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up efforts for solution in order to reach real unity. International Re- "The bottom line is we're not going to surrender civilization lation Affairs Expert Dr. Latif Naz- ari said that differences in ideas to people who cannot win at the ballot box." must be accepted in order to insti- tutionalize democracy. Secretary of Defense James Mat- and stability to Afghanistan." And He said that censor of ideas tis appeared to break with the a year ago Ambassador Michele J. won’t solve the problem, govern- Obama administration's position Sison, the U.S. Deputy Represen- ment must learn how to accept and of the preceding eight years that tative to the United Nations, deal with it. there is "no military solution" to claimed that Secretary of State Pointing to foreign policy of the conflict in Afghanistan. At an Tillerson did not go as far as Mat- Afghanistan, he said that consid- appearance with Secretary of State tis on Monday, yet his answer to ering geopolitics and geo-culture Rex Tillerson and the Defense and a question on Afghanistan was location of Afghanistan, the gov- Foreign ministers of Australia, markedly different than the an- ernment must bring positive chang- Mattis said "they [the Taliban] use swers of his predecessors at the es in foreign policy in order to bombs, because ballots would en- State department. Tillerson framed avoid outsider effect and lead the sure they never had a role to play" the mission in that country as to country toward stability and de- This is an abrupt shift from "never allow Afghanistan to be- velopment. the previous administration's come a platform for terrorism to University Lecturer Dr. Ali AT News Report view. In 2011, then-secretary of operate from." Tillerson did not Akbar Fayaz said that Afghanistan State Hillary Clinton said there's even mention a "peace process" or is mostly depend on import, thus KABUL: Hamid Karzai, the "a very clear need to continue fight- a political settlement. Instead, he it is essential to focus over prod- former president, strongly con- ing those who would undermine said "this is really a question of uct and export to lead toward de- demned terrorist attack in the west- this progress. At the same time what is the end state and how do veloped economic. ern province of Herat, in which a though, we know that there is no we reach that end state." He said that economic devel- number of the civilians were mar- military solution to bringing peace (weeklystandard) opment will lead toward stability tyred and injured. and national unity. He called the attack as an anti- Government must concentrate Islamic act, adding that the attack on social integration and merge carried out by the enemies of peace ideas in order to embark toward in Afghanistan during the holy Statement of Kabul Process for stability, he added. month of Ramadan, points that AT News Report istan,” run by Foundation for access to stability and develop- Advisor of Chief Executive they (terrorists) have no respect Peace and Security Cooperation Peace and National Solidarity ment,” Said Head of FPNS Aham- Office Fazel Daraie Sofi national to the Islamic values and they use (FPNS), Youth Citizens Civic Or- dullah Naweed. He said that lack any possible way to fulfill their On 6th of June 2017, Afghan gov- Afghanistan. KABUL: The civil society activ- unity is the most necessary for ernment hosted the first meeting 2- A stable Afghanistan enables ists and University lecturers on ganization (YCCO), Business of national unity is the main factor Afghanistan. foreign masters’ aims. Consultancy Service Company behind challenges and ongoing con- Karzai wished paradise for the of The Kabul Process for Peace a stable region. This can only be Wednesday expressed concerns He said that if we don’t have and Security Cooperation involv- achieved through an Afghan led and over current challenges, calling the (UZMAN) and AWTPEO, the flicts in the country. Today we unity, then there won’t be stabili- martyred and quick recovery for experts believed that without na- have National Unity Government the injured. ing 27 countries and organizations. Afghan-owned political process national unity as the only the rem- ty and development. They discussed threats of terror- with the full support of neighbors edy to overcome current crisis. tional unity achieving stability and (NUG), but still, but still bunch of We must keep unity and agree development is impossible in Af- challenges ahead of national unity, ism in Afghanistan, the region and and international partners, as dem- Addressing a press conference over differences, but through legal beyond, and measures to counter onstrated in the recent successful titled “national unity role in sta- ghanistan. “Without national uni- thus it is required of government and logical ways, not through war ty and solidarity we won’t have to recognize challenges and step In Ghazni, them, as well as peace and securi- peace deal with Hizb-e-Islami Hik- bility and development of Afghan- and violence, he underlined ty challenges that affect both Af- matyar. Taliban impose ghanistan and the wider region. 3-The participants called on all The Chairman summarizes the the armed groups to agree to a taxes on meeting as following: ceasefire and start peace talks with Selling of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan discuss 1-Meeting just after the hor- the Afghan Government immedi- shopkeepers rific acts of terror in Kabul that ately. ongoing electricity projects left hundreds of Afghan civilians 4-The region will take a united illegal SIM GHAZNI CITY: Residents allege dead and wounded, this gathering approach against those who refuse is a powerful signal of solidarity to join the political process and KABUL : Energy and Water Min- province was finalised, the state- Shiberghan-Pul-i-Khumri route Taliban have imposed taxes on some shops, worrying the vendors with the Government of Afghani- continue to provide the ground for Cards ister Ali Ahmad Usmani during his ment said. and the electricity supply project stan and its people in its fight foreign terrorists to operate in Af- trip to Turkmenistan held talks The meeting also discussed the of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and of southern Ghazni province. The insurgents confirm the claim. against terrorism and in its effort ghanistan. In addition, Participants with his Turkmen counterpart on latest condition of electricity Pakistan (TAP) via Heart-Kanda- and aspiration to achieve peace. All support all ANDSF efforts to de- mountains the sideline of Energy Charter projects in Afghanistan’s north- har route. In addition to the above Bismillah, hailing from Ali Kala area on the outskirts of participants strongly condemn fend the people of Afghanistan and meeting, a statement from the Min- western part. These projects in- issues, both sides have decided to these heinous acts of violence and combat all terrorist threatsý that istry of Energy and Water said on cluded increasing the voltage of provide reformative suggestions in Ghazni City, told Pajhwok Afghan in Takhar News the Taliban had imposed all forms of terrorism that under- affect the international Wednesday. electricity to Heart province via the contract made for electricity mine the prospects for peace in community...P2 AT Monitoring Desk Six development projects com- the Sarhadabad route of Turkmen- trade between the two countries 5,000 to 10,000 Pakistani rupees ing from Turkmenistan had been istan, distribution of electricity to and would be made ready to be in annual tax on shopkeepers. KABUL: The Afghanistan Tele- discussed during the meeting while parts of Badghis and Jawzjan signed by the higher authorities “The Taliban come here to com Regulatory Authority the import of electricity to Badghis provinces, electricity import on from both neighbors. (Pajhwok) collect money from shopkeepers. (ATRA) reports of an increase of If anyone refuses to pay, the mil- the illegal SIM cards sale in north- itants beat him,” he said, asking ern Takhar province, saying they for a cut in the tax rate for shops. are used in various criminal activi- He argued the whole invest- ties. In an exclusive interview with ment of a shopkeeper was less Pajhwok Afghan News, the ATRA than 20,000 Pakistani rupees and head for Takhar Qayamuddin paying a high tax was beyond him. Weqar was worried about the num- Rahmatullah, a resident of the ber of illegal SIM cards that had Zara Kala village of Andar district, AT Monitoring Desk thanked the Ministry of Public been rapidly increased in the prov- said the Taliban had slapped an Health (MoPH) for its hard work ince. Based on law, he said only annual tax on shopkeepers in his KABUL: The Saudi Arabia donat- in order to improve health facili- area. Those irrigating their farm- ed four ambulances worth 10 mil- ties and standards. He also thanks authorized dealers can sold and lands through solar pumps were purchase the SIM cards authorized lion Afghanis in order to provide and appreciated the Saudi govern- also tazed, he added. friendly assistance to the public ment for providing assistance in dealers, explaining the cards had “Taliban have been collecting be activated within 24 hours of health department of eastern Nan- field of health to Nangarhar prov- money from landowners who own garhar province, an official said on ince. purchase. “But it is not the case in solar systems since three years, Takhar, where SIM cards are pre- Wednesday. He advised the public health they take 3,000 to 3,500 Pakistani According to the Director of department to be careful in using activated in violation of the rele- rupees from these people,” he vant rule. Such cards are used for Nangarhar’s public health, Dr. Na- and maintenance of the ambulanc- said. A person who refused to pay jeebullah Kamawal, the ambulanc- es. Moreover, the head of provin- kidnapping, threatening calls, mur- tax in this area was severely beat- dering and other crimes,” he argued. es are latest and have standard cial council, Ahmad Ali Hazrat en up by Taliban militants, he said. equipments. made a demand and emphasized Moreover, he revealed a joint facts A tribal elder from Ghazni city, and finding commission, having Addressing to the reception on the Health Ministry to provide Haji Abdul Manan, said that be- ceremony, Kamawal said the Sau- tens of more ambulances to Nan- representation from the ATRA, sides Ghazni city, the Taliban were police headquarter, attorney office di support for providing ambulanc- garhar province, aimed at meeting collecting tax from many other es would resolve many problems the requirements of patients. and intelligence office has been ini- areas of province. He criticized the tiated to probe and resolve the said of health department in the prov- According the provincial Taliban, saying the financial situ- ince, adding these ambulances health department, at the moment issue. “Despite these measures, ation of Ghazni people was not SIM cards are still sold illegally in would be used during emergency all the districts of Nangarhar in- good enough to pay illegal levies. situations in the premises of the the city,” he complained, saying cluding Jalalabad have ambulance Former President, Hamid Karzai met Wednesday with Russian Federation He urged residents to rise against capital city including districts of service and in addition to that the they are needed for proper coop- illegal activities of the militants. the province. eration of telecom companies in department is struggling to improve Ambassador to Kabul, Alexander Mantytskiy, discussing current situation and (Pajhwok) The provincial governor Mo- it more like ambulance service in order to overcome the problem. the peace process of Afghanistan. hammad Gulab Mangal has Kabul. THURSDAY .JUNE 08 , 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Ashgabat ‘Energy Charter Forum’ discusses reliable, stable transit of energy U.S. invaded Afghanistan to end Taliban rule and flush out al-Qai- da, the mountainous regions along ASHGABAT: The Energy Char- Minister of Energy and Water, Ali the Afghan-Pakistani border are ter Forum was held in Ashgabat, Ahmad Usmani, Minister of En- still home to an array of extremist the capital of Turkmenistan on ergy and Mineral Development of groups. Pakistan's spy service is May 30 and 31, 2017, the country Uganda, Irene Muloni, Secretary said to have connections to some, which is known for its large gas General of the International Ener- including the Afghan Taliban, even reserves and enjoying reputation gy Forum, Sun Xiansheng, Secre- as it battles other groups that as an island of stability in restive tary General of Economic Coop- threaten its own citizens. Central Asia. eration Organization, Halil Ibrahim The growing assertiveness of The forum was a microcosm Akça, Deputy minister of energy the Uzbek militants within the IS of how the global energy security and industry of Albania (Energy affiliate is particularly worrying. should be treated and managed — Charter chair in 2019), Deputy Uzbek fighters were so vicious – shared hopes and aspirations minister of energy of Belarus, in Pakistan's South Waziristan grappling incrementally with Vadim Zakrevskiy, Deputy min- province that they drove the ar- clashing chaos and doubts. ister of energy of Georgia, Depu- ea's fractious tribesmen to unite to The theme of the Forum, the ty minister of energy infrastruc- push them out in 2015. They then first major Energy Charter event tures and natural resources of Ar- based themselves in North under the chairmanship of Turk- menia, Hayk Harutyunyan, Dep- Waziristan before being driven menistan, was ‘Towards a Multi- uty minister of energy of Iran, across the border by a Pakistani lateral Framework Agreement on Head of Division, Oil & Gas Mar- military offensive. They have since Transit of Energy Resources.’ kets, Crisis Prevention, Federal clashed with the Taliban in differ- Urban Rusnak, the secretary Ministry of Economic Affairs of ent parts of Afghanistan and general of the Energy Charter or- Germany, Stefan Rolle, General claimed responsibility for brazen ganization, who inaugurated the Manager of CNPC branch office and deadly attacks in Kabul, in- inaugural session, said the devel- in Ashgabat, Deng Minmin and the cluding a daytime assault and siege opment of new procedures for the Representative of OSCE. of an Afghan military hospital that supply of energy resources to the Congratulating Turkmenistan killed 50 people earlier this year. world markets would serve the and country’s president Gurban- Arkady Dubnov, a Moscow- best interests of the producing guly Berdimuhammedov for suc- based expert on Central Asian mil- countries, the consumers and the cessful hosting of the Internation- itants, says the Uzbeks' reputa- transit countries. al Energy Charter Conference in tion for brutality is likely rooted He mentioned that in the light Ashgabat, Minister Ali Ahmad in the fact that they are "aliens" in of two UN resolutions initiated by Osmani hinted to Afghanistan’s much of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Turkmenistan “On Reliable and energy situation, adding Afghani- which are dominated by other eth- Stable Transit of Energy Resourc- stan had enough experiences of nic groups. es and its Role in Provision of Sus- importing its required energy from That may also explain their tainable Development and Inter- the neighboring central Asian coun- tensions with the Afghan Taliban. national Cooperation” consider- tries. He pointed to currency rates While both IS and the Taliban are able work had been done already [when Afghanis loses value against determined to overthrow the Af- for streamlining the energy transit USD] and increase in price of the ghan government and impose a issues and mechanisms. energy when the demand is high harsh version of Islamic law, the In the context, he said that the during the winter as the main chal- In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 file photo, security forces stand next to a crater created by a massive explosion, that killed over 150 former views itself as part of a glo- Energy Charter and Turkmenistan lenges, asking the Energy Charter bal movement, while the latter con- according to the Afghan president, in front of the German Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. A letter drafted by a senior Islamic State were working closely together. member countries to consider such fines its operations to Afghanistan. Four international meetings of the points while doing cross border militant and obtained by The Associated Press points to a growing power struggle within the group’s Afghan affiliate, pitting notori- Dubnov also noted that the son experts were organized for joint transport and transit of the ener- ously fierce Uzbek fighters against Pakistanis seen as too close to that country’s powerful intelligence service. of Tahir Yuldashev, the powerful solution of the issues of reliable gy. Uzbek leader of the outlawed Is- and stable transport of energy car- Minister Osmani also empha- lamic Movement of Uzbekistan, riers in Ashgabat in December sized on implementation of TAPI ISLAMABAD: A letter drafted Asian states. It has pledged alle- "Even if this information is people familiar with the meeting, who was killed in a U.S. missile 2014, in Brussels in April 2015, in and CASA 100 projects, saying by a senior Islamic State militant giance to the IS group in Iraq and true, then it's the ISI of Pakistan which was said to have been at- strike in Pakistan in 2009, is lead- Beijing in November 2015 and in the implementation of the projects and obtained by The Associated Syria but consists mainly of dis- behind this function and we don't tended by 40 senior IS command- ing efforts to help expand IS influ- Tirana in June 2016. to bring security and stability in Press points to a growing power gruntled former Taliban and other accept it, because we all fight for ers. ence in Afghanistan. Urban Rusnak noted that the the region as well as would create struggle within the group's Afghan insurgents from South and Central Allah and his religion," the letter The council appointed Saif-ul Central Asian fighters are now Energy Charter’s goal is to pro- employment opportunities. affiliate, pitting notoriously fierce Asia. says, warning against "infidels, in- Islam, a close Pakistani ally of a key pillar of support for the IS vide safe, unstoppable and unin- The opening session was fol- Uzbek fighters against Pakistanis The letter, obtained by a jiha- telligence services and the deceit- Saeed, as the new leader. With the affiliate, according to Anatol terrupted transit with more effi- lowed by three main sessions on seen as too close to that country's di fighter with ties to the IS affili- ful" acting from "behind the many names used by insurgents it Lieven, a regional expert at Geor- cient use of the infrastructure. He “Natural Gas Markets: cross-bor- powerful intelligence service. ate and then provided to AP, was scenes." wasn't immediately clear if Aslam getown University's Qatar cam- highlighted the importance of the der transport and transit”, “In- The rumblings of discontent signed by Moawiya Uzbekistani, Militants belonging to allied Farouqi and Saif-ul Islam were the pus. "They have been encouraged development of clear rules for fa- creasing role of LNG in global en- come as the IS affiliate, which re- the apparent nom de guerre of an groups said Central Asian fighters same person. Sheikh Abdul Qadir to move to IS because of the long- cilitation and provision of the safe- ergy security” and “Bringing oil to fers to itself as the Khorasan Prov- Uzbek militant, who claims to as well as Afghans want the lead- Khorasani, an Afghan from the standing Taliban declaration that ty of transit, support of the con- Market”. ince, is at war with both the U.S.- have become the leader of the IS ership of the group taken out of eastern Kunar province, was ap- they are not an international jihadi struction, expansion and modern- The representatives of coun- backed government and the more affiliate after the death of Abdul Pakistani hands, even though the pointed deputy, they said. The force," he said. "The estimates of ization of the infrastructure as well tries and international organiza- well-established Taliban, with Hasib, who was killed in a joint founder of IS in Afghanistan, Hafiz militants all spoke on condition of the number of Uzbeks, Tajiks, as the development of regulation tions noted the importance of in- which it differs on tactics, leader- U.S.-Afghan operation in April. Saeed Khan, was a Pakistani tribes- anonymity as they were not au- Turkmen and other fighters from mechanisms of disputes and emer- ternational energy cooperation for ship and ideology. Uzbekistani rejects reports man. Khan was killed in a U.S. thorized to brief reporters. the former U.S.S.R. living in Af- gency situations. achieving global energy security The IS affiliate emerged in that another fighter, who he iden- drone strike in July 2016. There has been no official IS ghanistan that I heard ranged from Meanwhile, Maksat Babayev, and implementing the sustainable 2014 and refers to itself as the tifies as Sheikh Aslam Farouqi, has The rift seemed to widen with confirmation of a new leader and 6,000 to 25,000," said Lieven add- the deputy prime minister of Turk- development goals. It was also Khorasan Province, an ancient been chosen to lead the group and a recent IS meeting in Pakistan's in Washington intelligence officials ing many have intermarried with menistan for the oil and gas sector, pointed out that the transit of en- term for an area that includes parts suggests Pakistan's Inter-Services Orakzai tribal belt, from where refused to comment. Afghans of a similar ethnic back- said that reliability and security of ergy carriers, which necessarily of Afghanistan, Iran and Central Intelligence is behind the rumors. Khan originates, according to two More than 16 years after the ground. (AP) international energy flows and le- includes the issues of transporta- gal protection of energy supply tion and condition for infrastruc- routes are of increasingly crucial tures access, is one of the most importance. The need is obvious important elements of the entire for developing generally accept- interconnected chain of energy able, universal approaches to the supplies to international markets. problem, and clear and unchanging The different sessions high- guidelines for the relationship be- lighted the issue of trade, trans- tween the suppliers, transit par- portation and transit of natural and ties and consumers of energy re- liquefied gas, oil and electricity. sources. These sessions also focused the He said that Turkmenistan complexity of ensuring the securi- was fully committed to the close ty of energy transit and empha- collaboration with the Energy sized the need for clear and con- Not often do we see teams getting When: West Indies vs Afghan- Evin Lewis, Jason Mohammed, Charter partners under clearly de- sistent principles of multilateral bowled out twice in a row in Twen- istan, 3rd T20I, June 3, 2017 at Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Rov- Statement of Kabul fined principles, and primarily the cooperation among the partici- ty20 cricket. Afghanistan, who 19:30 local time, 05:00 AM IST man Powell, Marlon Samuels, principle of freedom of transit. pants, as it is often observed that entered the Caribbean islands for Where: Warner Park, Basse- Lendl Simmons, Jerome Taylor, For Turkmenistan, as a sup- the participants in the process the first time to play a bilateral terre, St Kitts Chadwick Walton, Kesrick Will- Process for Peace ... plier that holds the key position tend to pursue their own particu- series, had to endure the ignominy What to expect: Even though iams on the Central Asian crossroads of lar interests. of losing 20 wickets in two match- the previous game was curtailed Afghanistan The visitors al- ...P1 5-The participants reaffirmed that a meaningful effort to counter trade and transport routes and a The speakers also noted that es in the game's shortest format. by rain, fans can expect to see a ready made some changes for the terrorism and establish peace in Afghanistan and the region is through country that initiates several ma- there issues related to the practi- Needless to say, they lost both the full game this time around at St second game following the heavy genuine state-to-state cooperation and regional mechanisms. jor international and regional ener- cal feasibility of investments, non- matches by a fair margin to con- Kitts as the weather appears to be defeat in the first. Expect them to 6-As stated in UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy as a measure gy projects, energy security and discriminatory access to the infra- cede the series to the world cham- pleasant. make more in this dead rubber. to prevent and combat terrorism, it was emphasized that states must stable transit of energy resources structure and general pricing prin- pions. There is still plenty to play Team News: Squad: Asghar Stanikzai(c), “refrain from organizing, instigating, facilitating, participating in financ- are strategic issues, he said. ciples using existing infrastruc- for in the third T20I though, as an West Indies Amir Hamza, Dawlat Zadran, Fa- ing, encouraging or tolerating terrorist activities and to take appropriate Babayev said that international tures. The creation of an interna- improved batting performance will The team management might reed Ahmad, Gulbadin Naib, Jav- practical measures to ensure that our respective territories are not used cooperation in the sphere of ener- tional legally, binding transit regime keep them in good stead for the not be tempted to give Pollard a go ed Ahmadi, Karim Janat, Moham- for terrorist installations or training camps, or for the preparation or gy is among priority issues for for cross-border transportation of upcoming three-match One-Day with the series already wrapped mad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, organization of terrorist acts intended to be committed by other states Turkmenistan that initiated two natural gas, electricity and oil is a International series. up, so the batting order is expect- Noor Ali Zadran, Rashid Khan, or their citizens.” UN General Assembly resolutions complex test. It was emphasized In both contests, the top or- ed to remain the same. Beaton is Samiullah Shenwari, Shafiqullah 7-Terrorism and violent extremism are an assault on our common on “Reliable and stable transit of that the development of a single der and the middle order came a all set to make his debut in inter- Shafiq, Shapoor Zadran, Usman humanity. Too many lives have been lost to the violence of extremists, energy and its role in ensuring sus- legally binding instrument on tran- cropper, which will worry the vis- national cricket. Ghani, Afsar Zazai, Naveen-ul- terrorists, and those who support them. While some countries bear a tainable development and interna- sit depends on the political will of itors going into this clash on Mon- Squad: Carlos Brathwaite(c), Haq, Sharafuddin Ashraf greater human cost from this threat, it directly undermines the security tional cooperation”. Turkmenistan the international energy charter day (June 5). Skipper Asghar Stan- Samuel Badree, Ronsford Beaton, (cricbuzz) and stability of the region and the world, and challenges the prospects promotes these initiatives in inter- member countries. The partici- ikzai will be keen to lead from the for peace in Afghanistan. Joint and concerted efforts by all countries national organizations: the UN, the pants of the Forum include the front with a decent outing and if are needed to address the challenges of terrorism, dismantle terrorist OSCE and the Energy Charter delegations of the Energy Charter fellow senior statesmen like Sami- infrastructure, and disrupt all financial and tactical support provided Conference of which the country member countries from Albania, ullah Shenwari and Mohammad by states, criminal networks and individuals. has been a full-fledged member Austria, Armenia, Afghanistan, Nabi can contribute in the middle 8-United by a common desire to bring long-term peace, stability since 1997, he said. Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, overs and at the death, then the and prosperity, despite this threat, participants strongly support Af- In a video address, Maros Sef- Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Afghans can come up with a fight- ghanistan’s vision for an Afghan led, Afghan-owned peace process as covic, the Vice President of the Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Ro- ing total. Rashid Khan, who saved articulated by the President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, European Commission, said that mania, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Tur- them in the first game with the bat at the meeting. The vision underlines the principles of equality, plural- shortly the Caspian and Central key, Ukraine and Japan as well as when the side was tottering at 58 ism, and inclusiveness, as a foundation for a national peace process. Asian Region and the European observing countries like USA, In- for 8, will once again be the lynch- This requires a positive consensus based on constructive state-to-state Union would develop beneficial dia, Iran, China, Italy, the Repub- pin. West Indies have been cau- relations to build trust operating under a properly defined regionally cooperation in different spheres, lic of Korea, Pakistan, Senegal, tious against him whenever he has and internationally agreed mechanism to strengthen counter terrorism including energy. Uganda, and Yemen. There were come out to bowl, but a bigger tar- and security cooperation, which would create space for joint efforts to Sefcovic praised the signing of also representatives from the UN- get might force them to take some establish peace. Ashgabat declaration on outcomes ECE, EU, ECO, OIC, USAID, the chances against the leggie. 9-While individual efforts by stakeholders to promote peace and of quadrilateral meeting – EU-Az- World Bank, ADB, EBRD as well The hosts will also be looking stability are helpful, success can only be achieved through a unified and erbaijan, Turkey-Turkmenistan, as major oil and gas companies like to hand seamer Ronsford Beaton a close coordination of efforts under Afghan the Government’s steward- which had set the foundations for CNPC and British Petroleum. At debut with the series already ship of the peace process. creation of special working group the end the participants of the vent wrapped up. With Kesrick Will- 10-A stable Afghanistan is more valuable than an Afghanistan at of these countries with participa- highly appreciated the efforts of iams enjoying two good outings, war. As stated by Chief Executive, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, such stabil- tion of Georgia. He congratulated the government of Turkmenistan the team management could likely ity will enable greater connectivity across the region and the develop- Turkmenistan with completion of and the International Energy Char- draft Beaton into the XI in place ment of integrated approaches to transport, energy, economics, and project of East-West pipeline and ter to promote a multilateral in- of a spinner. Kieron Pollard, who trade, generating prosperity and enhancing social, cultural and political ongoing work on TAPI. strument on energy transit with a didn't feature in the two games with cohesion for the people of the region. In addition to the secretary view to achieve a balance of inter- a flu, might continue to sit out as 11-An overarching Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process will pro- general and the chair of Energy est of exporting countries, con- well. Afghanistan on the other hand, vide the forum to take stock of, and reinforce, other Afghan-related Charter, the inaugural session was sumers and transit countries and have plenty of options up their ýinitiatives in the areas of peace, security, and regional connectivity. We addressed by the state minister of express gratitude to the government sleeve and are expected to tinker appreciate the ongoing international efforts for promoting peace and energy of Romania (coming chair and the president of Turkmenistan around with their combination stability in Afghanistan. It was decided to meet again, in configurations 2018), ambassador of Japan to Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov once again having arrived at the within this format, to follow up on the ideas and proposals generated Turkmenistan, Takahiko Kat- personally for the support provid- shores with an 18-man squad. by this meeting and to pursue concrete actions to foster peace and sumata (Japan was chair of Ener- ed for Ashgabat International En- stability in Afghanistan and region. gy Charter in 2016), Afghanistan’s ergy Charter Forum. (BNA) THURSDAY .JUNE 08 , 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghan children the future builders, but long way to be

EMERGENCY CALLS Police area to get his application stamped and signed by a local elder (malik) 100 - 119 called wakeel guzar. After approval from local el- der, the statistics department re- Hospitals fers the applicant to the depart- ment from where he could get the FMIC Hospital NIC. Behind Kabul Medical Razia, 45, from Yakawalang Under the Taliban regime, University: district, came to Bamyan City Indeed, Afghan children are sub- jected to extreme poverty and vio- thousands of Afghans under the age from Kabul to get her NIC. She 0202500200-+93793275595 told Pajhwok Afghan News she lence on a daily basis. Their situa- of 18 were enrolled in terrorist tion is in fact critical: child mortal- groups, in one way or another. needed the document to get pass- ity, malnutrition, forced marriag- They were first “brain washed”, Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital port. She has been in Yakawalang es, sexual abuse… then given training on the handling for the past three days to get her Pule Bagh-e- Umomi Almost one half of the Afghan of weapons, and finally sent to tazkira, but in vain. population (46%) lives below the war. Certain children, barely 6 070263672 She said two local people with poverty line. According to UN sta- years of age, were even used as government jobs were needed as tistics, Afghanistan is the second child suicide bombers. references. “I have been living in poorest country in the world. The In the beginning of 2011, Af- Khairkhana Hospital Kabul for the past 30 years and did not know governmental em- gross national income per citizen ghanistan signed an agreement 0799-321007 ployees here who could I use as equals 370 dollars per year. By with the United Nations to stop way of example, a judge or a teach- the recruitment of children into the 2401352 reference in my application. er earns about 50 dollars per national police; after it was includ- Hussain Dad Ahmadi, head of month. ed in the blacklist of the UNO since Mujma, said at meetings with civil The child mortality rate is par- 2010. Thus the government takes Indira Gandhi Children society activists they had ascer- ticularly high in Afghanistan and, the first step in an important pro- tained viewpoints on the issuance Hospital, Wazir Akbar according to international records, cess which could soon mark the of 12th class certificate and taz- Khan, Kabul 2301372 kira. They would convey the life expectancy at birth is consid- end of the era of child soldiers and ered to be the lowest. would help the already traumatized views to higher-ups in Kabul. Statistics show that 35% of excombatants to reintegrate into He said more than 10 points newborns are underweight. Even civilian life. Ibn-e- Seena BAMYAN CITY: Women from flung areas have no interest in ob- guzar. causing numerous issues to NIC- today, 87% of deliveries take place There are thousands of or- central Bamyan province have lost taining the document. The statis- After his approval, the munic- seeking women had been noted. Pul-e-Artan, Kabul in the pregnant mother’s home and phans in Afghanistan; this is, in their interest in applying for na- tics department has taken no mea- ipality district sends the applica- These points would be shared with usually with no proper medical fact, a direct consequence of the 2100359 tional identity cards (NICs) -- lo- sure to facilitate or encourage wom- tion back to the governor’s house, the departments concerned, he assistance. This is so because in armed conflict which ravaged the cally known as tazkira -- due to en,” she alleged. where the NIC is delivered. The promised. the highly patriarchal Afghan so- country. Nevertheless, only a very the lack of awareness and the com- Haleema Rezaee, a civil soci- applicant should have the follow- The Shuhada Organisation has Wazir Akbar Khan ciety women do not often get per- few children are left to their own plex process they have to go ety activist, said in some cases men ing documents while applying for already launched a programme to mission to leave their home, even devices since the Afghan culture, Hospital through. did not want their women to get NIC at the district level: facilitate the procedures for obtain- to go to the hospital. Therefore, 1 mainly based on Muslim princi- Sughra Attaee, head of the Af- NICs and considered it an unnec- NIC of father or any family ing the 12th class certificate and 2301741, 2301743 woman out of 8 dies during deliv- ples, makes it obligatory for Af- ghan Women Network (AWN), told essary exercise. member; four passport-size pho- NIC. ery. ghans to help children in need. Pajhwok Afghan News that Bam- Process for getting NIC: tographs and the prescribed appli- Mohammad Hakim Fahim, di- A very limited number of hos- Thus, orphans are generally taken yan women above 40 did not have A tazkira-seeking individual cation form. rector of the programme, said their Ali Abad pitals exist in Afghanistan. Some- in by members of the family or the NIC as they did not need it. has to apply to the governor’s of- Getting NIC at district level: objective was to simplify the pro- times, one would have to travel certain others in the village. Shahrara, Kabul The women working in govern- fice, from the applicant is referred The applicant has to write the cess for getting tazkira and 12th across hundreds of kilometers to Unfortunately, some “adop- ment departments and students to the municipality district where district name in the application. class certificate. The initiative is 2100439 reach one of these hospitals. Fur- tive parents” treat these children apply for the document. he/she lives. The municipality dis- The district chief refers his appli- jointly supported by the Democ- thermore, the medical officers lack as if they were little slaves. Some- “Since it takes days getting trict refers the application to the cation to the statistics department, racy International (DI) and Shu- proper training and appropriate times the orphans are discriminat- tazkira. Many women from far- elected member called wakeel-i- which sends the applicant to his hada Organisation. (Pajhwok) Malalai Maternity equipment. ed amidst the guardian’s own chil- In addition, approximately dren and their education is given Hospital 70% of the population does not secondary attention. 2201377/ 2301743 have access to drinking water, One can frequently observe a which in turn results in a lot of very strong desire towards em- health problems, especially among ployment by an orphaned child Banks the younger children. just in order to “pay back” his Education: adoptive family as a mark of grat- Da Afghanistan Bank Today, only around 60% of itude. It is necessary to create or- Afghan children are sent to schools ganizations which would allow the 2100302, 2100303 and only 28% of the adult popula- children access to education and tion is literate. In addition, the ed- which would also listen to them in Bakhtar Bank ucation system is lacking infra- an appropriate manner, providing 0776777000 structure. In Kabul the number of proper care. A national plan for the KABUL: Afghanistan beat students in some classes rises up protection of the child has already Azizi Bank Maldives in a football match by 2- to 60. been launched to improve the sit- 1 played in United Arab Emirate Afghanistan also holds the uation. 0799 700900 (UAE), the Afghanistan Football saddening record of being the coun- The presence of numerous Pashtany Bank Federation (AFF) said on try which has the highest number land mines in Afghanistan still re- Wednesday.AFF spokesman, of terrorist attacks aimed at sults in regular accidents, some- 2102908, 2103868 Syed Kazami, told Pajhwok Af- schools, at girls schools in partic- times even fatal ones, especially ghan News the friendly match was ular. Even though the abolition of among the very young who often Air Services played in Dobai city on Tuesday the Taliban has made way for chil- fail to recognize such sites. Many night. dren to go back to school, progress Afghan children are handicapped One minute silence was ob- has yet to be made when it comes due to land mine explosions. Safi Airways served before the start of the match to ensuring the security of students Awareness campaigns and land 020 22 22 222 to pay respect for the victims of and guaranteeing the right to edu- mine clearance programs have been recent bombing in Kabul, he said. cation of every Afghan child. put in place by the government as Ariana Afghan players put a great Child labor well as by certain NGOs. Their show by scoring two goals in the In Afghanistan, around 20% of objective is to free Afghan soil of 020-2100270 match ensuring their victory children are expected to work in landmines by the year 2013. against the Maldives. order to provide for themselves Between 2000 and 2009, al- Hassan Amin and Omaid Po- and for their family. Street ven- most 40% of young women, when Kam Air palzai scored one goal each for dors, water carriers, cardboard col- interviewed, confided that they 0799974422 Afghanistan in the game, said Ka- lectors, shoe polishers, taxi solici- were given in marriage before the zami. He added the match was part tors, domestic servants, assistants age of 18. These early marriages Hotels of qualification round for the Asia in boutiques, are the kind of odd could result in serious health prob- Cup. Afghanistan will play against jobs done by Afghan children. lems among young women, espe- Safi Landmark Cambodia in the next encounter. The child plays an important cially when these young women (Pajhwok) economic role in the Afghan fami- are not yet ready to go through the 020-2203131 ly structure, mainly because the experience of pregnancy. little money earned by their par- Only 6% of births are official- SERENA ents is hardly enough to feed the ly recorded in Afghanistan. As a hungry mouths in the family. Ad- result the majority of Afghan chil- 0799654000 Atta Noor calls on govt to ditionally, due to cultural practic- dren have neither an official iden- es, Afghan mothers rarely choose tity nor a nationality. They are in- to seek employment outside their visible in the eyes of society. New Rumi Restaurant homes. In this situation, the fami- This is particularly problem- 0776351347 ly relies upon the economic con- atic for Afghan children who are consider Jamiat's demands tribution of the child, even if it refugees after having fled the war. means the child is left begging on In refugee camps located in Paki- Internet Services the streets. stan or in Iran the number of child UA Telecom Atta Mohammad Noor, the gov- of the incumbent government is The consequences which fol- refugees can be up to 1.5 million. 0796701701 / 0796702702 ernor of northern Balkh province that it should not collide with the low their obligation to work are These children find their status il- who also serves as the chief execu- people. People have sacrificed and indeed tragic: absence of education, legal and thus they are not entitled tive of Jamiat-e-Islami party, on have been martyred in Wednes- police violence and disease linked to any sort of a civil right as a cit- Exchange Rate Tuesday said government should day’s incident, they were shot on to pollution and to the drastically izen in the country because they not ignore public protests and the Friday and the perpetrators (of the changing climate (In summer the do not have an official legal exist- 1.00 USD demands of the Jamiat party re- shooting) are clear, whoever has temperature goes as high as 40°C ence. 67.60AFN garding national issues. done this is clear, whether it is done or more and in winter the temper- The Afghan criminal law does He also reiterated his support by Kabul Garrison, or if it is or- ature could go down to -20°C) not differentiate between major to Jamiat's demands issued Mon- dered by PPS (president’s special Young Afghans are often made crimes and minor offences. Despite 1000.00 IRR day and stressed the need for the guards), or if it is ordered by guards victims of violence. In 2009, the penal code for persons under prosecution of those who opened of someone else. In this case, I ad- around 250 children were killed the age of 18, adapted in the year 17.90AFN fire on protestors on Friday. vise government not to test the during terrorist attacks. 2005, in practice there is no alter- He said that the suicide attack people’s anger - it should not test Moreover, many among them native to prison for a child offend- at the funeral ceremony of the son the people’s anger,” he said in a are victims of sexual abuse. About er. 1.00 UAE of senator Mohammad Alam Eza- video message on Tuesday. 1,500 incidents are recorded each This is in fact contrary to the 18.40AFN dyar had been a plan to assassi- According to Noor, the sign- year; unfortunately, the majority article 40 of the International Con- nate the entire leadership of Jami- ing of the Bilateral Security Agree- of the victims do not dare to reveal vention of the Rights of the Child at party. ment (BSA) with the US and the the unpleasant experiences they (CRC). 1.00 EUR Noor also rejected the remarks peace accord with Gulbuddin Hek- peace meeting that no one should defense and interior as well as the have gone through. Furthermore, Yet owing to the work done 74.20AFN by the presidential palace that na- matyar-led Hizb-e-Islami clarifies ignore the protests by the people national directorate of security, most often the perpetrators are not by numerous ONGs, progress can tional security advisor Moham- that Atmar had executive authori- “Principally, the post (national especially key posts - if they are taken to courts due to political rea- be observed in some regions. The mad Haneef Atmar had no execu- ties. security advisor post) is a plan not filtered by Mr. (Haneef) At- sons (former war lords or mem- legal system should, however, go 1000.00 INR tive authorities and said that no Meanwhile, Abdullah Abdul- making and advising post; it is not mar or if they are confirmed by bers of the government, corruption, through a general improvement in 1030.00AFN one is hired in security institutions lah, the Chief Executive Officer an executive post, but all activities him (Atmar),” he stated. Noor etc). Only a serious change in atti- order to attain a state where child without the appointment being (CEO) of the National Unity Gov- of the post have been executive. called on CEO Abdullah to stand tude would save the Afghan chil- rights are considered more impor- approved by Atmar. ernment (NUG), said in closing to There is no possibility of military alongside the people and honor the dren from being considered as ob- tant than in the present situation. 1000.00 PKR “My advice to the leadership the delegates at the Kabul Process appointments - from ministries of blood of the people. (ToloNews) jects prone to exploitation. (The Kabu Times) 635.00AFN THURSDAY. JUNE 08, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

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President of the Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba was elected origin candidates as the 40th prime minister of Ne- pal on Tuesday. Deuba was elected as the head of the government of Nepal in UK polls through parliament voting. "I an- nounce that respected member Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elect- ed to the post of Nepal's prime hit new high minister," House Speaker Onsari Gharti told the Parliament to loud LONDON: An 18-year-old Alev- standing for the Green Party in cheers. Deuba, 70, secured 388 el candidate, a scholar from Ja- Ashfield, is appearing for his A lev- votes to become the prime minis- davpur University who landed in el exam at 9am on Friday. “I'll make ter when 558 parliamentarians cast Britain in 2009 are among the many a brief appearance at the count,“ ballots in the prime minister elec- 'desi' faces on the ballot paper as he said. “I don't expect to win.“ tion. 170 parliamentarians voted UK votes on Thursday amidst one Rakib Ehsan at Royal Holloway against him. Deuba was the sole of the fiercest debates on immigra- University who specialises in eth- candidate in the election. The vet- tion and minority community in nic minority political attitudes, eran leader will be administered the decades. If a record number of 10 says that for British Indians, it's a oath of office and secrecy by Pres- Indian-origin candidates were elect- two-party race between Labour ident Bidhya Devi Bhandari at her ed to the British Parliament in and Tories. “It'll take many more official residence Sheetalnibas on 2015, the 2017 snap polls have an elections for the Lib Dems and Wednesday. The election came af- impressive number of 56 Indian- Greens to be players in the Asian ter Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal origin candidates contesting. community.“ Ehsan notes that Dahal resigned from the post on Defending comfortable mar- there “seems to be a huge transfer May 24. Deuba was elected chair- gins are the Indian-origin veterans, of votes from Labour,“ and that man of the Nepali Congress party including Priti Patel, Alok Sharma, the Conservatives are likely to win through Nepali Congress General Keith Vaz, Virendra Sharma and a large chunk of the Indian com- Convention in 2016. Shailesh Vara, all well-known MPs munities' votes. Within the Brit- (AP) with sizeable majorities. Though ish Asian population, Indians are Vaz was embroiled in a prostitu- more economically successful than tion and drugs scandal last year, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis and he is expected to retain his seat are more likely to be profession- Poor functioning with a large majority. Candidates als. Thus, the Conservatives ap- to watch on the night are Paul peal to them more, says Ehsan. Uppal, 49, Conservative nominee British Indians tended to vote La- in Wolverhampton South West. He bour in the 1960s and 70s because at government needs to overturn the 2015 major- of Labour's reputation for anti-dis- ity of just 801 votes to return to crimination and bringing out the the House of Commons as MP. It Race Relations Act, but as Indians will be Labour candidate Tanman- became economically better off, hospitals jeet Singh Dhesi's first time as MP they have tended to vote Conser- if he manages to keep the Slough vative, as in 2015. Labour leader seat, held by Labour's Fiona Mac- Jeremy Corbyn's criticism of taggart since 1997. Another Sikh Narendra Modi over the 2002 Rahul Gandhi is likely to replace Sonia Gandhi as the president of the Indian National with chances of winning is Kuldip Gujarat riots and on Kashmir has Congress in October this year, former minister Jairam Ramesh told a news channel. Singh Sahota, 66, a Labour local also apparently created the im- councillor contesting in Telford. A pression that Corbyn was “pro- win in Birmingham Edgbaston will moting the victimization of Mus- make Labour's Preet Kaur Gill the lims in India,“ says Ehsan, noting Congress vice president Rahul first Sikh woman MP in the House. that there's a “feeling that Labour Gandhi is likely to replace Sonia Among interesting debuts is is not taking Islamist extremism Gandhi as the president of the In- Rohit Dasgupta's, who moved to threat seriously as they're reliant dian National Congress in Octo- the UK in 2009 from his native on Muslim votes in inner cities.“ ber this year, former environment Kolkata. The Labour nominee is British Indians are able to minister Jairam Ramesh told a running in East Hampshire, a Tory swing the vote in many marginal news channel even as the Congress safe seat. The five Indian-origin seats, he says, a view echoed by Working Committee (CWC), in a candidates standing for UKIP are Jasvir Singh, founding chair of City meeting held on Tuesday, June 6, not expected to win any seats as Sikhs. “The ethnic minority vote decided to wrap up the internal most party supporters are expect- is greater than the majority's in 50 elections by October 15, 2017. "We ed to vote Conservative. The Green of the most marginal seats and are conscious of a need for a strong Party is also not expected to take could make all the difference,“ Private hospitals are extremely Another serious issue is the use opposition alliance. 2019 is not a any seats. The youngest Indian- Singh said. expensive and beyond the range of of fake medicines. In Pakistan, foregone conclusion. I'm not sure origin candidate, Arran Rangi, 18, (Hindustan Times) the average person and are only many people die because of these it will be a repeat of 2014. We ex- affordable by the upper class. In fake medicine, and most of them pect Rahul Gandhi to take over this comparison, government hospitals suffer from heart problems. The year," Ramesh told NDTV on in Pakistan are in awful conditions. government must establish some Tuesday. During the CWC meet- Firstly, doctors do not provide institutions and make special ing that was held on Tuesday, Con- attention to their patients. teams whose only responsibility Nazar Go n dal gress president Sonia Gandhi said Secondly, these hospitals ex- to check and apprehend all the the party would elect its president ceedingly crowded, so it was un- people who are involved in the soon, senior leader Ghulam Nabi able for the admiration to facilitate business of fake medicines. In ad- Azad told reporters at a press con- institutions, students, civil society parts w ays properly. dition, the government should ar- ference held after the meeting on Thirdly, in government hospi- range long-lasting equipment for or the media, there is growing in- Tuesday. Saharanpur violence: tolerance and active persecution of Sri Lanka tals, the pay of the doctors is very the doctors in these hospitals to Govt spreading fear in Uttar low, which would explain why they facilitate them. divergent voices in blatant disre- Pradesh, says Rahul Gandhi after gard of the law of the land," Sonia w ith PPP, do not show any interest to their All over the Pakistan, there is being denied entry into district "In patients. not a single government hospital, said. Sonia said that the situation to discuss a few weeks, we will be electing in violence-hit Jammu and Kash- Moreover, some of the doc- which is provided clean water. the president and vice-president of tors are more interested in running Most of the patients in govern- mir represented the "colossal fail- our republic. In times such as ure of this government". Qatar jo in s PTI their own private clinics rather than ment hospitals are staying in un- these, it is even more essential that "The insensitive handling of attend to the government hospi- hygienic condition and are not able those who occupy this august of- tals they are employed at. The to recover properly. I would thus the situation by both the state and fice, protect the constitution. Dr central governments are system- crisis with Pakistani government should re- like to request the government of Manmohan Singh, Rahul, other cover the working of these hospi- Pakistan, to improve the condition atically alienating and antagonis- colleagues and I have met the lead- ing the local population... A divi- tals and facilitate their doctors with of the public sectors hospitals. ers of like-minded parties to find a good amount of income. (Dwan) sive agenda is being followed which other commonly acceptable candidates has undone years of goodwill and for these high offices. A subgroup progress," she said. of representatives has been con- During the meeting, former countries stituted to take this forward," she Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Bangladesh: Hindu said during the meeting. also lashed out at the central gov- The government of Sri Lanka has During the course of the CWC ernment for the country's slow not yet taken any decision with meeting, the party's performance economic growth post the demon- regard to the crisis arose from the families attacked in in the recently-concluded assem- etisation move of November 2016. isolation of Qatar but will hold bly elections and bypolls was dis- "India's GDP numbers for the talks with other countries on the cussed and analysed. Sonia, who fourth quarter and full year of crisis and decide on the way for- Faridpur over land chaired the meeting, urged the com- 2016-17 were released a few days ward, co-cabinet media spokes- Another PPP stalwart from cen- chose the moment to target Prime mittee to strengthen the party or- ago. lndia's economic growth has tral Punjab and former federal min- Minister Nawaz Sharif in the back- ganisation and also complete the man Minister Dayasiri Jayaseka- slowed down sharply, driven pri- ra said. ister Nazar Muhammad Gondal drop of the recent joint investiga- dispute, 10 injured "'ongoing organisational elections... marily by the note-bandi an- announced his decision to join the tion team (JIT) hearings. "Nawaz with utmost speed and sincerity." Speaking at the Cabinet media nouncement of November 2016. briefing today Co-Cabinet spokes- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Sharif is the godfather of the mafia Sonia also lashed out at the Gross Value Added (GVA), a true Tuesday, merely a week after in Pakistan," Khan stated referring The incident took place after the members of the Narendra Modi-led government for man said the situation is currently sub-measure of economic activity, being assessed and Foreign Affairs former PPP minister Firdous Ash- to the comments made by a Su- minority community refused to let the attackers trying to extinguish the "essence has also experienced a steep and iq Awan joined Imran Khan's par- preme Court judge after PML-N build a house in a disputed land. and idea of India". She said the sustained fall. Private sector in- Minister Ravi Karunanayake will ty. Senator Nehal Hashmi's outburst Congress Party must be "ready" vestment has collapsed and the hold discussions with representa- A ceremony organised to wel- against the judiciary. "The Paki- to protect this "essence and idea" economy is running on just one tives of other countries over the come him into the party in Nathi- stan Muslim League-Nawaz in 2019. The situation in Kashmir engine of public spending," Singh issue. agali was attended by PTI central (PML-N) has a history of making At least 10 people including wom- out robbery by vandalising and and the growing intolerance in the Noting that Over 150,000 Sri en were injured when terrorists on burning their house. After being told leaders at the CWC meeting. leadership including Firdous Ash- threats. The JIT is being maligned country were also discussed. "The most worrisome aspect Lankans are employed in Qatar, iq Awan. "I am not leaving PPP as part of planned conspiracy," Tuesday attacked Hindu families. informed, the local people and the "We are not far from the 2019 Minister Jayasekara said Foreign The incident occurred in Khatra police brought the situation under of all this is the impact on job cre- because of any grievances, on the Khan said. "Nehal Hashmi's speech elections. We must be ready to ation. Jobs have been extremely Employment Minister Thalatha contrary, they have given me the was part of PML-N's plan," the village of Bhanga upazila, Farid- control dousing the fire flames. protect the essence and idea of In- pur district on minority Hindu The injured were admitted to hard to come by for the youth of Athukorala is due to look into cur- utmost respect during my time PTI chairman insisted. He warned dia, which this government is seek- the nation. The construction in- with them. I'm joining PTI because that the investigation team was families where the attackers burnt Sadarpur hospital and other local ing to extinguish," she said adding rent issues faced by Sri Lankans and vandalised their house also. clinics. dustry which is one of the largest living in Qatar while a Cabinet dis- I see this party as the only active under threat, adding, "The JIT is that women, Dalits, adivasis, mi- employment generators in the organisation working against the at the risk of being attacked like Suresh Biswas, a victim of the Bhanga Police Station Officer norities and other oppressed sec- cussion was also held over the attack, said, "Around 100 armed Majibur Rahman said, "The po- country has suffered a contraction. matter. status quo," Gondal told the me- the Supreme Court was." "PML- tions are facing dangerous times. This implies losses of millions of dia during the ceremony. N should remember that this isn't people came under the leadership lice went to the spot after the at- She further added that the country The Minister said the govern- of local Anisur Rahman, Litu Haw- tack and situation is under control. jobs for the nation's workplace," ment cannot make a decision over Gondal had confirmed to 1997." Reminding the PML-N of has seen a rise in lynch mobs and he added. Dawn last week by phone that he its past, Khan said, "When the mo- lader, Hafez Hawladar and Suruj A case is being registered. Police also alleged that a "close ideologi- the matter right now as the Gulf Hawlader to build a house in a dis- have arrested three people named Sonia also criticised the gov- along with his family and political ment of accountability arose dur- cal affinity" existed between the ernment's decision to demonetise States may be able to solve the is- group from his constituency NA- ing the Musharraf era these peo- puted land of the Hindu commu- Aftab Howlader, Jahangir Howlad- mobs and the Centre. sue through discussions. He said nity of Khatra village. er and Tamim Hawlader to keep high-value currency notes in 2016 109 would formally join the PTI ple made a deal and ran away. "Divisive issues are being saying the Centre's policies were there was no move to suspend ac- at Banigala. Those who have been talking about At this time, when the Hindus the situation peaceful." whipped up, and there is an as- cepting the Qatar Riyals as a re- obstructed, the attackers carried (CNN) characterised by poor planning and He said: “It had become diffi- accountability all these years are sault on livelihoods and food hab- implementation. "It isn't that the sult of the crisis in the Gulf region. cult for me and my associates to finally investigated." The cricket- its of those who follow different Reserve Bank of India has forgot- Several countries including put up with the [PPP] leadership’s er-turned-politician noted that un- tenets and beliefs. This government ten how to count money; it is that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, soft opposition policy towards the less the Qatari prince showed up is using the power of the state to the actual numbers show that the Egypt, Yemen and the Maldives [ruling] PML-N.” He accused the the PML-N would fail before the stifle voices that express different scheme (demonetisation) was a PML-N of victimising his support- JIT. "The Qatari [prince] is not thoughts and ideas, or speak out have cut ties with the rich Gulf disaster," the Congress president state over accusations of support- ers in Mandi Bahauddin. Accom- coming... the PML-N is stuck," he for alternative policies and philos- said. panying Gondal at his joining cer- quipped. ophies. Whether it is politicians, ing extremism in the region. (Hindustan Times) (COLOMBOPAGE) emony, PTI Chairman Imran Khan (Dwan) THURSDAY . JUNE 08, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Myanmar military plane missing with 116 aboard: Reports

The chief of Myanmar’s army says a military plane has gone missing with 116 people aboard, according to media reports Wednesday. The plane went missing be- tween the southern city of My- eik and the capital Yangon, Indi- an broadcaster NDTV reported. The army chief's office said "communication was lost sud- denly" at about 1:30 p.m. local time when the plane was about 20 miles west of the town of Dawei, NDTV said. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing, the broadcaster added. (USATODAY)

South Korea is suspending the de- this year under South Korea's pre- ployment of a controversial mis- vious presidential administration, sile defence system while the gov- a move which Mr Moon has said ernment examines its environmen- was "regrettable". The suspension tal impact. comes days after Mr Moon's of- The rollout of the US-funded Ter- fice accused the defence ministry minal High-Altitude Area Defense of withholding information about US warns it system (Thaad) may be on hold Thaad from the president. for a year. Four recently arrived It said the military did not tell may leave launchers will not be deployed, an Mr Moon about the delivery of official said. Two already installed the four other Thaad launchers. UN Human Germany on Wednesday an- will stay in place. Thaad aims to The ministry has defended nounced that it was withdraw- protect South Korea from the this decision, saying it had to up- ing its troops from Turkey’s North's missiles, and has been crit- hold a confidentiality agreement Rights Incirlik base as Berlin and An- icised at home and by China. The with the US. kara failed to resolve a months- office of recently-elected president Thaad system launcher Council long dispute. Moon Jae-in said that a compre- Many South Koreans have The military personnel, Torna- hensive environmental study of objected to Thaad, believing it will do surveillance jets and other Thaad was needed and that it could become a target and endanger the The US says it is considering take up to a year to complete. lives of those who live near its withdrawing from the UN body hardware — deployed as part of the international coalition During that time, Thaad's deploy- launch sites. on human rights, highlighting ment would be frozen as it was China has also voiced opposi- what it calls a "biased" stance on against the ISIS terrorist group — will be moved to Jordan’s not "urgent enough" to bypass the tion to the system, saying it af- Israel. UN ambassador Nikki Ha- assessment, it said. fects the regional security balance. ley said the US was "looking care- Asraq base instead, said De- Thaad began its rollout earlier (BBC) fully" at its role on the Human fense Minister Ursula von der Rights Council. She said it was Leyen. Germany has had more Wednesday. "This policy is com- "hard to accept" the fact that five than 250 troops stationed in pletely wrong and is certainly not resolutions had been passed Incirlik, flying surveillance mis- Germany's policy," he added, in against Israel, a US ally, but none extracts of his interview released sions over Syria and refueling Tuesday. "I am very concerned had been considered on Venezue- flights for partner nations bat- la. Mrs Haley is expected to ad- with the dramatic escalation and dress the council later on Tues- tling the terrorists the consequences for the whole day. In an opinion article for the But the deployment has be- region." Trump on Tuesday backed Washington Post last Friday, Mrs come a bone of contention af- the regional efforts to isolate Qa- Haley said the council needed to ter Ankara repeatedly refused tar, supporting Saudi Arabia and "end its practice of wrongly sin- to allow German lawmakers to its allies and suggesting the key US gling out Israel for criticism". visit the base. ally - home to the largest Ameri- While she highlighted work Ankara had first denied can airbase in the Middle East - done by the group, she said not German parliamentarians the has been funding "extremism". enough had been done to criticise right to travel to the site for sev- During his recent visit to Saudi Iran, a "country with an abysmal eral months last year, angered Arabia, Trump signed arms con- human rights record", and Vene- tracts worth $110bn with Riyadh. by a Bundestag vote to recog- Gabriel warned against complete- zuela, which is in political tur- nize the Ottoman Empire’s moil and where dozens of pro- ly isolating Qatar and said the testers have been killed in recent World War I-era massacre of move is an attack on the Gulf state's months. Armenians as a genocide. A very existence. "Apparently, Qa- Turkey’s Tayyip (CNN) fresh row over lawmakers’ vis- tar is to be isolated more or less its to the air base erupted last completely and hit existentially. month. Such a 'Trumpification' of relations This time, Ankara was pro- German Foreign Minister Sigmar land links with Qatar. The dispute in a region already susceptible to Erdogan criticises testing the fact that Berlin has Gabriel accused US President comes less than a month after crises is particularly dangerous," Qatar-Gulf offered political asylum to Turk- Donald Trump of stirring up con- Trump visited Saudi Arabia and Gabriel said. He added the nuclear flicts in the Middle East and risk- called for Muslim nations to unite deal agreed with Iran in 2015 had Qatar sanctions ish nationals accused of com- ing a new arms race as Qatar's against "extremism". plicity in the July 2016 attempt- allowed just such an escalation to rift: The neighbours cut ties with Doha. "US President Trump's recent be avoided. "A toxic conflict be- ed coup against President Re- Saudi Arabia and allies includ- giant military contracts which Gulf cep Tayyip Erdogan. tween neighbours is that last thing Turkish President Recep Tayyip other Gulf states, especially Saudi Iran factor ing Egypt, the United Arab Emir- monarchies raise the risk of a new we need," Gabriel warned. He will Erdogan defended Qatar after sev- Arabia. Erdogan was careful not German Foreign Minister ates and Bahrain announced Mon- spiral in arms sales," Gabriel meet his Saudi counterpart Adel eral countries severed diplomatic to criticise Riyadh, calling on the Sigmar Gabriel on Monday trav- day they were severing diplomat- warned in an interview with the al-Jubeir in Berlin on Wednesday. ties with it, saying he personally member nations of the Gulf Co- Deep in the Gulf waters between eled to Turkey to hold last-ditch ic relations and closing air, sea and Handelsblatt daily to appear on (Aljazeera) would have intervened if accusa- operation Council to "resolve their Qatar and Iran lies the world's talks with his counterpart Mev- tions that the tiny Gulf emirate differences through dialogue". largest gas field, a 9,700-sq-km lut Cavusoglu, but failed to supports "terrorism" were true. "Efforts to isolate Qatar ... will not expanse that holds at least 43 tril- sway Ankara. Erdogan stood by Qatar on solve any problem," said Erdogan, lion cubic metres of gas reserves. After the talks, Cavusoglu Tuesday, saying he intends to "de- praising Doha's "cool-headedness" Qatar's southern portion is repeated that “we would not UK: Terror arrests continue velop" ties with the embattled Gulf and "constructive approach". known as North Field, while like to see members of FETO state hit by sanctions from Saudi Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran's slice to the north is called take shelter in friendly country Arabia and its allies. "Let me say the United Arab Emirates severed South Pars. The two countries at the outset that we do not think diplomatic ties and transport links share exploration rights in the Germany”, referring to a move- ahead of election day ment led by US-based Muslim the sanctions against Qatar are with Qatar on Monday, accusing area, and it is one of many ties good," Erdogan said in a speech in it of supporting "extremism". that bind them. But Doha's rela- preacher Fethullah Gulen whom Ankara. "Turkey will continue and "Presenting Qatar as a supporter tionship with Tehran has been Ankara blames for orchestrat- will develop our ties with Qatar, of terrorism is a serious accusa- put to a new test on Monday, ing the failed coup. as with all our friends who have tion," the Turkish leader said. "I after Iran's regional rival Saudi Berlin has argued that it can- supported us in the most difficult know [Qatar's leaders] well and if Arabia led four other countries not deploy its soldiers in plac- moments," he added in reference that had been the case, I would have in cutting diplomatic ties with es which lawmakers are unable to last year's failed coup. Tur- been the first head of state to con- Qatar, accusing its fellow Gulf to visit, given that all military key has close ties with Qatar but front them." Cooperation Council (GCC) missions are mandated by par- also has good relations with the (BBC) member of undermining security liament. in the region by siding with Iran, Von der Leyen said the among other actions. Saudi also Azraq air base in Jordan would urged "all brotherly countries and Cholera outbreak kills companies" to follow its lead in be a new base for Germany’s isolating Qatar, a call that GCC troops. The transfer would dis- members Kuwait and Oman have rupt its air refueling missions 746 in Yemen: WHO so far sidestepped. Saudi Ara- by two or three weeks, while bia has claimed that Qatar is sup- Tornado surveillance flights porting "Iranian-backed terrorist would cease for two to three At least 746 people have died since Saudi-backed government forces groups" in the Saudi province of months, she said. a cholera epidemic broke out in and Houthi rebels has frustrated Qatif and in Bahrain, accusations The transfer would not re- Yemen in late April, according to efforts to deal with the crisis. Im- that Doha called a "campaign of the World Health Organization poverished Yemen has remained in quire a new mandate from the (WHO). In a Twitter post on a state of civil war since 2014, lies that have reached the point German parliament, as the cur- of complete fabrication". Wednesday, the WHO's Yemen when the Houthis and their allies rent one specifies the deploy- office said more than 96,000 sus- overran much of the country, in- What's behind the diplomatic ment site as the airspace over breakdown in the Gulf? pected cases of cholera had been cluding the capital Sanaa. In 2015, Riyadh also said "authorities Syria and its neighboring coun- registered in the war-torn country. Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies in Doha" have supported the tries, but does not name the On Tuesday the UN agency launched a massive air campaign Iran-backed Houthi armed group base. But the government may said at least 728 Yemenis had died aimed at reversing Houthi military in Yemen. This despite Qatar's seek approval from lawmakers Police arrested a 38-year-old man to make it easier to deport foreign authorities. Main opposition lead- from the epidemic. Several inter- gains and shoring up Yemen’s em- deployment of an estimated for political reasons — not in connection to the Manchester terror suspects and "restrict the er Jeremy Corbyn has called on national organizations -- including battled government. According to 1,000 troops to support the two- least to bolster its point to An- suicide bombing in an operation at freedom and movements" of those May to resign. Criticisms peaked the WHO, UNICEF and the Red UN officials, more than 10,000 year Saudi-led campaign there. In kara that the deployment was London’s Heathrow Airport, ac- that presented a threat. May said after reports claiming Italy’s intel- Cross -- have recently stepped up people have been killed in the con- an editorial published on Mon- decided by parliamentarians cording to a Greater Manchester she also planned “longer prison ligence services had warned their the delivery of medical supplies flict to date, while more than 11 day, The National newspaper who should therefore be able Police statement. The statement sentences for those convicted of British counterparts about the to Yemen, where local health au- percent of the country’s popula- owned by the United Arab Emir- to visit the troops. Later on said 19 people had been arrested terrorist offences”. She said if hu- third attacker from Saturday’s Lon- thorities have struggled to cope tion has been displaced as a direct ates (UAE) government also de- in the investigation so far but 12 man rights laws “get in the way” don Bridge killings, Moroccan-Ital- with the outbreak. Local officials result of the conflict. Wednesday, NATO expressed say the ongoing fighting between (CNN) nounced Qatar's "false friend- its disappointment with the of these had been released without of tougher measures, that legisla- ian Youssef Zaghba. May said the ship" citing the "close ties be- dispute between Germany and charge. In a separate development, tion would be changed. Security U.K.’s domestic intelligence ser- tween Doha and Tehran". "Iran's a 30-year old man was arrested in has become the dominant issue in vices would carry out a review af- actions in the Middle East have Turkey. Alliance chief Jens Stol- Ilford, east London on suspicion election campaigning since the ter calls about how the authorities cost Doha's Arab neighbours tenberg revealed that he was in of the commission, preparation or Manchester concert bombing car- dealt with information regarding blood and treasure," the editorial constant contact with Ankara instigation of terrorist acts, police ried out by 22-year-old Salman the attackers. Khuram Shazad said, adding "the regime across and Berlin in an attempt to end said. Prime Minister Theresa May Abedi. The May government has Butt, 27, one of the three terror- the Arabian Gulf is no friend to the row. “It is unfortunate that signaled more concrete action come under scrutiny about previ- ists shot dead by police on Satur- Doha". the dispute was not resolved against terror suspects in a speech ous police cuts and failures by the day, had taken part in a Channel 4 (Aljazeera) differently,” he said. on Tuesday in which she said she country’s security services to stop program called The Jihadis Next (BBC) would review human rights laws suspects who were known to the Door last year. (AP) THURSDAY. JUNE 08, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy By Rafia Zakaria viding stabilisation funding to an- sort of actions the US attempts to Phone No: +93-797070563 other not only nullifies development cover up with development activi- goals but actually helps terrorist re- ty. E-mail: [email protected] Rafia Zakaria is an attorney and author cruitment. At the core of the issue, Aid as 'bribe' of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History however, lies the central question The US sees no disconnect be- of whether development aid can and tween bombing one portion of the Email: [email protected] of Pakistan; and Veil. should be an instrument of foreign country (and inevitably killing ci- policy and military goals. Most in vilians) and showering aid projects www.afghanistantimes.af for in the lives of dead fellow citi- the United States, of administrations on another and imagining the pain zens. past and present, not only support from lost lives to be thus extinguish- Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Nullifying development goals such a marriage, they insist that it able. Receiving populations do not Last month, as Donald Trump Examples of this dynamic can be a harmonious one. In their buy this transactional crossing out Advisory editorial board danced with Saudi princes and scold- abound in countries such as Iraq and view, the US is committed to a free of pain with projects; they are smart ed European leaders, the United Afghanistan, the largest recipients market economy and to democra- enough to assess the cost of a school States Agency for Aid and Develop- of US development aid. In Afghan- cy, so it should invest development or a health clinic or a road in com- Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, ment (USAID) released its budget- istan, the site of USAID's last at- dollars in creating more societies in parison to the lives of countrymen Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal, Saboor Sarir ary request for the 2018 fiscal year. tempt to defeat terror with devel- its own image. The premise seems they have lost. It is a grisly calculus The document, which presents an opment, millions of dollars were unproblematic in theory, an easy and its macabre nature betrays the argument of sorts to American pol- wasted when USAID went to war statement of purpose that may very truth that militarised aid, aid as a Graphic-Designers: iticians for why it is necessary to with the Taliban. In 2015, the agency likely be workable. In practice, how- function of a super-power's strate- Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi and Basir Qazizada commit money for international implemented the Rural Stabilization ever, post-9/11 development dol- gic interests, is in reality a bribe and development, makes for interesting Programs, aimed at helping the Af- lars disbursed by USAID have been not aid at all. To achieve develop- Mar ket i ng & Adver t i si ng: reading. The very first argument ghan Government to reach into "un- accompanied by military interven- ment goals, actual uplift of societ- listed by the agency is that the re- stable" areas and build local gover- tions. The recipients have received ies, actual improvement of gover- Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 quested money will enable USAID nance capacity. "Unstable" here re- destruction and development in a nance, commitment must be to de- to "help defeat ISIS and other ter- ferred to, among other things, areas single package. This can be seen in velopment first and accomplish- Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan rorist organizations, threats and where there was significant Taliban the headlines from the same week ment of strategic and other objec- Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 networks". In the short explanation activity. Following implementation in which USAID released its budget- tives last. As the example of US- appended, USAID claims that the of the programme, an oversight ary request to Congress. On May AID and the Rural Stabilization Pro- Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press $2.5bn being requested will permit agency was tasked with reviewing 25, only two days after USAID re- grams in Afghanistan exposes that the agency to "target the root caus- whether the USAID programmes had leased its budgetary request, a Pen- people, poor and desperate as they es of violent extremism, rebuild eco- accomplished their goal. Their re- tagon investigation found that a US may be, know when you are trying nomic opportunities and good gov- port, compiled from data from hun- air strike that targeted a building in to buy their allegiance and most ernance". It all sounds very good dreds of districts, found that stabili- the Iraqi city of Mosul in March won't sell it. USAID does not agree. The constitution says and admittedly it feels harsh to be- ty was actually lower in those vil- had killed over 100 civilians - the If the language of its budgetary re- rate the well-intentioned bureaucrats lages that had received USAID sup- largest number killed in a single in- quest is any evidence, for USAID at USAID for their attempt to tie port. In addition to the fact that cident since 2014. The US had ini- development seems only a second- Article 162: their budgetary requests to what the the villages that received no aid tially denied that it had undertaken ary goal, while alignment with the Article One Hundred Sixty-Two: This Constitution shall be enforced from the date Trump administration has decided from USAID were better off in sta- any strikes at all in Mosul. Nothing ISIL-crushing strategic priorities of of approval by the Loya Jirga, and endorsed and proclaimed by the President of the will be its number one goal. What bility, the report also found that was said even when locals reported the Trump administration is a pri- sounds good in intention, however, there was actually increased support that nearly 200 people had been mary one. Facing a large budgetary Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan. Upon the enforcement of this Consti- is rarely good in actuality. So it is for the Taliban in the areas that had killed by the bomb. Two long cut and a re-organisation that would tution, laws and legislative decrees contrary to its provisions shall be invalid. with this latest claim, one that be- been the recipients of USAID stabi- months had to pass before the Pen- place it within the US Department lies all existing evidence that pair- lisation funds. The programme, tagon admitted that the US did in of State rather than as an indepen- ing bombings with development which cost more than $300m, is fact strike the building, that the dent agency, USAID bureaucrats agendas is wasteful at best and a de- scheduled to continue until Febru- strike took place in a very crowded have decided to bow before the ad- crepit example of neo-imperialist ary 2018. If the language of its bud- area of the city and that, yes, a large ministration and say what is neces- deception at worst. Bombing one getary request is any evidence, for number of civilians, people already sary to save their jobs. The loser in corner of a country while doling out USAID development seems only a pummelled by the incursion of the this equation is development itself, development dollars in other parts secondary goal, while alignment Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant a goal that was already becoming not only fails to accomplish devel- with the ISIL-crushing strategic pri- (ISIL, also known as ISIS), had died. marginal because of the post 9/11 opment goals, it taints development orities of the Trump administration The news of the strike and the "ac- militarisation of US development aid programmes. Women's education, is a primary one. The results reveal cidental" killing of more than a hun- and that is now completely aban- childhood vaccination, even better the truth that most people in con- dred civilians is relevant to the dis- doned in the rage-filled era of roads become associated with sell- flict zones already know: bombing cussion of USAID and aid in gener- Trump. ing out and caving in, goodies paid one portion of the country and pro- al, because it points to exactly the (Aljazeera) Putin ’s cam paign o f perso n al reven ge ur country is experiencing disappointing days and nights especially for the past one week. When you again st the Un ited States get out of your residence and go to the downtown in By David Ignatius President Trump's campaign before ing of the Democratic National British spy Christopher Steele in- Kabul, the face of the city reminds you the days of the Trump's inauguration. Putin spoke Committee, he exploded: “What cluded “unverifiable” details and at a forum in St. Petersburg moder- fingerprints? Hoof prints? Horn some “confusion” about facts. But 1992-1996 civil war; quiet, fearful and sad with almost At a cafe a few blocks from the old ated by Megyn Kelly. (Reuters) prints?” The day before, Putin had Soldatov wrote in January for the KGB headquarters at Lubyanka Putin denounced the Panama said that “patriotically minded” Guardian that it’s also “a good re- closed markets and empty roads and sidewalks. This came Square, investigative journalist An- Papers as a deliberate effort by Russian private hackers might have flection of how things are run in the drei Soldatov tries to explain the America to embarrass him. “Offi- been involved in the operation. But Kremlin — the mess at the level of after the deadly truck bombing that shook the city and murky world of Russian intelligence cials and state agencies in the Unit- by Friday, he was in full denial mode, decision-making and increasingly that’s now the focus of a U.S. crim- ed States are behind all this,” he suggesting that the CIA could have the outsourcing of operations.” To shocked once again the people last Wednesday, in which inal investigation into the hacking charged in April 2016. “They are manufactured the whole thing: “IP Russian eyes, all information is po- of the 2016 campaign. Big events used to holding a monopoly on the addresses can be simply made up. tential disinformation, and secrets 150 people mostly civilians were martyred and more than in today’s Russia often aren’t the international stage and do not want .?.?. There are such IT specialists in are hidden from the public. As Putin product of broad strategy, argues to have to make way for anyone the world today, and they can ar- scolded Kelly last Friday: “A non- 500 injured in the diplomatic area of Wazir Akbar Khan. Soldatov, but rather are “tactical else. .?.?. Attempts are made to range anything and then blame it classified version means no version.” moves” that reflect the personal weaken us from within, make us on whoever.” Soldatov argues that The Russians regard American me- People with the aim of seeking justice walked towards the interests of Vladimir Putin and his more acquiescent and make us toe Russian intelligence taps a network dia claims of independence as bo- all-powerful “presidential adminis- their line.” State Department of private hackers, much as the CIA gus, and they see their own propa- presidential palace in a peaceful demonstration that result- tration.” Soldatov thinks the Putin spokesman Mark Toner denied at and National Security Agency use ganda outlets competing on equal factor is crucial in understanding is- the time that the United States was private contractors to develop of- terms with global media companies. ed tensions with security forces. This created problems sues in the hacking investigation. “in any way involved in the actual fensive cyberweapons and “zero-day “Sputnik,” for example, had its own Putin has a personal dislike of Hill- leak of these documents.” But he exploits” for malware. “Although booth at the St. Petersburg forum. between the government and a political party that accuses ary Clinton, and Russian intelligence confirmed that the U.S. Agency for the [Russian] security and intelli- The director of national intelligence the government of ethnic discriminations. The situation will had been gathering information International Development had gence services have cyberwar capa- described Sputnik in a Jan. 6 report about her since late summer 2015. supported the Organized Crime and bilities, most of the actual strikes as part of “Russia’s state-run pro- be in favor of the enemies of Afghanistan if our elites, pol- But what may have pushed the Rus- Corruption Reporting Project, one come through other channels,” he paganda machine,” but its brochures sian operation into a higher gear was of the media organizations involved wrote in a post last year on his web- describe a media group publishing iticians, scholars and influential figures sit spectator. Af- the April 2016 publication of the in researching the Panama files. To site, Agentura.ru. He cited the ex- 2,000 news items a day in Russian, so-called Panama Papers, which re- the Russians, that was proof enough. ample of a Russian technology com- Arabic, Chinese, Spanish and En- ghans need more unity at this critical time as the country’s vealed secret bank accounts of some For Putin, the ex-KGB officer, noth- pany that allegedly was asked to glish. As the investigation of Rus- of Putin’s close friends and associ- ing in the information arena is acci- help organize “sensitive” denial-of- sian hacking rolls forward, we situation is going toward an incurable crisis. This is the ates. “It was a personal attack,” says dental. In a combative session last service attacks. The truth of what shouldn’t lose perspective: Russia Soldatov. “You cannot write about Friday at the St.?Petersburg Inter- happened in the 2016 campaign will isn’t a demonic, all-powerful pres- responsibility of our leaders to immediately interfere and Putin’s family or personal friends.” national Economic Forum, he re- take many months to unravel, and ence. It’s a sophisticated, increas- He speculates that the Russian lead- buffed NBC’s Megyn Kelly: “As for there’s a cloud of misinformation, ingly modern country. But it’s also not allow the country to fall into another war. As the histo- er “wanted to do something about independent sources, there is noth- fueled by Putin, President Trump the rare nation run by a former in- it, to teach a lesson.” Russian Pres- ing independent in this world.” and insatiable media coverage. Sol- telligence officer, who sees the world ry shows that the only choice that Afghans have overcome ident Vladimir Putin denies any col- When she pressed about Russian datov notes, for instance, that the through a very particular lens. problems has been holding the traditional grand assembly lusion took place between Russia and “digital fingerprints” in the hack- famous dossier compiled by former (WP) called ‘Loya jirga’. This assembly is called as the only problem solver organ because the representatives of the people from across the country gather in the assembly and discuss and decide the matter of concern. The Loya Jirga is as effective as every Afghan trusts it and no other gather- ings, seminars, conferences, etc. can not be compared to this. The people and especially the leaders of the country need to urgently call a Loya Jirga and prevent the country’s destruction and killing of more innocent civilians. They can discuss all their problems and differences through this national assembly and let the people say what they want. People’s voice through the Loya Jirga is vital for the situ- ation of their country and everyone has to obey the nation’s decision even whether they want the current government to step aside. Subscription Rates Note: The following rates will apply from January 01, 2017. Fee Categories Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 5400 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 2700 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $240 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. THURSDAY. JUNE 08, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES Climate change is real, people

By Aakar Patel not known but if Modi can pull it off, it will make him a true world leader. Meanwhile Trump said that The world faces a dangerous mo- he was putting American jobs ahead ment, though the media in India is of concerns on climate change. He not focused on it. The United States claims that if America sticks to its has gone back on its commitment commitments, 27 lakh jobs will be to help reduce global warming. The lost in the next seven years. This is Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 disputed and in fact one of the big- in which nations agreed to lower the gest creators of jobs in the US in the carbon dioxide emissions from their last decade has been the electric car industrial plants and automobiles. and solar industry. It shows how iso- This would be done by voluntarily lated Trump is that even American cutting fuels like coal and petrol and industrialists and many of its largest diesel and shifting to solar and wind. companies said that America had India is already the largest market taken the wrong decision. One can By Rokhaya Diallo for solar power and because of this only hope that the shift from fossil the prices of solar energy have fuels continues. The data is abso- dropped very low. If all nations that lutely clear: climate change is hap- Rokhaya Diallo is a French journalist, signed the agreement met their com- pening as a result of manmade glo- mitments, the rise in global warm- bal warming. Since 1880, the earth’s writer and filmmaker. ing would be limited to 2 degrees surface temperature has risen at an Celsius more than it was in the time average pace of 0.07°C every de- before industrialisation. China is the cade. This has resulted in a net warm- biggest source of CO2 emissions, ing of 0.95°C as of now. Land tem- an indispensable tool for bringing with 30% of the world’s total, fol- subordinate groups together by al- peratures have risen faster than the lowed by the US (15%) and the 28- ones of the ocean so far. But this Over the past week, France has been lowing them to discuss their condi- nation Euro zone (9%). India con- engulfed in a scandal over a festival tions and develop strategies to build will change by 2030 unless the tributes 7% of the emissions, but has world’s nations cut their emissions. organised by black feminists that was their emancipation in complete safe- about 15% of the world’s popula- allegedly going to be "forbidden to ty. Would we blame trade unionists And once the oceans start to warm tion, so on a per person basis, India up, many countries will quickly be whites". The controversy was insti- for not inviting their employers to is not contributing to the problem gated by the National Front (NP), their meetings? Would we force in deep trouble. Indians will be vul- as China and the US are. Since India nerable in three ways. Climate the extreme right-wing party led by women who are victims of rape to is rapidly industrialising, it can no Marine Le Pen. On May 26, Walle- welcome men into theirs? Certain- change will mean higher oceans and longer ignore the problem. We this will lead to huge problems in rand de Saint-Just, NP treasurer who ly not. Moreover, the city of Paris should credit Prime Minister Naren- also is an elected official of the city already hosts several non-mixed, cities like Mumbai and Chennai and dra Modi with having foresight and Kolkata, near the sea. It will also of Paris, challenged the Socialist women's associations such as "the courage and showing leadership on Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, to House of the women of Paris", with- the few spheres dedicated to them mean that the monsoon will become this issue. He said this week that much more volatile and unpredict- explain why the city was putting on out any polemic or controversy. to please people who already have “Paris or no Paris, our commitment an event "promoting a concept that The history of French feminism is wide access to the public sphere? able. This will bring misery down on to preserving the climate is for the the Indian farmer. The third prob- is blatantly racist and anti-republi- built on the idea of non-mixing. In LICRA and other critics of the Lo o kin g beyo n d sake of future generations.” The can". The International League the 1970s, the Women's Liberation Nyansapo Festival have drawn a lem will come if we continue using government of India has also said fossil fuels like coal. The source of against Racism and Antisemitism Movement (MLF), inspired by parallel between the non-mixing that all cars sold in the country by (LICRA), an anti-racist organisation American black movements, chose nature of the festival and the prac- our coal is the Adivasi belt in Chhat- 2030 will have to be electric. The tisgarh. (Tribune) close to the French government, gender-based non-mixing as its mode tice of apartheid. This is an odious the siege details of how this will happen are also joined in on the condemnation of political organisation. In 1970, comparison, because the festival of the festival and claimed that Rosa the MLF stated "We have arrived at does not propose a separatist soci- Parks "would be turning in her the necessity of non-mixing. We ety project, but instead it aims to grave", referring to the American realised that, like all other oppressed provide black women with a space o f Do ha civil rights icon. "The fight against groups, it is up to us to take charge where they can temporarily escape racism has become an alibi for iden- of our own liberation". Thanks to from the clutches of oppression and tity isolationism," the organisation these meetings, French women had breathe freely. This does not deprive Trump’s said. On May 28, Hidalgo respond- the opportunity to enunciate their any other group of their rights and ed to the controversy on Twitter priority demands and they gained it can in no way be compared to a By Hamad Althunayyan be safe to say that a military activ- and firmly condemned the organi- the right to abortion, among other state-sponsored regime, which is ity on the Qatari-Saudi border is sation of an event, "prohibited to things. Political scientist Françoise based on establishing a racial hierar- highly unlikely, and it would consti- white people". "I am asking for this Verges, who took part in these meet- Riyadh, along with a number of GCC climatedisaster chy and officially depriving parts tute a red line for the Pentagon. Also, festival to be banned," the mayor ings, remembers the numerous at- and allied capitals, has cut diplomatic of a population of goods and servic- relations with Doha on Monday. the US government will not allow said, adding that she also reserved tacks that they faced at the time, es. "We think we are in the best Doha to fall out of the American By Lauren Carasik dustry and climate skeptics to his the right "to prosecute the organis- but she believes that the controver- position to grasp the weapons of This followed an alleged statement cabinet, including the head of the by the emir of Qatar on regional sphere of influence. ers for discrimination". The event sy surrounding the Nyansapo Festi- our own emancipation," say the Kuwaiti mediation Environmental Protection Agency, that triggered this storm was the val is still a first: "Never before has feminists of Mwasi. History has politics, which triggered a backlash Donald Trump's announcement on whose funding he wants to slash, from Saudi and Emirati media out- When it comes to the GCC, it is Nyansapo Festival, organised by the an anti-racist organisation or a left- proved this so many times before, clear that the current crisis a symp- June 1 that the US would abandon along with cuts to United Nations Afro-feminist collective Mwasi. The wing elected representative sought those directly affected by exclusion lets. The Qatari government denied the Paris Climate Agreement elicit- climate programmes. The brokered the statement, claiming their na- tom of the long-term problems be- festival is scheduled to take place to use the law to prohibit [these are the ones most qualified to lead tween Qatar, Saudi, UAE and Bahr- ed widespread condemnation from climate agreement reflected a care- on July 28-30 in Paris and contrary meetings] ... This is the first time their own liberation. France is strug- tional news agency was hacked. world, state and local leaders, big fully crafted compromise that many Shortly thereafter, the Saudi gov- ain and does not effect the entirety to what its detractors assert, it is that an organisation that calls itself gling to embrace its multicultural of the cooperation. Kuwait and businesses and civil society. The ac- felt did not go far or fast enough to going to be open to all. The white anti-racist and a left-wing politician face. Officially, it does not recogn- ernment accused Doha of several cord, reached in 2015, is a landmark avoid catastrophe. Despite its short- charges, ranging from supporting Oman did not - and are less likely to identity is so central to France that trust the fachosphere". According ise ethnic, religious, linguistic or - cut relations with Doha. Both Ku- collective international effort to comings, the accord projected a any event that brings white domi- to the academic, the reasoning be- cultural minorities. In this context, terrorism in the region to cosying avert looming climate catastrophe. strength of purpose by affirming the up to Iran. While the two countries wait and Oman are the only two nance into question swiftly triggers hind this unprecedented trust is un- daring to identify as a black woman members who never severed diplo- Every country but Nicaraguaand consensus that reducing carbon emis- a solidarity that breaks down parti- equivocal: "The left-wing politician is an unbearable subversion. In were able to contain their policy dif- Syria signed on, the former declin- sions must be tackled collectively and the so-called anti-racist organi- ferences through diplomatic means matic ties with any other GCC states. san political divides. However, some France, minorities that are trying In fact, the Kuwaiti leadership un- ing because the agreement did not and urgently. But Trump has railed "non-mixed" workshops reserved sation are reacting this way because to achieve autonomy are labeled for the better part of the four de- go far enough. Trump's move is a against multilateralism under the [the festival is for] black women". cades since the establishment of the dertook shuttle diplomacy between solely for black women, will also be "communitarian". They are accused Doha and Riyadh to end the 2014 lamentable setback for curbing car- banner of America First, taking coun- set up as part of the festival. These "They are not disturbed by the non- of threatening national cohesion Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC), bon emissions, which is critical to sel from adviser Steve Bannon and workshops will provide a safe space mixed nature of the event; they are there have been previous precedents diplomatic crisis. Since the estab- and the republican French "univer- lishment of the GCC, Kuwait has ensuring a habitable planet for fu- other virulent nationalists. "I was for black women to have private disturbed because this non-mixing is salist" ideal. This ideal, however, is to the current Riyadh-Doha rift. In ture generations. The announcement elected to represent the citizens of conversations among themselves. It practised by black women". In 1992, for example, the two neigh- always sought to keep the coopera- belied every single day by the mas- tion unified, and it was never hesi- was classic Trump: nationalistic, Pittsburgh, not Paris," Trump in- is true that these workshops will not France, black women are subject to sive discrimination that affects the bours had a border skirmish. More factually questionable and deeply ag- toned. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh, which welcome whites, but they will also multiple types of discrimination recently, Saudi Arabia, along with tant to use its diplomatic capital to non-white members of the French defuse tensions between other mem- grieved. Trump rolled out his deci- voted for Hillary Clinton by more not welcome people of Arab, Asian every day and they often struggle population, whether as they strug- United Arab Emirates (UAE) and sion in a speech focused on reclaim- than 75 percent, committed to up- or Roma origin and will not even to be recognised as French citizens. Bahrain, withdrew its ambassador ber states. This legacy allows Ku- gle to find employment or as they wait to be perceived as a credible ing sovereignty and protecting holding the spirit of the accord. No- open their doors to black men. It is Non-mixed meetings allow them to face police violence. In 2014, Anne from Doha back in 2014. Howev- American economic interests, and where was Trump's rejection of glo- understandable why the extreme interact with each other freely. In er, the recent rift marks two unpar- mediator by other GCC countries. Hidalgo presented herself, without There is no doubt that Kuwait, led giving little attention to the delete- bal community more evident than right, in its racist logic, tries to sab- these meetings, they get a chance any embarrassment, as the mayor alleled developments. First, we are rious effects of climate change that his exaggeration of the nation's otage a festival organised by black to be removed from the gaze of the witnessing the most coordinated ef- by Emir Sabah Al Ahmad, will inter- of Paris who would head the twenty vene to de-escalate the current GCC he once claimed were a hoax. His contribution to the Green Climate women by outrageously focusing on dominant ones, who tend to mo- white candidates that ran under the fort, led by Saudi Arabia and fully justifications for doing so were false, Fund and misapprehension of its the "unfair" treatment of whites. nopolise discussions and ask ques- supported by the UAE, against Qa- rift. Recently, the Kuwaiti emir Socialist Party's ticket to become called upon the emir of Qatar, misleading or misguided. Instead of intent. The fund was designed to However, it is hard to understand tions or offer comments that slow the mayors of Parisian districts. tar. Recently leaked emails show that advancing US interests, backing out help developing countries that are how a defamatory campaign by a down the conversation. Black wom- the UAE ambassador in Washing- Tamim Al Thani, to "refrain from There was not a single Arab, Black escalating the worst diplomatic rift of the agreement exacts a range of vulnerable to the most immediate nationalist party could find such an en must be allowed to come togeth- or Asian person to represent the ton is playing a key role in this cam- political and environmental costs: and severe climate impacts, had the echo among left-wing politicians and er without being forced to justify paign. The second development has among Gulf Arab states". He is also inhabitants of one of the most mul- currently conducting diplomatic it will hurt America's global stand- least to do with creating them and institutions working to eliminate their actions to people who do not ticultural cities in Europe. Just like even more noteworthy consequenc- ing, harm the economy, undermine possess the fewest resources to adapt racism. How can they form an un- face similar oppressions. They must es. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and shuttles between Saudi Arabia and the ones that govern other French Qatar to reach a compromise be- security and hamper climate change and curb their own emissions. likely alliance with the far-right and be free to express their anger and circles of power - economic, media Egypt closed land, air, and sea traf- mitigation efforts at a time when resentment without the fear of vex- tween the two parties. But I think Trump claimed the fund would cost parrot the false accusations coming and political – the white "commu- fic routes to Qatar. While Doha will they need to be intensified. Trump's Americans "billions and billions and from these groups? The answer is ing others. In our country, black be able to overcome the financial Kuwait's diplomatic success will nitarianism" of the municipality of mainly depend on the Qatari re- claim that he would get a better deal billions of dollars" while some oth- simple: the miracle of "white su- women are invisible in the public Paris under Hidalgo was never ques- burden in the foreseeable future, this reflects his purely transactional sphere. The few who dare to ven- sponse to Saudi concerns. er countries would pay nothing. In premacy". The white identity is so tioned. To overcome systemic rac- will likely put significant economic worldview and his corresponding dis- fact, the US' contributions are set at central to France that any event that ture there are frequently exposed to ism in France and in other Western as well as psychological pressure on Tough choices Doha faces tough choices. If it dain for statecraft. He blithely pre- $3bn, one third of which has already brings white dominance into ques- outrageous insults, such as the former democracies, it is not the minority Qatar. The question remains: why sumes that he can simply demand a tion swiftly triggers a solidarity that minister of justice, Christiane Tau- does not address the concerns of the been paid. That figure is less per survival initiatives that should be the Saudis are stepping up their ac- redo on an international accord it capita than many other countries breaks down partisan political di- bira, who has been compared to an combatted, but the centrality of tions against Qatar? And why now? Saudi camp, it will be geographical- ape on several occasions. Why ly isolated. Saudi Arabia could also took the global community years are paying. As the The New York vides. Throughout history and all white domination. The Saudi camp seems to be run- to hammer out, using his unparal- over the world, non-mixing has been should black women open up one of push to freeze Qatar's membership Times pointed out, "The United (Aljazeera) ning out of patience for the same leled negotiating skills to extract States … has contributed more than Doha policies that triggered the in the GCC. Over time, this will place an unprecedented geopoliti- more favourable terms. That mis- any other country to the atmo- 2014 diplomatic crises. In my view, conception either underscores how spheric carbon dioxide that is scorch- the Saudis have three main demands: cal pressure on the Qatari policy- makers. At worst, this could slide little he understands of the agree- ing the planet." With his travel ban Ejecting Muslim Brotherhood lead- ment or reflects his intentional mis- on hold, Obamacare repeal facing ership as well as other prominent Qatar towards Iran. This would be LETTER TO THE EDITOR an unintended consequence that nei- representation of its terms. Because an uncertain future, and the probe figures from Doha, neutralising the ther Riyadh nor Doha aspire to- commitments under the agreement into Russian election meddling and Qatari media, especially Al Jazeera, are voluntary, Trump can change collusion creating an ongoing dis- towards the Gulf states and Egypt wards. If Doha gives in to all of the demands at once, the Qatari gov- Washington's targets unilaterally and traction, Trump desperately need- and moulding Qatar's regional poli- without penalty. Besides, other na- ed a win. But withdrawing may pro- cies so they do not collide with Sau- ernment might not be able to sur- vive the humiliation at home. Giv- tions are disinclined to renegotiate, vide a hollow and fleeting victory. A di/Emirati interests. While Qatar is so walking away makes little strate- recent survey by the Yale Program expected to offer concessions, it will ing in to all Saudi demands and hand- Substandard healthcare ing sovereignty to Riyadh would be gic sense, especially now. Instead, on Climate Change Communication deem some of these demands as a viewed as political suicide by many as Tess Bridgeman argues, "giving found that nearly 70 percent of violation of its sovereignty. This away our seat at the table for free - Americans want the US to continue rift can be an opportunity for all in Qatar. But it is possible to find a middle ground. I think the Qatari while key implementation rules are its participation in the climate deal, members to bring their differences still being negotiated and before any including 47 percent of Trump vot- to the surface. An effective internal government will be flexible and will- centers in Kabul ing to negotiate on a broad range of eventual withdrawal could legally ers, while fewer than a third want discussion, followed by concrete take effect -does not free us but rath- the US to withdraw. In the days af- trust-building measures could lead to topics, except shutting Al Jazeera down. To Doha, Al Jazeera is an as- er ties our hands as a nation". The ter the announcement, Trump's ap- There is no state-of-the-art healthcare centers in Afghanistan, as patients are going a stronger GCC. The timing of the loss of US credibility and goodwill proval rating dipped five points, to campaign is also interesting, as it set to safeguard its interests. It is an abroad to receive medical treatments. Afghan masses are suffering from one of the instrument that makes Qatar's voice will, however, hamper internation- a new low of 36 percent. followed the Arab-Islamic-American al cooperation in other critical ar- worst healthcare system as they don’t have access to the basic medical care. On daily summit in Riyadh. It is possible to heard effectively all over the Arab world. This, however, should not eas. Washington's abdication of re- Some observers worry that bases more than hundreds of people are traveling abroad for treatment due to lack of argue that the Saudi camp sought to sponsibility has galvanised business Trump's move will dampen enthu- use its renewed partnership with the hinder the parties of the conflict standardized facilities at home. from embarking on a constructive leaders, cities and states to commit siasm for urgently needed action, US to modify Qatar's policies once to meeting the US' emission goals and sow mistrust and disunity. If the The relevant Afghan official should take necessary measures to provide standard and for all. But it is also necessary dialogue to address their differences and anxieties. If and when they with renewed vigor. Trump railed world's second largest carbon emit- medical care for the Afghan masses here at home and free the Afghans from going to evaluate the US' position in the against the accord's unfairness, ter can disengage with global efforts, region. Qatar, after all, is the home reach an actual compromise, they abroad for treatment. can implement the necessary chang- claiming that China and India will they fear, others will follow suit. But of the largest US military base in get away with increasing coal pro- so far, Washington's abdication of Asif Khan, Kabul, Afghanistan the region. I think the Trump ad- es over a period of 12 months. This will allow both parties to phase out duction while the US is bound by responsibility has galvanised busi- ministration is implicitly pleased to limiting its own. But each state sets ness leaders, cities and states to com- see the Qataris sweat this crisis out. the process, de-escalate tensions and make the necessary compromises its own targets and is not dictated to mit to meeting the US' emission From Washington's point of view, by others. Besides, China has been goals with renewed vigour. And oth- this crisis may help Doha to fully more swallowable for everyone. It is critical for both Riyadh and Doha cancelling coal plants, and the US er countries will step up to fill the Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must understand the importance of the coal industry has been on the de- leadership void. The climate agree- American presence, and to modify to seize the Kuwaiti conciliation have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: efforts if they want to put an end to cline, and unlikely to rebound to the ment never represented a panacea, [email protected] some of its regional policies that benefit of the workers Trump claims and it faces other challenges besides are not aligned with US interests. this crisis. Today, the GCC faces its hard- to be protecting. In contrast, renew- Trump's intransigence. But it does In the American capital, some view able energy jobs are on the rise. provide a powerful tool for civil Doha's support for political Islam est challenge since its foundation. This rift can be an opportunity for Trump's allegiances have always society to demand responsible lead- to be at odds with its relations with been clear. Even before the an- ership. As writer and activist Naomi the United States. Only hours after all members to bring their differ- Disclaimer: ences to the surface. An effective nouncement, Trump's evisceration Klein observes, it "was always the Riyadh and UAE's announcement of climate protections was already task for the global climate justice about severing ties with Doha, US internal discussion, followed by con- crete trust-building measures could well under way. He has moved to gut movement … to try to hold gov- The views and opinions expressed in the articles are Secretary of State Tillerson stated Obama's signature Clean Power Plan ernments to the strong spirit, rath- that he "encourage[s] the parties to lead to a stronger GCC. Until that those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or happens, the future of the GCC is and auto emissions standards and er than the weak letter, of the agree- sit down together and address these vowed to dismantle other environ- ment". That burden just got consid- differences … it is important that gloomy. opinions of the Afghanistan Times. (WP) mental regulations, and appointed erably bigger. the GCC remain unified". It would men with ties to the fossil fuel in- (Aljazeera) THURSDAY. JUNE 08, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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asylum rules Turkish authorities detained 60 pointed administrators. Of the 128 soldiers on Wednesday and issued people being sought, Anadolu said detention orders for another 128 39 people had been detained so far THE European Union (EU) will fail to meet a people in operations targeting the in an operation carried out in Istan- deadline to reform its controversial asylum network of a Muslim cleric the bul and seven other provinces. government blames for last year's There was no official comment policy, according to insiders. failed coup, local media reported. on the detentions. On Tuesday, Some 50,000 people have been authorities detained the local chair arrested since the failed putsch in of Amnesty International and 22 July and around 150,000 sacked other lawyers in the Aegean coast- or suspended, including soldiers, al province of Izmir for suspected police, teachers and public ser- links to Gulen's network, the vants, over alleged links with the rights group said. Gulen, who has Russian President Vladimir Putin movement of U.S-based cleric lived in self-imposed exile in Penn- in his interview with Oliver Stone Fethullah Gulen. sylvania since 1999, has denied in- said that there would have been no Authorities detained the sol- volvement in the coup and con- survivors in case of an armed con- diers in raids focused on the cen- demned it. The scope of the purg- flict between the U.S. and Russia. tral Turkish province of Konya and es, which have also seen more than World 12:20, 07 June 2017 READ 32 other provinces, the Hurriyet 130 media outlets shut down and LATER REUTERS An excerpt daily said. Separately, the state- some 150 journalists jailed, has from the interview was uploaded run Anadolu Agency said deten- unnerved rights groups and Tur- on Showtime's YouTube channel. Brussels leaders gave themselves does not taken part in the quota tion orders had been issued for 128 key's Western allies, who fear Pres- As Stone asked the Russian pres- a target of the end of June to se- system. The country's Europe people with ties to the publishing ident Tayyip Erdogan is using the ident whether the U.S. would dom- cure a deal over the bloc's immi- minister Konrad Szymanski hit company Kaynak Holding, which coup as a pretext to muzzle dis- inate in case of an all-out war with gration quotas. But a backlash by back, telling Politico: "It's Euro- was linked to the Gulen movement sent and purge opponents. Russia, Putin suggested that "no eastern European member states pean populism to say: 'Cut the before authorities seized it. Hun- Turkish officials, however, say one would survive." According to means there is "no chance" of a funds'." dreds of firms like Kaynak, many the crackdown is necessary due to Variety.com, during the prepara- deal being struck this month. And he said Poland's govern- of them smaller provincial busi- the gravity of the coup attempt tion of the interview, the interloc- A diplomat admitted: "Con- ment could use its veto to block nesses, were seized by authorities which killed 240 people on July utors watched the film directed by sensus cannot be reached and the agreement on the EU budget if the in the post-coup crackdown and 15. Turkmenistan to put up Stanley Kubrick "Dr. Strangelove European Council will have to see row continues. are now run by government-ap- (Reuters) or: How I Learned to Stop Worry- how best to take this forward." Hungary and Slovakia have ing and Love the Bomb" about the Poland, Hungary and Slovakia both taken the European Commis- state property for auction hypothetical "nuclear apocalypse" have all refused to take in any ref- sion to court over the controver- as a result of the conflict between ugees under the EU's migrant quo- sial scheme. The Turkmen Economy and De- scribed form, as well as paid spe- the Soviet Union and the United ta policy, which was proposed in The countries' governments UAE turns screws on velopment Ministry will hold an cial fees and who have registered, States. Putin also said he did not 2015. In contrast, France and Ger- claim the Commission does not auction for the sale of state facili- are allowed to participate in the lose hope for a thaw in Russian- many have agreed to take in 9,000 have the right to meddle in their ties at 10:00 (GMT + 5 hours) auction. Foreign legal entities, in- American relations. "There is al- people – half the total number re- sovereign affairs. But Eurocrats Qatar, threatens June 27, 2017 at the following ad- ternational organizations estab- ways hope until we are brought to located under the scheme. have said the bloc's approach to dress: Archabil Avenue, 156, Ash- lished under the laws of foreign the cemetery and buried," Putin The UK and Denmark are ex- migration "is about sharing respon- gabat. Industrial complex, shop- countries, their permanent repre- said, answering the question on empt from the programme after sibility and solidarity among mem- ping centers, carpet shop, textile sentative offices and branches in what can be expected from Donald securing opt-outs. ber states". A ruling is expected this sympathisers with jail factories, dairy farming enterpris- Turkmenistan may participate as Trump's victory in the elections. Last month, Brussels threat- autumn. es, livestock farms are among the well only if there is conclusion of (UNIAN) ened to cut Poland's EU funding if (EXPRESS) facilities to be put up for auction. the Agency for Protection from The citizens of Turkmenistan and Economic Risks under the Turk- foreign countries, as well as pri- men ministry. All participants are vate legal entities of Turkmenistan able to preliminary review an ob- and legal entities of foreign coun- ject of privatization. China deployed tries, who made bids in the pre- (Trend) Ambassador of Cultural nuclear-capable missiles Association ‘Simurgh’ from US to ground targets in US joins Armenia-Azerbaijan The United Arab Emirates tight- and television channels in the re- ened the squeeze on fellow Gulf gion have also been engaged in a Peace Platform west coast: Pentagon state Qatar on Wednesday threat- war of words over Qatar's role. The Arif Guliyev, the ambassador of tion of the conflict. Armenian and ening anyone publishing expres- UAE's state-owned Etihad Air- the Azerbaijani Cultural Associa- Azerbaijani nations have lived in sions of sympathy towards it with ways, meanwhile, said all travel- In a major step to enhance its bat- up to 15 years in prison, and bar- lers holding Qatari passports were tion ‘Simurgh’ from the US, has peace. There are a lot of examples tle capabilities, China reportedly made a statement about joining the for it. I note with regret that the ring Qatari passport or resident currently prohibited from travel- deployed ballistic missiles that visa holders entry. Efforts to de- ling to or transiting through the Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Plat- perception of young generations were capable of carrying nuclear form. in both countries has formed in the fuse the regional crisis -- prompt- emirates on government instruc- warheads to hit targets in the west ed on Monday when the UAE, tions. Foreigners residing in Qatar APA presents the statement: context of war as a result of unre- coast of the US mainland, the Pen- “I consider that it is important to solved conflict. It is high time to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others and in possession of a Qatari resi- tagon said in its annual report on severed diplomatic ties with Qa- dence visa would also not be eligi- peacefully settle the Armenia-Az- put an end to the conflict. I sup- Tuesday (6 June). The Dongfeng- erbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh con- port peaceful coexistence of na- tar over alleged support for Islam- ble for visa on arrival in the UAE, 26 (DF-26), a conventionally ist groups and Iran -- showed no Etihad spokesman said in an email. flict. I express my support and tions and the settlement of the con- armed intermediate-range missile, respect to territorial integrity, sov- flict that has been lasting for a long immediate signs of success. UAE "This ruling applies to all airlines was in all likelihood deployed last Minister of State for Foreign Af- flying into the UAE," the spokes- ereignty and internationally recog- time. All of us have to live in peace year, the US Department of De- nized borders of Azerbaijan and and I believe that peace will be es- fairs Anwar Gargash threatened man said in the statement. Those fence said in its report to Congress more curbs if necessary and said breaking ties with Qatar are the Armenia. I emphasize the impor- tablished in South Caucasus. Con- on China's military power. tance of implementation of rele- sidering the above-mentioned rea- Qatar needed to make "iron-clad" UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahr- The missile could be used for commitments to change policies on ain, the Maldives, Mauritania and vant resolutions of UN Security sons, I express my respect to conventional strikes against ves- Council, including resolutions and peace initiative, and make a state- funding militants. Qatar vehement- Libya's eastern-based government. sels in the region, it said. Howev- ly denies giving such support. U.S. Jordan has downgraded its diplo- decisions adopted by other inter- ment about joining the Armenia- er, it is unclear in what numbers national organizations. Moreover, Azerbaijan Peace Platform, aimed President Donald Trump took matic representation and revoked and into what brigades of the Peo- sides in the rift on Tuesday, prais- the license of Doha-based TV I would like to state the necessity at solution of the Armenia-Azer- ple's Liberation Army (PLA) of of activities of OSCE Minsk baijan Nagorno-Karabakh con- try's spending will increase in the "foreseeable future", the report noted. ing the actions against Qatar, but channel Al Jazeera. SQUEEZE China deployed it. It is also not later spoke by phone with Saudi Ordinary Qataris were loading up Group towards the peaceful solu- flict.” clear when exactly in 2016 Beijing Djibouti, where China is building its first overseas naval base, is already (Akpress) home to a key US military base. It is also strategically located at the King Salman and stressed the need on supplies in supermarkets, fear- deployed the missile, but it was for Gulf unity. [nL8N1J30YR] His ing shortages. But financial mar- anticipated since September that southern entrance to the Red Sea en route to the Suez Canal, Reuters noted. China's construction in the African nation is reported to have defence secretary, James Mattis, kets were relatively calm after the PLA would deploy it after it also spoke to his Qatari counter- some recent jumps. Qatar's stock Atambayev to visit was displayed during a military caused concern in India and its neighbours. Chinese deployment in Pakistan is said to have sparked concerns in Bangladesh, Myanmar and part to express commitment to the index <.QSI> was roughly un- parade hosted by President Xi Jin- Gulf region's security. Qatar hosts changed after plummeting 8.7 per- ping, Bloomberg noted. The DF- Sri Lanka as well. The Pentagon report did not address potential wor- Kazakhstan for SCO ries that India would have on the matter. But it noted that Pakistan is 8,000 U.S. military personnel at al cent over the last two days. "Ten- 26 has a range of at least 2,200 Udeid, the largest U.S. air base in sions are still high and mediation miles (3,500km), far enough to already a major market in the Asia-Pacific region for China's arms ex- summit and EXPO opening ports. Out of more than $250bn in Chinese arms exports from a four- the Middle East and a launchpad efforts by fellow Gulf Coopera- reach the US naval bases in Guam. for U.S.-led strikes on the Islamic tion Council state Kuwait have yet The Pentagon report also not- year period till 2015, Islamabad accounted for $9bn. President of Kazakhstan Al- tion (SCO) will be held in Astana (IBTIMES) State militant group. Kuwait's emir to lead to a concrete solution, so ed that China is likely to build has also been seeking to mediate, investors will likely remain on mazbek Atambayev will be in As- on June 8-9. EXPO 2017 opening more military bases around the tana June 8-10. He will attend the ceremony is set for June 10. EXPO meeting Saudi's king on Tuesday. edge," said one Dubai-based trad- world in a bid to support its dis- Qatar's isolation from powerful er. Qatar has said it will not retali- SCO summit and opening of 2017 is scheduled to take place tant deployments. After establish- EXPO 2017. 17th meeting of the from June 10 until September 10, fellow Arab states advanced, how- ate against the curbs. "We are will- ing a facility in the African nation UK economy to slow ever. UAE-based newspaper Gulf ing to sit and talk," Qatari Foreign Council of Heads of State of the 2017. of Djibouti, China may consider Shanghai Cooperation Organiza- (Trend) News and pan-Arab channel Al- Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Pakistan as its possible future lo- amid Brexit and Arabiya reported the crackdown Abdulrahman al-Thani told CNN cation, the report predicted. on expressions of sympathy with late on Tuesday. He said his coun- China's militarisation Qatar. "Strict and firm action will try was "protecting the world "China most likely will seek spending squeeze be taken against anyone who from potential terrorists". A Qa- SOCAR to set up 2nd to establish additional military shows sympathy or any form of tari official, however, said the rift bases in countries with which it The OECD stood by its economic of higher inflation. In its economic bias towards Qatar, or against any- was pushing Doha in the direction petrochemical plant has a longstanding friendly rela- forecasts for UK gross domestic outlook, the OECD said: “Private one who objects to the position of of leaving the six-state Gulf Co- tionship and similar strategic in- product (GDP), predicting it to consumption growth is projected the United Arab Emirates, wheth- operation Council, "with deep re- terests, such as Pakistan, and in slow from 1.8 per cent to 1.6 per to slow, as higher inflation holds er it be through the means of social gret". Bans on Doha's fleet using after Petkim which there is a precedent for host- cent for 2017, before dropping to back real earnings, but a weaker media, or any type of written, vi- regional ports and anchorages are ing foreign militaries," the Penta- 1 per cent in 2018. Weaker growth growth outlook should mitigate the sual or verbal form," Gulf News threatening to halt some of its ex- Azerbaijan´s SOCAR is planning on Petkim Peninsula, as well as gon said. "This initiative, along could push the unemployment rate extent of price pressures in the to increase its investments in Tur- holding talks with the government quoted UAE Attorney-General ports and disrupt those of lique- with regular naval vessel visits to above 5%, the OECD warned. Pic- economy. “Also, households are Hamad Saif al-Shamsi as saying. fied natural gas. [nL8N1J23EL] key. To that end, the company has that lean towards the issue, adding foreign ports, both reflects and ture: John Devlin Weaker growth expected to continue to support recently announced that it will set that the new plant could be a 2nd On top of a possible jail term, of- [nL1N1J20M6] Traders on global amplifies China's growing influ- could push the unemployment rate their consumption by further re- fenders could also be hit with a markets worried that Riyadh's al- up a 2nd Petkim plant. The Azeri Petkim. Noting that the amount of ence, extending the reach of its above 5%, the OECD warned. Pic- ducing their saving rate. Business energy giant is planning to invest investment is not clear but will be fine of at least 500,000 UAE lies would refuse to accept LNG armed forces," AP reported. ture: John Devlin It also warned investment is projected to contract dirhams, the newspaper said, cit- shipments from the Gulf state, the $18 billion in Turkey by 2020. around $3 billion, Aliyev stated China has been boosting its that weaker growth could drive the amid the large uncertainty and be- SOCAR Turkey Chairman Vagif that there is no room for a new ing a statement to Arabic-language world's largest liquefied natural gas military capability, with its 2016 unemployment rate above 5 per cause of lower corporate margins. media. Since the diplomatic row exporter, and that Egypt might Aliyev said that they will produce capacity increase at Petkim. «The defence budget exceeding the Pen- cent. But while the OECD expects Weaker growth could push the solutions to imports with their new investment should be near erupted, slogans against and in even bar tankers carrying Qatari tagon's estimate of $180bn. It is household consumption to ease, it unemployment rate above 5 per support of Qatar have dominated cargoes from using the Suez Canal chemical park investment. Accord- Petkim. We are currently engaging higher than China's official budget said consumers would also use cent.” Own an innovative start-up? ing to Hürriyet, Aliyev said that in talks with the government to Twitter in Arabic, a platform used as they head to Europe and be- figure of £109bn, and despite its money normally earmarked for Find out how to win £5,000 for widely in the Arab world, particu- yond. they are working on a new invest- evaluate this within the scope of slow economic growth, the coun- savings to keep spending in the face your business. 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Turkish Teklas’ Bulgarian unit -- based in into recession as Kardzhali, near the Turkish border -- employs 1,850 people, set to get loan economy contracts

The European Bank for Recon- the country’s southern region," Trade and manufacturing industries were struction and Development said Larisa Manastirli, the EBRD (EBRD) is providing a €20 million director for Bulgaria. major heavyweights that stifled produc- ($22.5 million) loan to support the “Its further expansion and the tion, government body says expansion of the Bulgarian subsid- EBRD’s continued support means iary of Turkish automotive sup- economic growth and employ- plier Teklas, the bank announced ment. We welcome in particular Monday. Part of the loan will be Teklas’s commitment to training South African economy has The South African rand weak- for refurbishing the firm's plant in local engineers and technicians for slipped into a recession after its ened shortly after the announce- Serbia, the bank said on its web- the new R&D center through edu- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ment, losing 1.1 percent to the site. The company is producing cation programs and know-how decreased by 0.7 percent during greenback by 11:45 local time fluid circulation systems and anti- training.” For his part, Teklas CEO the first quarter of 2017, a govern- (10:40 GMT). vibration parts for auto giants such Nebi Anil stated, "Teklas is pleased ment body announced Tuesday. South Africa has been strug- as General Motors, Volkswagen, to strengthen our relations with the “In the first quarter of 2017, gling to address its slow economic Volvo, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and EBRD, which has played an im- both the secondary and tertiary growth, but experts say political Renault. Founded in 1971 in Tur- portant role in our success in Bul- sectors recorded negative growth uncertainty such as sacking of re- key, Teklas operates nine plants garia since the start of our relation- rates,” Statistics South Africa said spected Finance Minister Pravin in Turkey, Bulgaria, China, Mexi- ship in 2012. in its report released in the capital Gordhan led to tumbling of mar- co, and Serbia. We have had a chance to swift- Pretoria. kets. According to Statistics South Teklas’ Bulgarian unit is the ly realize most of the investments It said trade and manufactur- Africa, the country has experi- company’s largest subsidiary and required by customers in Teklas ing industries were the major enced eight economic recessions employs 1,850 people from its Bulgaria. Our aim is to manage in- heavyweights that stifled produc- since 1961, with the longest oc- base in Kardzhali, a southern town creasing customer expectations tion, with trade falling by 5.9 per- curring in 1991–1992, due to a glo- near the Turkish border, the an- with our cutting-edge technologies cent and manufacturing by 3.7 per- bal economic downturn. nouncement added. and provide innovative ideas from cent. Africa’s most industrialized In 2012, the EBRD provided our R&D center in light of the lat- However, the agriculture and economy also witnessed a reces- a €6 million ($6.7 million) loan for est trends." ISLAMABAD: The government mining industries both contribut- sion in 2008–2009 when the coun- the modernization and expansion The EBRD has invested over is set to further increase property ed positively to growth in the first try caught up in the global finan- of production facilities in Kardzha- €3.6 billion ($4.05 billion) in Bul- valuation rates by about 30% for quarter, but not enough to avoid cial crisis. li. The €20 million loan will help garia to date. Its investment there major cities of the country from the recession, it said. (Anadolu) the company to establish an R&D in 2016 totaled €620 million ($698 July, a move that is expected to irk center. "Teklas Bulgaria is an an- million). real estate agents and traders much chor for the town of Kardzhali and (BBC) like it did last year. The move comes as the real estate sector, once labelled ‘dead for revenue pur- Mexico, US reach pose’, has started generating cash for tax authorities. As a result of Dan a Gas appo in ts the increase in property valuation rates for federal tax purposes un- agreement on der the first phase, the govern- advisers fo r ment’s revenues from the sector increased 100% to roughly Rs15 sugar trade billion while property transactions also grew by one-tenth during the $ 70 0 m sukuk July-April period of the outgoing Deal not accepted by US sugar industry, will be dis- fiscal year. “Under the second cussed in coming days, US secretary of commerce says phase, the government would no- re s tructurin g tify fresh property valuation rates for major cities by June 30,” said prevailing Deputy Collector rates lector (DC) rates but far lower than Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) but were still only 30% to 40% of the prevailing market rates. These Chairman Dr Mohammad Irshad actual market rates. Now the plan rates have provided the new base on Tuesday. He said that the rates is that the property valuation rates for collecting withholding taxes would go up by another 30% on should jack up by another 25% to from the sellers and purchasers of average, but these would still be 30% on average over and above the the properties and the capital gains lower than the actual prevailing previously increased rates. In cas- tax on profits made from these market rates. The government also es, where the rates were earlier on transactions. President Mamnoon plans to increase the number of the higher side, the increase could Hussain promulgated the ordi- cities included in the plan from 21 be 15% to 20%. However, there nance to give effect to the deal. to approximately 30, said Irshad. would also be cases where the FBR Revenue generation The new rates will be notified af- would lower the rates, mainly in Most black money is parked ter the approval of the Finance Bill Karachi and Faisalabad, said offi- in the real estate sector and author- 2017. FBR officials said that there cials in the FBR. The FBR had no- ities have long been trying to tap was a plan to bring Larkana, Khair- tified rates for major cities includ- this area. However, due to various pur and Shaheed Benazirabad un- ing Lahore, Multan, Gujranwala, lacunas, collection always re- der the ambit of the new property Faisalabad, Sialkot, Islamabad, mained negligible compared with valuation regime. At least two more Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Sar- the transactions and returns on Mexico and the U.S. on Tuesday Televisa network on Tuesday. In cities will be included in the list godha, Mardan, Abbottabad, Pe- them. From July through April of reached an agreement in principle addition, the price of raw sugar and Okara could be one of them. shawar, Quetta and Gwadar. The this fiscal year, the FBR collected that would end a three-year bilat- would rise from 22.25 cents per In August last year, the FBR had authorities had picked these 21 cit- Rs15 billion on sales and purchase eral dispute over sugar trade. Mex- pound to 23 cents, while the price notified fresh property valuation ies for determining fresh, but slight- of the properties which was 100% ico's Economy Minister Ildefonso of refined sugar would increase United Arab Emirates energy firm of March, the company’s cash bal- Guajardo and U.S. Secretary of from 26 cents per pound to 28 Dana Gas appointed Houlihan ance was $298 million. The com- rates for 21 major cities which pro- ly compromised, property valua- more than the previous year’s col- vided a new base for the collection tion rates during its negotiations lection during this period. The fig- Commerce Wilbur Ross an- cents, Guajardo said. Ross said the Lokey as financial adviser and pany announced on May 18 that nounced the agreement during a agreement have not been accepted Squire Patton Boggs as legal ad- it had received a $50 million pay- of withholding and capital gains with the representatives of the real ure is exclusive of capital gains tax tax. Withholding tax rates range estate sector. The government and collection, which will be known news conference in Washington. by the U.S. sugar industry but that viser for the restructuring of its ment from the Egyptian govern- Under the deal, Mexico agreed it will be discussed in the coming $700 million sukuk maturing in ment, representing 18 percent of from 1% to 3% while the CGT the realty sector representatives once individuals file their annual rates are in the range of 5% to 10%. had agreed to increase the rates, income tax returns likely by Sep- to reduce its refined sugar exports days. The agreement comes as the October, sources said on Sunday. the company’s total overdue re- to 30 percent from 53 percent, in United States, Mexico and Cana- The company, which has been fac- ceivables from Egypt as of the end These rates were higher than the which are higher than Deputy Col- tember this year. (Tribune) exchange for the suspension of da are ready to modernize the ing a cash shortage because of of the first quarter of this year. A dumping and subsidy investiga- North American Free Trade Agree- missed payments from its assets few days later it received an addi- tions. Since 2014, U.S. sugar man- ment (NAFTA), with formal ne- in Egypt and Iraq’s Kurdistan, an- tional partial repayment of $20 ufacturers have protested imports gotiations expected to begin in nounced in early May its inten- million from Egypt. India’s entertainment, of refined Mexican sugar, alleging August. Both Ross and Guajardo tion to hold discussions with the The cash price of the compa- the Mexican industry receives agreed that the sugar negotiations sukuk holders. Dana and New ny’s sukuk with a 9 percent profit subsidies from federal govern- have allowed the two countries to York-listed Houlihan Lokey did rate jumped by over 3 points on media industry to clock over Rs ments and sends sugar up north at get to know each other better, not immediately respond to re- the news of the Egyptian pay- dumped prices. which can facilitate the modern- quests for comment. Abu Dhabi- ments, from 84.9 cents to 88 cents. "The agreement would allow ization of NAFTA. The free trade listed Dana’s creditors have ap- Dana says it is also owed $714 291,000 cr by 2021: PwC Report Mexico to maintain its position as agreement has been heavily criti- pointed New York-based bank million from the Kurdistan Region- the main supplier of sugar to the cized by President Donald Trump, Moelis and US legal firm Weil, al Government. This would be the United States market without pay- who announced late April he would Gotshal & Mangers as financial and second time Dana has had to en- ing compensatory tariffs imposed seek to renegotiate its terms rather legal advisers to negotiate the re- gage its creditors to amend the by unfair investigations," Guajar- than scrap the deal. structuring of the Islamic bonds. terms of its outstanding debt. In do said during an interview with (CNN) Dana said at the beginning of 2012, the firm was the first UAE May that it needed to focus on entity to fail to repay a bond on “medium-term cash preservation” time. That technical default led to because of the challenges it faced a consensual restructuring. over cash collections. As of the end (BBC) EtihadAirways: Qatari passport holders India’s entertainment and media 10.57 per cent over the next five crore in 2021, even though Inter- sector is expected to grow steadi- years to an overall size of Rs. net advertising is expected to grow barred from travel ly over the next four years as per 290,539 crore. Also, being the least at a much faster rate of 18.6 per The National Bureau of Statistics according to the report increased PwC’s Global entertainment and digitised market, will allow the tra- cent as opposed to TV advertising has said that the number of Nigeri- from 15 per cent to 15.4 per cent. or transit via UAE media outlook 2017-2021. The in- ditional media to grow without at 11.1 per cent from 2017-2021. ans who became unemployed rose It noted that unemployment and dustry is expected to exceed Rs. being disrupted by digital compe- On Cinema sector, the report said by 2.1 million to 11.55 million at underemployment were higher for Abu Dhabi state-owned Etihad coordinated action on Monday by 291,000 crore by 2021 growing at tition.” The report said that TV India’s cinema sector is expected the end of 2016 from 9.48 million women than men in the fourth quar- Airways said all travelers holding Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United compound annual growth rate Subscription revenues are expect- to experience strong growth at the beginning of the year. The ter of 2016. For instance, 16.3 per Qatari passports are currently pro- Arab Emirates and Bahrain to cut (CAGR) of 10.5 per cent between ed to grow from Rs. 52,755 crore throughout the forecast period. NBS stated this in its unemploy- cent of women in the labour force hibited from travelling to or tran- ties with Qatar, accusing the coun- 2017 and 2021. Frank D’Souza, in 2016 to Rs. 90,713 crore in 2021 Box office revenue will rise from ment report, which was released were unemployed as of the end of siting through the United Arab try of supporting terrorism. Partner & Leader - Entertainment at a CAGR of 11.6 per cent. Rs. 10,957 crore in 2016 to Rs. on Monday night. The NBS re- the fourth quarter of 2016, accord- Emirates as part of government & Media, PwC India, said: “Un- Though subscriber numbers are 18,047 crore in 2021. Publishing port stated that the unemployment ing to the report. On the other instructions. Expatriates residing like the global economy, which will still growing, explosive growth lev- in India is expected to grow from rate was highest for persons in the hand, it added that 12. 3 per cent in Qatar and in possession of a Qa- see a shrinking contribution from els of the recent past will not be Rs. 38,601 crore in 2016 to Rs. labour force between the ages of of males were unemployed in the tari residence visa will also not be the Entertainment and Media sec- replicated in the future. The cable 44,391 crore in 2021 at a CAGR 15-24 and 25-34, which represents fourth quarter of last year. The re- eligible for visa on arrival in the tor over the Outlook period, in market is approaching a saturation of 3.1 per cent. Book publishing is the youth population in Nigeria. port stated, “The economically UAE, Etihad spokesman said in India the sector’s growth rate will point but will still account for over projected to grow at 6.1 per cent For instance, it stated that the un- active population increased from an email. “This ruling applies to outpace the overall GDP growth 55 per cent of the total pay-TV CAGR over 2017-2021 whereas employment rate was highest for 108.03 million to 108.59 million; all airlines flying into the UAE, in- rate. Being a relatively under-de- market in 2021. In terms of adver- Magazines are expected to grow those within the age bracket of 15 this represents a 0.5 per cent in- cluding Etihad Airways,” the veloped market in terms of per tising, TV will continue to hold the at a CAGR of 3.3 per cent for the to 24, rising from 25 per cent to crease over the previous quarter spokesman said in the statement. capita spend on entertainment and larger share of the pie from Rs. same period. The Indian newspa- 25.2 per cent. For the 25 to 34 age and a 3.4 per cent increase when The transit restrictions following media, will allow India to grow at 21,874 crore in 2016 to Rs. 37,315 per industry continues to grow group, the unemployment rate, compared to fourth quarter 2015. THURSDAY. JUNE 08, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Known for their all-natural beau- yet different look this year: strik- ly drop-dead gorgeous on the oc- ty and minimal make up, both ing black gowns! casion. Mahira Khan and Mawra Hocane Mahira Khan: Mahira Khan looks like a dream have one thing in common: the like The Raees star sizzled in a in this off-white sari to keep it simple when it comes to gown by Black Archive at this Mawra Hocane: their style statements. year’s Lux Style Awards. The fig- The Sammi starlet recently Mahira Khan, Alia Bhatt wore ure-hugging, long black dress was posted a throwback picture from the exact same outfit, but who classic, but trendy in its design. the GQ Best Dressed Awards last wore it first? The perfectly placed cut-outs on year. Wearing a pleated plain black From making headlines with the skin-tight dress accentuated gown, Mawra looked nothing out stellar red carpet looks to their the superstar’s waist and comple- of the ordinary. With a dull hairdo graceful appearances as fashion mented her petite figure. Mahira and zero accessories (except for week showstoppers, it was only sported Dior earrings, bangles by close to invisible studs!), Mawra fair to compare their ensembles Kiran Fine Jewellery and effort- was an utter disappointment. when they stepped out in similar less beach waves. She looked tru- (Tribune) Priyan ka Cho pra lo o ks sizzlin g ho t in black Michael Ko rs go w n

he 34-year-old actor took to Twitter to share her dazzling look at the awards, and she was accompanied by none other than ace Michael Kors himself.

Priyanka Chopra attended the cov- stream on the official CFDA page, eted CFDA Fashion Awards last Michael Kors described Priyan- night in New York and just like ka’s dress as, “A little dangerous, Game of Thrones: every time her look will make ev- very New York, covered up and eryone go insane. The 34-year-old sexy at the same time.” Priyanka l do n ’t take actor took to Twitter to share her Chopra also shared a boomerang Sophie Turner’s Sansa dazzling look at the awards, and video on Instagram doing her she was accompanied by none oth- trademark twirl. This isn’t the stardo m serio usly: Stark may turn to the er than ace Michael Kors himself. first time Priyanka and Michael In the picture, the Baywatch had met. Priyanka had attended Kajal star is seen wearing a black gown an event last year by Michael Salm an Khan dark side in season 7 with a plunging neckline and a belt Kors and had posed with him cinched at the waist along with along with other celebrities. Aggarwal black heels. During a Facebook live (Hindustan Times) Sophie Turner of Game of Thrones has hinted that her replaces character Sansa Stark on the show might turn more evil in the upcoming season. Karan Tacker Tamannaah credits ‘guru’ in Queen Rem o D’so uza Tamil fo r his expertise remake?

in dan ce The Tamil remake of Queen is struggling to take off -- after Tamannaah Actor Karan Tacker, ex-Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa contestant walked out of the film, and Nach Baliye host, says he has immense love and Superstar Salman Khan says he hood. Playing an innocent and rumour is that Kajal lives his life in the present and does pure character at an age when you respect for choreographer Remo D’souza. Aggarwal might essay the not take his celebrity status seri- are no more innocent, when you role that Kangana Ranaut ously. Asked what he wants to have experienced the corrupt Sophie Turner has hinted that her erful and hungry for revenge from played in the original. achieve in life, Salman told the world, was quite a task,” he said. character Sansa Stark on the fanta- the people who have done her fam- media, “I live my life moment to Salman, who has previously sy drama series Game of Thrones ily wrong,” Turner told Yahoo Lif- moment. If I can make this mo- collaborated with Kabir Khan in could get darker and evil in its new estyle Singapore. The Tamil remake of Vikas Bahl’s ment the best one, I know I will blockbusters like Ek Tha Tiger and season. The 21-year-old has been “It’s really amazing to watch critically-acclaimed Queen is strug- get something out of it.” Bajrangi Bhaijaan, said he was playing Sansa since the beginning her grow, but now I’m a little wor- gling to take off, with the project “As an actor I’m doing my job. aware their styles were different. of the popular HBO series and ried because she’s kind of reached facing one setback after another. The persona you are seeing on Salman Khan to replace Fawad thinks her character has evolved a pinnacle. Is it all downhill from Originally planned with Taman- screen is a contribution of more Khan in KJo’s next “Our under- greatly to become a vengeful indi- here? Does she die now? So who naah Bhatia in the titular role of than 100 people from the differ- standing of films is very different. vidual. knows, maybe she does.” The sev- Rani, played by Kangana Ranaut, ent departments like camera, His approach is more realistic, he “(Sansa has changed) from be- enth season of the show will pre- the project was to be helmed by make-up and lights. How can I comes from documentary film- ing a naive, vulnerable innocent miere in India on July 18 on Star filmmaker Revathy. Just when take that madness that you guys making. On the other hand, I am young woman and being such an World. things looked positive and the (media and common people) call into commercial Bollywood. Per- underdog... to being a leader, pow- (Santa Banta) makers heaved a sigh of relief, stardom so seriously? I don’t,” haps that is why when these two Tamannaah opted to walk out of added Salman. meet, a new style is born.” How- the project after she claimed it was The Dabangg star, who has ever, he said he won’t work with shelved. However, the makers clar- launched e-cycles under his Being Kabir if a script is not good. ified that the project hasn’t been Human brand, spoke on how dif- Talking about the success of Gal Gadot’s story of dropped and that they let Taman- ficult it was for him to play an Aamir Khan’s Dangal, Salman said, innocent boy in his upcoming film “As long as no one is losing their Tubelight. “(The) character in the money, I am happy. If the audi- how she landed film took me back to my school ence loves the film, I am happy.” days. Sohail and I used to recollect Tubelight releases on June 25. Wonder Woman so many memories of our child- (Santa Banta) role is so adorable Erica Fernandes: I get film offers but I’ve decided to naah go because they couldn’t af- concentrate ford her. Tamannaah was appar- ently very excited to be part of the on my TV For someone like Karan Tacker, such as Salsa, Bollywood, contem- project. She even said, “Ever since who never enjoyed dancing nor porary and Zumba. All praise for I saw Queen, I wanted to be part show was confident on stage, falling in Remo, Karan considers him his of its remake though I wasn’t sure love with the art was a surprise. ‘guru’. “You always don’t need a if it will be remade. What makes Television actor Erica Fernandes isn’t in a hurry to return to films. The And if he has to thank one person personal guru; you may also have Queen special is that it’s one of Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi actor, who had done a few films in the for inspiring him to become a danc- a distant one. Remo sir is that dis- those rare women-centric films South and one Bollywood flick, says that she continues to get film er, it would be choreographer tant guru to me who continues to which succeeded in reaching out offers, but she refuses them. “After doing modelling and films, I was After getting rave reviews for her my husband ‘I don’t know how to everybody, across all sections.” performance in Wonder Woman, long I can take it’, always dragging Remo D’Souza. “When I was a inspire me at every stage. I have always keen on doing TV. It was in my to-do-list. So when Kuch Rang part of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, Remo immense love and respect for him,” Meanwhile, reports have surfaced Pyar Ke Aise Bhi happened, I was more than happy. And I am thankful Gal Gadot has finally opened up my family to Los Angeles,” shared that Kajal Aggarwal, who is cur- about landing the role of the Ama- Gadot. It was one of the trips to sir was one of the judges. Being a adds Karan, who recently had a that my debut show is doing so well. For the time being I have therefore zonian princess. The Israeli actor, Los Angeles in which she got a call non-dancer, every time I per- small reunion with Remo on the rently on a career high with films decided to concentrate on TV and make the most of the medium,” says while talking with host Jimmy from Zack Snyder, who directed formed, he used to deduct my sets of his ongoing reality show such as Vivegam and Vijay 61, has Erica, who plays the lead opposite Shaheer Sheikh in the show. Talking Fallon on The Tonight Show, re- Batman v Superman, Gadot’s first marks and point out my mistakes. Nach Baliye 8. Recalling the mo- been signed on as Tamannaah’s re- about films, Erica adds, “I get a lot of film offers from South but right vealed that she was struggling to outing as Wonder Woman. She Lesser marks used to upset me ini- ments spent with Remo, an elated placement in the project which is now I don’t have the mindset to take them up. It’s better to do one thing get a foothold in Hollywood and added, “He wanted to audition me tially, but then I realised that the Karan adds, “I told him that I’m slated to go on the floors very at a time and give your full concentration. Also, after the show gets over was considering to give-up on the for a ‘secret role’. It’s where you low scores motivated me work indebted to him for making me a soon. Revathy will still direct the I am planning to take a break from work and spend some alone time,” industry, when a life-changing of- get the lines, but you have no idea harder. I’ll always be thankful to dancer. He was happy to know project while actor-filmmaker Su- she adds. Asked f she is open to doing reality shows on the tube, Erica fer came along. “This industry, the what the story is about, what the Remo sir for the dancer that I’ve about my progress as a dancer and hasini Mani Ratnam will pen the says, “I can’t imagine locking myself up in a house for so long... away rejection can be tough. I had so character is, nothing.” become today,” says the actor, also wished me luck for my fu- dialogues. from friends and family. But a dance show would be good for me.” many ‘almost’ [auditions]. I told (Hindustan Times) who learned many dance forms ture.” (Tribune) (Santa Banta) (Santa Banta) THURSDAY. JUNE 08, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Champions Trophy: England into semi-finals w ith New Zealand w in

England booked a place in the Champions Trophy semi-finals with an 87-run win over New Zealand in Cardiff. Andy Murray ready to The tournament hosts will now return to the Welsh capital next Wednesday as Group A win- learn from ‘match that got ners - even if they lose to Austra- lia at Edgbaston on Saturday - to face the runners-up in Group B. away’ against Kei Nishikori Put into bat at a blustery Swalec Stadium, England set the Black Caps 311 to win - their 23rd score over 300 since the 2015 World Cup - before bowling them out for 223 in 44.3 overs. Although England's score ultimately proved to be an insurmountable one, they were also bowled out, albeit just three balls short of their 50 overs, with batsmen guilty by varying degrees of not converting on starts. Every- one bar Mark Wood and Jake Ball reached double figures, with Alex Hales, Joe Root and Jos Buttler As England prepare to face Italy forms. Undoubtedly the star of the emy and impressed on loan at As- with Italy down to 10 men for a hitting half centuries. While it took in the U20 World Cup semi-final, tournament for the Azzurri so far, coli last term, playing 36 times. large chunk of the match, and Buttler 24 balls to hit his first we run through five players who scoring four of Italy's nine goals Sky in Italy reported in January showed the 20-year-old's aerial boundary, his unbeaten 61 off 48 could do cause young lions prob- so far in South Korea. He made 42 that Cassata was subject of an strength as he piled in at the near helped lift England's score beyond lems in South Korea. Italy, man- appearances in midfield for Ascoli £8.7m enquiry from Liverpool, but post. He scored nine goals in just Unlike Kei Nishikori, Andy Mur- to learn a bit from that. "There's a that 300 threshold. Earlier, Hales aged by former Milan midfielder in Serie B last season, scoring eight Juventus hold the 19-year-old in 14 appearances for AC Milan's ray has not forgotten their US good chance it's a long one. He re- (56) and Root (64) shared an in- Alberigo Evani, began the tourna- times, and will most likely be high regard. One of few in Evani's youth side in the first half or last Open quarter-final and is looking turns well and he's very solid off nings-best partnership of 81 for ment with a disappointing 1-0 de- loaned out to a Serie A side having side with Serie A experience, the term, before netting at a similar rate to make amends for the one that both wings. He's always a tough the second wicket - their 14th fif- feat by Uruguay, but qualified for returned to Juventus this summer. left-back played 12 times for Em- on loan at Cittadella in Serie B, scor- got away when the pair meet in guy to play against. "I'm happy ty stand in the 23 times they've the knockout stage with a 2-0 win He was signed by Juventus in Jan- poli last season, having been on ing four and registering two assists Wednesday's French Open equiv- with where my game's at. Every- batted together - after Jason Roy's over South Africa and a 2-2 draw uary for £8m, but was loaned back loan at Ascoli in the 2015/16 sea- in just three starts. alent. The world No 1 was the thing is going pretty well just now. poor form continued, scoring a with Japan. until the end of the season, and the son. Another Italy youngster favourite to claim the title in New I'm feeling good going into the mid- scratchy 13 from 23 balls before They then saw off favourites natural winger, who regularly cuts He's small and slender, but the linked with a move to the Premier York last summer after winning dle part of the second week." being bowled round his legs by France 2-1 in Cheonan, before a in from the right onto his left foot, 19-year-old is technically and League with Chelsea and Liver- Wimbledon and Olympic gold, but Murray has played himself into Adam Milne. New Zealand, mean- dramatic 3-2 victory over Zambia continues to impress. physically impressive, and can pool, Barella made 30 appearanc- came unstuck on a dramatic form from unpromising beginnings while, were going along nicely at in extra-time, setting up a last-four Orsolini's team-mate Cassata may play either side of full-back. He es for Serie A side Cagliari last sea- evening. He won the first set and played his best match of the 156-2 by the 30-over mark of their clash with Paul Simpson's England. be a familiar name to some Liver- made his debut for Inter at just 17 son, impressing in central midfield. against Nishikori 6-1, led by two fortnight so far in beating Karen reply, with Kane Williamson (85) Who should Simpson's side be fear- pool fans, after the midfielder was in 2014, but again is likely to be Barella needs refinement, un- sets to one and looked poised to Khachanov in round four. The Scot and Ross Taylor (33) closing in on ing ahead of the clash in Jeonju on linked with a move to Anfield in loaned out for the 2017/18 season surprisingly at barely 20 years of go a break up in the fourth when has impressed former Wimbledon a fourth consecutive century stand Thursday afternoon? Remember, January by the British and Italian to gain more experience. Luca Vido age, but has shown enough last play was interrupted by a loud champion Goran Ivanisevic, who in ODIs against England before we'll be blogging the clash from press. - age 20 - on loan at Cittadella from season to suggest a move to one of noise from the PA system. Mur- expects him to see off Nishikori. Mark Wood (1-32) took the key midday on SkySports.com on The 19-year-old has been nur- AC Milan Vido's headed winner in Italy's bigger sides this summer. ray lost his cool then fought back The Croatian, who is playing wicket of captain Williamson with Thursday across our digital plat- tured in the Juventus youth acad- the last eight against Zambia came (Sky Sport) from 2-4 down in the decider to in the 'legends' event at Roland a beauty that bounced sharply off lead 5-4, but lost the last three Garros, said: "He didn't start the a length, rapping the gloves games. Remarkably, Nishikori was year like he wanted and he started through to Buttler behind the unable to recall the match at all to be a little not confident, but he stumps. It proved to be a proces- when asked about it on Monday, found himself in the right moment. sion for England from there on out, despite the win being one of the "What better way to find yourself the final six New Zealand wickets IBF grant exception for biggest of his career. With a sheep- than at the French Open, when falling for just 32 runs, with Liam ish grin, the eighth seed said: "Ac- you're top seeded? Last year fi- Plunkett (4-55) finally rewarded tually, I'm very bad with the mem- nalist, he wants to win. "He played for his fine efforts with the ball by ories. I don't even know if I won very well [against Khachanov] and running through the tail along with Anthony Joshua-Wladimir or lost. I won?" Murray has an he's playing better and better. Now Adil Rashid (2-47), who returned encyclopaedic knowledge of his a lot of things are possible. Andy to the team after being dropped previous matches, so there was no knows what he has to do. "I don't against Bangladesh. From the first Klitschko rematch chance of him having a similar see Nishikori beating Andy. Nish- two balls of the day, Roy's strug- memory lapse. ikori doesn't have the mental side. gles for form were evident as Tim He told Eurosport: "Obvious- He's going to crack, Andy is too Southee first appealed for lbw - ly we played at the US Open and good. Tennis-wise, yes, but it's not correctly not given, hitting outside that was five sets, a match that got only hitting the balls." the line - and then beat his outside away from me a little bit, so I need (BBC Sport) edge second up. While Roy got a nicely driven four away fourth ball, his first 18 deliveries contained only four scoring shots, and he re- lied heavily on Hales to get the team Acapulco among off to a good start. Hales duly obliged, brutally bludgeoning Trent Boult for six Ballyogan entries over deep midwicket in the fourth over, and then continuing to tick Luke Donald Acapulco is one of 19 entries in O'Brien entries in the Group Three along nicely with Root when Roy's the TRM Ballyogan Stakes at the over six furlongs. demise finally came. But soon af- Curragh on Sunday. The four-year- Alphabet, Asking, Elizabeth ter bringing up his 60-ball half cen- fails to old filly made an impressive win- Browning, Music Box and Smoul- tury, Hales also fell to Milne (3- ning start for Aidan O'Brien at the der are still engaged by the Bally- 79), bowled by a well-disguised qualify for Curragh last month but was then doyle operation. slower-ball after having launched forced to miss the Greenlands There is a strong British inter- the Kiwi quick for a superb Stakes at the same track as she had est in the Ballyogan, with Buying straight six the ball before as En- US Open developed a temperature. Trouble, Evil Spell, Kassia, gland looked to target the short Acapulco, who won the Queen Wowcha, Florida Times, Mystic straight boundaries at the Swalec. Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot two Dawn and Poet's Princess still in Root had lifted Mitchell Sant- ner for two such sumptuous sixes Anthony Joshua has been granted tender Kubrat Pulev in a title de- a sold-out Wembley Stadium in as Steve years ago when trained in America contention. by Wesley Ward, is one of seven (Sky Sport) over long-off on his way to his 52- an exception by the IBF to fight fence. The IBF have also stipulat- April. ball fifty, while straight-hitting was Wladimir Klitschko for their ed there will be no further excep- "We've had so many offers - Stricker also a feature of Ben Stokes' bat- heavyweight title, but the bout tions or unification fights beyond Nigeria, Dubai, America, and also ting as he pitched in with a handy must take place before December December 2. we have the opportunity of 53-ball 48 once captain Eoin Mor- 2. Pulev had objected to the ex- Cardiff here in the UK," promoter progresses Carli Lloyd voted Sky gan came and went for a forgetta- Joshua's promoters Match- ception being made but has accept- Eddie Hearn told Sky Sports this ble 13, out edging Corey Ander- room Boxing requested the special ed the condition that he will re- week. Steve Stricker and Keegan Brad- son behind. Anderson (3-55) also extension and it was approved by ceive his shot at the IBF world "Financially, Cardiff's not the Sports Sportwoman of accounted for Root, chopping onto the IBF at their convention. champion after the rematch. best choice, but also at the same ley were among the players to progress through US Open quali- his stumps, while Stokes looked The governing body has ruled A number of venues are being time, if it's not broke don't fix it, in sparkling touch at the crease be- that the winner of any potential considered to stage the second and we have that mentality with fying, as former world No 1 Luke the Month for May Donald missed out. fore falling to Boult in the 38th rematch between Joshua and Kl- meeting of Joshua and Klitschko, 'AJ' moving forward." over when looking to uppercut the itschko must then face No 1 con- who contested an excellent fight at (Fox News) Presidents Cup captain Strick- er topped the standings in Mem- left-armer with the wind towards phis, one of 10 qualifying events the River Taff for a third six of his in the USA on Monday, to book a innings, only to pick out third man. place at Erin Hills - the first US Buttler provided the firepow- K o en Bo uw m a n cla im s st a g e Open in his home state of Wis- er in the final 10 overs, flat-batting consin. The 50-year-old shot Milne for six over mid-off to reach t hr ee o f Cr it er ium d u Da up hin e rounds of 67 and 65 to secure one his 41-ball half century, while of nine places available at German- Moeen Ali (12), Rashid (12) and Plunkett (15) came and went after Koen Bouwman won stage three town Country Club and Ridgeway, where Harris English and Chez brief cameos - Moeen unfortunate of the Criterium du Dauphine from to pick out short fine-leg with a the breakaway as Team Sky's Reavie also progressed. "It means a lot," Stricker said. "It's been at perfectly timed pull that was sen- Chris Froome and the general clas- sationally caught by Boult - be- sification hopefuls crossed safely the forefront of my thinking for a while now. It's kind of a relief fore the innings ended with three in the main pack. The sprint teams wickets in three balls across the were hoping to dominate on the knowing I got in on my own terms." Donald failed to finish in- final two overs. New Zealand's 184km stage from Le Chambon- run-chase got off to a poor start as sur-Lignon to Tullins, but miscal- side the top 14 of the 120-field playing at the Brookside and Lakes You have voted Carli Lloyd as ton Dash in America following the Luke Ronchi - so impressive in culated the strength of the six-man Saturday's game against Australia break who held on in strong head- courses in Columbus, ending the your Sportswoman of the Month end of her loan spell with City. 36-hole event three strokes off the for May. Lloyd claimed 46 per cent of - was bowled for a duck by Ball in winds at the finish. LottoNL-Jum- the first over. Ball, who had so bo's Bouwman burst clear on the for the 23-year-old Bouwman. winner of this race safe, and he cut mark. J.T Poston topped the The USA international and the public vote in the sportswom- This was the second of the first crossed the line in 40th place. He standings in that event ahead of two-time World Player of the Year en poll, to finish ahead of Para- struggled in England's opening win final straight to win ahead of Del- over Bangladesh, conceding 82 ko Marseille Provence's Evaldas three stages to be won from the and the other main contenders sit Jason Kokrak and Bud Cauley, scored in Manchester City's 4-1 lympic wheelchair racer Hannah break, with Lotto-Soudal's Tho- 69 seconds down on De Gendt af- with Bradley and fellow former Women's FA Cup final win over Cockroft (19 per cent), Team Bath runs, bowled a fine opening spell Siskevicius, while stage two win- into the wind and latterly added ner Arnaud Demare (FDJ) beat mas De Gendt, winner on day one, ter three days of this eight-stage major winner Stewart Cink joining Birmingham last month, adding to netballer Eboni Beckford-Cham- doing enough to retain the overall race, with Wednesday's 23.5km Bryson DeChambeau and Scot- two goals for the club in the UEFA bers (18 per cent) and British pole Taylor's wicket to finish with im- Bryan Coquard (Direct-Energie) in pressive figures of 2-31 from his the battle for minor places at the race lead. Team Sky had guided time trial likely to rewrite the stand- land's Martin Laird in a share of Women's Champions League. vault record holder Holly Brad- Froome up to the front towards ings completely. fourth. The 34-year-old midfielder has shaw (17 per cent). eight overs. front of the peloton 11 seconds (BBC Sport) later. It was a first professional win the finish to keep the three-time (Sky Sport) (Sky Sport) now returned to parent club Hous- (Fox News) THURSDAY . JUNE 08. 2017-Jawza 18, 1396 H.S Vol:XI Issue No: 304 Price: Afs.20

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The Imam Sahib district governor KABUL: Former President, Ha- Gunmen reportedly entered Iran's has appealed for reinforcement mid Karzai “strongly” condemned parliament building in central Te- troops amid ongoing clashes be- Wednesday’s twin terrorist attacks hran and opened fire on Wednes- tween security forces and the Tal- against the Iranian parliament day morning, shortly before sui- building and the shrine of the cide bombers attacked Ayatollah iban in Imam Sahib district of Kun- founder of the Islamic Republic, t least duz province. Khomeini's Mausoleum in the eight late Imam Khomeini in the capital same city. Iranian media reports Clashes broke out four days Tehran. “These attacks indicate people ago, when the insurgents launched that our region has been targeted indicate that at least eight people killed and a an attack on a check post. by vast terrorism that only aims were killed in the parliament and number Imamuddin Quraishi, district to weaken and destabilize the re- mausoleum attacks, and a number wounded in governor said in a phone call to gional countries,” Karzai was quot- of civilians wounded, Iranian news two separate TOLOnews that the Taliban is ed as saying by a statement. “Em- agencies Fars and Mehr, reported. attacks in only 500 meters from his com- powering of terrorism that claims A report said: "A person entered Tehran, pound. He warned if reinforce- victims from Afghans on daily ba- Iranian parliament today and start- Iranian news ments are not sent to the area the sis, proves this reality.” Karzai ed shooting at the guards. "He shot agencies have district could fall to the insurgents. added that he had frequently called one of the guards in the leg and ran reported. “This is the fourth day since on the regional fight against terror- away." A guard was hit in the leg the Taliban launched their attack The governor said insurgents were a mere ism and believed that the program and two members of the public and the clashes are ongoing. going on under the title of ‘fight were also injured, the Fars news 500m away from his compound and warned against terrorism’, was actually agency reported. The two civilians “The provincial police chief empowerment of terrorism and visited the district but did not bring the district could fall to the Taliban. were also injured. News agencies extremism. “I once again empha- ov rifles and a handgun. Reports um in Tehran, opening fire on peo- reinforcements with him. If rein- size that the joint regional struggle reported that a male assailant es- forcements are not deployed to the 4am on Sunday from Aqa Bay vil- Taliban has taken control of Aqa is the only way to save people caped the building but was cap- indicate a number of people have ple inside and wounding a number district, Imam Sahib will fall to the lage and now heavy clashes are still Bay Rouz-e-Mubarezk and Koch- from terrorism and extremism. tured in the vicinity while on the been taken hostage by gunmen in- of them. The report said two of Taliban.” ongoing,” said Mohammad Yousuf e-Bakhmal villages,” said another There is no way but unity and sol- run. However, a senior MP, Elyas side the parliament building. Sep- the assailants have been arrested, Meanwhile, a provincial coun- Ayoubi, a provincial council mem- provincial council member Safiul- idarity.” The former president Hazrati, told the news agencies arately, the Fars news agency re- including a woman, and the third, cil member said the Taliban has al- ber. “A few days ago, the Taliban lah Amiri. Military officials how- wished paradise for the martyrs three assailants had attacked par- ported that three attackers stormed a female suicide bomber, blew her- ready taken control of some areas attacked the Imam Sahib district. ever claim the Taliban has sustained of the Iran attacks and quick re- liament, carrying two Kalashnik- the Ayatollah Khomeini Mausole- self up. (ToloNews) in the district. Unfortunately they have taken a heavy casualty toll in the dis- covery for the injured. “The clashes started at about most parts of the district and the trict. (Tolo News) Pul-i-Charkhi prison unwilling to pay municipality tax Six Taliban insurgents killed KABUL : Kabul municipality of- cussed the issue with the prison’s At least six Taliban insurgents were ficials on Wednesday said the Pul- officials and even had asked them killed in a clash with security forc- i-Charkhi Prison administration through formal letters to pay the in Faryab clash es in northern Faryab province on was willing to pay 57 million af- remaining 57 million afs in taxes; Tuesday morning, local officials ghanis in cleanliness tax to the but there had been no satisfactory said on Wednesday. In addition, a municipality. response. He also accused the pris- number of other insurgents were Safiullah Abadi, 12th munici- on’s officials of not helping the mu- injured. The clash started early pal district chief, told Pajhwok nicipality in widening a road which Tuesday in Pashton Kot district Afghan News the Pul-i-Charkhi passed near the prison. of the province after a group of Prison also had to pay cleanliness Despite efforts, contact with insurgents attacked a police check tax. Taxes payable by the prison Pul-i-Charkhi Prison could not be post, a spokesman for the provin- owes from 1386 solar year stood established. Lt. Gen. Abdul Hal- cial police chief, Karim Yourish at more than 67 million afs; how- eem Kohistani, the director gener- said. “The clash lasted for a few ever, the prison had only paid 10 al of prisons, said he was unaware hours and the security forces were million afs and was unwilling to the Pul-i-Charkhi prison was tax able to thwart the insurgents at- clear the remaining. Abadi said the defaulter, adding he would look into tack,” Yourish said. (ToloNews) municipality had many times dis- the issue. (Pajhwok)