Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:XI Issue No:47 Price: Afs.15 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes SATURDAY . SEPTEMBER 10. 2016 -Sunbula 20, 1395 HS By Mansoor Faizy ries after heavy clashes erupted wounded is because they (insur- noon (Friday) security situation when the insurgents stormed into is nothing to be worried about. However, he added that still there are between Afghan security forces gents) become under heavy air op- in Trinkot is fully normal and un- Trinkot, attacking key provincial some firings at the outskirt of the city, but as a whole Trinkot is under KABUL: The security forces have and the Taliban insurgents,” pro- erations of Afghan and foreign forc- der security forces control, he offices, including police headquar- control, where the residents can roam freely without any fear. He said given tit-for-tat response to the vincial governor spokesman Dost es”, he said. Afghan Air Forces and added. “Concerns that we had two ters and the governor house. More- that Taliban insurgents are sometimes do firings in order to keep secu- Taliban’s attack in Trinkot, the Muhammad Nayab, told Afghan- foreign forces targeted around days ago are completely re- over, Deputy Spokesman for the rity forces busy, and pave ground to take their dead bodies of their capital city of southern Uruzgan istan Times. 1,000 insurgents from air in which moved.” Ministry of Defense, Mohammad fellows. “Since Taliban insurgents are defeated in other parts of the province, security officials said on “Eight key leaders of the Taliban they forced to push back from the 13 Afghan police were killed and Radmanesh told Afghanistan country, they (Taliban) tried to attack Trinkot in order to hide their Friday. were also among the killed.” “The city while receiving huge casual- 14 others were wounded during Times security situation in failure in the battlefield, but the Afghan security forces repulsed their “At least 204 insurgents were reason that we say that 350 Tali- ties, he said. “Insurgents are in run attack, he added. Heavy clashes Trinkot is under control of the (Taliban) attack with high spirit and pushed them back from the city,” killed and 146 other received inju- ban insurgents were killed and to save their skin. Today after- erupted in the Thursday morning Afghan security forces and there he said. SATURDAY . SEPTEMBER 10, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES KABUL : The death of a patient loons of oxygen with each of them sir Ahmad Insaf, said the quality due to the absence of oxygen in a contained 20 to 45 liters of the of oxygen produced in Afghanistan Kabul hospital has motivated Af- matter. The oxygen produced in the was becoming better with each ghanistan to become self-sufficient factories is distributed to govern- passing day. in oxygen supplies, an official said. ment and a number of private hos- Afghanistan is self-sufficient Afghanistan, which had no ox- pitals. in non-alcoholic beverages, juices, ygen-producing facility until Maihan Dost Oxygen Produc- mineral water, plastic pipes, dis- 2003, remained reliant on imports ing Company meets 70 percent posable dishes, printing houses, from foreign countries such as Pa- requirements of the government chickens, plastic shoes, melting kistan and Iran. hospitals, Hadi added, saying the metals, packages, marbles, leather Haji HikmatullahHaideri, own- rest of 30 percent of need for the footwear, decorative paints, cloth- er of Maihan Dost Oxygen-Pro- oxygen was produced by other in- ing, salt, dairies, furniture and ducing Company, said the absence ternal factories. sweets. However, some of the of the gas was a serious problem, Dr. Wahid Majrooh, spokes- products are imported despite the- threatening the lives of many pa- man for the Ministry of Public fact they are produced in tientssome until 13 years ago. Health, said Afghanistan had Afghanistan.Traders have repeat- “Thirteen years ago, my achieved autarky in oxygen.The edly asked the government to pro- brother-in-law, who was hospital- production of quality oxygen in- vide insutriescheaper electricity, ised in Wazir Akbar Khan, was in side the country and its cheap pric- long-term loans to industrialists acute need of oxygen. We then es in the private sector had caused and force state departments to use searched and found it six hours lat- Afghanistan to stop imports, he domestic products. er. But it was too late and our pa- said. Maihan Dost Oxygen-Produc- tient had lost his life,” he said. “Oxygen is a vital need for any ing Company officials complained He told Pajhwok Afghan News human and any patientreferred to about increased power bills and after the incident he thought of the emergency section of a hospi- industrialists’ problems.The Da building an oxygen-producing fa- tal is in need of oxygen, whose Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat cility. “I was finally able to open availability can help reduce the (DABS) jacked up power tariff by it in Kabul in 2004,” the man re- mortality rate,” he added. 25 percent this year. marked Haideri did not provide According to the Ministry of DABS spokesman, Wahidul- more information about his labo- Commerce and Industry, current- lah Tawhidi, said power bills ratory, whose administrative man- ly 28 oxygen factories are active in would remain the same until the ager, Abdul Hadi, said they had Kabul, Balkh, Hearat, Nangarhar, Afghan currency’s value increased. opened branches in Hearat, Nan- Kandahar and Maidan Wardak The 25 percent tariff hike would garhar and Balkh provinces. provinces. be withdrawn when the domestic He added the factory current- Afghanistan Industrialists As- currency grew in value, he ex- ly produced more than 400 bal- sociation (AIA) deputy head, Na- plained. (Pajhwok) The civil war in Afghanistan is rag- Afghanistan's 2.7 million ref- impossible choices they are forced ing again. After almost 40 years of ugees mostly reside in neighboring to make in emergencies -- pulling near-consecutive conflict -- from Iran and Pakistan, with hundreds their children out of school, buy- the Soviet invasion to the US-led of thousands -- possibly millions ing less nutritious food, selling the war against the Taliban for its shel- -- more residing there unregistered. little they own -- helping ease the tering of Osama bin Laden and al Hosts to Afghan refugees for unforgiving cycle of crisis and pov- Qaeda post-9/11 -- Afghanistan is decades, these two nations -- erty. It also recognizes that those once again on the international emer- which have consistently ranked as caught in crisis know what they gency watch list. top refugee-hosting countries as a need, and don't need aid agencies As we mark 15 years since that result -- are exerting increasing to tell them. tragic morning in Manhattan, it's pressure to return Afghans to their Another, and a fundamental right to ask what international ef- homeland. effective intervention, is locally- forts have achieved in Afghanistan Unsurprisingly, Afghan fami- led programming. The World and what challenges lie ahead. lies are undertaking the desperate Bank-funded National Solidarity Violence is escalating across trek towards Europe, making up a Program is such an example. the country at an alarming rate. The quarter of all arrivals in Greece -- For over a decade, the NSP has Taliban, at their strongest since the but are amongst the first to be re- empowered Afghans to identify, start of the US invasion in 2001, stricted entry into Europe as a flail- and meet, their needs by awarding are leading a renewed insurgency ing asylum and resettlement sys- small grants to a national network in Helmand, Kunduz and beyond. tem teeters under pressure. of over 30,000 locally-elected ISIS, a new foe, is securing its Today, the Afghan refugee Community Development Coun- presence and honing the gruesome population is the second-largest in cils. These Councils have been re- tactics employed in Syria and Iraq the world, a dire accolade only re- sponsible for thousands of local -- including the suicide bomb that cently surpassed by the mass development projects, implement- killed 80 in the capital, Kabul, only flight from the horrors in Syria, and ed with the help of NGOs like the a few weeks ago. the single largest protracted refu- IRC. In 2015, there were 11,000 ci- gee situation of our time. From rehabilitating roads to vilian casualties in Afghanistan -- At the time of writing, 8 mil- building new schools, these a record only set to be eclipsed lion Afghans are in need of life- projects have changed the lives of this year, as the United Nations saving humanitarian assistance, 24 million people, ushering in a new Assistance Mission confirms new lacking enough food to feed their era of trust between the govern- extremes of violence. One in four families, enough money to buy ment and its constituents across Afghanistan may soon experience than the clothes on their backs. added pressure on resources, which accounts of refugees, as well as of these casualties have been chil- clothes or medicine, safe water to the country. Widely lauded as one a serious humanitarian crisis, as They are entering a country are already stretched by some their mobile phone SIM-cards, are dren. drink, and a secure place to sleep. of the most successful communi- some 600,000 refugees are expect- wracked by violence, at the peak 221,000 internally displaced peo- being shut down. Starting in mid- Violations of international hu- It is not enough to say that ty-driven reconstruction programs ed to return by year’s end from of the annual surge in conflict, ple in Afghanistan. November, Afghans wishing to re- manitarian law continue by vari- everything depends on a political in the world, the NSP is the per- neighboring Pakistan, where they which together with the imminent Pakistan had been a safe ha- main in Pakistan are expected to ous parties to the conflict, making settlement, and that can only be fect example of the kind of strate- are facing increasing pressure, the onset of winter makes them espe- ven for hundreds of thousands of get visas.