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Karzai calls mosque attack “against Islamic values” AT News Report ormer President, Hamid Karzai “strongly” Fcondemned Tuesday’s terrorist attack on the Jawadiya mosque in Herat province, calling it “against all Islamic values”. Two terrorists stormed the Jawadiya mosque packed with around 300 people during the evening prayers time. One esolute Support has confirmed there were casualties terrorist started shooting the following the suicide bombing that targeted a foreign prayers and the second one troops convoy on Wednesday in Kandahar. detonated his explosives after a few minutes, killing more than 30 people and wounding dozens more. The former president was quoted by a statement as saying that the attack was part of the efforts by the enemies of peace and stability in Afghanistan to make sectarian rift and destabilize the country. “We must be aware and know that such attacks are carried out by the order of the aliens for their interests,” Karzai said, calling on the people to work wisely more than any time in the past to strengthen the unity and do not serious injuries have been rushed let the enemies reach their goals. to neighboring Iran for further He wished paradise for the medical treatment,” he added. Two children are among the killed, he martyrs, patience for the dear ones said, adding that three other and quick recovery for the wounded in the attack. injured. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns attack at the Jawadiya U.S. troops assess the damage to an armoured vehicle of NATO-led mosque in Herat which killed at military coalition after a suicide bomber’s attack in Kandahar Two brothers least 31 civilians, including 2 province, Afghanistan August 2, children, and injured more than 60 killed in others. Two attackers entered the At least one civilian was wounded (RS) confirmed that a NATO Nangarhar Shiite Muslims’ mosque during the and seven foreign troops were convoy was attacked in Kandahar. evening prayers time when several reportedly killed in a suicide car Casualties were confirmed but AT Monitoring Desk hundred worshippers were bombing in Kandahar on they also did not give details. “We present, opening fire and Wednesday, a source told are working to gather additional wo brothers of a family detonating two suicides TOLOnews. A suicide bomber information as quickly as possible have been gunned down by improvised explosive devices targeted a foreign troop’s convoy and will release more details as unknown armed men in against the congregation. in Kandahar city, the governor's appropriate,” RS said. However, T “This attack deliberately media office said adding that the a source said that “at least seven eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, local officials said on targeting civilians at prayer can troops had been on their way to foreign troops were killed in the Wednesday. The unpleasant have no justification whatsoever,” the airport when the incident attack and a civilian was wounded.” incident has happened in the said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the happened. One of the vehicles was A TOLOnews reporter who vicinity of Rodat district of Secretary-General’s Special damaged in the blast, the governor's visited the scene of the bombing Nangarhar late on Tuesday night. Representative for Afghanistan. media office said. Local officials said that a foreign troop’s vehicle AT News Report received injures after two suicide Spokesman for Health Public “Fanning terror and sectarian confirmed that a civilian was was damaged in the attack and the The provincial government media bombers attacked Jawadiya Health Directorate, Rafiq Shirzai, violence against a specific office in a statement said the two KABUL: The death toll from mosque full of worshipers in said that death increased to 32 wounded in the attack and that area was blocked off to traffic. A community is abhorrent and those there were casualties among the foreign troops helicopter was also brothers were in their field where Herat mosque attack jumped from Bakrabad area of Herat city, people, while 66 other received responsible must be brought to unknown men attacked them and 29 to at least 32, and over 66 other provincial official said. injuries. “15 wounded people with account.”...P2 foreign troops. seen in the area. The attack killed with knives. The statement They did not however disclose happened on a highway, close to added the victims have been details. But a source said seven the airport. The Taliban has identified as Halim and Samim foreign troops had been killed. In claimed responsibility for the who were 18 and 20 year old. The Holland lends the meantime, Resolute Support attack. (ToloNews) main motive behind the murder New alliance launched in Eastern Zone of the two brothers has not been weight to determined so far. The Nangarhar government said investigation is Loya Jirga can only put in progress and search operation Afghanistan to detain the perpetrators of the None above law incident is also underway. This end to uncertainty peace efforts comes as there has been increased in ratio of criminal incidents across AT Monitoring Desk warned. Members of the alliance KABUL : The Dutch ambassador Court sends behind bars army said they are worried about the on Wednesday affirmed support the country. According to KABUL: A new coalition called ongoing uncertainty in the country, observers the ongoing poverty, from the Netherlands for Afghan generals, officers over embezzlement the People’s Alliance of the East adding that government does not peace and stability initiatives, lack of financial resources and Zone was officially launched at an have the ability to fix the current unemployment among the people saying the international AT Monitoring Desk jailed for two years and two event in Nangarhar that was crisis. “The president (Ashraf months each, while Mohammad are the root causes to be blamed supported by dozens of local Ghani) promised that he will bring community wanted Afghan for the majority of the criminal parties to work together to end the KABUL: In a court verdict at least Asghar and Ahmad Jan were jailed residents. The alliance was formed food to the ordinary people’s lives, eight high-ranking officials of the for one year and one month each.” incidents. However, some murder by tribal elders and residents from but he did not manage to deliver it, conflict. Ambassador Geoffrey cases also take place due to the eastern provinces of he promised to build houses for members of the alliance warned Afghan National Army (ANA) The verdict was issued by the Van Leeuwen told a news have been sent behind bar for their primary court of the special personal enmity and clash of Nangarhar, Kunar and Nuristan, as the people, but the people have that the crisis will expand in the conference in Kabul that Holland interests which results in violent well as a number of Afghan evacuated their homes because of country unless government shows involvement in embezzlement, tribunal of the Anti-Corruption remained firmly committed to corruption, and misuse of Justice Center which also directed clashes. lawmakers. The members of the the emergence of Daesh. The some efficiency. “This is a long-term cooperation with newly alliance have termed president is a good manager, but government of gangs. We do not authority, Khaama Press reported. the convicts to restore the traditional Loya Jirga as only not a good leader,” said Abdul Zahir accept multiple governments. Afghanistan within the framework The convicts are comprised of embezzled amount of one million remedy left to resolve the current Qadeer, an MP from Nangarhar and There is government of Taliban, of NATO. He noted Afghanistan, three generals, four officers and an two hundred thousand and seven MoDplans to challenges in the country. They a member of the alliance. “The government of Daesh and the despite facing multiple challenges ordinary employee of the Afghan hundred US dollars. also called on the government to situation is not stable. The security government itself,” said Saleh had made remarkable progress army who had brought into the The convicted army generals, launch Dand-e- convene Loya Jirga on war footed situation is deteriorating every day. Mohammad Saleh, a member of the over the last 15 years in the fields court of justice by the Anti- officers, and the employee were basis. They warned of action if We are concerned that if the alliance. “Corruption has of education, health and the Corruption Justice Center during taken into custody by the security Ghori operation government remained reluctant to situation is not tackled and reforms increased, extortions are being done freedom of expression. an open court hearing. forces during an operation nearly hold Jirga. “In case of negligence, are not put in place, Afghanistan on the way to Kabul including in His country would advise and The army generals, officers, two months ago. The Afghan Ministry of Defense we will hold Loya Jirga to find could turn into a second Syria,” Nangarhar, but the president assist Afghan security forces and and employee were mainly tried The trial of the army officials (MoD) said Wednesday that ways to get out of current said Mirwais Yasini, another MP (Ashraf Ghani) and the chief for the embezzlement of 184,594 was initiated at a time when Dand-e-Ghori area of Pul-e- challenges,” the newly alliance and member of the alliance. Other executive (Abdullah Abdullah) are remain in Afghanistan as long as needed. Currently, about one liters of fuel. efforts by the government of Khumri city was the central turning a blind eye to the matter,” As per court verdict, Afghanistan for rooting out command and control point of the said Hazrat Ali, a senior member hundred Dutch soldiers in Balkh of the alliance. province and elsewhere in the “Mahmood son of Abdul Zahir corruption and embezzlement from Taliban in Baghlan Province. 5 police, 2 civilians among 22 killed was jailed for 20 years, Abdul Azim the key government institutions Deputy minister of defense According to the alliance, north are advising and training combating the menace of 18 years and five months jail term, are underway as part of its Major General Shaor Gul said a in Uruzgan, Nengarhar unrest Afghan security and defense Abdul Qadir, Mohammad Maruf, commitment and solemn promise corruption and insurgency are forces. (Pajhwok) military operation will soon be among their top priorities. and Mohammad Haroon were to the international community. launched to destroy Taliban safe TERINKOT/JALALABAD : stable. An official of Uruzgan Civil havens in Dand-e-Ghori, which Five policemen and 15 Taliban Hospital, who wished to go has been a key region for the militants have been killed in central unnamed, confirmed receiving dead Taliban over the past four years. Uruzgan province, while two and injured security personnel SCA r eop en s h ealt h clin ics in Lagh m an “It is planned that in the near civilians were stabbed to death in form Tuesday night’s attack. A AT News Report is to provide quality health service the constructive efforts from local Hospital in Metharlam and 54 future an operation will be eastern Nengarhar province, Taliban spokesman, Qari Yosuf conducted to destroy terrorist to all, and now we can fulfill our communities and health health clinics located throughout officials said on Wednesday. Ahmadi said that five policemen KABUL: The Swedish Committee mission again,” said Madeleine stakeholders in re-opening of the all districts serving about 460 000 safe havens (in Dand-e-Ghori),” Uruzgan police Chief Brig. were killed and one military tank Gul said. for Afghanistan (SCA) has Jufors, SCA Country Director in health facilities. The winners are people. In the new health contract Gen. Rahmatullah Sediqi told and four weapons were sized by reopened all its closed health Afghanistan. Through extensive the people of Laghman, who now as of July 2017, SCA will increase However, tribal elders have Pajhwok Afghan News Taliban militants in Tarinkot attack. clinics and provincial health dialogue with communities and by again have access to healthcare, the total number of health clinics complained about government's stormed security check posts in According to another report, management office after a week- reassuring all stakeholders in words “says Madeleine Jufors. Upon in Laghman to 62. SCA is a neutral negligence in roping them in to Kotwal area on the outskierts of two civilians were stabbed to long closure due to security threats, and actions that SCA provides repeated threats from Armed and impartial development help. Tarinkot, the provincial capital on death by unidentified men in Rodat the entity said in a statement on quality healthcare services to all, Opposition Groups, SCA was organization, working along “The relationship between the Tuesday night. district of Nangarhar province. Wednesday “I’m very pleased to irrespective of whether civilians or since June 2017 forced to close a humanitarian principles for and tribal elders and the government He said five police officers and Governor’s spokesman, announce the re-opening of all combatants, the threats have number of clinics and later also its with the people of Afghanistan for is not good and government does 15 Taliban were killed and seven Attaullah Khogyani, identified the clinics as well as Swedish stopped. Furthermore, a letter has Health Management Office in 35 years. 70 000 Afghan children not consult with the elders to Taliban and two police officers victims as Halim and Samim aged Committee for Afghanistan’s been presented by local elders Laghman province. Now, however, go to SCA-supported schools and solve the problems,” said Omara were wounded in the clash. between 18 and 20, saying the two Health Management Office in committing to safeguard SCAs SCA is pleased that health services over two million Afghan patients Khan Zamankhail, one tribal elder. The health condition of the brothers came under attack while Laghman province that had been continued provision of health can go back to normal. In Laghman receive medical care each year in (ToloNews) injured policemen was said to be busy on irrigation. (Pajhwok) closed. SCA’s mission in Laghman services, it added. “We appreciate province, SCA runs the Provincial clinics and hospitals run by SCA. THURSDAY . AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

As a child she didn't live near an airport, and nobody in her family flew. "We weren't wealthy enough to fly in an airplane," she said. "It was something out of reach, something very scary." The first time Waiz remembers being on a plane, she was a teenager going from California to Florida. She remembers buckling her seat belt and praying. "I thought this airplane was going to launch into the sky like a rocket ... like a roller-coaster," she said. But when the plane took off, "When I was in an airplane, all ambition of these young Afghan "it was so romantic." of that (confusion) disappeared," women came with limitations: 'What Afghan man would want said Waiz, who now lives in They had to be accompanied by to marry a woman who flies?' Daytona Beach. "The plane does their fathers to be able to move In the years that followed, not care. The plane responds around the city. Waiz started plotting her dreams. based on the skill of the pilot. In Waiz is funding her trip though She went from a community the air, I can be whoever I am." sponsors and a nonprofit, Dreams college to an aeronautical Return to Afghanistan Soar, that she founded to inspire university. She also began to Waiz's route so far has taken future generations of female pilots navigate cultural resistance from her to Canada, Europe, the Middle and women in the STEM fields members of her family. Her uncle East and Asia. (science, technology, engineering told her women did not belong in She also made a three-day and math). As she notes on her the cockpit. Her grandmother stopover in Kabul last month. It website, only a small percentage asked her, "what Afghan man was the first time she'd returned of the world's pilots are women. would want to marry a woman who to Afghanistan since she left as a Her family is now supportive flies?" Growing up, Waiz always baby. of her passion. And after her trip straddled two cultures. She While there Waiz met with the to Kabul, she's dreaming of starting Shaesta Waiz arrives in Montreal on May 15 on the third leg of her round-the-world solo flight. attended American schools, but president and the prime minister a STEM school for girls in spoke Farsi and Pashto at home. of the country, connected with her Afghanistan "so that young girls She was training to become a pilot, extended family and began to can go somewhere and use their The first time Shaesta Waiz Florida, she plans to have made journey, which began three decades dreams, and I thought ... a woman but her family still enforced a dream up what she wants to do talents." remembers seeing a plane, she was more than two dozen stops in ago in a refugee camp in like me, the best thing to do is have curfew. next. For Waiz, the world has a child watching the news about some 18 countries. Afghanistan. kids ... so they might do something "Growing up in the United "I had the chance to meet a lot opened up since she was a scared an aircraft accident. She also hopes her trip will Struggling with dreams grand," Waiz said via Skype from States, I never felt like I was of my cousins, a lot of young teenager buckling up for her first "I said to my mom, 'I hope I "inspire girls and young women Soon after Waiz was born in a stop in Sri Lanka. American ... my parents reminded girls," she said. "What I noticed is flight. "I used to read in geography never ever have to fly in an worldwide to dream big and the refugee camp, her family came Waiz in her plane at Cairo me that I was Afghan, I was not that these girls are so ambitious, books about countries like Sri airplane,'" she said. "I was so scared achieve more," especially in the to the United States in 1987 to International Airport on July 2. American," she said. "But and they're so hungry to do Lanka and India and Greece and and terrified." fields of science, math, engineering escape the Afghan-Soviet War. Waiz in her plane at Cairo sometimes, when I would speak something." Italy. To me they were just names Now Waiz is a certified pilot and aviation. One of six girls, she grew up in International Airport on July 2. to my cousins in Afghanistan, they Waiz met with students during in a book," she said. "And when I in the middle of a solo flight around Her flight, in a single-engine Richmond, California. As a child, Her only female role models thought I was American. There her stopover in Kabul on July 12. sat in that plane and that plane took the world. By the time the 30-year- Beechcraft Bonanza A36, will take becoming a pilot was not anything were the women in her extended was confusion of where I Waiz met with students during off, (I thought) maybe one day old completes her journey in Waiz more than 25,000 miles. But she thought about. family. "They were all housewives, belonged." her stopover in Kabul on July 12. those names could be memories." September in Daytona Beach, it pales compared to her personal "I struggled (as a girl) with and that's all I aspired to be." Flying changed that. She also noticed that the (CNN) Why Afghan women are

The women used to be so nervous "They're one of the greatest exploded in popularity, says campaigning about playing wheelchair sports stories that I've ever been Markt. The ICRC gets them basketball in public that they had associated with," says Markt, who practice space, builds courts, opaque screens erected to conceal trains wheelchair basketball teams provides equipment and even the court. for the International Committee of covers taxi fares for players who for their names Now their faces are being the Red Cross in countries need a ride to games. Today, there splashed across media outlets in including Afghanistan, South are 120 women wheelchair Afghanistan. Sudan and India. "I'm incredibly basketball players in Afghanistan. On Sunday, Afghanistan's proud of them." Many of them are not able to use to be heard national women's wheelchair Afghan women compete at their limbs as a result of polio, basketball team won its first home, in a 2016 tournament in birth defects or war-related championship at the 4th annual Kabul, before the national team injuries. In Afghan society it is the custom reactions from crowds at gigs Bali Cup International Tournament takes on international competition. Article continues after that women's names should not be whenever he says the name of his in Indonesia. It played against Thomas Glass/Courtesy of sponsorship uttered publicly. wife or mother. But the comments women's teams from India, ICRC When the Afghan team first "Other disabled girls see the Women are generally only under his post were Indonesia and Thailand, beating started shooting hoops, players women doing incredible things and referred to as the mother, daughter overwhelmingly positive: Thailand 65-25 in the final match. were worried about what their say 'I wanna be like them'," says or sister of the eldest male in their "I am so happy to see our It was the first time the team family and friends might think of Markt. "The national team has family. Using the name of a woman singers also standing in support of had ever played in an international them. It's hard enough being a become role models to girls around is frowned upon and can even be our womens' rights". Khanom tournament. "I'm glad to have won woman in Afghanistan, explains the country." considered an insult. Leila wrote. such an honor," said Nilofar Bayat, Markt — and playing sports as a Markt is heading back to According to a report by It even inspired other male a team member, to Afghan news woman using a wheelchair was Afghanistan in October to organize Thomson-Reuters, Afghan law users to follow suit: "Now, call me channel Tolo News. "The teams unheard of. a national tournament for men and dictates that a mother's name a coward too; my wife's name is were powerful, but we got stronger That's why the women, who women. He hopes to take the should not be recorded on a birth Tahira," Nazir Said wrote. after playing them and won." range in age from 17 to 30, initially women's team to Thailand for certificate. "Hiding women's name has Jess Markt, the team's requested the screens around the another tournament. But Afghan women's rights nothing to do with Islam. Had it American coach, has been training courts, he says. But after the Enlarge this image activists are seeking change by been the case, why everyone the 11 members of the national women saw how much excitement An April trip to Thailand using social media with a campaign knows the names of Islam's first time traveling internationally says. "It was an incredible sight." team since 2012. While he couldn't there was around the men's brought a extra perk for the and competing against women By the time they got to called #WhereIsMyName prophet's wives?" Nashir Ansari be at the tournament in Indonesia wheelchair basketball competition players: a visit the beach for the Safiqeh Mohseni, one of the commented. outside of their country. It was also Indonesia this past week, the because of a scheduling conflict — in 2013, they told Markt: "We first time. the first time they had ever seen a women felt like "beach veterans," women who launched the Nameless graves Afghan coaches Tahera Yosoufi want people to see us play. Take Courtesy of ICRC campaign says they aim to "break BBC Persian spoke to various beach. Markt jokes. and Wasiqullah Sediqi traveled down the screens." The women's national team They got to the open water as "We've done this before, it's no the taboo of mentioning a woman's Afghani women championing the with the women — he has watched The women's wheelchair was previously in Thailand in name in first place". campaign: "I am a woman and a fast as they could, Markt recalled. big deal," the players said, as they the female players transform over basketball program in Afghanistan, April for a wheelchair basketball "Fully clothed, in their headscarves dipped into Bali's crystal blue Bahar Sohaili, who is involved human being before being the past five years. supported by the ICRC, has training camp. It was the players' in the movement told the New York someone's mother, someone's and beautiful Afghan clothing," he waters. (NPR) Times: "This is just a spark — the sister, someone's daughter or posing of a question mostly to the someone's wife," Tahmina from Afghan women about why their Kabul told the BBC: "I want to be identity is denied. The reality is called by my own name. I am tired that women also remain silent — of being called by someone else's they don't protest this." name outside, in school, at home, Boys smuggled from Afghanistan Najla from Kabul, who is a in the market and everywhere. It supporter of the campaign told the is really painful for me." BBC: "I am tired of being called by are allegedly trained by the Taliban "We have inherited this someone else's name" Tahmina superstitious tradition from older from Kabul Talaya from Herat After two vans missing license transport of children are part of a and be looked after. But when they According to the AP, the madrassas. Police also recently generations. Even the men, who feel agreed saying: "Because a woman's plates were stopped this month in dangerous network and it is a get there they are beaten, forced to Afghan intelligence suspects that stopped another attempt to take embarrassed to mention the name identity is not even mentioned in Ghazni, Afghanistan, police criminal act. It doesn’t matter if work as cheap labor, taken by the boys are even learning to carry out boys from Ghazni to madrassas in of their wives, do not know the their funeral, not written on their discovered 27 boys -- ages ranging the parents approve,” senior Taliban as new recruits.” suicide bombings at some Karachi, a port city. (townhall) reason. They only think it is the funeral cards and doesn't appear from 4 to 15 -- inside, on their to police official Fazlur Rahman way because they have heard so on their tombstones, they remain Pakistan. The drivers and two Bustani said. from elders." unidentified even after death. "In adult passengers were arrested. After being trained, the boys The popular Afghani musician this fight, not only women but men The young boys were being would return home, bringing their Farhad Darya got behind the who also should stand beside the smuggled to “madrassas,” or radicalized views of the Koran with campaign on 10 July sharing a suffering women of our country seminaries, to be trained in the them. photo of himself and his wife and make efforts for regaining their philosophy of the Taliban. The Ghazni Police Chief Sultana. He mentions in the post lost rights. They have to try day Taken to Quetta, the capital Mohammad Mustafa Mayer said how he has received negative and night." (BBC) of Baluchistan bordering that traffickers, “wanted to take Afghanistan, they would be our innocent children to the radicalized in the place where many terrorist centers on the other side Herat mosque bloodbath Taliban leaders meet and members of the border under the pretense were educated. The city is of Islamic studies.” ...P1 Places of worship and their Shia mosques, killing a total of at considered to be the Taliban He said that the smuggling of congregations, as well as religious least 44 civilians and injuring at leadership council's headquarters. children between provinces festivals, require authorities to have least 88, according to UNAMA. While some parents, such as happens three or four times per appropriate security measures in Four of the attacks occurred in Mohammed Naseer, agree to send year, for labor or sex slavery, or place, commensurate with the Herat and the other in Kabul. their children away, police say the recruitment from the Taliban that threat level facing communities, the Islamic State - Khorasan province practice is dangerous and still a they disguise as religious statement added. claimed responsibility for two of crime. Naseer, according to the AP, education. During 2016, UNAMA these attacks. wanted his son to be educated in “Parents often agree to send recorded four separate attacks International humanitarian law the Koran, as his ambition is to be their children but they don’t know against Shia mosques and religious prohibits deliberate attacks against a mulla--a cleric. There were few what is awaiting the child," said gatherings. Islamic State - civilians and civilian objects, opportunities for education at Mohammed Musa Mahmoodi, Khorasan province claimed including places of worship. responsibility for two of those UNAMA expresses its home, so Naseer arranged the from the Afghan Independent attacks. condolences to the victim’s journey for his son and other Human Rights Commission. Tuesday’s attack in Herat is families and wishes a speedy children. "Sometimes they are told they will the fifth attack this year targeting recovery to the injured. “Those involved in the be educated or will get a good job THURSDAY. AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Former US Hekmatyar labels envoy:'No Taliban’s war easy satanic and vain answers' Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said the on Afghan Taliban is fighting for the interests of strangers and that they are invited to join the peace process. The U.S. government oversight policy agency for operations in Leader of Hizb-e-Islami group Afghanistan has requested the The Trump administration's Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Pentagon declassify a report review of the U.S. policy in Tuesday labeled the Taliban war detailing alleged sexual abuse of Afghanistan is taking "longer than against government “satanic and children by Afghan soldiers. The originally announced and vain”, and reiterated his calls for request from the Special Inspector intended," the former U.S. envoy the group to join the peace and General for Afghanistan on Afghanistan and Pakistan told EMERGENCY reconciliation process. Reconstruction (SIGAR) says the VOA, although that could be due Hekmatyar, the longtime report, which recently was issued to the complexity of the issue. CALLS leader of Hizb-e-Islami who to Congress, is classified because "There are no easy answers, recently sealed a peace accord with much of the information upon there are no easy solutions. After Police the Afghan government after years which it is based is classified. 16 years, a lot of different of self-exile, said at a gathering on According to SIGAR, Afghan approaches have been tried or at Tuesday the Taliban is fighting for recommendations to be addressed officials are failing to properly deal least considered," said Laurel 100 - 119 the interests of strangers. by the Hizb-e-Islami leader. with the sexual abuse and, in some Miller in an interview with the “Those who are choosing the “Every person in Logar is your cases, the Afghan government has document outlining the Congressional report. The issue now, according VOA Afghan service this week. Hospitals path of war, they are the soldier and your free soldier,” arrested and prosecuted victims of to SIGAR, is determining whether the U.S. is ignoring the abuse in President Donald Trump and his oppressors and they are moving insisted Gulzar Sangarwal, a sexual abuse. "Afghan officials violation of the Leahy Laws, which forbid U.S. agencies from providing security team may be finding that remain complicit, especially in the FMIC Hospital the wrong way, they pursue member of Logar Provincial support to foreign government organizations credibly suspected of they need more time to establish Behind Kabul Medical inhuman and satanic objectives,” Council. sexual exploitation and recruitment committing human rights violations. A spokesman for the Defense a new way forward, she said. he said, referring to the ongoing “Our hopes and expectations of children by Afghan security Department called child sex abuse "heinous," but said that each case Miller, a Rand corporation University: insurgency by the Taliban. from our leader (Hekmatyar) is that forces," SIGAR said in a published needs to be handled on an individual basis. (voanews) foreign policy expert, served as 0202500200 Pointing to the formation of new serious action should be taken the special representative for +9 3 (0 ) 7 9 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 political coalitions, Hekmatyar regarding the release of the (Hizb- Residents are returning to Afghanistan and Pakistan, or said certain groups within e-Islami) prisoners,” said Life returns to normal in SRAP, for nine months, until Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital government are attempting to Mohammad Hassan, a member of their homes in Baghlan-e- June 23 of this year. The weaken the state and create Hizb-e-Islami. war-hit Baghlan-e-markazi Markazi district which administration has released few Pule Bagh-e- Umomi challenges in the way of the peace “When there is peace in our witnessed at least two weeks details about its policy review, 070263672 process. “Now this system is country, this would be a major step of war between government but several options have been threatened by those who are part Locals are slowly trying to get back the safety and security of the towards development,” said forces and the Taliban. floated in the news media. Among of government. Sometimes they Sabawoon, a resident of Logar. to some form of normality in the people on a permanent basis. In those options: a new influx of Khairkhana Hospital Baghlan-e-Markazi district of this report, TOLOnews reporter form coalitions, sometimes they Hekmatyar also called on U.S. troops, turning much of the 0799-321007 organize protests and sometimes political factions to dissolve their northern Baghlan province after Sharif Amiri has filmed the life of people. Three days ago, the Afghan fighting and work over to private they establish sit in tents on the military wings. “The parties government forces managed to an eight year old girl named Kubra security forces started the contractors, looking at ways to 2401352 streets,” he told the gathering who which are also in government have retake the strategic district from who was left paralyzed during the checking and clearance operation bolster Afghanistan by expanding were Hizb-e-Islami loyalists from their own independent military the Taliban. Meanwhile, a number recent battles between the Taliban in at least five villages of Baghlan- its precious mineral mining Logar province. The Logar structure, even they have their of residents in the war-hit region and the security forces. The war e-Markazi district which had been industry, and sharply drawing Indira Gandhi Children residents meanwhile tabled a governments,” the Hizb-e-Islami have pushed the Afghan has had a devastating effect on the under the control of Taliban for down the U.S. and NATO number of demands and leader claimed. (ToloNews) government to take steps to ensure economy and on the lives of the two years. (ToloNews) presence. The range and Hospital, Wazir Akbar contradictions of those ideas isn't Khan, Kabul 2301372 surprising to Miller. "It's important to consider all legitimate options for the path Ibn-e- Seena ahead in Afghanistan," she said. Caution over contractors Pul-e-Artan, Kabul But she cautioned that "there 2100359 aren't really a lot of new ideas" on how to move forward. The idea of replacing military Wazir Akbar Khan troops and government Hospital employees with a team of private contractors wouldn't be practical, 2301741, 2301743 Miller said. For one thing, she said, it's unlikely that the Kabul government would accept the Ali Abad idea. Additionally, there are legal Shahrara, Kabul issues regarding what contractors can and can't do for the U.S. 2100439 Rights activist Maryam Durani said she is determined to change the culture and government, while hiring companies to do the Malalai Maternity perception of a women’s role in a male-dominated society despite the challenges. government's work often isn't cost effective. But her key Hospital concern is that bringing in Afghan women's rights activist women's and girl's rights in Afghan here, we wished to create an needs to do good work whether he of "The 100 Most Influential contractors wouldn't necessarily 2201377/ 2301743 Maryam Durani has been trying society. association for the women and lives for a day or to a 100 years People in the World". According bring new success. "You don't to break taboos in a conservative She is determined to change the finally established the association, old; but do not fear anyone and to Time, "As the owner and achieve something different just Banks society that traditionally keeps its culture and perception of women’s now I have separated my office fully support our daughters,” said operator of a radio station by hiring different people," women behind closed doors. roles in a male-dominated society and home,” said Durani. Maryam’s father Eisa Durani. (Merman Radio) that focuses on Miller said. Sharply reducing the Da Afghanistan Bank Durani, 30, is from the despite the challenges she faces. “What I search for is to get Durani was born in the Islamic women's issues and as a member foreign military presence could be southern province of Kandahar, Durani has done much work equal rights to the residents of this Republic of Iran. She graduated of the Kandahar provincial council, effective if done gradually, with 2100302, 2100303 once a heartland of the Taliban to bring the women out of their province so that everyone can live from the Payam-e-Noor and Durani stands up for the region's new steps to support stability regime. She was awarded the 2012 homes through providing them in this province by having their American University of women with remarkable bravery." for the Afghan government and Bakhtar Bank International Women of Courage with better opportunities. humanitarian rights,” she said. Afghanistan. She has a degree in In July 2013, Maryam was economy, she said. But an abrupt Award by the former US first lady She has served in different “The girls are always facing Law and Political Science and selected as one of 30 young drawdown without new support 0776777000 Michelle Obama. positions and was Kandahar family problems, but I am very Business. activists by National Endowment for the Afghans would be "highly Azizi Bank Durani believes that Afghans people’s representative in the happy they are learning here; here She returned from Iran to her for Democracy. destabilizing" and "send a signal need to promote the sense of self- provincial council and the director the women and girls are provided hometown of Kandahar in 2003 In May 2014, Maryam to countries in the region of U.S. 0799 700900 confidence and end the dream of of a nonprofit women's with various types of programs and and started teaching at a local received the Roosevelt Four disengagement," so those Pashtany Bank reaching peace through others in development organization Khadija many women call the radio and school. Freedoms Award in Middelburg, countries might take actions that order to build a stable and secure Kubra. Khadija Kubra has five share their problems with legal In 2005, she was selected as Netherlands. worsen the situation. 2102908, 2103868 country. sections. Durani is the founder and experts,” said Zeenat, an employee the first female member of In November 2015, Maryam, An intermediate strategy, For 13 years Maryam has owner of Merman Radio of of Merman Radio. Kandahar provincial council. received the International Peace such as relying primarily on drone worked for human rights Kandahar, a women’s radio “I have received these awards Maryam says that Afghans Generation Award from UN, strikes and Special Forces Air Services particularly women's rights and for channel, established in 2010 to and prizes over different periods must stand on their own feet and America. operations, could be effective, a positive change in the country. address gender inequalities in of time in different countries, I bring peace and stability to their In December 2015, Maryam Miller said, if the U.S. determines Safi Airways She is from a city where Kandahar province and to bring received the The 100 Most homeland. received the Simorgh International what its objectives are and plans women have been subjected to women’s voices to the forefront. Influential People in the World Awards Peace Prize awarded on Human such a strategy to meet them. 020 22 22 222 discrimination and where the Hundreds of girls are getting award, freedom of press award and In March 2012, she received Rights Day (10 December 2015) Review is essential majority of people believe that education in Khadija Kubra many other awards in recognition the US Secretary of State’s in the context of Human Rights The U.S. never managed to Ariana women are made to stay at home. organization. of my efforts,” she said. International Women of Courage Week and simultaneously with the bring the Afghan Taliban to the 020-2100270 Durani is an outspoken “Our work starts from this “This is the meaning of life, Award. In the same year, Time 19th anniversary of Armanshahr’s negotiating table, largely because advocate for peace as well as room, some of the girls are sitting when someone is born, then he Magazine chose Maryam as one establishment. (ToloNews) the militants would hold peace talks only with Washington, and Kam Air not the Kabul government, Miller 0799974422 said. At this point, she said, it appears Trump is still considering whether peace talks Hotels would be one of its policy goals. Safi Landmark Miller, who was on loan to the State Department for four years, was named acting SRAP in 020-2203131 November 2016. She left her position as the loan agreement SERENA with Rand expired, and her departure left in question the fate 0799654000 of the SRAP office. The acting assistant secretary of state for New Rumi Restaurant Jahid said the research by his Cultural Heritage’s list. South and Central Asia is handling organization showed over 177 Ghulam Hussain, hailing from the SRAP portfolio for now. 0776351347 different kinds of rare birds had Koh Kanak area, one of the 14 The SRAP office may be started living in Band-i-Amir. villages around Band-e-Amir, told folded into the South and Central Internet Services “There is one rare bird, we call it Pajhwok Afghan News that since Asia bureau, a move that Miller UA Telecom Fanaj-i-Barfi and this type of bird the protection of wildlife was says makes sense in 0796701701 / 0796702702 has not been seen in any place.” started in the area, the number of organizational terms. "I agreed He said other rare species included deers had increased and they could and had recommended that eagle, mountain pigeon, sparrow be seen in groups near the dam. consolidation should move Exchange Rate and many others. WPO had also prohibited people forward. But even so, the Based on the organization’s from collecting firewood or digging planning surrounding that 1 USD findings, dozens of species of wild around the dam for cultivating rain- shouldn't be seen as irrelevant as animals such as mountain deer, fed lands in order the green a policy signal," she said. A 68.40AFN Persian leopard, wild cat, bear cat, environment is kept from being get detailed review of the entire U.S. wolf, fox, rabbit and several other damaged and the surroundings of policy for Afghanistan and wild mammals lived in the area. the lake remains natural. Pakistan is essential for any new 1000.00 IRR Jahid said hunting was Inayatullah, who had come to administration, she said. "I would 18.00AFN absolutely prohibited in the area Band-e-Amir of Bamyan with his also say it's important for a new and even one couldn’t hunt fish in family from Herat province for administration to do that because the Band-e-Amir. He said these recreation, said the environment of in places of the world where it is 1.00 UAE restrictions were solely aimed at the dam, clear waters and cold sending its service personnel into better conservation of Band-e- weather in summer and a harm's way, where the United 18.60AFN Amir National Park in order the tremendous quite and secure States is spending an animals and birds continue to add environment were fascinating. extraordinary amount of taxpayer BAMYAN CITY : Researchers of efforts at protecting these animals Nasrullah Jahid, head of to the beauty of the environment. “We had decided to stay for only 1.00 EUR dollars, there needs to be not just 78.40AFN a private organization have found have resulted in growth of the rare Wildlife Protection Organisation Bamyan has natural one or two days; but now it has a bureaucratic and policy more than 170 different kinds of animals and birds in Bamyan (WPO), said his organization had attractiveness and is home to a lot been a week we are at the national commitment at the technical level rare birds in areas around the Band- province. In 2014, the Afghan been doing research in Band-i-Amir of historical sites. Of the park and actually we don’t have to that endeavor, there needs to e-Amir park in central Bamyan government banned hunting on different types of birds and wild monuments, the two destroyed the will to return home soon.” He be a political commitment," 1000.00 INR province and urged their animals and birds in every part of animals for the past six years. Buddha statues, Gholghola city, said the beautiful nature of the Miller said. Getting that political 1060.00AFN protection. the country and tasked the “We are doing this only for Zahak Mardosh city, 40 towers of Band-e-Amir National Park was commitment means having the Hunting wild animals and birds Ministry of Interior and the protection of wild animals and we Yakawlang, and seven natural lakes extremely attractive and he had support of the White House, 1000.00 PKR has long been a huge threat to their National Directorate of Security have tasked 18 people in Band-i- of Band-e-Amir are popular and decided to come here every summer Miller said. (VOANEWS) lives in Afghanistan, but continued (NDS) with implementing the ban. Amir for this purpose.” many of them are on the World with his family. (Pajhwok) 632.00AFN THURSDAY. AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Constitution amendment bill to be endorsed before local Bangladesh's Supreme Court has scrapped parliament's power to polls: sack top judges, in a landmark ver- dict that lawyers said Wednesday Minister bolstered the independence of the country's judiciary. The country's top court restored a military rule- Yadav era provision which allows only a Supreme Judicial Council, led by KATHMANDU: Newly appoint- the chief justice, to remove judges ed Minister for Water Supply and found to have breached the judi- Sanitation Mahendra Yadav has cial code of conduct. The full rul- said a constitution amendment bill ing released Tuesday was quickly R efer en ces filed tabled at the Legislature-Parlia- hailed by lawyers as a crucial safe- ment would be endorsed before the guard for the freedom of the Mus- third phase of local level elections lim-majority nation's secular judi- in E CP , P u n ja b in Province number 2 on Septem- ciary. "The judgement declares the ber 18. Earlier, Prime Minister 16th amendment of the constitu- Sher Bahadur Deuba had inducted tion as null and void. It means the Assem bly to Mahendra Yadav from Nepali highest court scraps the parlia- Congress quota in his Cabinet. ment's power to remove top judg- Speaking at an interaction pro- es," senior lawyer Syed Ahsanul gramme in the Capital on Wednes- Karim told AFP. Karim said that disqu alify day, Minister Yadav said the gov- because of the "landmark" judge- ernment is trying to forge consen- sus with the opposition party in a ment, the executive "will have no bid to bring agitating Rastriya Jan- dominant role over the judiciary". I m r a n K h a n ata Party Nepal on board for local Karim said if the amendment had elections. “Nepali Congress is been left in place, it would have working with other parties to made top judges "subservient" to over G u la la i's amend the Constitution,” Minis- the government as they would have ter Yadav added. He also said that been under constant threat of re- the elections scheduled for Sep- moval. Prime Minister Sheikh Ha- tember 18 will beheld at any cost. sina brought the constitutional a llega tion s Minister Yadav also said Melam- change allowing parliament -- con- chi drinking water would be dis- trolled by her ruling Awami League Lawyer Raja Basharat has filed a an investigation, there should be a tributed to the Kathmanduities party -- to remove top judges in petition in the Election Commis- suo motu, so that the truth can be within this fiscal year. “Govern- September 2014. In May last year, sion of Pakistan, seeking Pakistan revealed." It is important that the ment was preparing to distribute the High Court declared the Melamchi drinking water before Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman's BlackBerry, from which the mes- anglade s h's top court re s tore d a military rule -e ra amendment illegitimate after a law- disqualification on the basis of sages were sent, be investigated Dashain festival, however, due to yer filed a public interest challenge. some technical difficulties, it will provis ion which allows only a S upre me Judicial Coun "shameful" allegations of harass- and the messages should be pre- The Supreme Court led by chief ment levelled against him by former sented to the public, he added. be distributed by the end of De- justice S.K. Sinha gave a provision- cember,” Yadav shared. cil, le d by the chie f jus tice , to re move judge s PTI lawmaker Ayesha Gulalai. Abbasi said that in 2013, he al verdict last month ruling against PML-N's Hina Pervaiz Butt, also had asked the country not to let (BBC) the government. (Dailymail) on Wednesday, submitted a reso- their "mothers, daughters and sis- lution in the Punjab Assembly for ters" attend the rallies of the PTI Imran Khan's disqualification on to "protect them from this per- the basis of Article 62 and 63 in son." He said Khan should be light of Gulalai's allegations. A day ashamed for asking Gulalai to earlier, as she announced to part show the messages as proof and Sri LankanPresident presentsvaluablegift ways with the PTI, Gulalai ac- for telling her that she is not a Pa- cused Khan and his “gang” of hav- khtun. "The daughters of the coun- ing an “immoral character”. She try are asking you to seek forgive- had alleged that Khan "would for- ness," he maintained. Opposition fromRussianPresident toNational Museum ward inappropriate and explicit leader Khursheed Shah also backed text messages to party women", PML-N's demand for an investi- Sri Lankan President Maithripala ship between the two countries. from the Kandyan kings. Director claiming that she received the first gation, saying, "The matter con- Sirisena on Wednesday presented When President Sirisena was ad- of the Department of National such message in 2013. Addressing cerning Gulalai is regrettable. an invaluable artifact he received miring the shining weapon and its Museums, Sanuja Kasthuriarach- the media outside the Supreme Women never make allegations in- from Russian President Vladimir beautifully carved case which was chi presented the document of ac- Court on Wednesday, PML-N volving themselves. It should be Putin to the National Museum. He studded with gems, Putin explained ceptance and a special memento leader Hanif Abbasi said that Im- investigated." received a royal sword (Kastane) that it was an antique Kastane be- to the President. "President ran Khan must respond to the 'I'm not greedy for a seat' of the Kandyan era of the 19th longing to a Kandyan Nilame (No- Maithripala Sirisena chose to charges levelled against him. Ab- Gulalai, while talking to Dawn- century from President Vladimir bleman) and that it has a fascinat- present this invaluable historic gift basi invited Imran Khan to hold a News on Wednesday, dismissed Putin during his state visit to Rus- ing history. The Kastane (sword, of Kastane, received from a pow- press conference in the evening to the accusation that she had struck sia in March this year. President hanger) was the major attribute of erful leader in the world without apologise to the nation and a deal with any other political par- Putin, a known lover of antique the noblemen of Sri Lanka. This keeping it as a personal treasure. present himself for accountabili- ty. "I am not greedy — neither for weapons, graciously decided to sword had been brought to England He decided to present this nation- ty. "Whenever an allegation has money, nor for any post. I prefer part with one of his treasured an- in 1906 and later bought by Rus- al heritage to the place where it been made against me, I held a press my education over everything tiques for the sake of friendship. sia at the leading archeological ar- should be kept. That magnanimous conference within five minutes to else." She claimed that what It was a pleasant surprise for Pres- tifact auction house, Sotheby's in gesture illustrates his correct vi- reveal the reality," Abbasi said. "A pushed her to come forward with ident Sirisena as the Russian lead- London. The "Kastane" was auc- sion on culture and national heri- grave allegation has been levelled the allegations was PTI's alleged er gave this invaluable gift when tioned at the Sotheby's Auction tage of this country," said the against you [Khan] and you should attempt to damage the morals of he entered the Green Chimney House on 19 December 2006 in Chairman of the National Library have been ashamed, but you are the nation. She alleged that Imran Room in the Kremlin at the Red the elite section of "Property of a and Documentation Services not — because in the society that Khan "supports the worst corrup- Square for bilateral talks with Pres- Princely Family and Other Aris- Board, Dr. W. A. Abeysinghe. The you come from, these matters are tion" that prevails in Khyber Pa- ident Putin. The Russian leader has tocratic Estates". According to President also joined in observing not considered shameful," added khtunkhwa. "Little children are said that he was presenting this Alex Freger, a high-profile Israeli the artefacts at the National Mu- Abbasi. "If these allegations are not trained within the party to malign significant gift to President Sirise- expert on bladed weapons, the seum that now includes the 'kas- investigated, we will believe that others on social media," she fur- na symbolizing the close relation- item subject to expertise descends tane'. (COLOMBOPAGE) justice has died." "There should be ther claimed. (Tribune)

KARACHI: As many as seven has withdrawn powers of Inspec- the Services, General Administra- Station House Officers (SHOs) tor General of Police (IGP) AD tion and Coordination Depart- have been suspended for their fail- Khawaja to decide the transfers and ment,” reads the order issued by ure to control crime in their respec- postings of senior police officials provincial Chief Secretary Rizwan tive police domains. This was con- in the province. Approved by Memon. According to the notifi- firmed by Sindh Home Minister Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali cation, the order is in accordance Sohail Anwar Siyal on Wednesday. Shah, the order empowers the Ser- with Rule 9(2) of the Sindh Civil Speaking at a press conference, vices, General Administration and Servants (Appointment, Promo- Siyal said: “situation will not get Coordination Department of the tion & Transfer) Rules, 1974. The better until punishments are not provincial government to issue the government’s order of August 9, given,” adding, “The suspended transfers and postings of SPs, SSPs 2016, whereby powers were dele- SHOs were working in their pro- and equivalent officers with direct gated to the IGP for transfers and fessional capacity for the last three approval of the chief minister. postings of SPs and SSPs “is here- months.” The provincial home “The Sindh chief minister has been by cancelled/withdrawn”, reads the minister said that government is pleased to approve that the trans- order. Issues between the provin- putting efforts to bring betterment fers and postings of Superinten- cial government and IGP Khawaja in the police department. He add- dents of Police (BS-18)/ Senior surfaced last year, when the latter ed that his office is always open Superintendents of Police (BS-19) was sent on ‘forced leave’ in De- to the public. Sindh government and equivalent shall be issued by cember. (Dwan) IFJcondemns Sri Lankan minister's attempt to block journalist The International Federation of partment. Footage from television recordings shows Journalists (IFJ) along with its af- evidence that the Sirasa microphone had been re- filiate Free Media Movement moved from the podium. Since the incident, sup- (FMM) today condemned the at- porters of the Minister have continued to threaten Gujarat Rajya Sabha tempt by Minister of Infrastruc- Indika. Free Media Movement Convener C. Doda- ture and Community Development watta and Secretary Dileesha Abeysundara said it is Palani Digambaram to block access unfortunate to see such behavior by a minister in a polls: After Congress, BJP to news of a journalist who was government that promised to protect media free- reporting a government event. The dom. "Further, Free Media Movement believes that IFJ demands that journalists be having invited journalists formally to cover the event, approaches EC over NOTA treated with respect and allowed the obstruction seemed to be censorship. This em- New Delhi:The Bharatiya Janata parties and therefore, a proper con- Rajya Sabha in the state of Gujar- to carry out their professional du- phasizes the fact that it is impossible to accomplish ties with dignity. Minister Digam- Party (BJP) on Wednesday ap- sensus should be made before the at be withdrawn with immediate democracy and good governance without broader me- proached the Election Commission use of NOTA in election in Rajya effect,” the BJP said. Meanwhile, baram has allegedly ordered the dia freedom." The IFJ said the obstruction of a jour- microphone of Sirasa Media cor- seeking removal of the None Of Sabha,” the BJP said in a memo- minister of state of parliamentary nalists' professional work at the behest of a Minis- The Above (NOTA) option in the randum to the EC. The BJP said affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said respondent Indika Roshan Kalu- ter is "deeply troubling." The IFJ noted with con- arachchi to be removed from the upcoming Rajya Sabha election in that since there was no secrecy for the parties issue whip for these cern that individuals suspected to be supporters of Gujarat, a day after the Congress the voting in Rajya Sabha election, elections and NOTA option goes podium where the Minister was Minister Digambaram have subsequently been threat- speaking in Hatton on Sunday, made a similar demand. “It is sub- so, the purpose of NOTA is not “against the nature of the whip”. ening journalist Indika Roshan. "The government mitted that use of NOTA in the much of use. “Therefore, the BJP “NOTA is fine in case of direct July 30. Kaluarachchi was report- must take all measures to ensure his safety," the IFJ ing the event at the invitation of upcoming poll has become an is- demands that direction for using elections but in case of Rajya Sab- said. sue of debate among the political NOTA option in the election for ha elections. (Dindai) the Government Information De- (AA) THURSDAY. AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES News-in-Brief North Korea could soon open Ryugyong 'Hotel of Doom' 30 years after construction began The secretive state of North Jared Kushner, senior adviser to Korea could soon be ready to US President Donald Trump, has e ake d audio of Jare d Kus h open its so-called “Hotel of expressed doubt as to whether the Doom” 30 years after construc- Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be ne r re ve als he thinks 'the re tion first began. The 105-storey solved, according to leaked com- P a ssen ger p la n e Ryugyong Hotel is currently ments released yesterday. Kush- standing empty in the country’s ner, who has been charged with may be no s olution' in Middle capital of Pyongyang but last spearheading the Middle East week showed new signs that peace process, made the comments Eas t flies pa st N or t h something could be happening. during an off the record lecture to Work to build the multi-million congressional interns. In the re- pound hotel, which is the world’s cording obtained by Wired, he can tallest unoccupied building, be- be heard saying that he did not at what happened this past ten K or ea ba llist ic gan in 1987 but stalled in the ear- think the Trump administration days [Al-Aqsa crisis] – a lot of ly 1990s as North Korea strug- offered anything “unique” in deal- seemingly logical measures taken gled with famines. Construction ing with the conflict. And there on the different [unintelligible] part m issile cr a sh began again 2008 but eventually may be no solution, but it’s one of somehow became a little bit incen- stopped four years ago in 2013. the problem sets that the presi- diary.” He also lamented the press But walls put up around the dent asked us to focus on he said. treatment of Israeli Prime Minis- base of the base of the tower Kushner also expressed support ter Benjamin Netanyahu, a family sit e ju st were pulled down last week, un- for the installation of metal detec- friend Kushner has known since veiling two walkways leading up tors at entrances to Al-Aqsa childhood and who he refers to to the building and a big red pro- Mosque, a decision which caused with his nickname Bibi. “Bibi was m in u t es paganda sign reading: “Rocket widespread protests and resulted getting beaten up by the press in Power Nation”. The new fea- Israel, because that was very po- tures were revealed as North in clashes with Israeli occupying forces that killed seven people and litically unpopular for him to do,” Korea celebrated the anniversa- he said, describing the reaction to a ft er t est ry of the Korean War armistice. injured thousands before the au- thorities relented. “I have tried to Netanyahu’s decision to remove look at why people haven’t been the security measures. Last month, packed commercial airliner en route tured accidentally by the weather Philippine successful in the negotiations, so I the US revealed their “deal of the to Tokyo flew past the location camera of a TV station shows a looked and studied all the differ- century” for the Israeli-Palestin- where North Korea’s test intercon- flash as the Hwasong-14 crosses president to ask ent negotiations,” he said. “I spoke ian conflict; it ruled out the two- tinental ballistic missile crashed the sky, suggesting that the mis- to a lot of people who have been state solution as an answer to the into the Sea of Japan less than ten sile may have broken up as it re- Congress for part of them, and I think the rea- crisis, instead giving Jordan and minutes later on Friday night, ac- entered the earth’s atmosphere. In son why, is that this is a very emo- Egypt control of the West Bank cording to a US official cited by a statement to ABC, the airline said tionally charged situation.” “Look and Gaza respectively. ABC news. The American chan- that North Korea’s missile test 20,000 new (BBC) nel reported that Air France flight zones “don’t interfere in any way 293, travelling from Paris with 323 with Air France’s flight paths,” and troops to fight passengers on board, passed west that the flight was operated “with- of Hokkaido, Japan’s second larg- out any incident.” est island and northernmost pre- It added: “Moreover, in coopera- extremists fecture, as the North Korean tion with the authorities, Air France Philippine President Rodrigo Migrant crisis: I taly blocks ICBM was airborne. Shortly af- constantly analyses potentially Duterte has asked Congress for terwards, the missile returned to dangerous flyover zones and funds to recruit 20,000 new sol- earth in the same area, landing adapts its flight plans according- diers to battle rising threats from German aid ship at Lampedusa about 93 miles northwest of near- ly.” pro-Islamic State militants in the by Okushiri island. Footage cap- (CNN) country's restive south, senators The Italian Coast Guard is ques- said on Wednesday. Duterte tioning the crew of a German res- called an urgent meeting with a cue ship on the isle of Lampedusa, group of senators on Tuesday amid a dispute over Italy's code of night, sharing with them the lat- conduct for handling migrants at est intelligence reports on plans sea. The Iuventa is operated by by Muslim extremists to attack German NGO Jugend Rettet, three cities on the southern is- which called the Italian check "a land of Mindanao. "He wanted standard procedure". Jugend to relay to us that he needs Rettet, Doctors Without Borders 20,000 more soldiers for the en- (MSF) and some other aid NGOs tire Armed Forces of the Philip- reject the new Italian code of con- pines," said Senate majority lead- duct. Italy plans to send warships er Vicente Sotto. "He wants to close to the Libyan coast to pick make sure that in his tenure, he up migrants. The Italian parliament will be able to resolve the prob- is debating the plan, already agreed lem of peace and order." Three by the government, which is aimed other senators said the president at stopping the flow of unstable, overcrowded migrant boats across was serious about the scale of the Mediterranean to Italy. A tweet the security threat and asked from Jugend Rettet (Youth Res- Congress for support to fund his cues) said the Iuventa "was not plan to upgrade the military's confiscated". "Our crew is not ar- equipment and intelligence capa- rested. (BBC) bilities. They declined to say which three cities could suffer the same fate as Marawi, where Is- S a u d i: I r a n lamist rebels have battled the military for nine weeks since lay- ing a siege on May 23, with the d ela yin g intent to establish a "wilayat", or Islamic State province. (AP) Iraqi in vest iga t ion s president: in t o em b a ssy, ‘Kurdistan’s referendum con su la t e a tt a ck s

does not mean Saudi Arabia has accused the Ira- to the source, the delays reflect the nian authorities of delaying inves- Iranian government’s lack of re- independence’ kov told reporters on Wednesday: dering 755 staff to leave US dip- tigations into the attack against the spect for international laws and a "We have not heard such state- lomatic missions in Russia. Saudi Embassy in Tehran and con- violation of the inviolability of the sulate in Mashhad which took diplomatic mission premises which Baghdad- Iraqi President Fuad ments. The sanctions, which also target "We note there is a certain contra- Iran and North Korea, seek to place in 2016. “Iran, despite an ini- Iran had used for 38 years. The Masum said Tuesday that a tial approval, has denied a Saudi source stressed that, based on the planned referendum on the pro- diction in the statements being punish Moscow for meddling in rump's s e cre tary of s tate has s aid voiced in the White House." the 2016 US election and for its team entry into Iran as part of a above, the Kingdom will take all posed secession of the northern team investigating the attacks on necessary actions that guarantee its Kurdish region from Iraq does not the Pre s ide nt doe s not vie w the m as "Without doubt, it's important involvement in Ukraine and Syr- that the President of the United ia. the Saudi Arabian embassy in Te- diplomatic rights in accordance amount to a “declaration of inde- "he lpful", de s pite s aying he would hran and its consulate in Mash- with the Vienna Convention on pendence.” “Holding a referen- s ign the m into law. States is thinking about the cur- Mr Putin has repeatedly de- rent state, and about the prospects nied the conclusions of US intel- had. The Saudi team was delegat- Diplomatic Relations and the pro- dum based on mutual under- ed to work alongside Iranian au- visions of international law. Saudi standing does not amount to a for bilateral relations." ligence agencies that Moscow in- The Kremlin has accused the US tary of state Rex Tillerson has said The US started removing furni- terfered using cyber warfare meth- thorities to inspect the two Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with declaration of independence per facilities and finalise the process- Iran in early January 2016 follow- se,” Masum declared. He also of issuing "conflicting" statements the President does not believe the ture and equipment from a Mos- ods. regarding new sanctions on Rus- measures would be "helpful to our cow property on Tuesday as it Mr Tillerson said he plans to es relating to them,” an official ing an attack on the Saudi Embas- called for disputes between Bagh- source in the Kingdom’s foreign sy in Tehran and the Saudi consu- dad and Erbil to be resolved sia. Donald Trump has said he in- efforts" on diplomacy, with ties began complying with the order meet his counterpart Sergei Lavrov tends to sign the new sanctions between the two countries to cut its diplomatic presence in on the sidelines of a regional sum- ministry said. The source said the late in Mashhad in protest against through dialogue. “Iraq’s central Iranian authorities have resorted to the execution of Saudi Shia cleric government and the Kurdish re- into law, which appears to show strained by alleged meddling from Russia. When the sanctions were mit in Manila, Philippines over he is unfazed by further damaging Russia in the US election. announced, Russian President the weekend. extortion to gain political privileg- Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr. gion should look to the Iraqi con- es inside the Kingdom. According (AP) stitution with a view to finding a ties with Moscow. But his secre- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pes- Vladimir Putin retaliated by or- (CNN) middle ground,” said Masum, noting that Article 140 of the Constitution is devoted specifi- cally to “disputed territories.” A statement issued by the presi- dency said that Masum called on friendly and brotherly countries to double their support and soli- darity with the Iraqi people in cause, if anything, our aim is to their ambitious plans and strengthen Libyan sovereignty," projects, whether the private she added, stressing that Italy had ones regarding the reconstruction no intention of imposing a block- of destroyed and liberated areas ade on Libya's coast. The lower and development of services and house voted by 328 to 113 in structures throughout the coun- Italy's parliament authorised on Wednesday a limited naval mission to favour of the mission. The upper try or those related to the return help Libya's coastguard curb migrant flows, which have become a source house was also expected to back of displaced people to their cit- of growing political friction ahead of national elections expected early the measure when it votes later in ies and villages. For his part, Ira- next year. An Italian official said Rome planned to send two boats to the day. qi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Libyan waters, with Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti saying the ves- After a surge in migrant arrivals on underscored serious opposition sels would only provide technical support and would not infringe on the boats from Libya at the start of to Kurdistan region’s bid to ar- north African country's sovereignty. Italy announced the operation last the year the numbers of newcom- range a referendum for indepen- week, saying it had been requested by Libya's U.N.-backed government. ers has slowed in recent weeks and dence, describing it as illegal and It initially hoped to send six ships into Libyan territorial waters, but the the Interior Ministry said on a big mistake. “The referendum plans had to be scaled back following protests from Tripoli. "(We will) Wednesday that 95,215 people for independence of the Kurdis- provide logistical, technical and operational support for Libyan naval had reached Italy so far this year, tan region is a very big mistake, vessels, helping them and supporting them in shared and coordinated down 2.7 percent on the same pe- which is not legal. actions," Pinotti told parliament on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday's vote. riod in 2016. (Reuters) "There will be no harm done or slight given to Libyan sovereignty, be- (Reuters) THURSDAY . AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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AFGHANISTAN TIMES Themyth of American 'greatness' Editor: Mansoor Ahmad Faizy Donald Trump is on a mis s ion to "make Ame rica Phone No: +93-797070563 gre at again". But whe n e xactly was Ame rica gre at? E-mail: [email protected] presented as freedom and democra- By Belen Fernandez cy promotion and the natural be- Email: [email protected] haviour of great people. My own recollections of attending Catholic primary school in the US - aside from www.afghanistantimes.af being taught that my dog was not Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi going to heaven and that Saddam Hussein could send a missile to my classroom at any minute - include Advisory editorial board annual festivities surrounding every- one's favourite whitewash of geno- Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, cide and land theft: Thanksgiving. Belen Fernandez is the Come mid-November, half the class Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal, Saboor Sarir author of The Imperial would set about crafting Pilgrim hats, Messenger: Thomas Fried- the other half would craft "Indian" Graphic-Designers: man at Work, published by headpieces, and then we'd all har- Edriss Akbari, Bilal Yusufi and Basir Qazizada Verso. She is a contributing moniously draw turkeys together editor at Jacobin Magazine. and consume pumpkin pie. Mar ket i ng & Adver t i si ng: Moreover, America's ongoing Native Americans and blacks, for Liberty and justice? prioritisation of the health of the example - into stand-alone trage- Another highlight of the school Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 As the world has by now been made arms industry, a pillar of the current dies and unfortunate episodes that years was the daily standing recita- painfully aware, Donald Trump's capitalist system, occurs - naturally in no way taint the moral integrity tion of the Pledge of Allegiance to Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan preeminent goal as president of the - at the expense of human wellbeing of the nation itself, which is instead "one Nation under God … with lib- United States is to "make America both at home and abroad. In his sem- cast as a pioneer in democracy, equal- erty and justice for all". So much Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 great again". But for many students inal work "A People's History of the ity, human rights, and all that good for the separation of church and Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press - not to mention victims - of inter- United States", the late American stuff. One particularly wealthy char- state - or the fact that "liberty and national history, the burning ques- historian Howard Zinn noted one acter is threatening to 'make Amer- justice" have never been "for all", tion remains: when exactly was particularly gleeful period of Cold ica great again'. But given that Amer- being as they are totally irreconcil- America great? The answer is sure- War military spending in which a ican "greatness" has for so long been able with the obscene socioeconom- ly not to be found in the atomic certain Trident submarine - one of tantamount to widespread oppres- ic disparity that continues to pre- The constitution says bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, various "frightful and superfluous sion, we might be forgiven our pes- vail in the US. In August of last the lethal chemicals used to satu- weapons … totally useless except in simism. year, CNN Money announced that, rate Vietnam, or the unexploded a nuclear war" - came with a $1.5bn Toeing the line according to a report by the Con- Article 23: munitions that continue to maim price tag. This sum, Zinn reported, Obviously, it would be far easier gressional Budget Office, "the rich Life is the gift of God as well as the natural right of human beings. No one shall and kill people in Laos decades af- was "enough to finance a five-year to buy into the notion that the US are still getting richer in the US, with ter the secret US war on that coun- program of child immunisation now occupies an enlightened realm the wealthiest 10 percent control- be deprived of this except by legal provision. try. Nor, presumably, would Latin around the world against deadly dis- of post-nastiness if, you know, Amer- ling three-quarters of all family Americans slaughtered by US-backed eases, and prevent five million ican cops didn't continue to murder wealth in the country." The article dictators and death squads be able to deaths". But why let dying kids get innocent black people with impuni- continued on to note that "the en- provide many clues as to the where- in the way of US greatness? Alas, ty. It would also help if the Ameri- tire bottom half of the population" abouts of America's historical "great- few observers are as meticulous as can non-elite didn't continue to be was left with "just 1 percent of the ness". Ditto for Iraqis, Afghans, Ye- Zinn, who relentlessly connected generally asphyxiated by the very total pie". menis and other civilian populations the dots, exposing the economic society decried by Zinn: One that is Now, of course, one particular- consistently over-represented in the foundations and functions of the engineered to ensure that all men ly wealthy character is threatening US-inflicted "collateral damage" more than a half-millennium of are not, in fact, created equal, par- to "make America great again". But category. On the domestic front, bloodshed, plunder, displacement, ticularly when it comes to the dis- given that American "greatness" has too, the whole concept of greatness and exploitation that has charac- tribution of wealth. for so long been tantamount to wide- has been rather elusive - unless, of terised the American landscape since Fortunately for the powers that spread oppression, we might be for- course, we take it to mean a centu- Christopher Columbus' so-called be, the US education system is es- given our pessimism. And while ries-long tradition of crushing Na- "discovery" of the place in 1492. sentially rigged to toe the official much of America is consumed with tive Americans, blacks, and every- In contrast, the official mass-mar- line. Schoolchildren are bombarded the furore over "fake news", much one else whose dignity can be com- keted version of US history predict- with myths of American exception- more of a ruckus could stand to be prehensively violated in the service ably whitewashes the American tra- alism aimed to counteract a physi- made over what amounts to Ameri- of elite socioeconomic domination. jectory, converting potentially un- cal reality of societal decay, while ca's fake history. Competing histories pleasant memories - the wars on bellicose shenanigans abroad are (Aljazeera) Post-Caliphate Daesh: New nsurgent attacks have been escalated. Casualties among military and civilians are high. Children and women are among killed and approach needed, current wounded. As a whole the Afghan civilians have been bearing the brunt of casualties with losing of their dearest and nearest one in several disagreeable incidents. In many ups and downs situation, the ‘policies do little good’ By Suliman Mulhem Speckhard told Sputnik. "We have ances that individuals and societies terror attacks since Daesh' rise to Afghan masses have never turned blame finger toward each others, interviewed 62 ISIS defectors, re- face — problems that terrorist prominence in 2014, while others but blamed militant outfits behind uncertainty. When Shia minority turnees and prisoners from around groups name, frame and then offer have escaped without any significant 2017 has proven to be a difficult the world to date. We subtitle our violent solutions to. We try to de- incident. There has also been sizable was targeted, all the Afghan masses were condoled and stand beside year for Daesh, with their caliphate video clips aiming to have them rail that process. We can also ad- variances in the number of citizens them, reciprocally when Sunnis were targeted. Entirely, Afghan masses shrinking rapidly, as they lost available in the 21 languages ISIS dress real grievances in meaningful traveling to Syria and Iraq from dif- swathes of territory in Syria's Alep- recruits in to disrupt, prevent and ways and work towards providing fair ferent countries. When asked why across the country always stood in solidarity with each other in ev- po and Homs to pro-government intervene in ISIS' online and face- and good governance, dignity, secu- some countries were suffering from forces, and more recently, were to-face recruitment process. We rity and purpose to people in coun- terrorism more than others, Dr. ery situation, especially, whenever a heart-wrenching incident takes pushed out of Mosul, Iraq's second also give them titles and openers tries from which foreign fighters Speckhard said: "Because of first, sec- city. As the group loses territory, that make them look like ISIS vid- have been leaving. On the commu- ond and third generation Muslim im- place. Viewing this, one thing is very much clear that we are united in revenue sources and its structure, we eo clips in order to potentially cap- nity level we can thwart lone wolf migrant communities that do not feel every situation, and this chain of unity can’t be broken down as can expect them to step-up their ture the attention of those already terrorism by winning the confidence a place in society, and therefore res- efforts to launch terror attacks in consuming ISIS material, so they get of the community, as there are of- onate to the messages of terrorist enemies of the country is employing every available effort to reduce the Middle East, and the western another side of the story-and per- ten signs and leakages about immi- groups. France and Belgium both have world. Dr. Anne Speckhard, director haps, do not go along the terrorist nent attacks that family and com- many such persons, and we have seen it in several piece. Through targeting a particular ethnicity in Afghan- of the International Center for the trajectory." "We also have experts munity members recognize, but many attacks in these countries. Har- istan, the enemies are willing to fuel sectarian war, but they are in day Study of Violent Extremism who track ISIS on Telegram, Twit- don't know how to address. We need ry Sarfo told NYT Rukmini Callima- (ICSVE) and adjunct associate pro- ter, Facebook, etc. to gather more to have hotlines and rapid response chi that when the ISIS emir looked dreaming. In the past they tried level best, but failed wholly, and will fessor at Georgetown University, useful information about the orga- teams that are not just punitive law for French cadres to return to attack provided insight, and a more detailed nization's operations. Focus groups enforcement responses, to prevent at home, they found no shortage of in the future as well. This would never happens, as the Afghan peo- look at the many key and contem- test our video clips with vulnerable attacks," Dr. Speckhard said. "Sh- willing volunteers, whereas other porary issues on the topic of Daesh' populations in over ten countries annon Conley, a Denver teen who European countries had far less will- ple are enough mature to deal with enemies conspiracies. Surely, the threat to Europe and the US. "The and four continents with good suc- attempted to join ISIS was for in- ing volunteers — that's a chilling Afghans will not let the evil designs of the enemies to see light of the International Center for the Study cess," Dr. Speckhard told Sputnik. stance visited and warned by the FBI statement." The threat of terrorism of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), As the group loses its resources and multiple times before attempting to on European and American soil is day by standing shoulder to shoulder with each others. In its recent which I direct, has 16 researchers returns to functioning more like a board a plane to join them. What if what triggered the US-led coalition all working on different aspects of conventional terrorist group, they a trained professional had worked against Daesh in Syria and Iraq a few attempts, two attackers entered the Shia mosque, full of worshipers, researching and trying to prevent are likely to send some of their with her and her family to disrupt years ago. The campaign has helped and intervene in violent extremism. members back home to carry out how hypnotized she had become by roll-back Daesh, but an end to their during Tuesday evening, opened fire and detonated two suicide im- We train practitioners, police, in- attacks. This poses a crucial chal- violent extremist groups? She would caliphate could potentially see more provised explosives devices, leaving 31 civilians dead and wounded tel, psychologists, teachers and pris- lenge to Europe's and the US' vet- likely not be now sitting in a super terrorist attacks, as the group has to on workers on how groups like ISIS ting infrastructure, and security forc- max prison with her future de- adopt its strategy. "Ultimately los- over 60 others. This was an absolute atrocity against unarmed civil- [Daesh] recruit, operate. We also es. The threat of terrorist attacks stroyed… Same with Omar Mateen ing territory and cadres will decrease advise our partners how to disrupt, from domestic jihadists, who poten- who attacked the Orlando nightclub. their ability to mount huge attacks, ians, and this attack was completely in contrary to the Islamic teach- prevent and intervene in ISIS' pro- tially may carry out a lone wolf at- He was on an FBI watch list for but as the caliphate shrinks, they will ings and human principles. At real scenes it was massacres of wor- pagandizing and recruitment. Our tack which requires very little plan- some time and then fell off. What use returnees, and others they can Breaking the ISIS Brand — the ISIS ning, is likely to persist long after if someone had worked with him, entice into homegrown attackers, to shipers and has not justification at any law in the globe. We all under- Defectors Counter-Narrative the eradication of Daesh' caliphate addressing what seems to have been attack as virulently as possible to Project involves interviewing ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Closer coopera- his self-hatred and social stigma over demonstrate they are still active and stand that this was a sectarian violence against a specific community, defectors, prisoners, and returnees, tion between law enforcement agen- him apparently being gay, which well," Dr. Speckhard said. The wa- mostly on video, who tell us why cies and local religious bodies is re- seems to have led him to attack a tered-down version of President but it is abhorrent in its highest level. So far no group claimed re- they joined, what they experienced quired to identify potential attack- gay club and kill what he hated in Trump's travel ban recently came sponsibility, but in the past Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh inside ISIS, why and how they quit ers early on, as well as facilitating himself?" Dr. Speckhard told Sput- into effect, and has been received (if they did) and any advice to oth- better integration. "All terrorism nik. Some European nations, such relatively well by the US public. terrorist claimed responsibility for attacks against Shia mosques and ers thinking about joining," Dr. stems from real and perceived griev- as France, have witnessed several (Spuntak) religious gatherings. Yesterday’s attack in Herat province is the fifth attack this year targeting Shia mosques, killing a total of at least 44 civilians and injuring at least 88, according to UNAMA. But the mo- tivating point is that the more enemies are trying to create division among Afghan masses ethnically, and religiously, the more Afghan masses are coming closer to each other. Soon after Mosque attack, a large number of Shias and Sunnis of Herat province rushed to the hospital to donate bloods. Indeed, this move have been a great slap in the face of enemies, and an utterly failure to their mission of divi- sion. Noting this, it is obvious that none can inflict the sectarian war in Afghanistan, absolutely no one. Subscription Rates Note: The following rates will apply from January 01, 2017. Fee Categories Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 5400 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 2700 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $240 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. THURSDAY . AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

he Holocaus t narrative focus By Gina Benevento ing on the e xclus ivity of the Je wis h e xpe rie nce is wrong - tion and the physical location of the servers that will run the highly and mus t change . hy was e le ctoral commis s ion digitised election. The use of tor- ture - he was allegedly missing an By Nanjala Nyabola official Chris Ms ando torture d arm and was bleeding even at the morgue - suggests that Msando died and kille d jus t days be fore because of information he had. Ken- the Ke nyan e le ctions ? yans are now left to speculate on Gina Benevento is a why this election mattered so much former UN diplomat living and to one of the people seeking their working in Madrid as a endorsement for political office that Msando had to be killed. It's hard to strategic communications describe how thoroughly this turn consultant. Nanjala Nyabola is a of events crushes hopes that this election would inch Kenya towards writer and political analyst a more robust democracy - a remind- A photograph freezes a moment in based in Nairobi, Kenya. er that no matter how badly most time. A young girl stares out from Kenyans reject violence, those with the door of a train, her head cov- power can inflict wanton damage at ered in a scarf, her expression a The mutilated body of Chris Msan- will. Msando's murder signals that strange mixture of weariness and do, acting director for Information all of the small changes at the local fear. The girl's name? Anna Maria and Communications Technology level that increased the voter's sense "Settela" Steinbach. Ten years old at the commission overseeing the of agency over the process - in- when the photo was taken. Three Anna Maria 'Settela' Steinbach was 10 when the highly anticipated August election, creased numbers of women running months later Settela was dead - photo was taken. Three months later she was killed at was found in a forest near the capi- for office, more door-to-door cam- gassed at Auschwitz concentration Auschwitz concentration camp [Westerbork film shot by tal less than ten days ahead of the paigning versus mega rallies, in- camp, along with her mother, broth- Rudolf Breslauer, 1944, NIOD]Anna Maria 'Settela' vote. Let that sentence marinate creased investment in public educa- ers and sisters. For decades Settela's Steinbach was 10 when the photo was taken. Three in your mind for a while so you can tion initiatives such as debates - have face was an icon of children in the months later she was killed at Auschwitz concentration appreciate the shocking turn that lection commission official Chris Msando not yet translated into major chang- Holocaust. Her name unknown, she camp [Westerbork film shot by Rudolf Breslauer, 1944, the campaign season in Kenya has disappeared on July 30. His body was es in the sinister character of na- was simply called "the girl with the NIOD] taken. Just over a week before the found at the outskirts of Nairobi a day tional politics. The toxic politics headdress". Along with Anne Frank, vote, one of the most senior offi- later [Reuters/Thomas Mukoya]Election that led to the murders of political she was a haunting symbol of what rying Germans, castrated and steri- gele had also connected their veins. cials at the Independent Election and luminaries such as Tom Mboya, JM had been done to Dutch Jewry. But lised, and shipped to labour camps. Their wounds were suppurating, they Boundaries Commission (IEBC) was commission official Chris Msando disappeared on July 30. His body was found at the outskirts Kariuki, Pio Gama Pinto and Rob- in 1994 a journalist, Aad Wagenaar, An office to combat what SS chief cried day and night. Their mother, I kidnapped, tortured and murdered, ert Ouko, as well as election vio- discovered her identity. Using the Heinrich Himmler called "the Gyp- remember that she was called Stella, fuelling greater uncertainty and anx- of Nairobi a day later lence in 1988, 1992, 1997, 2007 numbers that appeared on the train sy nuisance" opened in Munich in had somehow been able to get hold iety around the election. Despite and 2013, is still with us. Moreover, car, Wagenaar was able to determine 1936. And five months before Kri- of some morphine and used it to put speculation to the contrary, indica- like Kenya's bruising battle for le- (IEMS) electronic vote count sys- if the police cannot keep a single the train's day of travel, May 19, stallnacht, Roma were rounded up an end to the suffering of her chil- tors were that Kenya's 2017 elec- official with such an important role 1944, and its passenger list. Settela in what was called "Gypsy Clean- dren." Eli Wiesel, the world's most tion, while highly contentious, would gitimate democracy was finally grow- tem - a move probably triggered by ing up. Msando's murder isn't just a the intense legal and legislative bat- alive, can they keep every other wasn't Jewish. She was Roma (alter- Up Week". Then in December 1938, famous Holocaust survivor, late in not rise to the level of violence ex- voter safe? Msando had allegedly nately Romani, Sinti, Gypsy). It was perienced in 2007. As many as devastating blow to his family, who tle on the use of an electronic ver- the first known reference to "The life became a vocal advocate for vic- will undoubtedly be crushed to have sus a manual voter identification reported death threats to the police assumed the girl was Jewish because Final Solution of the Gypsy Ques- tims of South African apartheid and 16,259 people are standing for of- multiple times, but according to the even in the 1990s - a half-century fice, suggesting that for better or lost a loved one in this way. It is a system. The toxic politics that led tion" appeared in a document signed Argentina's "disappeared". He rec- massive setback for the entire Ken- to the murders of political luminar- local press, he did not have a securi- after World War II - the genocide of by Himmler. In 1939, Dr Kurt Han- ognised the suffering of Bosnians, worse there is greater increasing in- ty detail. In the past year the police the Roma people was hardly known terest in participating in politics. yan election which has been teeter- ies such as Tom Mboya, JM Kariu- neman wrote in the Journal of the Kurds, Armenians. But in 1992, as a ing towards illegitimacy. In the ki, Pio Gama Pinto and Robert have invested heavily in anti-riot to the world. The primaries in April were neither National Socialist Union of Doctors: member of the advisory council of weekend that Msando was killed, the Ouko, as well as election violence gear and armoured vehicles and plas- In America, The Diary of Anne "Rats, insects and fleas are part of the US Holocaust Memorial Muse- completely free nor fair but the num- tered those images all over the press, ber of incumbents that were voted IEBC was struggling to explain why in 1988, 1992, 1997, 2007 and Frank was required reading at my nature, just like Gypsies and Jews … um, he lobbied successfully against it had printed an excess of more than 2013, is still with us. Public confi- yet the same police force cannot Florida public school, as was Eli We must gradually eliminate these recognising "non-Jewish" victims in out suggested that voters were ready keep the people running the elec- to exercise their agency. The end- 1.2 million ballot papers - well over dence in the possibility of a truly Wiesel's Night. With Native Amer- pests through biological means." the museum's permanent exhibition. the 1 percent (about 192,000) al- free and fair election was already tion alive. If they could not protect ican history absent from history That same year, 250 Roma children There are "rules" about the Holo- less list of public forums and debates Msando, what was the point of the hosted by civil society groups and lowance for spoilt votes that is de- low, but this murder significantly classes, the death of six million Eu- were murdered in Buchenwald - used caust. In July 1998, Roberto Benig- manded by its own regulations. Msan- undermines it. As details emerge, it massive displays of equipment oth- ropean Jews was my first knowledge as guinea pigs in a test of Zyklon-B ni premiered Life is Beautiful at the local NGOs hinted that after years er than intimidating voters? It would of depending primarily on interna- do's last assignment on Friday night is clear that Msando was murdered, of genocide. As I read about Wie- gas crystals. Warsaw Ghetto Re- Jerusalem Film Festival. I remem- was a live television segment in possibly because of his role. He was be patently false to argue that pre- sel's "faces of children … turned into membrance Day, April 19, is com- ber how tense and restless the hall tional organisations, local civil so- meditated murder isn't part of poli- ciety was ready to take responsibil- which he demonstrated the Integrat- one of a handful of people in Kenya wreaths of smoke beneath a silent memorated annually to remember was throughout the screening. Who ed Election Management System who knew both the login informa- tics in Kenya. (Aljazeera) blue sky", Jewish children were the the many Jews who fought - and died. was this Italian to make a "come- ity for political education. It looked face of the Holocaust for me. I didn't How many people know that Roma dy" about the Shoah? The most know that children such as Settela were also imprisoned inside? Roma important rule has been Wiesel's had existed. Yet estimates by Roma were trapped inside Lodz ghetto, too. dictum: "The Holocaust was a unique historians state that as much as 70- Arie Princ and Mendel Grossman, and uniquely Jewish event." Address- By Amir Handjani 80 percent of the total Roma pop- photographers who were the first ing 600 Jewish leaders at the World ulation in Europe at the time were to enter, wrote: "We could not re- Jewish Conference by video confer- Tensions between Iran and the Unit- murdered in the Nazi madness. De- cover for a long time from the ence on April 23, two days before ed States are escalating rapidly. Over spite this, recognition of the Roma shock, reading the inscriptions in visiting the Holocaust Museum in the weekend, Iranian and US navy Holocaust remains scant. Historians German left by the Gypsies on the Washington, US President Donald warships engaged in yet another term it "under-studied", "neglected", walls." And Roma were present in Trump - in stark contrast to his ear- round of shadow boxing in Persian "hidden". "We have consistently every concentration and extermi- lier statements - followed those rules Gulf. Last week Congress slapped been put into the 'others' category - nation camp. Josef Mengele was the carefully. "Six million Jews, two- additional sanctions on individuals along with Jehovah's Witnesses, most infamous of Germany's racial thirds of the Jews in Europe, mur- and companies associated with homosexuals, Poles and Catholics, theorists. Witnesses say Roma chil- dered by the Nazi genocide … We Iran’s ballistic missile program and as if we weren't part of the Final dren called him "Onkel Mengele" mourn, we remember, we pray, and support for terrorism. Iran, in re- Solution," says Ian Hancock, direc- because he would bring them sweets we pledge never again, I say it, nev- sponse, test-fired a rocket into tor of Romani Studies at the Uni- and toys, personally escorting some er again." It's hard to imagine Trump space. Forces backed by Washing- precisely the situation that the Unit- too late. Perhaps seeing what hap- undermine its own obligations un- versity of Texas, Austin. Experi- to the gas chambers afterwards. Ex- praying. It's even harder to imagine ton and Tehran continue to wage ed States faces presently with North pened to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the der the deal will be deemed as “go- menting upon Roma children, Men- perimenting upon Roma children, him genuinely moved by the Nazi proxy wars across the Middle East Korea, which virtually holds East leadership in North Korea was de- ing rogue” by the international com- gele placed them in pressure cham- Mengele placed them in pressure Holocaust (or by any other geno- from Syria to Yemen. There is, how- Asia hostage because of its nuclear termined to acquire nuclear weap- munity. This would erode the abili- bers, tested drugs on them, ampu- chambers, tested drugs on them, cide). And Trump's repeated "never ever, one area where pressure has arsenal. The similarities between ons as an insurance policy for its ty of future US administrations to tated body parts, attempted to amputated body parts, attempted to again" feels tired, devoid of mean- eased between Iran and the West: Trump’s 2017 response to the survival. One year later, they tested negotiate credibly with friend or foe change eye colour by injecting chem- change eye colour by injecting chem- ing. In contrast, on the same day as Tehran’s nuclear program. To date, Barack Obama-led Iran accord and their first weapon. Unlike North for fear that Washington could aban- icals into children's eyes, and froze icals into children's eyes, and froze Trump's speech, a thirtysomething the International Atomic Energy George W. Bush’s reaction in 2001 Korea in 2001, there is little doubt don its commitments whenever a them. The rare child to survive them. The rare child to survive Jewish-Israeli posted this on Face- Agency (IAEA) has reported seven to the Agreed Framework with that Iran is complying with the new president moved into the White these 'experiments' would be mur- these "experiments" would be mur- book: "It's Holocaust Memorial Day times that Iran has met its commit- North Korea that Bill Clinton terms of the accord to devote its House. This is a stark difference dered and then dissected. While Na- dered and then dissected. The full in Israel. Between Syria, the refugee ments under the deal. America’s part- signed are striking. Then as now, a nuclear program to peaceful purpos- from President Obama’s approach zis murdered numerous groups for extent of Mengele's experiments crisis and Chechnya LGBT death ners in the negotiation, the EU, neophyte president was determined es in return for the lifting of nucle- to engaging Iran bilaterally and mul- their beliefs or actions - trade union- Russia and China, have affirmed Ira- to chart a new course in foreign ar-related sanctions. The JCPOA tilaterally, and having allies in Eu- will never be known because most camps, I can no longer say 'never policy to distinguish himself from mandates a stringent inspection re- rope and Asia in agreement with ists. pacifists, communists, Spanish records were destroyed. Instead we again' with a straight face." A gener- nian compliance as well. So has Republican exiles and Jesuits, among Trump’s own administration – his predecessor. Then as now, Bush gime by the International Atomic Washington on sanctions and nego- have first-hand testimonies, such as ational change is under way. Six mil- launched a comprehensive policy Energy Agency to ensure that Iran tiations. Europe is much keener on others - they applied a consistent this from Vera Alexander, a Jew who lion Jews did die in the Holocaust; twice. But Trump wants to abandon policy of extermination only the deal regardless of whether Iran review of the North Korea dossier. cannot engage in activities that con- keeping the Iran deal in place, and survived Auschwitz, where she had antisemitism and Holocaust denial At the time, the Bush administra- tribute to the design and develop- Trump’s intransigence could cause against three groups: the handi- looked after 50 sets of Roma twins: are real. And, simultaneously, the continues observing the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of tion claimed to have evidence of a ment of a nuclear explosive device, irreparable harm to the transatlan- capped, Jews, and Roma. The cam- "One pair of twins called Guido and Holocaust narrative focusing on the covert uranium enrichment pro- and forbids Iran from pursuing nu- tic relations. If Iran were to make paign in Germany against the Roma Nina was barely older than four. exclusivity of the Jewish experience Action (JCPOA). He was reluctant to certify Iran’s compliance with the gram, which would have violated the clear weapons in perpetuity. While the same calculation as North Ko- began shortly after Hitler assumed Mengele picked them up and brought is wrong - and must change. deal. Rather than building an inter- no arms control agreement is with- rea – that Washington’s goal is not power in January 1933. On the ba- them back mutilated in a perverse (Aljazeera) accord, and the New York Times reported last week that he told his national coalition to force Pyongy- out flaws, the question that Trump to limit its nuclear program, but sis of discriminatory laws already in way. They had been sewn together ang to strictly adhere to the terms should be asking is: What are the rather to exit the nuclear deal as a place, Roma were barred from mar- advisers that he would like to find a at the back like Siamese twins. Men- reason to scuttle the multilateral of the Agreed Framework, the Bush alternatives? Without the nuclear pretext to regime change – Tehran agreement. If Trump pursues this administration chose to abandon deal, Washington and its allies would could view nuclear weapons as a de- course, his actions all but assure an diplomacy. By 2005, realizing that have less access to and fewer con- terrent, much like Pyongyang did a increase in hostilities with Tehran. Pyongyang was closer to producing straints on Tehran’s nuclear pro- decade ago. This could put the LETTER TO THE EDITOR It could force the Iranian leadership a nuclear weapon, Bush sought to gram. So long as Iran remains in Trump administration in the avoid- to believe that nuclear weapons are negotiate a more comprehensive compliance with its JCPOA com- able position of launching military essential for their survival. This is disarmament agreement – but it was mitments, any steps by the US to strikes that might plunge America into another Middle East war. Social mediapower Social media is playing key role in promoting unity among different people in different countries. In Afghanistan social media users are pay great heed toward national unity and also highlighting problems doing round in the society. Using social media in positive way is carrying more weight than any force in also tasked with ensuring that their named by US President Eisenhow- heed Martin, as well as the oil com- By Musab Qasem Azzawi work continues in accordance with er in 1961 as “the military indus- panies, represented by the Koch particular matter. the rules of the game that are po- trial complex”, which currently in- Brothers’ empire. It is this last re- People use social media to convey their messages. Social media is the fastest and Two may not disagree, regardless litically programmed according to cludes six poles that are divided mark that allows us to read the role simply way to convey message to anyone you want. of the perspective they take to the their demand by funding lobbying among the oil industry, arms man- of the American secretary of state Muqtadir Ahmad, Kabul, Afghanistan crisis of Qatar’s brothers in the past groups, groups that ruin reputations, ufacturing, pharmaceuticals and in the fabricated Qatari crisis. In and current foes that the rift is fab- and the political burning for those health care, insurance, technology 2012, ExxonMobil, headed by Rex ricated in terms of its essence and who sway one iota away from their and communications and major fi- Tillerson himself made a phenom- appearance and that the accusations orders. Such attacks are carried out nancial and banking institutions. enal profit of $45 billion when oil on which it is built are flimsy. How- via scandals, such as that of Moni- These companies compete against prices were close to $100 a barrel. ever, this does not prevent wise ca Lewinsky and former US Presi- each other to enhance their respec- This led the company to gamble observers from exploring the un- dent, Bill Clinton, as well as David tive share of the cake, draining the with a large part of its financial derlying causes that were hidden in Petraeus and his mistress while he resources of the entire planet, in- reserves to buy oil exploration the folds of the crisis that were not served as director of the Central cluding the United States of course, rights and shale and heavy oil in addressed by any media outlets, nei- Intelligence Agency. In the words without affecting the agreement Canada, which discovered one-third ther directly nor indirectly. The of pioneering journalist Glenn between them to unite against all of the company’s oil reserves lo- Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must first of these reasons may be di- Greenwald, Trump’s choice of threats to its authority and domi- cated in the shale oil fields in Can- have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: rectly linked to the equation of the Tillerson as secretary of state has nance in the US and in the world. ada’s Alberta, according to Canadi- [email protected] oil prices and the US Secretary of clearly demonstrated that the real This resulted in groups of political an journalist Naomi Klein. The State Rex Tillerson, who served as rulers of the US economy, society followers of each of these poles. extraction of shale oil is very cost- chairman of one of the world’s larg- and politics, have to take over rath- For example, Hillary Clinton is ly, sometimes costing up to $90 per est oil companies, ExxonMobil. He er than leaving things to those they funded by pharmaceutical compa- barrel, technically meaning that oil remained in his position until the usually mandate to play their parts nies, health, insurance, technology prices must remain at $100 a barrel Disclaimer: moment he moved to the State expertly, such as the Hollywood and communications and the finan- as a minimum so that ExxonMobil Department chair in a surprise and actor Ronald Reagan, who became cial institutions, which were later can make profits from its invest- unique move. Trump handed over president of the US and performed lured appallingly by Trump by ment gambles. However, the winds The views and opinions expressed in the articles are the position to someone whose his representative duties, such as all means of appointing their icons in did not blow in Tillerson and his those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views or company funded election cam- his predecessors, which he said ex- all the vital American institutions. partners’ favour in 2014, leading paigns of House of Representatives plicitly in a rare candid moment On the other hand, Trump was to a drop in oil prices to less than opinions of the Afghanistan Times. and Senate members, thus helping that was not planned. To further openly supported by arms manu- $50 a barrel due to Saudi Arabia’s control who’s in power. They are illustrate this, these real leaders facturers such as Boeing and Lock- flooding. (Middleeastmonitor) THURSDAY .AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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U.S. military generals worry Rus- of its territory. “We need to also s upporting sia will use a September military be prepared for surprises … they a ft er exercise involving nearly 100,000 could, say, go to a different direc- Maduro troops as an excuse to permanent- tion than planned, and there also ly station troops along NATO’s may be some tests of how the bor- eastern flank. The massive military der protection is working,” Lithua- d ea d ly vot e exercise is expected to take place nian Defense Minister Raimundas in Russian-allied Belarus, the Bal- Karoblis said. The Russian unit tic Sea, and Russia’s strategic en- participating in the exercise is re- clave of Kaliningrad to simulate a portedly named after a famed So- large conflict with the West. Rus- viet military unit famous for bat- sia originally said only 13,000 tling Hitler’s armies in World War troops would participate in the II and eventually occupying Ber- exercise, but senior NATO offi- lin. “Its establishment represents cials now say the number could be the first time since the collapse of as high as 100,000. Commander the Soviet Union that so much of- of U.S. special operations com- fensive power has been concentrat- mand Gen. Raymond Thomas re- ed in a single command,” The New cently lamented “the great concern York Times noted Wednesday. is they’re not going to leave, and “There is only one reason you that’s not paranoia.” Commander would create a Guards Tank Army, of U.S. Army forces in Europe Lt. and that is as an offensive striking Gen. Frederick B. Hodges similar- force,” Hodges said of the new unit. ly said, “I am very interested in Vice President Mike Pence is cur- what goes in and what comes out.” rently on a high-profile trip to the The Baltic NATO allies are par- Baltic states to reassure NATO ticularly worried because it is the allies ahead of the exercise. “Un- first large scale military exercise der President Donald Trump, the since Russia’s 2014 annexation of United States stands firmly behind Crimea. our Article 5 pledge of mutual de- The annexation stunned the Baltic fense — an attack on one of us is allies who fear that Russian mass- an attack on us all,” he declared ing along its border could be a pre- Monday. Venezuelan President Nicolas Assembly.The European Union olution has ever scored in its 18- lude to full scale invasion on parts (DAILYCALLER) Maduro was increasingly isolated expressed “preoccupation for the year history,” Maduro said, internationally yesterday follow- fate of democracy in Venezuela” dressed in the red associated with ing a bloody vote that handed his and said it, too, doubted it could the socialist revolution started by Socialist party almost total power accept the results. However, Rus- his late mentor, Hugo Chavez. to rule — but whose legitimacy is sia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia However, the leader of the Oppo- broadly rejected. The United have stood by Maduro, who sition congress, Julio Borges, said States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru shrugged off mass protests and US Venezuela “is becoming more di- and other nations said they did not sanctions on some officials to see vided and isolated in the world.” recognise the results of the elec- through the election. The National According to the Opposition, vot- tion Sunday of a new “Constitu- Electoral Council claimed more er turnout was closer to 12 per cent, ent Assembly” superseding Vene- than 40 per cent of Venezuela's 20 a figure more aligned with the lack zuela's legislative body, the oppo- million voters had cast ballots Sun- of lines that were seen at many sition-controlled National day. “It is the biggest vote the rev- polling stations. (Jamaicaobserver) Iran, Russia Agree on Positions in Astana Talks Iran files UNcomplaint on High-ranking Iranian and Russian Bugdanov, for his part, described officials in a meeting in Moscow Iran and Russia as two powerful agreed on measures needed to be allies which consult with each other coordinated and adopted about on the regional and world issues, C h in a sa ys newUSsanctions which Astana talks and other regional is- and said, "During the negotiations, sues. "We agreed over the Astana we discussed in details the inter- process and the common points national security issues, serious I n d ia con coct in g of Astana and Geneva talks as well fight against terrorism, the Syrian ‘breach nuclear deal’ as measures and positions which issue and the future Astana meet- should be coordinated in the cur- ing." Jaberi Ansari is in Russia to Iran has complained to the UN rent period of time over the As- hold talks with senior Russian of- excu ses in Security Council about sanctions tana talks and other regional issues ficials on bilateral ties and regional the United States imposed on Iran and crises," Iranian Deputy For- developments. Jaberi Ansari, head- in July, saying they breached Te- eign Minister Hossein Jaberi An- ing a high-ranking delegation, ar- b or d er r ow hran’s nuclear deal with major pow- sari said after meeting his Russian rived in Moscow on Tuesday ers, the speaker of parliament was counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov in morning at the invitation of China has accused India of "con- Bhutan, and gives China access to quoted on Tuesday as saying. The Moscow on Tuesday afternoon. Bogdanov. (Trend) cocting" excuses over the illegal the so-called Chicken's Neck, a nuclear deal, signed in 2015 by Iran entry of the South Asian nation's thin strip of land connecting India and the six powers including the military into Chinese territory on and its remote northeastern re- United States, led to the lifting of their disputed border, adding that gions. India has said it warned most sanctions against Tehran in Indian Army Chief visits China had shown great restraint. China the road construction would return for curbs on its nuclear The stand-off on a plateau next to have serious security implications. programme.However, the US Trea- Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan the mountainous Indian state of In a statement, China's For- sury’s Office of Foreign Assets Sikkim, which borders China, has eign Ministry said the Indian mil- Control imposed sanctions on six General Bipin Rawat, Chief of the from August 1 to 3, General Bipin ratcheted up tension between the itary was still in Chinese territory, Iranian firms in late July for their Indian Army Staff, is visiting Ka- Rawat will meet Defense Minis- neighbors, who share a 3,500-km and that China had acted with a role in development of ballistic zakhstan and Turkmenistan to ter, Chairman of the National Se- frontier, large parts of which are great deal of restraint, demanding missile programme after Tehran’s strengthen defense cooperation curity Committee, Vice Minister disputed. Early in June, according that India withdraw its forces. "But launch of a rocket capable of put- with the Central Asian countries. of Defense and Aerospace Indus- to the Chinese interpretation of the Indian side not only has not ting a satellite into orbit. The US Senate also voted on the same day tions and decided that they contradict parts of the nuclear deal,” Iran’s Indian Army Raises Concern Over try along with Commander-in- events, Indian guards crossed into taken any actual steps to correct speaker of parliament Ali Larijani was quoted by the Tasnim news Targeting of Civilians in Jammu Chief of Land Forces of Kazakh- almost unanimously to impose China's Donglang region and ob- its mistake, it has concocted all new sanctions on Iran, Russia and agency as saying. “Iran has complained to the UN Security Council for and Kashmir General Rawat is ac- stan. The delegation will also visit structed work on a road on the pla- sorts of reasons that don't have a the breach of the JCPOA by America,” he added. Iranian media said on companied by a high-level delega- elite Air Assault Brigade and Na- North Korea. The sanctions in that teau. The two sides' troops then leg to stand on, to make up excus- bill also target Iran’s missile pro- Monday that the government has decided on measures in reaction to the tion and will be visiting important tional Defense University at As- confronted each other close to a es for the Indian military's illegal grams as well as human rights abus- US sanctions and that President Hassan Rouhani will be announcing military installations. He is sched- tana where he shall be inaugurat- valley controlled by China that crossing of the border." es. “Iran’s JCPOA supervisory them soon to related ministries. US President Donald Trump issued a uled to meet a number of high rank- ing the Indian Military Art Room," separates India from its close ally, (Reuters) body assessed the new US sanc- veiled threat against Iran last week, warning Tehran to adhere to the ing dignitaries of both Kazakhstan Indian Army Spokesperson Col terms of the nuclear accord or face “big, big problems.” (REALIRAN) and Turkmenistan, according to the Aman Anand said in a statement Indian Army. on Tuesday. "During the visit to Kazakhstan (Spuntak) Minister: Azerbaijan has great potential in transit freight Azerbaijan has a great potential in added. “Furthermore, Azerbaijan cargo transit and transportation, had turned in to an important country’s Economy Minister Sha- transport hub, accommodating The 10-day ultimatum delivered es, toe the diplomatic, military and hin Mustafayev said in an inter- various transit routes, the coun- last week by Saudi Arabia and its economic line dictated by Riyadh, view to ‘Azerbaijan’ state news- try’s positions in the world and in allies—Egypt, the United Arab and pay unspecified reparations paper. Mustafayev, who is also the the region had been amplified and Emirates and Bahrain—to Qatar for the supposed damage caused chairman of country’s Coordinat- its political and strategic impor- has dramatically escalated their by its policies. All of this is to be ing Council on Transit Freight, said tance had grown," said Mus- confrontation with the tiny Per- monitored by means of intrusive that the revenues can be increased tafayev. Minister added that the sian Gulf state, raising the pros- audits for the next 10 years. Not by effectively using the country’s Coordinating Council on Transit pect of military conflict.The Sau- surprisingly, Qatari officials have potential. "The global initiatives Freight was established in accor- di monarchy has issued demands rejected the ultimatum, which and Azerbaijani President Ilham dance with the President’s Octo- that are designed to be rejected, so would transform their country into Aliyev’s state policy on bringing ber 21, 2015 decree and is dedicat- as to create the pretext for further a vassal state of Saudi Arabia. Tur- the country's transportation infra- ed to the effective use of the coun- punitive steps beyond the diplo- key, which, along with Iran, has structure to the international stan- try’s transit potential. "As a re- matic, travel and trade blockade provided aid to Qatar since the dards and increasing its transit sult of the Coordinating Council's imposed earlier this month. Not imposition of the Saudi embargo, potential contributes significantly activity, almost 16,000 trucks only is Qatar required to crack has also flatly dismissed the de- to the country's social and eco- passed through the territory of Az- down on alleged terrorist and crim- mands. President Recep Tayyip nomic development,” Minister erbaijan in January-June of 2017. inal groups, and shut down its Al Erdogan denounced the call for the (Trend) Jazeera news network, but also to removal of Turkish troops as “dis- severely downgrade relations with respectful toward Turkey.” Supporters of Jailed Kyrgyz politician Iran, expel Turkish military forc- (AP) Tekebaev start hunger strike BISHKEK -- Supporters of jailed gencies Minister Duishonkul More US-backed militants opposition Ata-Meken (Father- Chotonov, went on trial in June. land) party leader Omurbek Teke- They are charged with receiving a baev, who is being tried on charges $1 million bribe from a Russian surrender to Syrian army in Al-Tanf of bribe-taking, have started a hun- businessman in 2010, when Teke- ger strike in the Kyrgyz capital. baev was deputy prime minister. Another group of gunmen affiliat- tary equipment. In the meantime, member group of FSA-affiliated Ata-Meken member Kalys Bo- Both deny any wrongdoing, say- ed to the Free Army Syrian Army a Syrian army commander said that militants defected the FSA and ronbaev told RFE/RL that at least ing the case against them is politi- (FSA) and backed by the US army several groups of Jeish Maqavir moved towards regions controlled six activists had started the hunger cally motivated. On July 26, the surrendered to the Syrian Army al-Thowrah terrorists have hand- by the Syrian Army troops in strike on July 31, demanding the court rejected Tekebaev's request troops in al-Tanf region in South- ed over their weapons and mili- Southern Homs. The sources said authorities allow Tekebaev to take for permission to take the language ern Homs, sources affiliated to ter- tary hardware to the army men that one of the commanders of the Kyrgyz-language test required test. Ata-Meken has alleged that rorist groups disclosed on Wednes- after they surrendered. Also, some Jeish Maqavir al-Thowrah in Syr- for registration as a presidential the government launched the case day. The sources said that a group unofficial sources reported that the ia's Badiyeh (desert) nom de guerre candidate. Boronbaev said that in an effort to stifle dissent ahead of FSA-affiliated Jeish Maqavir al- US Army has decided to leave al- Haws al-Forati along with 30 of more activists and supporters of of the October presidential elec- Thowrah terrorists has fled its Tanf base and given a 24-hour ulti- his forces fled the militant-held the party are expected to join the tion in the Central Asian country positions in al-Tanf region and sur- matum to its militant allies to hand regions towards areas surrounding hunger strike in days. Tekebaev and keep Tekebaev off the ballot. rendered to the Syrian Army over their weapons. Relevant re- the army-controlled al-Tanf region. and his co-defendant, former Emer- (Akpress) troops with their arms and mili- ports said on Saturday that a 31- (BBC) THURSDAY . AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Helen Hai felt encouraged when mation and industrial upgrade of such as Rwanda and Angola," Xinhua News Agency. Matthew she heard German Chancellor An- China, and help resolve the refu- Merkel told reporters during the Tsamenyi, executive director of the gela Merkel's remarks during the gee crisis in Germany. One of Ken- closing media briefing of the sum- Africa program at the China Eu- G20 Hamburg Summit that there's ya's newly acquired standard gauge mit. "Though the cooperation is rope International Business a big potential for China and Ger- rail locomotive, carrying Kenyan still at a nascent stage, it has great School, believes that although Eu- many to cooperate in third-coun- President pulls into Voi railway potential." rope and the US have over the past try markets, especially in Africa. station on May 31, 2017 in Voi, Major player decades been the most influential Hai, CEO of the Made in Africa during an inaugural ride on Ken- According to a recent report partners in Africa in terms of trade, initiative and adviser to the gov- ya's new standard gauge railway by McKinsey Africa, China's en- investment and aid, China has es- ernments of Ethiopia, Rwanda, from the coastal city of Mombasa gagement with Africa has enjoyed tablished a huge presence on the and Senegal on investment promo- to the capital, Nairobi. In May, top an unparalleled development in the scene as an equally influential play- tion and industrialization, has been commerce officers from the two past decade, with trade growing at er. Chinese President Xi Jinping, advancing the idea of trilateral co- countries inaugurated the Sino- around 20 percent annually and right, shakes hand with German operation among China, Europe German Center for Sustainable 10,000 Chinese firms operating in Chancellor Angela Merkel, prior to and Africa since 2013. "It is inevi- Development in Beijing. The cen- Africa, said a Deutsche Welle re- their meeting, at the West Lake table for China, Germany and Af- ter aims to promote bilateral eco- port in late June. Chinese enter- State House, in Hangzhou, China., rica to finally resort to collabora- nomic cooperation in African coun- prises made more than $750 mil- Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. "Over the tion to address some of their cur- tries, leveraging China's rich expe- lion of non-financial direct invest- past two decades, China has sur- rent challenges," Hai told the Glo- rience of infrastructure investment ment in African countries in the passed a number of Western coun- bal Times. To her, the collabora- in Africa and German know-how first quarter of 2017, up 64 per- tries to become a major player on tion will kill three birds with one in the field of vocational training, cent year-on-year, Chinese com- the continent," Tsamenyi told the stone — help Africa get out of environment and energy technolo- merce ministry spokesperson Sun Global Times. poverty and achieve stability, meet gy. "China and Germany are co- Jiwei said in May, according to the (BBC) the demands of economic transfor- operating in third-country markets

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Russia's Deputy Prime Minister are working with various investors, Sovcomflot operates the in partnership: Igor Shuvalov said that the Rus- new proposals are coming in. Ini- world's second largest fleet of oil sian authorities are in talks with tially, we were thinking about plac- tankers and has long-term con- different investors on planned ing shares on the Moscow stock tracts with major energy produc- EEC Minister privatization of Russia's state exchange in favor of portfolio in- ers.According to the Russian Econ- According to reports, Eurasian ship with the organization's mem- minister plenipotentiary of Cuba's tion of partnership," Valovaya said. shipping company Sovcomflot. vestors. Now, new prospects have omy Ministry, the state is selling Economic Union welcomes Cuba's ber states, Minister in charge of Embassy in Russia. "We are ac- During the meeting, the parties dis- The Russian government is in talks emerged, and we are now discuss- 25 percent of Sovcomflot and interest in enhancing cooperation the Development of Integration tively developing both our rela- cussed opportunities for coopera- with private Asian investors on ing them, including with our Asian hopes to raise as much as 30 bil- and partnership with the organi- and Macroeconomics for the tions with national governments tion, the growth of trade turnover planned privatization of Russia's partners," he said. Russian Invest- lion rubles (some $500 million at zation's member states. The Eur- Council of the Eurasian Economic and cooperation with integration between Cuba and the Eurasian state shipping company Sovcom- ment Fund Expects Strong Inves- current exchange rate) from the asian Economic Union (EAEU) Commission (EEC) Tatyana associations on a multilateral track, Economic Union, and realization flot, First Deputy Prime Minister tor Demand From Sovcomflot sale. welcomes Cuba's interest in en- Valovaya said after her meeting and we welcome the interest of the of collaborative projects. Igor Shuvalov said Tuesday. "We Privatization - CEO (Spuntak) hancing cooperation and partner- with Rene Monsote Lopez, the Republic of Cuba in the promo- (CNN)

Russia calls on India and South Af- my development and trade takes in the framework of WTO. At the interest recently and represents a rica as partners in BRICS to sup- place in Chinese city of Shanghai, end of this year, the [WTO] minis- crucial interest for the BRICS mem- port its proposals in the World where the officials are discussing terial meeting will take place and I ber states, the minister added, not- Trade Organization (WTO) on the the issues of electronic trade and want to urge India and South Africa ing that the discussion on the mat- simplification of investment proce- simplification of investments. The to support its BRICS partners and ter should be promoted at all plat- dures, country’s Economic Devel- ministers are also preparing for the take part in the WTO discussions," forms. "Our countries are not only opment Minister Maxim Oreshkin the recipients of the direct foreign upcoming WTO ministerial meet- Oreshkin said at the meeting. The investments, but the BRICS states said on Tuesday. Currently, a meet- ing. "Russia, Brazil and China made issue of simplifying the investment ramp up their export capital too. ing of BRICS ministers of econo- their proposals on the issue with- procedures has drawn substantial (AP) I M F Ap p r oves US, I srael can’t match Russia when D isb u r sem en t it comes to I ndia ties: Rostec CEO Russia has the distinct advantage tec State Corporation, highlighted a group of reporters on the side- when it comes to sharing defense that India-Russia cooperation is on lines of Russia's premier air show of $ 8 2 5 m products and technology with In- merit and won't be affected by the MAKS 2017. India enjoys consid- dia and the US, France and Israel two countries' ties with other na- erable defense ties with Russia and cannot match that, a senior Rus- tions. "If India will work with purchases nearly 70% of its de- sian technocrat has said. July 10, some other countries, cooperation fense hardware and equipment t o I r a q 2017. Russian President Vladimir with Russia will cease. No. There from Moscow. But in recent years, Putin looks at Rostec Corpora- are defense products and technol- India is making attempts to diver- tion's display during the 8th Inno- ogy that no one else will give ex- sify its defense suppliers as rela- prom International Industrial cept Russia. And, Russia has al- tions with the US and Israel has Trade Fair at the Yekaterinburg ways been and will be a strategic improved. Prime Minister Naren- Expo International Exhibition Cen- partner of India," PTI quoted dra Modi became the first Indian ter. Sergei Chemezov, CEO, Ros- Chemezov while interacting with premier to visit Israel last month. (BBC) U S to over ta k e E U The IMF said that its executive day. "The completion of the sec- board has approved the disburse- ond review allows the authorities a s Ch in a 's la r gest ment of $824.8 million to Iraq upon to draw the equivalent of SDR completing the second review of 584.2 million (about US$ 824.8 imports, and allow rice imports for the country’s stand-by arrange- million), bringing total disburse- the first time. Between January ment. The International Monetary ments to SDR 1494.2 million about t r a de pa r t n er and June, Sino-US trade amount Fund logo is seen inside its head- US$ 2109.7 million," the release The United States is expected Wei Jianguo told China Daily in an reached 1.85 trillion yuan ($275 quarters at the end of the IMF/ stated. The Fund highlighted the to overtake the European Union interview. Part of the reason why billion), up 21.3 percent from last World Bank annual meetings in need for Iraq to implement mea- as China's largest trading part- US would surpass the EU, which year, according to the General Ad- Washington, U.S., October 9, 2016 sures to counter money-launder- ner this year, a former vice-min- was China's top trading partner ministration of Customs. The The executive board of the In- ing, terrorism financing, and en- ister of commerce said. Sino-US almost for the past decade, Wei growth rate is higher than that be- ternational Monetary Fund (IMF) hance anti-corruption laws. In July trade will continue to boom in said, lies in the ever-strengthening tween China and the European has approved the disbursement of 2016, the IMF approved $5.34 the second half of this year, Sino-US economic and trade ties. Union members, which stood at $824.8 million to Iraq upon com- billion arrangement for Iraq, which "with China's imports from the In April, China and the US agreed 17.4 percent in the same period. pleting the second review of the aims to assist Iraq with economic US growing faster than its ex- to initiate a cooperation plan to Sino-EU trade was 1.97 trillion country’s stand-by arrangement, reforms and restore fiscal balance. ports". Therefore, the US trade address trade imbalance. Under the yuan. the IMF said in a release on Tues- (Reuters) deficit with China will decline, plan, China will resume US beef (Reuteres) THURSDAY.AUGUST 03, 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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riyanka Chopra has posted selfies with British model and dancer Scarlett stormed out of the sets. The crew modelling. She also assisted on singer Bryan Adams and was spotted Wilson, who featured in the pop- members told a TV channel that choreography for the TV show on the sets of her upcoming Holly- ular song Manohari from SS Ra- Wilson slapped Rai who was soon Chak Dhoom Dhoom and worked Shah Rukh Khan is one the most that I am the biggest superstar. I jamouli’s Baahubali: The Begin- thrown off the sets. across many cities in various wood film, Isn’t It Romantic. See pics here. beloved superstars we have today still believe there’s a long way to ning, slapped a man on the sets of The channel then spoke to film’s projects including television and and the love from his fans only go and I love super-stardom. I wear her forthcoming movie when he producer Suresh Sharma who is commercial ads with actors like increases as the days go by. But it on my sleeve and I enjoy it.” On tried to hit on her. It reportedly keen on filing a complaint with the Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan. when you are at the position where the perks of being at the level that happened on the sets of Bolly- Film Federation of India, and ex- tied the knot with Emotional Aty- Shah Rukh is as a star, one won- he is, the Devdas stunner confess- wood film Hansa – Ek Sanyog pecting an apology from Rai. If he achar’s host Pravesh Rana on Au- ders how humble can that person es, “I am a rockstar and I really which features Scarlett in an item did not apologise, his acting licence gust 25, 2016. She has worked with be. Getting candid with Bolly- believe that I am a cool guy. I’d song. Actor Umakant Rai was could be cancelled. Wilson will numerous choreographers includ- wood Life, Shah Rukh stated, “I rather be this than anything else,” spotted making vulgar gestures soon be seen next in Akshay Ku- ing Bosco-Caesar who recom- read this saying somewhere, and I he asserted. “I want to have a pri- towards her. Wilson lost her cool mar’s Gold. mended her to director Dibakar would keep saying it till about 10 vate jet and I want to enjoy all the when he tried to touch her hair. Wilson came to India in 2009 Banerjee. years ago that I am not yet great trappings of a movie star. I want She brought the shoot to a halt and to work in Bollywood and began (Tribune) enough to be humble. Now, I real- to come late on the set and make ly feel that I am great enough to be movies the way I do. And I say all humble. I am truly humble.” “I am this without any cynicism. I have being honest, not pompous. In life, never said this to anyone from my you sometimes reach a level of team, ‘Oh, he can wait for me’. I Angelina Jolie achievement where humility am just unfortunately and unfash- should be at the forefront you will ionably late, but that doesn’t mean see this in most achievers,” he said, that I disrespect anyone or their slammed for adding, “I will not say that I have time.” 'casting achieved the most. I am not saying (Hindustan Times) Priyanka Chopra is busy with her Hollywood game' projects in her ‘second home’, New York City. The actress has been shooting for the movies A Kid Like Jake and Isn’t It Romantic. PeeCee, who has also practice with been wrapped up shooting the third season of her TV reality show Quantico, shared a very special picture children for on her social networking handle, reports Pinkvila. Priyanka Chopra and Liam Hemsworth shoot togeth- upcoming killings in Cambodia known as the supposed to come up with a lie, Killing Fields, which occurred as reports Elite Daily. It’s just been film part of the state-wide genocide the the hardest time: Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie responded to the ’70s under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge breaks silence on Brad Pitt split growing backlash over the casting regime. The film is a Netflix origi- “Srey Moch [the girl ultimately process for her latest film, saying nal, set to premiere sometime in chosen for the part] was the only she was “upset” that an impro- 2017. According to the article, in child that stared at the money for vised scene during auditions had order to find a child actor to play a very, very long time. When she been misconstrued as taking real the young lead, Loung Ung, the was forced to give it back, she be- money away from impoverished casting directors played a “game” came overwhelmed with emotion. children, reports Reuters. The with Cambodian children. The cast- All these different things came film, directed by Jolie and titled ing directors would place money flooding back. When she was asked First They Killed My Father, is a in front of each child and asked later what the money was for, she biographical thriller based on them to think of a reason why they said her grandfather had died, and Loung Ung’s memoir of the same needed that money, and then asked they didn’t have enough money name. Ung, who co-wrote the film them to steal that money. Then the for a nice funeral,” Jolie describes Kajol slammed with Jolie, is a survivor of the mass directors pretended to catch the the casting process. child in the act, and the child was (Tribune) 'impossible Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal starrer 'Raazi' gets the release date! beauty Alia Bhatt starrer upcoming film 'Raazi', based on a never-seen-be- standards', fore avatar of a Kashmiri girl, has er for upcoming Hollywood rom-com The Mary Kom finally got a release date of May actor posted a picture of herself and Bryan Adams, 11, 2018. The 24-year-old actress and wrote, “Was so good to see you again @bryanad- we can't get plays role of a Kashmiri girl who ams happy to be a part of such an amazing project marries a Pakistani officer played #heartheworldfoundation.” Was so good to see you by Vicky Kaushal, to spy for the again @bryanadams happy to be a part of such an enough of it! Indian Intelligence. The duo have amazing project #heartheworldfoundation ?? Bryan started shooting for the movie di- also shared another picture of the two on his Insta- Veteran Kajol is a fierce and bru- jol was asked if her brutal honesty rected by Meghna Gulzar. To ex- gram handle and wrote, “Shooting photos today of tally honest actor who succumbs and straightforward attitude cost press his excitement, Karan Johar to no societal pressures and beau- her anything, to which she replied, took to his Twitter handle and un- the lovely @priyankachopra for #heartheworldfoun- ty standards whatsoever, doing “Huge cost. Ajay (Devgn) blasts veiled that the movie is all set to dation.” Hear the World Foundation is a nonprofit what she deems appropriate. The me every other day. I can’t take hit the theatres on May 11, 2018. foundation working for equal opportunities and straightforward actor opts for diplomacy seriously even though The director of the film Meghna better quality of life for people with hearing loss. On sheer honesty rather than diplo- it lands my husband in trouble with Gulzar also shared the news on her the work front, Priyanka was last seen in the movie macy and receives flak for it by people in the industry. At parties, twitter handle. Kaushal is known Baywatch. The movie that featured Dwayne Johnson her husband, reports Pinkvilla. he chides me for saying things as for award-winning film 'Masaan'. in the lead, fared decently at the box office. (Tribune) Kajol ‘caught eating beef’ on is. But believe me, I say things in (Santa Banta) video and people can’t handle it the nicest of ways with the best of In an interview with a leading intentions. Fortunately for me, tabloid, the Baazigar actor went on people forgive me a lot. It’s diffi- record saying, “Actors have dehu- cult to be diplomatic. I’ll forget manised themselves. We hold our- what you lied about.” The Dilwale Sidharth and Jacquelinehaveaball of a selves to these impossible stan- actor was further asked that what dards because we’ve created is the one thing she hates about them.” The actor clearly feels pas- Bollywood, to which she respond- sionately about unrealistic beauty ed, “I hate airport looks. It’s idiot- timein this BTSvideo of 'Baat Ban Jaaye' standards for the people in the film ic. It’s ridiculous to look perfect While the video of Sidharth Mal- fun that unfolded on the other side of the lenses. It world. “Looking a certain way is all the time. I am not walking in hotra and Jacqueline Fernandez' was not all work and no play for one of Bollywood's an issue we’ve created. I wear reg- heels with perfect lipstick. After 'Baat Ban Jaye' from 'A Gentle- hottest pair. While Jacqueline is known to be a live ular stuff, clothes which are com- long flights, everyone looks like man: Sundar, Susheel, Risky' is a wire in real life, Sidharth Malhotra turned partner in fortable. It’s not airport fashion. they survived a calamity. It’s fine.” testimony of the fun the duo had, crime with his leading lady and is seen letting it loose It’s what normal people wear. I Kajol, we are smitten! this new BTS video showcases the on the beaches of Miami. Complete with hook steps can’t wear stilettos while travel- The actor was inquired if she actors as a complete house on fire! and a peppy party vibe, 'Baat Ban Jaye' features ling. Flats were created for a rea- cares about the fashion police who It was earlier reported that Gaurav and Kavya aka Sidharth and Jacqueline get- son. What is size zero? I don’t have many a times critiqued her Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline ting their groove right at the beach. This BTS video understand it. I can’t allow critics fashion sense negatively. “I don’t Fernandez had turned the sets of from the sets of 'Baat Ban Jaye' channelizes the inner to pressure me,” she added. The take the fashion police seriously. 'Baat Ban Jaye' into a beach party, party animals of Sidharth and Jacqueline. The duo actor definitely cares about fat People have accepted me for who this behind the scenes of the song took to the waters to deliver impromptu fun moments shaming and positive body image I am. gives us a sneak peek into all the for directors Raj and DK. (Santa Banta) and we could not agree more. Ka- (Hindustan Times) THURSDAY.AUGUST 03 , 2017 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Neymar was given permission not ment for Neymar's €222m (£198m) to train by Barcelona on Wednes- release clause over "doubts that day amid speculation he is moving this money is in accordance with to Paris Saint-Germain. The Bra- UEFA Financial Fair Play rules". zil international spent 40 minutes However, UEFA sources have at Barcelona's training ground, ac- since confirmed that Neymar's re- cording to Sky sources, with Span- lease clause cannot be blocked by ish media reporting he told his La Liga Sky sources last week said team-mates he is leaving the club "only a miracle" would keep Ney- for the French club. mar at Barcelona after he asked to Neymar flew back to Spain leave the club. Sky Sports News from Dubai on Tuesday following understands talks to take Neymar Barcelona's pre-season tour in the to Paris Saint-Germain are now at H ope over Au st r a lia United States, after attending a an advanced stage, with a source series of promotional events in in Spain close to the player main- China earlier this week. One of taining the Brazilian is "90 per Neymar's agents, Wagner Ribeiro, cent" likely to leave this summer. pay dea l between has now arrived in Paris, accord- PSG president Nasser Al- ing to his Twitter account. A Khelaifi believes negotiations are spokesperson for La Liga presi- going well and that a deal is likely dent Javier Tolbas told Sky Sports to be agreed for the forward. News they would not accept pay- (Sky Sport) cr icket er s a n d u n ion

The pay dispute between Cricket England. Australia's top 230 play- just yet," Smith told Fox Sports Australia and the players finally ers have effectively been unem- Australia. "There's still a few things looks close to being resolved after ployed since the last five-year that need to be finalised, some key nine months of wrangling. A Crick- agreement expired on June 30 and elements. "They've been making et Australia spokesman said on an "A" tour of South Africa has some really good progress and Wednesday that negotiations had already fallen victim to the lock- hopefully they'll continue to make Conor McGregor beating Floyd Mayweather advanced to the "final details" af- out. Australia captain Steve Smith progress." A resolution would give ter days of lengthy talks with the said he was upbeat that the bitter certainty not just to the Bang- Australian Cricketers' Association. pay war between players and ladesh trip, but a one-day tour to would be the 'biggest upset of all News Ltd media on Tuesday management could be nearly over, India in September and October declared a "peace deal brokered" but warned the team wouldn't go ahead of the showpiece home Ash- and the "Ashes saved", a reference ahead with this month's tour of es series against England, beginning to the upcoming Test series against Bangladesh until a new deal was in November. time',says Michael 'Venom' Page signed. "A deal hasn't been done (Cricket News)

A victory for Conor McGregor shadow that, in one boxing match. over Floyd Mayweather would be It would be the biggest upset of all the biggest sporting upset of all- time." Page believes the reigning Usain Bolt time, according to British fighter UFC lightweight champion must Michael 'Venom' Page. McGregor look to utilise his mixed martial arts is hoping to shock the world when background if he is to have any says he faces the former five-division chance of defeating Mayweather world champion in a highly-antic- at the T-Mobile Arena. "If May- ipated boxing match in Las Vegas weather takes things for granted on August 26, live on Sky Sports that's when he can get caught," athletics Box Office. Mixed martial artist Page said. "Being a mixed martial Page, who himself is preparing to artist myself, we do bring differ- embark on a new career in boxing, ent attributes to the table. "We is on the knows the size of the task facing fight at a higher pace because our McGregor but believes the Irish- fights are slightly shorter in their man has a unique opportunity to length of time. way back write his name into sporting folk- \Our maximum for title fights is 25 lore. "I think the last thing that minutes. "We have a higher inten- shocked the world was Leicester sity when we fight. The first four winning the Premier League," Page or five rounds is going to be mas- and urges said. "In one night he could over- sively competitive. (BBC Sport) dopers to clean up their act Usain Bolt has warned dopers they risk killing athletics and has urged them to clean up their act for the sake of the sport. But the Jamai- can thinks things are gradually moving in the "right direction" af- Norway's Alexander Kristoff burst ensured a strong pace in the coun- tin, offered the most sustained chal- ter hitting rock bottom when the clear of the field to win the 183- tryside south of London. The field lenge. Impey, however, fell away Russian federation were banned for km RideLondon-Surrey Classic on started on Horse Guard's Parade through Wimbledon Village, before Sunday. Kristoff left his rivals trail- and passed through Hampton Kristoff nipped in front with 200 systemic doping in November ing with 200m to go on the Mall in Court, Boxhill and Leatherhead metres to go and went on to win a 2015. The 30-year-old sprinting London before holding firm in the before returning to central London pulsating race. "We've only had legend has pleaded for clean sport face of a late charge from Den- along the Thames. Kristoff had to one week of rest since the Tour de ahead of his eagerly-awaited final mark's Magnus Cort Nielsen (Or- chase down Quick-Step's Matteo France, so I didn't know my shape individual 100m race at the World ica-Scott), who finished second. Trentin and Trek-Segafredo's Jas- as I didn't train too much," Krist- Championships in London this Australia's Tour de France green per Stuyven, who both made a off told the BBC. "I had a great weekend. Of the 30 best 100m jersey winner Michael Matthews breakaway with less than two ki- party at home a few days ago and times in history, 21 were achieved (Team Sunweb) finished third for lometres left. Team Sky's Peter usually I race well after a party, so by athletes who have served drugs the second consecutive year. The Kennaugh had initiated the late maybe that's a tactic I should use bans, while the other nine have all race was elevated to WorldTour dash but Orica-Scott's Daryl Im- again." come from Bolt during a superla- status for 2017, a decision that pey, along with Stuyven and Tren- (Sky Sport) tive nine-year career which has earned him eight Olympic gold medals and 11 world titles. And Bolt, who holds the world records in the 100m and 200m, insisted dopers are endangering the future of athletics. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, he said: "Hopefully athletes will see what's going on and understand that if they don't stop what they're do- ing the sport will die. "Hopefully understand what the sport is go- ing through and what they need to do as athletes to help the sport move forward. "Personally I think it was there Stradivarius looks another strong as he went in search of a third suc- on strongly. Just like Big Orange, in recent years with the likes of [rock bottom]. After the scandal St Leger contender for John Gos- cessive win in the race, which was Stradivarius was a Royal Ascot Lucarno, Masked Marvel and Arc- on Russia I don't think it gets any den after downing Big Orange in newly-upgraded to Group One winner in the Queen's Vase and the tic Cosmos and now all roads sure- worse than that. It's on its way the Qatar Goodwood Cup. The status. However, Stradivarius, 13lb difference in weight was key ly lead to Town Moor once more. back up now. No way but up you Ascot Gold Cup winner adopted with Gosden keen to take advan- inside the final furlong as the 6-1 The winner is now 4-1 second- can go and forward. "You can't be his usual front-running tactics un- tage of the weight-for-age allow- chance pulled clear, with another favourite for the final Classic with happy about doping at all, it's not der Frankie Dettori and appeared ance as he was at the weekend with three-year-old, Desert Skyline, in Betfair. good for the sport. But over the to have all of his rivals in trouble Enable in the King George, stayed third. Gosden has won the Leger (BBC Sport) years we're doing a better job, it's getting clean and we're catching up to a lot of athletes. "There's an understanding that, listen, if you cheat you will get caught. Over time the sport will get better. "I Women's British Open: Ways to said a couple of years ago it had to get really bad, when there's no- where else to go but up. The only way track and field has left to go is watch live on Sky Sports Golf up. We're going to go in the right direction and I'm happy about that The Ricoh Women's British Open heads to Kingsbarns this Wednesday - offering a whole host throughout the week on the situation. week, with extended coverage live on Sky Sports. All four of bonus preview content. SkySports.com website and mo- "Doping is always a bad thing and days from Scotland's east coast will be shown live on Sky Sarah Stirk will host the live bile apps, while a dedicated blog it's never pleasant because you put Sports Golf, while Sky Sports News will bring you regular coverage throughout the week, will offer live text commentary for in the hard work and the sport highlights, interviews and reaction. There's 28 hours of live with Solheim Cup stalwarts Trish Sunday's final round. 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of Defense Studies and Analyses is associated with it, he added. country. He said that we would of India, Jayant Prasad said: “In Chabahar port is a joint love it if Pakistan joins these the next few months we are going Afghanistan, Iran and India discussions. Without Pakistan’s to shift 100,000 tons of wheat projects. India, Iran and cooperation to resolve problems through Chahbahar port to Afghanistan signed the historic in Afghanistan and given the past Afghanistan.” three-nation deal in 2016 to record of Pakistan since 2001, it is Speaking at a press conference develop the strategic port of hard to imagine that the situation titled “2nd Round of Afghanistan, Chabahar in Iran and build a can be ameliorated with the ready India and Iran Trilateral Dialogue”, transport-and-trade joint corridor cooperation of Pakistan, but it is AT News Report “grand national-social assembly in he said that we will improve the and the mention three country can even harder to imagine that without which the people’s representatives feasibility sooner by this big import and export to European Pakistan the situation can be KABUL: The Afghanistan Council gather and decide about the shipment of wheat through countries through this corridor. bettered, he elaborated. for Peace and Salvation, a political important national matters after Chahbahar to Afghanistan. Responding to a question about He said that the Pakistan party in a package of suggestions, talks and discussions”. This wheat is the donation of non-participation of Pakistan in authorities have huge internal called for some changes in the The Loya Jirga, according to India to Afghan people, he added. trilateral meeting, Mr. Prasad said problems in dealing with constitution as well as holding the the council, has gained legal He said that “I think it that we have always said that we Afghanistan and that is because traditional grand assembly (Loya reputation in the course of the provides the additional have official and non-official Pakistan is simultaneously the Jirga) to put an end to the current history. AT News Report port for broadening of trade connectivity to Afghanistan it gives dialogue on Afghanistan with army and the Inter-Services challenges. It also said that Afghanistan is relations. The Indian official talked a second access to the sea.” China and Russia and we would Intelligence (ISI) tries to be the fire “The requiring changes in the an independent Islamic country KABUL: The participants of a about shipping of 100,000 tons of The existing access option is welcome a dialogue with Pakistan fighter as well as the in senders at constitution of the country is a vital and is united and could not be tripartite meeting between Afghan, wheat from India to Afghanistan only through Karachi and time to on the future of Afghanistan to the same time and these are to role need, and as the holding of the disintegrated. Iranian, and Indian officials through Chabahar port soon. time stoppage is there and time to construct positive outcome and which are in contradictory and that Loya Jirga mentioned in the current “The people of Afghanistan do stressed the important of Chabahar Director General for Institute time there is a political cost which bring peace and stability in this is the difficulty. constitution is not implementable, not defend the oppressive and the traditional Loya Jirga should corrupt individuals. They stand be held, because it is trustworthy against those individuals in unity for the people,” the council said in even the individual is the son of 153,000 Haqqani a part of its suggestion titled one of them.” people flee Bankingmagazinegrants‘best ‘national treaty for salvation of It also says that the people of network Afghanistan crisis’. The council Afghanistan do not help any alien homes in past bank’titletoBakhtar Bank recognizes the Loya Jirga as the against their own country-fellows. 7 months: leader Bakhtar Bank was the only national and international Balkhi Afghani Bank which gained the customers. among 9 abovementioned title. He insisted that this success s many as 153,000 Granting prizes to the banks will be a good step of motivation individuals have been and insurance companies has been to customers and their trust. killed A displaced across the held in Singapore in 13 Julay 2017, Gaining achievement will country due to clashes and where over 100 winners from 30 inspire our staffs to work more insecurity during the past seven different countries participated. hard in order to achieve more in Logar KABUL : The Ministry of Public 300 drugs companies were months, said the minister of Marketing Manager of achievements, he added. Health (MoPH) on Tuesday said currently active across the refugees and repatriation on Bakhtar Bank Mohammad Salim Bakhatar bank also gained the AT Monitoring Desk it would install five new country and the ministry has Tuesday. Sayed Hussain Alami Rahimi said that before giving the title of the best bank from CFI laboratories to test quality of signed a cooperation agreement KABUL: At least nine imported medicines. with Iran, Pakistan, India and Balkhi, during a visit to western title of best bank our organization Magazine in fist months of 2017. insurgents, including a Haqqani Herat province, told a press answered to a questioner of ABF. Bakhtar bank has 62 active MoPH officials said around China, the biggest exporters of network suicide attack organizer 10,000 drug stores were run medicines to Afghanistan, last year. conference here that about $16 While voicing pleasure over branches in 62 provinces across the were killed after the Afghan Air million had been allocated to AT News Report Bakhtar bank success, he said that country as well as actively dealing without pharmacists and 93 Based on the agreement, these Force (AAF) targeted them in percent of medicines were countries are cooperating with meet the needs of the internally gaining of this title will make more with different international central Logar province, an official displaced people (IDPs). The KABUL: The Asian Banking and trustable the Bakhtar bank for financial organization in the world. imported to the country without Afghanistan in identifying Finance (ABF) magazine granted said on Wednesday. The AAF their quality being checked. companies that produce low minister said the figures showed carried out the airstrikes in Shah about 27,000 families or the Bakhtar Bank, one of the They urged 450 domestic and quality medicines, blacklisted and private banks in Afghanistan with Mazar, Rustamkhel and foreign companies importing operating without license, Feroz 153,000 people had been Yousafkhel areas of Pul-i-Alam— displaced in various provinces the ‘best bank’ title for banking medicines to obtain operation said. operation and using technology for the provincial capital—late on license within next 10 days or their The minister said the licenses due to the war and insecurity Tuesday night. Police since the beginning of the year 2017. operations would be accounted as of 800 drugs companies that were The magazine is published in spokesman, Shapoor Ahmadzai crime. inactive had been cancelled during until August. He said the told Pajhwok Afghan News that number showed a decline Singapore and is a well progressed Activities without license the last one year. magazine in industry with Asadullah, organizer of suicide Public Health Minister Dr. Controlling medicines’ prices compared to the same period of attacks, was the dead. Three 2016. Balkhi didn’t go into providing reports and views Ferozuddin Feroz, speaking at a The public health minister said regarding financial services in Asia other key figures of the Haqqani conference ‘A look to performance people in different areas of the details, saying last year’s about network, Qari Salhuddin, Qari 252,000 IDPs were registered each three months. and achievements of National country had complained about high This organization grants 180 Matiullah and Qari Kochai, and Medical Products Authority medicine prices. across the country. Balkhi said five Taliban were also killed. “The his ministry was able to titles to the winner banks, where (NMPA)’ here, said 250 drugs Feroz said the MoPH had killing of these rebels is a great importing companies and 200 developed a plan for controlling facilitate safe return of 118,000 achievement for us. Their people to their areas of origin. foreign companies whose medicines’ prices. The plan would elimination will help improve medicines were sold in Afghanistan be shared with the private sector, Earlier the ministry had said a security in the country,” the total of more than one million were operating without obtaining he said, but stopped short of going CE Abdullah Urges Afghan police spokesman hoped. A license from the ministry. into details. had been internally displaced. resident of Shah Mazar area, Taj Balkhi said most of the IDPs He said the companies’ owners Six types of drugs produced Mohammad said that security were required to obtain the license inside the country According to were from the western zone forces conducted raids on militant (Badghis, Ghor, Farah, and politicians to act responsibly positions. “I know the Taliban within next 10 days or their Feroz, 95 percent of all medicines Herat provinces) and all had were killed but don’t have exact activities would be accounted as in markets are imported while five Afghan politicians should be crime and the companies would be percent or six types of the taken refuge in Herat, numbering united and work together for figures,” Pajhwok quoted him, as around 100,000 individuals. saying. sealed. medicines are produced inside the national interests. MoPH officials said around country. (Pajhwok) (Pajhwok) Abdullah said that all politicians including those inside government should reach to Jaghatu police negotiation and a single decision, “otherwise the enemies will use the chief killed in opportunity against us.” Emphasizing on ensuring Taliban ambush justice, Chief Executive also stressed that government is district police chief was committed to implement the key among seven other police demands of the people including Akilled in separate bringing reforms in state incidents of violence in southern institutions. Ghazni and Helmand provinces, “We accept there are officials said on Wednesday. The weaknesses, reforms needed, Jaghatu district police chief, demands of the people should be Manzoor Hussain, was killed heeded, unity must be maintained along with one bodyguard after and if justice was not ensured the their car was ambushed by system will be weakened,” Taliban militants in Torgan area, Abdullah said. Ghazni police spokesman It comes two days after Fahim Amarkhel said. He told Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah Introducing Hamid Tahmasi as Governor of Balkh and the leader Pajhwok Afghan News that the urged new formed coalitions and Acting Minister for of Jamiet-e-Islami criticized the Haghatu police chief was on his critics to act responsibly and seek Transportation and Civil Aviation government of monopolization and way to the district centre when their demands through negotiation. on Tuesday, Abdullah said that ethnic dissensions. (ATN) came under attack. He said one civilian was killed in the incident. A resident of the area, Ali Work launched on Badakhshan orphanage building Mohammad, said a clash was still ongoing between police and FAIZABAD : Construction work Taliban militants in Torgan area. on an orphanage with capacity for Taliban spokesman Zabihullah a thousand children has kicked off Mujahid confirmed the killing of in Faizabad, the capital of the Jaghatu district police chief northeastern Badakhshan along with a guard by the province, an official said on fighters. Manzoor Hussain was Wednesday. the second police chief to be Governor Ahmad Faisal killed in Ghazni since Friday Bekzad told the inauguration when the rebels killed Gilan ceremony for the building the police chief. Elsewhere in project would be implemented by southern Helmand province, six a Turkish organisation, called police were killed after the TIKA, in seven months. It would Taliban stormed their posts in cost a million dollars to be provided the Nawa district last night, a by Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pajhwok Afghan News it would government official in the district Zaki Yuldash, head of the He evinced a keen interest in the be one of the biggest orphanages told Pajhwok Afghan News. He TIKA, who also attended the construction of the orphanage and at the Afghanistan level. The two- said the attack took place about ceremony, said he had seen children allocated budget for it. Work on storey building is being constructed two kilometers away from the in the Badakhshan orphanage were the project has begun and will be on 1.5 acre of land. district centre. Three police were in bad condition during his visit to completed in six or seven months,” He said the 26-room also wounded and as many were the province six years ago. he said. compound, with a dining hall, missing after the attack. “After I took up a job in Eng. Hafizullah Hamdard, would have the capacity for 1,000 (Pajhwok) TIKA, I shared the issue with project manager at TIKA, told children. (Pajhwok)