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AT News Report refer to the people and call the government, but this is forgotten Loya Jirga. after almost three years. Corrup- KABUL: Head of the New Foun- Nobody intends to prevent the tion has increased in the past three dation, a political party, accused distrust and no one works to save years.” Head of the New Founda- the national unity government of the people’s lives based on the tion party condemned the armed failure in ensuring peace and secu- constitution, Alizai added. opposition’s attacks against the rity across the country, suggesting He said that Afghans are the people especially in the mosques that the Loya Jirga as the only way owners of this land and nobody and during funerals, calling the at- to solve the current crisis. can remove their unity by spread- tacks against the Islamic principles. “The current situation is not ing ethnic, religious and language He accused the High Peace acceptable by any means, because differences. “Some persons in the Council as “commercial council”, the Afghans are being killed under country and abroad try to remove saying that the commercial peace different excuses every day,” Ah- the Afghans’ unity for their per- is not what the Afghans want. He madullah Alizai said while address- sonal interests.” He demanded the added that the council’s members Former President Hamid Karzai attended the Independence ing a gathering in Kabul. foreigners to stay with Afghans could not ensure peace, demand- Day ceremony at Minar-e-Istiqlal, in Kabul. He added that the country and not to fear of the Loya Jirga if ing for the cancelation of the coun- lacked political stability and de- they are working to help Afghans cil. “A commission made up by day and tomorrow are in the hands AT News Report velopment, saying that the securi- solve their problems. Alizai urged the religious scholars should be of such independence-loving peo- ty and social situation was going that the foreigners stop support- formed to help the peace process,” ple. Our country is regretfully in a to worsen day after day and the ing persons, and support the peo- Alizai suggested, adding that the KABUL: Former President, Ha- critical situation. Continuation of government distances from people. ple instead. “Struggle with corrup- government work hard for a trans- mid Karzai sent a congratulating the war, interference of the foreign Alizai asked the government to tion was prioritized by the unity parent election. KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani also a perfect moment to look back message to the people of Afghani- powers, insolence and not respect- wished “a very happy Indepen- on the glorious era of Ghazi Aman- stan on the occasion of the 98th ing the Afghans’ lives are serious dence Day to everyone in Afghan- ullah Khan and learn from his. He Independence Day. threats against the freedom, nation- istan”. “This day was earned with was a visionary/inspiring leader.” I would like to congratulate the al unity and independence of Af- lots of sacrifices. We must pay President Ghani also attended 98th Independence Day of our coun- ghanistan. Problems have caused homage and celebrate this legacy,” an official ceremony to mark the try to all the brave people of Af- the unity and patriotism of the President Ghani said in twitter ac- occasion on Saturday and laid a ghanistan. The Afghans have not Afghans in the course of history. count. wreath at the Minaret of Indepen- spared giving sacrifices along the Today, we need to stand united He added: “Whilst we cele- dence. history for maintaining their na- against the threats and raise our brate this precious day in indepen- Independence was gained 98 tional sovereignty and territorial voices. I would like to once again dence, we, especially youth, must years ago from Great Britain dur- integrity. Freedom, independence call on the Taliban to give up fight- “The current situation is not acceptable by any means, because the Afghans are being killed under also reflect on our history and learn ing King Amanuulah Khan’s rule. loving and patriotism are the eter- ing, join the peace process and different excuses every day,” Ahmadullah Alizai told a gathering in Kabul. lessons from the past.” This day is widely celebrating nal secrets of our homeland and I stand against the invasion shoul- He further went: “Today is across. am sure this will continue in the der to should with their people. future. Our freedom and indepen- The martyrs of independence dence will be lasting until our to- are remembered! Trump DABS to launch suspends solar power project in Kabul decision on Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) has designed a project Afghanistan which will help government insti- tutions and Kabul residents to use strategy solar power instead of the import- ed electricity. The DABS officials U.S. President Donald Trump in said the company would help cus- a top meeting with his national tomers to install the equipment security team on Friday post- on their house or offices. The plan poned taking decision about the is a mid-term solution for electric- 16-year-old war in Afghanistan. ity shortage in Kabul, he said. The high-level meeting was held Head of the company, Aman- at Camp David to discuss the Af- ullah Ghalib, said the Asian De- ghanistan war strategy with his velopment Bank has showed in- high-level aides, but the meeting terest to fund the project. reached nothing. High profile se- He said the DABS would pro- curity team members including vide 50 percent of the solar sys- U.S. Defense Secretary James tem expenses to its customers if Mattis, Secretary of State Rex the Asian Development Bank de- Princess India, daughter of late King Amanullah Khan Tillerson, Director of CIA Mike livers its promise in this respect. Pompeo and National Security “We will implement the plan AT News Report Advisor H.R. McMaster had at- and hopefully it will be imple- tended the meeting to choose an mented in ministries by the end Princess India, daughter of late King Amanullah option regarding Afghanistan war. of this year or the next year,” said Khan congratulated the Independence Day of Due to the importance of the meet- Ghalib. Meanwhile, some Kabul Afghanistan to the nation, wishing a durable ing, U.S. Vice President Pence de- residents welcomed the plan but peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan for Afghan layed his trip to South America to said that power shortage a major people. attend the meeting and to give a problem for them. “We have many She said that after two years the independency hand in finding a solution to the problems, including lack of pow- of Afghanistan will enter to its 100th years, so wish long-Afghan war.The meeting er. The solar power will help us all nation celebrate the 100th years of independency ended with no solution while on to use all electric equipment at with more luxury remember all heroes of Friday Mattis had told reporters home,” said Arab Shah, a resident Afghanistan. that they will make a decision. of Kabul. “Many parts of Qasa- She said that my father King Amanullah Khan This is not the first time that offi- ba area in Kabul are faced with had motivated us always to be a good patriot and a cials expected Trump to pick up lack of electricity. We must have loyalist for Afghanistan. an option regarding the new full access to electricity,” another “My father was a patriot and courageous, who U.S.strategy in Afghanistan. In Kabul resident, Fazal said. The loved all Afghans and his county,” she added. May, prior to the NATO summit project will be implemented in two in Belgium, Trump was expected phases: The first phase, which will to make a decision, but a final de- be completed by the end of the cision was not made. Mattis how- next year, will cover ministries and ever later in June promised law- other government institutions and makers that the administration will will produce up to 15 megawatts take a decision sometimes in July, of power. And the second phase and once again the decision was will cover the DABS customers not made. across Kabul. (TOLONews)

The administration of Afghanistan this country. Since longtime, we Spokesman for Ministry of Defense, General Times, the leading English News- are suffering at hands of insurgent Dawlat Waziri, congratulated the 98th Independence paper in the country, on Saturday outfits that have been receiving Day of Afghanistan, and hoped peaceful and stable felicitated the brave nation on the supports by some regional coun- Afghanistan to the people in of the country. country’s 98th Independence Day. tries. War has been imposed on use. He said that Afghan National Army will defend Afghanistan Times wishes Hap- The media outlet prays for peace the country, people and independency to last drop py Independence Day to all Af- and stability to be restored, and of their blood. ghan masses at home and aboard, stand shoulder to shoulder with the “Afghan Army once again pledges to remain with hope that this precious day government to promote unity and committed to defend bravely Afghan people and may bring peace and stability to harmony. Afghanistan,” he said. SUNDAY .AUGUST 20 , 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Men in front and behind Taliban the new Afghanistan ‘severely ...P12 not so much in tribal politics, proved to be a very difficult and but in broad public acceptance. complex course of modernization Nationalism, elements of in a traditional, Islamic ethno-tribal defeated’ populism, respect for the society, where in most areas the traditional Pashtun values clergy espoused ideas in line with undoubtedly constituted the ultra-conservative so called important parts of the new King’s Deobandi school of Islam set by Family of Humayun, an Army Commando, who was killed Nangarhar, said they are living under a tent in Kabul. in Gomal credo. British. On the whole the reform them alone. his son fought over 10 years to In any case, it was program had its origins in the Humayun, member of Afghan defend the country. district independence, and, all the more ideological vision that Amanullah National Army’s Commando Unit, “He had passed the training particularly, freedom interlaced Khan and Mahmud Tarzai had got married four years ago and left and was assigned to train others in SHARANA : ‘Dozens’ of Taliban with modernization, that turned come to share by the time they two sons, Ibrahim and Hanzala, Pul-e-Charkhi. Then I heard that militants were killed and wounded into the foundation of his stage. came to power. and his wife Mursal. he was deployed in Rishkhor (area after joint Afghan security forces This fundamentally implied Amid the underlying phases of Mursal and her sons are living in the outskirts of Kabul city) and entered the Gomal district center Afghanistan couldn’t modernize reform, up to 1924, a number of under a tent in the yard of his that he has joined the commandos,” in southeastern Paktika province without above all being freed from important steps were taken in all sister’s house in Kabul. Rokai said. Humayun’s friends last night, the governor’s house said English domination and areas. In the realm of political She said government should also urged government not to leave on Friday. accordingly ‘Great-Game’ obstruc- reforms, for the first time in the provide them with a shelter. Humayun’s wife and sons alone. A statement from the tion, and it couldn’t safeguard its history of Afghanistan a well- “I urge government to give me “He was the only breadwinner provincial media office said the independence without being structured Cabinet, the Council of and my sons a shelter and help of his family,” Ghulam Mujtaba, dead bodies of militants were modernized. Hence, from the Ministers, headed by the King them to go to school,” said Mursal. Humayun’s father in-law said. currently being handed over to beginning, the Young Afghans’ himself, was established. A number Humayun’s relatives said six “He has nothing. His relatives their families by local tribal elders domestic reforms became or urgent measures were adopted members of the soldier’s family donated money for his burial and in the district. inseparably connected to outside to reform and reorganize the The family of a young soldier who of militants in Achin district in the have sacrificed their lives in funeral ceremony” said Khaild It said after the Taliban claimed strategy and the other way around; administration in order to make was killed on Wednesday in a eastern province of Nangarhar defending their homeland. Seddiqi, another relative of capturing Gomal district, they and by expansion, failure in one governmental functions more military operation against a group asked government not to leave Humayun’s father, Rokai, said Humayun. (Al Jazeera) were defeated and forced to flee space would have genuine responsible and efficient at central, and a clearing operation was still ramifications for the other. provincial and local levels. New underway. Giving the English stalling over rules and regulations, defining A resident of the area, Syed the subject of freedom, Amanullah ministerial administrative Khan, told Pajhwok Afghan News Khan’s initiative immediately structures, duties and How Afgh an ist an is r am p in g u p it s stiff resistance put up by police achieved the conclusion that the responsibilities were enacted. and 07 unit forces rescued the most ideal approach to secure These reforms were envisaged Gomal district from being captured unconditional independence was as laying the bases for developing figh t again st cor r u p t ion —esp ecially by the rebels. He asked the through a military confrontation. a modern bureaucratic system government to honor the forces for It was to pressure the British to along what could be described as preventing the district from falling speed up the ongoing diplomatic Weberian Council (Mahfal-e- am on g t h e cou n t r y’s elit e into the hands of militants. negotiations and to agree to Qanun), partly appointed and The deputy governor, Kabul’s demand for full and partly elected, was set up, and Attaullah Fazli, also said the unconditional independence. steps were taken to establish Taliban had been 'severely' In late April 1919, during a provincial councils in the same KABUL : They were important men — tall and imposing, well- defeated in Gomal district by the mass meeting in one of Kabul’s vein. The first Legislative Council joint Afghan forces. He said the main mosques, Masjid-e-Eidgah, was the pressure of a more dressed and well-connected, used to giving orders and getting Afghan forces had also suffered Amanullah Khan appealed to the representative legislative body, casualties but exact figures were Afghan people’s religious and called National Council (Shura-e- respect. One was a white-haired army general, the other a wealthy currently not available. nationalist sentiment and honor, Melli), which came into existence He said hundreds of families and declared a Jihad against Britain, under the first Afghan entrepreneur — both members of the Afghan elite long considered who fled homes due to the conflict launching the Afghan War of Constitution promulgated in 1923 were in dire need of assistance. Independence or the Third Anglo- by Amanullah Khan and too powerful to touch. But last week, Gen. Separately, police ambushed Afghan War. The war lasted only MahmdTarzai. and killed three Taliban militants three month, from May 3 to June Although, there were many Mohammad Moeen Faqir, the former commander of embattled in the Janikhel district of Paktika 1919 and an armistice was reformative measures Mahmud province. the dead bodies of the proclaimed. The treaty of Peace Tarzai and King Amanullah Khan Helmand Province, and Abdul Ghafar Dawi, the director of a large militants had been shifted to the between the Illustrious British had taken, the very prominent and provincial police headquarters in Government and the Independent key reformation was related to fuel company and other businesses, chafed in silence as Sharana, the provincial capital, the Afghan Government signed at women rights and gender equality media office said. (Pajhwok) Rawalpindi “a city famous for the in a time when today’s USA ‘the prosecutors in an anti-corruption destruction of Afghanistan then most women right’s and gender court charged them with and even now” on August 8, 1919. equality defender’ had no clue of embezzlement and abuse of The Treaty’s wording was so women rights and/or gender authority. ambiguous and questionable as to equality. With the suggestion or The two brief trials, which Pearson enable the Afghans to peruse in it advice of Mahmud Tarzai, King concluded with prison terms and tje British affirmation of their full Amanullah Khan banned large fines imposed on both men, independence; and the English to polygamy in the royal and later in were among a clutch of high-profile Engineering discover grounds despite the administrative institutions. anti-corruption cases brought by everything to make ‘effective Briefly, Mahmud Tarzai and the Afghan government in recent Counter- reach’ claims to the country. King Amanullah Khan ‘a student weeks. The other convicted When King Amanullah Khan of Tarzai School of Thought’ defendants included prison and Mahmud Tarzai demanded to brought the political and officials who made deals to release IED rollers reestablish transactions to governmental structure into the inmates early, bank officials who illuminate a portion of the terms system that today in 2017 is made loans with fake collateral and of the Treaty, and further settle practiced in developing countries, senior military officers who destined for the issues related with the Durand women rights and gender equality, schemed to steal thousands of Afghan Gen. Mohammad Moeen Faqir appears at his trial on embezzlement and corruption charges gallons of generator fuel. Line, the British showed great education for all, reformative laws, There have also been us coming, they are a little afraid attorney, Abdul Jalil, arguing that reluctance. They sought not only government taxes, custom and Together, the cases are part of Afghanistan an accelerating campaign, headed complaints that Hamidi was failing now,” he said. he deserved to have his home and to sabotage or prolong such traditional law into international to go after the most influential They also fight back, hiring family protected and that there Pearson Engineering has secured negotiations, but also to undermine law and patriotism. by Attorney General Farid Hamidi, to convince the Afghan public and Afghans linked to corruption, and multiple defense lawyers, packing was nothing “abnormal” about the its position as market leaders in Amanullah Khan’s rule, engaging However, Britian at that time that the effort was politically courtrooms with supporters and practice. “To go after high-value the supply of Counter-IED rollers in a barrage of anti-Amanullah did its best to over throw King Afghanistan’s foreign backers that the government, plagued by a raft motivated or aimed at distracting rebutting charges with an array of figures is not good for the country,” following contract award by the propaganda and using Mullahs to Amanullah’s throne via the the international community from arguments. During their recent he added. In the end, the three- encourage Durand line tribal majority and decision making of other problems, is making U.S Army Contracting Command. significant progress in efforts to the government’s failures. But trials, both Faqir and Dawi seemed judge panel sentenced Faqir to nine The Counter-IED roller systems uprisings against him to moderate Pashtuns, yet, for many such criticism has diminished as confident and relaxed, exchanging years in prison and ordered him to his position on the question of traditional norms the Pashtun with end an entrenched culture of are being acquired as part of a U.S impunity and entitlement among prosecutors have worked through nods and smiles with co- repay $1.2 million for the military Foreign Military Sales contract for total independence. their conscience did not help the several hundred cases, taken defendants and lawyers as they rations. The case against Dawi, one Soviet Russia was the first to British and instead they chose the the country’s military and civilian Afghanistan. The award was elites. “When we started out, prominent people into custody listened to the proceedings, and of the most successful and announced on 24th February 2017 recognize Afghanistan’s prominent Tajik, ‘known as Bacha for trial and sent some of them to greeting well-wishers during court politically connected business sovereignty, make friendly Saqaow’, Kalakani to collapse the everyone was skeptical. Now they following competition. are starting to believe,” said prison. breaks as guards with handcuffs owners in Afghanistan, was more The contract, worth nearly overtures and establishing most developed, reformed, To date, Hamidi’s aides said, hovered at a respectful distance. complex. At the heart of the diplomatic relations in 1919; political and patriotic government Hamidi, who was appointed 18 $8,000,000 will see Pearson months ago by President Ashraf 1,097 cases have been tried in three In both cases, the defendants prosecution were charges going Engineering provide a large number Turkey, Iran, France and Germany of King Amanullah Khan. anti-corruption courts, 468 people and their attorneys also made back a decade, alleging that his followed suit. To balance foreign In conclusion, there are Ghani. “These cases show that of rollers in a similar configuration money and power are not a have been sent to prison, and emotional pleas for leniency or company manipulated bids and relations and haunted by continued uncountable motives to pen on repayments and fines totaling more dismissal based on their many contracts for aviation fuel and as previously supplied for U.S British pressure, and cautioned by King Amanullah Khan, but this guarantee. We face many Army use in Iraq and Afghanistan difficulties, but we are committed. than $14 million have been ordered. years of contributions to facilities, establishing a historical Russian ambition, article has been written in order to In the generator fuel scheme, two Afghanistan’s economic “monopoly” in collusion with during recent campaigns. Named Amanullah Khan and Mahmud clarify that yes, King Amanullah We still do not have complete SPARK OIF(R), it is part of the justice in Afghanistan, but we no army colonels were sent to prison development and national defense transportation officials. Dawi was Tarzai desperately wanted to forge Khan is the Hero, but like many for 18 and 20 years and fined more — character portraits that also charged with defrauding SPARK roller family fielded during closes ties with the USA, for two other countries’ heroes there are longer have complete impunity.” Business owner Abdul Ghafar than $1.5 million. contrasted sharply with the several other oil companies and Operation Iraqi Freedom and important reasons. First, the USA always people behind their success “This is unprecedented,” said grubby accusations against them. embezzling $16 million in loans Operation Enduring Freedom and was a physically distant great and they do mention and pass Dawi testifies in his own defense at his trial on embezzlement and Kawun Kakar, managing partner Faqir, who served in the from Kabul Bank by creating 17 was specifically designed for the power, capable of helping a them honor, i.e Bacha Khan and of a private law firm in Kabul. military for 38 years before his front companies that never repaid terrain and threat. The system is country like Afghanistan without Nehru behind Gandhi, Che corruption charges. (Pamela Constable/The Washington Post) “After years in which nobody, not arrest, was charged with abusing them. Dawi’s lawyer, Najla Rahil, designed to protect MRAP acquiring the geographical leverage Guevara behind Fidel Castro and a deputy minister or a general, has his authority by appropriating presented an exhaustive defense, vehicles from the effects of Victim that had enabled British India and AllamaIqaba behind the so called Hamidi’s efforts have met with dramatic setbacks. One was the been tried or convicted of military vehicles for his personal arguing that the prosecution was Operated IEDs over the track Tsarist Russain to intimidate it. Jinah. Thus, any celebrations of corruption, in the past year there use and ordering 30 active-duty biased and conspired with Dawi’s Second, the USA had a generally Afghanistan Independence Day unsolved double murder of two width of the vehicle and will police investigators on their way have been a number of high officials soldiers to serve as guards and business competitors, and that the support the mobility of the unblemished colonial record, which without a huge tribute to Mahmud and well-connected people drivers at his private homes. He case was a contractual and civil shielded Kabul from criticism for Tarzai makes the day colorless. to work at the Anti-Corruption HMMVW fleet in Afghanistan. Justice Center. Another was the convicted. It is a very stark and several other officers were dispute rather than a criminal Pearson Engineering is able to managing a ‘colonial power’. Mahmud Tarzai was the man who contrast.” Even if progress has separately charged with matter. The Dawi Oil Company, Unfortunately for the USA, it lost along with great King Amanullah defiance of Gen. Abdurrashid meet ongoing demands for its Dostum, the country’s first vice been slow, he added, “they are embezzlement for keeping large she argued, “preserved a bright rollers thanks to its ability to its chance to only came back with Khan put an end to Security laying the groundwork for larger, amounts of cash that had been history in our country” as a thousand times more investment Dilemma, Prisoner Dilemma and president and a former militia boss, rapidly mobilise to meet high rate who was accused of ordering the more organized cases with even intended to be used to purchase Afghanistan emerged from years production requirements. The only 50 year later in 1970s with the Two Level Game in wider implications.” food for combat troops under his of conflict and isolation, virtually the Cyclone Project. As mentioned Afghanistan. rape of a political rival last year. company's in house manufacturing Dostum refused to be questioned Rohullah Abed, executive command. “My client has risked reviving its ruined aviation capability will be supported a U.S earlier, AmanullahKhand and Najibullah Azad is an director of the justice center, where his life. He has fought terrorists industry and investing where no Tarzai saw independence and advocate, consultant, writer, by Hamidi’s office and fled to supply chain which includes Turkey, where he remains in self- the trials took place, put it another and Taliban. .?.?. It was not a one else would. modernization as indissolubly author, poet, researcher, analyst way. When “powerful people see vacation,” declared Faqir’s (washingtonpost) manufacturing services in Baraga, linked and mutually reinforcing. As and translator. He can be reached exile. Michigan and at the company's soon as the Treaty of Rawalpindi at: [email protected] and http:/ facility in Newnan, Georgia. was signed, they set out on what /www.facebook.com/Nj.Azad/ Kunduz City Technical Director, Randall Flack said We are delighted to have airport security AbdullahreachesKazakh been awarded this contract to support U.S Army capacity Laghman celebrates 98th chief held over building in Afghanistan. Despite Independence Day corruption charges competition from very capable capital fromBelarus companies in the U.S, we have proven that Pearson Engineering ...P12 such a splendid celebration Britain exercised an important in- are world-experts at providing KABUL : After spending two days these solutions and responding to in Laghman before. Mehtralam has fluence on Afghan affairs. Since in Belarus, Chief Executive Officer the delivery needs of our an extraordinary beauty with the then, 19 August is celebrated as (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has national flags and big boards.” the Afghanistan’s Independence reached Astana, the capital of customers. Our staff worked very He said: “I and my colleagues Day. Amanullah Khan was a Kazakhstan, to attend an ongoing hard to make this opportunity a are delighted to celebrate the Inde- charming man, a sincere patriot and international energy expo after success which is testament to the pendence Day with such a relish.” reformer. Shortly after ascending meeting Prime Minister engineering prowess and dedication that can be found within Sher Khan a shopkeeper in the throne, he pushed for a series KUNDUZ CITY : Security in Bakytzhan Sagintayev. charge of Kunduz City Airport in Various countries have put on the company. Mehterlam said: “I am happy for of modern-style reforms, including Projects Director, Simon independence and it is very strange an education program, road- northern Kunduz provinces has display industrial products at the been arrested over alleged show, on which Kazakhstan is Gilroy said We are looking forward that people are celebrating Indepen- building projects, rational involvement in corruption, reliable spending nearly two billion euros. to scaling up our operation to dence Day in Laghman with this legislative reforms, emancipation sources said on Thursday. A statement from the CEO deliver against this contract. Our much zeal.” of women, but was opposed by According to the sources, Lt. office said Abdullah during his visit project teams retain very close ties Amanullah Khan (1892- 1960), mullahs (Muslim religious leaders) Col. Syed Anwar Sadaat, head of to Kazakhstan would meet the with the U.S following years of ruler of Afghanistan (1919 – 1929) and finally he left Afghanistan for the airport security, was arrested country’s prime minister and providing breaching, manoeuvre led Afghanistan to full indepen- permanent exile in 1929. by personnel of National Afghans living in the country. support and counter-IED dence from British influence. It is famous among Afghans Directorate of Security (NDS) It said the CEO would also capability. This contract He was a favored son of the that the opposition of mullahs was over corruption charges. Sadaat urged Kazakh traders and investors represents a natural extension of ruler Habibullah Khan. He took supported by British because Brit- served as airport security head to do business in Afghanistan. The the hard work we have already put since three years. Reconstruction CEO would also meet participants possession of the throne immedi- ish could not bear a man of vision in to support the U.S Army and and development work in the of the expo and would celebrate we look forward to developing our ately after his father’s assassina- and reason like Amanullah Khan Some members of the Cabinet, ranking official are accompanying airport was underway from the Afghanistan’s Independence Day relationship. (JANES) tion in 1919. At that time Great to rule Afghanistan. past few months. (Pajhwok) there. their deputies and other high the CEO on the trip. (Pajhwok) SUNDAY . AUGUST 20, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Pak ist an b u r ies r ever ed h u m an it ar ian India backs US sanctions on Hizbul Mujahideen, which fights against Indian rule, after Pakistan opposes decision. India has welcomed the United in Islamabad on Thursday. Ru t h Pfau States' blacklisting of Hizbul "The designation of individuals Mujahideen, the largest armed or groups supporting the Kashmiri group in Indian-administered right to self-determination as State funeral held for Pakistan's Kashmir, as a "foreign terrorist terrorists was completely organisation". unjustified," he said. 'Mother Theresa', a German nun and The US Department of State Indian soldiers and rebels killed doctor who helped fight against leprosy. said in a statement on Wednesday in Kashmir clashes that Washington is freezing the Hizbul Mujahideen is the group's assets to deny it "the largest indigenous armed group resources it needs to carry out fighting against Indian rule in the terrorist attacks". The US also Himalayan territory since an prohibited Americans from having armed rebellion broke out in 1989. dealings with the armed group. In June, the US designated the "We welcome the designation group's leader, Syed Salahuddin, of the Hizbul Mujahideen as a also known as Mohammad Yusuf terrorist organisation," Raveesh Shah, as a "terrorist". Kumar, India's foreign ministry Kashmir has been divided spokesman, told reporters on between India and Pakistan since Friday. "All of us are aware of the end of British colonial rule in what kind of terrorist activities 1947. Both claim the territory in they have conducted in the state its entirety. of Jammu and Kashmir," he said, Several armed rebel groups are adding it was key to "end moral, fighting against Indian rule in diplomatic and material support" Kashmir, with tens of thousands to such groups. of people, most of them civilians, The reaction from India comes killed in the nearly three decades- Hundreds of people have attended there won't be any replacement to after Pakistan expressed anger and old conflict. the state funeral of Pakistan's her. We pray to God to send people disappointment over Washington's Anti-India sentiment runs deep been killed in the uprising and the sought to protect them by engaging that "tough action" would be taken legendary humanitarian Ruth Pfau, like her again to this world so that move, terming the US sanctions as in Kashmir's predominantly ensuing Indian military troops in street clashes during against stone throwers during a German nun who spent more they could continue serving "unjustified". "We are Muslim population, and most crackdown. In recent years, military operations. counter attacks. India accuses than half a century helping the people," she said. disappointed," Nafees Zakaria, people support the fighters' cause Kashmiris, mainly young people, The anti-India protests and Pakistan of arming and training the country's most vulnerable people Pfau, who died on August 10 Pakistan's foreign ministry against Indian rule. have displayed open solidarity clashes have persisted despite the fighters, which Pakistan denies. and fighting against leprosy. at the age of 87, trained as a doctor spokesman, said at a media briefing Nearly 70,000 people have with anti-Indian fighters and Indian army chief warning recently (Al Jazeera) Huge crowds gathered for the in her youth before arriving in procession and funeral service in Pakistan in 1960. the southern port city of Karachi She specialised in the on Saturday as politicians, military treatment of leprosy, a disease that Honour officials and members of civil causes discolouration of the skin, society paid tribute to the woman sores, and disfigurements. dubbed "Pakistan's Mother Pfau's work earned her the killing: Theresa". State TV broadcast live Nishan-e-Quaid-i-Azam, one of footage of her casket being carried Pakistan's highest civilian awards. After 12 by a military guard at the city's St. Her death drew messages of Oxford medical Patrick's Cathedral as hundreds of condolences from all sections of years in mourners lined the streets. society with tributes pouring in on student dies in Martha Fernando, who social media. Karachi Mayor worked with Pfau at her Marie Wasim Akhtar wrote: "Her selfless Nepal landslide prison, Adelaide Leprosy Center, said the and unmatched service to German physician's death was a humanity will be remembered and Tributes have been paid to a three great loss to humanity. she will remain in our hearts as medical student who died following "There is no one like her and Shining Star." (Al Jazeera) a landslide in Nepal. Lottie Fullerton was trekking on 10 convicts August when she was hit by falling rocks and suffered a fatal head walk free injury. The 22-year-old, who was Sale of d r on es about to enter her fourth year at Jesus College, Oxford, has been ISLAMABAD: In a surprise described as "the best of people" move, the top court on Friday w or t h $2b t o by a friend. About 500 people have acquitted three convicts in an died in floods and landslides caused honour killing case after they had by heavy rain in Nepal, been convicted by the Lahore 'cem en t ' In d ia-US Bangladesh and India. Miss High Court and were imprisoned Fullerton was reportedly for 12 years. The three judge descending towards Tatopani in special bench headed by Justice bilat er al t ies Nepal's Mustang region when the Asif Saeed Khosa, comprising accident happened. Her family said Justice Dost Muhammad Khan her brother travelled with her to a and Justice Qazi Faez Isa, had WASHINGTON:The US decision engagements with regional and observed that the prosecution to sell 22 Sea Guardian drones to extra-regional partners. local hospital where she was failed to prove its case which led India at an estimated cost of USD The Sea Guardian is a variant pronounced dead. 'A friend to to the acquittal. 2 billion will create around 2,000 of the tested MQ-9 platform everyone' Miss Fullerton went to which allows for greater More than 16 million people have Canford School in Canford Magna, The three convicts Ijaz jobs in the US and "cement" 39 in Bangladesh. Officials said the situation remains Ahmad, Shahid Iqbal and bilateral ties, an American interoperability with the US and been affected by monsoon flooding Dorset. A service will be organised Flood levels had already grim with the weather bureau Muhammad Iqbal were involved executive involved in the deal has allied forces, in a way other across the South Asian countries at Jesus College chapel in her reached record highs in forecasting more heavy rain in the in the killing of a couple in Hafaz said. "This should be viewed as a platforms do not permit of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh - memory. Bangladesh. Flooding of major region over the coming days. Abad on May 10, 2005. A trial significant step in cementing the demonstrating the centrality of putting huge numbers at risk of rivers such as the Jamuna In a makeshift relief camp in In a statement the college said: General Atomics' products to disease, hunger, and death. "Lottie was a very popular court had awarded the death US-India bilateral defence surpassed levels from 1988, the India's Kaliabor, 160km east of sentence to Ijaz Ahmad and life relationship," Vivek Lall, chief India's defence needs, he said. One-third of Bangladesh and year of the deadliest floods the Guwahati city, families said they member of the college and will be Nepal have been flooded, said much missed by all at Jesus. imprisonment to the other two. executive US and international "This platform has 4 million country has ever faced, the had not received any aid. However, LHC later strategic development, General hours in combat, will be able t Martin Faller, deputy regional (BBC) overturned o humanitarian agency said. (AL JAZEERA) Ijaz’s death sentence to life Atomics, told the Atlantic Council certifiably fly in Indian civilian director for Asia Pacific at the "More than one-third of imprisonment. yesterday. airspace and can remain airborne International Federation of Red Bangladesh and Nepal have been Man kills daughter for Mr Lall echoed Senator John more than a record setting forty Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Nawaz Sharif, sons not to appear flooded and we fear the ‘honour’ in Lahore, goes scot-free Cornyn, Co-Chair of the Senate hours. Additionally, it has a Monsoon floods kill more than humanitarian crisis will get worse India Caucus, who tweeted, 40,000-hour design life 100 people in Nepal before NAB until SC ruling on plea after pardoning self in the days and weeks ahead," The bench, while hearing the "Drone Sale Would Cement US- demonstrating its unique resilience. "This is fast becoming one of Faller said. LAHORE: Former prime minister coordinator Mohammad Mehdi case, wondered how was it India Ties." General Atomics maintains that the most serious humanitarian Aid group Save the Children Nawaz Sharif and his two sons told Dawn, adding that the Sharif possible that two different cases The announcement in this this platform and its proven crises this region has seen in many director Mark Pierce said the have decided not to appear before family would decide whether they were registered of the same regard was made by Trump in June performance stands independently years, and urgent action is needed situation is "extremely desperate". the National Accountability should join the NAB investigations incident. They passed the when he met Prime Minister of and is unaffected by Israel's to meet the growing needs of "The sheer volume of water is Bureau (NAB) till his petition once the Supreme Court took a remarks after the police submitted Narendra Modi at the White Heron sales to India," he said. millions of people affected by also making it really difficult to seeking a review of the Supreme decision on their petition. He said two different challans. They also House. This prospective purchase This summer, India received 10 these devastating floods," Faller access some of the communities Court’s verdict that disqualified that the Lahore High Court had observed that this showed that of drones manufactured by advanced Heron drones from Israel said. most in need," he said in a him from office is decided. earlier closed his case as nothing the police itself was not interested General Atomics marks the first for USD 400 million, making Israel "Millions of people across statement. The former premier and his had been established against Mr in improving the criminal justice of its kind from the US by a a weapons supplier competitor to Nepal, Bangladesh, and India face In Nepal, many areas remain severe food shortages and disease sons — Hussain and Hasan Nawaz Sharif. “Mr Sharif has faced the system. Deputy Prosecutor country that is not a member of the United States. cut off after the most destructive accountability process many the NATO, Mr Lall said. According to Mr Lall, use of caused by polluted flood waters," — did not visit the NAB’s Lahore General Punjab Muhammad floods and landslides in recent times office on Friday where a team from times, and there is nothing new for Jaffir, during the hearing, told the With China focused on South the Sea Guardian drones by the he added. on August 11-12. Villagers and the bureau’s Rawal-pindi office him this time around,” he said. A court that Mohsin and Fozia were China Sea, Mr Lall hopes that India Indian Navy will also develop According to officials, more communities are without food, waited for them until 3pm so that written reply had been submitted murdered at different places has an opportunity to help create India's credible capabilities, which than 400 people have died in the water, and electricity. they could join investigations into to the NAB by senior counsel therefore, the two cases were and lead a regional balance of power is significant for Indian maritime three countries over the last seven In India, 168 deaths were the Al-Azizia Steel Mills case. Amjad Pervez, Mr Mehdi added. registered. However, Justice to protect its interests in the Indian security and naval power days, with India accounting for 239 reported in Bihar and Assam states, However, leaders of the Pakistan “Neither of the three [members of Khosa observed that it is the job Ocean region by building maritime projection. (NDTV) fatalities, 128 dying in Nepal, and the worst-hit by the floods. Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) the Sharif family] joined the NAB of the police to not only focus on have linked Mr Sharif’s refusal to investigations nor did they the complainant’s stance but also appear before NAB with the apex intimate [the NAB] about the to dig out the truth. He lamented court’s decision on his review reason for not showing up,” a NAB that, unfortunately, the police petition. “A senior counsel for official told Dawn. He said NAB takes side with the complainant Nawaz Sharif has informed NAB had summoned the disqualified and uses false witnesses to prove Sr i Lan k a's coalit ion govt that his review petition seeking a PM and his sons to appear before their stance. He also remarked stay of the bureau’s investigation the combined investigation team to that so many lives are wasted due into the references against him is record their statement in view of to the production of false pending with the Supreme Court,” the Supreme Court’s decision. witnesses and added that no one is r ot t in g fr om w it h in PML-N leader and media (DAWN) is ready to tell the truth. In recent times, the political early this month. During an inquiry scandal you may not have heard by an independent commission about deals with the corridors of appointed by Sirisena, it came to power in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ravi light that Karunanayake had Karunanayake, the island nation’s allowed a person under Lankanchargedwith foreign minister, recently stepped investigation for irregularities in down due to serious (and credible) treasury-bond sales to pay for his corruption concerns. luxury penthouse in Colombo. This is a big deal and reiterates Here’s more from Mushtaq: seducingmarriedwoman how poorly the government has Analysts are already lamenting performed since Maithripala that the current administration is A Sri Lankan was in the dock at deck of Blok Kondominium not represented, told the court that Sirisena was elected president in no better than the previous the Magistrate's Court in Ridzuan, in Sungai Way, here he had no bailor. The court did not January 2015. government under ex-president Malaysia today facing two 9.15am on Aug 12. offer bail and set Aug 20 for re- Karunanayake, a member of Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose charges, issuing death threats and He was charged under Section mention. (Yahoo news) the United National Party (UNP), government was also accused of seducing another man's wife. 506 of the Penal Code and is previously served as finance corruption, bribery and nepotism M. Suventhan, 31, however, looking at a maximum two years minister from 2015 to 2017. He as well as human-rights violations. claimed trial after the charges were jail or fine or both, if convicted. remains a member of parliament. Some Sri Lankan politicians, read out to him in Tamil before As for the second, he was Enjoying this article? Click government supporters and Magistrate Salamiah Salleh. charged with enticing or taking here to subscribe for full access. Panglossians in the West may argue Initially, the accused appeared away or detaining with a criminal Just $5 a month. that Karunanayake’s resignation nervous and failed to understand intent, a married woman. Writing for Asia Times, shows that the system is working the charges against him so much The charge was under Section journalist Munza Mushtaq has a and an administration that came to so, the court interpreter had to 498 of the Penal Code which also nice article about recent power championing anti- prosecution. Genuine is alarming news. Marapana is, to repeat them twice. provides for the same two types developments in Colombo. corruption and improved accountability for any crimes put it mildly, a controversial figure On the first count, he was of punishment, if convicted. Here’s part of that piece: governance is still doing alright. committed is still very far away. who resigned from a previously charged with issuing death threats Deputy public prosecutor Plagued by allegations of Nothing could be further from the And we’ve yet to see convictions held ministerial post in November against the husband of the woman Mary Phoon Keat Mee urged the corruption, foreign minister Ravi truth. Moreover, let’s not conflate for corruption that occurred during 2015. He has also been implicated he had seduced. court not to offer bail saying the Karunanayake was forced to Karunanayake’s resignation with Rajapaksa’s reign. Tilak Marapana in scandalous behavior. He is alleged to have accused, being a foreigner, was a resign from his ministerial portfolio indictments or any sort of criminal is now foreign minister. This, too, THEDIPLOMAT committed this offence at the void flight risk. The accused, who was SUNDAY . AUGUST 20, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Pak ist an b u r ies r ever ed h u m an it ar ian India backs US sanctions on Hizbul Mujahideen, which fights against Indian rule, after Pakistan opposes decision. India has welcomed the United in Islamabad on Thursday. Ru t h Pfau States' blacklisting of Hizbul "The designation of individuals Mujahideen, the largest armed or groups supporting the Kashmiri group in Indian-administered right to self-determination as State funeral held for Pakistan's Kashmir, as a "foreign terrorist terrorists was completely organisation". unjustified," he said. 'Mother Theresa', a German nun and The US Department of State Indian soldiers and rebels killed doctor who helped fight against leprosy. said in a statement on Wednesday in Kashmir clashes that Washington is freezing the Hizbul Mujahideen is the group's assets to deny it "the largest indigenous armed group resources it needs to carry out fighting against Indian rule in the terrorist attacks". The US also Himalayan territory since an prohibited Americans from having armed rebellion broke out in 1989. dealings with the armed group. In June, the US designated the "We welcome the designation group's leader, Syed Salahuddin, of the Hizbul Mujahideen as a also known as Mohammad Yusuf terrorist organisation," Raveesh Shah, as a "terrorist". Kumar, India's foreign ministry Kashmir has been divided spokesman, told reporters on between India and Pakistan since Friday. "All of us are aware of the end of British colonial rule in what kind of terrorist activities 1947. Both claim the territory in they have conducted in the state its entirety. of Jammu and Kashmir," he said, Several armed rebel groups are adding it was key to "end moral, fighting against Indian rule in diplomatic and material support" Kashmir, with tens of thousands to such groups. of people, most of them civilians, The reaction from India comes killed in the nearly three decades- Hundreds of people have attended there won't be any replacement to after Pakistan expressed anger and old conflict. the state funeral of Pakistan's her. We pray to God to send people disappointment over Washington's Anti-India sentiment runs deep been killed in the uprising and the sought to protect them by engaging that "tough action" would be taken legendary humanitarian Ruth Pfau, like her again to this world so that move, terming the US sanctions as in Kashmir's predominantly ensuing Indian military troops in street clashes during against stone throwers during a German nun who spent more they could continue serving "unjustified". "We are Muslim population, and most crackdown. In recent years, military operations. counter attacks. India accuses than half a century helping the people," she said. disappointed," Nafees Zakaria, people support the fighters' cause Kashmiris, mainly young people, The anti-India protests and Pakistan of arming and training the country's most vulnerable people Pfau, who died on August 10 Pakistan's foreign ministry against Indian rule. have displayed open solidarity clashes have persisted despite the fighters, which Pakistan denies. and fighting against leprosy. at the age of 87, trained as a doctor spokesman, said at a media briefing Nearly 70,000 people have with anti-Indian fighters and Indian army chief warning recently (Al Jazeera) Huge crowds gathered for the in her youth before arriving in procession and funeral service in Pakistan in 1960. the southern port city of Karachi She specialised in the on Saturday as politicians, military treatment of leprosy, a disease that Honour officials and members of civil causes discolouration of the skin, society paid tribute to the woman sores, and disfigurements. dubbed "Pakistan's Mother Pfau's work earned her the killing: Theresa". State TV broadcast live Nishan-e-Quaid-i-Azam, one of footage of her casket being carried Pakistan's highest civilian awards. After 12 by a military guard at the city's St. Her death drew messages of Oxford medical Patrick's Cathedral as hundreds of condolences from all sections of years in mourners lined the streets. society with tributes pouring in on student dies in Martha Fernando, who social media. Karachi Mayor worked with Pfau at her Marie Wasim Akhtar wrote: "Her selfless Nepal landslide prison, Adelaide Leprosy Center, said the and unmatched service to German physician's death was a humanity will be remembered and Tributes have been paid to a three great loss to humanity. she will remain in our hearts as medical student who died following "There is no one like her and Shining Star." (Al Jazeera) a landslide in Nepal. Lottie Fullerton was trekking on 10 convicts August when she was hit by falling rocks and suffered a fatal head walk free injury. The 22-year-old, who was Sale of d r on es about to enter her fourth year at Jesus College, Oxford, has been ISLAMABAD: In a surprise described as "the best of people" move, the top court on Friday w or t h $2b t o by a friend. About 500 people have acquitted three convicts in an died in floods and landslides caused honour killing case after they had by heavy rain in Nepal, been convicted by the Lahore 'cem en t ' In d ia-US Bangladesh and India. Miss High Court and were imprisoned Fullerton was reportedly for 12 years. The three judge descending towards Tatopani in special bench headed by Justice bilat er al t ies Nepal's Mustang region when the Asif Saeed Khosa, comprising accident happened. Her family said Justice Dost Muhammad Khan her brother travelled with her to a and Justice Qazi Faez Isa, had WASHINGTON:The US decision engagements with regional and observed that the prosecution to sell 22 Sea Guardian drones to extra-regional partners. local hospital where she was failed to prove its case which led India at an estimated cost of USD The Sea Guardian is a variant pronounced dead. 'A friend to to the acquittal. 2 billion will create around 2,000 of the tested MQ-9 platform everyone' Miss Fullerton went to which allows for greater More than 16 million people have Canford School in Canford Magna, The three convicts Ijaz jobs in the US and "cement" 39 in Bangladesh. Officials said the situation remains Ahmad, Shahid Iqbal and bilateral ties, an American interoperability with the US and been affected by monsoon flooding Dorset. A service will be organised Flood levels had already grim with the weather bureau Muhammad Iqbal were involved executive involved in the deal has allied forces, in a way other across the South Asian countries at Jesus College chapel in her reached record highs in forecasting more heavy rain in the in the killing of a couple in Hafaz said. "This should be viewed as a platforms do not permit of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh - memory. Bangladesh. Flooding of major region over the coming days. Abad on May 10, 2005. A trial significant step in cementing the demonstrating the centrality of putting huge numbers at risk of rivers such as the Jamuna In a makeshift relief camp in In a statement the college said: General Atomics' products to disease, hunger, and death. "Lottie was a very popular court had awarded the death US-India bilateral defence surpassed levels from 1988, the India's Kaliabor, 160km east of sentence to Ijaz Ahmad and life relationship," Vivek Lall, chief India's defence needs, he said. One-third of Bangladesh and year of the deadliest floods the Guwahati city, families said they member of the college and will be Nepal have been flooded, said much missed by all at Jesus. imprisonment to the other two. executive US and international "This platform has 4 million country has ever faced, the had not received any aid. However, LHC later strategic development, General hours in combat, will be able t Martin Faller, deputy regional (BBC) overturned o humanitarian agency said. (AL JAZEERA) Ijaz’s death sentence to life Atomics, told the Atlantic Council certifiably fly in Indian civilian director for Asia Pacific at the "More than one-third of imprisonment. yesterday. airspace and can remain airborne International Federation of Red Bangladesh and Nepal have been Man kills daughter for Mr Lall echoed Senator John more than a record setting forty Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Nawaz Sharif, sons not to appear flooded and we fear the ‘honour’ in Lahore, goes scot-free Cornyn, Co-Chair of the Senate hours. Additionally, it has a Monsoon floods kill more than humanitarian crisis will get worse India Caucus, who tweeted, 40,000-hour design life 100 people in Nepal before NAB until SC ruling on plea after pardoning self in the days and weeks ahead," The bench, while hearing the "Drone Sale Would Cement US- demonstrating its unique resilience. "This is fast becoming one of Faller said. LAHORE: Former prime minister coordinator Mohammad Mehdi case, wondered how was it India Ties." General Atomics maintains that the most serious humanitarian Aid group Save the Children Nawaz Sharif and his two sons told Dawn, adding that the Sharif possible that two different cases The announcement in this this platform and its proven crises this region has seen in many director Mark Pierce said the have decided not to appear before family would decide whether they were registered of the same regard was made by Trump in June performance stands independently years, and urgent action is needed situation is "extremely desperate". the National Accountability should join the NAB investigations incident. They passed the when he met Prime Minister of and is unaffected by Israel's to meet the growing needs of "The sheer volume of water is Bureau (NAB) till his petition once the Supreme Court took a remarks after the police submitted Narendra Modi at the White Heron sales to India," he said. millions of people affected by also making it really difficult to seeking a review of the Supreme decision on their petition. He said two different challans. They also House. This prospective purchase This summer, India received 10 these devastating floods," Faller access some of the communities Court’s verdict that disqualified that the Lahore High Court had observed that this showed that of drones manufactured by advanced Heron drones from Israel said. most in need," he said in a him from office is decided. earlier closed his case as nothing the police itself was not interested General Atomics marks the first for USD 400 million, making Israel "Millions of people across statement. The former premier and his had been established against Mr in improving the criminal justice of its kind from the US by a a weapons supplier competitor to Nepal, Bangladesh, and India face In Nepal, many areas remain severe food shortages and disease sons — Hussain and Hasan Nawaz Sharif. “Mr Sharif has faced the system. Deputy Prosecutor country that is not a member of the United States. cut off after the most destructive accountability process many the NATO, Mr Lall said. According to Mr Lall, use of caused by polluted flood waters," — did not visit the NAB’s Lahore General Punjab Muhammad floods and landslides in recent times office on Friday where a team from times, and there is nothing new for Jaffir, during the hearing, told the With China focused on South the Sea Guardian drones by the he added. on August 11-12. Villagers and the bureau’s Rawal-pindi office him this time around,” he said. A court that Mohsin and Fozia were China Sea, Mr Lall hopes that India Indian Navy will also develop According to officials, more communities are without food, waited for them until 3pm so that written reply had been submitted murdered at different places has an opportunity to help create India's credible capabilities, which than 400 people have died in the water, and electricity. they could join investigations into to the NAB by senior counsel therefore, the two cases were and lead a regional balance of power is significant for Indian maritime three countries over the last seven In India, 168 deaths were the Al-Azizia Steel Mills case. Amjad Pervez, Mr Mehdi added. registered. However, Justice to protect its interests in the Indian security and naval power days, with India accounting for 239 reported in Bihar and Assam states, However, leaders of the Pakistan “Neither of the three [members of Khosa observed that it is the job Ocean region by building maritime projection. (NDTV) fatalities, 128 dying in Nepal, and the worst-hit by the floods. Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) the Sharif family] joined the NAB of the police to not only focus on have linked Mr Sharif’s refusal to investigations nor did they the complainant’s stance but also appear before NAB with the apex intimate [the NAB] about the to dig out the truth. He lamented court’s decision on his review reason for not showing up,” a NAB that, unfortunately, the police petition. “A senior counsel for official told Dawn. He said NAB takes side with the complainant Nawaz Sharif has informed NAB had summoned the disqualified and uses false witnesses to prove Sr i Lan k a's coalit ion govt that his review petition seeking a PM and his sons to appear before their stance. He also remarked stay of the bureau’s investigation the combined investigation team to that so many lives are wasted due into the references against him is record their statement in view of to the production of false pending with the Supreme Court,” the Supreme Court’s decision. witnesses and added that no one is r ot t in g fr om w it h in PML-N leader and media (DAWN) is ready to tell the truth. In recent times, the political early this month. During an inquiry scandal you may not have heard by an independent commission about deals with the corridors of appointed by Sirisena, it came to power in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ravi light that Karunanayake had Karunanayake, the island nation’s allowed a person under Lankanchargedwith foreign minister, recently stepped investigation for irregularities in down due to serious (and credible) treasury-bond sales to pay for his corruption concerns. luxury penthouse in Colombo. This is a big deal and reiterates Here’s more from Mushtaq: seducingmarriedwoman how poorly the government has Analysts are already lamenting performed since Maithripala that the current administration is A Sri Lankan was in the dock at deck of Blok Kondominium not represented, told the court that Sirisena was elected president in no better than the previous the Magistrate's Court in Ridzuan, in Sungai Way, here he had no bailor. The court did not January 2015. government under ex-president Malaysia today facing two 9.15am on Aug 12. offer bail and set Aug 20 for re- Karunanayake, a member of Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose charges, issuing death threats and He was charged under Section mention. (Yahoo news) the United National Party (UNP), government was also accused of seducing another man's wife. 506 of the Penal Code and is previously served as finance corruption, bribery and nepotism M. Suventhan, 31, however, looking at a maximum two years minister from 2015 to 2017. He as well as human-rights violations. claimed trial after the charges were jail or fine or both, if convicted. remains a member of parliament. Some Sri Lankan politicians, read out to him in Tamil before As for the second, he was Enjoying this article? Click government supporters and Magistrate Salamiah Salleh. charged with enticing or taking here to subscribe for full access. Panglossians in the West may argue Initially, the accused appeared away or detaining with a criminal Just $5 a month. that Karunanayake’s resignation nervous and failed to understand intent, a married woman. Writing for Asia Times, shows that the system is working the charges against him so much The charge was under Section journalist Munza Mushtaq has a and an administration that came to so, the court interpreter had to 498 of the Penal Code which also nice article about recent power championing anti- prosecution. Genuine is alarming news. Marapana is, to repeat them twice. provides for the same two types developments in Colombo. corruption and improved accountability for any crimes put it mildly, a controversial figure On the first count, he was of punishment, if convicted. Here’s part of that piece: governance is still doing alright. committed is still very far away. who resigned from a previously charged with issuing death threats Deputy public prosecutor Plagued by allegations of Nothing could be further from the And we’ve yet to see convictions held ministerial post in November against the husband of the woman Mary Phoon Keat Mee urged the corruption, foreign minister Ravi truth. Moreover, let’s not conflate for corruption that occurred during 2015. He has also been implicated he had seduced. court not to offer bail saying the Karunanayake was forced to Karunanayake’s resignation with Rajapaksa’s reign. Tilak Marapana in scandalous behavior. He is alleged to have accused, being a foreigner, was a resign from his ministerial portfolio indictments or any sort of criminal is now foreign minister. This, too, THEDIPLOMAT committed this offence at the void flight risk. The accused, who was SUNDAY. AUGUST 20, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Police p r ob e Offensives t ar get ISIL Tu r k u st ab b in g on Leb an on - sp r ee as Syr ia b or d er Yemen is facing a triple tragedy of famine, the world's largest cholera outbreak, and worsening conflict says the UN. The Lebanese army says it has the fighters are likely to reject. 't er r or at t ack ' launched an offensive against an "We have noted international ISIL enclave straddling the appeals to open Sanaa airport," he northeast border with Syria. said on Friday. Finnish police say they are investigating knife attacks Simultaneously, Hezbollah, "Despite our concerns about that left two dead as crimes related to 'terrorism'. the Lebanese Shia group, and the the security threat associated with Syrian army have announced an the operation of the airport by the assault from the Syria side of rebel militias, we are willing to agree the border in the western to opening the airport if the militias Qalamoun mountain range. leave its management to official The Lebanese army is staff who were affiliated to the targeting positions of the Islamic state before the coup, under the State of Iraq and the Levant supervision of the UN." (ISIL, known as ISIS) group, As well as Sanaa airport, near the town of Ras Baalbek O'Brien singled out allowing the with rockets, artillery and dispatch of "desperately needed helicopters, a Lebanese security mobile cranes to Hodeidah port, source said on Saturday. which handles some 70 percent of It is the last part of the imports into Yemen and is the Lebanese-Syrian frontier under closest port of entry to the ISIL control. "In the name of majority of people who need Lebanon, in the name of humanitarian assistance." kidnapped Lebanese soldiers, in He also urged member states Finnish police say they are questions about the attacker's the name of martyrs of the army, to reach into their pockets to aid investigating a knife attack that left motives, Kouros said, noting that I announce that [this] operation the relief effort, noting that only two people dead in the western Finland has not been involved in ... has started," said army chief 39 percent of the $2.3bn needed city of Turku as a "terrorist military action or wars in other General Joseph Aoun. The UN has urged all the died from the disease since April, supply, it is stoppable. had so far been donated. killing". Security forces shot and countries. The spokesman for the combatants in Yemen to open the more than half a million people Yemen on the brink of famine For his part, Ismail Ould wounded the knife-wielding However, some Finnish Lebanese army, Brigadier- country's land, sea and air ports to being infected, and another amid cholera epidemic Cheikh Ahmed, the UN special suspect on Friday, arresting him immigrants have left the country General Ali Kanso, said the civilian and commercial traffic as 600,000 expected to contract the "I renew my call ... to address envoy to Yemen, called on the minutes after a stabbing spree at a to fight in the Middle East with offensive did not start today. the spectre of starvation hangs infection this year. "Today, the following points: ensure that international community to push market square in Turku. the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant "We have been planning the over 25 million people. millions of people in Yemen are all ports - land, sea and air - are for a political solution to the more "The act had been investigated (ISIL), he added. attacks for over two weeks Stephen O'Brien, the UN facing a triple tragedy: the spectre open to civilian - including than two-year-old conflict which as murder, but during the night we In a separate development, now," Kanso said, speaking from under-secretary general for of famine, the world's largest ever commercial - traffic." has killed at least 10,000 Yemenis received additional information officials raided a flat in Turku the headquarters of the defence humanitarian affairs, called on single-year cholera outbreak, and However, Abdul Malik al- and injured at least 44,000. which indicates that the criminal overnight on Friday and arrested ministry. Friday for unconditional the daily deprivation and injustice Mekhlafi, Yemen's foreign "Those who survived cholera offenses are now terrorist killings," five others. "We are investigating "Our mission is to clear the humanitarian access to all parts of of a brutal conflict that the world minister, demanded that the will continue to suffer the an official statement said on the role of these five other people border areas all the way to the the country and said the airport in is allowing to drag on and on," Houthis - who control the the consequences of 'political cholera' Saturday. The suspect was but we are not sure yet if they had Syrian borders." the capital Sanaa should be opened O'Brien said. "This human tragedy airport and large expanses of the that infects Yemen and continues identified as an 18-year-old anything to do with (the attack)," Kanso said the advantage the "immediately". Yemen is facing the is deliberate and wanton - it is country - transfer the facility to to obstruct the road towards Moroccan citizen, but police did Markus Laine, a police army has against ISIL is the lack "world's worst cholera outbreak", political and, with will and with the government of President Abd- peace," Ould Cheikh Ahmed said. not release his name. He is being superintendent, told the AFP news of air cover or tanks, but warned with close to 2,000 people having courage which are both in short Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a demand (Al Jazeera) treated in hospital in intensive care agency on Saturday. that ISIL fighters had good for a gunshot wound to the thigh. "We will interrogate them, snipers and they know the area The National Bureau of after that we can tell you more. very well. (Al Jazeera) Investigation, which is heading the But they had been in contact with probe, said those killed in the attack the main suspect." Deat h t oll were Finnish citizens, while the Officials said it was likely the Juncker: wounded include one Italian suspect acted alone, but added they national and two Swedes. were looking for "other possible Europe cannot A total of eight people were perpetrators". Finland raised its clim b s t o over wounded, the police said. emergency readiness across the rely on US for Alexis Kouros, the editor-in- country after the stabbing, chief of Helsinki Times, told Al increasing security at airports and its defense Jazeera that such attacks were rare train stations and putting more 400 in Sier r a in Finland. However, the Finnish officers on the streets. In June, public had been expecting one Finland's intelligence and security because of a spike in deadly attacks agency Supo raised the country's in other European cities in recent terror threat level by a notch, from Leon e flood s years, he said. low to elevated, the second notch "People are calm. There is not on a four-tier scale. It said at the much speculation," he said. time that it saw an increased risk Heavy rains threaten other parts of the capital Freetown as number of dead rises to more than 400. "Somehow this was expected of an attack by the Islamic State of because it has happened Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. The death toll from devastating 400 people dead," Elhadj As Sy, begun as an estimated 600 people through the morgue. "Let his soul everywhere." There were (Al Jazeera) floods in Sierra Leone has climbed secretary-general of the remain missing. People continue to rest in peace," she said through to more than 400 people with International Federation of Red search through tonnes of mud and tears. Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, hundreds still missing in the Cross and Red Crescent societies, debris amid the remains of mangled reporting from Freetown, said stricken capital. saids in Geneva. Jens Laerke, buildings. Sobbing and covering some people had lost hope in Mass burials held in Sierra spokesman for the UN Office for their noses from the stench, finding the bodies of their relatives. Leone for mudslide victims the Coordination of Humanitarian relatives stepped around corpses "There is that sense of hope Burials and recovery efforts Affairs in Geneva, said the toll lying on the ground outside the among people that some of the Jean-Claude Juncker, the continued on Friday amid the "may rise", noting the number of morgue, which was overwhelmed, bodies can be found and will be president of the European threat of further disaster. The Red people still missing. The UN as the sheets covering them were given a decent burial, but there are Commission, said the European Cross put the death toll at 409 after humanitarian agency said it still lifted. "I came to identify my uncle also people who have lost hope Union could not continue to rely flooding and mudslides shook hopes to find survivors "but the in particular, but I couldn't find that their relatives have been buried on the United States for its Freetown on Monday morning. chances are getting smaller every him," said 30-year-old Hawanatu without a proper procedure," he At least four men have been arrested in defense, according to an "Today we are counting more than day". Large-scale burials have Sesay, after her turn came to look said. (Al Jazeera) connection to three incidents across Spain interview published in an Austrian newspaper. in which 14 people were killed. Speaking about the state of the EU, Juncker said that Cautious A manhunt was under way in heaving with tourists. Europeans’ views of the bloc Spain on Friday for the driver of And early on Friday, police were improving, but that the Spain attacks: 'Cell dismantled' the van used to hit a crowd of shot dead five alleged perpetrators region could not turn to the welcome people in a busy area of Barcelona, of a suspected "terrorist attack" in United States for its future killing 14 people and wounding the town of Cambrils, south of protection. as manhunt continues more than 120 others. Barcelona. “It becomes clear that we online At least four people have been At least one person was killed cannot, in the long-term, rely every place or area that needs arrested in connection to three and six people, including one on American defense support,” special protection," Zoido told a for St eve violent incidents over the past two police officer, were wounded when Juncker told Tiroler news conference. days, including the Barcelona a black car drove into people in Tageszeitung, a newspaper in He said that the government attack on Thursday. Officials say the Spanish seaside resort. Austria where he is on vacation. would reinforce security in Bannon's they believe all three are related. Spain united in mourning after The Commission president crowded areas and tourist Police gun down 5 'terrorists' Barcelona attack added that Britain’s decision to hotspots. The Islamic State of Iraq after Barcelona attack Authorities said the back-to- leave the EU had galvanized and the Levant (ISIL) group has exit The first took place on back vehicle attacks, as well as the support among the remaining claimed the attacks, which Wednesday when an explosion explosion in Alcanar, were countries in the bloc. occurred on Thursday and Friday Many celebrate departure killed one person and destroyed a connected and the work of a large A survey published Friday in the northeastern region of of controversial far-right house in the town of Alcanar "terrorist" group. suggested that voters in eight Catalonia. figure but others warn of Police said residents were A judicial source said European countries — France, Authorities said the attacks in influence he could still trying to make explosives using gas investigators believed a cell of at Spain, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Barcelona and the seaside resort cylinders. On Thursday, a white least eight people, possibly 12, the Czech Republic, the of Cambrils were related and the have on Trump. van ploughed into a crowd in one may have been involved in the Netherlands and Sweden — work of a large cell that had been of Barcelona's busiest tourist Barcelona and Cambrils attacks. were now more likely to see EU The cell behind the deadly attacks men, many of them Moroccan. plotting for a long time from Steve Bannon's career at the districts, killing more than a dozen Police said they arrested a membership as an advantage for in Spain that left at least 14 dead Spain will maintain its security Alcanar, 200km from Barcelona. White House has ended seven people. Moroccan and a man from Spain's their country than before has been "completely dismantled", alert at four, one notch below the Three Moroccans and one months after his appointment as The attack, which was claimed north African enclave of Melilla, Britain’s Brexit referendum last according to Interior Minister Juan maximum level, which would signal Spaniard are in police custody. US President Donald Trump's by the Islamic State of Iraq and though neither was the van driver. summer. (POLITICO.) Ignacio Zoido, as police continued an attack was imminent, Zoido Spanish police on Saturday chief strategist. the Levant (ISIL, also known as He was seen escaping on foot and a manhunt for one remaining said on Saturday. expanded a manhunt for one of the The former banker turned ISIS), occurred in the bustling Las was still at large. Another was suspect. The cell is believed to "We are going to redirect our main suspects, 22-year-old Younes editor at far-right website Ramblas area, a 1.2km stretch of arrested in the town of Ripoll on RUSSIAN OFFICIALS have consisted of at least 12 young efforts and will adapt these to Abouyaaquoub. (Al Jazeera) Breitbart was seen as a key shops and restaurants usually Friday. (Al Jazeera) SAY 7 WOUNDED IN influence on the president, having led his successful election SIBERIA STABBING campaign in 2016. ATTACK ThreekilledinBurundi grenadeattacksat bars His comments on Muslims, Liu Xiaobo's widow Grenade attacks on two bars killed anti-establishment views and his at least three people and wounded alleged ties to white supremacists MOSCOW : A knife-wielding made him a controversial figure reappears in YouTube video man went on a stabbing rampage 27 others in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, police and across the US political spectrum, The widow of Chinese Nobel has been under effective house in a Siberian city on Saturday, including within Trump's arrest since her h wounding seven people before hospital sources said. Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has usband, a Republican party. appeared for the first time since prominent dissident since the police shot and killed him. Police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye told reporters on Friday As US outlets reported news her husband's funeral in a video 1989 Tiananmen Square pro- A statement from Russia's of his departure, many of his posted on YouTube, which is democracy protests, won the Investigative Committee said the that one person had died at the critics on social media celebrated. blocked in China. Nobel Prize in 2010. He was mid-day attack on a central street scene and 29 others were rushed But others questioned what Liu Xia's friends have raised sentenced to 11 years in jail on in Surgut said the suspect had to hospital after grenades were influence Bannon may continue concern about her fate, saying they subversion charges in 2009. been identified as a local resident thrown into two bars in the to have on the president and have not been able to speak to her Friends of the couple raised in his early 20s. It said Buyenzi district on Thursday night. Hospital sources said two whether being removed from the since her husband's sea burial on questions about whether Liu Xia information was being sought on shackles of formal government July 15. She was last seen in made the comments in Friday's his psychiatric condition, people died of their injuries later. One survivor, who asked not to be would actually work to his government-released images of Liu video out of her own free will. suggesting authorities did not benefit. Senior Democrat Nancy suspect terrorism as the likely named, said the attackers had not Xiaobo's funeral. "I am recovering "It is certain that she was Pelosi said the move would make in a province outside of Beijing. I forced by the authorities to make motive. attempted to rob the bars or the little difference, as Trump ask you to give me time to mourn," this video," Hu Jia, a Chinese The statement gave the number patrons. himself had what she described said Liu in the minute-long video dissident and friend of the couple, of victims at seven, down from Burundi has suffered from as a long record of racism. "Steve posted on Friday. Dressed in a told the AFP news agency on an earlier tally of eight. periodic low-level violence since Bannon's exit does not erase black t-shirt and black trousers, Liu Saturday. Four of the wounded were in 2015 when President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to seek a third [Trump's] long record of lifting Xia was sitting on a white sofa next "How can anyone who does serious condition, state news up racist viewpoints and agency Tass reported, citing term in office. to a coffee table while holding a lit not even enjoy freedom express her advancing repulsive policies," she cigarette. "I will see you one day will freely?" regional health official Vladislav Opponents said his candidacy violated the constitution and a wrote on Twitter. While left- in top form. While Xiaobo was The name of the film-maker, Nigmatulin. Surgut, with a The International Criminal Court has continued to simmer. leaning senator, Bernie Sanders, population of about 320,000, is peace agreement that ended a civil sick, he also looked at life and death the place and date of filming, were (ICC) said it left about 450 people Earlier this month, attackers said: "The problem was never just with some distance, so I also have not specified, but it would be an oil- and gas-producing center war in 2005. The opposition dead and forced hundreds of targeted another bar in the same Steve Bannon. It was and always to readjust. I will be with you again unusual for the video to be released 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles) mostly boycotted the polls, and thousands to flee. district, causing two deaths and will be Donald Trump." when my situation generally without the knowledge of the northeast of Moscow. (AP) Nkurunziza won a third term. A wave of unrest followed. Since then, political violence wounding four. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera) improves," she said. Liu Xia, 56, authorities. (Al Jazeera)

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy Phone No: +93-797070563 E-mail: [email protected] By Sayed Niyam Shinwaray government is doing is the very All these issues are commission is a big facilitation to lifeblood of an informed citizenry, considerable because government journalists as it helps reporters gain It is proved that the right of access and will enable the Afghan people officials shy away from facing easy access to information and in Email: [email protected] to information plays a vital role in to make better judgments as to the journalists and extend a limited case of denial to access information, a country’s stability, development, effectiveness of their government.” cooperation to the media. For this they could lodge complaints at this www.afghanistantimes.af good governance and It is true, because otherwise in the particular purpose, platform. The OCAI’s latest t r a n s p a r e n c y . L u c k i l y , absence of information, people awarenesscampaigns should be remarkable accomplishment is the Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Afghanistan’s recently taken steps remain unaware and will know carried out as most of government introduction of ‘the national on the path of Access to nothing about their government’s officials do not know about the strategy on access to information’, Advisory editorial board Information (ATI) has been performance. access to information at all and which was presented during a promising. As an important stage Afghanistan’s efforts to they considered interviews and conference on Sunday, August 13. Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, of Afghanistan’s journey to arrive culturize access to information are conferences as access to It’s a good omen for at favorable conditions for yet to happen. President Ashraf information; however, access to Afghanistan as ATI Law is Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal, Saboor Sarir accessing government information, Ghani ratified the ATI law in information practices productively making its progress the Oversight Commission on December 2014; however, still encompasses a broader area. despite barriers. Based on an Graphic-Designers: Access to Information (OCAI) many journalists and relevant Journalists also face threats from assessment of the contents of this recently inaugurated its inclusive agencies have been voicing government officials when they ask law, the ‘Global Right to Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi and Basir Qazizada four-year strategy developed in a concerns about its implementation. them for information, the threats Information Rating’ (GRIR) ranks Marketing & Advertising: short span of time beginning in Despite the journalists have become serious when journalists Afghanistan at 71, comparable to January this year. accused some high ranking prepare investigative reports Switzerland but better than many Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 Although the ATI Law was government officials of creating about corruption. European and regional countries. approved by the president in 2014, hurdles to their quest for access to Although the government is Among other developments, Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan there has been no practical information, but all in all the willing to implement the law, the the trend of writing on access to Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 mechanism to apply the law. Ghani’s administration has been lower level officials still need to information has taken shape in Therefore, very little changes in the dynamic in this regard. The learn about the benefits of Afghanistan. In the first book Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press culture and approach of the leadership is doing its best but the implementation of the law and the written on access to information government departments lower level authorities are reluctant security of the media reporters in our country, a noted Afghan pertaining to ATI law were brought to cooperate with media reporters should be paid heed to. Journalist Danish Karokhel, its about in order to execute the law in many cases. Thus, war is another obstacle author puts down “It’s important The constitution says and facilitate access to government Recent surveys regarding which creates numerous that people understand information. compliance of government difficulties in the way of ATI law information, their right of access Despite the mentioned institutions with ATI law draws a and the developed strategy’s to information, mandate of the Article 162: achievement at hand, the National negative picture. implementation. Two years after OCAI and developments that have Article One Hundred Sixty-Two: This Constitution shall be enforced from the date Unity Government (NUG), The Kabul Press Club (KPC) the law on access to information taken place in access to Afghan citizens and media face in its survey in April showed that was approved and the information.” of approval by the Loya Jirga, and endorsed and proclaimed by the President of the another phase which is far more access to information in departments concerned were In our unfortunate corruption- Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan. Upon the enforcement of this Consti- challenging than the law passed and Afghanistan was far from ordered to implement it; President dominated society sharing tution, laws and legislative decrees contrary to its provisions shall be invalid. strategy developed, and that is satisfactory, stating the situation Ashraf Ghani in October 2016 information should be primacy implementation of the strategy. has worsened during 2017 as more once again issued a new decree on as lack of access to information is An important part of the newly than 60 percent of journalists speeding up the process of like a barrier that impinges developed strategy by OCAI with showed dissatisfaction with the public’s access to information, journalists’ work and also results technical and financial support attitude of relevant government showing Afghan government’s in ignorance of people. from Democracy International (DI) officials in terms of sharing strong will in its stance on access Therefore, I recommend to the is raising awareness about this new information, compared to 50 to information. government to step up efforts in addition to Afghan democratic percent last year.Later on, another In addition, the (OCAI) was this regard to facilitate access to system. DI Chief James survey conducted by a free media formed in October 2015 based on information as it could help media Wasserstrom at the ATI strategy advocacy group, NAI, in May the 16th article of ATI law and was improve good governance, launch conference held recently by found nearly 90 percent of tasked to oversee access to eradicate administrative corruption OCAI and DI said: “The citizens’ journalists faced problems in information law’s execution at and provide an opportunity for right to know what their obtaining information. government machinery. The accountability. Hap p y In dep en den ce Day! The brave and home-loving people of Afghanistan do not want to tolerate their integrity and the national sovereignty to be in the popular social media platforms, to hands of the aliens as this has been proved in the course of the either play at existing beliefs, fears history. Different warriors, who had desire and planned to bring and biases, or to sway perceptions and even votes on August 8. Social the world under their control, were defeated when they were media is the go-to platform for By Nanjira Sambuli increase in the number of "fake were fake. So, what constituted information for young people, encountered with the poor but patriotic people of this territory. news" making rounds on social fake news, and what didn't? And who constituted more than half of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, the British Empire and the It has been a little more than a week media over the weekend. He why were these falsities so the 19.6 million registered Kenyan since Kenyans took to the ballot classified graphic footage and common in Kenya during this voters this election. These young Soviet Union respectively tasted the bitterness of defeat when to elect their representatives and images that were being spread on election season? people do not necessarily tune into leaders for the next five years. On Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp Kenyan 'fake news' prime time news on television, for they arrived in our homeland. Friday evening, the Independent throughout the weekend as The term "fake news" has been instance, as they operate in a real- The Britons who were claiming that there was no sunset across Electoral and Boundaries "misinformation" aimed at used widely during the run up to time news dissemination system, Commission declared President "creating further tension in the the August 8 vote in Kenya, with in which they tune in and out, and their empire, accepted to leave Afghanistan after the third war Uhuru Kenyatta the winner of the country". most of what has been classified select what to consume and when, presidential race. Friday night He announced that over the under the term playing out online. as they deem fit. It is, therefore, which was in fact an unequal battle considering their modern and ushered a tense weekend of weekend his organisation helped Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter not surprising that Kenyan social mechanized army against the bare-footed Afghans who went to protests and riots, particularly in more than 100 people injured as a are perhaps the three most popular media was filled with the opposition strongholds. result of the post-election violence social media platforms in Kenya, misinformation and fake news, the battlefield with very initial tools such as swords and axes. Media reports were scant and across the country, but dismissed and have been used to share aiming to alter these young voters' left many yearning for updates. As social media reports about night- opinions, predictions and perceptions, views and actions The late king, Amanullah Khan, the National Hero, gained the the weekend wore on, it became time attacks in opposition fabrications alike before and after both before and after the general independence of his country and people in the third war in August, clear that all was not well in Kenya. strongholds. He said widely shared the election. There have been election. There are a number of The opposition coalition, in a stories about the "mayhem" in websites as well, designed to give issues, in the Kenyan context, as 1919. This day is celebrated annually to remember and to teach press statement on Saturday, Nairobi's Mathare slum on Sunday the impression that they are with elsewhere, that give fake news claimed that 100 people had been night were fake, explaining that authoritative sources of news, that breeding ground. Chief among the younger generations about patriotism and that the people of killed by police officers in the post "they did not receive any distress have carried all sorts of them, in my view, is the changing Afghanistan never accept aliens in their home by any mean. election violence, while the Kenya calls from the area." His statement (mis)information and propaganda. tides of information dissemination National Commission on Human elicited angry reactions from the As has been widely reported, fake in the country. In the past, the The bravery of the people of Afghanistan became an inspiration Rights placed the number at 24. public, as it was perceived to be news articles and videos bearing government, mainstream media and As all this was playing out, dismissive of what many were CNN, BBC and even NTV Kenya civil society were the primary to the other occupied nations to stand against the invaders and many Kenyans, who were not experiencing first hand and logos were also disseminated and sources of information in Kenya. struggle for their freedom as the people in the Indian sub-continent satisfied with the mainstream reporting. shared widely on social media These institutions, as they are media's limited coverage of the READ MORE: Kenyatta to platforms. Now, anyone who has liable for the accuracy of the expelled the British invaders from their home few decades after situation, were glued to social media Odinga supporters - Take an internet connection can tell their information that they disseminate, channels for updates. Some social complaints to court story, their version of events, and acted as a barrier for fake news and the British Empire lost more of its occupied territory. media users were providing blow- It cannot be dismissed that connect with audiences that may stories. However, now, anyone This should be a lesson to all those who have the thought of by-blow updates of events taking there were violent confrontations be inclined to (dis)agree with them. who has an internet connection can place around them, with others between the police and protesters, By doing so they create debate and tell their story, their version of Afghanistan invasion in their brains that this country will be the amplifying those reports, which resulted in multiple deaths even create consensus. All in all, it events, and connect with audiences providing alternative or and injuries, following the has been a controversial election that may be inclined to (dis)agree grave of their soldiers and they will lose their dignity and supplementary commentary. The announcement of the election season in Kenya, in which with them. By doing so they create reputation universally if they follow the path of the British majority of the reports coming result. And some of this post- distinguishing truth from lie and debate or consensus. For those from Nairobi slums of Kibera and election violence was not real information from "fake news" who may have felt excluded in invaders. Mathare, the city of Kisumu and adequately covered by traditional has been difficult. Misinformation narratives put forth by the other opposition stronghold areas media organisations. However, we and propaganda around elections "traditional estates" of society in The people of Afghanistan from different ethnicities do not were painting a grim picture. now know that some of the are not new in Kenya, as these the past, these online platforms want to see the strangers interfering in their internal affairs whether However, the Kenya Red pictures disseminated on popular tools have most certainly been used offer an avenue to be heard and Cross Secretary General, Abbas Kenyan social media accounts over to influence voters in past counted, and even alter the by sending troops or launching a proxy war with the help of a Gullett, in an interview on the weekend that allegedly showed elections. However, this election narratives presented in mainstream number of unwise and stupid individuals they have hired to Monday, drew attention to an police brutality towards protesters season has seen these migrate to media outlets. (Al Jazeera) destabilize our home’s situation. When the question for the national independence comes, people from 34 provinces come together to defend their joint home by giving sacrifices. These people really realized the Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) saying: “love for the homeland is part of the faith”. We hope that those countries that still want to get benefit in destabilizing of Afghanistan, stop interfering and invading our home and shake our hands as friends who want co-existence in the region. Happy Independence Day to all the brave people of Afghanistan! Subscription Rates Note:The following rates will apply from January 01, 2017. Fee Categories Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 5400 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 2700 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $240 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. SUNDAY. AUGUST 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

opposition is running a parallel tallying system on a server hosted Was the Kenyan election either free or fair? in Tanzania and Germany. And, perhaps the highest cost was human life: IEBC ICT Director Chris Msando was kidnapped, tortured and killed five days before the vote. The cumbersome process also leads to some absurd complexity. The popular Kuwaiti actor, director, playwright and producer left a France, with 33.7 million voters legacy of laughter, unity and defiance. announced presidential results in less than eight hours - Kenyans waited four days. An Emirati By Alaa Shehabi political and social genre. As well company was contracted to print Abdulhussain Abdulredha, a as establishing Kuwait's first emir of Kuwait, tolerated him. But ballot papers for the Kenyan hugely popular actor, director, national theatre and eventually his the emir did, at times, find his election, but as others have playwright and producer passed own entertainment television work went too far politically, and wondered, how is it that Kenya away in London on August 11, aged channel, he also gained state his play "Hatha Saifooh" (1987), can print its own money but not 78, after going into a coma. recognition. One cannot but also was a turning point. The play, its own ballot papers? Tiny His body arrived in his native mention his other talents as he also which was never performed, Gambia can use marbles to vote Kuwait on Wednesday, on a sang and composed most of his on addressed the dynamics of the pre- out a 22-year autocracy but the private plane charted by the Emir stage songs. oil era (the 1950s), and the largest economy in East Africa of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Today, Abdulredha's plays relationship between merchants requires close to $500 million in Jaber Al-Sabah. Thousands of serve as historical records, and a British agent. The play was state costs alone to birth a crisis. mourners gathered in the scorching addressing everything from life in stopped before production and If these few days are an heat to say farewell, with several the pre-oil era, the democratic along with the cast, Abdulredha indication, hardly anyone has of them fainting as his casket was transition in Kuwait, the impact was put on trial. He was given a mastered the breadth of process carried to his final resting place. of sudden oil wealth on individuals three-month suspended sentence. that governs elections in Kenya Mourners from across the in the 70s, to Kuwait's political The red lines were drawn. By Nanjala Nyabola elections because our elections are Uhuru Kenyatta and William today, IEBC officials included. Gulf, from Jeddah to my Bahraini fragility especially after the Iraqi In his last physical appearance untrustworthy. Successive Ruto on one hand, and Raila Odinga None of this procedural Raila Odinga, leader of the iterations of electoral commissions and Kalonzo Musyoka on the village of Diraz, travelled to Kuwait invasion, and wider themes of on stage in October 2016, at the National Super Alliance and complexity is about the voter. to pay their respects. It was a identity, corruption, and pan- opening ceremony of a newly have delivered suspect results. In other, all served in Moi's That's why civic education for the Kenya's opposition is petitioning 1992, then President Daniel government. Each of the "four scene of collective grief on a scale Arabism. constructed state opera/theatre and the Supreme Court for a review of August election only began at the not witnessed in decades, As censors grew more aware, in the presence of the emir, Toroitich arap Moi was declared principals", as they are known in end of June, perhaps contributing the results of the 2017 election, winner over Kenneth Matiba in an Kenya, has been active in demonstrating the power of art to and media conglomerates started Abdulredha picked up one of his easing the political pressure that to over 400,000 rejected votes. It transcend the divisions and to dominate the entertainment most popular roles "Hussainooh", election that established a link government during a rigged election. doesn't matter if the voters has kept the country in suspended between violence and voting As political alignments have discord that ravage the region. It landscape, the space for political a failed entrepreneur from one of animation for the last week. understand the rules of the also shows how the vestiges of free critique was gradually removed. his earliest plays "Darb Alzalag" (PDF) in Kenya. Arguably, Matiba shifted over the last 25 years, process, as long as enough On the morning of August 9th, won that election, but Moi was protecting oneself against the expression accorded in Kuwait, This made Abdulredha's earlier (The slippery path) (1977). about 12 hours after results started participate to legitimise the during a particular period at least, work even more endearing, as Hussainooh had ambitious declared winner. This pattern was scheming of the other side has outcome of the power struggle at trickling on the Independent repeated in 1997, in a violent become the main election strategy, harnessed both criticism and good political issues he addressed businesses plans including selling Election and Boundaries the top. will, and most important of all same-sided shoes, selling shares in election that saw Moi defeat Mwai rather than talking about the issues, This complexity breeds during those times stayed relevant Commission (IEBC) results Kibaki under questionable for instance. inclusivity. Abdulredha touched and even got progressively worse. the pyramids and importing transmission website, leader of the anxiety that comes to a head during canned dog food in the original tv circumstances. The more these individuals counting and tallying. Voters are the rich and poor, the bidoon, the This memorialisation is, therefore, largest opposition coalition Raila To date, the only election in find perceived gaps in the election Shia and the Sunni, the regime deeply intertwined with the series. In this resurrection, nearly Odinga claimed that the website expected to trust completely a state 40 years later, Hussaino lost none Kenya's multi-party era that has architecture, the more law is grafted institution in a country where state loyalists and the opposition, and nostalgia for a time when political had been hacked to under- not faced validity challenges was on to the system to make it appear in fact, royal family members and religious debate was more free of his mischievousness, and in the represent his share of the vote. On institutions have little credibility. interregnum between the two the 2002 election, as the patterns airtight. Each check and balance is The ruling party craves an illusion themselves - even as they were and open, and society more Friday, at 10:30 pm, the chairman of 1992 and 1997 repeated in 2007 given a check and balance, but it caricatured. inclusive and liberal. plays, he says "he was the last of the IEBC, Wafula Chebukati, of modernity, insisting that all the person to be reprimanded by the and 2013. The 2007 election makes little sense as a collective money and law expended built a Throughout his life, Abdulredha's death inevitably declared Uhuru Kenyatta the especially soured voters on unit. What's the point of insisting Abdulredha was seen as legendary leaves one question, would it be shuyuukh and everyone else has winner triggering a flurry of system that works while papering been let off ever since". electoral commissions, as a hurried that a result is only based on forms over legitimate and visible in his political courage, wit, possible for someone like him to protests in Nairobi and Kisumu. result was announced in the 34A if nearly a week after the result powerful charisma and unique emerge and thrive in today's Abdulredha's death inevitably According to the Kenya National concerns. leaves one question, would it be shadow of grave allegations of was announced the commission The opposition has no power characterisations through defiant environment? Commission on Human Rights at fraud made on live television. still can't produce all the forms as cultural productions. I am only one One of Abdulredha's possible for someone like him to least 24 people have died. over the process and resorts to emerge and thrive in today's Instead of assuaging the public's required by law? extreme measures to gain some of the millions of fans who grew memorable works called "Bye Bye Kenya's elections generally fears by having a transparent Why insist that only the up on a staple of VHS tapes of London" satirised the 1970s environment? His legacy is a have three phases. First, there is a measure of control - screaming recount, the president was quickly announcement by the commission about hacked systems without Abdulredha's performances. stereotype of a Gulf tourist to testimony to Kuwaiti relative jittery pre-election phase freedom and coexistence and how sworn in at night and a major trust would be final and prohibit media revealing how they got into the Abdulredha's art influenced London, in his neon yellow tie, he peppered with accusations of deficit was born that has never from declaring any result before the an ordinary common person was malpractice; second, a peaceful and system themselves. people all over the world, but his referred strongly to themes of the been fully addressed. final one only to provide a glitchy Elections week in Kenya is a timeless works are even more oil era ("we drink it and swim in able to make it to the top purely even joyous voting phase; and But the lack of trust between website with a running tally? due to his talent and not family third, an anxious wait for final flurry of accusations, obscure relevant where political progress it", he gesticulated) and voters and the electoral commission Nor are these checks and legislation and new found has stalled and much of the same colonialisation, ("Oh hello, you connections or wealth. results and the inevitable fallout. isn't even the most significant. balances cheap or easy. Even An artist needs an ecosystem The contrast in mood between importance of faraway places that issues he tackled are as pertinent English, oh hello our [overlords] There are plenty of other though Kenya only had 19.2 most Kenyans can't find on a map, today as they ever were. In their of the past, all your goddamn lives and an infrastructure that can sow the voting phase and the pre- and institutions in Kenya that operate million voters this year against the the seeds for talent to emerge or post-election phases is always resulting in general unease even grief over the loss of such an you've played around with us, if with a trust deficit, but that do not United States' 200 million or though few voters can articulate insurmountable figure, GCC only I could fool around with you for natural talent to thrive. The stark: a 24-hour window of trigger violence. India's 814 million, at $25 per popular response to his passing is euphoria sandwiched between why. The threat of violence looms citizens also mourn the loss of for one night only" he said as he Elections week in Kenya is a capita Kenya's 2017 election was over Kenyan elections in part authentic artistic expression in an chatted up an English woman over evidence of the desire of the people interminable anxiety. The recent flurry of accusations, obscure probably the most expensive in the in the region for figures, narratives elections were no different - on because of this unease. People use age of innocence, before the a whisky drink). legislation and new found world. Both parties hired foreign election violence, like other forms depoliticisation and In another favourite play, and the freedom to imagine and to Monday, there was tension over a importance of faraway places that IT and political consultants, express their hopes and dreams, litany of unresolved issues, on of violence, to feel like they're in corporatisation of the entitled "Sword of the Arabs", most Kenyans can't find on a map, although the opposition found control when they're not. Between entertainment industry. After his Abdulredha played Saddam and their fears and nightmares, Tuesday voting was smooth and resulting in general unease even theirs deported under dubious without repercussion. turnout impressive, but by 1992 and 2002, the state instigated death, social media saw over two Hussain during the invasion of though few voters can articulate circumstances a day before the election violence to retain control million tweets about the artist and Kuwait. It was a tragi-comedy par According to friends and Wednesday there was tension in why. In fact, it is the lack of trust election. The ruling coalition family and pictures that circulated the air and this elections' counting after the end of single party rule. hashtags such as excellence that served as a between various political actors reportedly hired international In 2007, with Moi out of the #Kuwait_mourns_Abdulhussain_Abdulredha nationalist revival of pride and online, in his last few days, dispute began. that is Kenya's biggest problem, political consulting firm How can a country be so good picture, opposition politicians - (in Arabic) has been trending. His goodness in the face of the brutal Abdulredha insisted on paying and Kenya's politicians don't trust Cambridge Analytica (which has some of whom are in government former colleagues, heads of states dictator. visits to other Kuwaitis in the at voting and so bad at counting each other because they are cut been credited with President votes? today - used violence to undermine and activists took to social media He survived an assassination hospital. He reportedly bid his from the same cloth. The main Donald Trump's electoral victory) the state's complete control over to express their sorrow. Some attempt on his way to one of the close friend Souad Abdullah The tension stems from a lack political figures in Kenya haven't and invested heavily in a Central of trust: Kenyans don't trust the election process. Wahhabi and Salafi figures tried to performances by suspected Iraqi farewell before he left Kuwait, and changed much since 1990. Command System. The (Al Jazeera) sectarianise his death, but these mukhabarat. he frequently joked about his attempts met swift rebuttals and During these major turning death. This was a man at peace in some cases, punitive action, points in Kuwait's history, with his legacy. A legacy of even though such toxic discourse Abdulredha cleverly wove the laughter, unity and defiance is a is normally permitted on these moral, religious and political hard act to follow. Ala'a Shehabi is a Bahraini Stop telling me to get over slavery... platforms. contradictions and ironies afflicting Abdulredha, born in 1939, the Gulf from the viewpoint of independent writer, researcher and performed and produced over 30 ordinary people, "bringing the economist. She currently works for have monuments to Nazis because plays and television series over the dreams of the small people to the a think-tank in London and is they are ashamed of the Holocaust; course of his a half-century-long big people", as one of his obituaries cofounder of Bahrain Watch, an ...when you can't get over monuments to slavers. The United States maintains career. His huge personality, witty described him. investigative platform. Confederate monuments because The views expressed in this By Danielle Fuentes Morgan we aren't ashamed of ours. scripts and powerful charisma Because of the high-comedy 14, in my own hometown of I am thinking today of the captured the public conscience on value, popularity and pride article are the author's own and do Germany hasn't needed statues to not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's It's really that simple. Let's start Durham, North Carolina. The bravery of Takiyah Thompson, the remind them not to be Nazis. Are stage and screen, cementing his embued in his work, the ruling Confederate Soldiers Monument young woman who was arrested position as the founder of a families of the Gulf, including the editorial policy. (Al Jazeera) by tearing these statues down. the proponents of these Let's ask everyone's favourite bore an inscription reading "In in Durham for her role in bringing monuments in the US claiming separatist, Robert E Lee, his memory of the boys who wore the down the Confederate monument. they do? The after effects of thoughts on even the possibility gray" and a seal for "The I am also thinking of Durham slavery still frame the lives of of these monuments. Lee Confederate States of America". County Sheriff Mike Andrews's everyone in the US - in the de jure LETTER TO THE EDITOR ultimately decried separatism and The statue was dedicated to assessment that the toppling of the and de facto treatment of black and Confederate statues following the the city in 1924 - 59 years after monument must "serve as a non-black citizenry. It frames our war, arguing instead for the nation the war concluded. In fact, as has sobering example of the price we experiences because these aren't "not to keep open the sores of war been well-documented elsewhere, all pay when civil disobedience is just monuments to a war - they but to follow the examples of those the majority of these monuments no longer civil". are monuments to the "good ol' nations who endeavoured to emerged in the early 1900s. This The meaning of civil days" of Jim Crow and segregation, Mirza Olang massacre obliterate the marks of civil strife, wasn't a tribute to those who disobedience has always been and of unmasked white to commit to oblivion the feelings fought in the war, most of whom markedly ambiguous, to be sure, supremacy. Indeed, Confederate The residents of Mirza Olang valley of northern Sar-e-Pul province have passed the engendered." were dead by then. but a non-violent protest in which generals served in the government Make no mistake - these are There's a line going around no person was harmed - in which in the post-bellum, rather than most difficult time of their lives, with losing their loved one. Parents lost their children, today, in view of Charlottesville, only property was damaged - reversely, children parents. Militants after capturing the valley massacred the residents, monuments to traitors who being treated as POWs or even attempted to tear the nation of Durham, of Boston, that claims certainly might be construed under persona non grata. We need these digging them in one grave that now mass graves have been found. Several mass graves asunder. Let me say this again - these monuments serve as a this heading. silent reminders - watching over containing dozens of bodies have been found, following a coordinate attack by militants these are men who attempted to reminder of our flawed past, or our Let's not forget that Henry us as we walk on college campuses in the area last week. The valley is under Afghan security forces control now. secede from the union because of ability to overcome. This idea is David Thoreau, who brought the and meander in our downtowns - their dedication to slavery in both patently false, ahistorical, and term into the mainstream with the to continue the white supremacist TOLONews reporter, Samim Faramraz says that according to residents, the majority theory and practice (yes, you're willfully ignorant of the national publication of his 1849 essay, functioning of the nation. When we of those buried in these graves were civilians and some of them members of the pubic right, this was an issue of states' timeline. "Civil Disobedience", approved of see these statues, no one has to rights - namely, the right of states This was a tribute to Jim Crow, the manner and method of John say a word. They say "I belong uprising forces but the bodies of three children, who were beheaded, were also recovered. a reminder of separate and unequal Brown's violent abolitionist raid in Over 50 dead bodies have been found, showing cruelty of the militants that even don’t’ to allow slavery). and you do not and will never." If many of these men, upon status under the law. It has been a 1859 at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. They remind us of a time when show mercy to children. Insurgents once again revealed their true face of violence and losing the Civil War, acknowledged reminder to those entering into and Cute phrasing aside, civil America was "great" and serve as bloodshed. They do what their masters order, irrespective to think at least once. Slavery the incompatibility of effective departing the court of their disobedience is not necessarily an anchor to making it "great is a curse. The insurgents have to bear in mind that Allah, the Almighty, created them a absorption back into the union and position in the city and county. non-violent. And whether or not again". I can't get over slavery the memorialisation of their This was and is formalised, you advocate for non-violence as because I am reminded at every free human, so don’t accept slavery of anyone. participation in efforts to rip it memorialised intimidation. a moral choice, a distinction must turn of its existence as memory and Muqtadir Ahmad, Kabul Afghanistan apart, why is this a conversation This isn't history. This isn't be made. Non-violent passivity is current reality, as memorialisation, worth having today? Isn't this also unity. This is the reification of a privilege not afforded the and in my own second-class Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must something to "get over"? I mean, if white supremacy - of white power. marginalised; non-violent action is citizenship. I can't get over slavery have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: they did why can't you? This is the dividing line between resistance. because it is a fundamental thread [email protected] There's a line going around those who have the full rights of I am concerned then that this inextricable from the tapestry of today, in view of Charlottesville, citizenship and those who don't, takedown is the "sobering the nation. Stop telling me to get of Durham, of Boston, that claims both when it was erected initially example", rather than the murder over slavery - you first. Danielle these monuments serve as a and to this day. And that's exactly of Heather Heyer or the beating of Fuentes Morgan is an assistant reminder of our flawed past, or our what it was meant to be. De'Andre Harris in Charlottesville professor. She writes about African Disclaimer: ability to overcome. This idea is So when you say "get over at the hands of neo-Nazis. Are only American literature and culture, patently false, ahistorical, and slavery" and then fight with those protests that seek to comedy, and the 21st century. The The views and opinions expressed in the articles are willfully ignorant of the national rhetorical violence - and in some undermine white supremacy held views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or timeline. cases literal violence - to keep these to this definition of civil in civil the author's own and do not I think especially of the monuments standing, you are disobedience? necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's opinions of the Afghanistan Times. monument that was taken down ultimately showing your own It's been said before, but it editorial policy. (Al Jazeera) by protesters on Monday, August inability to get over it. bears repeating - Germany doesn't SUNDAY . AUGUST 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES Usin g r ad io

A chronology of major bombings, gun violence, and vehicle attacks in Europe over the past year. t o con fr on t responsibility. A man hijacked a truck and clim at e May 22, 2017: Manchester, ploughed into shoppers at a UK A bombing at a pop concert Christmas market in Berlin, killing by US star Ariana Grande in the 12 people. The attacker was shot British city of Manchester killed dead by police in Milan, Italy four ch an ge in Per u 22 people, including children. ISIL days later, and the attack was claimed responsibility. claimed by ISIL. April 7, 2017: Stockholm, July 26, 2016: Normandy, Radio hosts us indigenous language radio Sweden A truck ploughed into France shoppers outside a busy Two men with alleged links to broadcasts in Peruvian Amazon to raise department store in central ISIL took several people hostage awareness and rally isolated villages. Stockholm, killing five people in an attack on a church in northern including an 11-year-old girl. Police France. An 85-year-old priest was said an Uzbek suspect, who had killed with a knife before French been denied a residency permit in police entered and shot dead the 2016, confessed. attackers. April 3, 2017: St Petersburg, July 22, 2016: Munich, Russia Five people were killed Germany when a bomb ripped through an A gunman opened fire at a underground train in Russia's crowded Munich shopping centre second city of St Petersburg. A and fast-food restaurant, shooting group suspected of links to al- nine people dead before killing Qaeda claimed the attack, which himself. The 18-year-old suspect was blamed on a Russian suicide was a German-Iranian and was bomber born in Kyrgyzstan. obsessed with mass shootings, March 22, 2017: London, UK police said. Five people died when a man July 14, 2016: Nice, France rammed his car into pedestrians on On Bastille Day, France's Thursday's van attack in Barcelona, August 17, 2017: Barcelona, Kingdom Westminster Bridge in London and national holiday, a man rammed a claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq Spain At least 14 people were One man died after a vehicle then fatally stabbed a police officer truck into a crowd of revellers at Pahoyan, Peru - In June, Shipibo-Konibo environmental and the Levant (ISIL), was the killed when a van rams into tourists ran over pedestrians close to two outside parliament. The attacker the Mediterranean resort of Nice, indigenous communities in the radio programme. Despite the latest fatal assault on a European gathering in the popular area of La mosques in Finsbury Park. British was shot dead by police. killing 86 people. He was shot dead Central Peruvian Amazon marched risks, he discusses illegal logging city. Here are the major attacks on Rambla in Barcelona. prosecutors said the attacker was January 1, 2017: Istanbul, by police, and ISIL claimed in the sweltering jungle city of and narco-trafficking in the the continent over the past year: June 19, 2017: London, United motived by "extreme political Turkey responsibility. Pucallpa to condemn widespread Peruvian Amazon [Neil Giardino/ views and a personal hatred of An Uzbek gunman killed a March 22, 2016: Brussels, deforestation in their communities Al Jazeera] Muslims". policeman before entering the Belgium and to commemorate Amazonian "We put ourselves at risk June 3, 2017: London, UK popular Reina nightclub and Suicide bombings killed 32 victims of environmental conflict. talking about climate change and A van rammed into a crowd on opening fire on people partying people and wounded 230 more at In the remote village of Pahoyan, the transnational logging London Bridge, then the three inside. At least 39 people Brussels airport and Maelbeek Antonio Rojas Shuna got word of companies coming into our assailants left the vehicle armed celebrating New Year, mainly Arab metro station, near the EU the protest quickly and in his communities. But if we don't with knives and attacked people. tourists, were killed. The headquarters. The attacks were native language, but not on TV or defend our communities, who Eight people were killed and about bloodshed was claimed by ISIL. claimed by ISIL. the internet. will?" Sanchez asks. 50 wounded. Police shot dead the December 19, 2016: Berlin, (Al Jazeera) Radio is the bridge between the His Shipibo community, called attackers. ISIL claimed Germany city and indigenous communities. Caimito, which has lost thousands Moises Cardenas Sanchez, of hectares of ancestral land in Prensa Libre Intercultural recent years owing to state Actors, "Our Shipibo brothers inform appropriation, is listening, he said. us of what's going on with our "I'm conscious of the fact that writers quit territory and the environment," nobody pays me to be on the radio, said Rojas Shuna, 53, as he repaired but I was born in a community I White House the foundation of his flood- knew I would one day have to damaged home. serve," the radio host said. Azerbaijani oil prices committee In the age of instant access to Ruth Ventura's indigenous digital information, radio is language radio programme reaches for August 14-18 redefining its purpose in isolated thousands in isolated communities over Trump villages in the Peruvian Amazon, in the Central Peruvian Amazon where Spanish is a second language [Neil Giardino/Al Jazeera] Average price of AZERI LT CIF, extracted at Azerbaijan’s Azeri-Chirag- Members of President's and signs of climate change are Ruth Ventura is co-host of an Gunashli block of fields, was $53.09 per barrel on Aug. 14-18 or $0.54 Committee on the Arts everywhere. environmental justice programme per barrel less than the previous week. In Pucallpa and other cities in called Radio Informativo The highest price of AZERI LT was $53.8 per barrel, while the and Humanities this region, a growing number of FECONAU (Federation of Native lowest price was $52.38 per barrel during the reporting period. condemn Trump's indigenous activists are reclaiming Communities of the Ucayali and Azerbaijan sells AZERI LT via the Turkish port of Ceyhan and response to deadly radio to reach communities reeling Affluents), which broadcasts in Georgian ports - Batumi and Supsa. The oil is supplied to Ceyhan via from environmental issues and to Shipinol - a mixture of Shipibo and the BTC pipeline and to Georgia via the Baku-Supsa pipeline and Charlottesville rally. revive their endangered languages. Spanish. railway. Average price of URALS (EX-NOVO), exported from "The indigenous press send Her programme drives her to Azerbaijan via the Novorossiysk port, was $49.61 per barrel on Aug. Actors and prominent arts figures in the US have resigned from an messages and speak to us through be a voice for young indigenous 14-18 or $1.13 per barrel less than the previous week. The highest their programmes and we listen. women, she said. price for URALS was $50.38 per barrel and the lowest price was $48.9 Activists and lawyers say more is advisory committee to the White House following President We feel indigenous," said Limber "I give my perspective, I give per barrel on Aug. 14-18. Azerbaijan sells the oil supplied via the Baku- Maynas Mahya, Chief of my opinion. When I speak I'm the Novorossiysk pipeline through Russia’s Novorossiysk port. Average still needed to protect women's Donald Trump's reaction to deadly white supremacist Pahoyan, an ethnic Shipibo- voice for them as well, and that's price of Brent Dated was $50.47 per barrel on Aug. 14-18 or $1.42 per Konibo village located 15 hours by an important role," said the 28- barrel less than the previous week. (TREND) rights in the country. violence last weekend in Charlottesville. boat from Pucallpa along the year-old mother and teacher. In a joint letter addressed to Ucayali River. 'We've had to fight to earn our Trump, members of the His village is struggling to find place in radio' President's Committee on the ways to adapt to deforestation, 36- Inclusion was not always the UzbekistanForeignMinister Arts and Humanities (PCAH) year-old Mahya told Al Jazeera. norm. Shipibo radio pioneer condemned the president's Severe flooding has caused Glorioso Castro Martinez had to toTravel toIndiafor Talks insistence in equating the actions Pahoyan to seek higher ground break through a wall of of both white supremacists and three times in recent years. This discrimination in the early 1980s The top Uzbek diplomat will embark on a three-day visit to India next those protesting against them February, the village road became when he got his start. Indigenous week to meet with top officials and attend a series of public events, the during the far-right rally on a river. language programmes, he said, just Uzbek Foreign Ministry said Saturday. August 12. The community medical were not given any airtime. TASHKENT The Uzbek top diplomat plans to hold talks with his A 32-year-old anti-racist centre was inundated and We have a great power to make Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj and other dignitaries, and attend the protester, Heather Heyer, was waterborne illnesses spread. our cultural identity, our Uzbek-Indian business forum, the ministry said. (Sputnik) killed and several people were Without help from the regional territories, our traditional wounded in a car ramming attack. government, Shipibo language knowledge, our medicinal plants Trump repeatedly blamed radio programmes in Pucallpa known. "both sides" for the deadly allowed the community to Glorioso Castro Martinez, Tu r k m en ist an b an s violence. broadcast their struggle and appeal Shipibo radio pioneer "Reproach and censure in the to the outside world for help. "We've had to fight to earn our strongest possible terms are Severe flooding caused the place in radio. Now, the young alcohol ahead of necessary following your isolated Shipibo-Konibo village of people are coming up with their support of the hate groups and Pahoyan to seek higher ground new programmes and it's allowed terrorists who killed and injured three times in recent years [Neil us to keep going. I'm not alone," flagsh ip sp or t in g even t The Lebanese parliament voted defending Lebanon's social fabric Giardino/Al Jazeera] he said. this week to abolish an article in ... The logic and philosophy of the fellow Americans in Charlottesville," said the letter, "Radio is the bridge between His programme, Voz de la the penal code exempting rapists laws that came in the 1940s came the city and indigenous Selva, focuses on the environment Reclusive Turkmenistan has banned sales of alcohol until October to from punishment if they marry with a certain mindset that was which was signed by all members ensure "public order" ahead of a key sporting event the country is but one of the 17-person communities," said Moises but devotes time to Shipibo music, their victims, but women's rights there to protect society and public Cardenas Sanchez, host of the art, and culture as well. hosting next month, an official in the trade ministry said Saturday. activists say this does not go far decency and to ensure that committee. "The false The ban is related to the hosting of the Asian Games in the second equivalencies you push cannot environmental programme Prensa "We have a great power to enough. prevailing social norms were Libre Intercultural, one of nearly a make our cultural identity, our half of September, the official who requested anonymity explained in a "For sure, what happened on ratified. But today, we fight for stand." telephone conversation. "The main goal of the ban is to ensure peace New York: Art used to dozen Shipibo-language radio territories, our traditional Wednesday was a positive step, individual rights - we don't fight to programmes in Pucallpa. knowledge, our medicinal plants and public order in the country in connection with the strengthened but people in Lebanon wanted to protect society and its norms." protest Trump's policies Actor regime introduced by law enforcement agencies from August 17," the Kal Penn, photographer Chuck Out of a run down local station known," said Martinez, 54. abolish the law and its effect on The Institute for Women's in Pucallpa, these Shipibo radio The timing might be right for source added. (DNAINDIA) other articles as well - specifically Studies in the Arab World at the Close, author Jhumpa Lahiri and Jill Cooper Udall, wife of Senator activists are reaching hundreds of Martinez and his peers in articles 505 and 518," said Manar Lebanese American University has thousands in the city and in some indigenous communication to cast Zaiter, a lawyer with the Lebanese asserted that gender-based violence Tom Udall were among those who signed the resignation letter. of the most remote communities a wider net. The revival and Women Democratic Gathering is the most "obvious manifestation in this part of the Amazon through affirmation of Peru's indigenous NGO. of gender inequality in Lebanon". We cannot sit idly by, the Azerbaijan fires way that your West Wing in-studio broadcasting, cultures and languages have Articles 505 and 518 stipulate Organisations that support victims testimonies from the field, and the reached a national consciousness that the rape clause would still of sexual assault say they receive advisors have, without speaking out against your words and recent integration of live media and in recent years, with Quechua 3,300 shots last week apply when sexual assault is more than 2,600 reports of partner podcasting for urban audiences. language TV and radio now airing committed against a girl between violence every year. actions," the members wrote. The PCAH is an official They are scruffy motorcycle in the capital, Lima. 15 and 18, and there is consent or According to the institute's taxi drivers and young mothers, Wilder Rodriguez Gonzalez, a prior promise of marriage. director, Lina Abirafeh, this can be agency which comprises prominent Hollywood, teachers and indigenous youth an indigenous language "I'm not applauding the efforts attributed to the lack of legal leaders. Most are urban migrants communication specialist in the of the Lebanese parliament. These provisions that criminalise marital Broadway and others arts figures. It works directly with the from isolated communities such as Ministry of Education, sees the are rights, and they were supposed rape. "The Lebanese parliament, Pahoyan. Shipibo radio movement in to be granted years ago," Zaiter told at last, took a step towards government and three primary cultural agencies. Pahoyan resident Antonio Pucallpa as scrappy and full of Al Jazeera. "They were extremely women's rights … but there is still Rojas Shuna tunes in to Shipibo- potential, but noted that it lacks late in abolishing the law." much to work to do," she told Al As first lady, Melania Trump serves as the committee's language broadcasts for cohesion. "They need to take it a Civil society groups in Jazeera. "It is not enough to change information from the city [Neil step further. With proper training Lebanon have also been fighting to laws. Everyone in Lebanon must honorary chair. Director and Tony Award Giardino/Al Jazeera] and more organisation, they can end child marriage in the country. act to change the way society Environmental NGO Global start reaching a national audience," Lebanon has no minimum age for views women … This victory is winner George C. Wolfe was the only member who did not sign Witness labels Peru as the fourth he said. For now, they are hitting marriage, and its civil code one small step in the right deadliest country on the planet to their target by reaching most of the regulating personal status matters direction." Kayrouz told Al Jazeera the missive. "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made be an environmental activist, with roughly 30,000 Shipibo speakers lacks such guidelines. A draft law that his party's amendment, at least 57 murdered since 2002. left in the world, with the aim of introduced to parliament in March proposed in August 2016, aimed us complicit in your words and actions," the letter went on to In 2014, four Ashaninka orienting and driving them to seeks to set a minimum age of 18. to abolish the law and its effects indigenous environmental leaders action in their communities. According to Zaiter, if articles 505 on other provisions "without say. The members also criticised were murdered in the Ucayali Indigenous radio pioneer and and 518 were also repealed as per exceptions". "Following several department for defending their land activist Glorioso Castro Martinez the initial draft amendment brought long sessions of debate, the Trump for proposing to cut funding for arts and cultural against illegal logging - a practice at a rally in Pucallpa, June 5, 2017 forward by parliamentarian Elie committee established to examine which can yield twice the profit of [Neil Giardino/Al Jazeera] Back in Kayrouz, it would have been the proposed amendment did not agencies. With the letter, the PCAH became the first White its legal counterpart. Pahoyan, Alberto Franchini "much easier to then place a cap adopt my original draft," he said. Despite the risks of speaking Silvano sat on his porch, turning on the minimum age required for "Instead, it settled for a tweaked House department to resign. STEPANAKERT: Azerbaijani side violated ceasefire around 220 times Several people on social media out against these practices, the FM dial of his portable radio. at the line of contact between the armed forces of Karabakh and marriage". "Our government is one version of the amendment that Sanchez and his peers take on The static cleared and a voice in that is ruled and controlled by the abolished many of the law's effects noted a possible hidden message Azerbaijan from August 13 to 19. During this time the Azerbaijani in the note - the first letter of politically charged topics such as Shipibo discussed illegal logging. armed forces fired 3,300 shots in the direction of Karabakh positions, social status quo - it is a sectarian on other provisions, including narco-trafficking, illegal mining, "Our Shipibo ancestors never had entity," Zaiter said. "But they kidnapping and adultery, but each paragraph of the informed the press service of the Republic of Artsakh Ministry of correspondence, when put and the expansion of palm oil these problems," said the 50-year- Defense (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic/NKR MOD). The vanguard units [parliament] did not vote in favour maintained the law's effect on plantations. old elementary school teacher, of the original draft to protect the articles 505 and 518." together, spells "RESIST". of the NKR Defense Army refrained from acting and continue to (Al Jazeera) Moises Cardenas Sanchez with a hint of hopelessness in his confidently fulfill the military task. (NEWS) wishes of parties who claim to be (Al Jazeera) during a June broadcast of his voice. (Al Jazeera) SUNDAY .AUGUST 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES The Wall street ends Amazon down after effect on t h e US more White economy

The Wallet Opener House turmoil Amazon started with books and then added pretty much everything you can think of, from A DIP in West Fife's labour market 2,650,000, or 75.2%, a rise of 1.1 engagement rings to coffins, for NEW YORK : U.S. stocks lost The Dow Jones Industrial has caused an increase in percentage points over the quarter. ground late to end lower on Friday Average fell 76.22 points, or 0.35 sale on their site. Add the unemployment figures. The jobless rate fell by 0.5% convenience of having it delivered following a White House-focused percent, to close at 21,674.51, the The claimant count for August from the previous quarter to 3.9% week that raised more questions S&P 500 lost 4.46 points, or 0.18 promptly to your doorstep, and stands at 1,490 which is an 17% and now stands below the UK customers have rewarded about the Trump administration's percent, to 2,425.55 and the increase compared to four weeks figure of 4.4%. Martin ability to implement its pro-growth Nasdaq Composite dropped 5.39 Amazon with open wallets, so ago. Job officials believe this is due Nowakowsky, Customer Service much so that North American agenda. points, or 0.09 percent, to to an increase of claims from Manager for East Fife, said: While the day's losses were 6,216.53. electronics and general workers who will soon be ending "Employment figures may have merchandise sales for the small, Friday marked the first time The S&P 500 closed roughly their employment on the increased but they are still 54% stocks haven't risen the day after a 1 percent below its 50-day moving company have grown from a mere Queensferry Crossing and better than when the recession hit, 2% of total general merchandise more than 1 percent drop since average, the furthest below that Roysth's aircraft carrier. so that still makes for positive Donald Trump was elected key technical measure since mid- retail sales (GAFO) in 2006 to There are 340 18-24-year old's reading. more than 60% in 2016. Similarly president on Nov. 8. April and the closest to its 200- claiming job seekers allowance, "Some projects in the labour The week's losses further day moving average since the over the past 10 years, this another 17% increase compared to market here are coming to an end category of Amazon sales has dented the post-election rally, election. July's figures, but this is expected such as the Queensferry Crossing which was built on Trump's For the week, the Dow was increased from a little over 7% of to drop as students return to study and the aircraft carrier so as e-commerce retail sales to more promises of tax cuts and higher down 0.8 percent, the S&P 500 in the next few weeks. expected the claimant count from infrastructure spending. was down 0.7 percent and the than 66%. And the growth is Scotland's employment rate hit the workers has risen. "It is also still student season market." Job opportunities in the accelerating. Last year alone, this Thursday's 1.5-percent drop Nasdaq fell 0.6 percent. a record high in the three months "However, workers from the and we should see a drop in area are still predominately coming in the S&P 500 came a week after Shares of sporting goods segment saw a 28% jump in sales to June. The number of people in carrier will be moved on to another September and October, so there from Amazon, Sky and Edinburgh compared to 2015. a similar fall, and while the retailers and Deere weighed on the work in Scotland reached project in due course. are reasons for optimism in the Airport. (dunfermlinepress) benchmark index still is up 13.4 market following disappointing If you consider a more macro percent since the election, it is results. picture, consumers spending down 2.1 percent in the last two Nike's 4.4-percent slide more is a good sign because it weeks. That's the most since the weighed the most on the Dow, After CEO's contributes to the GDP. Having two weeks before the election. following dismal results from said that, in no way is consumer "While this mini correction sporting goods retailers Foot dramatic AlibabaIsSecretly spending on Amazon significant we're seeing may not amount to Locker and Hibbett. enough yet to tip the GDP scale. much, it's probably caused by this Deere's 5.4-percent fall was the But it could be in future. exit, Infosys The Inflation Killer escalation in doubt of all of these biggest drag on the industrial sector 'BuildingtheNetflixof things that seemed hopeful to after the farm equipment maker Amazon has disrupted investors at the beginning of the reported a second straight quarter faces traditional retail and accelerated Trump administration," said J. of lower-than-expected sales. the demise of struggling players. Bryant Evan, investment advisor Friday also was the eighth recruitment China,' TopInvestor Reveals Without storefronts the and portfolio manager at Cozad straight day in which the New company’s overhead costs are Asset Management, in Champaign, York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq headache Netflix has had to befriend Alibaba in order to break into significantly lower than other Illinois. had more stocks making new 52- retailers giving them an edge to In the latest shakeup, the week lows than highs, matching a the market offering the most eyeballs in the world. undercut on prices and operate MUMBAI/BENGALURU The on wafer thin profit margins. White House said Trump on similar streak leading up to dramatic departure of Vishal Sikka Friday fired chief strategist Steve Trump's election. Alibaba Group Holding (BABA) obviously growing nicely," Green expanding its content, as well as That makes some economy as chief executive of Infosys watchers nervous about Bannon, known as an economic About 290 issues hit a 52- (INFY.NS), following a months- is quietly building up a side digital said about the latest growth figure. developing its subscription nationalist and an advocate of week low on Friday, the most since media and entertainment business The report also shows that loss platform for Youku Tudou, an Amazon’s deflationary impact. long public battle with the tech Ideally, low unemployment is "America First" policies. Critics immediately after the presidential giant's founders, has left the in the world's most populous from operations for the business online video provider, and have accused him of harboring anti- vote. The market's rally faces country. The number one Chinese jumped to $507.2 million from expanding the presence of UCWeb, accompanied by wage growth, company with another messy which in turn fuels inflation as Semitic and white nationalist further tests in the weeks ahead problem: how to find someone e-commerce player is "building the $277.4 million in the year ago a web browser and search sentiments. with the approach of a historically Netflix (NFLX) of China," Lead period. Adjusted EBITA margin company. Youku's video companies pass on the cost to willing to replace him. consumers. This is the logic of While stocks turned higher weak month for equities and a host With the boardroom row still Edge Capital managing partner came in at 43%, up from 32% in subscriptions grew by 100% year- following reports of Bannon's of other issues that could weigh Mitchell Green told TheStreet. the same period last year. over-year. Alibaba hopes to the Phillip’s Curve, but Amazon simmering, the pressure will be on has disrupted that as well. departure, they lost those gains on market, including the Federal to do that fast. The company's last The comparison is interesting Since Alibaba's wildly popular continue that growth with high- heading into the close. Reserve's September meeting, because China's strict regulations Taobao platform is only offered in quality original content, the Higher competition and CEO hunt in 2014 was a major lower prices limit the companies’ The news followed a week where it could announce plans to challenge. Sikka, the eventual choice forced Netflix to license its content China, it's sometimes hard for company said. The business made heavy with speculation and focus unwind its bond portfolio. to Chinese giants Alibaba, Tencent investors and analyst to up 8% of the company's total ability to pass on any wage who was plucked from a top job increases to consumers. Those on the White House. On Thursday, Advancing issues outnumbered at SAP (SAPG.DE), was the first (TCEHY) and Baidu (BIDU) rather understand how popular the revenue for the past quarter, vs. there was concern about the declining ones on the NYSE by a than enter the market alone. Netflix content on its site has become, 10% in the year ago period. worries were recently echoed in chief appointed from outside the the wake of the Whole Foods possible departure of National 1.12-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.04- group of founders. His brief was has over 100 million subscribers noted Green. The company Walmart, Like Amazon, Wants to Economic Council Director Gary to-1 ratio favored advancers. About and is in basically every country reported 529 million monthly Launch Drones From Floating acquisition where remarks by to turn around a faltering business. Chicago Federal Reserve Cohn; on Wednesday, Trump 6.8 billion shares changed hands Three sources familiar with outside of China. Netflix CEO active users (MAUs) in the past Warehouses "Our strategy of disbanded some business councils. on U.S. exchanges. That compares Reed Hastings admitted during the quarter, an increase of 22 million acquiring and developing a mixture President Charles Evans were internal discussions three years ago construed in that context. Trump also alienated some with the 6.4 billion daily average said they expected an even tougher Recode conference in June that he from last quarter, mainly due to of licensed and original content corporate leaders and U.S. allies for the past 20 trading days, was too confident about being able its content-driven Taobao yielded hit drama and variety “We know that technology is challenge now. "It was extremely disruptive. It’s changing a number this week with his comments according to Thomson Reuters hard to find an external candidate to break into a market that had shopping app. On Taobao, users shows during the quarter," Alibaba following violence in data. (Additional reporting by proved too difficult for other tech can watch webisodes or makeup wrote. In the earnings report, of business models that used to last time, and the spat is going to be very successful, and you have Charlottesville, Virginia, where Sruthi Shankar and Tanya Agrawal make the job even more difficult companies. "We probably assessed and cooking tutorials, as well as Alibaba noted that it plans to there was a white nationalist in Bengaluru; Editing by Nick it wrong," Hastings admitted. "We give product reviews. Alibaba said continue to invest in its media and to wonder if certain economic now," said one of the sources. "I actors can continue to maintain protest against the removal of a Zieminski and James Dalgleish) think there is very little chance had our natural optimism that it's been using personalization entertainment business. In Confederate statue. (NYTIMES) slowly got beaten down." technology to provide more December, Alibaba said it planned their price margins, or if they are there will be an external candidate." under threat from additional The new boss will be taking on a Infosys is Tanking Because Its relevant content for users, which to spend $7.2 billion on its media Ex-CEO's Transformation Efforts leads to more clicks and higher and entertainment business over competition,” Evans said company in better shape than it according to Bloomberg. “And was in 2014: Sikka has led efforts Are Now in Limbo engagement."What people don't the next three years. The company On Thursday, August 17, see is that there are millions of sees value in cross-selling between that could be an undercurrent for Invest in infrastructure to to diversify Infosys away from holding back inflation.” basic IT outsourcing services into Alibaba reported that revenue people in China that are watching its popular core China-based e- from its media and entertainment these videos and the engagement commerce platforms and the media The Employer more lucrative new areas, like cloud, In its latest annual report boost business confidence automation and artificial business had increased 30% year- is staggering," Green said. This and entertainment platforms. over-year to $602 million. "It's past quarter, Alibaba focused on (THESTREET) Amazon lists its total number of intelligence. (Reuters) employees at 341,400. This Investment in infrastructure is vital physical and digital connectivity includes both full-time and part- to boost business confidence and are fit for purpose and of the time employees. For a company support local growth. Ask firms highest quality. Businesses are this size that number is low but all over the country and they’ll tell looking to politicians across the At £280,000, is this the most overpriced property in Britain? expected because Amazon does you improving access to markets, spectrum to deliver transformative not have a significant storefront suppliers and customers is high on infrastructure projects, and in London property is sagging and don’t normally hang about very toilet or running water and you the elderly begin to downsize, there presence like Wal-Mart Stores their agenda, as is improving the return they will deliver investment, inflation is bringing on a fit of long, they are very popular. I think can’t live in it all year. Some smaller may be a growing number of cash Inc. Amazon also engages third quality and reliability of the UK’s jobs and prosperity. The first step national belt-tightening. But the people are a bit bonkers to be lenders will look on a case by case buyers who might see a beach hut party contractors/companies for digital infrastructure. is speedy delivery of projects beach hut market – where people honest but I’m just selling them, basis, but it will be very difficult.” as a good investment for the next tasks like deliveries. Those So while a good Brexit deal is already agreed – such as voting on spend hundreds of thousands of not buying them.” He did say, however, that as 20 years. (TELEGRAPH) people go door to door dropping important, a strong domestic the Heathrow National Planning pounds on small sheds with no Picture shows a row of luxury off Amazon packages but are not environment matters as much – if Strategy and on HS2 Phase 2. plumbing, privacy or security of beach huts on Mudeford Spit in employees for the company. not more – to our future Commitments to increase tenure – appears entirely Dorset Luxury beach huts, such Does that matter? Yes and no. competitiveness and prosperity. infrastructure spending as a share impervious. as these on Mudeford Spit in In a way, these are jobs that Infrastructure projects give of GDP would also be a major step Two huts on Mudeford Spit, Dorset, remain all the rage are that people are doing, businesses the confidence to in the right direction. Action on a beach near Bournemouth in CREDIT: GEOFF PUGH therefore, some credit could go ‘crowd in’ additional investment, these would send a strong signal Dorset, are on sale for £275,000, The upside is that being just a to Amazon for job creation. On generate jobs on sites and across to business, and be a source of prices believed to be the highest in shed there is no stamp duty on the the other hand hiring contractual supply chains, and support confidence. There are also easy history. There is little shortage of purchase. For a purchase to be workers helps the company keep stronger trade, domestically and wins in delivery of local interested viewers, apparently. eligible for stamp duty, it must be its costs in check. Amazon has in internationally. infrastructure investments, too – At £1,600 per square foot the in some way "a part of the land" - the past been sued by contingent Even the best possible Brexit such as improving the quality of hut costs the same as property in as the hut can be moved it does workers claiming they received deal will be worth little to UK local roads and smaller rail schemes London’s Chelsea. The buyer will not satisfy this criterion. less than minimum wage, companies if we don’t have the that can unlock access to major also have to pay £2,000 a year to Ray Boulger, a mortgage meanwhile there were others that right infrastructure to support cities and create new paths for the local council for a licence plus expert at Jon Charcol, said the hut criticized the company for harsh growth here at home. Successive communities. The Department for £500 council tax. The council, by would be completely working conditions. governments have delayed making Transport’s investment strategy the way, has the power to force unmortgageable to almost all Another angle of the jobs tough decisions on infrastructure includes plans to invest in local you to move the hut at any time. lenders. conversation is how many jobs for fear of political repercussions. roads. Businesses welcome the ames Ricketts, an estate agent “The key requirement for most Amazon is eliminating. But at a time of transition, it’s announcements, but have seen for Denisons, which is selling two lenders is the property has to be Considering the company is important to ensure that our strategies come and go before. of the huts the huts, said: “They habitable,” he said. “There’s no hurting other retailers, forcing them to shutter stores and cut back on costs, any job gains at Amazon may not in fact mean anything. Though the actual extent of job loss is hard to PIAF calls for t im ely p aym en t of all d u es determine according to research by the Institute of Local Self- Reliance (ILSR), in 2015 LAHORE: While appreciating the He said these refund payments facing severe hardship. PIAF Amazon’s impact on jobs in the finance ministry for clearing the would not only cover exporters, members were already in deep U.S. was a net loss estimated at exporters’ refund claims of Rs23 but all other claimants in all sectors trouble and were experiencing 148,774 jobs. Another estimate billion, Pakistan Industrial and of the economy. This would tough times due to multiple by American Booksellers Traders Association Front (PIAF) resolve liquidity problems that the internal and external challenges. Association (ABA) and Civic Chairman Irfan Iqbal Sheikh has taxpayers were facing, he added. The chairman said the Economics pegged net job loss at asked the government to clear all The government has cleared authorities concerned should take 222,000 for 2015. This gap could the dues at the earliest in order to the backlog and fulfilled its second a realistic view of the matter and increase further with automation. address the liquidity crunch. promise with the business allow all kinds of refund of sales Amazon’s quest for In a joint statement along with community for clearing their tax and income tax to the exporters innovation and technology to PIAF Senior Vice Chairman refunds where Refund Payment and manufacturers at the earliest. achieve operational efficiency has Tanveer Ahmed Sufi and Vice Orders (RPOs) had been issued till Pakistan will soon become people worried about elimination Chairman Khawaja Shahzeb April 30, 2017 in case of over Rs1 centre of trade activities, says of jobs. Those worries are not far- Akram, he said the refund million. He said tax collection by Sartaj Aziz fetched considering that the payments were of no use to the the Federal Board of Revenue Due to depreciation of the company is testing its Amazon manufacturers and exporters if they (FBR) increased to Rs3.362 rupee, the manufacturers were Go store in Seattle. were not released timely. trillion, but the stuck refund already facing financial crunch and The Facilitator PIAF optimistic about amount was also increasing in the delay in refund payments was Amazon’s logistics economic revival same proportion. The PIAF adding to the trouble, he said. He infrastructure doesn’t just help “Though it is very late, it will official urged the FBR to ensure warned that further delay could it ship to consumers all across still encourage the exporters and early and timely payment of trigger serious liquidity crunch, the globe, it also aids another full payments should be made refund claims of the export- forcing the exporters to close down group of people: small rather than in stages,” said Sheikh. oriented sectors as they were industrial units. (TRIBUNE) businesses. (investopedia) SUNDAY.AUGUST 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Nikolaj Coster- Waldau has a solution for ‘GoT’ Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput Before leaving, the Rangoon actor Kapoor revealed their vacation are jetting baby Misha off to and his beloved wife posted plans at the Big Zee Entertainment leaks London to celebrate her first pictures on Instagram from Awards stating: “We are probably birthday falling on August 26. Mumbai International Airport: not going to be in the country, so we are going to get some family time.” First picture of Shahid Kapoor’s daughter is cuteness personified Judging from the pictures posted on the Kapoors’ Instagram handles, it seems like they really know how to vacation. Take a look: Shahid Kapoor supports wife’s views on motherhood Kapoor will have his hands full with shooting for his upcoming period drama film Padmavati after returning. He will play opposite Deepika Pudukone and alongside Ranveer Singh, and Aditi Rao Hydari. The artist has had a major transformation for this Sanjay After a series of hacks and leaks Leela Bhansali movie which is all have rocked HBO and its Game set to hit the screens on November of Thrones, actor Nikolaj Coster- 17. Waldau says the network should go back to old-school ways of distribution to guard its content. In an interview with EW Annabelle: Morning Live, the actor said he feels that HBO should employ an old-school approach to Creation protect future content. “I think they’re basically going to go back movie review to hand-delivering and just giving us scripts,” said Coster-Waldau, - It’s the best who plays Jaime Lannister in the superhit fantasy drama. “Just film in the give us the hard copies instead of all this email and digital stuff. Conjuring I think that’s what’s going to happen in a few years’ time because you know, you talk to universe single moment of Taimur’s cops on the street, ‘What’s the A wise man once said – it could’ve childhood: Kareena Kapoor Khan biggest crime now?’ It’s all credit been Steven Spielberg, David Apart from this, Karisma is a card fraud. It’s all that stuff. It’s Mamet, or Walter Murch (or, quite shareholder in the children’s digital. So we got to go back to possibly, all three) – that the true product company Babyoye. With cash.” testament to a film’s greatness is if all the brand endorsements, HBO’s social media you watch it without sound (or fashion shows, world tours and accounts hacked by notorious subtitles), and still understand the share holdings, the Zubeidaa actor group basic nuances of the plot. ends up earning approximately Coster-Waldau also said the And as in most horror movies, Rs72 crore every year. With so hacks are ironic because due to sound is a vital – but also carelessly much money poring in from various the popularity of the series, in VIP 2 Review: Just ventures, Karisma is the flag bearer abused – part of Annabelle: order to protect the scripts, he Creation, the sequel/prequel to the of the rhetoric ‘you don’t need a said the actors had to set up sequel/prequel of the first man to be successful in life’. several email accounts in order three words Conjuring movie. But it is, The Fiza beauty is reportedly to receive them. “They had to however, a fine film with which to dating businessman Sandeep be triple and quadruple checked! conduct this experiment, because Toshniwal who is also a divorcee. And, of course, now they have it relies more on atmosphere and Reports suggest that Karisma and this big hack,” he added. 'Flawed, Avoidable symbolism, unlike most Sandeep are planning to tie the HBO has been dealing with mainstream scary movies, and isn’t knot very soon. (Tribune) anonymous hackers who claim nearly as chatty as them. For one, to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of and Mundane' it’s a period picture – set in the Karisma Kapoor was the first girl Karisma pays the bills, given she data – including emails, show ‘40s and ‘50s to be exact – from the Kapoor clan to have is not acting anymore, and hence Hundreds scripts and unaired episodes of reminiscent of Guillermo del Toro’s stepped into Bollywood to make not making the kind of money she hit series such as Game of I don't want to sound cynical right like something unexpected, it's fine great gothic horror, El Espinazo del a career in the film world. After was during her acting days. But Thrones, Ballers and Room 104 at the beginning, but I guess getting to see it landing in a different Diablo - an auspicious beginning, carving her footprint in the film according to a report, the actor still flood Kochi from the company’s servers and a Deja Vu feel is not something that territory. those who’ve seen it would agree. industry, the Raja Hindustani seems to be making a lot of money. threatened to release it if their viewers expect when they buy a Taking off from where the And like that movie, it sends a stunner married business tycoon When Sanjay and Karisma got streets to ransom demands are not met. ticket for a new release. But original VIP left off, we see group of orphans – this time, only Sanjay Kapur, embraced divorced, the former gave Rs14 ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 unfortunately, at times they end Raghuvaran (Dhanush) a humble girls – off to live in a home where motherhood and eventually, films crore to the couple’s children in Episode 6 accidentally aired by up getting one. So this is what engineer and the savior of many, terrible things have happened. took a backseat. alimony, claims India.com. In catch a HBO Spain Kajol and Dhanush starrer VIP 2 getting head on with arrogant Upstairs, kept under lock and key, Karisma Kapoor gets sweet addition, he is bound to pay Rs10 So far, two episodes of is all about. Vasundhara (Kajol). Both these there lies a doll, Annabelle. After a 43rd birthday wishes from friends, lakh to his ex-wife every month. glimpse of Game of Thrones have leaked, Although, Dhanush proved his characters of the movie are pole series of unfortunate events, the family and fans The Andaz Apna Apna star in addition to episodes of Curb impeccable acting potential with apart from each other on one hand children’s peskiness awakens the Karisma went on record and sustains her lifestyle and pays for Sunny Leone Your Enthusiasm upcoming Raanjhana and Shamitabh and its Raghuvaran who is down-to- dormant demon inside her, and stated that her family and kids kids’ school tuition with the season and script summaries of looked like next big thing of earth and loved by masses, on the sends her on a murderous rampage. were her first priority. Countless money she receives from her Game of Thrones and one Bollywood, this time this Southy other hand, its Vasundhara who is Annabelle: Creation borrows fans since then were simply waiting husband. The Shakti diva is also executive’s emails. lad could not maintain the snobbish, wealthy, arrogant owner heavily from modern Spanish for her to make a comeback onto associated with a lot of charity The network’s social media momentum. And fortunately or of the biggest architect firm in the horror movies – movies like El the big screen, and so it happened organisations, one of which accounts were also hacked on unfortunately, it has nothing to do region. 'Vellai' (work) plus 'illai' Orfanato, Los ojos de Julia – when she starred in Dangerous includes Salman Khan’s Being Wednesday by hacking group with his performance, rather it's (no) adds up to Jobless which is fortunate, because modern Ishq, which released in 2012. Human Foundation. OurMine. (Tribune) the flimsy, monotonous plot of Raghuvaran, whose fight against American horror movies are Unfortunately, the film fared The report further stated that VIP 2, which invites the debacle. Vasundhara is on the principles of (usually) the pits. But to miserably at the box office and we the actor is the ambassador to a VIP 2 is mostly a rehash of fairness and justice and truth and appreciate good horror, we must haven’t seen Karisma make waves cluster of brands like Kelloggs, the first part which looks no better saving the environment. The idea first understand a key difference. on the big screen since then. Crescent Lawn, Admix Retail, Amrita than an old ale in a new bottle. To as a cine plot must have looked The sight of a pair of dolls’ hands Karisma and Sanjay ended their Danon and Garnier. Also, the actor be a more precise plot of VIP 2 good on paper, but on screen, it unexpectedly appearing out of the marriage and got divorced in 2016 gets contracts for walking the ramp has a scarcity of all the must have appeared no better than a half darkness, and performing a quick – and the actor now lives in for eminent designers and Singh is condiments which make a good baked cookie prepared without a clap, is an efficient scare - but it Mumbai with her daughter Samiera participate in international shows. movie. Although climax may look thought. (Santa Banta) only lasts for a moment. and son Kiaan. Many wonder how I don’t want to miss out a all praises Bollywood star Sunny Leone brought Kochi, Kerala to a ARJUN standstill on Thursday as she for Ekta arrived in the Indian city to RAMPAL inaugurate a mobile store. According to India Today, Kapoor! the news of her visit sent fans TALKS into a frenzy as they began gathering at the venue as early as ABOUT 8am, leading to major traffic snarls during peak hours. ARUNGAWLI “My car in literally a sea of love in Kochi Kerala!!,” she The makers of 'Daddy' have tweeted. 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' is a sweet and How she uses Chirag Dubey released a video that features Arun Crowd found place on top of delectable romance which begins (Ayushmann Khurrana), the Gawli's daughter and Arjun buses, hoardings and even on on a predictable and somewhat publisher of the book, in her quest, Rampal talking about Arun Gawli. metro pillars to catch a glimpse placid note, but takes on an forms the crux of this two-hour From the rough streets and of the former pornstar, reported interesting hue owing to the sudden film. back alleys of Central Mumbai the Times of India. twist the tale embarks upon and The characters and their lives comes the sensational true story Sunny Leone and husband turning into a love triangle. are introduced to the audience of Arun Gawli, a man who scripted adopt baby girl Bitti Mishra (Kriti) is the only through a narrative by Javed Overwhelmed by the “sea of his own destiny, eventually going After a stellar debut in Betaab, child of her parents Narottam Akhtar in the beginning of the film. on to become one of India's most love”, the actor even shared a Mishra (Pankaj) and Sushila The characters are well-etched and video on her Twitter handle: “No Amrita Singh had a string of hit feared gangsters. movies to her credit when she took Mishra (Seema). The apple of her developed thoughtfully with Daddy follows the intertwined words…Can’t thank the people father's eye, she is the consistency. of Kochi. Was so overwhelmed a break from films to raise a family. fates of the world-weary Gawli as The actress struggled to get quintessential tomboy, who works Nitesh Tiwari's sharp writing he attempts to enter politics and a by the love & support. Never will in the electricity department, laced with humour encapsulates the forget Gods own Country back to her feet after a long break frustrated Police inspector with a and it was none other than Ekta smokes, drinks, does break dance, simplicity and warmth of a small secret history of his own. Kerala! Thank you #fone4.” stays out late and watches English town, which is evident in each Since the police faced Kapoor who gave her this new lease films all of which her mother scene through his characters. problems controlling the large of life. Amrita made her television disapproves of. Director Ashwini Iyer Tiwari crowd, Kochi police booked the debut with Ekta's serial Kavyanjali Being rejected by boys who keeps the characters and their store owner and 100 others under carving a strong niche for herself! come to see her for marriage, milieu real. It is the ace writing IPC Sections 283 (obstruction in This was followed by a number of becomes her pet peeve as that coupled with the strong public way) and 34 (acts done Bollywood films like Kalyug and causes her mother anguish. performances that elevate the by several persons in furtherance the recent hit 2 states. Sources Dejected, Bitti sets out to leave viewing experience further. of common intention). close to Amrita, felt that Ekta home. Rajkumar as Pritam Vidrohi is The First Post, quoting Kapoor's new venture Kedarnath By happenstance, she picks spectacular as he is every inch the police, said fines would also be would be the most befitting debut up a book, 'Bareilly Ki Barfi', from small town, timid, boy who leads imposed on those found guilty vehicle for her daughter Sara Ali the book stall at the station, which a basic life. He slips into the of parking unauthorised vehicles. Khan. A source confirmed, `It was changes her life. She returns home aggressive Gunda avatar with equal Crowds, the paper reported, a known fact that Amrita Singh's and begins her search for the ease and aplomb, altering his body caused much damage to property, career was spiraling downward and author, Pritam Vidrohi, as she feels language and mannerisms two-wheelers were damaged and Ekta played a strong role in reviving the protagonist in his novel is her perfectly. He steals the thunder the barricades put up by the her career by offering her carbon copy and he is thus from every other actor in the film Kochi Metro as a part of the Kavyanjali. Amrita therefore felt someone who would understand and is immensely endearing. beautification process were like it's a safety net for Sara to be her. (SantaBanta) uprooted. launched in Ekta's 'Kedarnath'. SUNDAY .AUGUST 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES Alastair Cook:Nasser Hussainpraises Solh eim Cu p : USA w h it ew ash England star after fourth Test double ton Eu r op e in 'Malan should stick to his attacking instincts' Man Utd fou r b alls t o boss Jose claim Mourinho says Chelsea t h r ee-p oin t lead remain title favourites ose Mourinho says Chelsea can have no excuses if they fail Jto mount a strong Premier League title defence this season. The Manchester United boss believes the defending champions should still be considered favourites for the title this season, despite suffering a 3-2 opening day home loss to Burnley, an ongoing rift with Diego Costa, and the sale of midfielder Nemanja Matic to United. Mourinho appears to have his own team well placed for a title tilt following last weekend's 4-0 thrashing of West Ham, but has scoffed at the suggestion United are in a more stable position than their rivals. "If they have problems the Alastair Cook only has a few shots, 'Nas, basically, I've got three or major and then says: 'I've got to well so many times and we saw problems are going to finish in a says Nasser Hussain, but that four shots - a cut, a clip of my hip, change my swing completely and him absolutely exhausted in the couple of weeks because, in a helped him rack up a fourth Test the pull and the odd sweep'. hit it right to left if I want to win at subcontinent, so it was the right couple of weeks, the market is double ton as England pummelled He bats the same way Augusta'. He tinkers, yes, but there time for him to move aside and hand closed and they don't have the West Indies at Edgbaston... wherever he is and whether he is are never any sweeping changes. the reins over to Root. Going back problems anymore," Mourinho Alastair Cook is a man who on one, 51, 101 or 201, which What also amazed me about to Essex has helped him - he loves said. "If they have - and I don't knows his game so well and never shows terrific mental strength.See his 243 was how fresh he looked the dressing room and the way know if they have - in a couple of looks to change it. the moment Alastair Cook reached when he came back out to field they have played this season in weeks the problems are over. Danielle Kang celebrated her debut But further opportunities went He knows the areas where he his double hundred, with a little having been batting for nine hours the County Championship - and "They have very good teams, with her second win of the day as begging for Europe at the par-fove wants to score and, importantly, help from the Windies fielders! and 40 minutes. Just imagine how he also has a great work-life balance very good players and I don't see she and Michelle Wie held off 11th and 13th holes which were the areas where he is vulnerable - Alastair was full of admiration dishevelled Michael Atherton now. As well as he manages to any reason for them not to be Madelene Sagstrom and Jodi Ewart both halved in pars, and Kang holed and he leaves those latter areas well for Joe Root's century in his chat would have looked after being in compartmentalise, when he went fighting for the title. "When Shadoff 2&1, and Florentyna a good putt for birdie and a win at alone. with Ian Ward on Friday morning the middle for that long! It was back to his farm as England people say, for example, Chelsea Parker endured a miserable first the 16th to ensure at least half a I remember speaking to him for but at no point did he try to bat tremendous mental and physical captain, I reckon Cook was still lost an important midfield player, day of competition as Caroline point. And after both Europeans Sky just before he got to 10,000 like him or keep him up with him competence from Cook, who looks thinking about cricket - you do that you know if you lose one but you Masson fought practically a lone were unable to birdie the next, Wie Test runs and we chatted about his in the scoring stakes. a man refreshed after giving up the when you're in charge, I can assure buy (Tiemoue) Bakayoko and battle against Brittany Lincicome and Kang completed victory with phenomenal record in Asia. When He doesn't look to move his captaincy following that tough tour you. It's a 24-hour job. (Danny) Drinkwater (who has and Brittany Lang. The American a rock-solid par. Emily Pedersen's I asked him why that was, he said: game on like a golfer who wins a of India. You can only go to the (SkyPorts) been linked with a move from pair lost only one hole when the Solheim Cup debut lasted only 13 Leicester to Stamford Bridge) for rubber was effectively over and holes as Salas recorded a rare 6&5 example, what's the problem? completed a 3&2 win at the 16th, fourball drubbing in the "The problem is when you leaving Charley Hull and Georgia competition with a barrage of sell and you don't buy. But when Hall charged with the task of birdies in match 2. The game Cr aw for d vs you sell and you keep buying, avoiding a session whitewash followed the pattern of the opener what's the problem? "You are against Stacy Lewis and Gerina as the American pair won the first probably even stronger, so I think Piller. The English pair trailed from two holes with birdies, and Salas In d on go: Dillian every top team in the Premier the sixth onwards, although they made it three in a row at the third League is strong enough to be dug deep and Hull defied the pain to leave the European pair already fighting for everything. of a wrist injury to extend the facing an uphill battle. Pedersen did Wh yt e w elcom es "And when everybody is also contest with a thrilling chip-in for manage to win the fourth and sixth in Europe - five in the Champions eagle at the 15th. But Lewis closed with birdies of her own either side League and then two in the Europa it out with her third birdie in five of another home win before Yin's League - you have the top seven holes at the 17th to wrap up the birdie at the eighth followed by a t h e cr ossover teams playing for everything and first day one fourballs whitewash Salas birdie at nine took the all of them are strong." And, ahead in the history of the Solheim Cup rampant USA pair four ahead at of Saturday's Sky Live trip to with Europe winning just seven the turn. The match was summed r ivalr y b et w een Swansea, Mourinho suggested holes in the entire session. Rookie up at the long 11th, where both Chelsea remain title favourites. Danielle Kang made it two wins Ciganda and Pedersen took six and "For me the favourite is the out of two on the opening day as gifted away the hole to par, and MMA an d b oxin g champion - always," said the she partnered Michelle Wie to a Yin won her fifth hole of the round United boss. hard-fought victory in a tight at the next before Salas parred 13 fourballs battle as the European to cap a dominant win for Juli Dillian Whyte says the growing Whyte's American boxing to boxing, would welcome a switch trouble, because I liked fighting as Matic says the presence of Mourinho at Old Trafford played pair paid the price for a number of Inkster's team. The two Brittany's rivalry between boxing and MMA debut comes just a week prior to a from the ring to the cage. a kid. Floyd Mayweather and missed putts. Wie got off to a great coasted to a comfortable win in the can only be a good thing and he unique and eagerly-anticipated Speaking exclusively to Sky Conor McGregor will take part a a big part in his decision to move to Manchester United Matic says start as she won the first two holes third fourballs match of the would be open to a cross-code boxing match between Floyd Sports, the 29-year-old said: "For rare crossover fight between a boxer with a pair of birdies, but Sagstrom afternoon as they restricted Parker showdown for himself. Mayweather and UFC star Conor me, it's good, crossover in sports and an MMA star "I would fight the presence of Mourinho at Old Trafford played a big part in his and Ewart Shadoff steadied the and Masson to just one win late in The Brixton heavyweight is McGregor - live on Sky Sports Box is always good and it gets that the UFC heavyweight champion ship with halves at the next two a one-sided affair. Masson did well currently out in Lincoln, Office on August 26 - which has interest going. "Muhammad Ali on the McGregor undercard next decision to move to Manchester United"Because, for some reason holes before both teams traded to match American birdies at the Nebraska, as he prepares to take set a trend of potential crossover fought a wrestler years ago, so to week if they wanted it, great birdies at the fifth, sixth and first and fourth, but the German's on Malcolm Tann on the undercard bouts. test yourself in another discipline champions have done it in the was the champion. "It doesn't mean you are going to win it but I seventh. Ewart Shadoff should four at the long fifth proved futile to Terence Crawford's super- There have already been causes excitement. "I could do it. I past. "I would love to fight Brock have pulled one back at the ninth as Lincicome eagled to give the lightweight blockbuster against mooted talks of a cross-code clash did kickboxing to stay out of Lesnar on the Conor McGregor think it is the stamp that you have when you are champion, it is that but spurned a birdie chance from home pair the lead which they Julius Indongo, to be shown live between Tony Bellew and Michael trouble as a kid and then after that undercard. I would have pulled out three feet, although she atoned at protected with a birdie apiece at on Sky Sports this Sunday Bisping and 'The Body Snatcher', I got into boxing. I did alright. It of this fight to fight him. I hate the next season you are the favourite." (SkySports) the next to finally get some blue each of the next two holes to deny morning. who had a kickboxing career prior was something to keep me out of Brock Lesnar." (SkySports) on the board and halve the arrears. Masson again. (Sky Sports) Shane Perkins Mayw eat h er vs McGr egor : UFC st ar Mich ael given Russian Bisp in g op en t o a figh t w it h Ton y Bellew

The fight would follow suit after asking if I would get in the cage citizenship by the ground-breaking boxing bout with a puncher in the UFC? Mike between UFC superstar Conor Bisping is a guy who is McGregor and Floyd Mayweather predominantly known as a puncher on August 26, live on Sky Sorts and he's a very strong wrestler as Vladimir Putin Box Office. well. Bisping said: "All good Tony. "I think I could get down to People twist things. But for the 185[lbs]. If the money is right, and sitting on a racing bike. record, after GSP, I'm down to have then Tony Bellew would happily "I'm the most excited guy in a boxing match with you 100 per enter a cage or a ring. Maybe let's the world right now! I can make cent." do one of them each. my dreams come true!" he wrote. The message was in response "I'm a Michael Bisping fan, but Perkins won a sprint bronze to Bellew, who is yet to learn his if the money was right then the for Australia at the 2012 Olympics next opponent, saying: "If you're fan stuff goes out the window." in London but has not been a member of Cycling Australia's high-performance programme since 2015. Cycling Australia, which NielsdeVos'proud' of Britain'sperformanceat WorldChampionshipsinLondon learned of Perkins' intention to swap allegiances last November, UK Athletics chief executive Niels He told Sky Sports News: are fourth in the world so we are a Blake celebrates after Great Britain themselves but - especially in the said it would not stand in his way de Vos says the nation 'should be "The medals target is the medals sport doing very well but, really claimed gold in the 4x100m relay sprints where we've taken a lot of to represent Russia. proud' of Great Britain's target and I have always said it will importantly, if you look just below Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake flak - we are incredibly lucky to Perkins is a good friend of performance at the World take care of itself if the team do that, we are a sport with a great celebrates after Great Britain have a lot of strength in depth. Russia's reigning world champion Championships in London. well and it did. future as well." claimed gold in the 4x100m relay "We have had a lot of people sprinter Denis Dmitriev, who took The event concluded on "But what excites me as the Farah is now retiring from the "We're in a situation where that's making finals and being on the cusp bronze in the sprint at Rio. Sunday and Great Britain met their head of British athletics is actually track while heptathlete Jessica the same as it was before. We may of it happening. I'm still excited Australian Shane Perkins says he A statement on the Kremlin medal target of six, after a weekend to look slightly below that and see Ennis-Hill quit last year but 2012 have a couple of down years as about the youngsters coming has completed his sporting website detailed an executive order in which they won four relay that we got more finalists than we long jump gold medallist Greg the youngsters establish through." (SkySports) defection to Russia after President signed by Putin. medals. have ever had in any edition of the Rutherford, who missed the Vladimir Putin signed off on "The President resolved to However, critics have pointed World Championships. worlds with an ankle injury, says granting him citizenship. grant Russian Federation out that the success of the relay "Seventy five per cent of our there is no need to panic. In to bid to compete at Tokyo citizenship to Shane Alan Perkins, squads should not be allowed to team, who were in Rio (at the "After Kelly Holmes retired 2020, Olympic bronze medalist born in Australia on December 30, mask the fact that Sir Mo Farah Olympics) , did better this time and that era I think we thought Perkins switched his allegiance 1986," the statement, dated August was the only athlete to win and, if you look at the points table, 'where are the medals going to come after missing out on selection for 17, said. individual medals (10,000m gold which is essentially the best from?'" he said. the Australian team for last year's Australia has granted and 5,000m silver). measure of how you are doing as a "It was a big thing when we Rio Games. citizenship to a number of Russian But De Vos thinks the overall nation, we are third in the world. got the London Olympics and The 30-year-old Perkins athletes over the years, including performance was impressive and "I am pretty proud of that and then, all of a sudden, we came posted a picture of himself on women's tennis player Daria that there is more to come in the I think the nation should be proud through in London and we had a Twitter wearing Russian colours Gavrilova. (SkySports) future. of it. "And in the medals table we great time. Nethaneel Mitchell- SUNDAY . AUGUST 20 . 2017-Asad 29, 1396 H.S Vol:XII Issue No: 27 Price: Afs.20

als, civil society activists, writers and all directors of Laghman prov- ince to have special arrangements By Ziarmal Khan the youths and present generation for this occasion; consequently that we had great leaders who tried they have had better arrangements Local government of Laghman an to bring better life, happiness and yet.” Mr. Naeemi said that our eastern province of Afghanistan modern facilities to Afghans and past has many good lessons, which celebrates Afghanistan’s 98th In- this leader can be good role model can lead us to prosperity and bet- dependence Day with great enjoy- for us and our future generation.” ter life. He added that the present ment and relish. The local govern- He added: “We have had a cam- war in our country is not good for ment has made efforts to awaken paign ((Know Amanullah Khan)); our subsequent generations in any the youths and common people to in this campaign we distributed way and it takes us more and more know their past and participate in pamphlets and brochures in the in modern slavery. Laghman Gov- independence celebration. The marketplace to youths and elders, ernor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi also 98th Independence Day is celebrat- and to men and women for recog- said that he has ordered all provin- Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and cabinet ministers ed in Laghman with difference nizing the man of greater thoughts cial security organs to have spe- th for Afghanistan.” He said: “We en- cial preparation for the celebration celebrated the 98 Anniversary of Independence during the from previous years. visit of Expo/2017 in Astana of Kazakhstan. Laghman Governor Abdul couraged the youths to know more and happiness. A civil society ac- Jabbar Naeemi said “This year we and more about the man of vision tivist in Laghman, Shoibullah celebrate the Independence Day for Afghanistan.” Mr. Naeemi Twabzoi says “I am 27 years of Imran Khan with a lot of enthusiasm to teach said: “I have asked all intellectu- age and I have not seen ..P2 Campaign opposes fencing against Daesh of Durand Line By Najibullah Azad and between related auxiliary changes in the political and social- to continue, with Afghanistan monetary states of Afghan small A prominent Pakistani politician Despite the underlying disturbance scale social orders under the spe- vows has opposed with the fencing of caused by the assassination in 1919 cialist of an effective yet famous- Durand Line with Afghanistan as of Afghanistan’s Amir Habibullah, ly endorsed government. He Nicholson the issue remains one of the main his son Amanullah Khan was able seemed to have needed absolutely factors behind the deteriorating to merge his initiative rapidly. a progressive procedure of KABUL: A US service member ties between Kabul and Islama- Amanullah, the third son of progress. Amanullah Khan and died as a result of wounds suf- bad. In an interview with the Voice Amir Habibullah, with the support Mahmud Tarzai had faith in opti- fered the detonation of an impro- of America (VOA), the chief of and guidance of Mahmud Tarzai, mism as conceivably constructive vised explosive device in eastern Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, called on skillfully figured out how to quiet methods for empowering the Af- Nangarhar province. ‘open borders’ and ‘free trade’ any prompt difficulties to Aman- ghan individuals towards solidari- In a statement, the Depart- policy between the two neighbor- ullah’s rule. They used a subtle ty, independence, structural change ment of Defense identified the vic- ing nations. policy of manipulation through and a participatory political and tim as Army Staff Sgt. Aaron “The long term relationship royal pardons and rewards and social order. They were persuaded A view in Information and Cultural Directorate of Laghman Rhett Butler, 27, of Monticello, between Pakistan and Afghanistan trade-offs to avoid disturbing fur- of the commonly strengthening Utah. He died on August 16 in is open borders,” Khan told VOA. ther the interests of the power elite nature of the objectives of freedom Achin District. He said “Rather than building of various Afghan rulers. and modernization. The Royal SSG Butler was a special forc- fences, I think it should have open, While designating a few nota- Manifesto published on the day es engineer assigned to the 19th free trade, it should be like a Eu- bles to vital court and bureau posi- of Amanullah’s coronation (Feb- Special Forces Group of the Utah ropean Union type of relation- tions, Amanullah drew principally ruary 28, 1919) is a revealing doc- Army National Guard, based in ship. That’s our long term future on two sources, however to fluc- ument in this sense: Salt Lake City, the DoD said. and this would be of enormous tuating degrees, to seek his pre- O nation, proud through the Two US service members re- benefit to Afghanistan and Paki- defined objectives of independence realization of its dignity! In the main under medical care, accord- stan.” and radical reform. One was the minute when my great people has ing to the statement, which said This comes as the Pakistani scholarly, intellectual and inventive placed this crown on my head, I 14 injured American personnel military informed regarding the strength of Mahmud Tarzai and announce with a loud voice to you were medically evaluated, treated resumption of fencing work along various other liberal minded young that I shall accept the crown and and released. the Durand Line nearly two Afghan supporters.The other was throne only on the condition that "On behalf of US Forces-Af- months ago, saying the step has the potential of those who were you render me support in the real- JALALABAD: All militant wreaths on his grave. As Afghan the governor added. Gen. Moham- ghanistan, our loss is heartbreak- been taken with an aim to improve not necessarily in full concord with ization of my plans and intentions. groups including Taliban and Air Force planes air-dropped In- mad Zaman Waziri, commander of ing and we offer our deepest con- security. the Young Afghans, but had the ca- I have explained my ideas to you Daesh have been defeated in east- dependence Day messages, par- the 201st Selab Military Corps in dolences to SSG Butler's family The Inter Services Public Re- pacity, through control or influence already, and I shall reiterate only ern Nangarhar province, Gover- ticipants of the events held na- the eastern zone, said all security and loved ones,” said the top US lations, media wing of the Paki- over the administrative and tradi- the most important of them now. nor Gulab Mangal claimed on Sat- tional flags. Some of them had the forces based in the province were commander in Afghanistan. stani military, in a statement said tional instrumentalities of power, Afghanistan must become free urday. tri-colour painted on their faces. ready to defend their homeland.He Gen. John Nicholson added “Measures to improve the secu- to help implement his policies. and independent, it must enjoy all He was addressing an Inde- Mangal told the participants this also asserted breaking the back of the wounded US and Afghan se- rity situation along the Pak-Af- These most noticeably were Musa- rights that all other sovereign states pendence Day function in Jalala- year’s independence anniversary Daesh in the province, pledging curity personnel were receiving ghan border continue and phase hiban including General Moham- possess. You will help me with all bad, attended by government of- was being celebrated at a time no terrorist organisation would be the best medical care possible. fencing of Pak-Afghan border has med Nadir Shah and his your strength to avenge the blood ficials, diplomats from Pakistan, when Taliban, Daesh and other in- allowed to create sanctuaries in "Despite this tragic event, we commenced.” The statement fur- brothers.Amanullah Khan was of the martyr-my deceased father. India and Iran, as well as thou- surgent outfits had been defeated Nangarhar. But a Wolesi Jirga remain steadfast in our commit- ther added the work will be done therefore rapidly ready to swing The nation must become free: no sands of residents. in Nangarhar. Daesh’s plans to member from Nangarhar, Fari- ment to continue our campaign to in two phases, with the first to his long-cherished objectives of man should be an object of oppres- Before the event, Mangal and make Nangarhar its headquarters doon Momand, complained the defeat of ISIS-K so they are no phase to focus on high infiltration national freedom and moderniza- sion and tyranny. This was the other provincial officials visited had been thwarted with the coop- province was being ruled by land- longer a threat to the people of prone border areas in Bajaur, Mo- tion. These required quick and un- first time ever that an Afghan ruler the mausoleum of Ghazi Amanul- eration of the Afghan people and grabbers, strongmen and mafia Afghanistan and our coalition." hmand and Khyber agencies conditional freedom from Britain; claimed to seek legitimacy, ..P2 lah Khan. They also placed floral sacrifices of the security forces, groups. (Pajhwok) (Pajhwok) where fencing has started.