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Retired U.S general says the Afghan war could be a generational struggle and “is not something that is going to be won in a few years”.

Retired U.S general David Petraeus is going to be won in a few years. “We are not going to said recently that the U.S needs to We’re not going to take a hill, plant permanently win this. Keep in stay in Afghanistan and that in a flag, go home to a victory parade. mind, there’s a huge difference By Farhad Naibkhel being in the country the U.S has a And we need to be there for the between Afghanistan and even Iraq “useful platform there for the long haul, but in a way that is, again, when we did the surge there. You regional counterterrorist effort.” sustainable.” He said the U.S has can’t pressure the leaders of the KABUL: The first-ever Afghan- Speaking to PBS been in “Korea for 65-plus years Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani India air corridor flight began NEWSHOUR, Petraeus, who because there is an important Network, and even some of the Monday from Kabul to Delhi, commanded American and national interest for that.” On the other insurgent groups, because carrying 60 tons of herbals. coalition forces in the wars in Iraq back of this, when asked by the they’re out of our reach. They’re President Mohammad Ashraf and Afghanistan, said: “I think PBS NEWSHOUR journalist in sanctuaries inside Pakistan. Ghani speaking at inauguration of what we need to get to in whether he meant the U.S needed “And, indeed, there should be the first flight of Afghanistan-India Afghanistan is a sustainable, to stay in “Afghanistan 60,70,80 a regional effort there to try to get Air corridor said: “Those who measuring the expenditure of blood years?” Petraeus said: “I wouldn’t our Pakistani partners to do more create crisis for us, must learn that and treasure, a sustainable, say 60, but I think we shouldn’t to deny this sanctuary to those we change the challenge to sustained commitment. We need to approach this as a year-on-year elements that are making life so opportunity.” recognize that we went there for a mission.” On the issue of difficult for Afghans and the President Ghani said that reason and we stayed for a reason, increasing U.S troop levels in the Afghan government,” he said. establishing of this corridor was to ensure that Afghanistan is not country, Petraeus said he felt the He also stated that the U.S’s discussed with Indian officials in once again a sanctuary for al-Qaeda U.S needed to have a sustained national security team is currently September 2016 and have been put or other transnational extremists, commitment and that 3,000 to working on its strategy for on practice. He said that the the way it was when the 9/11 5,000 more troops was sustainable. Afghanistan and said “I do think corridor would pave the ground for attacks were planned there. “But also we should relax the you can anticipate an integrated private sector, relevant organs and “That’s why we need to stay. remaining restrictions on the use strategy”. government to work together in We also have a very useful of our airpower to support our “Again, the troops are just a order to change the challenge to platform there for the regional Afghan partners who have shown part of this. They’re an important opportunities. Our aim is to counterterrorist effort. And, of that they are willing to fight and part, because, without them, change Afghanistan to an exporter related organs to solve challenges Transferring of each kilogram of million, but it will increased course, we have greatly reduced the die for their country against al- without halting the erosion of country and poverty and in custom offices and airports. In the goods will cost only 20 cents significantly in future. capabilities of al-Qaeda’s senior Qaeda, the insurgents of various security that has characterized instability would not end until this charge for Afghanistan-India now, but before it cost 65-70 cents, Indian Ambassador to Kabul, leaders in that region, including, of types and so forth,” he said. Afghanistan over the last year or country is not changed to an Corridor Project Sediqullah he added. Running of this corridor Manpreet Vohra voiced pleasure course, taking out Osama bin Petraeus also said the U.S’s more, then you’re going to have a exporter, Ghani added. He urged Mujadidi said that “to the first aimed at increasing of mutual over establishing Afghanistan-India Laden. “But this is a generational presence “did actually turn back serious problem on your hands,” Afghan traders to concentrate on flight will leave Kabul to Delhi, will business and go round of those air corridor, saying that New Delhi struggle. This is not something that the Taliban.” he said. (ToloNews) standards, saying that customers’ carry 6 tons of herbals would cost challenge and barriers have been is committed to assist Afghanistan demand must be met. $5million.” He said that second created before Afghanistan export, in various ways as this corridor “Afghanistan would have access flight will be from Kandahar to he claimed. He said that currently expands and grows into a network to 1.3 billion customers, so it is Delhi next week, the cargo will be commercial deal between of cargo flights as per-demand of enough market,” he noted. included 40 tons of dried fruit. Afghanistan and India is $500 the markets. President also ordered to the Daesh purged of Tora Bora, forces reclaimed JALALABAD: Residents of eastern Nangarhar province complain of increasing movements the area attle for the recapture of six of unauthorised gunmen, alleging JALALABAD : Security forces check-posts in the Khawaja the government has failed to Ghar district of northern control the situation. reclaimed the Tora Bora strategic B area in the Pachir Agam district of Takhar province had been launched The illegal gunmen are said to eastern Nangarhar province from while security forces were in be loyal to local strongmen, former the Islamic State (IS) also known defensive positions in Khawaja warlords and Wolesi Jirga Bahauddin district, an official said as Daesh, an official said on members. The growing presence of Monday. Governor spokesman on Monday. Police Chief Maj. the gun-wielding individuals is Attaullah Khogyani told Pajhwok Abdul Khalil Aseer told Pajhwok widely seen as a threat to security. Afghan News security forces Afghan News the Taliban Khair Mohammad, a resident captured eight villages and six reached to the mountains peak of of Jalalabad, says no one bothered Black Mountains and recaptured check-posts on Sunday night in checking groups of armed men the area from Daesh. Khawaja Ghar district. Three moving up and down the city. policemen have been killed and as He said Afghan forces were “What type of government is advancing towards the Alefkhelo many wounded during the this? Security personnel in the city and Markhanikhelo villages. overnight fire fight, he said. “The must keep an eye on every armed KABUL : The National Security cooperation from neighboring Brg. Gen. Mohammad Naseem Taliban from Kunduz Dasht-i- man to know who he is. There are Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar countries and the region for Archi district launched attack on Sangin, commander of the Selab on Monday said the terrorists ensuring peace and stability to the many armed groups that could not Military Corp 4th unit, said Pul-i-Momin, Gor Tapa and some be told apart from rebels,” he adds. were not enemies of a specific Afghan people. security forces were in a high moral other areas and captured some Mirwais Rahmani, another trafficking, murder, burglaries and says in line with the decision of country; but they were common While appreciating the 8th areas,” he said. He added the and the Daesh militants had lost enemies of all and combating this International Meeting of High inhabitant of the provincial capital other grave offences happened due the military council, carrying their courage to fight security Taliban captures some areas in and a civil society activist, to the presence or armed groups. unlicenced arms is not allowed heinous phenomenon needed Representatives for Security Khawaja Bahauddin district and expressed concern over the forces. regional cooperation. Atmar Issues in Moscow, Atmar said it “Unfortunately, the provincial inside the city. The individuals Malak Tor, a tribal elder, said blocked Bahauddin Durqad road movement of unauthorised armed expressed the views during a was a good opportunity for administration hasn’t taken with such arms will not be allowed security forces had reached to the for taffic. He acknowledged three men in the city. He claimed the stringent steps against illegal to enter Jalalabad. meeting with Russian Ambassador Afghanistan in terms of exchanging security personnel have been Tora Bora Tangai and cleared to Afghanistan, Alexander views about peace and fighting government never went after them. armed men. We heard of police Governor Mohammad Gulab majority of the area from killed and as many injured in “The presence of these armed Mantytskiy and both sides terrorism with representatives arresting these people,” he Mangal acknowledged public insurgents. Khawaja bahauddin fire fight. men is contributing to insecurity remarked. Agha charged police concerns at the display of arms, conferred on regional cooperation from other countries. Naseem Khan the resident of in the province. We want the Some families had returned to aimed at eliminating terrorism. A The Russian Ambassador said with having developed an saying efforts had been intensified their homes while security forces locality said the Taliban captured government to curb the movement understanding with the gunmen. to control the movement of illegal statement from the National his country stoutly supported four check-posts from security bared some other displaced Security Council (NSC) received Afghanistan’s policy against of gunmen, a move that will help These individuals travelling in gunmen. He said police were not families from returning because forces. The Taliban confirmed maintain law and order,” he unregistered vehicle were never allowed to bring heavy weapons by Pajhwok Afghan News said the terrorism and was in favour of a fighting in Khawaja Ghan and did believed. Another civil society clearing operation was under way. Ambassador dubbed holding of peaceful and stable Afghanistan. At held accountable, he continued. to Jalalabad from their duty It is pertinent to mention, the not comment about situation in activist, Noor Agha, opined human The provincial government stations. (Pajhwok) ‘Kabul Process Conference’ a the end of the meeting, Atmar Khawaja Bahauddin district. few days back Daesh captured the positive step towards bringing stressed that, “Terrorist groups strategic Tora Bora from the peace and stability in Afghanistan, aren’t enemies of only one country, Taliban. Huge caves and tunnel saying his was ready for any type but they are common enemies of Herat education existed in the area which earlier the of support in combating terrorism. all of us; so regional cooperation is Alqaeda leaders used as Atmar told Mantytskiy that essential for fighting this nefarious officials captured sanctuaries. (Pajhwok) Afghanistan was in need of phenomenon.” (Pajhwok) Two Haqqani commanders by Taliban

HERAT CITY : Two education killed in Paktika airstrike department officials have been 3 policemen killed, 2 wounded in Khost blast captured by Taliban in the Pashtun At least six Haqqani insurgents Zarghoon district of western Herat KHOST CITY : At least three two others wounded in the said one Taliban fighter was killed including their two commanders province, an official said on policemen have been killed and two incident. and two other wounded in Afghan were killed in an airstrike in Monday. The district’s other injured in a bomb explosion Taliban did not comment forces retaliatory firing. A southeastern Paktika province on administrative chief, Nisar Ahmad in Zazai Maidan district of about the incident so far. policeman was also injured in the Sunday, the Interior Ministry Popal, told Pajhwok Afghan News southeastern Khost province, an Zazai Maidan is one of the clash, he said. ” (Pajhwok) (MoI) said in a statement on Taliban seized Basheer Ahmad, official said Sunday. border districts of Khost province Monday. supervisor of the Teacher Training Gen. Raz Mohammad, that shares border with neighbor The airstrike took place about College (TTC), and a teacher commander for border police of Pakistan. According to another 5:00am local time on Sunday in named Nisar Ahmad. The officials southeastern zone, told Pajhwok report, one person was killed and Shaikhan area of Argon district of were captured last night when they Afghan that a police ranger pick- three others wounded during a the province. were offering Traveeh at a mosque up was hit by a bomb in Chato clash between Taliban and Afghan “Abdul Aziz and Ghalchakai, in the area. “Ten fighters entered Ghra area of the district late on forces in Bala Bolok district of two commanders of Haqqan the mosque and took away the Saturday. western Farah province. Provincial network and four other insurgents officials,” Popal said. He added a “The police pick-up was police spokesman, Iqbal Baher, were killed,” the statement said. search had been launched by police struck by the bomb when it was told Pajhwok that a convoy of “The commanders were but so far it was not clear where returning from the district bazaar police forces came under attack by involved in terrorist actives in the men had been taken. to its own area,” he said, adding Taliban in Shiwan village of Bala Paktika,” it said. (ToloNews) (Pajhwok) three policemen were killed and Bolok district this morning. He TUESDAY . JUNE 20, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

Test status beckons for Afghanistan, reveals Afghan WASHINGTON: When President strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, Trump made his first major who had warned that sending more cricket decision on the war in Afghanistan, troops was a slippery slope he did not announce it in a toward nation building, anathema board chief nationally televised address from to nationalists like him who reject the White House or a speech at both the interventionist Kabul: Afghanistan: Afghanistan's West Point. neoconservatives of the George W. fairytale rise in world cricket could Instead, the Pentagon issued a Bush administration and the this week see them acquire coveted news release late one afternoon last limited war fought by Mr. Obama. Test status, a massive boost for a week confirming that the president Those objections stymied the nation long divided by war and had given the defense secretary, troop proposal several weeks ago. riven by ethnic rivalries. Jim Mattis, the authority to send But officials said the White House No longer rank minnows, several thousand additional troops was rattled by a huge truck bomb Asghar Stanikzai's team are up for to a war that, in its 16th year, in Kabul, the Afghan capital, that consideration following their engages about 8,800 American killed more than 150, as well as by victories over Ireland in the troops. fears that military trends are Intercontinental Cup in March, Mr. Trump, who writes avidly running against the government of paving the way for their potential on Twitter about war and peace in President Ashraf Ghani, an entry into cricket's elite. other parts of the world, said American-friendly former World Both Afghanistan and Ireland nothing about the announcement. Bank official, to the point that it are bidding to become the 11th and But its effect was unmistakable: might be in danger of collapse. 12th nations to join the Test club, He had outsourced the decision on General McMaster — who nearly two decades after their how to proceed militarily in served in Afghanistan as the head immediate predecessors Afghanistan to the Pentagon, a of an anti-corruption task force and Bangladesh, if confirmed by the startling break with how former is closely allied with Mr. Mattis, International Cricket Council President Barack Obama and another former general with (ICC) at a meeting in London. many of his predecessors handled Afghanistan experience — argued "A committee is working the anguished task of sending passionately to Mr. Trump that President Trump arriving on Thursday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after a day trip to Miami. He has given Jim Mattis, the defense secretary, the authority to send several thousand additional troops to Afghanistan. inside the cricket board, and we Americans into foreign conflicts. the military effort had to be will work on our proposal to The White House played expanded without further delay, present it to the ICC in the future, down the Pentagon’s vaguely according to one official. and hopefully full membership worded statement, which referred “What we are seeing now is The Taliban Still Control Large reading the main story doing in Iraq and Syria to fight the effort.) and Test status are on the way," only to setting “troop levels” as a that the president has Parts of Afghanistan and ISIS Has The Interpreter Newsletter Islamic State. “Three thousand to 5,000 chairman of the Afghan cricket stopgap measure — a tacit acknowledged that the Afghan Established a Foothold nderstand the world with “These are going to be people additional advisers and trainers is board, Atef Mashal said. admission of the administration’s mission is important, and we ought Afghanistan continues to sharp insight and commentary on specifically designed, trained and essential,” John R. Allen, a retired "We can not give any time internal conflicts over what to do to do it right,” said James Jay struggle to maintain security in the the major news stories of the organized and equipped to go in general who served as the frame at the moment, it is upon about the deteriorating situation in Carafano, a national security face of the Taliban insurgency and week. and advise them how you take the commander in Afghanistan from the ICC, they will decide when to Afghanistan. specialist at the conservative a growing Islamic State presence. “The president doesn’t have hill, get them the air support and 2011 to 2013, said in an interview. give Afghanistan the Test status, Continue reading the main Heritage Foundation who advised OPEN GRAPHIC the time or interest to make these artillery support and rocket When he served as the and it is not in our hands," Mashal story Mr. Trump’s presidential Even Mr. Mattis has decisions, so they want to leave support that will enable them,” Mr. commander in Afghanistan, said. With a president who ran for transition. acknowledged that more troops the decision-making to Mattis,” Mattis told the House Armed General Allen envisioned a residual Unlike the sport's other major office almost never having talked White House officials say they will not be sufficient without a said Richard H. Kohn, a military Services Committee. force of 13,600 Americans and players, Afghanistan was never a about the war, a coterie of political are still debating America’s role in broader strategy, which the White historian at the University of That suggested that in addition 6,000 NATO and other foreign colony of the British Empire. advisers who bitterly oppose Afghanistan — one senior adviser House does not plan to complete North Carolina at Chapel Hill who to advisers, the United States troops — a force level that would Instead many Afghans' first deeper American engagement in it, said they would consider issues as before mid-July. Among the major advised General McMaster on his would be sending artillery and have allowed advisers to be placed contact with the sport took place and a national security team basic as whether the country needs questions are how to deal with the doctoral thesis. “They trust surface-to-surface rocket units, as at all of the Afghan Army corps during the 1980s and 1990s, as dominated by generals worried a strong central government, rather sanctuaries that the Taliban and Mattis because he’s got the well as more Special Operations headquarters, to accompany refugees who had fled to Pakistan about the consequences if the than the warlords who have other militants still have in expertise and common sense.” forces. Afghan brigades on some to escape the Soviet invasion. United States does not act quickly, historically divided power there. neighboring Pakistan, how to fight On Friday, the Pentagon said The Obama administration operations, and to set up a national Cricket struggled under the the decision could succeed in In the meantime, the Pentagon is Afghanistan’s endemic corruption, Mr. Mattis had not yet made a initially limited the use of American training center in Helmand hardline Islamist Taliban, who buying time for Mr. Trump and moving ahead with plans to send and how to encourage a political decision on the precise troop air power against the Taliban, Province. viewed sports as a distraction from his advisers to fully deliberate over 3,000 to 5,000 troops to try to settlement with the Taliban. increase. Any decision will come hoping to make the Afghan The White House is calling its religious duties -- and famously what to do in Afghanistan. stabilize the country. “The 3,000 to 5,000 may only after the Pentagon consults military less dependent on the strategy a South Asia policy, to shaved the heads of a visiting But former commanders and But it is not clear what Mr. prevent a near-term backsliding, with other government agencies, United States. But since distinguish it from the Obama Pakistani football team as military scholars said that in Trump’s view of the strategy is, but it is not going to be decisive in the Afghan government and NATO Afghanistan has no real air force, administration’s so-called Af-Pak punishment for wearing shorts. sending troops before having a or even how involved he is in the turning the tide of this war,” said allies, a spokeswoman, Dana W. the move resulted in lost ground policy. Officials said it would But it has become hugely strategy, Mr. Trump has put the debate. Officials said he did attend Michèle A. Flournoy, the top White, said in a statement, adding, and soaring Afghan casualties, include diplomacy with Pakistan, popular in the country since the cart before the horse, eroded the two National Security Council Pentagon policy official during the “The secretary will continue to prompting Mr. Obama to modify India and even Iran, a nation that regime was toppled in a US-led tradition of civilian control over meetings last week — the first to Obama administration. “The follow the president’s guidance on the policy. American diplomats cooperated invasion in 2001. the military, and abdicated the discuss the troop issue, and the administration needs to our overall strategy.” Because Mr. Obama pushed with during the early months of -- IPL boost -- president’s duty to announce and second to discuss the broader accompany any troop increase In several days of for a faster troop reduction than the Afghan war but that the White Recent successes, particularly defend troop deployments. policy for South Asia. with a new political and economic congressional testimony last week, some of his commanders had House now sees as a bitter foe. in last year's ICC World Twenty20, “A commander in chief keeps Mr. Trump has said virtually strategy to help the Afghans Mr. Mattis argued that sending wanted, the advisory effort has But the administration’s have further raised the country's control of limited wars by defining nothing about Afghanistan since he achieve greater stability.” more troops would have multiple been limited. In February, Gen. efforts to harness diplomacy may profile. missions, selecting commanders was elected, or even since he Some experts noted that Mr. benefits. Instead of limiting itself John W. Nicholson Jr., the be handicapped by the depleted Spinners Rashid Khan, who and setting troop levels,” said Karl started his campaign. But his Trump’s hands-off approach on to advisers at high-level corps commander of the American-led condition of the State Department. idolises former Pakistan W. Eikenberry, a retired lieutenant views on the issue, based on troop numbers was squarely in the headquarters, the United States force in Afghanistan, said he had a And that suggests to some that international Shahid Afridi, and general who was a top commander Twitter posts when he was a Republican tradition of avoiding would have advisers accompany “shortfall of a few thousand” whatever strategy the Trump Mohammad Nabi both made their and the American ambassador in private citizen, are uniformly anything perceived as Afghan brigades in the field, where troops. administration eventually arrives mark in the Indian Premier League. Afghanistan. “To delegate any of hostile to America’s involvement micromanaging the military, a their mentoring of Afghan troops About 6,700 American troops at will be dominated by the Khan was sixth-highest these is dangerous.” in the war. criticism frequently leveled at Mr. would be more effective, he said. are training and advising Afghan military. “I am not against a troop wicket-taker in his debut IPL with The decision to send additional “It is time to get out of Obama. But the Pentagon has The advisers would also call forces, including 400 who are increase,” said Daniel F. Feldman, 17 scalps, and the pair broke into troops represents at least a Afghanistan,” Mr. Trump wrote assumed an even more outsize role in air and artillery, which would outside the country and 2,100 who who served as special the top 10 of the ICC one-day temporary victory for Mr. Mattis in 2012. “We are building roads and in this administration, given a enable the United States to expand are involved in counterterrorism representative for Afghanistan and international bowling rankings and Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the schools for people that hate us. It chaotic White House staff and an its firepower on behalf of Afghan operations. (NATO and other Pakistan under Mr. Obama. “But during the just-concluded tour of national security adviser, over Mr. is not in our national interests.” impulsive, preoccupied president. forces. That would more closely nations have deployed another this appears to be tactics waiting the West Indies. Trump’s aides, including his chief GRAPHIC Newsletter Sign UpContinue resemble what American forces are 6,500 troops for the training for a strategy.” (NYTIMES) Their former batting coach and former Pakistan skipper Rashid Latif said a place among the Test nations was well deserved and Passenger films 'Afghan would benefit them in the future. "Afghanistan deserves Test asylum seeker' being slapped status because their performances are good. Once they get to play before being 'prevented from Tests, more and more players will come forward just like happened travelling' on a flight from in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- Kenya suffered because they were London to Turkey not awarded," he told AFP. "I think it will be the ICC's When activists like me return from best decision of the century," he visiting the Afghan Peace Disturbing footage shows an airline started physically abusing the man added. Volunteers in Kabul, Afghanistan, passenger shouting and crying for by slapping him and pushing his Khan and Nabi are both young seamstresses there often help after being slapped and later face down whilst he was crying Pashtuns, the country's dominant entrust each of us with about fifty allegedly prevented from and shouting that he wouldn't be ethnic group with deep ties to sky-blue scarves. travelling. safe going back to Afghanistan. Pashtuns across the border in The word “Borderfree” is carefully Video from a Turkish Airlines 'The journey after he was taken Pakistan. embroidered, in English, on one end flight from London Heathrow to off the plane was very upsetting In years gone by Afghanistan of each scarf; on the opposite side, Istanbul on Saturday shows the as passengers were in tears, clearly maintained a younger sibling they’ve stitched the translation in man being slapped and his head disturbed by what they had seen. relationship with its eastern Dari, the language they speak. The pushed forcibly against his seat The passenger is slapped by a neighbour. scarves express their yearning to before take-off. man as he cries out that he is a Kabir Khan, a former Pakistan end four decades of war in The clip was filmed by refugee being forced to return to international, coached the team Afghanistan, a land dominated by passenger Ahtzaz Ali, 27, an office Afghanistan from 2008-10 and oversaw their ruthless warlords. manager from Birmingham, who The passenger is slapped by a stratospheric rise from Division 5 “We are the generation who was travelling to help Syrian man as he cries out that he is a od world cricket to ODI status. must try to put an end to all war refugees. refugee being forced to return to -- Unifying force? -- and violence,” wrote Nematullah, Passenger films 'slapping of Afghanistan More recently, however, the an Afghan Peace Volunteers asylum seeker' on London to 'It was a violation of this man's team has followed broader member who teaches children from Turkey flight human rights and shocking to see geopolitical currents and pivoted internally displaced families. His The video, which was taken how he was being treated.' toward India, Pakistan's historic students, most of them displaced by passenger Ahtzaz Ali, 27, A Home Office spokesman rival. Last year, Afghanistan's by war, live in a wretched refugee shows the man being held down said it did not comment on national team shifted its base from camp. by a man whilst he is crying and individual cases, but added: 'If Sharjah in United Arab Emirates Nematullah wrote in response including in Kabul where at least strangers with knives or guns. In systems, and detention facilities shouting people are in the country illegally to Noida, Delhi, while India's to my anxious inquiry following a four demonstrators were killed by reality, government services are within Afghanistan is because it He told the Press Association and refuse to leave voluntarily we former batsman Lalchand Rajput truck bombing in Kabul, Afghan armed forces. The insufficient or non-existent, so it wants to communicate a strong he believed the man was an asylum will take action to remove them. replaced Pakistan's Inzamam-ul- Afghanistan, on May 31, which demonstration called on the is people and communities that are message to these neighbors. seeker and the scenes left fellow 'Whilst it is regrettable that Haq as their national team coach. killed more than 150 people. Afghan government to provide making things work day to day.” “Afghanistan, for Americans, passengers 'disturbed'. some people become disruptive on There are nevertheless questions Pictures from Kabul’s “Emergency greater security for people. The Without any input from the doesn’t really exist as a country He said: 'There was a man who removal, we do our utmost to try about how well Afghanistan will Surgical Center for Victims of War” next day, three suicide bombers centralized government, the and a people,” writes William was clearly upset on board the and minimise any potential impact do in the game's longest format. showed the staff ministering to attacked a funeral for one of the Afghan Peace Volunteers build Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel plane but wasn't being abusive to on the rest of the passengers. 'Any Bangladesh famously hundreds of survivors, people who protesters, killing five people and community and share resources. with the U.S. Air Force. “It exists the crew or anybody else. use of force must be fully justified floundered for their first decade suffered burns, lacerations, wounding 119. They steadily develop ways to only as a wasteful, win-less, and 'All of a sudden, someone who and proportionate and is used only while New Zealand took 26 years wounds, and amputations. Some reports say that Kabul connect with young people in endless war . . . . It’s a chance to seemed like they were an as a last resort for the shortest time to win their first Test. Happily, the letter brought has been shut down. Yet sit-ins are other Afghan provinces.Within test theories and to earn points (and immigration officer came and possible.' (dailymail) Pakistani cricket writer Ahmer good news. “We’re all safe,” wrote being held in multiple spots, across Kabul, they arrange inter-ethnic decorations) for promotion for Naqvi, said it was important to be Hakim, who mentors the Afghan the city, calling on the government activities and projects, distributing many officers. It’s hardly ever patient. Peace Volunteers. “Yet we don’t to fulfill its role in helping protect food, educating children, and about working closely with the "For any team to make its want to ‘get used’ to life in a war people. manufacturing heavy blankets to Afghan people to find solutions mark, it takes a while to really get zone. War is brutal, and begets Their determination is help families survive the harsh that will work for them over the a hang of it no matter how good more war, again and again.” remarkable. I’m also impressed by winters. They risk their lives to long haul.” All the more reason for you are at the shorter versions." After the bombing, some of the every-day courage and relate with people whom they are my young friends to send us home But, he added: "It's extremely the volunteers went to work on a fortitude of so many Afghans who told are their enemies. The carrying armfuls of “Borderfree” important to provide Test status permaculture plot they maintain continue to care for one another in warlords from the west, led by the scarves. Instead of tolerating for Afghanistan and perhaps at the Kabul University. They their communities. United States, take a dim view of endless war in Afghanistan, we Ireland, because it is also a virtuous shared a moving image of Afghanistan could truthfully Afghanistan interacting with need to demand that the United circle" of greater funding, themselves at work in the field, be described as an unruly, failed neighboring countries Iran, China, States pay reparations for the organisation and structure. images of people doing their best narco-state. But Hakim asks us to and Pakistan. And Russia is not suffering and destruction it has Currently, all of the national to stay human amid war’s traumas. understand that, nevertheless, far away. One of the reasons the already caused. We need to learn team's players are Pashtuns from Over the following days, most of Afghanistan’s estimated 30 United States spends so much to from the generation of young the eastern provinces -- Nangarhar, dozens of Afghans have been killed million people “are not going maintain bases, weapons, special volunteers trying to put an end to Kunar, Logar, Kunduz and Paktia. in attacks across the country, around killing one another or killing operations forces, surveillance war. (HUFFINGTONPOST) (NEWS18) TUESDAY . JUNE 20, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

sending adult girls to school is bad go against the current. I also do for allowing their girls to attend and a shameful act,” the mother not let my children go to school.” school until last stages, then we said. On the other hand, religious are ready to establish a high school Atifa said the government scholar Maulvi Abdul Hameed said there.” EMERGENCY should find a solution to the the education right was legally “In addition to capital Pul-i- CALLS problem and rescue the girls from given to women in Islamic Shariah. Alam, our main issue in districts is such oppression. “But women should be taught by that people consider traditions Mariam, a resident of Azra women and they should attend more essential than the law and Police district, told Pajhwok that she school by wearing Niqabs.” they do whatever the customs studied till grade six in school. “I Abdul Hameed, in response to say.” 100 - 119 have a lot of interest in learning, I a question, said: “Those people According to him, the wanted to become a doctor, but who don’t allow their daughters education department was using my father and brothers did not to school, it’s their personal will many ways to persuade people Hospitals allow me to attend school,” she and decision, but Islam into allowing their daughters to said. emphasizes on education.” school.” FMIC Hospital She urged elders to put aside He said Logar religious The governor’s house also old traditions and let their scholars had always made efforts admitted the issue’s prevalence. Behind Kabul Medical daughters adjust with the modern at encouraging families towards The governor’s spokesman, University: life and attend schools. educating their children. Saleem Saleh, said most of the 0202500200-+93793275595 Gulabuddin, a resident of Meanwhile, the Logar Education Logar inhabitants followed old Daudkhel area of Pul-i-Alam city, Department acknowledged old traditions rather than the law. said around 1,000 families were traditions and taboos had affected He cited improper traditions Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital living in the area. He said only one the girls’ education process in the as a big hurdle towards girls to Pule Bagh-e- Umomi primary school existed in the area province. reach 12th grade in many districts, and people there did not allow their About the issue, Education including Pul-i-Alam. 070263672 girls to get higher education. Director Mohammad Akbar Saleh added the provincial “No one here let their adult Stanikzai told Pajhwok Afghan authorities had launched efforts at daughters attend school, if a News they had so far not reducing the level of the issue Khairkhana Hospital PUL-I-ALAM : Lawlessness and daughters attend school. repeatedly held meetings and person does so, other people established a high school for girls through tribal elders and clerics. 0799-321007 old traditions have prevented “Old traditions are still in conferences requesting people to would pour scorn on him until his in Charkh and Kharwar district of Not only Logar is facing the about 50 percent of girls from practice here, people consider it send their daughters to school, she death,” he said. the province. He said people of mentioned issue, but many of 2401352 attending school in central Logar dishonor if they let their daughters said. Atifa, a resident of Pangram He said some people who the two districts were unwilling to Afghanistan people aren’t ready province, the provincial women’s go to school,” she said. area of Charkh district, said most wanted their girls to be educated send their daughters to school and to send their girls to schools. affairs director says. She said their surveys showed of the girls in the district were not had shifted their houses to capital therefore no high school could be Currently 307 educational Indira Gandhi Children Shima Zargar told Pajhwok 50 percent of girls had been allowed to go to school. Kabul to enroll their daughters in established in there. He said the centres are operational in the Hospital, Wazir Akbar Afghan News that many families deprived of education due to the “I have three daughters, they school. families considered it a great shame capital and districts of Logar, in Pul-i-Alam, the provincial lack of law enforcement and studied up to grade six, but my To a question, he said: “I know if their daughters went to a high imparting education to more than Khan, Kabul 2301372 capital, Kharwar, Azra, Charkh and negative customs. husband insists they should no education is mandatory for both school. However, he said: “If 140,000 students, including 50,000 other districts did not let their Her department had longer go to school as he thinks men and women, but we can not residents of all areas show the will girls. (Pajhwok) Ibn-e- Seena Pul-e-Artan, Kabul 2100359

Wazir Akbar Khan Former Afghan women's soccer captain Hospital kicking down barriers in Toronto 2301741, 2301743 Ali Abad Shahrara, Kabul Zahra Mahmoodi went from watching the boys play to captaining the first Afghan national women’s team a few years later. 2100439

For a woman who didn’t let Malalai Maternity Afghanistan’s conservatism or public threats hold her back from Hospital achieving unprecedented athletic 2201377/ 2301743 success, the idea of ascending Africa’s highest mountain is simply another life goal to conquer. Banks This month, footballer Zahra Mahmoodi will climb Mount Da Afghanistan Bank Kilimanjaro, and she’ll top that achievement in a most appropriate 2100302, 2100303 way: with a soccer game near the summit to help raise awareness Bakhtar Bank about equality and opportunity for 0776777000 women in sport. Mahmoodi is, after all, the Azizi Bank former captain of Afghanistan’s first national women’s soccer team 0799 700900 and one of the country’s first Pashtany Bank professional female athletes. The 27-year-old, who now calls 2102908, 2103868 Toronto home, first learned the game on the sidelines, watching Air Services boys play in the streets. Forbidden to participate because she was a girl, Mahmoodi practised in the Safi Airways dark of night. 020 22 22 222 Today, Mahmoodi is an athlete male — either the members of her them. “That time was the only and then in 2007, the Afghan ambassador for Right to Play, a beloved Manchester United she time that it was me and the soccer Football Federation recruited Ariana Canadian organization that works watched on TV or the boys who balls … So I started playing, Mahmoodi and a few other girls to promote community building played in the streets of her staying late all the time, working from schools throughout Kabul for 020-2100270 and resilience through sports. One hometown. and playing. Most of the soccer the first Afghanistan National recent afternoon at Evergreen Born in 1990 in Shahriar, just skills I know I learned inside that Women’s Football Team. Brick Works, she gleefully coached west of Tehran, Mahmoodi was a small room.” But even with the recognition Kam Air children from across Greater child of refugees — her parents left In late 2001, the Taliban were from the national federation, the 0799974422 Toronto as part of a Right to Play Afghanistan in 1975 after facing driven from power in Afghanistan women’s team faced challenges. event. She sees the empowerment discrimination for being Hazara and by a U.S.-led force. Afghan For a while, the women had to Hotels it fosters as a meaningful catalyst Shia Muslim. Iran granted few refugees in Iran were being resort to using a field that was for change. rights to Afghans fleeing encouraged to repatriate. With the actually a helipad for the Safi Landmark “Even if hundreds of people persecution. Iranian government increasingly International Security Assistance say you can’t play soccer … one Zahra Mahmoodi began rescinding refugee rights to Force, NATO’s local force, located person says that ‘No, you can,’ learning the game as a child, when education, Mahmoodi’s family in Kabul’s most dangerous area. 020-2203131 they believe in you — it really her father started a soccer ball returned to Kabul in 2004. “Sometimes these girls would SERENA means something to you,” she says workshop in their house in Iran. Back in Afghanistan, they come from very long distances, from the sidelines, smiling when In a small room at night, she started faced the fact that sports were often walking … because they either team scores. “It makes you developing soccer skills. taboo. Throughout the rule of the couldn’t afford the bus. After 0799654000 Security, political and social top priorities. believe.” Zahra Mahmoodi began Taliban, the city’s main stadium passing the security checks, they circumstances in Afghanistan are Although political dealing, Her enthusiasm is infectious. learning the game as a child, when had been used for public would sit there, and watch the New Rumi Restaurant rapidly changing and by passing local officials’ involvement and “It was actually really fun,” her father started a soccer ball executions, and was now more helicopters come. And all the 0776351347 nearly 16 years from so-called ignoring Taliban group momentum says one of the participants, Muna workshop in their house in Iran. associated with the horrors of the practice time was gone like that, security-building process by by US and NATO forces have been Ahmed, 13, of Etobicoke. “I’m not In a small room at night, she started regime than anything else. Like and they had to go back.” foreign forces Afghanistan is still debated, but in battlefield Taliban much of a sports person, so to have developing soccer skills. many forms of entertainment, As Afghan women and Internet Services facing increasing insecurities and are claiming that they have to fight her teach me was huge.” (SUPPLIED) sports of any kind were deemed athletes, it was this adversity that UA Telecom day by day Afghanistan security, foreign and domestic forces to Muna, a student at Elmbank “I couldn’t imagine myself “un-Islamic” and banned during drew them together. “That was the 0796701701 / 0796702702 political and economic indexes are reach their goal which is the Junior Middle Academy, now playing soccer, because when your that period; and though the Taliban best time of our lives, because deteriorating rather than establishment of Emirate-e-Islami plans on becoming a teen leader parents are struggling to find food had been ousted, the ideology was these girls would come from improving. and this can be a part of fact of the with Right to Play next year. “It and you don’t have proper clothes still deeply ingrained. different backgrounds. We played Exchange Rate It was determined that training current Afghanistan situation. hasn’t only increased my to go to school … it’s not “I dreamed of playing soccer together like sisters,” she says, and equipping ANDSF were being Meanwhile, the situation leadership, but also my courage to something you really want to think at a time when no soccer team with a smile that is both sweet and 1.00 USD accelerated and increased and should be seen from another angle do more things.” about.” existed in Afghanistan,” says defiant. somehow Afghanistan security too as Arab, Chechani and Pakistan You might be interested in But in Grade 5, her school Mahmoodi. For men, it had been “Just existing and being a voice 67.60AFN would be guaranteed by signing have key leading role in deadly James Neal could fill the net opened a new handball field. years since soccer had been safe to … that was enough for us. We Mahmoodi, then 10, found a ball play; for women, playing soccer weren’t looking for BSA between Kabul and incidents of the country where on the top line of the expansion 1000.00 IRR Washington, but after signing the most of foreign and internal Golden Knights if Vegas plays its and talked some of her friends into was considered “unladylike,” and championships. We just wanted to BSA security has been rapidly insurgents are daily killed, which a cards right. playing soccer with her. The games was disallowed even before the be there to show the world: These 17.90AFN changing and deteriorating. fact. US and other foreign forces When Mahmoodi hears this, were short-lived: teachers forbade Taliban. girls, they know their rights, and For example, in the past, should be serious to help secure she beams. “That’s what the girls from playing the sport, But for Mahmoodi, being back they’re fighting for their rights. Taliban insurgents had launched Afghanistan, fight terrorist groups happened in the Afghanistan deeming it unfit for women. in Afghanistan meant she no longer And they won’t stay at home.” 1.00 UAE small operations from a distance in Afghanistan and provide any national team. We were the first Mahmoodi feared this would had to worry, as she had in Iran, Her instinct for leadership and 18.40AFN and their strategy had been to kind of assistance to ANDSF in kids who played — then after us, be an end to her dreams of playing. about the precariousness of her support was recognized and she target and escape, but currently fight against terrorism in the there were new players. They family’s refugee status. “We became the first captain of the they have changed their strategy country. On the other hand, it is wanted us to show them how we “But suddenly my father started going to school, and I national team in 2009. She also 1.00 EUR and launched big operations necessary that national unity overcame our challenges, how we decided to make soccer balls to started making friends. Then I said, founded and coached the 74.20AFN against Afghan national security government should further work convinced our families, how we make money,” she recalls. “We ‘OK, this is my own country. I Afghanistan Under-14 girls team, forces and targeted big bases, to better equip and strengthen the developed skills … Now many turned one of our rooms into a small have freedom … So maybe here I and under her guidance as the head districts and even provincial country’s intelligence forces in new kids in Afghanistan play workshop. We started sewing can start playing soccer.’” of the Women’s Committee of the soccer balls with our hands. During With the same determination Afghanistan Football Federation, 1000.00 INR capital. In new strategy, Taliban order to protect national soccer, and they look to the other 1030.00AFN insurgents in Afghanistan have put sovereignty, past achievements and kids who played before them.” the day we’d work in that she had brought to her elementary girls’ soccer proliferated: By 2013, creating various fronts, attacking not let happen more deadly When Mahmoodi was a kid workshop, and during the night me school handball field, she quickly there were 16 women’s soccer on cities and districts in particular incidents in the country. growing up in Iran, the only and my sister would have to go taught her friends the game. They clubs and more than 300 players. 1000.00 PKR in northern parts of the country in (Kabul Times) players she had to look up to were pump the soccer balls, and package played informally for a few years, (THESTA) 635.00AFN TUESDAY. JUNE 20, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES S en ate S ta n din g Com m ittee Subramanian to ta ke issu e of P a k Ar m y Swamy calls for cess to pla n to sh ift H ea dqu a r ter s fund to I sla m a ba d gaushalas ISLAMABAD: The Senate Stand- ing Committee on Defence is meet- across India ing here today (Monday) to take up a host of important matters, including “the Pakistan Army’s At a conference, plan to shift the Army’s General Headquarters to Islamabad”, re- Swamy maintained veals agenda for the meeting issued by the Senate Secretariat. The 13- that the cow protec- member committee headed by tion cess should be Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed of the PML-Q will also receive applied to people briefing from the authorities con- cerned on the “Indian aggression of all religions across the Line of Control (LoC)” and on the “security situation at Pakistan’s western frontiers” with Afghanistan and Iran. The commit- tee will also discuss the issue of “the occupation of land by mili- tary and air force” in Quetta dis- trict. The issue had been raised in the Senate by Senators Usman Kakar, Azam Musakhel and Gul Bashra of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party through an adjourn- ment motion. The issue of the shifting of the GHQ from Rawal- pindi to Islamabad came to light after nine years when an official of the Capital Development Author- ing to Rs4,034 million”. When a construction in Islamabad has been provided to the military authori- committee member asked why the suspended on the directives of ties for only Rs842m, causing a ity earlier this month informed a Sri Lanka police have arrested two three wheeler, the police discov- sub-committee of the parliament’s CDA allotted subsidised land to Chief of the Army Staff General loss of Rs500bn to the CDA. the GHQ and why the authority Ashfaq Parvez Kayani,” an offi- At the time of laying foundation persons in Weliwita Mulleriyawa ered a police uniform, two belts, Public Accounts Committee that for being in possession of fake li- 12 buttons belonging to an official the military authorities had revived did not charge the full amount, act- cial statement issued by the Inter- stone of the GHQ Complex, Gen ing CDA Chairman Sheikh Ansar Services Public Relations (ISPR) Musharraf had stated that in no censes and several official police police uniform, 2 prison officer's plans to shift the GHQ to the cap- items. helmets and handcuffs belonging ital, and was ready to kick off con- Aziz responded that the prime had said, adding that the army way the shifting of these head- minister at the time had approved shared the nation’s quest for eco- quarters should increase the load The Mulleriyawa Police act- to the prisons department. struction on the project. ing on a tip off received have The two suspects aged 34 and Interestingly, the sub-committee the subsidy, but if the PAC issued nomic stability through a spirit of on the existing facilities in Islama- directives to charge the full amount, sacrifice. The project worth over bad, such as schools and hospitals stopped a three wheeler for in- 40 are residents of Angoda. They was also headed by Senator Mush- spection and arrested the two sus- will be produced before the Kadu- ahid Hussain. An audit report had the authority could write to the Rs60bn had been inaugurated by and expressed the hope that this federal government to pay the then president and army chief Gen project would be able to generate pects for possessing a forged li- wela Magistrates court today. raised two objections with regards cense plate, a forged insurance cer- Mulleriyawa Police are conduct- to the plan which, according to the CDA the entire sum. Pervez Musharraf in Sept 2004, major economic activity in the cap- The committee subsequently is- but the actual work began in 2007. ital. tificate and an income license. ing further investigations. audit claim, will cost the CDA over Upon further inspection of the (COLOMBOPAGE) BJP leader Subramanian Swamy Rs4 billion. The audit report said sued directions for the CDA to re- Political parties, including the PPP The then ISPR Director-General, called for a cess to be imposed for the CDA had acquired 870 acres in ceive the actual cost of the land and the PML-N, had severely crit- Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan, had in- funding gaushalas across the coun- sectors D-11 and E-10 for the and write to the federal govern- icised the project and called it a formed the media persons that the try at a national conference for cow GHQ at a rate of Rs1,159 per ment in this regard. The army had “Pentagon-style military head- government had earmarked 1,400 protection on Sunday. square yard, but allotted the land announced in October 2008 that it quarters”. The PPP had raised the acres in Islamabad for construction The conference was organised to the GHQ at a subsidised rate of had halted construction of the new matter in the Senate in November of the defence ministry and office by the Virat Hindustan Sangam at Rs200 per sq yd. The report said GHQ in Islamabad because of the 2004 and complained that the mar- of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of the BSE on Dalal Street. Swamy is the subsidised allotment “resulted economic crisis faced by the coun- ket price of 870 acres of land was Staff Committee. founder of VHS. into loss to the authority amount- try. “The project of new GHQ’s Rs505.296bn while it was being (Tribune) According to report in The Indian Express, Swami said, “In 1962 when China attacked India, an appeal was made to contribute to the defence fund. That is the mood of the country now. If we ask to pay Re 1 on petrol for gaushalas, the country will be flooded with money.” He added that the cow protec- tion cess should be applied to peo- ple of all religions -- "Hindus and Muslims, since we tax everybody equally.” Vishwa Hindu Parishad inter- national general secretary Suren- dra Jain alleged that 'gau-rakshaks' who should be felicitated for try- ing to stop cow slaughter are being implicated in false cases by po- lice. “Gaurakshaks are performing a great service. We must give them a certification. A national cadre called Gaurakshaks of Hindustan must be made,” Jain said. At the conference, Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir asked the government to cre- ate a cow sanctuary. Shiv Sena to “I proposed to use 7 crore hectare of forest land for cow sanc- Northern Province Chief Minister take action against them or not af- tuary. If we want to protect cows, C.V. Vigneswaran said that there is ter examining the facts mentioned a demand should be made to the convene meeting a conspiracy being hatched in Co- in the report. Whatever action I government. People should ask the lombo to remove him from office. take those conspiring against me government to create a cow sanc- He had made this startling rev- will get their way. tuary just like a tiger sanctuary,” to decide on BJP’s elation when a group of support- If I decide that no wrong has Ahir said. ers walked into his official resi- taken place, they plan to say that A range of topics relating to dence and expressed their solidar- I am shielding the culprits, if I pun- cow such as its protection, the ex- presidential ity with the CM with regard to ish those responsible for the port market for milk, various me- the no-faith motion brought wrong-doings, then they will still dicinal claims and idea of making it against him. try to kick me out saying that I am the national animal were discussed He said, “It is in Colombo that wrong to do so. Either way, I am at the conference. candidate: this conspiracy has been hatched. doomed. The IE report said that Swami I do not like to reveal the persons They will have their way. It is Arihant, founder of Urjaa World Sri Lanka Central Bank has an- rate to be determined through com- behind it now. However, I will tell our own people who said that an Foundation, proposed that com- nounced that it plans to sell US$ petitive bidding. Sanjay Raut you how it happened.” investigation should be conduct- pulsory chapters be introduced in 515 million worth of development Minimum investment is US$ He said the Council ministers ed. That is the reason why we ap- school curricula on cow protec- bonds to foreign and local inves- 10,000 with additional invest- knew that an investigation was pointed a committee to investigate tion. tors. ments in multiples of US$ 10,000. going to be conducted into some these allegations," he said. (By “We don’t need andolans, we The Public Debt Department of The bonds are exempted from in- hiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut of their activities. Romesh Madushanka) need education. Our children have Central Bank will issue US$ 515 come tax paid in Sri Lanka. says party chief Uddhav “I have to decide whether to (AP) started going to convent schools million in Sri Lanka Development The issue will be open for sub- Thackeray will convene a and western culture is prevailing. Bonds of 1 year 7 months, 3 years, scription from 11.00 am on 20 We need to introduce chapters on 4 years, and 4 years and 9 Months June 2017 to 10.00 am on 27 June meeting of party leaders to decide cow and its protection,” he said. tenor to eligible investors for sub- 2017. on BJP’s presidential candidate Swamy also commented on the scription at a rate of either US The bonds have a settlement Ram Nath Kovind PTI Punjab white government's recent law banning Dollar 6 month LIBOR plus a date of 30 June 2017. sale of cows for purposes of margin (floating rate) or at a fixed (COLOMBOPAGE) slaughter and said that the law did not infringe upon people's right to Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Ud- Shiv Sena’s 51st foundation paper on PML-N eat what they want. dhav Thackeray will convene day. “There is no such thing as ab- a meeting of party leaders to “We had suggested two solute fundamental right. The right Bangladeshi commits decide on supporting the names for the post. One was of to eat beef is subject to ‘reason- Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) (Rashtriya Swayamsevak ‘corruption’ able restrictions’ in the Constitu- presidential candidate Ram Sangh chief) Mohan Bhagwat. tion. Soon, a national ban will be suicide after India’s Nath Kovind, Shiva Sena MP If they had a problem with that, Accusing the Pakistan Muslim like Qarz Utaro Mulk Sanwaro, announced on cow slaughter and Sanjay Raut said on Monday. we wanted (eminent agricultur- League-Nawaz (PML-N) of cor- Ashiana housing scheme, etc., but consumption.” “Amit Shah called up Ud- ist) M.S. Swaminathan. But ruption of billions of rupees, the every scheme is part of corrup- The government is planning to final defeat dhavji after the NDA’s presi- since they have chosen some Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on tion and irregularities.” Threats to make an e-commerce portal for dential candidate was decided other name, the party will con- Sunday issued a ‘white paper’ Panamagate JIT will result into cow farmers where farmers can sell in the BJP’s parliamentary vey to the BJP our decision against ‘mismanagement and cor- mass agitation, Imran warns The their cow products directly online, ruption’ of the PML-N govern- paper lists the 969MW Neelum- and offer health services using cow Pakistan defeated India by 180 Bidyut committed suicide by board meeting. Shah sought soon,” Raut said. the Sena’s support for Ram The BJP on Monday named ment in deferent projects executed Jhelum hydropower project on top urine, cow dung and cow ghee. runs and lifted the Champions Tro- jumping in front of a running train in different parts of Punjab. The “where Rs140 billion were spent “We plan to make this an e- phy Sunday night.” Pakistan defeated Nath Kovind,” Raut told report- Dalit leader and Bihar governor ers here. Ram Nath Kovind as the par- white paper, released by Opposi- initially. Later, the amount reached commerce portal eventually. Farm- An Indian cricket fan from Ja- India by 180 runs and lifted the tion Leader in the Punjab Assem- Rs450 billion”. “The government ers can upload their products and malpur has reportedly committed Champions Trophy. “Uddhavji told him that he ty’s candidate for the post of bly Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, has spent a whopping amount on they do not need to worry about suicide after his favourite team’s will convene a meeting of the president. listed 15 projects that it says have the project, yet it flopped.” An- sale and constant income,” said crushing defeat to Pakistan in 2017 party leaders to arrive on a de- Kovind is likely to file his ‘failed’ owing to corruption and other flopped scheme was ‘Sasti Govind Das, attached with Virat Champions Trophy. The deceased cision and convey our answer papers on 23 June, BJP presi- irregularities. Rasheed said the Roti’ on which over Rs70 billion Hindustan Sangam. is Bidyut, 25, son of Anisur Rah- to him in one-two days,” he dent Amit Shah said in Delhi worst part was that the people were spent. Other such projects Similar facility will be avail- man of Shang Gate area and a food said. Raut said Thackeray may after a nearly two-hour meet- were kept in the dark and deprived included the Rs700 million Youth able in a mobile app called Cow vendor. GRP police station Office- “answer many questions later ing of the party’s parliamenta- of the actual status of the failed Laptop scheme and the Yellow Cab Connect, which will display the in-Charge (OC) Nasirul Islam said: this evening” when he will ad- ry board. projects. “The PML-N govern- scheme (no amount was men- nearest gaushala. “Disheartened by the match result, dress the party workers on the (Hindustan Times) ment started numerous schemes tioned). (Tribune) (Hindustan Times) TUESDAY . JUNE 20, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief round Suicide 16,0 0 0 bombers kill cases of 12 in Nigeria's watery diarrhea have been report- Borno state: ed in Sudan since Police August 2016, says Abu Garda

Watery diarrhea has killed 230 peo- and the spread of the disease is on Last week, the UN said some ple in Sudan in less than one year, a gradual decrease," he stressed. 15,000 cases of watery diarrhea said Sudanese Health Minister The minister said 171 new cas- were reported in Sudan in less than Bahar Idriss Abu Garda late Sun- es were discovered on Sunday, in- one year. day. Speaking to Anadolu Agen- cluding 40 in the capital Khartoum, The UN Office for the Coor- cy, Abu Garda said the situation is going on to reassure the public that dination of Humanitarian Affairs now under control, saying that the Sudanese authorities were exerting (OCHA) also said that 279 deaths cases of watery diarrhea have been strenuous efforts to combat the were reported from the disease in decreasing in recent days. disease. Abu Garda, however, the country. oreign Minister Sergey "We have registered around warned that the situation could be Contaminated drinking water Five female suicide bombers 16,000 cases and the total deaths worsening in the coming rainy sea- is responsible for the spread of killed 12 people and wounded Lavrov asks US to coordi now stand at around 230 people son in Sudan, vowing to take pro- watery diarrhea which appears 11 in northeast Nigeria's Borno nate, to avoid 'unilateral' since August 2016," he said. tective measures to contain any every now and then in many areas state, police said on Monday. "But we are confirming that the probable consequences of the rainy in Sudan. Borno state police spokes- actions in Syria situation is under our full control season. (BBC) man Victor Isuku said the attacks took place on Sunday at around 08:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) in Kofa community, around 8 km (5 miles) from the state capital Almost 80 dead Maiduguri. Islamist militant group Boko Haram killed 14 people in bombings and shootings in Maid- or missing uguri on June 7. (Reuters) in London PA blocks 11 All countries should respect Syr- ia's sovereignty and territorial in- tegrity, Russian Foreign Minister Palestinian Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. "It high-rise tragedy is necessary to fully respect sov- news sites ereignty and territorial integrity of Syria, as stipulated in the UN Se- curity Council resolution 2254 and Press freedom watchdog the Pal- other UN documents. "Therefore, estinian Centre for Development any actions on the ground, and and Media Freedoms (MADA) there are many participants, in- yesterday slammed the Palestin- cluding those who carry out mili- EU ian Authority’s (PA) recent de- tary operations, must be coordi- cision to block 11 Palestinian nated with Damascus," Lavrov was news websites in the occupied quoted as saying by Russia's news ground [in Syria] to ensure coordi- in Syria brokered by Turkey and extends West Bank. Among the websites agency TASS. Lavrov's remarks nation in our work." Lavrov said Russia led to the Astana talks, blocked on Thursday were the came after an American Navy fight- de-escalation zones were one of the which are being held parallel to UN Palestinian Information Centre er jet shot down early Monday a "possible" joint options. "I invite talks in Geneva, to find a political sanctions and the Shehab News Agency, Syrian regime SU-22 fighter jet everyone to avoid unilateral ac- solution to the six-year conflict. which are linked to Hamas, as shortly after it attacked U.S. part- tions, respect the sovereignty of Lavrov added the fifth round of well as the Voice of Fatah and ner forces. Speaking to reporters Syria and get involved in our com- Syria peace talks in the Kazakh Amad, known to have links with after the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, mon work, which is agreed with capital Astana would be held on against Mahmoud Abbas’ political rival India, China and South Africa) for- the Syrian Arab Republic's govern- July 10 and UN's special envoy Mohammed Dahlan. Hassan As- eign ministers meeting in Beijing, ment," he added. He said Russia, for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, four, an employee at Amad, was Lavrov said: "We call on the Unit- Turkey and Iran promoted the would attend the meeting, accord- Crimea quoted by MADA as saying that ed States and all others who have Astana process to find a solution ing to TASS. LONDON -- London police say Hands said the government is car- the website had been blocked in their forces or their advisers on the to the Syrian conflict. A cease-fire (AP) that the number of dead or missing rying out an "urgent inspection" the West Bank “with no prior in the high-rise apartment building of the roughly 2,500 similar tower alert and no clear reasons or jus- fire is now 79. Police Commander blocks across Britain to assess their by one tifications”. Meanwhile, Shehab Stuart Cundy gave the new figure safety, while an opposition law- News Agency employee Muaz during a statement outside Scot- maker urged the government to Suleiman Al-Umour told MADA land Yard on Monday. The previ- quickly secure documents in the year that PA Attorney General, Ah- UN: Reco rd 6 5.6 M ous figure given was 58. Cundy Grenfell renovation for the crimi- mad Barak, who issued the di- says the new number may change nal probe. Hands and Treasury rective against the 11 publica- as investigation continues. He said chief Philip Hammond said in sep- EU continues tions, had refused to speak to that the search and recovery oper- arate TV appearances that the clad- to condemn Shehab employees who contact- peo ple fo rcibly ation in the 24-story Grenfell Tow- ding used on Grenfell seems to be ed him to ask about the motives er continues, and it has been in- prohibited by British regulations. illegal annex- behind his ruling. This decision credibly distressing for families. Hands cautioned that officials don't constitutes a serious violation of He said that "it's hard to de- yet have exact details about the ation of freedom of the press and expres- scribe the devastation the fire has renovation that ended just last year. displaced w orldw ide caused." Cundy added that author- "My understanding is that the Crimea, Sevas- sion MADA said in a statement. It called “for the repeal of such ities are investigating whether any cladding that was reported wasn't topol by Rus- measures and practices, which crimes had been committed in the in accordance with U.K. building in this day and age of technolog- Turkey, for a third consec- fire. Two British officials said Sun- regulations," Hands told Sky sia, Council of ical developments [are] some- utive year, hosted largest day that new exterior cladding used News. "We need to find out pre- thing of the past.” in a renovation of Grenfell Tower cisely what cladding was used and the EU says in (CNN) number of refugees may have been banned under U.K. how it was attached." Aluminum worldwide building regulations. Also on Sun- cladding with insulation sand- statement day, the Metropolitan Police re- wiched between two panels has leased three photos from inside been blamed for helping to spread EU says Turkey, for the third consecutive Grenfell Tower, which showed in flames in major fires in many parts year, has hosted the largest num- close detail how the fire charred of the world, including blazes in deepening ties ber of refugees worldwide, a new the building that once housed up the Middle East, Europe, Asia and UN report has said. Turkey was to 600 people in 120 apartments. the United States. Labour Party The Council of the EU on Mon- also the world’s fourth-largest re- Experts believe the building's lawmaker David Lammy demand- day extended "restrictive" mea- with climate cipient of individual asylum claims new exterior cladding, which con- ed that the government and police sures in response to the illegal an- in 2016, according to the UNH- tained insulation, helped spread immediately seize all documents nexation of Crimea by Russia for pact members CR. the flames quickly up the outside relating to Grenfell's renovation to an additional year, until June 23, A record 65.6 million people of the public housing tower early prevent the destruction of evi- 2018. after US were forcibly displaced across the counting for 5.5 million refugees. During last year, 10.3 million Wednesday. Some said they had dence that could show criminal "On 19 June 2017, the mea- world and the global refugee pop- Afghanistan was second with 2.5 people were newly displaced by never seen a building fire advance wrongdoing. sures apply to EU persons and ulation was also the highest on million and South Sudan was third conflict or persecution, creating 20 so quickly. Trade Minister Greg (CBSNEWS) EU-based companies. They are withdraws record -- 22.5 million -- at the end with 1.4 million. new displacements worldwide ev- limited to the territory of Crimea of 2016, according to the agency. After Turkey, Pakistan host- ery minute. The UNHCR also es- and Sevastopol," according to a The UNHCR's new Global ed the second-largest number of timated that at least 10 million press release issued by the Coun- The European Union said on Trends report on displacement refugees (1.4 million) followed by people were stateless or at risk of Monday it was deepening its al- cil. said at the end of last year 300,000 Lebanon with one million. statelessness in 2016. The num- It said the sanctions included liances with other signatories of more people than the preceding Syria continued to have the ber of new asylum claims remained the Paris climate accord to ensure Myanmar retrieves prohibitions on imports of prod- year had been displaced. largest forcibly displaced popula- high at two million. ucts originating in Crimea into the its implementation, rejecting U.S. Out of the 65.6 million world- tion -- 12 million -- including 5.5 With 722,400 claims, Germa- President Donald Trump's de- EU, investment and tourism ser- wide total, 22.5 million are refu- million refugees, 6.3 million inter- ny was the world's largest recipi- vices in Crimea or Sevastopol, and mands to renegotiate the pact. gees, 40.3 million are internally nally displaced people and ent of new individual applications, black box Trump's announcement on June exports of certain goods and tech- displaced and 2.8 million are asy- 185,000 asylum seekers. followed by the U.S. with 262,000, nologies to Crimean companies. 1 that he wished to renegotiate lum seekers. Colombia was second with 7.7 Italy with 123,000 and Turkey the terms of the landmark 195- "The EU continues to condemn The main country of origin for million people forcibly displaced with 78,600. of crashed the illegal annexation of Crimea and nation deal - the first to oblige all refugees in 2016 was Syria, ac- and Afghanistan with 4.7 million. (Anadolu) nations to limit greenhouse gas Sevastopol by the Russian Feder- emissions - was met with dismay ation and remains committed to the other countries who signed military plane fully implement its non-recogni- the agreement. The EU pledged tion policy," it said. to team up with China, the world's N-Korea accuses US of 92 bodies, tail of aircraft Moscow, for its part, dis- largest polluter, to achieve the goal agreed with the sanctions, calling of limiting global warming to recovered so far from them "traditionally negative". "well below" 2 degrees Celsius Andaman Sea, according "We still do not agree with (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above stealing diplomatic package to military these sanctions. We do not con- pre-industrial levels. The Paris sider them legitimate," Kremlin accord is "fit for purpose and can- North Korea is awaiting an expla- spokesman Dmitry Peskov was not be renegotiated," the foreign nation from the United States af- Myanmar military said Sunday it Commander-in-Chief Sen. Gen. quoted as saying by Russia's news ministers of the bloc's 28 nations ter accusing American officials and had retrieved the black box of a Min Aung Hlaing, raising hopes to agency TASS. said in a joint statement. They police of “mugging” Pyongyang military plane which crashed into find out the cause of the crash, Peskov told reporters that were meeting in Luxembourg. diplomats at an airport in New the sea off the country’s southern which has yet to be determined Moscow believed the sanctions "The Council (of ministers) deep- York. The North’s Foreign Minis- coast last week. The statement also said that were "harmful" not only for Rus- ly regrets the unilateral decision try claimed Sunday its delegation The Chinese-made Y8-200F plane 92 bodies and other small parts of sia, but also for the EU member by the United States administra- was about to fly back from a UN was carrying 124 people including the plane had been recovered from states. tion to withdraw from the Paris conference when they were sub- 17 children when it crashed into the sea by Sunday. Ukraine has been wracked by Agreement," they said. The EU's jected to the “illegal and heinous the Andaman Sea on June 7 during Navy ships and military air- conflict since March 2014 follow- foreign policy chief Federica act” at John F. Kennedy Interna- a weekly flight to Yangon from the crafts will continue the search for ing Russia’s annexation of Crimea Mogherini told reporters on the tional Airport. “As the diplomats coastal town of Myeik in south- the remaining victims, it added. after an illegal independence vote. sidelines of the meeting that the vigorously resisted, they grabbed This followed violent anti-gov- ern Tanintharyi region. It was pre- The aircraft tail with the num- ernment protests which led to the bloc had on Monday adopted the diplomatic package using viously reported that there were ber 5820 was found Thursday tan- "very strong language" to under- physical violence and made off,” overthrow of then-President Vic- 122 people aboard including 15 gled in a fishing net under the sea tor Yanukovich. The UN General line the need to adhere to the com- the ministry insisted, according to mains unclear exactly what was in the package or if the delegation had children. at a depth of 35 meters. diplomatic immunity, there has been growing wariness around North Assembly later voted to proclaim mitments stipulated in the climate Pyongyang’s official KCNA news The flight data recorder (Black The military chief had earlier agreement. "We are building agency. “If the U.S. fails to give its Korean baggage and shipments since the poisoning of leader Kim Jong- the Russian annexation illegal. due response to our demand which un’s half-brother at a Malaysian airport in February. Ties between Py- Box) and CVR (Cockpit Voice Re- in the week said that the weather Along with many UN countries, strong global alliances to make corder) were found in the already was likely to have been the main sure that the Paris agreement, will is all too reasonable and fair enough, ongyang and Washington are also particularly frayed after an American the U.S., the EU, and Turkey also it will be totally responsible for all college student imprisoned in the North for 17 months was recently retrieved tail of the missing plane factor in the accident, according to do not recognize Crimea as Rus- be upheld, even after Trump's on Sunday evening, according to a local media reports. decision to step back." the consequences to be entailed,” returned to the U.S. in an unresponsive state. sian territory. the statement added. While it re- (AFP) press statement from the office of (Aljazeera) (AA) TUESDAY . JUNE 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy Phone No: +93-797070563 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] By Jeoff in Johann Esburg several in the US, and Airbus out of Quintin Frost is a South Afri- www.afghanistantimes.af Marseille. They ferry wealthy cli- can pilot who has worked on all six South African Air Force tasked At- ents to a landing pad on the roof of continents, flying helicopters in las Aviation- now Denel - to build a Politicians love helicopters, quick- Harrods in London, hover over Af- local helicopter. The template was Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi moving aircraft that don’t need a Iraq, the Swiss Alps and frequently rican game reserves in search of in both Kabul and Kandahar. a Super Puma. runway and can get you between poachers, or spray herbicide on ille- And so was born the Atlas Oryx, meetings while others are stuck in “Lift a heavy load with any Advisory editorial board gal poppy crops used to make opi- helicopter and it tips to one side, so arguably the most successful aircraft traffic. They are also the key to um, a trade that’s growing in Af- built in Africa. The Oryx still flies search and rescue at sea and in moun- the pilot has to compensate by ad- Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, ghanistan. But when it launched in justing the rotors,” he said. “By within both the Air Force and at the tainous terrain. But in Britain and 1999, the Super Puma 225 was in a Helicopter Training School and is Norway, a ban on a model well contrast, the Super Puma goes Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal, Saboor Sarir class of its own: strong, fast and with straight up. “But there are other used in tourism and as a supply craft known in Afghanistan as has avia- a range of nearly a thousand kilo- for bases in the Antarctic. tion experts shaking their heads. things that make this a great air- Graphic-Designers: metres. Today they’re used by the craft. It probably has the best auto- And like the Puma, it has an Geoff Hill looks at a modern air military in Taiwan, Mexico, France enviable record for safety. So where mystery. For almost a decade until pilot on the market, one of the few Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi and Basir Qazizada and Botswana. They serve in the able land by itself. And if for some does that leave the 225, still banned 2015, they were the only search- Japanese coast guard, as airborne fire in just two countries? and-rescue craft in the skies over reason the engine fails, you can tilt Mar ket i ng & Adver t i si ng: engines in South Korea and for Aus- the rotors and they are wide enough Quintin Frost says there’s been Afghanistan: Super Puma helicop- tralian search and rescue. On the an unforeseen boost in second-hand Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 ters, mostly on secondment from to catch the wind, and the spin will morning of 29 April 2016, a Super allow you to float down safely.” The sales. “The grounding saw these he- Spain. Since it was launched 40 years Puma 225 operated by the Canadi- licopters being sold across Europe Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan ago, thousands of lives have been industry, he says, has never been an CHC group left a platform in the more competitive, and every mak- at way below value. This has spread Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 saved by this most iconic of the North Sea and made for the Norwe- them around the world. Pilots love helicopters, a giant workhorse that er from Bell to Sikorsky and Airbus gian town of Bergen, less than an has had their problems. Statoil is one them, they’re low on fuel and we Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press flies from Africa to the Arctic. It hour away. On board were 11 oil see them now in Asia and the Amer- has also been the ride of choice for of the world’s most profitable com- workers and two crew. panies with operations in 36 coun- icas. I suspect it won’t be long be- a number of kings and presidents, The flight recorder would later fore they appear in the sky again including Angela Merkel of Germa- tries and across the Middle East. show nothing strange about the jour- Headquartered in Oslo and with over Afghanistan.” Theories on why ny. But in 2016, an accident saw ney. Then, as it made land at an this one crash and the tragic loss of The constitution says Super Puma model number 225 assets of more than $100bn, its sin- altitude of less than 700 metres, lo- gle biggest shareholder (67%) is the 13 people led to such a massive re- grounded in Britain and Norway. cals say they watched the massive action continue to be From a single-seater to the larg- Norwegian government. Article 154: rotors come off and fall away. Statoil had chartered the debated: competing firms in the est airliner, mishaps in the sky are It took just 11 seconds for the shadows, a falling oil price, the not taken lightly. An enquiry is stan- doomed flight on 29 April, and Article One Hundred Fifty-Four: The wealth of the President, Vice- cabin to hit the ground, killing all grounded their own fleet of 225s. chance to wiggle out of contracts. dard, often coupled with a tempo- 13 people. Those imposing the ban cite Presidents, Ministers, members of the Supreme Court as well as the rary grounding of the aircraft. Parts But then they announced that all A BBC report claimed the same their Super Pumas would cease op- health and safety while supporters - are checked, airlines or the manu- aircraft was forced to land a few days including many pilots and techni- Attorney General, shall be registered, reviewed and published prior to facturer may be asked to make mod- eration, opting instead for the US- early when warning lights flashed in made Sikorsky. Slowly, the 225 cians - say one of the best aircraft and after their term of office by an organ established by law. ifications, and the plane goes back the cabin, but contrary to the Air- ever built has been maligned. in use. And, sure enough, the 225 is moved back into use around the bus manual, the owners didn’t send world, with just Britain and Norway At the Airbus plant in flying again worldwide, except for it for service. Marseilles, the 225 remains in pro- an ongoing ban by the authorities in insisting it stay out of service. This It would later be alleged that, has raised questions within the in- duction. Second-hand sales are London and Oslo. before the helicopter was assembled, strong, and from Greece to Chile Some suggest the continued dustry, including suggestions the ban a truck carrying the gearbox was may be linked to the low oil price and across Africa, the Super Puma grounding is really down to oil com- involved in a road accident, possi- brand has more than five million panies trying to ditch their con- given so many of the 225s in Eu- bly damaging the part. Investiga- rope ferried crews to and from plat- hours of flying time on the tracts in the North Sea. When the tors found a crack or fracture, and book, and adding to it every day. In price of oil was high, Pumas ferried forms in the North Sea. Frustrat- the gearbox had split in flight, ingly there’s no evidence to show four decades, choppers have flown crews to the rigs, but as crude fell — forcing the blades to come away. more than 65 million passengers so the story runs — firms who had why the policy continues. The mystery deepened Once in the sky, other helicop- have to and from the North Sea oil used them for years claimed the when accident investigators in Nor- rigs. These are some of the world’s choppers were unsafe. ters can fly without human control, way couldn’t find what caused the but the 225’s autopilot will do a ver- most treacherous seas, and the oil Look at any of national air- break. In line with procedure, oil fields support some 300 000 British lines, from Lufthansa to Singapore, tical take-off and landing, unaided. companies in the UK and Norway Sensors handle approach to even the jobs. Super Pumas still land in Kab- Emirates or Afghanistan’s own Safi grounded all their 225s, except those ul, mostly visitors from neighbour- and Ariana, and you’ll find Airbus. smallest platform at sea, and an ex- used in search and rescue. But in Lon- tra fuel tank can be fitted in under ing countries, and Afghanistan has Between them, the US Boeing group don, the Civil Aviation Authority no restriction on their use. A year and Airbus based in France build more two hours, allowing greater reach. went further, banning the 225 from In an emergency landing, it has after the accident, it’s time for Brit- than 80 per cent of the world’s pas- British air space. Norway followed, ain and Norway to lift ban on the senger planes. For helicopters, the more exit doors and windows that and within three months, 80 per any similar craft and can fly in snow 225 or explain the mystery of why market is more diverse with manu- cent of the world fleet was under they are still trying to keep it out of facturers in Japan, Brazil, Russia, or along the equator. inspection. More than 30 years ago the the sky. Veteran organizer gives inside look at the first $15 minimum wage campaign fghan and Indian authorities officially inaugurated the first- By Jonathan Timm recounted in Beyond $15: Immi- tivity in the workplace. And, if all proach to organizing that grounds ever air corridor between Kabul and New Delhi, fulfill grant Workers, Faith Activists, and of that wasn't bad enough, many of labor advocacy in moral terms, chal- the Revival of the Labor Move- the workers wanted nothing to do lenges the existing economic and ing the dream of Afghan traders who have been long keen Back in 2011, as the Occupy Wall ment, a new book by Jonathan with a union. Some had already had political order and broadens the def- Street movement was still spread- Rosenblum, a leading organizer of bad experiences with unions and did inition of union organizing to in- to get easier access to Indian markets. Relationship between Af- ing through the country, a smaller the campaign. As the labor move- not trust them, while others were clude a wide swath of community standoff was unfolding at Sea-Tac, ment finds itself in a state of crisis, refugees who wanted no part in any- groups and faith leaders rather than ghanistan and India has been in its best since long years ago and the international airport in the Beyond $15 is both a timely histo- thing that might attract the gov- union members alone. "Today's ex- New Delhi is an important friendly country to Kabul. It has been small, eponymous town between ry of a bold campaign's unlikely vic- ernment's attention. That Rosen- pectation among most union lead- Seattle and Tacoma that serves both tory and an inspiring call for a flex- blum and his colleagues were able to ers …. is that the organization pro- playing a significant role in the reconstruction after the war im- cities. Along with some of her co- ible, progressive and power-building achieve victory under such circum- viding the most dollars and staff get workers, Zainab Aweis, a Somali vision of labor organizing. The de- stances, alone, makes Beyond $15 to call the shots," Rosenblum writes. posed on us by one of our neighboring countries. Several projects Muslim shuttle driver for Hertz car cades-long decline of union power an instructive read. The book's de- "But community allies bring other rental, was on her way to take a and the recent rise of anti-union leg- tailed portraits of organizers, work- assets, like relationships, credibili- were carried out by Indian assistance that the new parliament break for prayer, when her manager islation have made organizing work- ers and their actions are a testament ty, or cultural competence, which building and the Salma dam in Herat province are an example of stepped in front of the doorway. "If ers in even the best of conditions an to bold and creative maneuvers, can't be measured monetarily but are you guys pray, you go home," the uphill battle. At Sea-Tac, one might which were executed so well that just as vital." To be sure, Rosenblum's India’s help with Afghan people and government. Unfortunately, manager said. As devout Muslims, have thought it impossible. While they made a seemingly invincible vision for labor organizing is not Aweis and her fellow staff were ded- organizing even a single workplace corporation feel threatened by a exactly new. Many progressive while some of our neighbors export terrorism and instability to icated to praying five times a day. is a challenge, Rosenblum and oth- united front of cabin cleaners and union leaders, particularly younger Because it only takes a few minutes, ers were hoping to organize many. shuttle drivers. Rosenblum's coali- ones, would find his recommended Afghanistan, India helps us in making a peaceful and prosperous their employer had previously treat- Decades of restructuring and union tion of faith leaders and a team of principles obvious. Even the most ed the prayers like smoke breaks -- busting in the airline industry meant worker organizers, closely tied to powerful and ostensibly hierarchi- life, as thousands of Afghan boys and girls are studying in differ- nothing to worry about. Suddenly, that many low-wage workers at Sea- the community, led picket drives on cal union leaders would likely agree ent universities of India with the scholarship granted by the gov- the workers were forced to choose Tac worked for various contractors luggage carts, co-opted shareholder with many of his points. And while between their faith and their jobs. rather than the airlines themselves. meetings with defiant prayers and this kind of progressive vision is ernment of India. This indicates that India really wants a stable "I like the job," Aweis thought, "but Though many of the employees songs, made a successful bid to de- important, there are practical co- if I can't pray, I don't see the bene- worked alongside each other and mand union recognition and nundrums that cannot be resolved neighboring country with educated people that serve and lead fit." As she and others continued to shared grievances, they did not nec- launched a citywide ballot initiative by Rosenblum's call to "aim higher, pray, managers started suspending essarily have the same boss. Worse that narrowly beat its concerted reach wider, build deeper" -- name- their country to a bright future. The latest step can be another each Muslim worker who prayed on than that, Sea-Tac airport workers conservative opposition (and I ly, a history of industrial segmenta- the clock, totaling 34. The ensu- weren't guaranteed most federal mean narrowly–the initiative passed tion, automation and the large num- significant measure by India to more facilitate trade between the ing battle marked a flashpoint in rights to union activity because by 77 votes, a 1 percent margin). ber of workers in sectors where tra- two countries. Now, our businessmen can export goods to India what would eventually be the first those rights do not fully cover con- But more than just a collection of ditional models of union organizing successful $15 minimum wage cam- tractors or transportation workers. war stories, Rosenblum's purpose in simply aren't feasible. Even when with less cost. They can also import things we need from India paign in the country. The story of Due to an antiquated law called the Beyond $15 is to persuade other union heads fully prioritize grass- these Hertz workers, and the many Railway Labor Act (RLA), airport advocates to follow his lead. The roots organizing, coalition building easily. The most thing Afghans need and like is the high quality others who came together to im- workers are all but prohibited from book uses Sea-Tac's success to argue and collaborating with faith leaders. Indian medicine. As President Ghani said on Monday in the inau- prove their working conditions, is striking and so-called disruptive ac- for a "social movement union" ap- (WP) guration of the air corridor that “those who make obstacles and challenges for Afghanistan, must know that we can turn the chal- lenges into opportunities”, we will use this opportunity to further strengthen our historical relationship and help each other’s econ- omy through making facilities in the import and export. The rela- tionship between Afghanistan and India will undoubtedly result in more isolation of those countries that want to go ahead in the shadow of terrorism and extremism. 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By Amar Diwakar By William Rivers Pitt so they don't droop, watering ev- watching a different kind of crop vestigation spanning multiple juris- erything without drowning it all, grow in Washington, DC, and the dictions and crossing international watching for slugs and other maraud- yield could be substantial in the full- borders. The issues at hand involve Amar Diwakar ers, and all under a hot summer sun. ness of time. Remember these politics, technology, who talked to I will likely be spending this Father's It's not breaking rocks in a gravel names: Aaron Zebley, James Quarles, whom, who is willing to flip for a is a writer and Day wrist-deep in dirt, because my research consult- mine, but my back tells me about it Jeannie Rhee, Andrew Weissman, deal, and of course, following the daughter is now a farmer of sorts. whenever I finish a task. That, too, Michael Dreeben and Lisa Page, the money (paging Lisa Page). It will ant with Global Her preschool class started growing is a good feeling. Getting my daugh- latter of whom enjoys world-class not be over in a week, or a month, Risk Intelligence. lima beans in little Dixie cups, and ter involved with our annual gar- experience in running down money or a year. Even if it were, nothing when they sprouted, she was allowed dening may prove, in time, to be launderers. These are the people would come of it, because the cur- to take her three plants home. We among the more fateful and impor- special counsel Robert Mueller has rent GOP-controlled House of Rep- Having abandoned the Trans-Pacif- transplanted them into one of the tant decisions we've made regarding tapped to join his team investigat- resentatives would sooner leap from ic Partnership and the Paris Accords, Earth Boxes we have on the back her upbringing. The lessons she is ing any and all Russia connections the Capitol dome wearing wax wings Donald Trump has only fed fears of deck, right next to the lettuce, on- learning are so elemental, yet so to Trump, his staff and his presi- than impeach a sitting Republican the US' increasing isolation on the ions, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, vital. When we started, she thought dential campaign. While they are president, no matter how egregious global arena. Naturally, prognosti- herbs and cherry tomatoes. She her beans would fly out of the box not yet household names national- his crimes. My feelings about Donald cations are firmly fixated on China helped plant them all, wearing my in a few minutes. Having to wait ly, they are the varsity when it Trump are no secret: He and his and how it might exploit the rup- farmer's hat like a restaurant tray and watch, she is learning the value comes to the law, and everyone in cadre are a menace, and they need ture of a ruling consensus US world on her head. She says the same thing of patience. She is learning you don't DC knows it. In short, Mr. Mueller to go … and if we had ham, we could leadership. every evening after school: "Dad- eat if you don't lend yourself to the is not screwing around. That became have ham and eggs, if we had eggs. Consider Xi Jinping's symbolic dy, let's watch my beans grow!" And labors. She is learning that it is not abundantly clear on Tuesday after- I'm going to buy a 2018 calendar defence of globalisation at Davos so out we go to stand over her im- only acceptable, but mandatory, to noon when The Washington Post and look at it once a day, because I inJanuary: signalling to the world perceptibly growing lima beans as get good and dirty every now and dropped another brick: Mueller is, believe that is the year in which we that Beijing is a willing guarantor of the setting sun lights the western again. When she smells the soil on in fact, investigating Trump for will learn many new things about economic growth and cooperation, tree line on fire. After, we inspect her hands, she smiles a secret smile. possible criminal obstruction of jus- electoral politics and political cor- during a phase of intensifying pro- everything else for signs of progress. I don't ask her about it; that smile tice. This inspired the predictable ruption at the highest levels of gov- vincialism and anaemic global trade. There is always some; this looks to and the feelings behind it are her Twitter tirade from the president, ernment. 2018 is when the Augean In the context of an emergent lead- be a potent growing season again. treasure alone. The juxtaposition but 24 hours later had kicked loose stables get cleaned out. If I were in ership vacuum, China is aware it She is tremendously excited by the between my garden and my work as yet another interesting tidbit: Vice Vegas, that's where I'd place my cannot challenge US hegemony by whole process. Me? I'm the only a political observer is cracking me President Mike Pence has retained chips. It's a long time until then, simply flexing economic and mili- person on the Eastern seaboard who up these days, especially in regard his own outside counsel to deal with and a lot can happen for good or ill. tary muscle. It should come as no actually likes lima beans as far as I to the ongoing Russia investigation. all the Russia inquiries that are now So I will help my daughter tend our surprise then that China's foreign know, so it's win-win all around. She I sat through former FBI Director popping off like a string of fire- garden, and watch as it and she grow policy marshalled under Xi reflects hasn't had a chance to work the big James Comey's testimony like ev- crackers (the Senate Judiciary Com- together. I will do it again next year the significance of ideas and institu- garden out in the yard yet, but the eryone else and came away think- mittee recently joined the party by in the same fashion. I will watch her tions. day is coming. Out there are the big ing it was a big nothingburger: No opening an investigation into the learn the lessons of patience, work Interestingly, the purpose of beefsteak tomato plants, the pep- major revelations. Nothing spectac- Comey firing). A smart move, as and the need to get dirty from time soft power is inverted in service of per plants, the cucumbers, zucchini ular beyond someone finally calling Pence was in charge of the transi- to time. I will try to remember those China's domestic politics. Soft pow- and squash plants, along with more Trump a liar in an official capacity. tion team that let all of Trump's lessons myself. Most of all, I will er is more than just a mythologised beans and some snap peas for good All the really important questions tainted brigands pass the gates in the hope Mr. Mueller has taken all three national culture translated into ex- measure. It's a budget of work get- left unanswered. As it turns out, I first place. Trump's lawyer has even of them very closely to heart. portable universal values; it simul- ting all that squared away, digging needed to re-learn the first rule of hired a lawyer. Beat that with a stick. Happy Father's Day. Let your taneously involves value production all the holes and doing the planting, gardening -- patience -- because the There are a lot of balls in the air garden grow. at home and abroad. In contemplat- "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. If Xi envisions the regional staking and tying up the tomatoes nation, and indeed the world, are right now, and this is a massive in- (Truthout) ing Xi's grand strategy then, it is nation," which will be fulfilled community as an extension of the prudent to be in tune with how Chi- through the achievement of two Chinese nation, then sovereign na assesses international politics in centenary goals set by the 18th CPC dreams are palatable insofar as they domestic terms. National Congress in 2012. In sug- do not contradict Beijing's. The Peripheral diplomacy gesting that China had to build clos- "New Silk Road" is part-and-parcel Why I can’t stop According to scholar Qin Ya- er security ties within its neighbour- of this strategic calculus to trans- qing, at the heart of Chinese for- hood, he expounded that regional late material power into ideological eign policy is not a security dilem- cooperation must evolve beyond purchase. Driven by geo-economic ma between great powers, but an mutual benefit to "shared beliefs and concerns, "One Belt, One Road" thinking about "identity dilemma": Who is China? norms of conduct for the whole re- (OBOR) is one such endeavour im- How does it make sense of the world gion". Parsing such statements re- pregnated with the potential to bring and its place in it? This identity di- veal how Xi wants to think regard- about the realisation of Chinese and lemma is articulated through idea- ing soft power projection, one that Asian dreams through win-win co- Otto Warmbier lised debates about its "harmonious is coterminous with Chinese rejuve- operation in the region. Further- society" correlated with its "peace- nation. The goal of peripheral di- more, the OBOR initiative is billed ful rise" on the world stage. This plomacy is not only to augment eco- in many quarters as a cultural alter- aspiration is audible in Xi's concert- nomic development and shore up native to the US-led liberal order, ed grand strategy. He has bestowed political stability, but to provide a seeing as Beijing's continental and Chinese foreign policy with a dis- notion of regional order: the "com- maritime strategies will not just link By Sawsan Al Shaer tinctive thrust in coalescing ideas munity of shared destiny" as Xi economies but "civilisations". It Qatar’s rhetoric while address- distilled through charming slogans called it. Indeed, he concluded his highlights the connectivity of hard ing the international community is ("China Dream"), institutions (the address at the 2014 Conference on power with a moral responsibility confusing when it talks about its Aasian Infrastructure Investment Interaction and Confidence Build- to modify the global architecture relations with armed organiza- Bank and the Silk Road Fund), and ing Measures in Asia by underscor- with the interests of the non-West. tions. projects (One Belt One Road) to ing that China stands "ready to sup- All this feeds into Xi's grand strate- There are recordings and foot- cultivate an impressive network of port and help the other peoples in gy that envisions China as the nor- age that document these ties. political, economic, cultural, and Asia to realise their own great mative placeholder, as the ensuing These armed organizations have security relations. Xi's assertive for- dreams". After all, the core princi- hegemon. man rights violations have been and begun to get out of control and to eign policy - integrating both de- ples of Chinese foreign policy - Pax Sinica? By Fred Hiatt are being committed by the Demo- target Europe via “lone wolves.” velopment and security goals - is a mutual respect, trust, reciprocity, The success of Chinese state- cratic People’s Republic of Korea This latter term is used to de- watershed moment in contrast to cooperation - does not preclude hi- managed capitalism coupled with the .?.?. scribe individuals whom armed or- the Deng Xiaoping era of pragma- I can’t stop thinking about Otto We are not at war with Qatar but ganizations recruit from afar. The erarchy. Noticeably, it is this tradi- 2008 financial crisis has invariably Warmbier. And the more I think “The use of torture is an estab- at war with terrorism. This mes- tism that both Zemin and Jintao tional belief of a regional system called into question the legitimacy lished feature of the interrogation international community cannot be observed. Arguably, the tenor of about him, the more I remember all sage must be the slogan of the coun- lenient with any party that has with China at the centre that ani- of Anglo-Saxon markets and liberal the smart people I’ve heard over process in the Democratic People’s tries, which boycotted Qatar. “The China's 5th generation leadership mates Beijing's peripheral diploma- democracy. If and when the "New Republic of Korea,” the U.N. com- anything to do with these attacks can be grasped by an attentiveness the years explaining why the North frontline of the war on terror” is a against it. This is where Qatar gets cy drive. Silk Road" initiative is dubbed a suc- Korean regime — the regime that mission found. “Starvation and other phrase that must always be used to a chorus in diplomatic addresses Building the "China Dream" cess, it would confirm that China is inhumane conditions of detention confused as it cannot confront that have so far defined Xi's tenure. “brutalized and terrorized” Otto, as to remind of the major aim which these facts. Qatar must respond In another speech delivered at not subordinate but in the driver's his father said last week — shouldn’t are deliberately imposed on sus- Qatar is trying to divert people’s At the "Work Forum on Chinese the Central Conference on Foreign seat, offering the world a superior pects. .?.?. Persons who are found to the recent developments, how- Diplomacy Towards the Periphery" be challenged or destabilized. Warm- attention from by coming up with ever, so far it has limited its activ- Affairs in 2014, Xi would reaffirm model of globalisation. Whether bier is a smart and immensely lik- to have engaged in major political other headlines such as siege, star- in 2013, Xi emphasised the "coor- the importance of the periphery in this means China becomes proac- crimes are ‘disappeared,’ without ity to working internally to dination" of a "comprehensive" ap- able kid who graduated from high vation, subjugation and others. strengthen the local front and mo- Beijing's foreign policy, as well as tive in shaping the global liberal or- school in 2013 in his hometown of trial or judicial order, to political The second plan is “to internation- proach to handling the bureaucratic the necessity of interdependence der through an infusion of Chinese prison camps (kwanliso). .?.?. Their bilize Qatari support. It adopted complexity of foreign policymak- Wyoming, Ohio, and enrolled in the alize our goals” and not just limit the mechanism of “fear” and relied and global governance. Regarding characteristics or "Asian values" - University of Virginia. Toward the families are not even informed of them to our local front. This is a ing in the face of the CPC's splin- grand strategy, a linkage between the as opposed to throwing globalisa- their fate if they die. .?.?. “The in- on the sympathy of some Arabs, tered authority. Yes, the dollar im- end of 2015 he was traveling in strategic orientation that requires and exploited this to play the vic- domestic realm and the global would tion out with the institutional bath- China when he signed up, out of cu- mate population has been gradually different activity that’s directed to bues the US with a structural advan- be pursued through universalisation water - could take place sooner than eliminated through deliberate star- tim. tage that won't disappear anytime riosity and a sense of adventure, for the international public opinion Confused rhetoric of the "China dream". As Xi assert- we think. a four-day New Year’s trip to North vation, forced labour, executions, and not just to the decision mak- soon. But in the context of a frac- ed, "we should increase China's soft Yes, the dollar imbues the US torture, rape and the denial of re- However, it’s clear that Qatar’s turing neoliberal consensus, it would Korea. As the rest of his tour group ers. Unfortunately, Qatar insists rhetoric is confused on the inter- power, give a good Chinese narra- with a structural advantage that won't departed from Pyongyang Interna- productive rights enforced through to bury its head in the sand as it behove us to take China more seri- tive, and better communicate Chi- disappear anytime soon. But in the punishment, forced abortion and national level. ously as a burgeoning rule-maker. Xi's tional Airport on Jan. 2, 2016, thinks the time it will gain will be This was seen during the in- na's message to the world." What of context of a fracturing neoliberal Warmbier was detained. Two infanticide. The commission esti- in its favor. However, Qatar does speech explicitly framed foreign pol- the "China dream" and support for consensus, it would behove us to take mates that hundreds of thousands terview of Hamad bin Jassem – the icy in service of domestic policy: months later he showed up on North not have a winning card and its maestro of Qatari foreign policy the "Asian dream"? It is debatable China more seriously as a burgeon- Korean television confessing to his of political prisoners have perished only bet is to try and gain time. Its linking peripheral diplomacy with as to whether this slogan embraces ing rule-maker. in these camps over the past five over the course of 20 years – with "realising the China dream" and the supposed offense: trying to pilfer a only hope to survive is to disinte- Charlie Rose. The interview did not the individual, the collective or the (Aljazeera) propaganda poster from his hotel decades. The unspeakable atrocities grate “the front of the war on ter- that are being committed against match the seriousness of recent de- to bring home as a souvenir. We ror” locally and internationally and velopments and their repercus- don’t know if the coerced confes- inmates of the kwanliso political divert the world’s attention from prison camps resemble the horrors sions on Qatar and the region. sion was truthful or made up. Even our goal which is war on terror and Some television channels and if truthful, the resulting sentence of of camps that totalitarian States make everyone think that there is established during the twentieth cen- writers stand by Qatar because 15 years at hard labor was obscene. a war against its people and econ- they adhere to its role in the plan LETTER TO THE EDITOR Warmbier, who is now 22, tury.” Translation: The gulag of the omy. It is inspired by the Israeli to re-divide the region and not be- wasn’t seen or heard from again until Soviet Union, the concentration model as it internationally markets camps of Nazi Germany — they cause they love it or believe it is last week, when the Trump admin- the crisis by claiming it is a moder- innocent. istration managed to secure his re- have been roughly replicated in ately religious country that’s sur- North Korea. The whole world This support though did not lease and fly him home to Ohio. rounded by extremist religious put an end to the repercussions Only it turns out that Warmbier is knows this — the U.N. report is a countries. It is marketing itself as public document — and yet the re- affecting the Qatari command. incapacitated, and apparently has a small state that is surrounded by What if we address the European Substandard food items been for almost his entire time in gime lives on. How can that be? big countries and as an oasis for It turns out that plenty of peo- and American public opinion and captivity. “His neurological condi- safety among countries suffering if the “front of war on terror” sup- tion can be best described as a state ple find the regime repugnant but from unrest. convenient. China’s Communist rul- ply it with information and data Afghanistan is a consumer society and most of the products in the market are being imported of unresponsive wakefulness,” said It wants the world to think that it that link the attacks on Europe to Daniel Kanter, a University of Cin- ers are first in that line: Kim Jong was targeted for these reasons to from neighboring countries. The main problem with the imported goods is that they are mostly Un annoys them, but they do not organizations which Qatar sup- substandard, particularly those being imported from Pakistan. cinnati Medical Center neurologist divert attention from what is real- ports? who examined Otto. “He shows no want a unified, pro-Western Korea ly happening. Qatar’s rhetoric However, the government should assign a commission that copes with the challenge where it on their border. South Korea has a Qatar bets on time and on those signs of understanding language, re- while addressing the international who despise the Saudi kingdom to consists of officials from ministries of Interior; Public Health; and Irrigation, Agriculture and sponding to verbal commands or Ministry of Unification but also community is confusing when it many citizens who do not want the reshuffle the deck. Livestock as well as Attorney General Office, Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries, awareness of his surroundings. He talks about its relations with armed It cannot defend itself but is Independent Directorate of Security and Afghanistan National Standard Authority. has not spoken. He has not engaged responsibility or expense of bring- organizations. There are recordings ing 25 million impoverished North working on making Saudi Arabia The commission frequently should visit shops and collected tons of poor quality food stuffs in any purposeful movements or be- and footage that document these defend itself. Qatar is working to haviors. .?.?. This study showed ex- Koreans up to their living standard ties from Kabul markets. The commission should control quality of commodities in the country’s (South Korea’s population is about turn the attack against it into an tensive loss of brain tissue in all re- Meanwhile, Qatar’s reaction attack against Saudi Arabia and it ports and customs instead of domestic markets, and should stop import of sub-standard goods gions of the brain.” Undated video 50 million). For its part, the United clearly shows that it has not yet to the country and don’t let the enemy of Afghanistan to play with the live of Afghan masses. States is more interested in negoti- is doing so by exploiting the agen- shows American student Otto Warm- understood the size of Gulf and das and internal conflicts of some Murtaza Alizada, Kabul, Afghanistan bier throwing snowballs in North ating an end to North Korea’s nu- international changes. It is betting clear weapons program than help- parties. Korea before his arrest for "com- on time while hoping that these Doha is also using the media mitting hostile acts" against North ing its captive millions. “Our goal is changes are not permanent. Doha not regime change,” Secretary of outlets which do not like US Pres- Korea. (Austin Warmbier) is not aware that time is not on its ident Donald Trump and favors We don’t know whether North State Rex Tillerson said in April. side as long as leads on terrorism An American university student the former American policy and Korean guards beat Warmbier into a eventually reveal that Qatar either which for years criticized Saudi coma or whether his abuse and mal- who was detained for 17 months in financed terrorists or embraced Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must North Korea suffered a serious neu- Arabia and promoted Iran. This is have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: treatment came in some other form. them. In the end, Qatar will not how Qatar is reshuffling the deck. What we do know is that a healthy rological injury that resulted in "ex- only be targeted by Gulf countries [email protected] tensive loss of brain tissue" but Our task then is to address the young man flew to Pyongyang, was but it will also be targeted interna- international public opinion and re- unjustly seized and then became lost showed no signs of botulism, accord- tionally and in that case, it will ing to doctors. (Reuters) And so, organize the situation so the world to the world — with no one bother- have no choice but to submit to realizes that supporting the Qa- ing to inform his parents. Here’s though the country is backward and international will. totally dependent on outside assis- tari command is not tantamount Disclaimer: something else we know: Thousands All we have to do is clarify to a protest against Saudi Arabia — no, hundreds of thousands — of tance, the regime lives on. The pris- these ties to the international com- on camps endure. And Otto Warm- but is tantamount to playing with Koreans have been subjected to sim- munity. This is what we must fo- fire. Leniency with Qatar means The views and opinions expressed in the articles are ilar criminal abuse as Otto Warmbi- bier’s heartbroken mother sits by his cus on while “addressing the in- side, hoping to coax some sign of leniency with terrorism. those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or er suffered at the hands of North ternational community.” This is the message, which Korea’s Stalinist regime. In 2014, a consciousness from her damaged We must not allow Qatar to boy. must be conveyed. opinions of the Afghanistan Times. U.N. commission reported that “sys- address the latter on its own via (Alarabiya) tematic, widespread and gross hu- (WP) more misleading campaigns. TUESDAY. JUNE 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

A Muslim teenager was assaulted friends when they got into a dis- A local congresswoman, Bar- and killed in the early hours of pute with a man in a car. It ap- bara Comstock, said: “We are heart- Police charge Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, with Sunday as she walked home after pears the suspect, Darwin A Mar- broken and horrified by the news murder of Nabra Hassanen, whose body was prayers at a mosque near Wash- tinez Torres, 22, of Sterling, got of the brutal murder of a beautiful found in a pond in Sterling ington. The death of Nabra Has- out of his car and assaulted the vic- 17-year old girl. We know there is sanen, 17, of Reston, northern Vir- tim. Her friends could not find her no greater pain for any parent and ginia, stunned the local communi- and police were called to help.” Chip and I extend our prayers to ty. Police have charged 22-year- Nabra was reported missing her family and loved ones at this old Darwin Martinez Torres with about 4am. A police helicopter, difficult time and the entire Ad- Q a t a r her murder. A potential hate crime patrol officers and search and res- ams Center community.” A state- is one of the possible motives un- cue teams joined the hunt. “While ment from the Adams mosque said: der investigation, the Washington searching, one officer saw a car “We are devastated and heartbro- Post reported. Nabra’s mother, driving suspiciously in the area and ken as our community undergoes Sawsan Gazzar, told the paper: “I stopped it,” the statement added. and processes this traumatic event. r em in ds it s think it had to do with the way “The driver, later identified as It is a time for us to come together she was dressed and the fact that Martinez Torres, was taken into to pray and care for our youth. she’s Muslim. Why would you kill custody as a suspect.” Adams has licensed counselors on a kid? What did my daughter do to About 3pm the body of a girl site to assist anyone in need of n eigh bor s of deserve this?” The All Dulles Area believed to be Nabra was found in counseling during these difficult Muslim Society (Adams) mosque a pond in Sterling. A baseball bat times.” On a crowdfunding page in Sterling, the biggest in northern was discovered nearby, police to support Nabra’s family, dona- Virginia, holds extra late-night said. Detectives later obtained a tions surged to more than $55,000 prayers during the last 10 days of murder warrant against Martinez by midnight. A report by the Coun- 9 /11 a s G u lf Ramadan. Nabra was reportedly Torres. Arsalan Iftikhar, a human cil on American-Islamic Relations among four or five teenagers who rights lawyer and author, told the found that anti-Muslim hate crime had left the mosque in the early Washington Post that he and his incidents rose sharply in 2015 and hours of Sunday. It was not un- wife were at the mosque at about increased a further 44%, from 180 cr isis en t er s usual for worshippers to walk af- the same time as Nabra and that to 260, in 2016. Human rights ter nightfall in what is usually a her death has struck fear into the groups have called on Donald safe neighbourhood. A Fairfax local Islamic community. “People Trump to be more forceful in county police statement said: “An are petrified, especially people speaking out against acts of vio- investigation determined she was who have young Muslim daugh- lent intolerance. t h ir d week walking outside with a group of ters,” he was quoted as saying. (Theguardian) Qatar’s ambassador to the U.S. ists and terrorist financiers from accused the United Arab Emirates the boycotting countries as from and Saudi Arabia of committing the Qatar,” Qatar’s envoy to Washing- same sins they’re boycotting his ton wrote. Qatar has been a mav- country for, as the worst crisis erick in the GCC, enjoying cordial Iranian missiles precisely among Gulf Arab monarchies en- relations with Iran and supporting ters its third week. Islamist groups such as the Mus- “Emiratis, not Qataris, were lim Brotherhood in Egypt and its among the hijackers who flew Hamas offshoot in the Gaza Strip. hit targets in Syria planes into the Twin Towers,’’ Its media network Al Jazeera has Sheikh Meshal bin Hamad Al embarrassed or angered most Mid- Thani wrote in an opinion piece in dle Eastern governments. Yet the Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the Com- the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, current strains are unprecedented. mander of IRGC Aerospace Force, responding to a similar article Officials in Doha sought to said terrorists will undergo huge penned by his U.A.E. counterpart reassure a nation shocked by the Azerbaijani official costs in case they continue evil last week. “The U.A.E. was sin- ferocity of the measures against it, actions. “The missiles were gled out in the 9/11 Commission’s including the expulsion of Qatari accusesArmenia of launched from Iran and landed in report for its role in laundering nationals and the recall of Saudi, Syria after crossing over Iraq,” money to terrorists.” Saudi Ara- Emirati and Bahraini families from highlighted the commander noting bia, U.A.E. and Bahrain severed Qatar. Qatar’s Economy and Com- continued provocations that UAVs flown around Dam- diplomatic and transport links with merce Minister Sheikh Ahmed Al- Armenia continues its aggressive the international level or there are ascus simultaneously transmitted Qatar on June 5, accusing their fel- Thani told Qatar TV in an inter- policy against Azerbaijan, the Az- increased efforts to change the sta- information on the impact in Syr- low Gulf Cooperation Council view that business is “running as erbaijani president’s aide for pub- tus quo, they [Armenians] resort ia's Deir Ezzor. Hajizadeh said member of supporting terrorism, usual” and construction work for lic and political affairs, Ali to provocations, seeking to cause ISIL command bases and its sui- a charge the Qataris deny. Yousef the 2022 soccer World Cup is go- Hasanov, said on Monday, APA escalation on the frontline and to cide car manufacturing centers near Al Otaiba, the U.A.E.’s ambassa- ing ahead as planned. Qatar “dealt reported. “Armenians have never strengthen their anti-Azerbaijan Deir Ezzor were all targeted by the dor to the U.S., on June 12 wrote swiftly with the closure of bor- taken a break in its aggressive pol- stance in the international area. By medium-range missiles; “enemies that Qatar shouldn’t be allowed to ders by getting products through icy. At times, they have just slowed this means, they also seek to cov- need to know that Tehran differs own landmarks and businesses glo- sea and different means,” and re- down, trying to conceal their po- er up the public anger at the Arme- from London and Paris in that the bally while using the proceeds to serves of some products could last sition and deceive the internation- nian government,” said the presi- action was only a small measure finance extremist groups. a year, state-run Qatar News Agen- al community,” said Hasaov. dential aide. “Therefore, we think that can become intensified in case U.S. Secretary of State Rex cy quoted the minister as saying. Hasanov also accused Armenia of that what’s happening at the front- that commit more mistakes.” Tillerson canceled a trip to Mexi- At the same time, government continued provocations against line, like previous provocations, Commander of IRGC Aero- co to try to resolve the crisis as spokesman Sheikh Saif Bin Ahmed Azerbaijan. He noted that Arme- has to do with the Armenian gov- space Force further reiterated that mediation by Kuwait continues. Al-Thani deplored the effect the nia has been carrying out such ernment’s non-constructive all the missiles exactly hit the en- The Saudi-led alliance has yet to boycott was having on GCC na- provocations since the 1990s. stance,” added Hasanov. visaged targets. The official under- submit a list of demands to end tions. “The social-fabric of GCC “Whenever the talks intensify at (AP) scored that identification of terror- the diplomatic and economic iso- population is being torn apart for ists and firing missiles on a small lation of the world’s biggest ex- political reasons,” he wrote in a building from a distance of 700 ki- porter of liquefied natural gas. statement. lometers all carry a special mes- Two of the 19 hijackers who “It is clear that the actions of Turkmen President sage. “IRGC, under leadership of flew planes into the World Trade the blockading nations have little the Leader, enjoys strong will and Center towers in 2001 came from to do with addressing legitimate Pardons More Than determination to defend the coun- the U.A.E. while 15 others were grievances and everything to do try and will never give up its ob- Saudi. The remaining two were with attacking Qatar’s image and 1,000 Prisoners jectives," he said. Zor in retaliation to Tehran’s twin attacks. “IRGC has targeted ISIL Lebanese and Egyptian. reputation,” he added. “The block- State media in Turkmenistan are dov, an authoritarian ruler who Islamic Revolutionary Guard headquarters in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor in a bid to revenge from and punish “The United Nations and the ading nations are using terrorism reporting that President Gurban- controls all aspects of Turkmen Corps fired ballistic missiles hit- the Takfiri terrorists,” reads the statement issued by IRGC. U.S. Treasury Department list 10 as a publicity stunt.” guly Berdymukhammedov has society, has issued such decrees ting ISIL base in Syria’s Deir ez- (MEHRNEWS) times as many suspected terror- (Bloomberg) pardoned more than 1,000 prison- several times a year, usually on the ers. Media outlets quote Ber- eve of state holidays. His last dymukhammedov as saying that clemency, announced in February, the amnesty is linked to the Nigh pardoned 828 inmates on the eve of Blessing, which is observed by of the Central Asian country's Flag Muslims during their holy month Day holiday. Such amnesties usu- of Ramadan. His predecessor, Sa- ally do not cover inmates convict- parmurat Niyazov, issued similar ed on politically motivated charg- amnesty decrees once a year dur- es. ing Ramadan. Berdymukhamme- (RFERL) YANGON – Chit Tin, a 55-year- not have a permit to operate as a the youth members of the com- to tackle discrimination against have been forcibly shuttered old Muslim man has prayed at the place of worship. When Ramadan, munity, Moe Zaw, now faces a fine Muslims. Suu Kyi’s ruling party, should be immediately re-opened, Kyrgyzstan expands same madrassa in eastern Yangon the Muslim holy month, started or six months in jail for not obtain- the National League for Democra- and religious believers should not his whole adult life, most of it some three weeks ago, hundreds ing a permit to organize the cy did not field any Muslim can- be threatened or criminally charged spent under a junta that crushed of residents braved the monsoon prayers, according to a notification didates in the historic 2015 elec- simply for exercising their funda- powers of Security Council opposition, ruined Myanmar’s rains to join prayers organized in he received from a court. The clo- tion that elevated it to power on mental right to observe and prac- economy and turned it into an in- the street nearby. Local authori- sure of the religious school is among pledges of modernizing the coun- tice their religion,” said Phil Rob- ternational pariah state. But even ties banned the event and threat- a series of incidents that have try and democratization. Tensions ertson from watchdog Human Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek sues of national security which as the father of four endured pov- ened those attending with jail. “I stoked religious tensions in the between the two communities have Rights Watch. Atambayev signed a law aimed at require urgent solutions will be dis- erty and isolation, the Muslim re- feel deeply sad, as if the sky has country’s commercial capital in simmered since scores were killed Local administrators refused re- expanding the powers of the Re- cussed at extraordinary narrow- ligious school, which doubles as a fallen down,” said Chit Tin, one of recent weeks. Although some of and tens of thousands displaced in peated requests for comment. My- public’s Security Council, the press format meetings of the Security mosque, had remained a focal point the few Muslims from the neigh- the Buddhist hard-liners involved clashes between Buddhists and anmar’s government spokesman service of the head of state said in Council. of his community until a month borhood who agreed to be inter- were arrested, human rights moni- Muslims accompanying the start was not available for comment, and a message June 19. In line with the The Security Council also got the ago, when Buddhist nationalists viewed. Most residents refused to tors say the incident shows how of the country’s democratic tran- two other government officials new law, the Security Council will right to inspect the activities of raided it and forced authorities to discuss the restrictions, saying Aung San Suu Kyi’s 14-month-old sition in 2012 and 2013. contacted declined to comment. identify internal and external risks state bodies, including the armed shut it down on the grounds it did they feared repercussions. One of civilian administration is struggling “Mosques and madrassas that (JAPANTIMES) to the vital interests of the indi- forces and law enforcement agen- viduals, society and the state. cies in the sphere of defense and Moreover the Security Council security ensuring. will work on forecasting, analyz- The law comes into force on the ing and assessing challenges and day of its official publication. threats, and develop sufficient pre- Kyrgyzstan’s Security Council is ventive measures. headed by the country’s president. According to the new law, the is- (Trend) Mizioyoyev calls on Over 1,000 accounts of Burmese traders were frozen by Chinese banks. prevent financial loss for its trad- imams not to conduct Transactions in Muse are becoming difficult as Chinese banks have ers, business representatives said. frozen over 1,000 bank accounts with estimated deposits of Ks40 bil- “It mostly happens when we use nikah without marriage lion (US$29.42 million) belonging to Burmese traders. “They started illegal money transfers in China. freezing our bank accounts on June 14. Most were locked the next day,” Both governments need to negoti- said a trader. Although Chinese banks have blocked bank accounts in the ate officially permitting exports certificate past, it has never been done on such a large scale before. “They freeze from Myanmar. The Chinese didn’t the bank accounts of exporters and importers. For instance, if we trans- freeze the bank accounts of trad- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat "A lot of cases are being ob- fer money to buy goods, the Chinese trader, who accepts the transfer, is ers from other countries. They are Mirziyoyev during the video-con- served last times, when men mar- also banned so we cannot issue the goods. We heard that the authorities only doing it to us. Many of us ference with imams and religious ry married women by making ni- froze the bank accounts linked with internet gambling and smuggled use illegal money transfers as they workers of the country on June 15 kah. goods. Now more accounts are frozen. Previously, they only froze are cheaper than transfer services called not to conduct nikah with- Most of such marriages are in accounts which are associated with bean, rice, sugar and maize export- approved by the Chinese. The out the marriage certificate. Tashkent. Therefore, dear imams, ers or money changers. Now the importers who open accounts at Chi- bank accounts frozen by the Chi- The head of state noted that the problems of illegally born chil- nese banks to buy goods are included in the banned list. Some have nese are often of money earned le- the draft law on punishment of dren by second wives will be on opened their accounts for medical treatment,” said a trader from Muse. gally,” said a trader. Traders say imams conducting such marriages your conscience," Mirziyoyev Normally the Chinese banks can settle a bank account within six months they will ask the government to will be developed soon in the coun- added. if it is frozen. However, some can be frozen for years. Muse accounts make money transfer services of- try. (Akpress) for about 70 percent of total border trade and the government should ficial to protect. (BBC) TUESDAY . JUNE 20, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

SINGAPORE: Singapore plans east Asia and support the re- to drive e-commerce within the gional expansion of companies region when it chairs the As- based in ASEAN." Singapore sociation of Southeast Asian has previously said that it Nations (ASEAN) next year. would focus on developing the This was highlighted as a pri- regional digital economy when C h in ese-led ority on Monday (Jun 19) by it assumes the ASEAN chair- Senior Minister of State of manship in 2018. On Monday, Trade and Industry Koh Poh Dr Koh said the Singapore wa st e-t o-en er gy Koon at the inaugural Digitize Government will lead by exam- ASEAN Conference organised ple through projects such as by the Singapore Business the national digital identity pr oject to t u r n Federation. Dr Koh said that system and cashless payments. the digital economy in ASEAN It also hopes to encourage could grow to US$200 billion more private sector players to E t h iop ia ’s over the next 10 years, with e- adopt digital solutions. He add- commerce accounting for ed that part of the digital econ- US$88 billion. omy involves having a work- b iggest "E-commerce is the new re- force that is digitally savvy. “At ality for businesses today," the sectoral-level, we are fo- said Dr Koh. "Singapore will cused on helping companies to work with the rest of ASEAN adopt digital technologies and d u m p in t o to streamline regional trade to be digitally ready," he said. rules governing e-commerce to "At the same time, we want to promote greater digital connec- create more opportunities for econ om ic d r iver tivity and lower operating bar- both the young and old to pick riers to entry." He added: "This up relevant digital skills. Mid- will enhance the regional trade career professionals can also A Chinese-led waste-to-energy to-energy project and the China architecture for e-commerce, take courses to make a switch project will start generating pow- National Electric Engineering Cor- realise freer movement of e- into this growing field.” er in September in Ethiopia's big- poration started construction commerce goods across South- (CHANNELNEWSASIA) gest garbage dump, which will help work in September 2014. fuel the country's rapidly growing The project will be able to burn economy. The Reppi Waste-to- 1,280 tons of waste each day which Energy project in Kolfe Keranio, a will produce electricity in its power sub-city of the capital Addis Aba- plant, the newspaper report said. ba, is slated to be opened in Sep- "More than 200 waste-to-en- SouthAfrica’s Syrian cen tral ban k tember, China's People's Daily ergy power plants have been built newspaper reported on Monday. in China, which has provided great The project is a significant experience and technology for the part of the cooperation between Reppi project," according to a low business fails bid to exit China and Ethiopia, as the coun- China National Electric Engineer- try is seeking to develop its green ing Corporation employee, who energy capacity, Azeb Asnake, added that all the equipment used CEO of Ethiopian Electric Power in the project was made in China. confidence told the People's Daily. Ethiopia is one of Africa's fast- Sw iss san ctio n s list The Reppi dump, also known est growing economies but its de- as Koshe, meaning "dirty" in the velopment has left some behind, setback to country's most widely spoken lan- Reuters reported. guage Amharic, is the biggest dump At least 115 people were in the country and has been pol- killed in a landslide at the Reppi luting the water and soil nearby dump in May, home to hundreds growth recovery: for more than 50 years. of people who make a living by According to the People's Dai- scavenging through the garbage, ly, the Ethiopian government in- according to Reuters. Moody’s vested $100 million in the waste- (AP) Switzerland’s highest court re- buffed on Friday the Syrian cen- tral bank’s attempt to be removed IMF’s Jarvis says from a Swiss sanctions list designed to put pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, keeping the Egypt to lift cap on bank’s assets frozen. The Federal Tribunal said it had no grounds to hear an appeal by the central bank against a 2014 dollar deposits in ruling by the Swiss Federal Admin- istrative Court that kept the Syri- an bank on the sanctions list. Swit- months: Newspaper zerland adopted the list in 2011, in line with European Union action. Blocked assets lion Swiss francs) worth of assets The European Union and The move, meant to protest owned by Syrian organizations United States have imposed a range Assad’s treatment of civilians dur- and individuals on the sanctions of measures targeted at the Syrian The steep decline in South Afri- would negatively affect growth in ing his country’s civil war, blocked list are frozen in Switzerland, gov- government and some of the many ca's business confidence is a set- South Africa’s already-weak econ- Syrian central bank assets in neu- ernment data show. It does not re- armed groups operating in the back to economic growth recov- omy, and will ultimately make fis- tral Switzerland. veal how much of these belong to country. ery and will dampen investment, cal consolidation more challeng- Around $118 million (115 mil- the central bank. (BBC) ratings agency Moody's said on ing," Moody's senior analyst Zu- Monday. zana Brixiova said in a research "Reduced business confidence note. implies reduced investment, which (Reuters) Finally, Britain kicks off

dressing delegates at the launch of the Micro-insurance Regulatory Brexit negotiations with EU Zimbabwe: Framework, Friday. He said the statistics revealed by Finscope After almost a year of waffling, Egypt’s central bank will remove “The central bank’s policy also Zim to Tap show that there was a huge gap on Britain on Monday finally opens restrictions on dollar deposits in includes removing remaining re- the insurance uptake, and it was negotiations with its European the coming months, the Interna- strictions, including limits on dol- evident that a huge market re- Union counterparts about leaving tional Monetary Fund’s mission lar deposits, which we understand Into Global mained untapped. In a report by the bloc, with the final outcome, chief for Egypt, Chris Jarvis, told will take place in the coming Swiss Re, it is estimated that glo- due in 2019, as important as it now the country’s Al-Borsa newspaper months,” the financial newspaper bally, Micro-insurance has a po- seems unpredictable. While the EU on Sunday. The move will form quoted Jarvis as saying. Egypt put Micro tential market of between 3-4 bil- negotiating team led by Michel part of a package of economic re- in place strict controls on the move- lion policies generating between Barnier has been ready for months, forms Egypt has to implement to ment of foreign currency after its $30-50 billion in annual premium Britain stalled even after it trig- bring back foreign investment, in 2011 political uprising, in an ef- Insurance revenue. In the African continent, gered the two-year process on return for a $12 billion IMF lend- fort to limit the flight of capital. a recent report on the Landscape March 29. An early election this ing program. In a long-awaited As part of the three-year IMF Sector of Micro-insurance in Africa Re- month, in which Prime Minister move, the central bank removed deal, Egypt is obliged to end those port indicates that $647 Million Theresa May lost her majority, limits on international currency controls, which include a limit of was underwritten under Micro-in- only added to the problems. “Our transfers last week, scrapping a $50,000 per month on deposits for Zimbabwe is working on ways to surance, from 62 million people big problem is that we have no pic- $100,000 monthly limit on indi- importers of non-priority goods. tap into the global micro-insurance covered. Results of a Finscope sur- ture, no idea at all what the British vidual bank transactions. (Alarabiya) sector which boasts of a potential vey done in 2014, show that 70 want,” said German Manfred We- market of between 3-4 billion pol- percent of adults in the country ber, the head of the EPP Christian icies generating between $30-$50 were not insured. Of the 30 per- Democrat group in the European billion in annual premium revenue. cent with insurance, 77 percent of Parliament. The other EU coun- Informed by the National Finan- them were in respect of funeral tries have a united position, but cial Inclusion Strategy, 2016-2020 insurance. "This means there is a the British are “in chaos,” Weber Top IMF official urges Japan to which identifies insurance as one huge gap on the insurance uptake, added. May’s government said in of the critical players in the finan- which needs to be filled," said Mr a statement it was “confident it cial services sector, the Insurance Karonga. Micro-insurance is insur- can achieve a bold and ambitious and Pensions Commission came ance that targets the previously ex- deal that will work in the interest labor market, structural reforms up with the micro-insurance strat- cluded communities by providing of the whole UK” The EU said it egy as a way of enhancing finan- insurance products that are acces- was also looking for a good com- Japan should capitalize on its current economic expansion by pushing cial inclusion through insurance sible and affordable. Examples of promise. Austrian Foreign Minis- for labor and other structural reforms, the International Monetary Fund targeting the previously excluded micro-insurance products include ter Sebastian Kurz said: “If we said Monday. The IMF also said the country’s monetary policy should population. The previously ex- weather index, funeral assurance, don’t succeed both sides will lose.” be accommodative, calling on the Bank of Japan to “carefully calibrate” cluded population includes small- health insurance, agricultural insur- UK negotiator David Davis its yield curve control policy aimed at guiding long-term interest rates to-medium enterprises, peasant ances and credit life. Mr Karonga and the EU’s Barnier have one key around zero and enhance its communication with market participants. farmers, vendors and other low said the strategy is in line with issue over the first weeks of talks: “We feel the best policy is to make the most of the positive (economic) income earners. "In essence, mi- Government's National Inclusion building trust after months of hag- momentum at present and to push ahead with needed reforms,” IMF cro-insurance is a growth area, Strategy with realisation that in- gling over leaks and figures over First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton told a news conference which will increase penetration surance is a major player in the the final bill that Britain would in Tokyo. In its assessment of Japan released Monday, the IMF said the ratio from the current 3,6 percent financial services sector. Secretary have to pay for leaving. Time is country needs a well-coordinated reform package combining continued as more members of society can for Finance and Economic Devel- pressing. After the June 23, 2016 fiscal and monetary support with structural reforms. Japan’s economy access and afford insurance prod- opment Willard Manungo Devel- referendum to leave the bloc, the has been on its longest streak of expansion since 2006 thanks to robust ucts that match their needs. "In opment said the strategy has come other 27 nations wanted to start overseas demand, particularly in other parts of Asia. The IMF pointed Ghana for instance, penetration at an opportune time when Gov- the exit talks as soon as possible out that Japan’s labor shortages have yet to feed through to wages and ratio rose drastically from less than ernment's National inclusion strat- so they could work on their own inflation remains subdued, citing as policy challenges “demographic 5 percent to more than 20 percent," egy is at infancy as the two will future but Britain long seemed headwinds and an unprecedented level of public debt.” The government said IPEC commissioner Tendai dazed by its own momentous of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seeking to promote labor reforms, buttress each other. including imposing a binding cap on overtime hours and eliminating Karonga. Mr Karonga was ad- (ALLAFRICA) move. (BBC) discrimination between regular and nonregular workers. (CNN) TUESDAY. JUNE 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

striking the right work-life bal- ance, it seems Naomi has also perfected the mix between business and pleasure. Accord- ing to Naomi, she takes her work seriously, but also “knows how to have fun.” The 48-year-old beauty shared she loves watching her fellow Aus- Shah Rukh Khan could soon be deceased’s family members have tralians succeed in Hollywood. facing some serious legal charges, said they have nothing against the “It’s been really great to see,” after a Deputy Superintendent of actor. But the report filed by the she stated in reference to her Police (Western Railway) Tarun Deputy Superintendent contends countrymen’s success. Naomi Barot submitted a report saying that if the superstar hadn’t incited is close with many fellow that a man died during the promo- the crowd by throwing t-shirts and Aussie celebs, particularly tions of his 2017 film Raees due to other objects, the incident would Nicole Kidman, who she has negligence by the actor, reported not have occurred. described as her ‘BFF’. Hindustan Times. According to re- Mawra or Mahira, who wore Naomi Watts dreads read- ports, Shah Rukh could be the black gown better? ing reviews on Diana biopic “booked under IPC section 304a2 “If Shah Rukh Khan had not Naomi was born in En- (causing death due to negligence)” thrown T-shirts, balls and other gland and did not move Down and sections of the Indian Railway things towards the public, then Under until she was fourteen. Act in a case of stampede and cha- such an incident would not have Her father, Peter Watts, was a os at Vadodara railway station on occurred,” the report stated. famous British sound engineer January 23. “Thus, the owner of Excel Enter- who tragically died of a heroin First look of SRK and Anush- tainment Pvt Ltd Mumbai and film overdose when he was just 30 ka’s next Bollywood project is out actor Shah Rukh Khan should be years old. At the time Naomi As part of the promotions for booked under the IPC sections 279 She’s the New York-based star was seven-years-old and re- Raees, Shah Rukh had undertaken (rash and negligent act), 336 (act who grew up in Australia. And cently opened up about the ex- a railway journey from Mumbai endangering life or personal safety Naomi Watts has no qualms about perience with People maga- to New Delhi aboard the August of others), 337 (causing hurt by crediting her Down Under upbring- zine. Kranti Rajdhani Express. act endangering life or personal ing as a major factor leading to her “I think growing up One person, Farid Khan safety of others), 338 (causing international success as an actor. through your whole life and Pathan, died of a heart attack after grievous hurt by act endangering The Daily Telegraph recently even more so actually as an he was suffocated in the 15,000- life or personal safety of others), quoted the two-time Oscar nomi- adult, you think, ‘Gosh, I’d strong mob gathered to catch a 304a2 (causing death by negli- nee as attributing her success to love to have my father’s ad- glimpse of the star. gence) and sections of Railway Act “drama school and the good work vice on this pickle’ – whatever Shah Rukh has called the inci- 145,152,175 and 179.” ethic that she was trained in Aus- the pickle is,” she said. dent “unfortunate” and even the (Tribune) tralia.” With Australians known for (Tribune)

Did m ale New Delhi: Ranbir Kapoor and name a celebrity to a particular part was that it took three long Katrina Kaif appeared together for animal. When Ranbir said 'fox', years to shoot and four years to superstars an FB Live chat through Katrina's Katrina instantly said 'Aishwarya release it and to keep your charac- Facebook page where they spoke Rai Bachchan'. Well! it is shocking ters in check." The ' Baar Baar De- candidly about their movie 'Jagga why did she take Aishwarya's kho' star, on the other hand, said, reject Jasoos' and even poked fun at each name comparing her with 'Fox'. "For me, the toughest part shoot- other. During the session, Katrina The ex-couple was asked to ing for 'Jagga' was to shoot with gave a shocking statement about share the toughest part of 'Jagga you." Directed by Anurag Basu, ' Deepika Aishwarya Rai Bachchan that left Jasoos' shoot for both of them. Jagga Jasoos' is slated to release everyone shocked. Responding to this, the ' on July 14. When Ranbir asked Katrina to Tamasha' star said, "The toughest (Santa Banta) Padukone’s Padmavati Ayesha for its Takia on female being trolled for centric story? going under the knife: I ccording to a report, many popular male actors in Bollywood offered to work with Sanjay Leela Bhansali on Padmavati pro laughed off vided he made changes to the film and make it such ru- look less female-centric. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali even as her co-actors Ranveer mours chose to work with Deepika Singh and Shahid Kapoor are di- Padukone for a third time (after la: Ramleela. According to a report sali stuck with his leading lady even viding their time between Bhansa- Goliyon Ki Raasleela-Raamleela li’s set and ad-films, appearances, and Bajirao Mastani) on his next in DNA, the delay was caused be- after top male stars offered to star cause many lead male actor in the in it if the director was willing to and the like.” directorial venture, Padmavati. Ranveer and Shahid will play Actor Ayesha Takia has ctor Ayesha Takia, who is to go through all this where However, he took a long time to industry refuse to join the project change the title to sound less like as they thought the film had a fe- it revolved around the heroine. Alauddin Khilji and Rana Rawal been away from the pub- making a comeback on screen they are picked upon for one finalise on the male lead actors: Ratan Singh respectively in the film lic eye for quite a few reason or the other.” So how Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. male lead character. Deepika is returning the favour through a music video on The reports quotes film critic by standing firmly by Bhansali’s while Deepika will be ‘Padmavati’. years now. The Wanted does she react to such re- Deepika Padukone and Ran- (Hindustan Times) (2009) actor got married human trafficking, dismisses the talk of ports? “I didn’t even feel veer Singh in Goliyon Ki Raaslee- Rajeev Masand who says “Bhan- side, focusing solely on Padmavati, to businessman Farhan Botox and lip fillers that started doing that I should react to them, Azmi in 2009, and ever the rounds after her event appearances so I just laughed off those since she had a son, named comments on my Instagram Kriti Sanon hits out at trolls Mikail, in 2013, she took this year. posts. I won’t say I totally a sabbatical from films. and morality police: Don’t Earlier this year, Ayesha was back dures. In a chat with us, Ayesha ignored them, but I didn’t let them in the news — but for the wrong says that those reports were noth- play with my mind,” says Aye- tell women what to wear reason. When she attended a few ing but “absolutely crap” and that sha. In today’s times, when most events in Mumbai, what caught the pictures were morphed. The celebs have fallen prey to trolling “It’s high time that people stopped posting a swimsuit photo during everyone’s attention was her ‘dif- actor, who is making a comeback on social media, Ayesha says that commenting on what women wear. Ramzan) and Deepika Padukone ferent’ appearance, quite unlike on television, with a music video avoids responding to them. “Ev- It’s our choice,” says actor Kriti (for her clothes in a magazine herself. Photographs of Ayesha on human trafficking that releases eryone gets trolled. And these peo- Sanon, on a recent visit to Delhi to shoot). Kriti feels very strongly with a face that looked Botoxed on June 19, says, “I was holiday- ple, who say all sorts of stupid promote her film. Her reference is about society trying to dictate and a mouth that seems to have lip ing in Goa when those pictures things while judging us, are not even to controversies around female ac- what women should wear or tors’ clothes, with Internet trolls shouldn’t wear. Going back to the fillers invited much speculation went viral and it’s so ridiculous, known by their names. And I have going all out after Priyanka Chop- Priyanka-Modi meeting, she says, and trolling. Social media were because anyone who has seen me always been a person who has dis- ra (for wearing a short dress when “Even Modi sir was not wearing a quite abuzz with rumours that she in person would know that it’s ab- connected from everything that’s meeting Prime Minister Narendra kurta pyjama; he was wearing a had undergone cosmetic proce- solutely crap. But celebrities have not important in my life.” Modi), Fatima Sana Shaikh (for suit, which is Western. TUESDAY. JUNE 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Sarfraz Ahmed hopeful Pakistan's Champions Trophywin canhave long-term Ar sen a l t r a n sfer n ews a n d impact US Open r u m ou r s: S a n d er B er ge, champion Sarfraz Ahmed is hoping Paki- stan's surprise victory in the Cham- Brooks Ca r los B a cca a n d pions Trophy final can be a game- changer for his country's cricket future. A maiden hundred from Koepka opener Fakhar Zaman and then Ar da T u r a n Mohammad Amir's superlative new-ball spell of 3-16 proved too becomes the All the latest Arsenal transfer news the 30-year-old. tract offer at The Emirates, but will much for hot favourites India, de- and rumours from across the Brit- It is believed the Gunners are only sign it if he is promised more feated by 180 runs at The Oval. seventh ish and European press on Mon- preparing a £26.2m bid for the playing time. It capped an improbable cam- day, June 19. Arsenal are prepar- Turkish midfielder. Liverpool and Manchester paign from Pakistan, who began ing a big-money move for Barcelo- Arsenal are looking to land City are reportedly interested in the tournament ranked below all first-time na midfielder Arda Turan, reports Genk defensive midfielder Sander the midfielder. other seven competing nations and Turkish newspaper AMK. Arda Berge for £18m, according to The AC Milan striker Carlos Bac- did nothing to disprove that lowly has been a bit-part player since Daily Mirror. ca has emerged as a target for Ar- standing with a crushing defeat at major winner joining Barca from Atletico Madrid The Norwegian 19-year-old sene Wenger, according to France the hands of India in their first in 2015 and AMK reports that the made 30 appearances for the Bel- Football. group match. in a row club have informed his agent Ah- gian side last season and has The Colombian has also been Since then, however, they have met Bulut that the playmaker does played twice for the national team. linked to Everton, but now been transformed - and Sarfraz not form part of their plans for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is Marseille have entered the race, pines for long-standing conse- next season. demanding assurances over first- say FF. Arsenal would have to quences on and off the pitch. "I Bulut has reportedly already team football at Arsenal, accord- match Marseille's £3.5m-per-year hope everyone will remember this held a meeting with Inter Milan to ing to The Sun. offer, and Milan would reported- win, not today, not tomorrow [but discuss a possible transfer but Ar- The newspaper report that the ly sell the 30-year-old for £17.5m. for a] very long, long time," he said. senal are leading the chase to sign 23-year-old is waiting for a con- (Sky Sport) "My team management worked really hard after the first defeat. They motivated us, and it passed on to my boys." Pakistan can dare to dream of returning to England to win the World Cup in 2019, but Sam Bennett edges out more important even than that is a future which sees international tours returning to their country for the first time since the deadly ter- ror attack in Lahore during Sri Lan- Brooks Koepka became the sev- Mark Cavendish in final enth consecutive maiden major ka's 2009 visit. Sarfraz added: "When we arrived here, we were winner with his outstanding per- formance at Erin Hills, but we will No 8 [in the world] and now we Andre Ward says he would be open believes his man has the attributes are the champions. I hope this win see the record of nine matched at this year's PGA Championship? to a move up to heavyweight and to outbox the British knockout stage of Tour of Slovenia will boost up Pakistan cricket, and has hinted at a possible clash specialist. all playing nations [will come] to Graeme McDowell's win at the 2010 US Open began a run of nine against world champion Anthony Ward would also not be the first Pakistan." Sarfraz and Pakistan's Joshua. The unbeaten American fighter to make the leap, with the South Africa-born coach Mickey straight first-time winners through to Webb Simpson at the 2012 US retained his world light-heavy- legendary Roy Jones Jr having Arthur have built up an endearing weight titles on Saturday after a moved up from the light-heavy- and victorious double act. Arthur, Open, before Ernie Els ended the run when he pipped Adam Scott stoppage victory over Sergey weight division in 2003 to defeat who has previously coached his Kovalev in their rematch in Las John Ruiz for the WBA heavy- native country and Australia, nev- to The Open title the following month. The current streak began Vegas. Ward first stepped up from weight title. "Fighting a bigger man er lost faith in his current charges. the super-middleweight ranks to doesn't have to do with size, it has Reflecting on their response to in August 2015, here's a reminder of the six players who made their face the Russian last November and to do with your attributes and their the adversity of their initial set- the 33-year-old has now admitted attributes," Hunter said. "If you back against India two weeks ago, major breakthroughs ahead of Koepka ... a bout against the WBA and IBF are able to single out one thing that and the culmination of their hard heavyweight champion could makes it a competitive fight for work here, he said: "It sort of feels Day finally atoned for several Mark Cavendish narrowly missed near-misses as he produced a tempt him to make the step up to yourself, you take that chance. surreal really. But we knew that the top division. "I always seem "I'd like to see him fight An- out on his first win since returning [defeat] was an aberration. "We record-breaking performance to from illness on the final stage of the deny Jordan Spieth a third major to be knocking down giants one thony Joshua. just had to keep believing. They by one," Ward said. "Heavyweight, I'm not playing, I'm serious. I Tour of Slovenia, which went to Ire- kept on believing, trusting their victory of the season at Whistling land's Sam Bennett. Straits. that's always been a dream of mine. think it would be a very interest- roles [and] trusting the game-plan It's got to be against the right guy, ing fight. I believe he could outbox Cavendish had been sidelined with that 'Saffy' and I had set up." Rounds of 68, 67 and 66 gave glandular fever since the middle of the Australian a two-shot advan- but I dream big and anything is Anthony Joshua. Arthur, who took over as Pa- possible." "There's some things about March, but showed on Sunday that kistan coach little more than a year tage after 54 holes, and he outscored some of his form was returning just Spieth on the final day as he closed Ward added: "He [Ward's train- Joshua that I see. He's a good kid, ago, added: "This isn't about me er Virgil Hunter] has always been I know him, but I see things with a couple of weeks before the Tour and my career; it's about 15 unbe- with another 67 to set a new major de France gets underway. championship scoring record of 20 setting the bar high, that is the es- him in particular and he is the best lievable players in that dressing sence of our team right there. "That [of the heavyweight champions], He had finished 10th behind Ben- room who have been absolutely under par. nett in Thursday's opening stage, Danny Willett, 2016 Masters man will have me believing things but styles make fights. fantastic for the last year. "I was that I never even thought of. Like, "It would be a waste of time then cruised home on Friday after a telling somebody the other day Jordan Spieth looked to be mechanical issue late on before fin- cruising to back-to-back Masters 'Anthony Joshua, really?' and it to go to the cruiserweights, we that I've had five semi-finals with will make perfect sense to him. So should just leapfrog it, go for it ishing 24 minutes down in Satur- team had plenty to celebrate, with pionships take place in the Isle of South Africa and never got to a fi- titles when he put together an im- day's mountain stage. peccable front nine on the final day we'll see." Hunter first suggested all." his team-mate Rafal Majka win- Man. Should he be selected by his nal. "I got to one final with Paki- the idea of Ward facing Joshua and (BBC Sport) But Cavendish (Dimension Data) ning the overall prize after having team, Cavendish will head to the stan, and eventually got a medal. at Augusta National, but he fa- looked more like himself in Sunday's claimed victory in the summit fin- Tour de France start line in Dus- But credit goes to the players. mously put two balls in the water uphill finish in Novo Mesto, albeit ish at Rogla on Saturday. seldorf looking to add to his 30 They've been brilliant." Most bril- at the 12th and ran up a horrific clearly upset when he lost out in Cavendish is set to race on stage victories, four short of Eddy liant of all was Amir, persona non quadruple-bogey seven. Danny the closing metres to Bennett. home soil next weekend when the Merckx's all-time record. grata for so long in world cricket Willett took advantage of Jordan Bennett's Bora-Hansgrohe British National Road Race Cham- (BBC Sport) after his 2010 spot-fixing misde- Spieth's meltdown at Augusta meanours but the darling of his Danny Willett took advantage sport again now. of Jordan Spieth's meltdown at "Amir was the guy that could Augusta do that for us," said Arthur. "We That handed the lead to Wil- Emirates Team New Zealand were always thinking there was one lett, who was involved in a tight spell in there somewhere, and the battle with playing partner Lee spell came thankfully at the start Westwood and made a significant go 3-0 up against Oracle Team of a final. "It says a lot about his move with a superb birdie at the personality but what I do know is 16th, firing his tee shot to six feet that Mohammad Amir is a big- and nailing the putt. Willett made USA in America's Cup match player. clutch pars over the final two holes "When the game is on the line, to cap a five-under 67 which left and the bigger the game, the more him three clear of the chasing pack. Emirates Team New Zealand Helmsman Peter Burling, 26, took hill battle to win the competition, he performs. He doesn't shy away Dustin Johnson, 2016 US Open notched up their fourth successive the lead in the fourth race and ex- where the trophy is earned by the from pressure situations. He Like Day, Johnson had en- win in as many races against de- tended it, as he had in the previous team that wins seven races. "It's doesn't shy away from big games. dured more than his fair share of fending champions Oracle Team race. Oracle had entered the series not over yet, we've got five days He's got proper big match temper- major near-misses until he finally USA to go 3-0 up in the America's with a one-point advantage from and they're five very important ament, and he showed that on the got over the line on a controversial Cup final in Bermuda on Sunday. an earlier regatta but New Zealand days. biggest stage." Beaten India cap- final day at Oakmont. Shane Low- New Zealand continued to excel in wiped out that advantage by win- We've got to get faster, it's very tain Virat Kohli, one of Amir's three ry had gone into the last round light-wind sailing and again showed ning the first race. Jimmy Spith- obvious," Spithill said. pedigree victims, said: "They made with the lead but, as the Irishman superior speed over the U.S. boat. ill's Oracle team now face an up- (Sky Sport) us make those mistakes with the frittered away shots, Johnson way they were bowling, creating cruised into a commanding lead that pressure." India were first despite being under threat of a one- rocked by Fakhar, who became shot penalty after his ball moved Churchill and Barney Roy ever more convincing after escap- on the fifth green. Johnson made ing a run-out chance on one and sure the penalty was irrelevant as then being caught-behind off a no- he split the fairway at the last and Andy Murray 'accepts' his overall because he won more Grand Slams ball on three. knocked a sublime second to three career record does not match that than that one or that woman was clash again at Royal Ascot feet before rolling in the putt to "When players like that get of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or better because she won more spare the blushes of the USGA, Churchill and Barney Roy will going on their day, it becomes real- Novak Djokovic, but the Scot re- Grand Slams'. ly difficult to stop them because I who penalised him a shot anyway! mains proud that he has reached "If that's the case then what is the engage in an exciting rematch at Henrik Stenson, 2016 Open Royal Ascot after both featured in think 80 per cent of his shots were No 1 in the world. Federer is an point in all of us being here today? high-risk - and they were all com- The first Open to be screened 18-time Grand Slam champion, Why is everyone here covering a final field of eight runners for the live on Sky Sports turned out to St James's Palace Stakes. Last year's ing off," added Kohli. "As a bowler while Nadal currently stands on this event? There are other tour- and as a captain when that is hap- be one of the most memorable as 15, with Djokovic at 12. Murray's naments outside the Slams as well. champion juvenile Churchill has Stenson and Phil Mickelson com- made a brilliant start to his three- pening ... sometimes you have to tally, so far, is three, winning Wim- If you look at the titles those guys sit and say 'the guy is good enough peted in a remarkable final-day duel bledon twice triumphing at the US have won, I can't compare myself year-old campaign, winning both at Royal Troon. The leading pair the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on the day to tackle anything'. "We Open. And responding to John to them. certainly tried to make them hit in were in a class of their own and McEnroe's comments in the Sun- Andy Murray and the Irish equivalent at the Cur- traded birdies - and the lead - ragh for Aidan O'Brien. The Bal- areas that we felt it would be un- day Times that Murray is a dis- "If you look at the titles and comfortable, but we just didn't throughout an enthralling day, but tant fourth behind his contempo- everything those guys [Federer, lydoyle handler also saddles Lan- it was Stenson who produced the caster Bomber and Peace Envoy have anything going our way in that raries, the 30-year-old said: "With- Nadal, Djokovic] have won, I can't partnership." fireworks when it mattered down in tennis, a lot of people just go compare myself to them. in Tuesday's Group One contest. the stretch. (Sky Sport) (Sky Sport) 'oh that guy was a better player (Sky Sport) TUESDAY . JUNE 20. 2017-Jawza 30, 1396 H.S Vol:XI Issue No: 316 Price: Afs.20

he Chairman of the National The head of the national Ulema Council said the enemies of Afghanistan are Directorate of Security targeting mosques and religious gatherings in a bid to divide the people. T(NDS) Massoum Stanekzai on Sunday said rumors about the existence of a fifth pillar within The Afghanistan Ulema Council “My message to the Muslims promote Islam by committing such the political system were (Religious Scholars Council) has across Afghanistan is to save their an act, they claim to have been completely untrue and that these strongly condemned the recent brotherhood, solidarity and fighting Jihad (Holy war), but what rumors have been fueled by attacks in Kabul and provinces, sympathy and never become the they are doing is not Jihad,” said the fund has been prepared by the saying attacks on mosques and victim of conspiracies of the religious scholar Ayatullah Waeez political forces. On Sunday, labor ministry and is sent to the Meshrano Jirga (the Upper House religious premises would not harm enemy,” said Kashaf. Behsudi. Cabinet for approval. We want the the unity of the Afghan people. “The unity between the Shia “The people of Afghanistan, of Parliament) summoned a fund box draft to be finalized at number of security officials Qiamuddin Kashaf, the head and Sunni in Afghanistan has been the enemies of Islam want to kill the earliest possible.” of the national Ulema Council an example, you cannot see this Muslims in different ways, but including the NDS chief to brief In addition, Salar said the labor senators about the deteriorating called on the Afghan people to be unity among people in other they will not be able to reach their ministry, in cooperation with some more vigilant, saying the enemy countries of the world which exists objectives through such work,” security situation - with a special local and foreign institutions, had focus on the recent spate of wants to divide Afghans by between the different school of said religious scholar Mohammad reached out to 20,000 vulnerable attacking mosques and religious thoughts in Afghanistan,” said Reza Muzaffar. The statements attacks in Kabul city that left over children, paving their way to 150 people dead and hundreds gatherings. religious scholar Abdul Khabir come three days after militants attend school and find a proper job. Members of the Ulema Chechka. Some other scholars said associated with Daesh attacked the wounded. Stanekzai said Mujamil Hassan, the Islamic government will not collapse, but Council said that Islam strongly that insurgents, by attacking Al-Zahra mosque in the Afghan Relief head, who was also present denounces acts of violence and mosques and religious institutions, capital killing at least five warned that negative propaganda at the gathering, termed the will add to woes of the country. terrorism in all its forms and will not be able to reach their worshipers and wounding dozens situation of vulnerable children in manifestations objectives. “They (terrorists) can more. (ToloNews) Referring on the recent protests Afghanistan as worrisome. He said in Kabul, Stanekzai said the the Afghan government should pay protests had not been organized more attention to the children’s in accordance with the law. But, situation. “Currently, there is no Stanekzai’s remarks were met by strategy in Afghanistan to support a strong retaliation from senators. children.” “There is no fifth or sixth pillar, it Hassan said the Islamic Relief a political pillar, it is the political had been able to collect about 3,400 rivalries in which one accuses the orphaned and unaccompanied other, as one says that someone children from roads in Kabul, in ARG (presidential palace) Mazar-i-Sharif, Herat and belongs to the fifth pillar,” said KABUL: About 6.5 million unaccompanied, disabled, drug- Jalalabad cities and enroll them in Stanekzai. “Some had been beaten children are at risk of being addicted and child labors, Salar schools. About 6,000 afghanis with stone some other with stick physically, sexually and mentally said. He said their survey showed were paid for expenses on 3,400 and one or two people hit with harassed across Afghanistan, the currently 1,900,000 children were children, he added. bullet,” added Stanekzai. On the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, on the streets nationwide and of Mohammad, 13, who sells issue of police shooting Disabled and Martyrs said on them 1.2 million were engaged in plastic bags, told Pajhwok Afghan protestors, there were no details Sunday, seeking government’s hard labor. News that his father was a patient given. “So far we do not have attention to the issue. “A large number of children are and his mother worked at a anything to say which one of them Abdul Raziq Salar, social at risk; but the government has JALALABAD : At least five neighbor’s house. people have been killed and five was injured with a bullet,” said security director at the ministry, failed to allocate even a single Mohammad said he also Salim Asas, head of police force at told a ceremony marking the penny in the national budget for others arrested during an overnight worked to financially support his operation by Afghan Special Ministry of Interior (MoI). “You ‘National Day of Protection of these children who are a vulnerable six-member family. “I used to are aware that the protestors went Vulnerable, Orphans and class of the society. The President Forces in eastern Nangarhar attend school a year ago; but as province, an official said on from Khair Khana and reached the Unaccompanied Children,” that has lately promised to address the our economic situation worsened, scene, no one attacked the police, the number of children in danger in issue,” the official said. Monday. Local authorities said I was forced to leave the school.” Taliban militants were the target my son who was martyred had the country had reached up to 6.5 He said the president had He said he wanted the government called the police his brothers, million. pledged to create a fund for of the raid in Ghanikhel district, to provide education opportunity but area people claimed all the because the police are They included orphans, vulnerable children. “The draft of to parentless and poor children. implementing the law, he called on dead were ordinary poultry farm others to cooperate with police workers. Attaullah Khogyani, the and avoid engaging in clashes with governor’s spokesman, told police, but then a police officer or Pajhwok Afghan News the 02 another criminal opened fire,” said Airfield Afghan Special Forces first deputy speaker of senate Qadir seeks conducted the midnight operation Mohammad Alam Ezadyar, in Siah Chob area. The Special Forces exchanged gunfire with the whose son was shot dead during long term As many as 3,000 insurgents have name of Mansouri and coordinated the protest rally. On speculation men inside the targeted house. Five been killed and more than 3,000 destructive attacks in some people were killed and five others about the delivery of weapons by more injured since the beginning provinces, but they failed in the military choppers to insurgents in support for were captured as a result of the of fighting season in the ongoing strategy as they would have operation, he added. Identities of some provinces, Stanekzai rejected solar year, the Afghan Defense hope,” said Defense Ministry these claims and said it was those killed and arrested are being anti-Daesh Ministry said Monday. Deputy Spokesman, Mohammad investigated. On the other hand, negative propaganda. In April, Afghan officials said Radmanish. “We [Afghan forces] (ToloNews) local residents said all the people militia they have launched a large scale killed more than 3,000 terrorists killed in the raid were civilians. But An unknown gunman shot and “The incident happened when military operation under the name in Afghanistan during this year, there is still no information about of Khalid against insurgents in many insurgents wounded, arrested killed Sayed Agha Mohammad, Sayed Agha Mohammad was on JALALABAD: A Wolesi Jirga those taken away by the Special governor of Chighansor district of his way to his office. A man who delegation on Sunday asked the more than 10 provinces. and lot of ammunition seized by Forces. One resident the dead were ICCmay grant Following that, the Taliban Afghan defense and security western Nimroz province, early was on a motorbike shot and killed government to provide long-term all civilians -- workers of a poultry Monday, local officials said. him,” Omari said. announced the start of its “spring forces,” Radmanish added. farm. “Five people were killed on Afghanistan, support and equipment to the However, some military experts The incident took place at The attacker immediately fled anti-Daesh militia in eastern offensive” named “Mansouri”, the the farm, one of them a resident of previous emir who was killed by believe the Afghan forces’ about 8:30am local time in the the area, he said adding that police Nangarhar province. the Mamand area of Achin district. Ireland Test provincial capital, Zaranj, when are investigating the incident. the U.S. in a drone strike in operations are in defense, instead He was a poor man working here. The delegation, led by Pakistan in May 2016. Like Mohammad was on his way to his No details regarding the motive lawmaker Haji Zahir Qadir, of being offensive. The remaining four men belonged nation status office, a spokesman for the were given nor has any group previous spring offensives, the “At the moment, the to the area,” he said. Meanwhile, addressed a joint press Taliban said they would focus on provincial police chief, Mohammad claimed responsibility for the conference with Ministry of operations are more of defense, Taliban denied their members were KABUL: The International Omari, said. attack. (ToloNews) Defense representatives and targeting Afghan security forces as they should start being offensive killed in the incident. The group’s well as foreign forces. and convince U.S. NATO for Cricket Council (ICC) was all members of the provincial council spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, “When we announce Khalid further military support,” said poised to grant Ireland and in Jalalabad, the provincial said the people killed did not belong operations, they [the Taliban] also military expert, Atiqullah Afghanistan their long-awaited capital. to the rebel movement. announced offensive under the Amarkhil. (ATN) Test status during upcoming The parliamentary delegation (Pajhwok) annual meeting in London this Insurgent who has arrived in Nangarhar to week, according to a media report. investigate recent activities of the The Afghanistan Cricket militant group, which seized the Board (ACB) has submitted its strategic Tora Bora area in application to the ICC for full trained suicide Pachirawgam district from membership, senior member of Taliban before they were driven the Afghanistan Cricket Board from the area by the Afghan (ACB) advisory board has wrote bombers arrested security forces. on his social media account. However, Haji Qadir rejected Ireland and Afghanistan are the claim that the Afghan the top nations in associate security forces had recaptured cricket. They have shocked big MAZAR-I-SHARIF : The Balkh Tora Bora from Daesh. provincial council head on teams several times in their MoD spokesman Dawlat history. They have taken part in Monday said political connections Waziri yesterday told a press had paved the ground for the illegal big tournaments like World Cups conference in Kabul that the and World T20s. Afghanistan activities of local strongmen. security forces had recaptured Dr. Mohammad Afzal Hadid, made international debut in 2009 Tora Bora from Daesh militants and are already showing big the provincial council head, alleged as a result of an operation. some powerful figures were performances on the big stages. Qadir believed the uprising They beat West Indies in 2016 involved in illegal activities in a members who were local number of districts besides World T20. The Afghans defeated residents had the ability to the same team in an ODI match in opening casinos in Mazar-i-Sharif. vanquish the Islamic State group In an exclusive interview with Saint Lucia few days ago. They because they were more familiar defeated Bangladesh twice in Pajhwok Afghan News, he with the geography. expressed concern over the ODIs. The Afghan board was He said the uprising group now excited to get Test status. presence of illegal gunmen and their had previously been extended a arbitrary actions, saying such Afghanistan has been making short term support and as a result enormous progress in cricket over people left a negative impact on the militia faced numerous Balkh security. the past decade as an associate problems. He said the militiamen illegal armed men. Police are aware acts of local strongmen. member, said Finance Minister Hadid said Balkh was still one of these dens, but refuse to act He stressed the provincial should be assisted for a long term. of comparatively stable provinces and advisory board member Eklik The lawmaker said Daesh against them, according to him. council would continue its job as Ahmad Hakimi. “We believe it's Security officials in Sar-e-Pul have “head trainer for Taliban suicide in the north, but the presence of These individuals must have representative of people and hoped arrested a Taliban member bombers” was arrested following remained in control of Tora Bora irresponsible armed individuals time for Afghanistan to be but security forces had reached tacit support from police, who positive changes would gradually recognized as a full member. This responsible for teaching insurgents the clash. “One Taliban was killed offered cause for concern. were unwilling to curb such come about. He said a high-level how to carry out suicide attacks, and four others were wounded in some key parts of the area. MoD These powerful figures were will open opportunities to the representative and member of the activities, the public representative meeting, chaired by the Balkh further development of the game local officials said on Monday. the clash,” Amani said adding that possibly linked to provincial said. governor, was held on the activities The insurgent, Ahmad “the clashes continued for nearly delegation, Maj. Gen. Shaoor council members and and particularly in Afghanistan Gul, said the security forces “There are amazing links of illegal armed groups in the first where cricket brings joy to a Khorshid, was arrested after a three hours but there were no parliamentarians, he believed, among movements,” he said, week of Ramadan. Attended by clash broke out between security security force casualties.” operation in Pachirawgam district saying some of political parties in nation emerging from difficulties,” was a success. He said some parts accepting the provincial council’s provincial council members, MPs, he wrote. “We appreciate the forces and the Taliban in Gozar However, he did not provide Balkh support the irresponsible failure to take action so far against representatives of political parties, village of Sancharak district on further details. of Tora Bora had been recaptured gunmen. effort and commitment of ACB and an operation was ongoing to illegal activities in Balkh. scholars and tribal elders, the toward women cricket Sunday night. According to a The Taliban have not yet Hadid expressed concern over He called the lack of law meeting decided to take serious spokesman for the provincial commented on the clash or the capture the entire area. gambling dens in Mazar-i-Sharif development. (Pajhwok) (Pajhwok) enforcement another reason that action to thwart arbitrary actions police chief, Zabihullah Amani, the arrest. (ToloNews) and said most of them were run by paved the ground for the unlawful by illegal armed men. (Pajhwok)