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TERRORISTS Cannot allow India s core INCLUDE values to be TALIBAN AND Page 4 wasted, says President Pranab CRIMINALS: Mukherjee GHANI KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani for the first time announced at a IRAN'S cabinet meeting on Tuesday that SUPREME "terrorist groups" are made up of LEADER If manpower is needed, we are all ready to take up arms and Taliban, criminals and foreign ter- fight against the Taliban insurgents in framework of Afghan rorists unlike his previous state- Page 5 BANS security forces, Amrullah Saleh ments where he often referred to negotiations the Taliban as either brothers or with the By Akhtar M. Nikzad political opposition. United States KABUL: The ex-Chief of Nation- tice. "Preliminary assessments by al Directorate of Security (NDS), Talking to a gathering orga- intelligence agencies show that ter- and leader of the Afghanistan nized by Afghanistan Green Trend, rorist groups in Afghanistan are Green Trend (AGT), Amrullah Saleh said that Kunduz tragedy was criminal groups, Taliban and for- Iran to Saleh has called on the government a great human catastrophe and eign terrorists who commit unfor- launch new to carry out investigation into would never be forgotten in the givable crimes on behalf of outsid- oil projects, Kunduz province tragedy and coming years. ers and drug smugglers," said bring the perpetrators to the jus- Ghani, who has made a U-turn on Page 9 sees post- (See P2) his public comments regarding the sanctions Taliban and also apparently supply boost changed his policy towards Paki- 17 Daesh fighters eliminated in Nangarhar offensive stan after a wave of terrorist at- tacks in Kabul over the past few JALALABAD: At least 17 Islamic State (IS) or Daesh fighters have been killed and five others wounded during a clash in the Achin district of months. eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. The 201st Selab Military Corps deputy spokesman, Capt. Syed Maqsood, told According to Ghani, militants Pajhwok Afghan News the security forces conducted an operation against the IS fighters in Achin late on Tuesday. He said 17 Daesh members were that launched attacks in Faryab, killed, five others wounded and their five cars destroyed during the operation. Security forces suffered no casualties, the official added. Achin Kunduz, Nangarhar, Badakhshan, district chief, Haji Ghalib Mujahid, confirmed the offensive and said Afghan security forces had attacked the IS fighters with heavy weapons. He Uruzgan and Helmand provinces Page 8 believed the death toll for the insurgents could be higher. Achin district, infested with a Daesh presence, has been the scene of intensifying clashes aimed to accomplish the goals of for the past one month. Local officials have claimed killing a large number of the militants during operations there. (Pajhwok) outsiders. In addition, the Army's Depu- ty Chief of Army Gen. Murad Ali Security beefed People to be Murad and the acting governor of Putin tells troops to Kunduz Hamdullah Danishi up in Kabul briefed the meeting via video tele- held accountable conference about the recent secu- By Farhad Naibkhel Beijing CAPTURE if necessary, says rity developments in Kunduz city looks to KABUL: Commander of the Kab- which recently fell to the Tali- ul Garrison, General Abdur Rah- ban following a massive and well- Page 7 contain man Rahman, said that measures Carter planed attack. economic al-Baghdadi alive Murad assured the meeting, WASHINGTON: Awaiting the re- chaired by Ghani, that security growth Russian President Vladimir Putin told a press conference in Brus- sults of investigations, US Defense has asked his forces fighting sels. forces had not violated human Secretary Ashton Carter on Tues- rights laws. against IS in Syria that he wants We cannot endure it. Some day said if necessary he would hold Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group s steps that we do not desire are According to Murad, security people accountable for the mistake forces were putting all their efforts leader, alive. being taken. It is not suitable for of bombing a hospital in Kunduz BEIJING The Middle-East Panorama Turkey to accept them. This is into protecting the lives and prop- province over the weekend. erties of civilians in the embattled POLLUTION? website reports that Putin wants also beyond the principles of The US military takes the the dead body of al-Baghdadi dis- NATO. He said. city. Tolonews WHAT greatest care in our operations to Page 11 played in case he is killed. A war of words has also begun prevent the loss of innocent life, POLLUTION, The website made the an- between Russia and NATO over and when we make mistakes, we COUGHS nouncement referring to aware Moscow s violation of Turkish own up to them. That's exactly Poor political have been taken to ensure tight sources. Russia has been pound- airspace and its military interven- NADAL what we're doing right now, he security in the capital city as inse- ing IS positions in Syria claiming tion in Syria. said. system led to fall curity in the neighboring provinc- heavy casualties to IS militants. In a statement, Carter said es pose threats to Kabul. Russian officials say that the air- through a full and transparent in- of Kunduz: EU Addressing a press conference strike will continue. From vestigation, the US would do ev- here on Wednesday, Gen. Abdur We will not only continue erything it could to fully under- Envoy Afghanistan Rahman said that security has strikes We will also increase stand the tragic incident, learn from been beefed up in the capital city, European Union (EU) Ambassa- Page 6 to Syria, their intensity. said Andrei Kar- it and hold people accountable as t he adding that law enforcement agen- tapolov from the Russian army. necessary. dor to Afghanistan Franz-Michael cies were on high alert to avoid any Russia is also mulling to com- Mellbin on Wednesday told definition of Earlier in the day, Commander untoward incident. plete 150,000 soldiers in Syria in a of US forces in Afghanistan Gen. TOLOnews the collapse of Kun- insanity He said the threats were not bid to wipe out the Islamic State. John Campbell informed Congress duz came as a "big surprise" to the so serious but the security forces However, Turkey has con- that the military airstrike in Kun- international community and is a were ready to respond quickly to demned Russia violating its air- duz in support Afghan forces on technical setback for the Afghan terror attacks. space to reach out to Syria to sup- the ground was a mistaken attack government. All Afghan forces including port Bashar al-Assad s regime. on the Doctors Without Borders He said he believes that ineffi- police, army and intelligence per- Nato has issued a stern ulti- field hospital. ciency in the political system led sonnel are ready to defend the cap- matum, Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the fall of the city. ital bravely and repel insurgent at- According to Mellbin, the Editorial P6 Exhausted budget tacks. They will fight till last drop Kunduz crisis is the result of an of blood. We will not let the ene- EU urged in Geneva meeting to grant asylum to all Afghans mies to impose their cruel rule on KABUL: The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation on Wednesday urged the international community to innocent people in any part of grant asylum to all refugees arriving in Europe without discrimination. According to the ministry, due to Kabul, he said. instability in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, more than 500,000 people including 70,000 Afghans have reached He assured residents of Kabul Europe illegally since the beginning of this year. Some of these asylum seekers have either drowned in WHEN HEIDI that the Taliban could not pose dangerous waters or been facing discrimination by some of the EU member states. At the annual UN High KLUM serious threat. The commander Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Executive Committee (EXCOM) on October 5 in Geneva, the issue said that suicide and terrorist at- of Afghan refugees was also discussed. Hafiz Ahmad Miakhail, the refugee ministry s press office advisor, Page 10 COVERED tacks are possible but would be told Pajhwok Afghan News the issue of Afghan refugees was exclusively discussed on the second day of the HERSELF WITH repelled within no time. Geneva meeting. At the meeting, he said, the Afghanistan delegation presented a plan demanding $500 million PLASTER The forces would increase ac- from the international community for the repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and Iran and the incompetent political system and tivities in different parts of Kabul Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). He added representatives from more than 100 countries had attended not the inability of the security for better law and order situation, the meeting and Afghanistan was represented by Sayed Hussain Alemi Balkhi, the refugee and repatriation forces. he added. Gen. Abur Rahman also minister. Miakhail said the minister in the Geneva meeting had asked the international community to give "It was a big surprise to the asked residents of Kabul for co- asylum to all refugees without discrimination. Iran s interior minister and Pakistani minister on tribal affairs international community and a operation to foil terror attacks. joined the meeting on the day three. (Pajhwok) technical setback to the Afghan government and it is very impor- Page 2 tant that lessons are learned from Kunduz so that in future we don't have a repeat of the situation," Mellbin said. "We are waiting for indepen- AT Monitoring Desk dent reports to emerge from Kun- Winter to duz and I am confident that it will multiply KABUL: Daesh has killed a religious scholar in Bati Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province, official sources said on Wednesday. Chief of Bati Kot district Niamatullah Noorzai said that the scholar named Mawlawi Gul Agha was an instructor at a seminary who was happen. We have also encouraged displaced attacked in Shashkhil area around 07:00 am this morning. He was approaching from his house towards Madrassa near to the district center when from our side the Afghan Indepen- Page 3 Shinwari he came under the attack of Daesh terrorists, the district chief said. Mawlawi Gul Agha was the second religious scholar who came under the attack dent Human Rights Commission families of Daesh and was killed brutally. The group killed a scholar in Bati Kot s neighboring Achin district in the middle of September. Daesh is trying to look into what happened in Kun- expand its activities and take control of much parts of the province. It currently operates in at least eight of the 22 districts of this province. duz ... What is very important is woes Ministry of Defense is considering a large-scale military operation against Daesh in Nangarhar but the date has not been announced. See P2

65.00 63.70 73.10 71.50 This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 08, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Wolesi Jirga gives nod to Officials Salaries Law Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (WJ) or Lower House of the Parlia- ment on Wednesday approved the Officials Salaries Law . When US warplanes mistakenly The law contains two chap- bombed a hospital in the Afghan ters and nine articles. city of Kunduz, killing 22 people Deputy Chairman of the and injuring at least 37 others on Financial and Budget Commit- Saturday, those who survived the tee (FBC) of the Wolesi Jirga, horror described "unspeakable" Muhamamd Azem Museni, nightmarish scenes, including six told media that the law has de- patients burning in the hospital's termined the salaries of high- Intensive Care Unit (ICU). ranking officials, including Ex- The survivors said many of ecutive Chief Officer (CEO) and them were asleep when the bombs his deputies, deputy ministers, began falling early Saturday morn- general directors and governors. ing, catching them all flat-footed as all hell broke loose inside the He said that based on the hospital run by the Doctors With- law the lowest salary is out Borders/Médecins Sans Fron- Afs81,250 and the highest one tières (MSF). is Afs276,250, which is consid- One of the survivors is Lajos ered to be the salary of the CEO. Zoltan Jecs, a nurse who recount- Chief of the FBC, Ameer ed to reporters how hospital work- Khan Yar, said that the Wolesi ers risked their lives to save the Jirga had to reduced the amount wounded. of salaries suggested by the gov- "I have been working here since ernment due to lack of budget. May, and I have seen a lot of heavy He said that Officials Salaries medical situations. But it is a to- Law would be included in the tally different story when they are coming fiscal year s budget. your colleagues, your friends,'' he Responding to a question said, according to Reuters. asked by the lawmakers, Yar "These are people who had been working hard for months, said that Ministry of Finance non-stop for the past week. They had already outlined financial had not gone home, they had not sources to meet these salaries. seen their families, they had just It is worth mentioning that been working in the hospital to salaries of the top government help people... and now they are officials including President, dead. These people are friends, ministers, lawmakers, members close friends. I have no words to of the provincial councils, Chief express this. It is unspeakable.'' Justice and Chief of the Attor- According to Jecs, they had ney General Office had already heard bombings and explosions approved. over the past weeks, but these were further away. Nobody could have prepared for the terror when the bombs 4 welfare projects executed in Laghman started falling on the hospital it- Study finds radicalization on MEHTARLAM: The execution of four welfare projects has resolved problems earlier faced by thousands of self. All was in mess, Jecs recount- residents in eastern Laghman province, the governor said. Abdul Jabar Naeemi, while inaugurating the projects ed. Aside from the six patients after their completion, told Pajhwok Afghan News the schemes included the construction of a mosque in who got scorched in the ICU, an- the rise in Afghan schools Alingar district and gravelling of a 9.18-kilometre road in Qarghae district. He said a two-storey building for an agriculture school in Basram village of Mehtarlam, the provincial capital, and a protective wall in Qarghae other patient was killed by the ex- he added. plosion in the operating table, he district had also been constructed. All the projects, Naeemi said, cost 47.5 million afghanis. He called the He said that such groups want projects vital for security, construction and resolving people s problems. He said the projects were also vital said. to infiltrate all tribes and ethnic Others were wounded, includ- for creation of employment and urged the residents to play their part in safeguarding them. Atiqullah Abdul groups of Afghanistan. Rahimzai, provincial council member, welcomed execution of the projects and said reconstruction works were ing his colleague, an ER nurse who "Hezb ut-Tahrir and Jamiat-e- suffered massive trauma to his people s fundamental demand. He said with the road gravelling in Qarghae, farmers problems would be Islah are mostly active in Kunduz resolved and they could easily bring their harvests to the market. (Pajhwok) arm. and their goal is to infiltrate all Jecs said they tried to make tribes in Afghanistan," Ali added. do with the limited supply of ba- The study reiterates that the sic medical essentials to treat the lack of employment, a sluggish Smuggling of pine nuts to wounded. economy and dissatisfaction about "It was crazy. We had to orga- the functioning of the Afghan edu- nise a mass casualty plan in the cational system are major factors Pakistan continues unabated office, seeing which doctors were in the politicization of high school alive and available to help. We did students in Afghanistan, which also KHOST CITY: Due to lack of ac- Pakistan then exported the a dried fruit market, especially pine an urgent surgery for one of our includes an attraction towards ex- cess to a profitable market, Af- Afghan pines as its own product nuts, or export the produce direct- doctors. Unfortunately he died tremist groups. ghanistan s pine nuts continue to to China, a resident of Gayan dis- ly to China. If we shift pine nuts there on the office table. We did Researcher and university lec- be exported to Pakistan at a dirt- trict of Paktika, Mohammad Khan, to Pakistan, we have to sell them our best, but it wasn't enough. turer Dr. Antonio Giustozzi said: cheap price, traders in the south- told Pajhwok Afghan News. at the price offered by Pakistani "The whole situation was very "If nothing is done I think there is eastern province of Khost com- If Pakistani traders don t traders. But if we have our own hard. We saw our colleagues dy- going to be a problem of serious plain. come to Khost, we take our pro- market, we can pocket more prof- ing. Our pharmacist, I was just talk- political mobilization among the In the harvest season, hun- duce to the neighbouring country, it, he said. ing to him last night and planning students. Then of course the stu- dreds of men and women work where prices are of their choos- But Afghanistan Chamber of the stocks, and then he died there dents are the generation of the fu- hard separating pine nuts -- just to ing. Commerce and Industries (ACCI) in our office,'' Jecs told Reuters. ture," he said adding that often take empty cones in wages. The Another resident of Zadran chief Nawab Amiri said nearly 90 The nurse said it was difficult There is widespread political ac- gued that is a relic of an authoritar- people kept these political ideals cones are used as firewood in the district, Mohammad Arif, said percent of the pine nuts were smug- to digest what had happened. "It's tivism, including an extensive pres- ian era, said AREU in a statement. they absorb in high school for the harsh winter season. pine nut prices had spiked because gled to Pakistan. If the traders ex- completely unacceptable. How can ence of radical activists among high The study reiterates that the rest of their lives. The nuts are brought from Pa- of low production this year. If the port the dried fruit, they will earn this happen? What is the benefit school students in Afghanistan, a on-going radicalization of high- In addition, the study found: ktia, Khost and Paktika forests to government did not find a good more. of this? I cannot find words for new study by Afghanistan Re- school students has not yet "One key assumption of donors Khost City for separation from market for the fruit, they would Some powerful government this." search and Evaluation Unit reached a critical point, where it in Afghanistan is that the quanti- cones. Weather conditions in the be forced to sell their produce at officials are involved in the pine Saturday's bombardment in (AREU) said Wednesday. could contribute decisively to the tative growth in the offer of state provincial capital are favorable for cheaper rates, like in years past. nut smuggling. Kunduz sparked international out- This is despite a government destabilization of the country. education is always a positive in- the sifting process. The price of a 40-kg bag of The authorities should deal rage. Every person who died at the ban on political activism in high However, rather than waiting for dicator and that the number of stu- Both traders and growers pine nuts is around 70,000 Paki- with such people. Only 10 per- hospital was of Afghan nationali- schools, which in itself can be ar- that to happen, the competent au- dents enrolling in high schools is agreed the yield of pine nuts had stani rupees (43,000 afghanis) but cent of the produce is exported le- ty, MSF said. thorities should an unmistakably positive sign." fallen compared to previous years producing this amount cost up to gally, he stressed. reconsider the effectiveness of "The numerical rise of youth when the market demand was high- 24500 afs this year, he explained. According to Amiri, more than Fundraiser, blood donation their educational policies and, first in education, not matched by an er. Still, the fruit was sold to Paki- Another resident of Chamkani 10,000 tonnes of pine nuts were and foremost, their ban on politi- improvement in the quality of ed- stanis at throwaway prices. district of Paktia province, Kamin taken in an unregulated manner to cal activities in high schools. ucation and/or growth in education- As Afghanistan has no special Khan, said he had brought pine Pakistan, China and other coun- for Kunduz families The study was conducted al opportunities, leads to youth market for its dried fruits, espe- cones to the province for separa- tries every year. If the fruits were over six months and covered 18 radicalization and political insta- cially pine nuts. As a result, the tion, costing 4300,000 afs. But he exported properly, there would be MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Residents in the tent for fundraising. provinces. bility," read the statement. fruit is taken to Pakistan, where fears losses if the produce is sent more benefits for the government this capital city of northern Balkh He said they accepted aid from "Political activities in high The study notes that if the ban its prices are intentionally kept to Pakistan. and traders, he concluded. province have set up a tent col- government organs and public for schools are concerning and extrem- were to be revoked, at least there low. He asked government to open (Pajhwok) lecting donations for war-affected its delivery to the affected Kun- ist and radical Islamic parties are would be a more level playing field families in northern Kunduz prov- duz families. Balkh Refugee and active at schools," said Ali Mo- in high schools, allowing a greater ince. Repatriation Director Abdul Sa- hammad Ali, an AREU researcher. variety of parties and organizations Mediothek organization direc- boor said 1,400 displaced families Ramp up cooperation with security "Most groups like Tehrik-e- to compete for the loyalty of the tor in Balkh Saber Naqshbandi told from Kunduz had arrived in Maz- Islami, Hezb ut-Tahrir and Jami- younger generation. To date, the Pajhwok Afghan News several civil ar-i-Sharif. In Panjshir province, a at-e-Islah of which their centers are ban has primarily only been suc- society groups had joined the fund- large number of people donated forces, Khostis urged outside the country, recruit teach- cessful in keeping out moderate and raising campaign to assist Kunduz blood for injured people of Kun- ers here with high salaries and then progressive groups. families displaced to Balkh prov- duz province. KHOST CITY: Khost Provincial security further, he remarked. of the council, asked security offi- attract the attention of students," Tolonews ince. Panjshir Public Health direc- Council (PC) members on Wednes- His colleague Mujibur-Rah- cials to behave decently with the He said the tent was organised tor Abdul Sammad Karim said day asked resident to fully coop- man Salimzoy stressed sustained common people. by civil society activists who were 29,000 CC blood was donated by erate with the security forces in security for the province s devel- The public representative de- displaced as a result of the vio- residents of the provincial capital Bring culprits to justice, maintaining the law and order sit- opment. Inhabitants of insecure manded deployment of more po- lence in Kunduz City, the capital and Anaba and Rakha districts. uation. localities were worst-hit as poor lice in the province. of Kunduz province. A resident of Panjshir, Abdul Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan security deprived them of uplift Resident Zabit Khan Mangal- A civil society activist from Qudus, said they donated blood ex-NDS chief asks govt News, PC member Janmir Zazai projects, he argued. expressed satisfaction with rela- said Khost was one of peaceful Over the past 13 years, he ex- tions between the government and Kunduz Enayatullah Khaliq said to share their solidarity with the From P1 he was in Mazar-i-Sharif for the injured people of Kunduz and save the government officials who com- provinces of the country due to plained Alisher, Bak, Sabri and the people. But he called for great- the preparedness of security forc- Yaqubi districtshad been volatile er government attention to Khost s last few days trying to organize their lives. (Pajhwok) He said the government is respon- mitted negligence to resign from sible to kick of full investigation their posts and urged the govern- es and all-out cooperation from due to the presence of rebels. But development. and identify those who showed ment to eliminate the Taliban in- residents. after an improvement in the situa- Police chief Brig. Gen. Faizul- negligence in their duties that surgents. The current security environ- tionin recent months, some uplift lah Ghairat assured the people of caused the fall of Kunduz to the Abdul Wodood Paiman, a ment is extremely good, as people project have been executed there Khost of complete security, say- Taliban. member of the Wolesi Jirga (WJ) have been cooperating with the under the National Solidarity Pro- ing steps had been taken to further He said that the government or Lower House of the Parliament, government. We want this posi- gramme (NSP). improve the situation with public should lodge complaint against the said that the time was ripe for Mu- tive trend to continue to improve Kafil Rehan, another member cooperation. (Pajhwok) Taliban insurgents in the United jahidin (those who fought against Nation Security Council (UNSC). the Soviet Union) to take weap- While blaming the government, he ons once again and stand beside Poor political system led to fall of said that the government failed to Afghan forces to fight the Taliban formally relegate the Taliban bru- insurgents in the country. talities to the UNSC. He termed public uprising From P1 Kunduz: EU Envoy Moreover, he called upon the against the Taliban important for international community to start having a stable government and said that we get a good understanding Taliban will not succeed in win- never accept it," Marlaud told thorough probe into the Kunduz that it is the responsibility of all of what happened. For now we ning the war. TOLOnews. attack, and asked them to put pres- people to stand beside security have very worrying reports. I re- "We regret that (fall of Kun- Meanwhile, a member of the sure on Pakistan in order to pre- agencies to protect their country main deeply concerned,"Mellbin duz) and I think that it is neces- German Parliament, Omid Nouri- vent Islamabad from supporting and masses from Taliban attacks. added. sary to rethink reasons why such pour, said that the collapse of the Taliban insurgents. We should It is worth mentioning that af- He said: "Political consequenc- an episode was possible and we Kunduz shows that Afghanistan not believe on false peace talks ter fall of Kunduz province, a num- es are also drawn and I believe what know that the NUG is reflecting needs the international communi- with the Taliban, and we will nev- ber of ex-Jihaid leaders announced we saw there was not just a strong and will draw a lesson from this. ty's long-term assistance. er forget the devastation caused by their readiness to join Afghan forc- enemy opposing or surprising But I do not think it changes things "Leaders of both teams must the Taliban and their brutality in es to tame insurgency in the coun- weak government forces, it was fundamentally. I am convinced show that they are acting as a unit Kunduz province, he said. try. also a political system which did that the Taliban has no possibility and are one government. Saleh furthered that if man- Moreover, President Ashraf not act in time to shrink this base to take power in Afghanistan. This is very important for power is needed, they are all ready Ghani said that those who want to for the insurgents." They have no possibility because Germany. The collapse of Kunduz to take up arms and fight against support Afghan National Security In addition, French Ambassa- they do not have the support of showed that we should assist not the Taliban insurgents in the frame- Forces may join the forces formal- dor to Kabul Jean-Michel Marlaud the majority of the population and only in the security sector but as work of Afghan security forces. ly under legal framework of secu- has called for clarification of the they will never succeed because well as in other sectors," Noori In a resolution the AGT asked rity forces. fall of Kunduz but believes the the international community will said. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 08, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

Iranian interior minister

underlines repatriation of EMERGENCY unauthorized Afghan immigrants CALLS TEHRAN: Iranian Interior Min- drug trafficking from Afghanistan ister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli in a to narcotics kingpins in Europe Police meeting with Afghan Refugees and through Iran. Repatriation Minister Hossein The two sides, meantime, ex- Alami Balkhi in Geneva said that changed views on upcoming ses- 100 - 119 necessary measures have to be sions of Iran-Afghanistan joint taken to pave the way for the vol- consular and border affairs com- Hospitals untary return of illegal Afghan im- mission. migrants living in Iran. Iran and Afghanistan plan to FMIC Hospital "Afghan government has to set up joint committees to follow make further efforts to prevent its up security, border and law en- Behind Kabul Medical nationals from illegally entering forcement issues between the two University: into Iran," Rahmani Fazli said on countries. the sidelines of the 66th session of The announcement was made 0202500200-+93793275595 the Executive Committee (ExCom) in a meeting of senior security of- of the UN High Commissioner for ficials presided by Iranian Depu- Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital Refugees (UNHCR). ty Interior Minister Brigadier Gen- "The value of Iran's work in eral Hossein Zolfaqari in Tehran Pule Bagh-e- Umomi hosting millions of Afghan refu- in August. 070263672 gee's now is revealed that receiv- The joint Iran-Afghanistan ing a few thousands of refugees committees will follow up securi- from war-stricken countries has ty and border problems of the two Khairkhana Hospital The Obama administration is regarding security conditions in publicans have painted Obama as anti-war group CodePink, told Al created a lot of problems for Euro- countries' nationals. 0799-321007 weighing options for extending the Afghanistan indicate a worsening weak and ineffective in the Mid- Jazeera. pean countries and even in some Iran is one of the most impor- US military presence in Afghani- situation," he said. dle East since the withdrawal from "The Taliban taking Kunduz cases they have treated the refu- tant donors to Afghanistan, which 2401352 stan and preparing to reverse an In Brussels, NATO Secretary- Iraq - a criticism that is beginning affects the atmosphere a lot in gees in inhumane ways," Rahmani has kept its promises to help to earlier decision by the president General Jens Stoltenberg will meet to stick. terms of the administration feeling Fazli added. the reconstruction of the war-rav- to withdraw most US troops by Thursday with defence ministers Democrats supported the less able to justify the pull-out." Meanwhile, the Afghan min- aged country. Indira Gandhi Children the end of 2016. of the alliance's 28 member states. president's diplomatic initiative in Campbell told the Senate the ister appreciated Iran's hosting of Iran has built several roads, Hospital, Wazir Akbar As the US war in Afghanistan NATO is considering long-term the Iran nuclear talks, but they do US air strike on a charity Doctors his countries nationals for four power transmission lines, border enters its 15th year on Wednes- plans in Afghanistan, including the not want to see the US leave pre- Without Borders (MSF) hospital decades and said that Afghan offi- stations and many other infrastruc- Khan, Kabul 2301372 day, a reversal of President Barack possibility of a permanent joint maturely in Afghanistan, a war that in Kunduz was a mistake. He said cials are making every effort to ture projects to better link the two Obama's policy has become more NATO-US base. began after the September 11 al- the bombing had been conducted prepare the ground for the return nations. likely following recent Taliban "We will assess. We will make Qaeda attacks on New York and by the US at the request of Afghan of Afghan immigrants to their Iran has also contributed more Ibn-e- Seena gains, including the assault on the decisions related to both the level Washington. forces, but the decision to fire had home country. than $50mln annually to Afghan northern Afghanistan city of Kun- of our presence in Afghanistan, the The US-led invasion of Af- been made through the US chain In mid September, Iran's Am- anti-narcotics efforts during the Pul-e-Artan, Kabul duz, analysts and lawmakers say. support force level, and also our ghanistan was launched on Octo- of command. bassador to Kabul Mohammad- last five years. 2100359 Has US foreign policy failed geographical outreach - whether it ber 7, 2001. "We had a special operations Reza Bahrami and Afghan Foreign Tehran has repeatedly called in Afghanistan and Iraq? is going to be four spokes, or bases Obama would find thin sup- unit that was in close vicinity that Minister Salahuddin Rabbani dis- for a withdrawal of the US-led for- Appearing before a key com- in addition to what we have in port in Congress for a complete was talking to the aircraft that de- cussed rewriting border signs and eign troops from Afghanistan, Wazir Akbar Khan mittee of US lawmakers Tuesday, Kabul," Stoltenberg said. withdrawal from Afghanistan. livered these fires," the general said. documents in Kabul. stressing that establishment of Hospital the commander of the US forces in NATO has regional bases in "The mood, unfortunately, is The bombing early Saturday Rabbani announced that the peace and security in the war-rav- Afghanistan, General John F Herat, Kandahar, Laghman and swinging in the direction of more killed 22 people and MSF has Afghan government plans to in- aged country is possible only 2301741, 2301743 Campbell, outlined the rationale Mazar-e-Sharif and a headquarters US involvement in general in Af- called for an independent investi- crease the number of its customs through cooperation among the for keeping a significant American in Kabul. The alliance and other ghanistan and the Middle East," gation by the United Nations. offices alongside borders with Iran regional states. and NATO presence in Afghani- coalition partners with the US Medea Benjamin, cofounder of the Aljazeera to make more income and to fight (FNA) Ali Abad stan through 2018 - and perhaps have a combined 12,000 troops in longer. Afghanistan. Shahrara, Kabul "Conditions on the ground A reversal of the decision to 2100439 have changed," said Campbell, who withdrawal US troops to a mini- has proposed to the White House mum level would be a political set- and Pentagon five different scenar- back for Obama who campaigned Malalai Maternity ios for maintaining a range of dif- for office in 2008 on a promise to Hospital ferent US troop levels in Afghani- end US wars in Iraq and Afghani- stan over the next few years. stan, for which he was awarded 2201377/ 2301743 "I have provided options to the Nobel Peace Prize. take a look at the mission sets that "Obama wants them complete- we want to do in the future," ly out - all of our people," said Banks Campbell told the Senate Armed Lawrence J Korb, senior fellow at Services Committee. "We still have the Center for American Progress, Da Afghanistan Bank to train, advise and assist at cer- a Washington think-tank allied 2100302, 2100303 tain levels - for aviation, for logis- with the administration. tics, for intelligence, for special "Given what's happened with operations forces. We have to have the fall of Kunduz, we're proba- Bakhtar Bank a counterterrorism capability, and bly going to 4,000 or 5,000 and 0776777000 you need a certain number of forc- then get NATO to contribute more, es to do that." and that will give you enough pres- Azizi Bank Obama reached a decision last ence so that if things go to hell in a 0799 700900 year to reduce the US troops, now hand basket, you can do some- at 9,800 in Afghanistan, to just thing," Korb told Al Jazeera. Pashtany Bank 1,000 troops at the US embassy The president delivered his in Kabul by the end of the year. promised withdrawal from Iraq but 2102908, 2103868 That would require closure of in retrospect, at a huge cost. The Bagram Air Base and withdrawal US lost influence in Baghdad and Air Services of essentially all US forces from watched as ISIL overran the Iraqi posts outside the capital. "We army, prompting a return of US Safi Airways would not have the ability to con- forces that are increasingly being duct counterterrorism as we do drawn into Syria's civil war. 020 22 22 222 today if we were just based in "The odds seem high that Pres- Kabul," Campbell told the com- ident Obama will revise his depar- PC members Ariana mittee. ture plan and leave office with at Obama signalled flexibility on least several thousand US troops Winter to multiply displaced accused of beating 020-2100270 that plan in March after meeting still in Afghanistan," Michael Jawzjan with new Afghan President Ashraf O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at Wash- Shinwari families woes Kam Air Ghani. Now, the increasing num- ington-based Brookings Institu- prosecutor 0799974422 ber and frequency of attacks by tion, told Al Jazeera. JALALABAD(Pajhwok): Provin- government which was also trying ter. Taliban fighters and entry of Is- "His departure from Iraq in cial council members on Wednes- to assist the displaced people. The provincial council mem- SHIBERGHAN: The prosecutor lamic State of Iraq and the Levant 2011 is now widely seen to be a day said harsh winter would bring The problem is these fami- bers believed if the displaced fam- for northern Jawzjan province on Hotels (ISIL) in Afghanistan is raising se- major mistake that contributed to more woes to families displaced lies either live with their relatives ilies were housed in camps, it could Wednesday alleged gunmen of Pro- Safi Landmark rious concern in Washington. the success of Daesh [ISIL] there. by the ongoing conflict in Shinwari or have moved away to other ar- result into land-grabbing. vincial Council (PC) members had "There's an urgency to reverse It's one more reason why there is zone of eastern Nangarhar prov- eas. Some families are surveyed, Nangarhar Refugee and Repa- beaten him. He closed the depart- what is clearly a deteriorating pressure on him not to risk a re- ince. but others remain. They don t live triation Director Ghulam Haider ment to protest the attack. 020-2203131 trend," said Senator John McCain, peat performance in Afghanistan," About 13,000 families have in one area otherwise it would have Faqiri had earlier told Pajhwok Prosecutor General Hafizullah chairman of the Senate Armed Ser- O'Hanlon said. been displaced as a result of in- been easy to reach them with as- Afghan News that nearly 12,000 Khaliqyar said some provincial SERENA vices Committee. In the United States, the poli- fighting between rival militant sistance. families were displaced by the con- council members and more than 10 Senator Jack Reed on the com- tics surrounding the wars in Af- groups and their clashes with se- He said in some areas, many flict in Shinwari zone and half of gunmen forced their way into his 0799654000 mittee agreed. "The news reports ghanistan and Iraq have tilted. Re- curity forces in the zone encom- families shared one house. Their them had been assisted. office and demanded their illegal passing three districts. women and children were living He had said a survey was un- demands be met. New Rumi Restaurant These families are now living inside and men outside of the derway to assist the remaining He said the public representa- Australia ends Afghan in houses of their relatives and in home, he said. It is itself a huge families and the relief distribution tives demanded the release of some 0776351347 temporary shelters that can pro- problem and the harsh winter will process would resume soon. political and criminal detainees -- advisory mission vide scant protection from the cold. further increase their problems. Mohammad Sadiq, who has an illegal step that he refused to Internet Services Almost all these families need as- Another member of the pro- migrated from Shandali area of take. Khaliqyar alleged the PC UA Telecom Australian troops have ended their with other coalition units still in sistance. vincial council, Zabihulah Zama- Achin district to Jalalabad, the pro- members had earlier got released a mission advising commanders of Kandahar. Most are in Kabul at A member of the provincial rai, held similar views. He asked vincial capital, said they had been prisoner. 0796701701 / 0796702702 the Afghan National Army corps. the Australian headquarters and council said they were concerned the government to assist the fami- awaiting aid since arriving in Kha- Australia has concluded a long- engaged in mentoring at the Afghan the absence of aid would create lies as soon as possible. lis Baba area. He said they left be- Exchange Rate running mission advising the com- National Army Officer Academy. further problems for the displaced He said the displaced families hind everything and only rescued Taliban closing in manders of the Afghan National The drawdown of coalition families, particularly ailing individ- should have been housed in camps their lives. on Gorzaiwan Purchase: Army corps responsible for secu- forces across Afghanistan has em- uals. in order to facilitate their survey Over the past six months, rity across much of southern Af- boldened insurgent forces who The council chief, Ahmad Ali and the provision of assistance. clashes between Taliban and Islam- district centre ghanistan. have conducted attacks across the Hazrat, told Pajhwok Afghan Nangarhar Red Crescent Soci- ic State militants have been ongo- One US$ = Chief of defence force joint country, most recently briefly seiz- MAIMANA: Local officials on News most of the displaced fami- ety chief Nangyalai Yousafzai, also ing in the Shinwari zone amid spo- Wednesday said the Taliban had 64.25Afs operations Vice Admiral David ing the northern city of Kunduz, lies lived in dire conditions. a member of the emergency com- radic clashes between security forc- Johnston said the withdrawal of capital of Kunduz province. That captured many localities in Gorzai- One Pound Sterling= The temperatures are plum- mittee for the displaced families, es and Daesh militants. wan district of northern Faryab troops took Australia's presence prompted US General John Camp- meting. Besides other problems told Pajhwok Afghan News another The conflict has displaced 97.96Afs in Afghanistan down to about 250 bell, commander of the NATO province, urging the government to these families are in desperate eco- 1000 families had newly been dis- hundreds of families, with some act preemptively to prevent the One Euro = personnel, mainly in Kabul. Resolute Support mission in Af- nomic straits, they need money. I placed as a result of the conflict in moving to relatively stable areas That's the lowest number in ghanistan, to urge Washington to fall of the district centre. 71.96Afs fear they may join Taliban or Achin district. within the zone and others to Abdul Razaq Kakar, the dis- more than a decade. Vice Admiral halt the planned drawdown and Daesh militant group. They are displaced but not Ghanikhel, Kot, Batikot and other 1000 Pak Rs = Johnston said the Kandahar-based leave some troops beyond the end trict chief, said hundreds of Tali- He said the provincial govern- worried. We have provided assis- districts. ban fighters, led by Mullah Shoib, 612Afs 205 "Hero" Corps, comprising al- of 2016 when the NATO mission ment had assisted about 5,000 fam- tance to the majority of these fam- most 20,000 troops, was ready for officially concludes. Former De- Mullah Ahmad Shah, Qari Jailan Sale: ilies, but the aid seemed to be in- ilies and the rest will be assisted and a Pakistani Sheikh, had at- this transition. A team of some 20 fence Minister Kevin Andrews sufficient. soon. One US$ = Australian mentors, supported by said in June the government was tacked the district from east and Ajmal Omar, the council sec- Yousafzai said a meeting this west reaching four kilometres near 64.45 Afs around 50 security and other per- inclined to "stay the course" to retary, told Pajhwok Afghan News: week at the governor s house re- sonnel, have supported the senior ensure Afghanistan remained sta- the district centre. One Pound Sterling= Government assistance has viewed the situation of the dis- He told Pajhwok Afghan News officers of the 205 Corps since ble. Vice Admiral Johnston said the reached some families, but the as- placed families and directed the 98.76Afs 2010. The mission officially con- US and NATO were considering the Taliban had seized Qazaq, One Euro= sistance is inadequate as all the departments concerned to provide Quraish, Shah Qara, Ghal Namak cluded on October 1. what occurred in Kunduz, the families need assistance. needed relief items to them. How- 72.56 Afs Their departure leaves a small progress of the campaign and what and Darae Joz localities around the Omar said they had shared ever, he did not mention possible district headquarters. 1000 Pak Rs= 620Afs number of Australians embedded might come after 2016. ausnews their concerns with the provincial problems with the advent of win- This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . OCTOBER 08, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES SC maintains Mumtaz Qadri's death penalty, says he is a terrorist

President Pranab Mukherjee on ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Wednesday said the core values of Court of Pakistan on Wednes- diversity, tolerance and plurality day maintained the conviction of Indian civilisation must be kept of Mumtaz Qadri the killer in mind and cannot be allowed to of former Punjab governor Sal- be wasted, in remarks that come man Taseer by an Anti Ter- against the backdrop of the Dadri rorism Court. The Islamabad lynching over rumours of beef eat- High Court's (IHC) March 9 ing. verdict which had rejected I firmly believe that we can- Qadri's application against his not allow the core values of our death sentence under the Paki- civilization to be wasted and the stan Penal Code (PPC) but ac- core values is what over the years cepted his application to void the civilization celebrated diversi- the Anti Terrorism Act's (ATA) ty, promoted and advocated toler- Section 7,was overturned by the ance, endurance and plurality. court. Know more: Anti-Terror- These core civilization values ism Act: Section 7 keep us together over the centu- Headed by Justice Asif ries. Many ancient civilizations Saeed Khosa, the bench had tak- have fallen. But that is right that en up two appeals; one moved aggression after aggression, long by Advocate Mian Nazir foreign rule, the Indian civilization Akhtar on behalf of Mumtaz has survived because of its core Qadri, and another moved by the civilizational values and we must federal government against the keep that in mind. And if we keep IHC verdict. Read: SC debates those core values in mind, nothing authority of individuals to can prevent our democracy to punish blasphemers move, he said. A three-member bench of The President s remarks come the apex court allowed the gov- in the wake of lynching of a 50- ernment application to re-in- year-old man in Dadri, Uttar clude the terrorism charges Pradesh by an enraged mob over against Qadri The appeal filed rumours that he stored and con- by Mumtaz Qadri for a reduc- sumed beef, which has sparked an tion in his sentence was dis- outrage across the country. missed by the court. Qadri still The President was handed over has the right to submit a mercy a coffee-table book on him at a appeal to the president. During function at the Rashtrapati Bha- the course of court proceedings wan in New Delhi. The book writ- on the case, Qadri's counsel ar- ten by Prabhu Chawla, Editorial gued that the accused was a Director of New Indian Express, straightforward man who had a was released by Vice President tion in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi political leader all along he felt shy There is no limit. We will friends jokingly commented that years of coming here, I recognise justification for killing the Hamid Ansari. Azad, former Jammu and Kash- speaking at such an occasion where have to do much more, he said. he would not have anything much that much more is to be done. former governor, admitting that Home Minister Rajnath Singh. mir Chief Minister Farooq Abdul- a book on him was written. He said He added that there is no end to do in the post. There is no end to working in the whatever he did was in accor- Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas lah and MPs were also present at the country has made tremendous to work in the President s office I in my own way am making President s office, which is con- dance with the dictates of the Naqvi, Delhi Chief Minister Arv- the function. In his brief 15-minute progress in many sectors and there which is considered stricly Con- my contribution to make the coun- sidered strictly constitutional, he Holy Quran and the Sunnah of ind Kejriwal, Leader of Opposi- address, Mukherjee said being a is no limit to doing more. stitutional and recalled how his try more important After three said. the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), because he was con- vinced that the victim had com- mitted blasphemy by calling the India's prime minister blasphemy law a black law . Linking Pakistan with Central We have to look into whether is pushing an 'obsolete' the deceased (Salmaan Taseer) indeed committed the act of blas- phemy or he commented ad- Asia is govt's priority: Sharif made-in-India plane on versely on the effects of the blas- phemy law, Justice Dost Mo- ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister a reluctant military hammad Khan had observed. Nawaz Sharif announced on Given the prevailing constitu- Wednesday that linking Pakistan NEW DELHI : India's government 2016. tional and legal setup, Justice with Central Asian Republics has turned down the military's re- "In January this year, they had Dost Mohammad observed, can (CARs) through a quality road quest to expand the acquisition of given one LCA ... which had not the accused be given the right to network is the government s top 36 fighter planes from Dassault completed its flight testing. They judge on his own cause and com- priority. Gwadar is being upgrad- Aviation SA to plug vital gaps, of- handed over the papers to us. We mit murder in uniform of a per- ed as a modern sea port to provide ficials said, nudging it to accept an do not make a squadron with one son who was under his protec- access to the landlocked CARs, indigenous combat plane 32 years aeroplane. That is where we are," tion, especially when there is no PM Nawaz told Asian Infrastruc- in the making. said an air force officer speaking evidence of him having commit- ture Investment Bank (AIIB) pres- Prime Minister Narendra on condition of anonymity. Indian ted blasphemy, save a few press ident designate Jin Liqun, during a Modi's decision, in line with his Prime Minister Narendra Modi clippings. These questions need meeting at the PM House in Is- Make-in-India policy to encour- speaks during the inauguration of to be focused upon, Justice Dost lamabad. age domestic industry, is a blow the 46th session of Indian Labour Mohammad emphasised adding The prime minister claimed for not only the French manufac- Conference in New Delhi, India, that the impression he had gath- that the government has invested turer but also others circling over July 20, 2015. REUTERS/Adnan ered from reading the facts of a lot of resources in energy and the case was that the deceased infrastructure projects with the the Indian military aviation mar- Abidi Thomson Reuters Indian ket worth billions of dollars. PM Modi speaks during the inau- governor was talking about the help of the Chinese government. defects in the blasphemy law, Further, PM Nawaz highlight- The push for India's struggling guration of the 46th session of In- Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) dian Labour Conference in New which were sometimes misused ed the government s economic pol- for personal benefit. icies and informed the AIIB presi- also comes at a time when the air Delhi An independent investiga- In any democratic govern- dent that the country s economists force is at its weakest operational tion by the Comptroller and Audi- ment, the nation has the right to are committed and focused to pro- strength since the 1962 war against tor General of India into the LCA criticise any law made by the viding a conducive economic envi- China, which is causing anxiety program identified 53 "shortfalls" parliament because it was made ronment to the private sector. The within military circles. in the plane. In a report in May, by representatives of the peo- economy of Pakistan is turning Since it took over last year, the the auditor said that the plane ple, Justice Khosa observed, and around and we have good econom- Modi administration has repeat- wasn't as light as promised, the fuel illustrated his argument with the ic growth rate, he added. edly said its overriding goal is to capacity and speed were lower example of the 21st amendment. Liqun thanked the prime min- cut off the military's addiction to than required and there were con- Will it not instil fear in the so- ister for Pakistan s support in es- foreign arms which has made it the cerns about safety. ciety if everybody starts taking tablishing the AIIB. The bank is world's top importer. Retired Air Marshal M. the law in their own hands and specifically established to assist The air force wanted the gov- Matheswaran, a former deputy dealing with sensitive matters the Asian countries and they are ernment to clear an additional 44 chief of the Integrated Defense such as blasphemy on their own also among its major shareholders, Rafale medium multirole aircraft Staff, said the LCA was obsolete. rather than going to the courts, the AIIB president designate said. on top of the 36 that Modi an- "It is a very short-range air- Justice Asif Saeed Khosa had AIIB will assist Pakistan in nounced during a visit to Paris this craft which has no relevance in to- later asked. Quoting instances infrastructure projects and other year that are to be bought off-the- day's war fighting scenarios. If you such as the lynching of a Chris- economically productive projects shelf to meet its urgent require- are trying to justify this as a re- tian couple in Kot Radha Kis- in a cost efficient and effective han, Justice Khosa had asked manner, Liqun added. ments. But a defense ministry of- placement for follow-on Rafales, ficial said that Defense Minister you are comparing apples with whether an individual has the Manohar Parrikar had told the air oranges." He said the plane was at right to act on his own in such force that there weren't enough best a technology demonstrator on matters without even first as- certaining the facts. Justice Dost funds to expand the Rafale acqui- which Indian engineers could build Mohammad Khan also stressed sition and that it must induct an the next series of aircraft, not some- the need of exercising restraint improved version of the indige- thing the air force could win a war because blasphemy accusations nous Tejas-Mark 1A. with. "We would like to have the were serious and prone to mis- "The IAF (air force) needs to MMRCA (Medium Multi-Role use. Allowing individuals to deal have a minimum number of aircraft Combat Aircraft) variety of air- with such matters on their own at all times. The LCA is our best craft. At least about six squadrons, is fraught with danger, especial- option at this stage, given our re- to my mind," the head of the air ly in divided societies like ours, In a fresh setback to the govern- ficials aware of the development, regarding the Sampur site include twice. India considers the Indian source constraints," the defense force, Arup Raha, said at the week- where even ulema are reluctant ment s neighbourhood-first policy, the island nation has requested In- changes in local socioeconomic Ocean region as within its strate- official said. end, referring to the Rafale class of to offer prayers with members Sri Lanka has asked India to dia to move the project from Sam- conditions due to settlements by gic sphere of influence and was "The Rafale is our most expen- fighters. But K. Tamilmani, the of other schools of thought, he change for the second time the pur in Trincomalee to Foul Point the displaced Tamil population; its upset by Sri Lanka s perceived lack sive acquisition. The LCA is our DRDO's aerospace chief, said the observed. Sunni Tehreek to file location of a stalled $500 million area in the same district in eastern reluctance to give environmental of sensitivity towards it. cheapest in the combat category." modified version of the Tejas ad- review petition In a statement power project to be built by state- Sri Lanka. The request was made clearance; and expected litigations New Delhi was also upset that India's air force says its re- dressed most of the air force con- released today, Sunni Tehreek owned NTPC Ltd. by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ra- going forward. The Sri Lanka the Rajapaksa government had giv- quires 45 fighter squadrons to cerns. These included electronic (ST) has decided to file a review petition in the Supreme Court The long-delayed 500 mega- nil Wickremesinghe on his first vis- project has also been indefinitely en a Chinese firm permission to counter a "two-front collusive warfare system, flight computer, threat" from Pakistan and China. radar and maintenance problems. of Pakistan (SCP) in regards to watt (MW) power project is part it abroad to India after taking charge delayed in part because of protests build the Colombo port city the apex court's earlier decision of India s strategy to wield greater in August, the officials said on con- by the earlier Dravida Munnetra project. But it only has 35 active fighter "Almost all the problems get squadrons, parliament's defense solved with the 1A. There will al- to uphold the death penalty for economic and strategic influence in dition of anonymity. Sri Lanka s Kazhagam-led Tamil Nadu govern- Despite the friction, experts Mumtaz Qadri under ATA laws. South Asia by helping to develop position was also communicated ment against the Sri Lankan gov- believe that India will always ac- committee said in a report in April ways be scope for improvement, citing a presentation by a top air but there are no flight safety is- "The death penalty awarded to infrastructure projects. to India s high commissioner to Sri ernment. The plant is expected to commodate Sri Lankan interests. Mumtaz Qadri is against Shari- This is the second such shift Lanka, Y.K. Sinha. While it is a significantly enhance power sup- India and Sri Lanka enjoy a force officer. With the drawdown sues," he said. State-run Hindustan of Soviet-era MiG 21 planes un- Aeronautics Limited would be able ah and the Constitution of Pa- suggested by the Sri Lankan gov- strategic project, NTPC has to plies in the island nation. very special relationship which is kistan," claimed the statement ernment the first was in 2007 take a commercial call on the same, While queries emailed to cultural and economic. India would der way, the air force would be to ramp production to 16 a year from ST. The statement was is- and comes amid tensions between said a person aware of the devel- spokespersons for NTPC, the always like to travel the extra mile. down to 25 squadrons by 2022 at by 2017 to meet the air force's de- sued by Naeem Raza, incharge India and Nepal over a trade block- opment, requesting anonymity. power ministry and the Sri Lan- This project would have been the the current pace of acquisitions, it mands, he said. "We Indians are of ST's media cell and quoted ade reportedly imposed by India In 2007, NTPC moved the kan High Commission in New culmination of a concrete action to told the committee. extremely good at blaming each Muhammad Sarwat Ejaz Qadri, following disagreements over Ne- project site from the south of Trin- Delhi remained unanswered at validate the special relationship, Cleared by the government in other at blaming it all on Indian chief of ST. Qadri, a former com- pal s new constitution. comalee to the north. The project press time, Vikas Swarup, the said Anil Razdan, former power 1983, the LCA designed by the production." Dassault declined any mando of Punjab police s Elite The South Asia-focused involves an investment of $500 spokesman for the ministry of ex- secretary. government's Defense Research comment on the government's de- Force, was sentenced to death neighbourhood-first policy is an million and is to be set up in a joint ternal affairs, said, We are in touch During his visit to India in Sep- and Development Organisation cision to cap the Rafale fleet. A by an Anti-Terrorism Court initiative of Prime Minister Naren- venture with the Ceylon Electrici- with the Sri Lankan government tember, Wickremesinghe ex- (DRDO) was meant to be the back- source close to Sweden's Saab, (ATC) in October 2011 for as- dra Modi and a cornerstone of his ty Board (CEB). NTPC signed an on this. Environmental clearance pressed willingness to conclude a bone of the air force due for induc- which has been pushing its Grip- sassinating former Punjab gov- government s foreign policy. agreement with CEB and the Sri for the project is awaited. Both comprehensive economic partner- tion in 1994. en light fighter, said that it was re- ernor Salman Taseer in Islama- Any change in the project s Lankan government in December sides agree it should be implement- ship agreement (CEPA) by next Instead, it suffered years of spectful of India's decision to try bad s Kohsar Market. Qadri said location will require new studies 2006 and the project was initially ed in a time-bound manner. year. Sri Lanka already has a free delay and chaos with scientists to develop its domestic military he killed Taseer over the politi- to be conducted at the fresh site, expected to be commissioned and Interestingly, India was initial- trade agreement with India, in place trying to build the world's most base. "There's still a huge gap that cian's vocal opposition to blas- potentially delaying the project by start generating power in 2011. ly relieved when Wickremesinghe since 2000. CEPA, on the other modern light combat aircraft from needs to be filled. We are market- phemy laws of the country. He another two to three years. With It was to be set up on a build, returned as prime minister. India- hand, would cover trade in servic- scratch, including the engine. ing it (the Gripen) under the had confessed to shooting Ta- substantial Indian investments al- operate, own and transfer basis Sri Lanka ties during the final years es and investment. Eventually they scrapped the Make-in-India umbrella," he said. seer dead outside an upmarket ready put into the project, there is with a debt-equity ratio of 70:30. of president Mahinda Rajapaksa There are fears in Sri Lanka engine, turning to GE Aviation and "Even if you add the seven squad- coffee shop close to the latter's growing doubt in New Delhi now It was to have been NTPC s first were tense due to Rajapaksa s tilt that such a pact with India will lowering their ambitions for a state- rons of the Tejas, there is still a residence in Islamabad on Jan 4. about the Sri Lankan government s overseas project. An NTPC exec- towards China. Relations soured result in a flood of Indian profes- of-the-art fighter. So far, only one requirement (with MiGs retiring Following the sentencing, seriousness to set up the project utive requesting anonymity said, in particular over Rajapaksa s sionals into Sri Lanka, reportedly aircraft has been produced and even etc). It s a question of timing. Can Qadri's counsels had challenged with India s support. Nothing is confirmed yet. The move to allow Chinese submarines stoked by supporters of Rajapak- that is awaiting final operational they build these for when they need the ATC's decision through two applications the same month. According to government of- Sri Lankan government s concerns to dock at the Colombo port sa. clearance, now delayed to early them?" This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . OCTOBER 08, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Ex-Yemen president's party says accepts peace terms SANAA : The party of Ye- men's former president, a main DUBAI : Iran's Supreme Leader Iran's nuclear program in exchange player in the messy, months- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on for crippling sanctions being lift- old civil war, said in an emailed Wednesday banned any further ed, was welcomed by Iranians who statement that it accepts a negotiations between Iran and the are keen to see their living stan- peace plan brokered by the United States, putting the brakes dards improve and better relations United Nations in talks in on moderates hoping to end Iran's with the rest of the world. It was Oman. The General People's isolation after reaching a nuclear also a great political victory for Congress (GPC) is the party deal with world powers in July. Rouhani and his faction in Iran of former president Ali Abdul- Khamenei, the highest author- ahead of some key elections next lah Saleh, to whom many of ity in the Islamic Republic, already year and as such has deepened the the army units fighting along- said last month there would be no divide in Iran's complex power side the northern Houthi mili- more talks with the United States structure between moderates and tia against forces backed by after the nuclear deal, but has not hardliners. In his address to Revo- Gulf states remain loyal. "An previously declared an outright lutionary Guards Navy command- official source at the General ban. His statements directly con- ers, Khamenei said talks with the People's Congress reiterated tradict those of moderate Iranian United States brought only disad- the party's fast position on President Hassan Rouhani, who vantages to Iran. ending hostilities and raising says his government is ready to "Through negotiations Ameri- the blockade and on a peaceful hold talks with the United States cans seek to influence Iran ... but solution to Yemen's crisis," the on how to resolve the conflict in there are naive people in Iran who party said in the statement. Syria, where the two countries don't understand this," Khamenei President Abd-Rabbu Man- back opposing sides. "Negotiations was quoted as saying to the IRGC sour Hadi, supported by a Sau- with the United States open gates commanders, who are also running di-led military coalition and to their economic, cultural, politi- much of Iran's military involve- allied to local militias, has ruled cal and security influence. Even ment in Syria. Hundreds of Irani- out an agreement until the during the nuclear negotiations an troops arrived in Syria last Houthis and Saleh's forces im- they tried to harm our national in- month, sources told Reuters, plement a UN resolution by terests.," Khamenei was quoted as where they will join government quitting cities and surrender- saying on his website. "Our nego- forces and their Lebanese Hezbol- ing arms. However, he has also tiators were vigilant but the Amer- lah allies in a major ground offen- said his government would join icans took advantage of a few sive backed by Russian air strikes. the UN-sponsored talks if the chances," he said. The West dispute the aims of Houthis publicly accepted the Although he supported the last Russia's air campaign, which is resolution. The GPC said in 18 months of negotiations, causing friction between Moscow its statement that any imple- Khamenei has not publicly en- and NATO. "We are in a critical mentation of UN Security dorsed the nuclear agreement with situation now as the enemies are Council resolution 2216 must the United States, Germany, trying to change the mentality of take place "in accordance with France, Britain, China and Russia our officials and our people on the operational mechanisms agreed that settled a standoff of more than revolution and our national inter- upon by all parties", implying a decade. The West feared Iran ests," Khamenei told the Guards. ly the United States and Israel, which he suspects of plotting to overthrow the Islamic Republic. His comments might invigorate the hardline that a wider agreement should wanted to develop nuclear weap- Khamenei often invokes an un- lawmakers seeking the impeachment of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif over shaking hands with U.S. President Barack Obama on the come first. ons, suspicions Tehran denies. specified "enemy" when talking sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. "On and off the record, it was an accident," Zarif said in an interview with New Yorker on Tuesday. "It has The agreement, which curbs about Western powers, particular- already cost me at home. But everything I do costs me at home, so this is not an aberration." Yemeni govt vows to stay in Aden EU anti-traf- despite ISIS ficking mission attack launched in Yemen's government vowed on Wednesday to stay in the Mediterranean country's temporary capital Six European Union warships Aden despite a deadly ISIS have started military operation, attack on its headquarters patrolling international waters which lightly wounded sev- MOSCOW : Four Russian war- in the Mediterranean Sea to eral ministers. Two bombs ships in the Caspian Sea launched catch human traffickers who targeted the government's 26 rockets at Islamic State in Syria bring refugees to Europe. temporary headquarters in which hit their targets, Russia's The mission off the coast Aden's Al-Qasr Hotel, lightly Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of Libya - the departure point wounding several ministers and President Vladimir Putin said for many of the refugees - although Prime Minister in a joint television appearance on launching on Wednesday in- Wednesday. Russia started its air Khaled Bahah escaped un- cludes an Italian aircraft carrier, harmed. Two guards were re- campaign in Syria saying it would portedly killed. Two more target militant group Islamic State. a French frigate and one Brit- bombs hit military installa- But its planes have also bombed ish, one Spanish and two Ger- tions used by the Arab coali- other rebel groups opposed to man ships. tion troops, who have been Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, On board the Werra, one of battling Shiite Houthi militias Moscow's ally. Western countries, the German ships taking part, since March in support of the Arab states and Turkey, who are the 100-person strong crew has internationally-recognized waging their own bombing cam- already carried out several exer- Yemeni government. ISIS paign against Islamic State but also cises, including a simulation of claimed the attacks and pub- want Assad to leave power, say an attack carried out by traf- lished the names and photo- Moscow is using Islamic State as fickers, to which they respond- graphs of the four suicide a pretext to target Assad's other ed by opening fire. bombers it said had carried foes. Russia says the Assad gov- For this mission, the team them out.It was the first time ernment should be the centerpiece includes sailors trained in board- that the extremist group had of international efforts to combat ing ships on the high seas, the claimed attacks on govern- extremism. Werra's captain Stefan Klatt told ment and coalition targets. Putin said it was too early to AFP news agency. Previous attacks had targeted talk about the results of Russia's The EU gave the go-ahead Shiite mosques frequented by operations in Syria and ordered for the operation in international the militias. The coalition said Shoigu to continue cooperation waters in September, but its that one Saudi and three Emi- with the United States, Turkey, ships are not, for now, allowed rati soldiers were among the Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq on Syr- to pursue traffickers into Liby- ia. On Wednesday the Syrian army dead in Aden. Bahah and his an waters. ministers only returned to the and allied militia carried out ground southern port city on Septem- attacks on insurgent positions in "We follow the traffickers ber 16 after six months of ex- Syria backed by Russian air and want to arrest them and ile in neighboring Saudi Ara- strikes. Putin also said that French seize their ships," the captain bia. The Yemeni government President France Hollande had said, adding that he'll get as close "insists on continuing its na- voiced the idea of uniting Assad's to Libyan waters as he can. tional and historical role dur- forces with the so-called Free Syr- At least three other vessels ing this exceptional phase ian Army to fight Islamic State. supplied by the Belgian, Brit- from the temporary capital But a source close to Hollande around the negotiating table." a summoned foreign military attach- "Today we are expecting a re- Shoigu also said Russia was ish and Slovenian navies are ex- Aden until all parts of the denied he had said this. "The pres- source close to Hollande said. "The es in Moscow and suggested they ply from our colleagues and we ready to agree a document with the pected to arrive in the area at country are liberated," said a ident spoke of the necessary pres- rest is not a French idea." Shoigu supply Russia with any intelli- hope they will tell us about those United States to coordinate actions the end of October to complete statement issued after Tues- ence of the Syrian opposition said that on Tuesday Russia had gence on Islamic State positions. targets which they have," he said. in Syria. the force, which also include day's cabinet meeting. four aircraft and 1,318 person- nel. The planning of the mission Iraqi forces - EUNAVFOR MED - started retake areas Global aid to Syrians utterly inadequate in June with the first phase fo- around Ramadi Global efforts to help Syrians both cusing on compiling and anal- inside and outside their war-torn ysing information on the traf- country have proved utterly in- ficker networks. Iraqi forces have retaken sev- adequate , international aid group Over the past few weeks, eral areas north and west of Oxfam said in a damning report on it has identified 20 "escort" Ramadi as efforts to close in Wednesday. boats - the type used by traf- on the Anbar provincial cap- The Solidarity with Syrians fickers who take people out to ital seized by ISIS extremists report analyzed aid and resettle- sea in fishing boats and dinghies in May intensify, officials ment opportunities for Syrian ref- before leaving them and return- said Wednesday. An opera- ugees provided by more than 28 ing to Libya in the escort boat. tion involving 2,000 troops countries, and said only a hand- It could have taken action backed by air strikes from the ful had been providing their fair against all of the 17 Libyan and U.S.-led coalition led to the share. The international commu- three Egyptian "escort" boats recapture of several neighbor- nity is proving utterly inadequate hoods from the ISIS. A briga- spotted, had phase two of the in helping Syrians both inside and operation already been up and dier general from the Anbar outside their country, Oxfam operations command said running. On the map, the oper- said. It criticized countries includ- ation will patrol over 10 areas those included Zankura, Albu ing Russia, which has not reset- Jleib, Al-Adnaniyah and off the Libyan coast: four along tled any Syrian refugees and has the 12-nautical mile mark which parts of Albu Risha and an only provided 1 per cent of its fair area known as Kilometre 5 separates international from share contribution to humanitari- Libyan waters, and the others The Iraqi security forces also an aid, and France, which has only took control of the main road contributed 22 percent of its fair further out to sea. west of Ramadi and they are share to aid. The whole of the north- now using it to support the The aid response is faltering western coast of Libya from the forces positioned to liberate due to lack of funds - or more ac- Tunisian border to Sirte will be Ramadi, Adhal Fahdawi, a curately, the lack of political will on lockdown, apart from an area member of the provincial to loosen up funds, said Andy directly in front of Tripoli, left council, told AFP. According Baker, who heads Oxfam s Syria open to prevent a total mari- to the U.S.-led coalition's dai- crisis response. time blockade. ly tally of air strikes in Iraq As violence intensifies, many Traffickers hoping to take and Syria, a total of 27 strikes Syrians are literally jumping into people out of the area by boat have been conducted in the the water to seek a better future will still run into EUNAVFOR Ramadi area since the start of while rich countries have ignored MED once they get into inter- October. The coalition's air repeated alarm bells , he said. national waters. support has played a big part Only 17,000 Syrians have so But the operation will need in this progress, Fahdawi far been resettled in a third coun- a green light from the UN Secu- said. If operations continue try. The slow resettlement process rity Council and Libyan author- at this pace, I expect the lib- has pushed thousands more to try sides countries neighboring Syria, which have taken in a majority of refugees - were Norway and Germany. Refugees from Syria and other ities to venture into Libyan eration of Ramadi to be pos- to reach Europe by a dangerous countries have the right to be free from violence, to aid for basic needs and dignity, and to a welcome of safe haven, said Oxfam Executive Director waters - authorisation which sible by the end of the sea and land route. Winnie Byanyima. They are being short-changed on all three fronts. There will be no end to the suffering of people from Syria until action is taken appears to be still some way month. Oxfam said the only laudable on these issues. More than four million Syrians have been forced to flee to neighboring countries for safety, and millions more have been internally off. exceptions to their criticism - be- displaced since the bloody conflict began in 2011. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY .OCTOBER 08, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

We a r e a n a t ion a l in st it u t ion a n d n ot t h e voice of a gov t or a p r iva t e or ga n iza t ion AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.afghanistantimes.af Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Advisory editorial board Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal Graphic-Designers: Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari Marketing & Advertising: Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press The constitution says Article 53: The state shall adopt necessary measures to regulate medical services as well as financial aid to survivors of martyrs and missing persons, and for reintegration of the disabled and handicapped and their active participation in society, in accordance with provisions of the law. The state shall guarantee the rights of retirees, and shall render necessary aid to the elderly, women without caretaker, disabled and handicapped as well as poor orphans, in By Will Bunch facility in northern Afghanistan What the hell are we doing? from going to war against As- accordance with provisions of the law. that it is hard to know where to This news from Afghani- sad, a move which based on The irony was painful and start. There is the fact that MSF stan is especially jarring be- what we know now might at the time we didn t even know shared the coordinates of its cause as you may have for- merely have given more power the half of it. hospital one of the few plac- gotten, since it s hard to keep to the nightmarish thugs of I m talking about the U.S. es left treating people in that up with America s various mili- ISIS. Now we re fighting ISIS reaction to that airstrikes that war-torn region with Ameri- tary entanglements U.S. dropping those 5,000 bombs Russia recently launched in ca and its allies days before the combat operations in that over Syria and ISIS-controlled Syria either against ISIS (if attack in an effort to prevent South Asian nation were sup- parts of Iraq -- and the usual you believe Putin, in which what happened anyway. Or that posed to have, ahem, ended band of neocons in Washing- case I want to speak with you fact that U.S. forces continued last year. The role of our dimin- ton are still clamoring in the after the blog post about the to drop waves of deadly fire- ished force that still remains in midnight hour for more, more, Exhausted budget possibility of selling you this power on these selfless inter- Afghanistan is supposed to be more. valid deed I have for the Brook- national doctors and nurses advising and training the regu- For who? For what? It is The law relating to the officials salary, approved by the Wolesi lyn Bridge) or against U.S.- and their innocent patients for lar government troops but said that the definition of in- Jirga, will put a heavy burden on the national budget. The law was trained-and-backed Syrian more than a half hour after MSF so often our advice still sanity is doing the same thing crafted to adjust the positions of Chief Executive Officer and his rebels, and on behalf of Putin s pleaded with them to stop. Or comes at the tip of a Hellfire again and again and expecting mass murdering pal, Syrian rul- the mealy-mouthed way in missile. a different result. With the deputies as their salaries were not outlined in the previous budget. er Bashar al-Assad. which the American media cov- And while the American heartbreaking massacre in The law is also covering salary of the deputy ministers, general The nation that has ered what was clearly a horrific public is left in the dark about Kunduz, we can now officially directors and governors. Though, details are short about the perks dropped countless bombs act carried out by the Ameri- what really is being done in our declare American policy in the and privileges that these officials would enjoy but if looked at the across the Arab world from Af- can military., as well as the name over there at least un- Middle East and South Asia to ghanistan to Africa, from air- ways the military s story of who til we kill some Nobel Peace be completely bat-guano in- salaries mentioned in the law, it becomes clear that the National planes and from drones, includ- ordered the bombing and why Prize winners there isn t sane. Dropping bombs to sup- Unity Government is going in an unfavorable direction. ing about 5,000 warheads a hospital was struck has al- much of a peep here in the port unreliable allies, and kill- The National Unity Government was supposed to resolve all against suspected ISIS targets ready changed multiple times. homeland, because we are so ing civilians in the process, has outstanding challenges but now it is proving the Achilles heel with in Syria and Iraq in just the last What is clear this inci- used to this. The endless Glo- simply not worked. year, is now worried that Rus- dent is what our would-be fu- bal War on Terror that Con- How can sanity be re- such a poor performance and unbearable expenses. It seems that sia dropping bombs in roughly ture president Joe Biden might gress wittingly or unwittingly stored? If there was an easy our leaders have not arrived at the years of discretion; otherwise, the same corner of the world call a BFD. MSF is an outfit that approved in 2001 and which answer, I think someone would they would have focused on their performance instead of forward- could lead to serious unintend- was awarded the Nobel Peace apparently will never be re- have discovered it by now. ing such a law to the parliament. If the international community ed consequences. In a state- Prize in 1999 for its work among pealed or altered has been used Broadly and strategically, we ment released through Turkey the sick and the destitute in to justify dropping bombs in should a) attempt to broker a squeezed the amount of donations or made it conditional then no last week, a coalition of allies some 20 war zones around the more than a half dozen differ- real, honest and lasting peace doubt that the Afghan government would find itself in hot water to warned that the Russian bomb- world, a tally that has only ent countries, killing some ter- deal between Palestine and Is- meet the expenses and run the state machinery. The Chief execu- ing raids were already harming grown in the 16 years since rorists but also a boatload of rael, which would have other tive team is within its rights to demand salaries but the salary and civilians and will only fuel then. Now, the bombs from the innocent civilians. positive effects in the region b) more extremism and radicaliza- most powerful military force in And how is that working related to that, build on the kind expenses to meet the protocols are high. tion. As that was being post- the history of humankind have out, exactly? In almost every of diplomacy that led to the re- The whirligig of time had brought bitter experiences, but we ed, some 1,600 miles or so to slaughtered 22 people, includ- country that we ve touched, cent peace deal with Iran, a rare failed to learn from our past. Governments that put burdens on the east, American bombs were ing not just doctors and staff we ve traded despicable des- bright spot, and c) continue to working class and dependent on foreign donations become curse killing civilians in an outra- but three children. pots like Saddam Hussein eliminate any dependence on geous attack on an internation- In the last day, there s been or Moammar Gadhafi for a the region s fossil fuels al- for public of the respective countries. Wise governments choice al hospital in Kunduz, Afghan- a growing debate over the head grim landscape of car bomb- though hopefully not through their path carefully and keep several options on the table to run the istan a tragedy that almost of MSF s allegation that the ings, bloodshed, and chaos, fracking but through more re- system if the worst comes to the worst. Many Afghans are of the certainly will fuel more extrem- U.S. bombing amounted to a and that s at best. At worst newable energy, for the sake of view that the new government could not be cured but the nation ism and radicalization. war crime. I don t want to dis- that would be Syria we now the planet. There is so much that is so miss that issue it s impor- have all the chaos AND yet the Until we get our own house has to endure it. In such a situation ignoring public concerns would wrong with the deadly attack tant that U.S. policy overseas despot, Assad, is still there. To in order, America won t have cost because the trust deficit has already reached new heights. The on the Doctors Without Bor- is not just effective but also show the bankruptcy of our the moral standing to even crit- government could not bridge it through empty slogans and promis- ders better known around moral but I think there s an policy in the region, just a few icize Putin and his looming the globe as Médecins Sans even bigger question that flows years ago President Obama bombing atrocities. How sad is es. This deficit is questioning credibility of democratic system in Frontières, or MSF medical the country. It will not be a walkover for the coming government to from the tragedy in Kunduz: was seemingly hours away that? (Philly.Com) restore the public trust over democracy if the current situation per- sists. The government shall come with alternatives to adjust the huge cabinet because it is not only about salaries but travel, office, secu- rity and medical expenditures as well. The money that is spent to meet the protocols is much higher than salaries. It is a huge burden on the already exhausted exchequer. Most of the budget is made up of foreign assistance and donations. The money is supposed to be spent on developmental projects. Therefore, the government should now increase domestic reve- nues and reduce the unnecessary expenses such as travel cost. To reduce the burden on the budget, the government should merge three to four provinces into one unit. It will save money in terms of salaries and other expenses. Surely, it will help to adjust the deficit. Furthermore, corruption should be fought, especially in the departments that are generating revenues. Providing salaries to officials working on the newly created positions is a rightful thing but saving money should be the top priority. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.

THURSDAY .OCTOBER 08, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES The after- math of a

By Richard Javad Heydarian deadly expense of its grip on power Recent months have been un- and social stability in the coun- airstrike in kind to China s economy. It has try. They took notice of how suffered a massive stock mar- Russia, under Gorbachev and Afghanistan Yeltsin, suffered massive insta- ket crash, which has wiped By NY Editorial Board out all the gains this year to the bility as a result of misguided dismay of thousands of citi- reforms, which led to the disin- Two things are known for cer- zens who enthusiastically in- tegration of the Soviet Union tain about the deadly American vested in the stocks. and, later, the emergence of airstrike on the hospital in Meanwhile, declining man- mafia-style capitalism in post- Kunduz, Afghanistan, run by Doctors Without Borders. One ufacturing output and shrink- Soviet Russia. China opted for mul- is that the attack killed 22 peo- ing year-on-year exports have ple, including 12 staff members. put doubt into whether China tiphased, carefully planned The other is that an initial Pen- will remain as the world s fac- stages of reform, which gradu- tagon statement saying the tory for the foreseeable future. ally opened up various sectors strike may have caused col- A growing number of investors of the country s economy to lateral damage was outra- around the world no longer see international markets. geous and dehumanizing. China as the place to be. The first stage of reforms Beyond that, there are saw the revival of enterprises many unanswered questions Reflecting its low tolerance and much confusion about for wild economic swings, Chi- at the township and village lev- els, while the Chinese diaspora how the hospital, a major health na s leadership introduced dra- care facility in Afghanistan s conian measures to arrest pan- in Hong Kong and Southeast northeastern region, came to be ic in stock markets, ranging Asia were encouraged to in- a target. from suspension of trade in vest in newly-established spe- Gen. John Campbell, who domestic equity markets and cial economic zones along commands American and caps on short-selling, to China s strategically-located NATO forces in Afghanistan, coastal areas. acknowledged at a news con- the arrest of journalists, includ- such as steel and electronics, cial chief, Xi insisted that SOEs consternation of its trading risk of social instability and ference on Monday that the ing Wang Xiaolu of the promi- By the 1990s, China decid- expand its investment footprint were national champions that partners, the recent announce- growing discontent if pro- ed to more decisively open up airstrike by an American gun- nent Caijing financial magazine, around the world, and gain a can remain competitive. He ment that the Xi administration posed privatisation schemes ship on Saturday had acciden- on bizarre charges of rumour- its economy, anchored by pri- foothold in strategic sectors of called for a two hands model is pushing ahead with partial are mishandled and lead to a tally struck civilians and prom- mongering . vatisation of publicly con- its rivals and friends. of development, where private privatisation of SOEs, howev- massive layoff of hundreds of ised a thorough investigation. In the eyes of many market trolled factories, land, and en- Thanks to generous state enterprises and state interven- er, signals growing worries thousands of employees, as That is not sufficient. In addi- watchers, the response belied terprises in the urban centres, support, these enterprises can tion can function in a unified, over their performance. more profit-driven managers tion, an independent panel should quickly be empowered the Xi Jinping administration s inflow of foreign direct invest- think more long-term and over- mutually complementary and By enhancing their inno- cut on redundancies and hand ments from Taiwan, Japan and to obtain all the information earlier promise of a more deci- come short-term volatilities, coordinated manner . vation capability and interna- out big bonuses to new corpo- needed to produce a credible sive role for markets. Far from the West, and the modernisa- which affect privately con- After its earlier decision to tional competitiveness , China rate bosses. tion of the banking system. conclusion about what went so instituting a laissez-faire sys- trolled, profit-driven multina- devalue the renminbi, which aims to raise productivity and Desperate times in China horribly wrong. tem, Beijing displayed its vis- This was the second stage of tional companies. has made Chinese private capital amid slowing call for desperate measures, af- General Campbell said that ible hand in the national econ- reform, largely overseen by the When he was still a provin- exports more competitive to the growth. But also, it carries the ter all. Afghan forces, fighting to re- omy. Jiang Zemin administration. take Kunduz from the Taliban, Prior to the recent econom- But the partial privatisation had come under fire near the ic shocks, there was already an of publicly owned factories led hospital and called the Ameri- uptick in complaints over grow- to large-scale layoffs, corrup- cans for help, which led to the tion, and economic uncertain- The roots of Syria's tragedy bombing. He admitted this con- ing Chinese restrictions on ty, while price hikes on basic tradicted initial reports that and harassment of foreign in- By John McHugo suggested that American forc- vestments, with many observ- commodities and es were threatened and the air- ers lamenting the rise of eco- housing, thanks to price dereg- The conflict in Syria is often de- strike was called on their be- nomic nationalism in the coun- ulations and land privatisation, scribed as the greatest human- half, prompting him on Satur- try. went hand in hand with a roll- itarian disaster of the 21st cen- day to describe the strike as From GlaxoSmithKline, back in state welfare and wild tury. Half of Syria's population justified. Cisco, IBM and Qualcomm to swings in financial markets. of 24 million has been displaced There are serious problems with these explanations. Offi- Starbucks and a myriad of Jap- National champions either internally or externally, Each stage of reform was cials with Doctors Without anese companies, and unprecedented numbers of Borders said that all parties to multinationals have been met with public backlash, pav- refugees are frantically seeking the conflict, including in Wash- facing corruption investiga- ing the way for the Tiananmen safety in Europe. These include ington and Kabul, were explic- tions, punitive litigation, hos- protests in 1989 and a growing Muslims and Christians alike. itly informed in advance of the tile state media, and shrinking frequency of demonstrations Many are professional peo- hospital s GPS coordinates. profit margins. Meanwhile, Chi- and unrest over the years. This ple with transferable skills and Once the bombing started, the nese companies such as is why the ruling Communist group contacted the American some knowledge of English or and Afghan authorities, but it Xiaomi, Huawei, and Sany have Party - concerned with its le- French, but there are also tens gitimacy - has been reticent took 30 minutes before the been making major inroads in of thousands of rural poor, who bombing was halted, the group the domestic and international with a full liberalisation of its will find adapting to life on a said. markets. economy, which could poten- different continent very diffi- Adding to the confusion is tially create greater social dis- Fearful of an economic de- cult. Syrian refugees continue the question of whether there locations and political head- cline, and intent on showing its flowing into Europe Their push had been fighting around the ache. hospital at all. According to commitment to market reforms, at the European door shows Despite the growing The Times s Alissa Rubin, a the government, however, that they, too, want the life that contribution of the private sec- Kunduz police spokesman, has announced its push for re- Europeans lead: with freedom, Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, said structuring state-owned enter- tor to the Chinese economy, the country s leadership long re- democracy, and a chance to Taliban fighters entered the prises (SOEs), which have hospital and were using it as a sisted a full-scale reform of its make their own way in an eco- played an outsized role in Chi- nomic environment that is not firing position. The hospital na s economy. It is a risky mea- SOEs. To begin with, there were treated the wounded from all strangled by corruption. Rami- ed into chaos in 2011, it had of the country's population - Other Palestinians have sure that could fuel greater so- concerns over massive layoff sides of the conflict, a policy fications of Sykes-Picot been forced - as had Jordan and were displaced internally or made new lives abroad, but cial discontent. and employment insecurity for that has long irked Afghan se- Nevertheless, by drawing Lebanon - to accommodate turned into refugees who fled many have been unable to do The cost of reform state employees, who have curity forces. But three hospi- attention to the scale of this successive waves of destitute the country. so. With the exception of Jor- tal employees an aide who Deng Xiaoping s decision served as the backbone of the tragedy, commentators risk de- people fleeing their homes. Around 180,000 entered dan, Arab countries have been was wounded in the bombing to open up China s economy one-party state. Aside from providing em- priving it of context. It is but Syria gave refuge to Iraqis Syria and were frequently wel- unwilling to give them full citi- and two nurses who emerged in the late-1970s gave birth to a unscathed said that there ployment, these enterprises the latest - if the largest - in a escaping the effects of sanc- comed by hospitable local fam- zenship. capitalist miracle, unleashing series of refugee crises arising had been no fighting in the also represent the last vestig- tions after 1990, and then from ilies, even in the poorest areas Their despair at their aban- hospital s immediate vicinity the long-suppressed entrepre- from the events that followed neurial spirit of the Chinese es of socialism - state owner- the organised crime and sectar- of the country. These refugees donment by the international and no Taliban fighters in the on from the arbitrary partition people. Within a single gener- ship and control of command- ian strife which have been hall- were lucky since most were community caused some to hospital. Arjan Hehenkamp, di- of the Arabic-speaking prov- ation, China saw a massive ing heights of the economy - in marks of the new Iraq since eventually able to return home. turn to armed resistance, some- rector of Doctors Without Bor- inces of the Ottoman Empire by ders in the Netherlands, also transformation in its economy, a capitalist country that still 2003. It did what it could with Before that, during Lebanon's thing which led to the bloody Britain and France after World denied that Taliban fighters had lifting 500 million people out of pretends to be communist. its limited resources, although 15 years of civil war from 1975 crushing of the Palestinian Lib- War I. That partition led to in- been in the hospital, saying in poverty and introducing a new There are also strategic the influx put strains on its to 1990, Lebanese were routine- eration Organisation (PLO) in justices intertwined with insta- a Twitter post that only staff, role in the global economy. considerations. Through economy and society. When ly forced to take refuge with Jordan during "Black Septem- patients and caretakers had Yet, the Chinese leadership SOEs, the Chinese state has bility, which have played their the father of Alan al Kurdi, the their kith and kin in the heart- ber" in 1970, the eventual de- been inside. was careful to ensure econom- been able to build comparative part in incubating the Syrian three year old who drowned in land of their sect-tribe. Many stabilisation of Lebanon in the Under international human- ic opening didn t come at the advantage in key industries tragedy. Before Syria descend- the surf near Bodrum, rebuked of them, too, would finally be 1970s, the Israeli invasion of itarian law, it can be a war crime wealthy Arab states for not of- able to return to their homes. 1982, in which thousands of to deliberately strike a hospi- fering hospitality to Syrian ref- Never-ending plight But the civilians were killed, and, more tal, and General Campbell in- ugees, many will have heard an earliest refugee crisis was that recently, the suicide bombings sisted, we do not strike those LETTER TO THE EDITOR kind of targets, absolutely. echo of the plea of the Pales- of Palestine at the end of the and untargeted rockets fired at But something clearly went tinians for justice. The poorest British Mandate. Even before Israeli civilians by Hamas and wrong in this case. refugees became very notice- the unilateral proclamation of other Islamist resistance Did the Afghan forces, who Want pollution-free city able in the cities, where they the State of Israel in May 1948, groups. on Monday seemed to be mak- almost drove the local shoe- much dispossession of Pales- When the father of Alan al ing progress in retaking Kun- Kabul is the house for around five million people. This city was once designed for 100,000 people. Number shine boys out of business. tinians had already been car- Kurdi, the three year old who duz from the Taliban, make an of vehicles has been doubled and tripled during past years in Kabul city. People have come from different Overcrowded schools were ried out by the Zionist militias drowned in the surf near Bo- error about the Taliban firing provinces to the city. These people follow different cultures and most of them are unaware about city- from the hospital? What role living culture. Nowadays, air pollution has increased in Kabul city. Polluted air and dusty roads are the faced with a deluge of addition- that would become the Israeli drum, rebuked wealthy Arab did the American Special Oper- outcome of dusty roads and the government s reluctance and inefficiency to construct roads and control air al pupils for which there was army. states for not offering hospi- ations forces, who are on the pollution in the city. Air pollution can cause several diseases in human. When you go out of your home and little funding. At the same time, As the Palestinian histori- tality to Syrian refugees, many ground training and assisting walk in the city, you will not breathe well due to dust and smoke. The dust of Kabul roads are melted with Iraqis with money started buy- an Rashid Khalidi has succinct- will have heard an echo of the the Afghans, play? Why didn t different particles that are really harmful for health. The National Environment Protection Authority the American pilot see the hos- (NEPA) is requested to adopt effective plans for controlling and overcoming air pollution in the city. This ing homes. This exacerbated a ly put it, those who set up the plea of the Palestinians for jus- organization should push the government to construct roads and save the city from its dusty roads. The severe housing shortage and Jewish state, "understood the tice. pital and check the target Kabul Municipality is urged to boost up its services and take active part in making the city clean and green. even led to a change in laws to well-established demographic With the future of Syria so against a list of protected sites before firing? The related ministries should leave no stone unturned to build all reads and streets in the city, according to restrict house purchases by calculus of Palestine, which uncertain, will many Syrians, international norms and with high quality. Citizens can also play vital role in changing Kabul into a It is impossible to avoid all pollution-free city. Every single citizen is responsible for keeping their areas clean and foreigners. meant that without such eth- too, now find themselves de- civilian deaths in a war, espe- green. Yet, this wasn't the only ref- nic cleansing, the new state prived of the right to return to cially when the fighting is in Usman Timuri, Hese Se Khairkhana, Kabul ugee crisis in the area at that would have had nearly as many their homes? If so, the long- heavily populated cities, as in Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must time. During Israel's pulverisa- Arabs as Jews". Some of these term consequences on the sta- Kunduz. Over the years, the have the writer s name and address. You may send your letters to: tion of Lebanon in the summer refugees still live under Israeli bility of the area are unbearable vast majority of civilian deaths [email protected] of 2006, nearly one million Leb- occupation for the purposes of to think about. have been at the hands of the Taliban, but the American forc- anese - perhaps over a quarter international law, such as the John McHugo is the author es have made deadly mistakes. 70 percent of the population of of "A Concise History of the Whenever that happens, Amer- Gaza who were driven into the Arabs" and "Syria: A Recent ican military commanders have Disclaimer: enclave by Israeli forces. Al- History". promised to hone the rules of though some of them live vir- The views expressed in this engagement to minimize the The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) tually in sight of their ancestral article are the author's own and risks. 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Hillary Clinton is in a tough spot on trade. As US President Barack Obama bends over backwards in an attempt to sell an international pact to the American people and Congress, everyone wants to know whether the leading Democratic candidate for president supports it. But her answer, no matter what it is, will undoubtedly cause her some bumps on the road to the White House. On Monday, trade ministers from 12 countries, including the United States, agreed to a massive trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It is the larg- est free-trade deal ever negotiated by the US and covers 40 percent of the world s economy. The day after it was reached, Josh Earnest, White House press secretary, reit- erated the administration s mantra of support for TPP: if the US doesn t sign this now, China will fill the void putting America at a "significant disadvantage" econom- ically. But the Obama administra- tion s biggest fight on TPP is about to begin. In order for it to become a reality, the US Congress needs to ratify the deal by a straight yes or no vote. That's likely to hap- pen early next year, right in the middle of a heated primary cam- paign when candidates will need all the support they can get. So far, as a Democratic presi- dential candidate, Clinton has not made her position clear on TPP even though, as US secretary of state, Clinton helped lay the groundwork and even backed the deal at various times. "We think this holds out great economic op- portunities to all participating na- tions," she told reporters in Janu- ary, 2013. Explainer: Deconstructing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Her husband, former US pres- ident Bill Clinton, signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993. NAFTA eased barriers on things like automobiles, textiles and agricultural products. But it also made it easier for US companies to re-locate some of its operations to Mexico. And that s exactly what some companies - like Whirlpool, General Electric and Chrysler - did. States like Ohio, New York, Michigan, California Indonesia's disaster chief has re- and Indiana all saw companies jected criticism his country is not move jobs south of the border doing enough to fight forest fires thanks to NAFTA. blanketing Southeast Asia in smog. It s not surprising, then, Dem- Indonesia has come under More than 140,000 ocratic lawmakers from those growing pressure from its neigh- states have led the charge against bours in recent weeks as thick people have reported the TPP. "Deals like this [TPP] smoke from fires on Sumatra and have wreaked havoc across our the Indonesian part of Borneo has respiratory infections in economy over the past quarter sent pollution levels soaring in Indonesia [EPA] century of their existence," said Malaysia and Singapore, where Marcy Kaptur, an Ohio Congress- schools have been closed and ma- woman, who has fought against the jor outdoor events cancelled. agreement for years. "I will con- The problem is being blamed tinue to do all I can to stop this on Indonesia's inability to prevent kind of dangerous job-killing deal." big plantation companies from Dilemma burning forests to clear land for Therein lies the dilemma for new trees. candidate Clinton. "If Clinton out- The head of Indonesia's disas- right opposes TPP, it will look a ter agency said all possible resourc- bit disingenuous and raises the risk es were being used to fight the fires. of allegations of flip-flopping," said "We have done the best we John Hudak from the Brookings can," Willem Rampangilei told re- Institution. But she will still need porters on Tuesday. "It is under- to throw a bone to Democrats who standable if other countries are oppose the agreement, particular- upset, but we Indonesians are more ly union members and environmen- upset." talists. Respiratory infections Thea Lee, spokesperson for The blazes flare up annually one of the country's largest unions, during the dry season as fires are illegally set to clear land for culti- the American Federation of Labor vation. But an El Nino weather and Congress of Industrial Orga- system has made conditions drier, nizations (AFL-CIO), said they with this year's haze on track to met with Clinton in July and dis- be the worst on record. cussed TPP. Like everyone else, Pollution in Singapore and the AFL-CIO is waiting to hear Malaysia has risen beyond haz- Clinton s stance on the deal but ardous levels since the haze out- they, "will likely be asking our break began last month, while lev- elected officials to oppose TPP," els more than five times that limit said Lee. have been recorded on the Indone- US and 11 Pacific Rim coun- sian part of Borneo island. Borneo tries seal disputed trade deal is shared between Indonesia, Ma- Simon Rosenberg, who has laysia and Brunei. worked on Democratic campaigns, Haze shrouds Borneo Orangu- Analysis: Netanyahu 'better not disturb the status quo' thinks Clinton should support the tan Survival Foundation in Nyaru deal arguing, "the downsides of Menteng, Indonesia [Reuters] The rapid escalation in violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank in recent days suggests that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be entering a new phase, analysts say. going against the president on some- The haze has had a devastat- While some observers were quick to label this a third Palestinian uprising or "Intifada", however, the term risks obscuring as much as it reveals. thing this important to him and his ing impact on people's health in The latest clashes, according to analysts, are occurring in a new physical and political reality. Palestinian society has been atomised by separation walls, checkpoints, and an administration is that it could make Indonesia, and more than 140,000 expanding network of settlements and military bases. Meanwhile, the Palestinian national movement is deeply divided, the Arab world is in disarray, the West is focused on its own winning over Obama loyalists that people have reported respiratory economic and social troubles, and Israel is adamantly opposed to negotiations. Unlike the earlier intifadas, points out Menachem Klein of Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv, the clashes much harder". infections in smog-choked areas. are not chiefly about resistance; they have been provoked by the growing stranglehold the settlers enjoy, both on the ground and on government policy. One of the biggest reasons for Masks are being handed out "There are now so many settlers that there is zero distance between Palestinian communities and the settlements," notes Klein, adding that this "ensures constant friction". Over her dilemma is the fact her prima- on the streets and local health offi- the past few years, the settlers have dramatically increased their so-called "price-tag" attacks. They regularly stone neighbouring Palestinian villages or sometimes use army-issued ry Democratic opponent, Vermont cials are recommending that they weapons; they set light to Palestinian places of worship; they steal land, burn crops and take over water sources. The Palestinians' growing sense of vulnerability was underscored Senator Bernie Sanders, adamant- be worn both outdoors and indoors by the arson attack in late July on the Israel has control. The Palestinian armed factions are no longer organised in the West Bank. Abbas is coordinating with Israel on security matters ly opposes the TPP calling it, "a in order to minimise contact with and is repressing his people and Hamas. It is better for Netanyahu not to disturb the status quo. Samir Awad, a political scientist at Birzeit University village of Duma that left three disastrous trade agreement de- pollutants. members of the Dawabsheh family dead, including an 18-month-old baby. In Jerusalem, settlers have been aggressively staking their claim at the most sensitive site in the conflict: signed to protect the interests of The smoke haze has also the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City. Faced with threats from the settlers and a leadership vacuum, Palestinians have begun organising themselves locally, "at the village the largest multi-national corpora- spread to Thailand, prompting or neighbourhood level", points out Samir Awad, a political scientist at Birzeit University, near Ramallah. Palestinian popular committees, which were created to defend against settler tions at the expense of workers, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O- violence, have made clashes - and tit-for-tat revenge attacks - inevitable. Also confusing the picture is the lack of clarity about what the Palestinians hope to achieve, aside from revenge consumers, the environment and Cha to call for a regional meeting or letting off steam. Awad argues that Palestinians are no longer sure what they need to shake off first. "Is it the larger occupation, the individual miseries they endure from the settlers the foundations of American de- on the crisis. and army, or the Palestinian leaders, who have achieved so little for them?" Jerusalem-based analyst Jeff Halper points to the Palestinians' mounting hopelessness, describing current mocracy." Sanders has been gain- Malaysian Prime Minister events as a kind of "lashing out". "Palestinians see no political process. They are being locked into their prison cells. They feel they have nothing to lose," Halper says. Until now, ing ground on the frontrunner over Najib Razak has urged Indonesia The Palestinian Authority (PA), which is committed to enforcing security in the islands of West Bank territory it ostensibly controls, has mostly succeeded in preventing the protests the past two months. to take action, saying only Jakarta from spreading to the Palestinian cities. But the PA's ability to contain these frustrations are in doubt, observes Halper, given that they already suffer from a massive credibility For that reason, many ana- has the authority to investigate the problem among Palestinians. The very unruliness of the current events means Israel is struggling to respond effectively. For some time, Israel has been characterising most Palestinian lysts believe, Clinton will need to cause of the fires and convict those attacks on Israelis, especially those in Jerusalem where the PA and Hamas are effectively barred, as "lone wolf" incidents. These spontaneous outbursts of violence by Palestinian ensure she doesn't come down too responsible. Indonesia said more individuals have exposed the Israeli security services to a new kind of challenge. In Jerusalem, Israel has been trying to present an image of normality to the outside world and visiting hard on one side or the other. "She than 200 companies, most of them Faced with threats from the settlers and a leadership vacuum, Palestinians have begun organising themselves locally [AP] tourists, while waging a low-level war against does have some space to disagree from Southeast Asia, were being Palestinians. It has assisted the settlers in "Judaising" the city and strengthening their presence around al-Aqsa. But the simmering violence has been close to its boiling point for the openly with some specific details investigated on suspicion of caus- past year, since Jewish extremists burned alive 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says Klein, has only one option: more force. "His of it [TPP], in an effort to put some ing fires. Schools in many parts of thinking is strictly short term. He is interested primarily in crisis management. He believes he can rebuild quiet for Israel through shock treatment." sunlight between her and the pres- Malaysia were closed for a second In an attempt to restore order, the Israeli government has been ramping up the pressure on Palestinians by imposing draconian measures, especially in Jerusalem. It has, for the ident, and perhaps to appeal to straight day on Tuesday, part of a first time, temporarily shut off Jerusalem's Old City to Palestinians who are not residents. Muslim guardians at al-Aqsa, commonly known as al-Mourabitoun, have been outlawed, some specific Democratic constit- two-day shutdown announced at and Palestinian worship severely restricted. Israel has authorised live-fire against stone-throwers and minimum four-year jail terms.There will also be fast-track demolition of the uencies," Hudak said. She would the weekend as pollution levels homes of relatives of Palestinians who carry out attacks. There has been speculation that, as the pressure mounts, Netanyahu may order a large-scale reinvasion of the West Bank, be better off picking apart some soared. Air quality readings were similar to Operation Defensive Shield of 2002, which sought to crush the second Intifada. Such a scenario is unlikely, observed Awad, because it would only risk bringing down aspects of the deal rather than out- unhealthy along parts of country's Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and the PA. "Israel has control. The Palestinian armed factions are no longer organised in the West Bank. Abbas is coordinating with Israel on right opposing it, he added. west coast facing Sumatra. security matters and is repressing his people and Hamas. 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German industrial production un- dler of about three in four contain- expectedly declined in August, sig- ers at Hamburg s port, cut its 2015 naling that Europe s largest econ- earnings forecast on declining con- omy is feeling the effects of weak- tainer volume. The Federal Statis- er emerging-market demand. tics Office will release August trade Output, adjusted for seasonal data on Thursday. swings and inflation, fell 1.2 per- Manufacturing output fell 1.1 cent in August after a revised in- percent in August amid a 2.1 per- crease of 1.2 percent in July, data cent decline in investment-goods from the Economy Ministry in production, according to the re- Berlin showed on Wednesday. The port. Construction and energy out- reading, which tends to be vola- put also decreased. The drop in tile, compares with a median esti- production can mostly be attrib- mate for a 0.2 percent gain in a uted to the timing of school holi- Bloomberg survey of economists. days, the Economy Ministry said, Industrial production advanced 2.3 adding that business confidence percent from a year earlier. will support a moderately posi- Germany is grappling with a tive trend in manufacturing. slowdown in China and other Production in the coming emerging markets, which have been months may suffer from Volk- key destinations for its exports. swagen AG s cheating on emis- With factory orders from countries sions tests. News of the scandal outside the 19-nation euro region broke last month and isn t reflect- down more than 13 percent in July ed in Wednesday s report. and August combined, the focus is At the same time, gradually shifting to strengthening domestic rising investment in the euro area spending fueled by pent-up invest- should bolster German industry. ment demand and consumption. Economic growth in the region will Over the last couple of accelerate to 0.5 percent this quar- months, the industrial safety net ter from 0.4 percent in the previ- of low inventories and filled order ous period, according to updated books has become thinner, said forecasts by Germany s Ifo insti- Carsten Brzeski, chief economist tute, France s national statistics at ING-Diba AG in Frankfurt. office Insee and Italy s statistics Iran will introduce more than 50 Somehow, the weak euro and ex- agency Istat published on Tues- exploration and production tremely favorable financing condi- day. Further extraordinary stimu- projects to investors in the near tions have not fully deployed their lus by the European Central Bank future, the country s chief negoti- full impact on the economy, yet. could also prove a boon if it push- ator for new oil contracts said. The single currency was little es down the euro, making German Seyed Mehdi Hosseini, head changed after the report and trad- products more competitive. The of Iran s Oil Contracts Restructur- ed at $1.1265 at 8:15 a.m. Frank- Frankfurt-based central bank will ing Committee, told the Oil & furt time. It s depreciated by more publish the account of its most- Money conference in London the than 11 percent in the past year. recent policy meeting on Oct. 8. It contracts would be introduced in School Holidays will be closely scrutinized by in- Iran this year and at a conference On Monday, Hamburger vestors for hints on whether quan- in the British capital in February Hafen und Logistik AG, the han- titative easing could be amended. 2016. Iran is keen to recover the oil market share it lost as a result of China forex reserves post international sanctions imposed over its nuclear program. These are due to be lifted following a deal in record quarterly fall as July with world powers to curb the nuclear program and Iran says cenbank steps up yuan support it could boost supplies quickly. Immediately after sanctions China's foreign exchange reserves Beijing is also pressing on with are lifted, maybe we within some posted their biggest quarterly de- attempts to ease concerns about a months we can add at least 500,000 cline on record in July-September, cooling economy, which is grow- barrels per day (bpd). It does not as the central bank stepped up in- ing at its slowest pace in decades. take that long, Hosseini told re- tervention to stabilize the yuan and The yuan devaluation had porters on the sidelines of the con- calm sentiment after an unexpect- sparked worries of a global cur- ference. ed devaluation of its currency had rency war and raised doubts about After that we are targeting jolted global markets. Beijing's ability to manage an econ- another 1 million. Maybe in less China's reserves, the world's omy transitioning from an invest- than a year we can come to our largest, dropped $43.3 billion to ment- and exports-led model to one pre-sanction capacity of around 4 $3.514 trillion last month, central driven by domestic demand. million bpd. bank data showed on Wednesday, Indeed, policy insiders have Other estimates of the pace at and were down by about $180 bil- told Reuters that China was so which Iranian output will rise are lion in the third quarter in their larg- surprised by the reaction to the more modest, but extra supply est ever quarterly fall, according devaluation that it is likely to keep from Iran could add to rivalries to Reuters data going back to 1980. the yuan on a tight leash in the within the Organization of the Pe- The devaluation of the yuan near-term. troleum Exporting Countries next on Aug. 11, and the consequent fall BEARISH YUAN? year. An Iranian oil worker walks at Tehran's oil refinery south of the capital in Iran. (File: AP) in reserves have raised questions Although the Peoples' Bank of about how sustainable China's ef- China has said it sees no need for forts to support the yuan are, as further falls in the yuan, markets US consumer watchdog wants capital trickles out of the country expect the currency to decline more BoJ keeps Egypt awards four due to fears of a deepening eco- over the coming year to reflect a partial ban on arbitration clauses nomic slowdown and prospects of faltering economy. policy steady, Banks and credit card companies "Companies should not be able rising U.S. interest rates. In the short term, however, may not force customers to sign to place themselves above the law offshore oil and gas Analysts expect the reserves analysts say Beijing is keen to re- away their legal rights to take part and evade public accountability more easing still to fall further. store investor confidence even as in class action lawsuits, under an by inserting the magic word 'arbi- "The decline in China's foreign a rapid volley of economic and early-stage U.S. government pro- tration' in a document and dictat- exploration licenses reserves, while less than market market support measures has pro- seen at end of posal that is likely to draw ire from ing the favorable consequences," expected, still shows that China s duced mixed results so far. Egypt has awarded four new li- lion debts to foreign energy com- Wall Street. he said. central bank continued the market Tim Condon, Singapore-based month censes to explore for oil and gas panies had made it increasingly The Consumer Financial Pro- Arbitration clauses have long intervention in the past month," head of research for Asia at ING off its Mediterranean coast, weeks difficult to attract major invest- tection Bureau said on Wednesday been a target of consumer advoca- The Bank of Japan held off on ex- said Singapore-based Zhou Hao, Bank, believes Beijing is pushing after Eni s giant Zohr gas find ments. Egypt, which once export- the proposal marked the first step cy groups which say they curb le- panding stimulus on Wednesday, senior economist in Asia at Com- for the onshore and offshore yuan piqued fresh international interest ed gas, has become a net energy in the process of potentially draft- gal rights. But Wall Street banks even as slumping exports and fall- merzbank. forward curves to converge again, in the area. importer over the last few years ing regulations to ban certain "free have historically opposed any ef- ing oil prices threaten its rosy pro- "As PBoC also intervened into a situation that prevailed just be- Egypt s state gas company as production has failed to keep pass" arbitration clauses, often forts to chip away at arbitration jection that the economy is on track the forward market in the past fore the currency was devalued. EGAS said in a statement it had up with domestic demand. buried in fine print, that consum- clauses. to hit the bank's ambitious 2 per- month, the foreign reserves will "I think their strategy to bring awarded one license to Britain s BP Not only has Egypt diverted ers must sign off on when opening The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall cent inflation target next year. likely plunge again when these for- that about is to stabilize the spot and one to Italy s Edison. A con- to the domestic market gas origi- financial accounts. Street reform law gave both the But lingering fears of recession ward contracts mature," he said. rate, intervene in the offshore and sortium involving BP and Eni s nally earmarked for export, but it Banks, credit card companies, CFPB and the Securities and Ex- mean economists still expect the Policy makers have been de- the onshore spot markets and hope Egyptian subsidiary had also has failed to keep up payments to lenders and broker dealers typical- change Commission the power to central bank to ease policy at a termined to calm sentiment after a that the economic data kind of picked up a bloc as had another the foreign energy companies pro- ly use such clauses as a way to restrict or ban arbitration clauses, more crucial meeting on Oct. 30, summer rout in stocks, the yuan portrays a recovering economy and consortium involving Eni, BP and ducing it. shield themselves from lawsuits and it also required the CFPB to when it is expected to cut its long- devaluation and a series of clumsy confidence comes back a bit more," France s Total. The crisis had discouraged in- and lower their legal costs. Signers study pre-dispute arbitration term economic and price forecasts. attempts by authorities to stabi- he said. EGAS head Khaled Abdel ternational energy companies from clauses. Some Democrats in Con- BOJ Governor Haruhiko lize equities spread turmoil in glo- "And I think that strategy's Badie told Reuters after the an- making major investments in gress have urged the SEC to write Kuroda remained bullish that the bal financial markets. working." nouncement that Egypt was pre- Egypt s oil and gas sector at a time a rule, but the agency has not tak- bank's massive money-printing will eventually lift the world's paring to launch a new bidding when it needed to make new dis- en up the issue so far. round for offshore gas exploration coveries and boost output. The CFPB, by contrast, is third-biggest economy decisively Asian stocks rise for sixth day as out of nearly two decades of de- in the Mediterranean in the first The Zohr find, however, is inching toward action. half of 2016. likely to encourage oil majors to In March, the CFPB released flation, but some economists were unconvinced. Eni announced in late August look more carefully at the eastern Samsung, energy shares surge its arbitration clause study which it had discovered the largest known Mediterranean region, which has found that few consumers actual- "The trend of consumer rises Asian stocks climbed, with the regional benchmark index heading for its is rising steadily," he told a news gas field in the Mediterranean off yielded some significant discover- highest close in six weeks, as energy shares advanced with oil headed for ly seek individual relief through the Egyptian coast. ies in recent years. arbitrations even though millions conference after the BOJ main- its longest rally in almost six months and Samsung Electronics Co. tained its pledge to increase base The Italian major predicts the The EGAS statement said the rallied after quarterly profit topped estimates. are eligible for group settlements. Zohr field could hold 30 trillion new concessions would see the The vast majority of consumers money at an annual pace of 80 tril- Santos Ltd. jumped 12 percent in Sydney, leading gains among ener- lion yen ($700 billion) through ag- cubic feet of gas, covering an area companies making total invest- gy explorers. Samsung Electronics jumped 8.7 percent in Seoul after do not even know if they are sub- of about 100 square kilometres (39 ments of at least $306 million, con- ject to an arbitration clause, the gressive purchases of assets such higher sales of chips and screen boosted earnings. Yamada Denki Co. as government bonds. "There is square miles). It could be a game- ducting seismic studies and sink- surged 6.6 percent in Tokyo after Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley study showed. changer for Egypt, whose $3.5 bil- ing eight discovery wells. The CFPB on Wednesday absolutely no change to our stance Securities Co. raised its rating on the Japanese electronics retailer. that we will steadily implement The MSCI Asia Pacific Index climbed 2.1 percent to 131.73 as of published an outline of proposals it will consider. quantitative and qualitative easing 4:16 p.m. in Hong Kong, heading for its highest close since Aug. 20. to achieve the 2 percent inflation Samsung Electronics provided the biggest boost to the regional gauge as Not all arbitration clauses would be banned. Individual dis- target at the earliest possible time." a weaker South Korean currency boosted the company s component Kuroda said he expects to hit the revenue and blunted the impact of price cuts on Galaxy smartphones. putes, for instance, could still be resolved through arbitration. inflation target around the six Crude rose as much as 2.4 percent on Wednesday, extending gains for a months from next April but that fourth day as U.S. industry data showed oil stockpiles fell in the world s cannot file claims in federal courts, But it would prohibit compa- and have to resolve disputes indi- nies from including clauses that this could depend on oil prices, biggest consumer. which have slumped sharply since The market got a kicker today given the big move in oil we saw last vidually through privately ap- block class action lawsuits. Com- pointed arbitrators. panies that choose to use arbitra- mid-2014. The BOJ maintained its night, Tony Farnham, a Sydney-based strategist at Patersons Securi- optimistic view that while exports ties, said by phone. The big question is whether this rally is sustain- "The essence of the proposals tion clauses for individual cases we have under consideration is that would have to submit information and output have been hurt by slow- able. We ve got to have the fundamentals underlying the rally. The IMF ing emerging market growth, Ja- has downgraded global growth a bit more, that indicates there s not they would get rid of this free pass to the CFPB concerning any claims that prevents consumers from filed and awards issued. pan's economy continues to recov- going to be a massive uptick in demand for commodities. er moderately. Prices are on track Anemic Growth holding their financial providers The plan would apply to cred- directly accountable for the harm it cards, checking and deposit ac- because labor shortages will push Global stocks have rallied in the days after capping their worst up wages and lift consumer spend- quarter since 2011 amid speculation that weak economic data will con- they cause when they violate the counts, prepaid cards, money law," CFPB Director Richard transfer services, certain auto ing, Kuroda said. Household infla- vince the Federal Reserve to hold off on increasing interest rates while tion expectations remain firm and anemic global growth puts pressure on central banks elsewhere to in- Cordray said in prepared remarks loans, auto title loans, payday he plans to deliver at a hearing on loans, private student loans and an expected boost in capital expen- crease stimulus. The International Monetary Fund cut its world growth diture will also help prices, he said. outlook on Monday, citing the slowdown in emerging markets. the topic in Denver, Colorado. installment loans. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 08, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

PARIS: Known for its pursuit of new technology to make clothes, fashion label Issey Miyake presented a new take on its staple pleats on Friday with colorful three-dimensional outfits made with fabric baked in the oven just like bread. Speaking backstage at the spring/summer 2016 Paris Fashion Week show, designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae said the fashion house used an innovative process to make folds and pleats: baked stretch , which gives fabric a new form and softer texture. We put glue onto [the] fabric and then we printed the colour, then we put this in the oven The glue expands like bread, he said while holding samples of the different stages in making the clothes. The high temperature makes the glue mould the pleat into the material. The result on the catwalk was wavy pleated tops, knee-length dresses and skirts, cut at the bottom like curves that softly moved along with the models wearing them. We made this material three-dimensional so if the model [is] walking, it is [a] jumping dress People can see movement, Miyamae added. In another look, the fashion house, founded by Japanese designer Issey Miyake in the 1970s, presented colourful block jackets, pencil skirts, dresses and handbags adorned with fringes. The inspiring tropical fauna theme was evident in the line s colour palette coral, aquamarine, orange, dark pink and yellow. The line itself was called Botanical Delights . Paris Fashion Week runs until October 7.

Farhan Akhtar's response to being WHEN HEIDI KLUM COVERED HERSELF WITH PLASTER I am terribly called Pakistani is Supermodel Heidi Klum is busy preparing her Halloween costume and has shared a sneak frightened of peak with her fans on social media on the preparation taking place for the costume. spot on The 42-year-old took to Instagram to share the making of her costume for her "favorite women, says holiday," reports aceshowbiz.com. One of the images showed her body covered in white plaster. Klum stood still alongside a designer team from Prosthetic Renaissance, an artistic powerhouse of design and make-up FX. "It's almost time for my favorite holiday! Cos- Fawad Khan tume prep time with the team at @prorenfx Can't wait for Halloween!" read the caption. Pakistani heartthrob Fawad Khan Another photograph showed her face and body smeared with blue plaster. Klum looked is scared of women? straight at the camera while the team was busy putting the liquid on her face and body. The The actor who continues to caption for the image read: "So yucky but so worth it in the end #heidihalloween #heidik- make women swoon over his looks lumhalloween." The "America's Got Talent" judge also shared two videos showing the and personality revealed his fright process of creating her Halloween costume. One of the videos showed her face fully of women in popular Indian talk covered with blue plaster. Some of the team members also used hair dryers to make the show Look Who s Talking. plaster dry quickly. She captioned the video: "Thanks @prorenfx team for making my When it comes to women, I crazy costume idea a reality." am frightened I am terribly frightened of women, said the ac- tor. And his reason for it is ador- able! It does get kind of difficult to say no to women, he adds Even Bollywood is upset over the with a laugh. Dadri lynching case that took place After his Bollywood debut in in India; Dil Dhadakne Do actor Khoobsoorat, Fawad Khan rose to Farhan Akhtar took to social me- fame in India and has since bagged dia to express his outrage over the roles in major productions in tin- brutal incident. sel town. He will next be seen in The actor uploaded a status on Kapoor and Sons alongside Alia Facebook condemning the case, Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra. calling it twisted and critcising the The actor is also set to play a way the situation was dealt with cameo in KJo s Ae Dil Hai Mush- by authorities. kil, alongside Pakistani actor, Im- The killing of a 50-year-old ran Abbas, and Bollywood A list- Muslim man who was savagely ers, Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Shar- beaten to death over rumours of ma and Aishwarya Rai. having eaten and/or stored beef in his house, has left people in India and across the border questioning humanity when it comes to reli- gious differences. Akhtar was infuriated and stat- ed how preposterous the whole situation was: Reason: He was rumored to have stored and/or eat- en beef. Let me repeat that. He was RUMORED to have stored and/ or eaten beef. He asked his fellow fans and citizens to stand up against it lest it happen again: This is NOT the time to re- main silent. What has happened once can surely happen again and unless we, the people, do not unite in demanding immediate action, this is going to turn into a circus with all the usual suspects having a go at each other, trying to score PR points, he wrote. While many agreed with his stance, one Indian called him Pa- kistani Akhtar on the actor s Fa- cebook fan page Farhan Akhtar LIVE. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 08, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Quinton "Rampage" Jackson's fu- ture as a fighter doesn't look good. Jackson, 37, returned to the UFC in April after spending 2013- 2014 fighting for the UFC's rival, Viacom-owned Bellator. He would leave Bellator after only three fights, citing breach of contract and quickly re-signing with the UFC. The UFC booked Jackson's return fight for the co-main event of UFC 186 against Fabio Mal- donado. Unfortunately for fans, days before the fight, Jackson was slapped with a lawsuit from Via- com citing their own breach of con- tract. Then, in a surprising fight- week twist, a New Jersey Superi- or Court Judge overturned the pre- liminary ruling, making Jackson eligible to compete. And the fight was back on. Jackson won a unanimous de- cision against Maldonado, in what would be his fourth win in a row. And according to the former light heavyweight champ who is still battling Viacom in court that might have been the last time you ever see "Rampage" Jackson fight again. "This is the thing people need to realize: I am not a manager, I am a fighter," Jackson explained to the MMA Hour. "And my manager is very good at what he does. Via- com breached their contract and they had 45 days to fix the breach. We gave them 90-something days [and] they didn't fix the breach. So, in my contract, I was now allowed to terminate my contract if Via- com didn't fix the breach. Because they promised movies, pro wres- tling, reality shows...everybody saw what happened to Bjorn Reb- ney; he got canned. Scott Coker came in, the company was turned upside down and my contract got [expletive] on. That's all out there. That's common sense. "So for some reason Viacom, they didn't want to fix things. So my manager terminated it, and he took everything to the UFC. And the UFC said, 'Yup, he's legal to sign,' and Viacom didn't agree with the termination. So, I don't know if my manager missed one step going to the courts or whatnot, but they tried to put a hold on my fight. I went to the courts and I got that overturned and I fought. And I did that just for the fans. "Now I'm tied up and going to Former Giro winner court and stuff like that, and I feel EIJING POLLUTION HAT like they're just trying to tie me up so I don't fight. But at the end of Basso retires the day, I've been thinking about this a long time: I've won four fights Former two-time Giro d'Italia disgraced seven-time champion in a row, I've done a lot in this POLLUTION COUGHS ADAL champion Ivan Basso, who quit the Lance Armstrong on the 2004 edi- sport, I've been fighting for 15 Tour de France this year after re- tion, where the Italian won his first years and I love this sport. So I'm vealing he had testicular cancer, and only stage from the race. thinking, Bellator cannot make me announced his retirement from Basso went on to win two edi- fight for them, so I might as well cycling on Monday. tions of the Giro d'Italia in 2006 just go ahead and retire." Speaking at the presentation and 2010, although like many rid- Jackson sounded worn down of the 2016 edition of the Giro at ers of his generation the doping by the entire process. He says that the Milan World Expo, the 'smil- spotlight fell on the Italian. if the court's decision doesn't go in ing assassin' -- as Basso became In June 2006, Tour de France his favor he has no desire to return known during his storied career -- officials announced Basso and a to Bellator. said the aches and pains he felt number of other riders would not In an attempt to stay busy, meant it was finally time to hang be welcome at the race due to ru- Jackson plans on training his 15- up his bike. mours of blood doping stemming year-old son to be a pro fighter. "For me, it's not a sad day be- from the Operacion Puerto scan- The teen has a wrestling back- cause I know I will stay in the dal. ground and has already begun slam- world of cycling," said Basso, 37, Basso was eventually acquit- ming people around on the mats. who in his final season rode for ted due to insufficient evidence, "You guys will have another 'Ram- the Tinkoff-Saxo team. but was later suspended after he page' coming in a couple years," "I'm tired, plus I've suffered admitted to the Italian Olympic Jackson said about his son. "But from health issues that, combined, Committee (CONI) that he had me, if Bellator keeps trying to hold have made carrying on as a rider contacted tainted drug doctor Eu- me up I'll just retire and do movies very difficult. femiano Fuentes with the inten- and TV shows and stuff like that. "I didn't want to finish my ca- tion of doping. It's too much stress for one per- reer totally worn out. There was a He served a two-year ban from son to deal with. All I try to do is point earlier this season when I 2007-2009, returning to the sport put on exciting fights. realised I couldn't even cycle prop- to ride for the Italian team Liqui- "There's only so much one erly. gas, where he would chaperone an human being can take." "I want to spend time with my up and coming Vincenzo Nibali. Jackson won the UFC light family and start a new adventure." heavyweight title from Chuck Lid- Basso had a cancer scare dur- Nibali, the 2003 Giro champi- dell at UFC 71 in May 2007. It ing the Tour in July, quitting the on who ended a 16-year wait by was a brutal first-round knockout race after an emotional press con- Italy when he won the Tour de of "The Iceman" and it catapulted ference. But he underwent a suc- France in 2014, said Basso had Jackson into MMA superstardom. cessful operation a couple of days been a huge inspiration during their A role as B.A. Baracus in the "A- later. time racing together. Team" movie followed, as "Ram- Basso came to prominence page" became a true crossover star. while riding with the Italian Fassa "Ivan was fundamental for me Jackson's in-ring performanc- Bortolo team in 2001-2003, when we raced at Liquigas, he es since UFC 71 have been a mixed prompting his move to the CSC helped me to grow," Nibali said on bag, losing five of 14 fights. Yet, team run by disgraced former Tour the fringes of the Giro presenta- Jackson has looked reinvigorated Rafael Nadal insisted he'd seen worse pollution in Beijing despite hazardous levels of smog during a busy day's play at the China Open. de France champion Bjarne Riis. tion on Monday. recently, winning four in a row When asked about the filthy air, the Spaniard inadvertently coughed just before giving his answer, prompting laughs among assembled During his time at the Danish while displaying new additions to journalists. "It was because of that," Nadal joked. "No, nothing new for us. I've played here a lot of times. Was very humid today. I see the pollution outfit, Basso's reputation as a pos- "I learnt practically everything his fighting arsenal. this year better than other years," he said, adding "seriously, no" when more guffaws broke out. "Two days ago was a very beautiful day, blue sky," sible Tour de France winner was from him, from how to eat well to If this is the end for Quinton added Nadal. "It's true that during the afternoon, seems like the pollution goes down a little bit more. But in the morning was not bad at all." Some enhanced. He notably jousted with how hard to train." Jackson, it would be a shame to fans wore protective facemasks as pollution soared into "hazardous" territory by early evening, swathing Beijing's National Tennis Centre in a see one of fighting's most beloved musty haze. However, poor air quality is nothing new in the Chinese capital. "The pollution, I think we're used to it when we play here," shrugged characters forced out of the sport Caroline Wozniacki. "The good thing is that it's a little colder here than it was (at last week's Wuhan Open). due to a silly game of he said/she "You know, we just play. We just play. It's the same for both players. It's a big city, so that's what you can expect." said. Jim Furyk doesn't have clubs and still travels Jim Furyk showed how much the nents, really,'' Furyk said Wednes- event every year (the Ryder Cup to be here.'' Furyk has been a sta- Presidents Cup meant to him. He day. ''It's an honor for us to repre- and Presidents Cup) is a burden. ple of American team events dat- came to South Korea without his sent our country. It's the greatest Furyk's decision dispelled ing to the 1997 Ryder Cup. The golf clubs. to go out there and compete in an that. only team he missed was in 2013 Furyk easily qualified for the event like this, test your ability ''To come over here hurt, know- at the Presidents Cup, when Fred U.S. team, but he has a deep bone under a lot of pressure on a big ing that he wants to be putting, he Couples decided to use a pick on bruise in his left wrist. He missed stage. I'm missing that part. But wants to be hitting tee shots, know- 20-year-old Jordan Spieth. The 45- the last two FedEx Cup playoff the other component really is the ing that he can't, that just shows year-old Furyk is certain to be a events to try to get ready for the camaraderie, the hanging out in the how much he really wants to be a captain, so it doesn't hurt to be Presidents Cup, and then decided team room, the talking about pair- part of these teams and how much around Haas and his assistants - on Friday he wouldn't be able to ings, just really having a good time all these veteran guys want to be a Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III, play. Captain Jay Haas asked if he with your boys.'' part of these teams,'' Bubba Wat- three-time Presidents Cup captain wanted to be an assistant, and Fu- It was not lost on some of the son said. ''You give nothing but Couples and Steve Stricker - to ryk jumped on a plane. 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US probe must go beyond Wolesi Jirga supports public admitting mistakes: HRW uprising against KABUL: A US-based human rights remained unclear. group on Wednesday reiterated the Between 2006 and 2008, more insurgents need for a credible, independent and than 550 Afghan civilians were transparent investigation to ensure killed in mistaken raids. In all of Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi genuine accountability for the dead- these cases, HRW found there KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (WJ) ly airstrike on the MSF hospital. were concerns as to whether the or the Lower House of Parliament Human Rights Watch (HRW) attacking forces acted in accor- on Wednesday supported public asked the US should establish an dance with their obligation under uprisings against Taliban insur- independent panel outside the mil- the laws of war to exercise con- gents in different provinces. KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai talking to Ronald Newman, the former US ambassador to Afghanistan, here on Wednesday. itary chain of command with the stant care to spare the civilian pop- The lawmakers agreed to sup- Karzai and Newman discussed different issues of mutual interest, including the current situation in Afghanistan and the aim of establishing the facts and ulation and to take all feasible pre- port anti-Taliban uprisings by the assessing possible culpability for cautions to minimise loss of civil- region. the strike that killed at least 22 ian life. Afghan masses but they said that medical staff and patients. The group recommended the uprisings should be peacefully A day earlier, Gen. John Camp- adopting measures to reduce the in order to avoid disorder in the bell, commander of US forces in likelihood of civilian casualties in country. Afghanistan, told a Senate panel TIC (Troop In Contact) situations: Gulalai Noor Saif, a represen- the decision to carry out the strike Airstrikes should not be car- tative from Balkh province, wel- made within the US chain of com- ried out without an adequate Col- comed public uprising against in- mand. He hoped the three investi- lateral Damage Estimate (CDE); surgents and said that it was a great gations -- conducted by NATO, Trained Joint Terminal Air sense of patriotism to see the peo- the Department of Defense and the Controllers (JTACs) should be in- ple of Afghanistan standing beside Afghan government -- would bring volved in all TIC airstrikes, includ- security forces to defend their the facts to light. ing those involving special forces; country. In a statement, HRW Asia Di- There should be no strikes in She said that public uprising rector Brad Adams said: There s densely populated areas unless the must be controlled by the security no question deadly mistakes were intelligence is highly reliable and agencies in order to prevent possi- made in the bombing of the MSF the target has been visually identi- ble chaos in the country. hospital. Now it s the responsi- fied; The weapons that are used bility of the US government to take Precision-guided low-collater- by members of the uprising move- prompt action to fully compen- al-damage munitions should be ments against the enemies of the sate the victims of the attack and used whenever possible, especial- country should be reregistered, ensure full accountability... ly on targets in populated areas; she suggested. The group said the NATO-led Rules of engagement should be Fatihullah Qaisari, an MP from coalition initially characterised the adopted by the US and NATO that Faryab province, said that if the destruction to the hospital as col- are consistent to ensure that dif- government had failed to ensure lateral damage after a US airstrike ferences do not result in unneces- security in the country, let give a was carried out against insurgents sary civilian casualties; chance to the public to defend their who were directly firing upon US JTAC training regarding civil- country as precedents are there in service members advising and as- ian casualties and field CDEs the history of the world . sisting Afghan Security Forces in should be improved; and The first vice president Gen. Russia's military said it will beef the vicinity of the hospital. All strike aircraft should have Dostum shall stand again beside up its force in Tajikistan, which On October 5, Campbell stat- low-collateral-damage bombs ed: Afghan forces advised that available at all times to minimize the Afghan security forces to keep neighbors Afghanistan's Kunduz their morale high during battles, province, the site of a recent up- they were taking fire from enemy the potential for civilian casualties. positions and asked for air sup- Campbell testified an AC-130 Qaisari added. tick in Taliban violence. Habiba Danish, an MP from Russia's Defense Ministry port from US forces, appearing gunship was called in to carry out to shift responsibility for the air- the strike. HRW called for any in- Takhar, termed the public upris- will strengthen its grouping in ings as a significant tool to tame Tajikistan with attack and military strike to the Afghans. vestigation to address key ques- For its part, the medical char- tions, such as: insurgency in the country. Pub- transport helicopters, the official lic uprising is important to defend representative of Russia's Central ity has consistently maintained Did the AC-130 have a JTAC there was no armed Taliban pres- member on board? Afghanistan, she said. Hinting to Military District Yaroslav Ros- duz, prompting a response from US and Afghan forces. the Kunduz attack, she said that chupkin told journalists on "The military capabilities of the 201st military base will be enhanced by helicopter aviation. The created ence inside the hospital compound. Did US forces fire based sole- American and Afghan officials ly on intelligence from Afghan airstrikes should be continued on Wednesday. aerial grouping will be based in the Gissar district of Tajikistan, at the Aini air base 30 kilometers from insurgents until the province was Dushanbe," Roschupkin told journalists. were informed of the hospital s troops? Did the US identify and The unit now includes Mi-24P coordinates well in advance. confirm the targets independent- cleared from militants. attack and Mi-8MTV transport Turkmenistan Strengthens Border, Bracing for Spillover of Violence From Neighboring Afghanistan Important facts about the air- ly? Did the AC-130 use weapons It is worth mentioning that re- and combat helicopters. The heli- The 201st military base is the largest Russian Ground Forces base outside of Russia. The base is strikes, including the nature of Tal- with a large blast and fragmenta- cently media outlets reported that copters will be stationed at the currently located on the outskirts of Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe. The base also takes part in providing iban activity in the vicinity of the tion radius, such as its 105mm a number of former Mujahedeens 201st military base, in the former Tajikistan's military with compatible weaponry and military-technical cooperation. hospital at the time of the attack, howitzer? Explosive weapons in Balkh, Takhar, Baghlan, Bada- Soviet republic of Tajikistan, which Tajikistan also borders Afghanistan's Kunduz province, where violence has escalated. The military base had not yet come to light, HRW with wide area effects are not ap- khshan, Nangarhar and Kabul prov- borders Afghanistan. Violence on is approximately 200 kilometers away from the border, while the airfield where the helicopters are to be noted, saying the method of raid, propriate for use in populated ar- inces had showed their prepara- the Afghan side of the border esca- stationed is slightly farther. Russia has previously increased security in the country through regular drills the intended target, the number of eas. Could weapons that present- tions to stand beside the security lated in recent weeks after Taliban together with Tajikistan's military. The latest large scale exercise took place in May 2015 with the participa- strikes and what precautions were ed a lower risk to civilians be rea- forces, if the government allowed militants seized the city of Kun- tion of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's (CSTO) rapid reaction forces. taken to minimise civilian harm also sonably used? (Pajhwok) them. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.