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Atmar off to Dushanbe for talks on security cooperation

AT Monitoring Desk

KABUL: National Security Advi- sor Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Wednesday left for Dushanbe on a day-long official visit for talks with his Tajik counterpart. A statement from the Nation- al Security Council said Atmar was AT Monitoring Desk visiting the Central Asian country KABUL: Hundreds of Taliban in- at the invitation of Tajik Security surgents launched vast attacks on Council Secretary Abdurahim Qah- the Janikhel district of eastern Pa- horov. ktia province, where heavy clash- The advisor is due to meet KABUL: A former lawmaker and ly implemented was the creation es underway between Afghan se- Tajikistan’s President Emomali prominent Pakistani politician of military courts. Reforms in sem- curity forces and the Taliban in- Rahmon on subjects of common Afrasiab Khattak said that Paki- inaries, disallowing proscribed or- surgents, provincial official said interest, including security coop- stani security establishment’s sup- ganizations to function under new Wednesday. eration and the fight against ter- port for the Afghan Taliban is an names, mainstreaming the tribal “The clashes are ongoing two rorism. open secret. areas, and taking action against kilometers from the center of Jan- Atmar would also convey He is not the only one, as sev- militants in [the eastern province ikhel. If supporting troops are not President Ashraf Ghani’s greetings eral other politicians and critics of] Punjab were never implement- sent into the district as soon as to Rahmon, the statement added. istan. ince said that difference between Khan Zadran a prominent tribal He will confer with his interlocu- slammed security establishments ed,” Khattak was quoted as say- possible, the district will fall into Janikhel district is sharing bor- the two leaders of the National elder said in that time. of their country for their ‘good and ing a report by Gandhara/Radio the hands of the Taliban,” District tors, including Qahhorov on ways ders with Pakistan, where some Unity Government (NUG) have He furthered the leaders have of combating organised crime. bad’ terrorist approach. Free Europe Radio Liberty. Governor Abdul Rahman Solamal parts of the district has long been created several challenges, adding neglected important national is- He said that “unfortunately”, “It is also public knowledge told TOLONews. During his stay in Tajikistan, remain insecure. The government that the government also lacks a sues and remain focused on their coming days after his trips to Iran the state couldn’t muster the po- that non-state actors find no ob- Currently, the Afghan securi- forces yet to restore peace and sta- comprehensive security policy. personal gains, which have deteri- litical will to implement National stacles to their agenda,” he said, ty forces are in fight with the Tal- and Russia, Atmar is scheduled to bility there. “If the situation prevailed, orated the security situation in the discuss Kabul-Dushanbe coordi- Action Plan. “The only point ful- iban and other insurgent outfits in In the past, a number of tribal more provincial capitals will fall country and there is no end to the See P8 14 out of 34 provinces of Afghan- nation in boosting security in bor- elders in southeastern Paktia prov- to the Taliban militants,” Pacha people’s suffering. der areas. (Pajhwok) TALIBAN US FAVOURS INDIA'S MILITARY Key Taliban ATTACK SUPPORT TO AFGHANISTAN: TOP member CHECK-POSTS AMERICAN COMMANDER killed in NEW DELHI: Afghanistan has IN BAGHLAN sought more military supplies Kunduz from India including attack helicop- AT Monitoring Desk ters and US favours Indian sup- AT News Report 917 drug traffickers arrested in the past four port in enhancing Afghan security KABUL: Hundreds of Taliban forces, a top American command- KABUL: The Afghan security forc- months: Deputy of Counter Narcotic of MoI militants attacked several check er overseeing US operations in the es in a military operation have By Farhad Naibkhel post in Dahana-e-Ghori district of killed Taliban’s deputy shadow northern Baghlan province, pro- war-ravaged country said today. vincial officials said Wednesday. India has already provided four dia apart from the four Mi 25 district governor for Imam Sahib KABUL: A drug lord who had been Senior Taliban “The Taliban attacked the dis- Mi-25 helicopters to Afghanistan choppers. Abdul Rahman along with 13 oth- financing insurgency and terrorism and US Commander General John He said Afghanistan was strug- ers militants in northern Kunduz was arrested by the counter-nar- trict early today and fighting be- cotics police in eastern Nangarhar tween militants and government Nicholson said the country needs gling to get spare parts for Rus- province, provincial police said on commander more military aircraft to deal with Wednesday. province, officials confirmed forces are continuing,” the official sian aircraft due to Western sanc- Wednesday. told Xinhua news agency. Taliban and various other terror tions against Moscow and India The police said that 21 other “Joma Khan was arrested killed in According to the official who outfits. can supply them, adding "the US insurgents were also received inju- through an operation in the declined to be named, Taliban mil- Welcoming India's contribution favours India's military support to ries during operation. Sherzad district on August 2,” dep- tion is in southern and southwest- itants have overrun four police to restoring peace and stability in Afghanistan". According to the police, the uty interior minister Baz Moham- ern provinces. Samangan checkpoints and the attacking in- Afghanistan, Nicholson said ter- Referring to Pakistan, he said Afghan Air Forces supported Af- mad Ahmadi said. He emphasized that war by 30 AT News Report surgents are attempting to capture ror outfits like Haqqani network, the Taliban "enjoys sanctuaries" in ghan security forces during opera- “Khan was a big international percent linked to the drug cultiva- drug dealer and used to support KABUL: A key commander of the district headquarters. Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mo- Pakistan and that the US has asked tion that was carried out in the tion and smuggling in southern the Taliban insurgents was killed However, locals in Dahna-e- hammad are not only a threat to Islamabad to take steps to contain Taliban financially,” Ahmadi said. provinces. Imam Sahib district. His 11.6 tons of narcotics He said that CNP concentrate along with his two accompanies, Ghori in talks with Xinhua con- Afghanistan but to the region in- the terror networks operating from Two security forces were were seized and six laboratories over arrest of big drug dealers and while two other militants were firmed Taliban’s attack, saying 20 cluding India. its soil. "We consistently encour- killed and three others were were destroyed during operations, cultivation, which mostly locate in injured as a result of a joint mil- local policemen under Nik Mo- Nicholson, who heads the US age Pakistan to take action against wounded, the police source said he added. insecure areas across the country. itary operation launched by the hammad joined the advancing mil- operations in Afghanistan, on his terrorist groups that operate from without giving further details. He stated that Joma Khan’s 30 Low capacity is a big challenge national army and national po- itants. second visit to Delhi has met Na- its territory and close down their It is worth mentioning that the armed men were also killed during for CNP combat against drug traf- lice in southern Samangan prov- Moreover, the provincial coun- tional Security Adviser Ajit Dov- safe havens," he told a group of operation in Nangarhar. fickers in insecurity provinces, he ince, ministry of interior said in cil officials have warned that the Afghan National Security and De- Joma Khan is resident of Ma- mentioned. a statement Wednesday. al, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar journalists, at the same time, add- fense Forces have inflicted heavy district would collapse to the Tal- and Defence Secretary G Mohan rakai village of Sherzad district, and Although CNP in collabora- The statement said that the ing that the US was supportive of casualties on the Taliban after the was being chased by police for the iban hands, if additional troops Kumar and discussed a range of Islamabad's efforts to reduce the tion with other related organs operation was conducted in were not dispatched to the area as militant group launched a series of past ten years. struggled best to eliminate narcot- Hazara Qadoq village, Hazrat issues including situation in Af- ability of terrorist groups. attacks to take control of Qala-e- He said that police also arrest- ics cultivation, but eradication will Sultan district in late Tuesday. soon as possible. ghanistan and terror threats to the Nicholson said the US was It is worth mentioning that the Zal and Dasht-e-Archi districts in ed two other big drug traffickers be at low level due to lack of enough The statement identified the region. trying to build a "counter terror- restive Kunduz province. last month. capability in the aspect this year, commander as Qari Ehsan, say- district was once cleared of insur- The US Commander said mil- International drug runners he asserted. gents. Baghlan police officials in ism platform" focusing on contain- Defense officials in that said ing that the two injured were itary training by India to thousands ing all terror groups emanating Ghulam Sakhi and Mir Wali were On the other hand Counter arrested with some of light and that time said that Taliban insur- that Afghan security forces are arrested in Zaranj city of Nimroz Narcotics Deputy said that “917 gents were suffered heavy casual- of Afghan security personnel has from the region and ensure its peace heavy round of ammunitions. helped that country significantly fighting the Taliban insurgents in in separate operations, he noted. drug traffickers were arrested dur- ties during the clashes in Dahana- and stability. Hailing India's con- He said that over around 300kg It further added that Qari which is in tune with the objective tribution in reconstruction of Af- Qala-e-Zal and Dasht-e-Archi dis- ing 749 operations has been con- Ehsan was involved in many e-Ghori and Dand-e-Shahabuddin tricts of Kunduz province. Tens narcotics discovered and confiscat- ducted by CNP in the past four districts of the province. of the NATO and the US. ghanistan, he said the Afghan-In- ed from the possession of the two months throughout the country.” terrorist and destructive activi- "I cannot speak for the Afghan dia Friendship Dam in Herat prov- of them [Taliban] were killed and ties in this district and other ar- Clearance operation was car- wounded, the official said, adding detained smugglers. He said that over 128 tons of government. But I know that they ince and Chabahar port project will Mir Wali is one of the big drug narcotics and alcoholic beverages eas of the Samangan province. ried in Baghlan after concerns raised that the districts are under control that the Taliban group preparing have requested more and would help boost Afghanistan's economy. traffickers, who smuggled five to seized by police. like more and I think there is an The US Commander on Tues- of Afghan security forces. ten tons of opium from Helmand Two police, five army and four for spring offensive where they In a press statement, Minis- mulled to create sanctuaries in the immediate need for more as these day visited the burial sites of one to Iran monthly, he claimed foreign citizens were also among aircraft can immediately get into of his ancestors -- Brigadier Gen try of Defense said that at least 30 Drug for gun is the commer- arrested smugglers, he added. province. However, the Afghan cial deal which through drug traf- Twenty-seven female who security forces had inflicted heavy the fight," he said, when asked John Nicholson -- in a cemetery in insurgents were killed in the past 24 hours in Qala-e-Zal district of fickers fueling insurgency in Af- were involved in drug trafficking casualties to the Taliban and push whether Afghanistan was seeking Old Delhi. "My wife and I cleaned ghanistan as Ahamadi says that were also arrested in the past four them back from the province. more military helicopters from In- his grave," he said. NDTV Kunduz province. around 90 percent of drug cultiva- months, he underlined.

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74: 35 71: 55 THURSDAY.AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Returning Afghans selling their properties cheap SWABI: Afghans residing in two refugee camps and other areas of the district have started selling their War, Poetry, and the beautiful contradiction. Siyar Bahadurzada gives insight into his moti- property and household goods at much the lower price as they pre- vations for fighting and his love of the art of his country. pare to leave for their homeland after staying in Pakistan for de- cades. They told Dawn on Tuesday they started preparing to leave for their country after the federal gov- Afghanistan is a land of con- ernment decided that no extension tradictions. Take the jagged peaks would given to them after Decem- of the Wakhan corridor, shaped as ber 2016. though clasped between the hands “If we get another extension it of a mighty god. Though awe- won’t be more than a year. It is striking in their appearance, the clear that our stay in Pakistan is cliffs mean torture on the knees short lived now,” said an inmate of and lungs of the shepherds who the Gandaf refugee camp, which roam there. Or see Papaver som- along with the Gohati camp has niferum (aka opium), which thrives housed 36,000 and 22,500 Afghan in the dry Gostan valley. Its cur- refugees, respectively, for decades. vaceous fruit, which erupts into After the directions to leave gorgeous blooms of silky pink and the country, the Afghans living in white, and may have caused more urban neighbourhoods of the dis- misery than any other plant on trict have started selling their im- earth. movable properties. And, locals have showed great interest in pur- This dichotomy also exists in chasing these due to their low pric- a grander sense. Afghanistan is es. where mankind has waged count- “A well-constructed eight- less bloody wars. And yet, this land marla house in our neighborhood has also fostered great artistic beau- was sold at Rs2.7 million by Wa- ty, especially through its poetry. hid, an Afghan, the other day,” said As Afghanistan's most successful Mohammad Rafiq of Topi. athletic export to date, one of the Afghan refugees have also dis- best modern personifications of his played their household items at nation's long-standing marriage of Topi bypass, where a number of violence and poetry may be Siyar locals visit to purchase them. Bahadurzada. “I have bought an electricity LAND OF WARRIORS stabiliser at Rs5,000, which could hardly be acquired at Rs10,000 in Before you can attempt to the market,” Javid Khan of Topi understand Afghanistan, and its city said. warrior culture, you must first The locals said Afghans pre- learn about Afghaniyat. ferred not to take electric appli- “We have a lot of traditions,” ances with them as they believed said Bahadurzada, referring to the they won’t have electricity sup- honor code Afghans are taught ply back home in Afghanistan. from birth. Afghaniyat is known Along with other things, the by many names, but you won’t Afghans are also selling their cat- find it swirled on scrolls or etched tle, with local butchers buying the into stone tablets. The code is flu- livestock at much lower prices. id and shifts in composition from However, Afghans feel highly town to town, family to family, perturbed as they are not assured and sometimes person to person. they would get eatables and other Some tenants, however, are ever- items of daily use at arrival in their present. in the Afghaniyat). But primarily, durzada, who writes poems him- violence against women still nothing that inspires me more than “I have this thing with being a home country. They are also wea- Melmastia means hospitality Bahadurzada said he draws self and often shares them on so- plagues Afghanistan. And as is of- poetry. If you can find poems that warrior and a poet. They are two ry of finding no economic oppor- and few Afghans would argue strength from simply knowing cial media. “We have the warrior ten the way of Afghan culture, that are about the thing that you are opposites of each other," said Ba- tunities in Afghanistan like Paki- against this as one of the most im- who his ancestors were. side, that’s one thing. And then violence begets poetry as well as dealing with, nothing can inspire hadurzada. "In the Western culture, stan, where they earned their liv- portant and defining traits of their “My ancestors were war- there’s the poetry side and the ro- suffering. you more.” they are opposite of each other, ing with ‘dignity and honour’. culture. riors,” celebrated Bahadurzada. mance side that we have had inte- “My family is very fascinat- Bahadurzada knows full well like, if you’re a warrior and a tough “We are expected to stay in “We are a very hospitable “We are a warrior people, it means grated in our culture for a very long ed by poetry,” claimed Bahadurza- that much more than poetry is man and you go out there and fight, tents in our country unlike Paki- people,” enforced Bahadurzada. a lot to me. It means the only thing time.” da. “It’s just in our culture, people needed to repair what has been then you show the soft side of your stan where we lived either in our “When people come to your house, I have to do is carry myself, I don’t In today's Afghanistan, a num- in my village are also fascinated devastated in Afghanistan by war love for poetry, it contradicts your own houses or rented ones,” said you take them into your house.” have to show myself tougher than ber of the nation's most revered with poetry, I love talking with and other ills. However, he hopes warrior side." Ahmad Shah, adding they would When practiced ideally, Mel- I am. I have to just show myself." historical figures are poets. Many them and discussing poems. Like, that a marriage between Afghani- And while the west may be strangers in their own home- mastia compels Afghans to shelter “The only other thing I have of those figures were warriors as how they perceive specific poems, stan’s two sides, war and poetry, struggle with images of a man who land, and would face increasing their guests – regardless of their to do is not stray]from that Af- well. Khushal Khattak was born the way they see it. Everybody and using the latter to try and heal finds his essence both in artistic problems in starting a new life. creed, affiliation, or social status – ghaniyat code,” added Bahadurza- in Kabul Province in 1613 under sees it in their own way, that’s the the former is a good place to start. expression and prize fighting, Ba- Azmat Shah, a 9th grader, said and protect them from all who da. Just as it has shaped his per- the rule of a foreign king. After his best thing about poems.” Bahadurzada also understands hadurzada summed up his he never thought his family would would do them harm. ception on how to act as an Af- father died in battle, Khattak be- Bahadurzada said he especial- that some people, those outside thoughts with an observation that return to Afghanistan one day. “We Nanawatai (forgiveness) is ghan, so too has the Afghaniyat came the chief of his tribe and then ly enjoys debating poetry with one of where he comes from, may could be stretched to not just him- lived in Topi city for a lifetime, also a key component of Af- influenced Bahadurzada’s fighting led a rebellion against the Mughal of his cousins, because the two of struggle to see how poetry and vi- self, but all of Afghanistan. "This and don’t know how we will cope ghaniyat. career. “I’m going to tell you some- Empire. His struggle against the them have such divergent views on olence can relate to one another – contradiction is the thing that a life lived in a tent back in Af- “When your enemy comes to thing really crazy,” said Baha- Mughals was marked by the gal- practically every poem they dis- but that’s ok with him. makes it beautiful." bloodyelbow ghanistan,” he said. Dawn your house and apologizes, ani- durzada before a long pause. “Peo- vanization of fellow Afghans cuss. mosity finished. Then they be- ple might use this to my disadvan- through his poetry. Though his “I understand his perspective come your friend,” said Baha- tage, but I’m going to tell you, to rebellion ultimately failed, his and he understands mine, and it’s durzada. “That’s how we handle show you what Afghaniyat I’m words helped define the country very fascinating to see many dif- Kabul’s women seek refuge indoors these things, every Afghan man going to take into a fight with me. that Afghanistan would eventual- ferent people look at the same who knows Afghan culture, who “If I find out that my oppo- ly become. But Khattak wasn’t poem, and talk about different after a series of acid attacks knows the Afghan tradition and nent has a hurt knee, and he still unique. things about it, and what it means lives and dies by the Afghan rules comes to fight me, I will be an hon- Ahmad Shah Durrani, who to them. It’s beautiful.” and the Afghan code of honor and orable opponent. I will not kick was born in 1722 in Herat, was A BEAUTIFUL CONTRA- A rising tide of violence against women in the last year has Afghan way of living, this is ex- him in the knee. I will fight him also a poet who led an army (in his DICTION created an atmosphere of heightened fear in the Afghan capital actly how things go down.” honorably and I will beat him hon- case 4,000 cavalry troops) against As it has been throughout its The various iterations of this orably.” the Mughal Empire. Nazo Tokhi, history, Afghanistan is presently Though he admitted there is who was born in Kandahar in 1651, in a state of war. Internal conflict In early July, the citizens of Kabul ful of gossip and isolation. punches at her on the street near code have greatly shaped the war- were faced with a confronting sight. Nouri, the acid victim, told her home a year ago. riors of Afghanistan. no honor in losing, Bahadurzada is known as the ‘Mother of Af- currently rages between the gov- Armed with a loudspeaker, novice Women In The World from the Marofi said women in Kabul “Even in animosity, we have refused the possibility that he ghans’. She gained national prom- ernment of Afghanistan, support- rapper Elinaa Rezaie hit the streets, hospital that she was walking are changing their daily routine to that side in us that we can be an would take victory in a manner that inence with her Afghaniyat-exalt- ed by various militias and an inter- lifted the front of her burqa and home with her family after visit- protect themselves. Students and honorable enemy,” said Baha- goes against his principles. Baha- ing poetry. When her father was national coalition, and the Taliban, displayed a bandaged face to pass- ing her brother for Eid when a man professionals who enjoyed a rela- durzada. “Like, when you’re durzada also admitted this conduct killed during war with the Safavid supported by al-Qaeda and other ersby in the Pul-i-Surkh district of threw a bottle of acid at them from tively urban lifestyle stay indoors down, we will not kick you, even is not something explicitly laid out Persians, she was left to defend groups. More recently, the Islam- the city. behind. The chemical poured down more often, some have stopped if we are your enemy.” in the most common interpreta- her family’s fortress, which she did ic State has attempted to hold ter- her face, disfiguring her and endan- wearing makeup, cover their faces tions of Afghaniyat. However, it – sword in hand. The list goes on. ritory within the country, warring Rezaie stood before the Af- gering her eyesight and hearing. She and wear full body veils. They no Afghans have had plenty of ghan Independent Human Rights said she didn’t know why anyone longer take taxis in the dark or stroll enemies through the years to prac- is part of the personal Afghaniyat However, not all of Afghanistan’s with both sides in their pre-exist- Commission building, protesting would attack her. in the evening, and some say they tice such traits. Thanks to its cru- he has developed for himself and great poets were also great war- ing conflict. IS has claimed respon- violence against women and the She cries from the pain and cial location, as a crossroads that hopes to promote to his country- riors. sibility for a wave of bombings and acid attacks she and others feared. said she can still smell the acid on connects all of Central Asia, Af- men and women. “Rumi was born in Afghani- massacres targeting civilians That day, Nafisa Nouri, a wife and her face. “I can’t breathe well. I ghanistan has been prized by Em- Bahadurzada is looked up to stan!” declared Bahadurzada, who throughout 2016. mother of two girls, was hospital- have burns inside my throat. I still perors for over a millennium. In by many in Afghanistan and that's then singled out the famed jurist, “Let’s not see Afghanistan in ized after an attack. Nouri’s 7-year- have nightmares about what hap- 516 BCE Darius I of Persia not something he takes lightly. scholar and Sufi mystic as the terms of what happened in the last old daughter Parinaz and another pened, and I’m tired of being “It is a lot of history and pres- ‘greatest poet who ever lived.’ thirty-five years,” said Bahadurza- female relative of the family also blamed for what happened to me,” marched into Afghanistan on route suffered burns to their bodies and Nouri, 27, said on the phone. to forming the largest empire in sure to put on your back,” admit- Though both Iran and Turkey da. “Because any country that has face from the acid. This attack and other incidents ancient history. ted Bahadurzada when talking claim him as their own, Jalal al- had thirty-five years of war, it will Mobilzed by her anger, Reza- of reported rising violence in Kab- Two hundred years later, Al- about his goal to represent Afghan- Din al-Balkhi was born outside of turn them into a fierce animal.” ie rapped against the government’s ul in the last year have created an exander the Great (following his istan’s warrior culture, in a posi- Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghan- It was civil conflict that raged weak response to violence against atmosphere of heightened fear, ac- victory over Darius III) rode tive way – through the sport of istan in the early 13th century. At in Afghanistan when Bahadurzada women. “I went to visit the acid tivists from Women for Afghan through Afghanistan with great dif- MMA. “I brought the sport to that time the province of Balkh was born. He endured fifteen years victims in the hospital to tell them Women and Women for Women ficulty, on his path to immortali- Afghanistan, I am very honored to was administered by the Persian of turmoil before he was able to I feel their pain,” Rezaie told Wom- International say. Neighbors and have introduced something to my Khwarazmian Empire. Rumi, who immigrate to the Netherlands. De- en in the World. “Then I decided relatives often blame women for ty. Many ancient empires fol- to demonstrate … because the rest inciting the attacks instead of de- lowed, including the Scythians, people. Something that helps them, traveled throughout Asia, spent spite escaping the warzone, part of the world seems to have forgot- manding justice, victims say. have a hard time even trusting co- Parthians, and Sassanids. and keeps them focused, away most his life writing poems at the of it remained with him. ten about us.” The Afghan Independent Hu- workers and classmates. The Middle Ages weren’t any from drugs, gives them the idea that, behest of the Seljuq Sultante of “War affects you in horrible The 22-year-old joined the man Rights Commission reported “Girls are killed, then thrown more peaceful for Afghans. 642 CE if this guy can make it, we can make Rum (thus earning the nickname ways, in ways that you could not chorus of women activists who a seven percent rise in violent as- in a creek, brothers burn sisters, marked the Islamic conquest of it. It’s for the bigger purpose. I’m Rumi). Rumi’s impact on Central possibly imagine,” said Baha- have been warning of an abandoned saults against women — from infant girls are murdered,” Marofi large swathes of the country. Al- fighting for my people. I’m fight- Asia’s arts can’t be overstated and durzada. “Soldiers who go to coun- international campaign to curb vi- 1,394 to 2,579 — in the last two said. “There’s no accountability, most 600 years later it was Geng- ing to inspire my people. I’m fight- today his image is found on land- tries like Afghanistan or Iraq, who olence against women in her coun- years in Afghanistan. But these no follow-up of what happened ing to give them hope and give marks and banknotes from Istan- go there for six months or a year, try after the U.S.-led coalition statistics can mean that women are from the police or media. This just his Khan who stormed through the ousted the Taliban in 2001. Afghan more empowered to report vio- creates fear and worry.” land, destroying many cities in his them the idea that it’s not the end bul to Everest. Rumi wrote roman- they come back with all sorts of women say they can no longer de- lence, not necessarily that the num- Marofi said women’s rights are wake. Then it was the Timurids, if you’re still in the war. I’ve been tic, and often remorseful, works PTSD, and they are eighteen or pend on outsiders or the Afghan ber of incidents are growing, said on the back burner for Afghani- and the Safavids, and so on and so in war, I’ve made something out which largely centered on his long- older. We have seen these things government to help them. They can Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan’s re- stan’s international supporters. on until eventually the British and of my life, and I’ve used that war ing to reach God, a common theme when we were little kids.” leave the country — thousands searcher for Amnesty Internation- While Afghan President Ashraf Soviets forayed into the battle hard- to my advantage.” in Sufi Islam. “I remember when I was a lit- have escaped — or find ways to al. “We know for sure that there’s Ghani and his wife Rula stand ened country (to suffer costly and LAND OF POETS “You cannot find two people tle kid, when I was like three or defend and protect themselves. more fear,” Mosadiq said. “But firmly for gender equality, the lower embarrassing defeats). “Afghanistan loves poetry,” who see one poem the same way, four years old, I would walk over Some women say their goal is rarely some of the systemic use of vio- ranks in law enforcement and the sighed Bahadurzada when rumi- because for everybody it means body parts and dead people to get about gaining rights but staying lence and attacks against women’s judiciary don’t consider violence “It is kind of in the blood,” alive and healthy amid rapidly de- rights activists and women in pub- against women a serious crime, she said Bahadurzada of the ‘warrior nating on a subject that few realize something different. And Rumi home safe in the war. That’s what teriorating security, that is allow- lic offices by Taliban have always said. Even when culprits are ar- mentality’ he feels exists inside is a core component of Afghan cul- was a genius at that,” said Baha- I have been through as a little kid. ing heinous methods of violence been our concern.” rested, they pay bribes and are ei- himself, as well as every other Af- ture. Dr. Arezou Azad, Director of durzada, who like a lot of Afghans, And these things, you take them such as acid attacks. The Taliban have claimed re- ther freed or receive light sentenc- ghan whose family has survived the Birmingham Centre for Study has spent countless hours debat- with you. It creates a dark side in- Women’s rights advocates say sponsibility for numerous assas- es. the centuries of bloodshed. of the Middle Ages at the Univer- ing poetry. side of you that you will never get assaults in public in urban centers sinations of women across Afghan- Yet women in Kabul continue “We have always endured,” he sity of Birmingham, is a historian In Afghanistan today, it is quite rid of, and you try to get rid of have become bolder in the last two istan in their fight against the West- to work, go to school and some, added. “Afghans are brave, Af- of Medieval Afghanistan and Iran. common to come across groups of that dark side in positive ways.” years. But many of the recent at- ern-backed Afghan government, like Rezaie, confront the violence. “Afghanistan certainly has an il- men discussing poems or gather- Bahadurzada believes an Afghan tacks in the capital seem to involve although the hardline group has Two dozen demonstrators joined ghans are courageous and Afghans personal rather than political mo- denied attacking women with acid. Rezaie holding signs that said endure. Anybody can break, there lustrative history of poetry,” said ing to hear a reading or recording. national passion could be key to tives, said Gholam Dastagir of That fear is disrupting wom- “Where’s my face” and “My sin is a breaking point to anything and Dr. Azad. “For example, some of In rural Afghanistan women whis- fading the ‘dark side’ that was bore Kabul police. In Kabul, at least en’s already limited freedoms in is not being a woman.” everybody, but an Afghan’s break- the best known medieval Persian per short rhymes to each other, into him and countless others. three separate acid attacks against Kabul, said activist Frozan Ma- But two weeks after the acid point is not where you expect mystical verses were composed in deriding the strict patriarchy they “I think poetry heals a lot of women were reported just in July, rofi, who travels to dangerous parts attacks, Nouri complained that no most people’s to be.” lands that are today circumscribed are forced to endure. These ‘lan- wounds that have been caused by according to local Afghan news re- of the country to meet with wom- one had been arrested for the crime Bahadurzada, whose name lit- within the national boundaries of days’ are often satirical or come- war,” he said. ports. The aim of attackers may en and discuss economic and health that has her screaming in agony erally means 'son of the brave', at- Afghanistan.” dic, but many are also vengeful. “We should try to listen to be to punish women who might empowerment. She receives fre- still. She borrowed $10,000 from “Poetry means everything to Though it has declined since the some great poets that inspire you,” refuse a suitor, or insist on going quent anonymous death threats on friends and relatives to receive tributes some of this steel to his to school or want a divorce. Fam- the phone and was rescued by male treatment in India where she is now people's bravery (known as Turah Afghanistan,” enthused Baha- total reign of the Taliban ended, continued Bahadurzada. “There is ilies may not report the attack fear- neighbors as two men threw soon to undergo surgery. nytimes THURSDAY.AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghans who translated for the US military are stuck in limbo on visas WASHINGTON: Zar Moham- group of senators tried again last mad Stanikzai remembers the month with a compromise that promise made to him when he be- would have added 2,500 visas — came a translator supporting the only to be blocked by Senator United States military in 2012: Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, Help us, and we will keep you safe. who said his quarrel was not with Four years later, his fear of Tali- the visa program but rather with ban reprisals has made him a pris- the fact that it was getting a vote oner in his Afghan home, he said, while one of his own, unrelated and he is still waiting for the Amer- measures was not. icans to honor their commitment. Mr. McCain responded by Instead, Congress is bickering accusing Mr. Lee of “signing the over the program meant to be his death warrants” of people who had deliverance. put their lives on the line to help Mr. Stanikzai, 24, first applied the United States. in 2013 for one of the thousands With neither the House nor the EMERGENCY of visas set aside for the transla- Senate approving more visas, law- tors and interpreters who assisted makers hashing out a compromise CALLS the military during the wars in Af- defense policy bill this fall may be ghanistan and Iraq. In a letter to unlikely to step in. Police American officials that year, he Much of the resistance seems said an imam had warned Mr. Stan- to stem from a growing discom- ikzai’s father that his son must fort with immigrants, said Senator 100 - 119 stop working for the Americans or Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New be killed. He then described how Hampshire and one of the visa pro- he came under fire as he drove home gram’s most active supporters. Hospitals from his mosque, his car riddled One Republican counterproposal by three rounds from an AK-47, this year would have offset each FMIC Hospital he said. special visa by deducting one Behind Kabul Medical If the Taliban find him — or green-card visa from the 50,000 University: any of the Afghans hoping the allocated every year to ordinary United States will grant them vi- immigrants. 0202500200-+93793275595 sas — “they will kill us,” he said. “What that said to me is that But congressional infighting, the issue here is not really the spe- Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital infused with nativist tones, has left cial immigrant visas for our inter- in question whether the special preters,” she said. “It was, ‘How Pule Bagh-e- Umomi visa program would be renewed at do we keep from allowing more 070263672 all, a potentially devastating blow people into the United States?’” to the approximately 12,000 Af- In an election year in which ghan translators and interpreters many voters have cheered Donald Khairkhana Hospital whose immigration applications are J. Trump’s call to keep out mi- in limbo. grants from Muslim countries, 0799-321007 “We’ve really been trying to Ryan C. Crocker, who served as 2401352 reinforce the fact to Afghans that ambassador to Afghanistan and we are committed to you, and this Iraq, saw more troubling motiva- gives the enemy some propaganda tions. Indira Gandhi Children to say, ‘Hey, these people really “I haven’t heard members say aren’t committed to you,’” said that openly, but I sometimes won- Hospital, Wazir Akbar Brig. Gen. Charles H. Cleveland, der if behind a reluctance to move Khan, Kabul 2301372 spokesman for the American com- in a positive fashion lurks that anti- mand in Afghanistan. Muslim sentiment,” he said. “It’s our credibility that is on John Kirby, the State Depart- Ibn-e- Seena the line,” he added. ment’s spokesman, said the vet- Senator John McCain of Ari- ting of applicants included finger- Pul-e-Artan, Kabul zona, chairman of the Senate print and facial recognition checks 2100359 Armed Services Committee and a as part of a full counterterrorism longtime champion of the visa pro- screening. gram, was blunt. “People are go- The government has struggled Wazir Akbar Khan ing to die,” Mr. McCain said on to keep pace with the influx of Hospital the Senate floor, challenging a fel- Afghan and Iraqi applications for The Taliban and ISIS don’t have But who destroyed the hope of low Republican who was blocking special visas and changes to the solutions for Afghanistan, neither Afghanistan? Who absolutely 2301741, 2301743 more visas. “Don’t you understand eligibility rules made by lawmak- does the US. It only exacerbates gathered the Mujahedeen forces? the gravity of that?” ers, mistakenly disqualifying some religious, sectarian and tribal dif- It was the US and Saudi Arabia at For more than eight years, the applicants and trapping others in ferences, says Sara Flounders of the time of the 1979 Revolution, Ali Abad State Department has offered a a holding pattern that lasts months the International Action Center. and kept them there, the most re- Shahrara, Kabul The US arms one group against actionary warlord corrupt and fu- another to keep war going, she tile groupings. And then right back 2100439 adds. in 2001 the same corrupt alliance. Islamic State (IS, formerly So this is a real problem, but we ISIS/ISIL) reportedly forged an al- do know that no matter what is Malalai Maternity liance with the Afghan Taliban, happening on the ground, the peo- Hospital which the US says it remains com- ple can sort it out. If the US would mitted to appeasing. get out of the air, would remove 2201377/ 2301743 IS also has a foothold in neigh- their bases, the people there have boring Pakistan and claimed re- long experience in dealing with each Banks sponsibility for Monday’s suicide other. But this outside force in ev- The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro have officially begun, and the bombing there, which killed at least ery way exacerbates sectarian, re- stakes are high. Athletes from around the world are competing against Da Afghanistan Bank 70 people and wounded over 100. ligious, national tribal differences. one another in the hopes of bringing home a gold medal — not only for The Pakistani Taliban was the first And do that consciously: they arm themselves, but for their countries. For some athletes, the pressure is 2100302, 2100303 group to take responsibility, but one group against the other in or- higher than others. IS claimed the attack, shortly af- der to keep war going, because they Afghanistan’s delegation to the Olympics is shouldering the hopes Bakhtar Bank ter. want US bases right there next to of a nation ripped apart by war. One member of the team, however, has RT: Both groups are claiming Iraq, Russia, and Pakistan. It is already distinguished herself as a shining star. 0776777000 responsibility. What do you read about geopolitical positioning. It Kimia Yousufi, twenty-one, will be competing for Afghanistan in Azizi Bank into that? is about the US control in Central track and field events. A refugee who has spent much of her life in Iran, visa program designated for many or even years. That is time, sever- Sara Flounders: It’s been 15 Asia – that is what this war is Yousufi long dreamed of competing internationally. She was, however, 0799 700900 of those who face an “ongoing se- al translators and interpreters said, years of US war in Afghanistan – about… held back by her refugee status, a problem that was solved when Yousufi Pashtany Bank rious threat” as a result of having that the applicants cannot afford the longest war in US history and ISIS looking for new allies was finally able to compete for her mother country. provided critical linguistic support to waste as they face serious not a day, not a minute of peace or Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor, Last week, Scroll profiled Yousufi with a video documenting her 2102908, 2103868 — whether in oral interpretation threats to their lives every day. stability. There are hundreds of Pan-African News Wire, called the struggles and triumphs. At the time the profile was done, Yousufi was or written translation — in Afghan- As the Obama administration thousands of US troops who have latest news on the Taliban and ISIS expected to serve as Afghanistan’s flag bearer during the Parade of Na- istan and Iraq. In the last two and works out those problems, con- cycled through Afghanistan and claiming responsibility for the Pa- tions, the event that opens the Olympics and showcases each country’s Air Services a half years, officials say, they have gressional inaction would turn off also tens and tens of thousands of kistan attack and a reported truce team. Thanks to a last minute change, Judo competitor Mohammad issued visas to more than 8,000 the spigot at the end of the year NATO, EU forces, even more of between them an “intriguing de- Tawfiq Bakshi had the honor instead, with Yousufi and Abdul Wahab Safi Airways Afghans and their immediate fam- and shut out any new applica- contractors and mercenaries. It has velopment.” Zahiri, another runner, following behind him. 020 22 22 222 ilies through the program, which tions. been hellish for the people of Af- “We know that in other re- As she heads into competition this week, the hopes and dreams of members of the armed services, That has horrified program ghanistan to have had absolutely gions such as Nigeria, as well as Yousufi’s home country will be with her. In the meantime, those looking military officials and lawmakers supporters, including many mili- no improvement – they are poorer Somalia, there have been claims to acquaint themselves with her story should read the Scroll profile, Ariana from both parties have hailed as tary officers. Gen. David H. Pe- today than 15 years ago when the that ISIS has formed alliances with excerpted here: 020-2100270 indispensable to national security. traeus and Gen. Stanley A. Mc- war started. And for all the US the Islamic extremist organizations Yousufi, who will be competing in the track-and-field events, fled Congress has responded to the Chrystal, former commanders of promises that they would modern- in those countries – in particular her home country Afghanistan and went to Iran when she was very State Department’s program par- the United States forces in Afghan- ize and that they would build Boko Haram in north eastern Ni- young. But life in her adopted country was not easy. Yousufi did not get Kam Air simoniously, allocating the special istan, as well as Gen. John W. roads and hospitals and schools; geria, as well as the Al Shabaab the chance to compete against other Iranian athletes because of restric- 0799974422 visas piecemeal through its annual Nicholson Jr., the current com- that they would bring democracy organization in Somalia,” he said. tions on Afghan refugees. defense policy bill. Since the end mander, have pressed Congress to and improve the status of women “Whether this is something that is However, when she was 17, she was discovered by the Afghan of 2014, lawmakers have set aside renew the program. – they have brought nothing but localized in regard to the situation government in a competition to unearth female athletes. After training Hotels about 7,000 visas for Afghan trans- Simply debating whether to war creating enormous numbers of in Pakistan, or whether it is an in- for three years, she represented Afghanistan at the 2016 South Asian Safi Landmark lators and interpreters. As of July help those who helped the United refugees, of disabled people, of ternational development, where Games, impressing many. The Afghan Olympic Committee did not just 10, fewer than 3,000 of those vi- States is damaging, Mr. Crocker homes that are in ruins. perhaps disgruntled elements with- decide to send Yousufi to the Olympics – they also decided to make her sas remained, but about 12,000 said, because it leaves people won- Afghanistan today is the poor- in the IS, which have been under the flag-bearer for Afghanistan at the opening ceremony. 020-2203131 individuals have at least started the dering, as he put it, “What kind of est country in the world - lowest fire in Turkey, as well as Syria, Of course, a medal may seem unlikely. But this young athlete has a ERENA application process, according to people are those Americans?” life expectancy. It really is in ev- Iraq, and Libya, may be looking different goal. “Though my country still has many issues, I will prove S the State Department. Applicants Mohammad Nasim Hashim- ery way shameful. So for this talk for new allies,” he added. to the world that we are striving,” said Yousofi. muftah.org must apply by Dec. 31 in order to yar, 29, said he worked with the about the Taliban should go into a The same refers to the escala- 0799654000 be considered. American Special Forces in Af- peace process with the legitimate tion of the US and NATO forces Then this year, something ghanistan for a little more than a government – Afghanistan is a in Central Asia, Azikiwe told RT. New Rumi Restaurant changed: A few Republicans said year, but his visa was rejected be- country that is occupied. There is “As was decided at the recent no, asking whether more visas cause of a “lack of faithful and valu- not a shred of legitimacy in the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland 0776351347 were necessary when the State able service,” according to the let- government and from the people – the Obama administration and Department still had thousands of ter he received from the American there is boundless hate. It is a real others saying that they are going Internet Services visas from previous years yet to Embassy. He kept it along with a problem. The only solution for to escalate the pressure in Afghan- be distributed. handful of certificates of appreci- Afghanistan is for US forces to get istan, and of course this will spill UA Telecom Senator Charles E. Grassley of ation and letters of recommenda- out. They can bring nothing help- over into Pakistan as well,” he add- 0796701701 / 0796702702 Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judi- tion from soldiers he helped, in- ful, progressive, peaceful, or se- ed. ciary Committee — which has ju- cluding one who wrote that Mr. cure to Afghanistan – that is a fact Asked whether he thinks it is Exchange Rate risdiction over immigration matters Hashimyar was “the key to suc- and everybody knows that. plausible that the Taliban could be — also questioned the cost of add- cess” in many of their efforts. He RT: Some conflicting reports internally squabbling over the pros- Purchase: ing the 4,000 visas that the Obama has appealed his rejection. coming out of Afghanistan on a pect of teaming up with ISIS, administration requested this year, Facing threats to him and his possible link-up between the Tal- Azikiwe said: “Yes, we’ve seen the pointing to a Congressional Bud- family, he said he avoided leaving iban and Islamic State. How much development of these alliances over One US$ = get Office estimate of $446 mil- his home when possible, and he weight do you attach to the idea of the last decade and a half, when 68.99Afs lion over the next 10 years. carried a gun. a split in the Taliban over ISIS? the US and NATO intervened in After Congress failed to ap- “I wish I have never worked SF: Well, here is the problem: Afghanistan in 2001.” “They claim One Pound Sterling= prove more visas in the House and with them,” he said. “I destroyed there are lots of people in Afghan- that their principle target was Al- 99.12Afs Senate defense bills, a bipartisan my life.” NYTIMES istan, who would make a pact with Qaeda. But later on there was the One Euro = a devil himself. There is such a targeting of the Taliban, which was hatred of the US occupation. Ev- overthrown in October 2001 in the 77.79Afs eryone there knows that from the aftermath of the bombings in New 1000 Pak Rs = sky, when the US is dropping York at the World Trade Center 647Afs bombs and firing predator drones and the Pentagon in Washington – they don’t know if they are hit- DC,” he said. “Then there have Sale: ting ISIS, or Al-Qaeda, or Taliban, been other organizations that have One US$ = or a peasant tilling his field. They been targeted as well – the Haqqani 69.19 Afs have no idea. Yet, this war goes network and others, the Taliban in on, and on, and on. I think a lot of Pakistan has also been the focus One Pound Sterling= forces would say: “Why should of drone attacks; and US interven- 99.92Afs we kill each other, when we are tions across the border from Af- One Euro= Senator John McCain of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Armed being killed from the sky?” ghanistan as well. So these allianc- 78.39 Afs Services Committee, is a longtime champion of the visa program. Neither the Taliban, nor ISIS es have been shifting over the has any solutions for Afghanistan. course of the last few years.” RT 1000 Pak Rs= 655 THURSDAY .AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Intelligence agencies working day and night to defeat enemy designs: PM Pakistan has rejected India’s charge of infiltration in Kashmir, after its Nawaz envoy Abdul Basit was summoned and handed over a “strong de- marche” over Pakistan’s continued support to cross-border terrorism. “We strongly reject Indian claim of any cross-LoC infiltration. Pakistan remains committed to the policy of not allowing its territory for any terrorist activity against anyone,” the Foreign Office said in statement last night when asked about India summoning the Paki- stani High Commissioner. It said that it is necessary to establish “veracity of the Indian claim”. “Details in this regard will be ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister gathered,” it said. Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said Amid growing strain in ties, Pakistan's intelligence agencies are India on Tuesday summoned Ba- working day and night to defeat sit and handed him a “strong de- designs of the country's enemies. marche” over Pakistan’s continued Addressing the National As- support to cross-border terrorism sembly two days after the carnage by pushing in trained terrorists to at Quetta Civil Hospital, the pre- carry out attacks, particularly in mier said Pakistan's military and Kashmir. political leadership are on the same Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar page to eradicate the menace of called Basit to his South Block of- terrorism. fice and lodged a strong protest over Nawaz said the mindset behind the issue as he made a specific ref- the Quetta attack was the same one erence to LeT terrorist and Paki- that had targeted Pakistanis in nu- stani national Bahadur Ali, who merous terrorist attacks in the past. was captured recently in North "This incident [Quetta attack] Kashmir during an encounter. was properly planned," said the Ali, born in the Zia Bagga vil- PM, adding that "such a mindset lage of Lahore, was arrested by does not want peace in the coun- Indian authorities in Jammu and try, especially in Balochistan". Kashmir on July 25 with weap- "We will put to rest all these ons (AK 47 rifle, live rounds, gre- challenges." The premier went on nades, grenade launcher etc) as also Pakistani/international origin, according to the demarche issued to Basit. to say that Operation Zarb-i-Azb sophisticated communication The ties between India and Pakistan have seen growing bitterness after Pakistan and its Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made provocative statements on the Kashmir situation in the is a unanimous national agenda that equipment and other material of wake of killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with the security forces on July 8. will be completed at all costs. 'Remarks against intelligence agencies unacceptable' Shortly after the premier's ad- dress, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan took to the floor to enlighten the house on some key issues discussed in high-level hud- dles after the Quetta attack. Nisar said while most politi- cal parties were against the intro- duction of harsh laws, stricter laws were needed to reign in those "who do not ascribe to any religion or law". Without naming anyone, the interior minister also voiced his displeasure over Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai's ad- dress in the house a day ago, in which he demanded that the prime minister sack officers from the se- KATHMANDU: Nepal Police tional, named Rossy Gueddy, who al cocaine smuggling racket had evening. They are being paraded curity and intelligence agencies if arrested two foreigners, both of smuggled in the cache of narcotics deployed the duo as carriers. at 2 pm. NCB had arrested three they fail to trace out elements in- them women, on charge of their to the Nepali capital, while the The contraband is worth mil- foreigners and a Nepali national in volved in the deadly Quetta attack. involvement in drugs smuggling and other is Thai woman, Waranya lions of rupees in international drug possession of 2.683 kg cocaine, and The PkMAP chief had termed seized 3.5 kg cocaine from their Kaewpikul, who apparently came market. It has been learned that one Chinese youth in possession the Quetta attack an intelligence possession in Kathmandu. to collect the consignment. Nepal Police’s Narcotics Control of 3.178 kg cocaine from Kath- failure and had demanded to fix the One of them is a Bolivian na- It is believed that internation- Bureau arrested them yesterday mandu in May. responsibility of the blast in a de- bate held on the subject in the Na- tional Assembly. Nisar termed the use of "such words and remarks for intelligence Bangladesh gives ex-MP death sentence over war crimes agencies and armed forces as con- Sakhawat Hossain (pictured mander of a group that aided Paki- and corruption, her lawyer Masud Ahmed Talukder said. descending". above), an ex-Jamaat-e-Islami par- stani soldiers in the southwestern Her party says the cases have been fabricated and are aimed at "Is it not my duty as a Paki- ty member of parliament (MP) district of Jessore. keeping Zia - who is a bitter rival of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina - stani to stand with our armed forc- was sentenced Wednesday by a Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina under political pressure. es?" questioned Nisar, adding that special tribunal for leading a unit set up the special tribunal in 2010 giving such a statements at a criti- that killed, raped and tortured un- to prosecute suspected war crimi- NEW DELHI: Authorities in Bang- of Jumatul Mujahedeen Bang- cal juncture was "unacceptable". armed civilians during the civil war, nals who collaborated with the ladesh's capital said on Wednes- ladesh, and that the IS has no pres- "Instead of criticising Paki- prosecution lawyer Ziad al Malum Pakistani military. day that they have arrested six ence in the Muslim-majority coun- stani security agencies, RAW and said. It has so far convicted 34 peo- suspected members of a banned try. Khan said the arrested sus- NDS should be condemned". The three-member panel of ple, including some of Jamaat-e- Islamist group blamed for recent pects told authorities during inter- Carnage in Quetta judges also sentenced seven oth- Islami's top leaders, with 21 sen- deadly attacks, including one last rogation that they were preparing At least 70 people were killed ers - six in absentia - to life in pris- tenced to death, 12 to life in pris- month that killed 20 people. for another attack in Dhaka. Dur- and over 100 injured after a sui- on. on and one to 90 years in jail. Five The arrests were made in sep- ing the raids, security officers re- cide bomber struck the emergency Jamaat-e-Islami - the country's have since been executed and three arate overnight raids in Dhaka, said covered two pistols, five grenades, ward of Quetta's Civil Hospital, largest Islamist party - openly have died in prison. Mufti Mahmud Khan, spokesman a dozen small bombs, 13 detona- where scores of people had gath- campaigned against Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami's former lead- for the Rapid Action Battalion elite tors, four meat cleavers, five knives ered to mourn the death of independence in 1971 and formed er Motiur Rahman Nizami, 73, anti-crime force. He said the sus- and bomb-making materials, he Balochistan Bar Association militia groups to help the Pakistani was executed in May. pects belong to the outlawed group said. (BBA) president Bilal Anwar Kasi army fight the uprising. Hossain subsequently left Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh. One of the arrested men, Mus- in a gun attack earlier in the day. The 68-year-old politician was Jamaat-e-Islami and joined the The group is blamed for the tafizur Rahman, was identified by Witnesses present at the hos- at the time a central committee Bangladesh Nationalist Party head- July 1 attack on a restaurant in officials at a news conference as pital at the time of the attack recall member of Islami Chhatra Sangha, ed by former Prime Minister Dhaka that killed 20 people, in- the administrator of a website run complete chaos at the site, with the student wing of the Jamaat-e- Khaleda Zia, who was was grant- cluding 17 foreigners. It also is by Jumatul Mujahedeen Bang- bodies lying on the ground amidst Islami party opposed Bangladesh's ed bail on Wednesday after appear- blamed for a July 7 attack on a ladesh that was used to promote pools of blood and debris. secession from Pakistan. It is ac- ing in court on a string of new charg- major Eid prayer gathering north radical ideas. The attack was claimed by cused of aiding the Pakistani army es over a deadly transport block- of Dhaka that left four people Rahman also was said to be Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan splin- in conducting atrocities against ci- ade. dead, including two police offic- involved with Dawatul Islam Bang- ter group Jamaatul Ahrar and the vilians during its campaign in East The new charges bring to 30 ers. ladesh, a group that allegedly re- militant Islamic State group, but Pakistan, now Bangladesh. He was the number of cases against the The Islamic State group cruits members for JMB and is Balochistan Chief Minster Sanaul- convicted on five counts of war former two-time prime minister, claimed responsibility for the res- accused of being involved in at least lah Zehri hinted at the involve- crimes and of being a local com- mostly related to alleged violence taurant attack, but authorities have 11 recent attacks, including the res- ment of Indian spy agency RAW. denied that, saying it was the act taurant attack.

A gang of robbers who cut a hole that they were combing the tracks in the roof of a train travelling along the route in search of any of through southern India have sto- the missing notes. len almost $1 million in cash, po- "They created a manhole and lice said. The daring heist occurred then they sneaked one after the somewhere along the more-than- other and lifted the bundles to the 300-kilometre-long journey, but roof before taking them away," the authorities only realised the loot head of the investigation told AFP. was missing hours after the ex- Another police officer was press train arrived in the city of quoted in local media as saying the Chennai. gang might have hidden themselves The train's mail carriage was in the carriage before it was locked carrying 3.4 billion rupees ($65.9 for the journey, before escaping million) belonging to India's cen- through the roof. tral bank and was being escorted Reserve Bank of India officials by armed police seated in the next discovered the theft on Tuesday compartment. morning when they came to col- Police suspect about six to lect the cash from the carriage for eight robbers made a 1.2-metre- disposal. square hole in the carriage roof us- The remaining cash, although ing a cutting torch before escaping still usable, was soiled and was undetected with some of the cash. transported from the city of Sa- "We are inquiring with the train lem to Chennai for destruction. guard and the police personnel if The audacious crime has ech- they heard any unusual noises on oes of the Great Train Robbery of the roof," police superintendent P 1963, when a gang of criminals in Vijayakumar said. Britain stopped a night mail train Police said the robbers may and made off with 2.6 million have jumped off the train roof and pounds. THURSDAY .AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Second man arrested over French priest’s four days,” the UNICEF statement said. In this Sunday, July. 31, 2016 murder photo, provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Police in southwest France ar- Aleppo Media Center (AMC), rested a 21-year-old man in con- Up to two million people in Syr- shows Syrians help an injured nection with the militant killing ia’s Aleppo have gone without run- man, center, after airstrikes hit of a priest in a Normandy ning water for the past four days, Aleppo, Syria (File Photo: Alep- church last month, judicial the United Nations warned Tues- po Media Center via AP) sources said Wednesday. day, describing the situation as The UN, which has called for The man arrested Monday “catastrophic.” an urgent “humanitarian pause” in in the Toulouse area is the sec- The UN children’s agency said the fighting in Aleppo to help ond to be held in connection that the fierce fighting that has trapped civilians, estimates that with the murder of 85-year-old rocked Aleppo in recent weeks some two million people are in Jacques Hamel, whose throat had damaged the electricity net- danger of coming under total siege. was slit in front of worshippers works needed to pump water sup- That number includes up to while he was celebrating mass plies throughout the divided city. 275,000 people believed to be in the town of Saint-Etienne- “Children and families in Alep- trapped in rebel-controlled east du-Rouvray on July 26. po are facing a catastrophic situa- Aleppo, and well over one million A police source said he had tion,” Hanaa Singer, UNICEF’s who are in the government-con- been in contact with the cleric’s representative in Syria, said in a trolled western part of the city, as killers, Abdel Malik Petitjean statement. “These cuts are com- well as those in the suburbs. and Adel Kermiche, who had ing amid a heatwave, putting chil- Experts with the Syrian Ob- pledged allegiance to ISIS. dren at a grave risk of waterborne servatory for Human Rights mean- The pair, both aged 19, diseases,” she said, stressing that while put the embattled city’s were shot dead by police after “getting clean water running again population at no more than 1.5 a hostage drama in which a wor- cannot wait for the fighting to stop. million. UNICEF said it and its shipper was seriously wound- Children’s lives are in serious dan- partners were scaling up their emer- ed. The grisly attack - the first ger.” A rebel fighter sits with his gency response to bring safe drink- committed in the name of ISIS weapon in the artillery academy ing water to civilians in Damascus. against a church in the West - of Aleppo. (Reuters) A general view shows rising smoke came less than two weeks after Temperatures in Aleppo were from burning tyres, which activ- a Tunisian ploughed a 19-tonne pushing 40 degrees Celsius (104 ists said are used to create smoke truck into a crowd celebrating degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, cover from warplanes, in Aleppo, Bastille Day in the Riviera city according to BBC Weather. Syria August 1, 2016. (Reuters) of Nice, killing 85 people and UNICEF pointed out that at- But it warned that civilians would wounding more than 300. tacks on July 31 had struck the soon be forced to resort to unsafe A cousin of Petitjean named electricity transmission station water sources if the pumping sys- as Farid K. was remanded in which powered water pumping to tems were not quickly repaired. custody on July 31 on charges the eastern and western parts of “We urge parties to the conflict to of “criminal association in con- the city. Authorities had urgently immediately allow safe access for nection with terrorism”. restored an alternative power line technicians to conduct critical re- The public prosecutor said on August 4, only to see it dam- pairs to the electricity and water the 30-year-old “was fully aged less than 24 hours later, with systems,” Singer said. More than aware of his cousin’s imminent intense fighting hampering repair 290,000 people have been killed violent action, even if he did not efforts. “As a result, the whole city since Syria’s conflict erupted in know the precise place or day.” has been without running water for March 2011. Hamel’s killing, which fol- lows a string of attacks in France over the past 18 months, has raised questions about security failures. Kermiche, who lived US Special Forces near the church, wore an elec- Turkish military officer seeks tronic tag and was allowed to leave home on weekday morn- supporting Libya’s ings under his house arrest terms. He met Petitjean through asylum in the United States the encrypted messaging app anti-I SI S fight Telegram. Investigators have A Turkish military officer on a US- him or offer his rank. questioned several people over based assignment for NATO is However, an official at Tur- the killers’ links with groups re- seeking asylum in the United States key’s embassy in Washington said cruiting for jihad in Syria. after being recalled by the Turkish Turkish Navy Rear Admiral Mus- government in the wake of last tafa Ugurlu had failed to report to month’s failed military coup, US authorities after Turkey issued a Russians officials told Reuters. detention order for him last month. The asylum bid is the first “On July 22, on that day he protest against known case involving a Turkish left his badges and his ID at the military officer in the United States base and after that no one has heard new as Turkey purges military ranks anything from him,” the official after mutinous soldiers comman- said, also speaking on condition of anti-terrorism deered fighter jets, helicopters and anonymity. law tanks in an unsuccessful attempt The Turkish official said he to oust President Tayyip Erdogan. was unaware of a subsequent asy- The case has the potential to lum request. An April news article Hundreds of Russians protest- further strain ties between the on the NATO website identified ed in Moscow on Tuesday American special operations against ISIL and other terrorist or- United States and Turkey, which Ugurlu as the Norfolk-based com- against new anti-terrorism leg- troops have for the first time start- ganizations,” she added, using an- is already demanding Washington mand’s assistant chief of staff for islation approved by President ed directly supporting Libyan forc- other acronym for ISIS. hand over a US-based Turkish cler- command and control, deployabil- Vladimir Putin that critics say es battling ISIS in their key strong- The Pentagon said the Libyan ic it alleges was responsible for the ity and sustainability. will curb basic freedoms and hold of Sirte, The Washington Post government has established joint failed coup. The Turkish official said two make it easier for the authorities reported Tuesday. operations rooms, but stressed The two US officials, who other lower-level officers had also to stifle dissent. US officials, speaking on con- they are away from the front lines. spoke to Reuters on condition of been called back from the United In Moscow’s wooded dition of anonymity, told the Post Members of the Libyan pro- anonymity, said the Turkish of- States to Turkey. Sokolniki park, rights activists the commandos were working government forces gesture as they ficer was working at the headquar- “But there’s no detention or- gave speeches criticizing the new from a joint operations center on stand on a tank in Benghazi, Lib- ters of NATO’s Allied Command der for them,” the official said. legislation while some people the outskirts of Sirte. ya, May 21, 2015. (Reuters) Transformation, located in Nor- “One of them has gone back, and carried banners reading “Down The Pentagon last week an- Citing unnamed officers allied folk, Virginia. They did not name the other will go back shortly.” with political repression” and nounced it had started an air cam- with the Libyan government and “Repression is fear before your paign in Sirte following a request Western security officials, the Post own people”. for help from the Libyan Govern- also said American and British Opposition leader Alexei ment of National Accord. “personnel” in body armor and China suspends work on $15b nuclear Navalny urged those present to The Post said the US forces wearing military fatigues had been draw inspiration from protests are operating alongside British seen in Sirte several times. against Putin in 2011-12. “We troops, and are helping to coordi- French President Francois should return to the streets,” nate American airstrikes and pro- Hollande last month announced waste project following protests Navalny shouted to the crowd. viding intelligence to partner forc- that three French troops had died The city of Lianyungang in east to suspend site selection and pre- designed reactors. Two more units ing action against nuclear projects. “We’ll make Russia free. es. The Pentagon would not com- in a helicopter accident while tak- China has suspended preliminary liminary work on the nuclear re- are now under construction and In 2013, residents in the city There was a light police ment on the specifics of the Post ing part in “dangerous intelligence presence at the protest which work on a nuclear waste process- cycling project,” it said in a notice there are plans to expand further. of Heshan in Guangdong province story, but has previously acknowl- operations” in an undisclosed lo- ing plant following days of pro- posted on its website China has ambitions to be- took to the streets to protest had been given the go-ahead by edged small US teams are helping cation in Libya. tests, it said on Wednesday. (www.lyg.gov.cn). It did not give come a world leader in nuclear pow- against a uranium processing plant officials. The new package of gather intelligence in Libya. Libyan sources said the air- The 100 billion yuan ($15.05 further details. er. It had 30 reactors in commer- scheduled to be built in the city. anti-terrorism laws, championed “The US is providing unique craft had been shot down. billion) project, to be run by the In a report published on Mon- cial operation by the end of June The project was eventually can- by prominent lawmaker Irina capabilities -- notably intelligence, The troubled North African state-owned China National Nu- day by the official local newspa- this year, amounting to 28 giga- celed. Yarovaya from the pro-Kremlin surveillance and reconnaissance nation spiraled into chaos after clear Corporation (CNNC) in col- per, the Lianyungang Daily, the watts of capacity. It is aiming to United Russia party, was signed (ISR) and precision strikes -- that longtime dictator Muammar Qad- laboration with France’s Areva, local government said “no final raise that to 58 GW by the end of into law by Putin in July. will help enable GNA-aligned forc- dafi was ousted and killed in Oc- was scheduled to start construc- decision had been made” on the 2020. es to make a decisive, strategic ad- tober 2011, with two governments tion in 2020 and be completed by location of the plant. It threatened However, it is struggling to Brazil Senate meets vance,” Pentagon spokeswoman vying for power and armed groups 2030, but reports that Lianyunga- to take legal action against “illegal resolve bottlenecks in the indus- Henrietta Levin said in a state- battling to control vast energy re- ng would be chosen as the site elements” it accused of “foment- try, including fuel processing, to indict suspended ment. sources. sparked protests starting at the ing social disorder” and spreading waste recycling, grid access and a “A small number of US forces Exploiting Libya’s power vac- weekend among local residents rumors about the project. shortage of qualified staff. President Rousseff have gone in and out of Libya to uum, ISIS established a foothold concerned about the health risks Lianyungang, in the province High-profile government-driv- exchange information with local in Libya, especially in Sirte. of nuclear waste. of Jiangsu, is the location of the en publicity campaigns designed Brazil’s Senate met on Tuesday forces, and they will continue to The Pentagon estimates fewer “The Lianyungang Municipal Tianwan nuclear project, which to promote nuclear power have not to vote on whether to indict Pres- do so as we strengthen the fight than 1,000 ISIS fighters are in Sirte. People’s Government has decided currently consists of two Russian- stopped Chinese citizens from tak- ident Dilma Rousseff on charg- es of breaking budget laws, in the long-awaited start of the tri- al phase of impeachment pro- ceedings against her. With Brazil’s attention fo- cused on the Olympic Games in Republican presidential nominee president of the United States ton,” he added. “They are doing Rio de Janeiro, senators in the Donald Trump suggested on Tues- should not suggest violence in any everything they can to destroy capital Brasilia began to decide day that gun rights activists could way,” it said. Donald Trump.” the country’s political future in act to stop his Democratic rival When asked to clarify what The US Secret Service, which a raucous session presided over Hillary Clinton from nominating Trump meant, his campaign said provides security details for both by Chief Justice Ricardo Lewan- liberal US Supreme Court justic- Trump was referring to getting Trump and Clinton and rarely dowski that could run into es, igniting yet another firestorm supporters of the Second Amend- comments on political matters, said Wednesday. of criticism just as he sought to ment to rally votes for Trump in when asked for a response to The impeachment of Rous- steer clear of controversy. the election. Trump: “The Secret Service is seff, a former leftist guerrilla and “If she gets to pick her judges, “It’s called the power of unifi- aware of the comment.” the first woman to lead Brazil, nothing you can do folks,” Trump cation – 2nd Amendment people By day’s end, Trump was has paralyzed Brazilian politics said at a rally. “Although the Sec- have amazing spirit and are tremen- drawing criticism on several fronts, since the start of the year, deep- ond Amendment people, maybe dously unified, which gives them another chapter in a campaign ening a crisis set off by a mas- there is, I don’t know,” he contin- great political power,” the Trump marked by bitterness and partisan- sive kickbacks and bribery scan- ued. The US Constitution’s Sec- campaign statement said. ship. dal at state-led oil company ond Amendment guarantees a right Introducing Trump at a later Michael Hayden, a former CIA Petrobras. to bear firearms. rally in Fayetteville, North Caro- director who on Monday was The outcome of the vote is Until Trump made the remark, lina, former New York Mayor among 50 Republican national se- a foregone conclusion because he had been trying to rally Repub- Rudy Giuliani accused the news curity experts to denounce Trump opponents of Rousseff, who lican voters behind him and against media of taking the remark out of in a letter, said on CNN, “You’re was suspended in May, need Clinton, who is leading in national context to help Clinton, a former not just responsible for what you only a simple majority in the 81- opinion polls in the race for the US secretary of state, get elected. say. You are responsible for what seat Senate to put her on trial. Nov. 8 election. Some in the audi- “What he meant by that (re- people hear.” A final verdict expected at ence who were seated behind mark) was you have the power to US Senator Elizabeth Warren, the end of the month would re- Trump could be seen wincing when vote against her,” he said to cheers. a liberal firebrand who loves quire two-thirds of the votes. he made the comment. “You have the power to speak tweaking Trump, tweeted that Media surveys of the Senate Clinton’s campaign called the against her. You know why? Be- Trump “makes death threats be- point to defeat for Rousseff and remark “dangerous.” cause you’re Americans.” cause he’s a pathetic coward who the end of 13 years of her Work “It proves that most of the can’t handle the fact that he’s los- “A person seeking to be the press is in the tank for Hillary Clin- ing to a girl.” Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway fought back in a tweet of her own, calling Warren a “disgrace.” THURSDAY.AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES By Aurang Zeb Khan Zalmay Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Pashtun is a Central Asian na- has the right to speak. spirit of freedom among the dominated all the powers in the Phone No: +93-772364666 tion that lies between the riv- Namoos– the respect of Pashtuns will never die. Yes, it name of Islam, and have de- E-mail: [email protected] ers Oxus and Indus. Pashtun is women, country, and property. can be weakened by fate and clared love, art and music as also known as Afghan, Pakh- Attan– is an Afghan na- time, but stays always strong taboos. But if one looks Email: [email protected] tun and Pathan; the latter name, tional dance, performed before in will. Expressing love for the through the pages of Pashtun’s however, is construed as offen- war and after the victory. It is land of Pashtunkhwa, Ahmad history, they will find a culture www.afghanistantimes.af sive by the Pashtun people also performed at various cul- Shah Abdali, the founding fa- full of creativity and art of any because, it is said, that the tural celebrations in Pashtun ther of the modern state of Af- kind was not considered a ta- Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi name ‘Pathan’ was given to the society. Every Pashtun man ghanistan, spoke in his poetry boo. In Pashtun society there Pashtun by the British during and woman is trained to dance in 1760, “I forget my Delhi is an institution known Advisory editorial board their rule in India. The land of the Attan as well as being the throne when I recall the moun- as ‘Hujra’, the essential sym- Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, Pashtun is called Loy Afghan- best in playing Rabaab and tain peaks of my beautiful Pa- bol of Pashtunwali. Hujra is istan, Pashtunistan and Pash- singing Tapa – a typical Pash- shtunkhwa. If I conquer the the site of great learning, for the Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal tunkhwa. Since Pashtuns of to song. whole world, even then I can promotion of art, poetry, music Graphic-Designer: Pashtunkhwa or Pakhtunkhwa Pashto or Pakhto is not never forget thy beautiful gar- and culture in the Pashtun so- were fighting for their freedom only a language in Pashtun dens” ciety. It is a common sitting or Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi against the British Imperial society, but is synonymous Now the Pashtun land is di- sleeping place for men in the Mar ket i ng & Adver t i si ng: might, they had a great con- with the Pashtun code of life – vided into many parts and al- villages, as Pashtuns are basi- tempt for the colonizers and Pashtunwali (the Pashtun val- most all occupied by their cally people of villages rather Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 everything about them. It is ues). Pashtuns love their moth- neighbors. The Durand Line is than cities, and guests and un- Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan also said that the word ‘Pathan’ er tongue Pashto and claim that considered with hate, dividing married young men (bachelors) Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 is actually derived from ‘Fatey- in paradise they will speak Pa- the Pashtun as once the Berlin would sleep Heen’ meaning ‘conquerors’, shto instead of Arabic; it is Wall divided Germany. Now, it there. The Rabab and Mangay are Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press as the Afghans came to India pointed out that according to will not be wrong to say that two old Pashtun musical in- as conquerors where the word the teachings of Islam, Arabic Pashtun cannot be called a na- struments and the real orna- ‘Fatey-Heen’ was mistakenly is the only language that will tion, but rather groups that are ments of Hujra and it is a well- The constitution says pronounced as ‘Pathan’ by the be spoken in the world hereaf- divided and scattered and the established custom among the British. ter. However, a well-known Pa- uneducated Pashtuns, are un- Pashtun to welcome guests The Pashtun social life has shto poet, Hamza Khan Shin- able to realize the dilemma of with music. Hujra is also the an unwritten code of ethics wari (Hamza Baba), in one of their disintegration. In Pakistan, decision-making forum of the Article 101: known as Pashtunwali. Every his poetic verses responding to Pashtuns are not taught their villagers and provides vivid Article One Hundred One: No member of the National Assembly shall be legally Pashtun is expected to abide by the teachings of Islam and own history, but that of the picture of the real Pashtun so- Pashtunwali, which is based Mullahism, says: Indo-Pak and Jihad in Islam. ciety and traditions. Today, prosecuted for reasons of voting or views expressed during performance of duty. upon centuries of collective “The rivals (Mullahs) The Pashtuns are indoctrinat- the Hujra tradition is on the wisdom of the Pashtun. Pash- name Pakhto as the tongue of ed into the belief that they are verge of disappearing, consti- tunwali consists of important hell, born to fight against infidels, tuting a great loss for the cul- principles that guide social and But I (Hamza) will go to for the sake of Allah and Islam. ture. Although one can still individual life such as: paradise with Pakhto.” In Pakistan, the Pashtuns are see Hujra in some parts of Pa- Melmastiya– which means Ghani Khan, the great Pa- appreciated for their fighting shtun society, it exists in a very an open hearted hospitality; shto poet of 20th century, is of skills but not for their intellec- wretched form. Due to the dom- Pashtuns are famous for their the view that “a typical Pash- tual abilities. Their language inance of the hospitality. tun is kind and gentle but Pashto has been replaced by Mullah, Hujra has lost its im- Nang– means chivalry, a hates to show it. He loves fight- Urdu and as a result the major- portant significance and the moral and social virtue or a no- ing but hates to be a soldier. ity of the Pashtuns living un- decision making process now ble deed. To stand up for the He loves his new rifle and his der the jurisdiction of Pakistan, takes place in the mosque in- Narco-trade weak is the very essence old wife. He will forgive cannot read or write their own stead. The mosque and the of Nang. you anything, if you do it Pashto language and only a few persons connected to the Despite millions of US dollars in aid, both the government and for- Nanawatey– is derived bravely enough. In a historical are able to understand news mosque are at full gallop to grab eign forces failed to fight drugs. There are scores of groups in- from the verb meaning “to go perspective the Pashtun bears bulletins in the original and away the powers of Hujra. volved in smuggling and selling of narcotics. Increase in sale of in”. This is used for the protec- close resemblance to the peo- pure Pashto. The Pashtuns are The Rabab a nd Mangay tion given to a person, who re- ple of great civilizations. His being pushed into darkness in Hujra actualize the Pash- drugs is evident from the drop in prices of opium. The narco-trade quests it, against his/her ene- villages have Greek names. His and ignorance by the Pakistani tuns’ basic love of art, music is at peak. Farmers in the opium producing provinces of Afghani- mies. The person is then pro- tribes have Greek customs. Like establishment. By doing so, and poetry that the stan enjoy full support of the Taliban. However, the international tected at all costs. It can also the Greek he is a great poet and Pakistan can easily use the Pa- religious Mullah has declared be used when a vanquished a great warrior and like the shtun for their own purposes, taboo in the name of Islam. With community failed to help Afghan forces to track and bust the major party is prepared to go in to the Greeks, almost all his wars are especially for proxy wars in the the banning of love, art and networks that are not only paralyzing the talented brain but also house of the victors and ask over women.” name of Islam, proclaiming that music in Pashtun society, reli- their forgiveness. This is a pe- Pashtuns are basically a Islam is in danger. As a result, gious extremism has been in- funding insurgents. The number of the drug addicts is also on the culiar form of “chivalrous” sur- proud people, as former British Pashtun society is falling apart creased and the society alto- rise in the war-hit country. render, in which an enemy Prime Minister Sir Winston politically, socially and eco- gether looks orthodox. This is Alternative livelihood programs in southern provinces of the coun- seeks “sanctuary” at his ene- Churchill, in his book ‘The nomically. Historically speak- not only a threat to all liberal my’s house. Malakand Field Force’, says, ing, the Pashtuns, as individu- Pashtuns but also an attack on try failed to replace poppy. In some provinces such as Helmand, Badal– defines an obliga- “Any poor Pathan (Pashtun) als or a people, are a great peo- the cultures throughout the Zabul, Kandahar and Nimroz the alternative programs are just on tion to seek revenge by retalia- here is ready to look into the ple having done great deeds, rest of the world as the religious papers because officials could not visit these parts of the country tion although the performance eyes of the Queen of England but Pashtun as a modern na- extremism benefits Mullahs in of Nanawatey means one can and say, I am no less than you”. tion has failed and for centu- the recruitment of Mujahideen without fear. Law and order is very fragile. The Taliban have pres- obtain forgiveness in his ene- Pashtuns have a great love ries, they have done nothing (Jihadists). Yet there is a group ence in several districts there. The ongoing fight between Afghan my’s house. Through the tra- for Pashtunkhwa which is their to forward a collective national of cultured and progressively- dition of Nanawatey, a typical historical land, but unfortu- cause. Pashtuns will always minded Pashtuns who prefer security forces and the insurgents in Helmand province prove that Pashtun will always forgive the nately, British-India occupied have a dynamic character with Pashtunwali – the Pashtun the government’s writ is limited only to key buildings in the provin- killer of his dear ones in the part of it and later, in 1893, di- a great zeal for music and code of life, to religious law cial capitals. When the government officials cannot go outside of presence of a Jirga. vided it by drawing a line, called dance, poetry and art, but in ‘Shari’a’ for the conduct of Jargah or Jirga– a council the Durand Line, through its contrast to his poetic nature, matters. Such liberal people their highly barricaded offices and homes then how can they ad- of Pashtun elders through centre, effectively cutting the the Pashtun is a warrior too. strongly proclaim that first, dress the issue? It is a bitter truth—hard for many to digest. which justice is sought. Set- Pashtun nation in half. With the The best example of this con- they are Pashtuns and then, However, their mad reaction will change nothing. Only carefully tling disputes through negoti- withdrawal of the British from tradiction is the great Khushal Muslims. ation is the basic objective the subcontinent, the land Khan Khattak. At the present The writer hails from Ban- deliberated actions and comprehensive short-term and long-term of Jargah: in another came under the jurisdiction of time Pashtuns are unfortunately nu. He is the Editor and policies could help to nip the evil in the bud. Mere making promises words, Jargah is a form of di- Pakistan in 1947. To date, Pa- the most unfortunate people founder of THE PASHTUN rect democracy in Pashtun so- shtuns in Pashtunkhwa are oc- because they live in a society TIMES. He can be reached at: to divert public attention or befool the nation would embolden the ciety, where every individual cupied by Pakistan, but the where religious Mullahs have [email protected] insurgents and drug rings further. Farmers in the country want to grow alternative crops but they are not allowed. Militants have strong presence and say in the poppy growing areas. They are not only providing protection to the poppy growers but also resolve their minor disputes within no time. They also provide financial support to the farmers. Insurgent groups are working as a bridge between the farmers and drug mafia to boost the narco-trade so they could fund their subversive activities. Arrest of a drug kingpin, Juma Khan, is cele- brated by the counter-narcotics police at such a time when the Tali- ban are making millions from this illicit trade. Juma Khan was fund- ing insurgency in the country. He was arrested in Sherzad district of eastern Nangarhar province on August 2. However, the arrest report was made public today (Wednesday). A single arrest of this level would not accelerate the war against narcotics. To emerge victorious in the war against militancy and terrorism, the government must eliminate funding sources to the extremist groups. Without support of the international community and a clear strategy it would not be possible. Drug trafficking is a major finan- cial source for insurgents. Therefore, the Afghan policymakers should first chalk out a plan to convince the major donor countries that they would win the anti-drugs war.

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“War is a mere continuation of Two basic problems bedevil been autonomous now for a gener- politics by other means.” the Iraqi state, both of which have ation, with Baghdad’s political re- byJason Pack --Carl von Clausewitz, On War proven intractable. First, the well- mit stopping short in the north of Foreign policy analysts have meaning but weak government of the country. In addition, the Sunni The United States presidential Washington at the time, Ali This mirrors his desired do- mittee's final report was re- a terrible in-built tendency to ig- Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi centre and west of the country ei- hopeful Donald Trump has Aujali, left DC early for rounds mestic economic system - one leased on June 28, Representa- nore historical failures. Philosoph- has proven itself utterly incapable ther remains under the control of never met an absolute dictator of golf with Trump at Mar-a- in which privileged groups tive Trey Gowdy, the Republi- ically, they skew toward Hegel rath- of advancing its much-needed re- ISIS or is just emerging from the er than Burke, believing that every form agenda. Despite having the war zone that has been central Iraq on whom he failed to develop a Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. (white men and the wealthy) cans' inquisitor-in-chief - oth- intractable problem always con- declared support of Grand Aya- for the past several years. man crush. And when said When Gaddafi came to New benefit from a government erwise known as the commit- tains the seeds of regeneration and tollah Ali al-Sistani – the most Given the Abadi government’s strongmen spurn him or his York to address the United Na- sanctioned leg up, while out- tee's chairman - tacked on to it reform. No situation can ever be popular figure in the country – and obvious inability to govern the crush fades, he lashes out un- tions, he wanted to pitch his siders (minorities, immigrants, an accusatory addendum, hop- written off as a beyond redemp- the swelling impetus of the Sadrist more peaceful portions of the coun- controllably, but all too predict- tent on Central Park. Mayor etc) are denied access. ing to obscure that the report tion. movement behind his tentative try long under its control, it is high- ably. Michael Bloomberg forbade In the case of the Libyans, had otherwise largely exoner- Yet history is full of such cas- steps toward reform, the Abadi ly unlikely that Sunni Iraq will be Trump's long-standing pro- him. he sought to woo and impress ated Clinton. es. The Roman Empire never man- government has stumbled at every integrated back into the Iraqi state aged to wholly secure its borders turn. in a successful manner. If this posal to abandon the US' He was then barred from to obtain such privileged ac- Building on this blatant dis- with the Barbarians, the Spanish On July 15, thousands of sup- proves to be the case, the defeat of NATO commitments is not a using a luxurious Eastside pent- cess, hoping to later take ad- regard for the truth, the Repub- Empire never was able to control porters of firebrand Muqtada al- ISIS will be entirely beside the product of his failure to grasp house because courageous real vantage of their naivety. licans stooped to new lows, increasingly rampant inflation, and Sadr returned to the streets of point, a mere respite while the deterrence theory. estate agent Jason Haber re- OPINION: How Donald inviting a mother of a fallen ser- the United States has never manged Baghdad, protesting the chronic world waits in dread for the next His peculiar comments quired him to send convicted Trump could win - and why viceman to speak at the Repu- to fully shed its missionary im- delays in reforming the Iraqi gov- incarnation of radicalism to arise pulse in international relations, ernment, purging it of its endemic from the fertile ashes of continu- wrongheaded though it often is, as corruption. For a year, Abadi has ing Sunni disenfranchisement. in Vietnam and Iraq. Adopting the called for an end to ethno-religious A different way forward more historical approach favoured quotas for government positions, Given all these realities, incon- by Burke allows for the analytical instead wishing to appoint officials venient facts that must not be insight that history is as littered based on merit. swept under the analytical rug, it with failures as it is adorned with Further, Abadi has declared his is probably too late for Iraq to sur- successes. preference for forming a govern- vive as a state in anything other Judging by a wealth of facts ment of technocrats, experts who than name. The only way this on the ground, it is time for can begin to dig the country out of might change – long-shot though it Burkeans to burst the Hegelian its fiscal hole, caused in equal mea- is – would be for a two-fold suc- bubble about the viability of Iraq sures by endemic corruption, the cessful reform drive to eradicate and face stubborn facts. Iraq as a collapse of global oil prices, and the corruption that is the cancer of state has ceased to exist except in the need to prosecute the costly Iraqi domestic politics, coupled theory and shows no real signs of war against Islamic State. It has with a concerted effort to confed- being revived. Despite real battle- gotten so bad that the government eralise the country, devolving as field successes against ISIS, the cannot guarantee the continued much power as possible to the res- collapse of both Iraq and Syria as flow of electricity, even as sum- tive Kurdish, Sunni and Shia sub- coherent political entities capable mer temperatures in the south of national groupings that are the or- of controlling their respective the country have exceeded a ganic, politically legitimate build- boundaries, leaves a gaping hole of scorching 50 degrees centigrade. ing blocks of power there. instability in the centre of the re- Yet despite these internal and Barring these dramatic devel- gion. external forces making the logic of opments, it is time to see Iraq for Until the politics – rather than reform overwhelming in policy what it is: A failed state. the military aspects of the prob- terms, precious little has hap- Dr. John C. Hulsman is the lem – are dealt with in an entirely pened. The interests of the patch- President and Co-Founder of John new way, the region is likely to work quilt of Iraqi political fac- C. Hulsman Enterprises remain mired in instability for the tions are simply too entrenched to (www.john-hulsman.com), a suc- foreseeable future. Sometimes the give away the government patron- cessful global political risk consult- historical answer is no, and it is up age that is the enduring source of ing firm. An eminent foreign policy to both analysts and decision-mak- their power. Further, at the end of expert, John is the senior colum- ers alike to realise this bleak but June, an Iraqi federal court disal- nist for City AM, the newspaper of valuable political lesson. lowed even the government’s tep- the city of London. Hulsman is a The interests of the patchwor id recent efforts at renewal, nulli- Life Member of the Council on quilt of Iraqi political factions are fying Abadi’s attempt to stream- Foreign Relations. The author of simply too entrenched to give line the cabinet and remove the all or part of 11 books, Hulsman away the government patronage parliamentary speaker. has given 1500 interviews, written that is the enduring source of their This domestic political failure over 510 articles, prepared over power is reflected at the strategic level. 1280 briefings, and delivered more Dr. John C. Hulsman For all practical purposes, the than 470 speeches on foreign pol- Regime botches reform again Kurdish portion of the country has icy around the world. about Ukraine, which implicit- Lockerbie bomber Abdel Bas- Next, the sordid postscript lican National Convention to ly recognised Russian Presi- set al-Megrahi back to Scot- to Trump's fling with Gaddafi accuse Clinton of personal re- dent Vladimir Putin's conquest land in lieu of rent. demonstrates how quickly he sponsibility for the attack. of the Crimea, are not borne out OPINION: Donald Trump's is willing to ditch his former The crowd responded with of an ignorance of world affairs. dangerous demagoguery friend when he perceives it as raucous chants of "lock her Although the mainstream When it looked like Gadd- politically expedient. For up", revealing that Republicans media prefer to mock Trump as afi might have to stay at a Trump, they have proved even are both figuratively, and ge- a buffoon surrounded by com- youth hostel, Trump stepped easier to dump than wives - no netically, descended from witch ic villain advisers such as Paul in to offer his Westchester pal- complex prenup required. burners. Manafort, in reality, he has for- ace. When the local communi- In February 2011, as the Heading off the Republican mulated a comprehensive ty reacted badly, Trump collect- Arab Spring was in full swing, hymnal, Trump will continue worldview. ed his fee and then refused to Trump advocated an aerial treating the committee's report One of its components is let Gaddafi pitch his tent. campaign to decapitate the re- as a dodgy dossier to be doc- admiration for dictators and a The story of their failed gime of his erstwhile friend. tored up and trotted out. In the desire to leverage privileged courtship is about more than However, unwilling to help debates, he will certainly blame access to them. Another is his Trump's attempts to make a the Libyans remove their dic- Clinton for Libya's implosion zero-sum mindset which leads buck. tator altruistically, he offered a and the Islamic State of Iraq to his wanting to "screw" our It reveals how Trump views mercenary bombs-for-oil and the Levant menace there. enemies, stiff our allies, and be favours, kickbacks, and strik- scheme. Rather than directly refute a "winner" at all costs, even if ing up friendships with gov- Now in 2016, as he has the Republican myths and un- it involves turning on former ernment insiders so as to ben- staked out an anti-intervention, cover their hypocrisy vis-a-vis friends. efit from regulatory capture. America-first stance on inter- Libya, Clinton has foolishly A bromance made in heav- The next time Trump so national affairs, he has attempt- chosen to play defence. en: Trump and Gaddafi much as mentions the word ed to backtrack from his previ- She didn't defend her record Should the world be scared Libya in a stump speech or de- ous statements so that he can on Libya at the Democratic of a President Trump? bate, Clinton should hammer attack Hillary Clinton as re- National Convention. Her pas- It was more than their icon- him with his own Libyan con- sponsible for the mess in Lib- sivity has let the media miss ic hairdos that brought Trump nections. ya, and tied to the failed doc- that it is Trump not Clinton who and Muammar Gaddafi togeth- In fact, the strategies he at- trine of humanitarian interven- has a Gaddafi problem, which er. tempted with Gaddafi are eerily tion. stems from his big picture in- Trump long tried to court reminiscent of his approach to Doubling down on Beng- fatuation with dictators, privi- Gaddafi, apparently to license making money in Atlantic City hazi leged access and revenge. a Trump mega resort on Libya's by leveraging political connec- Notwithstanding Trump's In fact, the next time Trump Mediterranean coast, and to tions. baggage on Libya, the Repub- so much as mentions the word potentially strike a deal with Trump loves dictators pre- licans remain committed to Libya in a stump speech or de- Libya's burgeoning sovereign cisely because they can pro- keeping "Benghazi" in the bate, Clinton should hammer wealth fund. On many Fridays, vide privileged access to syco- news cycle. him with his own Libyan con- the Libyan Ambassador to phants and insiders. When the Benghazi Com- nections. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Forced marriage The forced marriage of six years old kid sent shockwaves across the country as well as globally after the issue has been widely shared in domestic and international media. It is a clear indication of growing violence against women and forced child marriages in the country. ‘I am afraid of this man’, a six-year-old girl repeated this heartbreaking sentence as she was given to an Afghan cleric as ‘religious Mshari Al Thaydi offering”. Mohammad Karim, who is believed to be in his sixties, was detained after marrying a six years old girl. He told officials that the girl All citizens and residents in Saudi traffic law. The amendment con- into permanently confiscating the has been given to him as a ‘religious offering’ by her father. He is in custody in the central Ghor province. Arabia complain about a lack of siders drifting a traffic violation. vehicle, or fining the driver the According to the local security officials, the father of the little girl has admitted that he forced his daughter to marry with the cleric traffic discipline, which is the most For the first offense, the drifter’s same price as the rented or stolen against some cattle, a sack of rice, some tea and sweets. charitable way to describe mad and vehicle will be impounded for 15 vehicle and jailing him. Only monitoring and registering of these cases would not cure the pain of the women. And also such method never put a halt to reckless behavior when driving cars days, he will be fined 20,000 riy- This is good news, but a lot violence. A concrete measures is the need of the hour. The government should adopt serious efforts to put a full stop to child and harassing others to be in con- als ($5,332), and the case will be more is required. The Saudi traffic marriages and as well as violence against women. trol of the road. transferred to the relevant court to authority has installed speed cam- All-out efforts must be taken to stop any form of violence against women including women abuse in custody, rape by The worst of these practices look into imposing a prison sen- eras, which has improved things, armed forces, or terrorized by violence in the home and the most import one is the unseen violence among couples. is drifting, when drivers turn the tence. but problems persist. Some say Anisa Khanzai, Kabul, Afghanistan streets into a circus and perform a Government measures to stiff- this traffic madness is because Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must criminal show while jeopardizing en penalties and confront this young men have plenty of free have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: people’s lives and ignoring the law. “traffic terrorism” are welcome, time and no other entertainment, [email protected] Government measures to stiff- needed, and must be immediately and call for building a special arena en penalties and confront this implemented for drifters. “traffic terrorism” are welcome, Mshari al-Thaydi I oppose this justification. A needed, and must be immediately For second-time offenders, the crime is a crime. A thief who steals implemented. In addition to finan- vehicle will be impounded for a from people, even if he is poor, is cial, physical and psychological month, and the driver will be fined still a criminal, and the fact that he Disclaimer: harm, many innocent people have 40,000 riyals ($10,665) and be re- is poor does not exempt him from been killed. ferred to the relevant court to look punishment. Driving is about tech- Legal amendment into imposing a prison sentence. nique, discipline and ethics, so it The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) The Saudi cabinet recently is- Third-time offenders will be is about protecting general ethics, and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. sued a decision to address all these fined 60,000 riyals ($15,997) and not about a mere technical viola- violations and amend Article 69 on referred to the relevant court to look tion. THURSDAY.AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Algerian film director Salem Brahimi speaks with Al Jazeera about the Black Decade and Algerian politics.

The feature film Let Them Come, to admit that they came from our by Algerian director Salem Brahi- midst, and everybody should be mi, revisits Algeria's Black Decade, asking themselves about this. when the country was struck by Right now, the French should continuous attacks that killed be asking themselves the same about 200,000 people in the question, about why they were 1990s. struck by terrorism ... I think that The film, which details the each society needs to take a hard plight of a family in the crossfire look at themselves. between government forces and Why did we create these religious extremists, was shown at young men and women who are the Institut du Monde Arabe in candidates for terrorism? I ask the Paris in April and will be released question as an Algerian in my film. in the city's theatres this autumn. Al Jazeera: Why do you think The film won two awards: the Jury Algeria plunged into terrorism? Award in Dubai in 2015 and the Brahimi: It's a mix of factors. Kosmorama New Directors One of the original sins: the war in Award in Trondheim, Norway, in Afghanistan between the muja- 2016. hideen and the Russians. When the Brahimi, 43, the son of veter- Russians left Afghanistan, all those an Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Bra- people returned to Bosnia and Al- himi, made the film based on a book geria and became a trouble in their of the same title by Algerian au- own societies. The riots in Algeria thor Arezki Mellal, published in in 1988 were very similar to what 2000. Salem Brahimi has directed happened during the Arab Spring two previous documentaries in in the rest of the region. Algeria: Africa is Back, about the In October 1988, the youth 2009 Pan-African Festival of Alg- were in the street, and the army iers, and a 2014 documentary film shot at them. The army opened about the historical Algerian figure up the political game, and we rea- Emir Abdelkader. lised that the most organised force Al Jazeera spoke with Brahi- of opposition was the Islamists, mi about his film and his reflec- but when the Islamists were de- tions on the political developments nied victory, their movement be- in his country and throughout the came a big recruitment base. Arab world. Al Jazeera: Do you have mem- The plot of the book Let Them ories of what the country was like Come 'made me think about, how during the Black Decade? did we become a country plagued Brahimi: I returned for brief by terrorism?' Brahimi says [Anne periods ... You could feel the de- Ravanello/Courtesy of KG Pro- cay, the fear, and friends and fam- ductions] ilies would tell you about their experience with barbarity as other continue to the last Syrian." we have intellectuals and others real challenge. We don't have we lost that. The real priority is to Al Jazeera: Why did you de- daily ordeals. You leave in the cultures have had their own expe- Al Jazeera: Now that Algeria who are a voice of contestation. enough cinemas. We have a vibrant create a culture that encourages the cide to work on this film? morning to work and never know riences with it. You cannot negoti- is calmer, what's the cultural life What is sad is that we aren't doing book scene, authors who are pub- public to attend movies. The cul- People want change but they're if you are coming back in the ate with barbarity; you cannot like? enough. Artists, and people who lished internationally, but it's very tural scene is not developed afraid of it ... The vaccine of ter- evening. I was very fortunate in dance to its music. The moment Brahimi: Algeria, like many create culture, lost their role in so- sad that there is an elitist nature to enough. Brahimi: It is, but too rorism has played its part. Many the sense that I didn't experience you do that, you become barbaric Arab countries, has always had ciety; they're marginal, and that's culture. Books are available, but slowly. Over the past 10, 15 years, want stability over everything else. that on a daily basis, because my yourself. thinkers. Because of the socialist dangerous. not that available. This wasn't so it is opening more and more. But It's a very sad way to look at sta- family lived abroad at the time. Al Jazeera: What do you think backbone of the state in Algeria, The availability of culture is a much the case in the 1970s, and old habits die hard. Aljazeera bility. But vaccines can wear off. Let Them Come depicts the the Arab world can learn from the Salem Brahimi: It was a slow plight of a family during Algeria's Algerian experience? process. I had already made a few Black Decade [Anne Ravanello/ Brahimi: As the French say: films in Algeria, but there was al- Courtesy of KG Productions] "Comparison is not reason." We Christian charity 'top of Israel's target list' ways the elephant in the room: the Al Jazeera: What's the main can never predict what will hap- Black Decade. I wanted to tackle message of the film? pen. People are still in shock when Last week, the Israeli Security But is everything as it seems? ill-treatment is systemic". When pressed on whether "the it in a narrative feature because it Brahimi: There's a feel, not something like 9/11 happened, or Agency (ISA) - or Shin Bet - an- The lawyer representing Halabi, Commenting on the issue in Israeli government still stood by is more personal, more experien- necessarily a message. It's for the when the Paris attacks happened. nounced serious charges against a Mohammad Mahmoud, told Al general, Sari Bashi, Israel and Pal- figures alleging approximately tial, so people could feel the reali- people to feel the decay, the fear. We are always a step behind in his- Gaza-based Palestinian employee Jazeera that his client did not see a estine country director at Human $50m had been taken", an Israeli ty of the Black Decade. Terrorism is not just the act of vi- tory. One should be very humble of the global Christian charity, lawyer for 21 days, and says the Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera how government spokesperson said the My producer [Michèle Ray- olence. It basically stabs the soci- about it. I don't know how many World Vision. World Vision official was physi- provisions that "suspend due pro- amount was irrelevant. Gavras] stumbled upon the book ety and bleeds it. It generates a lessons can apply. According to Shin Bet, Mo- cally abused in detention: "They cess protections for suspects", in- Speaking last week to Israeli Let Them Come, and it was love culture of fear where people do not Syria and Iraq will get over the hammad el-Halabi, the head of beat him a lot." tended for "emergency situations", newspaper Haaretz, Halabi's law- at first sight. I was shocked when trust each other any more. The film nightmare for separate sets of rea- World Vision's Gaza office, fun- Mahmoud added that Halabi are used "quite routinely against yer suggested that armed Hamas I read the book, because it made also pays tribute to the many peo- sons. The dynamics of Algeria are nelled tens of millions of dollars of "denies all allegations", including Palestinian detainees". members had stolen from the or- me think about, how did we be- ple who actually are the unsung very different. The central govern- aid money to Hamas' al-Qassam the "confession" cited by a senior The Shin Bet charges against ganisation's depots, but that the come a country plagued by terror- heroes against terrorism. ment in Algeria, whatever you Brigades in an elaborate, years-long Israeli official as "the evidence" Halabi have been denied by his charges against his client were sig- ism? It was an overwhelming feel- The general population resist- think about it, is nothing like Syr- scheme. grounding the allegations. family members. His father Khalil nificantly "inflated". ing. ed in small, subtle ways, continu- ian President Bashar al-Assad's Mohammad el-Halabi was al- Claims of torture were also has told reporters that the charges World Vision has long been an You always wonder as an Al- ing to try to live their lives as nor- regime. October 1988 is a stain that legedly tortured by Israeli author- made by Samir Zaqout, assistant were based on "misinformation enemy for pro-Israel groups who, gerian citizen about how we creat- mally as they could, refusing to will haunt the regime as they shot ities before he was charged with director of al-Mezan Center for provided by a disgruntled World in the words of one lobbyist, be- ed a society where people could succumb to fear. It was a very dis- at protesters. While the regime tried funnelling millions of dollars in aid Human Rights in Gaza City, the Vision employee". lieve the group "assists Hamas in raid a village and kill children. I creet, yet very real act of resis- later to open up the political game, money to Hamas [Reuters] group that first provided a lawyer Hamas also has denied any its propaganda war against the asked myself, "How did we gener- tance. I wanted to give a sense of in Syria, the regime stuck to its Israeli officials wasted no time for Halabi. "He told our lawyer links to Halabi, and called the alle- Jewish state". A US-based, pro- ate that barbarity?" People who that. This is not a film about Is- guns. in publicising allegations that boost that they beat him and bound him gations "lies". Israel think-tank has listed World did that were our neighbours, our lamism; it's more universal, I hope. Algeria learned the lesson Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- to a small chair. He was afraid they Last week, World Vision said Vision as part of an NGO "jihad" brothers. It's easy to say the bad It's a film about barbarity. It's through bloodshed. Extremist yahu's government's narrative that would kill him." that "based on the information against Israel. guys are the others. It's very hard about human history. This was our groups were so barbaric that the Hamas is exploiting naive, or ne- Palestinian and Israeli human available to us at this time, we have NGO Monitor, a group that population sided with the central farious, international aid groups. rights groups have long maintained no reason to believe that the alle- plays a key role in the escalating government. Iraq and Syria may The Israeli Ministry of For- that Shin Bet agents inflicted gations are true". On Monday, intimidation of local and interna- Pakistan supports Afghan stop the violence, but when it is eign Affairs wrote directly to coun- "physical pain as part of interro- World Vision International CEO tional human rights groups and far too late, just like Algeria did terparts around the world, con- gations", as part of their "routine" Kevin Jenkins pointed to discrep- NGOs in Palestine/Israel, accused Taliban: Afrasiab Khattak after 200,000 civilians were killed. necting the affair to both Iran and methods. As many as 90 percent ancies in the Shin Bet charges: World Vision back in 2004 of "en- I believe that there is always a the Islamic State of Iraq and the of Palestinian prisoners interrogat- "World Vision's cumulative oper- couraging or at least condoning ter- From P1 point where exhaustion and com- Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), ed by Shin Bet are prevented from ating budget in Gaza for the past rorism and incitement". as well as publishing background seeing a lawyer during interroga- 10 years was approximately This is about Israel trying to citing examples of how pro- ate] the security establishment?” mon sense somewhat prevail. Af- briefings and graphics for social tion. $22.5m, which makes the alleged put international NGOs, who are Taliban and anti-India Islamist or- asked lawmaker Maulana Muham- ter years trying to find a military solution, that will only create more media. Israel's military spokesper- Amnesty International's re- amount of up to $50m being di- increasingly critical of Israeli poli- ganizations still openly advocate mad Khan Sherani, employing a port for 2015-16 says Shin Bet that their approaches be adopted common euphemism for Paki- victims; things are bound to son has also been active about the verted hard to reconcile." cies, in their place case. personnel "tortured and otherwise In addition, "Mohammad el- Senior British NGO official as official state policy. stan’s powerful army. change. Israeli diplomats were report- ill-treated Palestinian detainees ... Halabi was the manager of our It is that wider context of a “Proscribed organizations not “We deserve to know the It's the nature of war. The war edly "specifically ... instructed to particularly during arrest and in- Gaza operations only since Octo- crackdown on humanitarian only indulge in public activities but truth. Powers within this country is not meant to go on for ever. None spread the news ... among liberal terrogation", while a study pub- ber 2014. Before that time he man- groups and human rights defend- also give themselves the right to are backing the terrorists. These of the players of this deadly game and religious groups who support lished last year in a peer-reviewed aged only portions of the Gaza ers that worries Palestinians and determine Pakistan’s regional pol- people attacking us are from have gotten to that point. Right World Vision". medical journal found that "sexual budget." other observers. Aljazeera icy,” he said. among us,” he told the National now the idea seems to be, "Let's Khattak, a longtime critic of Assembly or lower house of Paki- Islamabad’s support for hard-line stani Parliament, where he repre- Islamist groups, said he sees no sents Balochistan. benefit to the current approach. Sherani rejected claims by a “Our country is at daggers drawn senior Balochistan official that In- with three out of four neighbors dia’s main foreign intelligence agen- and faces growing international cy, the Research and Analysis isolation,” he concluded. Wing (RAW), orchestrated the at- His comments took place af- tack. Barely an hour after the at- ter Quetta, the capital of Paki- tack on August 8, Balochistan’s stan’s beleaguered southwestern most senior elected official, Chief Led by Angela Merkel, Hillary A study by the Pew Research Africa. Balochistan Province, is in mourn- Minister Sanaullah Zehri, blamed Clinton and Theresa May, there Center last year found women led In Japan, Yuriko Koike last ing after a suicide attack at the RAW for the attack. Pakistani of- have never been so many experi- only about 10 percent of UN mem- month became the first female gov- main gate of a hospital killed 71 ficials frequently blame its region- enced and ambitious women in ber states. ernor of Tokyo, a rare breakthrough civilians. al archrival for the country’s do- positions of influence, even if “Even while the number of fe- in a male-dominated society. The August 8 bombing, mestic security woes. “There is no they remain heavily outnum- male leaders has more than dou- One of the 64-year-old’s key claimed by a splinter group of the RAW in Balochistan,” Sherani told bered. bled since 2005, a woman in pow- tasks will be smoothing the capi- Pakistani Taliban, targeted lawyers lawmakers. “They are the same Clinton has already made his- er is hardly the norm around the tal’s troubled road to the 2020 who had gathered to collect the people we nurtured,” he said, re- tory by becoming the first female world,” it said. Olympics, hit by a series of em- dead body of a colleague assassi- ferring to Pakistan’s decade-old presidential nominee of a major ‘Sheet of steel’ barrassing scandals and soaring nated earlier in the day. support for Afghan insurgents and US political party in her bid for There are regional variations, costs. The attack has prompted pol- Islamist factions often blamed for the White House in November. with Finland, Norway and Iceland She has acknowledged it was a iticians and critics to question Is- launching attacks in India. “This is historic, just as well used to female leadership, and struggle to get where she is, once lamabad’s sincerity in going after Many in Pakistan are deeply Barack Obama was historic. South and Southeast Asia and noting that Japan did not so much bring a different style of politics, lated to the daily lives of peo- all the Islamist militant factions disappointed by Islamabad’s fail- There is no question about that,” South America performing better have a glass ceiling as a “sheet of said Juan Jose Garcia Escribano, ple”. operating out of Pakistan. ure to implement the comprehen- said Ester R. Fuchs, professor of than elsewhere, according to UN steel” that women had to break professor of political sociology at The problem is that “there Some of them have claimed sive counterterror National Action public affairs and political science Women, the United Nations body through. Spain’s University of Murcia. is a different standard for a wom- credit for attacks on Pakistani state Plan (NAP) that the political and at Columbia University, referring championing gender equality. In Italy, another country where “I believe that Spaniards will an than there is for a man”, noted and security forces while others military elite adopted in response to the first black US president. Past leaders include Indira men still hold sway, Virginia Raggi find it more and more normal that Fuchs. “When you look at Hill- mainly fight insurgencies or launch to a school massacre. The Paki- Across the Atlantic, “Iron Gandhi in India, Benazir Bhutto and Chiara Appendino were elect- the country could be run by wom- ary Clinton’s history you can see attacks in neighboring India, Af- stani Taliban claimed responsibili- Lady” Margaret Thatcher broke in Pakistan, and Argentina’s Cris- ed this year as mayors of Rome en who could find solutions to it so clearly. They want a man to ghanistan, and Iran. ty for the December 2014 attack the glass ceiling decades ago when tina Kirchner, while Aung San Suu and Turin respectively. problems, such as economic ones, be tough but when a woman is Critics accuse Pakistan’s pow- on the Army Public School in the she became British prime minis- Kyi is currently de facto leader of But Sofia Ventura, professor that men largely created and seem tough that means she is difficult erful security institutions of aid- northwestern city of Peshawar in ter in 1979, and last month May Myanmar. of political and social sciences at unable to solve,” he said. as opposed to strong.” ing and protecting the “good” mil- which gunmen killed nearly 150 did it again. But it took until 2005 for Af- the University of Bologna, said Arantxa Elizondo, a professor So when will a woman lead itants — those who launch attacks schoolchildren and teachers. Chancellor Angela Merkel has rica to have its first female elected their elections cannot yet be called at the University of the Basque the United States? “In 1937, in India and Afghanistan — while A complete ban on militant led Germany since 2005, while leader, in Liberia’s Ellen Johnson a turning point. Country, said women on the left when Gallup did its first poll on going after the “bad” terrorists factions topped NAP’s 20 points, South Korea, Chile, Brazil, Bang- Sirleaf -- although the continent has “We are in a complex phase, of politics or in reformist move- it, only 33 percent of the coun- whose attacks have killed more which included a range of legisla- ladesh and Liberia are also led by a better record on ministers. with steps forward but strong cul- ments are forging a new path. try said they would vote for a than 60,000 civilians and soldiers tive and administrative measures women -- as is the International At the start of 2015, only 17.7 tural habits,” she said. Citing Madrid mayor Manue- woman,” Fuchs said. Since 2012 since 2004. to prevent terrorist attacks and Monetary Fund (IMF). percent of all government minis- Different style la Carmena and Barcelona’s Ada this figure has been 95 percent. “Does the security establish- reverse religious extremism, which But these leaders remain in a ters in the world were female, but In Spain, which has been in Colau, she noted they have raised Whether this translates into ment exist to protect Pakistan, or fuels recruitment for militant fac- minority and their numbers are it was more than 30 percent in political deadlock for months, the issues that were previously ex- actual votes remains to be seen. does Pakistan exist to [perpetu- tions. only gradually increasing. Cape Verde, Rwanda and South advent of more women could help cluded from politics, “issues re- AFP THURSDAY.AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Egypt sets jail as punishment for black market forex Turkey and Russia are reinstating their annual bilateral trade target trading of $100 billion, President Tayyip Erdogan said during a press con- Egypt’s parliament on Tuesday ference in St. Petersburg, in his set prison sentences to up three first visit after strained ties post years and fines to up to 5 million Ankara downing of a Russian jet pounds ($563,000) for traders sell- in November. ing foreign currency on the black Erdogan also told the joint market. news conference with Russian The central bank has in recent President Vladimir Putin that talks weeks revoked the licenses of doz- regarding the resumption of char- ens of foreign exchange offices that ter flights from Russia to Turkey it says were selling dollars at rates will be accelerated. far wide of the official one. Calling Putin his “dear friend,” But the gap between the offi- Erdogan added that Turkey is cial and black market rates contin- ready to implement a natural gas ues to widen after a March deval- pipeline project with Russia and a uation failed to ease an acute dol- deal to build Turkey’s first nucle- lar shortage. ar power plant. “Egypt currency exchange bu- The Turkish president said he reaus are like cancer and I call on wants the pipeline - TurkStream - parliamentarians to draft a legisla- “done as fast as possible.” tion that abolishes and eliminates Russia will phase out sanc- them completely,” parliament tions against Turkey step-by-step speaker Ali Abdelaal said. but the priority is to bring bilater- While one dollar cost 8.78 al ties between the two countries pounds at the central bank’s auc- to their pre-crisis level, Putin said. tion on Tuesday, a dollar shortage Putin, after meeting with Er- in the economy meant black mar- dogan, said the talks will have an ket dealers were charging 12.65 important bearing on the future of pounds per dollar, up from last Russia-Turkish relations. week’s range of 12.20-12.50. Russia promptly cut ties with Egypt has struggled to mend Turkey over the downed jet inci- the economy since the 2011 up- dent, banned Turkish vegetables, rising that toppled President Hos- restricted Russian tourists’ access ni Mubarak scared away tourists to Turkey and blocked some Turk- and investors - vital sources of the ish companies from working on its foreign currency it needs to import market. everything from fuel to food. Russia’s Economy Minister Traders say the crackdown has Alexei Ulyukayev also said on exacerbated the crisis, prompting Tuesday that his country may people with dollars to shun the open its market for Turkish food official financial system, putting imports by the end of the year. more pressure on the pound, with Ulyukayev said it was necessary potentially dire consequences for first to do quality checks of Turk- inflation, confidence and econom- ish products. ic growth. Egypt’s net foreign reserves have more than halved since 2011, falling to $15.536 billion at the end of July. Asian shares hit Oil well blown up in northern Iraq, Egypt is in negotiations with the IMF for a $12 billion three- year lending program that it hopes 1-year high, dollar North Oil Company says will plug a funding gap, restore A well that pumps oil from the market confidence and lure invest- slips on weak US data Kirkuk fields in northern Iraq was ment that could help ease the cur- blown up on Wednesday, setting rency crunch Asian shares hit a one-year high yield US10YT=RR dipping to some production facilities on fire, on Wednesday while the dollar and 1.5350 percent from Monday's an official at state-run North Oil Treasury yields slid on weak U.S. two-week high of 1.616 percent. Company said. productivity data, while sterling "Low U.S. productivity Firefighters were still at work to inched up from a one-month low. growth could suggest the third quar- contain the fire at the well that The Asian stocks rally is, ter growth can't be fantastic. That pumps 2,500 barrels per day however, unlikely to extend to in turn would mean the Fed will (bpd), the official said. Europe, with financial spreadbet- not need to raise rates," said Masa- The explosion happened in the ter CMC Markets forecasting hiro Ichikawa, senior strategist at early hours of Wednesday, most Germany's Dax .GDAXI will open Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Manage- likely caused by sabotage, he said. down 0.1 percent, Britain's FTSE ment. The well is under the control of 100 .FTSE will fall 0.2 percent and The dollar was weak against Kurdish peshmerga fighters that France's CAC 40 .FCHI will start most other currencies. It slipped are taking part in the war on ISIS. the day 0.4 percent lower. 0.5 percent to 101.395 yen JPY=, The ultra-hardline group is de- MSCI's broadest index of Asia- giving up most of its gains so far ployed west of Kirkuk. Pacific shares excluding Japan this week. The euro rose 0.3 per- Most of Iraq’s daily production .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.3 percent cent to $1.1150 EUR=, extending of 4.6 million bpd is produced in to the highest level since August its recovery from Friday's one- the southern region and exported 2015. Japan's Nikkei .N225 closed week low of $1.1046. from ports on the Gulf. 0.2 percent lower, pulled down by The dollar index, which tracks a stronger yen. the U.S. currency against a basket Taiwanese shares .TWII end- of six peers, retreated 0.4 percent ed the day up 0.5 percent and at to 95.782. Saudi corporate earnings to remain under pressure in Q3 their highest level in 13 months. Additionally, the Bank of En- South Korean stocks advanced gland's reverse bond auction failed Corporate earnings are likely to sensus estimates by a wide mar- ternational Polymers Company Almarai net jumps y) missed our as well as consen- 0.15 percent to a nine-month high. to meet its target on Tuesday, high- remain under pressure in Q3 2016. gin. Adjusting for a one-off impair- and Gulf Advanced Cable Insula- Almarai‘s net profit jumped sus estimates mainly due to the Hong Kong's Hang Seng index lighting the scarcity of investors While the petrochemical sector ment for one of its subsidiary, the tion Company. However, the sur- 18.6% y-o-y, above our and con- use of imported clinker. Yamama’s .HSI reversed earlier gains to trade willing to sell from a quickly dwin- may continue to post a decline in company’s profit stood at SR5.1 prise is likely due to higher cost of sensus estimates, on the back of revenue (-18% y-o-y) and net prof- down 0.1 percent, after earlier hit- dling pool of long-term bonds with profits on an annual basis, the se- billion. “We believe the company’s goods sold and certain non-recur- better than expected gross margin, it (-39% y-o-y) missed our as well ting its highest level since Novem- positive yields. quential performance is likely to profitability was supported by ring expenses. The company also which expanded 150bps led by as consensus forecasts. Overall, ber. The 10-year UK gilts yield be comparatively stronger on sta- increased spread in the petro- mentioned about non-renewal of better product mix (due to Ra- we believe that construction activ- Australian shares missed the was at 0.577 after hitting a record ble spread between product pric- chemical division and the recov- certain contracts, but there is no madan), lower input costs and ities will remain weak for the fore- rally. Commonwealth Bank of low of 0.563 percent es and feedstock cost, a report ery in steel margins.” clarity regarding the same. operational efficiencies. While the seeable future as the government Australia (CBA.AX), the nation's GB10YT=RR after the BoE fell from Al Rajhi Capital research re- In addition, the company’s Retail sector continues to be poultry segment continues to face spending adjusts to low oil prices second-largest lender, reported the 52 million pounds ($68 million) vealed. The cut in government listed subsidiaries also posted im- impacted by slowdown in con- intense competition from cheaper through spending cuts and delay slowest earnings growth since short of its target to buy more than spending might impact construc- pressive performances – Saudi sumer spending, however results imports, the situation has im- of unnecessary projects. We have 2009 and a rise in loan impairments, 1 billion pounds of long-dated UK tion related sectors – real estate, Kayan posted a profit of SR91 (ex-Jarir) were above estimates led proved in Q2 as compared to the assigned Neutral rating to Arabi- despite posting a seventh-straight government debt. That was the cement and building and construc- million after five quarters of loss- by better than expected margins. higher losses in Q1 2016. Herfy’s an, Yamama, Saudi, Qassim, and record profit. first time it failed to find enough tion. es. Cumulative revenue (for compa- top line growth (+7.1% y-o-y) re- Southern and we are Overweight The Australian index ended the sellers since it started its quantita- Consumer spending related Yansab trebled its profit over nies under our coverage) was 7.4% mained slow, despite aggressive on Yanbu. day down almost 0.2 percent. tive easing program in 2009. sectors – retail and food & agricul- the same period last year to SR689 higher than our estimates, led by restaurant additions, due to slow- In Q2 2016, the telecom sec- Wall Street eked out gains on nL8N1AQ4KQ ture are also likely to witness a million (+203% y-o-y), while we significant beat on top-line led by ing LFL sales. The company’s net tor’s revenue grew 6.7% y-o-y. Tuesday following a strong ses- The British central bank an- decline in profitability on lower had expected only a +70% growth Al Hokair (benefiting from major- profit also grew at a similar rate of Zain reported an EBITDA of sion for European stock markets, nounced last week that it would disposable incomes and slowdown in profit. The high growth was ity of Ramadan season falling in 7.4% y-o-y, supported by lower SR372 million (-14.5% y-o-y, be- with Germany's DAX index be increasing its bond buying in in other sectors of the economy, partly due to the low base of Q2 June this year vs. being spread out SG&A expenses and higher other low our estimate), on account of .GDAXI jumping 2.5 percent to addition to cutting interest rates in but will be positively impacted by 2015 when the company under- in June and July last year) and Al income. higher distribution and marketing its highest of 2016 on strong earn- the latest effort to stimulate the increase in religious tourists dur- took a maintenance shutdown, but Othaim (benefiting from healthy SACC’s net profit declined expenses (infrastructure cost and ings from reinsurer Munich Re country's economy. ing Haj season this year. the surprise was mostly due to LFL sales and aggressive organic 17.5% y-o-y in Q2 2016, partial- implementation of biometric veri- (MUVGn.DE) and telecoms group The British pound recovered Crude prices rose in Q2 from higher than expected sales volumes expansion). ly due to the higher base of Q2 fication process). Zain’s customer Altice (ATCA.AS). 0.4 percent to $1.3055, after hit- the lows of Q1 2016. Brent crude and lower cost of goods sold (ex- The significant surprise this 2015, which was boosted by write base has decreased 8% since the MSCI's world index ting a one-month low of $1.2956 prices steadily recovered to $48.05 cluding raw material costs). quarter was better than expected back of provision for restructur- introduction of the finger print .MIWD00000PUS covering 46 GBP=D4 on Tuesday when Bank (-21% y-o-y) per barrel at the end NIC also beat market expecta- gross margin (ex-Jarir), which we ing. We have Neutral ratings on implementation regulation in Jan- markets advanced 0.2 percent, of England policymaker Ian Mc- of Q2 2016, compared to $36.75 tions, posting a profit of SR103.9 attribute to better product mix due Almarai, Herfy and Saudi Airlines uary this year. We believe the com- close to the level that it hit on Tues- Cafferty said the central bank will per barrel at the end of Q1 2016. million, compared to a net loss of to Ramadan. This led to operating Catering. pany will be able to expand its day - the highest in almost a year. probably have to loosen monetary This led to a rise in petrochemical SR107.7 million in Q2 2015. The profit for the sector coming 67% The trend of falling sales vol- EBITDA margin in 2016 on the "Following strong U.S. pay- policy further if the UK economy product prices as well. All compa- company had undergone a restruc- ahead of our estimates. Led by ume and profitability continue as back of lower access charges and rolls data last week, we are in a worsens. The dollar's weakness nies under our coverage reported turing exercise, which is likely to better operating profit, net profit the Kingdom’s construction activ- D&M costs. However, rising in- sweet spot where the U.S. econo- gave gold XAU= a leg up, with the higher price realization during the have led to cost savings in this beat our estimates by 47%, but this ities continue to be under pressure. terest expense due to surging SAI- my seems to be doing okay while precious metal gaining 1.1 percent quarter on a sequential basis, quarter. In addition, the company was mainly led by Al Hokair, Companies’ operational perfor- BOR rates will pressurize profit- the chances of a near-term Fed rate to $1,354.30 an ounce. though on an annual basis, petro- benefited from higher operating which reported net profit of SR212 mance was impacted due to lower ability. STC reported a revenue hike are still relatively small," said Oil prices slipped after a sur- chemical prices were still down in rates and the recovery in petro- million vs. SR78 million estimated than estimated average realized growth of 11% y-o-y, which is Hirokazu Kabeya, chief global prise U.S. crude stockpile build the range of 10-140%. Petrochem- chemical and titanium dioxide pric- by us. Going ahead, we believe Q3 price on the back of stiff competi- commendable considering lower strategist at Daiwa Securities. rekindled worries about a persis- ical product spreads rose during es. will be a weak quarter, especially tion especially in the central re- growth prospects in the telecom "Earnings in the U.S., Europe tent global glut. the quarter, which supported mar- On the other hand, SAFCO’s when compared to Q3 2015, as gion coupled with the impact of sector and impact of the biometric and Japan are not bad. So we may Brent futures LCOc1 fell 0.2 gin improvement. The petrochem- results were mostly in line, with second half of Ramadan fell in July lower fuel subsidy. For companies verification regulation. “We believe be seeing something of a 'Gold- percent to $44.90 per barrel, after ical sector revenues fell 16.4% y- net profit falling ~50% y-o-y to last year. “We have Neutral rat- under our coverage, top-line per- STC will be the key beneficiary of ilocks' market globally," he added. losing 0.9 percent on Tuesday. U.S. o-y, while net profit slipped 19.7% SR299 million due to the double ings on Al Hokair, Extra and Al formance was in-line with our es- fixed broadband growth, which is But data showing weak U.S. crude CLc1 also slipped 0.3 per- y-o-y. impact of consistently falling prod- Othaim, while Jarir is ‘Under re- timates, but bottom-line was mixed a part of the transformation plan.” productivity weighed on U.S. cent to $42.64, extending Tues- “For the companies under our uct prices, together with the view’” due to a number of negative and STC remains one of our top picks bond yields, with the 10-year notes day's 0.6 percent decline. coverage, revenues fell over ~16% 66.7% hike in methane prices, its Revenue for companies under positive surprises. in the Kingdom. Mobily’s net prof- y-o-y, coming largely in line with primary feedstock. our coverage slipped 1.1% y-o-y Saudi and Southern Province it was broadly in-line with our es- our expectations,” it said. The sec- The company’s earnings will in Q2 2016, while the sector’s net cement were the top performers timate, led by cost optimization, tor’s net profit also slipped about remain under pressure this year for profit fell 9.8% y-o-y, primarily in Q2. Saudi cement revenue partially offset by rising interest 16.5% y-o-y, but most companies the same reasons. APC’s profit (- due to the weak performance from (+11% y-o-y) and bottom-line (- cost. The top-line declined 7.5% earnings beat our as well as market 23.5% y-o-y, +27.8% q-o-q) also Savola. Savola’s revenue (-7.2% y- 2% y-o-y) were slightly ahead of y-o-y, owing to the interconnec- expectations. Margins were most- stood mostly in line with our esti- o-y) and net profit (-43.1% y-o- our estimates, while Southern tion rate cuts and implementation ly stable despite the sharp fall in mate, as profitability was boosted y) was negatively impacted by Province’s revenue (-7% y-o-y) of finger print regulation in our product prices, supported by in- on a sequential basis by increased high competition in retail segment, largely met our forecast, whereas view. “We expect the finger print creased spread between product sales volume and higher product currency devaluation and rising fi- bottom-line (-1% y-o-y) was regulation and rising interest rates prices and feedstock costs and the prices. nancial charges. The company is ahead of our estimates. to continue to negatively impact efficiency measures undertaken by Sipchem disappoints restructuring its retail business, Arabian and Yanbu cement the performance of the telecom most firms. Sipchem was the only compa- closing down 51 non-performing were impacted as the demand sit- companies in the coming quarters Strong SABIC results ny under our coverage to disap- Pandati stores in Q1 2016. Never- uation in the Western region re- (especially Zain and Mobily),” the SABIC posted a surprisingly point, posting a net profit of SR26 theless, we remain Overweight on mained under pressure. Yanbu’s report said. strong set of results for Q2 2016, million, down 76.4% y-o-y. The the stock with a target price of reported net profit (-35% y-o-y), Healthcare companies under with net profit coming in at SR4.7 fall in profit was partly due to the SR43, as most of the negatives are came below our estimate. Arabian our coverage reported a strong set billion, beating our as well as con- maintenance shutdown at its In- already factored in the stock price. Cement’s bottom-line (-12% y-o- of results in Q2 2016. THURSDAY.AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Sanam Baloch makes powerful comeback in 'Ek Thi Marium' teaser

ctress Diana Penty is returning to the silver screen after a stint of 4 years. The reason for such a long wait was because she did not want to put pressure on herself and sign every film that came her way. `The break was not a conscious decision. Me not doing films has been misinterpreted. I was just playing it by ear and didn't want to put any pressure on myself.` The actress further added, `Cocktail happened overnight. I didn't have the time to think and got into films without realizing what I was doing.` Diana who will next be seen in Happy Bhag Jayegi explained that she was offered a number of films but nothing appealed to her, `I didn't want to do whatever came my way but rather, what I felt was right for me. I agree it was an unconventional way of going about things, but sometimes it's best to follow your instincts`, the actress signed The teaser of Ek Thi Marium has Mukhtar in short film Speaking to been released, and is sure to bring The Express Tribune earlier, San- off. Happy Bhag Jayegi which stars Abhay Deol, Jimmy Sheirgill and Ali Fazal alongside Diana, is out the patriot in you. am said regarding her comeback, all set to release on 19th August 2016. Actor-host Sanam Baloch is all “This time I’m extra nervous since set to make her comeback with a it’s going to be my appearance af- powerful role in the upcoming ter so long. This particular short short film made to honour Mari- film is going to be very challenging Taapsee halts shooting um Mukhtar — The first woman for me. I’ll have to live the life of fighter pilot in Pakistan to die in someone extraordinary.” First look the line of duty, when a PAF jet of Syra Shehroze’s debut film is for Pink trailer launch crashed in Mianwali. The teaser out Female co-pilot dies as train- Working in a movie with Amitabh gives us a glimpse of Sanam as ing jet crashes in Mianwali Bachchan in the starting few years Marium, getting dressed in her The film directed by Sarmad of your career and that to as a lead Pakistan Air Force uniform. After Khoosat and written by Umera is not ordinary. Baby actress three years: Sanam Baloch to make Ahmed, will be aired on Urdu1 on Taapsee Pannu will be seen shar- acting comeback as Marium Independence Day. ing screen space with Mr. Amita- bh Bachchan in her upcoming movie PINK, which released to- day. Taapsee who was shooting ‘Janaan’will prove to in London for her another project Upcoming historical thriller '31st flew down to India literally for a be a bold October' starring Vir Das and Soha few hours for the trailer launch of Ali Khan, which revolved around PINK. the aftermath of the assassination She has maintained that PINK statement: Azfar Jafri of the then Indian Prime Minister is a movie which will be very close Indira Gandhi, has now finally been to her heart as an actor and a per- green lit by the Censor Board after former, because of its story line a wait of four months. and the experience she got while Confirming the news, writer- shooting it. producer Harry Sachdeva said, And for such a great movie `We had to make certain modifica- Taapsee doesn't wanted to let go tions to the script without affect- of any chance to promote the ing the authenticity of the cinemat- movie because of which she de- ic projection. It took time but we cided that she will fly down from were eventually able to convince London for the Trailer launch of the Censor Board to retain the the movie. For which her produc- scenes which brought out the real- tion team in London made every- ism of the story and which were thing possible to allow Taapsee important to the narrative. There's to literally fly in and out of Mum- a reason for bringing this subject bai for a few hours. to the screen and justice needs to be done to the subject as the film is about undying human spirit and does not seek to make any politi- Yuvraj Singh to rap with Badshah in upcoming single cal statements.` Sachdeva added that they had to make nine major It looks like Indian cricketers have The duo met in Delhi last week cuts that the Censor Board had found their true calling in rapping to finalise the details of their up- suggested to the film. as after Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh coming music video. The move Set in Delhi, '31st October' is is set to make his singing debut. came after the batsman saw the DJ the most realistic depiction of the incident and the story of a Sikh The ace cricketer will be col- Waley Babu hitmaker perform live family, which gets trapped in a laborating with Badshah for an in Noida. riot-affected part of the Capital upcoming single, reports Mum- Shoaib Akhtar set to judge after Indira Gandhi was assassi- bai Mirror. comedy show on Indian TV chan- nated by her Sikh bodyguards, Virat Kohli turns rapper for nel The power duo will record the which leads to savage anti-Sikh ri- AR Rahman Apart from rapping track next month in Mumbai. ots. The film, an edge-of-the-seat together, Yuvi will also share Earlier, Virat Kohli channeled thriller about a family, which bat- screen space with the Abhi Toh his inner rapper in the Premier tles all odds for survival, was Party Shuru Hui Hai hitmaker. Futsal League theme song with praised for being gritty, thrilling and Shoaib Akhtar refuses to none other than the maestro, AR heart-rending at various foreign film festivals. dance on Indian comedy show Rahman.

KARACHI: As its release date there is no gainsaying that film- approaches near, Azfar Jafri’s sec- makers are rising to the top by ex- ond feature film Janaan’s promo- perimenting, and making films tions seem to be at an all-time high. that, in fact, matter to them. Simi- With cast members Armeena Rana larly, a good script is a sure-fire Khan, Bilal Ashraf and Ali Reh- way to maintain a consistent qual- Bhumi Pednekar, who made an man Khan touring the country ity to films. exceptional mark in the industry and running campaigns, those be- Jafri stated the script is the with her stellar performance in her hind the venture seem to be mak- most important to him while debut movie, is quite an unconven- ing sure people everywhere get choosing a project. Having a good tional personality. While she is the word about it. For them, only script worked in his favour with focused on her acting ambitions and one date is important: September Siyaah. Janaan producer Imran has won accolades for her portray- 13, which marks the release of the Raza Kazmi commended writer- al of an overweight Sandhya in first mainstream film from Khy- actor Osman Khalid Butt, who Dum Laga Ke Haisha, the charis- ber-Pakhtunkhwa. wrote both the films. “He is a great matic actress hasn't put a pause Jafri’s debut feature film writer. He brings great ideas to the on her hobbies either. Siyaah (2013), a low-budget in- table. I think his texturing of the In a recent interview with a dependent horror, put him on the characters and those details are just popular lifestyle magazine, the map of Pakistani cinema. His sec- amazing,” said Kazmi. actress shared few interesting facts ond film, a rom-com, has run on a Jafri feels the making of Jan- about her hobbies; watching crick- much grander scale and boasts of aan was a lot of fun. Speaking et is one of them. The actress is a a well-known cast. Talking about about his work ethic, Jafri stated, true loyalist and a fierce patriot of what Janaan will achieve, Jafri “I would say I am quite a lenient the sport. She watches all the said, “I think the film is going to director. I like to keep it fun on the matches, especially the India-Pa- prove to be a bold statement for sets. It helps the production and kistan ones! So much so, that she Pakistani cinema. I don’t mean the energy is maintained. During streams the matches on her phone just financially, but overall as well. Janaan, we had so much fun. The even when she is busy shooting. I think we are going to do well cast members would play pranks Apart from cricket, the versatile because of positive word-of- on each other all the time. It was actress also enjoys badminton, mouth also.” For someone who truly a blast.” swimming, reading, watching inter- seems to be playing with differ- He does recognise the support national shows. ent genres in his films, it’s no sur- of his cast and crew. “I am glad my With so much talent and a prise that Jafri believes more in actors, talented as they are, were striking personality, Bhumi's one storytelling and less in being so cooperative. If I would want to actress worth watching out for! caught up in categories. Speaking move on to another shot after one about the genre that piques his take, they would still want to go interest the most, he shared, “I once again, in case I was not satis- Pink Trailer: It's gripping, it's don’t think in terms of genre. For fied.” Recently, Janaan’s music has me, storytelling is more impor- been creating a lot of buzz. The tant, regardless of the genre. Jan- soundtrack comprises five songs spellbinding, it's just FANTASTIC aan is a rom-com and my one, featuring collaborations with Indi- After mesmerizing everyone with awaited trailer of Pink is here. in an unsolicited trouble relating Parchi, will be an all-out comedy. an artists such as music director his outstanding performance in Therefore now fans can have a fair to the mysterious disappearance Perhaps, the next one after that duo Salim-Sulaiman and singers Teen Big B is once again here to idea about the premise of the mov- of a boy who attempt a sexual as- will be an action film. For me, it is Armaan Malik and Shreya charm his fans with yet another ie. But at the same time, there is sault on one of them. whether the story is good or not.” Ghoshal. The film, which tells the story of a love triangle amid a Pukh- nail-biting thriller i.e. Pink. The day no denying the fact that this trailer Besides Big B Pink also fea- A true auteur often works tures Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kul- around a common underlying tun family wedding, aims to bring when this productional venture of of Pink up till some extent enhanc- Shoojit Sircar went on the floor es the curiosity also. Right Na Peo- hari, Andrea Taring Angad Bedi et theme in his filmography through- Pukhtun culture to the mainstream. numerous reports relating to ple? With Big B in the centre of al in the prominent roles. Directed out the career. While Pakistan is It will release in 11 countries, in- premise and title of the movie start- the story narration of Pink re- by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhry this far from creating an auteur like In- cluding the US, UK, Canada and ed scratching the curiosity gut of volves around a nightmarish out- nail-biting thriller is slated to re- gmar Bergman or David Lynch, Singapore, on September 13. the cine junkies. But as the much- ing of a few girls who end up being lease on. September 16. THURSDAY .AUGUST 11, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Claudio Ranieri signs new extended Leicester

Juan Mata is likely to remain at Manchester United beyond the City current transfer window, accord- ing to Sky sources. contract Mata was substituted in Sun- Leicester City manager Claudio day's Community Shield win over Leicester City just 27 minutes af- Ranieri has signed a new contract ter coming on, fuelling speculation which ties him to the Premier that his days were numbered at Old League champions until June 2020. Trafford. The Italian agreed terms on a Mata looks towards Jose deal just days before Leicester Mourinho after being taken off open their title defence at Hull on However, fellow midfielder Saturday August 13, live on Sky Bastian Schweinsteiger appears to Sports, having guided the Foxes to have already played his last game the most unlikeliest of triumphs for the club. last season. It is understood that there has He follows key players Jamie been significant interest from home Vardy, Wes Morgan and Kasper and abroad in the German and his Schmeichel in committing his fu- wages are not expected to be a ture to the club. stumbling block. Ranieri told the club's website: Schweinsteiger has found him- "From the moment I talked to the self outside Mourinho's 26-man owners about their vision for Le- squad and with the arrival of Paul icester City, I knew it was some- Pogba the former World Cup win- thing I wanted to be part of for a ner seems destined to be a major long time. The energy that exists casualty of the new era at United. at this club - from the owners and Meanwhile, Adnan Januzaj the staff, to the players and sup- look set to go out on loan again as porters - is something very spe- it appears Mourinho believes the cial. I am very happy and proud 21-year-old, who still has two that I will be part of it for years to years remaining on his contract, come. would benefit from a season play- "Last season, that spirit and ing first team football elsewhere. our hard work helped us to achieve The Belgium winger played something magical. If we can con- only seven games in all competi- tinue to work hard, maintain our tions for United last season and passion and continue to fight with spent four months on loan at all our hearts, I am sure we can Bundesliga side Borussia Dort- continue to be successful togeth- mund. er." City vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha told the club website: "Twelve months ago, we brought to Leicester City a man David Florence last in Chris Froome, Rebekah Tiler, Max whose knowledge and experience, we felt, could lead us into the next phase of our long-term plan. What men's canoe slalom at he would go on to help us achieve, Whitlock and more at the Olympic Games in the time we have achieved it, Chris Froome will again race for has been beyond anything we Rio Olympics gold on Wednesday as the men’s could have anticipated. Great Britain's David Florence cycling time trials take centre stage "Claudio's qualities, both as a failed to challenge for a medal in at the Olympic Games. man and as a coach, have been very the men's canoe slalom as he fin- The Tour de France winner has clear since the moment he arrived - ished 10th at the Rio Olympics. already taken part in the road race qualities that have helped Leices- The two-time Olympic silver at Rio 2016 but will now swiftly ter City to progress on every lev- medallist committed a costly ear- turn his attentions to an event that el. We have strong foundations ly error, ending in last place with a is expected to favour climbers. from which to keep moving our time of 109.00. Froome claimed a bronze medal in club forward and I'm delighted that Denis Gargaud Chanut clocked the London 2012 time trial as Bra- Claudio will continue to be part of a winning time of 94.17, securing dley Wiggins won gold. that journey." France's second gold medal in Bra- An outside bet for a GB gold Ranieri's side defied pre-sea- zil, while Matej Benus of Slovakia medal on Wednesday could be son odds of 5000/1 to win their claimed silver and Japan's Takuya Rebekah Tiler - a 17-year-old com- first top-flight title in their 132- Haneda took the bronze. peting in the women's weightlift- year history finishing 10 points of Florence will target another ing (69kgs). runners-up Arsenal, having suf- medal when he teams up with Ri- Max Whitlock and Nile Wil- fered only three defeats. chard Hounslow in the men's C2 son are Great Britain's main hopes The 64-year-old, the current double on Thursday. in the gymnastics all-around event LMA manager of the year, began Tonia Couch and Lois Toul- although the 2014 world silver his coaching career in the amateur son joked they would be asking medallist will have his work cut leagues in Italy 30 years ago but for a green pool in future after re- out to top Japan's Kohei Uchima- had never secured a top flight cording a personal best in finish- ra, who has won every world title championship winning medal be- ing fifth in the women's synchro- in this discipline since 2009. fore last season. nised 10m platform final. Tim Kneale is expected to rep- The women's rugby sevens are also crowned in the swimming - men's to defend her title The pool appeared to turn resent GB in the men's shooting, in group stage action against Ar- 100m freestyle, men's 200m China's Li Xiaoxia on course greener as the final wore on and while Jack Laugher and Chris gentina, the world's No 2 side. The breaststroke, women's 200m but- to defend her title The final of the Jessica Ennis-Hill reached a near-inevitable conclu- Mears will go for gold in the div- men's hockey team aim for revenge terfly and women's 4x200m free women's singles table tennis could sion: victory for China, their third ing (men's diving synchro 3m). against Australia for their defeat in relay. Watch out for the battle be- throw up some fascinating story- well equipped to from three events at the Maria Lenk Swimmer Duncan Scott and Ben- the London 2012 bronze medal tween Australia's Cameron McE- lines. Historically, China dominate win Rio Olympic Aquatics Centre. jamin Proud compete in the heats match. voy and the United States' Nathan the sport having claimed all four "It's so green," Couch said. before Wednesday's men's 100m As well as peerless gymnast Adrian in the 100m free. available gold medals in Beijing and gold, says Sally "But we got a personal best score, eventing individual jumping final. freestyle final while Andrew Will- Kohei Uchimara of Japan who is Fencing will dish out top priz- London. so maybe we should ask for a green is and Craig Benson are involved vying for a gold medal in his sec- es in the men's sabre and women's Li Xiaoxia, the reigning Olym- Gunnell pool from now on. I kind of liked Fox-Pitt produced two clear in the 200m breaststroke. ond consecutive Olympics, we foil, there is a men's canoe slalom pic champion, and team-mate Ding it." rounds, just months after recover- GB's men's rugby sevens team will see the first rowing final of final, and judo finals in the men's - Ning, the world champion, are on Elsewhere, veteran show- ing from a coma, but a costly mis- have a daunting day's work against these Games (men's and women's 90kg and women's -60kg. course to meet in another all-Chi- jumper William Fox-Pitt had to take on Tuesday had harmed his New Zealand before the knock-out quadruple sculls). What not to miss nese final and a rematch from four settle for a 12th-place finish in the medal hopes. phase of that competition begins. Four gold medallists will be China's Li Xiaoxia on course years ago. AndyMurrayandJohannaKontaclaimwinsat RioOlympics Andy Murray continued his com- fortable progress at the Rio Olym- pics with a straight sets win over Juan Monaco in the second round of the men's singles. British No 1 Johanna Konta also progressed to the quarter-fi- nals, but had to battle back from a set down to complete a gruelling 3-6 7-5 7-5 win over eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova. Konta staged a spirited re- sponse in the second set and final- Jessica Ennis-Hill is in a good place ly converted her fourth match after becoming a mother and that point to defeat the experienced sense of fulfilment will help her Russian in a match that lasted three bid to retain her Olympic heptath- hours and seven minutes. lon title, says Sally Gunnell. Murray, the defending Olym- The London 2012 gold medal- pic champion, had earlier easily list had baby Reggie in July 2014 controlled his Argentinian oppo- and made a remarkable return to nent during a one-sided 6-3 6-1 action the following May, before victory. winning the World Championships The Scot, who swept side Vik- in Beijing just 13 months after giv- tor Troicki in his opening match, ing birth. was broken in the first set but this "I think she's amazing," Gun- was a brief moment of concern for nell told Tuesday's Sportswomen Murray, who immediately broke show on Sky Sports News HQ. back and raced through the second Olympic champion Ennis-Hill set to seal victory. talks about feeling stronger this He no longer has to worry year compared to last year about world No 1 Novak Djokov- "I think it goes back to wheth- ic, who suffered a shock first- er she is still competitive or not. round exit, and will next face ei- Has she still got it in there? She's ther Italy's Fabio Fognini or showing that she has. Frenchman Benoit Paire in the "She's in a very different place last-16. because she's had a child and has On the sun-soaked hard court, become much more content. I think both Murray and Monaco traded that's a really good thing because crisp ground strokes, but the Brit- you don't put that added pressure ish No 1 was having the final word face either Benoit Paire or Fabio Fognini in next round The Argentine gained a break of his own following a sweetly-struck angled forehand, although this served only to enliven the Scot, on yourself because you have in their rallies and wrong footed who powered into a 5-2 lead and quickly pocketed the set. Murray had gained the measure of Monaco and added two more breaks on the way to a commanding 4-0 lead. The Wimbledon something else. his opponent to move 2-0 up. men's title holder conceded just one more game before completing victory and clenched his fist after the final stray return from Monaco. Konta, who will link up with Andy's older brother "She's just showing that you The Olympic champion will Jamie in the mixed doubles, expressed her relief after coming through a dramatic match with Kuznetsova. Having failing to serve out the match at 5-3 in the decider, the 25-year-old can come back and you can suc- face either Benoit Paire or Fabio recovered from 0-40 at 5-5, before eventually setting up a quarter-final match with either second seed Angelique Kerber or Australia's Sam Stosur. "I've been very fortunate so far in my ceed at the highest level and I would Fognini in next round career that I've been a part of so many spectacular matches," said Konta. "That definitely ranks up there just because it's my first Olympics. I feel pretty lucky and privileged that I get put my money on her because The Olympic champion will another chance tomorrow." she's in a really good place." THURSDAY. AUGUST 11. 2016-Asad 21, 1395 H.S Vol:XI Issue No:19 Price: Afs.15

The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World Stunned, Armacost reported back: “God damn! They are very upset after all we have done to assist KABUL: New National Front them. You need to go to Pakistan.” (NNF) political opposition party Armacost also asked me to draw on Wednesday stressed solution to up a strategy for post-Soviet Af- problems faced by Afghan refugees ghanistan. and asked the government to call a In August 1988, during one of grand meeting of politicians and my trips, the U.S. ambassador to influential individuals to discuss Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, suggest- the unity government’s legitima- ed that I meet Zia. I was supposed cy. to join Raphel and Zia on a flight The unity government deal reached between then presidential to a military base in Punjab. Just candidates Ashraf Ghani and Ab- before the scheduled departure dullah Abdullah in September 2014 from Islamabad, however, Raphel after the disputed presidential elec- changed his mind. Instead, he want- tion. ed me to go to Peshawar to meet The agreement binds the uni- with the Afghan leaders. ty government to call into session In the middle of my meeting a Loya Jirga to bring about neces- with the resistance leaders, a young sary amendments to the country’s spokesman named Hamid Karzai Constitution and create the new received a call, abruptly stood up, post of a prime minister for the and walked out. A few minutes lat- Chief Executive in two years. er, I too got a phone call, ordering The president is responsible me to return to the consulate im- to open a debate on the prime min- mediately. “Something has gone isterial post in the Loya Jirga and wrong with the president’s plane,” announce creation of the position, I was told. according to the agreement. Indeed. The plane carrying Zia Electoral reforms, elections to and Raphel had crashed. There the Wolesi Jirga and district coun- were no survivors. cils are other major parts of the There was initially some con- deal which are yet to be material- fusion in Washington about wheth- ized. er I was on the flight. The State The two-year deadline for Department had been told that holding a Loya Jirga is completing Raphel was the only American dip- on September 8, but there is no lomat on the plane. But given my indication from both the president appearance, they feared that the and the CEO to do so. Pakistani officials sorting through Addressing a press conference the wreckage had taken me for a here, NNF chief Anwarul Haq with current crisis. no plan to convene the Loya Jir- local and overlooked me. When the Ahadi said holding Wolesi Jirga AT News Report Masoud said that based on a ga,” he noted. “The people, tribal elections and implementing re- State Department finally tracked political agreement, the term of the elders, political figures and civil so- me down, Armacost asked me to forms in the election system were so-called national unity govern- cieties should raise voice and put not possible until September 8 as ment has been completed, calling pressure on the government to stay behind and write an assess- ment for the situation for Shultz. inant force in post-Soviet Afghan- of the Muslim Brotherhood. the unity government was faced its continuation “illegal”. convene the Loya Jirga in the next istan. I even argued that the Unit- Sayyaf was an adherent of the with several other challenges. “We have to seek ways to le- two months.” He said that the The atmosphere was tense. Conspiracy theories about the ed States and the Soviets could Wahhabi ideology centered in Sau- He asked the government to galize the government,” he said. Americans also feel scared that the work together to empower mod- di Arabia. convene a grand meeting of politi- Masoud said that “the govern- Loya Jirga might ask for the dis- crash abounded. I shared the wide- ment cannot cheat public anymore solve Bilateral Security Agreement spread fear that Zia’s death would erate Afghan at a time when both Traditionalists comprised the cians and influential personalities had considerable influence with other major set of Pakistan-based because the unity government deal and breach laws.” The government (BSA). He said that that all for- unravel Pakistan. However with leaders had committed to bring re- eigners are not against Loya Jirga. U.S. encouragement, elections the resistance. anti-Soviet groups. They were could not give legitimacy to the forms in electoral bodies, eliminate He urged all foreigners particular- The Peshawar-based funda- drawn from the pre-war elite. Some currently setup. corruption and specify fate of Ex- ly American to not feel scary for were held, and Benazir Bhutto “We are not in favor of chaos, emerged victorious. mentalists advocated the establish- advocated a role for the former king ecutive Office within two years, running Jirga, because Afghan peo- ment of a “new” political sys- Zahir Shah, who was living in exile but to give the current government KABUL: As the National Unity but it failed to fulfill its commit- ple are wondering to have mutual At this point, with the Sovi- legitimacy, for which calling a meet- ets on their way out of Afghani- tem—a Sunni version of Iran’s Shia in Italy. Government (NUG) stepped into ments, he added. If we do not call relation as well respect to foreign- theocratic regime. The largest Af- They were Afghan national- ing of politicians and influential the third year, leaders have failed the traditional Loya Jirga, the coun- ers and foreign countries. He said stan, the United States needed to personalities is mandatory,” the to fulfill commitments. try will face further security, eco- that running of traditional Loya plan for a new government in Kab- ghan fundamentalist groups were ists and called openly for support former minister believed. No gov- A tribal elder and former ad- nomic and political challenges, he Jirga is not a step to collapse cur- ul. I wanted to find a way to en- under the leadership of Hekmat- from the West. At the domestic ernment official could be reached viser to the president, Shahzada claimed. He accused the leaders rent regime, but it could be a pres- sure that extremist leaders in the yar, Khalis, Burhanuddin Rabbani, level, they favored a multiparty for comments about Ahadi’s re- Masoud, called on the government of the country of sabotaging the sure to force government to rein- and Sayyaf. Khalis, Rabbani, and system. Loya Jirga. “The government has force law in proper manner. Afghan resistance, backed by Pa- marks despite efforts. (Pajhwok) to convene the Loya Jirga to cope kistan, would not become the dom- Hekmatyar looked to the ideology To be continued