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JUNE 25. 2019 -Saratan 04, 1398 HS AT News Report “The Peace and Moderation besides other electoral tickets of KABUL: The Peace and the Presidential Candidates’ AT News Report Moderation Presidential Election Council as part of the protest Team has a plan of huge public against the illegal continuation KABUL: The number of polio gathering against the National work of the NUG, is planning to positive cases in Afghanistan has Unity Government (NUG) organize a huge gathering in reached to 10th so far in 2019, today (Tuesday), as it accused capital city, Kabul with where forth of it only reported President Ashraf Ghani for participation ofAfghan masses, from Uruzgan province with a overstaying in power political parties and movements, new one detected in Mehr Abad despitehislegal term has ended. tribal and religious elders, area of Tirinkot, the provincial The Peace and Moderation women, youth and other social capital. According to Ministry Election Team led by classes of Afghan societies,” the of Public Health, a 21-month-old HaneefAtmarin a statement team’s statement reads. girl is permanently paralyzed in Monday warned ofholding a The team emphasized that Tirinkot, making it 10thcases of grand protest against NUG as its “we kindly request the people polio in Afghanistan so far. ... legal term has ended on May 22 of Afghanistan to express ... but yet to leave the power. AT News Report legitimacy and making efforts to revealed their nefarious design elsewhere across the country will inject their soft corner in Afghan toward nascent media outlets in be targeted if all the advertisement KABUL: The Taliban—a terrorist society through negotiation with Afghanistan. All media staffers against the group does not... group that scrambling for US administration, has once again in Kabul, the capital city, and AT News Report AT News Report KABUL:After a longtime of KABUL: At least five KABUL: Upcoming peace talks 18-year-long war since October. individuals, including a woman, dispute in the parliament over between the United States and the “Once the timetable for foreign electingthe speaker, on Monday, have been gunned down by the Taliban will focus on working out force withdrawal is announced, Taliban insurgents on Sunday its members have finally been able a timeline for the withdrawal of then talks will automatically enter to end the disagreement and reach overnight in northeastern U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan the next stage,” said Badakhshan province, local a conclusion on it. The chaos and on a Taliban guarantee SohailShaheen, a spokesman for erupted after Kamal Nasir Usuli officials and residents said militants won’t plot attacks from the Taliban’s political office in Monday. Modafi, a resident of and Mir Rahman Rahmani were Afghan soil, sources said on Doha. “We don’t need to wait competing for the speaker Khastak village in Joram district Monday. A seventh round of talks for the completion of the of the province, told Radio Azadi position of the parliament. between the warring sides begins withdrawal, both withdrawal and Rahmani secure 124 votes and his during a telephonic conversation on Saturday in Qatar’s capital of talks can move forward that those killed by Taliban challenger Usuli was voted 55, but Doha, where U.S. and Taliban simultaneously.” The focus of one of Rahmani’svotes had a... insurgents were his relatives. ... negotiators have been trying to the talks has been a Taliban.... hammer out a deal to end to the TUESDAY . JUNE 25, 2019 AFGHANISTAN TIMES In male-dominated Afghanistan, justice for women is complicated ...P12 of Afghan women, went to the hospital to mostly poor and uneducated, are investigate, she said, nobody serving sentences for crimes such recalled such a visit and security as prostitution or drug camera footage from that week smuggling, but rarely for acts of had been erased. serious violence. Often, experts “I think the doctors lied and legal advocates say, they did because they were afraid of being not act alone, but at the behest blamed as negligent,” she said this of a man — a father, husband or month. Ishaqzai filed two lover who wielded emotional, appeals, but Brishna’s conviction sexual or economic power over was upheld both times, most them. recently in March by the Supreme “How could I kill my own Court. She has remained in prison child, whom I gave my own since her arrest one year ago. milk?” Brishna said in a recent Brishna’s history is fraught interview at the prison, weeping with risky choices and worse into a pink headscarf. Her lawyer consequences. At 17, she eloped interpreted for a reporter. When with a married man who later left she tried to explain her situation to work in Turkey, where, she was in court, Brishna said, “nobody told last year, he was jailed for believed me. They said I was a drug smuggling. Alone with three bad mother and a murderer. But small children, she moved in with KABUL: The Independent In the Wolesi Jirga elections, that man was cruel to me and the relatives including the cousin, Election Commission (IEC) said most of the biometric verification children. I was afraid of him.” who prosecutors said became her on Monday it was purchasing devices had issues and could not She stood abruptly, pulling lover. The lower court, in a brief 25,000 biometric devices to be be used properly. up her flowered tunic to reveal handwritten ruling, found her used in the September 28 About the presidential poll, faint strap and bite marks on her guilty of committing illicit sex, presidential election. Sadat said “We have enough time back. “Now you see,” she said. known as “zina” in Islamic law, Zabihullah Sadat, IEC acting to test all these devices and make In many countries, male and of being an “accomplice” to spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan sure they work properly.” intimidation is accepted as a the boy’s fatal beating. The News that biometric system He informed trained IEC legitimate mitigating defense Supreme Court issued a lengthy, argument by women who commit thorough ruling that took would be used in the presidential staff would use the devices crimes. But Afghanistan is a numerous conflicting statements election in order to ensure which he said recorded deeply traditional, male- and versions into account but transparency. fingerprints, eye-catchers, ID dominated Islamic society where concluded that Brishna had He said 21,000 devices used card and voter signature. Internet most women are allowed little willingly “conspired” with her in the October Wolesi Jirga polls facility would also be provided independence, often married as alleged lover to kill the boy and were already available and 25,000 to all polling centers to register teenagers to older men and “paved the way” for him to more would be purchased. voter lists. Earlier, the IEC has expected to submit to husbands escape arrest. Around 35,000 polling sites launched a 20-day voter and in-laws. “Even now she does not want have been set up countrywide for registration process for the Court decisions here reflect to reveal the truth,” the ruling said. the Sept 28 presidential election. September 28 presidential cultural norms as well as the law, Ishaqzai and ILF officials, Without revealing their cost, election. Voters are being and most judges and prosecutors though, suggest that the moral Sadat said the biometric devices registered at 705 registration are men. Women who flee taint of alleged adultery, would be purchased by IEC using centers – 247 in southern Ghazni abusive husbands are often sent compounded by horror at the idea government budget. and the rest in other provinces. home or put in jail-like shelters. of a mother killing her own child, Those who may be forced to inclined the courts to discount participate in men’s crimes are Brishna’s claims of innocence. U.S., Taliban aim to firm up date for foreign force exit from Afghanistan often treated as accomplices with Ishaqzai said that no sympathetic J ou r n a list s in t h e... low morals rather than as victims. witnesses or testimony were ...P1 demand for the withdrawal Taliban leadership in Doha. leader vowed this month to But in recent years, several presented on her behalf and that ...P1 end within a week,” the journalists and other media foreign organizations, her mother-in-law told group’s spokesman workers who are protected of U.S. and other foreign forces “Based on my recent visits to sustain the fight until their and a U.S. demand the Taliban Afghanistan and Qatar, I believe objectives were reached. particularly the New York-based prosecutors she deserved to be ZabihullahMujahid said in a persons under the Geneva International Legal Foundation, hanged. statement on Monday. Some Convention. guarantee that Afghanistan will all sides want rapid progress,” In March, a draft agreement not be used as a base for militant Khalilzad said on Twitter. was reached on the withdrawal have trained scores of Afghan The judges who convicted her media outlets in Kabul and some The Reporters Without college graduates as defense in both lower courts were all men, provinces publish content, where Borders has reiterated their appeal attacks. Khalilzad, an Afghan-born of foreign forces in exchange for Two other main issues in the American diplomat has been a commitment by the Taliban to lawyers and have provided free although the high court panel according to Taliban, is meant to to the international community to legal representation for included one woman.