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RETIRED GENERALS, DIPLOMATS URGE OBAMA TO KEEP AFGHANISTAN TROOPS LEVEL Thirteen retired U.S. generals and coming months would negatively inauguration of Salma dam today, senior diplomats urged President affect each of these," they wrote. By Farhad Naibkhel Afghan people reached their long Barack Obama on Friday to main- The letter was published days be- dream,” president Ghani said. He tain the current U.S. troop level in fore the current U.S. military com- called the dam as sign of India’s KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani Afghanistan, saying a reduction mander in Afghanistan, Army durable cooperation with Afghan- would undercut the morale of Af- General John Nicholson, is expect- and Indian Prime Minister Naren- istan, who have had long friendly ghan government forces and bolster ed to submit a review of U.S. mil- dra Modi inaugurated the Salma relationships. “This project is a the Taliban. The 13 men oversaw itary strategy in Afghanistan. [newly renamed as Afghan-India relation between two nations, U.S. military operations and policy Under Obama's current plan, the friendship] dam, the biggest which brings light to Afghan hous- in Afghanistan during the adminis- number of U.S. military personnel project funded by Indian govern- es and irrigate dry lands in Herat trations of Obama and former Pres- is due to drop to 5,500 by 2017. ment in western Herat province. province.” Ghani called terrorism ident George W. Bush. They includ- But Taliban forces lately have Initial and basic works of the dam a challenge in the region that re- ed retired Army general and CIA made significant gains and rejected developed during the then-presi- quires of regional countries to have Director David Petraeus and four peace negotiations with Afghani- dent Hamid Karzai’s tenure, who single definition from terrorism and other former top commanders of stan's government, which has been attracted New Delhi’s attention to fight from united address. “Some U.S.-led international forces there, weakened by internal differences. the project. The dam is planned to as well as five former American Obama has made extracting the figures and people only damage, ambassadors to Afghanistan. In an United States from its 15-year- generate 42 megawatts of electric- but we struggle to rebuild and re- ity, which is considered to play open letter to Obama in the Nation- long war in Afghanistan a top pri- construct,” the president added. al Interest magazine, they said main- ority of his presidency, unsuccess- key role in the home-made power India built the new building for the project. The Karzai-initiative dam taining the current level of 9,800 fully pursuing efforts to bring the Afghan parliament. It built the U.S. troops would "likely have help- Taliban into peace will also irrigate around 80,000 Delaram-Zaranj road. New Delhi hectares of farmlands in four dis- ful effects on refugee flows, the con- talks."Afghanistan is the place has so far provided 17,000 schol- fidence of the Taliban, the morale of where al Qaeda and affiliates first tricts along its route. The project arships for Afghan students. the Afghan military and Afghan peo- planned the 9/11 attacks and a budget was some $ 300 million, “Privileged to see again the high ple, the state of the Afghan econo- place where they continue to op- paid by the Indian government as tide of friendship in this vast ocean my and perhaps even the strategic erate - and is thus important in the part of its donation in the recon- of love for India and this is yet assessments of some in broader effort to defeat the global struction of Afghanistan. Current- another giant step in Afghanistan’s Pakistan.""Conversely, we are con- extremist movement today," the ly Herat’s electricity is imported march to progress,” said Indian vinced that a reduction of our mili- retired generals and diplomats from Iran and Turkmenistan. “By Prime Minister Naredra...P2 tary and financial support over the wrote. (.ibtimes) TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN 27 militants Promoting Children’s Accesses GETTINGGOVERNMENT MONEY killed in THROUGH MARBLE INDUSTRY to Education in Village raids: MoD The considerable achievement made by the MRRD/NSP in Oqab Village is the construction of a school building where hundreds of boys and girls are currently learning in different sessions in proper classrooms. AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan National Security and Defence Forces conducted Considering the lack of a proper educational center in the community, the MRRD/NSP constructed a well- several operations against insurgents across the equipped building for village children in consultation with the existing CDC in its second round of Block country in the past 24 hours, in which 27 mili- Grants Disbursement. Benefitting 300 families, the school building project was completed in an area of tants were killed and 13 others wounded, securi- three jirabs at a sum of AFN 2,467,000 funded by MRRD/NSP including 10% community contribution ty officials said Saturday. In a press statement, (financial, labor or in-kind). The construction of the school building has helped 700 female and 600 male the Ministry of Defence, said that Afghan securi- ty forces were supported by the air force during students learn in a serene atmosphere within the village. Most of the community-related problems, espe- operations. Nine militants for the Islamic State cially those plagued the women, were solved following the construction of the school building. known as Daesh were killed in Nangarhar prov- Recounted Farah NazKarimi, a school student and a resident of Oqab Village: “In the past, the parents ince during crackdowns, the statement said. Sev- were obliged to pay the monthly transportation cost of their children that were attending schools in other MOSCOW The Afghanistan gov- of Taliban militants who charge en Daesh fighters were injured. 12 insurgents neighboring communities. Furthermore, covering long distances -especially for girls-, inaccessibility to ernment money reaches the Tali- contractors for extraction rights. were killed and six others wounded in Kandahar, ban indirectly through the marble The Afghan government un- while in Zabul, four militants were killed and four proper transportation means, low economic condition of community and security were major challenges business, British media reported able to get to the marble elsewhere others wounded, according to the statement. Three we encountered. Certain hurdles indeed caused a huge number of children to remain out of school.” on Friday. buys it from the contractors, thus militants were arrested in Herat province, the As observed, the improvement of rural living standard from the viewpoints of economic, social and cultural According to The Guardian, knowingly providing a line of fund- statement said, adding that 22 landmines were development is the core objective of the National Solidarity Programme of the Ministry of Rural Rehabil- the Afghan government buys mar- ing to the Taliban, seized in Kandahar province. “The confiscated ble stone from private firms who the newspaper says. landmines had been placed very technically by itation and Development (MRRD/NSP) that it has been working hard to achieve this goal since the begin- in turn pay fees and taxes to Tali- Afghanistan is experiencing the insurgents.” The statement furthered that the ning of its constructive operations in mid-2003. Indeed, the MRRD had considerable progresses in this ban, which results in the Taliban significant political, social and se- Afghan security forces always stand ready with regard having executed thousands of infrastructure projects in the past few years. Through implementa- making from $50,000 to $60,000 curity-related instability, as radi- all capacity to maintain peace and security for the tion of countless public utility projects in various sectors including transport, water and sanitation, irrigation, per day or over $18 million per cal extremist organizations, includ- Afghan masses. 11 Afghan National Army sol- power, livelihoods, education, etc the MRRD/NSP could manage to bring significantly positive changes in year. The Helmand province, a ing the Taliban, continue to stage diers were also killed during operation conducted center of large marble industry has attacks against civilian and state nationwide against foreign and domestic insur- rural lives across all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. been for a long time under control targets. (Sputnik) gents, the statement lamented. Hundreds of communities in several districts of Herat province have benefitted from MRRD/NSP accom- plishments as did other provinces across the country simultaneously. The Oqab Village, located south of Enjil district center could be a prominent example of communities that have enjoyed basic services, deliv- ered by the MRRD/NSP so far. Soon after this community came under the coverage of the MRRD/NSP, the villagers gathered together and elected a Community Development Council (CDC), consisted like others of both male and female representatives. The CDC members decided to give top priority to the By Mansoor Faizy construction of a much-needed health clinic, an irrigation canal and a bridge in close consultation with the KABUL: At least 17 passengers villagers. After putting a lot of effort into executing the Community Development Plan (CDP) accordingly, died and 38 others were wounded the projects were finally completed and handed over to the community. The problems such as transporta- in a traffic accident in the western tion barriers, inadequate health services and waste of large amounts of water during irrigation process Farah province, an official said were successfully eradicated from the community upon completion of the MRRD/NSP-funded projects. Saturday. Provincial Spokesman Mohammad Nasir Mehri told Af- Most of Oqab Villagers’ difficulties have been resolved to a great extent following the execution of the ghanistan Times that the accident school project. More and more, the girls are being taught by female teachers, while boys are being taught took place in Bala Buluk district by male teachers hired from the same community. In addition to satisfying their needs, both male and after a bus driver lost control due female teachers support their families with the money they receive from the Ministry of Education in the to high speed. “The bus over- turned in Chakab area of the dis- form of monthly salaries. trict.” Provincial Director of the Public Heath, Dr. Abdul Jabbar Shaeq said that they have received 31 wounded passengers. “Two of them are in critical condition.” Last month, 73 people were ly engulfed all three vehicles. The fact that carelessness and recklessness of drivers killed and dozens of others injured Afghan army unites went to the are the main factor behind the car accidents. The after two passenger buses and a scene of the accident in Moqor dis- drivers’ sloppiness is very clear to all as previ- fuel taker burst into flames fol- trict and managed to save some ously, 15 people were died when a vehicle carry- lowing a head-on collision in east- passengers, but many of the in- ing guests of a wedding returning to eastern Ku- ern Ghazni province. jured were in a critical condition, nar province. In addition to that, six people were In that time, provincial gov- he said. Women and children were also received injures and the incident took place ernor spokesman Javid Salangi among the dead and wounded pas- in Chapa Dara district of the province. Provincial said that the two buses, carrying sengers, Ismale Kawoosi, spokes- security officials said that the picking carrying about 125 passengers from Kabul man for the Public Health Minis- guests to a wedding ceremony flipped over and to Kandahar, collided with the try told Afghanistan Times that fell into a canyon, clamming 15 lies of the guests tanker, setting of a fire that quick- time. There is no denying to the and wounded six others.

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EURO 79.30 76.90 SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghanistan’s Destiny and Afghans still suffer from US war: the Eastern Pashtoons Violence, displacement, hunger on (1880-1980) rise while Europe deports refugees By Dr. Waris Mohammad Wazir Zazis: Zazi tribe is the third big- which lives in Ghazni. Till 1975, Maskalis and the fourth one con- gest alliance of tribes after Mangal the number of Andar tribe in Pak- sider themselves Dadi Mangals. and Zadran in Paktia. Their num- tia did not exceed 29500. Majori- The research of the composition bers exceeds 85000 and is a part of ty of them are settled in Zurmat of these four tribes show that there Karlan confederation. 51400 live district and partly in the vicinity are elements of their original tribes in Zazi district, 24000 in Zazi of Gardez. Regarding Tota Kheils, originally settled in this area. For Maidan and 9100 in Samkani dis- it is to be said that at the threshold example, among Dadi Mangals trict. According to the 1975 cen- of April uprising their number was there are not only Mangals but also sus, the number of Zazis was about 23500, and resided in dis- Kharotis, Muqbils and Andars. 77.2% of the whole population, trict of Said Karam among Zazis, Tanis: They belong to Karlan 41.2% in Zazi Maidan and 10% in Mangals and Zadrans. The small- tribes and generally live in Tani Samkani.*** Thus like Mangals and er number of the tribe and its re- district of Khost. Their popula- Zadran, Zazis also live permanent- moteness from the basic area of tion is 25000 people distributed ly in their present abode and have residence of Andar, have compar- among 116 villages. They are sur- not mixed up with other tribes atily weakened their position in rounded by Gurbuzs from the within their present administrative relations with the neighbor tribes south and east, by Zadrans from borders. The significant branches and have forced them to maintain the west and by Ismail Kheils in of them are: Ahmad Kheil (Badin unitary relations with Ahmadzais the north along the Shamal River. Kheil, Mama Kheil andAli Kheil), and dependency upon the support This tribe has four main branches: Hassan Kheil (Dabezai, Tamde of Kabul government. Dar Numi,Arifzai, Sangi and Kha- Kheil and Sikandar Kheil), Hashem The main branches of this tribe bi Kheil. Tanis considers them- Kheil (Shu Kheil, Hamza Kheil, are: Kundar Kheil, Kalgar, Usman selves as brothers to Daurs and Omar Kheil, Sati Kheil, Naru Kheil Kheil, Samin Kheil, Khand Kheil, Banuzis of Pakistan. and Khirmana), Ali Kheil (Misri Khushal Kheil and Khanu Kheil, Gurbuzs: They live to the Kheil, Kata Kheil), Khada Kheil of which the last one considers it- south of Khost near “Durand Line” (Mir Kheil, Khwaza Kheil), Le- self sadaat (of holy lineage). The in Gurbuz district, whose number wani (Masfi Kheil, Bar Lewani, basic heartland of Paktia Ghaljis is reaches 11000 people. They are Khan Kheil), Bayan Kheil (Pitla, Zurmat district. As far as the area divided into two main parts: Zud- Ali Sangi, Ghunzai,Ahmad Kheil, and population are concerned, it is din and Nasruddin. Zuddins are to Bayan Kheil) and others. In view the biggest administrative unit of the west of the district and Nas- of the customary genealogy Zazis Paktia . Apart from Sulaiman ruddins to the east. They consider are brothers to Khugianis and their Kheils, Ahmadzais and Andars as themselves as brothers of Wazirs abodes are connected in the north mentioned earlier, other Ghalji Muqbils : Muqbil is a small with Khugianis .Among the Kheils tribes also are of special signifi- clan of the group of Karlan tribes composition of Zazis there are also cance in Paktia province. In this in Paktia province, which is set- some other tribes like Zadrans and group we can name Kulalgo (with tled in the Dandi Pathan district Ghaljis among them. Beside the Markan Kheil and Peshan branch- and their population is estimated significance of the tribe number, es), Duragai (Tor Kheil and Sur 10500. Muqbils are settled in two its proximity to Afghanistan-Pa- Kheil), Slemanzai (Daulatzai, Lan- valleys:Arid Zangird and Wet Zan- kistan allows them controlling the dizai and Durdan Khil etc), Kh- gird . Musa Kheil lives in the former strategic points, especially the wajagan (Khwajas and Sheikhan), valley and Hassan Kheil in the lat- Pewar and Shahidano pass. In Pa- Sahak, Kharoti, Ali Kheil and oth- ter one. Let it be reminded that ktia, other major groups of tribes ers. After shedding light on the Mangals and Zazis also live in the are from Ghalji confederation like tribes of Paktia, it is pertinent to said district. In the south the dis- Sulaiman Kheils, Ahmadzais and mention about the composition of trict is attached to Maidan Zazi Tota Kheils etc. tribes of Khost the big district. In and Sabari districts, in the north Nearly 15 years after the U.S. in- of displaced Afghans “has dramat- Amnesty International pro- stan war in the 1980s, in which Sulaiman Kheils: Sulaiman accordance with the census of with the Samkani , in west are vaded Afghanistan, the country’s ically worsened over the past duced a video to accompany the the U.S. and its allies Pakistan and Kheil constitutes the “body” of 1975, 152600 persons lived in Mangals, while the east is connect- civilians continue to bear the brunt years,” Amnesty noted. report. It can be watched below: Saudi Arabia trained, armed and genealogy tree of some famous Khost district, constiting 17% of ed with “Durand Line”. of the costs of the war. “Food is a luxury here, no one For hundreds of thousands of funded extremist Islamist militants tribes of the Ghalji confederation the population including koochis Samel Kheil: This Kheil is lo- The number of Afghans “who can afford it,” a community leader Afghans, the results of the nearly in order to fight the Soviet Union. and its roots goes to Katawaz re- of Paktia province. The per sq. km cated near the Mangals, Tanis and have fled violence and remained in an IDP camp told Amnesty. “We 15-year U.S. war in their country Now, the Taliban is as strong gion of Paktika province .Sulaim- population density here indicated Zadrans along the banks of Sha- trapped in their own country, mostly live off bread or spoiled have been nothing short of disas- as it was when the U.S. invaded in an Kheils branches are expanded that it is the most populous dis- mal River. Samel Kheil lives in where they live on the brink of vegetables from the market.” trous. 2001. The U.N. reported in Sep- to many other provinces, districts trict of the Paktia. There are nu- Dalpuri, Hyder Kheil, Muta Khan, survival,” has doubled in just over The majority of IDP commu- The Obama administration ex- tember that the extremist group and subdistricts of the “Tribal merous small tribes and more than Bahram Kheil, Barkhan Kheil three years, Amnesty Internation- nities lack access to basic health panded the U.S. war in Afghani- had spread through more of Af- Regions” and separates the Haz- the representatives of other Pash- andDoodwal ( Dadwal) in of al says. Today, an overwhelming care. Displaced Afghans are forced stan — and not just once, but ghanistan than at any point since aras, southern Durranis and toon clans there. The process of Khost. 1.2 million Afghans are displaced to beg for medical treatment, say- twice. This is in spite of the fact the beginning of the U.S. war. abodes of other Pashtoons from integration is going on with speed Mandozais: Mandozai is con- inside their country. This is a rise ing they “have no other choice.” that Obama campaigned for reelec- Afghan refugees fleeing this the frontier region beyond the and the old tribal structure has been sidered a branch of Khugiani and by roughly 240 percent since 2013, This precarious climate leads to tion on the promise to end the war extreme violence and seeking asy- Kabul – Kandahar highway. Due breaking down and consequently had been detached from its main when some 500,000 people were large debts for even minor medical by 2014 — a promise he reiterat- lum in the West have faced intense to sharp increase in their popula- appears new regional structure trunk and occupied the land to the internally displaced in Afghanistan. procedures. Displaced children ed constantly. discrimination, and even deporta- tion and under the economic bur- with new forms. west of Khost city along the banks This does not even consider have been unable to get an educa- After Vietnam, the war in Af- tion. Amnesty noted in another re- den, and as a result of the central Most of those living in Khost of Shamal River between Tanis and the estimated 2.6 million Afghan tion, and adults frequently cannot ghanistan is the longest conven- port that nearly 200,000 Afghans government policy of subduing the city and its outskirt villages con- Zadrans. Their population in the refugees who live outside of their find jobs to sustain their families. tional war in U.S. history. Numer- applied for asylum in the E.U. in Ghalji tribes to Kabul, many of the sider themselves Khostis or Khost- Mandozai subdistrict is 1200 fam- country’s borders. Afghans make This hardship has forced many ous reports estimate it has cost at 2015, four times as many as the clans of Sulaiman Kheils have been wals. But it is to be pointed out ilies (according to another statis- up one of the world’s largest refu- young children to work odd jobs, least $1 trillion tax dollars. year before. resettled from Katawaz to Lagh- that there is no such tribe in the tics 23000 people).. gee populations. doing things like washing cars, More than 220,000 Afghans Yet, as Salon has reported be- man, Logar, Ghazni and Paktia traditional genealogy of Pash- Sabaris: It is a branch of Kar- A new report by Amnesty In- polishing shoes and collecting plas- were killed in the first 12 years of fore, Europe is deporting hundreds provinces during the last two cen- toons and this term is of regional lan confederation constituting ma- ternational, “‘My Children Will tic bags to resell. the war, according to a report by of Afghan refugees back to their turies. They have even removed and geographical connotation. jority of inhabitants of the Sabaris- Die This Winter': Afghanistan’s The hardship more than a mil- the Nobel Prize-winning organiza- war-torn homeland, in what rights to Helmand of Durranis. Now According to information provid- subdistrict and Khost district. Ac- Broken Promise to the Displaced,” lion displaced Afghans endure, tion International Physicians for experts say is a flagrant violation they are not only known as Su- ed by the Ministry of Planning of cording to the1979 census, their highlights the plight of displaced Amnesty noted, is “creating cir- the Prevention of Nuclear War. of international law. laiman Kheils there, but also as Afghanistan at the threshold of number reached 20900 people. Afghans, hundreds of thousands cumstances where women are ex- Today, Afghans continue to die at The U.K. deported 2,018 un- different tribes (for example, as Uprising, this term was general- Apart from Sabaris in Sabaris sub- of whom lack access to shelter, cluded, and children are being ex- record-high levels. accompanied children back to Af- Dastu Kheils andAdin Kheils etc). ized and more than 100 thousand district, the Yaqubis and other food, water, health care, education ploited and not educated.” Afghan casualties have steadi- ghanistan from 2007 to 2015. According to the 1975 census inhabitants of Paktia came under small clans also live in the said dis- and employment. IDPs also face forced evictions ly increased since 2012. Nearly In another, more recent deal in the whole Paktia the number of the category of Khostis. Among trict. Sabaris are divided into Rogha “While the world’s attention by both the government and pri- 2,000 Afghan civilians were killed with Turkey, the E.U. is deport- Sulaiman Kheils reached 42400 them 41100 live in Khost itself, and Zanbar, which in turn are sub- seems to have moved on from Af- vate actors. In some cases, Afghans or wounded in the first three ing refugees from Afghanistan and people, whose single settlement 38300 in Tani and 11600 in Maid- divided into five branches each. ghanistan, we risk forgetting the who resisted forced evictions were months of 2016, according to the elsewhere to Turkey, where they place is the district of Zurmat with an Zazi districts. Bakar Kheil: They are majori- plight of those left behind by the killed or injured. United Nations Assistance Mis- may not be safe. Legal experts say 39300 population. Similarly Su- However, the local people ty in the Bak subdistrict. Their conflict,” warned Champa Patel, Since the 2001 U.S. invasion, sion in Afghanistan. this plan is illegal, not to mention laiman Kheils constitute small por- sometimes associate themselves to area is situated between Khost and Amnesty’s South Asia director. successive U.S.-backed Afghan Children are making up a grow- immoral. In its new report, Am- tion of Samkani district and Gar- certain tribes and most of those Maidan Zazi and their population “Even after fleeing their homes governments have promised to ing percent of the casualties, the nesty International called on the dez city. Major part of the tribe tribes are made of the amalgam of is 8000 people. The district is di- to seek safety, increasing numbers help IDPs, but have failed to do U.N. mission reported with “ex- parties that have been involved in resides in Paktika province with different tribesmen. Such is the case vided into eight sections, each of of Afghans are languishing in ap- so. Amnesty says numerous fac- treme concern.” Close to one-third the war in Afghanistan — which 83600 population . In other prov- with Matun associated with the which populated by a different palling conditions in their own tors are responsible, including cor- of civilian casualties in the first would primarily be the U.S. and inces of the Tribal Regions, they name of a holy man living to the group of families. It seems that in country, and fighting for their sur- ruption, an “enormous lack of ca- quarter of 2016 were children, an NATO — to fulfill their “respon- live in Ghazni (14700), Zabul (400) north of Khost city. Thus the area ancient times they were members vival with no end in sight,” Patel pacity and expertise” and “fading increase of 29 percent from the sibility” to help fix the mess they and away from the Tribal Regions is called Matun and its habitants of one tribe but later on giving added. A 50-year-old Afghan wom- international interest.” same period in 2015. made. “All parties that have been in Helmand (6000). Absolute ma- Matunwl. As with the term of away their tribal structure during an living in a camp for displaced With other humanitarian disas- This is especially troubling involved in Afghanistan over the jority of them are koochi .Their Khost, there is no tribe with the the course of time. Now every part people told Amnesty, “Even an an- ters unfolding in the Middle East considering the violence in 2015 past 15 years have a responsibili- summer abode is in Wazakhua and name of Matun in Pashtoon gene- has its own name: Ghauri Kheil, imal would not live in this hut, but and North Africa, “aid to Afghan- was the worst since the U.N. be- ty to come together and make sure Hazarajat while their customary alogy. Among the composition of Banki Kheil, Manu Kheil, Zurnu we have to.” istan is dwindling,” Amnesty not- gan tracking the casualties. More that the very people the interna- koochi pathways extend from the 8000 Matunwals there are rep- Kheil, Shamal Kheil, Sheuin Kheil, “I would prefer to be in pris- ed. The U.N. requested U.S. $393 than 3,500 Afghan civilians were tional community set out to help Hazara to Indus in Pakistan. Three resentatives of different clans who Kotvali, Palun Kheil and Hotaki. on rather than in this place,” she million in humanitarian funding for killed and another roughly 7,500 are not abandoned to an even more main branches of Sulaiman Kheils once upon a time divided the in- Like Matun and Bak districts, Tri- said. “At least in prison I would Afghanistan in 2016. This was the were injured. Anti-government precarious fate,” Champa Patel are: Qisar Kheil, Saraz Kheil and habited land into fifteen equal parts zai district is also subdivided into not have to worry about food and smallest figure in years, in spite of forces, primarily the Taliban, are said. “Afghanistan and the world Sultan Kheil. each part belonging to one of them. four shares. There live small peas- shelter.” And it is not just the num- the growing needs, yet, by May, responsible for the majority of ca- must act now to end the country’s Ahmadzais: Once a time Ah- For example, to the left side of ant Kheils like Tarizai, Ali Sher, ber of internally displaced people, the U.N. had less than a quarter of sualties. The Taliban emerged out displacement crisis, before it is too madzai was considered as one of Matun River, live five clans: Khesh Sadiq, Landar and Qadam in this or IDPs, that has grown. The plight the funding it requested. of the aftermath of the Afghani- late.” (salon) the biggest branch of Sulaiman Kheil, Darri Kheil, Patwara, Ah- district.Ali Shers are more numer- Kheil, but now it is known on its mad Kheil and Shari Kheil. ous followed by Landars, Sadiqs own as separate tribe, moved to Nowadays they consider Qadams . Alishers are majority in the north-eastern and southern re- themselves of the same lineage, the 1st share, Landars, Qadams and gions of Gardez from its maternal though having no union on the ba- Sadiqs in the 2nd share,Tarakkis BLIND TEACHER CALLS ON PEOPLE body and have settled between the sis of blood relation. and Toryubis in 3rd share Tarizais borders of Zurmat and Logar along Samkanis: Samkanis belong to in the 4th share.* The number of with Tota Kheils and Zadrans and the Karlan federation. They are a the population of this district in TO TREAT THE BLIND KINDLY have expanded towards the out- famous Pashtoon tribe living in 1975 was 19300 people. Other skirts of Kabul. In Paktia prov- proximity toAfghanistan-Pakistan small tribes settled in Paktia, in- Hamayoun Azizi, a blind teacher, ince they live to the northeast of border and giving their name to the clude: Kharotis (3000) and Wazirs has called on the public to treat Gardez in Machalghu, and Rud in mountainous district they live in. etc. Representatives of various blind children with compassion. the vicinity of Said Karam (22400), Once in the past this tribe had mi- tribes and ethnicities can also be Azizi, who has a degree in Dari that constitutes 32.38% of all Ah- grated to different areas of today mentioned among the inhabitants literature, is also a poet and a cham- madzais in Paktia province. Apart Pakistan, but most of them have of Gardez city. For example, Ah- pion of the blind, and says blind from them, there are 19400 Ah- now returned to Afghanistan and madzais, Sulaiman Kheil, Andar, children should not be underesti- ...P1Modi. He called the dam in- ty. Afghans and Indians dreamt of “In order to implement that madzais in Said Karam and 13800 are in the process of returning to Mangal, Zadran, Wazir, Karmashi, mated but should be provided with auguration as a historic moment of this project in the 1970s.” vision, just last month, President in Zazai district.. According to the their abode. Sanaki, Salat Bek, Sheikhan, Tajiks, special education by government. emotion and pride in the relations Indian premier called the war Ghani joined President Rouhani of 1975 census, the number of Ah- Now the name of Samkani has Hindus and Ormars may be locat- Azizi writes poems about issues between Afghanistan and India. not of Afghan making, saying it Iran and me in witnessing the sign- madzais in all Paktia province was been maintained not as a well- ed there. From North to South affecting the blind and has learned “Today, we are not just launch- was one that stole the future of an ing of the Chahbahar Trade and 43200 persons. They are divided known Pashtoon tribe but as a geo- after Paktia comes Paktika, with English and computer skills in In- ing a project that will irrigate lands entire generation of Afghans and Transit Agreement between Af- into numerous branches and Kheils graphical area of the district in Pa- 250000 populations according to dia. He now works as a teacher at and light up homes, we are reviv- when a new dawn broke over Af- ghanistan, Iran and India.” joined by the common genealogy. ktia province they associate them- beginning of 1980s statistics. Gen- a high school for the blind. ing a region, restoring hope, renew- ghanistan in 2001, the project was He emphasized that Afghani- From among other Ahmadzai selves with. Prior to the April up- erally, it is the province of Ghaljis. "We faced lots of bitterness in ing life and redefining Afghani- resumed. “On international plat- stan must live and prosper as one. tribes living in other provinces, we rising (April 1978) statistics, about The main tribes of Ghaljis living society; we saw a lot of pain, now stan’s future. The dam is a genera- forms and in regional forums, we “Divisions of Afghan people can mention Ibrahim Kheils, hundred thousand people includ- here are Sulaiman Kheil, Kharoti, I want to sign all those pains in the tor not just of electricity but also will speak in one voice for the Af- will only help those who seek to Stanakzais and others in Nangar- ing representatives of different Ali Kheil and Andars. The non- format of poems," said Azizi. of optimism and belief in the fu- ghan right to a peaceful, prosper- dominate the nation from outside. har province. Apart from Paktia, tribes lived in Samkani district . Ghalji tribes and groups who live Azizi said he was six years old ture of Afghanistan,” he added. ous, united, inclusive and demo- As we work together, we draw 1600 Ahmadzais live in Surkh Rud Among them there are 24900 Man- there are Zadrans, Wazirs, Pirko- when his parents told him he was He said that the project would cratic nation.” strength and confidence from your and 200 in Hisarak districts, 2300 gals, 1900 Zadrans, 9200 Zazis, tis and Dehgans (non-Pashtoon). blind."I was very small and very not just irrigate the fields of 640 “This dam has not been built deep commitment to protect our in Jalalabad city, and numerous of 2100 Kharotis, 1100 Andars, and Zadrans are 42400 and they con- silly and always playing outside villages in Chesht, Obe, Pashtun- by bricks and mortar, but by the partnership from the designs of them are settled in Logar province. 3000 Sulaiman Kheils and others. stitute 14.9% of all inhabitants of with other children. But I would Zarghun, Karrokh, Gozara, Enjil, faith of our friendship. And, at this others,” Modi said. Musa Kheil and Esa Kheil are the There are 13000 koochis also. All Paktika province. A small part of always fall and I couldn't under- Zendajan, Kohsan and Ghoryan moment of pride, we also stand in Survey of the dam was carried major branches in Paktia. Of them, of them consider themselves Wazirs approximately 30000 peo- stand why the other children didn't districts. It would also bring light grief and gratitude for lives sacri- out in the government of the late especially among Musa Kheils, Samkanis but having no relation to ple or 12% of the population of fall. That's when they told me I to over 250,000 homes in the area. ficed so that Afghan people will president Dawood, and Hamid there are many koochis. Ah- the tribe. Instead of associating Paktika live in Birmal district. could not see, that I was blind. At “It was a tribute to the epic have a future they so richly de- Karzai took special interest in con- madzais have kinship and econom- themselves to the tribes they be- 10900 people of Formoolis con- that moment I thought this is the struggle of the Afghan people to serve and so deeply desire,” he struction of several dams to reduce ic relations with other tribes of long to, they ascribe themselves stituting 4.4% of the province end of the world and everything shape their future by vote and de- asserted. dependence of the country on im- Ghalji, Tota Kheils, who live to to the area they live in. Under the population also reside there in the ended," Azizi added. He said that bate, not gun and violence,” Modi Pointing to Chabahar port, In- ported electricity and give new life the east and west of Said Karam same principle, the contemporary district of Urgun. Sulaiman Kheils a collection of his poetry has been stated. “On this summer day in dian Premier said that India’s in- to the national economy. district. Samkanis are divided into four number reach 38000 persons in published with the help of friends Herat, we come together to honor vestment there would give Afghan- Karzai ordered relevant au- Tota Kheils: Tota Kheil is a groups:three of them count them- this province, making 33.4% of and soon his second collection of and celebrate Afghan determina- istan a new route to the world and thorities in 2005 to start work on branch of a Ghalji’s tribe “Andar” selves in Lar Maskalis and Bar the total population. poems will be published. tion to build a future of prosperi- a new path to prosperity. the dam. SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Why the border can't separate Afghan and Pakistani Pashtuns Every day, thousands of Afghans and Pakistanis cross the Durand Line - the 2,430-kilometer (1,510 miles) long boundary established by the British during their colonial rule. The Afghan government does were either based in Kabul or had not recognize the Durand Line as ceased to function. the official border between Af- Mohammad Hassan Asadi, a ghanistan and Pakistan, nor do eth- provincial council member, said the nic Pashtuns who live on both Tor Ghar Construction Company sides of the border and share his- had been granted a contract for the torical, cultural and family ties. The construction of a retaining wall. Pashtuns can easily travel back and EMERGENCY Only half of the project has been forth across the border, but the ALLS done, but the firm has vanished deteriorating political ties between C into thin air. the two countries are now causing A 30-bed hospital, whose con- them problems. Ties too deep to Police struction was initiated by the Itte- sever For Afghan citizen Haider faq Mirzad Company in 2009, was Khan, the rift between the two scheduled to be completed in two nations and the tightening of bor- 100 - 119 years. However, only 20 percent der controls are affecting his mo- work had been executed so far, he bility. "I travel to Pakistan every Hospitals claimed. The firm was to pay three week. I leave Kabul every Thurs- million afghanis to shopkeepers day and come back on Saturday," FMIC Hospital for the materials it had purchased Khan told DW. Khan believes it from them, the provincial council wouldn't be that easy in the fu- Behind Kabul Medical member alleged. Since the bidding ture. Khan works as a cook in a University: process was far from transparent, restaurant in Kabul. The 35-year 0202500200-+93793275595 most of contracts were awarded old belongs to the Pashtun Shin- on the basis of nepotism and po- wari clan based in the Khyber val- litical cronyism. leys and the Spingar (White Moun- Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital Ali Ahmad, a shopkeeper in tain) on both sides of the Durand Pule Bagh-e- Umomi Wars district, blasted the Ittefaq Line. Like most people who cross Mirzad, Company for failing to the border frequently, Khan has no 070263672 pay shopkeeper their money. The travel documents. He relies on his firm had promised them to pay the tribal connections and cultural loans after receiving project funds, bonds to ensure an unhindered Khairkhana Hospital he continued. journey. But why does Haider 0799-321007 Education Director Moham- Khan travel to Pakistan so often? mad Ayub Amiri said as many as "Afghanistan is going through a 2401352 101 development projects related rough time, and Pakistan is rela- to his departments had come to a tively safer. I prefer to keep my halt. Of the 338 schools in the family in Pakistan but I cannot Indira Gandhi Children province, none has its own build- completely cut off ties with my Hospital, Wazir Akbar KABUL CITY Around 300 de- local officials alleged on Saturday. caused trouble for the masses. One provincial departments were un- ing. Earlier, 18 employees of the fellow tribesmen in Afghanistan," velopment projects in central The uplift schemes include key reason was the slow progress able to monitor the projects prop- department, including its head and Khan explained. There are thou- Khan, Kabul 2301372 Bamyan province could not be hospitals, schools, dams and wells, of work was the award of contracts erly for legal reasons. Zohair al- deputy head, were dismissed and sands of people like Khan who completed due to corruption in Governor Mohammad Tahir Zo- by the ministries, he noted. leged the companies, which had jailed on corruption charges. work in Kabul and have their fam- contracts with private companies, hair said, acknowledging the delay According to the governor, been granted project contracts, (Pajhwok) ilies in Pakistan's northwestern Ibn-e- Seena areas. And there are those who have Pul-e-Artan, Kabul families in Afghanistan but they work or study in Pakistan. Many 2100359 First woman appointed in Afghans and Pakistanis have little AS THE US STRUGGLES IN faith in their countries' judicial sys- leadership level of Afghan tems. The dispensation of justice Wazir Akbar Khan is slow and expensive. More and Hospital AFGHANISTAN, INDIA HAS more people are turning to parallel Attorney General Office systems, including the Taliban 2301741, 2301743 courts. (05.02.2015) Pakistan army offensive 'causing humanitar- Ali Abad REASON TO BE WARY ian crisis' Afghan refugees forced to return to a country with no hope Shahrara, Kabul The political pot in Afghanistan turned around and that Pakistan effective control, directly or indi- These people find themselves in a keeps boiling constantly, the churn controls the winning cards there. rectly, of 30% of Afghanistan to- deeper trouble following the stern 2100439 so rapid that an instant becomes American rethink There are indi- day. This writ is steadily being border control measures imposed history almost immediately. cations that the Obama adminis- expanded to other parts. As the by Pakistan on June 1, 2016. As Malalai Maternity Akhtar Mansour is distant memo- tration is engaged in reconsidering US found in Kunduz, when it was per new regulations, people with- ry already. People may soon ask, its options in Afghanistan. Though briefly captured by the Taliban, out a valid visa would not be al- Hospital ‘Who was he?’ Whether they ac- the war there is no longer in the the actual strategy and conduct of lowed to enter Pakistan. The new 2201377/ 2301743 tually do so is not the issue, what list of US Defence department’s operations there was driven by measures affect thousands of is important is this; will we ever priorities, it is not a “forgotten Pakistani army officers. Taliban tribesmen, many of whom do not know the truth about the killing of war” yet. But it is also a fact that new leader Mullah Haibatullah even possess a passport. The in- Banks Mansour, the Taliban Chief? Or even when the US had committed Akhundzada is seen in an undated troduction of new border measures for that matter about the death of vast resources, its mind and mus- photograph, posted on a Taliban is part of the Pakistani army's Da Afghanistan Bank his predecessor Mullah Omar who cle were never fully in the war ef- twitter feed on May 25, 2016, and National Action Plan (NAP) was fictionally kept alive for two fort. During the brief “surge,” US identified separately by several against terrorism. Islamabad be- 2100302, 2100303 years? Nor are we likely to ever forces were concentrated in the Taliban officials, who declined be lieves the Taliban and other Islam- know the extent of Pakistan’s in- wrong place, and were unable to named. Credit: Social Media via ic militants use the porous Afghan- Bakhtar Bank volvement in the hosting and then produce the desired decline in ene- Reuters Taliban new leader Mul- Pakistani border to launch attacks the betrayal of Osama bin Laden. my attacks. Afghanistan itself is a lah Haibatullah Akhundzada is in both countries. There is inter- 0776777000 There were huge protests in deeply fragile state, in continual seen in an undated photograph, national pressure on Islamabad to Azizi Bank and by Pakistan following the conflict since the Soviet invasion posted on a Taliban twitter feed act against the insurgents. Now night raid on OBL in Abottabad. of 1979. on May 25, 2016, and identified even the Afghan refugees, who 0799 700900 But the muted, pro-forma Paki- Today, Afghanistan faces huge separately by several Taliban offi- have been living in Pakistan for Pashtany Bank stani reaction after the incursion challenges all over. Its per capita cials, who declined be named. Cred- decades and have a Proof of Regis- by American drones into GDP is among the lowest in the it: Social Media via Reuters This 2102908, 2103868 Afghanistan has for the first time She has also served with the tration (PoR) from the Pakistani Balochistan to kill Mansour raises world, poverty is widespread, and brings us back to the questions we government, would not be allowed appointed a woman in the leader- United Nations Assistance Mis- questions. Was Pakistan complic- other social indicators are dismal. started with. Why were Mullah ship of the Afghan Attorney Gen- sion in Afghanistan, United Na- to return to Pakistan after paying Air Services it? Did it encourage the strike? Its governance is paralyzed by a Omar and Mullah Mansour cast a visit to Afghanistan. But experts eral Office, taking yet another ma- tions Development Program, UN- After all, it is not every day that weak and divided central govern- aside? Did the Pakistani establish- jor step towards increasing the HCR, and other institutions, ac- say the ties between the Afghan American drones transgress Paki- ment, which the World Bank and ment find them becoming too in- and Pakistani Pashtuns are so deep Safi Airways Afghan women share in the gov- cording to her biography. stani airspace. In fact, over the Transparency International rank as dependent and a possible challenge ernment and empowerment of the This comes as the government that any border control mechanism 020 22 22 222 years, drone attacks on Pakistani among the least effective, and most to its authority as the eventual has a very limited chance of suc- Afghan women. of national unity promised to step soil have reduced vastly. From a corrupt in the world. Effectively puppet master in Afghanistan? Ms Maliha Hassan has been up efforts in a bid to empower the cess. Also, thousands of people peak of 117 in 2010 there were Afghanistan is governed by rival Will the new Taliban chief Mullah across the border are tied up with Ariana appointed as the deputy finance women and increase their role in just 11 drone strikes in 2015. And power brokers who often have Haibatullah Akhundzada be more and administrative chief in the Af- the leadership level of the govern- transportation, hotel business, lo- 020-2100270 only 3 this year up to 22 May their own security forces and com- amenable to it and its aims in Af- gistics and different services that ghan Attorney General Office. ment. 2016—these 3 include the strike pete with the Taliban for income ghanistan? It is a fool’s errand to She has served as the lecturer The government has so far thrive on the cross-border move- killing Akhtar Mansour. Clearly from Afghanistan’s narco-econo- make definitive claims in such mat- ment. "I don't know what to do Kam Air in Kabul University where she was appointed at least three female then, transgressing drones have my. ters especially in a situation as teaching law, political science and Ambassadors with Roya Rahmani now. I possessed Pakistan's iden- 0799974422 become the exception and the US In almost every parameter of fraught as the one in Afghanistan. tification card but the authorities international relations. being the last female Ambassador might be exercising this restraint governance, the Afghan govern- But the speed with which the Born in 1970 in Kabul, Ms to take over duties in Indonesia last have refused to renew them. Tech- due to a combination of factors: ment draws as close to minimum Haqqani faction and Mullah nically, I am a stateless person Hotels Maliha completed her higher week. The government also intro- collateral damage, Pakistani pro- marks as possible. From rule of Omar’s son endorsed Akhundza- school education in Rabia Balkhi duced the first woman Anisa Ra- now," said Khaista Gul of the Safi Landmark tests and/or the lack of ground in- law to the government’s efficien- da’s elevation is an indication that Momand tribe, who lives between high school and has served in dif- souli to gain membership in Su- telligence to effectively guide drone cy, from political stability to con- an invisible hand was guiding the ferent sectors, including as com- preme Court of the country but Afghanistan and Pakistan's Feder- strikes. Or is this reduction in trol of corruption the writ of the process. Pakistan gets its way in ally Administered Tribal Areas 020-2203131 missioner in adminnistrative re- she was rejected by the Afghan strikes an acknowledgement by the government simply does not hold. other spheres too. It is now wide- forms and civil services. lawmakers. (FATA). Gul runs a family busi- ERENA (KP) US that Afghanistan cannot be In fact it is the Taliban who are in ly acknowledged that despite evi- ness in the Pakistani city of Pe- S dence, US allowed itself to be de- shawar. But the Afghan and Paki- ceived about the support Pakistan stani Pashtuns know the border re- 0799654000 and its Inter-Services Intelligence strictions are temporary and that (ISI) were giving the Haqqani group they will find a way to deal with New Rumi Restaurant and the Taliban. them. Terrorism and trade Apart 0776351347 Officials in Chamber of commerce Therefore, when Obama makes from the border control measures, and industry have stated that since his decision about the scale and cross-border shelling by Pakistani the fresh and dry fruits are mount- type of the future US presence in security forces has also restricted Internet Services ing we will be capable to export Afghanistan he will be acutely con- the tribesmen movement across UA Telecom huge amount of both fresh and dry scious of the Pakistan factor and the Durand line. 0796701701 / 0796702702 fruits to foreign countries. They the resurgence of the Haqqani and Juma Khan, a resident of Afghani- have mentioned that Chabahar port the Taliban combine. stan's eastern Kunar province will be a good connection point for He will also be conscious that along the border, says the constant Exchange Rate Afghanistan to export its goods to on their own the Afghan security bombing by Pakistan's border forc- abroad. Economical experts are forces may not be able to protect es must stop. "Things were differ- Purchase: pessimistic saying there is no pos- large populations and their provin- ent in the past; we could freely itive changes made on exporting cial governments. If Obama makes move from one side of the border Afghanistan’s goods to abroad. the unlikely decision to cut his loss- to other. Now we have to be care- One US$ = Chamber of Commerce and Indus- es and quit Afghanistan, he will vir- ful," Khan told DW. 69.94Afs try Spokesman Siam Persarlay tually be handing it over on a plat- The movement across the Afghan- One Pound Sterling= said,” We will export huge amount ter to the Taliban-Haqqani com- Pakistani border also generates of both fresh and dry fruits to bine. On the other hand, if he de- revenue for both Afghanistan and 98.35Afs abroad this year based on the in- cides to keep about 5000 troops Pakistan. One Euro = formation accessed.” Professor besides special advisors beyond The two countries exchange goods 76.84Afs Sayed Masoud said,” What was ex- 2016, and recommends that poli- and services worth some 2.7 bil- perienced was only suffering and cy to his successor, there is a good lion euros ($3 billion) annually 1000 Pak Rs = having no access to best markets chance that Afghan forces will try across the Durand Line. 646Afs for selling Afghanistan’s fruits in to hold out for as long as they pos- Despite the illegal trade and smug- the past, the following process will sibly can. gling, the two countries benefit a Sale: be continued as before and no pos- But even in this case, the great deal from the cross-border One US$ = itive changes to be made.” Based American heart will not be in the movement. 69.14 Afs on the information Afghanistan is effort because Afghanistan is no Suleman Layeq, a renowned Pash- One Pound Sterling= exporting fruits to more than 50 longer the strategic priority it was to poet, says that even if the aim 99.18Afs countries, but Afghan gardeners and once. Nor is nearby Central Asia of the border restrictions is to curb producers have still criticized that of any great strategic interest to the movement of terrorists, they One Euro= the exporting process is slow, both US now. Resist the lure to get in- would only create problems for the 77.44 Afs fruits are rotten in Afghanistan hav- volved The US too has changed ordinary tribesmen while the ter- 1000 Pak Rs= 654 ing no cold storage. vastly since 9/11. (thewire) rorists would move freely. SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES 7 YEARS AFTER WAR'S END, SRI LANKAONCAUTIOUS PATHTOPEACE RAWALPINDI: Interior Minister Criticising the debate that en- Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sat- sued over an alleged lack of leader- urday declined to comment on PPP ship in wake of PM's absence, chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's Nisar said he was disappointed that tweet about what the latter called "non-issues" were being turned Nisar's "campaign to become prime into "mega-issues". minister", saying the PPP leader He questioned the current de- was "not a child but politically bate, saying the premier's several unaware". foreign trips in the last three years Nisar was speaking to media never created such a "legal or con- representatives in Kallar Syedan, stitutional lacuna", so why now? a sub-district of Rawalpindi. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif The PPP chairman had earlier underwent a successful open-heart this week tweeted that although surgery in London on Tuesday, and Chaudhry Nisar was campaigning is currently recovering. Before his to take the prime minister's slot surgery, the PM addressed an eco- with Nawaz Sharif away for his nomic meeting and signing off on surgery, his attempts to do so were budget proposals for the upcom- not going as well as he had per- ing fiscal year via video link. For seven years, the ethnic Tamil offered by the previous govern- haps planned, frustrating him. CNICs verification housewife has waited for news of ment and wait for information on In the same vein, Nisar re- Announcing Nadra's plan to a son who vanished near the fren- what actually happened to them. sponded to a question, saying no verify the identities of millions of zied end of Sri Lanka's quarter-cen- The mistrust between Tamils one could simply take the prime Pakistan, Nisar said all sim-hold- tury-long civil war. After so much and Sinhalese goes back centuries, minister's position in a parliamen- ers will be sent details of their fam- time, she has little faith that the to when Tamil kings invaded from tary form of government "howev- ily tree. He urged citizens to veri- Sinhalese-majority government present-day southern India. Sri er, if any country decides on a fy themselves that those in their will help solve such mysteries and Lanka's Tamil-majority northern [temporary] system, it will be in- registered family tree were actual- heal old wounds. region was among the first to em- formal not legal". ly their family members. "There is no place I haven't brace English schools set up by gone in search of him," said Shan- British missionaries. Tamils dom- tha, who like many people in this inated high-level jobs in govern- teardrop-shaped tropical island ment, medicine and law, creating a INDIA TO COMPLETE FENCE nation goes by one name. She last notion among the Sinhalese that saw her son in March 2009, when they were being marginalized. he was 23 years old and injured in After Sri Lanka gained inde- CONSTRUCTION ON the crossfire of fighting. The mili- pendence from Britain in 1948, tary promised to take him to safe- Sinhalese took control of the coun- ty. She never heard from him again. try and it was the Tamils who felt BORDER WITH "The government just talks marginalized, setting the stage for about good governance, but no the rebel movement. good seems to be coming," she said, During the fighting, both sides BANGLADESH BY YEAR-END weeping. were accused of committing war MOSCOW : The construction of sides," Gowda was quoted as say- For the hundreds of thousands crimes, though the allegations have a fence on the border between In- ing by the NDTV broadcaster. of minority ethnic Tamils like Shan- never been investigated. dia and Bangladesh will be com- The completion of the fence tha, the government's repeated When he was president, Raja- pleted by the end of 2016 as part will allow for "Bangladesh infiltra- promises of post-war reconcilia- paksa refused international over- of the Indian governmental efforts tion" to be stopped "within a very SINGAPORE: India's defense tion ring false, even as authorities sight over any war-crimes inquir- to stop individuals from illegally short period," the minister added. minister says it's in China's eco- take tentative steps toward fulfill- ies and denied allegations that crossing the frontier in both direc- According to Gowda, safety nomics interest to reduce tensions ing some of them. troops had executed prisoners, tar- tions, Indian Minister for Law and and security of the country has in the South China Sea, where Tamil rebels demanding self- geted civilians and hospitals and Justice DV Sadananda Gowda said been the prime concern of the gov- Beijing is embroiled in territorial rule fought the government from blocked food and medicine ship- Friday. ernment. On Thursday, the Indian disputes with various govern- 1983 to 2009 before being crushed ments to civilians living in rebel- "A major initiative has been government ordered complete seal- ments. by Sri Lanka's army. While the held areas. Rebels, meanwhile, were taken since the last six and a half ing of the Indian-Bangladeshi bor- Manohar Parrikar told an in- U.N. counts some 100,000 peo- accused of recruiting child soldiers, decades in fencing the border, even der in the northeastern state of ternational security conference ple killed in the fighting, rights using civilians as human shields and to the extent of constitutional Assam and set a one-year deadline Saturday that understanding each groups believe the number was killing people who tried to flee their amendment being made on both for the fence construction. other's perspectives and increas- much higher, including some control. ing trust between stakeholders will 40,000 civilians believed to have A documentary aired in 2010 reduce tensions. His Japanese been killed in the war's final months. by Britain's Channel 4 TV station counterpart also emphasized that Former President Mahinda showed scores of naked, blindfold- peace will lead to prosperity. Rajapaksa led the military in crush- ed prisoners being executed by "It is ultimately economics," ing the rebellion and continued to soldiers. The video was apparent- Parrikar said. "If you have an un- rule until last year, when he lost ly captured by troops on their stable region like what we have in an election to Maithripala Sirise- mobile phones as souvenirs. Raja- the Middle East, I don't think eco- na. Many expected a new era of paksa said the documentary was a nomics and prosperity will really national healing and atonement, fabrication, but Sirisena's foreign (be) enhanced." but more than a year later, there minister, Mangala Samaraweera, Japan's Defense Minister Gen has only been slow progress as said last month that it was authen- Nakatani said it was "getting in- Sirisena cautiously balances the tic, in what was seen as a major creasingly important for all nations anguished demands of the Tamils step toward acknowledging crimes. in the region to establish the order with the persistent fears of the Sin- Observers said part of the based on the rule of the law." halese majority. problem is that Sinhalese were fed "It's very difficult. It's very a heavy dose of triumphalism af- challenging," Sirisena said during ter the war. last month's ceremony in Colom- Among the Sinhalese, "there is bo honoring soldiers on the sev- hardly any awareness of the need US should re-launch BIT negotiations with India: USIBC enth anniversary of their victory for special measures for reconcili- WASHINGTON: Ahead of Prime ating table to develop a way-for- the size and importance of India's served by working with the Government of India as they continue to over separatist rebels. ation," said Jehan Perera, head of Minister Narendra Modi's visit ward on concluding a high-quality economy," USIBC said. liberalise trade, it said. His government has handed the local peace activist group Na- here, a top US business advocacy BIT," it said. Recommending that the US Modi's US visit next week, USIBC said, is an opportune time to back some of the property seized tional Peace Council. And those group has asked the Obama admin- USIBC in its letter urged the Government develop a longer-term cement the progress made on trade over the past several years. by the army, discontinued the mil- measures "will create apprehen- istration to re-launch bilateral in- US Government to support India's strategic trade goal with India -- itary's involvement in civil admin- sion in the southern people, which vestment treaty ( BIT ) negotia- entry in the 21-member Asia-Pa- its eventual membership into the istration and policing, and lifted is why the government is progress- tions with India as soon as possi- cific Economic Cooperation Trans-Pacific Partnership ( TPP ) bans on some Tamil expatriate ing slowly." ble and support its membership in (APEC). "USIBC recognises that and or a bilateral Free Trade Agree- groups that had previously sup- In the next U.N. Human the APEC grouping. participation in APEC is a two- ment ( FTA ) - USUBC recognised ported the rebels' separatist cause, Rights Council sessions starting The US India Business Coun- way street, and we similarly have that much work remains on both with the aim of opening communi- June 13, the High Commissioner cil ( USIBC ) - which represents been encouraging the Government sides before such a trade deal would cations with them. Sinhalese na- for Human Rights is set to brief on about 350 American companies of India to participate in APEC be politically feasible. tionalist groups are already rally- Sri Lanka's progress toward rec- having footprint in India - said this discussion groups of their choice "But now more than ever we ing against these moves. onciliation. in a joint letter to Secretary of State as an observer to better understand need to set our sights on a long- "Building reconciliation aimed Sri Lanka won praise last year John Kerry , Commerce Secretary the requirements of membership," term trade-focused goal, and take at non-recurrence of violence can f r finally promising a war-crimes Penny Pritzker and US Trade Rep- the letter said. small steps towards that goal," it never be done with bricks, cement, investigation with international resentatives Mike Froman. 25 Facts About the Real Book said. iron, sand or any other material," participation. The government The latter dated May 25 was of MormonPatheos QUIZ: Only "As you will agree, interna- Sirisena said. "It's about bringing also set up a constituent assembly posted on USIBC blog this week. 1 In 100 Americans Can Guess All tional trade can be a difficult topic people's minds together; uniting to draft a new constitution likely "The US Government should The Countries ..Topix Offbeat for domestic politics, as we are hurting minds; uniting minds full to grant Tamils more political pow- consider formally re-launching our Recommended By Colombia seeing in our own US elections. of hatred." er, rights and protections against bilateral investment treaty (BIT) "While USIBC appreciates Nevertheless, USIBC believes that Changes are not coming fast discrimination. The Cabinet creat- negotiations with the Government that the US Government may have we are at a moment in time where enough for many Tamils, tens of ed an office to find missing peo- of India as soon as possible," said other trading partners that it also the US Government ought to dou- thousands of whom have been ple, though rights groups say it is the USIBC president Mukesh would like to nominate for mem- ble down its efforts to secure its homeless since the military being set up without consulting Aghi in his letter. "While both gov- bership into APEC, we believe that trade relationship with India," the bombed their homes or took their victims' families as promised. The ernments took a break from the the US Government could nomi- apex business advocacy group said. land. Jobs are hard to come by. government has also promised var- negotiations on account of revis- nate India for APEC membership India is a trading partner of Families are desperate for news on ious reforms intended to prevent a ing the model BITs, it is important without slighting other trade part- utmost importance and US com- missing relatives. Many have re- return of hostilities, but several for us to come back to the negoti- ners. This is especially true give panies and citizens are better fused to accept death certificates have yet to be implemented.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been earmarked for physical assets. budget. raised its defence spending by However, the figures do not Since 2001, India’s around 11% for the coming finan- include Rs177.6 billion allocated defence budget has been cial year as it sought to sustain the for pensions of retired military jacked up from $11.8 recent gains against terrorism and personnel that would be given billion to $52.2 billion in to counter external threats, mainly from the civilian budget and a sep- 2016-17 making it a lead- from India. arate allocation for the security- ing defence spender in Interestingly, India also in- related expenses. the world. creased its defence budget by Additionally, military would The military offi- around 10% in March, although its also be given Rs192 billion under cials also argued that last size is six times bigger than Paki- the contingent liability and Rs100 year the maximum bud- stan’s total defence outlay. billion out 170 billion under the get allocated for the For year 2016-17, the govern- Coalition Support Fund (CSF). army was spent on non- ment allocated Rs860.1 billion For the past four years, de- development expenses compared with Rs775. 8 billion fence spending has shown an av- such as pay and allow- spent by the three armed forces in erage annual increase of 11%. Mil- ances. Only 6% was left the outgoing fiscal year, showing itary officials defended the increase for development an increase of Rs85 billion. insisting that Pakistan military’s schemes. Deficit budget unveiled: expanses are lowest in the region Giving comparison Growth targeted sans reform given the volatile security environ- of various countries on Out of the whole defence bud- ment. defence spending per get, Pakistan Army gets 47%, 20% The officials explained that soldier/annum, the mili- goes to Pakistan Air Force, while army’s share in the defence budget tary Pakistan Navy’s share is around is around Rs390 billion, which ac- officials claimed that 10%, according to defence minis- cording to him, is less than 8% of Pakistan spends $8,077 try officials. the total national budget outlay. per solider annually, The budget document reveals Defence budget increase main- while India allocates that out of the Rs860.1 billion, tained as security improves $17,554, Turkey Rs327 billion have been set aside They also claimed that despite $31,184, Saudi Arabia for employees-related expenses, the war on terror, Pakistan’s de- $269,060 and the USA Rs216.1 billion for operating ex- fence budget actually declined in spends $426,814 per penses and Rs211.7 billion have terms of expansion of the national soldier annually. SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief Mystery video edits of Iran talks anger Kerry

US Secretary of State John Ker- ry on Friday hit out at some- one in his department for selec- tively editing footage of a press briefing on secret talks with President Barack Obama warned There's no room for a politics that Iran, calling it "stupid and in- Democrats on Friday that they fails to at least listen to the other need to work hard to defeat likely side, even if you vehemently dis- appropriate". Department law- Republican nominee Donald agree," he said. yers were called to investigate Trump in the Nov. 8 presidential Obama spoke to about 90 peo- after Fox News correspondent election but must avoid violence ple who paid $10,000 to $30,000 James Rosen noticed video of a like that at a rally in California this for the dinner at the home of Rob- question he posed in December week. "Strange things can happen ert Rubenstein, a personal injury 2013 was not in the public ar- chive. Spokesman John Kirby in an election like this if we're not lawyer working hard, if we're not engaged, He noted the "constant" tele- confirmed the edit was deliber- if we're not participating," Obama vision coverage of Trump, saying ate on Wednesday, saying a low- told donors at a fundraiser for the "celebrity and fame is such a driv- er-level public affairs staffer Democratic National Committee. er in this culture." had received a request to cut the "I want us to run scared the Obama said Republicans have section, but could not now re- whole time," he said. "no coherent economic theory." member who from. Obama decried the clashes be- "Rather it is feeding resent- "I am trying to find out tween supporters of likely Repub- ments and looking for a 'they' to what happened here, because as lican presidential candidate Donald blame for whatever frustrations I say, it's unacceptable," Kerry Trump and protesters on Thurs- people understandably feel at any told journalists during a trip to day at a rally in San Jose, Califor- given point in time," he said. Paris. "Whatever happened was both clumsy and stupid nia. "We saw in San Jose these pro- "Being able to say it's immi- testers starting to pelt stuff at grants or it's gays or it's somebody and inappropriate, and I'm try- Trump supporters; that's not what that is taking something away from ing to find out more details... I our democracy's about," Obama you - that's the essence of the mes- would like to find out exactly what happened and why." said. "There's no room for violence. sage that the Republican nominee News of the mystery edit There's no room for shouting. is delivering," he said. emerged as the US administra- tion was defending its handling of the still controversial effort to secure last year's nuclear deal US‘failing’ with Iran. President Barack Obama's opponents in Wash- ington allege that the White House misled the US public and efforts to retrain concealed the extent of its out- reach to Tehran. In the edited section, then State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki ap- and reunify peared to confirm to Rosen that The UN Security Council is seek- spokespeople had deliberately ing assurances from Libya’s unity concealed back-channel talks. government that new weapons will Psaki, who is now director of not fall into the wrong hands be- Iraqi army communications at the White fore it can authorize the purchas- House, denied she had ordered es, diplomats said Friday. Britain, A 17-month US effort to retrain ty with strong ties to Iran’s Islam- the cut, tweeting: "I had no Egypt, Italy, the United States and and reunify Iraq's regular army has ic Revolutionary Guards Corps, knowledge of, nor would I have Russia were among 25 countries failed to create a large number of according to four current and approved of, any form of edit- that agreed at a meeting last month effective Iraqi combat units or limit former US military officers. ing." to help the government of Prime the power of sectarian militias, In Baghdad, US military offic- Minister Fayez al-Sarraj arm itself according to current and former US ers estimate that 10 percent to 20 to confront ISIS. The countries military and civilian officials. percent of the 300 officers who Syrian rebels close agreed to support a request to a Concern about the shortcom- run the Iraqi military's Operations in on UN sanctions committee for an ings of the American attempt to Command have an affinity or as- exemption to the arms embargo on strengthen the Iraqi military comes sociation with either the Badr mi- strategic ISIS- Libya to allow Sarraj’s government as Iraqi government forces and litia or the Shiite religious leader to make the purchases. The UN- Shiite militias have launched an Muqtada al Sadr. held city backed government however has offensive to retake the city of Fal- And after Iraqi Special Forc- yet to present its request to the lujah from ISIS. Aid groups fear es, aided by US air strikes, cap- committee, a senior Security Coun- the campaign could spark a human- tured a strategic oil refinery in the cil diplomat said. “The Libyan Syrian rebels advancing on ISIS itarian catastrophe, as an estimat- town of Baiji in October, Shiite Government of National Accord ed 50,000 Sunni civilians remain militias looted all of its salvage- fighters in the strategic north- will need to provide reassurance ern city of Manbij have seized trapped in the besieged town. able equipment, according to a se- when making requests to the UN The continued weakness of nior US military official and three more than 40 square miles (100 sanctions committee that there is square kilometers) this week, regular Iraqi army units and reli- Iraqi government officials. no risk of arms exports being di- ance on Shiite militias, current and Over the past year, US mili- the US military said Friday. verted to terrorist groups,” said the US Central Command former US military officials said, tary officers have struggled to en- diplomat, who spoke on condition could impede Prime Minister Haid- sure that militias do not seize spokesman Colonel Patrick of anonymity due to the sensitive Ryder said that more than 55 er al-Abadi’s broader effort to de- American weaponry delivered to nature of the issue. “It will take feat ISIS and win the long-term the main Iraqi army supply depot air strikes have been conduct- time for the GNA to put in place ed since the offensive began on support of Iraqi Sunnis. The sec- in Taji and to a brigade in the the necessary measures, such as tarian divide between the majority Saqlawiya region. Monday, and that the rebel secure storage facilities. The re- forces had secured areas on the clarify who will be receiving the tion of a new military command to and forcing the elected parliament Shi'ite and minority Sunni commu- “We would transfer arms to quest may therefore still take some nities threatens to split the coun- units in those areas - and either western bank of the Euphrates time to issue.” Another diplomat weapons. The Tripoli-based uni- take charge of the battle against to flee to Tobruk in the country’s River. “They are facing some ty government, formed under a De- ISIS. Libya was left with two rival far east. A UN arms embargo im- try for good. because of corrupt commanders or cited concerns about the command Critics agree that there have outright robbery - they would end heavy resistance from ISIS, structure of the various militias cember power-sharing deal agreed administrations after a militia alli- posed in 2011 during the uprising which was expected” but “are to by some lawmakers from both ance took over Tripoli in mid- against Muammar Qaddafi remains been some military successes, cit- up in the hands of the militia now supporting the Sarraj govern- ing the continued victories of Amer- groups,” said one US officer. The continuing to move forward,” ment and said there was a need to sides, has announced the forma- 2014, setting up its own authority in force. he added. Manbij is located ican-trained Iraqi Special Forces, officer noted, however, that con- along a route connecting Raqa - who have been fighting ISIS for trols have been tightened and the ISIS’s de facto capital - to the two years. But the presence of number of cases was small. "You Turkish border, a vital conduit 4,000 American troops has failed can't eliminate it entirely. It's just for supplies. to change the underlying Iraqi po- not realistic." A rebel victory would in- litical dynamics that fuel the rise "An official body" flict one of the largest strategic and growing power of sectarian Iraqi government and senior defeats on ISIS since it pro- militias. paramilitary leaders said the re- claimed its rule over territory Retired US Lieutenant Gener- ports of poor training and Shi'ite in Iraq and Syria two years ago. al Mick Bednarek, who command- militia dominance in the military Retaking Manbij would ed the US military training effort are false. They said the militias “cut this key route to prevent in Iraq from 2013 to 2015, said the follow the orders of the prime min- ISIS from using it to move fight- Iraqi army has not improved dra- ister and his military commanders. ers, weapons, finances, sup- Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said matically in the past eight months. Iraqi defense ministry spokes- plies into and out of Syria and on Friday that the basis for any He blamed a variety of problems, man Brigadier General Yahya Ra- Iraq,” Ryder said. Some 3,000 future peace plan between Israelis from a lack of Iraqis wanting to sool called the militias “an official local Arab fighters are taking and Palestinians remained a 2002 join the military to the resistance body connected with the office of part in the offensive, backed by Arab offer, and urged Israel to ac- of some lower-level Iraqi officers the commander-in-chief of the around 500 Kurdish militia cept it. to sending units to American train- armed forces." He said they take members. "The Arab peace initiative has ing. “The Iraqi military’s capacity their orders only from government all the elements for a final settle- hasn’t improved that much - part officials and "have a great role in ment," Adel al-Jubeir told report- of that is the continuing challenge supporting the army forces and the Paris museums ers after a conference in Paris. of recruitment and retention,” said federal police.” "It is on the table and a solid Bednarek. “Our (officers) train Mohammed Bayati, a former move artworks to basis for resolving this long-stand- who shows up, and the issue is we human rights minister and senior ing dispute ... we hope that wis- are not sure who is going to show Badr group leader, now commands safety as Seine dom will prevail in Israel and that up.” Two senior US military of- forces in northern Salahuddin they accept this initiative." ficers and Bednarek said that with Province. He said the Shiite para- River keeps rising France warned on Friday that few exceptions, the most effective militaries fall under the army, po- a two-state solution to the Israeli- and only truly non-sectarian Iraqi lice and regular military chain-of- Palestinian conflict may soon be government fighting force is the command. Bayati told Reuters that The Louvre and Orsay muse- impossible as it held an interna- Iraqi Special Forces, sometimes any reports of militias operating ums in Paris moved scores of tional conference to revive the called the Counter-Terrorism Ser- on their own were false. “Yester- artworks and precious artefacts quest for a deal despite Israel's vice. American officials expressed day, I was in the Salahuddin Oper- to safety and soldiers evacuat- warning that the effort is doomed worry that the Special Forces units ations Command,” he said. "All ed residents trapped in some to failure. With US efforts to bro- may burn out after nearly two orders are coming from the police of the capital's outlying sub- ker an accord in deep freeze for years of continuous combat. and army leadership." The Shi'ite urbs as the rain-swollen river two years and Washington focused Militia influence Across Iraq, militias "are supporting the army Seine hit its highest level in 30 on its November presidential elec- regular Iraqi army units have large- and police.” The spokesman for years. French Environment tion, France hosted a conference terministerial conference in a bid viable. tinians and a crackdown on mili- ly watched from the sidelines as the government umbrella body Minister Segolene Royal said with the aim of breaking the apa- to revive the Israeli-Palestinian "The Arab peace initiative has tants who have attacked Israeli ci- Iraqi Special Forces and Shi'ite that oversees the militias, Ahmed the Seine had breached 6 me- thy over the impasse and stir new peace process, in Paris, France. all the elements for a final settle- vilians or threaten their safety. It militias have reclaimed land from Al-Asadi, said the Shi'ite forces did tres (19 feet) in central Paris, diplomatic momentum. (Reuters) ment," Saudi Foreign Minister also says Jerusalem is Israel's in- ISIS, current and former US mili- not loot the Baiji refinery. "I deny submerging riverside roads, Palestinians have welcomed A final communique said all Adel al-Jubeir told reporters, and divisible capital. tary officials said. Militias have totally such allegations," he said. swamping small businesses on the French initiative but Israeli of- countries present had reaffirmed it could not be watered down to The interim 1993 Oslo peace repeatedly taken advantage of the ISIS, he said, stole and destroyed quaysides and forcing the clo- ficials have said an international the need for a negotiated two-state suit Israel. "It is on the table and a accords were meant to yield a "two power vacuums that have emerged equipment. The office of Prime sure of an underground com- conference will not work and that solution and that direct negotiations solid basis for resolving this long- state solution" within five years. after ISIS defeats. The Iraqi mili- Minister Abadi and the Iraqi Em- muter line. The worst affected only direct talks between the old between the two sides should be standing dispute. It provides Isra- "The policy of settlement ex- tary operations command of bassy in Washington didn't re- areas lay just to the south of foes can bring peace. based on existing UN Security el with a lot of incentives and it's pansion and demolitions, violence, Salahuddin province, north of spond to requests for comment. the capital. In Villeneuve-Saint- Neither Israel nor the Pales- Council resolutions. incumbent on the Israelis to accept and incitement tells us very clear- Baghdad, is dominated by a Shi'ite American concerns But current and Georges near Orly airport, sol- tinians were invited to the confer- It warned that the status quo - that." "Two-state solution" fading ly that the perspective that Oslo militia leader, Abu Mehdi Mohan- former US military officials and diers and Red Cross volunteers ence, though the objective is to get a lack of headway towards a Pal- -Mogherini opened up is seriously at risk of dis, according to a current US mil- local Sunni leaders say the militias helped stranded residents as them to negotiate after the US elec- estinian state in territory occupied The European Union's foreign fading away," Mogherini told re- itary officer, an Iraqi security offi- continue to take advantage of the flood waters rose above knee tions. by Israel since the 1967 Middle policy chief, Federica Mogherini, porters. cial and three Iraqi officials who vacuums that emerge in predomi- level. In nearby Corbeil-Es- "The two-state solution is in East war - was not sustainable. said it was the duty of international She said the Middle East Quar- monitor the province. Mohandis nantly Sunni areas after ISIS forc- sonnes, locals kayaked along serious danger. We are reaching a Ayrault said the powers want- and regional players to find a tet of the EU, Russia, United serves as the chief state adminis- es are defeated. A lack of strong streets littered with abandoned point of no return where this solu- ed work to begin by the end of breakthrough since the two sides States and United Nations was fi- trator for Shiite paramilitary forc- regular army units allows the mili- cars. "It's a bit frightening, ev- tion will not be possible," French June on a set of economic incen- appeared incapable of doing so nalizing recommendations on what es. The US Treasury sanctioned tias to remain the dominant play- erything that's happening," said Foreign Minister Jean-Marc tives and security guarantees to alone. should be done for the two sides him in 2009 for allegedly attacking ers. Norman Ricklefs, a former US one woman from Marseille Ayrault told a news conference encourage the two sides to resur- Palestinians say continuous to negotiate in good faith. US forces in Iraq. He was also con- government adviser to the Iraqi in- who identified herself only as after convening some 25 ministers rect peace talks. Israeli settlement expansion in oc- US Secretary of State John victed in absentia by Kuwaiti terior and defense ministries, said Odile. "Not long ago they ran a mainly from the Arab world, Eu- They would also seek ways cupied territory since then has Kerry appeared skeptical when courts for the 1983 bombings of the state has still not filled the void flood simulation, how to evac- rope and the United States. to break deadlocks that scuttled dimmed any prospect for the via- asked if the latest initiative could the US and French embassies in in most areas retaken from ISIS. uate museums, residents. And French Foreign Minister Jean previous negotiations and look at ble state they seek in the West bring face-to-face talks. Kuwait. The Fifth Iraqi Army Di- He said militias are the most pow- now it's happening for real." Marc Ayrault (L) shakes hands whether other peace efforts such Bank and Gaza Strip, with a capi- "We'll see, we'll have that con- vision in eastern Diyala province erful they have been since Iraqi The heavy flooding of the past with Arab League secretary-gen- as a 2002 Arab offer of peace to tal in Arab East Jerusalem. versation, we have to know where is considered to be under the com- government forces defeated them week could cost French insur- eral Nabil Alarabi upon his arrival Israel in exchange for its withdraw- Israel has demanded tighter it's going, what's happening," he mand of the Badr group, a power- in a series of battles across Iraq in ance companies . to attend an international and in- al from all occupied land remain security measures from the Pales- told reporters. ful Shiite militia and political par- 2008. SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] into different settled areas in Khy- material of the demolished struc- centuries. Ghulam Qadir Daur, a By Afrasiab Khattak ber Pakhtunkhwa. This is how we tures was sold by others. Unlike senior civil servant hailing from www.afghanistantimes.af witnessed partial “Fatafication” of Swat operation of 2009 where pro- Waziristan, has poignantly depict- Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi South Waziristan is inhabited by the Pakhtunkhwa province and vincial government provided po- ed the excruciating conditions of Pashtun tribes of Ahmadzai Wazir, even official documents describe litical oversight and intervened on people’s lives in his powerful book Masood (locally pronounced parts of the province as de facto the question of civilian losses of ‘Cheegha’ (the Cry) published last Advisory editorial board Maseed) and Bittani and the main FATA. This is also how Pakh- life and property, operations in year. In an interview to a TV chan- Pashtun tribes in North Waziristan tunkhwa could not enter the post Waziristan had no civilian or po- nel he said: “I have felt that the Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, are Utmanzai Wazir and Daur. conflict phase even after the de- litical oversight. voice of the people of tribal area is Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal Sections of these tribes also live feat of Taliban in Swat and other It was only in 2014, that Op- not being heard. I want the elites in the adjacent districts of Tank, parts of Malakand division in 2009 eration Zarb-e-Azb destroyed all in Islamabad, the Punjab and in- Lakki Marwat and Bannu. Both as terrorists could carry on their the overt terrorist bases in FATA. ternational community to know Graphic-Designer: the districts of South and North subversive activities from their Interestingly it coincided with the about our pain and losses”. Local Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi Waziristan (known as political bases in FATA. Although a num- drawdown of ISAF troops from civil servants have formed the To- agencies as parts of the Federally ber of military operations were Afghanistan and most of terrorists chi Welfare Organization for pro- Marketing & Advertising: Administered Tribal Areas) have launched in the area, none of them were able to enter for fighting in viding help and rehabilitation. paid a horrible price for the noto- decisively decimated the control Afghanistan. In any case, finally, For achieving a sustainable Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 rious policy of “strategic depth” and command structure of even the Waziristan isn’t anymore a terror- solution to the conflict in Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan followed by the Pakistani state TTP in any of the political agen- ist headquarter exporting violence. Waziristan (and in the rest of towards Afghanistan over the last cies, as they would cross over into But the question is can the para- FATA) three policy reforms are a Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 four decades. It was due to this the next tribal agency. But the peo- dise be regained? And this brings prerequisite. First, Pakistan misguided policy that Waziristan ple of Waziristan, along with the us to issues such as repatriation of should really and practically give Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press was occupied by a syndicate of people in rest of FATA, bore the IDPs, their rehabilitation, recon- up the policy of strategic depth in international terrorists including Al brunt of the conflict. As one se- struction of infrastructure and so- Afghanistan based on supporting Qaida, Taliban and so many other nior journalist puts it: “Taliban cial and political empowerment of Taliban and both countries should groups from the region and be- suicide bombing and targeted as- the people. The system of politi- fight a coordinated war against ter- The constitution says yond. The main aim was of course sassinations, Pakistani artillery cal agency still exists in theory but ror. Leaders of both countries had Article 46: to provide sanctuary to Afghan barrages and air strikes and US for all practical purposes the power agreed on this policy in 2014 but Article Forty-Six: Establishing and administering higher, general and specialized educational Taliban for regrouping and start- drone strikes have killed tens of of making decisions has shifted to it wasn’t implemented. Let’s not ing a new war against the newly thousands of militants, soldiers military commanders who have forget that intensification of war institutions shall be the duty of the state. The citizens of Afghanistan shall establish higher, established Afghan republic and and civilians. For every combat- full control over the area. Many of in Afghanistan will ultimately en- general and specialized educational as well as literacy institutions with permission of the the international forces stationed ant at least five civilians have died.” them do not speak Pashto and are gulf FATA also. Two, there is no state. The state shall permit foreign individuals to establish higher, general and specialized in Afghanistan for supporting it Millions became IDPs and lost not acquainted with local customs. justification for dragging feet on institutions in accordance with the provisions of the law. Admission terms to higher after 9/11. General Musharraf en- every thing they had. Wana valley For people of Waziristan, most of political and administrative re- educational institutes of the state and other related matters shall be regulated by law. joyed playing on both sides. in South Waziristan remained com- whom have become IDPs, com- forms in FATA. Integration of Waziristan was lost to terrorists. paratively stable as the local Wazir plete disempowerment is painful FATA in the state system will go a Paradise lost! tribes were able to throw out and humiliating. The restrictions long way in not only stabilising For establishing their own Uzbek and other foreign terrorists that they face while entering their the area itself but it will also help writ and creating fear in the area in a bloody uprising in 2006. But own area are a nightmare. Even in bringing peace and stability to the terrorists started brutally mur- Shki and Masood area beyond it where the armed conflict is over Afghanistan. Three, an oversight dering tribal elders who had tradi- and Tochi valley in North long time ago the authorities sud- committee comprising of FATA tionally represented writ of the Waziristan have seen large scale denly and without any solid rea- parliamentarians, elders and rep- state. Only their elimination could death and destruction. Miran Shah son decide to bulldoze houses that resentatives of all political parties create a vacuum, by filling of bazar had more than 10,000 shops are still intact. For example last should be formed to oversee the which the terror syndicate could full of all sorts of goods. Mir Ali month they wanted to demolish process of repatriation of IDPs and overwhelm the local Pashtun had 6,700 shops. Not a single one about 1,200 houses in Danday their rehabilitation and to work as tribes and rule the area. It was from of these shops has escaped de- Darpa Khel that led to strong pro- bridge between the military and Waziristan that the de facto ter- struction and the goods in shops test by Daur tribe. Local people local population.—(The Nation) rorist state fought a war in Afghan- and belongings in the houses have are being given the impression that Afrasiab Khattak is a retired istan; spread its tentacles into not gone. In fact these towns were they are not owners of the land on Senator and an analyst of regional Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ashraf only other tribal districts but also completely flattened. Even the which they have been living for affairs. Ghani have inaugurated the long-awaited power project, the Afghan- India Friendship Dam, on Saturday in Herat. The dam Financial rewards aside, the Uber deal also known as Salma Dam has been built at a cost of 1,700 crore (Indian rupees) on Harirud river in Chesht-e-Sharif. It has the capacity to irrigate 75,000 hectares of land. The dam actually empowers Saudi Women! By Faisal J. Abbas whatever makes them feel good ally and publically endorsing wom- If you are unaware of the situ- will generate 42 megawatt of electricity. This power project about themselves, I would urge en’s right to drive? ation in the Kingdom, you should Saudi Arabia’s $3.5 billion invest- such people to first look within, Missing the point know that 80 percent of Uber us- has a long history. Some elements tried to hamper the project ment in global transportation com- before getting judgmental over “bad More importantly, such ridic- ers in Saudi Arabia are women and but their efforts went in vain as Afghans wanted to see the dam pany, Uber, grabbed headlines yes- deals”. As such, if the driving-ban ulous claims miss the point and that the introduction of this app, terday, and rightly so. After all, it forms grounds for these so-called are disconnected from the realities alongside its main local-competi- constructed at any cost. It was a step forward in the direction of was the largest single investment activists to boycott Saudi Arabia on the ground. In my opinion, the tor Careem, has really helped in development. ever made in a private company. or Uber, then I expect them to go question in Saudi Arabia was nev- solving a big logistical hurdle. The generally mixed reactions all the way and not just do what is er if women will be allowed to drive After all, not all women can Although, survey of the project was carried out by the gov- were also understandable given that convenient. Otherwise, one can’t but rather, when and how will they afford hiring their own driver and Saudi Arabia has numerous critics. help but suggest that it would be be allowed to drive. male chaperons (such as fathers, ernment of President Sardar Daud Khan, but the credit goes to However, one can’t help but say extremely hypocritical for these What stronger message could brothers, husbands…etc.) are not the former president Hamid Karzai for his relentless focus and that some of the criticism appeared people not to boycott US or Chi- there be more than the Kingdom’s always available. Have those who blatantly misguided and extreme- nese products too! powerful Deputy Crown Prince, called for the boycott thought that unwavering commitment. Knowing importance of the project ly far from the realities on the After all, wouldn’t purchasing Mohammed bin Salman, person- they may be stopping a mother ground. any American product be an en- ally and publically endorsing wom- from taking a crying child to the and such others, the Karzai administration launched construc- Specifically, there were some dorsement of a government which en’s’ right to drive? hospital? Did they think that they tion work on the dam with support of India. As it was expected, wild and unfounded speculations uses drones that indiscriminately Furthermore, it is not like the could be preventing a perfectly el- that Saudi Arabia is investing in take innocent lives around the topic is a taboo anymore. It is reg- igible fresh female graduate from anti-Afghanistan elements tried again and again to hamper the Uber to maintain its ban on wom- world? Or is that okay, because ularly discussed in the Shoura getting a job which may not only en driving. Others ridiculed Uber women are allowed to drive in the Council and in Saudi media (this help sustain herself but her whole power project, but Afghan-India friendship prevailed. It is re- for seeking business, leave alone US? Furthermore, these critics includes an article that I personal- family as well? sult of the previous government’s commitment that the dam has investment funds, in a country that should immediately cease buying ly wrote on this website back in Just for background, public bans women from driving. Nike shoes and Apple devices, 2011). As such, nobody should transport is sadly unreliable in the become operational and would feed the energy-starving local Some activists even called for unless they can assure us that they view the Uber investment as a way kingdom and traditional taxis are the boycott of Uber for accepting have been manufactured under in- to enforce the driving-ban, on the incredibly inconvenient to hail and industries which were on the brink of collapse. As Karzai has money from Saudi Arabia, a coun- ternational labor standards in Chi- contrary: it is an immediate and largely unsafe to use for women. underlined in his telephonic conversation with Modi, the cur- try which they said discriminates na! What stronger message could practical ‘work-around’ that actu- Uber and Careem, on the other against women. Now, while one there be more than the Kingdom’s ally empowers women and facili- hand, provide a much safer, trace- rent government shall take full advantage of this and Chabahar must emphasize that these activ- powerful Deputy Crown Prince, tates their movement and produc- able, cost-effective and convenient port project. ists are certainly free to say or do Mohammed bin Salman, person- tivity. substitute. Not only the local industries will survive but the agriculture sector will also see a boost. The project has cemented ties be- tween Afghanistan and India as well. Relations between the two countries are timeless. The Indian premier has pointed it. Contemporary history of the two countries is littered with ex- amples of how the two nations stood beside each other in turbu- lent times. The two nations share same history and culture. That’s why there is no wonder that why Indians are risking so much— their families and lives—to help their Afghan brothers and sis- ters. Afghan-India friendship survived considerable setbacks and difficulties due to civil war in the country and interference of neighboring countries. Relations between Kabul and New Delhi will continue to stand on solid foundation. India is helping Afghanistan in all those sectors which are crucial for economic growth of the coun- try. Salma Dam is just one example. India’s investment in Iran’s Chabahar port and Hajigak iron ore are other projects which would boost the Afghan economy and create hundreds of jobs. India is indeed a true and sincere friend of Afghans. Other coun- Corruption tries shall follow India’s footsteps if they really want to help the war-devastated country. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Nation 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. SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Can the world provide Syrians with aid from above? By James Denselow By Khaled Diab As the United Nations correct- Barack Obama's historic visit to ly says, Syria has become one Hiroshima reminds us of the in- of the most "complex and dy- herent danger of nuclear weap- namic humanitarian crises in ons. the world today". The scale Many will counter that the and intensity of the fighting peaceful use of nuclear power has been accentuated by the has done humanity a great deal targeting of critical civilian in- of good. While numerous ap- frastructure, with hospitals, plications of nuclear technolo- schools and bakeries regularly gy, such as in medicine, deliver struck. Humanitarian access to huge benefits and save lives, relieve people living in affect- nuclear energy is a different ed areas is extremely limited. matter. There are 4.6 million Syrians in Deriving energy from nu- hard-to-reach areas and close clear power is expensive, pro- to 500,000 people in besieged duces the most toxic waste areas where stories of starva- imaginable and is extremely tion are becoming depressing- dangerous, as the Fukushima ly frequent. This is not an acci- catastrophe and other disas- dent but rather part of a delib- ters demonstrate. erate ploy to use human suf- Despite this, the Middle fering as a strategy of warfare. East finds itself at a nuclear Syria civil war: Aid convoy crossroads, with governments reaches besieged Daraya by nearly 64,000 people calling to translate into reality that the across the region launching or In response to the contin- for air drops, the UK govern- credibility of the "international reviving plans to construct ued challenge of getting aid to ment released a statement ex- community" is continuing to nuclear reactors. those who desperately need it plaining that "air drops are not haemorrhage. Inside Story - Has Egypt's and stopping people from a viable way of getting help to Showing that Assad Sisi delivered on any of his starving to death, the idea of those in need". doesn't control who does and promises? air drops has suddenly become There are real fears that the doesn't get aid is an important Nuclear Egypt? a very real prospect. aid could land in the wrong gesture, although the air drops The latest development in At a meeting in April, US hands and scenarios of videos are unlikely to be of the scale this regard was the recent an- Secretary of State John Kerry of ISIL fighters enjoying UN needed to supply so many tens nouncement that Russia will explained: "Starting on June 1, rations can't be far from peo- of thousands of people. While lend Egypt $25bn to finance if the UN is denied humanitari- ple's minds. they cannot give aid to all, they and operate a nuclear power an access to any of these des- Worse still, civilians could may give hope. plant which will be built by ignated areas, the Internation- be harmed by the hard landing Second, it shouldn't be for- Russia's state-owned nuclear al Syria Support Group (ISSG) of the aid itself, especially con- gotten that the Russians were giant Rosatom. calls on the World Food Pro- sidering the confined urban one of the 20-plus countries in safe and dangerous, what More dependence sources, and the renewable gramme to immediately carry spaces that characterise many the ISSG that agreed unani- The Russian tender Egypt chance does poor, inexperi- While Egypt's non-pariah energy sector is still young accepted was for the construc- out a programme for air bridg- of those locations under siege. mously in favour of the air enced Egypt stand in averting status will probably mean that enough for Egypt to become a es and air drops to all of those At the end of May as the drops if other access was not tion of a station with a capaci- a future radioactive crisis? its programme will be cheaper, major player and innovator in ty of 4,800 megawatts, at an areas in need." deadline approached, de Mis- forthcoming. No Arab country possess- nuclear power is still extremely it. The ubiquitous barrel tura seemed to walk back on the If Russia cannot secure hu- estimated cost of $10bn. es the scientific and technolog- expensive, especially in "sun- Egypt recognises this op- "This was a long dream for bomb idea, explaining that "for air manitarian access from Assad ical knowhow to build their own belt" regions such as the Mid- portunity and seeks to extract Syrian civilians have seen drops to become concrete ei- then, as the country with the Egypt, to have a peaceful nu- nuclear facilities and to con- dle East. 20 percent of its energy needs clear programme to produce many bad things dropped on ther by delivery at high altitude biggest aerial footprint in Syr- duct the extremely costly re- Egyptian solar energy ex- from renewable sources by them from the air, including the or by helicopters, there is a ia, it should be tasked with electricity," President Abdel- search required to advance pert Sherife Abdelmessih esti- 2022, but this is not enough. Fattah el-Sisi said late last year. ubiquitous "barrel bomb", but need for the cooperation of the leading on the air drops them- knowledge in this highly devel- mates that nuclear power plants Unlike nuclear power, re- could they now see more help- government of Syria". selves. And this dream dates back oped field. This will make Arab are four times as expensive to newable energy has the poten- to the very dawn of the nuclear ful supplies rain down upon Syrian President Bashar al- As Syria's peace talks con- civilian nuclear programmes construct as solar ones per unit tial to create an enormous num- them? Assad [EPA] tinue to stall at the embryonic age, when then President Gam- highly dependent on foreign of energy. ber of jobs and abundant busi- al Abdel-Nasser launched Before the April ISSG deci- Of course a lack of cooper- stage and the prospects of technology and expertise. In addition, he expects that ness opportunities, including sion UN Special Envoy Staffan ation from that government is Aleppo continue to dim, there Egypt's nuclear programme in Then, there are the more Egypt will pay about $150 per start-ups. 1954, and the first Soviet-built de Mistura explained that while at the centre of the problem as is a desperate need for new subtle environmental costs. MWh for the power generated In addition, it is scalable, air drops were "the most expen- it is responsible for more than ideas and more positive ac- research reactor came online in Nuclear power plants are ex- by the new nuclear power plant, meaning that energy can be 1961. sive, the most complicated, the 90 percent of besieged areas. tions to change the direction tremely thirsty beasts - con- while the equivalent price for consumed close to where it is most dangerous option ... as a There is no doubt that air of the conflict. Since then, Egypt's nuclear suming the equivalent of a ma- Egyptian wind farms is $45 per produced, and it paves the way ambitions have stalled for a "last resort we are getting close drops are no substitute for While supplying aid from jor metropolis - and Egypt suf- MWh. to distributed energy genera- to it". There is no doubt that ground-based aid. Yet as this the air could only be a drop in number of political, economic fers serious "water poverty", There are also persuasive tion, where each building or and technological reasons. air drops are no substitute for is not forthcoming, there are an ocean of need, it could sym- by the government's own ad- geostrategic reasons for Egypt home can potentially produce ground-based aid. They have powerful symbolisms, rather bolise a renewed commitment The revival of Egypt's civil- mission. and other Arab countries not its own power and sell its ex- ian nuclear programme has been tried and failed before. In than a practical solution, that to the humanitarian principles Weighing in on the debate, to invest in nuclear energy. cess supply into the national February, 21 pallets carrying 21 the tactic could yield. that the Syrian conflict has stirred a lot of debate and con- the renowned Egyptian-Amer- While proponents believe it will grid. troversy, both in the media and tonnes of aid were dropped So many red lines crossed done so much to erode. ican NASA space scientist enhance our energy security, it Renewable energy technol- over the eastern city of Deir az First, the fact that Assad is James Denselow is a writer in private - as I discovered dur- Farouk el-Baz called Egypt's will actually diminish it. ogies are also diverse. For ex- ing a long impromptu debate at Zour. The difficulty in practi- denying humanitarian access is on Middle East politics and nuclear plan "an unstudied No Arab country possess- ample, a relatively small invest- cally supplying aid this way precisely why it's important to security issues and a research a Cairo restaurant recently. political decision", fuelled by es the scientific and technolog- ment in solar boilers can save Those who support the initia- was shown by the fact that ten provide it. It would show many associate at the Foreign Policy the desire to catch up with Iran ical know-how to build their Egypt the huge amounts of of the pallets were unaccount- Syrians that the world has not Centre. tive believe it presents a "real- which "spurred Arab countries own nuclear facilities and to electricity used to heat water. istic" solution to the country's ed for, seven landed in no- forgotten their plight. The views expressed in this to enter the nuclear field". conduct the extremely costly I cannot help thinking that man's land and four were dam- So many red lines have article are the author's own and energy crisis, enhances its en- But if anything, the folly of research required to advance the $25bn Egypt is spending ergy security, and bring us into aged. been crossed in Syria already do not necessarily reflect Al Iran's nuclear programme knowledge in this highly devel- on a single nuclear power facil- Following a petition signed and so much rhetoric has failed Jazeera's editorial policy. the elite club of nuclear na- should deter Egypt and the oped field. ity would have been better in- tions. other Arab countries from pur- OPINION: Tourism - It's vested in pursuing these alter- Like many experts, I have suing nuclear energy, for geo- more than a few umbrellas on a native energy options. many doubts and misgivings strategic, economic and social beach In fact, for the entire region, about these claims. reasons. Iran's Bushehr I reac- This will make Arab civilian nuclear energy is pure folly and Could the defeat of ISIS 'Unstudied political deci- tor, which reportedly cost $11bn nuclear programmes highly de- the only sunny future is in re- sion' to build, provides less than 2 pendent on foreign technolo- newables. In addition to the risks of percent of the country's elec- gy and expertise. Khaled Diab is an award- an Egyptian Chernobyl or Fuku- tricity requirements, while sanc- Moreover, the fuel required winning Egyptian-Belgian jour- turn to Pyrrhic victory? shima, there are the everyday tions may have cost the Islam- to run the power plants will nalist, writer and blogger. He is By Hisham Melhem ing these societies, could presage Watch documented the “Ruinous dangers of radioactive leaks ic Republic as much as $500bn have to be imported, making the author of Intimate Enemies: the victory of foreign powers like Aftermath” in the city thus: “in and seepage, not to mention in opportunity costs, experts Arabs vulnerable to supply Living with Israelis and Pales- The recent military setbacks suf- Iran and Russia, a genocidal regime the aftermath of the fighting, mili- nuclear waste, which is likely estimate. disruptions, which could be tinians in the Holy Land. He fered by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and in Damascus and a sectarian cor- tia forces looted, torched, and blew to outlive humanity. If the In contrast, supplying all exploited for political arm- blogs at www.chronikler.com. the beginning of attacks by local rupt regime in Baghdad both of up hundreds of civilian houses and "safe" disposal of nuclear Iran's electricity needs from twisting. The views expressed in this forces to retake Fallujah, Iraq and which are beholding to Tehran. buildings in Tikrit and the neigh- waste in technologically ad- Manbij City, Syria, backed by More importantly in the long run, boring towns..” While it is true that solar power would cost a mere In contrast, Egypt, and the article are the author's own and U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, cou- vanced and wealthy Germany $94bn, according to one esti- wider region, is blessed with do not necessarily reflect Al the defeat of ISIS if it is not ac- the U.S. in the past criticized the has proven to be extremely un- pled with the steep decline in the companied or followed by the sectarian practices of these mili- mate. abundant sun and wind re- Jazeera's editorial policy. number of foreign fighters flowing eventual demise of the Assad re- tias and asked the Iraqi government to Join ISIS, portends the eventu- gime in the context of an overall not to allow them to participate in al defeat of the Caliphate as a sig- political resolution that guarantees liberating Sunni cities from ISIS, a nificant military threat maybe as the civil and political rights of all request that was ignored by Bagh- early as 2017. But given the tra- Syrian communities, and in check- dad, there are ample signs now that LETTER TO THE EDITOR jectory of the Syrian and Iraqi con- ing Iran’s destructive influence in Washington has lessened its op- flicts in recent years, the corrosive Iraq, will result in the overwhelm- position to some of these militias. role of most outside powers, and ing victory of “identity politics”. In fact last spring US Consul Gen- the frightening human toll of iden- The fights for Fallujah and eral Steve Walker expressed sym- tity politics, the defeat of the mon- Manbij City are raising serious pathy with some of the wounded strous Caliphate could turn to a fears not only of massive civilian members of the Popular Mobili- resounding pyrrhic victory. casualties, but of deepening sec- zation Forces during a visit to a Joblessness sole reason behind drug addiction Since the Second World War, tarian and ethnic cleavages leading hospital in Basra. the United States has had a poor to more death by identity and the Deepening sectarian and eth- record in translating its military creation of more refugees. The nic divides Unemployment is the core reason behind drug addiction of the youth. Widespread joblessness in the country is seen as the victories into political successes. United States is currently provid- Just as the city of Ramadi was principal reason behind youth’s involvement in a variety of crimes, drug addiction and illegal migration, despite knowing well It is very likely that the two long- ing air power to support the Iraqi essentially destroyed in order to est wars in American history will government forces attacking ISIS be “saved” from ISIS, a similar fate about danger on their mission to Europe. Last year 24 percent of eligible individuals were reported jobless only in Samangan end with political forces that are province. Unemployment youth left with no option but to turn to drug addiction aimed at forgetting their plights. But they don’t forces in Fallujah, but these con- could befall Fallujah. There are either hostile or unfriendly to the ventional forces are augmented by credible concerns that the decision know that the short plight will make its sneak to a whole life with no cure in sight. The government should utilize every available United States controlling both Af- Shiite militias backed and trained to attack Fallujah which came af- resources to generate jobs for youth. Large-scale migration is also due to unemployment and that’s why they see prominent live ghanistan and Iraq. The real chal- by Iran and led by Iraqis who are ter a short notice to the U.S. is in somewhere to European countries. It is a great challenged for the government to create job. But if they want to lenge for the U.S. in Afghanistan, very loyal to Iran. These largely part a political maneuver by Prime discourage brain-drain from the country and prevent youth from getting addict to drugs, there is only one Iraq and in Syria was never mili- Shiite militias make up the so- Minister Haider al-Abadi to deflect remedy and that is to create job for them. tary in nature, but rather political. called Popular Mobilization Forc- attention from his domestic tra- Aziz Ahmad, Kabul Afghanistan After the eventual military defeat es (al-Hashd al-Sha’bi),were cre- vails following a series of deadly of ISIS in Iraq and Syria the peren- ated in response to ISIS’ occupa- bombings in Baghdad, and grow- Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s name and nial question of “what’s next po- tion of Mosul in June 2014. These ing social unrest against corruption address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] litically?” will be asked just as it militias engaged in widespread and calls for reforms that almost was asked after the liberation of abuse in Sunni cities liberated from paralyzed his government. Iran, Afghanistan from Soviet occupa- ISIS in recent months. the hidden hand behind major Ira- tion in 1989, the defeat of Iraqi The fights for Fallujah and qi decisions, was on display re- forces in Kuwait in 1991, and af- Manbij City are raising serious cently when the ubiquitous Irani- ter the withdrawal of American fears not only of massive civilian an Revolutionary Guards Quds Disclaimer: forces from Iraq in 2011. casualties, but of deepening sec- Force commander General Qassem The victory of identity poli- tarian and ethnic cleavages leading Suleimani showed up in photos The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) tics Ironically, the defeat of ISIS, a to more death by identity and the taken at an operations room out- positive development in and of it- creation of more refugees side Fallujah, discussing maps of and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. self, in the absence of acceptable Following the eviction of ISIS military operations with senior political scaffoldings to begin heal- from Tikrit last year Human Rights militia commanders. 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It is the year 2027 and mass global "We've spent close to fertility drugs increase rates of can- amount of hope is enough to hand female infertility leaves humankind $100,000," she says. cer when, in fact, no one has done over large amounts of money. "I US fighter jets on Friday launched The United States is increas- the Gulf, and they will continue facing extinction. It sounds like the Fertility clinics in the US alone the research to see what correla- will guarantee that people will con- the first strikes against ISIS tar- ingly concerned about Russia’s that support role from the Medi- plot of a film - and it is. The 2006 are thought to be part of a $4.5bn tion does exist." tinue to give them money because gets from an aircraft carrier in the growing military presence in the terranean, the Navy said. production Children of Men tells industry - which is still largely Niloofar Rezai, a UK-regis- we put all our hope and faith in Mediterranean Sea since the start region, and the air strikes also send “This shows that one carrier the story of an infertile human race unregulated. And that figure is set tered, Qatar-based homeopath and them as professionals. We let our- of the two-year campaign against a message to Turkey that the US strike group can cover two areas struggling to survive with little to rise to $4.8bn within the next complementary therapist, says: selves believe that they have our the militant group, the US Navy military has other ways to con- of operations,” said one senior US hope or chance for new life. four years. "Research, unfortunately, does ex- best interests at heart." It is a costly said. The jets flew from the USS duct its air war over Syria than Navy official. “It also adds an ele- And with regular reports la- It is a simple supply-and-de- ist to show cancer rates in moth- business, both financially and emo- Harry S. Truman after the ship from the Turkish air base at Incir- ment of unpredictability. We’re menting growing rates of infertili- mand model, but the product on ers and children of IVF, alongside tionally, but Hannah Walker, a 39- moved into the Mediterranean lik. going to do our best to spread the ty, and fertility clinics popping up offer is a baby - something many other diseases which include poly- year-old American designer, be- through the Suez Canal, marking Navy officials said the actions presence we have and take advan- with greater frequency than Star- seem willing to spend their last cystic ovaries [PCOS], a small risk lieves the time and money she has the first air strikes conducted by a were also meant to dispel concerns tage of the reach that our naval as- bucks coffee shops, it is easy to penny on. of mental deficits in children, and spent on trying to conceive a child carrier group in that region since raised by some lawmakers about sets give us.” believe that a global fertility crisis World-renowned IVF expert a much disputed 50 percent risk has been worth it. the Iraq war began in 2003, Navy the Navy’s decision in recent Similar actions could be taken looms. Professor Lord Robert Winston of ovarian cancer." "It was part of my life experi- officials said. months not to maintain a constant by other ships in the strike group, But what is the reality, and just says couples are often exploited. Jain herself has a personal tale. ence and led me to where I am to- Previous strikes were launched carrier presence in the Gulf. for instance with Tomahawk mis- how far are people prepared to go "The combination of despera- In 2000, she took fertility hor- day. The issue I had is that I was solely by US and allied pilots from Currently, the US Navy is siles, said the official, who was not to conceive? tion … [at] being infertile and the mones to produce enough eggs to undiagnosed for so long. I wish I carriers in the Gulf or from land operating three carriers: the USS authorized to speak publicly. National Health Service fact some couples are prepared to donate. Four years later, Jain had had done more research before go- bases in Bahrain, Turkey and oth- Dwight D. Eisenhower, which will The Navy’s decision to launch (NHS) figures from the UK show pay large sums of money … for cancer. She remembers asking the ing to these people. I counted on er countries. head to the Gulf in late June or the strikes from the Mediterra- that one in six couples is classified fertility treatment leads to exploi- doctor conducting the procedure them to diagnose me or send me to The Navy said the raids tar- early July, the USS John C. Sten- nean, or its 6th Fleet area of oper- as infertile, and it is the same in tation. if there were any links between someone who could, and they geted Iraq and Syria, but gave no nis, which is operating in the South ations, also positions the carrier the US. Figures from Qatar sug- "It didn't use to be like this. cancer and egg extraction, but says didn't. details on how many and what China Sea, and the Truman, which group for any potential action in gest that 16 percent of couples are When I first started in the field of her question was dismissed. "Fertility doctors have a one- type of targets were hit. just left the Gulf. Libya. infertile, and in India 30 million IVF, clinics would only charge She went on to study the link track mind and whether that's right The US Navy aircraft carrier The Truman and other ships “It sends a message to friends couples, which accounts for 10 what was felt appropriate. We and looked at the long-term effects or wrong, that's the way it is. I USS Harry S. Truman transits the in its strike group served as the and foes alike that we can affect percent of the population. need reasonable ethical standards of hormone drugs on fertile wom- kept every lab report, ultrasound, Suez Canal, Egypt towards the principal asset in the US fight both theaters at the same time be- The result is a booming fertil- applied, but the problem is that en who have undergone egg extrac- and carried my own file with me Mediterranean Sea in a photo re- against Islamic State targets while cause of the reach of the naval as- ity business. And with a range of private medicine is very expensive, tion. to these different doctors. I made leased by the US Navy June 2, it served in the Navy’s 5th Fleet sets that we have,” said the offi- expensive assisted reproductive and medicine in the commercial "Donated eggs account for over sure that I was informed and even 2016. (Reuters) area of operations, which includes cial. technologies on offer, for many, the market is at risk of being treated as a quarter of IVF live births, even suggested to doctors the therapy I cost of a human life is priceless. a commercial commodity." though only about 12 percent of needed - after doing my own re- At any cost It is exactly because patients IVF procedures use them. In other search. They didn't take well to Take Dina Salam, for example. such as Dina and Hisham are will- words, while donated egg cells ac- that and really have a God com- A successful Palestinian business- ing to invest thousands of dollars count for a mere three in every 200 plex about them ... They're pretty woman in her 40s, Dina married in treatments that fertility pro- births in the United States, the arrogant." her American husband, Hisham, grammes continue to compete practice underpins the very via- When all 'facts' are not created six years ago. The newlyweds - fiercely for patients, advertising bility of a multibillion-dollar indus- equal then in their late 30s - were full of high pregnancy rates and some- try whose success rates would be It is a widely reported "fact" hope. Living and working in Qa- times even offering patients finan- too low without them." that many women now wait too tar, they had a beautiful home, cial incentives. Jain discovered that there was long to start a family. Dina was home-help, individual cars and fre- The competition for patients no protocol in place for clinics to told by doctors in the US that her quent holidays abroad. worries those who fear that doc- contact women after egg extraction, inability to conceive was due to "I was 38, and my husband and tors will use risky medical prac- and that no agency collects data her age. I were very keen to have kids and tices to try to boost pregnancy on subsequent health issues a But Dr Jean Twenge, a pro- raise a family, so six months into rates, or that clinics will mislead woman may encounter. fessor of psychology at San Diego our marriage I visited a doctor here patients about their chances of The IVF industry portrays State University, says all may not in Qatar to find out why I hadn't conceiving, let alone carrying to the procedure as generally suc- be as it seems. She says that we conceived. The doctor referred us term. cessful and extremely safe. are told that women's fertility lev- both to a fertility specialist who Risky business "IVF advertisements peddling els take a significant drop once they suggested we try IUI - artificial S Lochlann Jain, a professor motherhood portray sweetly hit 35 and that one in three women insemination. So we did. Three at- at Stanford University in the US, swaddled babies, and the IVF clin- between the ages of 35 and 39 will tempts later, and still nothing," thinks the IVF process is itself a ic welcomes would-be patients not fall pregnant after a year of Dina explains. risky business. with pastel pink and blue walls trying. But Twenge says this data "My doctor advised us to go She says that transferring three replete with large framed pictures is based on research that was con- for IVF, and I was totally con- or more embryos in an IVF proce- of chubby little hands and feet," ducted in France between 1670 vinced that this would be our so- dure - standard practice in many Jain writes in chapter six of her and 1830. A time, as she puts it, lution." In the Salams' case, clinics in the US - is a flawed and book. In the US, clinics administer "before electricity, antibiotics or Hisham has weak sperm. The doc- dangerous precedent. She refers to about 120,000 IVF cycles annual- fertility treatment". tor suggested the only way they a study in The Lancet medical jour- ly, but with no central agency to She says that while fertility could conceive would be to remove nal which states that transferring collect this data, numbers are esti- does decline with age, many wom- Dina's eggs from her ovaries and three embryos instead of two mates. "This unregulated free-mar- en in their late 30s do have chil- fertilise them with Hisham's sperm makes no difference in the rate of ket approach to fertility is noth- dren. And in July's edition of The before transferring the embryo live births in older women. But ing short of human experimenta- Atlantic magazine, Twenge re- back into Dina's uterus - a process three or more embryos in any age tion based on financial incentive minds us that most fertility prob- known as in-vitro fertilisation, or group significantly increases the and medical hubris," says Jain. For lems are not because of a woman's more commonly as IVF. risk of complications, such as pre- many couples who cannot con- age. She cites blocked Fallopian "That's when we started our mature birth and low birth weight. ceive, a process known as In Vitro tubes and endometriosis as key IVF journey - first to Florida, then In Jain's upcoming book, Ma- Fertilisation (IVF) is often their factors that can affect a woman at Doha, Jordan, Bahrain, and lastly lignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, only hope [EPA] Hope and faith any age, while stressing that in half New York. Each attempt failed." there is a chapter linking some Sarah Howard has been trying to of all infertile couples, it is the man Like most women undergoing forms of fertility treatment to can- conceive for five years and says who has fertility problems. Pro- IVF, Dina had to have several cer. hospitals benefit from couples' in- fessor Lord Winston, Emeritus rounds. On average, a patient falls "The fertility industry is very fertility issues: "They prey on Professor of Fertility Studies at pregnant only one out of three careful about what data it keeps couples who are desperate to have Imperial College London, says the times, so IVF often has to be done and what data it does not," Jain children. They often give you a media is responsible for present- repeatedly, and it is a costly busi- says. "Therefore, it is easy to say small amount of hope. I can tell ing an inaccurate picture of cur- ness. that the data does not suggest that you first-hand that the small rent levels of fertility:me anything Hong Kong Tiananmen Museum at risk of closing down Beijing, China - Anyone entering dent in Chinese textbooks and, as However, Louisa Lim, a pro- tion had ordered them to do so in intention of gathering approxi- ways a June 4 museum in Hong While eyeing the numerous the June 4 Memorial Museum in a result, many young Chinese grow fessor at the University of Michi- adherence to fire safety regulations. mately $400,000 to be able to Kong," says Ho. displays, he gapes at one show- Hong Kong must pass through a up unaware of the uprising. gan who authored the book, Peo- To avoid dangerous crowding of change their venue. However, the When Xin, the history stu- casing a People's Daily editorial narrow corridor, one that gets in- The Hong Kong Alliance in ple's Republic of Amnesia - an in- the elevators and fire exits, they response to their campaign has dent, visited the museum recently, that had brandished the student creasingly narrower the further Support of Patriotic Democratic vestigative look at the Tiananmen said they had to limit the number been tepid so far, and the organis- he was also asked for his identifi- protests as unconstitutional and they walk. The passages are an Movements of China had been or- Square massacre, notes that "the of visitors to 20 at a time. ers are lagging behind their target, cation card by the building securi- chaotic. Coming out into the sun- intentional manipulation of space ganising candlelight vigils in Hong campaign against the museum be- "Every time this happened, it museum staff told Al Jazeera. ty guards. light after his visit, Xin says: "I'm meant to recreate the sense of op- Kong on every June 4, in memory gan by complaining about the num- was a losing situation for us," re- The alliance hopes to use the He refused to fulfil the securi- going to urge all of my mainland pression that students and activ- of the victims of the Chinese gov- ber of visitors before it had even marks Ho. "Which guest is going money raised, along with the pro- ty guards' requests, arguing on a friends to visit the museum while ists in mainland China felt and pro- ernment's crackdown, drawing in opened". Alliance members argue to wait and see how the dispute is ceeds from the sale of the existing technicality that, as a newly ar- it's still open. tested against during the Tianan- crowds of up to 150,000 people. that the lawsuit has little to do with resolved? They'd run away before property, to move into a bigger, rived student, he didn't have proper "It is an honour for me to live men Square protests in the sum- In 2014, as the 25th anniver- property regulations, as one cor- that." The alliance is now running standalone space. "We are very identification yet and muscled his in the same country as those stu- mer of 1989. sary of the Tiananmen Square pro- poration member, Yeung Cho- a crowdfunding campaign with the determined to ensure there is al- way in. dents who fought for my people." Visitors stroll through the dis- tests neared, the alliance wanted ming, had told the South China plays, visualisations echoing the to establish a permanent venue to Morning Post that "the [Tianan- events leading to the massacre, commemorate the events of that men Square incident] is sensitive before reaching a replica of the day. In Pictures: Remembering Ti- and contentious", and that the cor- Goddess of Democracy, a figure ananmen poration fears the museum will resembling the Statue of Liberty Lee Cheuk-yan, a former bring it "trouble". that was erected by the agitators chairman of the alliance and cur- Multiple attempts by Al in the final days of the protests rently a member of the Hong Kong Jazeera to reach members of the only to be destroyed by troops on Legislative Council, says there was owners' corporation for comment that fateful day of June 4. a need to "educate" people about on the situation were unsuccess- When Xin moved to Hong their past and to ensure the event ful. On the opening day of the Kong from mainland China to con- wasn't erased from memory. There museum on April 26, 2014, a dis- tinue his graduate studies, he was seemed no better place for it than play of images showing the events resolute to visit the museum, the Hong Kong, which was returned leading up to the massacre [Lam world's first, and only, permanent to Chinese authority by the Brit- Yik Fei/Getty Images] exhibition space dedicated to the ish in 1997 but, as a semi-autono- Keeping visitors away Tiananmen Square massacre. mous city, enjoys more freedoms From April 2014 to January A student of Chinese history, than the mainland. this year, the museum received Xin remembers his parents telling The alliance purchased space around 20,000 visitors, according him vaguely of an event in 1989 in the Foo Hoo Centre, in the to museum officials. that had taken place in Tiananmen crowded shopping district of Tsim In the first year of the muse- Square when they themselves were Sha Tsui, for nearly $1.25m to um's existence, nearly half of the students. He wanted to visit the make it possible, but troubles be- visitors were from the mainland. museum and find out what had re- gan concurrently. Oppression The Yet, in the second year of its ally happened back then. building's owners' corporation opening, the number of mainland Memories materialise in the complained that the land use deed visitors dropped to 30 percent. museum issued to the alliance prohibited the The museum owners say that fear- The crackdown on the Tianan- use of the commercial complex for mongering tactics by the owners' men Square uprising - when civil- exhibition purposes. They served corporation are keeping potential ian protesters demanded an end to a notice to the museum's owners, visitors away. corruption and a greater say in gov- citing disapproval of the volume "They instituted a policy of ernment, to which the state re- of visitors in light of safety regula- identification checks only for peo- sponded by sending army tanks tions. A lawsuit was brought ple on our floor of the building and down the wide streets of Beijing - against the alliance to have the asked them to state the purpose reportedly resulted in more than museum removed from the build- of their visit," says the present 1,000 deaths. ing. According to Hong Kong law, chairman of the museum's alliance, The revolt is a taboo topic in all land belongs to the state and Albert Ho. "This inhibited and mainland China and discussion of any lease is accompanied by de- scared away mainland visitors." it is censored, often heavy-hand- tailed usage prescriptions. Profes- Ho says security guards at the edly. On its previous anniversa- sor Lou Jianbo of Peking Univer- building demanded that the muse- ries, search terms related to the sity, an expert on the region's prop- um owners divide large tour uprising had been blocked from erty law, explains that the building groups into smaller ones, keeping social media platforms like Sina owners have a strong case since some waiting outside. One securi- Weibo, China's version of Twitter. the museum violates the designat- ty guard at the building told Al There are no mentions of the inci- ed land use. Jazeera that the owners' corpora- SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Oil slides as US rig count rises, economy concerns NEW YORK : Oil prices tumbled more than 1 percent on Friday, Tunisia has reached a deal with the extending losses after weekly data United States for $500 million in showed U.S. drillers added rigs for loan guarantees to boost the North only the second time this year. African country’s struggling econ- Drillers added nine oil rigs in omy. the week to June 3, Baker Hughes Tunisian Finance Minister said. The closely followed report Slim Chaker signed the deal Fri- rekindled fears that U.S. shale drill- day with US Ambassador Daniel ers would turn the spigots back on Rubinstein. as prices flirted with $50 a barrel. It will allow Tunisia to bor- Prices had already dipped in row at interest rates of 2 percent early trade on worries about the instead of 6 or 7 percent, Chaker U.S. economy, but losses were lim- told reporters. ited by a weakening dollar, which It’s the third such accord with makes oil less expensive for buy- the US in recent years and comes ers using other currencies. The after meetings between US Presi- Baker Hughes report sent prices dent Barack Obama and Tunisian sharply lower. President Beji Caid Essebsi aimed "The increase in the rig count at encouraging economic reforms as prices near the $50/bbl range is and investment in Tunisia. clearly indicative of the elasticity Tunisia is the only country to of U.S. production and speaks to have emerged from Arab Spring the tremendous efficiency gains uprisings with a vibrant democra- reaped by the U.S. producer com- cy but is struggling with high youth munity over recent years," said unemployment and a stagnant Michael Tran, director of energy economy. strategy at RBC Capital Markets in New York. Oil traders view falling U.S. output as key to reducing a global glut of crude that has pressured SoftBank adds prices during a steep two-year slump. Brent crude futures fell 58 cents to $49.46 per barrel by 1:24 Bahrain's King Hamad p.m. ET (1724 GMT). Brent's bin Isa al-Khalifa re- price still remained almost double to AliBaba sale, placed the oil minister in January lows, on track for its a minor cabinet reshuffle eighth weekly gain in nine weeks. on Friday that affected U.S. West Texas Intermediate bringing total two cabinet portfolios, (WTI) crude futures were down state news agency BNA 69 cents at $48.48, on track for its reported. Sheikh Mo- first weekly decline in four weeks. hammed bin Khalifa al- Oil prices have rallied from to $10b Khalifa, a member of the this winter's lows due largely to ruling family, was ap- supply disruptions, particularly in pointed energy minister, Nigeria, Venezuela, Libya and Can- replacing Abdul-Hussain ada. On Friday, militants in the bin Ali Mirza. Mirza restive Niger Delta region that pro- was appointed minister duces more than half of Nigeria's of water and electricity. oil claimed three new attacks on Bahrain, which is not oil infrastructure, promising to a member of the Organi- bring the country's oil production sation of Petroleum Ex- to "zero." Still, news that Exxon- porting Countries Mobil lifted its force majeure on (OPEC), produces about exports of Nigeria's Qua Iboe crude 200,000 barrels of oil per oil, looked likely to bring barrels day. back to the market.

The U.S. and China, facing mount- a deeper economic slowdown, are tion and put its economy on a more The Chinese government is ployment,” Premier Li Keqiang ing political pressures at home, are trying to keep factories humming sustainable footing,” said Nathan keeping steel mills, coal plants and said in March. When President Bill seeing economic tensions flare to and prevent the kind of market Sheets, U.S. Treasury’s undersec- a host of manufacturing industries Clinton persuaded Congress to in their worst point in years over unrest that gripped global inves- retary for international affairs. afloat despite dwindling demand 2000 to back China’s entry into currency and trade practices. tors over the past year. China’s Vice Finance Minister and a tumble in commodity prices the World Trade Organization, the China has pushed the yuan to U.S. Treasury and State De- Zhu Guangyao, while acknowledg- that should have closed many. U.S. counted on expanded trade as a five-year low against the dollar, partment officials fly to Beijing ing at a media briefing Thursday The U.S. recently slapped the catalyst for political change in reviving charges from American early next week for two days of major challenges for China’s econ- Chinese cold-rolled steel imports the Communist state. U.S. firms firms of currency manipulation to talks to try to calm some of the omy, insisted Beijing would adhere with duties worth 267%, accusing hoped to capitalize on the indus- gain a competitive advantage for trade irritants and address ongoing to its reform agenda and commit- the country of selling products trialization of the world’s most Chinese goods. The Obama admin- geopolitical tensions, particularly ments made by the Group of 20 below production cost. populous nation. A decade and a istration has fired off a series of over the South China Sea, where against competitive currency de- By supporting excess produc- half later, U.S. firms and voters are trade complaints and levied duties their militaries are operating in valuation. tion capacity, the Chinese govern- growing increasingly frustrated on several Chinese industries, from sometimes dangerous proximity. Some analysts think President ment is “engaged in economic war- despite China’s promises to open chicken feet to cold-rolled steel The U.S., which moved on Xi Jinping, wanting to consolidate fare against the U.S.,” said John up the country. Cheaper wages used in appliances and auto parts. Wednesday to cut off North Ko- power in the Communist Party Ferriola, chief executive of North and costs pulled production out TOKYO : SoftBank Group Corp to sell more shares in AliBaba, in Agence France-Presse/Getty rea from the banking system, ahead of a leadership transition next Carolina steel giant Nucor Corp. of the U.S., Chinese imports said on Friday it was selling a fur- which it is the top shareholder. Images Workers at an offshore oil wants Beijing to help rein in its year, has paused reform efforts “Thousands of hardworking Amer- surged and American manufactur- ther $1.1 billion of its shares in Softbank, which invests in tele- engineering platform in Qingdao, increasingly belligerent ally. and instead is revving up the old icans have lost their jobs because ing declined as a share of the econ- AliBaba Group Holding Ltd, bring- coms and internet companies, sold in east China's Shandong province U.S. officials also will seek re- playbook of credit-fueled growth of these illegal, unfair trade prac- omy. The U.S. trade deficit with ing the total it has sold in the Chi- more shares because of strong de- on Wednesday. assurance from Chinese officials and infrastructure spending. His tices.” China has swollen to $365 billion, nese e-commerce company to $10 mand, a spokesman said. The friction between the about moving ahead with prom- aim: Ensure economic stability and The Chinese economy has de- now about 2% of U.S. economic billion. SoftBank on Wednesday The sale is expected to help to world’s two largest economies ised reforms, such as restructuring mollify rivals, they say. celerated after decades of double- output. U.S. presidential contend- said it would sell at least $7.9 bil- reduce debt at Softbank, which could worsen as domestic politics state-owned enterprises and re- An attempt last year by digit expansion. Growth is clock- ers are leveraging anger at China lion of shares in AliBaba, marking holds a majority stake in U.S. wire- collide with already weak growth. ducing industrial overcapacity, and Beijing to allow markets to play a ing in at 6.7%, its slowest pace over lost jobs into potential votes. the first sale of shares in the Chi- less carrier Sprint Corp. Sprint is The U.S., seeing heightened try to advance talks on an invest- role in setting its exchange rate was since the global financial crisis Many of the areas hit hardest by nese company since SoftBank be- loss-making and has embarked on anti-China rhetoric in the presiden- ment treaty. mismanaged, adding to a summer- amid rising debt, growing labor China’s rise have shown some of gan investing in it in 2000. The two a cost-cutting drive. tial election, wants China to press “Implementing this reform time of woe for China’s financial unrest and factory output well the strongest support for Repub- companies said they would main- Singapore state funds bought ahead with promised policies to agenda—and resisting the urge to markets and sparking global jitters. above demand. lican candidate Donald Trump, tain a strategic partnership. $1 billion of AliBaba shares in part open up its markets and allow hang on to an outdated growth The reaction surprised Chinese China acknowledges it has an who has threatened to slap a 45% The Japanese company said it of the SoftBank sale, AliBaba said greater international investment. model—offers the best formula for officials and created a headache for excess-capacity problem. “But we tariff on China as a way to force a was exercising a greenshoe option on Wednesday. Chinese leaders, worried about China to achieve an orderly transi- reformers. have to prevent massive unem- change in Beijing’s trade policies.

For many of Dubai’s residents, firm, which reported revenues of down format means they have a doors, in contrast to most of Dubai’s sealed, air-conditioned centers. Despite sweltering summer temperatures, Saywood sees a future in smaller, visiting the glitzy Mideast trade $7.4 billion in 2015, owns 13 malls limited scope for growth, retail partially outdoor shopping formats – which offer “a sense of being in an environment that is not a hermetically sealed box.” hub’s biggest shopping malls, fa- in the UAE, and six in the wider executives say.For luxury shop- mous for their cavernous size, region. pers - composed of both wealthy snow-packed indoor ski slopes, The group’s best-known hold- residents and the millions of tour- and giant musical fountain dis- ing is Mall of the Emirates, situat- ists – the mini-malls have little to plays, can be a headache. ed just off the city’s main thor- offer.“When you talk to the luxu- Faced with the prospect of a oughfare, the skyscraper-lined ry industry and the brands within lengthy drive, followed by an in- Sheikh Zayed Road. There, shop- that industry. They’re not looking evitable hunt for scarce parking pers can ski down a 400-meter- at smaller centers,” Shahram Sham- spaces and loud, madding crowds, long piste, go to a multi-screen cin- saee, a partner at local retail devel- some opt for less frenetic options ema, dine in dozens of restaurants oper Msquared Shopping Centers, down their street. And retailers and shop in luxury stores. said on the sidelines of Arab Luxu- and mall developers are catching Visitors to Ski Dubai in Mall ry World on Thursday. Arab Lux- on. of the Emirates, can ski down a ury World is an industry confer- “Here, it’s cozy, and smaller,” 400-meter-long piste. (Shutter- ence held every year in Dubai. said Malak, who sips coffee with stock) Luxury brands require a mall a friend in a mall coffee shop while A few kilometers away, at the with dozens of restaurants, mass- keeping an eye on her two young base of the world’s tallest build- market brands, and world-class children. ing, the Burj Khalifa, lies its arch- entertainment facilities to get the Several times a week, the Leb- rival, Dubai Mall, the largest mall key volume of footfall needed, he anese housewife takes a ten- in the world by total area. Both said. minute journey to City Center buildings were constructed by lo- “In a small center, it’s very Me’aisem, a mini-mall in a dusty cal giant Emaar. difficult to put all of that togeth- residential area. Due to a quirk in Downsizing er.” Dubai’s road network, she can get However, since the great re- For luxury shoppers - com- back home in half the time. cession of 2008, both firms – as posed of both wealthy residents Her comments are echoed by well as Nakheel, the builder of the and the millions of tourists - the Emad, who sits outdoors at anoth- man-made Palm island - have mini-malls have little to offer. er of the mall’s coffee shops, smok- tweaked their strategy, choosing to Meanwhile, changing consum- ing a cigarette after his mid-day build far smaller community malls er tastes and a slowly maturing espresso. “This mall is good for coupled with extensions on their market are changing the format of the community, as it’s so close by,” flagship properties. shopping malls in Dubai. he said. Before, the Jordanian op- By the end of the decade, as “As Dubai as a city matures… erations manager had to indulge his many of 20 mini shopping centers you’ll see a huge shift in the way workweek habit in Media City, an expected to have been completed. that consumers want to spend their office park 15 minutes away. As well as their smaller size, com- money,” Michelle Saywood, the City Center Me’aisem, re- munity malls usually offer a large vice-president of design at Mer- ferred to by the city’s developers supermarket as the main tenant, aas Holding, said at a panel dis- as a “community mall,” opened surrounded by restaurants, cafes cussion at Arab Luxury World. last September, and is owned and and mid-range shops. In February, Meraas opened managed by the Majid al-Futtaim But while community malls City Walk, a mall which offers group. The Dubai-based holding have their benefits, their scaled- shoppers the chance to walk out- SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES Life lessons: Learning something from everything

Lawyers for actor Amber Heard leaving him and “threatening to lie filed a defamation lawsuit against about him publicly in any and ev- comedian Doug Stanhope on Fri- ery possible duplicitous way if he day after he wrote an article ac- didn’t agree to her terms.” “Black- cusing her of blackmailing and ma- mail is what I would imagine other nipulating her estranged husband, people might put it, including the actor Johnny Depp. The com- manner in which he is now being plaint was filed in Cochise Coun- vilified,” Stanhope wrote. Lawyers ty, Arizona, against Stanhope and for Heard called Stanhope’s com- 20 unnamed individuals associat- ments, detailed in the complaint, ed with the comedian. The law- “completely false and highly def- suit demands a jury trial and says amatory.” The lawsuit is the latest that Heard would donate all pro- step in the increasingly acrimoni- ceeds to a battered women’s shel- ous split between Heard, 30, and ter in Arizona. Representatives for Depp, 52, who had been married Stanhope and Depp did not im- for 15 months. Amber Heard ac- mediately respond to requests for cuses Johnny Depp of domestic comment. The complaint is in re- violence Heard filed for divorce sponse to a May 29 guest column from Depp in Los Angeles last NEW DELHI: Currently busy by Stanhope published on enter- month, citing irreconcilable differ- with three films —Dobaara, Vice- tainment trade outlet ences, and obtained a temporary roy’s House and White — actor TheWrap.com and headlined restraining order against the actor. Huma Qureshi shares that experi- “Johnny Depp Is Being Black- She said in court papers that Depp encing bad times in someone’s life mailed by Amber Heard – Here’s had been abusive to her through- is as important as witnessing good How I Know.” Double minded: out their relationship, culminating times. Stating that one learns many Amber Heard ‘still loves’ Johnny in a May 21 argument during which things through negative experienc- Depp Stanhope, who said he was he hurled a cell phone at her face es, she believes it only makes one a friend of Depp’s, wrote that and shattered objects in her apart- work harder and achieve greater Depp had told him that Heard was ment. heights. “I think bad times are very important, maybe even more than the good times. Like it is said, while it’s important to win, it is Whitney Houston's equally important to lose. It teach- es you to pick yourself up, dust off and work harder,” the actor said at the launch of a footwear store. awards, costumes, The 29-year-old actor, who is going to share screen space with Downton Abbey star Hugh Bon- memorabilia are neville in Gurinder Chadha’s Brit- ish-Indian film Viceroy’s House, Kangana Ranaut attended the is also one of the Bollywood star- special screening of 'Thithi' lets who is known for her unique up for auction fashion sense. According to couple of days ago looking Qureshi, looking good at all times visibly stressed. is very important to set the right A source says,"Though example for the youth. Kangana posed for cameras Deepika Padukone fails to land and attended the screening, role in Tom Cruise’s The Mum- she seemed bit tired. She my? even skipped interacting “As a person in the limelight, with the media present at the people are always watching and cinema hall." observing you, whether you like it or not. You automatically feel a Adds the source, "When certain sense of responsibility that media people called out to you shouldn’t do something that her and asked questions, she is detrimental to anyone else,” stopped them and told them Qureshi added. that she will come back and On the same note, Qureshi speak to them post the film feels the fashion police is very gets over. But she left the important for keeping a check on venue as soon as the one’s style sheet. “Police, fashion screening was over and did or otherwise, helps to regulate, you know. It helps you to put your not stop for a minute, which best foot forward and facilitate a surprised everyone." healthy trend. So it’s not about being scared but one can’t com- plain as it is here to stay,” said the Sanjay Dutt's actor who is an ardent follower of the on-going season of Game of cover-up act Thrones. clicked by the paparazzi in his continue for another month after Back to work after completing his boxing gloves, he got upset and which the film will go on floors. jail term, Sanjay Dutt has been decided to cover the training area He is said to be training with mas- Radhika Apte happy with sweating it out as part of his prep so that such an episode is not ter Shifu Kanishka Sharma. The for Siddharth Anand's next. His repeated."The actor's prep will source adds. character in the action flick re- compliments for 'Phobia' Awards, costumes and memorabil- which is part of the company’s quires him to perform commando- ia from the estate of the late Gram- Entertainment & Music Signature style stunts and the actor has been my-winning singer and actor Whit- Auction. Memorabilia: Walt Dis- training in martial arts on the ney Houston will be sold during a ney animation trove up for auc- ground floor of his Pali Hill home. two-day auction in California lat- tion “We felt that it was time to However, he seems to want to keep er this month. give something of Whitney to those rigorous sessions low-key. Heritage Auctions said high- the people who loved her and He has now covered the boundary lights of June 24-25 sale in Bever- her music and, conversely, who of his house with green cloth after ly Hills will include Houston’s Whitney loved back with all a snap of him boxing recently did 1986 Emmy for her performance of her heart and soul,” Pat Hous- the rounds. Also read: Kriti Sanon at the 28th Annual Grammy ton, the singer’s former manager or Athiya Shetty: Who will play Awards, which is expected to fetch and president of the Whitney Sanjay Dutt's daughter in his come- $10,000, and her personal script Houston back film? A source says, "The for the 1995 film Waiting to Ex- Estate, said in a statement. film is the Hindi remake of Sylvest- hale, which could sell for $1,000. Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ jacket er Stallone's Rambo and involves Probe finds Prince died of opi- goes on auction Houston, who bat- some hardcore action for which the oid painkiller overdose tled substance abuse, drowned in actor has been training religiously. More than 100 pieces of mem- a bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel He prefers to do it at his home orabilia will be included in the sale, in 2012 at the age of 48. gym. But when he was recently John Abraham:No boundaries on social media Amid controversy around the vid- eo spoof of melody queen Lata Mangeshkar and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar by comedian Tanmay Bhat, Bollywood actor John Abraham today said every- body on social media has become "brave" because of faceless identi- ty. "I don't think anybody has any boundaries today on social media. Very honestly, I think there is noth- ing like honesty on the net in any case. All you guys have become so brave on the net because no one has a face today," John told report- ers. When asked what he thought of the video, which has been slammed by certain sections, the 'Dhoom' star evaded a direct reply but spoke about the situation on social media in general. Radhika Apte has upped the ante thrills and chills. John was speaking at the trail- in terms of her own performance In fact, filmmaker Karan Jo- er launch of his upcoming film in 'Phobia', and it has totally har had tweeted: "Hearing great 'Dishoom'. The film, directed by worked in her favour with film- things about 'Phobia'. Word in the Rohit Dhawan, also stars Varun makers congratulating her on her street is that it's scary and Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez and work in the movie. super....@radhika_apte @saty- Akshaye Khanna in the lead roles. "Everyone has been extreme- adeepmisra." The actor feels it is "fantastic" ly generous with their compli- Filmmaker Sabbir Khan also to tackle faceless people on the ments. I am overwhelmed with the appreciated the film and said: Internet. "It's fantastic to combat response to my work," Radhika "'Phobia' is engrossing, thrilling, faceless people on the net. Con- said in a statement. spooky and topped by a brilliant, gratulations to all those on the so- The Pavan Kirpalani directo- courageous performance by cial media," he said. rial has been lauded for inducing @radhika_apte." SUNDAY . JUNE 05, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has "Icon is a word that gets band- died ` at the age of 74, a spokes- ed around, but I think it's the best man for his family has confirmed. word to use to describe Muham- The three-time world heavy- mad Ali. He transcended the sport. weight champion had suffered "I think he's a true legend of the from Parkinson's disease since sport, and after a long period of 1984 - three years after he retired suffering, he can rest in peace now, from the sport. God willing." Sky Sports' Adam In the days before his death, Smith added: "Muhammad Ali was Ali had been admitted to hospital quite simply the greatest. Not just in Phoenix, Arizona, suffering from the greatest of fighters but the respiratory issues. greatest of people. Reports had suggested his "What he did in boxing was breathing problems had been com- phenomenal. He was the first plicated by his neurological disor- three-time world champion in box- der, which had long impaired his ing's blue riband division at a time speech. when there were all there - Joe Fra- A statement from spokesman zier, Sonny Liston, George Fore- Bob Gunnell said: "Muhammad man, Ken Norton, Floyd Patter- Ali's funeral will take place in his son, Ernie Shavers, Larry hometown of Louisville, Ken- Holmes….that era was incredible. tucky. Sky Sports Boxing's Adam Smith Sky Sports boxing pundit says Muhammad Ali was 'one of Johnny Nelson told Sky Sports the greatest men that ever lived' News HQ: "This guy was very, and that his death has left a gaping very humble. He'd joke with you hole "He will also be remembered to say: 'I am the greatest', I know for what he did outside of the ring it's a silly thing to say, but he knew - he was also such an imposing, how good he was. "They use the huge figure in the black communi- words legend and great too freely ty. He took on the US Govern- in this world - Ali was a true leg- ment, he stood for his principles… end and a true great, a living legend he was one of the greatest men who and a living great and now he's ever lived." "It's really tough be- passed away more people will cause he leaves such a gaping hole appreciate who this man was and because he was so brilliant." what he achieved. Born in January 1942 as Cas- "The things he said when he sius Marcellus Clay Jr, a name refused to enter the Vietnam War, shared with a 19th century slavery when he embraced Islam, when he abolitionist, the boxer changed his hit racism head on in America at a name to Muhammad Ali after his very sensitive time, he was the face conversion to Islam. Although he of a changing era, and all he did had shied away from public life in was box " Matchroom Boxing pro- recent years, Ali spoke out against moter Eddie Hearn said: "Every- Donald Trump's calls for Muslims body involved with boxing, and to be banned from entering the use Islam to advance their own ists goes against the very tenets of lebrity Fight Night in April to ben- Phoenix, Arizona, where Ali of his loved ones reportedly flew everyone who has even watched United States. personal agenda", adding: "True our religion." One of the boxing leg- efit a Parkinson's treatment facili- passed away in hospital Ali is sur- to Arizona to be by his bedside boxing, will feel the element of sad- Back in December, he urged Muslims know that the ruthless end's final public appearances was ty in his name. Fox News reporter vived by his fourth wife Lonnie, following his admission to hospi- ness this morning. people to "stand up to those who violence of so called Islamic Jihad- in April, when he attended a Ce- Matt Finn has been reporting from along with his nine children. Many tal on Thursday. FIFA's lawyers claim Sepp Serena Williams faces Garbine Muguruza Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner wrongly in Saturday's French Open final profited by £55m from FIFA seed Elina Svitolina, so world No 4 Muguruza represents a signifi- cant step up. Williams beat Mu- guruza in the final at the All En- gland Club Williams beat Muguruza in the final at the All England Club The 22-year-old is a power player like Williams and has been hugely impressive in her run to Saturday's final. Williams' coach Patrick Mou- ratoglou said: "She's a great player but, as always, I want to think that the keys of the final are in Serena's hands. In positive or in negative, throughout her career it was always up to her." Muguruza gave a fighting re- sponse, saying: "I think that she and I are players who like dictat- ing the game. If the coach says that the victory is in the hands of Sere- na, okay, he's allowed to say that. "But I think I'm going to fight for FIFA's lawyers claim Sepp Blat- in close sequence. each point. There will be moments ter, Jerome Valcke and Markus "Additionally, these various when she'll be dominating, and Kattner wrongly profited by £55m contracts were often entered into maybe at times I will be dominat- from the organisation in the past by Messers Blatter, Valcke and Mr ing. I think I can be a tough oppo- five years. Kattner on the very same day. And nent, too." Arantxa Sanchez Vicar- Former FIFA president Blat- more importantly, these dates were io was the last Spanish winner of a ter, former secretary general Val- very ominous." Grand Slam title at Roland Garros cke and former deputy secretary As examples, the investigators in 1998 general Kattner "enriched" them- point to eight-and-a-half-year con- Serena Williams can make tennis ber in the final of the Australian back, Williams has won 47 of 50 get to another one. Nothing I can Arantxa Sanchez Vicario was selves, according to investigators, tract extensions given to Valcke history in Paris on Saturday when Open. matches at majors, collecting four do about it. The only thing can I the last Spanish winner of a Grand with a series of salary increases, and Kattner in 2011, shortly be- a win over Garbine Muguruza in Her opponent Muguruza trophies along the way to boost do is just play to win the tourna- Slam title at Roland Garros in 1998 bonuses and incentives, some of fore Blatter was facing a serious the French Open final would help handed Williams her heaviest ever her total to 21. Only Graf and ment and that's it." Williams has Muguruza, the first Spanish which broke the law. challenge in his bid to be re-elected her finally to equal Steffi Graf's loss at a slam at Roland Garros Margaret Court, with 24, own been hampered by a thigh prob- women to reach the singles final Asked to comment on the president from Mohamed Bin Open era record of 22 titles. two years ago, beating the great more. After dicing with elimination lem illiams has been hampered by here since Conchita Martinez fin- claims, Blatter's spokesman Klaus Hammam. The world No 1 reached yet American 6-2 6-2 in the second in her quarter-final against world a thigh problem woman moved ished runner-up to Mary Pierce in Stoehlker told Sky Sports News Valcke, 55, and Kattner, 45, another slam final with a 7-6 (9-7) round. That loss was, and remains No 60 Yulia Putintseva, Williams well and Williams confirmed after 2000 and she will aim to become HQ: "My job for Blatter is fin- were also given generous severance 6-4 victory over Kiki Bertens to this day, the most lopsided de- again was below her best against the match that she has been ham- the first Spanish winner of a Grand ished. The FIFA volcano is explod- terms that guaranteed them full while Muguruza overcame 2010 feat of Williams' 338-match Grand No 58 Bertens in the semi-finals pered by a thigh problem. Both Slam title since Arantxa Sanchez- ing." Contacted directly, Blatter payment in case their employment finalist Sam Stosur 6-2 6-4 to set Slam career. "I learned so much on Friday. "You know, if I get there women were playing their third Vicario in Paris in 1998. And Mu- refused to comment. with FIFA was terminated, which up a repeat of the Wimbledon fi- from that match," said Williams. it will be great. I guess you can say match in as many days while Mu- guruza is confident she will handle But a statement from Ameri- was likely had Blatter not be re- nal. Williams won her 21st slam "I hate to lose, but when I do, I it took me a while to get to 18, guruza, in the bottom half, has been the occasion better than she did at can lawyer Richard Cullen on be- elected. singles title at the All England Club hope it was worth it. considering, you know, I'm the less affected by the weather and Wimbledon. "It was a first final," half of Blatter said: "We look for- The investigators claim these last year but since then has lost to "That match was definitely only one on tour that had 18," she had a day off on Thursday. she said. "The opponent was ward to showing FIFA that Mr. contracts contained clauses which Roberta Vinci in the semi-finals at one of those that was kind of need- said. "I guess it's how you look at The highest-seeded player tough to beat. I was tense. It was Blatter's compensation payments were illegal under Swiss law. Blat- the US Open and Angelique Ker- ed and worth it." Since that set- it. The same with 21 and trying to Williams has faced so far was 18th difficult for me to manage stress. were proper, fair and in line with ter, Valcke and Kattner, according the heads of major professional to the investigators, also received sports leagues around the world." a combined total of £16m in bo- It is claimed bonuses connect- nuses four months after the 2010 ed to the Russia World Cup 2018 World Cup in South Africa, despite were paid - even though the tour- the absence of any bonus clauses Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth leap nament does not take place for relating to the tournament being in another two years. their contract. "The evidence appears to re- In 2011, it is claimed Valcke es I put myself in the last few holes, veal a coordinated effort by three and Kattner were awarded a com- into contention at Memorial not to maybe just pick up an extra former top officials of FIFA to bined £9.7m in bonuses relating to shot was a little disappointing. enrich themselves through annual the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth McIlroy birdied five of the feet at the third set up another birdie holed mid-range chances over the "But it's a good round of golf. salary increases, World Cup bo- Blatter received £8.4m. And in made significant moves up the first eight holes in his second-round and, after saving par from a green- closing stretch. I feel like I played well. I feel like I nuses and other incentives total- 2014 Blatter, Valcke and Kattner Memorial leaderboard on the sec- 66 side bunker at the next, he again "I knew 14 and 15 were going can put another couple of rounds ling more than CHF 79m [£55m] - were made eligible for a combined ond day in Ohio as Matt Kuchar After world No 1 Jason Day got up and down from sand at the to be good chances, I didn't con- like that together over the week- in just the last five years," said Bill £10.8m in bonuses relating to the and Brendan Steele earned a share dug deep to scramble his way to a long fifth for his third gain. vert on 14, but I birdied 15," he end, and I shouldn't be too far Burck, a partner with Quinn Eman- 2018 World Cup in Russia. The of the halfway lead. 71 in the early stages of day two, The world No 3 dropped a said. "I just feel like, with the plac- away." uel, the lawyers appointed to con- payments, effectively signed off The Memorial Tournament McIlroy joined the Australian on shot at the sixth when he raced his duct the investigation. by the three men themselves, went McIlroy leapt into contention seven under after a vastly-im- birdie putt five feet past the hole A statement from FIFA read: through the payroll and HR de- with a seven-birdie 66 which lift- proved performance in his all- and missed the return, but a tow- "It is clear that the preliminary partments at FIFA but not the le- ed him to within five shots of the round game. ering second shot from 220 yards findings indicate that the payments gal department. German Kattner's leaders, while playing-partner Spi- McIlroy got off to a rocky to the heart of the seventh green and contracts warrant considerable contract with FIFA was terminat- eth is one stroke further adrift af- start as he blocked his opening set up a two-putt birdie, and he further investigation. ed on 23 May for breaches of "fi- ter he recovered from a poor start drive into thick rough, but he drained a tricky, curling left-to- "FIFA has shared this infor- duciary duty" - paying himself to card a 68 on another day of ex- gouged his second onto the green right putt from 17 feet at the next mation with the Office of the bonuses. Blatter, 80, was banned cellent scoring at Muirfield Village. and rolled in the putt from 18 feet for a fifth birdie in eight holes. Swiss Attorney General and it will from football for eight years - re- Kuchar completed a second which set the tone for much of the McIlroy kept his momentum brief the U.S. Department of Jus- duced to six years on appeal - for straight 66 and completed 36 holes front nine. flowing when he drained a superb tice on the matters as well." paying Michel Platini £1.3m in a with just a single bogey on his card, Rory McIlroy tells Tim Bar- 35-footer for another birdie at the The Swiss Attorney General 'disloyal payment'. Blatter denies while overnight leader Dustin ter at the SkyCart that he's in a 10th, and a sublime pitch to two confirmed on Friday afternoon wrongdoing and says he will ap- Johnson could not match the decent position at the Memorial feet from a tough lie at the 11th that it carried out a raid on FIFA peal to the Court of Arbitration heights of his opening 64 and fell Tournament after his second round got him to six under for the day. headquarters on Thursday. Sky for Sport to clear his name. three off the pace on nine under 66 left him five shots behind He could not save par after sources understand Kattner's old In February this year, French- after an erratic 71. Rory McIlroy tells Tim Bar- tugging his tee shot left of the tar- office was the target of the raid. man Valcke was banned from all Free bet when your team ter at the SkyCart that he's in a get at the short 12th, but he atoned The FIFA statement goes on football-related activities for 12 wins*,Stake £10 pre-tournament decent position at the Memorial with his seventh birdie of the round to say that "it is clear that there years for a string of offences relat- McIlroy birdied five of the Tournament after his second round at the 15th and parred safely in to isn't just one contract for each of- ing to World Cup tickets and tele- first eight holes in his second-round 66 left him five shots behind stay at seven under, although he ficial. There are multiple amend- vision rights plus the use of a pri- 66 A 142-yard approach to six was disappointed not to have ments to contracts often approved vate jet for personal reasons. SUNDAY . JUNE 05. 2016-Jawza 16, 1395 H.S Vol:X Issue No:305 Price: Afs.15

MODI GETS AFGHANISTAN'S TOP CIVILIAN HONOUR Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on a brief visit to Afghanistan, was By Akhtar M. Nikzad today conferred with Amir Aman- KABUL: President’s special rep- ullah Khan Award, the country's resentative for reform and good highest civilian honour. He was governance Ahmad Zia Massoud bestowed the honour by Afghan criticized the law enforcement agen- President Ashraf Ghani after the cies for being weak against corrup- inauguration of the landmark Af- tion, calling corruption a big threat ghan-India Friendship Dam. "A before economic growth. Massoud true brotherhood is honoured. PM stressed that corruption had be- is awarded the Amir Amanullah come a big national challenge ham- Khan Award, Afghanistan's high- pering all the aspects of develop- est civilian honour," External Af- ment in the country. “Thou- fairs Ministry spokesperson Vi- sands of hectares of lands were kas Swarup tweeted along with a usurped and many mafias are photo. During his 25 minute-long working in importing of oil, but speech after inaugurating the dam, there is no power administration Supreme Courte to initiate joint sure actually corruption would get which the government earns said that corruption is greatest Modi also invoked Chisht-born to prosecute the grabbers and ma- struggle against corruption,” he spread out more in the country. during a fiscal year. danger for people. Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Ch- fia in the court,” he lamented. He said. Massoud asked the relevant Director of Supreme Audit Office, He termed lack of cooperation He pointed out that there are close ishti who settled down in Ajmer termed the simplification of old authorities to bring necessary re- Mohammad Sharif Sharifi claimed among law enforcement agencies cooperation among law enforce- and is venerated by thousands of management procedures, establish- forms in their administrations to money criminal dossiers have re- as the main factor of corruption, ment agencies against corruption, people visiting his shrine. "Kh- cestral land in mind, he could also ment of electronic governance, en- start a joint cooperation against mained without prosecution in the “Despite a lot of vacant posts in adding that government and the waja Moiunuddin Chishti, the first be describing the Afghan people. forcement of law, observation and corruption. judiciary organs since 2000. He the ministries, unfortunately en- judiciary organs need to act seri- of the Chishti saints in India, said So, when I came to Kabul in De- auditing as the major measures for He acknowledged that for rooting asked the judiciary organs to ac- gagement of contracted employees ously and speedy against corrup- that human beings must have the cember, in the warmth of your fighting against corruption. “Un- out the corruption, it requires a celerate the prosecution of crim- with high dollar salary creates big tion to attract the trust of people. affection of the sun, the generosi- welcome, I saw the kindness of fortunately, there is no consider- power government to perform its inal dossiers. challenges in the civil administra- “We want from people to aware ty of the river and the hospitality your heart," said Modi in Chisht- able cooperation among ministry authority in all levels if govern- Sharifi alleged that corruption in tions,” he lamented. us about corruption cases in the of the earth. "He not only had the e-Sharif in western Herat neigh- of interior attorney general and ment don’t want to do such mea- national budget is equal to the bud- Attorney General, Farid Hamidi governmental administrations.” magnificent landscape of his an- bouring Iran. (mumbaimirror) 70 DEVELOPMENT 10 IED’s PROJECTS EXECUTED 40 Taliban eliminated, Kandahar-Uruzgan road cleared IN MAIDAN-WARDAK KANDAHAR CITY : Forty ty planters insurgents have been killed in Shah PROVINCE Walikot district during an opera- kills, wounds Maidan Shahr: At a cost of AFN tion aimed to reopen the Kanda- 47,558,000 funded by the Nation- har-Uruzgan highway, an official by their own al Solidarity Program of the Min- said on Friday. istry of Rural Rehabilitation and Two security personnel were Development (MRRD/NSP) 70 killed and a third injured during the mine blasts public utility projects have recent- overnight operation, with the au- Kabul Four Improvised Explosive ly been completed in a number of thorities saying the busy road had Device (IED) planters were killed districts of Maidan Wardak prov- been cleared of fighters. and six others were wounded fol- ince. According to information of Police spokesman Zia Durra- lowing their own mine blasts in relation and publication depart- ni told Pajhwok Afghan News 40 northern Sar-e-Pul province. ment of (MRRD) to BNA, these rebels were eliminated as a result Mohammad Taher Wahdat projects include the construction of the raid, which had air support governor of Sar-e-Pul said BNA of health clinics, community cen- from international troops. An ANA correspondent, the incident oc- ters, protection walls, culverts, soldier and a policeman were also curred while the militants wanted excavation of wells equipped with killed. to explode a planted road side mine hand pumps, extension of a water The road, which had been supply network, agricultural wa- in Dara Sultan Ibrahim region, Sar- ter canals and gravelling rural roads. blocked for 45 days back, was e-Pul city the provincial capital of A number of families in different purged of the militants and the the province. communities had an opportunity landmines planted on it were de- It has been said, the insurgents to gain access to basic human needs fused, he said. Samim Khpalwak, and the Taliban fatalities. The op- Shah Walikot, Khakrez and Nesh security forces in the Kata Sang said 15 security personnel were planted the mine to target Afghan upon completion of these projects. the governor’s spokesman, also eration has put an end to the trans- districts. On the other hand, the area of Shah Walikot. The group’s killed -- an assertion rejected by security forces convey, Wahdat (BNA) verified the reopening of the route port problem of Uruzgan province, Taliban claimed repulsing a raid by spokesman, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, local authorities. (Pajhwok) added. (BNA)