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Ghazni Kandahar Jalalabad Clear Clear Clear Mazar Clear Herat Clear Bamayan Clear Kabul Clear Daily Outlook 33°C 25°C 35°C 35°C 35°C 18°C 30°C Weather 24°C °C 22°C 13°C 23°C 18 7°C 15°C Forcast Foreign Military Experts Aiding Taliban: Baghlan Police PUL-I-KHUMRI - The police chief for northern Baghlan prov- Govt. Set Thursday ince on Wednesday claimed sev- Deadline to Remove eral Russian, Pakistani, Egyptian and Chechen military experts KABUL/JALALABAD - Residents of east- had arrived in the province to ern on Tuesday accused train and support the Taliban the provincial governor of corruption and militants. demanded his removal till Thursday or they Brig. Gen. Ikramuddin Sarai would launch massive protests. told Pajhwok Afghan News the About 25 civil society activists and political foreign military experts had en- workers coming all the way from Nangarhar tered Kunduz, Faryab, Badakh- told a press conference in Kabul that crimes shan, Helmand provinces and from kidnappings to murders, corruption, land Dehna Ghori, Tala wa Barfak, grabbing, mafia groups and others had peaked Dushi and parts of Dand-i-Ghori under as the Nan- and Dand-i-Shahabuddin dis- garhar governor. tricts of Baghlan. The activists in a statement read out by one of The police chief went on to claim them, Abdullah Taj, said the government had that the Taliban and their for- illegally imprisoned 22 teachers in Kama dis- eign advisor wanted to close the trict since Friday and had transferred some northern highway with subver- teachers to far-off areas. sive activities but the Afghan se- The statement warned the government of wide- curity forces would not let their spread protest demonstrations by the people of attempts succeed. Nangarhar if it did ...(More on P4)...(10) Sarai said heavy clashes between the past 20 days and so far 64 militants had additional forces had reached Baghlan where said clashes had intensified in the Afghan security forces and been killed and another 48 injured. a large scale offensive against rebels would Baghlan and the highway and Afs 1.7 Billion Saved the Taliban were underway in Brig. Gen. Rajb Ali Rashid, deputy com- be launched in Doshi, Dand-i-Shahabuddin other roads remained closed different parts of Baghlan over mander of the Shaheen Military Corps, said and other areas. Ahmad Jawad, a resident, most of the time. (Pajhwok) in MRRD Contracts KABUL - Rural Rehabilitation and Devel- Residents Protest opment Minister Nasir Ahmad Durrani on Political Will Needed to Wednesday said his ministry had saved more Against ‘Rise’ in Crime than 1.7 billion afghanis in contracts in one year as a result of its anti-corruption effort. in Kabul City Banish Terror: Wardak Durrani told participants of a conference “An- KABUL - Shared interest could nual Anti-Corruption Program of the Minis- guide the reconciliation and ul- try of Rural Rehabilitation and Development timate peace and stability in the (MRRD) in Kabul, that his ministry had taken region if there is a strong political serious steps towards improving its affairs. for it, says the minister of parlia- The measures the MRRD had taken included mentary affairs. building electronic systems, simplifying ex- Farooq Wardak said this in his ecutive processes, creating a single center for inaugural speech at a 2-day semi- customers, sharing corruption cases with judi- nar on Af-Pak reconciliation op- ciary organs, establishing information bank, in- portunities and challenges. The creasing provincial trips of MRRD leadership’s event was jointly organised by board to assess problems, monitor projects and the Royal Danish Defence Col- improve supervisory team as part of anti-cor- KABUL - Dozens of Kabul residents from PD7 and lege (RDDC) and Regional Peace ruption efforts over the past one year. PD8 gathered outside parliament on Wednesday to Institute (RPI).Wardak called for “Fortunately there a great change has been protest against the sharp increase in crime and mur- the ...(More on P4)...(12) brought to the contract ...(More on P4)...(11) ders in the city. The protestors claimed that some security officials help criminals by not arresting them. 13 Civilians “The Kabul Police Headquarters said they will ar- Govt. to Probe Attack on Afghan rest murderers but unfortunately they have done Kidnapped in nothing in this respect 50 days after one case. The Jawzjan Migrants in Istanbul murderers are wandering freely around the city,” SIBERGHAN - Taliban and said Muhammad Anwar, a protestor. Daesh militants have kidnapped Turkish media on Wednesday reported that amid rising tension in the According to Mohammad Sadiq, another protester more than a dozen civilians in Sultangazi district, police evacuated about 300 Afghan and Syrian migrants. whose relative was murdered recently said he was northern Jawzjan province, an still waiting for action to be taken. official said on Wednesday. KABUL - The Ministry of Foreign of people allegedly attacked an Af- “The murderer was taken away by an intelligence The Taliban took seized people officer. I will take him to the court (said the officer).” Affairs (MoFA) on Wednesday ghan migrant in Istanbul’s Fatih in Qara Boian and Chakush vil- said government will launch a district. The man had been at the fu- But this did not happen, added Sadiq. lages of Aqcha district and took The protestors also claimed that at least 10 residents full inquiry into reports of an at- neral of someone killed a day earlier. them to an undisclosed location, tack on Afghan asylum seekers in Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News said were killed in their areas in the past few months but said the governor’s spokesman. that security forces have ...(More on P4)...(13) Istanbul city earlier this week. on Wednesday that over 300 people Mohammad Raza Ghafoori “The consulate general of the Is- of Afghan and Syrian origin were added the abducted individuals lamic Republic of Afghanistan evacuated from an Istanbul neigh- Kandahar to Host TAPI were busy harvesting poppies. in Istanbul is pursuing the issue borhood on Tuesday amid rising There is no information yet on with the police. They are in touch, tension after the killing of a local Awareness Workshop their whereabouts. they had a meeting today. Police man by a foreign resident on Sun- Aminullah, ...(More on P4)...(14) have assured them that the issue day. Sunday.On Monday riot police reportedly inter- is under investigation to confirm Hurriyet Daily News stated that vened during a demonstration and used a water Herat PC the identiy of those involved in Ramazan Sahin, 24, was killed dur- cannon and tear gas to disperse the group protest- Chairman Sentenced the brawl. ing a brawl between locals and mi- ing the killing. However, according to the report, to 8 Months in Jail This comes two days after a group grants in the Sultangazi district on protests have swelled ...(More on P4)...(15) KABUL - The appellate court on Wednesday awarded an eight months jail term to the Herat provincial council chairman, an official said. KANDAHAR CITY - The Ministry of Mines and Kamran Alizai was accused Petroleum plans to organise a public awareness of misusing his authority. On workshop on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Paki- March 27, the Anti-Corruption stan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project in southern Justice Center (ACJC) had sen- Kandahar province, an official said on Wednesday. tenced him to two and a half The governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan years in f jail. News Eng. Abdul Rahman, social affairs for the However, Alizai rejected the TAPI project, recently visited the province and ACJC decision and surrendered spoke of the plan to conduct the awareness pro- to police. The previous verdict gramme. had been handed down in ab- ارگ: Samim Khpalwak said people would be made sentia. But he was present in the aware of the importance of multibillion dollars pro- appellate court today. ject, and their viewpoints regarding better imple- After hearing arguments from mentation of the schemes would be heard. both sides, the judicial pan- www.thedailyafghanistan.com حمله بر رادیو و تلویزیون ملی The massive energy project will pass through Af- el sentenced Alizai to eight facebook.com/The.Daily.Afghanistan/ ghanistan’s Herat, Farah, Helmand and Kandahar months in jail. The decision is Email: [email protected] provinces before reaching neighbouring Pakistan. It Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 ننگرهار دشمنی با آزادی بیان است not final and the accused could will carry natural gas ...(More on P4)...(16) file a...(More on P4)...(17)