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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The US President Barack flicts like Syria, where we’re part- Moscow to Obama said that Afghanistan, Pa- nering with local forces and lead- Terror bid kistan, Middle East and some oth- ing international efforts to help that er regions might become havens for broken society purse a lasting provide terrorist networks. peace,” he added. foiled in President Obama in his last He added that both, Islamic State of the Union speech to a joint State group and al-Qaeda terror Kabul with Helmand session of Congress in Washing- organizations pose direct threat to ton said that the United States’ the country. AT Monitoring Desk foreign policy must focus on ISIS “Both al Qaeda and now ISIS light arms and al-Qaeda that pose direct pose a direct threat to our people, KABUL: Police have thwarted a AT Monitoring Desk threat to the country. because in today’s world, even a terrorist plot while killing a sui- “Instability will continue for handful of terrorists who place no decades,” he said, adding that parts value on human life, including their KABUL: Russian foreign minis- cide bomber before he could man- of Middle East, Pakistan and some own, can do a lot of damage. But try has said that it plans to sup- age to reach the target in Lashkar- other regions would need US at- they do not threaten our national ply small arms to Afghanistan in gah city, the capital of southern tention even more now. existence,” Obama said. near future though it would stop Helmand province. “For even without ISIS, insta- “We do not want to echo the sending other weapons. The state- Spokesman to the governor, bility will continue for decades in “lie that ISIL is representative of ment comes amid growing insecu- Omar Zwak, told Afghanistan many parts of the world—in the one of the world’s largest religions. rity in Afghanistan, which Russian Times that the police shot the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pa- We just need to call them what they kistan, in parts of Central Ameri- are—killers and fanatics who have officials believe a major threat to bomber who was driving an explo- ca, Africa and Asia. to be rooted out, hunted down, and Russia and other former Soviet re- sive-laden Corolla-model vehicle. Some of these places may be- destroyed,” he furthered. “With publics. “The delivery will be in “Therefore, the explosives deto- come safe havens for new terrorist nearly 10,000 air strikes, we are February and for now, it’s more nated. Fortunately, neither civil- networks; others will fall victim taking out their leadership, their than sufficient,” Russia’s special ians nor police suffered any cau- to ethnic conflict, or famine, feed- oil, their training camps, and their envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kab- sality,” he said. ing the next wave of refugee,” he weapons. We are training, arming, ulov was quoted by Interfax news Target of the suicide bomber said, the National Politic Radio and supporting forces who are agency as saying on Wednesday. reported. steadily reclaiming territory in Iraq Facing threats from ISIS, al-Qaida was the local police headquarters. “The world will look to us to and Syria,” he said. Obama asked and the Taliban, Kabul has asked But his plot was foiled by the pro- help solve these problem [s], and the Congress to authorize the use Moscow for military support as vincial police, the governor’s of- our answer needs to be more than of military force against ISIS, if it the United States is downsizing fice in a statement said. Police head- tough talk or calls to carpet bomb is serious about winning the war troop presence. Earlier, Russian quarters was only a few meters civilians. That may work as a TV against the extremist group. He away from the site of the blast. sound bite, but it doesn’t’ pass added that US would win the war President Vladimir Putin had muster on the world stage,” he add- anyway, with or without Congres- warned leaders of Central Asian However, local media report- ed. sional action. “If you doubt Amer- nations of a possible militants’ in- ed that a civilian was injured in the In such a case the US “will ica’s commitment – or mine – to cursion from Afghanistan. He said blast. Officials at the Emergency- mobilize the world to work with see that justice is done, ask Osama Militants fleeing operations in Pakistan the situation in Afghanistan is run hospital confirmed receiving us, and make sure other countries bin Laden. Ask the leader of al “close to critical” and called on the one injured person from the scene. pull their own weight,” Obama Qaeda in Yemen, who was taken join IS in Afghanistan: Mosazai Central Asian leaders to be pre- This is worth mentioning that said, whose presidency is set to out last year, or the perpetrator of pared to act together to repel a at least seven policemen were end in January 2017. the Benghazi attacks, who sits in a possible attack. He made the “That’s our approach to con- prison cell,” he said. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Afghan envoy in Islam- pact on the economy of Pakistan killed in an attack on the Pakistani abad Janan Mosazai claimed as well as Afghanistan. remarks at a summit of former So- consulate in Jalalabad on Wednes- viet republics in Kazakhstan in day. Wednesday that majority of insur- Mosazai thanked the govern- October 2015. gents escaping military operations ment of Pakistan for sheltering in Pakistan’s Orakzai and Mohm- millions of Afghan refugees for and agencies joined Islamic State more than 30 years and appreciat- Heroin- (IS) also known domestically as ed efforts made by Islamabad for Suicide attack Daesh Afghanistan. bringing Afghan Taliban to the manufacturing “About 60 to 70 per cent mil- peace table. foiled in laboratory destroyed itants fleeing Pakistan during op- “Afghan Taliban should be By Akhtar M. Nikzad erations in Mohmand and Orakzai brought to the negotiation table so Kandahar: in Badakhshan went on to join Daesh in Afghani- the long-running conflict in Af- FAIZABAD/KABUL: A drug lab- stan,” Mosazai told Pakistani me- ghanistan can be ended through MoI oratory has been destroyed and dia, while addressing a seminar in political means.” AT News Report more than a tonne of heroin seized Islamabad. Reports suggest that those in- during an operation by the Nation- He warned that Daesh was a surgents fleeing counter-terrorism KABUL: Kandahar police pre- al Interdiction UnitInterior in the major threat to all regional coun- operations in various regions of vented a major terrorist attack in northeastern province of Badakhs- tries, particularly to Afghanistan Federally Administered Tribal Ar- the province, said Ministry of In- han, officials said on Wednesday. and Pakistan. He assured that eas joined different insurgent terior (MoI) on Wednesday. The Ministry of Interior unit Kabul would never allow any in- groups in Afghanistan. Police in a special operation also recovered at least 1,500 litres surgent group to use its soil against of morphine during the overnight any country. killed four and injured six of a ter- rorist group before they reached operation in Darayem district, the “Afghanistan is committed to provincial crime branch chief, Col. its policy of non-interference in their intended, it said in a state- Musadiqullah Muzaffari, told Pa- neighboring countries, including ment. jhwok Afghan News. Pakistan,” he added. The statement added the ter- Meanwhile, a statement from Mosazai furthered that Kabul rorists were using a vehicle to car- MoIsaid 1,000 kilograms of hero- wants cordial ties with Pakistan ry out attack. in, 1500 litres of morphine, 30 li- as it is important for both coun- The vehicle was filled with tres of acid and 20kg of carbons KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (Low- designed. activities,” he said. tries in order to provide prosper- explosives in the Leo valley of were also recovered by the NIU er House) of the Parliament ap- “After several days hard work, Ministry of Finance, Eklil ous and stable environment in the Ghorak district. Security forces personnel. The factory in Torgani proved Wednesday the tax law on we got a data management system Hakimi said the government would region. suffered no casualties in the oper- village, having a press machine, 10 telecommunication services. that can give us detailed informa- receive four billion Afghanis from He said Kabul recognizes the ation in the operation, it said. bet pots, six gas cylinders, a pow- Based on the law, telephone tion on the number of subscribers the phone tax annually. importance of China-Pakistan Eco- Kandahar is one of the unsafe er generator, a 300-metre pipe, a users have to pay 10 per cent tax and varying trends of the market More than 60 per cent of Af- nomic Corridor (CPEC). He add- and volatile provinces. As the heavy metal pot, a stove, a scale to government. ghans use mobile phones, accord- ed that the billions-dollar worth birthplace of Taliban, the province and a big jug, was destroyed in the Earlier, President Ashraf Ghani ing to official reports. project would put a positive im- has witnessed several attacks. raid involving four helicopters. had instructed for imposing the Seven security communication tax through a de- cree, which the lawmakers reject- forces killed in ed, arguing that financial issues should be in the framework of law. Pakistan The law was approved by the majority of MPs present in the consulate session, however, some of the law- makers opposed the it. attack in Experts argue that vital resource could be worth of billions of US dollars to the country Hafiz Mansoor, head of audit committee of the lower house crit- Nangarhar KABUL: A national strategy to built 150 main dams for managing waters in Nangarhar province water are currently flowing to the resource. icized the approval, saying that AT News Report manage Afghanistan’s abundant alone,” he said. neighboring countries for no return; He suggested the creation of a majority of lawmakers voted water reserves is urgently needed, Nangarhar university profes- if this was properly managed, just water management research centre against the law. KABUL: At least seven troops according to debates organized by Earthquake hits sor Basheer Dodyal said that none- think how rich the country would to assess how best to manage wa- “90 per cent of Afghans are were killed Wednesday in a ter- IWPR in three Afghan provinces. theless, national action was need- have become,” he said. ter supply. poor, and we think 10 per cent tax rorist attack on Pakistan consu- The events in Nangarhar, Pak- Afghanistan ed to safeguard a resource that Akbar Sher, an economic ad- “The ministry of higher edu- over telephone users is burden- late in eastern Nangarhar prov- tia, and Kunar provinces heard that, AT News Report could potentially help develop the visor to Nangarhar’s governor, cation and private universities have some,” said Mansoor. ince, said officials. Provincial although home to five river sys- country’s economy. agreed that Kabul had yet to make not invested enough in the area of KABUL: About 5.6-magnitude MP, Robaba Parwani Darwish spokesman Attaullah Khogiani tems that also feed large parts of earthquake hit Afghanistan on ”Billions of cubic meters of full use of this precious natural geology,” Sher continued. “Unless said that parliament speaker did said that three suicide bombers Iran, Pakistan and Central Asia, Wednesday around 1:04 am, creat- they help develop this field, we not let others offer their view- attacked the consulate in Jalala- Afghanistan lacks adequate water- ing panic among the masses. How- will not have the internal capacity points. bad city at around 9:00am. He sharing agreements. ever, there was no immediate re- to manage our waters.” “The voting process was not said that first a bomber blew him- Decades of war have also de- port of damage or casualty. Accord- Sher also said that the govern- based on internal procedure of the self up in front of the consulate, stroyed important infrastructure ing to the US Geological Survey, ment needed to address issues sur- house, therefore, the law is not opening the way for his friends that needed to irrigate vital agri- the magnitude of the earthquake rounding the waters of the Kunar obligatory,” she mentioned. cultural land, leaving large parts of was 5.6 on the Richter scale. The River, shared with neighboring to storm a government guest- epicenter of the quake was 62 kilo- Mohammad Hashim, MP house near the building. the country vulnerable to drought. meter south-southeast of Faizabad, Pakistan. from Faryab province said that “Two attackers were killed Nangarhar was one a centre of provincial capital of Badakhshan. In Paktia, speakers also high- Ministry of Communication and in a three-hour long exchange of agriculture. In the 1960s, the now- The quake was 242.9 kilometer lighted the poor state of local in- Information Technology (MCIT) fire with the security forces,” dilapidated 70-kilometre Nangar- deep. The quake was also felt in frastructure. did not have an exact system to Khogiani told Afghanistan Times. har Canal was built to be a huge Pakistan. A 6.3-magnitude quake in Hedayatullah Salari, a lecturer evaluate the taxes of telephone income generator for eastern Af- December left 12 people injured in agriculture at Paktia University, “Seven security forces including and 74 houses destroyed in Bada- users. police, army and intelligence per- ghanistan, providing irrigation for said, “We don’t have the neces- He said that the telecommuni- local fruit and olive producers. khshan, Takhar, Baghlan, Kunar, sary equipment to make use of the sonnel were killed and 10 people Parwan and Nangarhar provinces. cation companies always escaped three of them civilians were Sadiq Sapai, head of the rivers In late-October a powerful earth- water; our channels, pools, and paying taxes. So, “the collection wounded.” department in Nangarhar province, quake, 7.7 in magnitude, struck Af- dams are in ruins which all lead to of scratch card tax through the com- He said that no casualties re- said work was ongoing to try and ghanistan. At least 118 people were wasted water.” panies is nontransparent”. ported of consulate staff. rehabilitate the province’s resourc- killed and 538 others were wound- Salari compared the situation Communication Minister Ab- es. ed. The quake damaged 7,630 hous- to that across the border in Iran, dul Razaq Vahidi said that the sys- Nobody claimed responsibil- “Our ministry, with the help es, 12 schools, 17 mosques and 20 where he had received his educa- ity for the attack. government buildings. tem for tax collection was recently of the World Bank and Japan, has tion. (See P2) This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.

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KABUL: The perception of cor- lage, and when people went to file The leadership of the Afghan “Taliban courts are similar to Afghanistan. their own judicial systems and rul- fective in resolving disputes. ruption in Afghanistan’s judiciary a complaint with the local officials, judiciary rejects allegations of ram- jirgas, where both parties lose their Haji Lalgul, chair of the Afghan ings. Powerful people used to have “The Taliban do not have to is leading citizens to turn to the the officials demanded a bribe. pant corruption. When contacted rights to negotiate, and the deci- Human Rights Organization, a their own courts and rulings,” La- report to a higher authority, nor Taliban to resolve their legal cases “We had to bribe our way out, for this story, Chief Justice Sayed sion is imposed and premised on nongovernmental rights advocacy lgul said. He added, “Corruption will they be questioned when they swiftly and with a lack of red tape. and by the time we got hold of the Yousef Halim refused to comment. the rulings of mediators,” he said. group operating in Afghanistan, in government could be a reason, commit violence,” Afghan parlia- When he became president in bike, we had already paid double But a judge in eastern Afghan- The judge added that govern- told VOA that parallel judiciary is but it is not the main reason why ment member Fatehullah Qaisari September 2014, Ashraf Ghani the amount the bike was worth,” istan, speaking on condition of ment judiciary is based on a three- not a new phenomenon in the people go to nongovernment told VOA. “They can act with expressed concerns about corrup- Dawod said. anonymity because of the sensi- phase trial, whereas the Taliban country. courts to resolve their cases.” impunity, and when government tion in Afghanistan, particularly According to The New York tivity of the issue, explained to make a decision in the first phase. “It goes decades back in histo- Some Afghan officials argue officials do so, they will be sub- within the judiciary. During his Times and The Long War Journal, VOA why people choose Taliban Some analysts also point to a ry. During the mujahedeen era [in that the Taliban enjoy impunity, ject to scrutiny and investiga- inaugural speech, Ghani vowed to a project of the Foundation for courts. legacy of parallel governments in the 1990s], different parties had and it is that that makes them ef- tion.”—(VOA) use his constitutional powers to Defense of Democracies that re- go after government corruption. ports on the global war on terror, “Corruption in judiciary paves the Taliban control or contest the way for insecurity,” said about 70 districts across Afghani- Ghani. “If we want rule of law and stan. corrupt officials to be brought to Afghan officials, speaking to justice, we must ensure the trans- VOA, rejected those publications’ parency and reliability of the judi- numbers, but did confirm certain ciary.” districts to be in Taliban control. More than a year into his pres- They vowed to take them back idency, little seems to have soon. changed. People still complain of Mohammad Sarwar Osmani rampant corruption in the judicia- Farahi, co-chair of the judiciary ry, which leads them to seek alter- committee of the lower house of natives. the Afghan parliament, told VOA A resident of Ghazni province, that senior officials of the Afghan who refused to be named for secu- government have repeatedly told rity reasons, told VOA that peo- parliament that several dozen dis- ple opt for Taliban courts out of tricts are out of government con- desperation. trol. “I had a legal problem with my “When summoned to the par- brother. The district center is only liament, both the director of na- 300 meters away from us. I filed tional intelligence and minister of several complaints, but nobody interior have confessed several helped me,” he said. “Despite be- times that around 100 districts lack ing two kilometers away from our government control,” said Farahi. village, when I went to the Tali- “ ... So when you have Taliban in ban, they resolved my problem control, you will also have their with one letter.” courts.” Dawod, a resident of northern Farahi added that Taliban rul- Faryab province, told VOA that a ings have no legitimacy in the Af- bike had been stolen from his vil- ghan legal system. Afghan rivers need better management . . .From P1 grown in the state of Sistan, which The surge of refugee crises across your shop and you are making a said. Ahmadi, a 26-year old Afghan is wholly watered by the Helmand the globe is dampening prospects good income, the authorities start Farid Ahmad, a 29-year-old working for an Iranian company. River. In Mashad province, the for Afghans stranded in Tajikistan to make trouble for you,” said former bank clerk, is a testament Frederick Mung’ong’o, coun- Harirod River feeds agriculture. of finding new safe havens any time Muhammad Ayam, who owned a to the need for adaptability. When try director of the DRC in Tajiki- The government of Afghanistan soon. grocery shop in Afghanistan. fluent English-speaker Ahmad ar- stan, said local communities often has not fulfilled its responsibili- Roughly 2,200 refugees from “They will take your business rived in Vakhdat two years ago, he misjudge the resources that refu- ties.” Afghanistan live in Tajikistan, and away or increase taxes and make could not find any work matching gees have at their disposal. “Be- Noor Mohammad Ahmadzai, as conditions worsen in their home money off you.” his training, so he worked as a por- cause refugees are in contact with an economics professor in Paktia country, few contemplate return- Ayam’s sons opened their own ter in the market. He then learned international organizations and University, also said that Afghan- ing. At the same time, those hop- shop in Vakhdat four years ago. to repair shoes while on the job. (nongovernmental organizations), istan should look to best practice ing to be resettled in a third coun- They had to pay around $40 ev- “It’s hard to say that we have local communities sometimes think abroad. try by the United Nations are ery month in kickbacks, he said. enough income because work isn’t they have more money,” he said. “There are international water growing used to disappointment. The family used to earn just at the same level all the time and DRC organizes meetings to treaties in other countries; Afghan- With the latest tally for refu- enough to pay the $100 rent for the expenses related to the house improve relations between the istan also should make use of these gees worldwide at around 20 mil- their flat. They depend on remit- are increasing,” he said. communities and dispel widely cir- treaties,” he said. lion, countries admitting newcom- tances from a daughter living in Housing is a sore point for culating misconceptions. Provincial council member Taj ers have begun to apply highly Canada. Afghans in Tajikistan. “The nor- A government decree adopted Mohammad Mangal said that the selective criteria. “Resettlement Ayam said he complained once mal price for a two-room apart- in 2000 bars refugees from living relevant ministries had failed to isn’t a solution that is prioritized about police harassment, but that ment is $50, yet we pay around in the capital, Dushanbe, confin- tackle this issue ever since the fall for Afghan refugees in Tajikistan. he was given short shrift. $100, sometimes more,” said Gar- ing them to the surrounding towns of the Taliban in 2001. So we do whatever we can to im- di. of Vakhdat, Hissor and Rudaki. “There has been a need for a prove local integration where peo- Afghans cannot seek asylum The practice of marking up Local activist organizations have, ple can live with dignity,” said at the border with Tajikistan. In- rates for Afghans is causing rents with the assistance of the UNH- by housing shortages in the capi- Afghanistan. proper plan for the better use and tal, which has a population of Afghans working in Dushan- regulation of water, but this has Kevin Allen, a representative for stead, they must secure a visa and to rise across the board for every- CR, embarked on legal battles to the UN High Commissioner for travel to Tajikistan before they can body in Vakhdat. overturn the decree, but to no avail. around 750,000. Others believe the be have to commute every day and not been met over the last 14 decision was taken for national be sure of being outside Dushanbe years,” he said. Refugees in Tajikistan. apply for asylum. That has great- “Local communities consider There are conflicting explana- Cultural and linguistic similar- ly limited the number of refugees the Afghans responsible for this tions for why the decree was in- security reasons. Authorities have by 8 pm. “After that time, we have ities help Afghans assimilate to coming to Tajikistan since author- inflation, even though we are the troduced in the first place. Some grown acutely anxious about the to go back to our cage,” Ahmadi In Kunar, participants differed potential for unrest spreading from said bitterly.—(Eurasianet.org) on whether the government could some extent, but some barriers are ities in Dushanbe automatically first victims of it,” said Nalofar have suggested it was motivated have taken effective control of harder to surmount. refuse papers to applicants water resources with the help of Vasidin Gardi’s story is repre- deemed even slightly suspicious. the international community. sentative of the travails that many For all these difficulties, Shafiullah Sultanzai, a lecturer Afghan refugees go through. He Tajikistan is something of an out- in Kunar’s Institute of Adminis- worked as an interpreter for the lier in the region. It remains one of tration and Accounting, said that US Army before leaving Afghani- the few countries in Central Asia Afghanistan’s natural resources stan. “Some people were follow- that allows refugees to work, and should have made it a rich country ing me, I got questioned and beat- which gives them access to social by now. en up, so I fled with my family,” security benefits. It was government mismanage- he said while explaining his deci- Given that the option of relo- ment that was holding back sion to flee his native country. cation remains closed, the empha- progress, he said. Once in Tajikistan, Gardi sis for the UNHCR and nongov- “Afghanistan has received bil- hooked up with acquaintances in ernmental organizations like the lions of US dollars in aid,” Sultan- Vakhdat — a Tajik town of 45,000 Danish Refugee Council (DRC) zai continued. “If these funds had people about 10 kilometers east and Refugee, Children, Vulnerable been spent on long-term projects, of the capital, Dushanbe. Most Citizens (RCVC) is on offering then possibly Afghanistan would Afghan migrants have settled in vocational training. have become better developed. But Vakhdat. Gardi quickly got a job When she was compelled to the funds were spent on short in a garment shop owned by some flee Kabul, 24-year old Nelofar term projects.” friends. Moradat was studying computer Abdulghani Mosammim, the The shop — a dusty, dark science. After getting to Tajikistan, spokesman of the governor of room in the basement of the bridge she tried to continue her studies Kunar, said that the problem was linking the two parts of the bazaar and learn Tajik and Russian. “The just too massive for Kabul to tack- — is a frequent target for corrupt principal of the school told me le. officials, as are many other Afghan that I was too old and that I should “According to surveys by the businesses. “They know where get married,” she said. ministry of energy and water, it Afghans work and that we can’t Spurning that advice, she would take 30 billion US dollars do anything but pay,” Gardi said. signed up for training sessions and 30 years of work to control “Although we have all the docu- with RCVC and built on her pre- water supply in Afghanistan,” he ments, they always ask for a vious experience working in a beau- said. “At the current time, this kind bribe.” ty parlor in Afghanistan. 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in response to a question it took on notice during the last round of Senate estimates hearings. The in- dependent Tasmanian senator Jac- qui Lambie sought assurances that the scheme was “not funding the enemy”. The chief of the ADF, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, said More than 2,800 Afghans have re- the payments were not given to a ceived payments totalling group. “It is given to a particular $207,000 as Australian compen- family in the way it is done,” he sation for “collateral damage to said. “No, I do not believe that it property, injury or loss of life” goes through to funding terrorism.” during military operations in their In a written answer containing EMERGENCY country. the figures, the department said it ALLS New figures compiled by the was up to the defence minister or C Department of Defence reveal the a delegate to decide whether the extent of an Australian government alleged loss, damage or injury could Police payment scheme since it began in reasonably be viewed as having mid-2009. directly resulted from an ADF ac- 100 - 119 Under the so-called tactical tivity. “The disclosure of specific payment scheme, the government details of individual payments can compensate local people for made under the [scheme], such as Hospitals incidents that occur during the category of loss, details of incident, Australian defence force’s overseas date of incident, payment approval FMIC Hospital operations without admitting le- and payment made, are not made gal liability. public due to operational sensitiv- Behind Kabul Medical The department said there had ity and privacy requirements,” it University: been 2,836 individual payments in said. Guardian Australia has asked 0202500200-+93793275595 Afghanistan totalling $206,937, or the department for details of any an average of $73 an incident. payments relating to civilian It said there had been a single deaths, but it did not respond by Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital $1,619 payment in Iraq, which re- publication deadline. Pule Bagh-e- Umomi lated to an incident that occurred Incidents that have previous- during Operation Kruger which ly been disclosed include the fatal 070263672 provided security to Australian wounding of a small Afghan boy government officials in Iraq and and his uncle during a firefight in ended in 2011. the Chora area on 27 March 2011, Khairkhana Hospital There was no mention of any and the fatal shooting of an Af- 0799-321007 compensation payments related to ghan man who was riding his mo- the ADF’s current operations torcycle near soldiers in Tarin Kot 2401352 against Islamic State in Iraq and on 29 October 2011. Syria. The Guardian Defence compiled the figures Indira Gandhi Children Hospital, Wazir Akbar Bamyan’s cave-dwellers Khan, Kabul 2301372 Ibn-e- Seena in a grim battle for survival Pul-e-Artan, Kabul 2100359 BAMYAN CITY: Thousands of day in the spring. She has been cannot meet the requirements of cave-dwellers near the Taliban- supporting her three children since such a huge pauperiped popula- dynamited Buddha statues in cen- her husband’s death a decade ago. tion, he explains. He suggests a Wazir Akbar Khan tral Bamyan province are wallow- The winter is pretty harsh for budgetary allocation for building Hospital ing in abject poverty and unem- her family, as the cave is discom- houses for these people. ployment. fortingly cold. Her children strug- Ahmadi verifies most of these 2301741, 2301743 Unable to make ends meet, the gle to collect firewood to heat their people area jobless. The provin- troglodytes have to struggle to abode. cial authorities, having provided the keep their bodies and souls togeth- Hussain Dad Ahmadi, a Bam- housing facilities for 21 households Ali Abad er. Their children and family mem- yan-based civil society leader, ac- because, cannot do more than that, Shahrara, Kabul bers have to be content with eat- knowledges the situation of cave the spokesman maintains. ing breadcrumbs and unhygienic dwellers is terrible. He wants the With the advent of the winter, Gulwali Passarlay was 12 years caught between the two sides of Passarlay was arrested and 2100439 leftover food collected from res- government to urgently alleviate the Abraham Lincoln Cultural old when his mother paid a human the bloody conflict. imprisoned in multiple countries. taurant rubbish. their plight on a priority basis. Course launched a campaign to smuggler to transport him out of “The Taliban wanted to recruit At one point, he made it to Bul- Malalai Maternity Around 3,000 caves are dot- Unemployment is on the raise collect clothing for cave dwellers. Afghanistan and take him to the us to take revenge for our family garia, but was eventually sent back ted around the famous Buddha in the country, where educated and The drive was initiated amid safety of Europe. members who were killed,” Pas- to Turkey, and then to Iran, where Hospital statues, inhabited by 250 families qualified individuals can hardly threats from frosty conditions to Ten years later, as thousands sarlay said. “And then the U.S.- he was forced to “restart the jour- 2201377/ 2301743 from Bamyan and other provinc- find jobs. Subsequently, the pop- the lives of children. of migrants continue to make the backed Afghan government want- ney.” es. Caught up in grinding poverty, ulation of cave inhabitants is in- Mohammad Afzal, a resident “Not only was I not treated as the people living here do not have creasing. No one would like to live of Bamyan City, blames the gov- a child, but I wasn’t even treated Banks other shelters. in a cave, he says. ernment for failing to create em- as a human being,” he said. Some of the caves at the base Mohammad Hassan Asadi, a ployment opportunities. He said Passarlay says the most diffi- Da Afghanistan Bank of the statues were used by the member of the provincial council, only the well-connected and qual- cult part of the whole ordeal was Taliban for storing weapons. Lat- confirms thousands of Bamyan ified people could get jobs. crossing the Mediterranean Sea. 2100302, 2100303 er on, destitute civilians used the youth have migrated to European The man alleges the poor, who Like thousands of other des- rock structures as their abodes. For countries due to growing unem- stand no chance of finding work, perate migrants and refugees, Pas- Bakhtar Bank nearly, three centuries, the Bud- ployment and poverty. are forced at times to sell their be- sarlay made the dangerous cross- 0776777000 dhists lived in the caves. The government’s inability to longings to arrange money to feed ing in a small, overcrowded boat. Looking the excruciating living generate jobs, negligence of the ag- their families. He arrived in Europe alive, but Azizi Bank conditions, one could not escape riculture sector, lack of long-term Labour and Social Affairs Di- he says the memory continues to the feeling that the hapless indi- development projects and insuffi- rector Rahmatullah Alawi says haunt him. “Last year about 4,000 0799 700900 viduals are stuck in a time warp, cient foreign investment are the only 208 people from Bamyan people drowned in the sea,” he said. Pashtany Bank isolated from the modern-day main reasons behind poverty and were employed in provincial gov- “It keeps me awake. It bothers me. world. To them, hand-to-mouth migration of youth. ernment offices this year. He has It saddens me.” Passarlay eventu- 2102908, 2103868 living is more than a luxury. He views life in caves as a last no statistics on private-sector ap- ally learned his brother was in Brit- Braving subzero winter tem- resort or those who are bereft of pointments. treacherous journey across the ed us to work for them … ain, and he made his way to the Air Services peratures and other day-to-day shelters. Most residents come to Alawi adds more than 80 peo- Mediterranean, Passarlay is hop- “If we had done either of