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Notorious Daesh commander killed Pakistan's Interior Ministry on stan to collect his body," the Sunday said DNA tests confirmed spokesman said. that the second person killed in a According to Pakistan's Inte- in Wardak U.S drone strike in Baluchistan rior Ministry, the other person province recently was Mullah killed in the attack has also been AT News Report mander killed in Maidan Ward- ak. However, the Daesh group Akhtar Mansour, former leader of identified. KABUL: A notorious commander the Taliban. Adviser to Pakistan's Prime did not comment into the matter of the Islamic State known as so far. "It is confirmed that Mullah Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Daesh, along with his three asso- Mansour was killed in the U.S Aziz confirmed Mansour's death Airstrike against insurgent ciates were killed in an airstrike in outfits had been intensified in the drone strike in Noshki area of Bal- on Thursday - five days after the central Wardak province, security uchistan," a spokesman from the drone strike in Baluchistan. country, especially in the past official said on Monday. month, in which scores of the Interior Ministry of Pakistan said "All indicators confirm that the Briefing newsmen, Ministry of as quoted by Dawn News. Accord- person killed in the drone strike insurgents, including Daesh Defence spokesman, Dawlat Wazi- fighters were killed in different ing to the spokesman, the DNA was Mullah Mansour, who was ri said that the airstrike targeted sample from Mansour's body was travelling on a fake identity," Aziz airstrikes conducted by Afghan Daesh commander and his body- and US forces. Recently six matched with the DNA of one of stated. guard on Syedabad district late on his close relatives who went to The drone strike that targeted Daesh fighters were killed in a Sunday. It is worth mentioning that US drone strike in Nangarhar Pakistan to claim the body. "DNA Taliban's former leader was direct- Mujahid is the first Daesh com- of Mansour matched one of his ly ordered by U.S President Barack province. relative who came from Afghani- Obama. (ToloNews) Three Haqqani linked Sherpao fears Mansour’s Afghanistan wishes terrorists arrested Sharif’s speedy recovery AT News Report The detained insurgents were in- killing to hamper QCGefforts volved in different subversive ac- AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The National Director- tivities including laying mine on ate of Security (NDS) on Monday roadside, added the statement. The AT Monitoring Desk upcoming Quadrilateral Coordina- into KP province in order to bring KABUL: Afghan Ambassador to said that three terrorists linked tion Group (QCG)’s meeting. “To the tribesmen into mainstreaming. Islamabad Hazrat Omar Zakhilw- captive identified as Ahmadzai, KABUL: Qaumi Watan Party with Haqqani network were arrest- Mohammad Omar and Salam Jan, me, there is no ray of hope emerg- Sherpao comments regarding QCG al in a meeting with Pakistan prime ed in southern Logar province. A (QWP) Chairman, Aftab Ahmad ing from QCG to help resolve the meeting comes after the fifth ses- minister’s advisor Sartaj Aziz, of- who confessed to their crime dur- Khan Sherpao, told newsmen in press statement issued here NDS ing primary investigation. Also Afghan peace settlement follow- sion of the quadrilateral talks be- fered his best wishes for rapid re- said that it is operatives succeed- Charsadda district that Kabul-Is- ing the killing of Mullah Man- tween Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chi- covery to prime minister Nawaz Intelligence operatives managed to lamabad relations may become ed to arrest three terrorists through discover and confiscate an ammu- soor,” Aftab Sherpao hinted. Em- na and the United States were held Sharif, who will undergo an open- an operation in Sarghonda village more inauspicious after the killing phasising on the unity of the Pa- in Islamabad on 18 May. The Unit- heart surgery in London today nition cache belonged to Taliban in of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar of Khoshi district in Logar prov- Khoshi district in a separate oper- khtuns, Aftab Sherpao said that the ed States killed Taliban leader, (Tuesday), Afghan embassy in ince. Statement said that two AK- Mansoor. Mansour was killed in a entire nation was waiting for the Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a drone Pakistan said in media statement. ghan conflict. “We believe that this ation. Confiscated munitions in- US drone strike on May 21 in Pa- action has undermined the Afghan 47 rifles with some ammunition cluded two AK-47s, three mortar, report of the FATA Reforms Com- strike, on May 21, three days af- According to Sharif’s family and were seized from captured rebels. kistani province of Balochistan. mittee to decide the fate of people ter QCG meeting, aimed at con- office, this is his second cardiac peace process,” he told newsmen. one missile and four mines. Sherpao said that killing of Tali- of FATA. He added that in order vincing the Taliban group to come operation in five years. Sharif’s ban leader added fuel to fire, as it to make the voice of the Pakhtuns to the table of talks with the Af- daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif could bring negative impacts on the stronger; FATA should be merged ghan government. said on her Twitter that the sur- Scores of insurgents killed in gery would be for perforation of the heart, a complication from an earlier procedure in 2011. Senior Kandahar, Baghlan airstrikes Afghan and Pakistani diplomats Zakhilwal and Aziz also held dis- AT News Report ment added. A food stock, four ve- US drone strike in the Haska Mina cussions on the past week’s im- hicles, five motorcycles, one heavy district of eastern Nangarhar prov- portant developments, the state- KABUL: At least 29 insurgents machine gun and a MK19 automat- ince. Several provincial officials ment said. Issues of bilateral inter- were killed by the airstrikes target- ic grenade launcher were also de- termed airstrikes a very much use- ed their sanctuaries in the northern stroyed in the raid, the statement ful in fight against insurgency in ests, including the Afghan peace province of Baghlan and southern campaign following the death of claimed. In another airstrike carried the country. They believe airstrikes KABUL : The Wolesi Jirga on to the government for a review af- Peace Council without consulting Kandahar, security official said on out in Shahwali Kot district of against militants should be accel- Monday asked the government to ter 13 months. A lawmaker from the parliament. Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the Monday. Ministry of Defence said Naushki district of Balochistan southern Kandahar province, elev- erated and would definitely bear resend the draft law on ‘govern- central Bamyan province, Fakoor “We have repeatedly asked in a statement that 18 militants were en insurgents were killed, the state- positive result in fight against in- ment basic structure’ to the lower Behishti, told Monday’s general the government and have sent of- province, figured at the meeting, killed in Baghan-e-Markzai district ment added, without giving further surgent outfits. Killing of 29 mili- house for approval. The draft law session the government should re- ficial letters to the government to an official told Pajhwok Afghan of the Baghlan province. In addi- details. It is worth mentioning that tants takes place at a time, when on the basic structure of govern- send the draft law on basic gov- dispatch the law on government News. After US drone strike killed tion to that, six other militants were airstrikes against any form of insur- recently officials at the Ministry ment once landed in parliament in ernment structure as soon as pos- basic structure, but the government Mansour in Pakistan on May 21, received injuries, the statement said, gents had been intensified in all over of Defence said that Afghan Air August 2006 after being approved sible. Without elaborating, he said is yet to do so,” Wolesi Jirga speak- Aziz turned blamed finger on adding that militant’s weapons and the country as on Sunday six mili- Forces takes part in 50 to 180 mis- by the Council of Ministers, but the government had established er Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi said. Washington and said that US add- explosives depot were also de- tants loyal to the Islamic State, sions on daily basis to support the the Wolesi Jirga sent the draft back many entities including the High (Pajhwok) ing a new complexity to the Af- stroyed during the raid, the state- known as Daesh, were killed in a security forces in the battlefield.

By Farhad Naibkhel at a ceremony held Monday for private sector to help the govern- the palace reconstruction. Ghani ment in reconstruction and main- KABUL: The work for the war- said that the reconstruction of pal- tenance of historical monuments. ruined Darul Aman Palace recon- ace was a dream of people. “The Chief Executive Abdullah Abdul- struction officially began. “The government will make its utmost lah said that the government would Darul Aman ruined palace is a his- efforts to fulfill the expectation.” attempt to protect historical mon- torical Afghan palace, which will The president vowed to address uments and places. Speaker of be rebuilt by the government bud- all urban challenges across the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of get,” President Ashraf Ghani said country. He urged the people and Parliament Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi called the palace as a picture of war reminding people of past trag- edies. “The reconstruction of the palace was people’s hopes and today is a good fortune that the government held steps to start re- construction of Darul Aman pal- ace.” It is pertained to mention that a campaign initiated in 2012 to raise donations from the public, including schoolchildren and gov- ernment employees, to start ini- tial construction work of the Darul Aman palce, which is still a source of national pride. ABUL: Pakistani beggars are begging in Kote Sangi Darul Aman Palace was built area of Kabul City. Pakistani beggars visit in the early 1920s as a part of the Afghanistan in the summer. Presence of local and endeavors of King Amanullah to foreign beggars in the capital city proves that begging modernize Afghanistan. It was to on the streets in major cities of Afghanistan has become be part of the new capital city. The Darul Aman Palace was destroyed a vicious practice. Although, the government outlawed during civil war and remained in street-begging in 2008 and established an anti-street ruined condition for over 20 years. begging commission but it has not helped.—Photo by This palace is located in 16km M. Sadiq Yousufi southwest of capital.

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EURO 77.74 75.74 TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghanistan’s Destiny and the Eastern Pashtoons (1880-1980) By Dr. Waris Mohammad Wazir The community of Indians is di- in Kabul. The fact that there was succeeded in overthrowing the line passes in the midst of high- vided according to the followers a centralized Soviet state to the monarchy of Shah Hussain Safawi land tribal areas of Pashtoons who of Hinduism and Sikhism. In addi- north of Afghanistan, prevented re- damaged their strength and were had never came under any state tion, some groups like a part of gional nationalities like Tajiks, forced to surrender leadership to administration and they always Pashtoons are follower of Sufism Uzbeks, Turkmans and others Durranis inside Afghanistan. For controlled all the important and and divided into Naqshbandi, from raising the banner of sepa- the first time in history, Durranis strategic paths of Khyber, Kur- Qadri, Chishtia or Saharvardi or- ratism . But the situation within succeeded in unifying all Pash- ram, Gomal and other mountain- ders. Apart from religion and Sufi Afghanistan and around Pashtoon toons within a single state. With ous valleys. As a result of the of orders, Pashtoons also respects the nation was developing with more the disintegration of the said state the said line boundary, the major holy family lineages. This belief complexity, which assumed dan- their destiny differed. At the end part of Pashtoon tribes came un- system is probably bequeathed gerous turn for Kabul due to exter- of the 19th century, on the debris der the occupation of British India from the pre-Islamic Pashtoons to nal factors and especially because of Abdali state, a centralized state to the east of Durand Line outside present Muslim Pashtoons , when of the existence of TR. of Afghanistan with the national- Afghanistan. particular families and their de- The ethnic-political process- political kernel of the Durrani Despite of Durand Line as a scendants are considered sacred es and general conditions in Af- khans was established within Kab- border with British India and in and worth paying respect. There ghanistan were more complex. ul Emirate. During the centraliza- view of other bilateral Anglo-Af- are some ethnic and tribal branch- Over the past forty centuries var- tion process of his state, Amir ghan documents, Kabul defended es among Pashtoons who are con- ious types of peoples have resid- Abdul Rehman Khan (1880-1901) its right of brotherly support to sidered sacrosanct. People ap- ed and nomad people crossed this succeeded to break the resistance down Pashtoons. After the end of proach them for meeting their de- area of Asia whereby numerous of Ghaljis and put down the rebel- the Second World War, when the mands and seek prayers i.e. dua, state structures have come into lion of Hazaras. Similarly the British withdrawal from India be- khurda, chamba and nari from them being and obliterated thereby. The Dardic tribe populated Nuristan * came imminent part of the agenda, and are considered as closed to birth of state of Afghanistan (with- was subdued and occupied. At the the Afghan government officially God. Likewise, some malangs and in the present boundaries) is relat- application of force and through conveyed to Britain that it expect- the keepers of saints’ shrines and ed to the expansion of Pashtoons bribing the local khans, the iron ed the grant of self-determination mausoleums, as well as some vag- who were spreading from Ghor Amir subjugated the independent right to the down Pashtoons. But abond demented persons who for- and Sulainan mountains towards and semi-independent khanates of during the partition of India in sake worldly things and change east to Indus and to the south of Uzbeks, Turkmans and Wakhis. 1947, the drama of so-called refer- their abode off and on, are all con- present Afghanistan towards Hel- Consolidation of this multi-ethnic endum was staged in NWFP sidered sacrosanct and worthy of mand river bed and towards west. composition became possible with (Pukhtoonkhua) by the British in respect and people approach them That is why in the academic writ- the boundary fixation of contem- which the Pashtoons were only Berlin, Germany - When the first He smiles proudly as he But Turkish soldiers arrested for meeting their wishes. Some ings the Pashtoons in Afghanistan porary Afghanistan. In 1873, Rus- allowed to vote either for Pakistan mortar smashed into the rock-stud- speaks of his work as a director them before they were able to de- Pashtoons are also divided among are called bar (up) and the Paki- sia and Britain agreed to recognize or Hindu dominated India and they ded ground just a couple of dozen trainee on Buzkashi Boys, a 2012 part by boat. "The Turkish army the various sacrosanct centers they stani Pashtoons are named as lar the Oxus as the boundary of Af- were denied to vote for an inde- metres away from where Afghan film about two young Afghan boys locked us up in a gymnasium for approach. For example the Sule- (down) Pashtoons. ghanistan in north. In 1893, the line pendent state of their own. This is filmmaker Masih Tajzai and his who dream of becoming success- 15 days," he says. manzais around Gumal are for Highland Pashtoon tribes set- separating the British interests also worth remembering that only crew stood, they decided to carry ful athletes in the national sport of Upon being released, they Ghilji tribes and Wazirs, haji ma- tlers in the mountains whose eth- named as Durand Line in the 5% of Pashtoons participated in on filming. Buzkashi, a polo-like game in camped for two days near another langan of Musaie Logar are for nic composition is mixed some southeast and in 1905 the Afghan- the referendum.** It was early 2015 and they had which a headless goat cadaver re- departure point before boarding a nomadic tribes worthy of respect how with Iranian, Turkish and Iran separation boundary named In this regard, the government been shooting a documentary for places a ball. flimsy rubber vessel for the Greek and capable in assisting them to Dardic blood serve as a link be- as McMahon Line were drawn. of Afghanistan suspected the cre- an international aid organisation in "We had a crew from Holly- islands. meet their demands. In other parts tween the Pashtoon of the plains As to the down Pashtoons, it ation of new state of Pakistan. eastern Afghanistan's Kunar prov- wood come," he says. "It was in a "It was difficult because we of the country, Lakankhels and of Indus and Helmand. The re- is to be said that unlike their Af- Afghanistan was the only country ince. The first week had gone warzone, but it was an amazing didn't have much hope. The per- some other clans are considered as searches carried out by the Soviet ghan brothers they did not succeed which cast its vote against the smoothly. But as they interviewed experience to do this film." son who steered the boat didn't sacrosanct . The Pashto Landais historians and anthropologists like in establishing their own state. At membership of Pakistan in the locals, members of the Taliban The Buzkashi Boys was later know how to do it at all," he re- (couplets) are living examples keep- Professor Y.V. Gankovosky, Reis- the beginning of 19th century, their United Nations and announced started to take notice of the out- nominated for an Academy Award members, explaining that the smug- ing these sacrosanct lineages to ner, Davidov, Ramodin and others land came under occupation of that with regard to the support of siders. Afghan refugees pushed to and won an array of film prizes, glers gave one of the refugees a crash which Pashtoons pay respect: confirm that even during 13th and Sikhs and later on was subjected down Pashtoons, Afghanistan did return home It took three more including Best Drama at the 2012 course in manning the dinghy. 1. Belonging to Sahak. not 14th centuries there were pre-his- to the colonial subjugation of the not considered itself bounded by shells over the next few days be- LA Shorts Fest and Best Cinema- Masih describes three hours of to any stana toric communal tribal associations British rising power emerging from any constraint. In 1954 Afghani- fore they were persuaded to wrap tography at the UK Film Festival children crying as waves splashed My bad prayers led lads to among Pashtoons. These associa- India. Through bribery and taking stan officially withdrew its previ- up filming and return to the Af- that year. cold water on to the boat. "It was puke blood tions were such human formations advantage of the internal contra- ous commitments with regard to ghan capital, Kabul. Masih looks back on this pe- one of the most difficult moments 2. The bad prayers of Sule- in the composition of which there dictions amongst the tribes and the acceptance of “Durand Line” "They really wanted to kill riod warmly, recalling how he trav- of my life. We were thinking that manzais are after him were groups based on blood kin- carrying out a series of war opera- by dubbing them as the legacy of us," recalls the 29-year-old, wear- elled to places like the United Arab this was the most dangerous deci- The lover stumbles when he ship as well as some alien elements. tion against Pashtoons of the In- colonialism*. Since then the self- ing a snug leather jacket and sitting Emirates and India for film screen- sion we'd ever taken because we steps Most of the tribal associations dus plain, Britain succeeded to determination of the down Pash- in the room that has become his ings. 'In the Taliban's crosshairs' didn't know … if we'd die at sea." 3. Hold the skirt of hairy were surging ahead as military- annex their land with the Indian toons and the position of the new home at a cramped refugee He is surprised that he didn't They made it to European headed Malang political coalitions to both sides colony . boundary have been the bone of camp in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg fall foul of the Taliban sooner. Af- shores, joining more than one mil- The spell of Mia Mullah has of White Mountain and Suleiman In the belt inhabited by the contention with Pakistan, which area. ter all, he'd been making documen- lion refugees and migrants who lost its effect ·ranges during occupation s of the mountainous Pashtoons adjacent have assumed explosive character As Masih tells his story, his taries and short promotional films risked the Mediterranean to find 4. The separation winds expand territory of Pukhtoonkhua. to Afghanistan, Britain established over the period several times. roommates crowd around to lis- for the Afghan government and safety in 2015. have blown me down The tribe in accordance with its several military bases wherein they (Footnotes) ten. Then others join from the ad- security forces, as well as for local Question marks fakir (poor man) of Sulaiman- growth and development was as- deployed big military forces. The * For more details, see: Acade- jacent rooms. One man translates and international organisations. As he narrates his tale, many zais, hold on to river crossings* suming a sort of ideological forma- intersting fact of the matter was mician Sulaiman Laieq, Landai for those who don't speak English. "It's true that it's very hard to in his impromptu audience nod, The belief system does affect tion by uniting all its kheils, clans that due to administrative- politi- (couplet) and stanatob in “Kab- Masih says he was glad to be work in a warzone. You can be eas- their faces betraying their own the social structure of some tribes and sub-clans (both relatives and cal circumstances the Pashtoons ul” quarterly,. back in Kabul with his wife and ily targeted by Taliban or ISIL," memories of treacherous journeys and it further augments the role of strangers) through concocting an of the plains and those of high- Nuristan is the ancient Belori- two small children after his brush he says, referring to the Islamic to Europe. a closed religious society in their imagina1y lineage for itself. The land came under different condi- ana which was called Kafiristan by with mortality. But then faces he State of Iraq and the Levant (also From Greece, the hopeful life . (Like among the Hazaras, tribes got mixed while assuming tions: the Pashtoons of the the neighboring Muslim peoples recognised from Kunar started ap- known as ISIS) armed group that young filmmaker travelled by foot Hindus, Sikhs, highland Tajiks sedentary character or during wars plains were included into the prior to conversion to Islam pearing in his neighbourhood. emerged in Afghanistan in 2015 and bus through Macedonia, Ser- etc.). This is the reason that reli- and that their big confederations North West Frontier Province with * For more information see "I saw some of the same peo- after already taking root in Syria, bia, Croatia and Austria before gious partnership has stronger in- (for example of Abdalis and Ghil- Peshawar as a center and came Khan Abdul Wali Khan Assertions ple [who were in Kunar]," he says. Iraq and other places. crossing into Germany. fluence upon them than national jis) were converting into prelimi- under all rules and regulations of in No. 1at the end of chapter. "I was saying to myself, 'Are they "If they recognise you as a di- Now in Germany, Masih or tribal one. The bigger parts of nary land and political associa- colony while those living in moun- *Regarding the border between following me? Am I a clear target rector, actor or filmmaker, you can hopes to bring his family and pur- the divided nationalities (Pash- tions. In the beginning of 18th cen- tains along with “Durand Line” Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ameri- for them?'" be targeted. For me, it was very sue his dreams of one day gaining toons, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmans, tury, some state-like formations were allowed to live according to can researcher Luis Dupree indi- Masih was overcome with difficult because I worked with acclaim in the world of cinema. But Baluchs and Kirghiz) have their (khanates), the centers of which their tribal code and customs and cated its invalidity several times. fear. Aware that he had to move international crews." the future for Afghan refugees is own states abroad and are more were in Heart, Kandahar and Pe- legally considered as a tribal belt Based on the study of archive ma- quickly, he was only able to ar- While Masih's life story is re- punctuated with question marks. developed than their afghan com- shawar, came into being. Later on of free tribes preventing rivalry terial of Britain Foreign Ministry range a smuggler for himself, hop- markable, the tragic conditions of patriots, and constitute majority the great Durrani Empire (1747- with Afghanistan. The 1893 Du- from 1893-1947, he came to con- ing to make it to Germany and then his departure are common. Ahmad Last year, Afghanistan en- in the populations. The kinship 1818) was born. rand Line imposed on Amir ( called clusion that even at that time Lon- apply for family reunification. Shuja, a Kabul-based research as- dured the largest number of civil- relationship and its diversification Durrani Empire mostly de- by the name of British Indian func- don considered it not as border rath- "They could have easily come sociate for Human Rights Watch, ian casualties - 11,000 - in a single in the midst of divided nationali- pended upon the elders of Abdali tionary Sir Mortimer Durand ) er than as the area the government and killed me," he says. "That's explains that people who work year since the US-led war started ties and their love with one anoth- (Durrani) tribes. Ghilji khans and was a big blow to the national of British India and Amir of Af- why I decided to leave Afghani- with foreign organisations or gov- 15 years ago. er were increasing since the 1960s influential elders who had made cohesion and development of Pa- ghanistan are to sustain order over stan." ernments are often targeted by the Between 2001 and 2014, an and caused troubles of government plans of attacks on Iran and even shtoons. 650 kilometers of the said there. (No. 80, p417) He set out for Europe within Taliban and groups like it. estimated 26,270 civilians were days and joined the ranks of the "If you have an association killed and another 29,900 injured more than 2.6 million other Af- with any foreign entity or even the as a result of that war, according ghans who, according to the Unit- Afghan government - even as a ci- to Brown University's Watson In- ed Nations refugee agency UNH- vilian - you're in the crosshairs of stitute for International Studies. CR, live in exile as refugees. the Taliban," he tells Al Jazeera. In April, the EU revealed a A refugee twice over 'We were close to dying' draft plan to deport 80,000 Afghan It wasn't the first time he'd Like so many others who made asylum seekers back to their con- been made a refugee. In 1997, the treacherous trek from Afghan- flict-ridden homeland, despite the when he was just 10, he'd fled Af- istan to Europe, Masih's first stop persistent bloodshed and worsen- ghanistan with his parents as the was in neighbouring Iran. From ing economic conditions. Taliban carried out sectarian at- there, he says he joined a dozen For his part, Masih fears be- tacks. "We had to leave the coun- Afghans who walked through the ing sent back to what he feels is try," he says. mountains for 27 hours before certain death. "Afghanistan is not Masih's family moved back to reaching Turkey. a safe place - the world knows this," Afghanistan when the US invaded "The Iranian army shot at us," he says. "Please don't think it's in 2001, hoping that the Taliban he remembers. "We were close to secure. There is still a war going The Hezb-e-Islami party led by would be ousted and security dying in those mountains." on. There are still bombs, ISIL, the Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the would finally take root, he says. As he waited to make contact Taliban and local gangs." Afghan government are at odd re- As the years went by, he de- with smugglers in Turkey, the days Despite the looming threat of garding the confirmation of sched- cided he wanted to be an actor and turned to weeks. In October 2015, expulsion, he refuses to abandon uled exit of foreign forces from the filmmaker. Masih says he worked smugglers eventually took Masih his optimism. "I believe that I country to conclude a peace deal. with the BBC, French media out- and fellow travellers to a forest near would have died within a few years An official of Hezb-e-Islami lets and local news agencies on Izmir, a departure point for many if I stayed in Afghanistan. I'm here has told Radio Free Europe that documentaries and other projects refugees, where they camped for in Berlin and I'm still alive. I hope certain issues remains unresolved before launching his own produc- three days while waiting for the I can make my dreams come true." between the party and the Afghan tion company in 2008. waters to calm. (Al Jazeera) government to conclude the agree- ment. The acting head and deputy of Hezb-e-Islami Mohammad Hakim Hakim has said the Afghan gov- FLOOD AFFECTED ernment must confirm a schedule for the exit of foreign forces. Hakim has said the outstand- ing issue on the way to peace deal PEOPLE RECEIVED AIDS is the exit of foreign forces and the government must at least ascertain a schedule for the exit of the for- eign soldiers. IN BADAKHSHAN He also added that the party Kabul : For more than 1 thousand supports peace talks with between families foods and non-food mate- the Afghan government and the rial have been distributed by di- Taliban group. rectorate of disaster and charity This comes as Hekmatyar said organization in some districts of earlier last month that he has Badakhshan province. changed his conditions for peace Sayed Abdullah Hamayon process with the Afghan govern- Dehqan head of disaster depart- ment by stepping back from his ment of the province told BNA, demands for the complete with- most of the damage caused by re- drawal of foreign forces. cent floods in Tashkan and Shuha- Hekmatyar earlier demanded da districts in which houses of 985 the complete withdrawal of the families have been completely de- foreign forces from Afghanistan stroyed. before officials talks begun be- In the meantime, the Afghan man Syed Zafar Hashemi told re- takes place every day, in every Source added, the distributed tween his party and the Afghan government officials said last week porters that peace process is al- seconds and at the final seconds of food aids include flour, cooking oil, government. that there is no specific timeframe ways complicated and it would be peace process. rice, sugar, bean, pea tea, mineral Khairkhaw governor district of acting deputy governor of Bada- However, an official in his par- for the conclusion of peace deal a mistake to confirm a timeframe He said the Afghan government water and biscuits and non-food Shuhada said, despite of foods and khshan said, health mobile medi- ty said last month the “departure with Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbud- regarding the peace agreement. will update the Afghan people once aids including Campbell, seat kitch- nonfoods aids, more than 200 fam- cal teams have been sent to the re- of foreign troops is not a condi- din Hekmatyar. Hashemi further added that the two sides reach to an agree- en, health seat, children packages ilies are living outdoor. gion to help patients caused by tion, it is a goal.” Deputy presidential spokes- small and big changes normally ment. (KP) and tents. Abdul Mahroof Also Gul Mohammad Bedar floods incident. (BNA) TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

KUNDUZ CITY : Women’s par- Marzia Rustami, said many vacan- ticipation in government depart- cies reserved for women in Kun- ments is weak in northeastern duz were just symbolic. “After the Kunduz province where even a collapse of Kudnuz City to the single female official could be seen Taliban, the women’s participation in judiciary organs. Civil society in government offices has further activists in Kunduz say women weakened. Men are also against the have the lowest presence in gov- presence of women in offices,” she ernment departments in violation said. Kunduz acting Women’s Af- of the government’s employment fairs Director, Naheed Asifi, is the rules. Raheela Shirzad, a civil soci- only woman possessing a high gov- ety activist in Kunduz city, said ernment office in the province. widespread corruption in govern- She also confirmed women’s ment entities and the lack of a safe role was colorless in Kunduz and working environment for women said most of appointments in gov- are main problems in Kunduz. ernment departments were based MERGENCY “Women get education and accept on nepotism rather than merit. E hardships, but male officers do not “Except the women’s affairs de- CALLS regard women as colleagues and try partment, there is no other office to use them for personal pleasure,” to be led by a female director, most she said. A female provincial coun- of the women work on lower posts Police cil member, Fawzia Yaftali also with a lower presence.” she said, complained the government always adding despite the fact the judicia- 100 - 119 promised empowering women but ry organs were in need of female did nothing in practical. “The gov- employees, but no women could ernment has completely failed in be seen there. “A woman who fac- Hospitals promoting women, the govern- es a legal issue cannot explain her ment does not use women’s abili- case to men in the judiciary prob- FMIC Hospital ty in ensuring good governance,” lem, but she can easily explain her Behind Kabul Medical she said. She asked the Kunduz case to female employees or judg- governor to take decisive action es,” she said. Governor Asadullah main problems for female employ- sectors were women. He said the committed to encouraging women always given first priority in com- University: and employ women to local de- Omarkhil said insecurity and un- ees. However, he said most em- security situation was getting bet- to work in government offices. petitive posts, a process he added 0202500200-+93793275595 partments. A women’s activist, safe environment for women were ployees in education and health ter by each passing day and he was Omarkhil said women were his administration was supporting. Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital Pule Bagh-e- Umomi Kabul wants registered 070263672 Khairkhana Hospital Afghans to stay in 0799-321007 2401352 Pakistan until 2020 Indira Gandhi Children Hospital, Wazir Akbar PESHAWAR : Pakistan has re- ceived a formal request from the Khan, Kabul 2301372 Afghan government for a four years extension to 1.5 million reg- istered refugees, a media report said Ibn-e- Seena on Monday. The legal stay of reg- istered Afghanrefugees in Pakistan Pul-e-Artan, Kabul will expire by the end of June, but 2100359 the Ashraf Ghani administration is not yet ready to meet the needs of the returnees due to problems, in- Wazir Akbar Khan cluding insecurity. Hospital Led by Minister for Refugees and Repatriation Syed Hussain 2301741, 2301743 Alemi Balkhi, a high-level delega- tion recently requested Pakistan to extend the stay of refugees until Ali Abad 2020. But Islamabad is yet to re- Shahrara, Kabul spond to the request, Dawn said, adding: “Afghanistan wants its cit- 2100439 izens to remain in Pakistan till 2020,” he added. Hosting more than three mil- Malalai Maternity lion registered and undocumented Hospital Afghans, Pakistan has been grant- 2201377/ 2301743 ing extensions to the documented refugees since 2009. Mohammed Ali Mohammadi left behind two daughters and a wife The newspaper quoted an of- Banks ficial as saying that Pakistan was Basira Mohammadi has no an- bus carrying Ali Mohammadi. The living. "My son was innocent and willing to grant extension to regis- return to their country and that the untary repatriation plan on a daily Da Afghanistan Bank swer to give to her two daughters father of two was the sole bread- he got killed in a suicide attack. tered refugees until 2017 -- an of- process should be completed basis. It would take decades to - Sitaeesh, 3, and Sana, 1 - when winner of his family. Following What was his fault? fer that was held out at the tripar- through aUN-sponsored volun- complete the process if it was left 2100302, 2100303 they call for their father. Her hus- Mohammadi's death, TOLO "I blame the Afghan govern- tite commission meeting in Kabul. tary repatriation programme. to voluntary band, Mohammed Ali Mohamma- News promised to pay his family ment and the Taliban as both of Afghanistan and UNHCR say “However, four to five fami- repatriation,”Pakistani officials Bakhtar Bank di, has not been home since Janu- $300 per month for one year as them are fighting against each oth- refugees should not be forced to lies were returning under the vol- say. (Pajhwok) ary when he was killed in a Tali- bereavement support. "When I er in a bid to win without thinking 0776777000 ban suicide bombing. "I am sick heard about Mullah Mansoor's of all the innocent people getting Azizi Bank of them asking about Ali all the death, I wasn't happy, nor sad. I've killed." Haji Hashmatullah believes time. I cannot explain to them that lost my husband, there is no point the government is not doing enough 0799 700900 he is dead and will never return," in hating him as my husband will to protect civilians [Fatima Faizi/ Lived with hope but died Pashtany Bank Basira, who now lives with her never come back with this," Ba- Al Jazeera] According to a Febru- mother along with her two chil- sira said. Basira's mother [centre] ary UN report, last year's hostili- 2102908, 2103868 dren, told Al Jazeera. Ali Moham- now helps her daughter raise her ties in Afghanistan left more than madi, a Dari dubbing artist at Ka- children [Fatima Faizi/ Al Jazeera] 3,500 civilians dead, including a with disappointment Air Services boora, a production company af- Mullah Mansoor was killed last record number of children - one in filiated to Afghanistan's first 24- week in a US strike in Pakistan, a four casualties during 2015 was a By Farhad Naibkhel comprised of eleven people includ- tragedy. Tears were rolling down hour broadcaster TOLO News, year after his appointment as leader child, making this the highest num- ing his wife, two young daughters, his face when he said: “My sister Safi Airways was killed when a Taliban suicide of the group. Confirming the death ber of civilian deaths recorded. AFGHAN PEOPLE are leaving his son, daughter in-law with her with her husband, five children, car bomber detonated explosives of Mansoor, the Taliban also an- "This report records yet an- Afghanistan to European countries five children. They all drowned in father-in-law, mother-in-law and 020 22 22 222 near their bus in Kabul. Six other nounced that Mullah Haibatullah other rise in the number of civil- to leave behind insecurity and other the sea. “My cousin also died. two sisters-in-law were traveling colleagues were killed in the at- Akhunzada would be its new lead- ians hurt or killed. The harm done challenges. For them it is the only Only his son survived. Those who from Turkey to Greece to reach Ariana tack. "My husband used to call er. to civilians is totally unaccept- way to have a comfortable life. survived are in Turkey. They were Europe when their boat sank in the me everyday after work, asking if "It does not matter who the able," Nicholas Haysom, the sec- Unfortunately, many returned to in coma. They recovered after a sea. Only my sister’s husband sur- 020-2100270 I needed something from a shop. next Taliban leader is; innocent retary-general's special Represen- the country in coffins. few days and informed us about vived. He was in come for a few But that night, my phone didn't people are getting killed in this tative for Afghanistan said in a Growing insecurity and unem- the incident,” he said with heavy days. The rest are no more in this Kam Air ring," Basira said. "My father- country everyday. Nothing will statement at the time. The UN fig- ployment compelled thousands of heart. world. Ten coffins were carried 0799974422 in-law told me the next morning change with the new leader, they ures also showed a four percent Afghan people to leave the coun- He told Kabulscape that after from Turkey by our family. It was that Ali had passed away." Si- will keep fighting," Basira said. rise in total civilian casualties dur- try through illegal ways. A large hearing about the unforgettable so painful for us. They said good- taeesh, left, smiles at her late fa- "But I want to tell them [the ing 2015, compared to the year number of families faced new trag- tragedy, they lost their concentra- bye to us when leaving for Europe, Hotels ther's picture [Fatima Faizi/ Al Taliban]: please don't kill civilians, before. "We call on those inflict- edies. Even death threats on the tion and were unable to take any but their dead bodies returned Safi Landmark Jazeera] In September 2015, the just don't kill them." ing this pain on the people of Af- way to European countries. Some decision. They did not know what back.” Telling about his relatives’ Taliban, under now-late leader Haji Hashmatullah says he ghanistan to take concrete action families lost their children, broth- to do. Finally, their other relatives journey, he said that they first ille- Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, staged misses his son, Saifullah, "every to protect civilians and put a stop ers, sisters, daughters and sons on in Afghanistan gathered and took gally traveled to Iran. After stay- 020-2203131 an escalating offensive against Af- day" [Fatima Faizi/Al Jazeera] to the killing and maiming of civil- the risky route to Europe. the decision— to bring the dead ing for around 40 days there, they ghan government forces, gaining Last month, a huge car bomb ians in 2016." Yet, the prospect “Fourteen people, who all bodies from Turkey. “We strug- went to Turkey. A few days later SERENA territory across the country. attack in Kabul near the Afghan of peace seems distant. were our relatives, drowned in the gled and asked the government to they planned to go to Europe According to the Pentagon, defense ministry and presidential "There are no chances at the sea. They were dreaming to reach help us in the regard but the au- through Greece. 0799654000 the Taliban initiated about 800 to palace killed at least 60 people. moment for peace talks and I don't Europe,” said Mohammad Ashraf thorities did not help us in the way He termed insecurity and eco- 1,000 attacks per month in the Among them was Saifullah, a think there will be in the near fu- Samandari, a 52-year old resident we were expecting,” he criticized nomic challenges in the country New Rumi Restaurant second half of 2015. In late 2015, driver at the ministry, who left ture," a Taliban source told Al of Kart-e-Se. By profession he is the government. main factors behind her sister’s the armed group also openly behind a father, a wife and five Jazeera. "Mullah Mansoor got a teacher. Narrating the ordeal, he said family travel through illegal routes. 0776351347 threatened to target TOLO News children. The youngest one, Nar- killed by US drone strikes, so in- He said that his all relatives on that they all collected $12000 to “Dead bodies shocked most of our after it had reported allegations wand, is two years old. stead of talking about peace, they the risky journey were drowned bring the bodies from Turkey. “It relatives when the ten coffins ar- Internet Services around seven weeks ago when they was a big tragedy in our family. rived from Turkey,” he added. of summary executions, rape, kid- "We cannot bear this loss," are planning Mullah Mansoor's UA Telecom nappings and other abuses by Safiullah's father Haji Hashmatul- revenge," the source said. Amidst were on their way to Europe. Sa- My cousin was former police of- The aggrieved brother said that Taliban fighters during the battle lah told Al Jazeera. "It is hard for the escalating conflict, Basira said mandari received the information ficer. He owned a shop in Kart-e- after this incident he gives advices 0796701701 / 0796702702 for Kunduz in October. The Tali- us to live without him [Safiullah]. her only worry was the future of about the tragedy from rescued Se.” to all his relatives to stay and work ban said at the time that the re- I am an old man and cannot imag- her children. "We don't know relatives. When the security situation in Afghanistan; otherwise they will Exchange Rate ports were inaccurate. Two ine what will happen to them [his where will this war take our coun- “They boarded a boat in Tur- deteriorated in the country, his rel- also share fate of her sister. months after the January attack, wife and children] when I die." try. The government has failed and key to reach Greece and later oth- atives took the hard decision—to Media Adviser for Ministry of Purchase: in a statement emailed to Al Saifullah was the sole breadwin- the Taliban are not giving up. er European countries. Their boat leave Afghanistan for Europe. Refugee and Repatriation, Hafizu- Jazeera, the Taliban said that it ner of his family too. His father Where do we go?" capsized before seeing shores of “They sold whatever they had in llah Miakhil, said that totally was responsible for targeting the now works as a farmer to earn a (AlJazeera) Greece,” he said to Kabulscape the house and gave the house on 250,000 Afghans applied for asy- One US$ = while struggling to hold his emo- lease. After getting the required lum in European countries in 2015. 68.76Afs tions. However, he cannot hold money, they left the country,” Sa- They reached there through illegal control over his tears—a symbol mandari recalled. He added that the ways. They paid human traffick- One Pound Sterling= Intelligence operatives releases of immense pain. government must pay attention to ers to go to Turkey, Greece and 99.19Afs The 52-year old teacher fur- Afghan refugees to prevent such other countries. One Euro = thered that his 18 relatives were in incidents. He advised Afghan peo- He said that all the 250,000 BBCreporter Karyab the boat but four escaped the death ple to stay in their home country immigrants did not go from Afghan- 76.46Afs and survived the tragic incident. because leaving Afghanistan would istan, but large number of them 1000 Pak Rs = JALALABAD : BBC reporter been handed over to NDS officials The rest were unlucky. not be an end of their problem. went from Iran and Pakistan. “Il- 643Afs Niamatullah Karyabwas reed from for investigations after he was de- “Eleven people were members “They will face new challenges legal immigration of people from two days in captivity by the Na- tained. of one family. I have lost my cous- there. Afghans shall not travel to Afghanistan decreased this year as Sale: tional Directorate of Security The journalist said he was re- in and his family members, and four Europe illegally. Besides other compared to 2015. In the first three One US$ = (NDS) on Monday. united with his family early in the others who were grandsons of my problems, they may also put their months of 2016, only 30,000 Af- 68.69 Afs uncle and his wife and two young life in danger. They may die on the ghans left the country,” the advis- Personnel of the Special Forc- morning. However, he did not give One Pound Sterling= es Unit had detained Karyab two details of his arrest. daughters,” he lamented. The grief way or in the sea,” he underlined. er said, adding that 3,700 people days back in Jalalabad, the capital Some days ago, NDS opera- caused by the loss was visible on Naqeebullah Samandari, a 39-year from different countries drowned 99.19Afs of eastern Nangarhar province. tives had detained political analyst his face. The tragedy happened old driver who lost his sister with in the sea. Around 12 percent of One Euro= Attaullah Khogyani, the gov- Hassan Haqyar in Kabul. He was several hundred kilometers far will her family in the tragic incident, the drowned people were Afghans. 77.06 Afs continue to hunt him. ernor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok released two days after being ar- said that they are unable to handle Most of the illegal immigrants were 1000 Pak Rs= 651 Afghan News that Karyab had rested. Samandari’s cousin family the grief caused by the painful children and young people. TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Rural India showing CHINA, signs of life BANGLADESH as Modi completes PLEDGETO BOOST year two COOPERATION There's finally good news coming from India's villages after incomes China and Bangladesh on Sunday China is willing to work together suffered from two years of drought agreed to deepen bilateral cooper- with relevant countries, including and frugal government spending. ation during a meeting between vis- Bangladesh, to actively promote Standard Chartered's index of iting Chinese Defense Minister the Belt and Road Initiative and rural demand hit a 16-month high Chang Wanquan and Bangladeshi the Bangladesh-China-India-My- in March, and Mahindra & Ma- President Abdul Hamid. anmar Economic Corridor, to bring hindra Financial Services, the auto- Bangladesh and China have tangible development benefits to loan unit of the nation's largest trac- long been working closely in vari- the people of the countries and tor maker, saw business pick up ous fields and the cooperation has advance regional peace and stabil- last quarter after a prolonged yielded fruitful results, said the ity, said Chang. slump. While the recovery was led Bangladeshi president. Friendly cooperation between by states that either held elections Bangladesh has always stood the two armies has grown steadily or spent heavily on roads and together with China on issues con- and rapidly in recent years, with bridges, the weather department's cerning China's core interests and frequent high-level visits, contin- forecast of above-average rainfall international affairs. The country uously deepening pragmatic coop- stands to broaden the revival. also firmly supports the China- eration and fruitful cooperation on "Will it sustain? My answer proposed Belt and Road Initiative, personnel training, the minister is yes it will," Ramesh Iyer, the said Hamid, adding Bangladesh is said. He expressed hope that the managing director of M&M Finan- willing to have sincere collabora- two armies would earnestly imple- cial, said in an interview at the tion with China as the two coun- ment the important consensus company's Mumbai headquarters tries jointly promote regional pros- reached between leaders of the two on Tuesday. Key to the outlook perity and development. countries and strengthen friendly would be a good June-September He expressed hope that the cooperation to provide strong sup- monsoon, which would put more two armies would maintain the port and guarantee to bilateral re- cash in the hands of India's 800 current positive momentum of co- lations. million villagers to pay down loans operation and enhance cooperation During the meeting, Chang also or prepare for the Diwali-to- and exchanges in all areas and lev- elaborated on China's position and Christmas festival season, he said. els so as to contribute to the de- propositions on the South China A revival in the countryside velopment of bilateral ties. Sea issue. would ignite another engine for For his part, the Chinese de- The Bangladeshi president India's economy, which is expand- fense minister said China and Bang- said his country firmly supports ing below potential despite boast- ladesh has witnessed healthy and China's position on the South Chi- ing the fastest growth rate among stable development in exchanges na Sea issue and believes the dis- major markets. It would also be a and cooperation in various fields putes should be resolved through political boon for Prime Minister since the two countries established direct negotiation and consultation Narendra Modi, who has sought diplomatic relations 41 years ago. by parties concerned. to counter rising discontent in vil- lages ahead of key state elections with a pledge to double farmer in- comes by 2022. 'Nawaz Sharif facing bigger M&M Financial, which has customers in 260,000 villages who crisis than in 1999' borrow money to buy cars, trac- ISLAMABAD: Seasoned politi- “In this crisis, the prime min- tors and other utility vehicles, last ISLAMABAD: Despite public stan and China at the last Quadri- spond to the situation arising out the negotiating table anytime soon. cian Zafar Ali Shah thinks that the ister is banking on everyone – quarter reported its first earnings condemnation and anger expressed lateral Coordination Group meet- of the killing of Mullah Mansoor. US President Barrack Obama was political crisis whipped up in the Maulana Fazlur Rehman or others growth in a year as it improved by Islamabad over the US drone ing that option of peace talks Foreign policy challenges con- also not upbeat about the possi- wake of April 3 Panama Papers – but not his party. Not a single collection of dues. Its shares have strike that killed Taliban chief would be pursued first before tar- fronting Pakistan bility of any peace deal in the af- revelations poses a bigger challenge meeting of the party has been called risen 32 percent this year com- Mullah Akhtar Mansoor last week, geting the Taliban leadership. During interactions, concerned termath of Mullah Mansoor’s kill- to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to discuss the situation,” he says. pared with a 1 percent gain in the the government is unlikely to take While the civil and military officials, who spoke on condition ing. Despite the pessimism, offi- than the situation he faced when Shah says in a democratic sys- benchmark index. Even so, bad any drastic steps that may nega- leaderships have already recorded of anonymity, told The Express cials said Pakistan would continue his second government was top- tem, political parties have a status loans as a percentage of the total tively affect its bilateral relation- their protests with the US admin- Tribune that the incident certainly to exert its ‘influence’ to reach out pled on October 12, 1999. above the government. The gov- rose to 8 percent in the year ship with Washington, officials istration over violating Pakistan’s caused a ‘hiccup’ in bilateral ties to the new Taliban leadership and “The political situation today ernment is subservient and follows through March, from 5.9 percent said on Sunday. sovereignty, they are also contem- with the US and Afghan peace ef- urge them to come to the negotiat- is worse. The most alarming as- the party line. The callowness on the previous year. The Taliban chief was target- plating possible measures in re- forts. But they hastened to add that ing table. pect of the present situation is the part of the premier has dis- Villagers make up about 70 ed by a US drone aircraft in Naush- sponse to the US ‘unilateral ac- Pakistan would not resort to any US lawmakers block subsidy alienation of executive from the tanced the workers from the par- percent of India's population, and ki area of Balochistan on May 21. tion’ and are preparing a detailed steps that will have any negative for F-16 deal party,” remarked Shah, who has ty, which, Shah considers, most their ability to pay off debt had The strike is seen as a serious set- response to decide the future fallout on its relations with the US Tough policy on Afghan refu- been a doctrinaire supporter of the alarming for the party. “I have not been crimped by back-to-back back to Pakistan-US bilateral ties. course of action. The future strat- and regional stability. gees ruling Pakistan Muslim League- seen such disappointment in work- droughts and meager increases in The drop scene of US-Paki- egy with regard to bilateral ties No change in Afghan policy While the government may Nawaz’s (PML-N). ers ever before,” he added. Zardari guaranteed prices for their crops. stan relations between the US and Pakistan will Pakistan has publicly accused continue to seek engagement with PM’s name not excluded from denies ‘understanding’ with PM The government's neglect of a Following the strike, the For- be discussed during a meeting of the US of sabotaging the fledgling the US and Afghanistan, it will Panama Papers probe: Aitzaz Shah Nawaz on Panama leaks 1999 mil- state-sponsored rural jobs program eign Office summoned US Ambas- the high-powered National Secu- Afghan peace process by eliminat- now show no flexibility on the is- retired as senator in March last itary takeover Shah says that after also fed rising discontent, prompt- sador to Pakistan David Hale and rity Council (NSC). ing the Taliban chief. Prime Min- sue of Afghan refugees. The re- year. He was a National Assembly failure of Kargil misadventure or- ing Modi to focus on boosting lodged a strong protest while the Though NSC meeting was ex- ister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs sponse, which Pakistan is prepar- member from Islamabad at the time chestrated by then army chief Per- growth in the countryside in his army chief General Raheel Sharif pected to take place later this week Sartaj Aziz on Thursday pointed ing, will urge all the stakeholders of the 1999 military coup. “There vez Musharraf, it was talk of the budget for the year that started also conveyed to him that ‘such it has been delayed due to unavail- out that this was the second time including the US to take immedi- is a huge gap between Nawaz town that Nawaz Sharif’s govern- April 1. violations’ could undermine bilat- ability of Prime Minister Nawaz in a year that Afghan peace pro- ate steps regarding the repatriation Sharif and the PML-N, the party ment will no longer continue. “I Data suggest the worst may eral ties between the two countries. Sharif, who is set to undergo open cess was scuttled. of Afghan refugees. “These refu- he heads. It seems he has forgot- was scheduled to go to the US as be over. Tractor sales at Mahindra Pakistan has accused the US heart surgery in London. The main He said under the present cir- gee camps serve as sanctuaries for ten it is the party which elected part of a delegation to the UN. We & Mahindra halted a 13-month of not honouring the commitment issue before the country’s civil and cumstances it was difficult to sug- the Afghan Taliban,” claimed one him to the office of prime minister had to leave on October 9. I met slide in November, and Standard it had made along with Afghani- military leadership is how to re- gest if the Taliban would return to official. for a record third time”. prime minister on October 7. Chartered's index -- which also in- cludes sales of two-wheel vehicles, rural wages and consumer non-du- rable goods -- hit the highest since Japan offers two patrol ships to Sri Lanka with China in sight November 2014. "It's still sluggish but given that road projects are picking up, given Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told ities stretching from the South exchanges. For the establishment attend their meeting in Nagoya, that the mining activity has im- Sri Lankan President Maithripala China Sea to the Arabian Sea as if of the rule of law at sea, Japan will central Japan, Saturday, May 28, proved, it's likely to have a posi- Sirisena on Saturday that Japan to encircle India. cooperate in strengthening Viet- 2016. Photo: AP tive impact on rural demand," said will provide two patrol vessels to New Delhi, similarly, has be- nam’s law enforcing capabilities at Abe and Deby Itno affirmed Anubhuti Sahay, a Mumbai-based the South Asian country as part of come concerned about Beijing’s sea“For the establishment of the the importance that the so-called economist with Standard Char- their maritime security coopera- increased presence in the Indian rule of law at sea, Japan will coop- Group of Four nations aspiring to tered. tion. Ocean. erate in strengthening Vietnam’s become permanent members of the States are contributing a rising Without mentioning China’s In talks with Sirisena, Abe law enforcing capabilities at sea,” Security Council and the African share of total public spending on increasing activities in the Indian pledged 38 billion yen (HK$2.7 Abe said at a press conference af- Union hold talks to advance the roads, ports and bridges, which Ocean and the East and South Chi- billion) in loans to Sri Lanka for ter his first meeting with Phuc process of reform, according to a also augurs well for local econo- na seas, Japan and Sri Lanka “re- construction of transmission lines since the Vietnamese leader as- statement issued after their meet- mies, said Devendra Kumar Pant, confirmed the importance of main- and water supply facilities in the sumed the post in April. ing. chief economist at New Delhi- taining the freedom of the high seas country, the statement said. “Japan will also accelerate ef- The G4 groups Japan, Brazil, based India Ratings and Research and maritime order based on the Japan’s maritime force con- forts” toward offering new patrol Germany and India, while Chad Pvt., the local unit of Fitch Rat- rule of law”, according to a state- ducts joint drills with Vietnam’s vessels to Vietnam, Abe said. The currently serves as chair of the ings. ment issued after their meeting in navy in South China Sea base Southeast Asian country is em- African Union. The effects of state spending Nagoya, central Japan. Japan will also offer Vietnam broiled in a territorial dispute in Abe and Deby Itno called for 28 summit in Kenya of the sixth gency aid Tokyo pledged in Janu- on infrastructure was visible in In a separate meeting with 90.1 billion yen in loans for a rail- the South China Sea with Beijing. a “more effective, transparent and Tokyo International Conference on ary to help the country ensure places like Telangana, Andhra Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh way construction project in Ho Earlier on Saturday, Abe and representative” Security Council, African Development, or TICAD food security and fight extremism. Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, help- Hasina, Abe offered Japan’s coop- Chi Minh City to push infrastruc- Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno saying it should be reformed to VI, Abe said he plans to discuss Along with the four leaders, ing create jobs and business op- eration in development of the coun- ture investment in Asian countries agreed to step up cooperation in match the realities of the 21st cen- how Japan and Africa can better Abe held separate talks with Pap- portunities, according to Iyer from try, according to the Japanese For- with growth potential, the minis- efforts to reform the UN Security tury, the statement said. cooperate in fighting violent ex- ua New Guinea Prime Minister M&M Financial. While good pric- eign Ministry. try said. Council and ensure the success of At present, the council, the top tremism, a fall in commodity pric- Peter O’Neill and Lao Prime Min- es for oranges and grapes gave a Japan is eager to strengthen ties The exchange of notes on the a Japanese-led African develop- decision-making body of the Unit- es and other pressing issues facing ister Thongloun Sisoulith. boost to some farmers in Maha- with the two countries amid Chi- deal was held after Abe and his ment conference slated for August ed Nations, has five veto-wielding the continent. The Asian and African leaders rashtra, state elections helped ex- na’s growing influence in the re- Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen in Kenya. permanent members – Britain, Abe said Japan plans to offer were in Japan after attending an pedite business and regulatory de- gion under the so-called “string of Xuan Phuc agreed in their meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shin- China, France, Russia and the Unit- US$3.2 million worth of agricul- outreach session of the Group of cisions in Assam and Tamil Nadu, pearls” strategy, a network of Chi- held later Saturday in Tokyo to zo Abe, right, and Sri Lanka's Pres- ed States. ture-related equipment to Chad, on Seven summit that ended on Fri- he said. nese investment in maritime facil- enhance defence cooperation and ident Maithripala Sirisena, left, Referring to the August 27 to top of US$8.45 million in emer- day in Mie Prefecture. India makes arrests after spate of attacks on Africans

At least five Indians accused of movement against African nation- dent. However, even Africa is not assaulting Africans in New Delhi als," he told NDTV, a privately run safe," Sharma told local IANS have been arrested after African Indian TV channel, before adding news agency. diplomats urged the Indian govern- that the attacks happened "at dif- 'Pervading climate of fear' ment to ensure the safety of their ferent locations, at different times In a rare show of unity, a group nationals living in the country. and for different reasons." of African ambassadors said their India's Interior Minister Ra- Nigerian national Kenneth Ig- nationals were living in a "pervad- jnath Singh on Sunday condemned binosa, a local priest, told NDTV ing climate of fear and insecurity". the attacks and asked the city po- he was hit with a cricket bat by a They warned they would rec- lice to take strict action against the group of men as he returned home ommend their governments not to perpetrators. with his wife and four-month-old send students to A Delhi deputy police com- son on Thursday. India until safety conditions missioner Ishwar Singh however, Another two people also al- improve, following a string of what dismissed the recent spate of at- leged they were beaten with crick- they said were unpunished racial tacks targeting Africans as racially et bats, NDTV added. attacks. motivated, insisting the violent The attacks come less than a Thousands of people from crimes were "isolated incidents" week after a Congolese teacher was African countries study and work and not racist in nature. bludgeoned to death after an argu- in India but several incidents have Singh said on Sunday that there ment over hiring an auto-rickshaw raised concerns of racist violence was "no element of racism" fol- taxi. and discrimination. lowing Thursday's attacks when Following the murder, Ma- In 2013, a Nigerian national six Africans were beaten across hesh Sharma, India's tourism and was killed by a mob in the tourist New Delhi's Mehrauli neighbour- culture minister, stirred controver- state of Goa, with a state minister hood. sy by saying it was unfair to paint later calling Nigerians a "cancer". Spoke to CP Delhi regarding India as an unsafe country, quip- Delhi's former law minister the incident of physical assault ping that "such incidents happen was also accused in against certain African nationals in in other parts of the world too". 2014 of harassing African New Delhi. Such incidents are con- "India is a large country and women after he led a vigilante mob demnable. such incidents will give a bad name through an area of the capital, ac- "It's not as if there's a public to India. It is an unfortunate inci- cusing them of being prostitutes. TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Police in Chief Syria Brazil search opposition peace slums for negotiator resigns suspects in The chief peace negotiator of Syria's mainstream opposition gang-rape said on Sunday he was resign- ing over the failure of the UN- mained. "Daesh attacked Heet to case backed Geneva peace talks to ease the pressure on their fighters bring a political settlement and inside Fallujah, especially follow- Rio de Janeiro police swarmed two to ease the plight of Syrians ing the announcement that CTS slums on Sunday searching for sus- living in besieged rebel-held had arrived," the statement said. pects in the alleged gang rape of a areas. Mohammad Alloush, Northeast of Baghdad on Sun- 16-year-old Brazilian girl who said who is also the representative day, police said a suicide bomber more than 30 men assaulted her, a of the powerful Jaish al Islam killed at least seven people and case that shocked the nation set to rebel faction in the Saudi-based wounded 22 when he blew him- host the Olympics in August. High Negotiations Committee, self up in a cafe in Moqdadiyah, in More than 70 officers used confirmed the news in a state- an attack claimed by ISIS. helicopters, armored vehicles and ment to Al Arabiya News In northern Syria, the militants dogs to enter the slums, but there Channel. In a statement seen have launched an offensive against was no word if any suspects had by Reuters, Alloush said that the towns of Marea and Azaz that been captured in the operation. the peace talks had also failed threatens to overrun the last In the five days since a video to secure the release of thou- swathe of territory in the east of of the rape was posted by an al- sands of detainees or to push Aleppo province held by non-ji- leged perpetrator on Twitter and Syria towards a political tran- hadist rebels. set off a wave of outrage, police sition without President It would also bring ISIS to the have brought in five people for Bashar al Assad. The UN- doorstep of the Kurdish enclave questioning and made no arrests. backed parties have not set a of Afrin. As the fighting raged on Police said there are indications date for the resumption of the multiple fronts, civilians were once the gang rape occurred on May 21, peace talks after the High Ne- again bearing the brunt of the con- but they could not confirm how gotiations Committee sus- flict. many took part. pended their participation un- At least 29 civilians have been Over the weekend, women and til the situation on the ground killed since IS began the assault in men marched in several cities to has radically changed. Aleppo province early on Friday, demand justice and decry sexism The talks ended on April the Syrian Observatory for Human in Brazilian culture. A woman who 27 with no breakthrough two Rights said. More than 6,000 ci- sits on the Supreme Court lashed weeks ago. There had been ex- vilians fled into the countryside, it out at a pervasive macho culture said. In Iraq, only a few hundred pectations that a new round that permits such barbaric acts. would be called at the end of families managed to slip out of the Fallujah area, with an estimated “Each and every woman is a May, but fighting has flared on victim,” Justice Carmen Lucia said the ground and aid deliveries 50,000 people still trapped inside the city proper. According to the in a written statement. “Our bod- to besieged areas continue to Iraqi forces entered the ISIS bas- nior commander in the Hashed al- tween its capital Arbil and Mosul. were targeting Raqa, ISIS's de-fac- ies are tormented, our souls are be blocked. Diplomats said tion of Fallujah from three direc- Shaabi paramilitary force, told Iraqi "This is one of the many shap- to Syrian capital. Norwegian Refugee Council, around 3,000 people have managed trashed. That is what these crimi- there was little chance that the tions on Monday in a new phase television Saturday. ing operations expected to increase ISIS countered in both coun- nals think and do, and they must opposition would take part in of the operation to recapture the CTS's involvement will mark pressure on ISIL (ISIS) in and tries where they declared their "ca- to escape the Fallujah area since May 21. The biggest wave so far quickly be held accountable.” a new round of peace talks if city, commanders said. the start of a phase of urban com- around Mosul in preparation for liphate" in 2014, attacking non-ji- The case added to concerns "We started early this morn- bat in a city where US forces in an eventual assault on the city," hadist rebels in Syria as well as the arrived on Saturday night, the NRC violence was raging and no aid about security in Rio and the po- was reaching civilians. The en- ing our operations to break into 2004 fought some of their tough- the Kurdistan Region Security Iraqi town of Heet, which the army said, but a larger influx could be Fallujah," Sabah al-Norman, a est battles since the Vietnam War. Council said in a statement. recaptured just last month. triggered when the urban battle litical breakdown in Brazil as the voy has repeatedly called on city and country prepare for South the United States and Russia spokesman for Iraq's elite coun- The militants were also under Ten hours into the operation, "An attack by Daesh (ISIS) between Iraqi forces and the jihad- terterrorism service, told AFP. pressure from Kurdish fighters east which was launched a day after a terrorists on several parts of Heet ists begins in earnest. "Our re- America's first Olympics starting to take action to shore up the on Aug. 5. ceasefire that has been in place The week-old operation has so of their northern Iraqi stronghold wave of 12 coalition air strikes in was thwarted... Now the whole sources in the camps are now very since February 27. There have far focused on retaking villages and Mosul and from US-backed Kur- the area, Kurdish forces had fully area is under control," the Joint strained and with many more ex- Crime has fallen in recent been appeals to Russia, Syr- rural areas around Fallujah, which dish-led fighters in Syria. retaken three villages, it said. Operations Command said in a pected to flee we might not be able years, but there has been an in- ia’s ally, and other players to lies just 50 kilometers west of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish In Syria, Kurdish rebels from statement. to provide enough drinking water crease in homicides in recent put pressure on all warring fac- Baghdad. region on Sunday announced the the People's Protection Units Suicide bomber hits cafe for everyone," said Nasr Muflahi, months as Rio’s police department tions to allow aid deliveries to "I won't tell you hours but the launch of a pre-dawn offensive in- (YPG) allied to Arab fighters and It said coalition aircraft target- NRC's Iraq director. "We expect had its budget slashed during an reach civilians. breach of Fallujah will happen volving 5,500 Peshmerga fighters backed both on the ground and in ed ISIS forces during the attack and bigger waves of displacement the economic downturn. very soon," Hadi al-Ameri, a se- to retake an area on the road be- the air by the US-led coalition, added that pockets of jihadists re- fiercer the fighting gets." The country’s elected presi- dent, Dilma Rousseff, has been Hundreds evicted in suspended on allegations she broke fresh anti-migrant budget laws, and her impeachment trial in the Senate will likely play unrest on French Saudi king, British foreign secretary out as the Games are held. Brazil's worst economic crisis since the Mayotte island 1930s has compounded the polit- ical chaos. Hundreds of foreigners were hold talks on regional crises In addition, an outbreak of the booted out of their homes on Zika virus has prompted health the French Indian Ocean island Saudi Arabia's King Salman and warnings and led top global health of Mayotte Sunday in a fresh British Foreign Secretary Philip experts to advise that the Games wave of forced evictions by Hammond discussed in Jeddah on be postponed or moved. anti-migrant groups, local offi- Sunday bilateral relations and re- The reported rape came to light cials said. Most of the expelled viewed the developments at the in a video of the nude, semi-con- villagers, mainly from the neigh- regional and international levels. scious youth, with a few men bra- boring Comoros islands, were Hammond arrived in Saudi zenly insulting the girl, showing forced to head to the capital to Arabia for the first leg of a three- their faces, and one man heard say- join hundreds of families al- day visit to Gulf countries. ing: "More than 30 impregnated ready camped out on the main Hammond said in a statement, her!" The Twitter account where square after similarly being “Britain’s strong relations with the the video was posted has been sus- made homeless by angry locals. Gulf states enable us to work to- pended. The island’s authorities, gether on regional challenges and Both Rousseff, the first wom- Mayotte Prefecture, said they shared threats that confront us, an to be elected president in Bra- held a crisis meeting on Sun- whether from violent extremism, day to discuss the worsening zil, and interim President Michel terrorism, or volatile economic con- Temer condemned the act. unrest. French President Fran- ditions.” cois Hollande earlier this month In an interview with Rio’s O Hammond on Sunday had also Globo newspaper, the alleged vic- called the situation on the is- welcomed "progress" in Yemen land “extremely worrying”. tim said she wanted to see justice peace talks, saying a solution to done so that no other person would The latest flare-up saw groups the conflict in the battered Arabi- go door to door in nine villag- have to go through a brutal assault an Peninsula country must be po- like the one she said she suffered. es, according to the local au- litical, not military. Hammond said thorities. Some families were “Today I feel like a piece of world powers will not "turn a blind trash,” she told the newspaper. “I immediately thrown out of eye" to attempts by Iran to desta- their homes, while others were hope that no other person ever bilize the region. "In Yemen, feels this way.” given ultimatums to leave with- progress is being made and we rec- in the coming days. Late on Sunday, the police said ognize the efforts of the Gulf states, in an emailed statement they re- and I have to give particular thanks moved the original lead investiga- Thousands flee ISIS to Kuwait for hosting the peace tor from the case. negotiations," Hammond told a That was in response to a for- offensive in news conference in Jeddah. "All mal request made by the alleged of us must continue to work to- northern Syria wards a settlement," he told re- victim’s lawyer, Eloisa Samy, to porters, flanked by Saudi Foreign have investigator Alessandro Th- Thousands of civilians have iers taken off the case because she fled an offensive by ISIS against Minister Adel al-Jubeir. "There is no military alternative to a politi- said he made the girl feel uncom- non-militant rebels in northern fortable during questioning. Syria into territory controlled cal settlement in Yemen and there is now a need to win the peace Samy told TV Globo in an in- by a US-backed Kurdish-led terview that Thiers asked the girl alliance, a monitor said on Sun- particularly by helping Yemen with stabilization and humanitari- if she had participated in group sex day. parties. The offensive against the an aid," Hammond added. towns of Marea and Azaz threatens to overrun the last swathe of territory in the east of Aleppo province held by non-militant rebels and bring Hammond welcomes Yemen talks ‘progress’ ISIS to the doorstep of the British Foreign Secretary Philip Kuwait between the Yemeni gov- Kurds’ Afrin enclave. Hammond on Sunday welcomed ernment and Iran-backed Shiite At least 29 civilians have "progress" in Yemen peace talks, Houthi militias and their allies. been killed since ISIS launched saying a solution to the conflict in The apparent progress comes the assault early on Friday, the the battered Arabian Peninsula after Yemeni Foreign Minister Syrian Observatory for Human country must be political, not mil- Abdulmalek al-Mikhlafi said on Rights said. itary. Monday that the government It came as the militants Speaking in Saudi Arabia at the stood ready to make concessions were under attack by the Kur- start of a three-day visit to Gulf for the sake of peace. dish-led alliance in Raqa prov- monarchies, Hammond also said Informed sources at the Yemen ince further east and by the world powers will not "turn a blind talks said that the committee for army and allied militia around eye" to attempts by Iran to desta- prisoners and detainees has met to Fallujah in neighbouring Iraq. bilize the region. complete lists of prisoner requests “More than 6,000 civilians, "In Yemen, progress is being to UN mediators. most of them women and chil- made and we recognize the efforts The list will include 1,000 pris- dren, were able to flee areas in of the Gulf states, and I have to oners to be swapped before the the countryside of Aleppo give particular thanks to Kuwait Muslim fasting month of Ra- province... especially from for hosting the peace negotia- madan, the sources added. Marea town and Sheikh Issa tions," Hammond told a news con- Meanwhile, at least 69 people village” to its west, the Brit- ference in Jeddah. have been killed and dozens injured ain-based monitoring group "All of us must continue to in two days of fighting in central said. work towards a settlement," he told Yemen between Houthis and forc- “The displaced arrived last reporters, flanked by Saudi For- es loyal to the internationally rec- night in areas in the west and eign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. ognized government, Yemeni secu- north of Aleppo province un- "There is no military alterna- rity officials said. der the control of the Syrian tive to a political settlement in The officials said government- Democratic Forces,” Observa- Yemen and there is now a need to allied forces have taken control of tory chief Rami Abdel Rahman win the peace particularly by help- several areas previously controlled said. ing Yemen with stabilization and by the rebels, known as the The SDF is an alliance of humanitarian aid," Hammond said. Houthis, between the central prov- Kurdish and Arab fighters that His comments come days af- inces of Marib and Shabwa. Washington regards as the most ter the UN special envoy to Ye- The government-allied forces effective force on the ground in men, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said that 22 of their fighters were Syria against the militants of also spoke about progress in the killed and 25 were injured. They ISIS. five-week-old talks under way in said the clashes were ongoing. Tanks and armored vehicles were burnt, and the bodies of some of those killed were left uncollected due to the heavy fighting, eyewitnesses said. TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] By Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor a strong yet steady hand; an egotistical ignoramus de- ethnic, multi-religious beacon someone willing to heal divi- monically stoking the fires of of light for the dispossessed www.afghanistantimes.af The 20th of January 2017 will sions within, battle against hatred, violence and discrimi- and the disenfranchised. It is witness the birth of the most poverty and work in partner- nation bringing our planet an open society encouraging Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi influential person on earth, an ship with other nations to com- close to ruination? self-expression and self-fulfil- individual chosen by American bat threats. They have had ample time ment. 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To believe a saviour your great country. Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press whose ripples are capable of turning his country’s deficit will emerge is, sadly, a stretch For these reasons and making or breaking others. into a surplus. On the other of the imagination at this stage, more, I pray that next January With eight months to go hand, his successor George W. but as long as the one loose we will discover it is a girl. until the results are announced Bush squandered that surplus cannon is taken out of the pic- Khalaf Ahmad al-Habtoor The constitution says on the 5th January 2017, the on wars of choice while Presi- ture, there is room for optimism. is a prominent UAE business- world is pregnant with antici- dent Barack Obama has been a Whoever wears the Oval man and public figure. He is Article 42: pation; more so this time be- divisive figure accused of lead- Office crown will bring their im- Chairman of the Al Habtoor Every Afghan shall pay taxes and duties to the state in accordance with the provisions of the cause we live in one of the most ing from behind. perfections to the table. Nev- Group - one of the most suc- law. No taxes or duties shall be levied without legal representation. Tax rates and duties as tumultuous and violent eras in In essence, America, which ertheless, it is hoped that once cessful conglomerates in the well as the method of payment shall be determined, with due respect to social justice, by living history, fraught with has rarely been this politically in office, he or she will rise to Gulf. Al Habtoor is renowned law. This provision shall also apply to foreign individuals and organizations. Every kind of conflicts, terrorism, burgeoning and socially polarized, is in dire the occasion or failing which for his knowledge and views on tax, duty as well as paid incomes shall be deposited to a single state account. racism, global warming and so- need of a unifier with the abili- will be deterred by the other international political affairs; cial deviations now accepted – ty to coalesce the nation be- arms of government as well as his philanthropic activity; his and even celebrated – as the hind those values upon which cabinet members and advisers efforts to promote peace; and norm. America was founded, values from taking unwise steps. That he has long acted as an unoffi- The Doomsday Clock is which are in danger of being is one of the main advantages cial ambassador for his coun- ticking closer to midnight and eroded by xenophobia com- of democracy. No single per- try abroad. Writing extensive- some American religious lead- bined with a misguided sense son holds all the cards. ly on both local and interna- ers believe we are edging close of nationalism, actively fuelled Apart from my global con- tional politics, he publishes to the Day of Judgment. Only by one of these embryonic cerns about America’s choice, regular articles in the media the Creator in His wisdom presidential hopefuls. The fear I wish the best for the Ameri- and has released a number of knows when that day will come is that relationships between can people, many of whom rank books. Al-Habtoor began his but Islam gives us 50 major and nations nurtured over centu- among my closest friends. I am career as an employee of a lo- minor signs. These include the ries may be irrevocably de- full of admiration for all that the cal UAE construction firm and death of scholars, the prevail- stroyed or damaged. United States has achieved in in 1970 established his own ing of ignorance and the loss Birth of a president just about all fields and am company, Al Habtoor Engineer- Afghanistan got the potential to generate around 314,500 MW of of trustworthiness when au- The parents of the one to grateful for its many gifts. ing. The UAE Federation, which thority is given to people who be anointed are the 240 million Americans are rightly proud of united the seven emirates un- electricity from different sources. Unfortunately, the leaders prefer do not deserve it. Americans with the right to their country and their flag and der the one flag for the first easy ways to deal with the problems; therefore, the country imports At this crucial moment in vote. The birth of a president it is little wonder so many clam- time, was founded in 1971 and time, America’s leadership and rests in their hands. Will their our to be part of what has been this inspired him to undertake around 76 percent of the required electricity from Iran, Uzbekistan, guidance are essential to main- combined DNA produce a sav- a magnificent inspirational suc- a series of innovative construc- Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Sustainability and effectiveness of the tain global security and stabil- iour who will lead us into a new cess story. tion projects – all of which projects remained low priority. That’s why 60 percent of the popu- ity. The US and the world needs age of peace and prosperity or America remains a multi- proved highly successful. lation is deprived of this modern but essential facility, as confirmed by the Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat in August last year. Only the Asian Development Bank (ADB) seems mostly concerned about miseries of Afghans because it has provided $275 million to the current government for expansion of power infrastructure. Where and how the government will spend this amount is a mystery be- cause the Afghan authorities had not shared the details in this re- By Turki Al-Dakhil the current era is a necessity. The what they circulated, adding that a to pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat and gard. base of his edicts is “the permissi- governor does not randomly make pan-Arab news magazine Al-Ma- Many have predicted that Saudi ble,” and as long as there is no text decisions as he employs relevant jalla. Turki later became a radio cor- Without increased production of power, Afghan economy can- Sheikh Saleh al-Maghamsi will that prohibits something, the per- institutions to know what people’s respondent for the French-owned play a distinctive role in the field missible remains as is. He has interests are, but preachers learn pan-Arab Radio Monte Carlo and not recover. Local production is of the utmost importance because of Islamic jurisprudence. He stud- granted jurisprudential speech a about reality via TV and mobile MBC FM. He proceeded to Elaph, it not only feed the starving industries but also gives control over ied for years at the Prophet’s vibrant and different color that re- phones. This is how Maghamsi an online news magazine and Mosque, where he learnt about vives society and its interests, as blames some enthusiasts. He has Alarabiya.net, the news channel’s the resources to local people. It enables the authorities to fix rates Mohammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti, well as religion and its purposes granted jurisprudential speech a online platform. Over a ten-year of the electricity per unit in Kabul. Exported electricity should be Abi Bakr al-Jazairi and Attia Sa- Turki Al-Dakhil Roles This is not vibrant and different color that re- period, Dakhil’s weekly Al Ara- lem. In an interview with MBC about permitting music or not, dis- vives society and its interests, as biya talk show “Edaat” (Spot- seen as a short-term and costly project, especially when many pow- program “Bil Mokhtsar” (In cussing an opinion or ending wrong well as religion and its purposes. lights) provided an opportunity erful individuals and organizations in the country do not pay their Brief), he said he had developed a convictions. His basis is doctrinal This article was first published in for proponents of Arab and Islam- lot and that it would be a disaster persuasion and raising awareness Okaz on May 30, 2016. Turki Al- ic social reform to make their case utility bills. In December 2015, there were 25 state institutions that if someone stayed as they were via facts. When asked about poli- Dakhil is the General Manager of to a mass audience. Turki also following 24 years of education. tics, he said he read a lot about it, Al Arabiya News Channel. He be- owns Al Mesbar Studies and Re- owed over Afs2.7 billion in unpaid electricity bills. In such circum- When discussing a case, he address- but it was not the role of the entire gan his career as a print journalist, search Centre and Madarek Pub- stances we cannot rely on imported electricity because corruption es its roots and problems. His reli- society to turn into a group of covering politics and culture for the lishing House in Dubai. He has re- gious edicts are based on sharia law, politicians. Maghamsi said some Saudi newspapers Okaz, Al-Riy- ceived several awards and honors, is rampant and exporters would not supply electricity for long if and he believes catching up with preachers were not fully aware of adh and Al-Watan. He then moved including the America . they were not paid. To recover the losses, the state-run electricity supplying com- pany will drop bomb on the poor consumers as it did recently Afghanistan because it is helpless against the government entities and influential people. Fortunately, completion of the Salma Dam in Herat is a good sign and a precious gift from India. It is a step forward in the direction of local power production to reduce reliance on imported m electricity. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to in- ris ro augurate the dam this week. Electricity produced by the dam will er bring the dying industries in Herat to life. Many businessmen and T industrialists have expressed concerns over unavailability of ade- quate electricity in the province. Taking Salma Dam as an example, the government should com- plete work on the ongoing power projects. Priority should be given to building new hydropower dams, solar, wind and coal power plants. However, the distribution of power shall not fall prey to politics. People in areas that produce electricity have the right to get power first. In second phase electricity should be supplied to those areas where industries are dying due to power starvation. Politiciz- ing the distribution process would not only create differences but also result in collapse of many industries. Afghanistan needs invest- ment to give new life to the dying economy. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Thanks for the memories, Stephen Harper By Antonia Zerbisias Internationally, Harper's lega- women being shot by their part- cy to Canada was to change it from ners, was gleefully killed. As for There's no question that Stephen peacemaker to bit player in the hundreds of murdered and Harper, Canada's former prime Ukraine, Libya and against ISIL missing aboriginal women, Harper minister, will be leaving a legacy (also known as ISIS). said an inquiry was "not really high when he quits parliament this sum- In 2010, for the first time in on our radar". By Dorian Bon ditions which are normally hid- umented. But a study of Ala- performed by workers on the mer. six decades, Canada lost its bid for His reputation as a brilliant fi- den from pubic view. bama poultry workers by the job. A political mastermind, he a seat on the UN Security Coun- nancial steward was not deserved. Thousands of workers stand Over a quarter million work- Southern Poverty Law Center The competition between united the country's fractious right cil. He bumped up the national debt for up to 12 hours straight in ers process chicken at 186 US (SPLC) shows just how high the firms leads to giant corpora- in 2003 when his Conservative Then there was Israel. Canada by $150bn, bequeathed a deficit freezing-cold, foul-smelling plants located predominantly in number could be. tions, capable of marshaling Party of Canada (CPC) was born. went from "honest broker" be- to the Liberals, and hitched the factories — aching, hurting, the Southeast. Most poultry The SPLC interviewed 302 complex machinery and in- In 2006, he led it to the first of its tween Israelis and Palestinians to, Canadian dollar to the price of oil. gasping for air, struggling to go in Benjamin Netanyahu’s words, Now the still-raging fires around workers are people of color, and workers from typical poultry- tensely exploiting their workers, three successive electoral victories. on until their next bathroom many are undocumented immi- processing plants in Alabama, until they can claim large Canada was his for nine years - at "a great friend of Israel and the Fort McMurray, Alberta's tarsands break — while they relentless- least until Justin Trudeau's Liber- Jewish people". central, are expected to lower the grants. About a third of the and found that 72 percent of chunks of the market, just like als trounced his government last Harper's] reputation as a bril- GDP. ly pull, cut and jab at dozens of workforce is represented by the these reported “significant Tyson, Perdue and Pilgrim’s do October. liant financial steward was not de- To the very end, and through- chickens churning down the United Food and Commercial workplace injuries or illness- in the example of US poultry. The party is still holding to- served. out the bitter election campaign, line every minute at dangerous Workers. es,” while 77 percent of the line Workers employed in such gether seven months after he To show what a great friend the Harper Conservatives sowed speeds, repeating the same, in- This is a higher proportion workers (hangers, cutters, de- enterprises are forced to act like stepped down from the party lead- Canada was, Ottawa cut funding ethnic division and Islamaphobia. tensive body-motions more of unionized workers than in boners, etc.) complained of appendages in an overpower- ership. Canadians are united as well to the United Nations Relief and Harper distinguished between eth- than 20,000 times a day. most other sectors of the US hand and wrist disorders. ing, production machine, per- - in celebrating his departure. Works Agency for Palestine Refu- nic citizens and "old-stock Cana- One by one, most are left gees in the Near East (UNRWA). dians". economy, but lower than in Many workers, like Karina forming repetitive, strenuous Canada welcomes a new prime injured, debilitated and sick. other meatpacking industries, Zorita, another Tyson employ- tasks to keep the apparatus in minister and a new foreign policy It killed Rights and Democracy, a Harper distinguished between This is the damning reality So Harper's legacy is more of Canadian NGO that it deemed to ethnic citizens and 'old stock Ca- like beef and pork. Unions in ee from Charlotte, North Caro- motion, at a pace and schedule a gift to Conservatives than to be anti-Israel. It defunded the so- nadians'. uncovered in a recent report on the meatpacking industry won lina, described to Oxfam re- of the bosses’ choosing. Canadians. cial justice organisation KAIROS, His ministers promised a "bar- the US poultry industry — comparatively high workplace searchers the horrific experi- Hypothetically, it would be Memories of Harper years denouncing it as anti-Semitic. baric cultural practices" hotline so called Lives on the Line: The standards in the US before the ences of musculoskeletal dis- possible to automate the tasks Which is probably why, last s for the Canadian Internation- that "Canadian values" could be Human Cost of Cheap Chicken 1980s, but a renewed employ- orders, which make everyday that many workers carry out in Thursday, as Harper exited stage al Development Agency (CIDA), preserved. — by the international human ers’ offensive began to roll back motions like holding some- these situations. But the em- right at the Conservative conven- it was repurposed. Instead of pro- And when a woman from Pa- rights organization Oxfam. The most of these gains. one’s hand or embracing your ployers find it easier to main- tion in Vancouver, delegates were viding foreign aid to developing kistan fought to be naturalised as a details of how 280,000 workers countries, it became a marketing Canadian citizen while in niqab, Poultry corporations are ei- child unbearably painful. tain their control over produc- galvanised by the "look forward" are ruthlessly exploited and ther silent or dishonest about In the face of all of this, the tion by forcing human beings theme that night. arm of Canada's notorious mining Harper took her to court again and abused in one of the world’s But then, looking back would companies which are often charged again - only to lose. She swore her workplace safety, and reports big corporations that run the to perform grueling assembly only dredge up memories of the with trampling on human rights in citizenship oath in niqab, just in largest meatpacking industries on factory conditions are few US poultry industry simply and processing functions. Harper years: promoting pipelines the Global South. time to vote Harper out. speak volumes about just how and far between. This makes shrug their shoulders. They’re The growing ratio between for his beloved tarsands (but fail- Even Harper's pet project, his So now he's reportedly off to cheap and expendable workers’ Oxfam’s research, which draws only concerned with their bot- machines and workers in pro- ing to get them built), attacking "Saving Every Woman, Every form his own foreign policy think- lives are in Obama’s America. on over a thousand testimonies tom line. One worker named duction often leads to higher constitutional rights, running Child" international maternal tank with former political aides, From the bosses’ perspec- by poultry workers, all the more Bacilio Castro told interviewers unemployment and increasing roughshod over parliament… health programme, pandered to his and to disappear into the corpo- tive, however, conditions in the significant. that his factory supervisor competition in the labor market. These are years best left bur- social conservative and evangeli- rate boardroom woodwork. poultry industry are exactly as cal Christian base. As retired Conservative sena- Employers have doubled used to ignore his requests to The threat of dismissal and re- ied Harper's legacy is more of a they’d like. US poultry is one the line speed on the factory pause and receive treatment placement compels many work- gift to Conservatives than to Ca- None of the billions of dollars tor Marjory LeBreton told a Ca- of the great success stories of nadians. All the same, the 3,000 he pledged to "reduce the prevent- nadian news magazine, "You'll nev- floor during the last three de- because of line injuries. ers to accept more dangerous convention-goers cheered Harper's able deaths of women and children er see him hanging around Ottawa the much-touted “recovery” cades, leading to an epidemic Finally, Bacilio recounted, conditions and less compensa- brief and remarkably empty fare- in developing countries" would go worrying about his legacy." from the Great Recession of of workplace injuries. Through- “I was enraged and pulled the tion. well speech extolling "the future to family planning. Oh, but he sure did leave one. 2007-08. out the poultry industry, work- glove off my hand, and he [the One Tyson worker recalled of this party". They watched the That despite the fact that Just not the kind that most According to the National ers process an average of 35 to supervisor] saw my bloody how supervisors would yell at obligatory tribute video. countless women all over the world Canadians accept with real Chicken Council, the country’s 45 chickens per minute, or hand. He wasn’t pleased that I him to keep up the intense pace And because it's the social can't care for a fifth, sixth or sev- #thanks. largest employers’ organization about 14,000 per day. Line was on the line, and that blood on the factory line. “There are media age, many took to their enth child, or are brutally raped in Antonia Zerbisias is an award- in the broiler chicken industry, conflicts or are too young or too winning Canadian journalist. She workers, and especially hang- dripped onto it.” a hundred applications waiting smartphones to broadcast the par- US poultry corporations sold ers, who lift these chickens Dolores told Oxfam inves- to come in!” the supervisor ty-generated hashtag: #ThankY- frail to survive pregnancy. has been a reporter and TV host nearly 9 billion chickens in ouStephenHarper. Burned out homes in the for the Toronto Star and the CBC, onto moving shackles, have to tigators she felt she had “no said. But, as one prescient pundit Abasand neighbourhood of Fort as well as the Montreal correspon- 2015, mostly to domestic con- handle more than 2,000 artifi- worth” on the factory floor. The more control the boss- immediately tweeted, "An official McMurray, Alberta, Canada [Re- dent for Variety trade paper. sumers, at a wholesale value of cially bloated, six-pound chick- Clearly, workers’ lives don’t es have, the more they dedicate #ThankYouStephenHarper hash- uters] Under constant attack The views expressed in this $60 billion. ens every hour. matter at all to corporate behe- resources to raise productivity tag? This won't end well... #cpc16 But women's rights were un- article are the author's own and do Four powerful companies One worker named Juanita moths like Tyson Foods, Pil- at the expense of safety. Injured #cdnpoli" der constant attack. The long-gun not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's — Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s, Per- from a Tyson plant in North grim’s and Perdue. workers are heartlessly re- Within minutes, the hashtag registry, which helped prevent editorial policy. due and Sanderson Farms — Carolina described this agoniz- This doesn’t stop the poul- placed. As the SPLC study of was trending, continuing for days. control 60 percent of US poul- ing labor to an Oxfam research- try giants from benefiting from Alabama’s poultry industry re- But not how party strategists had try and are making some of the er: friends in high places. For ex- ported, “Quite simply, it is of- hoped. Conservatives hoping to highest profits among Ameri- erase the Harper record instead You can’t stand the pain on ample, poultry’s biggest corpo- ten cheaper to run an unsafe had it flashing on the nation's can corporations. In 2014, your shoulders, your hands, ration, Tyson Foods, which plant and pay miniscule fines screens. those four poultry companies because of that repetitive move- owns 23 percent of the US mar- than to protect workers from The jokes kept coming. brought in more than $2 billion ment. That’s when you start ket, has close ties with former injury and illness.” Tweeters thanked Harper for in profits, while the executives rotating your hands and using President Bill Clinton. Workplace safety will vary inspiring Muslims, First Nations of these companies made an the scissors in one hand and As Eric Ruder reported for depending on the particular, peoples and youth to vote in un- average annual salary of $8 mil- using the other for another Socialist Worker in 2003, the technical needs of each indus- expected numbers - just to cast lion, more than double their thing. It’s just too much. Tyson family funded Clinton’s try — and, crucially, the suc- him out. 2011 rewards. The bosses’ aim is to ex- campaign to become Arkansas cess of workers in fighting for Canadians expressed gratitude On top of this, the poultry for the reminder that, well after tract as much labor as they can governor. The company was greater rights and better stan- high school, science matters. That's industry giants have received from their workforce to produce later convicted of giving illegal dards. Although the poultry because Harper had muzzled gov- $196 million in tax credits and the greatest possible quantity gifts to Clinton’s secretary of industry is unusually danger- ernment scientists so they couldn't other government incentives of chickens to sell on the mar- agriculture, who then helped ous, it’s actually more reflective bog down his environmental dev- since 1995. Tyson Foods’ stock ket. To do this, they assign su- the company bypass environ- of overall working conditions astation. price rose by 84 percent in 2013- pervisors on the factory line to mental regulations. in the US than one might think. Canada's former Prime Minis- 14, while Pilgrim’s stocks shot monitor the motions of employ- That might seem like old his- The Bureau of Labor Sta- ter Stephen Harper [Reuters] up by more than 200 percent. ees, and to reduce break and tory — but remember that the tistics estimates that over 3 mil- He also abolished the data-rich This bountiful flow of cash rest time to the extreme mini- likely Democratic presidential lion workers were injured or fell longform census that allowed pol- isn’t exactly “trickling down” icymakers to make decisions based mum. nominee Hillary Clinton has sick on the job in 2014. A report on evidence, not ideology. What's to the workers toiling on the Another worker at Tyson promised to put her husband by the AFL-CIO on the inade- more, he shut down Department factory floor. With average named Pedro reported that he “in charge of revitalizing the quacy of federal workplace of Fisheries and Oceans libraries, yearly pay in this sector run- and his colleagues were made economy” once she takes of- safety surveys contends that resulting in the trashing of price- ning from $20,000 to $25,000, to complete 12-hour shifts, with fice. Try explaining that to Ty- the actual figure is likely closer less environmental data. and wages sitting at around $11 a meager 30-minute rest and son workers. to 7 million. More than 50,000 Freedom of dissent an hour, labor’s share of income only two or three bathroom Although the realities ex- US workers die every year be- Tweeters thanked the Harper looks more like a slow drip. breaks, all so that the factory posed in Oxfam’s report are ex- cause of accumulated work- government for renewing their ap- And this drip isn’t enough line could keep churning out treme, the US poultry industry place injuries and illnesses. preciation for freedom of dissent. to live on. Although poultry During the 2010 G20 Summit chickens without stoppages. isn’t an outlier in the national But we hardly ever hear in Toronto, for example, about workers spend most of their “There’s a lot of people peeing economy — in many ways, the about this grim reality — be- 1,000 citizens - mostly innocent waking lives processing food, themselves because they sector is quite mainstream. cause it doesn’t serve the in- bystanders - were locked into make- most depend on federal assis- would not let them use the The kind of ruthless exploi- terests of the rich and power- shift cages. It was the biggest mass tance and private charity to bathroom,” Pedro explained. tation and degradation of labor ful who run this system to dis- arrest in Canadian history. feed themselves and their fam- Pedro was later laid off for found in US poultry is actually cuss it. Hardly surprising, then, that ilies. distributing informational pam- characteristic of the entire cap- The struggle to end exploi- Harper also passed unconstitu- But one of the most impor- phlets from the Occupational italist system in which we live. tation and abuse in the poultry tional laws that would later be tant grievances of poultry work- Safety and Health Administra- For-profit, industrial produc- industry has to be part of a overturned by the Supreme Court. ers is that their lives are threat- He even tried to pervert elec- tion in the plant. tion rewards the corporations broader fight to make the needs tions with his Orwellian-named ened every day by unsafe con- Dolores, a poultry worker in that are able to pump out the of workers a central part of the Fair Elections Act. ditions in the workplace — con- Arkansas, revealed that she highest number of products at political conversation. Work- and her co-workers started to the lowest costs. ers’ experiences vary widely wear diapers to avoid soiling In most cases, the best way depending on their particular their clothes on the plant floor: for the bosses to accomplish circumstances — but at the end I and many, many others this is by automating large parts of the day, the interests of all LETTER TO THE EDITOR had to wear Pampers. It was like of the work process to increase working class people are fun- having no worth. We would productivity — and intensify- damentally aligned.— arrive at five in the ing and extending the labor (Truthout) morning...until 11 or 12 without using the bathroom. I was ashamed to tell them that I had to change my Pampers. This kind of treatment isn’t just humiliating and dehuman- izing; it’s also damaging to The Afghan investors should come up to the fore with compressive plan to start investing in their motherland instead in abroad. They should physical health. Poultry work- understand that they can play key role in maintaining peace and security in Afghanistan by providing job opportunities for the people. The main ers who struggle to wait for root of growing insecurity in the country is joblessness. People, especially the jobless youth is joining insurgent ranks due to poverty and bathroom breaks suffer from unemployment. According to the Ministry of Economy, the Afghan investors have invested around $80 billion abroad. We, the Afghan masses prostate problems, and those calls on our investors to invest inside the country in a bid to create jobs. The only remedy vital to curb unemployment is to create jobs, and it who attempt to minimize breaks comes through investments. by drinking and eating less end The greater future of Afghanistan in almost every sectors is truly depends on improvement of national economy life. The government should also pay heed to domestic productions, if it wants to see Afghanistan self-sufficient in terms of economy. up chronically dehydrated and Amir Ahmad, Kabul, Afghanistan malnourished throughout the workweek. The most dangerous as- Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s name and pect of poultry work is the com- address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] bination of repetitive strain in- juries, chemical burns, gnarled limbs and musculoskeletal dis- orders that results from making human beings cogs in a high- Disclaimer: speed, chicken-processing ma- chine. The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) It’s difficult to estimate the number of poultry workers in- and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. jured or sickened on the job, because most cases go undoc- TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

A disfiguring tropical disease that JERUSALEM: On Jerusalem's would bring freedom," recalls Bookshop was the first of its kind had been previously been con- busy Salah Eddin Street, where Muna. in Palestine. "This was the first tained in Syria is now reportedly cafes, grocery stores, money ex- But after the 1993 Oslo Agree- bookstore that sold books in En- spreading across the Middle East change centres and jewellery shops ment, things changed. "It turned glish by Palestinians and about the as millions are displaced, the Dai- proliferate the landscape, a prom- out to be lies, and people stopped Palestinian viewpoint," he says. ly Mail reported on Saturday. inent board at number 22 announc- trusting books. Consequently, the Central to the identity of the Cutaneous leishmaniasis, es itself as the Educational Book- bookstore also suffered." two bookstores is their location in which can lead to severe scarring shop. Muna characterises the post- Jerusalem. "We want to reinforce on the face, is a parasitic disease Shortly ahead, across the road, Oslo years as a time when Jerusa- the notion of Jerusalem as the Pal- spread by bites from infected sand is another bookstore and cafe, also lem received an influx of interna- estinian capital. We may expand flies. titled the Educational Bookshop. tional NGO workers, diplomats to other areas, but our main area of The disease regularly goes un- Both belong to the Jerusalem-based and journalists. "Jerusalem's new- functioning needs to be Jerusalem," diagnosed and untreated. Muna family; the first sells Arabic comers sought to understand Pal- Muna says, acknowledging that a The disease had been con- books and stationery while the lat- estine and the Middle East better Jerusalem location renders it inac- tained in Syria, particularly to re- ter sells English books. "The book- and wanted English books. We cessible to many Palestinians who gions under ISIS control such as shop started with one bookseller: made a conscious decision to in- face restrictions on entering Jerus- Raqqa, Deir al-Zour and Hasakah. my father. Now we are six broth- crease our English selection." alem. The ongoing Syrian civil war ers who read, recommend and sell Therefore, Imad Muna, the el- The English bookstore also has devastated the country's med- books," said Mahmoud Muna, dest of the Muna brothers in hosts cultural and literary events, ical facilities and along with the manager of the English bookshop. charge, decided to increase the En- such as readings, screenings, exhi- chronic lack of clean water, the sit- Upon entering the English glish selection of the store. bitions and talks. The bookshop, uation has created a breeding bookstore, a shelf stocked with Muna still remembers the rip- according to Muna, plays a role in ground for sand flies the carry the books by noted Palestinian aca- ples created by the publication of the larger spectrum of cultural re- disease. demic Edward Said catches the eye. Said's Peace and its Discontents, sistance and it is being viewed as In September 2012, the dis- The presence of Said at the en- published in 1996. "It was the first reinforcing Palestinian culture and ease’s outbreak began among Syr- trance is significant since it was book to criticise the Palestinian identity. ian refugees in Lebanon, according his family who originally owned Authority [PA], exposing the "The Palestinians have been to the Centre for Disease Control the Arabic bookshop. peace process and Oslo. We sold stripped of their rights, political and Prevention. Muna traces the connection: hundreds of copies in English and representation and freedom. The An Afghan girl, affected by "The Edward Said family had Arabic to Palestinians and foreign- last thing we have is our culture - Cutaneous leishmaniasis, withers bookstores in East and West Jerus- ers. The PA banned it, but we could the last wall of resistance, which with pain as she is injected by a alem. They ran the Palestine Edu- sell it since being in Jerusalem we Israel will find very hard to break doctor at a free specialized clinic cational Bookshop on Salah Eddin are not under the PA." down. The mission of the book- for Leishmaniasis supported by Street, where they sold stationery The history of both book- shop is to reinforce Palestinian World Health Organization. (File and books," Muna told Al Jazeera. shops is a reflection of reading pref- culture and identity." photo: AP) The shop changed hands a few erences of Jerusalem's inhabitants, The English bookstore hosts It had previously been claimed times. When Muna's father, both locals and tourists [Courtsey cultural and literary events, such by the Kurdish Red Crescent that Ahmed, bought and established it of the Muna Family/Al Jazeera] as readings, screenings, exhibitions the spread of the disease had also in 1984, he dropped Palestine from The bookstore expanded on and talks [Courtesy of the Educa- been caused by ISIS dumping rot- report. As more than four million Syrians have fled the region, the disease has now moved into its neighboring the title, since it was illegal then to Said's collection, also stocking tional Bookshop/Al Jazeera] The ting corpses on the streets. This countries of Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. have the word 'Palestine' in the ti- books by Israeli historians like Ilan store has about 1,500 titles encom- has been refuted by the scientists “It's a very bad situation. The disease has spread dramatically in Syria, but also into countries like Iraq, tle of an entity or the Palestinian Pappe and Avi Shlaim, who were passing history, fiction, politics, at the School of Tropical Medi- Lebanon, Turkey and even into southern Europe with refugees coming in,” Dr. Waleed Al-Salem, one of flag. Therefore, the name was critical of the Israeli narrative. Re- poetry and even cookery. "These cines, according to the Daily Mail researchers on the disease, told the Daily Mail. changed to The Educational Book- alising that there was a big market are serious books, not propagan- shop. for English books, in 2007-08, a da. We sell books on Palestine writ- The mission of the bookstore new bookstore was established ten in different parts of the world." is to reinforce the Palestinian cul- with only English books, along with The bookshop has titles from ture and identity, says Muna [Ur- a cafe and a literary-cultural space across the Middle East. Muna vashi Sarkar/Al Jazeera called the Jerusalem Literary Sa- says: "This is not a Palestine-Is- There were no proper English lon. raeli conflict; it was and is an Arab- bookstores in Jerusalem, and the "We also witnessed a revival Israeli conflict." Al Jazeera World only English books were in Israeli of Arabic readership during this - Jerusalem: Hitting Home The bookshops which portrayed the period to which the Arabic book- operations of the bookshop are not Israeli viewpoint. store catered." without hurdles, with the delivery A 24-year-old from the Ivory Mahmoud Muna, bookshop 'The bookshop started with and clearances of books often de- Coast who survived a shipwreck manager one bookseller: my father. Now we layed. "Our books come from the in the Mediterranean has drowned The history of both book- are six brothers who all read, rec- US, UK, India, France, Germany, in a lake in northern Italy, Italian shops is a reflection of the reading ommend and sell books,' says Jordan, Egypt and Spain and pass media said today. preferences of Jerusalem's inhab- Mahmoud Muna [Courtesy of the through Israeli security," he said. Lesine Sanune was living at a itants, both locals and tourists, Muna Family/Al Jazeera] "The Israelis pick on titles. They hotel-turned-migrant-center near over the years. During the 1980s Muna reflected on the need to do not like books such as the Eth- Turin after making it alive to Italy and early 1990s, the Arabic book- present the Palestinian story in nic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan despite the rickety vessel he was store stocked mostly books in Ar- English. "There were no proper Pappe or Jeff Halper's book on on overturning during the crossing abic on politics, history, poetry, English bookstores in Jerusalem, Israeli manufacture and sales of to Europe. literature and fiction, and some and the only English books were arms. They also do not like books According to witnesses, he English books on tourism. in Israeli bookshops which por- on Hamas, or with provocative dived into the cold waters of the A turning point came in 1994- trayed the Israeli viewpoint. Brit- covers. The delivery of such books Lake Sirio in Chaiverano for a swim 95, when, according to Muna, ish and American authors with ori- is delayed by two or three weeks. immediately after eating and never many Palestinians stopped read- entalist perspectives were writing But since there is no censorship returned to the surface, La Stampa ing. "Palestinians had been reading about Israel and there was very lit- law over English books, no books daily said. about the supposed light at the end tle on the Palestinian viewpoint. are confiscated." Books from Syr- His body was recovered over of the tunnel, promoted by nation- This, however, changed in the ia, Lebanon and Iran cannot come two hours later by divers with the "It's absurd. He escaped the sea and died in this way. I'm lost for words," said Silvana Perrone, head of the alist Palestinian writers who wrote 90s." directly. Instead, they are routed fire service. Isoladi Ariel association which runs the migrant center. about how the peace process The English Educational through Jordan.

LEWA DOWN: Few thought it cies is deadly. It's estimated on for the black rhino, which repre- Chief ranger John Palmeri has against poachers." projects. military, government and judicial would work. Even the experts said average 100 rangers are killed ev- sent 12 percent of the remaining been patrolling Lewa lands for more Lewa is undoubtedly expen- There are few parks or re- officials, and where armed militias no chance. But 24 hours after the ery year in the line of duty. population in Kenya. than 20 years. sive to run. Security costs in 2015 serves on the continent that have wreak havoc. road underpass opened, the bull Winnie Kiiru is from the group Armed and ready "The conservancy changes the ran at $1.23m and the conservan- the resources, stability or govern- But the Lewa experience does elephant slowly stepped through Stop Ivory, who recently helped There are rangers with armed way people live," he said "There cy itself spent nearly $1.5m on ment support to counter the pow- demonstrate that a coupling of con- and re-established safe passage on organise the burning of more than patrols, plus a helicopter that can used to be a lot of inter-tribal fight- logistics and wildlife activities. The erful criminal syndicates. These servation and community, togeth- an ancient trail. 105 tonnes of confiscated elephant reach remote parts fast. All wild- ing, but now it's more peaceful. flip side is the income generated organisations especially thrive in er with careful financial manage- Reaching high into the clouds, tusks and rhino horn in Nairobi. life security operations are con- Local people benefit and they have by luxury tourist lodges plus do- the chaos of unstable governance, ment, will go far in this bloody war Mount Kenya is a waypoint on "When you consider the crim- trolled from a hub where TV become the first line of defence nations and grants to ongoing with corruption endemic among against wildlife crime. the elephant's inbuilt GPS. For inal resources behind this illegal screens monitor the live move- centuries herds in this part of Af- trade," she said, "you would not ments of tagged rhinos and ele- rica have trodden the route back want to be the ranger who stands phants. and forth across the equator to between the gun and the end game. There are sniffer dogs, too. A Mount Marsabit in the north. The syndicates are ruthless." handler and his bloodhound en- Then came agricultural fields. A mutilated corpse of a 17- gaged in an exercise as they tracked And a road network. The old ele- year-old, three-months pregnant down a man to his hideout in a phant paths were blocked by ei- poached black rhino with horns ravine, simply from sniffing the ther cash crops of flowers and to- removed [Dai Kurokawa/EPA] imprint of his shoe in the dust. matoes, or by lorries thundering Rare success story But these days, the patrols on tarmac through the foothills. The elephant corridor leads deal more with cattle rustlers than The elephants took the easy north from the slopes of Mount poachers, confrontations with the route and fed themselves along the Kenya onto the wide, open ranges latter are rare. way. Entire crops were destroyed of Lewa Downs and beyond. Here "Actually I'd say when it overnight and livelihoods ruined. the story bucks the trend, demon- comes to poaching, our security Elephants were sometimes killed strating just what it takes to beat effort represents just 20 percent in retaliation. the criminals. of our success," said Watson. "The "The situation was bad," said The vehicle jolts along the rest comes through the communi- Mike Watson of the Lewa Wild- dusty earth track from the airfield, ty. life Conservancy. "So we negoti- alongside are grazing herds of im- "There's a saying: 'If it pays it ated an elephant corridor, a fenced pala and zebra. In the distance, stays,' and it's an adage that's route, which passes through the small groups of elephant slowly worked here. The point being, if agricultural lands. We built the un- move under the boundless African the community get the benefit of derpass under a busy freeway and sky. wildlife surviving, then they'll want now hundreds of elephants travel Suddenly an abrupt halt, the to protect that source of income. up and down every year." engine is cut as the driver whis- So for example, if they see people Wildlife Warzone - Web ex- pers urgently: "There, rhino!" And planning to poach, they'll tell the tra: Poachers 300 metres away, the rhinoceros authorities and they know action The corridor fully opened in was lying down, its curved, point- will be taken." 2011 and has locally eased an in- ed horn - so valued by the poach- Wildlife crime: Stealing animals tense conflict between man and ers - poking through the high grass. to sell as pets beast, familiar across Africa. But Formerly a cattle ranch, these Suddenly there are thousands it's also part of a wider effort that lands are now a thriving wildlife of eyes and ears on the ground has brought farmers and villagers conservancy with about 72 criti- ready to report illegal activities more onside in the fight against cally endangered black rhino living because it's in the community in- poaching. Africa wide wild, but protected on 93,000 roll- terest. The horrifying slaughter of the ing acres. The equation is simple: Man- African elephant is headline news, Together with the hundreds of age your land, look after your wild- tens of thousands are killed every elephant that pass through Lewa life, and bank the tourist dollar. year, their tusks hacked out, their every year, one would think the Easier said than done in areas of bodies left to rot. Herds have been conservancy would be a prime tar- conflict such as the DRC and Con- devastated by sophisticated crim- get for poachers. go, but it's working here. inal gangs feeding high demand for But the last rhino killed by ivory, especially in China. poachers' guns was three years ago Livestock sales at helpfully Rhino, too, are being targeted in 2013. Elephant poaching in the cranked up prices and micro-cred- with calamitous effect with nearly region is down, too, now at its low- it schemes also help the cause. New 1,400 slaughtered across the con- est level in the last six years. schools have been built and educa- tinent last year. The success is in part because tional bursaries provided. Trying to protect these spe- of the level of protection provided Bringing peace TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Eurozone economic sentiment improves for second month Oil prices dipped in Asia Monday eased short-term concerns about BRUSSELS : Economic confidence still blighted by unemployment of after comments from the US cen- abundant global supplies. is up in the 19 European countries around 10 percent. tral bank head implying interest In early 2016, oil prices had that use the euro, a survey showed In a sign of confidence in con- rates will rise but traders are pin- nosedived to around $27 from Monday, thanks in particular to sumer demand, companies were ning their hopes on a tightening above $100 a barrel two years ago, greater optimism among consum- expecting to raise their selling pric- global market ahead of an OPEC owing largely to a stubborn sup- ers that has led to a pickup in in- es, particularly in industry and meeting this week. ply glut. “The fact that crude pric- flation expectations. services but also, to a lesser ex- Federal Reserve Chair Janet es are not below $49 means that The Economic Sentiment In- tent, in the retail and construction Yellen Friday said the US econo- there is still demand-buying in dicator, a monthly survey by the sectors. That will be encouraging my is improving enough to sup- terms of crude futures... Maybe European Union's executive Com- news for the European Central port an interest rate increase “prob- the investors are starting to be mission, rose to a four-month high Bank, which has unleashed a se- ably in the coming months”, rais- more optimistic about the path of of 104.7 points in May from 104.0 ries of monetary stimulus pro- ing the possibility of a rate hike in oil,” IG Markets analyst Bernard in April. grams to raise consumer price in- June or July. The dollar was up Aw told AFP. Consumers expressed greater flation. At last measure, inflation against all major currencies as mar- “But because the dollar has confidence over the general future was minus 0.2 percent annually, kets digested the news. A stronger gone up so much, trying to break of the eurozone economy, the pros- far below the ECB's 2 percent tar- greenback makes dollar-priced oil above the fifty-dollar mark will be pects for employment as well as get. Low inflation is a sign of a more expensive, denting demand even more difficult now.” savings. Industry managers also weak economy and can become and hurting prices. Traders are now looking to a sounded more upbeat, in particu- ingrained, weighing on growth for In Canada, Suncor Energy Inc. June 2 meeting of the Organiza- lar about a rise in orders. years. The ECB will meet this has restarted production which has tion of the Petroleum Exporting Among the eurozone's biggest week to reassess its policies but is been halted because of wildfires. Countries (OPEC) in Vienna countries, France saw the stron- not expected to take any further The blaze forced evacuations and where it is hoped a deal on reduc- gest rise in confidence, with Ger- action as it waits for its latest pol- halted production of more than 1 ing production can be reached. many enjoying a smaller uptick. icies — including interest rate cuts million barrels a day. But after returning to world oil The industry and retail sectors and an increase to its bond-buying At about 0240 GMT, North markets in January after the lifting expressed a greater interest in hir- stimulus program — to take ef- Sea Brent for July dipped 11 cents of nuclear-linked Western sanc- ing, a potential boon to a region fect. to $49.21 while US benchmark tions, Iran has said it has no plans West Texas Intermediate for July to join any output freeze by other delivery fell one cent to $49.32 a major crude producers. Talks in barrel. Brent crude last Thursday Doha involving OPEC members Fed's Bullard says topped $50 a barrel for the first and other major producers such as time this year as production dis- Russia last month failed to reach a ruptions in Canada and Nigeria deal to cap production. global markets seem well-prepared for summer rate hike SEOUL St. Louis Federal Reserve the second quarter, could give the President James Bullard said on Federal Reserve ammunition to Monday global markets appear to raise interest rates as early as next be "well-prepared" for a summer month. interest rate hike from the Fed, al- Answering a question on Iran’s foreign minister kicked off paign to boost trade, and major though he did not specify a date whether he thought U.S. presiden- an EU trade drive in Poland on Western powers said on May 20 for the policy move. tial candidate Donald Trump Sunday, in one of Tehran’s first that they back doing business with "My sense is that markets are would bring change to monetary moves to drum up business with Tehran. well-prepared for a possible rate policy if elected, Bullard said the the West after the lifting of sanc- Travelling with a mostly pri- increase globally, and that this is Fed was independent and did not tions earlier this year. vate sector Iranian business dele- not too surprising given our liftoff follow any particular political pre- Javad Zarif is also expected to gation in tow, Zarif is due to at- from December and the policy of scription. "I don't think a change travel to EU members Finland, tend a Polish-Iranian business fo- the committee which has been to in the White House either way will Sweden before winding up his trip rum in Warsaw on Monday. try to normalize rates slowly and affect Fed policy," he said. "My in Latvia on June 2. “We’ve always felt that Iran gradually over time," Bullard told hope is that neither campaign is “I’m convinced that our (War- was part of the solution, not part a news conference after speaking interested in politicizing the Fed." saw) ambassador's wish for our of the problem," said Waszc- at an academic conference in Seoul. Meanwhile, Bullard noted he had annual bilateral turnover to reach zykowski, a former ambassador to "So my ideal is that if all goes been critical of the Fed's "dot plot" one billion dollars will come true,” Tehran. well this will come off very summaries of policymakers rate Zarif told a joint press conference “After years of marginaliza- smoothly." Bullard added a re- outlooks recently, saying they may with his Polish counterpart Witold tion and even ostracism, Iran is bound in U.S. GDP growth seems be giving too much forward guid- Waszczykowski. coming back to the international to be materializing in the second ance, removing the Fed's ability to Annual bilateral trade between stage as an important partner – an quarter, but reserved his opinion make data-dependent decisions. Poland and Iran has stood at around important player that will influ- on whether the Fed should hike in The dollar rallied against Asian just $70 million (62 million euros) ence positive global solutions,” June or July for the next policy currencies early on Monday after in recent years due to internation- Waszczykowski said. Earlier the meeting at the U.S. central bank. the revised GDP data and on Fed al sanctions over Iran’s nuclear two ministers signed a memoran- His comments followed re- Chair Janet Yellen's comments on program. dum of understanding on bilateral vised data on Friday that showed Friday that a rate hike in the U.S. Sanctions were lifted under the political cooperation. Despite the lifting of most European banks, which often United States, the European first quarter growth in the U.S. was in coming months would be ap- historic nuclear deal that Iran Zarif’s arrival in Warsaw sanctions, the US has maintained have subsidiaries on US soil, have Union, France, Britain and Germa- not as weak as initially expected. propriate. The Korean won extend- signed with world powers last year comes just a week after he insisted those targeting Tehran's alleged therefore been slow to resume ny issued May 20 said foreign Responding to the GDP data, ed losses after Bullard's comments, and which came into force in Janu- the US needed to take concrete sponsorship of armed movements business with Iran, fearing prose- banks and businesses should not economists said strong income trading down 0.9 percent against ary. steps to encourage investors to in the Middle East and its ballistic cution in the US. hold back from conducting legal growth, together with signs the the dollar as of 0142 GMT (09:42 Iran has since launched a cam- engage with Tehran. missile program. But a joint statement by the business with Iran. economy was picking up steam in p.m. EDT). Gold slides to over three-month low as dollar soars after Yellen comments BENGALURU : Gold fell below since late April, with the move which does not earn interest. $1,200 for the first time in more underpinned by comments from "Much will depend on what than three months on Monday, as Yellen at the end of last week. the dollar will do on Tuesday when the dollar hit its highest since end- "After $1,200, gold will try to all markets resume trading," INTL April against the yen after U.S. break $1,160," said William Wong, FCStone analyst Edward Meir said Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen assistant head of dealing at Wing in a research note. said the central bank should raise Fung Precious Metals in Hong Spot gold may drop to $1,175 interest rates. Kong. per ounce, as it has broken a sup- The Fed should increase inter- "I think the market will be qui- port at $1,206 per ounce, Reuters est rates "in the coming months" if eter today as U.S. and the UK have technical analyst Wang Tao said. the economy picks up as expected a holiday. So, after the Asian mar- And a break below $1,175 could and jobs continue to be generated, kets, the prices won't change open the way towards $1,145, he Yellen said on Friday, bolstering much," Wong added, however. said. Among other precious met- the case for a rate hike in June or Bullion has been under pres- als, spot silver and spot platinum July. sure since the prospect of an im- touched seven-week lows. Gold was down 0.9 percent at minent rate hike was indicated by Silver was down 1.8 percent $1,201.41 per ounce as of 0634 the Fed's April meeting minutes at $15.94 per ounce, having hit GMT, after earlier touching that were released earlier this $15.87 earlier in the day, its low- $1,199.60, its lowest since Feb. 17. month, with key central bank offi- est since April 12. Platinum fell to U.S. gold was 1 percent lower cials consistently supporting an as low as $961 an ounce, its low- at $1,201.40. increase. est since April 8. The dollar on Monday rose An increase in rates raises the Palladium rose 0.1 percent to above 111.00 yen for the first time opportunity cost of holding gold, $537.05 per ounce. Reducing the tax gap: Pakistan can generate much more in tax revenues KARACHI: The government is gross domestic product (GDP) … Commission of Pakistan (SECP) A large increase in the share of ing energy taxes so subsidies only go to the poor, and creation of the National Reforms Commission. once again preparing to present the (and) more than we spend on health file returns and only 60% of those withholding taxes (WHT) in in- federal budget on June 3. Lower and education combined,” it stat- who file returns declare any prof- come tax and the introduction of tax collection over the years sug- ed. Too often, large amounts of its.” Agriculture constitutes 21% new or enhanced WHT on im- gests it would again be a tradition- revenue are lost because groups of GDP but contributes just 1% ports, electricity, telecommunica- al budget with a big deficit. with vested interests and power- of taxes. “Some estimates have tion, contractors and agricultural Economists say Pakistan has ful lobbies get preferential treat- suggested that we should be col- supplies have increased the regres- the potential to generate much ment in the shape of unnecessary lecting up to 56 times more than sive nature of the tax. higher tax revenues than it normal- exemptions and concessions from the current collection – that is up Insurance sector’s tax struc- ly collects by reducing the tax gap the government. to Rs112 billion,” the report stat- ture to change – the difference between potential With the tax evasion (illegal) ed, adding the industry constitut- “The share of WHT in income and actual tax revenues. They have and tax avoidance (legal), the size ed 18% of GDP but was overbur- tax has gone up from almost 49% suggested ways how to bridge this of lost revenue grows to the esti- dened with 73% of total taxes. in 2006-07 to 61% in 2013-14. gap. Pakistan’s revenue collection mated one. Major reforms in property tax That is a move in the wrong direc- surpasses target Moreover, Pakistan’s informal should be another priority. “In tion,” it argued. “Pakistan’s tax gap was equiv- economy is almost as big as the Punjab alone, it is estimated that Taxes and import duties on alent to almost 43% of the actual formal economy, possibly larger. the revenue potential in the urban staple items are regressive and hurt revenue collected in fiscal year This implies that almost half the immovable property tax is almost the poor. Duties on basic food 2014-15,” said Research and Ad- national economy is going virtual- Rs25 billion. If collected, this items have resulted in the price of vocacy for the Advancement of ly untaxed. would be 10 times more than what wheat and sugar going up by Rs10 Allied Reforms (RAFTAAR) in a Pakistan faces Rs3.3 trillion is actually received,” it said. per kg for everyone, no matter how report written by top economists revenue black hole, says IMF Indirect taxes are regressive much they earn. and economic think tanks. Paki- The advocacy group says: because everyone pays the same RAFTAAR suggested catch- stan collected Rs2.8 trillion in tax “The largest gap in our revenue amount of tax regardless of their ing outright tax evaders and clos- revenues in 2014-15 against the collection is actually in corporate income. In other countries like In- ing the legal cover to disguised tax potential of Rs3.975 trillion. This income tax, at about 3.7% of GDP. dia, Turkey, Malaysia and Indo- avoiders. Besides, it suggested re- showed a gap of Rs1.175 trillion. Only 40% of companies registered nesia the share of indirect taxes is moving schedule 2 and 3 of the “(This is) more than 4% of with the Securities and Exchange below 60%. Income Tax Ordinance, rationalis- TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Alia on censor issue of 'Udta Punjab': Let's wait and watch

Alia Bhatt says she is hopeful something good will come out soon with regard to her film 'Udta Pun- jab' which has run into trouble with the censor board. There are reports that the Ab- hishek Chaubey-directed movie has failed to get censor board's approval due to portrayal of ex- cessive swearing and drug con- sumption. Earlier, producer Anurag Kashyap had said the things are in process, and hence the film is far from being "banned". Alia, who stars in the film, did not comment on the reports that censor board has asked for as many as 40 cuts, but said she is hopeful that every- If you’re a shopaholic red-blood- shawl around you, shivering in the were the prints that were created ments again, pitching an all-new drawing in crowds and a healthy ric section. The Eid line of embroi- one will be "happy" by the end of ed woman, there’s a good chance icy winter wind while you rationed by your favorite designer and a key word to entice you: ‘Eid’! bit of shoving and pushing all the dered chiffon has just launched that it. that you’ve lately been bamboo- up on your future wardrobe. few more just because they looked But Eid is more than a month way to the sales till. “It takes time morning and it is apparently a huge "All I want to say is Anurag zled quite a bit by nifty market- Then, as the heat rose, the lawn so good in those (many) photo away. The fasting month of Ra- for unstitched fabric to get stitched hit. The price is steeper than Khaa- Kashyap put out a tweet of all the ing. imagery assailed you full-throttle. shoots with the desert backdrops. madan is yet to begin and you’re by tailors,” points out CEO of di’s lawn range, teetering at around information that is true and that is Even before temperatures On billboards and TV adverts, They were bound to stand out just still happily gorging on three meals Khaadi, Shamoon Sultan. “This is Rs 8000, but it hasn’t deterred the related to the topic right now. There soared, billboards popped up with- magazines and social media’s ex- as well in the dusty, arid climes of a day (albeit not too much because actually the ideal time to launch an avid shopper. Most of the designs was nothing mentioned about the in your periphery, urging you to pansive platform, you grew dizzy your city – reason enough to crank you want to continue fitting into unstitched Eid collection.” He says have already flown off the racks, cuts (in the tweet), it was just that stock up on lightweight lawn fab- with the extensive variety on of- up the bank account again! that summer wardrobe you’ve this while standing in the colossal leaving them bare, to be restocked the film has moved on to the revis- ric in preparation for the swelter- fer. You felt duty-bound to buy a And now, just when you amassed so diligently). Neverthe- Khaadi outlet in Karachi’s Dolmen in a few days’ time. “We’ve delved ing committee and the due process ing summer that was sure to fol- certain collection because it tend- thought you were done with your less, Eid exhibits and collections City while masses of women into an unstitched chiffon line for is on," Alia told reporters here low. Off you went, wrapping your ed to go ‘sold out’ and then there shopping, out came the advertise- are quite the ‘it’ things right now, stream through the unstitched fab- the first time and it makes sense. when asked about the controver- sy. "Apart from that, it will be wrong for me to say anything be- Game of Thrones Episode 6 spoiler-free review: Blood of My Blood Is Aamir Khan going to cause this is actually what has hap- pened. Let's wait and watch, hope- son 1-5 DVDs? (HBO) Lord Randyll Tarly. And he is the be on Anil Kapoor’s 24? fully everyone will be happy," she Blood of my Blood, though, absolute worst, just like Sam said said. begins with Bran recounting the he was all those seasons ago. The The "Kapoor & Sons" star was first five seasons in Warg mode as scenes with Sam and Gilly are al- speaking at the launch of a pop- we feel deep pity for the poor ways sweet and bring the much up store for the underprivileged, Meera who is killing herself haul- needed innocence to the series. 'The Street Store', by Anmol Jew- ing the crippled Stark across cold, This time was no different. Of ellers, Smile Foundation and TNE. frozen woods. After what hap- course, Papa Tarly does his best When asked if she is sad that pened last week, many of us would by spewing hate but the two the film is mired into controver- half want her to leave him to die emerge as the best GOT couple sies, Alia said, "Today is all about right there. by the end of it. smiling so I will smile. And I am The segment that followed Back in Braavos, Arya is now sure you will have a lot of ques- took quite a significant turn from a regular with the visiting theatre tions answered soon." the books and many are not hap- company. She has to make a call The film stars Shahid Kapoor py with it. Personally, I believe on whether to kill Lady Crane or as a high-on-drugs rockstar Tom- that this only gives the readers and spare her life. If she does spare my Singh, and Alia as a Bihari mi- the viewers twice as many chanc- her, Jaqen H’ghar and his horrible grant. Besides, Kareena Kapoor It was something we always hoped and some even returned from es to enjoy the story. Why people Waif will not be kind. How weird Khan plays a doctor who is deter- for but when we got it, we didn’t oblivion. want the show and the books to is it that H’ghar is slowly turning mined to fight the illegal transpor- like it very much. We’re talking Last week, we were left with a be exactly the same is beyond my into a villain in the ‘Arya’ tangent. Aamir Khan just might make his June." The source tells that apart tation of drugs, while Diljit Dosan- about death and gore on Game of crushing goodbye to Hodor as comprehension. However, it will only do her television acting debut! The from this launch, Anil Kapoor real- jh portrays a police officer. Thrones. In what was this season’s Meera dragged Bran away from the The episode also spends a good to leave the stupid place al- Dhoom 3 actor is known for host- ly wants the Talaash actor to make The film is scheduled to release most uneventful episode, not only Wights. good, long time with Samwell and ready because her storyline is cur- ing the socially-oriented Satyamev a cameo appearance in the show. on June 17. were characters not killed, the lives Bran is catching up on all that Gilly who are off to Horn Hill to rently the most clueless and bor- Jayate but has never acted in TV "Talks are on and Aamir has shown of more than a few were spared happened so far. Does he need sea- meet Tywin Lannister reincarnate, ing. series. Now sources at DNA India interest, but the perfectionist that are hinting that Aamir Khan will he is, he will thoroughly review each make an appearance in the second aspect before making a commitment. Read what Johnny Depp’s daugh- season of Anil Kapoor's 24. A If time permits and he takes it up, source from the channel Colors the show will become even bigger." ter, ex-partner said in his defence says, "Aamir remains one of the Anil and Aamir have been close since most vocal supporters for 24: Sea- the 1999 Mann. Aamir has already son 2. He will launch the show been a surprise guest at the post- along with Anil at a press confer- premiere party of Slumdog Million- ence scheduled in the first week of aire so this looks promising! Jesse Eisenberg will return as hyper Lex Luthor in Justice League Jesse Eisenberg, who played Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, has confirmed that he will reprise his role in the next DC Comics movie Justice League. Eisenberg confirmed his Johnny Depp’s 17-year-old former partner. Celebrity news part in the film during an appear- daughter has defended him after his website TMZ on Sunday posted ance at the MCM London Comic- Con, reports aceshowbiz.com. wife raised allegations of domestic a photo of a handwritten letter that Read Batman v Superman review: abuse. In an Instagram post Sun- it said it obtained from Paradis, in Doesn’t come close to The Dark day, Lily-Rose Depp calls her fa- which she describes her former Knight movies ther “the sweetest most loving partner as “a sensitive, loving and “I’m kind of in wait. They just person I know.” She didn’t specif- loved person.” “I believe with all started filming Justice League, so ically reference the allegations but my heart that these recent allega- I’m kind of like waiting for my says Depp has “been nothing but tions being made are outrageous, crack at it,” he said. “I don’t know a wonderful father to my little in all the years I have known what I’m allowed to say, because I brother and I, and everyone who Johnny, he has never been physi- feel like there’s probably some knows him would say the same.” cally abusive with me and this drone following me from DC, and Depp’s wife, Amber Heard, is di- looks nothing like the man I lived if I say anything wrong I get, you vorcing him. On Friday, she said with for 14 wonderful years,” the know, picked off. But yeah I think Director John Carney has criticised Levine, in Begin Again. She then scared of exposing himself on cam- in a Los Angeles court that Depp note says. Johnny Depp’s friend so, and I love it, and I love every- leased in two parts. Keira Knightley’s work in 2013 embarks on a new path in making era and exploring who he is as an had been physically and emotion- Doug Stanhope has also come out body who’s in it. You know, it’s a Read: Jesse Eisenberg is blown film Begin Again. He says he music with Mark Ruffalo’s char- individual,” Carney said. ally abusive throughout “the en- in support of the actor by penning really talented group of people,” away by ‘incredible’ Batman v tirety of our relationship.” She a column in support of Depp in he added. View image on Twitter Superman Justice League Part One wouldn’t like to work with her acter. Carney had much more “I think that that’s what you View image on Twitter Batman v is set to hit theatres on November again. “I’ll never make a film with favourable memories of working need as an actor; you need to not appeared with a bruise on her right The Wrap. “We’d watched it build Superman ? ?@BatmanvSuperman 17, 2017 and Justice League Part supermodels again,” Carney told with Levine and Ruffalo than with be afraid to find out who you real- cheek. A judge barred Depp from like this since before they were Who is Lex Luthor? #BatmanvSu- Two will follow on June 14, 2019. Independent newspaper, reports Knightley. “Mark Ruffalo is a fan- ly are when the camera’s rolling. contacting Heard until a June 17 married. We’d watched her manip- perman 1:06 AM - 15 Aug 2015 Actor Henry Cavill, Ben Af- variety.com. Knightley played a tastic actor and Adam Levine is a Keira’s thing is to hide who you hearing. Lily-Rose Depp is an ac- ulate and f— with him for years. 2,160 2,160 Retweets 4,602 fleck, Gal Gadot and Jason Mo- songwriter dumped by her musi- joy to work with and actually are and I don’t think you can be an tress and model. Her mother is We didn’t say a word. To each oth- 4,602 likes To be directed by Zack moa are all set to star in the two cian boyfriend, played by Adam quite unpretentious and not a bit actor and do that,” he added. Vanessa Paradis, Johnny Depp’s er, yes, but never to him. Snyder, Justice League will be re- films. TUESDAY . MAY 31, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

IPL 9 : So uth Africa players cho ke again w hen it m atters It won’t be wrong to say that Royal spree. Against KKR, Virat and de Challengers Bangalore’s South Af- Villiers had fallen in quick suc- rican recruits have had a royal hand cession and Virat had said the only in the side’s choke in three Indian way to fix it was for him or de Premier League finals. In 2009, Villiers to take the ownership of Jacques Kallis, Roelof Van Der the innings. They did in style Merwe and Mark Boucher fal- throughout IPL 9 only to falter tered, and AB de Villiers didn’t pull at the finish line. In 2011, against his weight in 2011 and 2016. Chennai Super Kings, RCB were Like five years ago, de Villiers chasing 205 for the IPL trophy. failed to step up despite having They had a bad start as Gayle contributed heavily through the and Mayank Aggarwal were dis- Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza Open on Sunday. The Indo-Swiss peared all at sea on a gloomy day ter a call went against them as they the big names in doubles as Venus season. He had scored 312 runs in missed in the third over, but it lost their cool as their hopes of team dubbed “Santina” were hop- at Roland Garros and their bid to trailed 4-1 in the second set. Mirza and Serena Williams, who were the 2011 while he almost doubled that was the wickets of Kohli and de holding all four grand slam titles ing to win four majors in a row complete the ‘Santina Slam’ ended tossed the ball in anger but the duo last women’s team to hold all four effort with 687 runs in 2016 but Villiers that ruined it for them. were dashed following a 6-3 6-2 after following up last year’s Wim- after the Czechs blasted a service failed to win the argument, or the majors in 2010, also perished in the flopped in the final. Kohli, de Vil- De Villiers was the first to go, on defeat by Czech duo Barbora Kre- bledon and US Open triumphs return winner to break Hingis in match, leaving Krejcikova and Sini- third round, beaten 6-3 6-3 by the liers let it slip On Sunday at Ben- 18, while Kohli was trapped by jcikova and Katerina Siniakova in with victory in January’s Austra- the final game. Hingis and Mirza akova to celebrate a memorable vic- Dutch-Swedish pairing of Kiki galuru, RCB had the game in their Suresh Raina on 35. RCB were the third round of the French lian Open. But the top seeds ap- were left fuming at the umpire af- tory. It proved to be a bad day for Bertens and Johanna Larsson. pockets with Chris Gayle and Vi- 147 all out. The 2009 final was rat Kohli inflicting pain on the even more heart-breaking. With Hyderabad bowlers, raising 114/0 Anil Kumble at the helm, the in 10 overs chasing 209 runs. Once bowlers had restricted Deccan Gayle fell for 76, Kohli and De Chargers at 143. The situation Villiers controlled the asking rate. demanded the batsmen to step it Liverpo o l’s Dan iel Nibali reveals The pair was RCB’s main match- up but another choke in the final winners in the league stage and kept RCB away. One of RCB’s another stand was the need of the most expensive buys, Jacques hour. But at 140, Kohli was Kallis, flopped on top of the or- Sturridge return s to Giro stomach bug bowled by left-arm pacer Barinder der. Then, Van Der Merwe, pro- Vincenzo Nibali has revealed a Sran, who had been torn to pieces moted to No 3, lost his wicket at stomach bug was behind the slump by Gayle. Now it was left to De an important juncture after mak- in form that left him almost five Villiers to repeat his match-win- ing 32. Boucher too failed in the minutes off the overall lead at the ning effort against Gujarat Lions slog overs while Robin Uthappa En glan d train in g that had taken RCB into the final. Giro d’Italia. was well-set and the team lost The 31-year-old Italian fell to De Villiers had then produced a by six runs. This is not the only 4min 43sec adrift of the pink jer- brilliant 73 not out after an early time South Africans have choked sey when he lost 2min 10sec on loss of wickets, pacing his innings in the final. In the World Cup and stage 15's mountain time trial and and taking calculated risks. But in WT20, they are labelled perenni- then another 1min 47sec on stage the final, at 148/2, the South Afri- al chokers. Other than winning 16's summit finish. can choked at the most important the inaugural Champions Trophy Nibali appeared to be out of stage, his dismissal making it 148/ in 1998, South Africa have not contention and his Astana team 3. De Villiers was on five when he won any title. Though they have even ran tests to see if he was suf- scooped a flighted delivery from enjoyed being at the top of Test fering from a virus, but he then left-arm spinner, Bipul Sharma, to rankings for a long time, the mounted a remarkable recovery on long-off. Had he batted a little nerves have jangled in these tour- stages 19 and 20 to snatch the un- longer, he could have easily target- naments. likeliest of overall victories. ed a few bowlers. His dismissal The best example of South With Vincenzo Nibali having allowed Sunrisers Hyderabad to Africa choking happened in the wrapped up Giro victory, we rec- fight back as they never let the 2011 World Cup quarterfinal at ognise the best riders hosts back into the game again. Dhaka against the Kiwis. Having He said: "Before the time trial Nibali admitted his victory Read | IPL season caps a perfect restricted New Zealand to 221, I wasn't very well on account of might not have been possible with- turnaround for Sunrisers Hydera- South Africa lost the plot in the intestinal problems, but I didn't say out Kruijswijk's crash, but he in- bad’s Bhuvneshwar Taking charge middle-overs despite Kallis, De anything because I didn't want my sisted he had already started to see mattered In the initial phase of this Viliers and Graeme Smith getting rivals to know it. weakness in the race leader. edition, RCB were on a losing good starts. "I had some intestinal prob- "It would have been difficult," lems, but I tried to put it to the he added. "But I found myself in back of my mind at the time. May- good shape. be that was what weakened me "Kruijswijk crashed, but to- slightly. But the rest day was use- wards the summit of the Colle Fo ur added to ful for putting me right." dell'Agnello, I noticed he was Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge ground on Monday. game because of a hip problem. Although a return to health was breathing heavily, so I put pres- made a timely return to England Sturridge’s place in the squad Manchester City midfielder key to Nibali's victory, just as im- sure on him climbing and then de- Epso m Derby field training on Monday, the day be- is thought to be under threat, with Fabian Delph has already dropped portant was the demise of previ- scending. Had I not done so, prob- fore manager Roy Hodgson sub- 18-year-old Manchester United to the standby list due to a groin ous pink jersey-wearer Steven ably nothing would have hap- mits his final 23-man squad for striker Marcus Rashford having injury. Kruijswijk. pened. Euro 2016. marked his debut with a goal England play Portugal at Wem- The Dutchman took a three- Nibali revealed he will now Sturridge missed England’s 2- against Australia. bley on Thursday in their final minute advantage into stage 19 but prepare to form part of Astana's 1 win over Australia in Sunderland Southampton left-back Ryan warm-up game before travelling to then crashed on the descent off the line-up at the Tour de France, on Friday after sustaining a calf Bertrand, who is nursing a knock, France next week. 2,744m-high Colle dell'Agnello and where Fabio Aru is expected to be strain during Liverpool’s Europa was the only injury-enforced ab- They open their Euro 2016 fell to third in the standings. team leader, before focusing on League final defeat by Sevilla. sentee on Monday, which left 24 campaign against Russia in Nibali had been suffering from winning gold in the men's road race But the 26-year-old emerged players training. Marseille on June 11 and will also a stomach bug earlier in the race at the Olympic Games in Rio. for training with the rest of his Chelsea centre-back Gary Ca- face Slovakia and neighbours Wales Nibali had been suffering from "The big objective is the Olym- team-mates at Watford’s training hill trained after missing Friday’s in Group B. a stomach bug earlier in the race pics," he said. Djo ko vic po is e d to beco m e first Hollywood starTonyBellewwinscruiserweight world title m an to hit $ 10 0 side Sylvester Stallone in the 2015 m illio n jackpo t boxing movie “Creed”, picked him- self off the canvas after a hard first Market leader Wings Of Desire has seven left in the race, headed PARIS: World number one Novak round knock-down to knock his was among four horses supple- by Chester Vase scorer US Army Djokovic is poised to become the Congolese opponent out cold in mented for Saturday's Investec Ranger. first man to win $100 million in the third at Everton's Goodison Derby at Epsom. A total of 18 re- Backing him up are Vase run- prize money on Monday when he Park football stadium. main in the premier Classic after ner-up Port Douglas, Dante sec- targets a place in the French Open “I got knocked down but that's Red Verdon, Cloth Of Stars and ond Deauville, Idaho, Shogun, quarter-finals for the 10th time. what I do,” Bellew told Sky Humphrey Bogart were also add- Beacon Rock and Bravery. As ex- Djokovic, chasing a first Ro- Sports. “I told you I am Everton. ed to the field at a cost of £75,000 pected, O'Brien withdrew French land Garros title to complete a ca- That's why I got up. Nothing was each at the confirmation stage. 2000 Guineas winner The Gurkha. reer Grand Slam, tackles Spain's going to stop me tonight. Wings Of Desire burst onto the Other Irish possibles are Jim 14th seed Roberto Bautista Agut. “I cried in the dressing room Derby scene when winning the Bolger's Moonlight Magic and the The top seeded Serb has a 4-0 two hours ago when I got here. I Dante Stakes at York, having only Dermot Weld-trained Harzand. career lead over the 28-year-old achieved the dream tonight, I am made his racecourse debut last Sir Michael Stoute is double- Bautista Agut including a victory world champion, that's what I month. He will bid to give trainer handed with impressive Newbury on clay in Madrid this season am.”The 33-year-old seemed in John Gosden back-to-back suc- maiden winner Ulysses and Ling- where the Spaniard won just three control of the first round but got cesses after Golden Horn 12 field Derby Trial third Across The games. caught flat-footed as Makabu land- months ago. The Godolphin- Stars after taking out Midterm, Djokovic is also bidding to ed a straight left hand that sent owned Cloth Of Stars earned his who is currently sidelined through reach the quarter-finals for the 28th Bellew down and into a backward stripes when winning the Group injury. straight Grand Slam and take sole roll. He got up and looked unhurt Two Prix Greffulhe at Saint-Cloud The form of the 2000 Guineas occupancy of second place ahead as the bell rang to end the first for trainer Andre Fabre. The Rich- is represented by Massaat, who of Jimmy Connors for the most round before the fight resumed. ard Hannon-trained Humphrey was runner-up to Galileo Gold. He consecutive last-eight appearanc- Bellew looked tentative in the Bogart won the Lingfield Derby will bid to give Owen Burrows his es at the majors. second but he started to open up Trial while Ed Dunlop's Red Ver- first Classic winner in his first sea- With $99,673,404 banked in his shots in the third and soon had don has earned his big chance by son as a trainer. prize money at the start of Roland LIVERPOOL: Hollywood actor tle with a third round knock-out twice coming up short when chal- Makabu, 28, on the ropes before winning handicaps in tremendous Completing the list of entries Garros, the 29-year-old Djokovic Bellew recovered from a first of Ilunga Makabu on Sunday. lenging for light-heavyweight landing a left-hand shot that had fashion. Aidan O'Brien, whose se- are David Simock's Algometer and can cross the $100 million barrier round knock-down to win the va- It was a case of third time world titles previously. the Congolese fighter unconscious quence of three consecutive Der- the Karl Burke-trained Biodynam- by making the last-eight. cant WBC cruiserweight world ti- lucky for Everton fan Bellew after But Bellew, who acted along- before he hit the canvas. by triumphs was ended last year, ic. TUESDAY . MAY 31. 2016-Jawza 11, 1395 H.S Vol:X Issue No:300 Price: Afs.15

Spying for Daesh: Pakistani women arrested in Nangarhar with sensitive launched their attacks in nearly a documents dozen different areas, causing AT News Report heavy casualties to security forc- es and seriously threatening to KABUL: Two Pakistani women, overrun the province. “Right now loyal to the Islamic State known clashes on all the four sides of the as Daesh, were arrested in eastern city are underway. During the past Nangarhar province, officials said, 24 hours, 68 police and army per- as they were transferring classi- sonnel have reportedly suffered fied documents to the group. casualties and the Taliban have cap- The National Security and tured a number of areas,” Atal said. Defence Forces arrested the sus- By Akhtar M. Nikzad care of improvement of industry He said a weak provincial govern- pected women in Kot district, pro- sector, adding that the government vincial government’s media office ment leadership and the lack of KABUL: Businessmen and entre- imposed more constrains against coordination among security or- said on Monday. entrepreneurs equally. “The gov- The seized documents con- preneurs face serious threat of ab- gans had contributed to the much duction and murder, the Afghani- ernment provides no considerable deteriorated security situation of tained information how to make facilities for investors in the coun- the province. Atal’s deputy Abdul explosive devices and other weap- stan National Entrepreneurs Board, adding that 24 businessmen try, government recently has de- Majeed Akhunzada also told Pa- ons, the source said. creased one percent the custom jhwok Afghan News the security Currently investigation is un- had been kidnapped who had killed eight in the past two months. tariff for crude material, but instead situation in Helmand had unprec- der way on the two women, loyal increased 25 percent in cost of elec- edentedly worsened over the past to the Daesh group, the source Head of the board Rahimud- LASHKARGAH : A top public Provincial council chief Karim heavy casualties on Saturday night din Hajji Agha said Monday that tricity against industrial factories,” 24 hours. He said some 80 securi- added. Kot district is considered he asserted. He asked the representative on Monday warned Khan Atal told reporters in Lash- and Sunday night in Lashkargah ty personnel were either killed or to be the stronghold of the Daesh businessmen and entrepreneurs if security reinforcements did not kargah, the provincial capital, that and Nad Ali and Greskh districts. were unable to work easily as they government to revise the cost of wounded during the past 24 hours group since their emergence in Af- electricity and decline 25 percent reach southern Helmand province the current strength of security “If additional security forces and in clashes with armed militants. are worried about their safety. “In- ghanistan. The group devise their enhancement against industrial within 48 hours, the province forces in Helmand could not alone air support do not reach Helmand Officials at the Emergency-run every subversive activities from dustrial sector and trade comprise would fall into the hands of the deal with the conflict in the entire within the next 48 hours, the prov- hospital in Lashkargah confirmed the backbone of the country’s parks. Faizan warned if the gov- there. There is no denying to the ernment doesn’t give heed over Taliban. But the Ministry of De- province. Atal was talking after ince will fall into the hands of Tal- receiving 40 injured security per- fact that Pakistan intelligence agen- economy, if this sector influenced fence strongly rejected the claim. Afghan security forces suffered iban.” He said the Taliban had sons. (Pajhwok) by insecurity and negligence of the these challenges, 60 percent of cy is making all out efforts to small and medium industrialists strengthen the foothold of Daesh government then Afghanistan would not have economical growth would collapse in the current year group in Afghanistan. which imposes a great damage to The arrest of two Pakistani forever,” Agha said. He asked the government to take practical mea- the economy of the country. US Senate fight brews women, loyal to Daesh is the clear Lack of industrial banks, kid- 30 villages cleared indication of Pakistan’s support sure for protection of investors, warning that they would pull their napping, killing, being high custom to the group. The Afghan officials tariff of the crude materials and always pointed out blame finger capitals out of the country if the over Afghan visas situation remains crucial. Abdul expansive cost of electricity are the of insurgents in toward Pakistan and its role for main challenges faced by the en- A fight is brewing in the Senate over Donald Trump has made his con- igniting war in Afghanistan. Rahim Faizan, deputy of the special immigration visas for Af- cerns about illegal immigration and board, said the government did not trepreneurs. ghans who assisted U.S. troops and Muslim immigrants a centerpiece diplomats during the Afghanistan of his campaign. Sessions is serv- Ghazni: Officials War. On one side are Armed Servic- ing as a national security adviser es Committee Chairman John for Trump's campaign. Immigra- McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Jeanne Sha- tion visas have also become a heen (D-N.H.), military veterans touchy subject in the wake of a and refugee groups who want to string of attacks in Europe and in boost the number of visas. On the San Bernardino, Calif. carried out other, Judiciary Committee Chair- or inspired by the Islamic State in man Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Iraq and Syria. The administra- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), and crit- tion has also fueled the debate with ics of bringing more immigrants to its plan to bring 10,000 Syrian ref- the U.S. ugees to the U.S. by October. The Caught in the middle are 10,000 fight over Afghan visas first gained Afghans who have applied for the attention last month during the special immigration visas. Only House Armed Services Committee 3,500 visas are currently left. Matt markup of the 2017 National De- Zeller, an Army veteran and founder fense Authorization Act. The bill of a non-profit, said many of Af- extended the visa program, but did GHAZNI CITY : Thirty villages Toryalai, told Pajhwok Afghan ghans who worked with U.S. forc- not authorize additional visas, and in the Khogyani district of south- News. He said several others mil- es in Afghanistan are now being tor- narrowed eligibility for them. A bi- ern Ghazni province have been itants were wounded during the tured and killed by the Taliban. partisan group of lawmakers, led cleared of militants as a result of a operation. "They execute them and basically by Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), clearing operation, officials said on Deputy provincial police chief make snuff films out of their death," an Iraq veteran, successfully Monday. They conducted clearing Asadullah Shujaee said several vil- Zeller said. "They get them to es- stripped the bill of the language on operations two days ago in Kho- lages had been cleared of the pres- sentially confess to their crimes and new restrictions. The fight over the gyani district, killing a Taliban ence of militants in Khogyani. “We then they cut them apart, piece by visas is expected to come to a head commander Mullah Mohibullah have captured areas from Taliban piece of their body." Zeller said the when the Senate takes up its ver- along with three others, a com- where they had established trench- videos are being sent into Syria, sion of the defense bill later this mander of 3rd brigade of th 203rd es and would fire at security forc- In implementation of the di- the project has been tribution of illustrative Yemen, Libya and Mali, to deter month. Shaheen and McCain on Thunder Military corps, Lt. Col. es from there,” he said. others from working with U.S. forc- Thursday introduced an amend- rectives of His Highness achieved by 80%, and lo- means in the local language es. “Our nation has a moral obliga- ment to the National Defense Au- Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al cals started advantage in and focus on illustrations, tion to protect those Afghans whose thorization Act that would increase Nahyan, President of Unit- access to clean drinking and answer questions from lives are in imminent danger today the number of the visas by 4,000. Special committee established to because they supported American The move came after they were ed Arab Emirates (may water in Kabul, Nangarhar, participants in a scientific troops and diplomats,” McCain, a blocked from adding the visas to control food prices on Ramadan God preserve him), and His Parwan, Nimrouz and and practical simple way. former Vietnam prisoner of war, the bill before the Senate Armed fficials in Ministry of Commerce and industry have reported Highness Sheikh Moham- Nouristan provinces and The project had a posi- said in a statement. Congress has Services Committee's markup by that a special committee has been established for the Holy month authorized thousands of additional Grassley. His committee has ju- of Ramadan to control the food prices as it hikes on the follow- med bin Zayed Al Nahyan, after the completion of the tive and huge effects among visas for Afghan interpreters since risdiction over immigration visas. ingO month, experiences have indicated that the food prices only hikes Crown Prince of Abu Dha- project more than 150 the rural community be- 2013. Between fiscal 2009 and "Under the circumstances, the Ju- when the holy month comes where all Muslims in the world prefer to bi and Deputy Supreme wells will be drilled in each cause of the attention of the 2013, the visas were capped at diciary Committee, which is the provide different kinds of food to be served. They have warned that if 1,500 annually, with any unissued committee of jurisdiction, didn’t Commander of the Armed province except Nouristan United Arab Emirates visas carrying over to the next year. have enough information to deter- any businessmen willing to bring the food prices into high rate he will be Congress increased that number to mine if an increase was necessary questioned for his performances. Ministry of Commerce and industry Forces, and follow up of Province. (UAE) to provide the first 4,000 for fiscal 2014, and to 7,000 or prudent since there are thou- Spokesman Musafir Qoqandi said,” We have established a special com- HH Sheikh Mansour bin The Foundation seeks to supplier of life and contrib- through September 2016. But this sands of unused visas already al- mittee to review and monitor the food prices within the markets on the Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy make the projects sustain- ute to raising the awareness year, the visas have become a polit- lotted to the program," said Judi- holy month of Ramadan.” Meanwhile officials in supreme board of ical football during an election sea- ciary Committee spokeswoman Entrepreneurs stated that all the Afghan businessmen were ordered to Prime Minister and Minis- able and the project of sup- level to maintain personal son where presumptive nominee Beth Levine. (thehill) avoid hiking of food prices in the holy month of Ramadan. ter of presidential Affairs plying potable drinking wa- hygiene and community and chairman of Khalifa bin ter included: digging wells health. Zayed AlNahyan humani- and providing them with HE Ambassador Juma tarian Foundation, the im- pumps and preparing the Mohammed Al Kaabi em- plementation of the project vicinity of the well areato be phasized that the UAE of potable water supply has a clean and has the require- seeks to support aid friendly been launched in a number ments of public health and countries in the humanitari- of Provinces of the Islamic safety, so they do not con- an and development areas, Republic of Afghanistan tribute to the transmission and claiming of the United funded by the Khalifa bin of diseases and the growth Arab Emirates the first place At least 30 megawatts (MW) of Zayed Al Nahyan Humani- and reproduction of health in the world to lend a help- power will be added to Herat's tarian Foundation (KBZF). pests. Also, one of the most ing hand and to provide hu- electricity system within the next 10 days, officials said Sunday. The implementing of this important pillars of the sus- manitarian and develop- Provincial head of power project begun four months tainability of this project is ment assistance did not company Da Afghanistan Bresh- ago under the direct super- to raise awareness and ed- come from a vacuum, and na Sherkat (DABS), Wahid Ah- mad Karmani, said the electricity vision of the Embassy of the ucational level of the peo- that Khalifa bin Zayed Al will help boost agricultural and United Arab Emirates in ple in the villages. Nahyanhumanitarian Foun- industry activities in the province Kabul and in coordination Upon submission of the dation is one of the most and that Herat's eastern districts will have permanent electricity. with the Minister of the Ru- site in the village, the locals activeinstitutions in the Unit- Salma Dam which has been named ral rehabilitation and devel- invited and held awareness ed Arab Emirates in this the Afghan-India Friendship Dam opment HE Eng. Nasir Ah- sessions for healthy benefi- area, and Emirati white will be inaugurated within the next 10 days. "The dam will help over- mad Durrani, who spared ciaries in all the villages, and hands under the wise lead- come a lack of electricity in Herat no effort to overcome the have been preparing and ership of the UAE contin- and we are trying to make more obstacles and provide sup- printing the necessary tools ues in maintaining human efforts in this regard," he said. Meanwhile, a number of Her- port for the implementation for the session, it has been dignity and alleviate the suf- at residents said they see the in- them improve their industrial and it in the near future," said Moham- finally we will get the benefits of of the project in different hired specialists to deliver fering of the poor in differ- auguration of Salma Dam as a big agricultural activities. "Salma Dam mad Daud Ansari, a resident of the dam. This will overcome lots Provinces. these lectures and the re- ent locations of the Earth sign of Afghanistan-India's close was a dream for Herat residents Herat. Another resident, Daud of problems for Herat residents." friendship. They said it will help and we are happy that we will use Rahmani, said: "We are happy that (ToloNews) During the last period quired information and dis- and God bless.