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Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:83 Price: Afs.20 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY .OCTOBER 20. 2017 -Mizan 28, 1396 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime AT News Report The Ministry of Defense were present and it locates in said that ten insurgents also killed have been killed and 161 others (MoD) confirmed the attack, Maiwand district of Kandahar in the clash. The Taliban insurgents wounded in a bombing and mass KABUL: At least 43 Afghan saying the militants first exploded province,” Ministry of Defense claimed responsibility for the attack in the Gardez city, National Army (ANA) have its vehicle-borne improvised said in a statement. According to attack. The group’s spokesman by provincial capital. A group of been killed and nine others explosive device , and shortly MoD, two of ANA have been sending email claimed that in terrorist armed with suicide vests received injures after carried out coordinate attack on survived from the attack, and 205 advance a car bomber targeted that and weapons attacked police Chashmawi camp attacked by camp, in which 43 ANA were corps commander have already camp and later armed Taliban headquarter and police training Taliban insurgents in southern killed, nine wounded and six other reached the camp, and inquiry has fighters attacked the camp. center on Tuesday, which located Kandahar province on have been missing. been launched over the fact of However, this comes as 48 people beside each other in Gardez city Wednesday after midnight. “In this camp, totally 60 ANA incident. Moreover, the statement including police chief of Paktia center of southern Paktia province. Women entrepreneurs join Startup Revolution KABUL : The first group of forefront of economic young female entrepreneurs development and sustainability in graduated today from Startup Afghanistan. “We congratulate the Valley, Afghanistan’s first hard work and entrepreneurial KABUL : President Ashraf Ghani A new contract is being private business incubator, the vision of these young women,” the has said people are not satisfied negotiated with South Asia Satellite USAID said on Thursday. director said in a statement from with telecommunication services, and the process will be completed Of more than 150 the USAID. asking the firms to focus on next week. People would gain applications and 30 selected Ten of the new companies improvement. satisfactory access to BAMYAN : High Peace Council ethnic confrontation will take us candidates, 17 young women already registered have a presence The president stressed the telecommunications services as a (HPC) chairman Khalil Karimi on nowhere,” the top peace completed the incubation in Kabul, and are generating need for better telecom services in result. Ghani said the people were Thursday stressed the need for emissary said, adding Daesh and programme and are now taking income; the others are in the a meeting with the acting minister not happy with the services, reconciliation and an end to the similar groups would be crushed their business concepts to process of incorporating. of telecommunication information asking the ministry concerned to ongoing conflict and demanded but the Taliban would be given market. Operated by AGHAEZ The new business concepts and technology. work on enhancing its internal national consensus for durable the chance to reconcile. He said Professional Services and include mobile applications, a A statement from the capacity, evaluating all telecom needed to strengthen the telecom peace in the country. the people of Bamyan were supported by USAID: Promote health centre for women, Presidential Palace said delivery of networks and offer a clear analysis sector, he believed. Ghani added Khalili told a gathering in peace-loving and praised their Women in the Economy (WIE), landscaping services and a seeding the best telecom services, thereof. About the contract the system of telecommunication Bamyan City, the capital of central behavior and political maturity. Startup Valley encourages the and agriculture venture, the especially through satellite, procurement process, he said all should be clearly evolved so as Bamyan province, that the 40- “You present a clear picture of entrepreneurial mindset in statement added. internet acceleration and contracts the details and information should ensure quality and standards. He year-old conflict in Afghanistan our modernity on national and youth, especially female Startup Valley and WIE will were discussed. The ministry of be discussed at the meeting of the instructed the authorities should come to an end. international levels.” He called on university graduates. provide six months follow-up communication said it had signed Economic High Council. concerned to provide guidelines for He called for developing the government to stay in touch Susan DeCamp, director of support including advisory a contract for satellite telecom He emphasised greater focus to telecom companies to deliver country-wide consensus on peace with the peoples of the central USAID’s Gender Office, hailed services, networking, assistance in services with a French company on providing improved telecom improved services to citizens and so all ethnic groups and tribes could zone and not let the gap between young entrepreneurs as the procuring office space and relevant in 2014. The agreement period has services, according to a statement strengthen their systems. avail their due rights in a peaceful them and the government widen. future of the country and the technical help. (Pajhwok) expired. from the Palace. More work was (Pajhwok) environment. “Religious and (Pajhwok) FRIDAY .OCTOBER 20, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy Phone No: +93-797070563 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.afghanistantimes.af by Ashley Starr Kinseth On the night of August 25, an Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi attack on Myanmar security forces by a handful of Rohingya militants Advisory editorial board in Northern Rakhine State prompted a brutal government Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, counteroffensive that has, in turn, led to the greatest refugee crisis of Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal the 21st century. Since then, more than 500,000 Rohingya have fled Graphic-Designers: to neighbouring Bangladesh, with some estimating that as many as Bilal Yusufi and Basir Qazizada 15,000 continue to make the Marketing & Advertising: dangerous journey each day. In fact, in terms of rate of escalation, Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 this is the greatest mass exodus - and has the makings to become the Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan most significant humanitarian Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 catastrophe - since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when over Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press 800,000 Hutus and moderate Tutsis were slaughtered over a mere 100-day period. To much of the international The constitution says community, Myanmar's Rohingya crisis appears sudden, with few to Article 117 no warning signs; indeed, it is only in recent weeks that the word The President shall appoint one of its members as Chief Justice of the Supreme "Rohingya" has begun to crop up corroborated horror tales from collective memory and joint resolve view as inherent to all human Court. Members of the Supreme Court, except under circumstances stated in Article in international headlines and to Rohingya refugees of savagely proved short-lived, as international beings. It is this pervasive One Hundred Twenty Seven of this Constitution, shall not be dismissed till the end seep into the world's collective violent gang rapes, merciless governments - and particularly the dehumanisation of the Rohingya - of their term. consciousness and conscience. Yet tortures and beheadings, and even United States - have spent decades backed by military and religious as a human rights lawyer who has babies tossed into fires. performing mind-bending linguistic forces that rely on the existence of long followed the Rohingya If Myanmar continues to backflips to avoid public use of a despised "other" to maintain situation - and was present in refuse access to Northern Rakhine the term. some semblance of power amidst Northern Rakhine the morning the by neutral observers, then there Instead, we see politicians Myanmar's precarious Editorial violence erupted - I can say there will be no way for the international using turns of phrase such as democratisation - that have allowed is no question that the crisis media to provide the balanced "genocidal acts may have been for the Rohingya's continuing unfolding now has been in the reporting frequently demanded by committed" to circumvent outright persecution. making for years, if not decades. Myanmar's citizenry. use of the word itself - and in turn, Admittedly, the atrocities we Perhaps more importantly, by If not adequately frightening to avoid violating what is perhaps witness today in Northern international legal and historical on their own, these facts must be international law's most sacred Rakhine are not entirely one-sided. standards, the crisis bears all the placed in a disconcertingly modern treaty. Surely, many Rakhine Buddhists characteristics of a genocide in context: for there has never been a It thus comes as little surprise also suffer the effects of conflict, Reader s ar e leader s bloom. more powerful tool