Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:XV Issue No:205 Price: Afs.20 www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes WEDNESDAY. MARCH 31. 2021 - Hamal 11, 1400 HS www.afghanistantimes.af AT News KABUL: Three female polio vac- cination health workers were shot dead by unknown gunmen in Jala- labad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday morning, sources confirmed. They were killed in two separate shootings just one day after na- tionwide polio camping kicked off. The first gunfire took place in PD 4th targeting a female health worker. According to source, shortly after the first incident, unidentified armed men opened The body of a female health worker killed by gunmen in fire and killed two other female vaccination health workers in PD Jalalabad, Afghanistan, is taken away. Photograph: AP 7th of Jalalabad city. The victims were identified as Basira, Samina responsibility for the attack yet. egations in Doha. On March two, three female Af- and Nagina. No group, including Numerous assassinations ghan journalists were shot dead in Jalalabad as the the Islamic State (IS), also known have taken place around the coun- brazen continuation of serial killings of journalists as Daesh extremist group, who try since the peace talks began be- and the string of targeted-killings continue to take are active in the province, claimed tween the Afghan and Taliban del- more lives in Afghanistan. ... AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 70 AT News Afghan Ambassador to the Unit- new coronavirus cases and eight deaths ed States, Homayoun Qayyoumi around the country in the past 24 hours, said the KABUL: The Attorney General former finance minister and Shad Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday. ... Office charges Roya Rahmani Mohammad... WEDNESDAY. MARCH 31, 2021 AFGHANISTAN TIMES CO V ID-1 9 : 7 0 Three fem ale polio workers shot.... $ 719 ,0 0 0 em bezzled in n ew cases, ei g h t d eat h s r ep o r t ed ...P1 The three slain female President Ghani called for a Humanitarian Law hurting the i n a si n g l e d ay anchors were working for a pri- thorough investigation into the people of Afghanistan.’ co n structio n o f Afghan vate TV channel “Enikass Radio incident in a bid to bring the per- ”Perpetrators must be Television” and were targeted by petrators to justice. brought to justice, health work- ...P1 The total tally since the unknown gunmen while they “I am horrified by the news ers kept out of harm’s way & the em bassy w all outbreak of the epidemic has were heading home from work. about the killing of polio vacci- sanctity of health facilities re- reached 56,454 cases. President Ashraf Ghani, nators in Jalalabad. Such sense- spected. The EU remains a strong The ministry said the new cas- KABUL: The Attorney General report, the Wolesi Jirga and Me- tor office wrote the construction who is on an official visit to less acts are an affront to human- supporter of the health sector in es were positive out of 2,064 sus- Tajikistan, in a statement strong- ity, and callously target Afghan Afghanistan & we call on the par- Office (AGO) has accused presi- shrano Jirga introduced Qayyumi, of the wall lacked transparency. pected samples tested during this dential advisor Mohammad Hu- former minister of finance, Yama The total length of the wall was ly condemned the heinous attack women. These actions also un- ties to allow equal access to vac- period of time. on female vaccinators. “Attack dermine our efforts to eradicate cinations.” This comes after the mayun Qayyumi, Afghan Ambas- Nizami advisor to the MoF and 22.86 cubic meters. The contract Another 705 patients have sador in Washington Roya Rah- Ambassador Roya Rahmani to the involved a high price that was not on doctors, health workers and polio by ensuring that the polio Ministry of Public Health in joint fully recovered in the same time. civil servants, who are working vaccine reaches every child,” venture with UNICEF and WHO mani and, a former advisor Shah AGO. in line with the volume of work. The total recoveries have ex- Mohammad Sargand of embez- The case has been investigat- “High-priced deals with several to provide children with health Reid Sirrs, the Canadan ambas- has started the polio vaccination ceeded 51,373 and the deaths to facilities and save their lives, is sador to Afghanistan said. campaign on Monday to vacci- zling more than $719,000 in the ed by the Civil Prosecutor Office companies were immediately 2,484 across the country since the construction of the Afghan em- of the Anti-Corruption and Jus- approved by the National Pro- an atrocity act that has no justi- Horrible news coming out nate 9.6 million children under five outbreak of the pandemic started fication,” Ghani added. from Jalalabad, on the 2nd day years across the country. bassy wall. tice Center (ACJC). curement Authority (NPA). This one year ago. Pajhwok Afghan News re- The prosecutor office wrote should been re-evaluated, but this The Taliban and other ter- of the ongoing polio vaccination According to report totally ported on July 11, 2020, that the on March 3 that the accused — has not been done and no remorse rorist groups by conducting the campaign, said the European 56 cases of polio recorded in 2020, Afghan embassy in the United Sargand, Rahmani and Qayyumi) was shown in the construction Ghani terrorist attack cannot weaken Union in a statement. “The kill- where 75 percent of them were States had reconstructed its — were involved in the embezzle- of the wall.” According to the people’s intention, particularly ing of three female vaccinators, reported in the areas, which were boundary wall measuring 70 ment of $719,220, and they should prosecutor office, six companies the women for a bright future, working to immunise children, is not at access for home to home meters at a cost of around be punished under Articles 388, had offered bids for the wall’s again the statement read. a brutal breach of International polio campaign implementation. $1,825,839 while rejecting an eco- 391 and 403 of the Penal Code. construction. A IS firm offered nomical offer of $88,000 for the Ahmad Fahim Qawim, spokesman the lowest bid ($915,000). How- mistakes.... Fo rm er, curren t o fficials charged o n co rruptio n rebuilding of the same wall. for the Supreme Court, confirmed ever, the National Procurement The Ministry of Foreign Af- to Pajhwok that the matter, which Commission (NPC). In line with ...P12 President Ghani was the ...P1 Sargand former adviser for bassy. It said that 719,000 dol- wall and signed contract with an- fairs (MoFA), denying the report, had reached the court, was re- directives from former finance chairman of Kabul University in President Ghani of embezzling lars were misused and embezzled other company for nearly two promised referring the matter to turned to the AGO to address the minister Humayun Qayyumi ap- 2006, he read the same poem in- around 800,000 US dollars in in this project. The attorney gen- million dollars. the Supreme Audit Institution for shortcomings in investigations. It proved a bid of more than $1.6 correctly. rebuilding a wall of the Afghan eral office asks the primary court The ministry of foreign af- a thorough investigation. has not been returned to the Su- million from the KADCON Haroon Mutaref, another so- embassy in Washington DC. to punish Ms. Rahmani, Mr. fairs had said at the time it would After Pajhwok released the preme Court so far. The prosecu- Company. cial media user wrote on his twit- The attorney general office Sragand and Mr. Qayyoumi. probe the reports. ter, “Wahid Omar presidential ad- said Tuesday that they have re- Media reports said last year that The parliament had referred visor while rehearsing the poem ports of expensing two million Afghan embassy in Washington Rahmani, Sargandd and Qayy- with Ghani in the library, still mis- dollars in rebuilding the 70-meter rejected the offer for 88,000 dol- oumi to attorney general office last read the poem.” long collapsed wall of the em- lars expense in rebuilding of the year to investigate the allegations. The Taliban Thin k They H ave Nisar Aryanfar, another social media user said, the presidential Already Wo n , Peace Deal o r No t advisor should tell Ghani not read It w ill be ill-advised to follow double .... Persian poems in foreign countries. ...P12 compromise, or of going Taliban expert, disputed the idea can peace envoy — would mere- Earlier, Ghani mistakenly read ...P12 development in Afghani- and strive for broad-based, in- tral Asian countries, in a bid to along with the dominant Ameri- that the Taliban are necessarily ly be used by the Taliban as a Persian poems – he read incorrect- stan and the whole region,” he clusive and durable peace through create more development oppor- can idea, power-sharing. bent on reimposing a similarly “Trojan horse” for the seizure of ly a poem by Iqbal Lahori in Is- added. sincere dialogue and negotiations. tunities for the Afghan people.” While the Taliban’s current hard-line Islamic regime. “As long power. lamabad. With the peace and reconcil- International supporting parties Terrorism is a serious chal- rhetoric is also propaganda, the as they can get to power through a “They think they have beat- One of the historical mistakes iation process in Afghanistan should abide by the “Afghan-led, lenge for countries in the region grim sense of Taliban supremacy political agreement, between es- en the Americans, so they can of Ghani was on the day of Ashu- standing at a crucial juncture, Afghan-owned” principle, put and a common enemy of humani- is dictating the response of a des- tablishing the emirate and democ- beat the other Afghan forces as ra, calling Imam Hussin the grand- there is a rare, historic opportu- aside self-interests, uphold fair- ty, he added, saying “it will be ill- perate Afghan government and racy, there are options,” he said.