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6 Afghans gunned down,18 wounded by Iranian police JALALABAD : The Islamic State Durand Line, Kurram Tribal Agen- KABUL : Iranian police have shot the refugees were aged between 20 (IS) -- or so called Daesh -- has cy and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lie dead six Afghan citizens and and 30. Ali Reza Parivar, police chosen the Achin district of east- cheek by jowl with Nazyan Kot, wounded 18 others, who were try- chief for the area, was quoted as ern Nangarhar province as its head- Ghanikhel and Spin Ghar and ing to enter the neighbouring coun- saying that the truck had been spot- quarters for a variety of reasons. Achin district. Achin has an area try, a media report said on Mon- ted in a desert by security forces. The district’s proximity to the of 350 square kilometers and a day. Trend news agency reported When the driver refused to stop, Durand Line, a contested border- population of 150,000 --all of them police chased a truck carrying ille- the forces on patrol chased the line haunted by militants of all Pashtuns from Shinwari and Al- gal Afghan refugees into Iran. In vehicle. The major shooting erupt- stripes, and easy weapons and lo- isher Khel tribes. Majority of res- police firing at the vehicle, six peo- ed when the driver ran into police- gistical supply routes seem to have idents of the district are reliant on ple were killed and 18 others in- men, who had blocked the road driven the rebel group’s choice of agricultural, cultivating wheat, jured. ahead of him. Iran hosts over 1.5 its HQ.. Geography and tribal maize, potatoes, cotton, onion and It said the shooting took place million registered Afghan refugees, structure Achin district is located others crops. Where Daesh fight- late on Sunday in the eastern Ira- and as many illegal Afghans. 35 kilometers southeast of Jalala- ers came from A source close to nian city of Rafsanjan. Many of (Pajhwok) bad, the capital of Nangarhar. The the group confided to Pajhwok Af- ghan News that five years ago Seven Taliban Nabil and Saleh when Pakistani forces launched op- welcome execution 36 militants erations in Orakzai and Khyber agencies, families of Daesh fight- killed in Ghor of terrorists killed in ers started sneaking...P2 AT Monitoring Desk by Afghan ABUL: Security forces govt operations Afghanistan, China to sign security, economic agreements killed seven Taliban mili tants and wounded 11 oth- he two former Afghan Intel AT News Report ersK when they attacked the Taiwara Senior officials from Kabul and the priority," Karzai said. important for Afghanistan. their country is one of the biggest ligence, National Directorate district of western Ghor province, of Security (NDS) Chief, KABUL: Thirty-six Taliban Chinese Ambassador to Afghani- Meanwhile, the Chinese am- "China's role is important for economic countries in the world. an official said Monday. “Dozens T fighters were killed in different stan, Yao Jing, said after a joint bassador called for the implemen- Afghanistan's peace, reconstruc- A more secure region will be cru- of Taliban, led by their shadow Amrullah Saleh and Rahmatullah seminar on "One Road One Belt" governor Maulavi Taimour, at- Nabil have welcomed the govern- clearance operations across the tation of big economic and infra- tion and other sectors. It is also cial for further development of that ment’s move for executing 6 terror country within the past 24 in Kabul on Sunday the two coun- structure projects between Af- important for Chinese people, as country," he added. (ToloNews) tacked the Taiwara district with tries will sign agreements on secu- heavy and light weapons around convicts in Kabul. The execution hours, ministry of defense said ghanistan and China, and said a of the terrorists followed by a dead- Monday. In a press release, the rity and economic cooperation in railroad would soon be built be- 1:00am,” Pajhwok Afghan News the near future. Deputy Foreign quoted provincial governor Ghu- ly attack in capital Kabul last ministry said that Afghan Na- tween the two countries. lam Nasir Khazeh, as saying. The month is widely welcomed by the tional Army in collaboration with Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai "During the forthcoming visit, Afghan people. Saleh issued a said that big projects, particularly security forces gave a tit-for-tat Afghan National Police and Na- I think that both leaders will have response to the Taliban attack, he statement following the confirma- tional Directorate of Security the reconstruction of the Silk Road, an in-depth discussion on how to said, adding that the clash between tion of the execution of the con- conducted operations against in- will be crucial for transit and trade further our cooperation in other security forces and the Talban mil- victs, thanking the government and surgents in different areas of in Asia, as well as for enhancing fields; in the economy, in the secu- itants continued for more than endorsing the move as legitimate, Nangarhar, Paktia, Wardak, Kan- cooperation among the regional rity, in the politics as well as in the three hours. “The Afghan Nation- moralist and legal right of the gov- dahar, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Sar-e- countries. "If the idea of One Belt international issues. One of the al Army supplied necessary equip- ernment. He said several members Pul, Herat, Jowzjan, Baghlan, One Road can be successfully im- major outcomes is that government ment for the forces in the district,” of the Afghan National Security Kunduz, Takhar and Helmand plemented, it would open up the to government MoU cooperation he said, adding that situation is Forces have lost their lives in ar- old economic routes in Asia. Af- under control now. He added that resting the terror convicts, insist- provinces. “In these operations, under the initiative of 'One Belt the Taliban insurgents are making ing that the implementation of law thirty six Taliban rebels includ- ghanistan as an ancient economic and One Road'," the Chinese en- artery of the Silk Road, puts inter- efforts to win public support, against such individuals is a nation- ing two of their commanders voy said. aimed at continuing their evil de- al need considering several civil- were killed and tens were wound- connection and relationships of Former ambassador of Afghan- signs, but their efforts had been trade and investment through the ians and security personnel killed ed,” the press release said. “As a istan to China, Sultan Ahmad Ba- frustrated as the people rejected in terrorist activities of the con- result of the clearance operation, region as its top foreign policy hin, meanwhile termed China's role to support them. victs. (KP) six armed militants were killed in Andar district of Ghazni and Zurmat of Paktia, four others were wounded,” the statement said. Taliban commander arrested in Laghman AT News Report KABUL: The National Director- ate of Security (NDS) on Mon- day said that a Taliban command- er was arrested with his two com- rades in Laghman eastern prov- ince. A press statement issued here, the NDS said that its opera- tives succeeded to arrest Taliban commander named Salamat Khan along with his two colleagues through an operation in Qarghai district of Laghman province. The detained commander involved in By Farhad Naibkhel pable to defeat better the Taliban different subversive activities and attacks this year,” he claimed. He assassination of governmental fig- said that all ground combat opera- ures in the district. Two 82mm KABUL: Ministry of Defense said cannon, two mortar bullet with Monday that the security forces tions conducting by Afghan forces Filipino voters check for their names on lists before casting their votes in the country’s some other ammunition discovered had intensified night operations independently, no foreign troops and seized from captured insur- and guerilla attacks to eliminate involved in any operation. He said presidential election at a polling centre in Manila on Monday. PHOTO: AFP gents. Taliban fighters across the coun- that only foreign forces help Af- try. “Army forces strengthen night ghan forces in areal operation, raids and guerilla attacks and have when required. Pointing to Shafaq Ex-mayor killed so far eliminated high number of operation he said that the opera- SENIOR OFFICIALS ACCUSEDOFACTIVITIES Taliban and militants in different tion is going on very well and hun- recognized their positions and du- in Faryab provinces,” said Dawlat Waziri, dreds of Taliban fighters were kill- ties so far," said Nadir, a universi- spokesperson for the ministry. He ing in the past weeks. The so called OUTSIDEOFTHEIR AUTHORITY ty student. "These issues can in- KABUL : A former mayor and Omari spring offensive by Taliban two Afghan National Army said that the army gained great crease the gap between government (ANA) soldiers have been killed achievements in night raids, thus is only propaganda, Afghan forces A number of analysts and members main duties. One military affairs means that government should re- and the people. It is better that and four others wounded during the ministry concentrated over are ahead in operation in different of the public said Monday they commentator, Atiquallah Amarkhail, view its plans and activities and it government's senior officials focus separate incidents in northwest- that. He said that people cooper- provinces. Ministry of Interior believe some senior officials in gov- said that in a country like Afghani- should find its weak points. Gov- on their own responsibilities and ern Faryab province, an official ate very well with army in con- (MoI) Spokesperson Seddiq Sed- ernment, including the first Vice stan, which has a police force, an ernment should not let anyone in- duties," said Rahimullah Mansour, said on Monday. Dawlatabad dis- ducting night raids and the army diqi said that although there are President Abdul Rashid Dostum, army and security forces, there is terfere in governance," said Senator another student. Commenting on trict police chief, Col. Nimatul- struggles utmost to consider cul- threats in Helmand, but Afghan the Foreign Affairs Minister no need for officials in administra- Nisar Haris. A number of Kabul res- lah Tofan, told Pajhwok Afghan these remarks, President Ashraf tural sensations. Female Special police in cooperation with army Salahuddin Rabbani and the Presi- tive positions to do conflict man- idents meanwhile said they are con- Ghani's deputy spokesman News that Faizullah, a former Forces will be involved in search- changed the situation positively. dent's Special Envoy for Reform and agement on the battlefield. "Every- cerned about government's future if mayor of the Dawlatabad district, Shahussain Murtazawi, said: "Af- ing operations, he asserted. “Af- He said that additional police forc- Good Governance, Ahmad Zia one has his own duties and should the practice of senior officials visit- ghan government has created a bet- was killed when a magnetic bomb es sent to the province to clear ar- attached to his vehicle went off ghan forces are stronger than last Massoud, are too busy with other do their own activities," said Ama- ing the frontline prevails. "Our lead- ter situation in coordination, col- early on Monday. year, areal forces equipped, troops eas from Taliban and changed Hel- activities outside of their official rkhail. "When a cabinet minister ers have done the same thing laboration and war management, if trained better and they are will ca- mand province situation to normal. functions – and not focusing on their comes and criticizes government, it throughout history. They have not compared to the past. (ToloNews)

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been in the country for just four months. They are now refusing to leave the family home in case they are attacked again. The family say that none of the six children living in the house will be attending school for the rest of the term, with their parents talking about returning to Afghanistan because of threats they've received. "They said that Karzai: China is becoming in- this was only a warning and that creasingly active and it is a good next time they will kill us," Abdul sign. China has realized that it said. "I can't sleep after it. Last needs to engage with the region and night I was dreaming that those its neighbors. The areas we want came into my house and tried to China to get involved in are eco- kill my family and when I woke nomics, politics, military and se- up I couldn't sleep again." curity as well. Abdul, who is a first-year stu- In each of these areas, there dent at De La Salle Secondary are things for the Chinese side to School in Rathfarnham, has been do. In the political process, the living in Ireland for four years and Chinese have contacts with the is an Irish citizen. He said he has Taliban. It also has contacts with never encountered any other prob- Pakistan and can use the contacts lems since arriving here but feels to influence the Pakistani side to he can not return to school in the make sure that the commitments area. "They said: 'Why are you Pakistan has made are fulfilled. here, go back to your own coun- Militarily, there are a lot of try', and shouted the F word a lot. security problems in the region and They hit me with the black metal China also faces a security threat bar in the head and I can't really from the East Turkestan Islamic remember what happened after Movement (ETIM). The ETIM that," he added. Another family now has fighters in Afghanistan. member, who has been living in The Chinese side needs to support Dublin for six years, said that he Afghanistan to deal with these feels they have no option but to threats, particularly the ETIM and leave the country after the assault. Al Qaeda. "If the warning is this, they want GT: Some analysts believe An Afghanistan family living in and Fazal (20), which took place uncle Naqib suffered a broken to hurt us and to beat us, so what China is filling the vacuum in Af- Dublin say they fear for their lives in Ballinteer in south Dublin on cheekbone. will they do next? We are too ghanistan left by the US. What do after a racially-motivated attack Thursday night. The attack took place along scared," he said. An anti-racism vig- you think? left three of them requiring hospi- The three were cycling home Nutgrove Way, close to Marlay il in solidarity with the family Karzai: Each of them has dif- tal treatment. from the park when four men Park where the three had been takes place outside the Nugrove ferent roles. China, as a neighbor Gardai are investigating the jumped out of a car and attacked moments earlier. Shoppint Centre on Tuesday and a country directly affected by assault of Abdul Ahmadzai (13) them. Abdul was struck across the Abdul said that his uncles, who evening. Gardaí are investigating insecurity of Afghanistan, has its and two of his uncles Naqib (18) face with a metal bar, while his spent two nights in hospital, have the attack. own role. The US, as a strategic partner, has over 100,000 soldiers in Afghanistan. It also has strate- Afghanistan, together with other have done to deal with the Tali- gic concerns. For us, what is Two Afghan interpreters who risked their lives working concerned countries, has put for- ban. That’s their commitment. unique is that there are not many ward mechanisms such as the The most important thing for places where China and the US can Quadrilateral Coordination Group the QCG is to deliver. When all collaborate on a particular issue, for British troops have lost their court challenge for (QCG) to facilitate the peace pro- the four countries came, they made but Afghanistan is one such place. cess. What are the responsibilities good progress on paper, but after We want Afghanistan to be known of the Afghan government? What that they haven’t been able to show as the harbor of cooperation be- access to a Government assistance scheme questions remain over the shape results or deliver. Every country tween all global powers. Two former interpreters who Mayor of London Sadiq Khan after serving alongside our troops. of an eventual settlement and what has its own agenda, but the objec- GT: The Afghan Taliban an- Court will allow us to take this risked their lives working for Brit- makes his way to City Hall from They included: Fazel Dijilane, 23, is China’s stake? Global Times tive of the QCG is not for them to nounced on April 12 that it would legal fight forwards on behalf of ish forces in Afghanistan today lost London Bridge Station in London, who was injured by a bomb while these brave men. 'The recent re- (GT) reporter Wang Wenwen work on different agendas but par- launch a spring offensive, result- their challenge to a High Court rul- on his first day as mayor. PRESS working for the British Army in ported suicide of the former inter- talked to Hekmat Khalil Karzai ticularly focus on bringing the Tal- ing in the massive bomb blast in ing on a Government assistance ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture Afghanistan, was revealed to be preter Nangyalai Dawoodzai highl (Karzai), Afghan deputy foreign iban to the table. mid April. President Ashraf Ghani scheme. date: Monday May 9, 2016. Pho- sleeping rough in the Calais Jungle ights again how the current poli- minister and leading representative GT: Will the QCG involve any recently vowed to deal a heavier The High Court had said the to credit should read: Stefan Rous- in January. An Afghan interpreter cies are failing. 'Afghan interpret- to the QCG, over these issues. other stakeholders in the region? blow to the Taliban. How? policy was lawful despite the pair seau/PA Wire Sadiq Khan meets known only as Ahmed had his asy- ers must be treated equally to those GT: You are the head of the Karzai: If the QCG decides Karzai: The best way to look being denied access. They claimed with Met Police chief on his first lum claim rejected after a judge who served in Iraq for the brave Afghan side in the QCG on Af- that it wants to add another coun- at it is that every year, the Taliban it is unfair and unlawful because, day as... In today's case, the inter- ruled it was safe for him to go back service they gave to this country ghan Peace and Reconciliation that try, there is no problem. But the start what it refers to as the Spring with certain exceptions, assistance preters wanted the Afghan scheme to Kabul. Another Afghan military and its Armed Forces.' Liberal includes China, the US, Afghani- QCG has to make collective deci- Offensive, and each spring they try stan and Pakistan. How do you sions about including any other is not available to staff who left to cover 'locally engaged staff' em- interpreter known as Popal by Democrat leader Tim Farron, who to conduct operation in different British employment before De- evaluate this mechanism? What’s country, such as Russia, India and areas. They try to make a lot of ployed by the Ministry of De- British troops was executed as he has campaigned on the issue, said: the key in reaching a consensus Iran. It’s better to have different noise and capture territory. This cember 2012. fence (MoD) and the Foreign and tried to reach the West after he was 'These brave men have put them- among the four parties? perspectives, but at the same time, year they started what it refers to In March, their lawyers told Commonwealth Office (FCO) in denied refuge by Britain. Inter- selves and their families at risk in Karzai: The objective of the the more people you have, the as the Omari Operations, named the Court of Appeal that AL - who Afghanistan before the 2012 cut- preter Aslam Yousaf Zai was re- their efforts to aid our armed forc- QCG is to bring the Taliban to the more difficult to make decisions. after their former leader Mullah remains in hiding in Kabul - and off date. The High Court ruled that fused asylum despite believing that es in Afghanistan. 'We are demand- Mohammed Rafi Hottak, who has the 'territorial reach' of the Equali- the Taliban would murder him and ing that the current scheme be re- table. If the four parties are not At this stage at least, we can- Omar. now been granted asylum but still ty Act 2010 was not such 'as to his family if he returned to Afghan- viewed, and where necessary it able to do so, then the reality is not get an agreement between four But they were not successful has family in Afghanistan, both include the claimants' circumstanc- istan. A 26-year-old interpreter should cover locally engaged staff that they need to take actions countries, and adding more people because we were on the offensive. gave 'principled and brave' service. es' and there was no direct or indi- known as 'Chris' by British troops employed by the Ministry of De- against all of the groups that are will make it more complicated. We kept targeting them and going not going to participate in the rec- GT: China is included in the Former Afghan military inter- rect discrimination on the basis of was targeted by Taliban hitmen fence and the Foreign and Com- after them. The president has in- after he was refused asylum in onciliation. So far, all the parties’ QCG. It also reportedly proposed structed the security team to de- preters (not pictured) who worked nationality. There had been a Gov- monwealth Office in Afghanistan efforts have not brought the Tali- a four-nation regional alliance with UK and other coalition forc- ernment failure to have regard to Britain. He and his two-year-old who left employment before the velop comprehensive plans. The son were shot but survived. ban to the table. Our position is against terrorism that includes Pa- ministry of defense, the ministry es were today refused an appeal relevant equality duty matters un- 2012 cut-off date. “94 percent of against a High Court judgement der the 2010 Act when formulat- 'The campaign for the men who Afghan interpreters have received that we are going to ask each coun- kistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. of interior and our intelligence agen- they had not been discriminated ing the Afghan assistance scheme, risked their lives for British sol- death threats. Britain owes these try, China, the US and particular- How do you see China’s role in cies will target them. against but it was a procedural issue and diers in Afghanistan continues. 'We people a massive debt of gratitude ly Pakistan, to tell us what they facilitating Afghan peace talks? What we are going to do is to AL and Mr Hottak told the did not entitle the Afghans to any must be allowed to live in safety, and the government must step up make war on them because this is court they were being discriminat- relief, they declared. The appeal free of threats from the Taliban and and help those in need. 'They put what they have asked for. We have ed against and treated differently judges said that the High Court's now the Islamic State.' Rosa Curl- their lives at risk to serve along- constantly, for the past year and a from Iraqi interpreters, who were decision to do no more than grant ing from law firm Leigh Day said: side us, and the least we can do is Why Daesh chose Achin ... half, kept saying that we want peace and make sure the door to all given assistance when their lives declaratory relief was an exercise 'Our clients are very disappoint- protect them from persecution for became endangered through assist- of its discretion that could not be ed. 'We hope that the Supreme that service.' (dailymail.) into Achin. Most of them were in Achin, massacred 12 people in- peace is open. But sadly, they have ing the British in the Iraq war. faulted. There are thought to be Pakistani militants. The rebels then cluding elders in a bomb attack and chosen the way of violence. But on Monday, Lady Justice hundreds of interpreters who do built seminaries and cultivated lo- hanged and shot a number of other On April 29, the president was cal residents, as well as the Tali- people in Kot, Nazyan and Haska Arden, Lord Justice David Rich- not qualify for a relocation in the given a list of people who are on a ban, the source said, adding the pre- Mina districts in a show of strength. ards and Sir Colin Rimer rejected UK (file photo of British soldier). hit list. So the president may also dominantly Salafi fighter gradually Scene of conflict Experts and offi- their case and refused permission Others want access to an assistance analyze what can be done to deal joined forces with Daesh. The cials say Achin district, lying close to appeal to the Supreme Court. scheme run by the Government for with those issues. On our side, we move caused differences within the to the Durand Line and having for- The Daily Mail's Betrayal of the former interpreters +2 There are take the life of every Afghan ex- Taliban groups. Salafis from Ku- ests and mountains, is an ideal sanc- Brave campaign has highlighted the thought to be hundreds of inter- nar, Nuristan, Nangarhar and a num- tuary for militants. Afghan forces tremely seriously. We want to preters who do not qualify for a make sure that the operations we plight of former frontline transla- ber other provinces joined Daesh conduct operations in nearby ar- tors who remained in Afghanistan relocation in the UK (file photo of conducted are done with absolute in Achin and converted the district eas and districts and attack rebels after UK forces left and have been British soldier). Others want ac- into their stronghold. Daesh want- in Momand, Pikha and Shadal ar- care and do not jeopardize some- targeted by the Taliban because of cess to an assistance scheme run ed to extend sweep to the north eas. The areas are under the con- body’s life or their health. their service. The campaign – sup- by the Government for former in- through Sarobi and Tagab districts, trol of Daesh, but Afghan forces GT: Recently, the Afghan Tal- ported by a petition signed by near- terpreters One of the men taking but its plans had been foiled by and uprising groups have recently iban claimed to have sent a delega- ly 180,000 people, including mili- the legal action said: 'We are disap- Afghan and foreign forces, the established security posts there tion to Pakistan for peace talks. source revealed. Despite losing and curtailed rebel activity to a What’s your expectation of the tary chiefs, soldiers and MPs – has pointed by today's judgment, and many dreaded commanders and large extent, commentators claim. revealed how interpreters have we hope to be granted permission talks? How do you see Pakistan’s been shot dead or beaten. Their to appeal. ritain has faced a string leaders, Daesh still has several train- Daesh guerrillas attracted global at- role in Afghan peace talks? homes have been attacked and their of claims from former interpreters ing centres in Achin. Nangarhar po- tention when they launched their Karzai: We are not aware of lice spokesman, Col. Hazrat Hus- violent activities in Achin for the children kidnapped and murdered. who applied for asylum in the UK sain Mashraqiwal said: “Daesh has first time in April, 2015. Marty- that delegation. We don’t think this chosen Achin as its base where the ring tribal elders, beheading peo- is a delegation sent for peace talks. rebels could easily receive supplies ple on the charge of having links This is a delegation that I think the from across the Durand Line.” with the Taliban and capturing Taliban have said that they sent to Achin district chief, Haji Ghalib hundreds of individuals, Daesh Karachi to talk to the Pakistanis. DACAAR Mujahid, confirmed more than a hogged the headlines last year. Javid My Pakistani colleagues said they thousand families had arrived the Ghafoor, a political expert from were also not sure what’s going on. TENDER NOTICE district from across the border and Nangarhar province, said Pakistani This is something done tacti- most of them gradually joined the and Afghan Taliban joined the IS cally, because when the president DACAAR ITB 09 PO-00 05137/1504-31/U DC1.2.6/05.20 16 IS insurgents. Daesh planned to in Achin. He added Daesh easily went to the parliament and made a Date: May 09, 2016 capture Achin and convert it to a converted the district into its base. big speech, they were trying to say launching area for attacks on other Exploiting provincial leadership’s that “Look, we are ready for peace parts of the country, but its plan weaknesses and ideological links talks.” But we are not very clear Sealed offers are invited from qualified companies for supply of clean water and irrigation of Saplings has been frustrated and its hide- with residents of Nangarhar, Daesh about that objective of this trip. Zinda Jan, Ghoryan & Kohsan Districts of Herat Province. outs changed into its graveyard by has been able to gain strength, he Neither the Taliban nor the Paki- Afghan forces. Pounded by Afghan remarked, admitting the group had stanis have informed us. forces, hundreds of Daesh families captured areas of Shinwari and oth- have fled back to areas across the er districts in addition to having The role of Pakistan is simple. Please get the detailed tender documents from website at www.dacaar.org or DACAAR Main Office in Pakistan themselves has accepted, Durand Line, Mujahid claimed, control on 18 villages of Achin. below mentioned address. The offers should reach to DACAAR before May 29, 2016 at 4:00 P.M. saying the group had been weak- Shah Mahmod Shinwari, a resident on the record, that there is Taliban ened significantly by the recent of- of Shinwari district and a reporter leadership and the Taliban infra- The tender opening meeting will be held at 10:30 A.M on May 30, 2016. fensives. A tribal elder from Achin, with Azadi Radio, told Pajhwok structure in Pakistan. They need Shal Bacha Shinwari, said that Afghan News: “Daesh has been to put very serious pressure on Daesh had settled in the district in able to expand its presence in Shin- them so they could be brought to DACAAR Address: order to receive supplies from wari zone, using tribal differences the table. If they are able to bring across the border without any prob- as an opportunity and receiving them to the table, keep them out lem. Another motive was that Pa- equipment from across the bor- of their country and send them to DACAAR Logistics Unit kistan had plan to destabilise Achin der.” Anti-Daesh operations The us, then we can deal with them. DACAAR Main Office , Qalayee Fatullah, Road No. 12, Street No.3, House No. 403, Paykobe and pave the ground for its occu- National Directorate of Security The more militancy and the pation. He said despite the fact that (NDS) chief for Nangarhar, Gen. more terrorists in the region, the Naswar, Taimani Project, Kabul, Afghanistan. tribes in Goshta and other border Dad Mohammad Harifi, said: more difficult it will be in your own Email: [email protected] towns stood united, Pakistan oc- “Daesh wanted to capture Achin country to bring stability. Pakistan cupied some area of the district. and then launch attacks on Jalala- has suffered as well. There is a very However, Pakistan could not do so bad, but failed.” Thousands of peo- serious belief in Afghanistan that in the Shinwari district, therefore it ple from Afridi and Orakzai tribes tried to disrupt security of the area, sneaked from Waziristan tribal re- they haven’t really made that de- he maintained. Cruelty of insurgents gion into Achin, but they were cision. That’s what they need to Local officials say Daesh fighters, unable to take control of the dis- attend to so that they come to a for the first time after their arrival trict. (Pajhwok) conclusion.—(Global Times) TUESDAY . MAY 10, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

US STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN 'RECIPEFOR DISASTER,' PENTAGON terrorism and corruption," he said. Referring to the political role of Jamiat in Afghanistan's politics, REPORT WARNS Masoud said that Jamiat has played a constructive role in na- tional politics both in the past and in the present, but pushed for a greater role for Jamiat in politics. "Jamiat strongly believes in civil goals and has strong commit- EMERGENCY ments to national issues, therefore Jamiat wants to play a broader role CALLS in politics," Masoud said. Masoud also highlighted the Police main factors that led to the col- lapse of the government of Sardar Mohammad Dawoud Khan and 100 - 119 said that he was surrounded by a number of then extremists who fi- Hospitals nally dismantled his government. He said that there is a dire need FMIC Hospital to maintain political stability in the country, but for that Afghanistan Behind Kabul Medical should not allow anyone to ma- University: nipulate the political power. Masoud said that all ethnici- 0202500200-+93793275595 ties in the country must feel their presence in the political system in Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital the country. On the issue of electoral re- Pule Bagh-e- Umomi forms he said that the people of 070263672 Ahmad Zia Masoud, Advisor to of national issues including insur- tential threat to Afghanistan's po- Afghanistan want transparency in President Ashraf Ghani for Re- gency, political stability, election litical and security stability, Ma- all national processes including the forms and Good Governance, on reforms, parliamentary elections, soud called for more to be done to election process and that parlia- Khairkhana Hospital Monday said that the nation has role of Jamiat in the national poli- curb the influence of such groups mentary and district council elec- 0799-321007 dismissed a Taliban-centered ide- tics, parliamentary system and the that intend to portray threats to tions must be held. ology and there is no place for ex- negative impacts of a centralized the democratic process in the coun- "Transparency is the basic as- 2401352 tremism in Afghan society. political system. In addition, Mas- try. piration of the people in all na- "The Afghans in general have soud talked on the general politi- "We should not allow our new- tional processes. The electoral re- dismissed the ideology of Taliban cal climate of the country, and ly-established democracy to be forms must be in place. The role Indira Gandhi Children and Daesh, fundamentalism has no warned against a centralized gov- threatened by extremists. Jamiat of political parties in the election Hospital, Wazir Akbar place in our society. Therefore ernment and political system supports democracy to be institu- system and election law must be US forces in Afghanistan appear their mission at least three times. these groups continue to wage war where the decision-making is con- tionalized in our political system defined. Because the people want to have plunged into profound Some say the roots of confu- Khan, Kabul 2301372 and resort to violence in a bid to centrated on by a single person or so that there is more balance and a strong democracy," he said. confusion amid an escalating Tali- sion actually lie in politics. reach their political objectives" he unit. "The centralized political sys- better coordination between all On the political role of Jamiat ban insurgency, a heavily redacted "The rules of engagement are said. Speaking at a gathering com- tem will have negative repercus- bodies of the system," he said. in the formation of the National Pentagon report has found. "It's trapped in the jaws of political Ibn-e- Seena memorating the death anniversary sions ahead, we need to ensure the In reference to the existence of Unity Government (NUG), Ma- not a strategy and, in fact, it's a confusion about the mission," a Pul-e-Artan, Kabul of a slain leader of Jamiat-e-Islami participation and presence of the corruption in the country, he called soud said that Jamiat played a key recipe for disaster in that kind of senior Western official, who de- party Engineer Habiburrahman, people in the system," he said. for a wider government and public role in this respect and that is how kinetic environment," one soldier clined to be named, told Reuters. 2100359 Masoud took the opportunity to While the Taliban and other effort to fight the trend. they agreed on 50-50 power shar- told investigators. "Nobody in Western capitals express his views on a wide range militant groups still remain a po- "We must seriously combat ing agenda. (ToloNews) "’How far do you want to go?' seems willing to admit that Af- is not a proper response to 'How ghanistan is a worsening war zone Wazir Akbar Khan far do you want us to go?'" one and ... that their troops are still Hospital special forces member was quoted battling out a combat mission on a 2301741, 2301743 Some 500 high educated youth jobless in Farah as saying in a report into the US daily basis," he added. airstrikes on a hospital in Kunduz General Joseph Votel, head of FARAH CITY : More than 500 swered all questions properly, but director Rahmuddin Rigiwal said were jobless in the province. last year, according to Reuters. US Central Command, told a Pen- Ali Abad high educated youth are jobless in again failed to be hired and the job he was concerned about jobless- “The youth have graduated The US airstrike took lives of tagon news conference last month western Farah province and if they went to another person. ness among the youth. He said job- from Afghan and foreign universi- 42 people, including patients and that to reduce future misunder- Shahrara, Kabul did not find jobs, many of them “We are a family of10 and we lessness and migration have in- ties during the past four years, but medical staff, on October 3 when standings the US military has up- 2100439 would either join militants or leave live hand to mouth. I borrowed creased after the unity govern- due to the lack of jobs, corruption an American AC-130 Spectre gun- dated equipment and retrained the country, sources say. 400,000 afghanis to cover my ment’s coming into power. Up to and violations of merit, they re- ship opened fire on the trauma cen- 9,000 troops on the rules of en- Joblessness increased in the wedding’s dowry and other costs a 15 percent increase has been re- main jobless,” he said. ter operated by Doctors Without gagement following the incident in Malalai Maternity country after the establishment of two months ago…. I don’t know corded in migration from Farah The best way to create jobs is Borders (MSF) in the city of Kun- Kunduz. the unity government, with the list how to earn money and pay back over the past two years, he said. to maintain security and facilitate duz. It made several passes, hav- General John Nicholson said Hospital of jobless people expanding. the loan,” he said, adding he had According to recent reports, the private sector, he said, adding ing fired 211 shells at the com- in an exclusive interview with Re- 2201377/ 2301743 Mohammad Ilyas Sadat Ami- started working at an ice-cream nearly 250,000 Afghans have mi- that the unity government leaders pound in 29 minutes before com- uters last month that fighting the ri, who graduated from the agricul- selling shop to earn livelihood for grated to European countries in- had pledged work opportunities, manders realized the mistake and Taliban, Al-Qaeda and even Islam- ture faculty of Herat University his family. cluding 150,000 to Germany alone but the situation had further dete- ordered crew to hold their fire. ic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has Banks two years ago, told Pajhwok Af- Out of his 20 classmates, only over the past one year. riorated and many offices had been MSF said their staffers reached been taking up all the time and re- ghan News he struggled a lot to four have jobs and the rest are job- More than 500 youth remain closed and many people rendered NATO HQ in Afghanistan and sources of the Afghan government Da Afghanistan Bank find a simple job, but could not less, he said. jobless in Farah due to corruption jobless since the establishment of asked to cease fire immediately, but forces, putting the US plan to train 2100302, 2100303 find one because he had no ap- Mohammad Reza, who stud- in the recruitment process, said the new government. got zero result. a self-sufficient army behind proach or money to pay as bribe ied law and political science in Farid Bakhtawar, the provincial Likewise, acting labour and Twelve US military personnel schedule. to officials. 2013, is yet to get a job. “For a council head, who blamed the sit- social affairs director Mohammad were issued “administrative pun- The US role in Afghanistan has Bakhtar Bank “Since 2013, I regularly visit government job, one should pay uation on recruitment against mer- Rasul Barakzai said although ex- ishments” – but no criminal charg- dragged out much longer than orig- 0776777000 the office of the Administrative bribe or should have links with a it, connections and interference of act figures for jobless educated es – over the bombing of the hos- inally anticipated, with President Reforms and Civil Service Com- party, otherwise he/she should not lawmakers in the recruitment pro- youth are not known, their pital, officials revealed to media in Barack Obama canceling the initial Azizi Bank mission to know about any new try,” he said. cess. strengthen could be more than 400 March. plan to withdraw the majority of vacancy, but in vain,” he said. Recently, Reza applied for a “These are the reasons nearly in Farah. The 700-page report, much of troops in 2014 in exchange for a 0799 700900 Recently Amiri sat an exam to position of a monitoring officer at 70 percent of government employ- Many of the jobless youths it blacked out for security reasons, blueprint to scale back forces by Pashtany Bank be recruited as a teacher at the ag- the literacy section of the educa- ees are unprofessional,” the pub- graduated from universities over sheds light on how the rules are early 2017. riculture department of Farah. He tion department of Farah, but he lic representative said, claiming the past two or three years, he said, not clearly understood even by At that point, 5,500 troops 2102908, 2103868 passed the exam and was approved could not get the job because he that some youth had joined the adding the joblessness had in- some troops on the ground, Reu- would remain in the country to by the ministry, but later his ap- had no links with officials. Taliban over the past two years creased by 20 percent in Farah since ters reported. work with Afghan forces – down Air Services pointment was rejected for un- There are many educated peo- after failing to find jobs. the unity government came into "It's not a strategy and, in fact, from the current 9,800 soldiers. known reasons. ple who are jobless in Farah and Some residents also accused power. “We also conducted pro- it's a recipe for disaster in that kind Plans to completely remove all US Late, a 14-grade pass person, most of them are struggling with the provincial council members of fessional and vocational trainings of kinetic environment," one sol- troops have not been announced. Safi Airways not more educated than Amiri, was economic issues, he said. “If the interfering in the recruitment pro- for hundreds of uneducated men dier, whose identity was not re- Obama's decision to delay the 020 22 22 222 recruited on the position because government doesn’t pay attention cess, but Bakhtawar said he had and women, but we haven’t con- vealed in the report, was quoted withdrawal of troops was seen as a lawmaker recommended him for to the issue of joblessness, the asked all members not to interfer- ducted any such programme for ed- as saying. He reportedly added that a U-turn from his campaign prom- Ariana the post. Amiri then appeared in youth would be finally obliged to ence in the recruitment process. ucated people so far,” he said. The his unit, meant to advise and as- ise to bring soldiers home, and his another exam for the post of a san- join militants, commit crimes or A civil society organization only option to overcome jobless- sist Afghan forces without engag- repeated rhetoric that he does not 020-2100270 itation and greenery manager at the leave the country.” chairman, Baryalai Ghafari, said ness is to maintain security and ing in combat, asked for command- support the “idea of endless war.” municipality department. He an- Farah refugee and repatriation more than 500 educated youth establish factories in the province. ers to clarify the rules governing Posting rulesFAQ Kam Air 0799974422 Hotels MUBARI Z BEATS HI S Safi Landmark RUSSI AN MMA RI VAL 020-2203131 SERENA Writer and photographer Ed 261. 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The murders of liberals, bloggers, 2013 seeking capital punishment secularists and LGBT rights activ- for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul ists continue in Bangladesh. Over Quader Molla and a ban on the the past few weeks, a Hindu tai- organisation. To the ruling Awami lor, a gay rights advocate, a social League’s credit, the government set media activist and a Sufi leader have up the war crimes trials despite been killed by suspected Islamists. threats from the Islamists. It also ISLAMABAD: Alarmed at India’s The exact identity of the killers is sought thus to delegitimise groups naval nuclear ambitions, Islamabad widely contested. The Jamaat-e- such as the Jamaat-e-Islami that has taken up New Delhi’s recent Islami, the leading Islamist group, had harboured war criminals and test of a submarine-launched, nu- denies any link to the attacks — allied themselves with powerful clear-capable ballistic missile with while many disagree with the political forces, including succes- its arch rival, amid fears the move breezy attempt to connect the Is- sive military dictatorships and the has serious implications for stra- lamic State to the killings. Any Bangladesh Nationalist Party, to tegic stability in South Asia. which way you look at them, the stall the transition of Bangladesh Last month, India confirmed murders cannot be seen in isola- into a progressive, democratic na- it tested the K-4 missile, which can tion from the ongoing war crimes tion state. But Prime Minister be launched by a submarine and trials of those who collaborated Sheikh Hasina has tended to limit carry a nuclear warhead up to with the Pakistan Army during the her government’s role to prosecut- 3,500 kilometres away. The con- Liberation War of 1971, causing ing the trials. The government has firmation came after secret tests countless deaths in the months failed to bring the assassins of blog- were done in March in the Indian leading up to the creation of Bang- gers, rights activists and others to Ocean. Indian nuclear security ladesh. The attacks are but indica- justice — it perhaps fears a great- measures weaker than Pakistan’s: tions of a battle being waged be- er blowback from the Islamists if report The move not only raised tween two sets of ideas on the it does so. As crucially, it is refus- eyebrows in Pakistan but also country’s past, present and future. ing to articulate the political narra- caused concerns as India did not The first set imagines Bangladesh tive connecting the attacks to the give prior notification to Islama- as a nation born of a struggle against war crimes trials. This abdication bad as part of the broader under- the linguistic and cultural hegemo- exposes ordinary citizens as the standing existing between the two ny of what was then West Paki- first line of defence against extrem- countries before conducting ballis- stan, and founded on a commit- ism. Ms. Hasina will be jeopardis- tic missile tests. “This is a serious ment to liberal, secular and civic ing Bangladesh’s future as a demo- development. Since 1988 both values. The second imagines the cratic nation if her government countries formally or informally country not in civic terms but as does not rally on the side of the inform each other about such mis- yet another outpost of political rights activists against the Islam- sile tests but this time India chose Islam. The activists have bravely ists. Already, groups such as the otherwise,” said a senior Foreign taken positions on the front lines Islamic State seem to be embold- Office official while requesting of this struggle against Islamists. ened by the actions of the Islam- anonymity. Pakistan and India It is this stark contrast that has ists and have publicly sought to signed a landmark agreement in rendered the rights activists sworn deepen their base in Bangladesh. 2005 on the pre-notification of enemies of the Islamists. The longer the government remains ballistic missile tests in order to The sharp battle lines, drawn on the sidelines in this fight for prevent misunderstanding and mis- ideologically and on the streets, go secularism, the stronger the forces interpretations, and promote a sta- back to the Shahbag protests in of extremism will become. ble environment of peace and se- curity between the two countries. The official said given the sensi- tivity of the nuclear issue, the two Its recent test of a nuclear-capable ballistic m issile has serious im plications for strategic stability in South Asia. STOCK PHOTO countries, even before entering a Nepal t eenager formal arrangement, had a ‘broad- er understanding’ to inform each time ignored this understanding. Corridor(CPEC) is a clear exam- to geopolitics by going nuclear in structured dialogue following the other about missile tests. “This Strategic affairs expert Dr Ishtiaq ple of this paradigm change,” said the Indian Ocean,” he explained. attack on the Pathankot airbase in t hought dead practice even continued when the Ahmed said the ‘nuclearisation of Dr Ishtiaq, who is director of He viewed the Indian move not to January. Although, foreign secre- two countries have not had the best Indian Ocean’ will certainly alter School of Politics and Internation- give advance notification of the test taries of the two countries met in relationship,” the official added. the ‘strategic balance’ in this part al Relations at Quaid-e-Azam Uni- to Pakistan as a sign of growing New Delhi at the sidelines of a shocks communit y The official said Pakistan had raised of the region. “In recent years, versity. Marshall Islands takes on tension and trust-deficit between conference on Afghanistan, the two the issue with Indian authorities there is a shift in Pakistan’s focus India, Pakistan with nuclear warn- the two countries. This all hap- sides could not agree on the formal through diplomatic channels to from geopolitics to geoeconomics ing at UN court “But India ap- pened at a time Pakistan and India start of comprehensive bilateral by ret urning explain as to why New Delhi this and China Pakistan Economic pears to be dragging Pakistan back have been struggling to resume the dialogue. Bhupal Adhikari w as m issing for m onths, declared dead and supposedly buried before reappearing in his rural hom e PIM S b eg in s p r o b e family. Mr. Adhikari and his brother, In d ia w a n t s ev er y o n e w ho Arun, 14, were entrusted to the care of their father, who, relatives said, in t o co n t r o v er sia l abandoned the boys. “Papa didn’t sha r es lo ca t io n d a t a t o g et a take good care of us,” said Arun. “We survived on the handouts from M a ula n a Fa zl v id eo the relatives and neighbors.” The licen se – o r fa ce a $ 150 K fin e father couldn’t be reached for com- The Indian government has issued attack on the Pathankot Air Force It’s also likely to do little to ment. Mr. Adhikari would some- a proposal to regulate how com- Station in the northern state of stop terrorist attacks. Since the times assist a local businessman panies and individuals create and Punjab, which took the lives of rules in the bill only apply within who rented out his tractor to farm- share mapping data about the coun- seven security personnel and one India and to Indians outside the ers. “I sent him back to his home try, and it’s probably one of its civilian in January. country, it won’t restrict foreign with 1,000 rupees for whatever work worst ideas yet. The trouble with this pro- military forces and terrorists be- he did, but he hardly knew what The Geospatial Information posal is that, by requiring a license yond India’s borders from sourc- Bhupal Adhikari with his money was about,” said Bijay Regulation Bill (PDF), which is for creating geospatial data, it will ing map data from elsewhere. Limbu, the tractor owner. About a currently only a draft and is open put a spanner in the works of ev- Although Kiren Rijiju, Union mother. PHOTO: ABDHESH month after Mr. Adhikari disap- KUMAR JHA/KANTIPUR to feedback until June 4, will make ery app that relies on location data Minister of State for Home Affairs peared, a villager spotted a decom- it illegal to publish map-related in- in India, including Google Maps, of India promised that, “We won’t On a quiet spring afternoon, just posing human body in a nearby for- formation or even share location Twitter, Uber, restaurant directory create hurdles for business and days before a series of earthquakes est. Police said the remains were in data without a license from a gov- Zomato and even tools to map ar- technological development,” it’s ravaged much of central Nepal last a yellow vest and pants. One of Mr. ernment vetting agency. Those eas hit by natural disasters and hard to imagine the bill doing any- year, 17-year-old Bhupal Adhikari Adhikari’s relatives identified the found violating its rules will face a point out relief centers. thing but create logjams for apps vanished from his family’s village. clothing as his. The family claimed fine of at least Rs. 10 million It’s not just app developers and digital projects that require He was missing for months, the remains and buried them. (roughly $150,000), going up to that will require a license. As per map data in the country and force declared dead and supposedly bur- Manmaya Adhikari, Mr. Adhikari’s Rs. 1 billion (about $15 million) the current draft, every end user developers and individuals to wade ied before he shocked his commu- mother, was working as a maid in along with imprisonment for up of these apps who does things like through red tape, if it comes into nity and his country by reappear- Saudi Arabia at the time and hadn’t to seven years. shares their location with a friend, effect. ing in his rural home. Mr. Adhikari been able to call home so it wasn’t Some of the biggest names in posts a status update, or uploads The draft was published only has autism and before he disap- until she came home months later tech are coming to TNW Confer- a photo with meta-data, is effec- days after India finished setting up peared, he was attending a class that she heard about her son’s dis- The administration at Pakistan In- room for doubt about the doctors ence in Amsterdam this May. tively creating mapping informa- its own satellite-based navigation for students with special needs. appearance. “I felt as if the sky had stitute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) guilt,” he added. Maulana Fazl was According to a government of- tion and will have to get one too. system, NAVIC. His teacher, Narbada Devi Dahal, fallen down on me,” she said. “I has initiated proceedings to pun- admitted to the institute on April ficial who spoke to The Economic While the bill states that the A group of concerned citizens said he was making good progress. fainted.” Because she missed Mr. ish one of its staff doctors for re- 28 for stomach-related issues and Times, the bill was proposed as a security vetting agency will con- have launched a campaign to edu- “He had learned to button his shirt Adhikari’s funeral, she organized a cording and uploading an objection- discharged the same afternoon af- way to rein in Google after the cern itself only with information cate people about the issues with and write a few letters and numer- second one so she could participate. able video of Jamiat Ulema Islam- ter medical treatment. After a few company failed to mask military pertaining to sensitive areas like the bill and urge them to write to als,” Ms. Dahal said. His family Shortly after this second ceremony, Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur hours, a video was uploaded on locations. military bases, it’s clear that this the Ministry of Home Affairs with members say he often wandered however, Mr. Adhikari shocked ev- Rehman on social media last social media by an anonymous He said, “Terrorists plot is an over-reaching and poorly their thoughts. Hopefully it’ll gain off, only to return a week or so eryone by re-emerging in the vil- month, officials said. An assurance person displaying the JUI-F lead- strikes on sensitive targets study- thought out plan to police map- enough traction to prevent this later. But in April, 2015 he left lage. “‘Dead Teen’s Return Shocks to that effect was given to his son, er being treated by a lady health ing Google Maps,” referring to the ping apps. myopic bill from becoming law. home and was gone for months. All … ” read one headline in the Asjad Mehmood, by the hospital worker in the ward room. Senior Mr. Adhikari’s tale highlights the Himalayan Times. Abdhesh Kumar administration. Mehmood had members of the administration re- difficulty for people with autism– Jha, who reported the story for lodged a formal complaint against solved to initiate disciplinary ac- a lifelong condition that can limit a Kantipur, Nepal’s largest Nepali- Dr Khawaja Waseem Ahmed fol- tion against the accused after an Recalled Nepal person’s ability to communicate, language daily, said he got calls for lowing the video’s release. Disci- inquiry committee found him Pakistan m ust speed up learn and function–and other de- days from people wondering if it plinary action against the doctor guilty of professional misconduct. envoy says velopmental disorders in poor was true. may result in his dismissal. PIMS Few of the doctor’s colleagues en- reform , em ploy m ore w om en charges against countries like Nepal. The World “People were probably amused doctor suspended after video of deavoured to persuade Mehmood Health Organization estimates that by the fact that somebody who was JUI-F leader undergoing medical for a pardon but he flatly refused for grow th: W orld Bank him false autism, learning disabilities and supposed to have died returned treatment goes viral On April 28, such requests. Earlier, the doctor mental illness affect 10% to 20% alive,” he said. “I was shocked and the doctor had secretly recorded himself apologised to Mehmood so happy at the same time,” Mrs. ISLAMABAD, May 9 Pakistan government expects its electricity of children and adolescents world- the JUI-F chief on video when he but in vain. Mehmood had received must speed up reform of the en- rationing system of "load-shed- wide. For communities that lack Adhikari, the mother, said. It’s not was undergoing a medical check- at least seven text messages from clear where Mr. Adhikari was for ergy sector and bring more women ding" to end by 2018 after it signed resources, caring for them is espe- up for abdominal issues, the com- Dr Ahmed who has been suspend- into the labour force if it wants to more than $30 billion in energy gen- cially difficult. In developing coun- the eight months. He told The Wall plainant had alleged in his letter to ed by hospital authorities for up- Street Journal in one interview that quicken economic growth that lags eration projects as part of the $46 tries like Nepal, often “there is no the PIMS administration. “There loading the video on the social far behind regional peers, the World billion China-Pakistan Economic social support system, enabling he had gone to Mumbai in India. In were only four persons present in media. another interview, he said he had Bank's country representative said Project. But efforts to privatise a environment, acceptance, and vis- the ward,” the complainant said Asjad Mehmood lodged a for- on Monday. The World Bank ex- host of electricity distribution ibility” for persons like Mr. been to Delhi. “I went to earn some before the committee while his mal complaint protesting against money,” he said in a phone inter- pects Pakistan's economy to ex- companies have stalled, as have Adhikari, said Jagannath statement was being recorded. the doctor’s misconduct who was pand by 4.5 percent in 2016, miss- other reforms. Patchamuthu said Lamichhane, principal coordinator view. “But I didn’t make any money. “There was no other person assigned to supervise the medical I was hungry.” Some people were ing the government's 5.5 percent the government has been focused Nepal’s ambassador to India Deep of the Movement for Global Men- present in the ward room, apart treatment. Before ordering an in- target and trailing behind other on power generation, but it must Kumar Upadhyay accused his tal Health, an advocacy group. Mr. worried that having a neighbor who from my father, myself, a lady quiry, PIMS management had also had already been officially put to South Asian nations where growth also seek to improve distribution government of levelling false Adhikari’s mother, like many health worker who was attending tendered an unconditional apolo- is expected to average about 7 per- and upgrade ancient transmission charges against him. Upadhyay Nepalis, worked in the Middle rest–twice–could be bad luck for to the patient and Dr Ahmed,” gy to the JUI-F chief, his family the village cent this year. The bank sees 2017 systems. "A lot more needs to be was recalled by the government on East to earn money to support her Mehmood revealed. “It left no and followers. growth edging up to 4.8 percent in done in the next several years to Friday for allegedly colluding with Pakistan, a nation of 190 million build up the whole power infra- India to topple the KP Oli govern- people. Experts say the economy structure," he said. Patchamuthu ment back home. Australia sen ds back Sri Lan kan asylum seekers needs to expand by at least 6 per- said another way for Pakistan to He told an Indian newspaper cent a year to absorb new entrants significantly boost growth is re- that he never accompanied the In- Australia's immigration minister ers coming to Australia by sea has and 90% of them are genuine refu- preme court recently ruled that the to the work force. Illango forming its male-dominated labour dian envoy to the Terai region as says a group of asylum seekers plunged due to tough policies such gees, turning them back to places facility was "illegal" under its con- Patchamuthu, the World Bank market, where women account for has been alleged by the Nepalese who reached the country's Cocos as offshore processing and boat not signed up to the refugee con- stitution. "I think it will be a couple country director, said Pakistan had only 22 percent of the workforce. government. Kathmandu’s recall Islands territory last week has been tow-backs. vention is problem," she said. of months to sort through legal is- benefited from a collapse in global "If Pakistan wants to get to 7-8 order came after he resisted the sent back to Sri Lanka. The vessel, Mr Dutton used his press con- Mr Dutton said these com- sues," Mr Dutton said, meaning oil prices and tough fiscal measures percent (growth) with structural government’s decision to postpone carrying 12 people, came within ference to criticise the opposition ments showed that the Labor party the decision would come after the by the government over the past reforms, they also have to much President Bidhya Devi Bhandari’s 500m of Home Island.Immigration Labor party's position on secur- was "split" in regards to immigra- 2 July election. few years to stabilise the more in drawing women into the visit to India. Minister Peter Dutton said the ing Australia's borders. tion policy. This was disputed by Australia sends intercepted economy. But he urged faster re- labour force," he said. Many Paki- He said it was going to hurt asylum seekers, all Sri Lankans, On Monday a Labor MP, opposition leader Bill Shorten. asylum seekers to offshore loca- form in the energy sector, which stani men object to women work- ties with India. Curiously, he con- were returned on 6 May. Sophie Ismail, said she had con- "One thing I will never do is put tions Manus Island and Nauru. has suffered decades of under-in- ing and in 2014 Pakistan was tinues to stay put in his post in He also announced that Aus- cerns about Australia's controver- the people smugglers back in busi- The government says the jour- vestment. Businesses say frequent ranked as the second worst nation Delhi “We have not received any tralia had intercepted three asylum sial immigration policies. "I have ness," Mr Shorten said in a televi- ney asylum seekers make is dan- power outages hurt growth and in the world for gender equality official communication from boats so far this year, but did not concerns about turn-backs, I don't sion interview, indicating many of gerous and controlled by criminal investment. "To me, the whole after Yemen, according to the Glo- Kathmandu over ambassador’s re- provide details on the other two think they should be on the table," Australia's policies would remain gangs, and they have a duty to stop story around power reforms is still bal Gender Gap Report published call. What we know is only through boats. The Cocos Islands are a re- Ms Ismail said, according to me- unchanged if Labor won the elec- it. However, critics say opposi- only half done," Patchamuthu told by the World Economic Forum. media. mote chain of islands and atolls dia reports. tion. Manus decision delayed tion to asylum is racially motivated Reuters in an interview. He said "There are social and cultural chal- So he very much remains in located between Sri Lanka and the File photo shows a boat of Meanwhile, Mr Dutton also re- and is damaging Australia's repu- Pakistan must tackle its so-called lenges," Patchamuthu said. "But if his current position,” sources in west coast of the Australian main- asylum seekers off Christmas Is- vealed the fate of asylum seekers tation. circular debt problem, which stems the women are skilled and they are the Nepal embassy said. Nepal land. The announcement was made land in 2012. The Australian gov- held at Australia's detention facil- Two asylum seekers on Nauru from unpaid government subsidies given the right opportunities • the had on Saturday cancelled the visit on Monday, the first official day ernment no longer discusses "on- ity on Manus Island in Papua New recently set themselves on fire, in- that build up until power plant economy is only going to bloom of its President Bidhya Devi of Australia's federal election cam- water operations" Guinea would not be decided for cluding a 23-year-old man who owners cannot afford fuel. It and blossom." (Writing by Drazen Bhandari to India hardly 72 hours paign. The number of asylum seek- "When people arrive by boat, months. Papua New Guinea's su- died of his injuries. stands at about $3 billion. The Jorgic; Editing by Robert Birsel) before her departure for Delhi. TUESDAY . MAY 10, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

News-in-Brief Russia showcases Hariri-backed Syria hardware list wins Beirut in Red Square municipality vote military parade A list backed by mainstream MOSCOW: Russia rolled out an Lebanese parties has won Beirut air defense missile system of the municipality elections, its leader kind used to protect its base in said early on Monday, seeing off Syria and some of the Russian jets a challenge by an independent flying missions there screamed movement that had sought to gal- overhead as it showcased its mili- vanize voters angry with politi- tary war machine on Moscow's cal paralysis. Red Square on Monday. Local media reported a deci- The grand parade, an annual sive victory for the “Beirutis” fixture commemorating the Soviet list, headed by Jamal Itani, after Union's victory over the Nazis in his announcement based on ini- World War Two, took place in tial results. Final results were to bright sunshine as President be announced later on Monday. Vladimir Putin looked on from a The municipality elections tribune filled with Soviet war vet- that got underway on Sunday erans, some of whom wore rows mark the first vote in Lebanon in of campaign medals and clutched six years: parliamentary elections red roses. that were due to be held in 2013 The Russian leader, whose have been postponed twice due forces annexed Ukraine's Crimea to political instability exacerbated in 2014 and are now helping Syri- by the Syrian conflict. Elections an President Bashar al-Assad's are due to be held across the coun- army, watched as thousands of try for the next two weeks. troops marched across the cobbled Turnout in Beirut was around square to the strains of martial 20 percent, local media said. music. The list that won Beirut was The authorities, backed by backed by established groups in- state media, use the event to en- cluding the Future Movement of courage patriotism, reinforce na- Sunni Muslim politician Saad al- tional identity, for geopolitical Hariri, a former prime minister. point scoring, and to underscore There are 24 seats on the munici- the importance of having a strong pality. military to protect the country's It saw off the challenge by borders. the recently formed “Beirut "It (the commemoration) has Madinati” movement that become a symbol of sacred close- emerged from a wave of public ness between Russia and its peo- anger last summer over the ple," Putin told the parade. "And government’s failure to solve a in such unity and loyalty to the waste disposal crisis that resulted motherland lies our strength, our in rubbish piling up around the confidence, and our dignity." city. The Kremlin also now uses the event to show how a multi- billion dollar modernization pro- gram is changing the face of the Turkey left to fight Russian military with new weap- ISIS alone: Erdogan ons and hardware. Some politicians in former So- viet republics or satellite states Turkish President Recep Tayyip regard the parade as crude sabre- Erdogan on Sunday accused the rattling by a resurgent Russia they international coalition battling say poses a threat to Europe's se- ISIS in Syria of leaving his coun- curity. Russia dismisses such alle- try to fight the extremists alone gations as nonsense. on its own soil. “They have left Columns of tanks followed the us alone in our struggle against Iran successfully tested a precision- its missiles over the past year, error margin means ... full accu- missile capable of carrying a nuclear implemented the nuclear deal it troops as did the advanced S-400 this organization which is shed- guided medium-range ballistic mis- which it says will make them a racy," the Tasnim news agency warhead. Iran says the missiles are reached with world powers last air defense missile system, which ding our blood both through sui- sile two weeks ago, a military offi- more potent deterrent with con- quoted Brigadier General Ali not designed to carry nuclear war- year. Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali is deployed in Syria to protect the cide bombings and by attacks on cial said on Monday, as Tehran ventional warheads against its en- Abdollahi as saying. The United heads, which it does not possess. Khamenei said in March that mis- Russian air base there. Russia's lat- Kilis,” he said, referring to a continues to bolster what it insists emy Israel. "We tested a missile States and some European pow- Washington has imposed new sanc- sile development was key to the est Yars mobile intercontinental Turkish border town regularly is a purely defensive arsenal. The with a range of 2,000 kms (1,240 ers have said other recent tests vio- tions on Tehran over recent tests, Islamic Republic's future, in order nuclear missile launcher was also targeted by rockets fired from Islamic Republic has worked to miles) and eight meters error mar- late a United Nations resolution even after it lifted nuclear-related to maintain its defensive power on show. Syria. “In Syria none of those improve the range and accuracy of gin two weeks ago. An eight-meter that prohibits Iran from firing any sanctions in January as Tehran and resist threats from its enemies. Scores of military aircraft flew who say they are fighting Daesh over Red Square, including jets (ISIS) have suffered the kind of which emitted multi-colored losses that we have, nor paid smoke to trace the red, blue and such a heavy price as us,” added white colors of the Russian flag in Erdogan, speaking at a film con- the sky. test in Istanbul. Turkey is on China landslide death toll climbs to 22 Putin, in his speech, largely maximum alert after a series of confined his remarks to the impor- attacks attributed to ISIS in re- BEIJING (Reuters) - The death tance of the wartime victory. But cent months, with Ankara and he also spoke of the need to fight Istanbul among the places tar- toll in a landslide in China's south- eastern Fujian province has risen global terrorism and to cooperate geted. Last summer Turkish with other nations to do that. forces began carrying out air to 22, with 17 people still miss- ing, state media said on Monday. "Terrorism has become a glo- strikes against the group across bal threat," said Putin. "We must the border. The border town of The landslide, triggered on Sunday by heavy rain, hit a hy- defeat this evil. And Russia is open Kilis has come under frequent to uniting efforts with other gov- attack from rockets fired across droelectric power station that was under construction in Fujian's ernments, is ready to work on the the border from Syria that have creation of a modern non-bloc sys- killed at least 21 people, Taining County. President Xi Jinping had demanded that local tem of international security." prompting the army to respond State media criticized governments with howitzer fire. Ankara also officials step up rescue efforts. "As of 1 p.m., 22 bodies had in Ukraine and Poland in the run- allows US jets to use its air base up to the parade for systematical- in southern Turkey for air strikes been found at the scene and two people who were on the missing ly dismantling wartime monu- on the extremist group. ments in honor of Soviet forces, Turkish forces on Saturday list had been found alive and safe," the official Xinhua news agency accusing them of dishonoring the launched a salvo of artillery troops who liberated them from strikes on northern Syria that said, citing authorities. Persistent rain has made res- the southern city of Shenzhen bur- safety rules for that disaster and a Sunday's landslide is the lat- safety standards and lack of over- the Nazis. Ruling politicians in killed 55 ISIS members, Turkish both countries disagree, saying news agencies reported. cue work more difficult, Xinhua ied 77 people. The government has number of officials have been ar- est accident to have raised ques- sight over years of rapid economic said. In December, a landslide in blamed breaches of construction rested. tions about China's industrial growth. Soviet troops were occupiers. The monuments are being pulled down Syrian priso n e rs as part of a de-communisation drive, they say. Vladimir Noros- in ten tative deal Court upholds sentences for ov, 90, a Soviet veteran in Mos- to en d m utin y Fran ce to create regio n al cow for the parade, said he was Boko Haram insurgents in Lagos angered by such remarks. "We fought together, myself and my A tentative deal has been reached ‘de-radicalisation’centres: PM LAGOS: An appeal court judge in Polish brothers," he told Reuters. to end a strike in a Syrian prison Nigeria's financial capital, Lagos, "How many people died fighting by nearly 800 mostly political has upheld 25-year jail terms im- to liberate that country? What they detainees that would eventually posed on three men found guilty are doing now is disgraceful." lead to the pardon and release of at a secret trial of terror charges those held without charges, rights linked to Boko Haram. groups and activists in touch The Lagos State government Migrants freed with inmates said on Monday. said in a statement Sunday that They said the deal brokered judge Ibrahim Buba at the Court from Greek deten- late on Sunday would end a mu- of Appeal last Friday "affirmed the tiny in the Hama prison in cen- judgement" of the Federal High tion, trapped in tral Syria that started last week Court in September 2014. lim bo on islands when political detainees revolt- The trio were found guilty of ed after five inmates were to be conspiracy, acts of terrorism, con- ATHENS: Migrants and refugees taken to the notorious Sadnaya cealing information and possession are being freed from detention cen- prison for the execution of death of firearms and ammunition, it cess and a fair trial. tres in Greece but remain trapped sentences passed by an extra-ju- added. The men were charged in on its islands until their asylum dicial military tribunal. Charges were dropped against March 2013 with conspiracy, acts requests are processed, exposing “The regime has agreed to 13 others while a fourth defendant of terrorism, concealing informa- them to dire living conditions and most of our demands to release was acquitted on the grounds of tion and possession of firearms and even the risk of people smugglers, those political detainees held N e w an ti-te rro r m e as u re s are u n ve ile d in Fran ce fo llo w in g th e attacks in Paris in 2 0 15, in clu din g th e m o s t de adly at th e Bataclan co n ce rt ve n u e . lack of evidence. ammunition. The three defendants human rights groups say. without charges,” said a rights The state justice commissioner -- identified by the state govern- At least 1,100 people have activist in touch with two in- PARIS: France will create centres 2018 on top of the current fund- market in January 2015, killing 17 at the time said the 17 suspects ment as Ali Mohammed Modu, been released from centres on three mates who requested anonymi- in each region of the country to ing, aims to double existing efforts people, and then 130 people were were arrested in the Lekki and Ijora Adamu Ali Karumi and Ibrahim islands and more will follow as ty. de-radicalise people or prevent to try to help people already in killed in coordinated attacks on the suburbs of Lagos and found with Usman Ali -- lodged an appeal their 25-day detention limit ex- The prisoners seized the them becoming involved in jihad- jihadist networks or those likely capital claimed by the Islamic State improvised explosives, firearms against conviction and sentence. pires, police officials said. They prison 210 km from Damascus, ist groups, the prime minister said to join such groups. Valls said the group last November. Both sets of and ammunition. Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency, are forbidden from travelling to the and took hostages from guards. Monday as he laid out new anti- first de-radicalisation centre could attacks were carried out mainly by The explosives were "fully which has predominantly affected mainland, where most state-run That prompted a siege in terror measures. "The fight against be set up by this summer. The French citizens who had become primed and ready to be deployed", northeast Nigeria, has left at least shelters are. which the authorities tried to jihadism is without doubt the big measures are a response to the radicalised and fought abroad Ade Ipaye told reporters. 20,000 people dead and made more Some 8,000 people, many es- storm the civilian prison on Fri- challenge of our generation," Man- deaths of 147 people in jihadist alongside jihadist groups. The au- The original trial was held be- than 2.6 million people homeless caping the Syrian war, have arrived day using tear gas bombs and uel Valls said, flanked by the inte- attacks in France last year. Jihad- thorities consider nearly 10,000 hind closed doors on the grounds since 2009. on boats from Turkey since March rubber bullets in an attempt to rior and justice ministers. The ist gunmen stormed the Paris of- people in France to be radicalised of national security, he added, but But very few fighters detained and are held under a European end the rebellion. Leading Syri- plan, which will cost an additional fices of Charlie Hebdo satirical and capable of violent actions, ac- human rights groups raised con- by the military over that time have Union deal with Ankara designed an rights activist Mazen Dar- 40 million euros ($45.5 million) by newspaper and a Jewish super- cording to Le Parisien newspaper. cerns about transparency, due pro- been charged and prosecuted. to seal off the main route into Eu- wish, a former detainee in the rope for over a million people since prison and in touch with the pris- 2015. Under the deal, those who oners, said a verbal agreement had do not seek asylum in Greece - and been reached, but did not give Vietn am po lice break up pro test o ver fish deaths those who are rejected - will be details. Another rights activist in sent back to Turkey. Asylum ap- touch with inmates said the deal plications are piling up and rulings was brokered after tribal figures Pro testers gather o n ce again in H an o i accusin g Taiw an ese co m pan y o f causin g m ass fish deaths. can take weeks. The United Na- intervened with the authorities tions refugee agency UNHCR said who gave assurances to inmates it was supporting government ef- held without charge they would Vietnamese police have detained deaths emerged a month ago in the of-the-art steel mill. "You cannot forts to create new spaces. "All be released if they ended their dozens of protesters in the capi- central province of Ha Tinh, where have both," the official said. The parties are working very hard to revolt. The Syrian interior min- tal, where demonstrators gathered the Taiwanese Formosa company company later apologised for the meet the needs of the human be- istry has denied the reports for the second time in a week to runs a steel plant. Fish were also comments and has launched its ings present on Greek islands," said about Hama central prison but denounce a Taiwanese company washed ashore in three other prov- own inquiry but public anger is Chris Boian, a spokesman in has not elaborated on the issue they accuse of causing fish deaths inces along a stretch of 200km. An growing. "Never has the Vietnam- Greece. Asked if those stranded on since Monday. The UK Obser- in central coastal provinces. A initial official investigation did not ese sea been this badly polluted," the islands were vulnerable to hu- vatory for Human Rights had group of protesters sat on the bank blame the fish deaths on Formosa's army veteran Nguyen Manh Trung, man traffickers offering to take confirmed a deal was in the of a big lake in Hanoi on Sunday $10.6bn coastal steel plant and 68, told the AFP news agency. them to the mainland, Boian said: works to release 26 detainees. before police shepherded them on Formosa denies any wrongdoing. Last week, hundreds took to the "The risk does exist and that The authorities previously re- to a waiting bus, witnesses told As the scandal unfolded in April a streets in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh is the one reason UNHCR advo- leased 46 detainees under Red the Reuters news agency. Demon- Formosa communications official City, Vietnam's second-largest city, pressed by uniformed and plain- has invited experts from Germany, cates full access to asylum and ex- Crescent mediation until negoti- strators were also put on buses at was sacked after he said Vietnam to vent their anger. clothes police. State-controlled Japan, the US and Israel to inspect pansion of the asylum service and ations broke down. a square in front of the nearby needed "to choose whether to catch Demonstrations are rare in media has not reported any of the the Ha Tinh site in an attempt to alternative legal entry channels (to Hanoi Opera House. The fish mass fish and shrimp or to build a state- Vietnam and are often quickly sup- demonstrations. The government find the cause of the fish deaths. Europe)." TUESDAY . MAY 10, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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The constitution says By Aimal Faizi yaround 4,000 Afghan detain- third time publicly since becom- prochement between Ghani and ees held in Bagram prison with- ing president) to take military the Pakistani military leader- Suffering from a frenzied re- out any legal process, despite action against Taliban’s “cen- ship proved to be one-sided. sponse to the increasing terror- concerns raised by the human tres inside Pakistan and whose As Frud Bezhan, a Kabul- ist threats emanating from Pa- rights organisations. leaders are residing inside Pa- based journalist, puts it: “Ghani Article Twenty-Five: Innocence is the original state. The accused shall be kistan, President Ashraf Ghani Ghani signed a decree last kistan”. The demand was not banked nearly all his political has hardened his position on year which, according to inter- new. capital on his controversial innocent until proven guilty by the order of an authoritative court. war and peace in Afghanistan. national human rights groups, Last August and earlier this outreach to and appeasement Under a recent presidential allows the detention without year, after some deadly terror- of Pakistan - who many in Af- directive, the Afghan security trial of Afghans suspected of ist attacks in Kabul,Ghani made ghanistan and the West see as forces are ordered to use an planning acts of terrorism and similar calls, pointing out that the driving force behind the unprecedented level of force “attempts to end-run the legal Afghanistan no longer wanted Taliban insurgency. Not only against the Taliban in the coun- system”. Pakistan to bring the Taliban to has the president got nothing try. Under Ghani’s national uni- the peace talks, but rather to show for his misguided ef- But Ghani’s ill-advised war ty government, the US forces wanted it to eliminate their forts, but also he has wasted policy is trapping the Afghan have a totally free hand in con- sanctuaries on Pakistani soil. months of costly diplomacy national armed forces in an en- ducting their military opera- But the problem is that during which time the Taliban during foreign war, which itself tions in Afghanistan, from Ghani wants to “stand against” have made gains and thou- has become a more fearsome drone strikes to unlawful house the Haqqani group and the Tal- sands of Afghan civilians have enemy to Afghans than the ter- searches. iban militarily in Afghanistan. been killed.” rorists it is supposed to fight. US designs How can Ghani and his stra- The prime minister of Paki- Intensifying military oper- But implementing all these tegic ally, Washington, have an stan again signalled coopera- ations in Afghanistan against US designs has not helped effective military campaign in tion on the peace process after enemies who are “based in and Ghani to improve the deterio- Afghanistan if the origins of Ghani’s April 25 speech by operating from Pakistan”, and rating security situation in the the terrorists’ threats and the sending an envoy and a mes- who are motivated to die as country. Rather, it has been sanctuaries are in Pakistan? sage to Kabul. But Afghans Afghans are killed and injured on different pretexts. Their pre- martyrs, is not the solution to counterproductive. The answer is simple: any believe that the situation in the problem. The violence and the suf- military efforts to eliminate the Pakistan does not allow the ci- cious lives have become cheaper than any commodity available It has become the problem. fering of the Afghan people enemy militarily in Afghanistan vilian governments to hit upon on the planet earth. Once calling themselves sincere friends of It is imperative for Ghani to continue to linger on more than will have no effect. an independent Afghan policy. urge Washington to end its in- ever before. War will go on Its intention is to carry on Afghans are become strangers now. They are abandoning Af- action against the long-existing According to the United Secondly, if there is a con- inflicting massive damage to ghans because their interests are secured and objectives problem of sanctuaries for the Nations Assistance Mission in tinued reluctance by the US to Afghanistan and intimidate Taliban and the Haqqani group Afghanistan, UNAMA, the genuinely pressure Pakistan’s Kabul for its political objec- achieved. Sacrifices that Afghans have rendered to protect the in Pakistan. The US must fix or war in Afghanistan has caused military establishment and to tives in the region year in and capture the Taliban leadership around 2,000 casualties in the address the political dimen- year out. so-called allies are going in vain. With drawdown of the for- in Pakistan. first three months of 2016. sions of terrorism in the region, Afghanistan is caught in eign troops from the country, the fortune and situation had turned Owning a foreign war There were more than 11,000 why would Pakistan give up the nets of a foreign-imposed Since its establishment, the civilian casualties, including on its “strategic assets”, the war, in which the more it strives against those Afghans working for them. All those locals who Afghan national unity govern- 3,500 deaths in 2015. The fig- Haqqani group and the Tali- for fighting it, the more entan- worked for foreign forces in the country are at the hit list of the ment has owned the US mili- ures are the highest of the past ban? gled it becomes. Therefore tary strategy by doing every- decade. The war will certainly go Ghani should break all vicious militants. Some were targeted. Those who were lucky to escape thing in its power to Afghanise In his symbolic speech to a on. War as a formally declared circles in the “war on terror”. are now feeling abandoned in the lands of allies; those many the US’ unending so-called joint session of the houses of state of affairs is a thing of the As the former Afghan Pres- “war on terror” in Afghanistan. parliament on May 25, after a past. Therefore, as Ghani has ident Hamid Karzai urged the were adjusted but not all. According to Ghani, over deadly terrorist attack in Kab- echoed in the past, Pakistan is national unity government in a Such attitude will do no good to the NATO member coun- the past 13 months Afghan na- ul, Ghani pointed a finger at in a state of “undeclared war” recent statement, Ghani must tional security and defence “Peshawar and Quetta” from with Afghanistan. direct all resources towards the tries. They have to respect feelings of the interpreters because forces have conducted “more where, he said, the “enemies” In this “undeclared war”, as foreign drivers of the war. Oth- they will return back to their country with no soft corner for than 40,000” military operations send terrorists to shed blood Rudyard Kipling once said, erwise “inciting hatred and vi- andmore than 16,000 resolute and destroy the people of Af- “the odds are on the cheaper olence” within Afghanistan will foreigners. They risked their lives to help the US-led coalition operations within the country. ghanistan. man” and Pakistan has no short- only make the country slide It is about 100 combat op- Although Ghani mentioned age of the “cheaper man”. The further into “an endless con- forces in Afghanistan. But now, they are facing a discriminative erations and 40 resolute opera- the Haqqani group and “some Taliban and the Haqqani group flict”.—(Al Jazeera) approach in Britain and a few other countries. As of today, two tions every day, all carried out Taliban” as the enemies of Af- are low-cost and easily avail- Aimal Faizi is an Afghan on Afghan soil. ghanistan, he fell short of nam- able tools of foreign policy for journalist and former spokes- Afghan interpreters who helped British troops have lost their Since the escalation of ing the enablers and those who the Pakistani military establish- man for former Afghan Presi- court challenge for “access to a Government assistance scheme”. fighting, from 2015 onwards, nurture them in Pakistan. ment. dent Hamid Karzai from 2011 to there have been reportedl- They have not only lost trust over the Britain’s defense ministry He asked Islamabad (for the The 18-month-old rap- 2014. but also on the judiciary. The British authorities shall not let hope of these interpreters to die. In another unfortunate incident, the Iranian police had killed six Afghans and injured 18 others on late Sunday in Rafsanjan city. According to Iranian officials the police was forced to open fire because the truck driver, carrying the illegal Afghan immi- grants, denied stopping for checking. Even if it is true what the Iranian authorities said, the police had no right to kill people like gangsters. The killings question efficiency of Iranian secu- rity officials. How can they fail to stop a truck when there was no armed person? Perhaps, they are unquestionable for their deeds. There is no logic in killing unarmed civilians even if they are illegal immigrants. Refugees leave their country to live Bring corrupt in a peaceful country. Afghans are not the troublemakers but people to justice victims of the war imposed on them. Killings of Afghans will continue if the Afghan government remained silent. Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran shall take notice of the issue. The foreign ministry shall also protest while summoning the Iranian ambassador in the country. 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By Matthew Rosenberg and Joseph Goldstein tured from Afghan troops in that lined the compound’s pe- Green Berets on the ground Berets heard reports of civil- unlike Kunduz. The Americans were rimeter. concluded was the N.D.S. ians killed in the city but did The Taliban attacked the Af- hospital in Kunduz run by Doc- later joined by Afghan units “It was readily apparent building. not connect the casualties to ghan police compound at first tors Without Borders, prompt- that had been “emboldened by that there was a level of sophis- It was not. They were look- the strike. Chechnya light, coming from all sides at ing an international outcry and the U.S.S.F.’s assertive and tication and coordination that ing at the Doctors Without It was only on Oct. 5, when by Marwan Bishara the American Green Berets disciplinary action against 16 quick actions,” the investiga- none of us had ever come up Borders hospital, and they the Green Berets returned to holed up inside. The insur- military personnel. "The most dangerous place here is tors said, using an abbreviation against,” said the Green Beret missed what should have been Bagram Air Field, the main the hospital. You arrive, and it's gents fired assault rifles, heavy The investigators wanted for United States Special Forc- who complained about the lack obvious signs. None of the American base in Afghanistan, the first thing they tell you: if you machine guns and rocket-pro- to know how the strike oc- es. of guidance. people spotted inside the com- that they found out the gun- want to feel safe, stay at the front," pelled grenades. They came in curred. But the interviews they The next day there was a The Airstrike pound appeared to be armed. ship had hit a functioning hos- wrote the Italian journalist what a soldier called “human conducted also revealed al- videoconference with the top By nightfall on Oct. 1, Af- At 2:08 a.m. on Oct. 3, the pital, not a Taliban command Francesca Borri in the opening of waves.” most universal confusion Afghan general at the airport ghan reinforcements finally ar- gunship opened fire. The first post. her book, Syrian Dust, reporting Not even strafing runs by among the Green Berets over and Gen. John F. Campbell, the rived with supplies — ammu- round hit a courtyard where “We saw the news in the from the heart of the battle for Alep- American F-16 fighters stopped their exact mission in Kunduz. po. In her witness account of the American commander in Af- nition, food and water — and nine unarmed people were mill- chow hall,” said the soldier who Syrian war, Francesca reports: the assault. The elite American The goal was simple: not to lose ghanistan at the time. It went the promise of relief for the ing about. The attack contin- complained about a lack of soldiers — whose mission was the city. But in a reflection of "Assad's planes are suddenly poorly. Americans. The Afghans also ued until 2:38 a.m., the investi- guidance from commanders. strafe bombing, rushing at you in only to train and advise Afghan the ill-defined parameters of The Afghan general an- said they would abandon the gators found, and the gunship “The whole detachment was in maelstroms of wind - wind, and troops — had never seen a fire- the United States’ mission in swered “questions that were compound if the Americans fired 211 rounds, killing 42 peo- disbelief.” dust and flesh. But they are so fight as intense. Afghanistan, no one involved not the ones that General Camp- pulled back to the airport as ple. Military investigators That day in Washington, imprecise that they never bomb the Holding the compound, an- in the battle seemed to know bell was asking,” the major re- planned. So the Green Berets would describe the attack as a General Campbell briefed re- front lines: they'd risk hitting the other soldier said, took an “Ala- how far the group was sup- called. “General Campbell was stayed, waiting on a larger violation of the laws of armed porters about the accidental loyalists instead of the rebels." mo defense.” posed to go to ensure success. somewhat upset.” group of Afghan reinforce- conflict and “a disproportional strike on the hospital, saying Syrian Government extends On the morning of Oct. 1, When soldiers sought guid- aerial bombardments So the major spoke up. And ments that never arrived. response to a threat that did the facts would be established That was then; Borri published about 30 soldiers were in close- ance from commanders in Kab- with that, the operation to re- The next afternoon had the not exist.” But in the immediate by military investigators. quarters combat against Tali- ul, “the only sounds audible her book in 2015. Today, it's take Kunduz became an Amer- heaviest fighting yet. Buildings aftermath, the Green Berets But General Campbell was MORE of the same. Nowadays, ban fighters — even though were the sounds of crickets,” a ican plan. around the compound were thought they had hit the right unequivocal on one point. “Our as the world looks on passively, White House and Pentagon Green Beret officer said, add- The American officers “nearly obscured by the smoke target. Fighting fell off sharply personnel are not directly en- Russian fighter jets are lending a officials have repeatedly insist- ing, “Though those were hard quickly agreed that the Af- and dust from the exchange of in the morning, and the Taliban gaged in the fighting,” he hand to Syrian firepower, causing ed that American troops no to hear over the gunfire.” ghans lacked urgency and that fire,” another Green Beret said. began retreating. The Green said.—(New York Times) ever more death and destruction. longer play that role. At the outset of the battle they needed to get into the city Three Afghan soldiers were The meaning of the escalation The Americans were not for Kunduz, Peter Cook, the as fast as possible. They de- injured, and Afghan troops be- The ceasefire arrangements ambushed while advising local Pentagon spokesman, said reached between Presidents cided that the Americans and gan organizing a convoy to Obama and Putin at the end of forces behind the front lines or Americans were using force the Afghans would move into evacuate the wounded to the struck by rocket fire while man- only to defend themselves in February have been violated more Kunduz that night. airport and bring back more EGYPT'S IMAGE than 2,000 times over the past two ning a fortified base. Nine accordance with the rules un- The specifics — such as supplies. months. months after President Obama der which Mr. Obama had what legal authority would gov- The Afghans also came up Syrian-Russian bombings declared an end to the Ameri- agreed to keep troops in Af- ern the American mission — with a plan to seize what was CRISIS HAS have picked up on April 22 de- can combat mission in Afghan- ghanistan. American soldiers, were left unaddressed. Some believed to be the Taliban’s spite agreement to ceasing of hos- istan, these Green Berets were Mr. Cook said, were “not direct- American troops in Afghani- command center: the local tilities, truce or "peace talks" in at the leading edge of an offen- ly engaged in the fight.” stan conduct raids against mil- headquarters of Afghanistan’s Geneva. sive to retake Kunduz, where The report on Kunduz is itants from Al Qaeda and the spy agency, the National Direc- GROWN WORSE Or perhaps they picked up precisely because of these talks. Afghan forces had melted away heavily redacted; roughly two- Islamic State. But fighting the torate of Security. It was only as insurgents attacked, leaving thirds of its more than 3,000 Public relations manoeuvring can't The timing couldn't or shouldn't Taliban is now supposed to be about 500 meters from the po- be missed. This is "jetfighter di- an entire city in the Taliban’s pages remain classified, as do the job of Afghan forces, not lice compound, and the Afghan save Egypt's government from itself. plomacy". Unless Washington grip for the first time since 2001. the names of the soldiers inter- Americans. troops would move against the pressures Moscow to abide by its The fight for the police viewed. But the publicly re- Reflecting on this, the ma- N.D.S. headquarters on their BYMOHAMAD ELMASRY Egypt. After Regeni was brutally own agreements, the ongoing es- compound proved crucial in leased portions tell a far differ- jor said that “General Campbell way back from the airport. The tortured and murdered - most like- calation is sure to torpedo the talks rallying Afghan forces to retake ent story. was very much in a hurry to get Americans agreed to coordi- Reeling from accusations of mass ly by Egyptian police - Egyptian altogether. the city. The fighting was so fierce back to D.C.” — where he was nate air support if needed. killings and mass arrests in the au- government officials alternatively Unless Washington pressures It also offered the starkest that American aircraft launched tumn of 2013, the Egyptian gov- blamed his death on a car accident, Moscow to abide by its own agree- due to meet with President The major told investiga- ernment hired a Washington-based ments, the ongoing escalation is example to date of a blurry line 22 airstrikes over four days. A Obama and testify before Con- tors that he had not been con- gang violence, and an elaborate in Afghanistan and Iraq be- Green Beret called it a “miracle” public relations firm, Glover Park political conspiracy to undermine sure to torpedo the talks altogeth- gress. cerned about civilians being Group, to help improve its inter- President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. er. Alas, Putin and Assad remain tween the missions that Amer- that all of the Americans sur- Before the assault, the ma- hit. The N.D.S., with a docu- national image. By all accounts, the determined to use military force ican forces are supposed to be vived. Rather than own up to human jor told his troops that “the mented history of torture, is public relations efforts haven't rights atrocities ... and seek cor- to attain their objectives in Syria. fulfilling — military training and Chaos at the Airport whole world is watching.” It feared by most Afghans. “No- worked. rective action, the government has The only difference between advising — and combat. Mr. The swift fall of Kunduz to would soon be true, but not for body squats in an N.D.S. facil- In fact, Egypt’s image crisis downplayed or denied transgres- the two men revolves around Pu- Obama has portrayed that com- the Taliban on Sept. 28 stunned the reasons he had expected. ity,” the major told investiga- has grown worse over the past sions, and, perhaps more impor- tin’s insistence on bombing the bat role as over. But as the Tal- American commanders, who Heading Into Kunduz tors. two-and-a-half years, culminating tantly, continued to make image- opposition into submission at the iban in Afghanistan and the hastily dispatched more Army The American and Afghan In the early hours of Oct. 3, in a recent stretch that has been damaging gaffes. negotiations, while Assad prefers Islamic State in Iraq have Special Forces, as the Green especially woeful. The Egyptian of these recent incidents fol- bombing the Syrian opposition forces set out around 11 p.m. the major was at his command government's public relations fail- into total and utter defeat. But threatened the delicate stabili- Berets are formally known, to on Sept. 30 and quickly en- post — a Humvee with a map low absurd mass death sentences ures may not be the fault of Glov- issued in 2014 - in one sentence, since the Kremlin reprimanded ty he hoped to leave behind, reinforce a 12-man “A Team” countered Taliban resistance. laid across the hood — await- Assad for undermining attempts American forces are increasing- that was based near an airport er Park Group or any of the gov- after a court hearing that lasted less American aircraft conducted ing word from the Afghan force ernment's other public relations than two hours, more than 500 to restart the diplomatic process, ly being called on to fight. south of the city. five strikes between 12:12 a.m. he believed was headed toward advisers, however. Putin has dictated the pace and The fall of Kunduz “was The first American rein- Egyptians were sentenced to death and 3:28 a.m. on Oct. 1 to clear the N.D.S. building. What will Egypt death sen- over the alleged killing of a single intensity of the use of force to clearly a desperate situation,” forcements arrived early the insurgents in their path. By then, the major had ex- tences mean for press freedom? police officer. Death sentence force a favourable solution to said Brig. Gen. Charles H. next day. They had planned to The forces managed to perienced “significant fighting News broke last Tuesday that Another mass death sentence Moscow in Geneva. But is it work- Cleveland, the spokesman for push into the city that night Egypt's Interior Ministry had ac- was issued against more than 600 ing? Failed talks seize the headquarters of a for approximately 51 hours,” Judging from the third round the American command in Af- with whatever Afghan forces paramilitary police force, and the report said. He had hardly cidentally sent confidential instruc- Egyptians, including people who ghanistan. The soldiers, he they could muster. They in- tions meant for Interior Ministry of Syrian Talks in Geneva, Putin they took the city’s prison. The slept. were either already dead or in jail has thus far failed to translate Rus- said, recognized that “if we stead spent the night fending Americans reached the provin- After a confusing back- officials to Egyptian news outlets. at the time alleged crimes were car- The instructions reportedly sian military aggression, notably don’t really provide some very off a Taliban attack on the cial police headquarters around and-forth with Afghan officers, ried out. the recent bombing campaign strong suggestion, direction, city’s airport after the Afghan offered guidance on how to ad- Also, in a case that gained sig- 4 a.m. he came to believe that the Af- dress ongoing protests being staged around Aleppo, into diplomatic whatever you call it — if we police guarding the perimeter nificant international traction in gains. On their way into the com- ghan commandos were under by journalists at the Egyptian Syn- 2014, Egypt sentenced Al Jazeera don’t get engaged with this ran from their posts. pound, they hit a trip wire that fire from the N.D.S. building. The Syrian opposition has re- dicate of Journalists, and how to journalists to multi-year prison fused to negotiate under fire and quickly — we’re going to have A Special Forces major ar- set off a roadside bomb and (They were in fact nowhere near best deflect attention away from a much larger issue.” rived in the middle of the at- sentences on terrorism-related walked out of the talks until the were then attacked by a Tali- it.) The major called in air sup- Interior Ministry abuses. charges. escalation stops, the sieges end, and In interviews with military tack. As he got off the helicop- ban suicide car bomber. But no port from an AC-130 gunship. The instructions also suggest- During that trial, the govern- investigators, Green Berets ter, the major recalled, he was the political prisoners are released. one was injured by the bombs, He then climbed to a balco- ed that Egypt's Prosecutor Gener- ment presented bizarre evidence of The opposition also rejected who fought in Kunduz for the told, “They’re abandoning the and a lull in the fighting ensued, ny in one of the police com- al issue a gag order on the murder guilt, including videos of one jour- Russia's attempts (at times with four days it ultimately took to perimeter, and the base is about giving them time to take up de- pound’s buildings, seeking a investigation of Giulio Regeni, an nalist's European family vacation American complicity) to change begin securing the city provid- to fall.” fensive positions. better vantage. He could hear Italian graduate student who was and a seemingly unrelated news the basis and objectives of the ed a graphic and previously It was a chaotic scene. About an hour later, the Tal- intermittent gunfire. But he tortured and killed in Cairo in Jan- report about Somalia. peace talks. Namely the removal undisclosed account of one of Hundreds of police officers and uary. Glaring incompetence Also in 2014, the Egyptian of Assad, and the establishment of iban launched an assault on the could not see much. Last week's leaked memo high- the most important engage- civilians who had taken refuge compound. The fighting was The gunship was also government claimed that an Egyp- a transitional governing body with ments of the war. The investi- at the airport were fleeing into lights the government's glaring in- tian military doctor had developed full executive powers, which could intense and went on through- struggling to find the building. competence. The fact that an in- a cure for Aids, Cancer and Hepa- include members of the govern- gators’ main purpose was to ex- the darkness. out the day and into the next. It had the right coordinates, but ternal memo detailing a plan to re- amine not that battle, but the Teams of Green Berets titis C with a device that resem- ment and opposition. At one point, a rocket-pro- its targeting system malfunc- strict the news media could be sent bled a staple gun. And, predictably, it rejects tragedy that stemmed from it. rushed to secure the control pelled grenade fired from close tioned. It pointed the aircraft to directly to the news media would In a press conference attended Russia's proposal for cosmetic It was these Green Berets who, tower while others fought off range nearly breached one of an empty field. The crew mem- be remarkable, except that it isn't - by high-ranking Egyptian officials, changes to the constitution, and the on the morning of Oct. 3, in the the advancing Taliban, some of the Hesco barriers, hulking bers, however, spotted a build- the Egyptian government has, on including Sisi, Dr Ibrahim Abdel- establishment of a unity govern- heat of battle, called in the air- whom were charging toward bales of canvas wrapped in ing nearby that they and the numerous other occasions, done Atti said he planned to "take Aids ment under Assad. strike that killed 42 people at a the runway in Humvees cap- wire mesh and filled with dirt, and said things that reflect a more from the patient, and feed the pa- But if you thought Putin's fail- general, systemic incompetence. tient... a skewer of beef… I take ure to dictate his conditions would Within the past week, the the disease, and I give it to him as nudge Moscow to reconsider its Egyptian government has also car- food". strategy; it's time to wake up. ried out an elaborate raid of the Although the government ap- You’re dreaming. Syndicate of Journalists, prevent- peared to subsequently distance When force doesn't work, Pu- ed commemorative International itself from Abdel-Atti, a recent tin uses more of it. Clearly, his Workers Day protests, and put advertisement in state-owned claim to withdraw forces is a ploy. 237 activists on trial for illegal pro- EgyptAir magazine seemed to dou- And so Russia has escalated tests against President Abdel Fat- ble-down on the cure. The ad read, the siege and bombings. It once again insists on treating Jaish al- Afghanistan has been in war for more than three decades. The Afghan masses want a full stop to this prolong war. tah el-Sisi. None of these actions "Hepatitis C cure… is just a flight are likely to gain Egypt much away." Islam and, more notably, Ahrar al- However this war should be concluded through any ways and means as the Afghan masses have been tired of war favour in international diplomatic This abridged list should make Sham - the principle rebel group and desperately looking toward peace and security to be restored in the war-hit country. circles or with the Egyptian pub- the point clear - the Egyptian gov- represented in the Geneva Talks - The Afghans have been pinned high hope to the Quarterfinal Coordination Group (QCG) meetings held in Kabul lic. ernment has been its own worst as terrorist groups that must be Journalists carry Yehia Kalash, enemy. Rather than own up to hu- defeated. and Islamabad in a bid to resume the stalled peace talks with the Taliban. However after the rejection of the Taliban It might be a question of time group to attend the meeting, all hopes of the Afghan masses were dashed to the ground. head of the Egyptian press syndi- man rights atrocities and other mis- cate, during a protest against re- takes and seek corrective action, for Putin to embrace Assad's pre- Peace is the first demand of the masses. The National Unity Government should take every available resource to strictions on the press in front of the government has downplayed ferred choice of total war. Parallels restore peace and security in the country. No more room left for the already troubled Afghans to further bear the brunt the Press Syndicate in Cairo [Reu- to ponder The Syrian and Russian or denied transgressions, and, per- regimes are not the first to bomb of casualties. Government should convince the Taliban insurgents to renounce violence or they will face with iron ters] haps more importantly, continued If we are willing to turn the their way into a diplomatic solu- hands of the Afghan security forces through military operations in order to eliminate them all. to make image-damaging gaffes. tion, if not the total submission of Mozamel Ahmad, Kabul Afghanistan clock back a few months, much It is fair to question Glover more evidence of incompetence their enemies. They're taking their Park Group’s decision to represent cue from the bombings of Beirut, emerges. In February, Egypt's ju- a government that has shown it- diciary sentenced a three-year old Belgrade/Sarajevo, and Baghdad, to self to be opposed to the most basic name only a few. I'll spare you the boy to life in prison for crimes the of human rights. mention of Hiroshima at this time. toddler was alleged to have com- But to blame the public rela- But as the escalation takes a Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s name and mitted when he was 17 months old. tions firm for Egypt's image crisis turn for the worst in and around address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] Rather than own up to the would be misguided. No amount Aleppo, the more instructive par- mistake, the government down- of public relations manoeuvring allel to consider is Grozny. There, played the court ruling and denied could have saved Egypt’s govern- Putin showed the world in the Sec- some of the realities of the case. ment from itself. ond Chechnya War what his re- After ISIL (also known as Mohamad Elmasry is an as- gime is capable of doing to a city, Disclaimer: ISIS) shot down a Russian pas- sistant professor in the Department even if it considers it one of its senger jet at the end of October, of Communications at the Univer- own. After two consecutive wars, the Egyptian government denied sity of North Alabama. sieges and bombings, the United The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) that their air space had been com- The views expressed in this Nations called Grozny "the most promised by terrorists and com- article are the author's own and do destroyed city on earth"; not a sin- and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. plained that the incident was part not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's gle building in the city was left of a Western "conspiracy" against editorial policy. undamaged.

TUESDAY . MAY 10, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

In the hours before he disap- beaten with a truncheon so fero- Tasered to give them an electric peared, Kusai talked about return- ciously they broke his arm. As shock, a technique that enables ing home to Syria. Navigating the dusk drew in on Thursday night, torture without leaving any phys- Islamist checkpoints and shoot- the teenager, his left arm heavily ical marks. Then there are the “at- to-kill Turkish border guards to bandaged, set off again towards tack dogs”, the tales of fearsome reach the destroyed city of Alep- the border. It is children like Mu- animals trained to maul migrants, po was preferable to waiting for nir whom the British government the vigilante mobs and the rugged, the border to open. will seek to resettle in the UK, remote tracks they must follow The 16-year-old, a slight boy after David Cameron was forced to avoid being spotted. with a pensive air, had hoped to last week to quash a growing Munir walked through the reach his brother in Germany but rebellion from his backbench country for four days, following had spent two months stranded MPs and allow more vulnerable a Pakistani smuggler he had paid in the squalid improvised refugee child refugees sanctuary in the £2,000 to guide him to Hungary. camp at Idomeni in northern UK. The prime minister remains “We would walk through the jun- Greece, praying for Macedonia to reticent about how many, but up gle all night, and lie still, sleeping, reopen the gateway to central to 3,000 children might be offered all day. It rained all the time and I Europe. Around 7pm on Tuesday, the chance of a fresh start. From was very cold.” The teenager, sent Kusai made a snap decision. Hast- Monday, councils will be contact- by his family to find work in Eu- ily packing his one-man tent, the ed by Home Office officials and rope after their father, a doctor, youngster set off walking from told they should be prepared to suffered a stroke and became too Idomeni, alone. His small frame accept unaccompanied minors ill to provide, survived on pack- could be seen following the tree from Greece, Italy and France. ets of biscuits. When Munir was line until eventually it was swal- In the meantime, more will go finally found, asleep under a tree, lowed by the dense forest cloak- missing. Hours after Cameron an- he was only 10 miles from the ing the border. No one has heard nounced his U-turn, teenager Serbian border. from him or seen him since. His Musab confided that he would be “An officer said: ‘Hello, wake phone is silent. “He didn’t men- attempting to cross the border the up.’ And then he started beating tion any smugglers or if he had following night. The 17-year-old me.” The Macedonian police took help or money, he just took off,” planned to stuff the pockets of the 15-year-old’s remaining mon- said Ghaled, 30, from Damascus, his Adidas tracksuit full of bread ey – £25 – and tore up his identi- who knew Kusai for many weeks and then hope for the best. ty documents before returning in the camp. Hundreds Musab left Aleppo in Janu- him to Idomeni. The smuggler was of unaccompanied minors have ary after his parents persuaded not arrested. gathered in Idomeni since the bor- him to find work in Europe, while Smugglers operate without der was arbitrarily slammed shut they opted to retreat to the Syri- restriction inside Idomeni. Their by Macedonia in February. Effec- an city of Raqqa, the de facto fees are common knowledge tively abandoned by Europe, capital of Islamic State (Isis). among the camp’s inhabitants. these children are trapped in a “They hate Isis but, to them, it Currently, the cheapest deals with Turkish border guards while at- ically safer. His biggest fear is ar- not wait here anymore,” Musab not trained to deal with minors,” wretched state of suspended ani- was safer than staying in Aleppo guide included are £630 to Serbia, tempting to cross. At least three son. “There was a girl whose tent said. Daily life in Idomeni is bleak said one volunteer, who did not mation. If they officially register where 70% of my city has been £1,900 to Austria or Germany, children have beenshot was set on fire and her arms were with few distractions. “Same tea, no want to be named. Ramsay said with the Greek authorities, they destroyed,” said the teenager, with the camp’s premium pack- dead fleeing the Syrian civil war badly burnt.” Mazin, also from sugar,” said Ahmed of his existence. she had heard of cases of unac- are taken by the police; reports of shaking his hands in the air to age – £2,750 – involving a false in recent months. Within the ref- Aleppo, has already lost everything Phoebe Ramsay, a volunteer help- companied refugee children being prolonged detention in custody emphasise the ferocity of the passport, relevant forged paper- ugee camp youngsters have once to criminals. When crossing ing co-ordinate the food and basic detained for several months. Mu- and alleged mistreatment are com- bombing from Bashar al-Assad’s work and the opportunity to fly learned to fear other weapons. Turkey in January, he was attacked needs of the thousands stranded at nir never made it across the bor- monplace. Should they choose to warplanes. Musab had been in- direct to France, Sweden or Ger- Many adult men are said to carry by “the mafia” in Gaziantep. “They the border, said: “The waiting is der on Thursday night. As he ap- enter Macedonia illegally, they spired by the recent escape at- many. Smugglers can readily be knives. Stabbings are frequent, say took my phone and £80, all the having a deleterious effect on men- proached the section where the risk being severely beaten by the tempt of his fellow Syrian, found at Idomeni’s disused rail- volunteers. At night the mood in money I was carrying,” he said, tal health. Europe has chosen not to razorwire had been trampled into country’s notorious border pa- Ahmed. Six days ago, the 17-year- way station, haggling with refu- the makeshift camp becomes tan- crossing his arms behind his back help, so it has largely been left to the mud by hundreds of refugees trol. Life inside the sprawling old evaded the Macedonian troop gees who have lost hope the bor- gibly tense and fearful. One major to mimic how his attackers tied him us, volunteers, to make sure these he was informed by camp of 10,000 refugees is carriers that patrol the border. “I der will ever reopen. Munir was concern is that the site is com- up. He aims to be reunited with his people can survive.” Another vol- the Observer of Cameron’s prom- fraught. Criminal syndicates rule got beyond the mountains,” he given a “hotline” to call and in- pletely porous – anyone, no mat- sister, who claimed asylum in Mu- unteer, Zoe Gilchrist of the Aid ise to allow more unaccompanied by extortion and the threat of vio- said, pointing to the first row of formed that were prices depen- ter how unsavoury their intent, nich last year. “It is very difficult Delivery Mission, is helping com- minors into Britain. Munir lence. People-smugglers operate hills beyond the border fence. dent on the level of risk. On 26 can enter at will. A 60-strong gang to know what to do,” added Mazin, pile a census of how many unac- stopped to digest the news, turned with absolute impunity. Many of “But after a few hours, the police April, the youngster was told to of Syrian men are currently said clearly in acute discomfort when he companied minors there might be in and smiling broadly, began walk- the unaccompanied children have found me and brought me back meet his smuggler by the road to be the dominant criminal force, speaks. An inspection of his mouth and around Idomeni. Estimates sug- ing back to Idomeni. “Really?” he simply vanished, according to here, but I’ll keep trying.” Ahmed, south of Idomeni at dusk from operating an extortion racket with revealed an abscess and several rot- gest up to 300. “It is remarkable that beamed. “I can join my four un- volunteers at the site. There is no from the city of Daraa, hopes to where they headed through the seeming impunity. Although ten teeth. He promised to visit the no official audit exists. Another is- cles in London? My mother has audit or clue to where these scores reach Sweden, where his mother’s woods to Macedonia. For many Greek police are present, they dentist the following day, but the sue is that we can’t round them up never stopped crying since I left. of children have ended up, or who brother, Abu, arrived last year. of the unaccompanied minors rarely intervene, according to those nearest was a 20-minute drive away and put them all in the same place All I’ve done in my life is study they are with. Abu proposed travelling down to here, Idomeni does not offer their who have monitored the site since and he wondered who would take because the police might just take hard for my family and I would Some are caught by Mace- rescue him personally but has first experience of smugglers. its chaotic inception. It leaves the him. The latest rumour sweeping them away or they become a vul- like to help them.” Yet others are donian police or military and been told it is not possible. The Many admit relying on them to unaccompanied children wholly Idomeni is that soon the camp, in nerable target for criminals.” The still being lost. Even as Munir forced back to Greece through a perils of the journey north to west- cross the border from Syria into vulnerable. Many attempt to effect a huge outdoor waiting room police have already taken many. A prepared to tell his mother that tiny gap in the razor-wire border ern Europe from Idomeni are fre- Turkey. Mohammed, 16, from the blend in by acting older, but 15- to Europe, will close. Many of the month ago campaigners estimated he might have a chance of living in fence in aggressive operations quently discussed. Macedonia is war-torn city of Idlib, paid £90 to year-old Mazin, 4ft 4in tall, and unaccompanied minors are already 30 minors were being held in the England, a search for Musab known to the camp’s residents as referred to with dread among the bribe Turkish border guards. “It with the face of a child three years hatching plans to leave, convinced border region’s five police cells, ef- proved fruitless. His tent was “pushbacks”. Munir, a 15-year- child refugees. Rumours include was cheap, a good price,” he said, younger, had chosen to pitch his that the border might forever remain fectively imprisoned. “In fact, the gone. As good as his word, the old from Herat,Afghanistan, de- accounts from refugees caught adding that he intends to be re- tiny tent alongside the camp’s shut. Others concede the uncertain- conditions are worse than prison be- youngster had left, heading to- scribed being pinned down by crossing the country of being held united with his brother in Berlin. boisterous food queue in an effort ty is making them feel suicidal. “I cause they don’t have showers or wards a fate it is impossible to Macedonian police a week ago and down in puddles which are then Others said they were fired at by to stay conspicuous and theoret- feel so bad that I want to die, I can- proper living facilities; the police are foresee.—(The Guardian) US struggles to convince I raqis it doesn't support I SI S Despite spending more than $10 million on public outreach in Iraq last year, the U.S. g o v er n m en t a p p ea r s t o ha v e m a d e lit t le hea d w a y in d is p ellin g s u ch r u m o r s .

a recent afternoon in Sham Shui For nearly two years, U.S. air- continue selling weapons and world, according to a 2015 report Po, people hurried past electron- strikes, military advisers and weap- strengthening their presence in the by the State Department’s Special ics stores selling the latest mobile ons shipments have helped Iraqi region through establishing more Inspector General. phones, seemingly oblivious to the forces roll back ISIS. The U.S.-led military bases,” he added. “There are a lot of players out old man scavenging through a gar- coalition has carried out more than While supervising the chan- here on this information and me- bage can. Ng says the poor are 5,000 airstrikes against ISIS tar- nel’s war reporting last year, he dia battle space,” said U.S. Army often ignored in Hong Kong be- gets in Iraq at a total cost of $7 claimed to have witnessed inci- Col. Steve Warren, the spokesman cause the education system em- billion since August 2014, includ- dents when U.S. forces helped IS. for the U.S.-led coalition. phasises the need to be self-suffi- ing operations in Syria. On Tues- As Iraqi security forces prepared “The Iranians have something cient. "Usually 'Respect the Eld- day a U.S. Navy SEAL was the to enter the city of Tikrit in April, to say every day, the Russian have erly' is only a slogan. It doesn't third serviceman to die fighting IS he said two U.S. helicopters evac- something to say every day, ISIL have any real or deep meaning in in Iraq. uated senior militants. A few has something to say every single this society," he says. The Soci- But many Iraqis still aren’t months later, during an operation day, so we need to make sure that ety for Community Organisation convinced the Americans are on to retake the Beiji oil refinery, this coalition and this Iraqi gov- believes introducing a universal their side. crates of weapons, ammunition ernment is also saying something pension would help ensure that the Government-allied Shiite mi- and food were dropped over mili- every day,” he said, using an alter- elderly have a better standard of litiamen on the front-lines post tant-held territory, he said. native acronym for ISIS. living [101 East/Al Jazeera] Fok videos of U.S. supplies purport- “Is it logical to believe that “This coalition is here to fight Po Po, who served in the Chinese edly seized from IS militants or America, the source of technology ISIL,” he said, “not provide them army and came to Hong Kong from found in areas liberated from the and science, could fire a rocket or MREs.” the mainland in 1999, says she extremist group. Newspapers and drop aid materials in a mistaken But if there is a media war un- In shadows cast by streetlights in cates say the existing benefits are their parents. He believes it is the never wanted to have to rely on TV networks repeat conspiracy way?” he asked. derway, the U.S. appears to be los- the pre-dawn hours, a diminutive not enough to cover living expens- government's responsibility to the government. But her retire- theories that the U.S. created the Videos uploaded to social me- ing it. In December 2014, 38 per- figure shuffles along, hunched over es, and that it's difficult for people provide for them. Dominic Lee is ment savings lasted only a year. militant group to sow chaos in the dia by front-line militiamen pur- cent of Iraqis had a favorable view a cart. She stoops to pick up a dis- with children to obtain welfare. a young politician from the right- The monthly rent for her small region in order to seize its oil. port to tell a similar story. One of the U.S., but by August 2015 carded piece of cardboard. Other Workers and their employers must wing Liberal Party who opposes a sub-divided flat, which she shares Despite spending more than shows U.S. military MREs, that had dropped to just 18 per- people's rubbish is much-needed contribute to a compulsory retire- universal pension. "Resources with her two sons and granddaugh- $10 million on public outreach in “meals, ready-to-eat,” as well as cent, according to the State Depart- income for her. This is how Fok ment fund but this system began should not be just a handout, ter, costs $540 but she gets only Iraq last year, the U.S. government uniforms and weapons said to have ment’s unscientific survey. Po Po starts the day, seven days a only 16 years ago. Ng Wai Tung, a should not be an entitlement," he $300 in government welfare. "I appears to have made little head- been found in an area held by IS. A group of Iraqi men smoking week, in Hong Kong's stifling hu- community organiser from the So- says. "People have to be account- have to support them because they way in dispelling such rumors. An Another shows the interrogation cigarettes and sipping tea outside midity, torrential rain and epic ciety for Community Organisa- able for themselves and for their don't earn enough to stay on their unscientific survey by the State of a captured IS militant. “Check a Baghdad shop selling books and thunderstorms. Fok Po Po - or tion, a non-profit group, says this own family." Educated in the US, own," she says of her children. Department of Iraqi residents last out his boots, they are from the newspapers said their skepticism "grandma" in Cantonese - is 66. means many elderly residents do Lee is the son of entrepreneurs who Collecting cardboard helps pay for year found that 40 percent believe U.S. army,” a fighter says. Anoth- extends beyond U.S. officials. She's worked hard all her life and not have enough savings to sup- built their family company from food and the medication she needs that U.S. policy is working to “de- er fighter points to a pile of rock- They say Iraqis are well aware that invested in a retirement fund. But port themselves in their old age. scratch. He says Hong Kong's low to treat a back injury she suffered stabilize Iraq and control its natu- et-propelled grenades he says were most media outlets are run by po- in Hong Kong, one of the world's He cites the case of a woman who tax rates help attract vital foreign while working as a government ral resources,” and a third believe made in the U.S. and shipped to litical parties furthering their own most expensive cities, Fok Po Po worked as a cleaner. When she investment. Raising taxes to pro- street sweeper. But with the ranks America “supports terrorism in ISIS. There are more plausible ex- agendas. is one of a growing number of eld- turned 65, she had only about vide more elderly people with of the elderly growing, competi- general and (IS) specifically.” planations for U.S. supplies being “Iraqi media isn’t profession- erly people resorting to collecting $6,400 in her retirement fund. welfare benefits would drive big tion for cardboard to sell is tough. Skepticism about U.S. motives found in the hands of the extrem- al, it’s all just ideology,” Abu Mu- rubbish to survive. In this city of "This amount meant she could not businesses away, he argues. "I "Often we really have to fight for is deeply rooted in Iraq, where ists. When ISIS swept across hammed said, asking that his full seven million people, where more afford to live in Hong Kong for think this level of tax is going to it and you have to guard your ter- many still blame the chaos after northern and western Iraq in the name not be used for fear of re- Rolls-Royces roam the roads than more than one year, due to the ex- discourage a lot of corporations ritory and the area where you want the 2003 invasion that toppled summer of 2014 it captured ar- prisals. anywhere else on earth, about one pensive rent .... Now she needs to from coming to Hong Kong," he to collect," she says. "There's lots Saddam Hussein on American mal- mored vehicles, heavy weapons But he said the accusations of third of residents aged over 65 live pick up cardboard and work as an says. "We are facing tremendous of competition and a lot of old la- ice rather than incompetence. The and other U.S. equipment that had U.S. support for ISIS are hard to in poverty. They are the face of illegal hawker at night," he says. competition from other countries dies like me who work until the conspiracy theories are also stoked been provided to Iraqi security ignore because of America’s con- Hong Kong's "silver tsunami" - as Hong Kong has some of the world's such as Shanghai and Singapore and middle of the night because we by neighboring Iran, which backs forces at a cost of billions of dol- fusing tangle of regional alliances. people live longer and the work- most expensive rental properties, we are losing this battle when cor- don't have enough funds to live." powerful militias and political par- lars. And despite the U.S. mili- “The U.S. is always fighting force shrinks, the ranks of the eld- and older people often struggle to porations look at where they place They may toil beneath glittering ties with active media operations. tary’s technical sophistication, it’s groups on one side that they also erly poor are growing, putting more find a home they can afford. Many their business." Many of Lee's lights in a city awash in designer Among the most vocal critics not unheard of for airdrops or support on the other side,” he said. pressure on the government and rent tiny rooms in small apartments constituents are elderly and his handbags and luxury brands, but is al-Ahad TV — a 24-hour satel- strikes to miss their mark in the He pointed to Syria, where the U.S. families to care for them. "Many that have been sub-divided in or- office is close to the poor neigh- for many residents, growing old in lite channel funded by Asaib Ahl heat of battle. supports Syrian Kurdish fighters old folks face this money problem der to cram in more residents. Some bourhood of Sham Shui Po, where Hong Kong is a lonely and desper- al-Haq, an Iranian-backed militia The U.S. Embassy and the who are considered terrorists by where welfare doesn't keep up places are so small and claustro- residents such as Fok Po Po col- ate battle. allied with the Iraqi government. U.S.-led coalition have invested NATO ally Turkey. with rising living costs …. It's con- phobic that they are nicknamed lect rubbish to make ends meet. The number of elderly poor in The channel airs front-line reports considerable time and resources in Others simply can’t under- sidered normal," Fok tells Al "coffin homes". The Society for "On a personal level, I sympathise Hong Kong has risen to 320,000 and political talk shows where the refuting the allegations. stand how the world’s most pow- Jazeera. As people live longer and Community Organisation believes with them a lot because the gov- people [101 East/Al Jazeera] From allegedly harmful role of the U.S. Both run Twitter feeds, Face- erful military hasn’t been able to the workforce shrinks, the ranks introducing a universal pension ernment needs to do a lot of things the 101 East documentary, Hong government frequently comes up. book pages and hold regular press defeat the extremists. of the elderly poor are growing would help to ensure that the eld- to help them," he says. "But on a Kong: Aged and Abandoned. Watch The U.S. “aims at weakening conferences, and U.S. officials fre- “They took out Saddam in two [101 East/Al Jazeera] In one of the erly have a better standard of liv- policy level … we shouldn't let the full film here. Follow Drew Iraq and the Arab world as well as quently appear as guests on Iraqi weeks, but they can’t finish IS in world's leading finance hubs, eld- ing. While Chinese culture has a things on an emotional level affect Ambrose on Twitter: the Shiites,” al-Ahad’s spokesman TV networks. With a budget of two years?” asked Falih, another erly residents can apply for sever- long tradition of taking care of the our decision because resources that @drewambrose Atheer al-Tariq said. “They spare $10.67 million for the 2015 fiscal Iraqi who asked that his last name al different types of government elderly, Ng says low-income earn- we use to help one person could Follow Liz Gooch on Twitter: no efforts to destabilize Iraq and year, the public diplomacy section not be used out of security con- benefits. But community advo- ers often cannot afford to support be used to help other people." On @liz_gooch Al Jazeera neighboring countries in order to for Iraq is the third largest in the cerns. “It just doesn’t make sense.” TUESDAY . MAY 10, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Bullish trend: Pakistan Stock Exchange witnesses record surge KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a record surge at the start of the business week on Monday as the index climbed by 258.04 points, cross- ing 36,200. The bullish trend continues HOW times change. When the US $20bn against the US, a current not share the US Treasury’s view strates how difficult it can be to panies have accumulated 50tn yen under the US Treasury’s third cri- from the previous week as the in- embarked on quantitative easing in account deficit larger than 3pc cent that the yen market was orderly effect a competitive devaluation. of overseas retained earnings terion would be more pea shooter dex touched 36,000 points on 2009 it was accused of resorting of gross domestic product and for- and suggested that the US initia- When the Bank of Japan an- which they are now beginning to than bazooka. At the weekend Jap- Thursday, an indication of inves- to competitive devaluation. Now eign exchange intervention amount- tive would not be a constraint on nounced its move to negative in- unwind. It also seems likely that anese finance minister Taro Aso tor confidence in the economy. the boot is on the other foot. On ing to more than 2pc of GDP over intervention. So there could be fric- terest rates in January, the yen’s the currency is now, as in the made it clear he did not share the Read more: MSCI to discuss Friday under new provisions of the a year. This raises the temperature tion ahead Japan’s experience of response was to appreciate. And 1970s, being driven by a balloon- US Treasury’s view that the yen Pakistan’s re-entry 2015 Trade Facilitation and En- in today’s so-called currency wars. yielding to external pressure on when the BoJ last week failed to ing current account surplus which market was orderly and suggested According to Muhammad So- forcement Act, signed into law in It must also evoke uncomfortable currency was less dramatic but satisfy market expectations of yet JPMorgan expects to hit ¥21.6tn that the US initiative would not be hail, CEO of Topline Securities, February, the US Treasury singled historical parallels for China and painful. The Plaza Accord in 1985 more easing, the currency appre- — or 4pc of GDP — in 2016. a constraint on intervention. So the high confidence is in anticipa- out China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan Japan. China in the 1930s was was intended to weaken an over- ciated even more. Part of the rea- Unlike Germany, which has no di- there could be friction ahead. Yet tion of the upcoming Annual Mar- and Germany as potential curren- forced off a silver standard when valued dollar against the yen, the son for the strength of the curren- rect control over eurozone inter- the ‘war’ is arguably pointless, for ket Classification Review by the cy manipulators. The five are on a the US Treasury tried to help hard- D-Mark, the French franc and the cy this year was the yen’s role as a est rates or the euro and can thus as economists Barry Eichengreen Morgan Stanley Capital Interna- monitoring list in a Treasury re- pressed US silver producers by pound. It succeeded all too well. haven in the volatile markets of run a huge current account surplus and Jeffrey Sachs showed in papers tional (MSCI) on June 14 to dis- port to Congress and are described manipulating the silver price up- The decline in interest rates that February and March. The inter- of 8.6pc of GDP with impunity, in the mid-1980s, uncoordinated cuss upgrading PSX's classification as meeting two out of three crite- wards. As China’s currency soared, accompanied yen depreciation had esting question is why the appre- Japan cannot hide. Given that cur- monetary expansion via supposed- to an Emerging Market. ria that would lead to a process the peg to silver had to be aban- the effect of blowing up the great ciation continued when investors’ rency depreciation was the only ly beggar-thy-neighbour trade poli- "Positive results are expected involving enhanced analysis, en- doned. The adoption of a paper Japanese bubble. The bursting in risk appetite returned and markets component of Abenomics to have cies was benign in the 1930s because by market players in anticipation hanced bilateral engagement and currency was followed by one of 1990 heralded the start of the stag- stabilised in April. The unwinding much impact on the economy, the it increased the global money sup- of the meeting and the emerging remedial action if engagement does history’s great hyper rinflations. nation era in which Japan remains of carry trades where the yen was obdurate appreciation of the yen ply. The difference today, as Japan market status." not lead to policies that address That in turn paved the way for enmeshed. The curious thing about used as a funding currency is no this year must be a serious con- has found, is that monetary expan- The biggest losers of the day currency undervaluation and trade regime change and the communist this war is that China’s currency doubt part of the explanation. At cern. And given the size of the cur- sion is becoming difficult to pull off were Pakistan Tobacco and Indus surpluses. The criteria include a takeover. Japanese Finance Min- is arguably overvalued. And Ja- the same time JPMorgan in To- rent account surplus, the ¥10tn- even with negative interest rates. Dyeing, while pharmaceuticals and bilateral trade surplus of more than ister Taro Aso made it clear he did pan’s recent experience demon- kyo estimates that Japanese com- worth of intervention permitted [email protected] chemicals were the biggest gainers. MSCI, a US-based provider of stock market indexes and portfo- lio analytics, had hinted last year Pakistan's inclusion in the Emerg- ing Markets category will be dis- cussed in June 2016. Market players expect the improved status to bring in fresh foreign investment and opportu- nities to Pakistan in the future. According to reports last week, foreign fund managers had issued positive views to the MSCI regard- ing Pakistan’s qualification to be reclassified as an emerging market. "A market correction of 2,000 to 3,000 points can be expected," Japanese Finance Minister Taro said Sohail, in case the upgrade falls Aso said on Monday that Tokyo through, bringing PSX to the low is ready to intervene in the cur- 30,000-point range. rency market if yen moves are vola- As of 2:18pm, the market set- tile enough to hurt the country's tled at 36,233 points after an ini- trade and economy. tial high in the morning of Aso also said he did not think 36,305.24, a 0.72 per cent change. the United States considered Japan's currency policy to be in- appropriate, but acknowledged the two countries differed in their Australian views on what would be deemed excessive yen rises that justify in- economy tervention. "For Japan, excessive volatility in yen moves that affect boosted by Japan's trade, economic and fiscal policies - be it yen rises or yen r eco r d lo w falls - is undesirable. If such moves occur, Japan is ready to intervene interest rates, in the market," Aso told parliament. Sadayuki Sakakibara, head of tax cuts Japan's biggest business lobby might gain 10 yen in four days. said. Japanese authorities have That would be too excessive and if stayed away from the markets Thomson Reuters today released Keidanren, said it was "natural" for Japanese authorities to act against such trend continued, it would be since they last intervened in 2011. a special overnight report provid- the kind of excessive currency vola- At the time, Tokyo got G7 con- ing accountants, tax advisors, fi- recent yen rises that were specu- lative and out of line with economic tility that G20 nations agreed was sent to intervene to stem a yen nancial planners and businesses undesirable," Aso said. spike driven by speculation that a with a detailed analysis of Austra- fundamentals, according to Kyodo news agency. "The business sec- "The U.S. side, on the other devastating earthquake would lia's 2016-17 Federal Budget - hand, argued that it was still a 5- force Japanese insurers to repatri- dubbed by many as an "election tor would offer its support" if Japanese authorities were to inter- yen rise" and so did not meet the ate overseas funds to pay for dam- budget" with Prime Minister Mal- threshold for currency action, Aso age claims. colm Turnbull expected to call a vene in the currency market, double dissolution election in the Sakakibara was quoted as saying coming days. at a news conference on Monday. "The Government will also extend The dollar hit an 18-month low of the unincorporated tax discount to 105.55 yen last week after the Do n ald Trum p given businesses with an annual turnover United States added Japan to a list Susmit Ghosh, a resident of Noida Pool Corner’ to help employees NCR, have introduced flexible of countries it was monitoring over of less than $5 million and will in- travels everyday to Gurgaon for connect for pooling cars. “To make working hours. “We have intro- crease the discount to 8% capped foreign exchange policies. Some in- a fightin g chan ce by work. He works with a multina- carpooling policy stronger in the duced flexi hours for the employ- vestors interpreted the move as a at $1,000". tional company and did not mind company, we have introduced an ees; which makes the situation The budget reforms which aim to warning to Tokyo against conduct- the long commute, because of his automated help desk, which main- slightly easier to handle as they ing yen-selling market interven- ailin g US eco n o m y lower tax and provide access to tax office-provided cab. But since the tains a database for employees to can commute by public transport concessions for small business tion. The dollar regained some Supreme Court decision to ban pool cars. It also listed even- and when the traffic is less,” said Neeraj ground to hover above 107 yen in could benefit millions of Austra- petrol and diesel taxis in the na- odd-numbered cars for pooling Jain, Chief Executive Officer at lians, the government has said. The Asia on Monday. Japanese tional capital region, Ghosh is find- during the Odd-even days,” says a Zopper, Tiger Global-backed hy- policymakers sought to gain infor- threshold would be progressively ing it difficult to get to work. Now spokesperson. Last week, National perlocal white goods start-up. increased until all companies were mal consent to act against an un- he has to drive all the way to Gur- Association of Software and Ser- Few companies are promoting welcome yen rise during a G20 fi- taxed at 27.5 percent by 2023-24. gaon and he is not enjoying it. vices Companies (Nasscom), shuttle services. Meher Sarid, pres- Middle-income earners will pay nance leaders' gathering in Wash- Ghosh is not the only one and group of Indian information tech- ident- corporate affairs, Oxigen, a ington late last month. less tax as the income threshold is more and more companies are look- nology services companies, had payment solution provider, said,” raised from $A80,000 to But the United States offered ing at ways to work around the highlighted the concerns for BPO We encourage employees to use a cool response with Treasury Sec- $A87,000 for the highest tax rate ban. From flexible timings to put- sector saying the ban could lead to shared shuttle services to travel (32.5%). While the government retary Jack Lew describing yen ting up a desk to handle car-pool a possible loss of $1billion. How- point to point at fixed times.” moves as "orderly" a day after Aso had indicated a potential income data, NCR based companies like ever, companies have started ne- Companies are also approaching tax cut for workers earning more conveyed to him Toyko's strong Cairn India, Zopper.com, Oxigen gotiating with their travel partners to their logistics partner to arrange concern over what it saw as "one- than $80,000 as well, Mr Morri- and BPOs such as Incedo are try- to find ways around this ban. “We for law compliant vehicles for son has refused to confirm details sided" yen rises. Aso said Japa- ing to solve the conveyance con- have asked our transport vendor transport. nese and U.S. policymakers had ahead of the budget's release to- cerns of their employees. to deploy CNG cabs on the routes With the government’s deci- night. See more on the winners and frequent phone conversations on Headquartered in Gurgaon, and he has asked us for time to sion, nearly 50,000 diesel cabs are exchange rates, particularly when losers in this year's budget below. Cairn India, one of India’s largest buy new cabs,” said spokesper- off the roads in the national capi- The moves come amid public in- the Japanese currency gained 5 yen private oil and gas exploration son at Gurgaon based tech BPO, tal region (NCR) applicable from in two days last month. "If the yen dignation on both sides of the Tas- companies, has a dedicated ‘Car Incedo. Many startups, located in May 1, 2016. The experts said it could never month, well below the 200,000 man about how little tax some was gaining 5 yen in two days, it happen. There was no way in Wall Street had been expecting. multinationals' pay on profits they which Donald Trump could win Trump returns to shows to earn outside the United States. the Republican nomination for the insist he does not need Republi- Australia's Treasurer Scott Mor- US presidency. Could a billionaire can unity while 2008 VP pick Pa- rison speaks at the Budget press who had never held office, was dis- lin vows to help Speaker Ryan’s conference at Parliament House in China economy news 2016: trusted by the party hierarchy, primary opponent Canberra on Tuesday. The project lacked a political machine and Disappointing economic data is good news for Australian busi- seemed to take delight in upset- has become rather too common in nesses on the east coast who would Exports slump amid weak demand ting large chunks of the electorate recent months. Investment activi- like to reduce their freight costs. really survive the primaries and ty has been weak, with companies The budget showed that plan Chinese exports saw a 1.8 percent have a shot at the White House? taking advantage of low interest would be funded mainly by spend- dip in a year-over-year compari- Well, really. rates to buy back their own shares ing cuts across government, amid son in April, the Wall Street Jour- The smart money now says rather than investing in new plant government coffers falling another nal reported, following an 11.5 that Trump has no chance in a head- and machinery. That has helped $20 billion into deficit, down to percent increase in exports in to-head presidential race with Hil- keep share prices high but at a cost. $39.9 billion, since last year's fore- March. The world’s second-larg- lary Clinton, who looks nailed-on Productivity growth, as in the UK, casts. In the 2024-25 income year, est economy has struggled to ad- as the candidate for the Democrats. has been poor. the company tax rate will be re- just to an economic slowdown as Opinion polls suggest that Clin- The result has been only a duced to 27%. the country’s growth has contract- ton would beat Trump by a mar- modest growth in wages, which The Turnbull Government under- ed in recent months. gin of 10 percentage points were are still only growing at 2.5% a stands the economic challenges that “Global demand hasn’t seen the election to be held now. year despite the recovery from the Australia faces. Local schools will any big improvement,” Standard But Americans are not going Great Recession of 2008-09 now hopefully share in the additional Chartered economist Ding Shuang to pick the next resident of the into its eighth year. But the pick- $1.2 billion in extra funding over told the Journal. “Relatively speak- White House for another six up in pay has been enough to three years commencing from ing, things are better. There’s a grad- months. That is an awfully long squeeze corporate profits, which 2018. Morrison said Australia ual improvement on the external time in politics and 10-point defi- makes share prices look overval- could recoup billions of dollars over side.” The Chinese stock market cits have been overturned in the ued. the next four years by ensuring the slumped in August 2015, dropping past. It is by no means inconceiv- At best, the US looks set for nation isn't being sold short on rev- 8.5 percent and seeing its worst able that Trump will succeed growth of about 2% this year, but enue generated by global business- single day in more than eight years Barack Obama. Indeed, the state it would not take much – a sharp es. — sending ripple effects out of the US economy suggests that plunge on Wall Street, for example While this leaves Mr Morri- through international economies in he has a fighting chance. – for the economy to turn sour in son open to charges of supporting what was dubbed China’s Black The first point to recognise is the run-up to polling day in early big business over ordinary Austra- Monday. The nation’s once break- that the economy is struggling. November. lians, the government says it will neck rate of economic growth has Growth slowed to an annualised The second point to recognise deliver productivity gains in the contracted in the eight months 0.5% in the first three months of is that millions of Americans think future. since. First-quarter GDP growth 2016, which means that it was bare- they have been left behind. This The immediate tax deduction hovered at 6.7 percent, compared ly expanding at all. Unlike in pre- has certainly not been a period for asset purchases up to $20,000 with 15.4 percent in 2008 in the vious years, this could not be where a rising tide lifts all boats; that was introduced in the 2015- runup to the Beijing Olympics. percent earlier this year. transition, experts said. Where jobs nomic growth engine," one local blamed on inclement weather. the gains from what has been a 16 Budget will be retained until 30 Authorities in both the public and The nation of some nearly 1.4 in factories making everything from told National Public Radio last Jobs are still being created but strikingly undynamic recovery by June 2017. Happy with the bud- private sector have borrowed tril- billion people has struggled to shift steel to sneakers once dominated week, adding, "If I had to use a at a slower pace. Last week’s fig- US standards have gone to the few, get, broadly speaking, are business lions of dollars in an attempt to from a manufacturing or industrial the Chinese economy, the model word to describe the current state, ures for non-farm payrolls – the not the many. Trump, despite be- groups, farmers and the Australian stimulate the economy and to pay economy to a consumer-based one, has begun to shift to one of con- it would be 'confusion.' We don't benchmark for the state of the la- ing a billionaire, has managed to Tax Office, which gets a bright new off past investments, and debt as and its future will depend on its sumption in the past several years. know where the country is head- bour market – showed an increase tap into a seething well of discon- taskforce to tackle tax dodgers. a percentage of GDP reached 237 ability to successfully make that "China hasn't found a new eco- ed." of 160,000 in employment last tent. TUESDAY . MAY 10, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

At a recent event in Delhi, Bolly- wood actor Sanjay Dutt took the opportunity to talk about his ar- rest, life in prison, and his journey Charlize Theron to captivate through substance abuse. Times of India reports that Sanjay took the stage for a 15-minute session, but Cannes all over again ended up going on for over an hour. Regarding his arrest, the actor re- vealed, “When I reached Bombay airport, I was coming down from the slide, and I saw 50,000 police- men pointing their guns at me, as if I was Osama Bin Laden.” 10 movies we couldn’t imagine with- out Sanju Baba The Munna Bhai actor who was booked under TADA, (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities act), claims he wasn’t even aware of the law when he was arrested. Sanjay explained that 23 years ago, “I was shooting in Mau- ritius when my sister called and said that I was being charged for keeping rifles, and I said, ‘Oh real- ly?'” “I thought that the police would let me go, since I was a first- time offender. I was taken to the crime branch… I swear I didn’t know what TADA was. When MN Singh (the then Joint Commission- er of Police, Mumbai) came and Hollywood star Charlize Theron in a war-torn country and was shot said that I was being booked in the will return to the Cannes Film Fes- extensively in some of the most Mumbai blast case, I broke down. tival’s 69th edition next week with splendid spots in South Africa. I was like, ‘How can you expect her Palm d’Or contender, The Last Read: Cannes 2016 | No Indi- me to blast my own city? Go Face, directed by Sean Penn. an film makes it to the film festival against my country?’ He said, ‘I Pune jail, there are flies all over, ran, Bible, Quran Sharif aur Guru to see him in prison. day,” Times of India reports him Last May, Theron proved to Read: If these rumours are true, am sorry, but I have to arrest you,'” billions of flies, in your hair, in Granth Sahib padhi. I can sit and “I didn’t want them to see me as saying. Besides reading up on be a darling of the Cannes crowds the 2016 Cannes Film Festival he added. Referring to his time in your clothes and even in your food. talk to any maulana or any priest in torn clothes and the topi. I religion, the actor started exercis- and one of the lovelies for lensmen could be great jail, the actor revealed, “When I Main makkhi nikaal kar daal pi jaata and make sense.” Dutt said that didn’t want them to live with that ing as well. as she walked the raging Red Car- The plot follows the director was in prison, it was very difficult tha.” Sanjay Dutt to release his his children still don’t know that image… I used to speak to them Talking about how he main- pet in her dazzling evening gown of an international aid agency time for dad, Priya and me. She book penned in jail Sanjay even he was in jail. “When I was in jail, twice a month. I told tell them that tained his physique in jail, he said, to attend her, Mad Max: Fury (Theron) as she embarks on a con- came to meet me on Rakhi and I started reading up on religion. it was very difficult for me to not I was shooting in the mountains “Kaun kehta hai gym nahin toh Road, a movie that got a rousing flicting-controversial love affair gave her the coupons that I col- “Maine jail mein Ramayan, Bhag- see my children for three years.” and didn’t have proper connection. workout nahin kar sakte? Maine reception. with a relief-aid doctor, essayed lected in jail.” He added, “In the wad Gita, Shiv Puran, Ganesh Pu- The actor didn’t want his children That’s what they know even to- jail mein kiya. Yes, indeed in a festival that by Javier Bardem (Seen in movies some disdainfully call high brow like No Country for Old Men, art and a platform for a kind of Vicky Christina Barcelona, Biuti- cinema that cares two hoots for ful and in Skyfall -- as the villain, the lowest common denominator! and what a magnificent perfor- The Last Face is very, very mance that was!). different from Mad Max, and ob- Theron has been talked about viously so, for it comes from a for her varied roles in Prometheus, heavyweight like Sean Penn -- who Snow White and the Huntsman, is not just an intensely brilliant The Astronaut’s Wife, Sleepwalk- actor, but also an auteur par excel- ing and so on. And as the festival lence. Celebrated for films like The begins its roll on May 11, Theron Thin Red Line, Mystic River, Dead will once again get the Cannes Man Walking, The Pledge, 21 crowds into a state of adulatory Grams and Into the Wild, Penn’s frenzy -- and provide all the se- latest drama, The Last Face is set duction for shutterbugs. It’s a beautiful, special thing:Emilia Clarke on Jon Snow’s resurrection

he finale of this year’s and amazing performances. Day 3 ness about child abuse. no stone unturned in promoting the Haris Waheed, Urwa Hocane and Mother of Dragons, Emilia Clarke It’s sad, but it’s beautiful and it Bridal Couture Week Gold of the bridal extravaganza raised The hit TV serial has earned message. Farhan Saeed sashayed down the says she was “so excited” to see was a special thing.” She contin- Edition offered a lot more the bar as the leading cast of Udaari praise for highlighting the issue and On Sunday, Bushra Ansari, ramp, holding placards with Lord Commander Jon Snow, ued: “The response from the view- than sartorial spectacles took to the ramp to create aware- the makers, it seems, are leaving Samiya Mumtaz, Ahsan Khan, thought-provoking messages. played by actor Kit Harington, get ers has been really overwhelming.” resurrected on the HBO fantasy Snow was resurrected by Melisan- series, Game of Thrones. dre on the second episode of sea- In an interview to Daily Star son six of Game of Thrones, a rev- on Sunday, the actor, who plays elation that caps 10 months of Music Here’s your first footage from Fast Nargis Fakhri Daenerys Targaryen in the hit dra- worldwide speculation following ma, shared that some of her macho Snow’s death at the hands of his has become & Furious 8 with Vin Diesel and gang wants to work rugby player friends were left in Night’s Watch brothers in last tears when the beloved character year’s finale. Read: What it is like mainly for in Pakistan was brought back to life, reports to watch the Game of Thrones on Mirror.co.uk. Read: Game of Indian TV Clarke also admitted Thrones Episode 3 spoiler-free that she is finding the suspense of dance, says review, Oathbreaker The 29-year- the new series intense. “I had to old said: “It’s silly but I was so keep putting the script down and Asha Bhosle excited. I have rugby player friend picking it back up because it was that have been reduced to tears. too much,” she said. Ozzy, Sharon call it quits

Nargis Fakhri, whose origins trace after 34 years of m arriage? back to Pakistan, says that at a “time when there are divides be- tween cultures and races” she Asked about the current scene in would like to cross border for work. the music industry, veteran Bolly- She would like to spread one mes- wood singer Asha Bhosle shared sage — we’re all the same inside she admires Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and working together is the key to and Javed Ali from the present gen- moving forward. Be it Ali Zafar, eration of singers. Feeling songs Fawad Khan or Mahira Khan, that are written well are always Bollywood has welcomed Paki- remembered, she criticised some stani actors with open arms and Fast and Furious films are known shared a set video to give an early star Michelle Rodriguez having fun Nargis shares that she would like recent releases for faulty lyrics that to travel to Pakistan with her craft. do not leave a long-lasting impact for its use of flashy cars and even look at the movie. In the video, dancing with some local people. flashier locations but for its eighth actor Vin Diesel proudly introduc- F Gary Gray (Straight Outta Some Pakistani actors made a fool on the listeners. of themselves in Bollywood: Iman “I like Rahat Fateh Ali Khan film the franchise is taking a dif- es the movie as one of the first Compton) is directing the movie. ferent route by featuring vintage films to shoot in the country since Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ali Asked if she would consider and there is Javed Ali. He sings working in the Pakistani industry, very well. I like his voice and his cars. In pics: Vin Diesel shoots for the US and Cuba began to repair Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris and Jas- Fast & Furious 8 in Cuba, makes on Statham are also returning, while Nargis, who picked an action-com- singing. They have learned sing- their diplomatic relations, report- edy film Spy for her first Holly- ing, so there is everything in them,” history Fast and Furious 8 kicked ed Ace Showbiz. The video in- Charlize Theron and Game of wood outing last year, said: “I’m said Asha. While Rahat is known off its production in Cuba last cludes behind-the-scenes footage Thrones actor Kristofer Hivju are not the one to rule anything out.” for songs such as Mann Ki Lagan, week and Universal Pictures has of a car race on the street and shows added as new cast members. “With Pakistan being in my blood, Tere Mast Mast Do Nain and Ajj I would certainly look at opportu- Din Chadheya among others, Jav- nities to travel there,” Nargis told ed has attracted popularity for Jas- IANS in an email interaction. The Reality TV star Sharon Osbourne his infidelity. Read: I had a little hn-e-Bahaara and Arziyan among Check what is on Tiger's wishlist! Bollywood actor, who will be seen has reportedly split from her rock- fling with Jay Leno: Sharon Os- other songs. “I wouldn’t say all portraying Mohammad Azharud- er husband Ozzy Osbourne after bourne In 2013 on their 30th wed- songs are bad today but the lyrics Having starred in action and ro- panti" in 2014, has struck gold at din’s second wife Sangeeta Bijlani’s nearly 34 years of marriage. ding anniversary, the couple split aren’t proper. If the songs are writ- mantic genre films, actor Tiger the box office with his latest out- role in Azhar, feels that with star- It is a mutual decision and he briefly after she found out he had ten well, then only they are re- Shroff says he now wants to shift ing, "Baaghi". dom comes responsibility. Adnan, agrees to “move out of the house been taking prescription drugs. membered,” Asha added. “It’s be- gears and try his hand at doing a The Sabbir Khan-directed action- Sajal to make Bollywood debut temporarily,” reported Ace Show- They later got back together after cause of the lyrics that the songs musical. The 26-year-old actor drama has not only netted solid She said: “I believe that as ac- biz. The separation reportedly has Ozzy sought help and started see- click. It’s only when people like says he is keen to star in film on collections but has also brought in tors, we have a phenomenal plat- nothing to do with his addiction ing a psychiatrist. Read:?Justin the lyrics that they sing them. the lines of popular Hollywood praise for Tiger and Shraddha form to spread positivity and in- issues. The 67-year-old rocker is Bieber needs a good slap: Sharon Some sing for their love, some for movies like 'High School Musical' Kapoor. The actor says his father, fluence people in the same way. In said to have cheated on his 63- Osbourne Sharon and Ozzy mar- their husbands … You don’t find and 'Grease'. "I want do a musical Jackie Shroff and the entire family a time where there are divides be- year-old wife with Michelle Pugh, ried in July 1982. They have three such lyrics now.” Chose to be In- now. I don't mean musicals what is proud of him. "There are many tween cultures and races, I would a celebrity hairstylist 22 years his children together, Aimee, 32, Kelly dian because of its cuisine: Adnan they think of it as now but I want music how do I dance. So that good reactions I got for my role, I love to use my position to show junior. Sharon allegedly kicked the Osbourne, 31, and Jack Osbourne, Sami Asha mentioned that music to do more like a 'High School should be interesting," Tiger told cannot pin point anyone in partic- that we are all the same inside and Black Sabbath frontman out of 30. The family starred in their own has primarily become a tool of sup- Musical', or a 'Grease'...I love mu- PTI in an interview. The actor, ular. My father, my family are very working together is the key to their $10 million Beverly Hills MTV reality show, The Os- porting dance. sic, I love dancing, and without who made his debut with "Hero- proud of me. moving forward.” home last week after discovering bournes, from 2002 and 2005. TUESDAY . MAY 10, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Kohli stars with second ton as Bangalore triumph BANGALORE: A chanceless cen- Saturday’s night fixture at the PCA tury from skipper Virat Kohli I.S. Bindra Stadium in Mohali. powered Royal Challengers Ban- Having set a 182-run target, the galore to just their third win in the two Sharmas – Mohit and Sand- Indian Premier League here at the eep — stepped up to the task. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Giv- They gave away just 57 runs from en a challenging target of 192, Kohli their eight overs, bowling a total started slowly respecting the con- of 20 dot balls. ditions upfront, before taking Needing another 91 from 60 charge at the right time to score his balls, the visitors brought the equa- second century of the tournament tion down to 50 from the last six as his unbeaten 108 helped Banga- overs despite losing Sanju Samson lore chase down the runs in the (49). Needing 28 runs from 12 final over, with seven wickets in balls, Mohit then bowled a stun- hand. Kohli was sensational, yet ning penultimate over. Mixing his again as he looked in control of the slower deliveries with full length chase at all times. En route, the yorkers, he effectively sealed the Bangalore captain broke a few game by conceding just three runs. milestones; he became the first When Sandeep charged in to lexis Sanchez’s 68th- are to finish in the top four. Hav- yet finish above local rivals Tot- Real Madrid, but after a sprightly outings. Arsenal were quickly de- player to breach the 500-run mark bowl the final over, the Daredevils minute equaliser dealt a ing seen his team tamely concede tenham Hotspur, who they trail start they went ahead in the eighth flated again, however, as an appar- this season, did so in the fewest needed an improbable 25 runs. potentially fatal blow to defeat against Real Madrid in the by two points. But there was a minute. Jesus Navas’s cross from ent knee injury to Welbeck saw the innings ever — eight, and even Morris hit a six off the fourth ball Manchester City’s Champions League semi-finals on concern for Arsenal manager Ar- the right was nodded back and England forward walk straight off went past 6,000 runs in T20 crick- and young Rishabh Pant struck a Champions League qualification Wednesday, it threatens to be a sene Wenger, and his England coun- down by Fernandinho and Aguero the pitch and down the tunnel, et. There were other useful contri- boundary off the final ball, but the hopes as Arsenal claimed a 2-2 miserable end to Pellegrini’s three- terpart Roy Hodgson, in the shape eluded Mohamed Elneny before with Jack Wilshere coming on and butions in the chase; K.L. Rahul visitors still fell short. draw at the Etihad Stadium on Sun- year tenure, which has yielded the of a first-half injury to Danny driving a left-foot shot into Petr Alex Iwobi moving wide. Arsenal contributed a 35-ball 38 and Earlier, Punjab posted their day. 2013-14 Premier League title and Welbeck. The match programme Cech’s bottom-left corner. Bony were already missing German play- stitched together a 94-run partner- highest total this season with Sto- In his final home game as City two League Cups. United visit contained a message from Emirati hits bar Arsenal had barely set foot maker Mesut Ozil due to what the ship with Kohli, while Shane Wat- inis and Wriddhiman Saha scoring manager before handing over to Pep West Ham United on Tuesday be- club chairman Khaldoon Al Mubar- in City’s half, but within two min- club said was a “slight hip injury”. son chipped in with a 13-ball 36 52 apiece. Guardiola, Manuel Pellegrini saw fore finishing the season at home ak thanking Pellegrini and hailing utes their former player Gael Cli- After warning shots from Jesus as Bangalore got over the line in Royal Challengers Bangalore Kevin De Bruyne put the hosts in to Bournemouth and if they win his “engaging approach, integrity chy offered them an attacking foot- Navas and Fernandinho, City went 19.3 overs. Earlier, Pune, who were beat Rising Pune Supergiants by front after Sergio Aguero’s early both games, and Arsenal avoid de- and humility”. In his own notes, hold with a misjudged back header ahead in the 51st minute. put in to bat, to post 191-6. seven wickets. opener was cancelled out by Oliv- feat against bottom club Villa, Pellegrini describing managing City that bobbled past a scrambling Joe De Bruyne brought down a Ajinkya Rahane scored his sixth RISING PUNE SUPER- ier Giroud. But Sanchez’s strike Guardiola will begin life at City as as a “privilege” and said that he Hart, hit the post and went behind bouncing ball just inside the Arse- half-century of the season, while GIANTS 191-6 in 20 overs (A.M. means that Pellegrini is now de- a Europa League manager. For Ar- would “take nothing but great for a corner. Eliaquim Mangala, nal half and held off Hector Bel- Saurabh Tiwary scored 52, and Rahane 74, S.S. Tiwary 52; S.R. pendent on fifth-place Manches- senal, victory over Villa in next memories” to his next job. City deputising for injured skipper Vin- lerin before surging towards goal, shared a 106-run partnership with Watson 3-24); ROYAL CHAL- ter United dropping points in their Sunday’s final game will secure a failed to register a single shot on cent Kompany, misjudged El- cutting inside Elneny and guiding Rahane. Meanwhile, top-class LENGERS BANGALORE 195-3 last two games -- or Arsenal losing Champions League berth for the target in their meek 1-0 Champi- neny’s delivery and Giroud head- a low shot past Cech’s out- death bowling by Kings XI Pun- in 19.3 overs (V. Kohli 108 not out, at home to Aston Villa -- if his side 19th season running and they could ons League semi-final defeat at ed home his first goal in 16 league stretched right hand. jab bowlers helped them edge past K.L. Rahul 38, S.R. Watson 36; A. Delhi Daredevils by nine runs in Zampa 2-35). McGrego r fuels Flo yd speculatio n

LE MANS: Yamaha’s triple Mo- one-two, 10.654 seconds behind. mayhem behind with no fewer than especially for the championship,” starting from 7th place and moved toGP world champion Jorge Loren- Spaniard Maverick Vinales — eight riders parting company from said Lorenzo, who is moving to to second in the space of 13 laps. zo won a crash-strewn French tipped to replace Lorenzo next their bikes. The defending world Ducati next year, of his second win “When you start from the third Grand Prix from pole position on season — completed the podium champion, who celebrated his 29th of the season. “I wanted to keep a row and you arrive second, it’s al- Sunday to wrest the overall lead on his Suzuki, his first podium fin- birthday earlier in the week and high pace and not to lose the con- ways great,” Rossi said. Both Mar- from fellow-Spaniard Marc Mar- ish in the top category. That third led from start to finish, now has centration, so I kept pushing.” In quez and Dovizioso skidded off quez after the Honda rider slid out. place at Le Mans’ Bugatti circuit 90 points from five races with dry conditions, Marquez crashed the track at the same time on the Lorenzo, who set a new fastest lap was Suzuki’s first podium since Marquez on 85 after rejoining and with 13 laps to go along with An- same corner although there was no record on the 4.2km (2.6-mile) Le Italian Loris Capirossi’s in the finishing 13th. Rossi, who started drea Dovizioso during a fierce contact between them. Mans circuit in qualifying, was in Czech Republic in 2008. Lorenzo on the third row after winning the three-way battle for second place The Spaniard rejoined, other total control and Italian great Val- enjoyed a serene afternoon at the previous race in Spain, is third with Rossi. The Italian rider was falls allowing him to score three entino Rossi clinched the Yamaha historic Bugatti circuit, avoiding with 78 points. “A perfect day, on the attack from the off after points as the last classified rider. Dumoulinexpectstolose lead Djo ko vic eyes Ro m an with stage three also set to finish glo ry after clin chin g A fight between Floyd Mayweath- it's time," Floyd Sr told EsNews. in a sprint, he could overtake the er and Conor McGregor appears Floyd Mayweather has al- Dutchman if he finishes in the top to be on the cards after the Irish- ready opened up the possibility three. Giro d'Italia guide Stage-by- Madrid Masters title man fuelled speculation a clash is of a comeback stage companion to the three-day in the offing on his official Twitter Floyd Mayweather has al- race Dumoulin said: "It is all very account. ready opened up the possibility close now, but the chances are Mayweather, who walked of a comeback pretty high that I will lose it to- away from boxing last year with a "He told me he was going to morrow if Kittel sprints again like perfect 49-0 record, hinted last take another fight against some he did. "We just have to make sure week he may be tempted into a MMA fighter. We don't care about that there is another breakaway on ring return but only for a "nine- that man, we'll beat the hell out of the road to take the bonus seconds figure payday". that man. away [at the intermediate sprints], That led to reports that a box- "I haven't seen the guy but all and then we will see." ing contest against UFC feather- I got to do is take a good look at Marcel Kittel is now only one weight champion McGregor could him and I can tell you my son can second behind Dumoulin in the happen, and on Sunday morning, whoop him. He's dead. He's a dead general classification Marcel Kittel the Dubliner tweeted a photo of man. Floyd Mayweather outlines is now only one second behind himself staring 'Money' down with his plans for 2016. Floyd May- Dumoulin in the general classifica- the caption 'MMA vs Boxing.' weather outlines his plans for tion The first three stages of the McGregor is arguably the most 2016. "I thought that's what Giro are being held in Dumoulin's popular MMA fighter on the plan- they're going to do. I don't know native Netherlands and he said et Comments made by May- when it's going to come round but wearing the pink jersey in front of ROME: Novak Djokovic heads for the French Open, where I want to weather's father, Floyd Sr, on Sat- it will be pretty soon. It won't be Tom Dumoulin expects to lose the jersey by finishing safely in the his home fans had been a privilege. Rome this week crediting an un- arrive in the best possible shape.” urday appeared to suggest that that long." Giro d’Italia leader’s pink jersey peloton on stage two. "Today was really incredible scheduled pause in his claycourt The world number one captured talks between the pair were already Mayweather retired from box- to Marcel Kittel third stage. However, Kittel closed to and I enjoyed every second of it," season with helping him clinch a his fifth trophy of 2016 as he de- at a very advanced stage. ing after a points victory against Dumoulin took the overall lead within one second of Dumoulin by he added. "It was very nice to hear record 29th Masters title. The feated defending champion "I'm very sure he'll [Floyd Andre Berto in Las Vegas last Sep- by winning stage one's individual winning stage two and collecting this wall of noise all day and people world number one defeated long- Murray for the 12th time in their Mayweather Jr] be fighting when tember. time trial and then defended the the 10 bonus seconds on offer, and shouting my name." time rival Andy Murray 6-2, 3-6, last last 13 matches to stand at an 6-3 on Sunday to win the Madrid overwhelming 23-9 in their career Masters for a second time. head-to-head. Djokovic and Djokovic, 28, was forced to rest Murray — born within a week of after losing his first clay outing of each other in May, 1987 — first the season, going down in Monte met in Madrid in a 2006 round of Carlo to Czech Jiri Vesely. But he 16 when the event was played on credited the pause with actually hardcourt. “We both strived to be helping his game as he decom- at the top, we've known each other Twilight Son heads a 12-strong field for the Duke of York pressed after winning four early- since we were 12. I think you can Clipper Logistics Stakes on Wednesday. season titles — Doha, the Austra- see already in those junior days Henry Candy's sprinter won his first five starts, in- lian Open and Indian Wells and that both of us have serious inten- cluding the Group One Sprint Cup at Haydock, before Miami Masters. “I had an amaz- tions to conquer the tennis world chasing home Muhaarar on Champions Day at Ascot. ing opening four months of the and try to make a serious mark. He must concede 5lb to each of his rivals as he makes season. The early exit in Monte “I'm very pleased that I have de- his seasonal reappearance at Group Two level on the Carlo happened for a reason — I veloped a great rivalry with some- Knavesmire. needed some time to really re- body that I've known since a very The Charlie Hill-trained Magical Memory was just charge my batteries,” said long time and somebody that I three-quarters of a length behind Twilight Son in the Sprint Djokovic. The Serb called his have a very good and friendly rela- Cup and has the benefit of match practice, having made a three-week stoppage “more than tionship with on and off the court.” successful return in last month's Abernant Stakes at New- enough to get some freshness and Djokovic has defeated Murray market. new breath, on the court and get in all four of their clay-court meet- Michael Appleby's Danzeno has long threatened to ready for Madrid. “I came to ings as he added the 2016 Madrid win a major prize, while Mattmu is a major contender for Madrid early, got used to the con- trophy to the title he earned five Tim Easterby after a fine run to finish third in the Aber- ditions, and played a really fan- years ago in the Spanish capital. nant. Irish challengers Dick Whittington (Aidan O'Brien) tastic tournament that will defi- He has now won 33 of the past and Moviesta (Edward Lynam) also feature in a fascinat- nitely serve as a great confidence 35 sets against top 10 opponents ing contest. boost before Rome and of course — a stretch of 15 matches. TUESDAY . MAY 10. 2016-Saur 21, 1395 H.S Vol:X Issue No:279 Price: Afs.15

New Kabul Bank disputes still remain with bargaining

ment to continue execution of crim- those offenders who were involved ed Nations notes that there is no ment to issue the death penalty on AT News Report inals for ensuring the national se- in killing of innocent people. Un- conclusive evidence of the deter- those criminals who are involved curity in the country. Shekiba confirmed reports imply that the rent value of the death penalty and in suicide attacks and subversive KABUL: The legislators praised Hashimi, MP from Kandahar prov- judicial organs have issued the that the use of capital punishment activities. Speaker of Upper Monday President Ashraf Ghani ince, said that according to consti- death penalty of 600 criminals and does not contribute to public safe- House, Fazil Hadi Muslimyar also for implementation of execution tution, punishment of the crimi- the list is on the table of president ty,” it said in a statement. It asked welcomed execution of the mili- penalty against Taliban militants. nals is of the president’s authori- to sign. the government to change the death tants and urged president to con- Six militants were hanged on Sun- ties. “The president is obligated to Taliban warned that they would penalty to life imprisonment. “It tinue on issuance of the death pen- President Muhammad Ashraf Kabul Bank was badly shaken day as the court had already sen- implement the law,” she said. intensify attacks if the government was the legitimated demand of the alty agaisn criminals. “We wish it Ghani in the session of economic and almost collapsed in one of “the tenced them to death. But human “We expect the government to im- hangs more militants. The nation for the government to en- would not be the final executions, council has instructed the Central worst banking scandals in histo- rights bodies expressed regrets for plement the law over those crimi- UNAMA also expressed regret force the law against those crimi- we expect from president to im- the executions, who believe it Bank to prepare and new draft for ry,”. In late 2012, the independent nals who were involved in many over the executions and claimed nals who disturbing the national se- plement his commitments for se- integrating New Kabul Bank with investigators and journalists un- would not ensure the national safe- bloody suicide attacks.” Ghani had that these executions would not curity,” said MP Saleh Moham- vere punishment of the militants,” ty. Legislators asked the govern- one of the state-owned banks. covered widespread corruption in earlier vowed to enforce law on ensure public security. “The Unit- mad Saleh. He asked the govern- he remarked. However, the Ministry of Fi- Kabul Bank nance has expressed ignorance Following the departure of over the decision of President Afghanistan’s President Hamid Afghans stage anti-war protest in Brussels Ghani on New Kabul Bank and Karzai in 2014, President Ashraf Baghlan women say rejected it. “The integrating of New Ghani re-opened efforts to bring KABUL : Dozens of Afghans on He said the demonstrators first their message to the world. “The Kabul Bank with one of the gov- former Kabul Bank officials in- Monday staged a protest demon- gathered in front of the European ongoing war in Afghanistan is a ernment banks has not been dis- volved in the Kabul Bank Crisis to deprived of govt jobs stration in the Belgium capital, Parliament in Brussels and chant- proxy war, but its victims are the cussed. The issue was about prep- justice, extend and enforce prison Brussels, against the ongoing war ed anti-war slogans and then went Afghans. The Afghans should no aration of a new delegation beside sentences for those previously in Afghanistan. The anti-war dem- on to protest in front of the NATO longer be killed for the benefits of the special board of selling Kabul convicted, and seek to recover hun- onstration was organised by Khu- headquarters. others.” Bank,” Ajmal Hamid AbdulRahim dreds of millions of U.S. and Af- dai Khidmatgar group in Afghani- Chanting anti-war and pro- Shinwari criticised the US and Zai, spokesman of finance minis- ghan taxpayers’ dollars in funds stan. The group’s leader in Bel- peace slogans, the protestors and other western countries for giving try said. stolen or lost by embezzlement, gium, Shan Bacha Shinwari, told handed over a resolution letter to hundreds of millions of dollars in A number of economic ana- corruption, and fraud by the bank’s Pajhwok Afghan News over the the NATO headquarters. aid to Pakistan while the Afghans lysts say that President’s decision insiders. telephone that they carried out the In the letter, the protestors had were bearing the brunt of the in- about the New Kabul Bank turns Ghani vowed to seek to con- protest rally in connection with demanded an end to the war in ternational war on terrorism. out to be strange. tinue the investigation of the Kab- the International Day of Non-Vio- Afghanistan and Iran’s and Paki- He said they would continue “This is a strange news; earli- ul Bank crisis and fight corruption lence. He said a large number of stan’s interferences in the war-torn their protests in various European er they wanted to sell the bank but in Afghanistan. In October 2014, Afghan living in Belgium took part country. countries until the international PUL-I-KHUMRI : A number of mother of two children, who lives now decided to integrate it,” Say- the Ghani Administration in Kab- women in northern Baghlan prov- in a rented house, said she had tried in the demonstration and chanted Through their protest, Shin- community imposes sanctions on eed Masoud, university teacher ul reportedly officially re-opened ince complain they are unable to find a lot to get a teacher job or any anti-war and pro-peace slogans. wari, said they wanted to convey Pakistan and Iran. (Pajhwok) said. the investigation. (ATN) government jobs and the government other job in other offices. She said has failed to honour the promise of the education department had increasing women’s role in the pub- asked her complete 16 years of lic sector entities. Lailuma, 28, a education. But she said she was ORDERTOELIMINATEINSURGENTSNOT BEINGAPPLIED: EXPERTS bachelor’s degree holder, said she had not a situation to continue her high- A number of military experts be- pert. It has been 13 days since the a strong resolve has taken shape approached several government of- er education. “I do not know what lieve President Ashraf Ghani's or- president has ordered the security and we have a 15 percent rise in fices including the governor’s house, to do now,” she added. Other der to suppress militants is not forces to suppress militants, but operations and we will launch a the education department and oth- Baghlan women said they faced being properly implemented. any tangible change on the battle- large-scale operation in 30 districts ers, but failed to get a job. “You can- discrimination in government of- They said that the president fields is not being seen. in the next six months," said Sediq not get a job in government offices fices. They asked government lead- is "messing with people's minds" Security forces in Helmand, Sediqqi, spokesman for the MoI. if you don’t have connections or ers to be committed to their prom- money. In addition, females face dis- ises towards increasing women’s by giving the order but not imple- Uruzgan and Zabul provinces are A number of experts however crimination when it comes to gov- role in government offices. Mo- menting it on the battlefields. on the defensive, while in Baghlan are optimistic about the implemen- ernment jobs,” she said. Fakhria, hammad Usma Sherzai, a member "Unfortunately, what the pres- province more forces are needed tation of the order. "I think that another resident of Baghlan, said: “I of Baghlan Civil Society Institutes ident has announced is not put into to eliminate militants. the president has defined a new graduated five years ago from high Network, also confirmed women practice. Currently security forc- The Ministry of Interior prospective about the war and we school. I was in grade 11th when I had a weak presence in government es in Deh Rawud district are under (MoI) meanwhile assured the pub- will soon see the results on the bat- got married. My husband, who was offices and asked the government siege and the president is playing lic of an increase in operations tleground," said Mirza Moham- serving in Afghan security forces, to fulfill its pledges in this regard. with the public's minds," said against insurgents. mad Yarmand, former deputy min- was martyred four years ago.” The (ToloNews) Jawed Kohestani, a military ex- "The fighting is very serious, ister of interior. (ToloNews)