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Bangladesh's top court Page 4 clears factory disaster KABUL: Pakistan and Afghani- film stan have agreed to end a blame game over a spate of attacks and ULEMA ASK FOR CHANGE IN said they will instead work to re- store trust, Pakistan's foreign pol- PEACE MECHANISM icy chief said. Austria, Sartaj Aziz, foreign affairs ad- AT News Report Germany viser to Pakistan's prime minister, visited the Afghan capital Kabul KABUL: A number of religious lam , a number of ulema said that open borders on Friday for a regional economic Page 5 to migrants conference and also held meetings scholars come hard on peace pro- peace efforts haven t yielded in with the president, foreign minis- cess of Afghanistan and termed the any result so far. offloaded by ter and national security adviser. peace efforts as unsatisfactory. Abdul Hadi Hedayat, one of Hungary Afghan President Ashraf Talking to a gathering orga- the participants of the gathering, Ghani had however made closer nized by the Science Academy of if the government want to bring ties with Pakistan a priority when Afghanistan under the title of enduring peace to Afghanistan, then he took office last year, hoping Peace from the viewpoint of Is- Islamabad could push Afghan Tal- See P2 iban leaders to the bargaining table Pak rupee to end Afghanistan's long war. falling in The relationship appeared to yield fruit in July with ground- 123 INSURGENTS KILLED IN SECURITY OPS Page 9 absence of breaking official peace talks with AT News Report govt sup- the militants. But after confirma- port tion of the death of group's founder KABUL: At least 123 armed Taliban fighters were killed and 121 others were wounded in different crackdowns within the past 24 hours. In a press Mullah Mohammad Omar, the release issued here, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and process was suspended and the the National Directorate of Security (NDS) has conducted clearance operations against insurgents in different areas of Nangarhar, Kunar, Ghazni, Taliban launched a wave of attacks Maidan Wardak, Logar, Paktia, Ghor and Farah provinces. In these operations 103 rebels were eliminated and 97 others injured. MoD said that 17 in Kabul, killing more than 50 peo- ANA soldiers have lost their lives in the operations. Meanwhile, Ministry of Interior said that 20 Taliban fighters were killed and 24 others ple. Speaking on state television wounded in various districts of Takhar, Kunduz, Faryab, Sar-e-Pul, Jowzjan, Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzgan, Logar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika and Palestine's on Saturday after meeting Ghani, Helmand provinces. At least 10 insurgents were arrested in the joint operations and were handed over to the relevant judicial body for interrogation, Reuters reported that Aziz said: the ministry said in a statement. only female "The main thing that we both Page 8 agreed upon was to restore trust, taxi driver end the blame game against each has big other and create a positive atmosphere.""We will work on plans establishing memorandum of trust building to avoid such a situation in the future." Afghanistan has not however publicly commented on the talks. Best of Aziz also confirmed that the friends? A Afghan finance minister would visit Pakistan in the first week of new chapter November to attend a meeting of a Page 7 joint economic commission to dis- IN SAUDI- cuss and expand trade ties. US RELA- 14 Taliban killed TIONS in Kunar AT News Report US Open: KABUL: A swarm of the Taliban Five-time militants attacked military check- winner points of Afghan security forces Page 11 in eastern Kunar province on Sat- Federer urday. The security force killed 14 powers Taliban militants and wounded 23 others in retaliation. The provin- through cial police chief, Abdul Habib Sayedkheli, said that the incident took place in Manogai and Chapa Dara districts of the province, when a group of 500 Taliban mili- tants stormed checkpoints of Af- ghan troops. He said an Afghan soldier was also killed in the at- Is Ghani s foreign tack. He added that the militants Page 6 also set on fire eight shops and four houses of civilians in Chapa Dara policy a farce? (II) district. Govt urged to improve Protestors in Nangarhar reject distribution security in eastern zone of e-ID cards sans Afghan, Islam words Afghan refugee children in Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi of fuelling insurgency in the prov- Let alone the Muslim Nangharis, even those from Sikh religious minority inces. They asked the government community said they wouldn t accept ID cards without the word of Editorial P6 Iran and their bleak future KABUL: Residents of eastern to prevent the Taliban and Daesh zone on Sunday urged the govern- from subversive activities. The el- Afghan as they said they were proud Afghans ment to improve law and order sit- ders said that Pakistan was sup- uation in Kunar, Nuristan, Nan- porting Daesh and the Taliban to AT News Report pressurize Afghanistan and secure are resident of Afghanistan and we demands. The protestors also is- its goals. They also asked for uplift KABUL: Hundreds of tribal el- also want the word Afghan to be sued a resolution, where they projects such as clinics and schools. ders, youth, civil society activists included in the e-ID cards, he add- warned the government to either Weird but Haji Abdul Saboor, a tribal elder from and provincial council members Nuristan, said that 48 countries had ed. The protestors were chanting include the words Afghan and Is- true: Elli provided financial assistance to Af- from eastern Nangarhar province the slogans of we want the words lam in the ID cards, or they will Page 10 competing ghanistan but people in eastern took to streets on Sunday to de- Islam and Afghan in e-ID cards , continue their protests. with Hema zone are deprived of clinics and mand the government to include we will not take ID cards sans the Faiz Zaland, one of the main roads. Some of the roads are closed the words Islam and Afghan in words Afghan and Islam and we organizers of the protests, said that Malini due to insecurity. Many patients the electronic identity cards (e-ID want computerized national iden- similar protests were also staged die on way to Asadabad due to lack cards). tity cards with our identity . in northern Kunduz province on of healthcare facilities in Nuristan. Zabihullah Zmarai, a member Tareq Sapai, one of the orga- Sunday. He said that the protests Martyrs garhar and Laghman provinces. Inayatur Rahman, another elder of Nangarhar provincial council Around 500 tribal elders, civil so- form Nuristan, said that his prov- nizers of the protests, said that might turn violent if the govern- Week: who was also one of the organiz- they will continue their protests if ment did not meet the demands of Families ciety activists, religious scholars ince was secure, but it has become a and lawmakers from the four east- safe haven for terrorists now and ers of the demonstration, said they the government did not meet their protestors. commemorate will not allow anyone to kick start Page 3 those fallen ern provinces gathered in a hotel intelligence center of a neighboring in defense here to convey their grievances to country. distribution of the e-ID cards, un- of the government. They asked the Haji Rohullah, a former jihadi com- less the government ensures inclu- homeland government to ramp up security mander from Kunar, said that they sion of the words Islam and Af- so the residents of the four prov- support the government but the lead- ghan. inces could live and work freely. ers must ensure security in their Members of the minority Sikh They called presence of Daesh in province. Shir Zaman, another resi- their provinces main threat to the dent of the province, accused Is- community were also among the Conference on security, and urged President lamabad of supporting terrorism in protestors and were shouting the support to Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Afghanistan. He said that Pakistani slogan of we want to the word Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah military was firing rockets onto Afghan to be included in the ID Page 2 local to address the deteriorating secu- Kunar province which claimed lives cards . Armit Singh, spokesman for industries held rity situation. They accused Paki- of tens of innocent civilians while the central temple, said that they stan and some international actors displaced hundreds. are proud of being Afghan. We

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MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Conference on support to local industries held By Farhad Naibkhel

KABUL: Ministry of Commerce vestment Support Agency and Industries (MoCI) organized (AISA), Qurban Haqjo, said that a daylong conference in Kabul to due to lack of facilities, investment address grievances of the local in- is flowing out of the country. dustrialists. He said that different organi- The conference titled Afghan zations are interfering to address National Industries Support Con- commercial disputes. He suggest- ference Opportunities Challenges ed that the problems must be re- and Solution was attended by solved by a single body. representatives of the governmen- Chief Executive Officer of the tal and nongovernmental organiza- Afghanistan Chamber of Com- tions and traders. They discussed merce and Industries (ACCI), challenges and outgoing ways. Khanjan Alkozai, said that inves- Minster of Commerce and In- tors had shown interest to invest dustries, Humayon Rasa, said that in the country but the government industries are the main pillar of a failed to provide them required fa- system in the country, but in Af- cilities. He said that land grabbing ghanistan local products face many by influential people has become challenges. an established practice, but crafts- Speaking at press conference men don t have land to run their here, he termed lack of land, ener- business. Corruption and red- gy, transport facility, financial and tapism were the other challenges human resources main problems pointed out by Alkozai. The AC- faced by the local industries. CI s chief said that they don t need He said that Afghanistan im- support on papers but real sup- KABUL: Rahim Khan s return to Public School in Peshawar. He said ports goods worth $8.2 billion an- port of the government. Afghani- Afghanistan 28 years after fleeing police started showing up at their to Pakistan was not the homecom- home, asking to see their papers Kabul asks Tehran to legalise ing he had dreamed of. The 60- and threatening them with jail if year-old is one of a growing num- they failed to pay Rs1,000-1,500 ber of Afghan refugees making the every few days. Afghan refugees' stay journey back with trepidation, as We decided to leave, there militant violence intensifies, yet was no other option. We couldn t KABUL: As Kabul and Tehran on of the Afghan government. ed work on a proposal for regis- Sunday discussed the refugees The Iranian delegation asked tering illegal Afghan refugees in feeling shunned by their adopted keep paying Rs1,500, said Man- problems living in Iran, Afghani- Afghan officials to prevent illegal Iran. However, Iran s deputy in- country as relations between the an. This is our home and we have stan asked the neighbor country border crossings and pave the terior minister said the Afghans in neighbours sour. no other place to go. to issue cards to unregistered Af- ground for refugees turning to their his country feared coming back to nually while the country s export stan has turned into a consumer The rate of returnees has more Raja Shafqat Khan, senior of- ghans and provide them visas and country. According to figures from Afghanistan. is only $500 million. Investment country and a good market for the than quadrupled this year, with ficial at the police headquarters in education facilities. the Ministry of Refugees and Re- Zulfiqari asked the Afghan has shrunken, giving way to in- neighboring states to sell low qual- 137,000 refugees going back to Muzaffarabad, said he was not Refugees and Repatriation patriation, more than two million government to encourage their re- creased unemployment. ity goods. The government should Afghanistan since January. The aware of the family s complaints. Minister Sayed Hussain Alami Afghans are living in Iran, 1.4 mil- turn to the country. The Afghan The minister said that in order support domestic products, he number could spike further if the As a policy, we do not harass Balkhi and an Iranian delegation led lion having legal documents and the government should provide job by Iran s Deputy Interior Minis- rest unregistered. opportunities for educated Af- to cope with the challenges faced suggested, adding that capacities countries fail to agree by Decem- Afghan refugees, he said. ter Zulfiqari discussed a joint pro- Three days ago, a join team of ghans inside the country, he sug- by the local industries, the MoCI and potentials are available in the ber 31 to extend identity cards for Rahim is moving in with his posal for legalising the Afghan ref- experts from both countries start- gested. (Pajhwok) has drafted a strategy which would country, but there is need for the two years and allow some 1.5 mil- daughter-in-law s family in Afghan- ugees in that country. be implemented after including government s support to encour- lion registered refugees to stay in istan s northeastern province of A statement from the Minis- views of artisans. He further said age the local industries. Afghan Pakistan. The chill in relations has Kunduz, because fighting is too try of Refugees and Repatriation that local products would be pre- businessmen have complained re- put the extension in doubt, along fierce around his farmland in neigh- said both sides conferred on the ferred over foreign goods by the peatedly about inattention of the with the future of another million bouring Baghlan. registration of Afghan refugees in government in bidding process. relevant authorities towards local unregistered Afghans. But as thousands arrive from Iran and issuing migration cards to the unregistered ones. The strategy will help in remov- industries. They say that if the First we had to leave here Pakistan, others are seeking ways Giving them travel documents ing the hurdles in front of the local government wants to stop the cap- because of war. Now we are com- to leave. After Syrians and Eritre- protecting their residency rights industries. It will help us to devel- ital flight, it should introduce new ing back to war and bombs, said ans, Afghans are the third biggest and ensuring the enrolment of Af- op, he said. laws and provide facilities to the Rahim, speaking at a refugee cen- group of asylum seekers in Eu- ghan children in Iranian schools Chief of the Afghanistan In- investors. tre near Kabul where his Pakistan- rope, making up about 11 per cent were the main demands made by born grandchildren were being of the 300,000 refugees and mi- Kabul during the meeting. taught the dangers of mines and grants who have made it across the Simplifying the issue of visas, roadside bombs. Mediterranean this year, accord- extending three months visas and sharing information about the Af- Farah to get university Outside, the thump of explod- ing to data from the UN refugee ghan refugees was another demand ing ordnance from a nearby army agency. Ahmad Faheem, who runs AT News Report range echoed off arid hills, another the agency s Kabul reception cen- reminder that Afghanistan appears tre, said some of those leaving were KABUL: Governor of Farah prov- Jawad Ahmad, said that the uni- no closer to peace than when Khan among 3.5 million former refugees ULEMA ASK FOR CHANGE IN PEACE MECHANISM ince, Mohammad Asif Nang, laid versity students were currently down the foundation stone for con- studying in a temporally arranged left during the Soviet occupation. who returned from Pakistan soon From P1 Yet Rahim and others like him say after the US toppled the Taliban struction of new university in the building. He told Khaama press they had little choice but to leave in 2001, amid brief hope of a bet- it should bring changes in mechanism of the peace process. province. that these students would be relo- Pakistan. ter future. Day by day the secu- Those involved in the peace process are utilizing it as a project and are only concerned about their Speaking at the ceremony, he cated after completion of the con- His son Abdul Manan said rity situation is getting worse, said personal interests. If we didn t remove the hurdles before the peace process, the efforts would not yield in said that this is a pleasant moment struction work over the new uni- their life as labourers and fruit ven- Faheem, who himself returned positive results, he added. for him to lay the foundation stone versity. He further said that the dors in Azad Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan in 2002. They have Zamen Ali Muhaqiq, another religious scholar, said that Afghans are in the sever need of peace; however, of Farah University. I hope this construction would cost Afs41.6 (AJK) took a turn for the worse come here to try to settle, but if the peace talks between the government and the Taliban should be held without interference of foreigners. university would present cadres on million. Funds had been provided after Taliban gunmen massacred at there is no security and no work, The religious scholars said that the main victims of current wars are civilians, thus all-out efforts should national and international levels, by the Afghan government from least 141 students at the Army they leave again. Reuters be made to bring ever-lasting peace to the country. he added. Provincial spokesman, its budget.

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN MINISTRY OF ENERGY & WATER Project Coordination Unit Rehabilitation Works for SperwanIrrigation Scheme(Q172) Irrigation Restoration and Development Project NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING No:MEW/IRDP/HQ/IFB/MIS/ Q172/306 Date: 10- September- 2015 Invitation for Bids (IFB) 1. This Invitation for Bids follows the General Procurement Notice for this Project that appeared in Development Business, issue dated11th January, 2011. 2. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Ministry of Energy & Water has received a grant from the International Development Association toward the cost of Irrigation Restoration and Development Project and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this grant to payments under the Contract for Rehabilitation Works for SperwanIrrigation Scheme . 3. The Ministry of Energy & Water, Project Coordination Unit now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified bidders for the Rehabilitation Works for SperwanIrrigation Scheme Q172) in Panjwai District of Kandahar Province consisting of:(Right Bank Protection Wall & Spillway with Gates Structure, Left Bank Protection wall, 2 Local Bridge (Social Structure) 4. The Completion Period is 360days(including slack period of about90 days). 4. The bids must be submitted along with the bid security in the amount of Afs180,000 in the shape of Bank Guarantee as per Bank Guarantee Form attached to the Bidding Documents.

5. Bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive Bidding (NCB) a procedure specified in the World Bank s Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits dated January, 2011 and is open to all bidders from Eligible Source Countries as defined in the Bidding Documents 6. Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from Eng. Samiullah (email: [email protected] Mobile No: +93(0)700602472), Deputy Director, Project Coordination Unit, Kandahar Regional and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 to 16:30 Hrs from Saturday to Wednesday 7. Qualifications requirements include:

(a) The minimum (b) Experience as prime (c) Liquid assets and/or credit required annual volume contractor in the construction facilities, net of other of construction work for of at least one work of nature contractual commitments and the successful bidder in and complexity equivalent to exclusive of any advance any of the last five years this work during the last five payments which may be made (Afs) (5) years (Afs). under the Contract (Afs). 9.2 Million 5.5 Million 2.3 Million For detailed post qualification verification please refer to Section I. - Instructions to Bidders and Section II- Bid Data Sheet of the bidding documents. 8. A margin of preference for eligible national contractors/joint ventures shall not be applied. 9. A complete set of Bidding Documents in English may be purchased by interested bidders on the submission of a written Application to the address below and upon payment of a none refundable fee of Afs. 2500. The method of payment will be Cash/Direct Payment. The Bidding Documents shall be collected by the bidders from the address below. 10. The bidders or their authorized representatives are invited to attend a pre-bid meeting which will take place on 28 September 2015at 10:00 Hrs at the address given belowto explain the procedure of proper preparation and submission of bid, clarify issues and to answer questions on any matter that may be raised at that stage. The minutes of pre-bid meeting will be prepared and sent across to all the prospective bidders who have brought the bid documents up to date of pre-bid meeting and also immediately after the pre-bid meeting. 11. Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before 10:00 AM 10-Oct- 2015 theDeadline Date for bid Submission (if the submission date is announced an official holiday, then bids must be submitted next working day at the same time and venue). Electronic bidding shall not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened physically in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to attend in person at the address given below at 10:00 AM on the Deadline Date for bid Submission given above. 12. The address referred to above is: 1) Deputy Director PCU-Kandahar Ministry of Energy & Water, PCU Regional office Front of Aino Mina City, Kandahar National Radio & Television Compound, Arghandab Sub-River Basin office Kandahar, Afghanistan 2) Mr. Nasir Ahadi, Procurement Officer PCU, Ministry of Energy and War, Darul-Aman Road, Kabu Email Address :[email protected] This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Martyrs Week: Families commemorate those fallen in defense of homeland By Akhtar M. Nikzad KABUL: Family members, friends gives sacrifices to safeguard its and relatives of the men fighting freedom. Still the injured enemy is against the then Soviet Union and waiting to ambush and has been the insurgents to defend Afghani- conspiring to hit sword from back- stan gathered at the National Gal- side. The information ministry is lery here to commemorate the requesting all print and electronic Martyrs Week and remember media outlets to respect the sacri- the lost loved ones. fices of the martyrs, honor Mar- Ministry of Information and tyrs Week and adjust their pro- Culture (MoIC), relatives and grams in accordance with the dig-

EMERGENCY CALLS Police KABUL: China s ambassador to Kabul, Mr. Deng Xijun along with a Chinese delegation visited the office of ex-President Hamid Karzai, here on Sunday. 100 - 119 The two sides discussed matters of mutual interests, situation of the region and the recently held RECCA-VI conference in Kabul. During the meeting, Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Abdul Karim Khurram and Zarar Ahmad Osmani were also present. Hospitals FMIC Hospital friends of the killed people, civil nity of Hafta-e-Shahid, she re- Behind Kabul Medical society activists and representa- quested. University: tives of the political parties orga- Mohammad Musa Friwar, an nized a ceremony on Sunday in activist, said that martyrs are the 0202500200-+93793275595 this regard. shining torch of history who laid The Equal Access AfPak journalists exchange program In the commemoration cere- down their lives for the country. Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital mony, pictures of the martyrs were He pointed out that some op- By Asma Gul displayed and the memories were portunists misuse the names and Pule Bagh-e- Umomi recalled. pictures of famous martyrs and 070263672 Deputy Minister of Informa- gain profit and threat poor people tion, Muzhgan Mustafawi, said on the streets. that marking Martyrs Week is Those who exploited the Khairkhana Hospital an opportunity to remember the name and pictures of the martyrs 0799-321007 national heroes and renew the to usurp state-owned lands and get pledges to protect the country at power are traitors, he said. 2401352 any cost. Families of the martyrs She said that the pages of the claimed that their sons and hus- country s contemporary history bands lost their lives to defend the Indira Gandhi Children are inscribed with the glorious and country but the government does heroic struggle of our heroes in not pay attention to support them. Hospital, Wazir Akbar defending the country s freedom In May 2012, the National Khan, Kabul 2301372 and in this course the role of na- Assembly of Afghanistan have ac- tional heroes like Ahmad Shah cepted September 9th as a new Massoud and thousands unknown national holiday to honor Ahmad Photo one: Delegates of the third AfPak media exchange Ibn-e- Seena martyrs is distinguished and sig- Shah Massoud and those who died program are listening to Ms. Rahila Attai, head of Provin- nificant. Our hero nation still fighting for the country. cial Council at her office. Attai shared information on Pul-e-Artan, Kabul women empowerment initiatives. The delegates also met Photo two: With the CEO of The Voice of Afghan Women Radio FM 96.3 Ms. with key other officials of Provincial Council, rights orga- Jamila Mujahed. She briefed the guests regarding her efforts to give voice to the cause 2100359 Man arrested with 160kg of nizations and media persons in the meeting. of women empowerment. Usually people from across the otic. I started nursing a desire to in mind regarding Kabul disap- away from the beautiful Shahr-e- Wazir Akbar Khan world shy away from going to con- visit this nearby city. I could have peared. To watch and read is some- Naw, I came across a multitude of explosives in Kunar flict-riddled countries. And the rea- taken the venture to visit Kabul in thing totally different than coming unskilled laborers waiting desper- Hospital NDSThe National Directorate of Security (NDS) Afghanistan s intel- son is obvious. The fear of being a private trip, but perhaps it to Kabul and seeing the develop- ately but with a despondent look 2301741, 2301743 landed somewhere in troubles and wouldn t have been that much ex- ments you re your own eye. on their faces that someone will ligence agency has arrested with 160 kilograms of explosive materials in sometimes even killed. There are citing, fruitful, informative and Though on the way to our lodge, I come and pick them up for con- his vehicle in eastern Kunar province. A statement issued by NDS on too many war-wracked countries. mind-shaping as was the third Af- came across too many beautiful struction works. The poor state Ali Abad Sunday states that the explosive materials were concealed in a Suzuki But in my case, it is not Syria, Iraq, Pak media exchange program orga- things yet the same time, those of these laborers and beggars speak vehicle and were brought from across the border. NDS statement adds Libya or Palestine, but Afghani- nized by the Equal Access. When poor and pale faces, bristled hair volumes of economic disparity and Shahrara, Kabul that Jahanzib was arrested while driving the truck to deliver these mate- stan a country and people that we landed in Hamid Karzai Inter- of the beggars still haunt me. On the widening rich-poor standoff. rials to Manogai District for making roadside and magnetic bombs. NDS has been witnessing the war for national Airport in Kabul, I one side there was astonishing de- On one hand, if Kabul has been 2100439 has also released a video with the statement purportedly showing the the past plus-three-decades. Un- thought some danger will be lurk- velopment and changing city while flooded with latest cars and shops arrested man Jahanzib . My name is Jahanziib, my father s name is like those who usually shy away ing just outside the airport but as on the other there was poverty are being built with an exotic touch, from taking the journey to Afghan- soon as we left behind the airport, quite visible in every square of the on the other hand, poverty makes Malalai Maternity Shah Mahmood, I am a resident of Asmar District, he said. These istan, I was too excited to visit the a wide and neat highway and some city. Those very statuses of pov- this city obnoxious as it is flooded explosive materials were handed over to me in Shelton by Khan, who country, which is too near, but still skyscrapers and lustrous marriage erty tell their own stories of grief with beggars. New buildings are Hospital told me to deliver the materials to Nangalam, on the bridge a man will be far away. In a city like Peshawar, halls by the side of the road wel- and terror and economic disparity. being built. Kabul has become the 2201377/ 2301743 waiting for you, you have to give them hand over to that man. This where millions of Afghans live, for come us. I was astonished. And all Whenever I have stepped out the world s fastest changing city of the comes as Kunar province is witnessing severe insecurity these days. most of us Kabul still remains ex- of a sudden the grim pictures I had confines of the guesthouse not far world, and given that there are no major security problems and the city doesn t slide back into 90s, Banks soon the city will regain its ancient charm, tranquility and attracting Da Afghanistan Bank people from across the world. The signs of the war are disappearing 2100302, 2100303 from the capital city or you may say there are no signs of the war at Kabul Bank all. Yet there is sub-consciously felt fear, which is ubiquitous and be- 222666, 070285285 ing felt not only by those coming from outside but even the natives. Azizi Bank Amid this fear, guest houses are being sprawling. The city is grow- 0799 700900 ing. What is worth interest is most Pashtany Bank of the people know speaking Urdu. This is because either they have 2102908, 2103868 lived in Pakistan or they learnt it from Indian movies. The people are friendly. By looking at the Air Services dresses of the people, one can eas- ily build up a view of how the Pa- Safi Airways shtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks and some well-off Afghans, edu- 020 22 22 222 cated in the West, have shaped the city s culture. The people are open. They are not diplomatic. And they Ariana speak their hearts frankly and hon- estly. Whatever they feel about 020-2100270 Pakistan, they speak it out. Being in Kabul and back in your home- town makes you think that our Kam Air soils, of course, are parted but not 0799974422 our souls. There is warmth in the air and love on the ground. Though, there is an array of griev- Hotels ances, some of them not unfound- ed. And these grievances need to Safi Landmark be addressed. The people, we met there make a long list, but meeting 020-2203131 with Malala Shinwari, an ex-par- liamentarian and a person who vis- ERENA ited Taliban s Qatar Office, a few S months back as a part of a 20-mem- ber delegation and held informal 0799654000 peace talks with the representa- tives of the Taliban, provided a New Rumi Restaurant window on women s role in poli- tics and peace talks. Since the 0776351347 My name is Sonita Alizadeh. I would find ways to feed her. One of every three Afghan children theme of this third media exchange am from Afghanistan. I came to They d bring her lunch to school, was women s empowerment Internet Services USA eight months ago. I am a stu- or invite her to share their own therefore meeting with women s change agents was really produc- UA Telecom dent at Wasatch Academy. And I m meals. Her new life at the boarding faces uneducated future in Iran tive to peep into women s role in a singer and rapper about wom- school in Utah is the exact oppo- shaping the future of Afghanistan. 0796701701 / 0796702702 en s and children s rights. site. Tens of thousands of Afghan chil- various barricades lying in front of Envoy of Afghanistan s Min- Shinwari said the Taliban represen- And here s where Sonita switches Sonita says here, everyone eats dren who have fled the country them. istry of Education in Iran says that tatives voiced their support, for to her native Farsi. She goes back sushi, all the time. A classmate told with their parents because of war Masoumeh Abad, member of Iran has been sheltering Afghan the first time, for female lawmak- Exchange Rate and forth between the two languag- her it s one of the more expensive and poverty face uneducated fu- Tehran Islamic City Council is refugees for several years and ers. Another worth mentioning es during her conversation with foods in the US. Sonita grapples ture in Iran. quoted by the media as saying that shoulder the burden but still one name is Jamila Mujahid, the CEO Purchase: reporter Shuka Kalantari, who vis- with that, being among students of The Voice of Afghan Women ited her at her new boarding school who, she thinks, don t understand Even though, Iran s Supreme about 1.5 million Afghans are re- in every three Afghan children is Radio FM 96.3. This radio chan- in Utah. what the lives of poor children are Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei siding in Iran, adding that children out of school because of preven- nel is speaks for women s rights One US$ = Sonita says one of the first like. Like that their leftover food has ordered that all Afghan refu- rights expect the country s govern- tions. and provides them an opportuni- 63.68Afs things she did when she landed in would be an excellent meal for a gees in his country be permitted ment to provide opportunities for Shams-ul-Rahman urged Irani- ty to raise their voices. She briefed Utah was eat pizza. She loves the child who has nothing to eat. to schools but reports suggest that them to study. an officials to assist these kids. us on the history and efforts of One Pound Sterling= pizza here. Her new boarding But she likes her friends, and barricades still exist to prevent the channel for Women Empower- 97.06Afs ment. The week-long stay in Kab- school has a massive dining hall, she s grateful for her new school, these children from schooling. 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MONDAY . SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Switzerland keen to expand ties with India in skill training

NEW DELHI: India's Reliance Defence and Aerospace has part- nered with Russian Helicopters and Rosoboronexport to manufacture Ka-226 helicopters in India, said an executive of parent company Reliance Infrastructure. India gave a firm order to Rus- sia, on nomination basis, to manu- facture 200 Ka-226 helicopters for the Indian military. The order could increase because India has a need for more than 400 light utility he- licopters in the Ka-226 category. Despite the arrangement, Rus- sia is not committed to manufac- ture Ka-226 only at Reliance facil- ities, said a Russian diplomat. Sev- eral parameters pertaining to trans- fer of technology, cost and creation of infrastructure still need to be worked out, the diplomat said. After India canceled a global tender last year to purchase 197 light utility helicopters, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during talks in December with the Indian prime minister, offered co-produc- tion of Ka-226 light utility heli- copters under India's "Buy and BERN: With the global demand for Swiss system of vocational edu- Make" category, which includes skilled workers growing rapidly, cation and training methodology of transfer of technology. Switzerland is keen on expanding imparting skill training to students A Reliance Infrastructure ex- its ties with India in skill training at a young age with the support of ecutive said he is optimistic pro- and education initiatives by open- the industry, including major play- duction will occur in India because ing at least four more centres in ers like elevator-maker Schindler. last month his company was al- the country. Schindler, which has vocation- lotted 289 acres of land in the state previous experience in manufacturing helicopters, will be able to produce the Ka-226. Though a beginning has al- al education programmes in its of Maharashtra to set up an aero- “It [manufacturing helicopters] is a highly complex process; [you will have to] develop skills for a helicopter final integration line to be set up ready been made in this direction plants, train about 300 apprentic- space facility which will also house and that requires design, engineering, manufacturing and integration process skills to be acquired, trained and mastered. This is a time-consuming and with a Vocational Educational es at its headquarters in Ebikon and the Ka-226 production facility. capital intensive process. Some experts feel it is even more complex than aircraft manufacturing. Thus it would be a huge challenging task,” said an However, some analysts are Training centre in Bangalore under other branches. executive of India’s private sector major Larsen & Toubro. the Swiss VET Initiative in India According to Probst, a key skeptical whether Reliance De- An executive of the Tata Group, which is also exploring the possibility of manufacturing helicopters in India, said: “Very difficult, but with fence and Aerospace, which has no proper transfer of technology it can be done. After all, everybody has to start sometime.” (SVTII), the agencies involved are feature of the scheme is that it keen on firming up and broadbas- adapts its programmes, courseware ing the collaboration, possibly and delivery to suit the needs of Four months after through a memorandum of agree- industries in India and other parts Bangladesh's top court clears factory disaster film ment with the Ministry of Skill of the world, factoring in local ed- quakes, Nepal Development and Entrepreneur- ucation and training system as well DHAKA: Bangladesh’s highest Plaza factory and other deadly ac- emas across the country on Sep- front pages worldwide and turned fails to spend ship. as socio-economic conditions. court on Sunday cleared the cidents sparked a local and inter- tember 4 after being given the all her into a national heroine. Akhter "It is important that the gov- Apart from SFIVET, the ini- screening of a film depicting one national outcry over the industry’s clear from the Bangladesh Film has since married her boyfriend donor money ernment start sharing. This will tiative is supported by agencies of the world’s worst industrial di- shoddy conditions and low pay for Censor Board in July. The film and found a well-paid job at a ho- help strengthen and expand the like State Secretariat for Education sasters, the 2013 Rana Plaza gar- its four million workers. centres on the dramatic rescue of tel run by international chain Wes- KATHMANDU: Two months af- project to areas other than the tra- and Research (SERI) and the in- ment factory collapse, reversing an Director Nazrul Islam Khan 19-year-old Reshma Akhter from tin, which approached her after her ter foreign countries and interna- ditional segments like mechanical dustry bodies. earlier decision to ban its release. said he was delighted with the the ruins of the nine-storey com- ordeal. Khan told AFP the movie tional agencies pledged $US4.1 bil- and electrical works to food pro- Its Indian partners include lion ($5.925 billion) to help Nepal cessing, hospitality industry and National Skill Development Cor- More than 1,100 people were court’s decision and would now plex 17 days after its collapse. was “about Reshma’s love story” recover from its worst natural di- killed in the disaster and the High work to get a fresh release date. Images of Akhter, dusty and but also tried to “raise awareness factory management," said Franz poration and the Confederation of saster, the government has yet to Probst, founder and chairman of Indian Industry (CII). Court last week halted the film, The 137-minute film was dazed, being pulled from the about the life of the country’s mil- make arrangements to receive the “Rana Plaza”, over concerns its scheduled to hit more than 100 cin- wreckage appeared on newspaper lions of women garment workers”. SkillSonics, which has a skill train- "The need for skill workers is money and has spent nothing on ing facility in Bangalore. growing in world over, especially gruesome images would “negative- reconstruction. The United Na- ly portray” the nation’s $25 bil- tions estimates that almost 3 mil- "To start with, there could be in a country like India. Switzer- lion garment industry. lion survivors of twin earthquakes at least four centres in four regions land has a successful model and But the Supreme Court, led by in April and May - around 10 per of India," said Probst during a pre- we are ready to strengthen our Chief Justice SK Sinha, overruled cent of the Himalayan nation's sentation for a visiting team of In- partnership with India in this vital the earlier order, Attorney Gener- population - need shelter, food and dian officials, planners and media- area," said Mauro Moruzzi, Am- al Mahbubey Alam told AFP. basic medical care, many in moun- persons at the Swiss Federal In- bassador, SERI. “There is now no restriction tainous, hard-to-reach areas. stitute for Vocational Education Apart from VET, there is also to release the ‘Rana Plaza’ mov- Govind Raj Pokharel, chief execu- and Training (SFIVET) here. a "huge potential" in collaboration ie,” Alam said, without giving the tive officer of the newly created "We look forward to discuss with India in exchange of higher National Reconstruction Authori- with Minister ( Rajiv Pratap) science and technology education court’s reasons. ty, said the government was un- Impoverished Bangladesh’s Rudy. A working group could be and research, said Moruzzi. likely to start spending the money going to India to explore the po- He, however, said things could garment industry is the world’s until October at the earliest, be- second largest after China’s and a tential and strengthen the partner- still improve from Indian side if cause of delays in approving plans ship," he said. there is a direct funding method to mainstay of the economy, churn- and concerns about starting build- ing out millions of pieces of cloth- ing work in the monsoon season. "An agreement between the support aspirants coming for high- ing for Western retailers. Nepal has been criticised for its two governments will make the er scientific studies in Switzerland But the collapse of the Rana chaotic response to the quakes that initiative stronger as far as kno- in place of the existing system of killed almost 9000 people. The whow sharing, certification and clearing it through ministries. country failed to adequately pre- identifying and implementing lead "(Now), there is a little handi- pare even though experts had pre- projects. The scheme could then cap. Now it is done through vari- Imran pulls dicted an earthquake was likely. be rolled out to both private and ous ministries. Of course, it is a And then the government strug- public sectors," he said. policy decision on the part of In- Oct 4 ‘gauntlet’ gled to cope with relief. The SVITII is modelled on the dia," he added. out of kit LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-In- saf chairman Imran Khan on Sat- urday asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to get ready to feel the heat of a massive protest dem- onstration in Islamabad on Oct 4. He called upon the “sup- pressed segments of society” to join him in the protest. By M Ilyas Khan Gibraltar, was hatched by the of- part of our training.” They crossed supply us, and that we were on 18 months. 2003: Two sides agree chance to see him get married and At a Kissan Convention at ficer in command of the region, over from the side of Forward our own,” says Qurban Ali. “It a ceasefire along the Line of Con- have children of his own.” The war, Hafizabad Stadium, Mr Khan said In August 1965, what looked like Maj-Gen Akhtar Hussain Malik, Kahuta, and operated mostly was the most difficult time of our trol Mohammad Nazeer walked it seems, failed to break Nisha Be- the government had pushed almost an indigenous uprising spread like according to Pakistani and other around the town of Mandi in mission; the heights behind us that back to the Pakistani post drag- gum, but many say it broke Ayub all segments of society against the a jungle fire across the part of Kash- military historians. Poonch district. He says most of were under Pakistani control pre- ging the dead body of a fellow fight- Khan, Pakistan’s first military rul- wall as they were not being given mir under Indian control. A month Media captionA BBC corre- the men in his group were “just viously had been captured by In- er from his village, Mohammad er who authorised Operation their due income despite hard later, India invaded Pakistan in spondent reports on the 1965 con- kids, like me”. At this tender age, dians. We were vulnerable.” Yusuf. “The sentry at the post said Gibraltar. Image copyright Hulton work. Particularly, he said, the what Pakistanis call an “unpro- flict between India and Pakistan. they saw much bloodshed - but Kashmir timeline 1947 - British there was no transport to ship the Archive Image caption Ayub Khan farmers were being penalised for voked” move. Since the war ended The idea was to use armed their morale was high. “When there rule ends, sub-continent is parti- body to the village. Then some ci- was overthrown three years after contributing to the country’s econ- in stalemate, Pakistan holds a vic- guerrilla bands to destroy India’s was shooting and action, we would tioned into mainly Hindu India and vilian contractors came along and the war He rapidly lost power af- omy. tory pageant each year on 6 Sep- communication system, and attack be in high spirits. But when it was Muslim-majority Pakistan 1947- helped me carry Yusuf to his fam- ter the war, and was overthrown He said the petroleum prod- tember to mark the day it fended nodal points to tie up the Indian quiet, we would get bored. We 48: First war between India and ily home.” Yusuf, a tall man of in a popular uprising three years ucts prices had come down by off a much bigger enemy. But was army. hardly ever thought about life and Pakistan over the region, ends with about 23, had been married for only later. He died in 1974 “a sad and 30pc in the world but the farmers the uprising in Indian-administered Qurban Ali and his group took death back then.” Operation a ceasefire and Kashmir being par- a year when he joined the Gibral- broken man”, writes Dr Ahmad here were not given any relief. Ex- Kashmir really indigenous? a long, circuitous route through Gibraltar was based on the as- titioned 1965: Second Kashmir tar Force. A mortar shell hit him Faruqui, a US-based defence ana- pressing his resolve to fight against Qurban Ali, 71, is one of the Pakistani territory to infiltrate In- sumption that guerrilla attacks war ends with both sides return- when he was providing cover fire lyst. And he left behind a legacy the cruel system in the country, “insurgents” who fought the Indi- dian-controlled Kashmir from the would trigger an uprising by the ing to pre-war positions 1971: to his team in a shootout during of military adventurism. Air Mar- Mr Khan dispelled the impression an troops in August 1965. north. They walked for several Muslim majority population of Third Indo-Pakistani war leads to the withdrawal. Image caption- shal (retired) Nur Khan, who head- that he would be running away days, carrying dry food rations, Indian-controlled Kashmir, most of the 1972 Simla Agreement, turn- Nisha Begum lost her husband to ed the Pakistan Air Force in 1965, from any arena, including the by- But he is a native of the Paki- stani-administered side of Kash- arms and ammunition on their whom had wanted to join Pakistan ing the Kashmir ceasefire line into Operation Gibraltar His wife, said in an interview with Dawn polls and local elections, and sar- backs, “climbing and descending at the time of the partition of Brit- the Line of Control 1999: Another Nisha Begum, was seven months newspaper that the army “misled castically referred to the Sharifs’ mir, and he was not an insurgent, exile following the National Rec- but a soldier of the Pakistani ar- the hills, sometimes sliding down ish India in 1947. A rebel radio sta- war after militants cross from Pa- pregnant with her first - and only - the nation with a big lie” - that In- onciliation Order issued by Gen my’s Azad Kashmir (AK) Regi- the snow-covered slopes”. They tion purported to have been set kistani-administered Kashmir into child. “When he was away, I used dia rather than Pakistan provoked Pervez Musharraf. ment. set up hideouts in jungles near up somewhere inside Kashmir, but the Indian-administered Kargil dis- to pray for his safe return. But then the war - and that Pakistan won a He said the PTI would even “I was a fresh recruit then, Chowkibal, a town in Kupwara actually operating out of the Paki- trict 2001: An attack on the Indi- one day they brought his dead “great victory”. And since the “lie” be ready to contest by-elections barely 20 years old. I had com- district on the Indian side. They stani city of Rawalpindi, aggres- an parliament is blamed on two body,” she says, her eyes betray- was never rectified, the Pakistani and local elections with Nawaz pleted the regimental training, and would spend their days and nights sively reported on the exploits of militant groups considered close to ing no emotion. But she says God “army came to believe its own fic- Sharif’s own umpires. “The party then we volunteered for the Gibral- in the hollows of tree trunks, or the “mujahideen”, hoping to insti- Pakistan. The two nuclear-armed has compensated her adequately. tion, (and) has continued to fight is grooming its youth to enable tar Force,” he says. under the cliffs or overhanging gate such an uprising. But the ci- neighbours mobilise millions of “He gave me a son, and the unwanted wars,” he said. (Courte- them to check any kind of rigging Media caption Qurban Ali: rocks. During the month they vilians of Indian-administered troops in a confrontation that lasts strength to educate him, and a sy: BBC) in the elections,” he said. “Our raids were sudden and fierce spent there, they blew up a bridge Kashmir were not only not pre- He said the PML-N would and terrified the local people” and hit a number of supply points pared for mass rebellion, they ac- now be facing a well-groomed and “Air Marshal (retired) Nur of the Indian army. He says there tually suffered at the hands of the powerful PTI instead of the 2013 Khan, who headed the Pakistan were 180 men in his group, most intruders. Military historians cite party that naively believed in the Air Force in 1965, said in an inter- of them civilian recruits. “There numerous examples where civilians system and expected fair play in view with Dawn newspaper that were six civilians for every 10 men were killed or harmed, and others the elections. “Any rigging or un- the army ‘misled the nation with a in our group.” Image copyright where they turned the infiltrators fair activity will be checked with big lie’ - that India rather than Pa- Hulton Archive Image caption A in. India also reinforced its troops full might,” he added. kistan provoked the war - and that Kashmiri village destroyed during in Kashmir, choked infiltration Mr Khan criticised the PML- Pakistan won a great victory.” Pa- the war Unbeknown to Mr Ali and points, and captured heights from N for “using police to seek votes his fellow foot soldiers, groups where they threatened Muzaffara- for his party candidates” and kistan is yet to officially confirm it ever commissioned such a force, with similar formations had infil- bad, the capital of Pakistani-admin- claimed that he had a recording of trated other areas of Kashmir as istered Kashmir. Image copyright- a superintendent of police asking but a former Pakistan army major, people to vote for the PML-N security expert and author, Ikram well. Estimates of the Gibraltar AFPImage captionIndia deployed candidate in Hafizabad. Sehgal, describes it in a newspa- Force numbers range from 7,000 100,000 soldiers during the war To Challenging defense minister per article as “a mixture of volun- to well over 20,000. One of them relieve Indian pressure, Pakistani Khwaja Asif not to hide behind the teers from the army, mainly those was Mohammad Nazeer, now 64. troops made a thrust into Jammu Supreme Court, the PTI chief pre- belonging to Azad Kashmir [Free He was a school boy of about 14 in the first week of September in dicted that the Election Tribunal Kashmir, as Pakistanis call the part when he was recruited. He was an attempt to cut off the Indian would give a similar decision in the of Kashmir they control], and fresh part of a team that hit more than a supply line. This triggered Indi- NA-110 as in the three constitu- recruits” from the Pakistani-ad- dozen Indian posts in the Poonch an’s attack on Lahore and Sialkot. encies -- NA-122, NA-125 and ministered side of Kashmir who region. “When they moved us from Towards the end of August, most NA-154. He said these were the were “hurriedly trained and the training camp, we didn’t know infiltrators had been found, cap- four constituencies where he had launched into the valley [Indian- where we were going,” he recalls. tured or killed. Those that survived asked for the vote audit to deter- administered Kashmir] in late July/ Media captionMohammed were asked to pull back when In- mine the extent of rigging in the early August”. Nazeer: “We caught the Indian sol- dia attacked Lahore. “We were told 2013 general elections. The plan, called Operation diers sleeping” “We thought it was that they couldn’t continue to re- This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY . SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Tsipras plays down fears of Military-backed fractured result Thai council in Greek election ATHENS : Former Greek Prime rejects new Minister Alexis Tsipras played constitution down fears on Sunday that a snap election in two weeks HEGYESHALOM: Austria and grants this year, for declaring it would produce a fractured re- Thailand's military-appointed Germany threw open their borders would accept Syrians' requests re- National Reform Council has sult, saying there were enough on Saturday to thousands of ex- gardless of where they entered the undecided voters to produce a rejected a new draft constitu- hausted migrants from the east, EU. Prime Minister Viktor Orban tion, delaying a return to de- clear winner on the day. Tsipras bussed to the frontier by a right- said Hungary would deploy po- resigned last month to make mocracy following last year's wing Hungarian government that lice and troops along its border with coup. The authors of the draft way for the election, hoping to had tried to stop them, but was Serbia after Sept. 15 if parliament secure a new mandate for a tough in the National Reform Coun- overwhelmed by the sheer num- approved a government proposal. cil had hoped the charter austerity program he agreed in bers of people. "It's not 150,000 (migrants com- exchange for an 86 billion euro would move the country past Left to walk the final stretch ing), that some (in the EU) want almost a decade of political bailout with the cash-starved into Austria, rain-soaked migrants to divide according to quotas, it's country's creditors. But having conflicts, but it met strong - many of them refugees from Syr- not 500,000, a figure that I heard opposition from almost all started out as the clear frontrun- ia's civil war - were whisked by in Brussels; it's millions, then tens ner, his leftist Syriza party's sides of the country's politi- train and shuttle bus first to Vien- of millions, because the supply of cal divide. One of the most poll lead has collapsed in the na and then by train to Munich immigrants is endless," he said. past days, making for an unex- contentious provisions includ- and other cities in Germany. The For days this week, several ed a 23-member panel, with pectedly close contest against last train carrying an estimated thousand people camped outside his main rival, the conservative military members, that would 1,000 refugees pulled into Munich Budapest's main railway station as be empowered to take over New Democracy party. The from Austria at 1:30 a.m. on Sun- trains to western Europe were can- prospect of a fractured result from the parliament and prime day (2330 GMT), bringing the to- celed, the government insisting that minister in times of "national after the Sept. 20 vote has tal to have arrived in the Bavarian anyone entering Hungary must stoked fears of yet more politi- crisis". Talk to Al Jazeera: Thai capital since Saturday to about apply for asylum there as EU rules leader Prayuth Chan-ocha on cal instability in a country hit 8,000. Police immediately ushered stipulated. But the logjam broke by years of instability and re- why no one else could do his the arrivals onto another train on Friday when migrants broke job Almost all parties criticised cession, and raised the prospect bound for Dortmund on the op- out of a teeming camp on Hunga- of Greece having to go to the the draft, and it risked being posite platform, cordoned off ry's frontier with Serbia and oth- voted down in a referendum, polls again. "There is 15-20 per- from onlookers in the main station ers escaped a stranded train. Hun- cent of undecided voters right further complicating a transi- terminal. Some who wanted to dreds set off for the Austrian bor- tion to electoral democracy. now. In simple maths, this stay in Munich initially refused to der on foot, chanting "Germany, means that the party that will The rejection sets back a ten- get on the second train, which even- Germany!" The scenes were em- tative plan for a return to de- Vienna with his family. German and walked through the rain into most emptied of migrants the night come first, if it doesn't secure tually set off with all the passen- blematic of a crisis - about 350,000 an outright majority at the par- mocracy, with the military re- gers about an hour later. Interior Ministry spokesman Austria, receiving fruit and water before, the main Budapest railway refugees and migrants have reached taining substantial powers Harald Neymanns said Berlin's from aid workers. Waiting Austri- station was filling up again, a seem- liament, will be very close to Most of those who arrived on the border of the European Union it," Tsipras said in an interview until a new constitution is Saturday were bussed to reception decision to open its borders to ans held signs that read "Refugees ingly unrelenting human surge this year - that has left the 28-na- drafted. Thailand's main op- Syrians was an exceptional case for welcome". "We're happy. We'll go northwards through the Balkan with Skai television that was centers in and around the Munich tion EU groping for solutions amid broadcast on Sunday. "So a gov- position party, the Puea Thai after being medically screened, fed humanitarian reasons. He said Eu- to Germany," said a Syrian man peninsula from Turkey and dysfunctional squabbling over bur- Party, had denounced the draft rope's so-called Dublin rules, who gave his name as Mohammed; Greece. With trains to western Eu- ernment will be formed." and offered fresh clothing. Many den-sharing. A German government Tsipras stormed to power in constitution on Friday, saying said they were from Syria, while which require people to apply for Europe's biggest and most afflu- rope canceled, hundreds set off by spokesman said Chancellor Ange- it "totally disregards the sov- asylum in the first EU country ent economy was the favored des- foot for the Austrian border, 170 January promising voters an end others were from Afghanistan or la Merkel and Orban had spoken to austerity and that he would ereignty of the Thai people". Iraq. They seemed dazed by the they enter, had not been suspend- tination of most. Austria said 9,000 km (110 miles) away, as others had by phone and agreed that the deci- Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay said ed. "The Dublin rules are still val- people had crossed from Hungary tried to do on Friday. The Hungar- redefine the relationship Ath- calls of "welcome to Munich," sion to open the borders was a tem- ens has with its international that 135 votes were against the from the few dozen well-wishers id and we expect other European on Saturday. The Austrian state ian authorities allowed some to porary one made for humanitarian draft constitution, while 105 Union member states to stick to railway company OeBB estimat- board trains taking them to, but lenders - the European Com- remaining at around midnight, as reasons. Austrian Chancellor Wern- mission, the International Mon- were for it. "We are back to well as by their determination to them," he said. After days of con- ed it would have transported 7,500 not over, the Austrian border. Hun- er Faymann told the newspaper square one now. A new con- frontation and chaos, Hungary de- migrants before stopping services gary, the main entry point into etary Fund and the European thrust chocolate bars, bananas or Oesterreich he wanted European Central Bank. But with the stitution has to be written and bread rolls into their hands. A sim- ployed more than 100 buses over- for the night, with the last train Europe's borderless Schengen zone leaders to hold a summit on migra- presented for a vote and then night to take thousands of the mi- from the border due to arrive in for migrants, has taken a hard line, economy on the brink of col- ilar total is expected to arrive in tion after an interior ministers' lapse, its banks shut and the hopefully to the Thai people Munich later on Sunday. Munich grants who had streamed there Vienna at 2100 GMT. At the fron- vowing to seal its southern fron- meeting on Sept. for a referendum," he said. from southeast Europe to the Aus- tier with Hungary, Austrian police tier with a new, high fence by Sept. chance of a euro exit looming police said Arabic-speaking inter- 14. At an EU foreign minis- ever closer, Tsipras eventually "The council is hand-picked by preters were helping refugees with trian frontier. Austria said it had said the flow of people had 15. Hungarian officials have por- ters' meeting in Luxembourg on the military rulers and the re- agreed with Germany to allow the slowed, with some still crossing trayed the crisis as a defense of capitulated to the creditors' de- procedures at the emergency reg- Saturday, the usual diplomatic con- mands. On Sunday, he again de- writing of a new text will take istration centers. The seemingly migrants access, waiving the asy- on foot. Hungary insisted the bus Europe's prosperity, identity and viviality unraveled as they failed another six months. "People lum rules. Wrapped in blankets and rides were a one-off as hundreds "Christian values" against an in- fended that decision, saying the efficient Austrian and German re- to agree on any practical steps out country would have been worse are saying that this was just a ception contrasted with the disor- sleeping bags, long lines of weary more people gathered in Budap- flux of mainly Muslim migrants. of the crisis. Ministers are espe- scene designed to allow this people, many carrying small, est, in what has become Europe's In particular, Hungary has lashed off without the bailout, and also der prevalent in Hungary. "It was cially at odds over proposals for ruled out forming a national uni- government to stay in power just such a horrible situation in sleeping children, got off buses on most acute refugee crisis since the out at Germany, which expects to country-by-country quotas to take as long as possible. the Hungarian side of the border Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Al- receive 800,000 refugees and mi- ty government with New De- Hungary," said Omar, arriving in in asylum seekers. mocracy if the election proved inconclusive. "There is no room Death toll rises for cooperation in government because the differences in our after Druze leader policy programs are very big and killed in car bomb Secretary of State John Kerry ex- ia’s principal port city. because we know very well that pressed U.S. concern over reports An uprising against four de- we don't share the same target," Anti-government violence has of Russia’s enhanced military cades of Assad family rule broke he said. Although he was forced continued following the killing build-up in Syria in a telephone to back down in negotiations out in 2011 and turned into a full- with the creditors, Tsipras has of a prominent Druze leader in call on Saturday with his Russian blown civil war in which Islamist a car bomb attack in a south- counterpart, the State Department at least secured the prospect of militants have become the stron- some form of relief for the coun- ern Syrian province that had said. “The secretary made clear that gest element fighting Damascus. largely stayed on the sidelines try's ballooning debt, although if such reports were accurate, these Lavrov last month said the its largest creditor, Germany, of the country's civil war. The actions could further escalate the United States should cooperate death toll from the car bomb has ruled out any form of "hair- conflict, lead to greater loss of in- with Assad, a longtime ally of cut". Tsipras, who never wears and subsequent violence in nocent life, increase refugee flows Moscow, to fight Islamic State of Sweida province over the past a tie and whose government be- and risk confrontation with the Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces who came known for its informal two days has risen to 46 peo- anti-ISIL coalition operating in ple, including a child, sources have seized swathes of northern style, said he would don a tie if Syria,” the department said, using and eastern Syria. he secured debt relief. Asked told Al Jazeera on Sunday. On an acronym for Islamic State. Friday, Sheikh Wahid Balous, The United States and Russia when this will happen, he said: a prominent critic of President Kerry and Russian Foreign have been at loggerheads over the "We will have this very impor- Bashar al-Assad, died in one Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed that civil war in Syria, where Russia tant development over the debt of two consecutive car bomb discussions on the Syrian conflict has backed Assad while the Unit- by the end of the year. We will explosions, including one near would continue in New York later ed States wants a political transi- have a difficult year but I am the National Hospital in Swei- this month, the department said. tion to end his rule. optimistic." da city. Dozens of people were Various media reports on Fri- killed in the attacks and many day quoted U.S. officials as de- more were injured. Explained: scribing an increase in Russian forc- Who are the Druze? Balous es in Syria, expanding Moscow’s Latest Lebanon had called on youth in Sweida military support for Syrian leader province, a stronghold of the Bashar al-Assad amid the grinding Druze minority sect, to refuse civil war. Quoting unidentified to serve in the military. He was Obama administration officials, the protests fail to also a strong supporter of New York Times reported that rebels trying to topple Assad. Russia has dispatched a military Following the blasts, residents, advance team to Syria and has sent draw big crowds including members of the vic- prefabricated housing units for tims' families, clashed with se- hundreds of people to a Syrian air- curity forces at the city's se- Only a small number of people Demonstrations organized by field and delivered a portable air turned out Saturday at demonstra- “You Stink” have escalated over curity offices, holding the gov- traffic control station there. The ernment responsible for the tions around Lebanon called by the the past two weeks, peaking last Times reported that some U.S. “You Stink” group to protest what Saturday when tens of thousands Druze leader's death, Al officials said the temporary hous- Jazeera's Mohammad Nour they call a corrupt and inept polit- flooded Martyrs Square in a rare said The Syrian Observatory ing suggested that Russia could ical class. display of non-partisan mobiliza- for Human Rights said armed deploy as many as 1,000 advisers The collective had called Fri- tion. residents on Saturday killed six or other military personnel to the day for demonstrations in the Contrary to the traditional security forces and rioters also airfield that serves Latakia, Syr- coastal city of Tyre and in practice of people demonstrating destroyed the statue of late Zrariyeh, both in southern Leba- at the call of one political party or Syrian President Hafez al-As- non. religious group, “You Stink” has sad in the city. On Saturday around 300 peo- cut across party and confessional Saudi Arabia inks $54m deals ple turned out in Tyre, an AFP lines. correspondent said. In Tyre, a bastion of Shiite Tajikistan forces “We elected them MPs, and Muslim movements Hezbollah stage deadly offen- they have become wolves who are and Amal, demonstrators dipped sive against rebels with UN agencies for Yemen relief never satisfied,” banners read. their hands in red paint and then Upon instructions from the Saudi “Thieves, thieves,” people chant- imprinted them on a large white Tajikistan security forces on leadership, the King Salman Cen- ed. Activists had also urged sup- sheet. Organizers said this was to Saturday killed 13 fighters al- ter for Humanitarian Aid has signed porters to protest in the eastern symbolize that they would not legedly linked to a recently three agreements worth a total of city of Chtaura, the historic town withdraw from the streets “until banned opposition party af- about $54 million (SR200 million) of Beiteddine and Nabatiyeh and they obtain their rights, even if it ter they refused to surrender, with U.N. agencies to carry out Marjayoun in the south. But only costs them their lives”. officials have said. The deaths relief programs in war-torn Yemen. a dozen or so turned out in Mar- Parliament speaker Nabih Ber- came a day after nine police- In a statement to the Saudi jayoun, as was the case in the cen- ri, who belongs to Amal, has called men and another 13 rebels Press Agency (SPA) on Saturday, tral town of Baakline. The protest for a dialogue of political leaders were killed in attacks on se- the center said the agreements were movement began in July when a on Wednesday. curity buildings blamed on the signed in response to a U.N. ap- landfill closed and pungent garbage Samir Geagea, leader of the same group. Officials said the peal. The first agreement was with started piling up in Beirut and its Christian Lebanese Forces party, rebels, allegedly led by former the United Nations Development outskirts, but it has evolved into a has said he will not participate. deputy Defence Minister Ab- Program (UNDP) to local support broad-based organization against Meanwhile, “You Stink” has ulhalim Nazarzoda, who was farmers and food manufacturers in government impotence and corrup- called for another massive demon- dismissed from his position Yemen. The agreement was worth tion. stration the same day. on Friday, refused to surren- a total of $1.74 million, of which der on Saturday after police $871,000 has already been dis- and troops pursued them in a bursed as a first installment. The remote mountain area 50 ki- center agreed to provide $22.2 mil- lometres northeast of the cap- lion to World Health Organization ital Dushanbe. "The militants (WHO) to support its programs were offered to surrender but to reduce morbidity and mortality they refused," an interior min- among the most vulnerable sec- istry spokesman told the AFP tions of the Yemeni population, news agency. The spokesman including women and children. The said a joint police and army agreement covers all regions of operation against the fighters Yemen and is expected to benefit was still under way. The se- more than 7.5 million people. The curity forces also recovered first disbursement of $5.55 million more than 500 guns and am- has already been released. The cen- munition in the operation, of- ter also agreed to support the Unit- al and therapeutic programs for children below 5 years of age as well as pregnant and lactating women. The ficials said. ed Nations Children's Fund total value of the program is $29.6 million, of which $8.9 million has been released. The center said about 2.7 (UNICEF) to carry out nutrition- million people in Yemen are expected to benefit as a result of this agreement. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY .SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

We a r e a n a t ion a l in st it u t ion a n d n ot t h e voice of a gov t or a p r iva t e or ga n iza t ion AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] the Russian Federation are sions and meetings that Karzai By Amanullah Iman Saudi Arabia in Yemen. It seems www.afghanistantimes.af having grave concerns of se- was a seasoned statesman and like Afghanistan is intentional- Improving the fruitless rela- curity regarding this. people have started discussing Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi ly disrupting its mutual friend- tions with Pakistan, for the first The foreign policy of Af- the collapse of Ghani’s admin- ly relations with Iran. time Afghanistan’s relations ghanistan has resulted in dete- istration. Ghani has still time to Advisory editorial board Iran has been keeping bal- with India are reaching such a riorating relations with power- revise the foreign policy for Af- anced relations on the basis of Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, low. Despite close relations ful regional countries, which ghanistan keeping in view the international principles with with India during the Karzai’s has further resulted in geo- Afghan national interests and Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal Afghanistan in the past despite regime had worried the Paki- graphical expansion of insur- revise his decisions and actions its strong resistance to the stani authorities, but the Af- gency in Afghanistan. Signing to balance the international re- Graphic-Designers: USA. We also did not learn ghan government had always of security agreements with lations with different neighbor- Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari from Pakistani Army and Gov- addressed the concerns of Pa- Pakistan and USA have no in- ing and regional countries to ernment’s diplomacy which Marketing & Advertising: kistan that nevertheless, Af- ternational guarantee and Af- optimally use it for his coun- have been adequately finan- ghanistan will never use its re- ghanistan will be left alone to try’s best interests. At the con- Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 cially supported by Saudi Ara- lations with India against the manage this war which is inca- clusion of the above situation Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan bia and it seems that Saudi Ara- national interests of Pakistan. pable of handling it and hence analysis, the deteriorating re- bia would never financially as- Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 Practically, Afghanistan’s fra- war casualties of Afghan Secu- lations with the mentioned sist the government and Af- ternal relations with India has rity Forces and general public neighboring countries have Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press ghan National Army at the same never harmed Pakistani inter- has been unprecedentedly in- decreased the support for the level but still Afghanistan sup- ests and as a result, we can say creased. According to the doc- ongoing war against insurgen- ported Saudi Arabia in such that Afghanistan is losing the uments of United Nations, we cy in Afghanistan and insur- The constitution says delicate security environment support of a powerful neigh- have the same armed and pub- gency is increasing day by day which will only collapse our re- boring nation like India at the lic casualties per month as we and how to put an end to this lations internationally while Article 40: expense of coming closer to Pa- had during last year. Afghani- increasingly worrying situa- Pakistan despite receiving gi- Property shall be safe from violation. No one shall be forbidden from owning property and acquiring it, kistan which has never shown stan’s deteriorating relations tion, time will prove it. (Con- unless limited by the provisions of law. No one’s property shall be confiscated without the order of the law gantic financial support from its sincerity and honesty to- with the influential countries cluded) The writer is a former and decision of an authoritative court. Acquisition of private property shall be legally permitted only for Saudi Arabia declined to sup- the sake of public interests, and in exchange for prior and just compensation. Search and disclosure of wards the Afghan government has indicated among the polit- spokesman to the Ministry of port Saudi Arabia in the current private property shall be carried out in accordance with provisions of the law. and security situation is going ical circles and public discus- Education. worse than ever where Pakistan Yemen war. Conclusion: is considered to be responsi- Fruitlessly supporting the ble. Despite all of the above, war in Yemen resulted in dis- Only political leaders can ensure President Ghani while taking an turbing relations with Iran and turning point in refugee crisis immediate un-calculated deci- Taliban exploited this opportu- sion, announced his support nity for their political validity His name was Aylan Kurdi. Most people though will probably only while Saudi Arabia has not remember him as the small Syrian Kurdish boy in a red shirt and dark for Saudi Arabia in the ongo- shorts whose lifeless body lay on a Turkish beach the pictures of ing civil war in Yemen escalat- guaranteed any political or fi- which resonated around the world. Those images many say, will mark ed in the wake of Iran and Sau- nancial support for Afghani- a turning point in a refugee crisis the likes of which has not been seen Afghan refugee children in Iran di’s interests while getting no stan in this consideration. since the Second World War. But let’s be candid here, the terrible, sad This way, Afghans view ISI reality is that harrowing as those images are their resonance may well support in consideration in prove short lived in a human tragedy that will only get worse before it and their bleak future terms of cooperation in peace as a notorious organization and gets better and is certain to be around for a long time to come. For years In an effort to spur the repatriation of Afghan refugees, the Iranian govern- process nor the financial assis- in the last 13 years, the ruling now newspapers and television reports have shown the struggle and tance with Afghan Army from circles of Afghanistan had the suffering of those fleeing war and persecution in places like Syria, Iraq, ment has banned Afghan children from Iranian schools. Instead of repatri- capacity to counter defensive- Afghanistan and beyond. We have listened to and read reports about Saudi Arabia. Even most their hazardous flight from barrel bombs dropped by the Syrian regime ating, the refugees have adopted different tactics to overcome the barriers shameful is that this support ly the notorious and terrorist and the scarcely believable brutality meted out by the rapists, tortur- to their children’s education. Even some of them went to the extent that was called as defending the deeds of this satanic organiza- ers and killers of Daesh. We have heard too about their exploitation at Kaaba of the Muslims while tion. The agreement between the hand of callous traffickers and smugglers some of whom have left they borrowed the documents of Iranians and registered their children in ISI and NDS has justified ISI refugees to suffocate before their decomposing corpses are found in supporting this war on the pre- the back of trucks. Time and again we have watched terrified families schools. Others took the road of self-help programs and launched infor- text of defending the Muslims’ for its terrorists and notorious crammed into flimsy boats fight for their lives in the waves of the mal, self-directed and self-funded schools. However, tens of thousands of sacred place Kaaba is not at all deeds in Afghanistan and Mediterranean as luxury yachts sit anchored in the background. All Afghan children who fled the country and sought refuge in neighboring logical as Kaaba has never hence its under less interna- this as they journey in hope of finding the hope, safety and sanctuary been under the attack of Yeme- tional pressure to have sup- away from violence that any of us would likewise seek out for our Iran face a bleak future for debarred from access to education. The demise ported terrorism in Afghani- loved ones. All this is not new. The Syrian war itself has now been nis. Afghanistan has never raging for four years while the present one in Afghanistan has been of the Taliban didn’t end the world’s longest refugees’ crisis. After the been practically capable to as- stan. The efficient management displacing people for 12 years now. The point is that despite heaps of ouster of the Taliban, tens of thousands chose to come back however amid sist Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s of such relations between the evidence provided by humanitarian and human rights organisation over civil war nor it has any special two countries was in the favor decades, Western nations have collectively failed to help those in need. their repatriation many still flee the country, but this time they don’t go to of Afghanistan to have intro- For so long now political leaders across Europe have turned the other interests resulting from this war way hoping that the refuge problem would go away. It is only the Iran or Pakistan but take the route to Europe. Besides insecurity, the unfa- to have been supported so im- duced the ISI as the prime sup- resourcefulness and determination of those thousands of refugees them- vorable economic condition has been goading the youths to flee the coun- mediately. As a result, for the porter of Taliban and other ter- selves who have made the perilous journey to our shores that has first time Iran which had been rorist groups in Afghanistan to finally forced Europe’s leaders to act in a crisis that some played a try. Moreover, Iran has had made headlines for the persecution of Afghan the whole world. The killing of hand in creating in the first place. Even yesterday Europe’s leaders considering once Taliban to be were at odds with each other. In Hungary they were talking about refugees and as usual the government has either turned a blind eye to their their religious foes, outspoken- the Taliban appointed gover- deploying the army and throwing up yet more fences. At an EU foreign plight or made some token efforts to address the issue. ly announced support for Tali- nor for Nangarhar province in ministers meeting in Luxembourg, the usual diplomatic conviviality ban in the wake of Ashraf Peshawar is if considered a unravelled as they failed to agree on any practical steps out of the The result is not only Afghan refugees are being tortured, jailed, humil- good sign of this agreement crisis. The bickering was especially bitter over country-by-country Ghani’s immediate decision to quotas to take in asylum seekers. If this absence of a common will iated and harassed, but one in three refugee children have no access to support the war in Yemen in and considering it in favor of continues among the member states the EU’s response will remain education. Since 2001, despite official statements by Tehran, Iran returned favor of Saudi Arabia. Iran has Afghanistan will be an exam- limited. Yesterday at least Austria and Germany led by example throw- ple of extreme stupidity while Afghans who had managed to flee the country. Iran failed to keep its prom- now opened a formal office for ing open their borders and welcoming those refugees who had finally Taliban in Tehran and invited this agreement has resulted in made it to their countries. In this spirit the Scottish government will increasingly deteriorating rela- devote its entire opposition day debate to the refugee crisis at West- ises that it has made with the UNHCR. Tehran once said that refugees who them to international confer- minster on Wednesday. That in itself is to be welcomed as is its insis- needed protection would be allowed to remain temporarily in Iran. The ences and has formally accept- tions with a powerful friendly tence as outlined in today’s edition by Alex Salmond, the SNP’s foreign problem is that international humanitarian agencies keep the record of af- ed them as a valid political en- country India. affairs spokesman at Westminster, that the UK must fulfil its EU and tity and process. Afghanistan Meanwhile, signing the international obligations and accept at least 10% of the refugees seek- ghan refugees’ troubles whereas Afghans own government looks uncon- BSA with USA without guar- ing asylum, with Scotland in turn then accepting its share of that has earned the enmity of the proportion. Salmond is right when he says that the UK Government cerned. There is no worth satisfaction work of rehabilitation for returnees. neighboring country Iran which anteeing anything for consid- cannot ignore refugees who have already arrived in Europe on the basis Iranians intolerance for the Afghan refugees has reached to such a level is considerably a powerful na- eration has deteriorated our re- “they should not be here”. Refusing to help them on those terms tion. And this is all because of lations with several neighbor- would indeed be to introduce an impossible new criteria, which has not that they didn’t care even to the call of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ing and regional powerful na- been applied in the past. If the current crisis is to be addressed with just one mistake—when Kabul real commitment, political leaders too must not only urgently address Khamenei who ordered that all Afghan refugees in Iran must be permitted without any consideration an- tions including Iran. The cen- the reception of refugees at journey’s end but agree jointly on provi- to schools; however, on the ground barriers are being created to hold refu- nounced its support goes for tral Asian countries including sion while in transit. (Herald Scotland) gee-children back from getting education. But who is to blame? Tehran? The international community? Or the government of Afghanistan? To call a spade a spade, it is the Afghan government that’s blameworthy. When the aid and assistance from the international community come in the name of Afghans therefore while spending the developmental budgets the govern- ment must take into account that those who had fled the country and sought refuge beyond Afghanistan’s frontiers are also Afghans. They also need to be taken care of. If the government cannot ensure their safety and return with dignity at least it must work for their welfare and development be- yond Afghan frontiers. Our foreign ministry must take up the issue with Iranian officials. Since millions of Afghans live in Iran as refugees and when one of the three children doesn’t get access to education, it means thousands of children are away from schools. At the same time, the gov- ernment is blameworthy for the bleak future of thousands of children who are currently busy in menial jobs such as polishing shoes, washing cars in the capital city. When the number of such children is growing in the capital city what will be their condition in the far-flung areas of the country and those living in Iran. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY .SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES The cost of mindless, heartless By Michael Stephens message control Saudi Arabia's recent flurry of diplomatic activity has set king- By Robin V. Sears crushed his humanity. Since dom-watchers' tongues wag- becoming minister he has ging. Recent repeated over- Politics is defined by dia- spoken in a wooden, angry tures to Moscow have led logue. Successful politicians snarl in interview after inter- many to believe that a grand know how to listen, to re- view. Perhaps frustrated at rapprochement between the spond respectfully and the nonsense he has been king and Tsar Putin was immi- through that dialogue, learn. instructed to deliver, he re- nently on the cards. Yet, as we Some Canadian politicians’ peats it in a surlier tone. Few all awaited the announcement increasing fascination with of us are able to be smiling, steely message discipline at of a formal state visit to Mos- convincing liars in public. It cow, the kingdom announced the expense of listening or is perhaps a testament to the respectful response is dan- angst he feels about the role its plans for a trip - not to Mos- gerous for democratic dia- he has been ordered to play cow, but to Washington DC. logue — and, often, for their that he does it so woefully. This striking turn of events is own careers. The refugee story looks the hallmark of Riyadh playing In 40 years of training as if it might now become great power politics, engaging candidates, leaders and cor- the pivot issue of the cam- with as many actors as possi- porate executives in com- paign. It speaks to the deep ble, and seeking as much sup- munication one thing has al- humiliation that many Cana- port as possible from global ways been true: merely dians have come to feel pounding memorized lines powers to get them to align about the harsh vision of with Saudi Arabia's security into a student’s head is Canada the Harper govern- dumb, and sets them up to ment flaunts to the world. priorities at a time of chronic fail. (Alexander’s TV meltdown regional instability. Successful political dia- made the BBC’s front page Saudi King Salman to meet logue requires listening and online.) It speaks to their US President Barack Obama empathy. When a constitu- ferocious defensive attack in While it may seem that the king- ent tells you of their grief, response to any criticism dom is veering its political en- their dreams or their anger from any quarter. And it un- gagements in an oddly incon- you may not respond with derlines how far their mean- sistent way, it is actually a re- rote defensive talking points. spirited response to this cri- This week we saw the flection of a country seeking sis is from the values of a the status of a rising power and that have signalled to Riyadh White House. meeting with Obama [REU- cusing on the Assad regime culmination of this dumb and majority of Canadians. demagogic approach to pol- Consider for a moment asserting its interests in an in- that the US is no longer an ally The last thing Riyadh wish- TERS] What to do with Assad because of the rise of ISIL, but itics in the self-destruction of the impact on those percep- secure world. But it is impor- who can be counted on at all es is for a more deep-set and The new direction in the re- constant pressure from the Gulf Immigration Minister Chris tions of this government and tant to remember one thing: The costs. From the continued fail- permanent break that will affect lationship has already begun to has kept the issue of Assad Alexander. its disastrously performing United States is still Riyadh's ure of Israeli-Palestinian nego- access to the Washington elite have an impact in the region. firmly on the table. There is no excuse for minister, if they had re- most important foreign ally, no tiations, to the failure to con- in times of need in the coming Washington's support for Sau- It is important to note that the appalling response that sponded as politicians who matter what the Russians - or tain Iran in both Syria and Iraq, years. Letting the relationship di-led military operations in Saudi Arabia is not asking Alexander offered CBC’s understand the importance indeed, anyone else - promise. to the dropping of regional flounder by putting undue Yemen against anti-govern- Washington and the West for new election star Rosemary of listening, of empathy and Shifting US priorities For all the linchpin Hosni Mubarak in pressure upon it is, therefore, ment forces has taken the form carte blanche to go invading Barton. Nor for his surly of dialogue. If Alexander defensive nonsense about problems that have emerged Egypt, the US has consistent- simply not an option. of quiet logistical support and countries at will - the kingdom had performed as he would between the US and the Gulf ly adopted policies that run Saudi decision-makers do, coordination. There has been is, after all, aware of the limits the government’s record on have 10 years ago before refugees. His scowling ad- being put through the Tory Arab states at large, one incon- counter to Saudi national inter- however, understand that the total support from Washington of its own power and of the lim- olescent attack on the me- war machine’s brainwashing, trovertible fact still remains: ests. US has - to some extent - per- for the war, and almost nothing ited usefulness of military force. dia for its failure to give the its tone-deaf message ma- The US is the only guarantor But King Salman's visit is manently realigned its policy said about the mounting civil- If that were not the case, story adequate attention chine training: of security and stability in the designed to show, above all priorities away from the trou- ian casualties and tragic hu- then perhaps Iraq would fea- would have been laughable “Like every Canadian Gulf and is the only global pow- else, that the maintenance of bled Middle East region, which manitarian costs of this now six- ture more highly on Riyadh's if it were not so appalling. tonight, I grieve at the horri- er with enough military might the strategic relationship is im- explains why the Saudis have month-old conflict that ap- new assertive agenda. But Especially in the face of the ble deaths, the fate of mem- and diplomatic clout to be able portant to Riyadh and remains decided to assume a far more pears set to continue for post-2003, Riyadh knows that mounting human tragedy bers of the Kurdi family on to radically alter the course of the primary foreign policy en- activist and aggressive foreign months. is a battle it could never win. and the Canadian — and in- the shores of Turkey. ternational — failure to re- global affairs, should it so wish. gagement outside of Riyadh's policy posture. In Syria, the Saudis have What it is seeking to Like many people The fact that the current presi- GCC relationships. Indeed, it is The key is to cement an un- begun to assume an ever more achieve is a relationship in spond adequately to it. watching tonight, I looked at His return the next night, that photo of their lifeless dent has been unable and un- interesting to contrast the way derstanding in the minds of US important role, shuttling back which the Americans primarily after being summoned to son, Alan, lying like a bro- willing to use the full force of in which Saudi Arabia's frustra- officials that Saudi Arabia will and forth from various capitals, understand that if they are not Ottawa by his masters, ken doll on the sand, and I the US' power in the region is tions with US foreign policy be doing more to secure the brokering understandings and going to play a hegemonic role clearly put through hours of confess, I sat down and I more a reflection of shifting US have been communicated region according to its own in- deals, and forcing home the in the region, then Riyadh will message training “refresh- cried ... priorities than any marked drop against those of Israel. The terests in the future and will not notion that Bashar al-Assad is have to step in and do it instead ment” was less disastrous in I called the prime minis- in its ability to project hard pow- kingdom's displeasure The be asking for US permission to the key problem who must be - and the results may not al- performance but more dam- ter immediately. His reaction er. Indeed, this is where the Saudis have cautiously wel- do so. taken care of. A solution that ways be to Washington's lik- aging in substance. He told was that of a husband and bulk of Saudi frustrations lies comed US-led initiatives to en- In return for acquiescence does not ensure Assad's re- ing Michael Stephens is a re- a series of whoppers that will father first, and then he said, now be fact-checked and re- and the reason why the anger gage with Iran, while preferring to the Iranian nuclear deal, moval, is not, in Riyadh's eyes, search fellow for Middle East “Chris, get me some has set in so deeply. Riyadh has to largely keep their displeasure Washington must acquiesce to any sort of solution at all. studies and head of the Royal turn to bite him and the gov- thoughts on how we can do ernment. better, how we can do more, long known that the US could for private conversations. Save a more assertive Saudi Arabia; Again, Western emphasis United Services Institute But spare a moment of by the morning. This is un- do more to stabilise the Middle for a few frustrated op-eds ap- this is the quid pro quo that on the removal of Assad from (RUSI) in Qatar. The views ex- sympathy for this young pol- acceptable, to me and to our East if it wanted to. It is Wash- pearing in The New York Times Riyadh not only wants, but ex- power seems to have gained pressed in this article are the itician so publicly failing his values as Canadians. ington's preference for weak and other English-language pects. new impetus in recent weeks, author's own and do not nec- first public crisis. Alexander I called my department, policy positions on issues that news outlets, it has largely Saudi King Salman departs Western states have had their essarily reflect Al Jazeera's ed- was an intelligent and expe- told them I would be there are of critical importance to been understood by Saudi Ara- from the White House after attention drawn away from fo- itorial policy. rienced international diplo- in a few hours, and we Saudi Arabia that has left the bia that it is better to allow mat. Before his entry into worked all night to ensure al-Sauds scratching their heads Washington its day on the nu- politics he was hailed as we could respond quickly among our “best and bright- as to what is going on. Also clear deal and push for and powerfully to this read: Change in the name of strengthened US commitments est” for his work in Afghan- mounting tragedy. Here’s istan and as an innovative what the prime minister has stability for Saudi Arabia in other areas of critical nation- thinker on the new realities ordered us to do …Let me From the continued failure al security interests. facing Canadian foreign pol- close by saying this. We of Israeli-Palestinian negotia- Unlike Israel, the kingdom's icy. He was capable of self- could have, and we and the tions, to the failure to contain displeasure has been handled deprecating humour, empa- world should have, done Iran in both Syria and Iraq, to in a way that shows a funda- By Afzal Ashraf rope is habitually avoiding any imported from across the world to thetic responses to the trag- more. We have acted too the dropping of regional linch- mental respect for the institu- connection of the crisis with reli- service the lifestyles, ambitions, gion or racial identity, but others and enterprises of these states. edies he had witnessed, and slowly, we have not been pin Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, tion of the presidency of the The image of a 3-year-old even an ability to take sin- drowned boy, Aylan Kurdi, lying are less coy. Senior officials in East- hatever Western countries do for innovative enough or force- the US has consistently adopt- US. face down on a beach had a huge ern Europe have openly declared the refugees, it will only be a cere critical advice in pub- ful enough in pushing the sticky plaster solution. The num- lic. ed policies that run counter to There may be difficulties symbolic effect on Europe. It has their opposition to taking in Mus- changes required to be able Saudi national interests. The between Riyadh and Washing- affected it more than the greater lim refugees. British Muslim poli- ber of refugees is already too large As one friend put it, he for a viable resettlement pro- to rescue more families. important point is that for Riy- ton at present, but presidents tragedies of over 2,500 refugees tician, Sayeeda Warsi evoked the must have been given a That changes today. I will be of all ages who died or went miss- memory of the Kindertransport gramme outside the region. Some Pierre Poilievre blood re- reporting weekly to Canadi- adh, these were not US policies come and go, and in two years ing trying to get to Europe, or the initiative, which rescued thousands might argue that the West has the placement treatment, so ans on our progress.”—(The made out of necessity - but by time, a more favourable admin- 71 people, including four children, of mainly Jewish children from Eu- responsibility to deal with the thoroughly have they Star) choice - and it is these choices istration may step into the who suffocated in a truck in Aus- rope before World War II, as a problem because it has been caused tria. model to aspire to during the cur- by Western involvement in the re- Even previously reluctant rent crisis. She presumably could gion, ranging from the Sykes-Pi- European leaders, such as the find no suitable example in recent cot to the recent wars in Iraq. United Kingdom's Prime Minis- Islamic history. The chief rabbi in Whatever the validity of that ar- ter David Cameron, have re- the UK, Ephraim Mirvis cited gument, most Middle Eastern ETTER TO THE EDITOR sponded with promises to take scripture to Jews to set up a char- states are beneficiaries of historic in more Syrian refugees. Well- ity to help the refugees. Hardly agreements and recent Western meaning as they are, these prom- anything has been reported in Eu- military interventions. It is in their ises are as representative of the rope from any Middle Eastern interest to deal with the conse- size of the crisis as the limp body leaders on the topic. But ordinary quences if only to maintain the sta- No peace sans Pak sincere cooperation of little Aylan. The Syrian con- people from the region are voicing tus quo. Others may argue that the flict has created over four million their shame and frustrations via refugees represent a potential ex- refugees. Add to that nearly two social media. A trending Arabic tremist threat. However, the threat Militancy and terrorism are the biggest and deadliest challenges to human life in the current-day-world. Terrorism has been affecting the entire million more fleeing persecution hashtag "Arab Conscience" argued is no less for the Western coun- world, but the weaker nations are bearing the brunt. It is also heartbreaking when you find as a nation that your neighbor supports military on in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, that the Arab world is ignoring Arab tries that have already taken in your soil. Often-times terrorist are labeled as faceless people, who have no religion, but what should we call those who support them? The and this becomes a crisis that no refugees, who were looking for sal- these people. Indeed, the appar- problem is that they are not individuals but states who support them. It is crystal clear that Pakistan government has been flinching support to amount of European generosity vation in the West. Another cam- ent failure of Muslim governments militants. The government must make its standpoint clear against Pakistan. Plenty of evidence shows that Pakistan has been supporting the can address. The problem is like- paign asked the wealthy Gulf to look after fellow Muslims is Taliban and its involvement in killing of thousands of Afghans is clear. If the international community don’t pressurize Pakistan to stop its ly to get worse. The war in Ye- states to relax their rules on refu- being exploited by extremists' pro- support to the militants, how the Afghan government will fight a monstrous challenge of militancy successfully. men, which resulted in an almost gees. Over 12,000 tweets show paganda. On various social media Until international powers wont’ exert pressure on Pakistan, Islamabad would not stop supporting militants. And the 80 percent of the population need- there is a popular demand to let in posts, they allege this is further United States of America, China, Saudi Arabia, and powerful countries could play a key role to stop Islamabad from ing humanitarian assistance, and refugees in Saudi Arabia. Benefi- evidence of current Muslim rulers' supporting militants group. the long-running Libyan conflict ciaries in the Gulf Why are some "apostasy" and disdain for the Ajmal Khan, Kabul Afghanistan have yet to release their burden Muslim governments seemingly "ummah", arguing that only their of displaced and desperate peo- indifferent to this plight, and why Islamist state or caliphate can pro- Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s ple. When they do, it could add are people from the region fleeing vide for Muslims' welfare. 'They name and address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] millions more to the region's ref- to Europe for safety and prosper- want to go back' Whatever West- ugee exodus. Of course, the solu- ity? It is not because regional coun- ern countries do for the refugees, tion has to be an end to these con- tries lack the capacity to cope with it will only be a sticky plaster so- flicts and the associated persecu- the problem. The region has un- lution. The number of refugees is tion. But none of these conflicts imaginable wealth. It has construct- already too large for a viable reset- Disclaimer: shows signs of abating soon. ed the tallest buildings, built lav- tlement programme outside the Mixed reactions So, the refugee ish palaces, provided spectacular region. The rate of the flow from crisis not only demands an urgent places of worship and created uni- current conflicts and the likely new The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) solution but also raises fundamen- versities so big that they have their sources from the Libyan and Ye- and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. tal questions about the nature of own railways. The region has no meni wars could transform the cri- politics and leadership in the Arab shortage of space or jobs. Millions sis into a catastrophe in the and Muslim world. Western Eu- of professionals and labourers are months to come. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

A brief and painful history of state violence against black women and girls.

"Get out of the car! I will light you up! Get out!" The words of Texas highway patrol trooper Brian Encinia to Sandra Bland after he pulled her over for a failure to signal power- fully capture a rarely discussed reality - the pervasiveness of anti- black state violence against black women. Her subsequent death – by hanging in a jail cell – three days after her arrest, elicited outrage from many. Although ruled a suicide by the Harris County, Texas, medical ex- aminer, numerous questions re- main about her violent death in police custody. In the month of July alone, six African American women died in police custody post-arrest: Bland, Raynetta Turner (New York), Kin- dra Chapman (Alabama), Ralkina Jones (Ohio), Alexis McGovern (Missouri), and Joyce Curnell (South Carolina). Circumstances vary in each case, but such deaths are occurring at an alarming rate. The individual stories of each of these women, with the notable exception of Bland, did not receive extended media coverage. Their erasure or limited visibility in the public domain fits within a lesser- known, but painful, history of black women victimised by anti- black state and state-sanctioned violence. Contemporarily, the murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, and Tamir Rice an- chor most narratives about police brutality against black people. The violent deaths of these black boys and men commonly serve as the basis for mass media coverage of cops killing black peo- ple, as well as for a significant por- tion of the grassroots activism against racist policing. violence and violation experienced iams, Hannah Rosen, and Sarah against all black people, predomi- Racial justice activists seam- by black women in the United Haley uncover the specific ways nating narratives in both mass me- Finnish PM lessly connect the murder of Em- States. in which black women experienced dia and in some social justice cir- mit Till by white supremacists in Life, liberty and the pursuit of anti-black racial violence. From cles often frame racial violence as Palestine's only Mississippi in 1955 to the 2015 happiness or Disenfranchisement, convict labour and violent employ- primarily or solely experienced by offers his home killing of Sam DuBose by Univer- oppression and dehumanisation ers in domestic work settings to black men and boys. sity of Cincinnati police officer The herstory of state and the stark vulnerability of those But this contemporary era of to asylum female taxi driver Ray Tensing. T-shirts with the state-sanctioned violence against engaging or perceived to be in- state and state-sanctioned racial names of black men and boys killed black women in the United States volved in sex work, black women terror targeting black people in the by police officers or vigilantes of- commences with the transporting encountered a range of violations US, similar to previous eras, af- seekers ten use Till as a referential point of African women and girls to the without any recourse. fects all black people. The erasure Finland's prime minister has of- has big plans for historicising anti-black state US via the transatlantic slave trade. The state played an integral of black women, girls and trans* Nadia Ahmad prefers to drive in ety. and state-sanctioned violence in fered his private home in northern Under chattel slavery enslaved role in violence against black wom- people from the collective con- Finland to asylum seekers, at a time manual. She laughs, motioning "There's another woman like the US. black women endured forced en through forced sterilisations, sciousness of anti-black victimis- Of course, the deaths of these of a massive flow of refugees to with one hand as if she is changing [Ahmad] in Gaza. She's a fisher- breeding, rape and brutal assaults. abusive and exploitative convict ation also has historical precedent. gears while the other one rests on woman, I think. She's surely the black boys and men are by no Death at the hands of slave traders labour, and the hyper-policing and means universally decried. Far too as well as slave owners was not criminalising of black women's The name Till resonates as an imaginary wheel. only woman doing that job," Abu many across the nation question uncommon. The work of scholars bodies. more familiar than Addie Mae Col- Ahmad has been preoccupied Taima said. "It's not easy, but these their humanity and their "last acts" such as Deborah Gray White, The state often sanctioned the lins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Rob- with cars since she was a young women are opening doors for oth- before dying. Thavolia Glymph, Sadiya Hart- assault, rape and murder of black ertson, and Denise McNair, the girl, but she never thought she er women to start work - not just But the massive, sustained and man, Daina Berry, Wilma King, women through not searching for four little girls killed in the bomb- would end up making a living out in general, but in fields previously multi-tiered protests unleashed Christina Sharpe, and the late or convicting those responsible for ing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist of her love for being behind the impossible. We will look back and and led by the people of Fergu- Stephanie Camp unmask the utter these acts of violence. Viewed as Church in Birmingham, Alabama wheel. see [that] these women who made son, Missouri, in August 2014, after brutality black women and girls un-rapeable, the mere suggestion on September 15, 1963. For the past two years, Ah- the first jump into 'male' fields the killing of Michael Brown by experienced under US chattel sla- that a white man would rape a The bombing has been revisit- Darren Wilson awakened a nation mad has been driving a taxi through helped push us towards equality." very. black woman flew in the face of ed as symbolic of the anti-black the streets of Hebron in the south- For Palestinian women to divided on issues of race, racism Acts of violence perpetrated anti-black racist logic. racial violence during the civil rights and policing. and sanctioned by the state against Internationally and nationally era in the wake of a number of black ern occupied West Bank. break out of the gendered roles in As the slumber of post-racial- black women occurred in the same renowned anti-lynching crusader churches mysteriously burning Western Europe through land and While she never planned to society, Abu Taima says they will ness wore off and more public con- historical era in which the nation's Ida B. Wells had her life and liveli- and of the mass murder of nine sea. make a political statement with her have to be prepared for the same versations about police conduct founding principles of life, liberty hood threatened for calling out the black people in Emanuel African Juha Sipila told state media career, there is no getting around kind of backlash and community towards black people occurred, the and the pursuit of happiness collective dubiousness of claims Methodist Episcopal Church in that his home in Kempele, located it: Ahmad is believed to be the only gossip to which Ahmad was ini- discussions primarily focused on emerged. Foundational documents about an epidemic of black men South Carolina by white assailant 500km north of the capital Hels- female taxi driver in all of Pales- tially subjected. the experiences of black men and of US democracy upheld systems raping white women, while also Dylann Roof. The names of the tine. We will look back and see [that] boys. inki, could be used to accommo- of disenfranchisement, oppression exposing the reality of sexual vio- four girls killed in that church in date asylum seekers after the end Her floral-printed mauve head- these women who made the first The killing of Brown coupled and dehumanisation. lence against black women perpe- 1963, however, rarely circulate as with the video footage of the kill- of the year. scarf and long black abaya stand jump into 'male' fields helped push The state sanctioned black trated by white men. representative of the modern lega- "We should all look in the mir- ings of John Crawford, Eric Gar- women's perpetual and legally cod- Danielle McGuire's At the cy of anti-black racial violence. ner and Tamir Rice in the second ified vulnerability to a wide range Dark End of the Street: Black Beyond calling the names of ror and ask ourselves how we can half of 2014 necessarily raised im- of violent acts. The subjugation of Women, Rape, and Resistance - A black women and girls, understand- help… My house is not being used portant questions about the ram- black women and girls became New History of the Civil Rights ing a history of anti-black racial much at the moment. My family pant killing of black men and boys deeply entrenched in the fabric of Movement From Rosa Parks to violence which includes all black lives in Sipoo [east of Helsinki] by police officers. Footage of their this nation's democracy. Black Power (Vintage 2011) com- people irrespective of gender ren- and the prime minister's residence deaths etched themselves onto the Lynched pellingly asserts how the rape of ders the deeply disturbing arrest is located in Kesaranta," Sipila told consciences of those seeking an- Post-slavery and throughout black women figured as a promi- and suspicious death of Sandra public broadcaster YLE. swers for the near daily occurrence the Jim Crow era, racial oppres- nent tool of state-sanctioned anti- Bland less anomalous. The stories The prime minister also called of black people being killed by sion as articulated through violence black racial violence in the 20th of Bland as well as the other black police officers or vigilantes . on other citizens, churches and included black women being as- century. The battered and violated women found dead in police cus- voluntary organisations in the But, until the recent suspicious saulted, raped and lynched. bodies of black women and girls tody in July 2015 and the black death of Sandra Bland and the five Contrary to more widely- were numerous, largely unknown women and girls killed by police country of five million inhabitants other black women who died in known historical narratives about and woefully neglected by the officers over the past 30 years pro- to open their facilities to asylum police custody, the national con- the lynching of black men and state. The various iterations of foundly illustrate the reality of seekers. versation on anti-black racism and boys, at least 200 black women anti-black racial violence inscribed anti-black state and state-sanc- Recently, thousands of people policing has primarily focused on and girls were lynched in the late the daily lived experiences of black tioned violence. Ranging in age from Iceland, another Nordic coun- black men and boys. 19th and early 20th centuries. people in the US. from seven to 93, black female vic- try, offered their homes to refu- Black women and girls remain Black women in the US comprised Although often historicised as tims of police violence fit within a gees through a Facebook page af- out among the rows of bare male us towards equality. conspicuously absent from the a notable portion of the black bod- a strictly Southern problem, the painful legacy of black women and elbows poking out of the drivers' Nahid Abu Taima, professor collective roll call often used as ter the government announced it ies swinging from southern, north- lynching, raping and assaulting of girls victimised by state and state- would accept only 50 refugees. windows in the bustling city of of feminism in the media at Birzeit evidence of anti-black state vio- ern, western, mid-western, and black people occurred in cities and sanctioned terror. The pain of hear- lence. Maija Karjalainen, secretary of Hebron. University eastern trees. The brutal murder towns across the nation. The harsh ing an officer violently threaten She says that her husband, a "Eventually, though, people Know their names of black people by white mobs realities many black people faced Bland is all too familiar. The cries international affairs for the conser- Even many of those who know primarily occurred in extra-legal after migrating from the South in- of Tanisha Anderson as she was vative Finns Party, said that the professor of information technol- will start to understand that there the stories of the aforementioned contexts, and yet, the justice sys- dicated a national problem as op- restrained and eventually killed by prime minister's move was posi- ogy at a local university, never chal- is no problem with what she is black male victims may not recog- tem rarely arrested, indicted or posed to a regional anomaly. When officers in east Cleveland echo the tive, but could not be implement- lenged her dream of driving a taxi - doing," Abu Taima said. nise the names Tarika Wilson, convicted those accountable for factoring in the prevalence of black screams of unknown black wom- ed by many Finns. but many others in the communi- Ahmad became interested in Pearlie Golden, Rekia Boyd, Tan- these crimes against black human- women being raped by white men en victims of state and state-sanc- ty were not as open to her unusual cars at a young age - but even then, isha Anderson, Aiyana Jones, and ity. Killed for allegations of theft, in the Jim Crow era, the geo-his- tioned violence. Over a dozen Af- job choice. she understood that it was not con- Yvette Smith - black women and rape, insolence towards white au- torical framing of anti-black racial rican American women accusing "In the beginning, there was a sidered a "normal" interest for a girls killed by police officers. thority and violent offences against violence drastically shifts. Oklahoma City police officer lot of gossip. When my brother girl. Despite the tireless work of white people, the veracity of these The murder of Emmitt Till and Daniel Holtzclaw of rape and sex- numerous activists to illuminate heard other drivers talking about She watched her cousins work accusations was often unques- the subsequent coverage of the act ual assault should remind us of me, about 'that woman who drives on their engines when she was a state and state-sanctioned violence tioned. Due process largely did not and trial undeniably sparked new what occurs at the dark of end of against black people, regardless of exist for black suspects. Even black national conversations about racial streets for many black women. a taxi', he came home and was furi- teenager - never asking questions, gender or sexual identity, the kill- people not suspected of 'crimes' violence. Black women and girls have always ous and demanded I stop at once," but taking mental notes instead. ing of black women and girls by or associated with fabricated crim- In 2015, racial justice activists been victims of racist terrorising. Ahmad told Al Jazeera. "I can work on my own car police continues to not garner sig- inal offenses faced the possibility continue to use the horrific mur- This is why we must emphatical- Ahmad stopped driving for [now]. I watched and watched, nificant attention in the mass me- of daily anti-black violence. der of Till to historicise modern ly #SayHerName. About the au- several months after that, but her [and] now I know about cars. I can dia and in some racial justice activ- Conversely, white people ac- anti-black racial violence. A pain- thor: Dr Treva Lindsey is an as- "It is a move to be an example husband urged her to continue. take even apart the carburettor," ist communities. cused of beating, raping or even ful chronology of racial violence sistant professor of Women's, for others in helping refugees, but The general director of AD- Ahmad said. This lack of inclusivity in the murdering black people rarely connects Till to Trayvon Martin. Gender and Sexuality Studies at documenting of and mobilising we should not forget that the WAR, Sahar al-Kawasmeh, says Ahmad's daughter, who is mar- faced state-level consequences. In The differences between these The Ohio State University. Her prime minister is in a unique posi- her organisation can eventually ried and lives in neighbouring Jor- around anti-black state violence the handful of cases that made it cases do not detract from the over- research and teaching interests in- provided the basis for the release tion, having a house available for help raise funds for the all-female dan, has followed in her mother's to trial, all-white juries and white arching concern that those who kill clude African American women's taxi company [Abed al-Qaisi/Al footsteps by obtaining a taxi driv- of Say Her Name: Resisting Police judges rarely found the accused black people will not face conse- history, black popular and expres- this purpose," she told Al Jazeera. Brutality Against Black Women, a guilty. quences for their acts. sive culture, black feminism(s), hip "Not all Finns have the space, Jazeera] er's license as well - though she 2015 report detailing the specific The raped 'un-rapeable' The death of one black person hop studies, critical race and gen- finances or the capacity to do the Women account for only one- has not yet started driving profes- experiences of black women with The rape of black women by by police or vigilantes every 28 der theory, and sexual politics. Her same." fifth of the workforce in the occu- sionally. policing and profiling. white men, a common form of ra- hours in the US – a figure discov- first book entitled Colored No The anti-immigration Finns pied West Bank, and many take The support Ahmad has re- The glaring invisibility of black cial violence during both chattel ered by the Malcolm X Grassroots More: New Negro Womanhood in Party is in a coalition government on the roles traditionally seen as ceived from her family has pushed women and girls as victims of fatal slavery and the Jim Crow era, was Movement in 2012 - necessarily the Nation's Capital is under con- with Prime Minister Sipila's Cen- "female", such as teaching, nurs- her to think of her career in a big- police violence also resulted in the foundational to maintaining a provokes the question: do black tract at the University of Illinois Association of Black Women His- tre Party. ing, or cleaning. Mothers who work ger way. She now wants to start white supremacist racial status lives matter? The urgency of this Press. The views expressed in this Finnish citizens who talked to while their children are home from her own business, and within the torians releasing an official state- quo. The prevalence of violence as question propelled the protesting article are the author's own and do ment in July 2015 on "The Mod- Al Jazeera have varied views about school are sometimes frowned next few years, she hopes to run a a tool to maintain segregation and in Ferguson after the killing of not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's upon. small fleet of taxis driven by wom- ern Day Lynching of black Wom- to promote white superiority Michael Brown and catalysed a editorial policy. the prime minister's initiative. en in US Justice System". shaped the African American ex- racial justice movement centred This article first appeared in a "This [the PM’s move] is up- Nahid Abu Taima, who teach- en, for women. Their use of the word "lynch- perience throughout the post- around the powerful assertion that special edition of the Al Jazeera holding and continuation of the es a course on feminism in the "The cars will be neon green," ing" to describe contemporary emancipation and Jim Crow eras. Black Lives Matter. Magazine exploring race in the US. Finnish tradition to deal with this media at Birzeit University, told she said. "I want to distinguish the state violence purposefully situ- More recent historical work Despite the work of many ac- Download it for iPads and iPhones sort of crisis," Reeta Paakkinen, a Al Jazeera that women like Ah- all-women taxis from the main- ated recent killings of black wom- from scholars such as Cheryl tivists to focus on anti-black state here, and for Android devices here. 36-year-old, non-fiction writer mad are trailblazers in Palestine, stream ones." en by police in a longer history of Hicks, Kali Gross, Kidada Will- and state-sanctioned violence Al Jazeera from Helsinki, told Al Jazeera. paving the way for an equal soci- Aljazeera This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Pak rupee falling in absence of govt support Japan, Iran to KARACHI: Unlike last year, when the finance minister was de- termined to bring the local curren- start investment cy back to below Rs100 against the US dollar from its historic low of Rs110, no effort is being made talks next week this time around to cushion rupee’s fall. TOKYO: Japan and Iran will start tions will lead to increased auto On Aug 24, the dollar jumped talks next week to negotiate a bi- exports to Iran and more Iranian by 2.4 per cent to Rs104.50 in a lateral investment treaty, as Wash- energy imports, although Tokyo single session which shocked the ington moves to ease sanctions officials are bracing themselves for stakeholders while it proved a against Tehran and Tokyo looks fierce international competition for pleasant surprise for exporters to step up its interests in the re- market access, local media report- demanding rupee’s devaluation. source rich nation. ed. Exporters were never satisfied Japanese and Iranian officials Tokyo, which is heavily de- with the government’s move last year to bring the US currency back will meet in Tehran from Monday pendent on Middle Eastern oil, has to below Rs100 from Rs110. through to Wednesday to secure a maintained friendly relations with However, the dollar gradually deal, Chief Cabinet Secretary Tehran through its years of ostra- started inching up from Rs98 to Yoshihide Suga said Friday, as oth- cism, keeping up diplomatic dia- Rs100, and then to Rs101 where er energy consumers also rush to logue that many developed coun- it stayed for a long time. Before explore Tehran’s commercial po- tries cut off decades ago. jumping to Rs104, the dollar had tential. But Tokyo has reduced its Ira- been at Rs102 for a couple of “The aim of these negotiations nian oil imports in recent years months. is to protect the investment activ- under pressure from fellow devel- It is believed that the rupee is ities of Japanese companies,” Suga oped powers backing the US-led being devalued to please export- told reporters at a regular briefing. sanction regime. ers, particularly of textiles, who When asked how resource- There have also been no new argue that their products have failed poor Japan would tap Iran’s ener- Japanese investments in Iran since to compete in the European mar- ket in the wake of Chinese yuan’s gy potential, Suga said: “Keeping 1993, according to official data. depreciation. those various factors in mind, Ja- There were approximately 30 Jap- China devalued its currency by pan will take the necessary steps anese firms operating in the coun- 3pc which triggered a wave of de- and not be later than other na- try as of July last year, data valuation of currencies in the de- tions.” showed. Iran has meanwhile veloping countries like India, Bang- The move comes as Washing- praised Japan’s nuclear technolo- ladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia. ton secures support in Congress gy, even after the 2011 Fukushima Currency dealers in the inter- for its nuclear deal with Iran, de- crisis, and said more investment in bank market witnessed no inter- dollar has been officially accepted at Rs104, and from here it could rise but not fall. signed to limit its nuclear pro- Iran’s atomic sector could boost ference from the State Bank of The same message was received by a more active and volatile open market where the dollar remained around Rs105 during the week. “We sold gramme in exchange for the easing bilateral relations. Pakistan (SBP) to bring the US dollar at Rs105 and accepted at Rs104.80 on Saturday,” said Anwar Jamal, a currency dealer. of US-led international sanctions. Japanese Foreign Minister dollar back to Rs102. Experts be- He said there is no shortage of dollar, and both supply and demand are under control. Earlier, the currency dealers were arguing that people going The historic deal was clinched Fumio Kishida is also expected to lieve that the dollar is now on a for Haj were buying dollars in bulk which escalated the price and increased demand. in July after two years of negotia- visit Iran as early as next month to gradual rise. The SBP, aiming to remove the gap between supply and demand, facilitated the exchange companies to bring dollars directly into their accounts. During the outgoing week, the tions to address Western concerns set up a bilateral committee to dis- They were earlier bound to surrender dollars to banks in Dubai and receive in Pakistan which used to take three to five days. The current facility that Iran was developing a nuclear cuss energy and infrastructure de- greenback rose from Rs104.04 on is for two months, but despite this the dollar has risen to Rs105 from Rs102.5. Monday to Rs104.32 on Friday. The State Bank has recently put some restrictions on import of luxuries and forward booking of dollars, but currency experts believe these steps bomb — a claim Iran denies. velopment and other economic is- Currency dealers think that the are insufficient to keep the exchange rate stable. Japan hopes the lifting of sanc- sues, Kyodo News said.

China's financial markets are expected to remain stable and the renminbi is not on course for a long-term devaluation, while fiscal spending will grow faster than expected this year, the country's top financial officials told the G20. Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said that central government spending will rise 10 percent this year, more than the 7 percent growth budgeted at the start of the year, according to a statement late Saturday on the People's Bank of China website. China will raise dividend payments from designated state-owned enterprises to make up for any shortfalls. China is headed for its slowest economic expansion in 25 years in 2015 and mainland markets have slumped 40 percent since mid-June, sending global financial markets skittering. Ailing Chinese shares dragged down Hong Kong stocks to their lowest close in two years on Wednesday. China's financial markets were closed on Thursday and Friday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. China's overall GDP growth will remain around 7 percent, as pre- dicted earlier in the year, and the new economic normal may last for four to five years, Lou said. The government will not particularly care about quarterly economic fluctuations and maintain steady macro-economic policy, he added. China can no longer rely on policy supports to achieve 9-10 percent growth, as it may already take several years to digest excess industrial capacity and inventories, he said. It will go through "labor pains" in the next five years as it aims to complete main structural reforms by 2020, Lou added. The quality of growth, however, is already improving with 7 million jobs created in the first half of the year, consumption overtaking invest- ment in contributing to economic growth and the balance of payments becoming more even, he said. Also at the G20, People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan reviewed the massive run-up and crash of Chinese equities, acknowl- edging its global impact in August. Financial leaders from the Group of 20 top economies met in Tur- key on Friday and Saturday. China's efforts, including the central bank channeling liquidity into the market, averted a precipitous slide and systemic risks, Zhou said. ‘Deal to boost Saudi credit growth slows on lower deposits UAE’s Etisalat New England ports seek emerging markets The consolidated balance sheet of of credit in the first half of the year deposits at SR373 billion. to open shares Saudi banks for the month of June was commerce-related, while In June, demand deposits post- to stage comeback role at IMF likely’ shows that total bank credit to 12.5% was related to manufactur- ed growth of 15.7% Y/Y, while private and public sectors (exclud- ing and processing, and 7.2% went time and savings rose 3.5% Y/Y. to foreign and The noise and bustle of nearby dredging, and the will has not al- LONDON: A compromise deal on ing T-bills and government bonds) into building and construction. The drawdown of reserves and neighborhoods fade away at New ways kept up with the need to re- reforms to give emerging markets reached SR1.32 billion, surging by In value terms, bank credit for excess liquidity led to diminishing institutional Haven's sprawling port. An oil and move silt. In Bridgeport, Connect- greater influence at the an annualized 8.9%, the National commercial purposes was valued deposits of time and savings as the chemical tanker floats placidly at icut, New England's southernmost Inter•na•tional Monetary Fund is Commercial Bank said it its Au- around SR532.5 billion, surging by government rebalances its fiscal buyers a dock. A tug pushes a barge out in port, ship traffic is severely limit- increasingly likely, a key official gust “Saudi Economic Review”. 11.7%Y/Y. Credit for manufactur- position. Long Island Sound. Only occasion- ed because the harbor has not been said on Friday, weeks before a dead- This rate of growth marks the ing and processing reached Banks, however, maintain high ally do trucks rumble up to a scrap dredged since 1964, leaving it short line for US action expires. largest deceleration since Septem- SR326.4 billion while credit for liquidity levels as loan/deposit ra- Plans agreed in 2010 to give metal business or deliver materials of the standard 35-foot depth in emerging markets more IMF vot- ber 2011, and is due to a single- building and construction totaled tio is at a high 80.1%. Looking into for road work. places. ing power and double the Fund’s digit growth in private sector credit SR182.7 billion, leading to annual- loans by maturity, we note that What was a key port for lum- A harbor's depth is key to at- resources have been delayed by the which accounts for 96.9% of total ized growth rates of 8.2% and short-term loans account for 51.7% ber and other goods dating to Co- tracting business and has huge sig- fact the US Congress has not ap- bank credit. Bank credit extended 12.3%, respectively. of Saudi banks’ portfolio, while lonial times is, like other New En- nificance for marketing, said Tim proved the change. to the private sector rose by 9.8% Banks loans portfolio contin- medium and long-term loans ac- gland ports, facing a reckoning af- Sullivan, deputy commissioner at If Congress does not pass re- Y/Y in June, standing at SR1.28 ue to move in response to the ex- count for 17.4% and 30.9%, re- ter a lengthy decline. the state's Department of Econom- forms by Sept. 15, the IMF board trillion, whereas public sector cred- pansion in their depositary base spectively. This high capacity uti- In the region that nurtured the ic and Community Development. has said it will discuss an “interim it contracted by 9.2% in the same which has been in deceleration lization and long-term horizon in- solution” by month’s end. Options beginnings of New World com- Money that once might have include increasing the quota for key period. since the beginning of the year, fall- dicate optimistic views on the Sau- merce with whaling, fishing and gone toward deepening harbors and emerging economies without re- The Kingdom is expected to ing to lower double-digit growth. di monetary situation despite the shipbuilding, state and local gov- providing rail and highway connec- quiring any change in the US posi- pass a short-term moderation The annual growth in deposits re- turmoil in the oil market. ernments are taking stock of aging tions was used to increase securi- tion. phase owing to the fiscal challeng- corded a 10.1% Y/Y upturn in The interest rate environment infrastructure at deep-water ports. ty after the Sept. 11 attacks, ac- Rakesh Mohan, the IMF’s ex- es stemming from lower oil re- June, below last year’s average of remains low as the 3-month SAI- As they move to stake out their cording to John Martin, a maritime ecutive director for Bangladesh, turns. Internal dynamics related to 13.7%. BOR remains at 77 bps, which is share of global trade, the challenge industry analyst. Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka, told household spending as indicated Growth in deposits is largely lower than last year’s average of is how to stay relevant in an age of Boston is having its harbor Reuters: “There’s more and more by the value of retail loans (exclud- influenced by growth in demand 97 bps. However, we expect to see likelihood that something like that ever-larger ships. deepened to 51 feet at the entrance will happen. We could do some ad- ing finance leasing and margin lend- deposits, which account for 65.8% a rise in SAIBOR in the short term "There are so few people who and 47 feet in inner channels and hoc changes like we did in 2008. ing), credit card loans, and real es- of deposits in Saudi banks, stand- as lesser liquidity resulting from The UAE telecommunications know about our deep-water ports," will be the region's only port ac- You could increase the shares of tate loans register a moderation to ing at SR1.1 trillion. The second the development bond purchases company Etisalat will allow for- said Judith Scheiffele, executive commodating bigger ships, said some countries that are most un- 8.1% Y/Y in H12015, compared largest deposit type is time and may tighten credit availability for eign and institutional investors to director of the New Haven Port Edward O'Donnell, chief of the der-represented, China, India, etc.” to 10.9% Y/Y over the same peri- savings which constitute 22.7% of some banks. own its shares from September 15 Authority. "I think it's kind of tak- navigation section at the Army The comments suggest that od last year. en for granted." Corps of Engineers in New En- opposition among emerging mar- after its board of directors ap- Retail loans which include proved the new rules governing New England's ports saw their gland. kets to any halfway measures may loans for renovation and home im- be abating. ownership. national rankings in terms of total With the exception of Boston “This is a signal to the admin- provement, vehicles and transport Etisalat is worth nearly twice trade plummet since the 1970s, a and Portland, Maine, New En- istration and to Congress that the means extended by Saudi banks in as much as the second-biggest list- trend that only accelerated with the gland's ports generally handle only world is ready to proceed without 2015 totaled SAR627.8 billion by ed UAE company, but its public- Great Recession. New Haven, cargo that is loaded individually — them,” Peterson Institute for In- the end of 2Q, up by 4.7% Y/Y. ly traded shares can only be owned which ranked 33rd in the nation in not the large, more lucrative con- ternational Economics senior fel- Over the same period, total by Emiratis, and all institutions are 1972 with 13.1 million tons, tainer shipping. low Jacob Funk Kirkegaard said. fresh consumer credit card loans ranked 57th in 2013 with only 8.4 More commerce is moving on But Brazil’s representative on excluded. reached SAR19.2 billion, surging In June, Etisalat said it would million tons, according to the Amer- giant ships that can pass through the executive board, Otaviano Ca- by 10.8% Y/Y. On the other hand, nuto, said his country had not yet loosen these rules to permit for- ican Association of Port Authori- an expanded Panama Canal. New abandoned hope of a full-fledged new retail real estate loans by eign and institutional investors to ties. England's location, on the East reform, although he said the dis- banks totaled SR193.7 billion by own shares worth up to 20 per The drop owes to issues of Coast, doesn't help, either, as late- cussion would “probably” head mid-2015, surging by 20.2%. cent of the company, but it said access and global forces far out- ly it is Asia — and not Europe — towards an ad hoc change as an Bank credit classified by eco- last month that these shareholders side local control. that sends most cargo by sea to interim step. nomic activity shows that 20.5% would not be granted voting rights. Ports constantly need costly the United States. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

From biker to bomber, distressed to zippered, the leather jacket is all the rage again this season. The Having hung up his boots, David Beckham Salman denies perfect accessory to boost brio in any ensemble, it seems to be revi- talising the style quotient of su- sets his sights on acting career Madhuri was permodels Cara Delevingne and Despite having a number of lucra- television advertisements notwith- ence in films could be assessed by Behati Prinsloo. tive contracts before him even af- standing. Guy Ritchie’s remarks, “He’s in paid more for Cara Delevingne ter hanging up his boots, English “I know that it is a tough pro- the film. He’s in there… He’s mar- Hair and make-up footballer David Beckham has de- fession, where you need a huge ginally disguised, but he’s in the Arriving back in Los Angeles, cided to pursue a career in acting. amount of skill and discipline, and movie. I mean, once you know 'Hum Aapke Cara seems to have had a great trip The former Manchester Unit- I wouldn’t want to push myself who it is, you’ll know who it is!” to Canada. Sporting the sans- ed and Real Madrid star has al- forward too soon, without learn- Further, Beckham and Guy Hain Koun' make-up look, the Paper Towns ready featured in Guy Ritchie’s ing more about it, and doing a lot have been friends for years, work- actor managed to make her effort- Knights Of The Roundtable – to more practice.” ing together on an advert for H&M lessly fresh complexion shine be unveiled next year – and is wary “But what I have done so far, in 2013 as well as a commercial for through. The ash-blonde star gave of what sort of criticism he may I have loved. I can deal with most his own Haig Whiskey. her silky mane the boho-treatment face when he shifts from the field things. I am a well-known person, The news came week after it and let it free in a casual straight to the screen. so I have got used to criticism.” was revealed that David will also style. “I am very aware that many While he admits the ‘guilt from star in his friend’s production of Outfit sportsmen and other celebrities within’ for giving up professional King Arthur. She rocked an all-black ensem- have turned their hand to acting football, the father of four is ada- Now, the prolific former ble featuring a pair of straight and failed,” he told The Times mant to hit the big screen. sportsman had reportedly signed tracksuit pants, a simple T-shirt, a newspaper. This is not the footballer’s first up for an unknown part in the epic, hooded sweater and a double- To date, Beckham’s biggest stint on the silver screen since he starring Charlie Hunnam, Jude breasted leather jacket by Burber- screen time has come in the shape had last made a special guest ap- Law, Eric Bana and Poppy Delev- ry that is priced at $5000. The of the football movie Goal 2 which pearance in Only Fools and Hors- ingne. ribbed detailing on the sleeves and had him do less acting and more of es sketch for Sport Relief, and ral- Having won almost every ma- Superstar Salman Khan says he shoulders only adds to the bold- what he was renowned to do day lied to bag a cameo in Ritchie’s The jor trophy in the world of foot- wasn’t paid lesser than his 1994 ness of this avant-garde outfit. in and day out, put a football in Man From U.N.C.L.E. ball, he waved goodbye to profes- blockbuster Hum Aapke Hain Accessories the back of the net. His hours of Beckham’s high profile pres- sional football in May 2013. Koun co-star Madhuri Dixit, as Cara glazed her dapper outfit suggested by veteran actor Anu- with a green velvet bag and Rasta- pam Kher. farian-coloured laced sneakers. Anupam was running a gender Talk about radiating spirit with fi- equality initiative on Twitter when nesse. Perhaps exhausted from her a woman mentioned about the pay trip, the star covered her eyes with disparity in Bollywood, to which a pair of oversized hippie-chic the Baby actor replied: “I agree in round sunglasses. We love. certain cases it is true. But Madhu- Behati Prinsloo ri was paid more than Salman in Hair and make-up HAHK (Hum Aapke Hain The Victoria’s secret angel Koun..!)” went for a luminously flushed look, Asked about Anupam’s state- while attending a party in West ment at a press interaction here, Hollywood, California. Livening Salman initially claimed that he up her complexion with peach wasn’t aware of it, but later re- blush and a ruddy-tinted nude lip, plied, “I don’t think it is true.” the supermodel sported natural Salman was present at a dance waves. reality show with actors Sooraj Outfit Pancholi and Athiya Shetty to pro- Mrs Adam Levine went for a mote their upcoming film, Hero. layered but still physique-parad- Regarding disparity in remu- ing look. She stunned in an asym- neration, Salman said, “It’s all metrical zippered leather jacket by about what people want to see.” Alexander Wang, priced at $1300. “The busier you get, the more The long-limbed model also people want to see you, that’s how donned a cropped black top and a your price increases. So if you can pair of star-embossed high-waist- pull off a solo hero or solo heroine ed flares, leaving us starry-eyed. film on your own and the produc- Accessories ers, exhibitors and distributors Behati glammed up with a tan make that money then the producer python clutch, a pair of black doesn’t have any problem sharing peep-toe mules that complement- that money with you. So you can’t ed her printed trousers and a long demand, you need to command necklace that ended just at the bot- that,” he added. tom of her minuscule top. Adding colour to her ensemble, the star flaunted a tomato-red mani. Bono offers support to

Syrian Elli Avram, who will next be seen romancing comedian-actor Kapil refugees at Sharma in "Kis Kisko Pyaar Ka- roon", says she would love to be U2 concert known as the modern day "Dream Girl". Singer and activist Bono has of- "I would definitely love to be fered support to refugees fleeing known as the modern day 'Dream their homes by changing the cho- Girl' in Bollywood, the way Hema rus of a U2 song mid-concert to Malini is being known in the in- help raise awareness of their plight. dustry from a number of years", The band kicked off the Euro- Elli said at Zoya Boutique follow- pean leg of their world tour this ing the launch of a wedding collec- week, and Bono, who addressed a tion here. packed crowd at the Pala Alpitour Asked about the qualities indoor sports/concert arena in which she would want in her fu- Turin, said he did not have the an- ture husband, Elli said: "I want my swers to the refugee crisis but add- 'Mr. Right' to be very classy and ed that we “must work together” simple. I don't want him to be too to find the solution, reports loud". mirror.co.uk. The Sweden-born actress The image of a young Syrian made her acting debut with "Mick- boy washed ashore in Turkey ear- ey Virus", and she is especially lier this week sparked outrage and "happy" that she has worked on calls for governments throughout her Hindi speaking skills. Europe to do more to help the tens Directed by popular duo Ab- of thousands of refugees. bas-Mustan, "Kis Kisko Pyaar Bono made reference to the Karoon" is slated to release on Sep- shocking incident by changing the tember 25. lyrics in Pride (In The Name Of Love) to: One Boy Washed Up On An Empty Beach. In a set that included more than two dozen of the band’s songs and at one point featured a screen showing footage of refugees, Bono said: “There is a lot of heartache in the world, but there is so much joy in here this evening”.

Surprising! Despite adverse reviews 'Welcome Back' gets decent opening Filmmaker Anees Bazmee's comedy film 'Welcome Back', which is a sequel to the 2007 movie 'Welcome' has collected almost Rs 15 crore since its release on Friday. The film, which features John Abraham, Shruti Haasan, Anil Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal and Dimple Kapadia, minted Rs 14.35 crore on its opening day, said a source from the pro- duction house. 'Welcome Back', which did not have any other big films clashing at the box office, is expected to have a good week. The sequel to the 2007 film is the comeback film for actor Shiney Ahuja, who faded into obscurity after he was accused of rape by his former domestic help and was last seen on the silver screen in 2012. Shiney is seen essaying the "spoilt" son of Naseer- uddin, who plays a blind don named Wanted Bhai in the film. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 07, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

There was the relentless pace and type pressure on fighters. Yester- fill and I have a long way to go the unbridled aggression. There day, she was the most searched before I can make that compar- was the judo throw we've seen so fighter on UFC.com. ison. But I hope to follow in often. The ending came suddenly, "People love her. All of her her footsteps. She's opened US Open: Five-time winner swiftly, with a perfectly executed sponsors were cageside with their some great doors for us." arm bar. phones out filming her when she VanZant, like Rousey, will Paige VanZant was, indeed, walked out. She's got it, man." help grow the women's side of Federer powers through impressive in her victory Saturday There is no doubt that Van- the game because of her popu- over Alex Chambers in their straw- Zant has the combination of tal- larity and the fact she'll create Five-time US Open winner Roger to beat France's Adrian Mannari- none since the 2012 Wimbledon, weight bout at UFC 191 at the ent, looks and personality that more interest in the game. Federer took another straight-sets no in the second round after need- has been brutally efficient with his MGM Grand Garden. could help her to not only become But she needs to develop. step at the 2015 championships ing four sets to beat Australian own serve during a strong season Let's slow down, however, on a champion, but one of the stars of She's a young fighter who will with a 6-3 6-4 6-4 third-round vic- Nick Kyrgios in his opening match. and an impressive build up to the this talk of her as the 'Next Ronda the sport. make mistakes. She may even tory over Philipp Kohlschreiber at Federer, meanwhile, lost his US Open. Rousey.' It's not only not accurate, But to compare VanZant to lose before she gets a crack at Flushing Meadows. it's not fair. Rousey is the UFC Rousey is way, way early. There the title. Third seed Andy Murray also women's bantamweight champion may never be another fighter like She's good, but Rousey's enjoyed a straight-forward win af- and not only one of the world's Rousey in the UFC. As Rousey meteoric rise kind of makes it ter two earlier battles to advance greatest active fighters, but also said recently, she'll be missed when seem like everyone can do that. with a 6-3 6-2 7-5 victory over one of the best fighters ever. she's gone. And the truth is, few who have Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci. VanZant is a 21-year-old rookie VanZant isn't nearly the fin- ever lived can match what Rou- Murray, who won his first who, despite a 3-0 UFC record and ished product that Rousey was sey has accomplished. major at the 2012 U.S. Open a year a No. 7 divisional ranking, stilll has when Rousey turned pro in 2011 Let VanZant be herself. before winning Wimbledon, had much to learn and a long way to go after winning a bronze medal in With some time, that will be fought back from two sets down before she can ever think of com- judo at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. plenty good enough. peting with the likes of straw- She leaves herself open, but weight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Chambers wasn't good enough to Chambers clearly was no take advantage. VanZant's pace and match for VanZant. She was aggression won her this fight. breathing heavily early in the first "A lot of girls, they're not used round and was completely gassed to having the pace pushed that by the early stages of the second. way," VanZant said. "That's some- She literally had no offense what- thing I definitley get from my team- soever on Saturday. mates. They push me every sec- VanZant, much like Rousey, ond and that's kind of the way I roared out of the corner and at- fight." VanZant is wise beyond her tacked. And she fought at a pace years, and her willingness to learn that Chambers could not come is what gives her the chance to be close to matching. special. VanZant-mania has run wild in She's heard the next Rousey the UFC, because she's an attrac- line since before she joined the serve for the first time in the tour- He was a finalist at Wimble- tive young woman with a good UFC, but she doesn't seem to be nament as Kohlschreiber broke don in July and has captured five personality and an entertaining letting it impact her. She's continu- him twice in the 93-minute match, ATP titles this year, including last fighting style. She getting, and de- ing to mature and is evolving as a but the 34-year-old Swiss stayed month's Cincinnati Masters, where serving, a tremendous amount of fighter. in command with five service he defeated world number one hype. Now, she could become the breaks of his own to improve his Novak Djokovic in the final. "She has all the attributes of a champion and run off a long string career record to 10-0 against the Elsewhere, French Open cham- rockstar, man," UFC president of wins and still not be the next German. pion Stan Wawrinka powered his Dana White said. "She's got a great Rousey. Rousey is that special. "I think I won the big points way to a third successive straight personality. She's absolutely re- VanZant gets that. today," said Federer, who cashed sets win, beating Belgian Ruben lentless when she's fighting. She "It's definitely a compliment in five of eight break point chanc- Bemelmans 6-3 7-6(5) 6-4 to reach moves forward. She puts Mighty for people to say that," she said. es. the fourth round. Mouse [Demetrious Johnson]- "Those are definitley big shoes to "I served well when I had to at The aggressive Swiss fifth seed the end." belted 41 winners at Louis Arm- Next up for Federer in the strong Stadium to make up for 32 round-of-16 is big-serving John unforced errors against Bemel- Isner, who advanced when Czech mans, who was appearing in the Record-equalling Rooney Jiri Vesely retired due to a neck third round of a grand slam for the injury when trailing 6-3 6-4. first time. Wawrinka, who won his maid- takes England to Euro 2016 The 13th-seeded American en grand slam at last year's Aus- hammered 21 aces and 46 winners tralian Open, will meet American England qualified for Euro 2016 past Vesely in the abbreviated Donald Young, who battled back after crushing San Marino 6-0 with match. to beat Serbian Viktor Troicki af- captain Wayne Rooney equalling The evergreen Federer, the ter losing the first two sets, for a Bobby Charlton's all-time scoring grand slam king with 17 titles but berth in the quarter-finals. record of 49 goals for his country. The visitors outclassed San Marino as they chalked up a sev- Hoffman takes the lead; enth successive Group E win to seal their place in France next year. Rooney equalled Charlton's Spieth misses another cut record when he scored with a 13th- minute penalty, sending goal-keep- Jordan Spieth spent most of the playing, needed a par on the final er Aldo Simoncini the wrong way. summer chasing history. Now he's hole to make the cut on the num- Cristian Brolli headed into his chasing the cut line, and losing the ber. He got up-and-down from a own net after 30 minutes before battle. bunker and made birdie for a 74 Ross Barkley nodded home sec- lo last month, made the perfect Zenit St Petersburg forward When he walked off the 18th and made it with one shot to spare. onds after halftime with his first start as Russia coach when his side Artem Dzyuba was left with green Saturday at the Deutsche PGA champion Jason Day goal for England. got their qualifying hopes back on the easiest of tasks to slot the Bank Championship after his only kept alive his hopes to be No. 1 Substitute Theo Walcott made track with a 1-0 victory over Swe- only goal past keeper Andreas birdie of the second round, Spieth for the first time with another 68 it 4-0 with a tap-in at the far post den. Isaksson. had a 3-over 74 and missed the cut that left him in a tie for 10th, six in the 68th minute. Harry Kane, Russia dominated possession Russia now have 11 in back-to-back events for the first shots behind. who replaced Rooney in the 57th, but found it hard to create chances points from seven matches in time in his career. It was the fourth straight round scored England's fifth with an ex- until they went in front in the 38th Group G, one behind second- He has gone 61 consecutive over par for Spieth, his longest such quisite chip before Walcott slid in minute. placed Sweden. Austria, who holes without being under par. streak since he went five consecu- the sixth goal in the 76th. Following a good exchange lead the way with 16 points Coming off a year in which he tive rounds at the British Open and Elsewhere, Leonid Slutskiy, down the right between Igor from six games, host Moldo- won the Masters and U.S. Open PGA Championship two years who took over from Fabio Capel- Smolnikov and Roman Shirokov, va later on Saturday. and challenged in the final hour of ago. the other two majors, this was a ''Who knows what's going strange sensation. through his head? It's difficult to Songbird wins Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante by 5 1/2 lengths Songbird won the $301,250 Del Medaglia d'Oro, won for the sec- another 3 1/2 lengths back Mar Debutante for 2-year-old fil- ond time in two career starts for in third and paid $3.20 to lies by 5 1/2 lengths Saturday at Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollen- show. The victory, worth Del Mar. Ridden by Hall of Famer dorfer. The victory, worth $60,000, increased Holly- Mike Smith, Songbird ran seven $180,000, increased her career wood Don's career earnings furlongs in 1:22.65 and paid $4.20, earnings to $222,000. to $102,250, with two wins $2.60 and $2.20 as the even-mon- In the $100,000 Del Mar Ju- in three starts. Miller sad- ey favorite in the field of 11. venile Turf for 2-year-olds, Hol- dled another winner on the Pretty N Cool returned $2.80 lywood Don outdueled Hot Ore card, and he trails leader and $2.60 as the 2-1 second to win by 1 1/2 lengths. Hollendorfer, who has 20 choice, while Land Over Sea was Ridden by Brice Blanc, Hol- victories, in the trainers' another three-quarters of a length lywood Don ran a mile on turf in standings with two days back in third and paid $5 to show 1:35.46 and paid $10.60, $5.20 and remaining in the seaside in the Grade 1 race. $3.80 for trainer Peter Miller. track's summer meet. They Songbird, a daughter of 2002 Hot Ore returned $8.60 and tied for the title last year Jim Dandy and Travers winner $5.40, while I'malreadythere was with 20 wins each.

''Whatever is going on ... nor- say what he's feeling, what he's mally my mental game is a strength going through emotionally,'' said of mine. And it's something I feel Day, who has played with Spieth like I have an advantage over other the opening two rounds both players on,'' Spieth said. ''These weeks. ''Because it is a lot of pres- past two weeks it was a weakness sure for a 22-year-old. It's very, for me.'' Charley Hoffman, who very hard to reach that No. 1 posi- five years ago closed with a 62 to tion and hold it there.'' win on the TPC Boston, made bird- Even more strange that Spieth ie on half of his holes for a 63 that leaving early in consecutive weeks gave him a three-shot lead over is this possible scenario in the Brendon de Jonge after 36 holes. world ranking: Spieth still could Rickie Fowler (67) and British return to No. 1 after the tourna- Open champion Zach Johnson (65) ment if Day doesn't win and McIl- were another shot behind.The sec- roy finishes out of the top 10. ond FedEx Cup playoff event Whatever is going through Spi- nearly lost the top two players in eth's mind, it didn't help that he the world. Rory McIlroy, who re- showed up at the TPC Boston al- turned to No. 1 last week without ready 16 shots out of the lead. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 07 . 2015-Sunbula 16, 1394 H.S Vol:X Issue No:45 Price: Afs.15 This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.