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Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No: 74 Price: Afs.20 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY . OCTOBER 12. 2018 - Mizan 20, 1397 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime fghanistan's intelligence agency said on Thursday 21 Taliban militants were killedA in an air raid after they gath- KANDAHAR CITY: Elections transparency of the Wolesi Jirga ered to plan attacks on the up- would not be conducted in Nesh election would improve with the coming parliamentary election. and Maroof districts of southern use of biometric system. Biomet- The raid happened in Syed Abad Kandahar province due to insecu- ric devices have arrived along KABUL: Chief Executive Officer rity and other issues. Independent with required tools in Kandahar. district of central Maidan Ward- Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Thurs- ak province, the National Direc- day left for Tajikistan at the head Election Commission (IEC) chief The requite equipment would be torate of Security said in a state- of a high-level delegation to attend for Kandahar Dr. Niamatullah airlifted to insecure areas, the ment. The deaths include also se- the Shanghai Cooperation Organi- Wardak told Pajhwok Afghan IEC said, adding Election work- nior Taliban militants including sation (SCO) summit. Faridoon News amid preparations for the ers would be hired in the next the provincial head of intelli- Khwazoon, deputy spokesman vote, security would be ensured few days. Nisar Ahmad Saleh, a gence, Naqibullah, and district for the CEO, told Pajhwok Afghan on the election day. Election would Wolesi Jirga runner, told Pajhwok shadow governor, Samad Wazir. News Foreigner Minister Salahud- take place in all districts of the candidates and people were op- Two more militants were arrest- din Rabbani and a number of gov- province except Nesh and Maroof, timistic about the election out- ed in the operation was carried ernment officials were accompa- where the voter registration pro- come with the arrival and use of out by special forces of NDS. Af- nying Abdullah. Khwazoon said cess had not been conducted be- the biometric devices. He praised ghanistan’s parliamentary elec- the CEO would deliver a speech cause of insecurity and for other the government’s steps in this re- tion is due to be held in less than to the Shanghai summit and meet issues, the official said. Despite gard, hoping the upcoming elec- two weeks on October 20. The the president of Tajikistan and Taliban this week warned that security threats, Wardak explained, tions would be more transparent prime ministers of Russia, China, polling would take place in Shah than past polls. Ezatullah, a res- they would seek to disrupt the Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Be- polls. Meanwhile, the United Na- Walikot, Mianshin, Ghorak, Kha- ident of Kandahar City, also ex- larus. He will meet the Indian for- krez, Registan and Shorabak dis- pressed happiness with the tions Assistance Mission in Af- eign minister. Abdullah will under- ghanistan said on Thursday that tricts with the help of security or- planned use of biometric devices despite significant security chal- line the need for a joint struggle gans. He added 173 of the 225 poll- in the election, scheduled for Oc- lenges, progress has been made against terrorism, the fight against ing centers planned would remain tober 20. A total of 567,000 peo- by the country’s security forces drug trafficking, expansion of re- open in different localities. About ple have registered as voters in in creating conditions for the ma- gional cooperation, implementa- 52 polling stations will be closed Kandahar. Of them, 73,000 are jority of citizens to exercise their tion of macro projects and region- al support for the Afghan-led peace in the two unstable districts. The women, according to local elec- right to vote. "Afghanistan’s se- official hoped the credibility and tion officials. (Pajhwok) curity forces are fully responsi- process. (Pajhwok) ble for providing security for the elections process," said Tadami- chi Yamamoto, the Secretary- General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan. “Adequate se- curity is required to give the op- portunity to as many eligible vot- ers as possible to exercise their constitutional rights.” Yamamo- to, who is also head of UNAMA, emphasized that Afghans should KABUL: The United Nations As- to, the UN secretary-general’s spe- lomat stressed in a statement. “Any tions was signed in 2017 by the not be obstructed, intimidated or sistance Mission in Afghanistan cial representative for Afghanistan. violence or intimidation directed at three main national security or- denied their right to choose their (UNAMA) on Thursday said de- Adequate security was required to voters, candidates or electoral offi- gans, as well as the IEC and the representatives and shape their spite significant challenges, give the opportunity to as many cials is totally unacceptable, and I Independent Directorate of Local country's future. “Any violence progress had been made by the eligible voters as possible to exer- unequivocally condemn it,” the UN Governance. This commitment or intimidation directed at vot- country’s security forces in creat- cise their constitutional rights, re- envoy said of recent attacks across was followed by extensive secu- ers, candidates or electoral offi- ing conditions for the majority of marked Yamamoto, who is also the country. UNAMA welcomed rity assessments of the polling cials is totally unacceptable, and citizens to exercise their right to head of UNAMA. The Afghans the allocation of additional resourc- centres by Afghan security agen- I unequivocally condemn it,” the vote. "Afghanistan’s security forc- should not be obstructed, intimi- es for female security personnel to cies. The October 20 elections are UN envoy stressed, noting recent es are fully responsible for pro- dated or denied their right to choose enhance women’s participation in the first in the modern era that attacks across the country against viding security for the elections their representatives and shape the democratic exercise. The joint will be fully handled by Afghan candidates, their teams. process," said Tadamichi Yamamo- their country's future, the UN dip- security planning directive on elec- National Defence. (Pajhwok) FRIDAY . OCTOBER 12, 2018 AFGHANISTANTIMES AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy Phone No: +93-797070563 political change in East Africa E-mail: [email protected] The competition between great powers has triggered a string of Email: [email protected] major political developments in East Africa. www.afghanistantimes.af By Mehari Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Taddele Maru Advisory editorial board Over the past year, East Africa Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, has seen an unprecedented flurry of political developments Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal that are changing dramatically the political landscape in the Graphic-Designers: region. Eritrea has emerged out of its diplomatic isolation, sign- Edriss Akbari and Bilal Yusufi ing declarations of peace and Marketing & Advertising: cooperation with Ethiopia, Dji- bouti and Somalia and publicly Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 calling for the lifting of interna- tional sanctions. After years of Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan hostility over the building of Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 the Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, Ethiopia and Egypt Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press have seen a significant im- provement in relations. Sudan, too, has mended relations with its northern neighbour and has managed to get US sanctions The constitution says lifted. Many have welcomed these new political develop- Article 117 ments with euphoria, believing that they mark a new dawn for The President shall appoint one of its members as Chief Justice of the Supreme East African politics. The Horn Court. Members of the Supreme Court, except under circumstances stated in Article of Africa is indeed set for a sig- One Hundred Twenty Seven of this Constitution, shall not be dismissed till the end nificant departure from the of their term. past, but it is important to note in Djibouti. East Africa has also introduced ington, some East African coun- that there are external factors The Doraleh Port had been op- a number of other major chang- tries may scale down their ties behind these changes. Saudi erated by UAE-owned DP es in the region. First, it has with China and revise their pub- Arabia and the United Arab World since 2006 but the Dji- further diminished the impor- lic procurement procedures. Emirates (UAE) appear to be the bouti government broke off its tance the US gives to support- Seeing this trend, China has al- sponsors of most of these dip- agreement with the Emirati ing the armies of countries in ready announced its decision Editorial lomatic efforts, but their role company and nationalised the the Horn of Africa, particularly to cut down investment in Ethi- too has been shaped by bigger port in February this year. Ac- that of Ethiopia. This means opia until its current debt pay- players. The undercurrent to cording to Waldhauser, Djibou- that the Ethiopian army's role ment is restructured. The US these changes is the major shift ti has assured the US that it in regional security and foreign government is also looking to of US foreign and defence pol- would not hand the port over policy will diminish, with the set up a special agency to in- icy from the "war on terror" to to the Chinese, who set up their exception of UN peace-keeping vest up to $60bn to counter strategic competition with oth- first overseas military base in missions. Second, it has Chinese interests in the devel- er global powers, mainly Rus- Djibouti in 2017, but he warned strengthened US support for oping world, including East sia and China.