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Contractors to be Fined over to Build Big Dam on Kunar River ASADABAD - The residents of eastern Ku- nar province say they are happy over the in- Missing Project Timescale auguration of a newly-reconstructed Salma KABUL - Presiding over a meeting of the building for easy service centre, Dam in western Herat province and want of the National Procurement Com- extension in timescale for the Education the government to establish a hydropower mission, President Ashraf Ghani Ministry’s research centre’s building and plant on the Kunar River. has said contractors will be fined extension in the duration of the Imam The Salma Dam, also called Afghan-India if they illogically delayed comple- Sahib canal’s embankment project and friendship dam, was inaugurated jointly by tion of projects. Gadaniwal-Chachcharan road construc- President Ashraf Ghani and Indian prime A statement from the Presidential tion project. minister Narendra Modi last week. Palace said on Saturday that the According to the Ministry of Finance, the A resident of Marawara district of Kunar, NPC met under chairmanship of easy service project is aimed at intensify- Mohammad Shoib Gharwal, said Kunar was the president at the palace before ing and making easy services delivery to a water-rich province, but its land lacked ir- noon. people at public sector departments. The rigation water and residents lived in dark. After a debate on 10 projects and project will be introduced in Kabul before He said the residents of Kunar suffered huge related issues, the meeting con- being extended to provinces. The NPC financial and human losses each year due to firmed oversight and designing approved 66 ...(More on P4)...(9) devastating ...(More on P4)...(10) Top UN Diplomat nitial Survey on Condemns Attack Zawahiri Pledges Allegiance Herat-Torgondai on Nangarhar Railroad Launched Mosque to Mullah Haibatullah HERAT CITY - Preliminary survey of the KABUL - Taliban’s su- Herat-Torgondai railways track has been preme leader Mullah launched at a cost of $1.6 million, the Gov- Haibatullah Akhundzada ernor House of western Herat province said has won an allegiance on Thursday. In a statement, the governor’s pledge from Al Qaeda house quoted Governor Mohammad Asif chief Ayman al-Zawahri, Rahimi as calling the project important be- a news report said on Sat- cause it would connect Afghanistan with urday. Central Asia and would play a vital role in In an audio message, development of Afghanistan. Zawahiri was quoted as The 200 kilometres railways track would be- saying by the Reuters gin from Tor Ghondai and through Kushk news agency: “As leader Khuna, Rabat, Sangi, Gulran, Engil and of the al Qaeda, I extend Guzra districts would reach Herat Airport, KABUL - The United Nations’ my pledge of allegiance according to Rahimi. top diplomat in Afghanistan has once again, the approach The Herat-Torgondai railroad is part of a condemned Friday’s attack on the of Osama to invite the Al Qaeda flourished under ings to expel Osama bin Laden Taliban from power in 2001 master railways network plan that would Hisarak Mosque in Rodat district of Muslim nation to support the Taliban regime, which from Afghanistan. The subse- and forced Al-Qaeda into connect the entire country.(Pajhwok) eastern Nangarhar province. the Islamic Emirate.” defied international warn- quent US invasion ousted the hiding.(Pajhwok) The attack killed at least three civil- ians and injured more than 70 oth- ers, including 31 boys. Two wor- Probe Finds Taliban Outnumber Pakistan’s Military shippers injured in the incident are said to be in critical condition. Security Forces in Kunduz Official State Sponsor of An improvised explosive device planted at the mosque detonated, killing a “mullah”, one man, and Taliban Insurgency: Ex-Envoy one boy as they prayed on the first KABUL - Former Canadian Friday of Ramadan. ambassador to Afghani- “An attack deliberately targeting stan, Chris Alexander, has civilian members of a community said the Pakistani military praying together in a mosque can is the official backer of the never be justified and highlights Taliban and Haqqani net- the perpetrators’ intent to destroy work. lives, and spread terror among the Alexander, who has also civilian population,” said Nicholas served as deputy head of Haysom. UNAMA, said that Paki- On behalf of the United Nations in stan clearly supports the Afghanistan, Haysom expressed Taliban and Haqqani ter- deep condolences to the families of ror network and that the the victims and wished a speedy re- world must not underes- ciliation process in Af- Haqqani network as a covery for the injured. KUNDUZ CITY - An in-depth reveals that the Taliban has houses as they are concerned timate Pakistan’s backing ghanistan and Islamabad clear violation of interna- Also the secretary-general’s special investigation by TOLOnews hundreds of armored and about insecurity in their ar- of the insurgent groups in has warned the Taliban tional law and interference representative for Afghanistan and has found that security forces other military vehicles and eas. Afghanistan. against endorsing a peace in Afghanistan’s internal head of UNAMA, he said interna- are far outnumbered by Tali- equipment in their control. Kunduz residents said they In a Skype interview with process with the govern- affairs. tional humanitarian law prohibits ban fighters in the northern The vehicles total more than still clearly remember the TOLOnews, he said that ment in Kabul. “Pakistan’s military and the deliberate targeting of civilians, province of Kunduz and that the vehicles owned by secu- days during last year’s battle Pakistan has been creating The Canadian envoy Pakistan’s ISI are offi- including at their places of worship. troops continue to be in a de- rity forces in the province. in Kunduz city and that they barriers in the way of the termed Pakistan’s back- cial state sponsors of the The law imposed a specific obliga- fensive mode rather than on This information has are concerned about the Tali- peace and national recon- ing of the Taliban and ...(More on P4)...(12) tion on combatant parties to allow the offensive. emerged nine months after ban’s activities on the out- religious personnel to carry out According to TOLOnews’ Taliban took control of Kun- skirts of the city. their work. At face value, this at- Tamim Hamid, the Taliban duz city for a short time in Recently the insurgent group Family of Hit-And-Run Victim tack a war crime and the perpetra- has control over three districts September last year. abducted a large number of tors must be held accountable, he in Kunduz, including dozens According to Hamid, a num- bus passengers and killed at Calls for Justice KABUL - Farzad, 18, was stressed.(Pajhwok) of villages in other districts ber of Kunduz residents have least 12 of them. This hap- in the province. The report still not returned to their pened ...(More on P4)...(11) on his way to the shops when a car, allegedly part 25 Afghan Citizens of a convoy of President Detained in Peshawar Ashraf Ghani’s delegation, Helmand’s Pula Bagh Power collided with his bicycle, Search Operation killing him instantly. PESHAWAR - More than two Project to Kick Off Soon His distraught family have dozen Afghan citizens have been LASHKARGAH - Officials called for justice. detained during a search opera- from the Ministry of En- The Herat governor has tion in Peshawar, the capital of ergy and Water said work confirmed that an employ- Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber on designing the Pula Bagh ee from the presidential Pakhtunkhwa province, police power project in Helmand guard was in the car when said on Saturday. will kick off in the near fu- it hit Farzad. Some sources dent, but they were from tim’s mother. “They are At least 63 suspects, including 25 ture as they have finalized have said a government different ministries who very brutal and don’t care Afghans, were arrested and arms the budget for it. minister was also in the were on their way to the about lives,” Barzad’s fa- and drugs seized from some of The deputy minister of en- car. airport to take their seats ther Bismillah said. them during search operations ergy and water, Amanullah But instead of stopping before the president ar- Farzad’s family are now on Friday, local police official Ghalib, told TOLOnews that and taking the boy to hos- rived; the driver belongs seeking justice and the Riaz Khan told Pajhwok Afghan the dam will be built on Hel- finalized and its design will a number of analysts said pital, the culprits allegedly to the guards of the pres- prosecution of those who News. mand River and will gener- start in the near future. This that primary findings reveal continued on to the air- idential palace,” Herat killed their son. The search operations were car- ate 90 megawatts (MW) of project will generate 90MW that Helmand River has the port. Governor Mohammad Meanwhile the presiden- ried out in Sarband, Hayatabad electricity. power,” he added. capacity of nearly 10 hy- “They were the delegation Asif Rahimi said. tial palace has rejected and Pishtakhara areas of Pesha- “The Pula Bagh project is According to the ministry, dropower projects and that who came here for Sal- “I don’t know how I claims it was one of their war, he said, adding policewom- located near Kajaki Dam the Pula Bagh project is lo- government should consider ma Dam ceremony; they lost my son, I still wait drivers or vehicle but has en and sniffer dogs also partici- [in Helmand province], for cated 70 kilometers from this in its future plans. were on their way, those for him to return from vowed to find those re pated in the raids.(Pajhwok) which the budget has been Kajaki Dam. Meanwhile, They ...(More on P4)...(13) weren’t with the presi- shopping,” said the vic- ...(More on P4)...(14)