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Ghazni Kandahar Jalalabad Clear Clear Clear Mazar Clear Herat Clear Bamayan Chance Kabul Clear Daily of Rain Outlook 38°C 26°C 38°C 35°C 34°C 19°C 28°C Weather 22°C °C °C 22°C 11°C 20°C 18 6 13°C Forcast 34 Suicide Attempts Registered in 30 MPs Stage Walkout Jawzjan Last Year SHEBERGHAN - Local officials in Jawzjan said Saturday at least 34 women, girls and young men attempted suicide in Darz Aab district in the province through the solar year 1394 (March 2015-March 2016). KABULover - More than two dozens TUTAP Project Routeprovince, but a number of people Darz Aab district chief Rahmatullah Hashr of lawmakers on Saturday staged have stressed the scheme should said of those who attempted suicide, 14 died a walkout from the Wolesi Jirga pass through central Bamyan and 20 others were left disabled due to acid or lower house over the pro- province. burns and ...(More on P4)...(9) posed route of a trans-regional The issue was discussed in Wole- power import project, but others si Jirga today’s session. MP Mo- criticised the walkout. hammad Akbari from Bamyan 15 Militants Killed, 20 The Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan- said the government was ig- Wounded in Kandahar Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan noring people’s demands who (TUTAP) power project will im- wanted the project to be crossed and Ghor Airstrikes port 500kv of electricity from through Bamyan. KABUL - At least 15 militants were killed Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and He said he was leaving the ses- and 20 others were wounded in two separate Tajikistan to Pakistan through sion in support of implementing airstrikes in southern Kandahar and west- Afghanistan. the project through Bamyan. ern Ghor province. The Ministry of Defense The Ministry of Water and Ener- Other lawmakers also held simi- (MoD) said the airstrike in Ghor province gy (MoWE) has recommend the lar views and 30 of them left the was carried out in Pasaband district, leaving project be implemented through session. They said they would at least 7 militants dead and 5 others wound- Salang Pass crossing Baghlan not attend ...(More on P4)...(8) ed. ...(More on P4)...(10) US Disappointed Over More then 50 Schoolgirls Poisoned Pakistan, Afghanistan Denial of New Afghan TALOQAN - More than 50 schoolgirls were hospitalised on Face Shared Threat from Visa Extension Saturday after being ‘poisoned’ WASHINGTON - The Obama Administra- in their classrooms in northern Terrorist Networks: US tion on Friday expressed its disappointment Takhar province, an official said. WASHINGTON over decision of a Congressional panel to Provincial police spokesman, - Pakistan and Af- deny extension and authorisation of new Maj. Abdul Khalil Aseer, told ghanistan faced special categories visas for Afghans, an offi- Pajhwok Afghan News the in- shared threat from cial said. cident took place in Ahandara terrorist networks “The State Department is disappointed that area on the outskirts of Talo- and the United the Senate Armed Services Committee did qan city, the provincial capital, States want to see not extend or authorize new visas for the around 10am. improvement in Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program, He said 52 students of the Takhar Civil Hospital direc- Few days ago, several schoolgirls their dialogue and which enables Afghans who have worked Ahandara Girls’ School were tor Dr. Jamil Frotan confirmed fell ill in Rustaq district in a simi- cooperation against alongside US troops and its diplomats to seek taken to hospital by police after receiving 45 schoolgirls at the lar incident. their common enemy, a US Friday the United States con- refuge in the United States,” John Kirby, the falling ill. hospital. He said condition of There have been several in- State Department Spokesman tinues to see that Afghanistan State Department spokesman, said. A joint team of public health, the girls was stable. stances of girls being poisoned in has said. and Pakistan still face a shared Thousands of Afghans had performed this education and crime department Preliminary test results did not schools in recent years in Takhar Asked to comment on a re- threat from terrorist networks. vital work -- often at great personal risk and has been tasked with investigat- show any signs the girls had and other provinces, but the gov- ported statement by the Afghan Kirby’s remarks came a day many, as you also knew, had lost their lives ing the incident and the nature been poisoned by drinking wa- ernment has failed to identify the President, US State Department after an editorial in the New doing it,” he said. ...(More on P4)...(11) of poisoning, he said. ter, food or spray, he said. reasons. (Pajhwok) Spokesman John Kirby said on York ...(More on P4)...(12)