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Deputy presidential Most Pakistani militants joined spokesman Shah IS in Afghanistan: Nicholson Hussain AT Monitoring Desk Murtazawi KABUL: The commander of the US-led international forces in Af- ghanistan, General John Nicholson has said that militants loyal to the Islamic State, which also known as Daesh terrorist in Afghanistan are mainly ex-Pakistani members, and the group receive money, guid- ance, and communication support President approves election law; Govt committed to support media outlets from IS leaders in Syria. He added that the US and Afghan military By Mansoor Faizy ernment. Previously, the chief ex- formation illegal. The IEC is work- three days ago (Thursday) was have killed many IS leaders and ecutive Abdullah criticized Ghani ing in accordance to the law, he said, inked between the government and members in recent months and that KABUL: The prolong deadlock on for being reluctant to bring reforms terming Electoral Reform Commis- Hezb-e-Islamito finalize peace they are in fewer Afghan areas than electoral reforms has been ended in electoral system. After the re- sion and the Selection Committee agreement with (HIA) party, led they previously were, holding only after President Ashraf Ghani ap- mark, relations between the two illegal and formed based on politi- by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The three to four districts now com- proved election law, and soon the leaders reached at boiling point, cal deal. At the same time, the initial draft of peace agreement was pared to 10 one year ago. More- selection committee will start where the two leader’s supporters deputy spokesman, assured me- signed by National Security Ad- over, he added that the Taliban working. Shah Hussain Murtaza- were accusing each other. Howev- dia outlets of support and said that viser, Haneef Atmar, High Peace wi, the President’s Deputy controls about 10 percent of the ing that many Afghan troops are stan that is now reaching a recon- er, tensions were eased after the freedom of media is one of great- Council Head, Syed Ahmad Gilani country and the Islamist extremist Spokesman in a press briefing on meeting, and both the leaders est achievements of the country in and head of HIA delegation, Mo- not properly commanded, are ill- ciliation agreement with the gov- Saturday said that the president group is battling with government equipped, and poorly trained. He ernment which will eventually in- agreed to take bold step to bring the past 15-year. “If any govern- hammad Amin Karim. The agree- troops for control of at least an- had ordered the selection commit- reforms. ment department denies to give ment will handed over to the Pres- said the U.S.-led coalition in Af- volve a reintegration into Afghan tee to select new members of the other 20 percent. Army General ghanistan will help Afghans ex- society,” Army General John “There is no rift between the information, media can lodge com- ident Ashraf Ghani and the HIA John Nicholson also said at the election commission of Afghani- two leaders,” Murtazawi told re- plaints to the President’s office.” leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar for fi- pand their control within the coun- Nicholson told reporters at the stan. The call for the reforms in Pentagon in Washington on Sep- try and improve the quality of their Pentagon. “This is one of the most porters, adding that today (Satur- He also assured that the NUG is nal approval. tember 23 that, separately, there the electoral system of the county day) evening President Ghani and committed to ensure safety of me- Peace agreement between gov- forces. Furthermore, he termed important steps we see towards has come after 2014 presidential are up to 1,300 Islamic State (IS) peace deal between government an eventual resolution of the con- CEO Abdullah would meet to dis- dia organization and its activities ernment and the HIA party has militants in Afghanistan. He said election was married by massive cuss census law of the country. in the country. In a response to a been widely welcomed. It is hoped and Hizb-e-Islami (HIA) an “en- flict in Afghanistan,” Nicholson fraud. In several occasions, both Afghanistan is paying a high cost couraging” step in the efforts to said. It is crystal fact that Paki- Before submitting his resigna- query, Murtazawi said that the this peace agreement give birth to in casualties in its difficult fight leaders Ashraf Ghani and Abdul- tion, head of Independent Election government is committed of adher- the long-lasting peace to the coun- resolve the country’s conflict. stan has been supporting all form lah Abdullah agreed to bring re- against Islamist groups. Nicholson “This is positive in the sense that of insurgents, including Daesh mil- Commission (IEC) Ahmad Yousuf ing to the peace deal with Hezb-e- try and convince the Taliban in- said many of the Afghan deaths forms in electoral body after the Nuristani opposed the formation Islmai Afghanistan (HIA). The surgents to also shun violence and this represents a group that is re- itants in order to further destabi- formation of National Unity Gov- are occurring at checkpoints, add- siding largely outside of Afghani- lize Afghanistan...P2 of selection committee, calling the long-awaited peace agreement reintegrate into civil society. Water Provision &Work assurance for Livelihood Improvement Recently, National unity government of Afghanistan has initiated National Employment Generation Program for Peace, in order to boost economic growth and decrease unemployment rate of our villagers in various province of our country. Based on it Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) has executed Maintenance Cash Grant Project and Employment (MCG) as of three phases in different provinces through the National Solidarity Programme (NSP). The key purpose of these national programmes for sure is the generating employment opportunity and enhancement economic growth of villagers, taking in consideration of security situation, unemployment rate, and weather condition of different provinces which so far thousands villagers have been benefited from job and wages opportunities and chances. Following these achievements MCG/NSP of MRRD once again implemented drinking water project in Nader khan village district of Manduzai, Khost province. Simultaneously, more than 223 skilled and unskilled labors have been benefited from job and wages’ opportunities. Without doubt, residents of this village are really deprived, so recently young and teenagers in order to find job and money have travelled abroad. And they suffered many hardship even they have taken the risk of death when travelling. Fortunately, MCG/NSP at some extends stopped travelling of most villagers temporarily to other countries by rehabilitating and maintenance of drinking water project in this village. Haji Abdul Khaleq, 60 years of age and a village elder explaining: “We have seen many considerable economic and social changes by implementing the MCG programme in our village. Most of Nader khan village residents are so poor that could not nourish their children. Many others cannot afford AFN 500 monthly fee of their drinking water. We have almost 40% monthly defaulter of drinking water. Hence, the money they are receiving from MCG is meaning them as of life water. From now on, the youths and teenagers won’t travel abroad for getting job and money”. It is worth mentioning that the drinking water project has completed at a sum of AFN 378,550 and more than 113 families have been benefited. Haji Amin, another resident of Nadir khan village added: “The drinking water project had been completed in the first phase of NSP and still we are utilizing it, but recently those expatriate families which came from Pakistan had no drinking water access near their houses therefore, by implementing MCG project the new pipes extended to their houses as well as many other pipes which being damaged were repaired”. Nowadays, the villagers are more hopeful for the better future by implementing of MCG/NSP/MRRD projects since they can easily access to employment opportunities in their villages and are not force to be weeks and months away from their families for providing money and family spending.

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...P1 To support Daesh militants, There is no denying to the fact Pakistan can to any level, that Pakistan intelligence agency previously, two Pakistani women, is making all out efforts to Abdul Bari Jahani only remembers your history, you lose your sense available to them again.” “There’s a lot of discussion tasked not only with informing loyal to the Islamic State known strengthen the foothold of Daesh one book from when he was grow- of identity, of who you are,” said The process is referred to as about Syria and how we confront Congress on domestic issues. as Daesh, were arrested in eastern group in Afghanistan. ing up in Afghanistan: the Quoran. Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the Af- “virtual repatriation,” a symbolic that challenge,” Taplin said. “It’s Curators consider this one of Nangarhar province, officials said, The arrest of two Pakistani The religious text is sacred in the rican and Middle Eastern division return of documents that no long- something that the global commu- the most meaningful parts of their as they were transferring classi- women, loyal to Daesh is the clear fied documents to the group. indication of Pakistan’s support Muslim nation, but at his Kanda- at the Library of Congress, and a er exist in the home country. The nity is looking for recipes and an- work. “We preserve the memory The National Security and to the group. The Afghan officials har high school he didn’t have ac- curator of the Afghanistan Project. Library of Congress in Washing- swers. I think this Afghanistan of the nation, of the United States, Defense Forces arrested the sus- always pointed out blame finger cess to many printed materials “Because identity is rooted in the ton works in conjunction with its Project is potentially a model for but we also preserve the memory pected women in Kot district, pro- toward Pakistan and its role for about his country, culture and lan- history of the country, of the an- six international field offices to some of these challenges that we’re of the world, because when we vincial government’s media office igniting war in Afghanistan. It is guage — core elements of national cestors, of the stories — real or collect cultural artifacts that have facing.” collect materials from countries said in that time. The seized docu- also proved that Pakistan provid- identity. The next generation of mythical — of your culture. Those been scattered across the globe, Carnegie Corporation of New such as Afghanistan, as Iraq and ments contained information how ing safe hideouts to the Taliban, as Afghans will have a whole lot more are critical elements of identity and including those that have been writ- York President Vartan Gregorian, Syria … and other countries that to make explosive devices and oth- all high-profile Taliban leaders than that at their fingertips, thanks wars have a way of destroying ten in other languages. The Af- Afghan Minister of Information have suffered from so much war er weapons, the source said. were killed there. in part to a major initiative from those.” ghanistan Project contains materi- and Culture Abdul Bari Jahani and and devastation and have lost their the U.S. Library of Congress. The Natural disasters and decades al in Pushto, Dari and Farsi, as well Librarian of Congress Carla Hay- books and their records and we Afghanistan Project has digitized of conflict have seen the destruc- as English, French, German and den show off a box of hard drives have them because we collected and the library’s collection of materi- tion of priceless cultural monu- Russian. that contain the documents digi- preserved them,” Deeb said. “That als related to the country, includ- ments, as well as troves of docu- This is a page from an illumi- tized as part of the Afghanistan is very exciting because you feel a ing books, maps, photographs, ments. Carnegie Corporation of nated and illustrated manuscript Project. SHAWN MILLER / Li- sense of commitment to these col- newspapers, prints and manu- New York provided $4 million to containing a small collection of brary of Congress lections and to these works. This scripts. Much of the material in digitally chronicle the history of short love poems of the type called Librarian of Congress Carla is certainly the most important the Library of Congress’ archive Afghanistan, which Carnegie Pres- tarjiband by ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami; Hayden, who was sworn in last part of my work and what I love can’t be found in Afghanistan it- ident Vartan Gergorian called “the (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). Library of week, said the project exemplifies most about my work.” self and some unique documents vortex of all cultures.” Congress the purpose of the institution (NEWSOBSERVER) can’t be found anywhere else in As Afghanistan struggles to John Van Oudenaren, who di- the world. reconstruct its government, civil rects the Library of Congress’ “I didn’t know other books society and educational and cul- World Digital Library, said it is more than our regular curriculum, tural institutions after the U.S.-led common that materials that reflect so it’s very important for the Af- invasion drew down in 2014, the one country’s core identity are ghan generation of young scholars,” initiative holds special significance. found in another. KABUL : The government has so said Jahani, who is now Afghani- “There is no country with a “It’s even true of the United far collected 114 million afghanis stan’s minister of information and richer history than Afghanistan States, there’s stuff in British and in revenues during the first nine culture. “It is for the future gener- that we’re in a partnership with,” French libraries relating to our co- months of the current fiscal year, ations. The future generations said Mark Taplin, principal depu- lonial history that they have, and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) should be and must be thankful for ty assistant secretary of the State people used to have to travel and said Saturday. this collection.” Department’s Bureau of Educa- go see these things,” Van MoF spokesman Ajmal Ha- This folio contains the illumi- tional and Cultural Affairs. “We Oudenaren said. mid Abdul Rahimzai told Pajhwok 121 billion afghanis collected. nated title page of the second book know that it is important for the The Afghanistan Project and Afghan News this year’s revenue However, Abdul Qayum Arif, of Nizami's Khamsah (Quintet), country’s future.” other initiatives of the World Dig- target was 132 billion afghanis and financial and banking faculty head entitled Khusraw va Shirin, which Original text from the Library ital Library eliminate the need to expressed confidence that even at Kabul Economy University, includes the book's heading, writ- of Congress' collection is dis- travel to far-flung places in the more could be collected until the said such increase in revenue could ten in white ink on a gold back- played in Washington. SHAWN world to examine rare materials end of the year. not be called an achievement be- ground decorated with red and blue MILLER / Library of Congress because they are accessible online. “Considering the current situ- cause it was temporary. flowers. It dates from the second Deeb said the project is a sign Providing the raw data — seven ation, we will be able to collect He said the government reve- half of the 16th century. Library of American appreciation for the terabytes worth — on hard drives beyond the target until December nue increased after it increased cus- of Congress cultural significance of the items also allows Afghan cultural insti- 20 when the fiscal year ends,” he tom duty, which he believed could Jahani received copies of the from Afghanistan. tutions to integrate the informa- said. He linked the increase in rev- negatively impact investments in digital material, more than 160,000 “They have lost a great deal. tion into their existing databases, enue to computerizing revenue col- the country. He said the revenue pages worth, at a ceremony this This is what happens with war … as well as download or print it, lection system to prevent corrup- would decrease again with cut in week in Washington. Stored on [Afghanistan] is rebuilding its in- without requiring an internet con- tion and appointing honest peo- investments. hard drives, the digital archive is stitutions, its students are going nection. ple at relevant offices. The government could in- bound for the National Library of back to school and to university. The project may also provide He said the MoF was decisive- crease revenue by eliminating cor- Afghanistan and the National Ar- It is important for them to be able a blueprint for how cultural histo- ly fighting corruption and urged the ruption at customs offices and re- chive of Afghanistan, as well as to have access to their own patri- ry of other conflict-torn nations people to support the ministry in ducing customs taxes for more in- eight universities across the coun- mony,” Deeb said. “Local records, can be preserved. Taplin said the ensuing transparency. vestments, Arif said. try. The materials date from the history and materials disappear, State Department and the interna- Rahimzai said the International However, the MoF spokes- 1300s to the 1990s. whether they’ve been bombed or tional cultural heritage communi- Monetary Fund (IMF) had set the man said the increased revenue re- “It’s terrible when you don’t burned or whatever. It is impor- ty are particularly concerned about government 114 billion afghanis sulted from fighting against corrup- have a record of your past and of tant that these materials are made Syria and Iraq. target for last year, when more than tion. (Pajhwok) ISLAMICREPUBLICOFAFGHANISTAN MINISTRYOFENERGY&WATER Project Coordination Unit Construction Works for Boundary wall of Tarnak Sub-River Basin Office- (B-037) Irrigation Restoration and Development Project NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING No:MEW/IRD/IFB/B-037 Date: 25–Sep- 2016 Invitation for Bids (IFB)

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The minutes of pre- bid meeting will be prepared and sent across to all the prospective bidders who have brought the bid documents up to date of pre-bid meeting and also immediately after the pre-bid meeting. 11. Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before 10:00AMon 26-Oct -2016the Deadline Date for bid Submission (if the submission date is announced an official holiday, then bids must be submitted next working day at the same time and venue). Electronic bidding shall not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened physically in the presence of the bidders’representatives who choose to attend in person at the address given below at 10 AM on the Deadline Date for bid Submission given above. 12. The address referred to above is: Deputy Director PCU-Kandhar Ministry of Energy & Water, PCU Regional office Front of Aino Mina City, Kandahar National Radio &Television Compound, Arghandab Sub-River Basin office Kandahar, Afghanistan Note: interested bidder can purchase the Bidding Documents from the below address of PCU Procurement office/ KBL also. Eng. Nasir Ahmad “Ahadi” Procurement officer IRDP Project Coordination Unit PCU/ KBL Mobile: 0700686110 SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES ADB grants $31m for Salang Pass reconstruction AT News Report KABUL: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Saturday ap- proved a $31.37 million grant to prepare the Salang Corridor reha- bilitation to improve the efficien- cy and safety of movement of goods and people in Afghanistan and across Central Asia, Afghan A number of MPs in the Wolesi insurgents. "You will witness that and ADB officials announced. Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) soon we will launch our winter “We are grateful for the con- on Saturday accused the country's operations in order to suppress the tinued support and contributions security agencies of inefficiency enemies and retake the areas under of the ADB and the government of following the increase in insecuri- their control," said Habiburrahman EMERGENCY Japan,” finance minister Eklil Haki- ty and conflict in parts of Afghan- Afzal, deputy spokesman for the mi said. istan. "If President [Ashraf Ghani] Ministry of Defense. CALLS “The improvement of Salang and Mr. [Mohammad Hanif] At- Commenting on the Uruzgan Corridor will boost connectivity mar are thinking about the nation, issue, deputy spokesman for the Police between Central Asia and South we would not witness hundreds Ministry of Interior, Najib Dan- Asia through Afghanistan and will of sons of this nation killed in bat- ish, said: "It is very early to say also support the strategic objec- tle against insurgents in Helmand who was responsible for the fall 100 - 119 tives of the CAREC program in and other provinces," said Sheki- of some check posts in Uruzgan expanding trade and improving ba Hashemi, an MP from Kanda- to insurgents. We are waiting for competitiveness of the region,” the har. "The internal security and the the report by our delegation which Hospitals minister said, referring to the US- defense committees of the Wolesi has been sent to the province." based Cooperative for Assistance Jirga have been told to summon Former military official, Ishaq At- FMIC Hospital and Relief Everywhere. heads of security agencies in order mar, meanwhile called on security Behind Kabul Medical The grant includes $15.92 mil- to discuss urgent measures to ad- agencies to use the opportunity to University: lion contributed by the Govern- dress security challenges in the carry out an offensive strategy ment of Japan through the ADB- country – Uruzgan and Kunduz in against militants rather than a de- 0202500200-+93793275595 administered Afghanistan Infra- particular," said the Wolesi Jirga fensive one. "Local commanders structure Trust Fund (AITF). speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi. exchange areas by taking money Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital AITF is a donor-financed fund Meanwhile, the defense and and other privileges from militants established in 2010 that aims to interior ministries spoke out about and sometimes rifts among com- Pule Bagh-e- Umomi improve livelihoods of the Afghan large-scale military operations in manders lead to the fall of areas to 070263672 people through infrastructure de- order to retake parts of the coun- insurgents," he stated. velopment. try that are under the control of (ToloNews) Public Works minister Mah- Khairkhana Hospital moud Baligh briefed the technical issues of the project, pointing that 0799-321007 as the best tunnel in the region. Egypt provides 2401352 Tom Panella, ADB Country Bamyan historic sites Director of Afghanistan said: “the Salang Corridor is a critical part of humanitarian Indira Gandhi Children Afghanistan’s transport infrastruc- Hospital, Wazir Akbar ture.” assistance to Afghans “The ADB assistance will sup- need protection, Khan, Kabul 2301372 port efforts to study the feasibili- AT News Report sador to Afghanistan, called the ty of three alignment options for aids as Egypt’s commitment to the rehabilitation and upgrade of KABUL: An Egyptian cargo plane help the Afghan people and allevi- Ibn-e- Seena the Salang Corridor, complete the maintenance landed in Kabul, bringing humani- ate their suffering after decades of Pul-e-Artan, Kabul detailed engineering design, and BAMYAN CITY Cultural activ- rehabilitation of the statue, he said. the people living here do not have tarian aids and medicines. war and conflict, the statement prepare the project for implemen- ists in central Bamyan province “Our efforts for reconstruction of other shelters. Some of the caves The Egypt’s Red Crescent noted. 2100359 tation,” he added. say they are concerned about a di- the centuries-old statues are part at the base of the statues were used Society called the assistance as a The Government of the Arab Built in 1964, the existing 2.7- lapidated condition of historic sites of the city’s cultural master plan.” by the Taliban for storing weap- sign of solidarity from the people Republic of Egypt has been assist- kilometer tunnel and associated as some people use ancient caves Esmatullah, a resident of Qul ons. Later on, destitute civilians of the Arab Republic of Egypt to ing Afghanistan in various fields Wazir Akbar Khan connecting roads, collectively as stable. Akram locality, said cave dwellers used the rock structures as their the “brotherly people of the Is- including training of Afghan police Hospital known as the Salang Corridor, are Bamyan is one of Afghani- were in terrible economic condi- abodes. For nearly three centuries, lamic Republic of Afghanistan”. officers as well as providing schol- in a dilapidated state and danger- stan’s historically rich provinces tions and they used the caves as the Buddhists lived in the caves. It includes blankets, medicines, arships and humanitarian assis- 2301741, 2301743 ous to travelers because of inade- known for the world -renowned stable. But Abdul Hamid Jalya, in charge medical supplies and food items tance. quate ventilation, poor lighting, Buddha statues carved out thou- He said families living in the of the historic sites protection, said which be distributed to the most The Egyptian government al- Ali Abad lack of modern safety features and sands of years ago. Band-i-Amir caves did not know about history some cave-dwellers in the Qul needy families in poor areas prior ways affirms its support to achieve a failing road surface due to lack of is another beautiful area with a of the places therefore not con- Akram locality used the historic to the beginning of the winter sea- peace and stability in Afghanistan Shahrara, Kabul regular maintenance and rehabili- translucent water reservoir. It is the cerned about their protection. caves as shelter for their animal and son, said a press statement issued that can yield into development tation. first-ever National Park of the coun- Thousands of cave-dwellers there were unaware of the caves by Egyptian Embassy to Kabul. and prosperity throughout the 2100439 The Salang Corridor is the try. According to local officials, near the Taliban-dynamited Bud- importance. He acknowledged The aids are to be distributed country. The Egyptian government only route that permits year-round the number of tourists declined in dha statues wallow in abject pov- rains and natural disasters hit hard to the hospitals and vulnerable is also committed to enhance the Malalai Maternity North–South passage of goods and recent years due to growing inse- erty and unemployment. the historic sites and the authori- people through the Afghan Red well-established bonds of bilateral people across the Hindu Kush curity in Bamyan and neighboring Around 3,000 caves are dot- ties paid no attention to their pres- Crescent Society. relations between the two broth- Hospital mountain-ranges, which peaks provinces. To realize Bamyan’s ted around the famous Buddha ervation. He said tourists would Mohab Nasr, Egypt’s Ambas- erly countries. 2201377/ 2301743 over 7,700 meters, making the Sa- tourism potential, the activists in- statues, inhabited by 250 families not visit Bamyan if the historic lang tunnel the second highest one sist on beefed up security. from Bamyan and other provinc- sites vanished due to the lack at- in the world. The activists also accuse gov- es. Caught up in grinding poverty, tention. (Pajhwok) Banks As one of the key sections of ernment authorities of negligence 43 insurgents killed in the Central Asia Regional Econom- in protection and maintenance of Da Afghanistan Bank ic Cooperation (CAREC) Corri- historic sites. They warn if prop- country-wide military ops dors 5 and 6, the Salang Corridor er attention is not paid, the sites 2100302, 2100303 is also central to providing mobil- may extinct. AT News Report Paktika, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zab- ity for Afghanistan’s neighboring ul, Ghor, Herat, Takhar, Kunduz, Ali Raza Hussaini, a cultural KABUL: At least 43 Taliban in- Bakhtar Bank countries. activist, told Pajhwok Afghan Jowzjan and Helmand provinces,” Given the lack of alternative surgents were killed and 23 others the defense ministry said in a state- 0776777000 News that heavy rains, natural di- wounded in different operations routes, the vast majority of goods sasters and the lack of maintenance ment. “In these operations, 43 in- Azizi Bank shipped to Kabul from the north, launched by the security forces surgents including a Daesh terror- and care had caused damages to within the past 24 hours across pass through the Salang Corridor. historic sites in the province and ist were killed and 23 others in- 0799 700900 It is estimated that over 5,500 ve- the county, security officials said jured,” it said, without elaborating the sites faced the danger of ex- on Saturday. “The national army Pashtany Bank hicles transit the corridor per tinction. about the Daesh fighter death. day—far exceeding its capacity. with the cooperation of the nation- According to the statement, “The Qul Akram locality al police and the national director- 2102908, 2103868 According to the United States where some ancient caves exist is six insurgents were arrested dur- Agency for International Develop- ate of security operatives, con- ing the operations. registered with the United Nations ducted clearance operations Air Services ment, economic losses from the Educational, Scientific and Cultur- “Unfortunately, four soldiers constrained traffic flow are esti- against insurgents in different ar- were also killed during the clash- al Organization UNESCO, but eas of Nangarhar, Ghazni, Paktia, mated at $60 million per year. local residents keep their house- es.” Safi Airways The studies will review the hold animals in the carves,” he said. 020 22 22 222 three most viable alignment options The 5th century historical for the corridor to increase capac- marvels -- dotting the checkered Ammunition cache ity and mitigate the risk of project landscape of Bamyan -- have been Ariana failure. Various combinations of a major haunt for foreign tourists. 020-2100270 new tunnels and connecting roads However, the monuments have seized in Herat will be studied to identify the best been in a state of neglect in recent types of ammunition and explo- way to significantly improve the years. AT News Report sives, discovered and seized from Kam Air capacity of the corridor and the Necessary arrangements for a truck through an operation,” the 0799974422 transport network of Afghanistan. rehabilitation of one of the de- KABUL: The National Director- statement said. It added that the Once built, the improved Sa- stroyed Buddha statues have been ate of Security (NDS) on Satur- weapons were loaded skillfully in lang Corridor will cut travel time put in place with UNESCO help. day said that an ammunition cache a truck and the insurgents wanted Hotels and cost of passenger and cargo Governor Mohammad Zahir of terrorists was discovered and to carry them from Ghor province Safi Landmark transportation between the south- Wahdat hoped rehabilitation of the confiscated in western Herat prov- to Herat. Two terrorists were de- ern and northern regions of Af- statue would help revive cultural ince. In a statement, the NDS said tained in this regard, identified as ghanistan and ensure the security heritage and play an important role that its operatives managed to dis- Haji Akhtar Gul and Bakht Mo- 020-2203131 and reliability of the route. cover and confiscate an ammuni- in the province economic develop- hammad, the statement underlined ERENA To date, the ADB has allocat- ment by attracting more tourists. tion cache in the Naw Abad area. it. The terrorist planned to con- S ed more than $2.2 billion for roads, That was why local authori- “The cache included 51 AK-47 duct terrorist activities in Herat railways and airport projects in ties strived to muster support of assault rifles, 19 automatic weap- province, which was thwarted by 0799654000 Afghanistan. UNESCO and other donors for ons, 71 pistols and various other NDS forces, noted the statement. New Rumi Restaurant 0776351347 Bangladesh gear up for Afghanistan challenge Internet Services UA Telecom Bangladesh will be eager to get off petition, while most of the What to expect: A high of 34 two ODIs between them. mad, Amir Hamza, Najibullah ul-Haq, Karim Janat, Shabir Noori, to a winning start against Afghan- bowlers too have been doing their degree Celsius with thunderstorms - Mushfiqur Rahim needs 80 Zadran, Nawroz Mangal, Naveen- Ihsanullah. cricbuzz 0796701701 / 0796702702 istan in the three-match One Day jobs well and will be raring to go. forecast in the evening Team runs to become the third batsman International (ODI) series which The presence of Mosaddek Hos- News: Bangladesh: While Mustafi- from Bangladesh after Tamim Iqbal Exchange Rate begins on Sunday (September 25) sain, an uncapped 20-year-old all- zur Rahman is still recovering from and Shakib Al Hasan to reach 4000 at the Shere Bangla National Sta- rounder who impressed in the 50- a shoulder injury, the hosts will be runs in ODIs. Purchase: dium in Dhaka. The ODIs will act over competition, comes as a wel- pleased with the fact that Taskin - Shakib Al Hasan needs two as a precursor for Bangladesh's come addition to the side. Ahmed and Arafat Sunny were re- wickets to go past Abdul Razzaq series against England in a couple Meanwhile, it came as a sur- cently cleared by the ICC to bowl (207) to become the leading wick- One US$ = of weeks' time, but the hosts prise when Shafiul Islam earned a in international cricket. Minhajul et-taker for Bangladesh in ODIs. 66.50Afs wouldn't be viewing it as a mere recall while Al-Amin Hossain, de- Abedin, the chief selector, had re- Quotes: "Afghanistan's bowl- One Pound Sterling= practice series as Afghanistan aren't spite performing well recently, cently mentioned that Taskin ing is a key area. It has legspin, pushovers, with an ability to pull was left out. would be roped in to the squad left-arm spin, offbreak bowlers 85.96Afs off surprises. Afghanistan began their prep- should he be given a green signal and the pace attack," - Mirwais One Euro = It has been nearly six months arations by securing a comfortable by the ICC. It remains to be see if Ashraf. Squads: 73.73Afs since Bangladesh played interna- 66-run victory over Bangladesh the pacer will be part of the team Bangladesh: Mashrafe Morta- tional cricket, with their last ap- Cricket Board XI in the 50-over that takes the field on Sunday. za (c), Tamim Iqbal, Soumya 1000 Pak Rs = pearance coming in the World tour game. Most of the batsmen Afghanistan: The visitors Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Mosaddek 621Afs Twenty20 in India earlier this year. spent quality time at the crease, named three uncapped players - Hossain, Shakib Al Hasan, Mah- In fact, their last ODI came in with 21-year-old Hashmatullah Naveen-ul-Haq, Ihsanullah and mudullah, Nasir Hossain, Mush- Sale: 2015. However, most of the play- Shahidi coming up with an impres- Karim Janat in their 17-man squad. fiqur Rahim, Sabbir Rahman, Tai- One US$ = ers in the squad have had some sive half-century. The bowlers, Of the three, only Karim featured jul Islam, Shafiul Islam, Rubel 66.70 Afs cricketing action, having played in too, fared well with Mohammad in the practice match, and consid- Hossain One Pound Sterling= the Dhaka Premier Division Crick- Nabi leading the way. ering his economical performance Afghanistan: Asghar Stanikzai et League tournament. While the current form of the with the ball, he could find a place (c), Mohammad Shahzad, Rahmat 86.76Afs The likes of Tamim Iqbal, players augurs well for Afghani- in the eleven for the ODIs. Shah, Mirwais Ashraf, Dawlat One Euro= Mushfiqur Rahim, Nasir Hossain stan, they will be well aware that Did you know: Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Sami- 74.33 Afs and Mahmudullah have been taking on an international side will - Bangladesh and Afghanistan ullah Shenwari, Rashid Khan, 1000 Pak Rs= 629 amongst the runs in the List A com- be a lot different. have won one match each in the Hashmatullah Shaidi, Fareed Ah- SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES PML-N woman I ndia, G4 partners reaffirm 'unwavering activist commitment' to UNSC reforms accuses UNITED NATIONS: The G4 na- ister Fumio Kishida. According to tions (IGN). tions, including India, at a meeting the statement, the ministers wel- "They also welcomed the ex- on the sidelines of the 71st Ses- comed meetings of the Group of pressions of flexibility made by party sion of the UN General Assembly, Friends on Security Council Re- numerous delegations during the have reaffirmed "unwavering com- form, which brought together high- past IGN session which resulted leaders of mitment" to reforms in the UN level representatives of member in the identification of areas of con- Security Council (UNSC) reflect- states from diverse regions aiming vergence in member states' posi- ing the realities of the 21st centu- at pushing forward Security Coun- tions on all issues related to the harassment ry. cil reforms. "In this regard, they five clusters as identified by GA "The G4 Ministers under- called upon all reform-oriented (General Assembly) Resolution scored their unwavering commit- member states to join efforts and 62/557 Security Council reform," ment to a comprehensive reform finally bring about meaningful re- the statement said. of the Security Council which form," it said. The four nations, however, needs to take into account the geo- "The ministers expressed their concluded that substantial political realities of the 21st cen- support for equitable regional rep- progress was still limited and that tury," a joint statement issued fol- resentation, underscoring the im- efforts needed to be intensified to lowing the meeting on Friday said. perative for Africa's representation build further momentum and to "More than 70 years after the in both the permanent and non- arrive at real text-based negotia- founding of the UN, the Security permanent membership as well as tions. Council also has to adapt in order adequate and continuing represen- "They pledged to continue to to cope with the ever growing glo- tation of small and medium sized work towards a comprehensive bal challenges," the statement said. member states, including the Small Security Council reform in the "With a view to the manifold Island Developing States, in a re- framework of the IGN", the state- conflicts and humanitarian crises, formed Security Council." ment said. a more representative, legitimate The four countries, according "They expressed their full and effective Council is needed to the statement, reiterated their support to the President of the 71st more than ever to guarantee peace resolve to continue contributing to UN General Assembly, trusting PESHAWAR: PML-N women and security worldwide." The G4 the fulfilment of the purposes and that he will support swift and sub- wing’s Chitral district president nations -- India, Japan, Germany principles of the UN Charter and stantive progress towards a mean- Bibi Jan has accused some of her and Brazil -- are seeking perma- emphasized that they were "legit- ingful reform of the Security Coun- party’s local leaders of hatching a nent membership in the UNSC. imate candidates for permanent cil," it stated. conspiracy to kill her and demand- While Minister of State for Exter- membership and supported each "The ministers also briefly ex- ed of the top leadership to take nal Affairs MJ Akbar represented other's aspirations". changed views on UN reforms to serious notice of the party’s situa- India in the meeting, Brazil was All the four nations thanked render the UN fit for the 21st cen- tion in the area. represented by its Foreign Minis- the President of the 70th General tury and discussed their expecta- Speaking at a press conference ter Jose Serra, Germany by For- Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft of tions for the next Secretary Gen- at Peshawar Press Club on Friday, eign Minister Frank-Walter Stein- Denmark, for his efforts on UNSC eral of the United Nations in this Bibi Jan said that she had started meier, and Japan by Foreign Min- in the inter-governmental negotia- regard," it concluded. her political career from student life and took part in social gather- ings, but later joined PML-N to serve the people of her district. “I have the honour of being the first female political activist in Chitral and I actively worked for the party and women of the area, but some male members of our party are against me,” she claimed. Flanked by a group of female workers, Bibi Jan said that PML- N district president Said Ahmed Khan, Fazal Rahim and some oth- ers were trying to remove her from the political scene. “On the day when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was sched- “The arrow shot by the archer may war mongering. The Pakistan mil- Brainstorming at any level is uled to address a public meeting in or may not kill a single person. But itary might be ready and armed- non-existent in the ministry of for- Chitral these local leaders called me stratagems devised by a wise man to-teeth but there is on huge gap in eign affairs. The additional secre- to a meeting. I came but they left can kill even babes in the womb,”- its defenses: the lousy foreign min- taries’ meeting is the only forum the venue and locked the door from Chanakya Kautilya istry and its venal diplomats. in the ministry where some sort of outside where I spent over one Long before Narendra Modi After over two-dozen back- minimal discussion or say brain- hour in virtual detention, but some took over, India chalked out a com- ground interviews, this correspon- storming takes place. However, passerby hearing my hue and cry prehensive plan to marginalize and dent has been able to synthesize this is only at the highest level and opened the door,” she claimed. defame Pakistan globally. Islama- some of the core flaws confront- does not take engage even director Claims Chitral district presi- bad’s incompetent political lead- ing efficiency of Pakistan’s foreign or director general level officers. dent wants to remove her from ers, rash generals and lousy bureau- ministry. Being the second largest From the additional secretary lev- political scene crats unknowingly contributed Muslim country and sixth most el to the assistant director, 99 per She said that the room was their fair share. Yes, it sounds dis- populous nation, Pakistan has sig- cent of the effort consists of writ- short of oxygen and she could have turbing and even melodramatic. nificant diplomatic footprint in the ing inane and clichéd talking points died of suffocation had the pass- But it’s very true. After the India world. The number of embassy has and worthless noting on irrelevant erby not opened the door. She said military took one month to mobi- growing and so has the staff de- files. They are precisely glorified the male members of PML-N lize along Pakistani border follow- puted there. Over the past three clerks or baboos, mostly playing wanted her to miss the public meet- ing the Parliament attack, the Vaj- decades, however, the country’s the role of a postman. The result ing of Nawaz Sharif, but she man- payee-led government sought a civil services have steadily declined is that foreign policy is made most- aged to reach the venue. standardized plan against Pakistan. in terms of quality of manpower, ly on whim and dictation from ei- “Initially, my entry to the ven- The doctrine that resulted is called training and motivation, which may ther the General Headquarters or ue of public meeting was blocked the Cold Start. Besides, various have a lot to do with politicization the prime minister’s office, hence by security men at the behest of localized thrust of military hard- of bureaucracy as well as military’s the U-turns, and last-minute fire- my opponents but as my com- ware aimed at inflicting damage to soaring interference. Currently, the fighting. A case in point can be the plaint was aired by some TV chan- the adversary and eventually dis- ambassadors appointed can divid- Torkham border-crossing row with nels the gate was opened for me,” abling the use of nuclear option, it ed in three categories; career dip- Afghanistan; when the foreign of- she said. assigned equal significance to the lomats, retired military officers fice did not know anything regard- The woman leaguer said that government diplomatic arm – the ranging from colonels to generals ing the discussions between the she informed the party leaders, external affairs ministry – to por- and political appointees including army and the Afghan ambassador. especially women wing president tray Pakistan as ‘epic center of mid-level bankers such as in Qatar Despite major back-to-back chal- Tahira Bukhari and general secre- terrorism’. The India media, which to top-notch journalists like Dr lenges such as Indian nuclear tests tary Shaheen Habibullah, and they rarely challenges the South Block, Maleeha Lodhi. The mix baggage in 1998, followed by September had allowed her to speak to media built the narrative which the Indi- brings out mixed results. Not all 11 attacks, the Pakistani foreign to bring on record whatever she an diplomats efficiently propagat- career diplomats know what they ministry could not establish a faced on the eve of PM’s visit to DHAKA: A Bangladeshi politi- rullah Arman Khan were accused Former Chhatra League leader ed through official and unofficial are supposed while not every po- round-the-clock crisis center. The Chitral. The woman said she could cian being investigated for suspect- in a case over the murder of Saiful Atiqur Rahman Pintu, another ac- channels. Meanwhile, Islamabad litical appointee or ex-military man embassies in Mexico or Argentina have registered a case against these ed links with the murder of a Chha- Islam, President of Chhatra cused in Saiful murder case, was basked in the narcissism of Gener- is there to enjoy the perks. There have to comply with Islamabad’s people, but she did not only for tra League leader in Comilla has League's Comilla city unit, in April also spotted with Imran in New al Pervez Musharraf with the po- is little or no communication be- office timing in case a diplomat the sake of party. been seen with the Prime Minister last year. York. Mr Saiful was stabbed to litical opposition treating its tween the Ministry of Foreign bothers to reach out to headquar- Bibi Jan also complained that Sheikh Hasina's entourage in the "Imran is the number one ac- death during a programme on April wounds in Jeddah and London. Affairs and other institutions of ter on some important matter. the local leaders had refused to is- US, media reports said on Friday. cused in the case," police com- 11, 2015, and Mr Imran was Sartaj Aziz urges foreign en- national security and internal se- How many countries in similar sit- sue her party ticket in the local Federation of Bangladesh manding officer Abdur Rab told among the 22 accused in the case, voys to pursue proactive diplo- curity of Pakistan. One example uation can rely on 9am to 3pm stan- government election in 2015, but Chambers of Commerce and Indus- bdnews24.com. bdnews24 reported. macy So now, India has taken off is that of Pakistan’s policy on dard office routine? With career she contested it independently and try (FBCCI) Director Masud The Criminal Investigation This is not the only case that its gloves and mask, both. The war drone strikes. While the Ministry planning virtually non-existent, got elected as neighbourhood coun- Parvez Khan Imran is the prime Department (CID) is investigating Imran stands accused of. Among drums are beating with chorus of of Foreign Affairs printed reams there is no co-relation between lan- cillor unopposed. accused in the case with a member the Chhatra League leader's mur- the several othe Hindutva militia at full pitch. War of paper on Pakistanis anger and guage training and foreign posting. She said that in case of any of the executive council of the der. Witnesses said Mr Imran was r cases against him, he has se- as “continuation of politics by protests on drone strikes, the Unit- In many cases, officers are never problem or attempt on her life the Comilla Chamber of Commerce in the audience of UN General cured bail in an arms case and in other means,” said Carl Von ed States CIA and the Pakistan’s sent to the country whose language responsibility would rest with Said and Industry, which he had once Assembly. He entered the gallery another over abduction. Clausewitz, the legendary military military were both cooperating on they have learnt, thus they lose Ahmed Khan, Fazal Rahim and headed, bdnews24.com reported. holding a card that identifies him The Chhatra League is linked theorist. The previous Indian pol- drone strikes and targeting of al- the ability to either speak or write their supporters. Mr Imran and his brother Nas- as a Bangladesh representative. to the ruling Awami League. icy will be forwarded by war or leged militants. in it.

NEW DELHI: India is being of- giving India the technology it ment was signed on Friday. force preferring European and in India. Boeing’s India President Pratyush Kumar said it was aiming to help India build F/A-18 fighters and fered blueprints to advanced com- needed.Relations between India Similarly, efforts to co-devel- Russian manufacturers. develop jets in the long term. Saab’s plan would have it build a second manufacturing plant in Sweden for its bat aircraft by the world’s aero- and the U.S. have improved since, op a next generation fighter with Lockheed also has proposed Gripen E jet type, train Indian technicians there, and then dismantle and ship the plant to India, said its Indian space companies, a move unthink- as both share a goal to contain Chi- Russia’s Sukhoi stalled over cost moving its F-16 production line in country head Jan Widerström. Saab hopes to gain an advantage by offering the blueprints for the Gripen’s able even a decade ago, as New na’s military. India has struck deals disputes, while a third indigenous Fort Worth, Texas, to India, and advanced radar system, Mr. Widerström said. Saab and its suppliers could help train 20,000 local technicians Delhi gets ready to place another with the U.S. to buy everything jet program aiming to deliver 120 training more than 5,000 locals. Its in coming years if their bid is successful, and build anywhere from 100 to 200 jets for the Indian air force and multibillion-dollar air force order. from Apache helicopters to trans- light combat aircraft is behind bid also is critical to strengthening export customers in places such as Thailand and Malaysia, said Mr. Widerström. “We’re offering to set up India’s aging military jet fleet port planes and artillery, lifting the schedule. military cooperation between the aerospace capability in India for the next 100 years,” he said. desperately needs an upgrade, country to India’s second-biggest Those programs relied on U.S. and India, said Abhay Paran- which analysts say may spur it to defense trading partner behind state-run Hindustan Aeronautics jape, Lockheed’s director of busi- place an order worth more than $10 Russia. to build and design jets. Defense ness development in India. billion in the next year. Hoping for “China’s rise has changed the experts say the company faces a “If you ever want to fight to- an edge, and encouraged by a re- equation,” said Pushan Das, a fel- skills shortage as its best engineers gether, you need to train together, cent law that allows 100% foreign low with the Observer Research are spread thinly across projects and to do that you need to fly the ownership of local defense firms, Foundation, a policy think tank that include retrofitting old Rus- same kind of aircraft,” Mr. Paran- jet-fighter makers such as Lock- based in New Delhi. Industry ex- sian and French jet fighters and jape said. U.S. industry officials heed Martin Corp., Boeing Co. and perts estimate India needs over 300 building helicopters and drones. said per-unit costs could drop by Saab AB are rushing in with offers new combat jets in the next 15 The company didn’t respond to as much as 20% in India compared to set up production lines to In- years. requests for comment. with the U.S., potentially driving dia. It could be a while before a deal Impatient with the delays, In- fresh sales outside India. Efforts to give India unprece- is struck. Successful bidders also dia relaxed foreign investment laws Still, it could take Lockheed dented access to jet fighter know- face the challenge of setting up a and defense procurement rules to roughly four years to transfer the how illustrate the country’s rising jet-manufacturing system from kick-start a privately managed jet- Fort Worth F-16 line, which is slat- importance to the West as China’s scratch. Previous such attempts fighter industry as its air force ed for closure soon when remain- power increases, analysts say. have failed. struggles to keep its aging fighter ing orders for the aging jet type India, until a decade ago, was A deal struck in 2012 with fleet in the sky, including MiG-21 tail off, industry officials said. trying stubbornly to build its own France’s Dassault Aviation SA to jets bought in the 1960s. Since then, A logistics-sharing treaty, jets, after the U.S. and Japan im- build Rafale fighters in India fell U.S. manufacturers Lockheed and signed last month, is the first of posed sanctions following its nu- through last year following dis- Boeing, and Sweden’s Saab, have three agreements the U.S. wants clear tests in 1998, which broke agreements, and was replaced with proposed building jets with Indi- India to sign to allow for a greater U.S. nonproliferation laws and a smaller plan to import 36 jets. an partners. transfer of U.S. military technolo- sparked tensions with Pakistan. That plan finally was approved by The U.S. hasn’t sold jet fight- gy, potentially strengthening Lock- U.S. companies were blocked from India’s government, and an agree- ers to India before, with India’s air heed and Boeing’s bids to sell jets SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Cameron aide made Britain’s ambassador to France Former prime minister David Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Cameron’s chief of staff has Lavrov said a revival of a ceasefire been appointed Britain’s ambas- in Syria depends on all sides in- sador to France, the Foreign volved and not only on “Russia’s Office announced. Cameron re- unilateral concessions”. signed in July after failing to “One can only speak about the keep Britain in the European ceasefire revival only on the col- Union in the June referendum. lective basis,” he said in an inter- But now his closest adviser Ed view for the TV news show ‘Vesti Llewellyn will play a diplomat- on Saturday’. Russia and the Unit- ic role in the negotiations for ed States on Sept. 9 agreed to a Britain’s departure from the deal aimed at putting Syria’s peace bloc as London’s representative process back on track. It included in Paris. Llewellyn will take up a nationwide truce, improved hu- his post in Paris in December. manitarian aid access and the pos- “He will help us make a sibility of joint military operations great success of Brexit while against ISIS and al Qaeda’s Syrian ensuring that Britain is more affiliate, formerly known as the engaged in the continent of Eu- Nusra Front. rope than ever,” Foreign Secre- The truce effectively col- tary Boris Johnson said on Fri- lapsed after a week when an aid day. Llewellyn will succeed convoy was attacked on Monday, North Korea vowed on Friday to Julian King, who was recently killing some 20 people. further strengthen its nuclear weap- appointed as the European Lavrov called for an investiga- ons capability, in spite of UN con- commissioner for security on tion of the incident, repeating that demnation and sanctions, and said the European Union’s executive Russian or Syrian air forces were it would never abandon its deter- body. “I look forward to repre- not involved in the attack. rence while it was threatened by senting British interests and to He also reiterated his calls for nuclear-armed states. building on the very strong re- the separation of opposition forc- In an address to the United lations our country has with es from the Nusra Front, adding Nations General Assembly, North France,” Llewellyn said. “As we that Russia had recently observed Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong embark on a new chapter with that opposition fighters had merged Ho described his country’s nucle- the UK’s departure from the with the Nusra Front. ar weapons as “a righteous self- EU, I will work hard to defense measure” against “con- strengthen our cooperation and stant nuclear threats of the United to address the many common States.” challenges facing our two na- “Going nuclear-armed is the tions.” Llewellyn, who attend- policy of our state,” he said. “As ed the elite Eton College at the long as there exists a nuclear-weap- same time as Cameron, was the on state in hostile relations with chief of staff throughout his the DPRK, our national security time as leader of the center-right and peace on the Korean peninsu- Conservative Party, from 2005 la can be defended only with reli- to his resignation. In his depart- able nuclear deterrence,” he said, ing honors list, Cameron made using the acronym for the Demo- Llewellyn a member of parlia- cratic People’s Republic of Korea, ment’s upper House of Lords. North Korea’s official name. Ri said North Korea “will con- tinue to take measures to strength- Brazil Supreme en its national nuclear armed forc- es in both quantity and quality.” Court OKs probe South Sudan’s exiled opposition come to return to the country if he Ri said the Korean peninsula into allegations figure Riek Machar “is not dead wanted to run for office during elec- was the world’s “most dangerous politically,” United Nations peace- tions in 2018. hotspot, which can even ignite the citing Temer keeping chief Herve Ladsous said After Machar fled the coun- outbreak of nuclear war,” and the Brazil’s Supreme Court on Fri- on Friday as the country’s vice try, Kiir replaced him with Taban blame lay “squarely’ with the day approved a preliminary in- president accused Machar of at- Deng Gai, who broke ranks with Two months after his refusal to el wife Melania, along with the “We have fought the battle and United States. vestigation into plea bargain tempting to overthrow President Machar said he was taking over endorse Donald Trump’s presi- text, “The images are worth a thou- he was a tough and brilliant oppo- He accused the United States deal allegations from former Salva Kiir in July. the opposition SPLM-IO. A dential candidacy prompted out- sand words.” nent,” the Republican nominee said and South Korea of conducting Transpetro head Sergio Political rivalry between Kiir former minister of mining, Deng rage at the Republican National Positioning himself as the true in a statement. “I look forward to massive “nuclear war exercises” Machado that President Mich- and Machar sparked a civil war in Gai was a chief negotiator on be- Convention, Senator Ted Cruz said conservative alternative to Trump, working with him for many years aimed at “decapitation” of the el Temer had solicited campaign 2013 and, while the pair signed a half of the SPLM-IO in the talks Friday that he would vote for his Cruz responded by calling the real to come in order to make America North Korean leadership and oc- donations in 2012 that had il- shaky peace deal a year ago, fight- that led to last year’s peace deal. former bitter primary rival. estate billionaire “utterly amoral,” great again.” Cruz’s backing comes cupation of its capital Pyongyang, licit origin. ing has continued and Machar fled Deng Gai addressed the UN “After many months of care- and “a narcissist at a level I don’t after the two camps showed some while a call last year by North Brazil Supreme Court the country after the eruption of General Assembly on Friday and ful consideration, of prayer and think this country’s ever seen.” signs of reconciliation. Trump’s Korean leader Kim Jong Un to re- Judge Teori Zavascki approved violence in July. He is now in Khar- said South Sudan was “steadily searching my own conscience, I He dropped out of the prima- running mate Mike Pence spoke place the 1953 Korean War armi- the probe that also cites Senate toum. implementing” the peace deal. He have decided that on Election Day, ry race in May. with Cruz several times in recent stice with a peace agreement had President Renan Calheiros, Senior diplomats met to dis- accused Machar of attempting to I will vote for the Republican nom- During the Republican Nation- weeks and Trump has hired sever- been ignored. among others, the court said. cuss South Sudan on Friday on the overthrow Kiir during deadly vio- inee, Donald Trump,” the Texas al Convention in Cleveland, when al Cruz allies, including Kellyanne North Korea’s nuclear and Transpetro is a wholly sidelines of the annual UN gather- lence in the capital Juba in July. senator wrote in a statement post- many expected Cruz to endorse Conway to be his campaign man- missiles tests have been con- owned subsidiary of Petróleo ing of world leaders. The United Ladsous said the South ed on Facebook. Trump, he told delegates instead ager. The endorsement may also demned worldwide and have re- Brasileiro SA, also known as States, China, Britain and Norway Sudanese government had not yet “A year ago, I pledged to en- to “stand and speak and vote your be calculated to help Cruz’s chanc- sulted in several rounds of UN sanc- Petrobras, the state-controlled were among those at the meeting improved cooperation with the dorse the Republican nominee, and conscience” amid boos from the es for reelection in 2018. He faces tions, the most recent of which oil company ensnared in Bra- hosted by UN Deputy Secretary- world body on the deployment of I am honoring that commitment,” convention floor. Cruz’s backing a possible Senate primary challenge were adopted in March. Discus- zil’s largest ever corruption General Jan Eliasson. more peacekeepers. he added. “And if you don’t want now could help Trump shore up from Texas Representative Michael sions are already under way on a scandal. “Clearly (Machar) is, I think In the wake of the fighting in to see a Hillary Clinton presiden- support from Republicans who McCaul, the chairman of the possible new UN sanctions reso- Brazil’s Supreme Court re- somebody said in the meeting just July, the 15-member Security cy, I encourage you to vote for have long suspected the candi- House Homeland Security Com- lution after North Korea’s fifth and vealed in June that parts of now, he is not dead politically by Council last month authorized a him.” Cruz’s move represents a date’s conservative credentials, in- mittee. The move might also back- largest nuclear test on Sept. 9. Machado’s plea bargain testi- a long way, he’s there, regional protection force as part dramatic turnaround after a prima- cluding the evangelical voters who fire. Steve Deace, an influential Ri said that by imposing sanc- mony alleges that the campaign I mean he’s out of the coun- of the ry campaign during which the two form the core of Cruz’s electorate. conservative radio host, tweeted tions on North Korea, the UN Se- contribution requested by Te- try, but he does represent a very UN peacekeeping mission and candidates traded increasingly per- Trump responded to Cruz’s en- that Cruz’s endorsement of Trump curity Council was “playing the mer was made legally by engi- important element of the South threatened to consider an arms sonal insults. dorsement — three days before is “the worst political miscalcula- role of covering up the highhande- neering group Queiroz Galvao Sudanese community,” Ladsous embargo if Kiir’s government did Dismissing Cruz’s early over- Trump’s crucial first debate with tion of my lifetime. I hope I am ness and arbitrariness of the Unit- but resulted from a kickback on told reporters. not cooperate or stop hindering tures, Trump had attacked the Democratic nominee Clinton — wrong. The people will decide ed States.” contracts with Petrobras. Last month Kiir fired six min- the movement of peacekeepers. Texas senator, dubbing him “Lyin’ saying he was “greatly honored.” that.” He accused the United States Temer has denied ever hav- isters allied to Machar. A UN state- “There have been contacts at Ted” and suggesting he wasn’t eli- of threatening North Korea by fly- ing requested any donations to ment summarizing Friday’s meet- various levels with the govern- gible to be president because he ing B1-B strategic bombers over Sao Paulo’s 2012 mayoral cam- ing stressed the need for inclusivi- ment, with the authorities of South was born in Canada (most experts the military demarcation line on paign run by Gabriel Chalita, ty in the South Sudanese political Sudan but this has not really trans- say that he was eligible since his the Korean peninsula and warned: then a member of Temer’s Bra- process. lated into significant progress on mother was American). “We will never remain onlookers zilian Democratic Movement The United States has said it the ground,” Ladsous told report- Trump also speculated that at it and the United States will have Party (PMDB). His press of- does not believe that Machar, who ers. Cruz’s father had some connection to face tremendous consequences fice said would not comment on was vice president until he fled, Deng Gai told the General As- to Lee Harvey Oswald, the man beyond imagination.” Friday. should return to his former posi- sembly that the government need- who killed former president John The United States flew two tion in the government given the ed to “engage more with the UN F. Kennedy, and insinuated that B1-Bs over South Korea on continuing instability in the coun- on the details.” Cruz’s wife Heidi was involved in Wednesday in the second such Push for Iraq’s try. “This is in order to avoid de- corruption. flight since the Sept. 9 test. US During a visit by the UN Se- railing national healing and recon- At the nadir of their confron- Forces Korea said the flights were Mosul to start ‘in curity Council to South Sudan ear- ciliation. External intervention of- tation, Trump tweeted an unflat- a show of force and of the US com- a few weeks’: UK lier this month, diplomats said Kiir ten affects negatively internal rec- tering picture of Heidi Cruz next mitment to preserve the security told them that Machar was wel- onciliation,” he said. to a photo of his own former mod- of the peninsula and the region. An offensive to encircle Iraq’s second city of Mosul should begin “in the next few weeks”, Britain’s Defense Secretary War crimes tribunal sought to try ISIS detainees Michael Fallon said Friday, af- ter a visit to the country. Mosul has been held by War crimes investigators collect- religious minorities have been ter- ISIS extremists since June 2014 ing evidence of ISIS’s elaborate rorized. The officials spoke on and British jets are part of a operation to kidnap thousands of condition of anonymity because US-led coalition flying mis- women as sex slaves say they have they were not authorized to dis- sions against them in Iraq and a case to try ISIS leaders with cuss the issue. Syria. crimes against humanity but can- The US has no legal obligation “Though Mosul is a large not get the global backing to bring to take on the genocide of the Yazi- and complex city, it will fall and current detainees before an inter- dis, but President Barack Obama will fall soon. I expect the op- national tribunal. has said that “preventing mass eration for its encirclement to Two years after the ISIS’s on- atrocities and genocide is a core begin in the next few weeks,” slaught in northern Iraq, the inves- national security interest and a core Fallon said in London follow- tigators, as well as US diplomats, moral responsibility of the United ing a three-day trip to Iraq. say the Obama administration has States of America.” He added that Iraqi forces done little to pursue prosecution Stephen Rapp, who stepped were moving into a tactical as- of the crimes that Secretary of State down as the administration’s am- sembly area in preparation for John Kerry has called genocide. bassador at large for war crimes the assault. Current and former State Depart- last year, says the administration “We ought to be able to get ment officials say that an attempt should have moved early to help Daesh (another term for the in late 2014 to have a legal finding secure evidence of ISIS atrocities ISIS group) out of Iraq over the of genocide was blocked by the and push for the creation of spe- next few months -- the remain- Defense Department, setting back cial Iraqi courts to try war crimes. The plan was executed by an leading the commission’s legal in- In 2012, Obama announced The war crimes commission says ing months of this year and next efforts to prosecute ISIS members “The priority for the US gov- organized bureaucracy, from the vestigation. Without a legal docu- what he called a comprehensive it would need about $6.6 million year,” Fallon added. suspected of committing war ernment is to win the war against temporary sorting facilities - in- mentation of their identities from strategy to prevent and respond and about six months to get the Top US military officers crimes. the ISIS and destroy them,” Rapp cluding a prison, schools and a cur- the top down, many could “slide to war crimes with the establish- trials going. have hinted that the final push “The West looks to the Unit- said. “It’s been profoundly disap- tained ballroom where the Yazidis into refugee streams” and disap- ment of an atrocities prevention If the administration was com- for Mosul could begin next ed States for leadership in the Mid- pointing, because the idea of ac- were divided by age and willing- pear, he said. board. But in a recent investiga- mitted to criminal investigations of month, but there are still sig- dle East, and the focus of this ad- countability has been such a low ness to convert to Islam - to the Though there are at least doz- tion, the AP found that even in ter- perpetrators, then it would be ro- nificant military, political and ministration has been elsewhere - priority.” waiting buses that would haul them ens of ISIS extremists in custody ritories liberated from ISIS mili- bustly funding criminal investiga- humanitarian obstacles be- in every respect,” Bill Wiley, the Rapp is now the chairman of by the dozens across the border to in Iraq, there have been no prose- tants by Kurdish forces, dozens tions of perpetrators,” said Rep. tween the launch of the opera- head of the independent investiga- the advisory board of the commis- Raqqa. cutions for the crimes against hu- of mass graves have been left un- Chris Smith, a New Jersey Repub- tion and entering and retaking tive group, the Commission for sion, whose investigators in Iraq ISIS’s Shariah courts soon manity that the US - among many secured. “It’s a tragedy that we are lican who sponsored the bill. the city. The drive will involve International Justice and Account- work with the Kurdish regional stepped in, to settle contract dis- others - insist have taken place. not getting in there and securing The State Department said the Iraqi soldiers and police, pro- ability, told The Associated Press. government to formally document putes and ensure that its finance On Tuesday, the Obama adminis- these sites where we can and do- US was promoting accountability, government paramilitaries and Officials in Washington say the ISIS crimes, including those hierarchy got its cut of the sex- tration’s envoy for the coalition to ing things like collecting DNA ev- and spokesman Mark Toner said Kurdish Peshmerga fighters - that the Defense Department and against the Yazidi minority group. slave proceeds. counter ISIS militants, Brett idence,” said Rapp. the administration is “supporting forces that in some cases have ultimately the administration were They have built a case implicating “You have members of ISIS McGurk, tweeted that he “pledged A measure by the House that ongoing efforts to collect, docu- not operated together before concerned that court trials would the entire ISIS command structure who were engaged in ensuring that full accountability” for ISIS crimes calls on the US to fund precisely ment, preserve, and analyze evi- and do not have unified com- distract from the military cam- in a plot to kidnap Yazidi women this system continued and that it against the Yazidis, whom ISIS the kind of court envisioned by the dence of atrocities for transitional mand structures. paign. But the diplomats say that and girls and establish a sex slave functioned well,” said Chris En- considers infidels because of their investigators is unlikely to advance justice processes.” He provided no justice is essential in a region whose market. gels, the American lawyer who is religion. anytime soon in an election year. specifics. SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES By Prof. Dr Khurshid Alam After the creation of Bang- delusions that he sabotaged the have a deal with terrorists not to Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Since its inception; Pakistan is on ladesh; an attempt was made to Geneva peace accord and torched hit Punjab and his brother govern- Phone No: +93-772364666 wobbly ground. The heebie-jeebies introduce a federal bicameral con- the Ojhri camp and dismissed his ment, if elected, will in return turn state is multifactorial. Some goes stitution to avoid another break- mango P.M while he was about to his blind eye to them. These are all E-mail: [email protected] back to its genesis followed by up. The opposition in the truncat- land in Islam-Abad, after a foreign alarming and frightening events, political, economic, ethnic, sectar- ed Pakistan played a very posi- trip. He had an ambitious pack- particularly funding of the cam- Email: [email protected] ian and social convolutions. It is tive role, not to exploit the situa- age, but the loads of his sins brought paign and providing protection. pointless to go into the genesis but tion, Bhutto was in the same posi- down the American Hercules kill- Air space belongs to those one fails to ignore Maulana Shabir tion as Mujib in the united Paki- ing him and all the top brass of the www.afghanistantimes.af stan. military. Shaheed Benazir shadow who have writ on the ground. It Usmani remarks; while respond- was no secret that most of the ing to a question from a Muslim The opposition demanded a was following him till death ac- Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi true federal democracy, based on cording to State Department con- drown attacks were with the tacit fellow,” Will you stop me going approval of the army, resulting in for pilgrimage in a Hindu owned Bicameral system and the citadel fidential. He was so vindictive and Advisory editorial board steamer?” The Islamists boarded of power should be in the Federal eerie bug that he killed Bhutto in attack on Mehran Base and cap- the Hindu owned steamer; unload- house (upper house) where all fed- the death cell and then forced the turing of a naval vessel by terror- Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, ed in this part of the world, called erates should have equal represen- hesitant Christian hangman to hang ists. The rule of the game have Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. tation; because of the numerical him. (Wolf & the fox) changed, the military is being dic- To solve all the above challeng- superiority of Punjab in the lower The other was Musharraf tated. es the newly created country need- house. The basis of provincial au- who mortgaged the country with Pakistan economy is decom- Graphic-Designer: ed institutions to sort out the fu- tonomy were laid but the quan- Americans. Pakistan earned the posing because of nuclear race with Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi ture challenges the country will tum of provincial autonomy was name of a renter conduit, having India and providing safe havens to face. It was not possible with no- left unfinished; to deprive military surrogate army, washed in dollars. terrorists, which consume more Marketing & Advertising: knowledge of the ground realities of another opportunity. Gen Tik- He has yet to meet his fate. Both than half of the budget, with no Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 and the geo-political, strategic and ka, known as the butcher of Ben- dictators did the maximum dam- accountability. And the world is economic paraphernalia. It was galis, was watching from the gal- age to the country. It was turned lery. Anyhow it was decided that in to a huge Kakool for the training dribbling; in case the terrorist lay Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan quite comprehensible that they hands on the nuclear pillage with could do very little about the ge- quantum of provincial autonomy of terrorists. The USA and Saudi Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 will be revised after 5 years. made an unholy alliance against the the help of radicals in military es- netic anomalies. But no one can tablishment. Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press absolve them; not to establish in- It is tragic that Mr. Bhutto did godless USSR. Pakistan was sup- stitutions. not avail the opportunity or failed ported in cash and kind to be a The present government is Unfortunately; it was not to to play his card wisely. The mili- regional facilitator. Pakistan under supposed to derive its power from be. They were all the crop of Ali- tary was demoralized and the cler- this umbrella was busy in export- the parliament but its source of garh with indoctrinated philoso- gy were mourning the sad demise ing terrorism blended with Wah- strength is through invisibly-pal- The constitution says phy and barrel vision. I don’t want of two-nation theory. habis philosophy to neighboring pable channels from GHQ. ISI and to get involved in the controversy The only system that could countries. Investment of cash by other agencies are white elephants Article 133: whether they created parochial hold the rest of the country, was Saudi Arabia was equal to the USA to maintain. In nut shell military Article One Hundred Thirty-Three: When a judge is accused of a crime, the state or state made them biased and federal bi-cameral constitution. aid. (The Envoy) dominated political system is the myopic. It needs no plowing re- The East wing was 54% of the I should not be expected to biggest threat and the civil govern- Supreme Court shall, in accordance with the provisions of the law, consider the search, it will be suffice to say that country and oppressed like small produce a piece of literature in re- ment’s slighting attitude to the bi- case. After hearing the defense, if the Supreme Court considers the accusation they were from Aligarh. Azad federates. The ray hope for small- counting political events, being a cameral federal system and pow- valid, it shall present a proposal to the President for dismissal of the judge. After School of thought; didn’t succeed er federates was the numerical su- doctor of medicine, who are periority of Bengalis; if free and known for scarceness of jargon. I erless federal house are the next. A Presidential approval, the accused judge shall be dismissed and punished to invent antidote for “would be powerless upper house is the the poison”. fair elections were held. In the elec- have been a field worker and at according to the provisions of the law. toral victory of Bengalis, the small times, witness. threatening the integrity of the fed- Institution is the name of col- eration. The breaches between the lective leadership. To the bad-luck and deprived nations were seeing All the rulers of Pakistan has of the newly created state; those their liveliness. contributed to the buildup of pyr- provinces is widening. Depriva- who came for pilgrimage, were nei- In truncated Pakistan; Punjab amid of challenges to the existen- tion in small federates can’t find ther practicing Muslims nor Dem- emerged as the mighty federate tial status of the country. Zia and the solution of their problem in ocrats or pluralist. It will be fair to with no threat of numerical supe- Musharraf are the two biggest con- present setup. And it is in these assume, they were least fascinat- riority of Bengalis and home to civ- tributors to the present wretched breaches that foreign spy work. ed by institutional policies. The il- military bureaucracy. It was an state of the country. But the question arise what is the mindset of collective leadership economic giant with wide indus- During Zardari tenure, under duty of our agencies. In the new was left behind in the buildings of trial base. Agricultural yield was the dynamic leadership of Raza scenario, will it not be fair that the the institution in Delhi. An idea of the highest since British days. Rabbani, the upper house redraft- Quetta carnage was not only the Caliphate was floated but aban- United Punjab was known as the ed the 73 constitution with en- failure of military establishment doned on the advice of Saudi Ara- granary of the Sub-continent In- shrined provincial autonomy, but the deal was struck with the bia. It was a signal to an ambition dia. An ectopic of civil bureaucra- which never saw the light of the cy and industrial magnets were in day in words and spirit. Though shadows of death before election, of centralization of power. wiping out one full generation of The clouded status quo was in Karachi, but they could pose no NWFP was renamed as KPK, but Parliamentary and district councils’ polls have been pushed back by threat to Punjab’s hegemony. the first K was gifted by Mian intelligentsia of a most backward the interest of Islamists, to get time province. Where liberation war is for cultivation of the deadly mush- It was the Punjab’s domineer- Nawaz Sharif, to keep us remind- the government as the unity government leaders wanted to inject heavy room of terrorism blended with ing army and elites to refuse the ing the might of Punjab and arro- going for last 15 years. dose of reforms in the ailing electoral bodies—Independent Election religion to be a State vital organ sanctity of ballot resulting in the gance of leaguers. Institutions and The federal government is in and a veritable long arm for fur- death of the TWO NATION the- constitution are sacred to those no way a representative of the fed- Commission and Independent Electoral Complaints Commission. Peo- therance of their dreadful designs. ory. Had the country had the bi- who have gone through a political eration. It is a dynasty rule. For- In 1948 the people of FATA and cameral federal democratic system process. Only Military should not eign policy and budget has been ple from all walks of life want to see electoral reforms taking place, Northern states were used in Kash- the tragedy of the disgraceful fall be blamed, the present civil gov- taken over by the army. Even ap- but without delay in the parliamentary or district councils’ elections. mir. But to make it a permanent of Dacca would have probably not ernment, sectarian parties and PTI, pointment to sensitive ministries pillar of the state, they had to wait befallen. With the fall of Dacca; all have stakes to maintain status have been taken over by the boys, The unbearable delay in the polls is a setback and blow to the nascent for Zia. the hopes of small federates sunk quo and keep every development the latest is the appointment of British left behind one strong down. With the creation of Bang- confined to Punjab in the geostra- defense secretary. democracy. The delay shows incompetency of the government to and well organized institution, the ladesh smaller federates existential tegic shroud. In the name of Zarb-e-Azab army, to achieve their colonial fear tripled. The mature opposi- The challenges are numerous promote democracy by upholding democratic values such as polls tion just insisted on federal bi-cam- but to name few; the scourge of FATA was erased to the ground. aims. Our new ruler’s dream were Political Ping-Pong has started no different than the colonizers. eral system. The process was terrorism corroding the very basis on time. Absence of a legitimate parliament questions credibility of brought to end by Gen. Zia. of the state and threatening region- with their destiny. Neither the peo- The institution were replaced by ple nor their elected representa- the current system. Jurists and political science scholars have not yet cult, elites, dynasties; all ready to Gen. Zia; known as the cun- al and international peace. Loss of capture the state machine, facili- ning fox, who introduced the radi- governmental writ, the frequent tives or KPK assembly have rep- defined that whether Afghanistan has a democratic system or a re- tated by educated Muhajirs civil calism and jihadi philosophy; not interference of the deep seated gov- resentation to shape their destiny. servants and Punjabi Military only in the society but also in the ernment, economic instability, un- The military is startled not to lose gime. elites. A cocktail of religion, whims, armed forces. The ghazi institution even developments and trampling this strategically important strip Delay in polls is a direct violation of the constitution. Members of conspiracies, corruption and op- was built by him and he was regu- of institutions and constitution by which can be used for border mech- portunism was brewed; with a lar goer for Friday prayers. This both Military and Civil establish- anism or friendship gate which is the Wolesi Jirga have completed their term but yet they are approving brand name as ideology of Paki- scared the world. The insanity of ments are few of the important one way, terrorist can be sent stan. This intoxicating cocktail laid strategic depth vertically and hor- one. Nothing is decided in the across the border but only those the laws and presidential decrees. Public opinion was not respected down the guidelines to run the state. izontally, protection of ideologi- house, mini or mega projects both. can come in who will not target in the 2014 presidential elections. Electorates hoped that they would No policy but adhocism was cal borders, introducing Wahhabi The inability and incompetence of Punjab, what a callousness? adopted, tailored on day to day Sectarianisms on Saudi pattern, to the civil government to wean off The country has no foreign see news faces in the parliament this year. However, their hopes were basis. This arrangement suited create Khalistan, to occupy Kash- itself from military dependence mir, central Asian countries were and the insanity of Military not to policy. It is person to person deal- both Mullah and Military, the ing like Zia and Regan, Musharraf dashed to the ground. All of this is result of the snail paced decision clique of the two needed each oth- some of the few components of abandon the dream of strategic his deluded ambition. So much so, depth all are potential threats to and Bush. Since the portfolio has er in future; for a big game. The been taken over by army, the coun- making process and too much red tapism in the halls of power. civil servants submissively kept on it was him to interfere in the west- the State. For some approval of the electoral law by the president is good justifying the whims as policy of ern provinces of China. The military involvement to try stands isolated. The cretin is the state. The Jihadist philosophy as an use terrorism as a state policy is celebrating Chinese friendship, one news in this fog of uncertainty and disappointments. The deputy Tariq Ali, termed the institu- institution of the state structure no more secret. Maulana Mansoor belt one road, sound more like a tion an adult spine fitted into a was created; to achieve his goal. and OBL has exposed us to the strategic corridor. Hope we are not presidential spokesman Shah Hussain Murtazawi made the announce- premature baby; in his book, To promote it; he invested a lot in world. We lost the most allied al- dragged in to Sino-US conflict in Death of a State. The mindset of ISI and developed the veritable arm lies like Saudi and the USA. The south China Sea. ment on Saturday, saying the law will be published within a week in Aligarh proved to be an asset for of the state which could reach any- documents collected from the com- In every sense we are depen- the government gazette. The deputy spokesman also claimed that the the alliance, long boots or Jinnah where, he wanted. He bribed the pound of the OBL, in garrison dent country, to celebrate indepen- cap were irrelevant. From day one top army brass and 15% of quota town of Abbot Abad has revealed dence is a self-insult. deadlock between President Ghani and CEO Abdullah on the elec- liberals, democrats and broad-vi- in the commissioned officer was that the present civil government Can Pakistan survive????— sional were declared security risk. allotted to J.I. on the instructions is not a lesser evil. PML (N) had a (The Pashtun Times) toral reforms process is over. The selection committee has been in- They were kept on a run with reli- of Saudi rulers. Nawaz Sharif and seat adjustment with a terrorist MQM were both his creation. organization in 2013 election. The The writer can be reached at structed to select new members for the two electoral bodies. After gious whip. Corruption in every [email protected] sphere was introduced. He was so obsessed with his Punjab CM has been named to the announcement, the voters seemed to be more optimistic. Howev- er, the worst is not gone yet. The way the announcement was made has raised eyebrows. Such an important announcement by a deputy spokesman shows lack of the leaders’ will to explain matters of public interests to the nation. It also shows inattention of the leaders towards promotion of demo- cratic values which builds public trust. As it was a major cause of rift between the two leaders, therefore, a joint press conference would have rebuilt public confidence on the unity government. Since it did not happen, thus, it also leaves room for suspicions and questions such as: Will the president and chief executive show consensus on appointments of new members of the election commissions? Will the government stick to the polls’ timeline that was announced by the t ion orrup president? However, one thing is clear at this point that the electoral C picture is still incomplete. Subscription Rates Fee Categories 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. Fight against corruption SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES On antimicrobial resistance, it's now or never By Eric Goosby We often take it for granted that any infection we encounter can be cured, and that all-powerful modern medicine will do pre- cisely what it is supposed to Philippines' arbitration case frontline states such as the By Richard Javad Heydarian do. would provide a legal basis for Philippines and Japan. "No, I will only bring [up] the deployment of greater diplo- But as soon as it became But imagine an alternative [arbitration case] face-to-face matic pressure as well as mili- clear that the Philippines itself scenario: you are diagnosed [with China]... because if you tary assets to prevent Chinese was now unwilling to confront with a potentially life-threaten- quarrel with them now, claim domination of the world's most China over the South China Sea ing infectious disease that was sovereignty, make noise here important waterway. issue, however, almost all once treatable in weeks or and there, they might not just Some legal experts encour- neighbouring countries months, but you are told that even want to talk," declared aged Manila to file additional shunned even mentioning the your treatment will take at least Philippine President Rodrigo arbitration cases, suing China arbitration case at all. two years, and will involve Duterte before his global dip- for inflicting massive ecologi- Almost single-handedly, months of daily injections and lomatic debut earlier this cal damage ($177bn) within the Duterte undermined the US' some 14,000 pills, with severe month. Philippines' 200 nautical miles strategy against China. To the side effects. You are one of a The Filipino leader reas- Exclusive Economic Zone. astonishment of almost every- "lucky" minority to have been sured his Chinese counterparts Manila also had the option one, all of a sudden Manila and diagnosed and treated at all, that he wouldn't even mention of calling upon major powers Washington are now at logger- but your odds of beating the Manila's landmark legal victo- such as the US and Japan to heads. disease are still only 50-50. ry against China during latest conduct so-called freedom of The Obama administration Most of us would not as- navigation operations to chal- discussions of the South Chi- has repeatedly criticised Ma- sociate this scenario with na Sea disputes at the Associ- lenge China's excessive mari- nila's ongoing "shock and awe" "modern medicine", but it is a ation of Southeast Asian Na- time claims in the area. campaign against drugs. In re- tions (ASEAN) summit. This way, the verdict from sponse, Duterte has embarked tragic reality for the ranks of This was no trivial matter. the court could be somehow on a series of expletive-ridden people - 500,000 and growing - nance forum we have, the UN Second, to keep things on We can now be cautiously In its arbitration case, the Phil- enforced, even if an obstinate tirades against Washington, suffering from multi-drug-resis- is the only institution that can track, the UN should establish optimistic that AMR is finally ippines managed to convince China refused to acknowledge including an impromptu tant tuberculosis. The Cure - marshal the resources and lead- clear benchmarks, based on getting the global attention it an international arbitral body, its validity. speech at the East Asia Sum- Antibiotic resistance: The end ership commitments the prob- measurable outcomes, and it deserves. But the world's atten- constituted under the aegis of The Philippines could also mit, where he singled out the of modern medicine? lem demands. But the UN will should commit to putting AMR tion can be all too fleeting, as the United Nations Convention go on an international diplo- US' colonial era crimes against Multi-drug-resistant tuber- be effective only if it takes back on the General Assembly's those of us who have lived on the Law of the Sea, to nulli- matic offensive, rallying global Filipinos. culosis (MDR-TB) is what hap- some crucial steps. agenda every two years. through previous and current fy the bulk of China's "historic opinion in favour a rule-based Duterte has described any pens when drugs lose potency Tackling Drug-Resistant This would create a frame- debates about infectious dis- rights" claims over almost the resolution of the disputes. criticism from the US as a vio- against new strains of previ- TB First, UN member states work for measuring global ease know all too well. If we fail entirety of the South China Sea, If anything, it could also lation of Philippine sovereign- ously treatable infections. TB should begin to integrate their progress, while also sending a to hold our leaders' feet to the a global artery of trade. Why is provide legal advice to other ty. Most recently, Duterte has is now the world's deadliest in- responses to AMR across all strong message that the UN is fire, the consequences for ev- Rodrigo Duterte controversial? countries, which were contem- upped the ante by even threat- fectious disease, killing well regulatory bodies and relevant in it for the long haul, and that eryone could be deadly. Many observers expected plating a similar legal manoeu- ening the expulsion of Ameri- over one million people each the Philippines and other like- vre against China. can Special Forces from the sectors, including healthcare, AMR should be a high priority Eric Goosby, a former US year, and MDR-TB continues agriculture and finance. for the next secretary-general. Global AIDS Coordinator, is the minded states to leverage the The newly inaugurated southern Philippine island of to spread in low and middle-in- legal award in order to push Duterte administration, howev- Mindanao. He has also called The UN is uniquely posi- Finally, the UN should ap- UN Special Envoy on Tuber- come countries as healthcare back against Chinese island- er, preferred to simply set aside for cancellation of joint-pa- tioned to help countries do this. point a Special Envoy for AMR culosis. construction activities, para- the arbitration case in favour trolswith the US in the South providers struggle to combat it. It can convene the world's lead- to ensure continued progress Jim O'Neill is visiting fellow military patrols and military ex- of re-opening communication China Sea, further complicating MDR-TB imposes a mas- ers and foster international and in the coming years. The en- at the think-tank Bruegel and ercises in the disputed waters. channels with China. ongoing efforts at forging mul- sive burden on a country's inter-organisational coopera- voy would need to be defined Chairman of the Review on An- Yet, the Philippines' newly So it was left to a forlorn tilateral responses to Chinese public health system and econ- tion on global economic and as a high-level position, autho- timicrobial Resistance. minted leader, who has opted Obama to call for compliance assertiveness in the area. omy, and it is a harbinger of social problems; and it can tap rised to work with countries The views expressed in this for bilateral negotiations with with The Hague verdict during To assert Philippine inde- what rich and poor countries the power of its own agencies and multilateral governance article are the authors' own and China, made it almost impossi- his participation at the ASEAN pendence from the US, the Fil- alike can expect as antimicrobi- to mobilise global resources bodies to maintain momentum do not necessarily reflect Al ble for the United States and summit. ipino president has also open- al resistance (AMR) becomes against AMR. in the battle against AMR. Jazeera's editorial policy. its allies to rally global pressure The situation was so bizarre ly suggested sourcing military more prevalent. on China, at least in the mean- that one leading Filipino mag- hardware from Russia and Chi- Without concerted action, time. If anything, recent weeks istrate suggested that the US na rather than the US. And drug-resistant strains of other have witnessed unprecedent- president should rather be these statements seem to be common infections such as Sta- ed verbal tussles between the named as the defender of Phil- more than mere bluster. In re- phylococcus aureus or E coli Philippines and the US, two tra- ippine rights in the South Chi- cent days, senior Filipino de- will become ever more common, ditional allies, amid disagree- na Sea. fence officials and Russian with seismic effects on global ments on human rights issues. Pivot in tatters arms exporters have been dis- health and healthcare systems Over the past few years, the cussing potential military coop- Meanwhile, much of Asia worldwide. has demurred from any further Obama administration, under eration. diplomatic confrontation with its "pivot to Asia" strategy, It is also highly likely that As AMR renders estab- Beijing, which seems to be back gradually mobilised the region Duterte will visit China in com- lished antibiotics ineffective, in the regional driving seat and against Chinese maritime asser- ing months, where he is expect- untreatable infections will make relishing the US' troubled alli- tiveness in the South China ed to discuss possible areas of relatively routine procedures ances. Sea. cooperation and how to peace- such as organ transplants or By Abdulrahman al-Rashed from different organizations Strategic dissonance Washington hoped that the fully manage the disputes in cancer chemotherapy increas- ed support for it, they spent a because Saudi Arabia had pros- Only a few months earlier, Philippines' arbitration case the South China Sea. ingly risky. By the “history” referred to in lot of time on it and won’t back the title of this column, I mean ecuted and arrested extremist tens of millions of Filipinos would provide a legal basis for All of a sudden, Beijing no Left unchecked, drug-resis- down easily. They relied on groups after the bombings in were in ecstatic mode. Their deployment of greater diplo- longer looks like the villain, but tant infections could claim 10 the history of more than sev- emotions more than legality enty years of special ties be- Riyadh and the formation of country had just scored a mor- matic pressure as well as mili- instead a magnanimous neigh- million lives annually by 2050, and set the dates of the vote in various organizations and as- al victory at The Hague, when tary assets to prevent Chinese bour, which is welcoming a new tween the United States and both chambers before the elec- with the cumulative cost in Saudi Arabia. This special re- sociations that were accused of an arbitration body affirmed the domination of the world's most era of friendship with a smaller terms of global gross domestic tions so that they could black- being affiliated with al-Qaeda lationship has been enduring mail the candidates in their Philippines' sovereign rights in important waterway. neighbour intent on asserting product reaching $100 trillion. in its infancy. the South China Sea and cen- Chinese dredging vessels its independence from the US. a difficult test since a draft law states and regions, on both the The human and economic allowing the families of 9/11 Articles and reports were sured Chinese aggressive ma- are purportedly seen in the Richard Javad Heydarian is emotional and political level. published in the British and toll of rising AMR could easily victims to sue the Saudi gov- During election season, they noeuvres and mind-boggling waters around Mischief Reef in a specialist in Asian geopoliti- spiral out of control: left un- American press criticizing the the disputed Spratly Islands in ernment and institutions was will remind representatives to island-construction in contest- cal/economic affairs and author checked, drug-resistant infec- imprisonment of extremist mem- ed areas. the South China Sea viewed in of Asia's New Battlefield: US, okayed by Congress. US Pres- either stand “with Saudi Ara- tions could claim 10 million lives bers in what they considered a The Permanent Court of Ar- May 2015 [Reuters] China, and the Struggle for ident Barack Obama must bia or the American victims and have informed Congress that violation of their human rights. bitration also made it clear that Yet, this "constrainment" Western Pacific. annually by 2050, with the cu- their families!” he refuses the new legislation, After the September 11 attacks China's notorious nine-dashed strategy was predicated on The views expressed in this mulative cost in terms of glo- It is a crucial week that will using his right to veto. and the announcement of the line claim is inconsistent with constant cooperation and co- article are the author's own and bal gross domestic product prove that those who have However, both chambers US war on terror, there has been ordination between the US and do not necessarily reflect Al reaching $100 trillion. sought for decades to sabotage prevailing international law. of Congress informed the pres- a significant improvement in Washington hoped that the its regional allies, especially Jazeera's editorial policy. Only by launching an effec- ties between the two govern- the American stance and un- tive response immediately can ident that they will be extend- ments have succeeded to a ing the duration of the ses- derstanding toward the Saudi we avert a bleak future. Fortu- large extent, after having tried position. Cooperation in the sion, just in case senators need in vain in the past nately, at the G20 summit in to vote against the veto and security sphere improved and Hangzhou, China, earlier this Abdulrahman al-Rashed involved American security or- insist on the new law. Now, the most important LETTER TO THE EDITOR month, world leaders put AMR ganizations, such as the FBI, Unless 34 out of 100 sena- question is whether there are on the group's agenda for the tors in Congress are con- for the first time. For nearly ten 34 senators in the Senate who years, security ties were stron- first time, signalling that the vinced that the new law will will heed logic and stand by international community recog- be erroneous and dangerous ger than political ties. President Obama. Or will this This long history that ex- nises AMR as a real threat to and that they should support year end up not only with a global economic development the president, this week is set tends from the discovery of oil, nuclear agreement with Iran but to the strong political alliance, and prosperity. to be the worst in the history also with a law sanctioning then to fighting common wars The G20 also made the larg- of the two countries. It would Saudi Arabia? also abolish the concept of and finally confronting terror- Unemployment is the core reason behind drug addiction in the country. A number of est effort to date to replenish Bizarre legislation ism in our current era, is now stalled pharmaceutical-devel- sovereignty between the two The bizarre legislation is youth in southwestern Nimroz province accused the government of ignoring them by nations and the relations be- exposed to a great challenge opment pipelines for new anti- akin to holding the US’ ally Brit- threatening to demolish its not creating jobs for them. They said that joblessness has forced young men into using biotics - which are urgently tween the two. ain accountable after World Over the past few days, a achievements. drugs and migrating to foreign states. The government should pay serious heed to this needed to replace drugs that War II. The Saudi Kingdom has large number of senior politi- This article was first pub- issue and spare no efforts in a bid to generate jobs for them. The young generations have become ineffective - and actually been the US’ primary lished in Asharq al-Awsat on cians rallied against Congress’ partner in the war on terror are playing key role in building or damaging of a country. to roll out diagnostic tests en- decision, including former Sept. 24, 2016. since 2001, after the 9/11 at- Abdulrahman al-Rashed is The government should leave no stone unturned to create jobs for the youths as abling clinicians to use the presidents of the United States. tacks. they are the future maker of this war-turn country. Putting a glance to every develop- drugs they have more effective- The European Union also ad- the former General Manager of It is a crucial week that will Al Arabiya News Channel. A ment countries, you would find that all credits for that progress directly goes to its ly. vised against the adoption of prove that those who have This week's United Nations the legislation and a number veteran and internationally ac- youth’s indefatigable efforts. We want the government to pay serious attention in sought for decades to sabotage claimed journalist, he is a former providing jobs for youths. General Assembly meeting in of world leaders are against it. ties between the two govern- New York presented another Two days ago, the New York editor-in-chief of the London- Omar Kha, Kabul, Afghanistan ments have succeeded to a based leading Arab daily opportunity for global leader- Times reported that President large extent, after having tried Obama said that even though Asharq al-Awsat, where he still ship on AMR. There, too, the many times in vain in the past. regularly writes a political col- Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must issue was on the agenda for he is not currently on good In the 1970s, there were calls have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: umn. He has also served as the the first time, with Secretary- terms with Saudi Arabia, he is to impose sanctions on Saudi [email protected] nonetheless against the deci- editor of Asharq al-Awsat’s General Ban Ki-moon and Arabia because of the oil em- sister publication, al-Majalla. world leaders pledging to con- sion for fear of its consequenc- bargo and the rise in oil prices es on the sovereignty of the Throughout his career, Rashed front rising drug resistance at but successive US govern- country and for fear of the has interviewed several world a major high-level meeting. ments have refused to do so. leaders, with his articles garner- Disclaimer: damages it will engender on Then, fresh calls demanded that To stymie AMR, the UN the international level. As for ing worldwide recognition, and The views and opinions expressed in the articles are the Saudis be held accountable he has successfully led Al Ara- must build on the work that the those who worked on the for their support of the PLO – those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or G20 started. As the largest, prosecution project, whether biya to the highly regarded, those calls did not succeed ei- thriving and influential position opinions of the Afghanistan Times. most inclusive global-gover- lawyers or politicians drafting ther. Ironically, in the late 1990s, the law and rallying the need- it is in today. He tweets @aal- there were waves of criticism rashed SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

MAFRAQ: Jordan - Hussein al- dan after the outbreak of Syria's more than 26,000 Syrians have Azziz makes his way through civil war in 2011. obtained work permits, most dur- rows of slouching peach trees on a In February, however, Jordan ing the last three months - up from vast stretch of farmland in north- responded to international pres- a labour ministry estimate show- ern Jordan. Their homeland in sure over the refugee flow into ing fewer than 5,000 people work- sight, Azziz and his fellow Syrian Europe by pledging to create jobs ing legally before Jordan's labour labourers remain just outside, brav- for 200,000 Syrians in the coming market opening in February. Maha ing the late summer heat to tend to years. Jordanian farm owner Man- Kattaa, the Jordan-based coordi- Jordanian fields at peak harvest. sour al-Fawaz holds up a work nator for the International Labour Black plastic crates are filled with permit that he processed through Organization (ILO)'s response to fruit and stacked into neat towers the Ministry of Labour for one of the Syrian refugee crisis, said the before being carried off by pick- his Syrian workers [Alisa Reznick/ uptick was an encouraging sign for up trucks. Al Jazeera] the ILO and partner aid agencies "I've worked on farms since I In exchange, the European leading initiatives to integrate ref- arrived three years ago," Azziz told Union drafted a new trade agree- ugees into the country's formal Al Jazeera. "I never went to the ment with Jordan - later signed in workforce. Kattaa, who has spo- camps. I came straight here [to the July - allowing tariff-free export ken with Syrians in farms across governorate of Mafraq]." to Europe of several Jordanian- the country, learned that in the The 20-year-old Aleppo na- made products, ranging from gar- beginning, many were concerned tive had been doing this work ille- ments and chemicals to Dead Sea about obtaining a work permit be- gally since 2013, before receiving beauty products. For employers cause it required them to register a job permit through Jordan's Min- to benefit from the deal, Syrians with a single employer, meaning istry of Labour in early July. would have to comprise 15 per- they could be left jobless at the Though the country's labour mar- cent of their workforce within two end of that farm's harvest season. ket has been open to Syrians for years, and 25 percent after three. When she relayed these concerns more than six months, many refu- Meanwhile, a government de- to local farming cooperatives, their gees have only recently started to cree, announced in April, offered a leaders proposed alternatives. "We come forward. three-month exemption for Syri- asked farm owners to make work "We feared the UNHCR [Unit- ans from the standard work per- permits for Syrians in the cooper- ed Nations refugee agency] would mit costs of 300 to 500 Jordanian ative's name so that the worker is cut the food coupons if we got dinars ($420 to $700), leaving only eligible for all the farms within this permits," Azziz told Al Jazeera, a nominal processing fee of 40 di- 36-member coalition," Mansour referring to the World Food Pro- nars ($56). The policy was extend- al-Fawaz, one of the cooperatives' gramme's initiative to deliver food ed for another three months in July directors, told Al Jazeera. Since this programme manager Tareq Abu "Syrians will not be a replacement fore joining Classic Apparel's "Regularising refugee work has compensation to families in need. and will be revisited again next change was enacted in April, near- Qaoud. "Today, I only have four for migrant workers, and the gov- 16,000-worker operation, she been an extremely important step, "It used to be hard for me to work month - yet the path ahead remains ly 1,000 permits have been hand- Syrians working in my factory," ernment is not interested in Syri- found informal jobs close to home but expanding the number of job because I was constantly threat- fraught with challenges. Unem- ed out each month in Mafraq, up Sanal Kumar, the owner Jordan's ans replacing Jordanians in this or relied on male family members - opportunities available to Jorda- ened by the authorities, but every- ployment in the resource-scant from just 10 in April. The Febru- largest garment producer, Classic sector," he told Al Jazeera, noting a prospect that became more diffi- nians and Syrians should also be a thing has become more comfort- kingdom reached nearly 15 percent ary deal announced by Amman Apparel, told Al Jazeera. "The that factory owners agreed to pay cult after her father made the jour- priority," McDonnell told Al able. We stopped being afraid." during the first quarter of 2016, aimed to attract foreign investors UNHCR told me they had 2,000 Syrians 190 dinars ($270), the ney to Europe. Jazeera. Obtaining his work permit the highest rate since 2008, accord- to Jordan while employing tens of people ready to go, but nobody same wage given to Jordanian "I need to make money for Back at the farm, Azziz tossed was a simple process, Azziz said: ing to labour ministry data. Com- thousands of Syrians, deterring turned up [to apply for work]." workers, but plans stalled when myself, and I also have to help rel- a plump peach between his gloved He had bloodwork done through peting for work are some 650,000 them from leaving for Europe. But Ali Abdul Rahman, 20, is one of a conservative Syrian women were atives," she said with a shrug. "I hands. the Jordanian Ministry of Health, Syrian refugees registered with despite encouraging signs in the handful of Syrians to have entered unwilling to enter the factory alone, need to do it for them." Since last year, he said, two and then brought the results and a UNHCR in Jordan, part of more farming industry, leaders of other Jordan's textile industry since the or were restricted by children. "No Syrians currently comprise groups of friends headed for Eu- photo ID to his employer, who than 1.2 million Syrian nationals sectors say the response from Syr- sector opened to refugees earlier one has much money," Reem al- some 11 percent of the country's rope have called and asked him to subsequently obtained the permit in the country. Most of us have ians has been underwhelming. In this year [Alisa Reznick/Al Ahmad, a 19-year-old Syrian em- workforce, according to labour join them. Both times, he refused. from the Ministry of Labour. made the choice to stay in the re- April, the ILO and its partner or- Jazeera] Garment operations like ployee at one of Classic Apparel's ministry figures - up from the two "Most of us have made the "I really like this work, espe- gion, and the work programme al- ganisation, Better Work Jordan, Classic Apparel are currently re- factories, told Al Jazeera. "But it's percent estimated before the Feb- choice to stay in the region, and cially now that what I do is legal," lowed us to trust our decision. teamed up with UNHCR to launch quired to have Jordanians make up not normal for a Syrian woman to ruary announcement. But UNH- the work programme allowed us Azziz said. Having the work permit allows me a programme to integrate an initial a quarter of their workforce, with go out of her home and do this kind CR spokesperson Aoife McDon- to trust our decision," he said. The formal workforce has been to stay in Jordan as I wanted to, 2,000 Syrians into the country's migrants accounting for the rest. of work." nell noted that introducing Syri- "Having the work permit allows almost completely closed to Syri- close to Syria. Hussein al-Azziz, textile industry. Yet, less than 50 Abu Qaoud said it is unclear how Ahmad, who fled Syria with ans into the formal workforce is me to stay in Jordan as I wanted ans since they began fleeing to Jor- Syrian worker In the past year, have entered the sector so far, said Syrians will fit into this structure. her family in 2013, said that be- not a fix-all. to, close to Syria." Sri Lanka: Ancient innovations Q&A: Rape as a tool of tackle water shorages war 'won't work forever' PUHUDIWULA: Sri Lanka - The neys have begun to fail her and flu- ter, and when the wells and tanks groundwater could be replenished New York - In its work on sexual take back the land; not to be dis- Kingdom that domestic violence wells' open mouths are encircled id retention has left her feet and dry up, they have to go far away and that water quality in the vil- violence against women in conflict, tracted by their own internal po- wasn't taken as seriously as it by smooth grey cement walls, but ankles swollen. She has another to find it." Men often migrate to lage wells around the tank would the United Nations has found that litical problems ... and then to en- should be. the cool water collecting in the neighbour, a 29-year-old farmer areas where there is water, because improve as a result. it has "been one of history's great- sure that when Boko Haram is de- I remember the early 1980s, shadowy depths are left unused. who was recently diagnosed. seasonal labourers are sought to Villagers would not have to dig est silences. Absent from ceasefire feated, that the local community when the legislation wasn't strong Though new and well-built, these Though the intensity of the condi- work on fields. Left behind, wom- so deep to reach the liquid, and agreements, dismissed from disar- feel that the government is a dem- enough. It took us 20 years to be wells can be found in every gar- tion can vary, villagers know the en must manage not only the needs pockets of contaminated water mament programmes and rarely ocratic one which will take their able to create strong legislation ... den, costing around 100,000 rupees outlook is grim: Two days ago, of their households for cooking and would become less likely, offering mentioned in peace negotiations". concerns into account so that there We've had a long journey to show ($700) to build. The villagers, they attended the funeral of a man sanitation, but ensure their domes- some protection against diseases It is a tactic of war that tran- won't be local support for Boko that domestic violence is wrong, however, will not drink or even who had succumbed to CKDu. The tic animals have enough to drink such as CKDu. scends countries and cultures: Haram. Al Jazeera: It does seem and that means none of us can feel cook with the water, which they diseased was a close relative of and their home gardens are wa- The relatively linear arrange- From Japan's use of Korean wom- that interest in the girls still in cap- smug. believe is driving an epidemic of Piyasiri Soyza, president of the tered, or they risk being unable to ment of these tanks, explains Man- en as sex slaves during World War tivity has faded. Do you worry Al Jazeera: What about in plac- the deadly Chronic Kidney Dis- local farmers' association. Soyza feed their families. An ancient in- thrithilake, allows for the installa- II to present day abuse of Yazidi that this becomes part of a narra- es like the Democratic Republic of ease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) estimates that there are currently novation As far back as the third tion of monitors that can then func- women by the Islamic State of Iraq tive - that we just accept that wom- Congo, where the UN peacekeep- in this area. While the illness is not more than 100 people battling century BC, human settlements tion as an early warning system, and the Levant (ISIL) armed group. en, girls and children can be used ers themselves have been accused the end of the community's trou- CKDu in this area. He lost his own could be found on this island es- alerting villages along their length Trying to put an end to the this way, that this is normal be- of sexually abusing children and bles, many of their woes are tied father to the disease. tablished around small village to the threat of floods. rape of women as a weapon of war cause it's been happening for so women, trading sexual acts for to water. Since he was diagnosed, Silva tanks, some of which have been in "Water is the big player in this is a massive challenge, but Baron- long? food? During the hottest months of and his family have stopped drink- continuous operation for more than whole scenario; this is the medium ess Joyce Anelay, minister of state Anelay: I don't believe that Anelay: I agree totally with the year in Puhudiwula, deep in ing water from their well. Prema- 2,000 years. This ancient innova- through which we experience cli- at the UK's Foreign and Common- and the people I work with don't [outgoing UN Secretary-General] the island's dry zone, the local wathie and her family also buy their tion could be Sri Lanka's most ef- mate change," says Manthrithilake. wealth Office and the prime min- believe that. We have a great inter- Ban Ki-moon when he says we water tank is nearly dry - its bed is water, paying by the litre. fective response to the challenges It all comes down to water ister's special representative on national community who have should have zero tolerance for this ribbed with cracks as the clay "The water from our well tastes of global warming. Ranjith Pun- management, both in excess and preventing sexual violence in con- championed the work of prevent- kind of behaviour. And I've been changes colour, hardening under of rust," she tells Al Jazeera. Soy- yawardena, chief climatologist at scarcity. However, restoring and flict, explained to Al Jazeera why ing sexual violence in conflict. And working with my colleagues in the the sun. This year, to save their za, who is hale and fit at 57 years the Department of Agriculture, maintaining these cascade systems she is optimistic about changing our job is to make sure that no- ministry of defence in the UK to crop of paddy, the farmers ordered old, says for years now he has trav- says that these ancient Sri Lankans in a time of widespread environ- attitudes. Al Jazeera: Let's start body believes it's something that find a way to help the United Na- bowsers to deliver water to their elled several kilometres each week experienced water shortages, mental degradation, poor intergov- with the big picture - how do you happens - it happens, it happens, tions and our colleagues around the fields. Climate change in these to bring his family water from an- though to a different degree. "The ernmental coordination, and the stop rape and other forms of sexu- but it shouldn't, and we must stop world to ensure that this kind of parts means more dry days and other village where there is a spring cascades were a counter for this ever greater challenges posed by al violence from being used as it .... You can change attitudes. abuse never happens again. higher temperatures; it also means and no occurrence of CKDu. natural climate variability," he tells climate change, is a monumental weapons of war? Al Jazeera: In the US and the Because what it does is to un- that people have to dig deeper Children in a village near Al Jazeera, adding that without task. "The current approach is very Baroness Joyce Anelay: First UK, you see it in the news - that dermine the trust in the United wells to meet their needs, inadvert- Horowpathana can only drink these innovative water manage- sectoral," says Tharuka Dissan- of all, it does mean some changes people seem to have an idea that Nations - a trust that has been built ently increasing the risk of the con- from this tank, which must be re- ment systems, cultivation in the aike. A policy specialist with the to social mores, to social beliefs, using women and children this way up for 70 years, and none of us tamination of their drinking water. filled frequently. The water from dry zone would have been impos- UNDP, Dissanaike says that there particularly, that women are not is just something that "those peo- can allow that to happen ... We On the frontlines of a nearly their well is unusable [Tharuka sible. The best estimates place the is a marked lack of coordination there to be used as weapons of war, ple" do "over there". A type of have to work here, at the United three-decade long civil war, the vil- Dissanaike/ UNDP/ Al Jazeera] total number of both functioning between irrigation and drinking they are equal partners in society cultural ignorance. Do you find Nations, to make sure that our lagers lived with sporadic violence CKDu has been reported in many and abandoned tanks in Sri Lanka water authorities from state to vil- ... But the way they've been used you have to combat that as well? systems here are joined up enough and terrible uncertainty. Now, sev- countries, yet the disease remains at 18,387 [PDF]. lage level. in war, really as a weapon, where Anelay: I only meet shock in that when people report these al- en years after the conflict had end- poorly understood. In Sri Lanka, Over generations, tanks "What we are now coming up the point of view is, really, if you the UK when people hear what's legations that they are taken seri- ed, times are still tough, but the studies have explored possible evolved into cascade systems con- with is a transformative model that destroy the women's dignity, you being perpetrated on women and ously, and that they're not kept village of Puhudiwula is about to causes, most notably the possibil- necting these earthen water reser- treats drinking and irrigation wa- destroy the whole community, you girls overseas. But what I always waiting, because then, they feel as be thrown a lifeline. ity that the heavy use of agrochem- voirs - resembling ponds and lakes ter as a single local resource - much bring shame upon the community. do is to remind my own colleagues though nobody cares, that the in- In 2016, Sri Lanka became one icals is to blame. The fact that men - with each other using a system like the ancients did. It is impor- So what we can do is to re- and people in civil society, that it's ternational community doesn't of the first 15 countries in the are most at risk of developing the of canals. "These tanks eventually tant to value both uses equally build the dignity of those who have not that long ago in the United care. And we do care. world to receive a grant from the condition has led researchers to evolved into a new kind of hydro- since small irrigation systems con- survived that kind of appalling vi- Green Climate Fund. The Minis- consider what role dehydration and logical civilisation," says Herath tribute to drinking water availabil- olence. And that's why it was so try of Mahaweli Development and outdoor farm work might play, Manthrithilake, head of the re- ity in these villages." Adikari and important that the Yazidi commu- Environment, with the assistance though it is likely to be a combina- search programme at the Interna- the other farmers say their new nity [in Iraqi Kurdistan] show that of the United Nations Develop- tion of many factors. In a presen- tional Water Management Institute tank has had some unexpected ben- they received back into the heart ment Programme (UNDP), pro- tation earlier this year, Sarath in Sri Lanka. efits. The tank bund has become of their community women who cured $38.1m to help communi- Amunugama, of the Ministry of Manthrithilake explains that the main point of access to the vil- had been so appallingly abused ... ties adapt to the impacts of cli- Health, noted that there was a need some tanks would be water holes, lage, large enough to allow public That's how you show, to people mate change. Over the next few to move away from a single cause serving as upstream sediment buses for the first time. They used like Daesh [Arabic acronym for years, an estimated 770,500 peo- explanation to multi-causal expla- traps. Forest tanks in the upper to have to go to a neighbouring vil- ISIL, also known as ISIS], that you ple in the dry zone, including those nations when trying to understand catchment area were for local wild- lage a few kilometres away when- won't get us forever. Maybe now, in Puhudiwula, will experience di- the disease. According to a Gov- life and kept animals from com- ever they wanted a bath - now but it won't work forever. Al rect benefits from this programme. ernment Medical Officers Associ- peting with humans for water. people come here. Their tank has Jazeera: You've mentioned in the Scrabbling for answers ation study in 2013, a total popu- Others were especially designed to designated areas for bathing and past that there should be a way to A sign in Sinhalese by 40-year- lation of 400,000 are affected replenish ground water or support washing clothes, areas to wash cat- stop women and children from old Bandula Silva's door in Puhudi- across the country. Some 1,400 seasonal irrigation. tle, and spots for fishing and for being seen as "spoils of war". But wula reads "May Buddha Bless lives are claimed every year, while The ancients even developed harvesting nutritious lotus roots. in the case of a group like Boko this House". Inside, however, its the death rate in North Central their own sluice gate design, allow- A father and daughter go to collect Haram - who still have the school- owner has been dealt a death sen- Province is 19 per month - the is- ing water to be collected from the water. These are the thirstiest girls they kidnapped over two tence. Eleven months ago, the 40- land's highest (PDF). In the face surface of the tank, rather than its months in the dry zone, and the years ago - how do you negotiate year-old from Puhudiwula was di- of this ongoing tragedy, everyone murky depths. family travels several kilometres with a group that weaponises the agnosed with CKDu. He began is scrabbling for answers. Provid- The restored bund is so broad twice a week to a shop. [Tharuka actual child and is using them as treatment but the disease had al- ing clean water seems to be the it is now a main point of access for Dissanaike/ UNDP/ Al Jazeera] suicide bombers? Anelay: I visited ready ravaged his body. The fa- most obvious first solution, and it this Galgamuwa village. It is used Adapting to climate change Sam- Nigeria earlier this year and I met ther of three is barely able to walk is one the affected communities to transport crops and bring mate- path Bandara Abeyrathne, the representatives of the Bring Back and cannot keep his food down, themselves are seeking out. "The rials to the fields. [Tharuka Dis- project manager of the Climate Our Girls campaign and I pay great except just after a session of dial- entire population is affected by sanaike/ UNDP/ Al Jazeera] Change Adaptation Project at the tribute to their work. ysis, when the treatment brings drought, but the most disadvan- Rehabilitating the network of UNDP, has been directing a team Some of them believe the only some relief. It is difficult to pre- taged and most vulnerable group small village tank irrigation sys- of researchers and engineers, over- way to get back to their family is dict how much time his weekly are women," says AADWS tems means protecting the forests seeing the restoration of the 28 by being released and to be able to visits to the hospital will buy him. Pradeep, a divisional officer at the even as farmers get the water they tanks that are part of the Maha remove the bombs [from them- Just down the road from Sil- Department of Agrarian Services. need to cultivate their crops, en- Nanneriya tank cascade system in selves] ... What we do is make sure va, G Premawathie has the same "Women are responsible for pro- suring food security in a very vul- Galgamuwa in the Kurunegala dis- that there are governments pre- disease - the elderly widow's kid- viding drinking and household wa- nerable region. It also means that trict. pared to attack the terrorists and SUNDAY . 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count came largely from horizon- tal rigs, which were up 21 week- over-week compared to BHI's count that saw a 2-rig drop. In the third quarter, RigData's U.S. land rig count is tracking up 24% from the prior frame, versus Baker Hughes' count, which was up 16% in the quarter prior to Friday's bump/drop. Meanwhile, gas rigs were up by Baker Hughes count to 92, versus last week's count of 89. The natural gas rig count con- tinues to see little improvement despite prices for the commodity rising above $3 per million British Thermal Units this week for the first time since May 2015. But demand for gas-powered genera- tion is trending up, according to KLR Group analysts John Ger- des and Gail Nicholson. With that bump in demand, the industry fol- lowers expect natural gas activity to climb from its current level around 90 rigs and exit 2016 aver- aging 110 rigs. Offshore rig oper- ators are still hurting, however, ac- cording to Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. analysts. TPH said this week that there is still no visible evidence of any near-term trough in deepwater rig demand as two separate exploration and produc- tion companies announced plans to potentially early-terminate an- other pair of sixth-generation float- ers last week. Overall, Baker Hughes' U.S. rig Oil futures were down Friday fol- news concerning the Organization tracts for November delivery had in early August. Last week Baker count is down by 327 from last lowing news that Saudi Arabia of Petroleum Exporting Countries, fallen to $44.50 around 1 p.m. But Hughes' overall count fell for just year's count of 838, with oil rigs won't move to enact a long-await- West Texas Intermediate oil futures the stalling activity in Baker Hugh- the second time since the end of down 223, gas rigs down 105, and ed freeze on production for OPEC were slipping slightly after post- es' rig count is to be expected at June to land at 506 rigs, but this miscellaneous rigs up 1. The U.S. members. The disappointing news ing solid weekly gains. The com- this point in the cycle by analysts data was contrasted by RigData's offshore rig count is at 20, un- was quickly followed by an slight modity started the trading week at estimates. The rig count tends to U.S. land rig count, which in- changed from last week, and down increase in Baker Hughes (BHI) ac- just north of $43 per barrel and lag significant movement in oil pric- creased by 20 rigs, or 4%, to 547 13 rigs year over year. Outraged senators castigated Wells latory filings shows that Stumpf tive rotary rig count. U.S. oil and were trading slightly above $46 per es by as much as a quarter, and the during the same period. STOCKS The Canadian rig count was gas rigs climbed by 5 from last barrel Friday afternoon just before industry is currently 3 months re- TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Rat- Fargo & Co. Chief Executive John could receive as many as 1.15 mil- up this week as well, climbing 6 Stumpf this week for not seeking lion additional shares of stock over week to 511. The Houston oilfield reports surfaced claiming Saudi moved from a mid-summer com- ings has identified a handful of rigs from last week to 138. Cana- services giant also said oil rigs were Arabia doesn't see a supply deal modity rout that saw oil prices fall stocks with serious upside poten- to take back some of the $100 mil- the next three years, though the dian oil rigs were up 2 week-over- lion awarded to a retiring execu- number could be lower depending up by 2 to 418, versus last weeks coming at OPEC's meeting next from just under $50 per barrel in tial in the next 12-months. Learn week to 77, while gas rigs were count of 416. Prior to Friday's week in Algiers. WTI crude con- late June to below $40 per barrel more. The boost in RigData's tive who oversaw the division at on the bank’s financial perfor- rose by 5 to 61. the heart of the company’s fake- mance. Those shares, which have accounts scandal. been granted but have not vested, But whenever Stumpf, 63, were worth $52.8 million at Fri- CHINA WILLRESUME eventually departs from his post day’s closing price. That’s a sub- atop the San Francisco banking gi- stantial figure even for an execu- ant, he could walk away with far tive whose annual compensation LIMITEDIMPORTSOF more — nearly $195 million in has totaled about $20 million for cash, stock and other compensa- the last several years. tion, a review of the bank’s regula- For Tolstedt, unvested awards US BEEFAFTER A tory filings show. could amount to as many as While it’s almost certain 612,000 shares, worth just shy of Stumpf will keep the vast majori- $28 million, according to figures BAN LONGSEEN AS ty of that sum given the bank’s submitted by the bank to the of- compensation policy, both he and fice of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D- POLITICAL Carrie Tolstedt, the retiring execu- Mass.) The executive also owns tive who headed the bank’s retail shares and vested stock options For an American industry that re- Meat Association. “Because of the operations, could lose tens of mil- worth $77.7 million, putting her lies increasingly on global demand, ban, we were not able to commu- lions of dollars over the still-un- in line for a total payout of about the news is welcome nicate with our American peers. folding scandal. $105 million, the figures show. Chinese officials will still lim- Now we can.” The bank has agreed to pay Under normal conditions, un- it U.S. beef imports, only allow- Meat isn’t the only product $185 million to federal regulators vested shares are fairly secure. Even ing in cattle younger than 30 to have been caught up in interna- and the Los Angeles city attorney’s if an executive retires, resigns un- months. Exactly how American tional politics. After 300,000 Chi- office over the creation of as many der pressure or is fired, the execu- cattle traders will contend with nese children were sickened by milk as 2 million fake accounts, a prac- tive could potentially keep all of Chinese quarantine requirements is powder that domestic dairies had tice regulators say was encouraged them. But Stumpf could lose those not yet clear. But for an American laced with melamine, the Chinese by a demanding and poorly super- shares if a majority of the board industry that relies increasingly on government began banning or lim- vised sales culture. But trouble for voted to fire him “for cause.” That global demand, especially amid a iting imports of some foreign milk the bank has continued to grow would involve making a finding that declining taste for beef at home, powder that parents were using to since the settlement was an- the executive failed “to substan- the China news is welcome. (Chi- nourish their children. Families re- nounced. Federal prosecutors are tially perform his duties” or had nese restrictions on Canadian beef sorted to smuggling in infant for- investigating the bank to see violated company policies. are also being lifted.) “The United mula from overseas, even as Chi- whether criminal charges should be While analysts and corporate States produces the highest-quali- nese customs officials learned how filed, while senators have called for governance experts do not expect ty beef in the world,” said U.S. to identify telltale milk canisters the Labor Department to investi- the board to take such an action, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vil- through airport x-ray machines. gate possible labor law violations. there are other ways to “claw sack in a statement, “and China’s Meanwhile, yet another baby- And there’s a growing chorus of back” compensation they do ex- 1.3 billion consumers are an im- milk-powder scandal erupted ear- investors, corporate governance ex- pect the board to take. portant market for U.S. produc- lier this year when it turned out perts and others calling for Wells Stock awards that haven’t vest- ers.” With the world’s largest pop- that a Chinese factory was churn- Fargo to cut or cancel executives’ ed can be clawed back when an ulation and a growing — and hun- ing out tins with counterfeit label- pay over the scandal. executive is negligent or the per- gry — middle class, China now ing. Beyond politics, Chinese of- At a Senate Banking Commit- son’s misconduct harms the bank’s consumes 28% of the world’s meat ficials are urging the local popu- tee hearing last week, Sen. Bob reputation, according to Wells Far- supplies. Much of that appetite lace to eat less meat — both do- Corker (R-Tenn.) said that the go’s compensation policy. centers on pork, which is so adored mestic and foreign. In order to bank would be committing “mal- Jon Lukomnik, executive di- in China that when people refer to boost national health and lower the practice from the standpoint of just rector of the Investor Responsi- “meat,” it simply means the flesh greenhouse-gas emissions and wa- public relations” if it does not dock bility Research Center Institute, a of the pig. In fact, Chinese eat half ter pollution resulting from live- executives’ pay. Analysts who fol- nonprofit corporate governance of the world’s pork. But if current stock farming, China released di- low the bank expect that means group, said he would be surprised consumption trends continue, Chi- etary guidelines in May that set both Stumpf and Tolstedt will lose if the board did not exercise such a nese will also gobble up nearly half the advised meat-consumption some compensation. provision to claw back shares from of the world’s beef by 2030, ac- limit at no more than 75 g of meat Stumpf has been Wells Fargo’s Stumpf and Tolstedt. cording to the NGO WildAid. per day. Currently, the average KARACHI: Pakistan Petroleum ture partner and holds remaining well Hadi X-1A. They were flow- chief executive since 2007, its “They have all the right in the The ban on U.S. beef felt more Chinese eats around 170 g of meat chairman since 2010 and has world to take back any nonvested political than solely safety con- per day, up from less than 30 g in Limited (PPL) has discovered new 35% working interest. The dissem- ing at a rate of 0.85 million stan- gas deposits from Lower Goru ination of the discovery informa- dard cubic feet per day. India, US worked for the company or a pre- awards,” he said. ”I don’t see that scious. After all, the Chinese meat 1978, according to a report by decessor for 34 years, amassing a they have an option at this point. industry is itself seriously taint- NGO WildAid. (By contrast, the Formation in district Matiari, tion, however, failed to motivate strike large natural gas deposits in Sindh, according to a bourse filing investors to buy the company’s Indian Ocean Likewise, it an- sizable chunk of retirement bene- But how much they claw back is a ed: decades-old frozen flesh, glow- average American wolfed down fits and stock along the way, on more open question.” in-the-dark pork, meat so pumped 246 g of animal flesh a day, ac- Friday. The company has discov- shares. The share price dropped nounced in August 2016 to have ered hydrocarbon from its explor- Rs0.84 or 0.52%, and closed at started production from the sec- top of his salary and cash bonus- Analysts at investment bank with steroids that consumption cording to a 2015 OECD study.) es. He owns 2.4 million shares of and brokerage Keefe Bruyette & causes athletes to fail drug tests, Still, it’s likely that meat con- atory well Bashar X-I ST. “Dur- Rs159.03 with a volume of ond gas processing facility located ing testing, gas flowed at a rate of 295,400 shares. The decline in in Sindh, which will produce sig- Wells Fargo stock outright, accord- Woods support that position. In a even rat that’s passed off as lamb. sumption will continue to expand ing to recent regulatory filings, research note this week, they Earlier this month, Chinese police in China, fueled in part by imports. 8.7 million standard cubic feet per share price may be attributed to nificant amount of crude oil, pipe- day…,” PPL Company Secretary widespread selling pressure at the lined gas and liquefied petroleum worth about $111 million at Fri- wrote that they expect the bank seized a large shipment of meat The U.S. Department of Agricul- day’s closing price of $45.74. will cancel some compensation for soaked in bleach. ture estimates that this year’s Chi- Shahana Ahmed Ali said in a noti- exchange, particularly in the oil and gas. The net profit of the compa- fication to the Pakistan Stock Ex- gas exploration and production ny, however, fell 48% to Rs15.85 Stumpf also has nearly $20 Stumpf, as well as for Tolstedt, So notorious is China’s meat nese imports of beef and veal will million in accrued pension bene- who announced her retirement in industry that Chinese meat pro- be double that of 2013. Chief to change. PPL discovers tight gas in companies. Earlier, the state- billion in the nine-month ended Sindh owned exploration and production March 31 from Rs30.45 billion in fits and an additional $4.2 million July but is not departing from her ducer Shuanghui acquired U.S. profit have been cattle producers in the company’s 401(k) plan. position until the end of the year. pork manufacturer Smithfield from Australia, New Zealand and PPL is the operator of Hala company found “tight gas” re- the same period last year. The de- Exploration License with 65% serves in District Sanghar, Sindh cline was recorded due to slow- Add in his annual salary of $2.8 Steven Bank, a professor of Foods for $4.7 billion three years Uruguay. “The Chinese people’s million and that amounts to about business law at UCLA, said it’s ago in order to provide China’s habit of consuming meat has working interest. Mari Petroleum in July 2016. The reserves were down in sales and decrease in oth- Company Limited is the joint ven- discovered from its exploration er income. $138 million in cash and stock that possible that Wells Fargo share- growing middle class with protein changed as their living standard has Stumpf will almost certainly keep. holders could take legal action if they could trust. improved,” says Chen. “Some But the rest of his compensation Stumpf and Tolstedt are not re- “You should ask the central people said red meat might cause is not so secure. quired to give back some unvested government the reason for the ban cancer but I think for some groups, For starters, Stumpf’s annual shares. “If they fail to implement [on American meat] and the rea- especially children, athletes and French rogue trader damages pay package this year includes a their clawback policy, there could son for lifting it,” says Chen Wei, pregnant women, red meat is still cash bonus of about $4 million. The be a suit against the board saying the vice chairman of the China a must.” bank’s board can opt to pay less their breached their fiduciary duty,” slashed to 1m euros than that amount — or nothing at Bank said, though he added it’s not A French court has cut the damag- “I’m hoping to get to zero (civil ulent computer use for covering up all — depending on Stumpf’s per- clear whether such a suit would be es owed by former trader Jerome damages) in the end because I still bets worth 50 billion euros - more formance. successful. Kerviel from 4.9 billion euros ($5.5 think I do not owe anything to than the market value of the entire In paying him a bonus of $4 During last week’s Senate billion) to a more manageable 1 Societe Generale. The battle con- bank at the time. In 2014, the Cour million last year, the board cited Banking Committee hearing, sena- million euros ($1.1 million). tinues”, Kerviel told reporters fol- de cassation, French highest court, several factors, saying Stumpf had tors raised the issue of clawbacks The court near Paris ruled Fri- lowing the ruling, which is open to upheld Kerviel’s criminal convic- among other things reinforced “a and asked Stumpf to commit to day that Kerviel was “partly re- appeal. The case “used to be about tion and three-year sentencing, but culture of risk management and clawing back pay from Tolstedt sponsible” for huge losses suffered 4.9 billion euros. It doesn’t exist annulled the 4.9 billion-euro civil accountability across the compa- and possibly other executives. in 2008 by the bank Societe Gen- anymore,” he said. damages, saying they were “dis- ny.” With the bank under fire for Stumpf repeatedly declined to erale through his reckless financial In one of the biggest ever trad- proportionate” and that the bank failing to prevent thousands of take a position, saying any deci- trades. ing fraud cases, Kerviel was sen- had its share of responsibility in employees from opening accounts sions about clawbacks will be left But the court also ruled that tenced to three years in prison for its own losses. The initial amount that customers didn’t want, the to a committee within Wells Far- the bank’s “deficiency” in its man- nearly bringing down the bank with of damages, which were equivalent board could choose to not give that go’s corporate board. agement controls and security sys- the losses, just before the financial to the total losses reported by the bonus this year. But $4 million is “I’m going to let that process tems contributed to the size of the market meltdown in 2008. The 39- bank in the fraud, was so huge that peanuts compared with another proceed,” Stumpf said. “I’m not losses, which Kerviel would have year-old has been found guilty of Kerviel wouldn’t have been able chunk of compensation he could going to in any way try to influ- had no realistic way of repaying. forgery, breach of trust and fraud- to pay them anyway. lose. A review of the bank’s regu- ence or prejudice the board.” SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

ously. “Angelina wasn’t really in- terested in doing any project that took her away from the children and home, but Brad was still want- ing the wanderlust, adventure- filled life that first attracted him to her. “Brad was supportive, and wanted to be there for her, so they decided to marry – more for the sake of their six children than them- Most Bollywood heroes prefer selves. They wanted the kids to Switzerland or New Zealand or have the security of knowing their similar scenic locations for dream parents were committed because sequences, but Nand Kishor alias they had been very affected by the Tarrat Bhai (Riteish Deshmukh) their mom’s ill health.” isn’t one of them. He likes to It is also being reported that sweep the Mumbai streets with with the help of a private spy, his beloved even in a beautifully Angelina discovered that Brad planned and executed dream song. might be cheating on her with After all, this is what he has seen. Marion Cotillard. Both the actors Chris (Nargis Fakhri) leads a are starring together in Allied. A privileged New York life. She has source claimed that Angelina re- the luxury of opting music as a fused to speak to the French star career, unlike Tarrat and the mem- on the sets of the film because of Some media reports earlier claimed that Cotillard and Pitt bers of his Banjo team, who play her jealousy. m ay have been rom antically involved. PHOTO: REUTERS on the streets of Mumbai for sur- “Angelina completely ignored vival. A Banjo band is little known Marion on the set, and when Mar- French actress Marion Cotillard French actor Guillaume Canet.She even in the music circuit. Banjo has ion tried to talk to her she just denied any involvement in the sud- signed off by saying: “I do very never been seen as an instrument den split between Hollywood much wish that Angelina and Brad, that can replace guitar as the lead looked the other way,” the source was quoted as saying, Page Six power couple Angelina Jolie and both whom I deeply respect, will string. Truth be told, it was always Brad Pitt, wishing that the two will find peace in this very tumultuous a middle-class instrument, in this reported.“Marion was devastated. Here she is thinking she is going to “find peace,” and confirming her moment.” case, a lower-class. But, defiance, pregnancy with her long-time part- Cotillard’s name was men- rebel and grit form the strings of meet this great UN ambassador banjo, and that’s where it scores and instead Angelina refuses to ner. tioned in some reports as media over heavy-sounding percussions. speak to the woman because of her Cotillard, 40, posted a state- outlets and fans tried to understand Some laugh, some just nonchalant- own jealousy,” the source added. ment on her verified Instagram page what led to the sudden divorce of ly watch when Tarrat comes out However, the source claimed a day after Jolie filed for divorce one of Hollywood’s most visible of the gutter in the introductory that the rumours of Brad and Mar- from Pitt, amid some media reports couples, known for their good scene. He might be a motor-mouth, ion love affair are “100 per cent that Cotillard and Pitt may have looks, successful films and activ- but helplessness is written all over false”. “Marion and Guillaume are been romantically involved. ism. his face. He can’t hide the fact that blissfully happy, and these kind The Oscar-winning French ac- Brangelina didn’t sail through he extorts money for the local cor- of claims are not what Marion tress said the statement would be ‘By the Sea’ porator, or he is a drunkard, or he wants to be hearing,” a source told her only comment on the “whirl- Jolie, 41 and Pitt, 52, known has been a loser throughout his life. DailyMail. “Claims that she’s wind news that broke 24 hours ago collectively by the tabloid press But, he plays banjo at local Gan- cheating on Guillaume with Brad and that I was swept up into.” and gossip sites as “Brangelina,” pati festivals and that’s a sight to ngelina Jolie on Tuesday they get out of line, so they know substance abuse doesn’t lead to will leave her absolutely devastat- “As this situation is spiraling married in 2014 after a decade to- behold. There, he is the master and filed for divorce from who they are.” A source confirmed divorce. However, it may have an ed. This doesn’t sound like her at and affecting people I love, I have gether and have six children. the universe takes cues from his husband Brad Pitt after the discipline issue saying, “Brad impact on the custody battle of all,” the source added. A close to speak up. Firstly, many years They were steady fodder for notes. One such performance has being together for almost has always been stricter. He has their children. “Marijuana, like any friend revealed that one of the rea- ago, I met the man of my life, fa- tabloids with reports focusing on reached Chris and now she is in a decade.Although Angelina cited wanted the kids to have more other substance, can be abused,” sons behind Brangelina’s split could ther of our son and of the baby we what role Jolie played in the break- India to make music with his team. ‘irreconcilable differences’ as the structure. Brad will get frustrated Beck said. “The question is, what be the same as Brad’s and Jennifer are expecting. He is my love, my up of Pitt’s marriage to actress Jen- Other team members are Grease reason of the split, she did not sometimes and yell at the kids. is the effect on the children? Even Aniston’s split. “He was bored best friend, the only one that I nifer Aniston and, more recently, (Dharmesh Yelande), Paper delve into further details. Howev- Angelina always has a more relaxed if someone has a medicinal [mari- stiff with the sedate, quiet lifestyle need,” Cotillard said, referring to possible trouble in the marriage. (Aditya Kumar) and Vaajya (Raja er, speculations are making rounds attitude when it comes to the kids. juana] card, if they imbibe with the they were leading,” the source said, Menon). It’s about crowded that one of the Hollywood’s most She definitely never yells,” Peo- children in the room, that could be reports DailyMail. “When he was streets, roaming dogs, filthy by- glamorous and powerful couples ple reported. Angelina’s manager looked at as something that is not with Jennifer, it was Angelina who lanes, hopelessness and rearing may have split up due to the fol- Geyer Kosinski also released a in the children’s best interest,” he provided the excitement that was spirits. Director Ravi Jadhav’s lowing reasons: statement, saying: “Angelina will added according to The Guardian. missing in his life. But when An- Why Alia world is a glossy version of usual Angelina, who’s trying to set always do what’s in the best inter- Angelina’s renewed focus on health gelina shifted gears and became Mumbai ‘chawl’ life. Tarrat and his an example as a doting mother, was est to protect her children,” re- could also have led to the trouble more serious – that wasn’t what gang dress like others of their age reportedly upset with Brad’s ports Daily Mail. A recent report in the couple’s paradise. “When Brad thought he was buying into,” group, and you may not find any parenting style, Mirror reported. states that Angelina was “fed up” Angelina underwent her mastecto- the source added. is overwhelmed difference when they are in a mall, Earlier, in an interview with E! with Pitt’s marijuana and alcohol my in 2013, her health and life in It is also reported that Brad but they return to their houses in News, Brad called himself a “dis- use, TMZ reported. general became a priority for her,” wanted to work further whereas, the evening to find that nothing has ciplinarian” for the “strict” child- “This decision was made for a source close to the couple told Angelina just “wanted to just sit changed. It’s still the same dull, hood he had. “I am [a disciplinar- the health of the family. She will DailyMail. 15 best reactions to back and enjoy the life they had these days? hard life.So, it doesn’t come as a ian] with the boys. Girls do no not be commenting, and asks that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s di- created”. surprise when two rival banjo wrong so I don’t have to be,” said the family be given its privacy at vorce “Her views on life changed. Whatever the reason may be, gangs physically fight over the Brad. “I feel like my job is to show this time,” Angelina’s attorney Suddenly she saw herself walking 2016 should officially be marked money they receive after playing them around, help them find what Robert Offer said in a statement. in her late mother’s shoes – and as the year love died in Hollywood. at a Ganpati pandal. Money is they want to do with their life, However, Daniel Beck, who spe- she was no longer that wild, fun Have something to add to the what keeps them ticking. Other- put as many things in front of cialises in California medical mari- loving woman she used to be, she story? Share it in the comments wise they dri k, even during their them, and pull them back when juana law, claimed allegations of was taking things a lot more seri- below. performances. Though Riteish has a suave look, he has tried his best to shed it. He might be playing a typical Bollywood hero, but vul- Disha Patani’s an ‘anti-social’, Impossible to a get solo nerability crawls into his actions. In fact, this side of his personality so Tiger Shroff dating overpowers the ‘hero’ one. The release unless it’s a very songs and the mood set up by rumours don’t affect her Jadhav do the rest. Read more film reviews here Banjo begins on a something that people like to read. big film: Soha Ali Khan promising note and Manoj Lobo’s It is superficial but people want camera glides you through dirt, to read about somebody’s life,” she lot of stars, Soha doesn’t have any agony and compassion. Lobo’s fil- said. The 21-year-old actress, such apprehensions. “My job as ters may do the trick for people however, does not feel bitter about an actor is done on my last day of who can’t face harsh realities with this and feels fortunate that there the shoot and when I finish dub- bare eyes. Jadhav probably believes are people wanting to know more bing for the film. The rest is my in serving ‘vada paav’ in a silver about her. “I think I am lucky responsibility to promote the film. foil. You get introduced to key char- enough to be getting this chance But selecting the release date and acters with some peppy numbers also that people want to know marketing and distributing the film thrown in between. The canvas is about me. I don’t want to com- is not my job and I have no control spread, and the actors are ready to plain over it. I am in the happy- over it. Anyway, it’s difficult to take the leap of faith. The con- ok-zone. I am fine because some- get a solo release, it’s almost im- straints of commercial cinema kick body’s opinion can’t become my possible unless it’s a very big film,” in right here, and the film takes the reality.” Disha says even Tiger is says the 37-year-old. She adds, safer route.A good musical drama not bothered by such reports as “Sometimes you get lost with sev- suddenly changes into an average he focuses more on making his craft Actor Soha Ali Khan, who is busy eral smaller films releasing on same formula tale of a hero with a gold- better. “We both are very similar promoting her upcoming film, 31st date, but we have avoided that suc- en heart, villains who can consider and that is the reason why we are October, says that she chose to be cessfully. Then, it’s of course for a sudden change of mind, heroine good friends. I don’t think he reads a part of the film because it is con- audience to decide based on pro- with a knack for dancing and newspapers... He is so focused. He tent driven. “The character has a mo and poster which film they stretched dialogue-baazi. This loos- wakes up early, goes for gymnas- lot of scope to perform and I get to want to watch. I’m sure there’s an ens the noose that was so intelli- Actress Disha Patani has laughed tic, whole day till 7-8pm he is act. It’s an emotional and intense appetite to see two movies if you gently set. The second half keeps off rumours of dating actor Tiger working on himself.” role and there’s a lot happening. feel they are worth your time. Some dragging for no apparent reasons. Shroff, saying she is an anti-social “He has this agenda in life, ‘Ev- (Also) the story is centered on us, people wait for reviews and word At one point, you even feel like person who does not get affected eryday I want to become better so that was quite exciting,” says your mouth, so it’s yet to be seen.” watching another film in the ABCD by the such talks about her per- than what I was yesterday.’ He is Soha, who plays a Sikh woman in Read: 31st October trailer: Vir Das, franchise. Thankfully, Jadhav rea- sonal life. The actress featured a different guy, so, I don’t think it the film based on Indira Gandhi’s Soha Ali give us a heart-wrenching lises it in time, and resorts again to with the Baaghi star in a music vid- affects him at all.” Post their mu- assassination. drama Interestingly, Soha has very the underdog story. Had this 137- eo earlier in 2016. Gossip mills sic video Befikra, there were sev- Clarifying that the film has not few dialogues in the film yet she minute film refrained from long have been abuzz for a long time eral reports that Disha will team been politicised in any way, the manages to make a mark with her cross-conversations and forced that the duo are dating each other. up with Tiger for his upcoming film actor adds, “We are in the business screen presence. On being asked if conflicts in the second half, it When asked if the spotlight on her Munna Michael. The actress, of entertainment and films are not she took Punjabi language lessons, could have struck a better chord. personal life bothers her, Disha however, denied signing any film a history lesson for anyone. We the actor says, “It’s a Hindi film Riteish has come out of his com- said “No. I think I am very anti- with the actor. Disha is currently are just telling the story of this set in Delhi, though we still tried fort zone and that’s the best thing social. I don’t have newspapers in awaiting her Bollywood debut in Delhi-based Sikh family’s struggle to bring in little bit of Punjabi fla- about Banjo. my house. I have a news applica- MS Dhoni: The Untold Story. She who survived the night of riots vour, which comes anyway with The actor who plays Corpo- tion which only gives me impor- stars in the film as the romantic through an action suspense drama.” the clothing, style and little bit of rator Patil in the film is also worth tant news, no Bollywood. So even interest of Sushant Singh Rajput, 31st October releases on the same accent I speak in. Since it’s mainly a mention. It’s a film by someone if there is some report about me, I who plays the titular role. Direct- date (October 7) as Mirzya, which about action and what’s happen- who can see Mumbai with indige- don’t know.” “I don’t care. It ed by Neeraj Pandey, the film is features newbies Harshvardhan ing around me, I didn’t have the nous eyes. Scratch the filters and doesn’t bother me at all. I think scheduled to release on September Kapoor and Saiyami Kher. While opportunity to have long dia- it’s as raw as it always was. everybody’s making money. It is 30. box office clashes tend to worry a logues.”

Actress Alia Bhatt has scored over Karan Johar's "Student of the 9 million followers on Twitter and Year". says she is overwhelmed. Alia has appeared in several "Thank you for the love guys! movies like "Highway", "2 States", Nine million love really feels over- "Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania", whelming. Hope to always enter- "Kapoor & Sons" and "Udta Pun- tain and spread lots and lots of jab". love!" Alia tweeted. The 23-year-old actress is an The 23-year-old, who is the avid user of social media and keeps daughter of filmmaker Mahesh updating her fans about her pro- Actress Sunny Leone, who is do- show 'Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai'. Sunny will be entering the street film to scout for her film's hero. with.' Bhatt and actress Soni Razdan, fessional and personal life. ing well for herself in Bollywood Sunny, who started shooting where Vibhuti (Aashif Sheikh), Talking about shooting with 'She is an extremely coopera- first appeared onscreen as a child On the work front, Alia will and has featured in reality TV for the show on Monday, will be Anita (Saumya Tandon), Angoori Sunny, Shubhangi said in a state- tive co-actor. Hope the audiences artiste in a minor role in the thriller soon be seen sharing screen space shows like 'Bigg Boss' and 'Splits- seen playing herself on the &TV (Shubhangi Atre) and Manmohan ment: 'It is a pleasure to shoot with will be surprised with this new "Sangharsh". As an adult, she made with actor Shah Rukh Khan for villa', will soon make her debut on entertainer. (Rohitash Gaud) live. She will ap- Sunny. She has no qualms about entry. It was fun teaching her An- her acting debut alongside Sidharth Gauri Shinde's film "Dear Zinda- the small screen with the popular According to the sequence, pear along with the director of her anything and is very easy to work goori's iconic line 'Sahi pakde hain'. Malhotra and Varun Dhawan in gi". SUNDAY . SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Im ad Wasim leads Pakis tan ’s ro ut o f West In die s

DUBAI: Left-arm spinner Imad er at Dubai stadium. Wasim took a career best five for Bravo smashed paceman Wa- 14 to help Pakistan defeat world hab Riaz for a six to reach his half- Twenty20 champions West Indies century and led the recovery from by nine wickets in the first match a poor start which saw the West in Dubai. Indies struggling at 46-5 in the first Wasim's spin assault routed ten overs, in danger of falling for the West Indies for a low score of under a 100 total. Mamadou Sakho has vented his for the Reds this season. NOW 6/1) don't know. ily, hope to have chance to play 115 in 19.5 overs which Pakistan West Indies had lost opener frustrations at Liverpool on Speaking ahead of Saturday's 6/1 "Still working hard like Scouse soon to give my best like I try to surpassed in 14.2 overs to take a Evin Lewis to Wasim off the fifth Snapchat after being frozen out of visit by Hull, Klopp revealed the However, it would seem Sakho Soldier! Still not talking cos (be- do always! 1-0 lead in the three-match series. ball of the innings for one, holing the first-team this season. centre-back was close to a return is unhappy with his treatment and cause) I want speak on pitch.. I "I accept my situation but I Dwayne Bravo hit a gritty out at deep mid-wicket off a loft- The 26-year-old France interna- to full fitness, but added that it said on Snapchat: "Now it's three will speak soon for the people who can't accept the lie… The fans de- half-century to avoid a total disas- ed sweep. tional, who was sent home early wasn't "how the player feels, it's weeks since I am fit to play games. support me and don't understand serve to know the true! Thanks ter, adding a new world record Wasim then chipped in with from the club's pre-season tour of about how I feel". "I finish all my rehabilitation the situation. for your support." Twenty20 stand of 66 runs for the wickets of Andre Fletcher (two) the United States before rejecting Liverpool, Everton & work. They don't want me to play "Still happy to live in my Sakho removed the Snapchat ninth wicket with Jerome Taylor and Marlon Samuels (four) in the a move to Stoke, has not played Tottenham all to win (Was 4/1 also with second team lol! Why I 'Liverpool Country' with my fam- posts early on Saturday morning. who made 21. third over to leave the world cham- Pakistan had lost opener Shar- pions tottering at 15 for three. jeel Khan for 22 in the fourth over West Indies lost Johnson but Babar Azam (55 not out) and Charles (seven) and debutant Khalid Latif (34 not out) ensured Nicholas Pooran (five) in the next the target was chased down com- two overs make it 22 for five. fortably. Bravo and Kieron Pollard Babar hit two consecutive (nine) took the score to 47 before fours to bring up the victory, hit- Wasim struck twice to improve his ting two sixes and six boundaries previous best of four for 11 he overall in his 37-ball knock. took against Zimbabwe at Harare “I bowl wicket to wicket and last year. this brought me wickets,” said Bravo found Taylor as an able Wasim who was declared man of ally – the only two to cross the the match. “I try to give my hun- double figures – bettering the pre- dred percent every time.” vious record of 63 for the ninth Anthony Crolla is the third Brit- the jab - everything comes off that many shots. Crolla just does the if I had to pick, I'm probably going prised if he stops Linares late on. West Indian skipper Carlos wicket between Saeed Ajmal and ish world champion in action in as - and box sharp. I am leaning to- job and he will do this job well. He to say Crolla with another surpris- I'm backing Crolla. He is a good Brathwaite blamed his batsmen. Sohail Tanvir against Sri Lanka at many weeks, but will he make it wards Crolla but it is going to come will get to Linares like he did with ing stoppage. tactician himself and Joe Gallagh- “We didn't have a good start, the same venue three years ago. third time lucky against Jorge down to who is the best fighter on Perez and Barroso and I will al- This is a tough fight for Crol- er always seems to get the tactics so we need to change things quick- Taylor and Bravo fell in the Linares. the night. ways go for him on points, but we la, a tough, tough fight. But I do right so I think Crolla will tuck up ly because there are back to back final over by paceman Tanvir who Kell Brook and Liam Smith For me, Linares is the favou- could even be looking at a late stop- think the confidence he's now got and expose Linares' openings. That matches,” said Brathwaite. finished with 2-26. were taking on their sternest tests rite - only slightly, probably 55- page. and how well he is going at the Manchester Arena has become his Earlier, Bravo scored a 54-ball The victory gave Pakistan's as is 'Million Dollar' in the shape 45 - but timing in boxing can be Crolla against Linares is going moment, I wouldn't bet against fortress, probably more like his 55 for his fourth half-century and new T20 captain Sarfraz Ahmed of a three-weight world champi- absolutely everything and Crolla to be some fight. Linares showed Crolla. I think this might be a bit front room, so I just can't see him lifted the world champions from a two in two after taking over in his on. is the sort of kid that will refuse to what he was capable of when he of chess match to start with but I losing. Crolla again. precarious 48-8 in 11.3 overs be- team's nine wicket win over En- At least Crolla is on home soil be beaten. It means everything to came over here to fight Kevin can see him taking over in the sec- That Manchester crowd will fore being bowled off the penulti- gland at Manchester earlier this in Manchester and even the book- him - just like Hatton-Tszyu. I Mitchell. I think I'd have to lean ond half and Crolla taking it on get right behind Crolla, but that is mate ball. month. makers are making him the favou- don't actually think this one is go- towards Anthony because he's on points. (Crolla to win on points: not going to affect Linares in the Wasim made his career mile- The second match will also be rite, so we asked current fighters, ing to go to points either, we're such a good run at the moment. 13/8 with Sky Bet) slightest. It will galvanise Crolla stone in his four destructive overs played in Dubai on Saturday while trainers and our team of pundits looking at a late stoppage for Crolla. His last fight was great and I'd fan- I believe Crolla can hurt and get the best out of him. This is – the third best figures for Paki- the third is in Abu Dhabi on Tues- to give is their predictions... (Crolla to win by stoppage: 9/4 cy Crolla to get the job done. Linares. He looks big and strong at genuinely a real 50-50 fight and a stan in all Twenty20 cricket – af- day. Both teams will also play I think Linares a lot smarter with Sky Bet) Linares is a tough fight and the weight, whereas two years ago fight were he can't afford to lose ter Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss three one-day internationals and as than people are saying. Even if Crolla does have the constant your head tells you he'd beat Crol- he was stuck between super-feath- the early rounds like he did against and opted to bowl on a slow turn- many Tests. Crolla tucks up, Linares is not go- pressure but I would put him down la, but then you're sat there realis- erweight and lightweight. As the Barroso. I am really hoping Crolla ing to burn himself out, he's just a as an intelligent, front-foot defen- ing you said that about all of Crol- fight pans out, he'll start to hurt does it of course so I am going to very clever fighter. Crolla's got to sive fighter, which is good because la's last few fights and he keeps Linares. He's a good shout to win stick my neck on the block and go be tidy and clean cut, get behind we know Linares doesn't waste pulling it off. It's a tough one and on points, but I wouldn't be sur- for Ant on points. Cav, Deign an Wozniacki, set fo r Wo rlds Osaka reach fin al Caroline Wozniacki will take on the match. Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka in "I think every time I play her, the Pan Pacific Open final in To- we play really tough matches," said kyo after the duo came through Wozniacki. three-set semi-finals on Saturday "I was lucky to win that sec- Former world No 1 Wozniac- ond set and then we just fought ki beat defending champion Ag- really hard, both of us, in the third." nieszka Radwanska 4-6 7-5 6-4 in The 18-year-old Osaka got off a two hour, 50 minute epic while to a sluggish start against world Osaka bounced back after a poor No 20 Svitolina and lost the first first set to beat Elina Svitolina 1-6 set amid a flurry of unforced er- 6-3 6-2. rors. There were 13 breaks of serve But she then upped her game in the topsy-turvy clash between significantly and, helped by some Wozniacki and Radwanska, who powerful serving (seven aces in the served for the match in the second match), she clinched a spot in her set. However, she then lost five first ever WTA Tour final. games in a row and Wozniacki even- She becomes the first Japanese tually booked her place in a third player to reach the Pan Pacific fi- Pan Pacific final when Radwanska nal since Kimiko Date-Krumm netted - her 43rd unforced error of won the title in 1995.

Blue Point and Mehmas engage in clinch Group One glory. "He was ragh and while he ultimately came Mark Cavendish and Lizzie Deig- ley Simmonds. a fascinating rematch for the Jud- asked to race for the first time at up a little short against the excit- nan (nee Armitstead) have been British Cycling's head coach dmonte Middle Park Stakes at Goodwood and he learnt a lot for ing Churchill, he continued his ad- named in the Great Britain squads Iain Dyer said: "The depth of tal- Newmarket on Saturday. the whole experience," said the mirable record of having never fin- for next month's UCI Road World ent available to us on the road this The pair first locked horns in Godolphin handler. "It was a big ished out of the first two places. Championships in Doha, Qatar. year has been exceptional and I the Richmond Stakes at Good- learning day and he came out of Shortly after his Irish effort, it was The event takes place between believe we have picked strong wood in late July, at which stage that race perfectly well - both men- announced the likeable colt would October 9-16 and Cavendish will squads for all the races we are en- Mehmas had already tasted big- tally and physically, you could see be retired to stud at the end of the be in the field for the elite men's tering. Lizzie Deignan sporting the race success in the July Stakes, the difference. "He was a different season and connections are keep- road race, which he won in 2011. world champion's rainbow jersey having previously chased home horse at York. Around the parade ing their fingers crossed he can go He is joined in the British Lizzie Deignan sporting the star juvenile Caravaggio at Royal ring at Goodwood he just got a lit- out on a high. squad by fellow Rio Olympians world champion's rainbow jersey Ascot, whereas Blue Point had tle bit wound up, but he was the Harry Herbert, racing manag- Steve Cummings, Ian Stannard and "In the men's race, Mark heads to won minor events at Nottingham ultimate professional at York. er for owners Al Shaqab Racing, Geraint Thomas, plus the current Doha as one of the clear favourites and Doncaster. That experience ad- "It was the first time since his said: "It was worth a shot over national champion Adam Blythe. given the nature of the course, and vantage showed on the Sussex maiden win that we were able to seven furlongs in Ireland, it didn't Deignan is the reigning wom- he will have a strong team around Downs as Mehmas knuckled down tuck him in a little bit and take a come off, but he still ran a hell of a en's world champion and has been him. "In the women's squad, we've in trademark fashion to see off the lead and he showed us what he is good race. selected once again, as has nation- got some real high-calibre contend- slightly wayward but promising capable of. "Frankie (Dettori) was kind on al champion Hannah Barnes, along ers, with a couple of riders having Blue Point by a neck. Plenty of "If he turns up in the same him when it became obvious he with her sister and U23 national the capability to be competitive in water has passed under the bridge condition as he did at York, he is wasn't going to win and we're look- champion Alice. Three months' a sprint finish scenario. since, however, with Blue Point the horse that they have got to ing forward to running back over half-price Sky Sports Watch the "I'm really pleased to see a raising his game to run out an im- beat." Following his Goodwood his best distance. "We've beaten the Premier League, Ryder Cup and number of U23 category riders se- pressive winner of the Gimcrack triumph, the Richard Hannon- Godolphin horse before. The mar- the EFL Cup Hannah Barnes will lected for this squad too, I think at York, and trainer Charlie Ap- trained Mehmas was stepped up ket says he will reverse the form, also represent Great Britain in the they will benefit from the experi- pleby is hopeful his charge can to seven furlongs for the first time but we think Mehmas has im- time trial event, along with current ence of riding alongside elite rid- turn the tables on Mehmas and in the National Stakes at the Cur- proved since Goodwood as well. national time trial champion Hay- ers." SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 2016-Mizan 04, 1395 H.S Vol:XI Issue No:56 Price: Afs.15

Uruzgan police The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My chief fired over Journey Through a insecurity Turbulent World I soon began to wonder, however AT News Report KABUL: The Police Chief in the whether I would have a role in the southern province of Uruzgan was now administration. Right from the fired from his post after the increasing insecurity there, get-go my relationship with Rums- local officials confirmed Saturday. “Ministry of Interior feld was bumpy. sacked Uruzgan police chief Mohammad Wais Samimi on This was not because of poli- Friday,” said provincial spokesman Dost Mohammad cy differences. In fact, I like the Nayab. He said that the police chief had been a Taliban way Rumsfeld thought. He was sympathizer, adding that Sayd Aqa Saqeb, an experienced future-oriented, empirical and de- officer was assigned as acting provincial police chief. Ear- liberate about examining policy lier this month, hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked assumptions and courses of action. Trinkot city, but were pushed back by the security forc- I appreciated “Rumsfeld’s rules,” es. Nayab added that Taliban increase their attacks on the my favorite being: “Weakness is checkpoints. He stated that Uruzgan-Kandahar highway provocative.” He was committed was blocked for 15 days and people face different prob- to maintaining a robust U.S. mili- lems. Taliban planted landmines along the highway and tary and believed that it needed to the security forces started operations to reopen. He said be transformed to meet future chal- that hundreds of militants killed during past 20 days clashes lenges. Cognizant that U.S. poli- in Uruzgan. Afghan forces also sustain casualties, but cymakers had a poor record of pre- there is no exact figure in hand, he underlined. dicting threats, he favored military planning against the capabilities- rather than assumed intentions-of people Rumsfeld did not wish to Five of a family killed potential adversaries, a method see before his confirmation hear- with which I agree. ing. Senior Pentagon officials, ea- He also understood that adver- ger to brief Rumsfeld, were bom- in Taliban attack saries would adopt asymmetric barding me with requests and vent- AT News Report KABUL: At least five members of threats, such as ballistic missiles ing their frustration that he would the same family were killed and and anti-satellite systems, to avoid not respond to their invitations. three others wounded following a Taliban insurgent attack forntal challenges against the Unit- When I raised the issue with him, on a police vehicle in the Salang, a key tunnel pass that ed States. He was wary about in- he pushed back. “Zal,” he said, connects Kabul to the northern provinces, security official definite deployments of military “you don’t understand. If I go the said Saturday. Security sources confirmed the militants forces in what he considered to be Pentagon, then senators will ex- launched the attack on northern part of Salang by targeting marginal engagements, such as pect me to give substantive an- a vehicle of the security personnel. The sources further Bosnia and the Sinai. He saw those swers in the information hearing. added that five people were killed and three others wound- deployments as frittering away Now I can say, ‘I haven’t been to ed in a clash between the Taliban insurgents and the Af- U.S. power. I believed that I could the building. I haven’t been briefed. ghan forces. According to the officials, an officer serving in help him undertake a strategic re- These are my ideas and priorities, Pul-e-Charkhi prison came under attack while travelling view that would reshape our forc- but let me get acquainted with the with his family members to Mazar-e-Sharif. The victim es for the coming era. However, I situation and I will be back to brief was identified as Najmuddin Anadarabi who was killed was in the unfortunate position of you after a few months.” along with two men and two women of his family. fielding requests for meetings from To be continued