That is displaced will be able to begin ment of principle. - it requires root and branch to rebuild their lives sooner Assad depends on a num- Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press one leg out of the conflict, reform. rather than later. ber of things for his continued while the United States contin- ues to gamble that its insub- Displaced Syrians fleeing That process of registration survival: some form of Russian camps near Turkey [Al Jazeera] of information about land and support, a continued conflict stantial engagement does not Other than death, there are property should also facilitate with ISIL (also known as ISIS) The constitution says entirely negate its leverage. Syria four years on: What only two ways for Assad to go: the prospects of people being and a lack of massive well-or- he can decide to step down or able to organise and to vote ganised opposition focused on is the prospect for peace? he can be forced by negotia- sooner rather than later after democracy. Facilitating the re- All the while the refugee crisis fuelled by the Syrian con- tion or democratic process to their return. turn of half the population to Article Twenty-One: The capital of Afghanistan shall be the city of Kabul go. An even more difficult task their homes is the shortest flict continues in all its harrow- The latter route requires will to be to help those dis- route to undermining his sta- ing inhumanity, with scores of people drowning in the Medi- massive numbers of opposition placed to try to locate their bility and of ultimately provok- elements to return to Syria with family members, many of whom ing a shift in Russian support. terranean this week and the a vision of a democratic future will have been disappeared or As unpalatable as it may conditions in refugee camps in Greece deteriorating. The exo- and the chance to exercise their killed. No one should underes- sound, political posturing civic voice meaningfully. That timate how unbearably painful which reduces the discussion dus has seriously damaged Eu- is why beginning to deal with the process of locating lost on justice to Assad being re- rope’s vision of itself and con- tinues to present the biggest displacement now is not only loved ones can be. moved or tried today is not an urgent humanitarian neces- An even more difficult task helpful. A stable ceasefire is the political crisis it has faced in sity but also a strategic imper- will to be to help those dis- only possible means for help- decades. The plight of the displaced ative. placed to try to locate their ing displaced Syrians to return The current prospects of family members... to home. That process will be More than half of Syria's holding Assad to account for An important step will be an enormous undertaking. Yet Taliban officially population of 24 million has his crimes are limited. In theo- to assist these efforts by es- it is much more likely to deter- been uprooted, with four mil- ry, a resolution from the UN tablishing a DNA databank to mine the fate of Syria - and lion no longer even in the coun- Security Council (even today) help facilitate identifications in perhaps Europe - in the next try. Any lasting peace will need called terrorists to address the plight of the dis- could refer Assad to the Inter- due course, as human remains five to 20 years than any other. national Criminal Court, a are discovered and family mem- Paul Seils is Vice President placed, both those who fled course that most assuredly bers are able to lay to rest their of the International Centre for The government says it is now calling Taliban as terrorists, the across international borders and those fleeing inside Syria. would be vetoed by Russia, loved ones with some dignity Transitional Justice. militants who have been waging the 14-year-long battle with and perhaps by China. Similar- and closure. The views expressed in this It is in the immediate inter- ly, an international ad hoc tri- Third, more can be made of article are the author's own and the NATO-backed government forces and have several times est of Europe not only to stop refused Kabul administration’s demands for peace talks. the exodus at its source but also bunal, as set up by the UN Se- the massive amounts of docu- do not necessarily reflect Al curity Council for the former mentation that have been gath- Jazeera's editorial policy. The former president Hamid Karzai following a peaceful to begin to create the circum- Yugoslavia and Rwanda, would stances for the displaced's policy used to call Taliban insurgents as ‘dissatisfied broth- eventual return. Beginning also be vetoed by Russia. The remaining options ers’, a call to persuade the insurgents to join the peace pro- now to think about displace- would be for a new Syrian re- cess. Karzai worked hard to bring the militants to a peaceful ment and its resolution is pre- cisely in the interests of those gime to either prosecute Assad life. The establishment of the high peace council is an example or make a retroactive declara- who seek to remove Assad tion, if he were to leave Syria, of Karzai’s efforts. As parts of his peace efforts, Karzai trav- from power and to see him face justice. recognising the jurisdiction of eled 20 times to Pakistan to convince the neighboring country the ICC. Only the most deluded pro- The most plausible route to to use its influence over Taliban and help Afghanistan in its pagandist would doubt that Assad has committed large- holding Assad accountable for peace talks. Even after his own brother Ahmad Wali was killed, war crimes and crimes against scale war crimes and crimes humanity will require playing the ex-president did not abandon peace efforts. against humanity. A few weeks ago saw the the longer game of pursuing a The serving president Ashraf Ghani called the insurgents as negotiated regime change be- fifth anniversary of the begin- tween Syrians rather than a re- ‘political opposition’ in his swearing day two years ago. In ning of the conflict. We heard many calls for justice. The US gime change, under whatever fact, president Ghani kept following Karzai’s peaceful policy guise, from outside. just by changing the words to encourage the armed opposition and the UK have chopped and As far as the prospects of changed their public views on particularly Taliban to give up insurgency and join their broth- whether Assad should stay fundamental reform and de- mands for justice are con- ers and sisters’ calm life. Ghani did not ignore peace efforts and if so for how long. cerned, the focus should be on The US Congress passed a either. He also tried to convince Pakistan that it would be safe resolution calling for the cre- taking steps to facilitate return by having a safe Afghanistan in neighborhood. The four-nation now, rather than on implausi- ation of a tribunal to try those ble calls for prosecutions that talks which held four meetings, was an initiative of Ghani ad- accused of serious crimes. Oth- er governments and human in fact may hinder the pros- ministration. pects of peace and return in the rights organisations are look- shorter term. But the insurgents did not say ‘yes’ to all these efforts and ing into similar options. They are looking through the wrong Viable options intensified attacks on the innocent civilians. The increase in There are three important end of the telescope. steps that should be taken now Taliban’s attacks which was not stopped even in the winter Only the most deluded pro- unlike the past winters that the insurgents took a break, demon- pagandist would doubt that to ensure that a post-conflict strates their warmongering intentions. Civilians were killed, injured and displaced in Kunduz prov- ince when the militants attacked on the districts of the province last week. Their very recent response to the governments’ peace demands was the Kabul deadly suicide attack that left more than 60 including 52 personnel of the security agency killed and 347 mostly civilians injured. President’s spokesman Shah HosseinMortazavi in a televised interview said that “Taliban are terrorists”. This is the belief of the people. What does terrorist mean? Terrorist is called for one who makes the situation insecure by committing armed attacks in the cities and villages. But only changing the words is not enough to remove insur- gency. People ask the government to intensify attacks to root out those insurgents who do not believe peace and continue fighting for the enemies of their motherland and their brothers and sisters. Those militants who are in prison should be exe- cuted so the terrorists understand that the government is seri- ous in struggle against them. People agree with the government that Taliban are terrorists and should be uprooted. Subscription Rates Peace talks 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.

THURSDAY . APRIL 21, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Speaking Arabic while flying By Khaled A Beydoun There are fewer phrases less threatening than "God willing". The two words are uttered by presidential candidates on the campaign trail, political figures and media pundits on main- stream media networks, and are a staple part of common Amer- ican colloquial communication. The phrase is a hopeful, op- timistic one, even used secu- larly in the United States today. stability. Indeed, one would be hard This at a time when threats pressed to find another phrase against GCC states are increas- that instils less fear, and more ing due to Iran’s return to the comfort, than God willing. international scene. In essence, This should also be the the United States needs the By Abdullah Hamidaddin becoming harsher in his views GCC less, while the Council case when God willing, or In- of regional issues and the US shallah, is uttered in Arabic. But The US-Gulf summit that is tak- needs the United States more. ing place in Riyadh is impor- role in them. Divergences This asymmetry is not ab- it isn't. Especially today, when Putting feelings of mistrust fear of anything associated tant, but will anything signifi- sent from the minds of GCC cant come of it? In last year’s and resentment aside, there is leaders, hence their efforts to with Islam - especially the Ara- a real collision between the bic language - is deeply em- summit, the joint statement re- create coalitions and expand iterated the US commitment to views of Washington and the alliances. However, coalitions bedded. This irrational fear is Gulf Cooperation Council especially pronounced on com- defending the Gulf states, the and alliances need time to ma- need for peaceful and political (GCC). Washington sees Iran’s ture and become effective. mercial airplanes, where the involvement in the regional imaginations of captive pas- solutions to the region’s con- If Washington must disen- flicts, the threat of terrorism and balance of power as healthy, gage then so be it, but if it sengers with Islamophobic while the GCC sees it as an ex- proclivities rises high and the imperative for cooperation wants to do so without creat- to eradicate it, and most impor- istential threat. No summit will ing power vacuums that lead roams freely. convince either side of the oth- Arab student taken off US tantly Iran. to chaos, it should align its dis- Then, Tehran was urged to er’s view. engagement with the GCC’s flight for speaking Arabic If the summit’s only out- Anything associated with stop interfering in other coun- coalition-building efforts. If the tries’ affairs, and seek ways to come is a form of road map summit’s only outcome is a form "Muslim terrorism", whether it whereby each step that the be an article of clothing or a improve relations with its of road map whereby each step neighbors. A year later, US Pres- United States walks away is that the United States walks routine conversational phrase, only made after the GCC is can trigger that irrational fear ident Barack Obama described away is only made after the GCC Gulf states as “free riders”, ready to step in, it would be a is ready to step in, it would be and in turn, lead to the removal success of a Muslim, Arabic-speaking, blamed them for creating sec- a success. tarian conflicts, and called on There is also an asymmetry Abdullah Hamidaddin is a or "Muslim resembling" pas- in the mutual need between the senger. them to share the region with writer and commentator on re- Iran. There is already deep dis- United States and the GCC. ligion, Middle Eastern societ- These removals are no Securing oil flows from the Ara- longer isolated incidents but appointment - even resentment ies and politics with a focus on - with Obama’s regional poli- bian Gulf region was once part Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He is have become a discriminatory of US national security. Now it pattern and common practice his emotional injury, which was Aside from registering pres- Arabic as activism cies, and the upcoming summit currently a PhD candidate in will likely increase this resent- is being downgraded to part of King’s College London. He can on American commercial airlin- capped by the insult of South- ence, the phrase encompasses The ability, or inability, to American interest in regional ers. A pattern of removals west refusing to let him on an- the process of negotiating an "check-in", however, manifests ment. It is clear that he is only be followed on Twitter: @amiq1 In a national terrain where other of their flights back to expression of personal identi- the gravity of the problem Islamophobia is skyrocketing, California. ty for Arabs and Muslims be- faced by Arab and Muslim air- accommodating the irrational Makhzoomi’s removal from fore boarding a plane. Namely, line passengers today. On the Islamophobic fears of passen- a Southwest Airlines flight for which identity markers to con- one hand, speaking Arabic on gers, and policing the Arabic saying "Inshallah" is only the ceal or cover up, and an inten- board an airplane may incite language while on board, has most recent in a strong of Isla- tional decision to avoid speak- suspicion and spur removal. become an industry custom mophobic removals from com- ing Arabic - or any language But on the other, speaking Ar- while flying the not-so-friend- mercial airliners. resembling Arabic - while on a abic is a form of activism that ly skies. A Muslim family was re- flight. reveals the absurdity of these On April 9, Khairuldeen moved from a United Airlines Indeed, many Arab and irrational fears. Makhzoomi was removed from flight leaving Chicago in March Muslim airline passengers An absurdity which, one a Southwest airline flight min- after inquiring about "securing choose to "check-in" their eth- day, may push commercial air- By Turki Al-Dakhil and cooperate on renewing form to make their case to a utes before take-off. The Uni- a child booster seat", and in nic or religious identities be- liners - such as Southwest and formulae, facts and methods mass audience. Turki also owns versity of California-Berkeley December of 2015, three South fore boarding and subsequent- United Arlines - to accommo- One of the basic tenets of unless through dialogue that Al Mesbar Studies and Re- student, and Iraqi American, Asian men and an Arab pas- ly, engage in a racial or religious date the vast racial, religious knowledge is being open to paves way for tolerance. The search Centre and Madarek chose to call his uncle in Bagh- senger were "demanded off” of performance that lessens the and linguistic diversity of their other opinions and engaging in Arab culture has for a long time Publishing House in Dubai. He dad to discuss the United Na- an American Airlines flight leav- possibility of being identified customer base, instead of the dialogue with them. Scientific worked on inheriting convic- has received several awards tions event he just attended in ing Toronto for New York. as a "Muslim terrorist", and si- Islamophobic sensibilities of a temperament and knowledge tions without discussing them. and honors, including the New York. Three of the men forced to dis- multaneously accommodates few. depend on each other. The his- Modern science, however, was America Abroad Media annual 'Muslim' appearance or lan- embark were Muslims, while the the irrational fears of passen- Choosing to conceal Arab tory of knowledge is “a history based on ancient Greek heri- award for his role in support- guage gives rise to terror sus- other was a Sikh. gers. or Muslim identity, or biting of mistakes,” as French Philos- tage which is based on argu- ing civil society, human rights picion, while a combination of The inside of terminal four Passing as a non-Muslim your Arabic tongue, is capitu- opher Gaston Bachelard said. ment and conversation, and it and advancing women’s roles the two seems to intensify for at JFK Airport [Getty] [ while on a plane, and working lating to the Islamophobic While discussing his prin- is primarily Plato’s conversa- in Gulf societies. He tweets the Islamophobic passenger. "Muslim" appearance or their identity by code-switch- trope that Arabic is associated ciple of falsifiability, Austrian- tions, which still enrich the @TurkiAldakhil. "I just called him and told language gives rise to terror ing fully into English, is a com- with terrorism. While speaking British Philosopher Karl Pop- world until today. him about it … and he told me suspicions, while a combina- mon phenomenon for Arab and it is a form of resistance that is per suggested that a theory Knowledge facts [to] call him when I get to Oak- tion of the two seems to inten- Muslim airline passengers hardly radical, it vividly illus- which is not open to falsifica- When education ministries US SHOULD land, and I said, "Inshallah in- sify for the Islamophobic pas- these days. trates the radical political and tion is not necessarily scientif- in the Arab and Muslim worlds shallah I will call you when I senger. While "checking-in" is popular peaks Islamophobia ic. Dialogue is a condition for can spread the idea of possi- GO AFTER arrive." Considering that these Is- possible for racially ambiguous finds itself soaring towards in knowledge as without dia- bilities regarding all knowl- The conversation in Ara- lamophobic removals are not Arabs and religiously incon- the US today. logue, results turn into value- edge-related facts, they can IRAN, NOT bic, and specifically the men- exclusive to one commercial spicuous Muslims like myself, I choose the latter tactic - less identical facts that do not establish real pillars of toler- tion of "Allah" in Inshallah, airliner, having taken place on it is not for groups that fit neat- wielding Arabic as a form of re- establish a sound knowledge- ance that lead to dialogue. I SAUDI caused a concerned female Southwest, United and Ameri- ly within the stereotypical car- sistance - which is a more di- able generation. Dialogue hope dialogue is added as a passenger to leave the plane. can Airlines within the past icature of Arabs, such as Sikhs rect flight towards grounding opens up prospects for science subject in the curricula to be ARABIA! and knowledge so no truth She returned two minutes later, four months, the risk of being - who are ironically, neither Ar- the unchecked Islamophobia taught and thus introduce stu- BY Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor overshadows the other. dents to the most significant followed by two police officers forced off a plane for Arab and abs nor Muslims. The same marring the airline industry to- Congress is hurling daggers at ordering Makhzooomi to leave Muslim passengers, or others applies to Muslim women don- day, and affecting the millions Absence of dialogue is the conversations in Islamic histo- most dangerous thing. It is as Saudi Arabia, America’s staunch- the aircraft. vulnerable to the Islamophobic ning the headscarf, clergy, and of Arab, Muslim and "Muslim- ry, or what have come to be est Arab ally since 1933. Several Makhzoomi was then sub- imagination, is sky high. with regard to language, airline looking" passengers across if the ideas we have, the re- known as “debates.” presidential candidates, includ- jected to aggressive question- This begs the question as passengers who exclusively and beyond America tomorrow. search we have conducted or This will give an idea about ing Hillary Clinton and her rival ing, an examination of his lug- to whether passengers facing speak Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Pa- Khaled A Beydoun is an as- the formulae of understanding methods of dialogue as a tool Bernie Sanders, have positioned gage, and the seizure of his such Islamophobia when flying shtun, or any tongue discur- sistant professor of law at the we have developed are final and for co-existence, tolerance and their own darts ready to strike. should conceal or disguise their sively conflated with Islam or Barry University Dwayne O the absolute truth which oth- learning. Otherwise, how would Some 15 years have gone by wallet, all preceded by the em- since al-Qaeda attacked the Unit- barrassment and inconve- Muslim identity. perceived to be a "terrorist lan- Andreas School of Law. He is a ers must comply with and fol- those who lack the values of low as example. dialogue and its methods learn? ed States for which Afghanistan nience associated with being Checking in before a flight guage". native of Detroit. and Iraq paid, and continues to forcibly removed from an air- For Arab and Muslims "Checking-in" is one op- The views expressed in this Popper says that achieving Great Arab thinker Salama real progress in sciences seems pay, a terrible price. plane. prepping for a flight in America tion before flying while Arab, article are the authors' own and Moussa lectured about toler- Yet, Congress has chosen to "I felt oppressed. I was today, "checking in" has taken Muslim, or Muslim-looking but do not necessarily reflect Al impossible without tolerance ance in the beginning of the regurgitate this issue with a bill afraid," said Makhzoomi about on a new meaning. it isn't the only one. Jazeera's editorial policy. and without our certain feeling 20th century. He said: “Noth- permitting the Kingdom to be that we can publicly speak our ing serves ideological freedom stripped of its sovereign immu- ideas regardless of the results, and guarantees its continuity, nity so that lawyers acting for which these ideas will lead us and urges defending it like ex- the families of 9/11 victims eye- to. Therefore, tolerance and panded culture, as studying ing massive payouts can drag the LETTER TO THE EDITOR dedication for the sake of truth and addressing different and Saudi government through US are two moral principles that contradictory opinions, which courts alleging Saudi participa- establish for science and help tion. Those lawmakers champi- enhance the spirit of toler- oning the passing of this scurril- its progress. ance.” ous law designed to entrap Sau- The other two similar prin- Knowledge which is not di in lengthy litigation are not ciples are intellectual modesty founded on dialogue, and only casting unacceptable slurs Hurdles for mechanizing Afghan agriculture and intellectual responsibility. which does not lead to toler- on the integrity of the Saudi (There must be) insistence that ance, has negative repercus- Royal family, they are risking the Almost 70 percent of Afghan population is engaged in agriculture sector. However, farmers in Afghan- we don’t think about ourselves sions. serious erosion of already frayed istan are faced with numerous challenges, including lack of modern missionary, lack of proper irriga- but about truth and mainte- This article was first pub- US relations with the Kingdom, nance of critical approach re- lished by al-Bayan on Apr. 20, Arabian Gulf states and their tion system and most importantly lack of market for agricultural products. Due to these challenge garding all problems until the Sunni allies. It does not help that Afghan farmers cannot make enough reward, as compared to the volume of efforts that they exert. 2016. there is another bill working its end, he says. Turki Al-Dakhil is the Gen- way through Congress aimed at The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) should devise a special strategy to The credit for establishing eral Manager of Al Arabiya curtailing weapons sales to Sau- resolve the challenges. The ministry should import modern machinery and should organize training tolerance in philosophy goes News Channel. He began his di due to its intervention in Ye- session for farmers to teach them new techniques of cultivation. It should also find market for agri- to Arab philosopher al-Kindi. career as a print journalist, cov- men on behalf of the legitimate He defined philosophy as “the ering politics and culture for the Yemeni government. If the 9/11 culture products of Afghanistan. Another important point that I want to mention is that the government science of things and their true Saudi newspapers Okaz, Al- measure goes into effect it could should not rely in Pakistan’s port in Karachi for export of their products to international nature” Riyadh and Al-Watan. He then well be the straw that breaks the markets, but should find alternative routes. Turki Al-Dakhil moved to pan-Arab daily Al- camel’s back. It comes on the The credit for establishing heels of revelations by Jeffrey Sherzai Pathan, Khairkhana, Kabul Hayat and pan-Arab news Goldberg writing in The Atlan- tolerance in philosophy goes magazine Al-Majalla. Turki lat- tic that President Barack Obama Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s name and to Arab philosopher al-Kindi. er became a radio correspon- considers Saudi and other Sunni address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] He defined philosophy as “the dent for the French-owned pan- Arab states as “free riders” and science of things and their true Arab Radio Monte Carlo and when asked “aren’t the Saudis nature.” Tolerance in the field MBC FM. He proceeded to your friends”, he responded say- of knowledge helps spread the Elaph, an online news maga- ing, “It’s complicated”. Adding spirit of cooperation and dia- zine and Alarabiya.net, the insult to injury, he expressed his Disclaimer: logue in society. Crises produce news channel’s online platform. belief that Saudi must learn to violence in nations which give share the neighbourhood with Over a ten-year period, Dakhil’s Iran. Obama comes calling On The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) up dialogue and are driven by weekly Al Arabiya talk show Wednesday, Obama is scheduled and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. rivalry and loud arguments. “Edaat” (Spotlights) provided to arrive in Riyadh on a charm It’s not possible to under- an opportunity for proponents offensive; he will need every stand sciences and their basis of Arab and Islamic social re- ounce he can muster. 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. THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Israel rabbi to paramedics: 'Leave Palestinians to die' There is mounting evidence that committed by Israeli medical staff Israeli ambulance crews are with- created the climate that made pos- holding treatment from Palestin- sible the events in Hebron. ians injured during a wave of at- Leonid Eidelman, head of the tacks over the past six months, Israeli Medical Association, told according to rights groups. Al-Jazeera the criticisms were "un- Physicians for Human Rights fair" and that his organisation had in Israel, a medical watchdog "stated clearly that no political or group, found that wounded Pales- personal preferences should influ- tinians had been left untreated for ence treatment" of wounded Pal- as long as two hours. estinians. In some cases, medical teams The criticisms of ambulance are suspected of failing to tend to crews follow a heated debate the injuries of suspected attackers among Israel's medical authorities as revenge, in the expectation that about whether staff should abide they will die from their wounds. by the Geneva Conventions, which In parallel, says the group, Is- require them to remain neutral at raeli soldiers regularly deny Pales- all times and prioritise treatment tinian crews in the occupied terri- based solely on the severity of in- tories access to injured Palestin- juries. ians in violation of international ZAKA, an Israeli organisation agreements. Palestinian ambulanc- of community medical volunteers, es have been regularly fired on and has backed members who refuse paramedics attacked as they tried to treat Palestinians before Israeli to reach the scene. Jews. By contrast, Eli Bein, the Physicians for Human Rights head of the Magen David Adom, accused Israel's leading medical has said he expects ambulance bodies - the Israeli Medical Asso- staff to follow international hu- ciation, which lays down ethical manitarian law. codes, and Magen David Adom, Were war crimes committed in which supervises ambulance ser- Palestine? vices - of ignoring the evidence it Nonetheless, Magen David has collected of such abuses. Adom has justified the failure of Israel should be removed from its paramedics to treat al-Sharif in the [International Committee of Hebron last month, claiming they the] Red Cross for these violations were waiting for authorisation from until it is prepared to follow inter- the Israeli army. nationally accepted codes of con- Army commanders told the duct. Haaretz newspaper the claim was Mustafa Barghouti, Palestin- unfounded and was being used as ian politician and physician a "pretext for delaying treatment". "We have seen no serious re- The stance of the Israeli Medical As the Sulaimania skyline fades of 2015, Dange Nwe has been a first", he said. Jazeera in the station's editing casts will continue until the dis- sponse to our complaints, no in- Association has been equally am- and the snow-capped mountains liberal voice in the Halabja region But today, tens of thousands room. placed people are able to return to vestigations, not even an attempt bivalent, according to critics. separating Iraq and Iran draw near- since 2004. The community-ori- of listeners are tuning in to the four Some of Dange Nwe's long- their homes in Iraq and Syria. to meet us. They don't appear to In 2008 the Association adopt- er, the signal of Iraq's first radio ented station strives for indepen- hours of refugee-to-refugee pro- time listeners from Halabja, how- "The refugee radio will last for want to give answers," Mor Efrat, ed an ethical code - based on a Tal- broadcast made by and for refu- dence from political and religious gramming, including news, celeb- ever - including city officials - have as there are refugees here, and af- a researcher for the rights group, mudic injunction that "Charity gees emerges from static. factions while tackling socially rity gossip, and health and tech- expressed concern over the new ter that, we will adapt to whatever told Al-Jazeera. begins at home" - to treat Israelis "This is Dange Nwe Radio, sensitive issues, including female nology updates, according to data programmes broadcast in Arabic the needs of the community are," Concern that some ambulance before Palestinians. Under pres- refugee-to-refugee segment, from genital mutilation and polygamy. from the station. and the northern dialect of Kurdi- Muradkhin said. crews are adopting a policy of de- sure from Physicians for Human 8am to 12 noon, broadcast in Kur- Before the new refugee-to-ref- Shadan Habeb Fathullah, a 28- sh, which are not spoken by most Dange Nwe even hopes to nying Palestinians treatment has Rights, the code was quietly re- manji and Arabic," a female broad- ugee segments began, "the station year-old from Halabja, is the man- of the population. grow its programming and frequen- been heightened by the increasing voked in December. caster announces in a southern Iraqi was in a bit of a crisis", said Falah ager of Dange Nwe. She mentor "My brother works in the cy range to encompass the entire role of medical teams located in il- Doctors told the Times of Is- accent. The early-morning pro- Muradkhin, the coordinator for the new recruits, while also pro- market," Fathullah said. "Until re- area of the community of refugees legal Jewish settlements. rael website that the Association gramme includes Kurdish poetry, Wadi, an Iraqi-German NGO that ducing and editing most of the seg- cently, most of the people work- and displaced people in Iraq's Kur- These paramedics appear to was afraid of a political backlash if classic love songs by a Christian supports the broadcasts. "We were ments. When a traditional Kurdi- ing there listened to our radio in dish region. be openly flouting internationally it publicised the change. "Whatev- Lebanese singer, and pop music exploring new ideas. We needed sh pop song abruptly cuts out the morning. But since we began "We'd like to be doing even established principles of neutrali- er their official positions, these more familiar to listeners in Bagh- new ideas for the station." amid a routine power outage, broadcasting in Arabic and Kur- more than we are now," Hevy said. ty that all medical staff are sup- bodies are not speaking out clear- dad than in northern Iraq. When Muradkhin suggested Fathullah runs to the backup gen- manji [the northern dialect of Kur- "We'd like to be able to expand our posed to observe. ly against violations of medical eth- The new refugee radio pro- that Dange Nwe staff train newly erator outside to keep the broad- dish], people have been tuning to coverage to reach more refugees in In December the leaders of ics. And they are certainly not tak- gramme on Dange Nwe (New arrived refugees to broadcast pro- cast on air. other stations, because they don't Erbil, Dohuk and the entire refu- United Hatzalah, a settler ambu- ing any action," Efrat said. Voice) Radio is staffed exclusively grammes that would address the "It's a lot of responsibility, but understand the broadcasts." gee community in the Kurdish re- lance service implicated in several In addition to last month's in- by Syrian and Iraqi women dis- needs of the displaced communi- I love what I do, and I want to do Despite the station's tight bud- gion of northern Iraq." cases in which Palestinians have cident in Hebron, Physicians for placed by the rise of the Islamic ty, "they weren't convinced at my best for the girls," she told Al get, Muradkhin says these broad- Aljazeera been refused treatment, visited a Human Rights have highlighted State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, leading ultra-Orthodox rabbi, several other clear cases of medi- also known as ISIS) and the war in Chaim Kanievsky, to receive in- cal violations. One of the most dis- Syria. structions on what to do with Pal- turbing relates to 19-year-old The four DJs tailor their pro- ALAWI EMPOWERS CHILDREN estinians injured during attacks. Muhannad Halabi, who was shot gramming to the thousands of fam- According to a report on the during an attack in the Old City of ilies who have fled the ongoing vi- settlers' website Israel National Jerusalem last October. Witness- olence and sought refuge in this rural News, Kanievsky told them that es, including an Israeli medic, told corner of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region. TO FIGHT SEXUAL ABUSE "All the programmes we air - Small fists fly towards throats, eye. with sex crime reports that give bringing social workers, police, whether they are news, politics, knees jerk from under pinafore "The others said, 'What hap- the names of victims or their par- medics and a justice officer un- health, or music - have an audience dress hems up to groin level and pened to you? How did you be- ents, schools and villages. Reports der one roof in One-Stop Cen- within the refugee community," two-pronged fingers shoot for the come this fierce?'" about teachers impregnating stu- tres. Hevy Izat Ahmed, who is origi- eyes as high-pitched shrieks of The boys tried another day dents, police officers raping girls At the centre in Malawi's nally from Kobane, told Al Jazeera. "No!" echo through the play- and she poked one again. Since then in custody - including those who second largest city Blantyre, 90 "We know what news refugees ground at Makankhula primary they have backed off. might be placed there to escape percent of abuse cases are sexu- need to hear, about aid deliveries, school. Godfrey Ateftali, 17, said sexual abuse at home - paedophile al. or about what's happening at "We use the knee to hit the Ujamaa skills helped him to stop a magistrates, and molesting stepfa- Speaking above the screams home." groin of the assailant, to disable rape on his way home from school. thers are widespread. of a small girl in reception, so- Ahmed, 27, was living in Alep- him, and then we run," explained "I used my voice and said, Yet child rape in the form of cial worker Winnie Salama said po when war broke out in Syria. Alinafe Kambalane, who teaches 'Hey! Police are coming!' and the incest or by community members that she often has to send rape She studied philosophy at a uni- self-defence to girls in 46 schools boy left the girl and ran," Ateftali can be deemed acceptable in the victims back home, even when versity in Beirut before returning across Malawi's Dedza district. said. name of "cultural practices". she knows that it is not physi- to Syria. Though she is new to ra- "They have to shout 'No!' Backed by the United Nations In some areas, fathers are cally and psychologically safe. dio, she is confident in front of a and they have to run away," Ka- Children's Fund, UNICEF, the known to sleep with their daugh- "When you just start doing microphone: "Being a refugee and mbalane added, beaming with Ujamaa network, which started in ters if their wives refuse sex or fall it, you just want to take every- knowing what our listeners have pride as her little warriors spring some of the Kenyan capital Nairo- sick, or to determine how much to one home with you," including gone through makes me able to do to life. bi's toughest slums, now extends charge for her "lobola", or dowry. the infants, she said. this job. Another broadcaster might It is peculiar to watch the fac- to more than 250 schools across Parents might marry off their But there is nowhere for any not understand what it means to es of otherwise shyly smiling seven districts. young daughters to older men with- of them to go, no matter how be a refugee in a foreign country." girls harden into scowls or gri- At the end of the course, out the girls' consent under a prac- small. The eastern Iraqi city of Hal- maces - eyes sharpening or wid- Ujamaa gives pupils details of re- tice called "kupumbira", in ex- "It's been years now and I abja, nestled in the foothills of the ening in defiance - as they pic- ferral services, which include an change for a tokens such as a hoe don't see anyone doing anything sprawling mountain range that de- ture imaginary aggressors. anonymous rape survivors' group. or to pay debts. about it," Salama said. lineates the border with Iran, is But in this small slice of Child rape Men justify the rape of inno- Dorothy, 14, came to the better known as the site of a mas- southern Africa, where six exas- Preliminary findings from cents - especially virgins - to centre with her mother to pro- sacre nearly three decades ago, perated child protection workers Ujamaa's Malawi survey of 11,460 "cleanse" sicknesses, including vide the necessary medical evi- when the Iraqi air force dropped glumly described the rape of mi- girls under 18 show that on aver- HIV, clear curses, or bring fortune, dence and police report about sarin and nerve gas during the Iran- nors as "a social norm", "normal", age, one in five has been raped. The and of widows to make sure the the elderly man who raped her Iraq war, killing thousands. "the norm" or "just culture", put- Since ISIL fighters overran ting the power to stop it in chil- swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014, dren's hands is a necessary reali- millions of people have been dis- ty. placed, including around 5,000 fam- Empowering children to fight ilies who have been drawn to the sexual abuse if the injured Palestinian "was in a the watchdog group that Halabi region surrounding Halabja for a In little over a year, and with life-threatening condition, they was left untreated for two hours variety of reasons, for example the only 50 instructors, small Ken- should leave him or her to die". before paramedics pronounced him relatively low cost of living and yan charity Ujamaa has trained Other rabbis have made similar dead. employment opportunities in the almost 25,000 Malawian children calls. Israeli soldiers fired stun gre- agricultural sector. to fight the sexual abuse that is The issue of Israel's treatment nades at a Palestinian crew that Dange Nwe's five-room sta- commonly committed by those of injured Palestinians was thrust tried to reach him. tion, plastered with fading post- they most trust. into the spotlight late last month A request from Physicians for ers of Kurdish singers, is housed "Most girls are raped or sex- when a soldier from the Israeli ar- Human Rights to Israel's justice in a women's centre in Halabja, ually assaulted by people they my's medical corps was caught on ministry to investigate the incident originally established to offer vo- know," according to Martin video executing a badly injured has gone unanswered. cational training. In the small stu- Ndirangu, who runs Ujamaa's Palestinian in the West Bank city In a second incident, a week dio, Fallujah native Hanine Has- Malawi project. "Boyfriends or of Hebron. later in the Old City, a video shows san, 19, reads the day's technolo- partners, family members and Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, aged Palestinian paramedics being beat- gy news, including a report on a teachers being among [the] high- 21, had been shot and wounded en and pushed away as they try to newly launched mobile app that est perpetrators." during a suspected knife attack on reach Basel Sidr, aged 19. Their can estimate the moment of a us- Ujamaa's six-week pro- a checkpoint. Before the medical medical equipment was also dam- er's death and set a countdown timer gramme - split into weekly, two- corps soldier, identified as Sergeant aged. to that moment. But Hassan told hourly sessions - covers self- Elor Azaria, executed him by fir- Witnesses said an Israeli am- Al Jazeera she prefers interview- awareness, self-respect and de- ing a bullet into his head, al-Sharif bulance crew looked on for 20 min- ing refugees in nearby camps, and fence skills. figure - currently under validation death of their husbands doesn't on her way to the family's out- was left bleeding on the ground for utes before a medic approached hearing about the challenges they Being told that the unwant- by John Hopkins University in the extend to other men. side toilet. more than 10 minutes. Sidr to check his pulse and declare face while adjusting to life in Hal- ed fondles and forced sex acts con- US - in two Malawian districts is As for fighting back, "there But the police didn't come Both army medics and two ci- him dead. In another video, para- abja. stitute abuse comes as a revela- one in three. have been people opposing this as and the man hasn't been arrest- vilian ambulance teams, one of medics are shown denying treat- "I hope that having these in- tion to many children. Many girls tell Ujamaa instruc- it's not respecting your elders," said ed. them United Hatzalah, refused to ment to Sa'ad al-Atrash, who was terviews with refugee families, Fazani Alikangel, 14, said the tors the "shocking stories" that Brendan Ross, who sits on "I feel so bad when I see him treat him. After the video was pub- shot at least six times last October who are talking about their suffer- catcalls from married men which they are too afraid or ashamed of Ujamaa's board. around [the neighbourhood]. I licised, Sgt Azaria was arrested. by soldiers at a checkpoint in He- ing, is comforting for others in the started two years ago on her way telling friends or family, Kambal- Malawi's female magistrates want him to be arrested as what On Monday, an Israeli military bron. Witnesses say he was left same position, so they know that to school were "traumatising". ane said. and police recently voiced concern he did to me affected me deep- court charged the soldier with man- for half an hour lying in the street other people are also suffering or Like the groping boys at school, "They live with the trauma about the spike in cases of rape, ly," she said. slaughter and inappropriate mili- before being evacuated to hospi- experiencing the same problems," she didn't know how to stop inside them for years," and when which last year became Malawi's Killed cases tary conduct. However, there has tal, where he died of his wounds. Hassan said. them. the confessions come tumbling most reported crime. "The most vulnerable age been an outpouring of support for There are strong suspicions that The refugee radio will last for Tiyamike Thole, 17, ended out, Kambalane cannot show pity, The increase in reports could group is aged 9 to 13," said the him, from the Israeli public, poli- al-Atrash was shot by a trigger- as there are refugees here, and af- years of abuse thanks to what she in case they clam up again. be a positive sign of parents want- centre's police officer Emman- ticians and rabbis. Efrat, of Physi- happy soldier, in what Amnesty ter that, we will adapt to whatever learned at Ujamaa. One day, she Despite the stigma surround- ing to put abusers behind bars rath- uel Kalumbu, who only has the cians for Human Rights, said the International called an "especially the needs of the community are. simply poked one of the group ing rape, there is little anonymity er than keep the matter quiet. power to refer cases to the local failure by both the Israeli Medical egregious" example of unlawful Falah Muradkhin, coordinator of boys waiting to grab her on elsewhere. Unicef is trying to encourage police station and not to make Association and Magen David killing. Although the station's refugee the walk home from school in the Local newspapers are filled more people to report abuses by arrests. Adom to speak out against abuses Aljazeera programming began airing at the end 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. THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Chinese Consortium Reaches Deal

Intel, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors, said on Tuesday to Buy Lexmark that it was laying off 12,000 peo- ple, about 11 percent of its work force, as it continues to reel from a HONG KONG: Lexmark, the printing and software company, agreed long downturn in global demand Wednesday to be sold to a consortium led by Apex Technology of China for personal computers. and PAG Asia Capital, a private equity firm, for $3.6 billion, including The company’s chief execu- debt. tive, Brian Krzanich, announced Lexmark had been looking into strategic alternatives for a while. The the layoffs as part of a larger cor- consortium buying it, which also includes Legend Capital Management, porate restructuring, which will a venture capital firm, will pay $40.50 a share in an all-cash transaction. result in a $1.2 billion charge. Intel Lexmark said the deal represented a 30 percent premium to its closing also reported lower-than-expect- price on Oct. 21, when it became known that the company was looking ed first-quarter earnings and re- into its options. duced its projected revenue for the Lexmark said the deal would allow it to expand in Asia. year. “With the Consortium’s resources, we will be able to continue to “Intel has been known as the invest in and grow the business to more fully penetrate the Asia Pacific PC company,” Mr. Krzanich said market for hardware, software and managed print services,” Paul Rooke, in an earnings call with Wall Street Lexmark’s chairman and chief executive, said in a news release. analysts. “It’s time to make this Jackson Wang, the chairman of Apex, added that the two businesses transition and push the company were likely to be complementary, as Apex manufactures parts for ink all the way over” to supplying cartridges. “Apex has traditionally been successful in emerging markets chips for things like smartphones, and in cost-effective production,” Mr. Wang said in a news release. “We cloud computing, sensors and oth- are excited to work alongside Lexmark as they continue to invest in er devices. advanced technologies and solutions to best serve their customers and Intel’s restructuring is the lat- business partners, while simultaneously pursuing untapped opportuni- est evidence of how onetime tech ties in emerging markets particularly in Asia for future growth.” bellwethers have had to navigate a rapid shift into the more flexible Lexmark said that it intended to keep its company headquarters in and dispersed tech world created Lexington, Ky., and that Mr. Rooke would remain in his current role. by the combination of mobile com- Shares rose about 11 percent in after-hours trading. puting devices connected to cloud The deal continues a stream of prolific deal making among Chinese computing systems. On Monday, companies, including the sale of the technology distributor Ingram Mi- for example, IBM reported lower cro for $6 billion to Tianjin Tianhai, a Chinese shipping group. Some profit and revenue, including a 22 deals, like the attempts to buy Fairchild Semiconductor and Starwood percent drop in sales of comput- Hotels, have fallen apart, but China has still been racking up acquisi- ing hardware. tions. Outbound deals from China were worth $92.2 billion in the first Microsoft, which will report quarter of this year, compared with $106 billion in the first quarter of its financial results on Thursday, 2015, according to Dealogic. has over the last several years Lexmark’s board has approved the transaction, but it is still subject changed its strategy from software to shareholder and regulatory approval from agencies including the Com- in PCs toward computer servers, mittee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The deal is expected a mix that involves much more soft- to close in the second half of 2016. ware rented over its giant cloud Moelis & Company acted as financial adviser for the consortium, system. Dell, a big PC maker, took while Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom acted as legal counsel. itself private in 2013. Hewlett- Lexmark was advised by Goldman Sachs and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Packard divided into two compa- Katz. nies last year, one focused on cor- porate computing and one that “We’re moving from a compa- makes PCs and printers. Last Sep- ny that was at the center of the PC tember, HP announced about market to being a company at the 30,000 layoffs. center of cloud computing,” said Yahoo's deterioration accelerates ahead of a possible sale At Intel, Mr. Krzanich became Stacy Smith, Intel’s chief financial chief almost three years ago, and officer. On Tuesday, Mr. Smith was On Tuesday, the company posted lost a lot of credibility," he said. over much of that time he has named to run Intel’s sales, manu- a first quarter loss on a sharp drop Yahoo's stock has rallied over talked about moving the company facturing and operations, another in net revenue, a figure that sub- the past two month amid expecta- into new areas. More recently, top indication of how Intel needs to tracts ad commissions from total tions that it will divest its Internet executives have left the company, tighten its relationship with a few turnover. Yahoo's net revenue fell operations. That would leave Ya- and Mr. Krzanich has brought in big cloud companies, like Amazon 18 percent from year-earlier peri- hoo as a holding company with executives from other companies. and Microsoft. This would involve od to $859 million. It's the largest valuable stakes in China's e-com- The new restructuring is intended integrating the production and sale decline in Yahoo's quarterly net merce leader, Alibaba Group, and to help Intel invest more heavily of things like chips for computer revenue since the company hired Yahoo Japan. in its new segments, such as chips memory along with computer pro- Marissa Mayer as its CEO nearly Yahoo shares gained 47 cents to power connected devices. cessors. four years ago. to $36.80 in Tuesday's extended Yet Intel still gets 60 percent The company expects an even trading. of its revenue from chips supplied Japan's bigger net revenue drop of 20 per- Mayer and the rest of Yahoo's to PCs, and its profit margins there cent in the quarter ending in June. board could be ousted if the com- are not as good as in data center Mitsubishi Yahoo lost $99 million during pany doesn't sell and its financial chips, its other major business. the first quarter, compared to a $21 results continue to worsen. Activ- The company’s other businesses million profit last year. A big chunk ist investor Starboard Value has have small profits, or else lose Motors Finds of the loss stemmed from the cost nominated a slate of candidates to money. of laying off about 1,000 workers replace Yahoo's nine-member That means PCs are still core Falsified Fuel during the quarter, a cut that board in an election at the compa- to what Intel does. Most of the chopped the company's workforce ny's annual meeting, which may layoffs, along with things like con- Mileage Tests to 9,400 employees as of March. be held in late June. solidating facilities and cut That purge was part of a cost- In Tuesday interview on projects, are expected to be inside TOKYO — Mitsubishi Motors cutting plan drawn up by Mayer CNBC, Starboard CEO Jeffrey the PC business. Employees who Corp. said Wednesday says it that includes closing some of the Smith said he is trying to negotiate are affected by the restructuring found evidence its employees in- unprofitable services started up a settlement that would give his will be notified in the next 60 days, tentionally falsified fuel mileage under her reign. hedge fund several seats on Yahoo's the company said. The layoffs are test data for several models of ve- Investors, however, are much board ahead of the annual meeting. the largest since 2006, when the hicles. more focused on whether the com- If there isn't a settlement, company let go 10,500 employ- The Tokyo-based automaker pany is going to sell the bulk of its Smith said he is prepared to lead a ees. said Wednesday that the inaccu- operations or not. The Sunnyvale, mutiny so an entirely new board Last week, Gartner reported rate tests involved 157,000 of its California, company announced can "pick up the pieces." that worldwide PC shipments in own-brand eK wagon and eK two months ago that it's consider- the first quarter were 64.8 million Space light passenger cars, and ing the sale of part or all of its In- units, down 9.6 percent from a 468,000 Dayz Roox vehicles pro- ternet business instead of sticking Dubai’s biggest bank cuts 300 jobs amid weaker economy year ago. duced for Nissan Motor Co. with Mayer's cost-cutting plan. “The hope was that PC de- The problem was found after Yahoo's deterioration acceler- Dubai’s largest bank, Emir- mand, which has fallen for years, Nissan pointed out inconsistencies ates ahead of a possible sale ates NBD, has laid off around would be flat, and other segments in data, the company said. Mit- In this Nov. 5, 2014, file pho- 300 people recently due to a would start filling in,” said Mark subishi conducted an internal to, a person walks in front of a weaker economy, a spokes- Hung, an analyst with Gartner. probe and found that tire pressure Yahoo sign at the company's head- man for the lender told Reu- “This threw a monkey wrench into data was falsified to make mileage quarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Ya- ters. that.” appear better than it actually was. hoo reported Tuesday, April 19, Around 100 staff were For the first quarter, Intel had "The wrongdoing was inten- 2016, that after subtracting ad cut from Emirates Money, net income of $2 billion, or 42 cents tional. It is clear the falsification commissions, Yahoo's revenue fell one of the bank’s subsidiar- a share, and revenue of $13.7 bil- was done to make the mileage look 18 percent from the same time a ies, as part of a merger. A fur- lion. Wall Street analysts had pro- better. But why they would resort year earlier, to $859 million. It's ther 200 staff were shed from jected that Intel would earn 47 to fraud to do this is still unclear," the largest decline in Yahoo's quar- Emirates Islamic, the lender’s cents a share on revenue of $13.8 company president Tetsuro Aika- terly net revenue since the compa- Shariah-compliant wing. billion, according to a survey by wa told reporters. ny hired Marissa Mayer as its The layoffs come not Thomson Reuters. He and other company execu- CEO nearly four years ago. (AP long several other local and Revenue at the PC group fell tives bowed in apology. Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) international banks in the 14 percent from the previous quar- Aikawa said that although he In a review of the first-quarter UAE cut staff. In total, 800 ter, indicating Intel had to cut prices was unaware the irregularities were results, Mayer described the sales jobs have been slashed since as demand fell. happening, "I feel responsible." negotiations as a "top priority" and November last year in the Intel faces other potential The company said it would said the board is moving on an "ag- Gulf state's banking sector. stumbling blocks. The company is investigate whether data were al- gressive calendar" to complete the The National Bank of unique as much of the tech indus- tered for vehicles sold overseas. process. She didn't provide a spe- Ras Al Khaimah cut up to try counts on it continually deliv- Nissan said in a statement that cific timetable. 250 jobs earlier this year, ering chips with more transistors it recently discovered discrepan- Her comments aimed to de- while Abu Dhabi-based First for the same money. The process, cies in data from Mitsubishi about bunk reports that Yahoo's board is Gulf Bank laid off almost known as Moore’s Law after Intel light vehicles it provided while as- only making a half-hearted effort 100. HSBC and Standard co-founder Gordon Moore, has sessing the current model in prep- to attract bidders because she and Chartered have also reduced generally happened in two-year aration for its next-generation ve- the rest of the directors would pre- their headcount by 150 each. intervals. The next generation of hicle. fer the company remain indepen- Emirates NBD remains Obama’s presidency sees shift in US-Saudi trade ties chips, however, is likely to arrive "In response to Nissan's re- dent. “very focused” on controlling in two and a half years, or more, quest, Mitsubishi admitted that Verizon Communications has expenses, chief financial of- President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week highlights a shift in trade ties between the two allies leading to fears that Moore’s Law data had been intentionally manip- publicly said it's interested in buy- ficer Surya Subramanian said since he took office seven years ago. During Obama’s presidency, US annual exports to the kingdom have is slowing. ulated in its fuel economy testing ing Yahoo. It snapped up another in Tuesday's earnings state- grown by over 80 percent, data published by the US Census Bureau shows. Meanwhile, Saudi exports to the Mr. Krzanich, who previous- process for certification," Nissan fallen Internet star, AOL Inc., for ment. US have roughly halved. ly had played down the signifi- said. $4.4 billion last year. The Daily But the spokesman told The dramatic shift is “largely due to the slump in oil prices and the US’s move towards domestic oil cance of his production schedule, It said that after consulting the Mail in London also has said it was Reuters the bank had no cur- consumption,” said Yakir Gillis, an analyst at London-based business intel firm Alaco. Despite Washington took pains on Tuesday to say that Japan's transport ministry, it told mulling a bid. Analysts believe pri- rent plans for further staff and Riyadh’s divergence over foreign policy in recent times - particularly over Iran’s nuclear deal – it is still Intel wanted to pick up its pace. dealers to stop selling the affected vate equity firms that specialize cuts. ENBD employs more very much business as usual. The US’s top exports to the kingdom range from vehicles, machinery and aircraft, “We are continuously striving to vehicles. Nissan was considering in buying and turning around trou- than 10,000 people, includ- to agricultural products. Meanwhile, petrochemicals make up the lion’s share of Saudi exports to the US. get back to two years,” he said. ways to help owners of the cars bled companies are interested. ing around 2,000 at EI. Infographic: In figures: US-Saudi trade ties Relations between the two countries go back to the 1930s, with an Intel had better do so, Mr. already sold. Estimates on the value of Ya- Established in 2008 pri- early joint venture between US oil giants and Saudi’s government leading to the creation of Aramco, now the Hung said. “Its competitors don’t "Nissan understands and re- hoo's Internet operations have marily to provide loans to world’s most valuable company. “Multiple US firms and financial institutions have long and established ties seem to be slowing down,” he said. grets the inconvenience and con- ranged from $4 billion to $10 bil- small and medium-sized en- with the Saudi government, as well as with the kingdom’s most wealthy and prominent business figures,” said “They may get to the next genera- cern this will cause our valued cus- lion. Properties on the block in- terprises (SMEs), Emirates Gillis. A key figure tasked with leading the kingdom’s economic future is Deputy Crown Mohammad Bin tion of chips at the same time as tomers," the company said. clude Yahoo's widely used email Money’s workforce stands at Salman, who heads the Council for Economic and Development Affairs. Earlier this month, he told US news Intel. Mitsubishi Motors struggled service, digital advertising tools around 270 people after the outlet Bloomberg that around 5 percent of Aramco would be up for grabs in an IPO set to list no later than That would be unheard-of.” for years to win back consumer and its still popular finance and redundancies, he added. 2018. Aramco is believed to be worth more than $2.5 trillion, multiple times more than US tech giant Apple, Besides cutting its operating trust after an auto defects scandal sports sites. SMEs form the engine of the world’s largest listed firm. The partial sale will form a planned $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund that will expenses by $700 million this year in the early 2000s over cover-ups Backing Mayer following the the local economy but many serve to provide for Saudi Arabia’s income, rather than oil. “Undoubtedly, it will be larger than the largest fund through the restructuring, Intel of problems such as failing brakes, flop of her previous turnaround started to struggle last year on earth,” the deputy crown prince told Bloomberg. The fund to move from oil “could mean massive needs for may be seeking to sell different faulty clutches and fuel tanks prone efforts would only alienate inves- when commodity prices be- imported technology, materials, and more,” said Paul Sullivan, a Middle East expert and academic at George- types of chips in combined ways to falling off dating back to the tors further, says Mizuho Securi- gan to sink, causing some to town University. “It could also mean a huge increase in service exports from the US for advisers, experts, for better efficiency and profit. 1970s. ties analyst Neil Doshi. "They have default on their debt. lawyers, engineers, architects, economists, and a lot more.” 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. THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Kate Middleton's wardrobe choices Review: Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Fan’ is a waste of a great concept prove repeating is not an offence I desperately wanted it to be a great film •— or, at least half as great as the hype around it. But despite all the optimism in my heart, I am not sure whether I’ll watch Fan again or not. It seems unlikely, not because it is a typical Shah Rukh Khan film where he steals a lot of hearts and makes some cringe at his habitual burglary of human intellect but because Fan had the potential of being a lot more than just that. The director had the most rec- ognisable face of Bollywood play a fan of the most recognisable face of Bollywood — a concept that lays a solid foundation for a great ego vs shadow story. A perfect ying yang was developing until the director bowed down to conven- tions and turned what could have been Shah Rukh’s magnum opus of the decade into nothing more than a though-out version of Du- plicate. Remember the film where good and evil versions of Shah Rukh play a tug of war with Fari- da Jalal to prove which one of them is her real son? The evil brother manages to pull her to his side, only to be told that her real son would never have pulled his mother with so much force. Mamta and Bolly- wood won, at the end of the day. Fan is obviously not as stupid but it misses being Duplicate by a whisker. Gaurav (Shah Rukh Khan) is a diehard fan of superstar Aryan Khanna (Shah Rukh Khan) and has been winning an annual look-alike competition in his neigh- bourhood in Delhi by mimicking Aryan’s performances to perfec- Salman Khan tion. His mom and dad are equally passionate about his obsession with Aryan, so much so that they fund for him a trip to Mumbai so doesn’t accept that he may wish Aryan on his birthday. They also pack a box of sohan halwa and the trophy gifts: Jacqueline Gaurav won for his Aryan imper- sonations. With dreams of meeting his idol — whom he calls ‘Aryan Senior’ Fernandez while referring to himself as ‘Ary- an Junior’ — Gaurav waits out- MUMBAI: Bollywood beauty Jacqueline Fernandez – who starred side Aryan’s house along with a alongside superstar Salman Khan in 2014’s hit action drama Kick – has flood of people hoping to do the claimed that the latter does not accept gifts from anyone. Instead, Sal- same. Gaurav doesn’t get a chance man simply asks for the gift to be passed on to his Being Human to meet Aryan on his birthday but foundation which supports the underprivileged across India. so much is his love for Khanna that “Whenever you speak to Salman, he always brings up Being Hu- he decides to tackle one of the up- man because he is just so passionate about it,” Jacqueline said on Indian coming actors, who had incited TV show Yaar Mera Superstar. “And mind you, this is not because the Khanna into a tussle, personally. cameras are on. It is just always about Being Human with him!” This point in the first act where The Brothers star went on to say that Khan has also helped her that whisker also disappears. regain confidence. “He is one of the best mentors anybody can ever You’re left with Shah Rukh the have. He really makes you believe in yourself and that is what he actor, taking control of a film which survives on,” she added, openly admitting that Salman is an inspiration must have been conceived by a di- for her. “He is very approachable and always there for someone who is rector called Maneesh Sharma. The in need. This is something I have learned from him because someone conflict between the star and the helped me when I needed it the most. Now I also try and help whoever fan is overtaken by all that Shah I can now,” Jacqueline said. Rukh would want do in a film about Shah Rukh, with the fan just pro- viding fuel to his fire. A major chunk of the remaining film comprises of chase sequences — three long ones to be precise — and their run time suffices for all the songs that have been avoided to make Fan a less Bollywood-esque film. But like songs in Bollywood, even the over- extended chase sequences have nothing to do with the plot. Shah Rukh Khan thanks Paki- stani fans for tribute By this time, I wasn’t even surprised by this Anu Malik pro- There are no tiaras and ball gowns pumps got another airing. The duction of an AR Rahman melody. in the cards for the Duchess of Duchess wore them with a stun- This was pretty clear that Shah Cambridge, who gives some seri- ning blue and white patterned Rukh’s over-indulgence and self- ous style goals to the girls next dress by Indian-born designer ALI NOOR SET TO MAKE obsession have taken their toll on door. Naeem Khan while visiting Taj our ‘fan’ moment and the story- All eyes were set on Kate Mahal. telling of what could have been an Middleton during her maiden visit Although Pied-A-Terre Impe- BOLLYWOOD DEBUT epic journey. With all due respect to India and Bhutan last week. ria ceased trading around 2011- One half of Pakistani’s pioneering not a mainstream production. It is to Shah Rukh — and some excel- While many people were curious 2012, their sister company Dune pop-rock band Noori, musician Ali a part of a new format of films lent works by him, such as Swades to find out what was on the Royal took over making the shoes. Kate Noor will be making his singing India is exploring and I prefer and Chak De India — there is a couple’s itinerary, others were ea- sported the black wedges with a debut across the border, crooning those.” fine line between truth and fiction. ger to see some new pieces from stunning green maxi dress by Amer- You are a bigger fan of yourself Kate’s enviable wardrobe. ican designer Anna Sui while at- and the film clearly shows that, Much to our surprise, Her tending Bohag Bihu festival at regardless of the prism it is being Royal Highness was the epitome Kaziranga National Park, Assam. seen through. I walked out of the of simplicity throughout her whirl- Kate repeated the pair with her cinema a few minutes before the wind tour as she was seen sport- pink and black embroidered smock film actually ended with some wise ing some chic yet elegant outfits. dress from Topshop during her words resonating in my mind: “For We have deconstructed Kate’s visit to Pan Bari – a rural village on a moment, nothing happened. wardrobe and picked up some sta- the edge of the park. Then, after a second or so, nothing ples which prove that repeating an Kate was first spotted wear- continued to happen.” Douglas outfit is not an offence. ing the 9ct gold ‘Temple of Heav- Adams, I am your fan. Her Royal Highness chan- en’ earrings by jeweller Cassandra neled her elegance in a yellow-gold Goad on day one of her royal tour. dress by British designer Emilia Since then she has worn them a Maria Memon, Ahsan Khan lend Wickstead when she arrived in number of times. Bhutan. She paired them with her ivo- Kate was spotted wearing the ry midi dress by Emilia Wickstead voice to animated series 'Tick Tock!' same dress back in 2012 for an while visiting the India Gate in “Order of the Thistle” ceremony New Delhi. Pakistan’s entertainment industry appears to have taken a liking to animation – after Haroon Rashid’s Burka in Scotland. Kate repeated the pair with her Avenger and Sharmeen Obaid’s 3 Bahadur, Muhammad Asim is now directing Tick Tock! Kate was a vision in white poppy Juliet dress from Beulah The series is based on true events and aims to educate children on history. Talk show host Maria Memon during her departure from Bhutan. London at a reception in Thimpu, is lending her voice to the animation, as well as Alyy Khan, Ghulam Mohiuddin and Ahsan Khan. The Duchess of Cambridge wore a Bhutan. a single for the upcoming Bolly- It is interesting to note that Broderie Anglaise suit by Sarah Can you believe these simple wood production Dear Dad. The they recorded the song over a night- Burton for Alexander McQueen. earrings from Accessorize could be song titled Girha is set to release long Skype session while Raghav Kate first wore the suit on the a royal wardrobe staple? on April 18 while the Tanu Bhra- & Arjun were in Mumbai, and second day of the 2012 Royal Tour, Kate wore the British high mar directorial film will be releas- Noor in Lahore. during a visit to Singapore. street brand’s earrings with her ing on May 6. While speaking to The Ex- Kate was a sartorial master- tunic dress by Indian designer An- “This is the first time I’ve sang press Tribune, Arjun, one half of piece in a scarlet Alexander Mc- ita Dongre during her visit to Oval a song I haven’t composed. It was the duo said, “It was a brilliant queen peplum dress, on her arrival Maidan recreational ground in interesting and tough because I session and we know Noor gave it in India. She paired her paisley- South Mumbai. usually improvise but this time I his heart and soul.” Both Raghav printed bespoke piece with LK The Duchess repeated the pair had to follow someone else and do and Arjun, who are also the music Bennett Fern style in trench leath- with her printed dress by retakes. They would say sur mein directors for the film, agreed that er. Manchester-based high street gayen and I’d say hum tuner Noor was the right choice for the Kate wore the same pair of brand Glamorous during her visit lagatay hain and they’d say hum song. shoes with Temperley London’s to the Salaam Baalak Trust in New nai lagatay, we sing it accurately” “When we recorded the song Desdemona Lace Dress during her Delhi. They also added the oomph Noor joked. “They work with for the film we wanted something lunch with Indian Prime Minister factor to her Topshop dress. high-end technology,” he added. fresh and non-commercial, a voice Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The Kate sported a new pair of gold Talking to The Express Tri- that was raw, earthy and added a nude pumps perfectly compliment- charm earrings from Brora on her bune in 2012, Noor had said “The character of its own to the song. ed her teal dress. arrival in Bhutan. They are offi- fact that Bollywood is so high-end We were looking at voices in India It seems that Kate really cially described as “eye-catching, and there is no room for mistakes and we had options but nothing yearns the Fern as she wore it once yet not overwhelming”. struck me hard. Frankly speaking, fit. Then we remembered Noori’s again during her Royal visit to The Duchess repeated the 22 I don’t think I am ready for that Saari Raat Jaaga which is our Bhutan. She paired the nude heels ct gold plated brass earrings with right now.” When asked whether favourite,” Raghav said. Arjun add- with her Emilia Wickstead and her Tory Burch’s Floral Mesh he feels ready now, he said, “That ed, “Fox Travellers India had done Broderie Anglaise dresses. Gown that she wore at a private is absolutely true. This is the first something with Noori so we got And just when we thought she dinner with the Bhutanese King time I feel ready because the mu- his number from there, and then had enough of them, those pretty and Queen at Lingkana Palace. sic is my type and the film itself is everything fell into place!” 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. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

The idea that there is some kind of serious business dispute going be- tween Conor McGregor and UFC Errol Spence Jr. looks management is overblown. There is not. It's more like they're an- noyed with each other. sensational, dominates It appears they're more than a bit irritated with each other, and Chris Algieri in five rounds each with good reason, but it hard- ly appears they've got irreconcil- If there was a criticism of 2012 Olympian Errol Spence Jr., it was that able differences and are headed for he had largely feasted on lower-level opposition. divorce court. This is true even He took a decided step up in competition on Saturday when he though McGregor was yanked faced veteran Chris Algieri and looked sensational, becoming the first from his spot Tuesday in the main man to stop Algieri. Spence, who pounded the body continuously, event of UFC 200. knocked Algieri down once in the fourth and twice in the fifth. UFC management, specifical- After the final knockdown, a crushing left that put Algieri onto the ly president Dana White and chair- seat of his pants, referee Benjy Esteves stepped in to halt it at 48 man Lorenzo Fertitta, have to be seconds of the fifth. angered that McGregor has given "I thought it would be a little later, to tell you the truth," Spence them such a hard time about at- said of the finish that raised his mark to 20-0 with 17 knockouts. "Chris tending a Friday news conference Algieri is a tough fighter and I thank him for the opportunity. He tested in Las Vegas. me a little, but he didn't push me into deep waters. I was prepared for From McGregor's point of everything he came with." view, the rematch with Nate Diaz Spence stopped him in the fifth, but he won the fight in the early that was supposed to be the main rounds when he began to dig early and often to Algieri's body. He event of UFC 200, the summer's clearly was bothering Algieri with the body work and it opened the blockbuster card on July 9 at the door for his head shots later in the bout that finished it. new T-Mobile Arena, is the big- Spence is a studious fighter in addition to being extremely talented gest of his career. and said he picked up a flaw from watching Algieri's past fights. He's done a tremendous "I'd seen in his previous fights that when he tried to go for the amount of work in the last year overhand, he'd lean in a lot," Spence said. "He leans in a lot ... He looks promoting hugely successful at the floor when he ducks instead of looking up at who he's fighting and shows at UFC 189, UFC 194 and so I was able to catch him with a blind punch. It's always the one you UFC 196, as well as coaching on don't see that hurts." "The Ultimate Fighter," and he has Spence called out IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook and said to believe he's done far more than he's ready for any of the elite 147-pounders. Based on what he did in his share. landing 96 of the 311 shots he threw, it would be hard to dispute that. He'd prefer to concentrate on He appears ready for the best in the world at this stage. training to be as ready as possible Algieri said he didn't stick with the game plan that trainer John for the Diaz rematch. While a sec- David Jackson devised, but gave Spence credit. ond consecutive loss wouldn't "He's a hungry young lion and he'll be a great champion one day," wreck his career, he would no long- Algieri said. "He brought some good stuff tonight." er have the same cachet that he does now were he to lose again. UFC 200 is going to be a mas- sive card and the company wants to give it a proper build-up. There are three shows that week, and all three include at least one title fight. The UFC will hold events all over Las Vegas that week to promote the show and create a unique ex- perience for fans who make the trip. With UFC 197 set for Satur- day in Las Vegas, White and Fer- titta planned to take advantage of the fans and gathered media to pre- view UFC 200 by holding an elab- orate news conference on Friday prior to the weigh-in. Every fight- er but one who is currently booked to appear on any of the three shows was headed to Las Vegas to take part in the news conference, take publicity photos and appear in commercials. The UFC, which has spent extraordinary sums promoting and marketing McGregor, is planning a major campaign and couldn't af- ford to be without the star of the show. It's easy to understand from White's standpoint why he want- ed – demanded – McGregor to be in Las Vegas. Report: Kvitova sweeps past qualifier Chirico in Porsche Grand Prix But it's also easy to sympa- thize with McGregor's position. Two-time Wimbledon champion McGregor and former women's Tiger Petra Kvitova swept past qualifi- bantamweight champion Ronda er Luisa Chirico 6-0, 6-0 on Tues- Rousey have lapped the field in day to reach the second round of terms of the amount of promotion- Woods the WTA Porsche Grand Prix. al work they have done. McGre- The fifth-seeded Kvitova gor's efforts have paid off hand- needed only 55 minutes to dismiss somely. The UFC doesn't an- engaged in the American, winning 17 of 19 nounce exact pay-per-view figures, first-serve points. The Czech also but the last three cards he head- faced only one break point. lined (UFC 189, 194 and 196) all extensive Ana Ivanovic of Serbia rallied did right at or exceeded 1 million to beat German qualifier Carina buys. White said at the post-fight Witthoeft 7-6 (3), 6-0. Ivanovic news conference that UFC 196 was practice at was down a break and the German trending to be the company's big- served for the first set but could gest event ever. not hold and her game collapsed. McGregor is training in Ice- home club Two other Germans advanced land, which means that to get to to the second round of the indoor The slow drip of the details of Ti- Las Vegas, he'd have to fly six clay tournament with straight-set ger Woods' recovery and rehabili- hours from Reykjavik to New York wins. tation continued on Tuesday. and then another five-plus hours Annika Beck beat ''lucky los- Golf World's Tim Rosaforte from New York to Las Vegas. With er'' Camila Giorgi 6-4, 6-2 and qual- reports the 14-time major cham- layovers, it would be a 20-plus ifier Laura Siegemund defeated pion is putting in significant hours hour trip. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of at Medalist Golf Club, near Given he would have to do that Russia 6-0, 7-5, coming back from Woods' home in Jupiter, Fla. On both ways, it would cost him two a break down in the second set. Golf Channel, Rosaforte said that days of training at the minimum Giorgi had replaced Italian Woods has spent his last two and perhaps more. countrywoman Sara Errani, who weeks "involved in a series of four- That's a lot to ask of a guy pulled out with a right-leg injury. to-five-hour practice sessions at who has done more than anyone, Seventh-seeded Carla Suarez Medalist Golf Club … including with the possible exception of Navarro of Spain defeated Oceane the playing of some holes." Rousey (and since her loss to Hol- Dodin of France 6-3, 6-0. Rosaforte added he was told ly Holm in November, Rousey has Woods is happy and in good spir- been none too eager to speak with its. MMA media). Woods has not played com- Both sides have good points. petitively since a T-10 finish at the Henao withdrawn by Team Sky amid CADF investigation UFC spokesman Dave Sholler said Wyndham Championship in Au- the company had been working gust 2015. After he missed the PGA Sergio Henao has been withdrawn given this contact from the CADF CADF process going forward so all the relevant authorities so Ser- hard I have worked and the sacri- with McGregor for more than two Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs, from racing by Team Sky after the and the very obvious distraction we hope people understand why gio can start racing again soon." fices I have made to be where I am weeks to book his flights. Woods visited his surgeon in Utah Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation to him. There is no obligation on we will be unable to give further Henao said: "I am beyond dis- today. Sholler said that on Monday, to learn that pain he complained (CADF) requested more informa- us to do this but it is team policy commentary on it over the coming appointed. I have worked incredi- "I am calm and confident that when McGregor still wouldn't of that week was related to the tion regarding his biological pass- if and when a formal process such weeks. bly hard to get back to racing fit- this will be resolved soon so I can agree, management decided to yank same spot in his back where he port values. as this begins. "It is our hope that this can be ness after shattering my knee last get back to racing as soon as pos- him from the show. But McGre- had a microdiscectomy performed The Colombian rider was "We do have to recognise the looked at and resolved quickly by year - but I know who I am, how sible." gor manager Audie Attar of Para- in March 2014. Woods opted for a stood down by Team Sky for three digm Sports Management asked for second microdiscectomy in Sep- months in 2014 following initial a bit more time to make one last- tember, then had a follow-up pro- out-of-competition control tests ditch effort. cedure done a month later. taken at altitude in his homeland. About 1:30 p.m. ET on Tues- On the Friday before the Mas- Team Sky revealed that Henao day, it was apparent McGregor ters, Woods announced, as widely has not tested positive for a wasn't caving and he put out his expected, that he would not play banned substance, but say he will now-infamous retirement tweet. in the Masters. not compete while the CADF look Tempers undoubtedly got "I've been hitting balls and into his readings. heated on both sides during the training daily, but I'm not physi- A Team Sky statement said: process, as neither White nor cally ready," Woods said, in part, "Sergio has not failed a drug test McGregor are known for biting on his website to announce he and the CADF process is conduct- their tongues. But sources with wasn't playing at Augusta Nation- ed confidentially. However, given knowledge of the situation said al. that we have raised this issue in there is no major rift between the "I've said all along that this time the past, we feel it is important to sides. White often jokingly refers I need to be cautious and do what's set out our latest position. to McGregor as Fertitta's son. best for my long-term health and "We continue to support Ser- From McGregor's standpoint, career. Unfortunately, playing Au- gio and remain confident in the in- that's a good thing, because that's gusta next week wouldn't be the dependent scientific research a fight he can't win. Even if you right decision. I'm absolutely mak- which was undertaken. We will be say McGregor is the company's ing progress, and I'm really happy helping Sergio make his case ro- biggest star – and I'm going to say with how far I've come, but I still bustly over the coming period. that despite everything, it's still have no timetable to return to com- "He will also withdraw from Rousey – he needs the UFC more petitive golf." racing until the issue is resolved than the UFC needs him. 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. THURSDAY. APRIL 21. 2016-Saur 02, 1395 H.S Vol:X Issue No:260 Price: Afs.15

Militants Activists ask govt. to can’t achieve Government weaker than past their goals by administrations: Think Tank introduce nominees killing Abdul Basir Qazizada ment, despite mistakes it also had. for security organs “As Mr. Karzai believes democra- people: HPC cy and wants the country to de- AT News Report velopment, he made efforts for the KABUL: A day after a devastat- progress of our war-hit country.” KABUL: The Civil society bod- They called on the internation- ing attack in Kabul, the High Peace He said that Karzai believed ies condemned the recent suicide al community to pressurize those Council (HPC) on Wednesday said the United States and Pakistan have attack in Kabul in a strongest and countries who are supporting in- the enemies of the country would the Afghan peace key, and dis- possible terms, asking the Nation- surgency by providing weapons not be able to achieve their goals cussed a lot to convince them to al Unity Government to introduce and drafting evil designs against by killing innocent Afghans. bring an ever-lasting peace. new nominees for the Ministry of Afghanistan. At least 30 people were killed Taqwa who is a critic of the Defense and also to the National “Caretakers in vital security and more than 350 others wound- Ashraf Ghani government, said Directorate of Security to the par- organs resulted in empowering of ed in car suicide attack on VIP pro- that the foreigners decide for the liament for vote of confidence as the insurgents,” they said, adding tection unit in the Pul-i-Mahmood leaders of the national unity gov- soon as possible. These two key that lack of cooperation among Khan area in the 16th police dis- ernment. “Unfortunately foreign security organs is currently run- security organs was another chal- trict of the capital. hands are playing in the govern- ning by caretakers. lenge. In a statement, the peace body ment and the leaders and term of The civil society activists The civil society activists condemned the attack and said the government is determined by briefing newsmen on Wednesday urged the government to immedi- Afghanistan’s enemies should un- foreigners,” he criticized. He con- termed Tuesday’s suicide attack as ately introduce new nominees for derstand they could never achieve cluded that Afghans were an inde- a war crime against the innocent the Minister of Defense and also their nefarious designs by killing pendent nation with national sov- people, where civilians were the for the National Directorate of Se- innocent people. KABUL: An analysis session held same and even more than its neigh- public minds were not ready to ereignty and powerful military and most victims of the deadly attack. curity to parliament for vote of The HPC believed war and vi- by the Rana Think Tank, called the boring countries. Taqwa said that accept,” he said. “Every movement self-sufficient economy in the They asked government to hold confidence. They furthered that olence cause only death and de- current government weaker com- many factories were active at that injures itself and the nation if it is past. But there is no sign of those no more peace talks with the ene- NUG leaders appointed local au- struction, nothing else, urging the paring the past administrations, time that provided job opportuni- not planned and founded thought- things now. “Unfortunately, Af- mies of the Afghan people, and also thorities based on their political rebels not to shed the blood of saying that mistakes in the serving ties for the people in different ar- lessly.” ghans are employed by the foreign stop spending of millions of dol- willing, and this is main reason that Afghans, come to the negotiating government are much more than eas. “The government also ran de- Pointing to Mujahideen, embassies to work for them and lars in peace process, which bears caused lack of cooperation among table and put an end to the ongo- experienced in the monarchy and velopment projects with the help Taqwa said that the Islamic gov- against their country.” no result. administrations. ing conflict in the country. the administrations after that. of the United States and the then ernment which was formed in ex- The council asked the militants Abdul Jabbar Taqwa, former Soviet Union,” he said. Taqwa ile had its specific mistakes. to shun the insurgency and join the Kabul provincial governor who went on to analyze the first pres- “Mujahideen did not have a Protestors want Afghan girl killer in Iran punished peace process as soon as possible. now heads the Afghanistan Gov- ident Mohammad Dawood, say- strategy and governance plan. The Afghan government had re- ernors’ Association (AGA), said ing he kept the situation stable. Their government that was estab- KABUL/HERAT:Residents and peatedly asked the Taliban to join that political and social situation “Mohammad Dawood was a pa- lished in Pakistan was interfered civil society activists on Wednes- the reconciliation drive, but they during late Zahir Shah’s monarchy triotic person and had good plans by the Pakistani spy agency,” the day protested in front of the Irani- usually responded with deadly at- (1933-1973) was stable. for the future of Afghanistan,” he former Kabul governor said. “They an Embassy in Kabul and the coun- tacks, the statement continued. “We had a self-sufficient ad- said. “But he committed some mis- also lacked skillful and professional try’s consulate in western Herat Following the deadly assault, ministration in Zahir Shah’s reign,” takes that resulted in the end of people for their government.” province over the raping and kill- the Afghan government boycotted said Taqwa, who has served in the his rule.” He said that the Soviet- He said that the Mujahideen ing of a minor Afghan girl in Te- future meetings of the Quadrilat- military during the monarchy. backed government (1978-1992) called on the youth to join the ji- hran. eral Coordination Group (QCG) “Our national budget was provid- was performing with hurry, with- had, which left them (the youth) The six-year-old girl identified and said it was exploring new ed from our incomes.” out considering people’s beliefs uneducated. Taqwa believes that as Setayesh Quraishi was abduct- ways of reaching out to the insur- He added Afghanistan’s polit- and views. “They put their pro- the best administration he experi- ed in Veramin town near Tehran gents. (Pajhwok) ical and military power was the grams in act at the time that the enced was Hamid Karzai’s govern- on April 9 by a 17-year-old Irani- an boy, who sexually abused and killed the little girl and reportedly Blood donation drive for Kabul attack victims kicks off thrown acid at the girl to hide his crime. CHARIKAR: Dozens of people, tion as part of a campaign that With Iranian authorities inves- including government officials, in would continue for the next two They warned of staging more Dozens of protesters gathered central Parwan province on days, Director of Public Health tigating the case and autopsy re- Wednesday donated 30,000cc of Mohammad Qasim Saeedi said. sults are expected to be released protests in front of the embassy in front of the Iranian consulate in blood to those injured in Tuesday’s Governor Mohammad Asim Asim this week, many Afghans and Ira- and set the Iranian government a Heart City, the provincial capital, suicide bombing in Kabul. offered condolences to the victims’ nians have roundly condemned the 15-day deadline to persecute the and demanded punishment of the At least 64 people were killed families, saying that he and other crime as outrageous. perpetrators. murderer of Setayesh. and 347 others wounded as a re- people had donated bloods to the Some 100 people protested in They said if their demand was Iranian Ambassador to Af- sult of a suicide car bombing on in injured to share the grief of the vic- front of the Iranian Embassy in not met, they would close the ghanistan Mohammad Reza Bahr- the 16 th police district of Kabul. tims and help them. A student of Kabul. The protest was arranged doors of the Iranian diplomatic ami had said the country's vice The blast allowed attackers to en- Parwan University, Mohammad by Andesha-i-Naw civil society mission in Kabul. president had met the victim's fam- ter government offices, sparking Ebad Naderi, said he had also do- and the participants demanded se- Separately, some women ac- ily and promised quick action by an hour-long gunbattle with secu- nated 500cc of blood for the in- vere punishment for those involved tivists and youth staged a protest the authorities for the trial of the rity forces. Nearly 55 people vis- jured. He asked the people to do- in western Herat province. rapist. ited the hospital for blood dona- nate blood to help the injured. in the murder of Quraishi. 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.