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KABUL: National Security Ad- General Jens Stoltenberg, ambassa- visor Hanif Atmar has reached dors from the North Atlantic Coun- Belgium on an official visit to meet cil (NAC) and NATO s military and NATO leaders ahead of the alli- civilian officials, Ghorzang said. He ance s upcoming summits on Af- said the meetings would discuss the ghanistan, his office said Wednes- military alliance s civil and military day. National Security Council cooperation with Afghanistan and (NSC) spokesman Tawab Ghor- future plans. The NSC spokesman zang told Pajhwok Afghan News said the meetings were part of prep- that Atmar after his successful arations for next month s NATO for- talks with Indian officials left New eign ministerial meeting mainly fo- AT News Report Delhi for Brussels on Tuesday. He cused on Afghanistan. He said a said Atamr met with European number of economic conferences on Union officials and was scheduled Afghanistan would take place in KABUL: To bring durable peace to meet NATO leaders on Tues- Europe in the future and the Afghan to the region, the Ministry of day. The meetings with Atmar government wanted to draw proper Defense (MoD) stresses on Paki- would involve NATO Secretary plans for the events. (Pajhwok) stan s sincere cooperation in war against terrorism. It said that Pa- kistan should destroy sanctuaries of militants in its soil. Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the MoD, told Radio Azadi that the entire world knows that all terrorists groups including the Haqqani net- work has sanctuaries in Pakistan. Thus, the international commu- nity should put pressure on Paki- By Farhad Naibkhel rity organizations are guilty. She stan to target safe havens of the said that honest and patriot peo- militants in its soil, he added. KABUL: Thousands of angry ple must be hired at the key posi- The remarks come at a time that protestors carrying coffins of sev- tions in the security organs. She Pakistan s Chief of Army Staff, en beheaded Hazara passengers in asked the high-ranking officials to General Raheel Sharif, is sched- front of the Presidential Palace take steps and restore peace and uled to visit the United States soon. sought justice for the victims. stability. If they cannot improve Experts believe that main focus The protestors marched from security and establish writ of the during Raheel Sharif s visit will Pul-e-Sukhta area to the Presiden- government then they must re- be on security in Afghanistan. tial Palace, around eight kilome- sign, she said while giving vent Pakistan should be asked not to ters. Chanting slogans death to to anger.Fatima Shekoh, another support those terrorist groups the Taliban and Daesh , the lead- protestor, said that they are gath- that are creating insecurity in Af- ers shall resign and we want jus- ered here to seek justice for Af- ghanistan, Waziri said. Amrul- tice , the protestors said the gov- ghans who were killed without lah Aman, a military analyst, be- ernment had committed negligence any reason. lieves that pressure has been in its duty which resulted into She said that the government mounted on Pakistan both inter- beheading of the seven ethnic must bring the killers to the court nationally and inside the country Hazaras, kidnapped nine months of justice. If the government did to find a solution to the war in ago. They demanded of President not address our demands, we will Afghanistan. Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah approach international organiza- Abdullah to resign for failing in tions and human rights groups, maintaining security. Mohammad she warned. The protest contin- Taliban Dawod Sultani, a protestor, said ued till late evening. Police at the that they have rallied outside the Presidential Palace fired warning kidnaps 12 palace against failure of the gov- shots to disperse the protestors. civilians in Paktia ernment to secure safe release of The demonstrators also issued a the passengers. He said that they resolution in which they con- AT Monitoring Desk would continue the protest till the demned killing of seven innocent government accepts to be account- Hazara hostages by the insurgents able for the incident and provide and said the government should KABUL: The Taliban militants tight security to people living in launch military operation to ar- protection of civilians and securi- lenges in Jaghori, Malistan, Qara- en. Condemning beheading of the ing civilians. They said the presi- kidnapped 12 civilians in Sayed insecure parts and facing serious rest the perpetrators and give them ty in Bamyan, Daykundi, Jaghori bagh, Nawor, and Jaghato dis- seven passengers in Zabul prov- dent and the Chief Executive Of- Karam district of the southeast- security threats. Fatana Gelani, a exemplary punishment. They said and Ghazni provinces. The pro- tricts. The protest was also at- ince, members of the Wolesi Jirga ficer should be summoned over the ern Paktia province, said a local women s rights activist and one that a special corps should be es- testors also asked the government tended by scores of legislators, on Wednesday said the govern- growing insecurity and killing of official. of the protestors, said that secu- tablished in the national army for Niaz Muhammad Khalil, to address the administrative chal- civil society activists and wom- ment has utterly failed in protect- the passengers. Sayed Karam district chief, told Azadi Radio that the civilians Bamyan activists were on their way to Gardiz, the capital city of the province, when seek justice for they were kidnapped by the Tal- iban militants. Daesh victims The Taliban militants con- Four school boys have reported- boy was kidnapped. Police have BAMYAN CITY : Civil society firmed that they have kidnapped ly been abducted from the en- meanwhile started an investigation activists and the governor of cen- the 12 people, but alleged that trance of a private school in Herat into the incident. No group has PUL-I-ALAM: The governor on Wednesday said 33 percent govern- tral Bamyan province on Wednes- they were local policemen who city on Wednesday, eyewitness- yet claimed responsibility for the day urged the government and se- wanted to go to Gardiz to collect es said. According to them, kid- kidnapping. Recently a child, be- ment departments in the provincial capital and 80 percent in districts curity forces to bring to justice the their salaries. The incident comes nappers drove off with the boys lieved to be about eight years old, killers of seven civilians in Zabul just few days after that Daesh in a Toyota Corolla. However, who was kidnapped in Herat city, of central Logar province were with- out buildings of their own. Explain- province. Holding a gathering in militants beheaded seven hostag- Herat NDS director confirmed the was rescued late last month dur- Bamyan City, the provincial capi- es in southern Zabul province. incident but said only one school ing a special operation by police. ing his administration s next 100- day action plan, Mohammad Halim tal, the activists demanded the gov- Fidai said strengthening coordina- ernment take stern action against tion among district and provincial the perpetrators. Hailing from Jag- departments, collecting taxes in an hori district of southern Ghazni organised and smooth way, deliv- province, the ethnic Hazara tribes- ering needed civic services and cre- men, including three women and a ating jobs for hundreds of youth child, were partially beheaded by had been part of the previous 100- Islamic State fighters in Zabul in Arghandab district on November day action plan. The governor said 8 after keeping them captive for they planned to improve contacts municipality and some other de- intelligence and education offices about a month amid clashes be- are studying inside their houses between the provincial capital and partments were part of the new in districts and 33 percent in Pul- tween militant factions. Hussain or in mosques without text districts and to strengthen the pres- plan, he explained. Fidai said they i-Alam lacked buildings. I plan Dad Ahmadi, a civil society activ- books, he said, adding that edu- ervation system of schools and sem- would try to improve the capaci- to give proper attention to the ist, told Pajhwok Afghan News the cation efforts did not visit the dis- inaries in the next action plan. Re- ty of government servants during construction of buildings for these government should detain the per- trict even once a year. Another res- solving land disputes, ensuring ef- the next 100 days, discourage ad- government offices, he said, add- petrators of the atrocious crime ident from Wormami district, Syed fective delivery of urban services, ministrative corruption and com- ing the said offices were currently and take part in funerals for the Khan, said there are school build- simplifying the recruitment proce- plete projects which could not be housed in private structures victims. Bamyan Governor Tahir ings, but no one to study in. I am dure in the military and police forc- finished over the past 14 years. against rent, impeding their work- Zuhair condemned the incident, sure that some people are getting es and appointment leaders of the He also said 80 percent of police, ing process. calling it inhumane. The govern- salaries in the name of teachers. ment especially security forces are Likewise, an inhabitant of Jani- Clashes between insurgent groups still underway in Zabul responsible to bring to justice khel district, Haji Naz Gul, said those responsible for beheading of that both students and teachers QALAT: Heavy clashes between shadow governor and the group s so far from there. Asadullah Kakar, the seven civilians that included SHARANA: There is no school of Gomal district, Gul Miran did not attend schools in their dis- different factions of the Talibanare top military commander had been the provincial council chief, said the women and a child. The governor in Khoshamand district and the Kharotai, told Pajhwok Afghan trict while the teachers were get- underway in southern Zabul prov- killed by the IS fighters attack the Taliban and their splinter group had said peaceful protest was every education sector in seven other News the education system in the ting their salaries. ince, officials said on Wednesday. other day. But Taliban rejected the been engaged in fighting in Khak-i- citizen s right to convey their districts is facing many challeng- district was in bad situation be- Paktika education director Gul Islam Sial, the governor s claim, saying both of their leaders Afghan. He confirmed the clashes grievances to the government. es, residents of southeastern Pak- cause students did not go to Kuchi Zazai acknowledged the spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan were alive. Sial said loyalists of were still underway. Qari Hamza, Hundreds of people on Tues- tika province say. The seven in- schools while teachers received problems in the seven districts, News the fighting was ongoing Mullah Akhtar Mansour and spokesman for the Mullah Mansour day staged protests condemning secure districts are Gomal, Wor- their salaries. There is zero at- saying they could not monitor between the Taliban and Islamic Mullah Dadullah were also locked Dadullah, claimed inflicting heavy the incident and accusing the gov- mami, Waza Khwa, Terwa, Gay- tendance because most schoolchil- schools due to insecurity in these State (IS) fighters in Khak-i-Af- in firefights in Atghar district but causalities on the Taliban in a re- ernment of indifference towards an, Nika and Barmal. A resident dren do not go to school and some districts. (Pajhwok) ghan district. He claimed Taliban s no causalities had been reported cent suicide attack. their release from Daesh group.

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72.50 71.00 This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . NOVEMBER 12, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghan istan Needs Yo u cam paign urges Afghan s n o t to aban do n w ar-to rn co un try John Sopko, the special inspec- criminal jurisdiction over him/her. tor general for Afghanistan recon- If they defraud the US govern- They're young and they're smart Many Afghans have legitimate shoulder. When I ask if he has con- struction, explains in an exclusive ment, I can indict them, charge and they're deserting Afghani- claims for asylum, Mr Mohsan- sidered trying to get to Europe, he interview with Pajhwok Afghan them and arrest them and put them stan. Tens of thousands of Afghans yar says, but he also believes shrugs. News how Afghans could have in jail in the United States. When are leaving their country and flee- many leave for the wrong reasons. On a good day, he says, he more benefitted from about $110 the money goes directly to the ing overseas as civilians continue "I know it is sometimes really earns a little over $5 through beg- billion American money spent (Afghan) ministry of finance and to die in the crossfire between gov- hard [in Afghanistan]," he says. ging, just enough to feed his fami- since 2001 to rebuild Afghanistan. then it goes to let s say to MoI to ernment troops and Taliban insur- "They prefer to have a comfort- ly and send his children to school, The amount is bigger than the buy boots or guns, I lose criminal gents, and the economy flatlines. able life. But most don't understand and nowhere near the sums re- Marshal Plan to rebuild a devas- jurisdiction over it. Now a grassroots campaign how difficult starting from zero quired by people smugglers. But tated Europe after World War II, If we find fraud or corruption aims to reverse the brain drain with will be." Mr Mohsanyar, an em- he does not blame those who do but Sopko says Afghanistan and or waste, I then have to go to the a simple slogan: "Afghanistan ployment consultant, conceived flee the country, saying "those then Europe could not be com- Afghan government and report it pared because at that time the war and then help them prosecute Needs You". Shakib Mohsanyar the idea in September after he and people who take those risks feel had ended in Europe but it con- those Afghans in the Afghan judi- acknowledges that life is hard, but 11 other young Afghans flew to like they have no other choice". tinues in Afghanistan. He admits cial system. We have had prob- he is trying to convince fellow Af- the US for a five-week entrepre- 'Afghans just need someone to in- billions of dollars have been wast- lems with the Afghan judicial sys- ghans not to give up. "Your coun- neurship program, funded by the spire them' Mr Mohsanyar's cam- ed and looted in Afghanistan and tem in the past. I think many Af- try is like your mother. You don't US State Department and Coca- paign has generated plenty of dis- talks about his agency s relations ghans had problems with the Af- leave your mother when she's sick," Cola. Vista of Kabul shows tight- cussion. In a few weeks the Af- with the new Afghan government ghan judicial system in the past. the president, which is appropri- cades of war, Europe had very he declares. Shakib Mohsanyar, ly-packed houses The program ghanistan Needs You Facebook and how the Afghans can help So that s why we are working so ate. The Afghans should do an in- advanced industrialized countries the founder of the Afghanistan was designed to teach Afghans page has amassed over 8,000 likes, prevent aid money from being closely with the unity govern- vestigation themselves. We think that only had four or five years of Needs You campaign According to how to transform their energy and with young Afghans posting pho- wasted. Pajhwok: SIGAR is called ment, with President Ghani and that is a great response because war. It s not direct and exact com- the UNHCR, around 150,000 Af- ideas into successful local busi- tos holding the campaign slogan Special Inspector General for Af- CEO Abdullah on trying to help the contact was stopped then the parison. It s just a way to com- ghan asylum seekers have arrived nesses. On the day they were due and sharing their own stories about ghanistan. What makes you spe- build up the capabilities of the president has instituted a new prehend the amount of money we on Greece and Italy's shores so far to fly back to Kabul four of the why they choose to stay. The cial ? John Sopko: Well, this is prosecutors and investigators to policy on procurement as a result spent. this year. Their numbers are sec- young Afghans made a run for Can- group has also painted a mural in probably a term of art in the Unit- follow through. That s why it s of our work. We are helping him Pajhwok: But do you think ond only to Syrians. Mr Mohsan- ada to claim asylum. "I was so dis- the street where Kabul's passport ed States. Special because we so important that Afghan people and advising him along with oth- 110 billion dollars spent in the last er. We think that s a good re- 15 years should have brought bet- yar has dozens of friends like him- appointed," Mr Mohsanyar re- office is located. are a temporary agency, but we report to us, we will help work self young, educated, bright calls. "I wish I could have con- It is where thousands queue are also special in a way because on those cases with the govt. So sponse very effective response ter changes than what we see to- we are very unique. Unlike other this is why it s more important as and we are working closely with day in terms of security and econ- who have joined the exodus. How, vinced them to stay in Afghani- daily to obtain travel documents inspectors general we are not we go forward to have the eyes his investigative group. omy? along with five colleagues, he is at- stan." Afghans with bleakest fu- as a first step to leave the country. housed in any one agency of the and ears of Afghan people help- Pajhwok: So, you have better Sopko: Yes, I think we could tempting to convince Afghans to ture not among those attempting Moez Popalzai and Shakib government. We look at all recon- ing us because if you help us, you relations with the national unity have done a better job. But part invest their collective energy into to leave Afghanistan Needs You is Mohsanyar painted an Afghani- struction spent by any US gov- help Afghan government and Af- government than the previous ad- of this is also having a willing part- rebuilding the country. Fighting the aimed primarily at the country's stan Needs You mural at Kabul's ernment agency. So we have an ghan people. ministration, but are they doing ner. We have made some mistakes, brain drain Mr Mohsanyar de- educated youth. Afghans with the passport office PHOTO: Moez inspector general in the depart- Pajhwok: How much do you enough? Are you satisfied with but I think the Afghan government scribes the country's current brain bleakest future are not the ones at- Popalzai and Shakib Mohsanyar ment of energy, department of support President Ghani s plan of unity government s anti-corrup- has made some mistakes. And so drain as an enormous threat to its tempting to leave. For them, try- painted a mural reading "Afghani- state, defense and they only look directly spending foreign aid? tion efforts? we have to not dwell on the mis- future. It compounds Afghanistan's ing to get to Europe is almost in- stan Needs You" near Kabul's pass- at the money that they spend. We Sopko: I think that is proba- Sopko: Well, we have to be takes, we have to learn from the already significant economic chal- comprehensible. The cost for the port office. (Supplied: Danielle look at all US money spent here bly the way it should go and but honest. Your government faces mistakes and do better. And I lenges, depleting one of the coun- poor is a massive barrier, as peo- Moylan) "This is an incredibly crit- in Afghanistan for reconstruction. we have to be certain and I think many many challenges. The secu- think right now that s why I m so try's few readily available assets: ple smugglers normally charge at ical time in Afghanistan," Mr The other reason we are special I President Ghani agrees with this rity challenge, the corruption, the impressed by the national unity a young, educated workforce. least $8,000 for the perilous trip Mohsanyar says. "We have the think is because we have the larg- that the Afghan government is re- economy. Of course we d love to government that they are willing This is an incredibly critical to Europe. I met 40-year-old Anar power to overcome obstacles. Af- est US law enforcement presence sponsible and has the capabilities see them do more and work more to accept that there are mistakes but they are trying and I think and they re trying to go forward time in Afghanistan. We have the Gol, a father of seven, as he sat on ghans just need someone to inspire here in Afghanistan. We have more to handle that money responsi- power to overcome obstacles. Af- the cold tarpaulin floor in his make- them." Moez Popalzai, a graphic law enforcement as well as more bly. And that s what we are try- your government is trying as hard with them. auditors than any other oversight ing to work with him and I know as they can on fighting corruption. Gen. Campbell and his peo- ghans just need someone to inspire shift home in one of Kabul's crowd- designer who is also part of the agency so we re pretty special USAID and DoD are working But it is difficulty. It is a real dif- ple recognize mistakes have been them. Shakib Mohsanyar Richard ed slums, where millions live in campaign, says the government in about that. And our people are with them to make certain that ficult situation for them too. We made in the past and they are Danziger, head of the Internation- squalor. Anar Gol lives in Kabul's Kabul bears the ultimate respon- special because we stay a long they can responsibly handle that are ready and able to help the na- working their way through them al Organisation for Migration in slums His family fled to Kabul af- sibility for creating better security time. Many of our people have a money because if the money gets tional unity government in many learning from that. That s the im- Afghanistan, acknowledges that ter their home was inexplicably and employment. "But we can't wealth of experience unlike a lot lost and it doesn t matter if it gets areas whether it s trying to track portant things we don t dwell on the exodus "is definitely draining bombed in Nangarhar, a volatile put everything in the hands of the of people who come from the US lost by fraud by an American or down crooks, trying to track down the mistakes we learn from the young, energetic people," but cau- eastern province. Shrapnel dam- government," he says. for short-term of duty. by fraud by an Afghan minister, it stolen money like money from mistakes we do better and that s tions that the exact profile of all aged Anar Gol's right arm so badly "We should also stay and con- Pajhwok: Why are you called is lost. That money is not going Kabul Bank. We are willing to help what my job is. Afghans leaving is unknown. that it had to be amputated at the tribute." bad news in some circles in to help the children or the police your new government on doing Pajhwok: SIGAR has report- Washington? or clinics. So it doesn t matter. His that. But they are trying as hard ed on ghost schools and ghost Sopko: I don t know if we are concern is same as our concerns. as they can. teachers, your comment on that? bad news, I actually think we re It s gotta be done with a good sys- Pajhwok: How you see the Sopko: We are concerned good news. Some people do think tem in place that protects the now cancelled Afghan govern- about that. And actually the issue because they don t like oversight money. Because that money ment s deal with Khalil Ferozi, has been raised by the Afghan and some people are not used to whether it is an American dollar the former CEO of Kabul Bank, government and ministers, the oversight in my government. But or an Afghani currency it s still who is serving a jail term, to build Presidential Palace and the parlia- the White House, the secretary of money that could have gone to a a township and make money? ment raised those concerns. We re state, the secretary of defence and better use and it gets lost some- Sopko: I don t know all the trying to follow up on that. We people know about good govern- where else. So I think we are both details. I m a bit confused and think there are. Again this is a mis- ment oversight like what we are on the same wavelength. don t quite understand what hap- take we maybe and maybe it s a doing. In the congress which is the Pajhwok: How SIGAR s pened. It s odd based on our ex- mistake on the Afghan side that entity that funds our reconstruc- work has been in the last seven perience in the US. In the US I we didn t keep a close watch on tion work here likes our report so years and how do you evaluate can cite an example we had a re- the schools, the teachers and clin- the bad news aspect is only be- it? How long will SIGAR be in cent case of Bernard L. Madoff ics. That s a terrible waste of mon- cause my job is to find and report Afghanistan? who stole almost a billion dollars ey if people took money to build on fraud waste and abuse so by Sopko: I think we have been from innocent investors. In our a school and because it s far away definition I m usually giving bad very effective. We started work country somebody like Madoff from watching eyes. They didn t news that s my job. in 2008. I took over in 2012, my we investigated him, we indicted build the school and we re not Pajhwok: SIGAR has a hot- predecessor was forced to resign him, sent him to jail. He is sitting using the school and they just line to report corruption. How because he wasn t aggressive in jail for a life sentence, he is nev- steal the money or they steal the much complaints you have re- enough. We had some problems er gonna get out. We then seized money for the teachers. This is ceived from Afghan citizens? ourselves and we admit that. The all his assets and every investment why it s so important for the Af- Sopko: Well it s a very impor- US Senate investigated my agen- he had. We then set up a special ghan people to help us, help the tant tool for us cy and said they weren t aggres- group to further investigate wher- new unity government because ([email protected]). The Af- sive enough and they didn t help ever the assets were and we took they can tell us. I can t get out to ghans help us a lot. It s even more enough so the President appoint- money that was ill-gotten by some these districts anymore USAID important now that the Afghan ed me in 2012. I have only been of his family members and friends and US military officials can t get people help us protect that mon- here for three years but in those and we are still recovering money out to these districts. Sometimes ey because you probably need it three years we have increased the from Madoff to give back to the even Afghan officials can t get out more now than ever and every number of reports, increased crim- widows and orphans and other to these districts so it s got to be investors who lost millions of the community because the com- dollar that we lose to fraud waste inal investigations, increased the PH OTO: Mo e z Po palzai an d Sh akib Mo h s an yar pain te d a m u ral re adin g "Af- and abuse is a dollar that the Af- number of outreach to the Afghan dollars. munity should know what was ghan people lose. As we go for- government and approximately 80 It was horrible, the victims supposed to be built in their areas gh an is tan Ne e ds Yo u " n e ar Kabu l's pas s po rt o ffice . (Su pplie d: Dan ie lle Mo ylan ) ward we really need the eyes and percent of our recommendations included synagogues and church- then they can report back to the ears of the Afghan people to help are accepted by the US govern- es and mosques and poor elderly Palace and the government. We us, help the national unity gov- ment agencies. And we have col- who lost all their life savings to should be able to tell each village, ernment protect that money. So lected close to a billion dollars in Madoff. We didn t put him on each province, district what did Afghan istan veteran s fin d we are partners with the Afghan fines, seizures so that s money we work release. That s not the way we build there, what did we give people, we hope they use that brought back to US taxpayers that the US government does. So I money for then let the communi- hotline more. We have received could be used appropriately for come from bad background, I ty report back to us and govern- healin g in their creative sides thousands of complaints from Afghans. And then we have iden- don t understand Afghan laws. ment about .. that s where we need Afghans as well as Americans. We tified billions of dollars of money But it s troubling to hear this par- the eyes and ears of Afghan citi- VANCOUVER AND LONDON, putting the pages on the canvases, rather than sit and talk with a ther- have Afghan staff who review that could have been wasted and ticularly because I ve heard from zens. England Canadian military vet- wasn t so bad, he recalls. But apist. READ MORE: Veterans Af- those and translate it and then fol- we have recommended better international community and Pajhwok: The fall of Kunduz eran Stephen Clews never imag- then you start adding the names fairs Minister vows to change the low up on it. We have done hun- ways to do it. So, we have actual- some businessmen that they are 2 -3 months back took everybody ined trading the trenches for an art and you realize you re adding your way Canada treats vets Canadian dreds of investigations based on ly been very effective for the size kind of troubled by this. Remem- by surprise and was a major set- studio. In 2010, the Aldergrove, friends names on the mural and Major Chuck Mackinnon adds that complaints by honest Afghan cit- of our 200 people 30-40 here in ber rule of law is important and back for Afghan government and B.C. native returned from his sec- you feel like you have a responsi- soldiers are trained to be tough and izens and businessmen about Afghanistan. Very cost-effective particularly at this time that you the international community. In ond tour in Afghanistan feeling bility to make sure this is cared stoic, and many are therefore reluc- things they have seen and con- for the amount of money that we want to get more foreign inves- your view how much corruption angry. A back injury from an im- for. It s like tending to your tant to seek help. Mackinnon joined cerns they have about fraud waste have spent. tors. I m worried that this may played a role in the fall of the city? provised explosive device (IED) friend s headstone, their grave- the Canadian military in 1978. He and abuse. Pajhwok: How the US and hurt foreign investment at a time You have reported on ghost sol- blast meant he had to leave the war stone. You re cleaning it, you re says he suffered for years from sur- Pajhwok: Can you specify Afghan governments reactions that you really need foreign in- diers, how much did that play a and his friends behind. Clews preparing it and you re making it vivor s guilt after young soldiers how much was used properly and have been to your reports? vestment. I look forward to talk- part? The US government has started drinking heavily and get- presentable to the world around were killed under his command. how much wasted and abused? Sopko: As I said over 80 per- ing to NUG and people to prose- been a prime sponsor of creating ting into fights. I did not know you, Clews says. The mural is Mackinnon is part of the Veterans Sopko: I can t give you an cent of our recommendation are cutor s office to know the details. Afghan Local Police (ALP). There what to do, he recalls. And it part of a larger art therapy project Transition Network s theatre per- exact figure because my office accepted and adopted by the US Pajhwok: Almost everybody have been reports of their abuse got worse as the days went on. run by the Veterans Transition formance. In perhaps its most wasn t founded until 2008. That government. We don t specifical- was unhappy with this decision. and people s dissatisfaction with But his destructive behaviour Network a Canadian charity heart-wrenching scene, he sobs loud- is 8 years after reconstruction ly make recommendations to the So you are worried too? them, so how much these factors changed after he met Foster East- that supports veterans after they ly over the body of Canadian Mas- started here. And we would be Afghan government that s not my Sopko: It causes concerns but played a role in the fall of the man; The Vancouver artist invited return home. Clews, along with ter Corporal Colin Bason a 28- spending a lot of time trying to job. We know the Afghan govern- I don t know the facts yet. I can northern city? Clews to his studio to help design about dozen other veterans, also year-old father who was killed in figure out going back and coming ment reviews our reports. I have only base it upon my experience Sopko: Very good questions. a mural meant to commemorate carved the names of fallen friends 2007. It s very emotionally drain- up with that figure. I can just say actually sat down and talked to from the US. I was a former pros- I don t have an answer to any of Canadians killed in Afghanistan. into a wooden casket. They even ing, Mackinnon says of reliving billions of dollars have been wast- the Afghan President and CEO, ecutor and a defence attorney too. them. We will be following that I m just an average Canadian who wrote a stage play with scenes the memory on-stage. The main ed and stolen. I can t give you the they have read our reports. We And I was advisor to many large and will look into it. I know your wants to help, Foster says, de- based on their experiences in Af- reason why I got involved in the exact figure. The real answer is too have had a very positive reaction international companies when I government is concerned and has scribing how he started building ghanistan. The veterans have production was the fact that, one much money has been stolen and from the president and ceo and was in private practice. And I done a report which I believe is the mural after hearing about a toured the art pieces and theatre year after we got back, one of my wasted. Money that could have positive reaction from some min- know they probably would be being briefed to the president rash of suicides by Canadian vet- performances across Canada. And, soldiers killed himself. And if he d gone to help Afghans a lot more isters of the unity government. concerned as to what this means which may I hope touch on those. erans. The mural stands an im- to mark Remembrance Day 2015, known that veterans transition coun- and my job is to try to stop that Pajhwok: How do you com- about rule of law in Afghanistan. We ll follow up on all of those pressive three-by-six metres. It s they performed on an internation- selling was available, we might be going forward. So I look at what I pare your relation with the cur- And remember investors take issues. Because we don t know if made with papier mâché, with pa- al stage for the first time dis- having a different discussion. But can do now to stop it and not rent government and previous ad- some risks but there are some risks the troops that were there were at per ripped from old military train- playing their work for a British au- he s not the only guy. Estimates spend too much time looking at ministration of Hamid Karzai? they don t wanna take. And one the level they should have been or ing pamphlets. A Canadian flag is dience at the Canadian High Com- suggest more than 50 Canadians what is already been wasted. A Sopko: We have a far better is they got to have a working judi- were they what we call paper painted in the background. In the mission in London, England. I who served in Afghanistan have lot of money is gone and we are relationship with the new nation- cial system and it s got to be trans- unit. Were they capable, did they foreground is the image of a Cana- would hope that this (art therapy killed themselves. never going to get it back. Now if al unity government than we did parent so that is something I know have the material, the weaponry, dian soldier holding the hand of an project) will connect with the Unit- Mackinnon says these performanc- we find a place, a bank account, with President Karzai s regime. large corporations will be looking we don t know that yet but we Afghan child. Jeff Semple/Global ed Kingdom, says Marvin West- es about prevention. Each and ev- property that was purchased and Pajhwok: In what way the at some very closely. would be following on that. We News Most poignantly, the mural wood. The trauma counsellor and ery single night, a veteran walked we can prove it was related to NUG has been more cooperative? Pajhwok: The US spent don t know whether there was is made up of 162 panels one professor at the University of Brit- up from the audience and said, I fraud we will track that money Sopko: I think a good exam- around 110 billion in Afghanistan corruption involved. for every Canadian killed in Af- ish Columbia has worked with think I need this.' And the perfor- down even if that money was sto- ple is we identified a case dealing more than Marshal Plan. Why Pajhwok: Do you think Af- ghanistan. The panels include their veterans for 20 years. He says the mance at the Canadian High Com- len five or seven years ago. But with fuel gasoline that was to be isn t Afghanistan even close to a ghan National Army (ANA) and names, ages and ranks, along with artwork provides healing in a way mission in London was no excep- we are mainly focusing on look- purchased by the Afghan Minis- European country? What went Afghan National Police (ANP) the causes and dates of their traditional therapy often can t. tion. After the show, representa- ing forward. try of Defence. Now the money wrong? will stand on their own given the deaths. Clews says he knew noth- Many veterans aren t too talk- tives with the British military ex- Pajhwok: In fraud or money came from American taxpayers Sopko: I don t know if it fall of Kunduz? ing about art but found the mural ative, Westwood says. But pressed interest in launching a sim- waste, do you have figures how went to Ministry of Finance and means something went wrong. Sopko: I think they have been construction process therapeutic. they re doers. So they ll get up and ilar program for their own veter- many Afghans were involved or then was moved over to the min- The reason we draw that compar- standing on their own. Kunduz The first stages, where we were take a role and portray a character; ans. they were only US contractors? istry of defence. We identified a ison is the average Afghan must obviously was a wakeup call of Sopko: I don t think we have cabal, a conspiracy of some con- be like the average American. It s how good they are and how bet- broken it down on how much tractors to jack up the price, to hard to figure money. You get ter prepared. Overall throughout money was defrauded by Afghans inflate the price, to fix the price numbers that are so high you don t the whole country it has been Af- or others, we don t break it down. that was price fixing. They did not understand how you comprehend ghan soldiers and police who have The thing to keep in mind is up to give the Afghan government an 110 billion dollars. So we were been bearing the brunt of this bat- last few years, the money has been honest price they gave an inflated looking for something in recon- tle. So I would say Kunduz is se- spent by US contractors here in price. It was a billion contract by struction area that compared to rious. I think the Afghan govern- Afghanistan. For example they over 200 million dollars. That s and the Marshal plan was the clos- ment is taking it seriously, we take purchased fuel, bullets, guns and 200 million dollars that would est. Now it s not an exact com- it seriously. I don t look at mili- actually contracted directly to have been lost to the Afghan peo- parison because Europe in 1945 tary tactics so I can t talk about build roads, schools and clinics. ple. We uncovered this. We took war had ended the fighting, had that. I look at reconstruction, I It would help the Afghan gov- that information to Gen. Camp- stopped the shooting, the securi- look at training advising and as- ernment if the money went direct- bell, we went to the palace we ty situation was far better. Here sisting and whether we have done ly to Afghan government and then briefed the President and CEO in Afghanistan, the security situ- a good job on it. But I think the they would learn how to budget Abdullah then immediately can- ation is very precarious. So a lot Afghan military and police have and spend the money. As we go celed the contract that was by the of the money in Afghanistan has already been standing up on their forward we are gonna be putting Afghan govt. Brought in the peo- gone to building the military and own. This season was the test. more money what they call on ple involved, removed some gen- in supporting the military and This is the first time that we direct budget to Afghans direct eral and some stuff then conduct- police in doing the fighting, so it s weren t really here except in ex- assistance. Why is this important ed their own investigations. We not an exact comparison you can t traordinary instances to help the for you and your audience be- don t have the result of that in- compare the two. And it s where Afghan government that way. So cause when the money is spent vestigation but we understand it the countries were starting from. I think they already stood up and WATCH: Coping with life after war is a challenge for many veterans. Now, one group has found a creative by an American contractor, I have has been done and is sitting with Your country has experience de- have passed the test. (Pajhwok) outlet and turned it into a powerful way to heal. Jeff Semple reports. 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Lightning strikes woman; boy electrocuted in Nimroz Meanwhile a resident of the Zaranj, Muhammad Umar said that a seven-year old boy was killed by electric shock on Wednesday. By Brian Terrell AT News Report Karim locality of Zaranj, the pro- day after my arrival I was privi- vincial capital. Meanwhile a resi- leged to sit in at a meeting of teach- When I arrived at the Kabul Inter- ers in the Afghan Peace Volunteers KABUL: Lightening and electric dent of the Zaranj, Muhammad national Airport on November 4, Street Kids School when this sub- shock have killed a woman and a Umar said that a seven-year old I was unaware that the same day ject was discussed. These young child in southeastern Nimroz boy was killed by electric shock the New York Times published women and men, high school and province, said a public health of- on Wednesday.He urged the par- an article, Life Pulls Back in Af- university students themselves, ficial on Wednesday. Director of ents to take care of their children ghan Capital, as Danger Rises and teach the basics of a primary edu- Public Health Dr. Noor Ahmad and prevent them from touching Troops Recede. My friends Ab- cation to children who must work Sherzad said that a woman was electronic accessories, adding pre- dulhai and Ali, 17 years old, young in the streets of Kabul to help sup- killed by lightning in the Khawaja cautions are essential, he said. men I have known since my first port their families. The parents do visit five years ago, greeted me not pay tuition, but with the sup- with smiles and hugs and took my port of Voices, are instead allotted bags. Disregarded by soldiers and a sack of rice and jug of cooking oil police armed with automatic each month to compensate for the weapons, we caught up on old hours their children are studying. times as we walked past concrete While the New York Times pro- EMERGENCY blast walls, sand bag fortifications, claims that Life Pulls Back in Af- check points and razor wire to the ghan Capital, these volunteer CALLS public road and hailed a cab. The teachers are a sign that life goes on, sun was just burning through the sometimes with startling joy and clouds after an early morning rain abundance as I have experienced in Police and I had never seen Kabul look recent days, even in this place rav- so bright and clean. Once past the aged by war and want. It was heart airport, the high way into the city breaking, then, to hear these bril- 100 - 119 was bustling with rush hour traf- liant, resourceful and creative young fic and commerce. I was unaware people who clearly represent Af- until I read the New York Times ghanistan s best hope for the fu- Hospitals on line a few days later, that this ture, discuss frankly whether they time I was one of only a few US have a future there at all and whether FMIC Hospital citizens likely to be on that road. they should join so many other The American Embassy s not Afghans seeking sanctuary else- Behind Kabul Medical allowed to move by road any- where. The reasons that any of University: more, a senior Western official these young people might leave are told the Times, which reported many and impelling. There is great 0202500200-+93793275595 further that after 14 years of war, fear of suicide bombings in Kabul, of training the Afghan Army and air raids in the provinces where the police, it has become too dan- anyone might be targeted as a com- Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital gerous to drive the mile and a half batant by a US drone, fear of get- from the airport to the embassy. ting caught between various com- Pule Bagh-e- Umomi Helicopters now ferry employees batant forces fighting battles that 070263672 working with the United States are not theirs. All have suffered and the international military co- greatly in the wars that began here alition to and from offices in Kab- before they were born. The insti- Khairkhana Hospital ul we are told. The United States tutions charged with the reconstruc- Embassy in Kabul is one of the tion of their country are riddled 0799-321007 largest in the world and already a with corruption, from Washington, largely self-contained community, DC, to Afghan government minis- 2401352 its personnel are now even more tries and NGOs, billions of dollars isolated from Afghan people and gone to graft with little to show on institutions than before. No one the ground. The prospects even for Indira Gandhi Children else, other than US and coalition the brightest and most resourceful facilities, the Times reports, has to pursue an education and then be Hospital, Wazir Akbar a compound with a landing pad. able to find work in their chosen While proclaiming its mission professions in Afghanistan are not Khan, Kabul 2301372 rowing up poor in Afghan cording to the UN's refugee agen- there Operation Resolute Sup- good. Most of the volunteers ad- istan s Logar Province, cy, UNHCR. Afghans made up 19 port for Afghanistan, US officials mitted that they had given thought GMohammad Khalid always percent of the nearly 800,000 mi- no longer travel on Afghan streets. to leaving, but even so they ex- Ibn-e- Seena wanted to be a doctor, and his fam- grants and refugees who have ar- We have no helicopters or landing pressed a strong sense of responsi- ily supported him. They sold rived by sea to Europe so far this pads, but the security situation in bility to stay in their county. Some Pul-e-Artan, Kabul some precious farmland and would year, equivalent to about 150,648 Kabul is also a concern for Voices had come to a firm resolution not even forgo meals in order to save people. for Creative Nonviolence, a grass to leave, others seemed unsure if 2100359 the money that helped him In 2013, European Union roots peace and human rights or- future developments would allow through medical school. countries received 22,580 asylum ganization that I work with and them to stay. Like young people Wazir Akbar Khan Khalid graduated in 2013, but applications from Afghans, accord- for our friends in the Kabul-based everywhere, they would love to Afghan Peace Volunteers that I his family s joy was short-lived. ing to UNHCR. Last year that The criminal bombing of a hospi- have been a case of collateral dam- travel and see the world but in the Hospital Crippled by war, Afghanistan s number rose to 39,140. came to visit. I am fortunate with end their deepest wish is to re- tal in the city of Kunduz in Af- age as nothing else was targeted my grey beard and darker com- main and help build the country up 2301741, 2301743 economy is in a shambles and so is In the first nine months of this ghanistan by the US occupation that night, or that the Taliban had plexion to more easily pass for a its medical system. Khalid strug- year alone, Afghan asylum appli- if only they are able. The vast ma- forces, has shocked the civilized been fighting from the compound. local and so I can move about a bit jority of Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, gled to find work, finally taking a cations to EU states shot up to world. Washington is lying and at Liu said the attack had broader im- more freely on the streets than non-medical job with an interna- 88,205, according to UNHCR. The Libyans and others risking their Ali Abad the same time pressuring human plications for the safeguarding of some other internationals who vis- lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea tional NGO, which pulled out of increase was particularly steep rights bodies and the US against health care for civilians in conflict it here. Even then, my young in flimsy crafts or by land through Shahrara, Kabul the country months later. from the middle of the year, with probing into its latest act of state zones. The United States, which friends have me wear a turban hostile territory in hopes to find Khalid became desperate. Like 5,505 applications in April, fol- terrorism. Calls for global support has supposedly apologised for the when we leave the house. The se- asylum in Europe would stay home 2100439 an increasing number of Afghans, lowed by about 9,000 in May, and for a full inquiry into the US bomb- attack, is conducting an investiga- curity in Kabul does not look so if they could. While these asylum he decided to flee his war-torn 13,215 in June. ing of a charity-run hospital in Af- tion, but MSF wants an indepen- grim to everyone, though. Accord- seekers should be given the hospi- homeland. He paid a human smug- While most Afghan asylum ghanistan have gone ignored, ac- dent humanitarian commission cre- ing to an October 29 Newsweek tality and shelter that they have a Malalai Maternity gler $7,000, which his family had seekers enter Europe via Greece, cording to the head of Medicins ated under the Geneva Conventions report, the German government right to, clearly the answer is not Hospital managed to borrow. The smuggler having taken boats from Turkey, Sans Frontieres (MSF) which is in 1991 to be activated for the first will soon deport most of the Af- the absorption of millions of refu- would take him on a well-trodden most are heading for Germany. The mourning the loss of 30 lives in time to handle the inquiry. Swit- ghan asylum seekers who have gees into Europe and North Amer- 2201377/ 2301743 route across the border from Nim- country has taken in considerably the attack. MSF which means zerland, which provides a secre- entered that country. German in- ica. In the longer term, there is no Doctors without Borders carries tariat for the Berne-based Interna- terior minister Thomas de Mai- ruz Province into Iran, then Tur- more migrants and refugees than out humanitarian services in war- tional Humanitarian Fact-Finding solution except a restructuring of key, and onward to Europe. any other European country, and ziere insists that Afghans should the global political and economic Banks stricken areas of the world. Joanne Commission, has initiated the pro- stay in their country and that order to allow all people to live and He left at the beginning of Oc- Afghans comprise the second high- Liu, president of the charity said cess but it can only go ahead with those refugees coming from Kab- tober. est number of asylum claims, after flourish at home or to freely move Da Afghanistan Bank the US attack on October 3 in the agreement of the US and Af- ul especially have no claim for if that is their choice. In the shorter Three weeks later, Khalid Syrians. Kunduz in which 13 MSF staff ghan governments. A week ago an asylum, because Kabul is con- came back, his mother said, be- Germany overwhelmed term, nothing will stem the mas- 2100302, 2100303 were among the dead could amount MSF-run hospital in north Yemen sidered to be a safe area. The sive tide of immigrants short of tween sobs. But in a coffin. Germany s ambassador to Af- to a war crime with signs the hos- was destroyed by a missile strike. streets of Kabul that are too dan- stopping all military intervention Khalid died in a village in Iran ghanistan, Markus Potzel, told pital was deliberately bombed sev- Last year patients were shot in gerous for US Embassy workers in these countries by the United Bakhtar Bank near the Turkish border, apparent- IRIN that 82,817 Afghans arrived eral times. But Liu said appeals their beds at a hospital in South to travel in their convoys of Hum- States and its allies and by Russia. 0776777000 ly from exhaustion and dehydra- in his country so far this year, of from MSF to about 76 govern- Sudan. Liu said: "We have seen an vees and armored cars escorted by The November 4 New York Times tion after a long journey on foot. whom 31,051 came in October ments asking for backing for an erosion over the years of interna- heavily armed private contractors story ends with a cautionary tale, a Azizi Bank One of the men travelling in the alone. The approval rate for asy- impartial investigation to clarify tional humanitarian law. Enough is are safe for Afghans to live, work warning that even efforts to avoid group with Khalid found a phone lum claims by Afghans is 43 per- what went wrong and prevent any enough. We cannot keep going like and raise their families, in Herr de the dangers in Kabul come at a ter- 0799 700900 number for the family in his back cent, but Potzel said authorities are future such tragedy had failed to this." Liu, who visited the Kun- Maiziere s estimation. Afghans rible cost. Three weeks before, one pocket. The human smuggler guid- overwhelmed with processing win support. "The silence is em- duz centre earlier this year, said it made up more than 20 percent of of the many helicopters that now Pashtany Bank ing the group arranged for the body claims, and there is a serious back- barrassing," Liu said in a recent had been wrongly portrayed as "a the 560,000-plus people who fill the skies moving embassy per- interview to the press, over a little clinic in the bush" but was a have arrived in Europe by sea in 2102908, 2103868 to be sent back to Nimruz in a cof- log. month after the attack. "We are ... specialised trauma centre serving sonnel around had a tragic accident. fin, which his family then collect- Potzel estimated that total ar- 2015, according to the UN Refu- Trying to land, the pilot clipped the outraged victim to a certain a population of at least one mil- gee Agency, something de Maziere the tether anchoring the surveillance ed. rivals to Germany could reach a extent. It is normal that we want lion. "I always called it a jewel of described as unacceptable. Af- Air Services Growing exodus million by the end of the year. The blimp that scans for infiltrators in to understand." Hospitals are sup- northeastern Afghanistan because ghans, especially of the educated central Kabul as it hovers over the The number of Afghans mak- government and the public are posed to be protected under inter- it was a place where everyone felt middle class, de Maiziere says, ing the journey to Europe has in- worried that Germany s institu- Resolute Support base. Five coa- Safi Airways national humanitarian law - a set safe, everybody knew they would should remain and help build the lition members died in the crash, creased drastically over the past tions cannot handle such an influx of rules which aim to limit the ef- get high (quality) care," she added. country up. Quoted in the New including two Americans. The 020 22 22 222 year. But the journey is fraught of migrants and refugees, and that fects of armed conflict on civilians MSF has now closed the hos- York Times, Hasina Safi, the ex- blimp drifted off with more than a with danger. the country will be unable to inte- and the wounded. The Kunduz pital, which had three operating ecutive director of the Afghan million dollars worth of surveil- Ariana There have been reports of mi- grate them. attack happened in the early hours theatres and treated more than Women s Network, a group that lance equipment, ultimately crash- grants being violently attacked by The mood among the popu- of October 3 during a push by Af- 22,000 patients in 2014. "For me works on human rights and gen- ing into, and presumably destroy- 020-2100270 bandits as they attempt to cross lation has changed, he said. In- ghan security forces with US air the key message is about the safe- der issues, seems to agree: It will ing, an Afghan house. Iran. Health authorities in Nimruz, stead of welcoming them, people support to retake the key north- guarding of the humanitarian med- be very difficult if all the educat- The efforts of the US, UK and speaking on condition of anonym- are more and more afraid. ern city from Taliban fighters. Liu ical space in war zones," she said. ed people leave, she said. These Germany to avoid the dangers in Kam Air ity because of the sensitivity of Potzel said Germany under- said there were facts to suggest it "No one expects to be bombed are the people we need in this Kabul and other places we have the subject, told IRIN they had stands the reasons people are leav- was a war crime. "They had our when they are in a hospital. Every country; otherwise, who will help destroyed will inevitably come at 0799974422 co-ordinates, they knew what human being can understand that." the ordinary people? The same treated people who returned with ing Afghanistan: bad security, bad MSF was doing, we had been there Referring to high levels of violence a terrible cost. It cannot be other- gunshot wounds inflicted by Ira- economy, bad prospects, no trust sentiment spoken with stunning wise. We cannot forever keep our- Hotels for four years. The only structure in wars like Syria, Yemen and courage and moral credibility by a selves safe from the bloody mess nian border police. in the National Unity Govern- that was lit up in the middle of the South Sudan, Liu said it was out- human rights worker in Afghani- If they do make it to Europe, ment . That is why Germany is we have made of the world by hop- Safi Landmark night (that week) was our hospi- rageous that attacks on civilian ar- stan, comes off as a disgraceful ping over it from fortified helipad they face an increasingly cool re- keeping soldiers in Afghanistan tal," Liu said, adding there was a eas were now considered non- and craven obfuscation of respon- ception, even in Germany which longer than expected and spending to fortified helipad in helicopter clear MSF logo on the roof. He events. "There is this numbness sibility when expressed from a gunships. Millions of refugees 020-2203131 has until now been the most wel- about 430 million euros a year on added: "All the parties had the co- about violence in war zones today," government ministry in Berlin, es- flooding our borders might be the coming country. Interior Minister economic development. Howev- ordinates ... which were reaffirmed she said. "We do think that, yes, pecially when that government smallest price we will have to pay SERENA Thomas de Maizière announced er, we expect the Afghanistan gov- directly after the first strike. De- even wars have rules, and we do has for 14 years participated in if we continue to try. (Counter last week that Germany would ernment to take more effort to con- spite that it continued." She dis- think it's important to reaffirm the coalition responsible for much Punch) tighten its policy on dealing with vince their youth to stay here and missed any suggestion that it could some of those rules." AS/SS of Afghanistan s plight. On the 0799654000 asylum applications from Afghans. rebuild their own country," he said. He said many claiming asylum are Afghanistan s ministry for ref- New Rumi Restaurant from Afghanistan s middle class, ugees and repatriations is attempt- and they should stay home to help ing to do just that: two months 0776351347 rebuild their country. ago it launched a public awareness Yet the situation in Afghani- campaign warning people of the Internet Services stan only appears to be getting dangers of attempting to get into worse. President Ashraf Ghani, Europe. UA Telecom who took power a year ago, has so The route to Europe is risky 0796701701 / 0796702702 far been unable to rein in corrup- and full of dangers, says an Af- tion or enforce government con- ghan in Austria in an interview trol over much of the country. Em- posted on the ministry s Facebook Exchange Rate boldened by the withdrawal of page. I spent all the money I had most American troops, the Tali- saved and now I am stuck here. Sell: ban is mounting a resurgence 14 The campaign doesn t yet ap- years after being driven from pow- pear to have had much effect, judg- er. The Islamic State, or ISIS, has ing by the hundreds of people lin- One US$ = also been making inroads, while ing up each day outside the Cen- 66.95Afs pro-government militias abuse and tral Passport Department in Kab- One Pound Sterling= extort civilians. The war s civilian ul. The department is now issuing toll this year is projected to equal 2,000 passports each day, com- 98.59Afs or exceed the record high numbers pared to the 700 it issued daily One Euro = documented in 2014 , said a re- just seven months ago, according port by the United Nations Assis- to an official who asked not to be 71.24Afs tance Mission in Afghanistan: named as he was not authorised to 1000 Pak Rs = 1,592 people were killed and 3,329 speak to media. injured in the six months to June. People applying for passports 621Afs There are no official statistics told IRIN they were well aware of Take a journey to Afghanistan via than half of children under the age Dark, evocative images by Elissa families. It is training about 300 Buy: available for the period since June, the risks of travelling to Europe a mobile exhibition, titled A Can- of two have received basic immu- Bogos Mirzaei and Mats Lignell community health workers, as One US$ = when government forces have been but were willing to make the trip dle in the Dark, at Braybrook li- nisations, while one-third of the introduce the people who are well as 50 midwives to ensure 65.45 Afs engaged in heavy fighting with the anyway. brary. The exhibition includes population lacks access to any changing Uruzgan s future for the women have access to skilled birth Taliban in northern Afghanistan. There is so much violence in photos tracing Save the Children s health services. Children have had better through the Children of attendants during childbirth. One Pound Sterling= The number of people fleeing Afghanistan, said 35-year-old Children of Uruzgan program in few opportunities to access for- Uruzgan program, a partnership The program will improve ba- 97.79Afs the country has increased along Hashmat Ali, standing in the queue one of Afghanistan s most conser- mal education for decades, with between the Australian govern- sic education for children by build- One Euro= with the violence. Afghanistan is with his three young children. If vative and insecure provinces. Ev- only one in five children aged be- ment and Save the Children Aus- ing community schools and train- second only to Syria in the num- I stay here, I will die anyway. So, ery year in Uruzgan, about 300 tween seven and 13 attending tralia. The four-year program aims ing 1000 teachers, including fe- 70.64 Afs ber of its people arriving in Eu- why not take a chance? mothers and more than 3000 chil- school. Less than 10 per cent of to improve access to basic health males, to encourage more girls to 1000 Pak Rs= 613Afs rope via the Mediterranean, ac- (IRIN) dren under the age of five die. Less these are girls. In A Candle in the and education for children and their attend school. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . NOVEMBER 12, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ar- rived in Karachi on Wednesday to witness the ongoing Pakistan Navy exercise ‘Sea Spark’ in the Arabian Sea, Radio Pakistan reported. WASHINGTON: Terming China Pakistan Navy’s frigates, sub- as "number-one abuser", leading marines, planes and missile boats Republican presidential candidate along with contingents of Army Air Donald Trump has alleged that the Defence, and Pakistan Air Force Communist nation, along with In- are participating in the exercise. dia, is taking advantage of the US Seaspark 2015: Missiles, ra- through its economic policies. dar guns tested live Trump said China was becom- Further, the exercise is a part ing a "major force" and is now cre- of measures aimed at securing mar- ating problems both economically itime trade route of the country and through its behaviour in the and Gwadar Port while being pre- South China Sea. pared to face any kind of danger in "If you look at the way China the sea. and India and almost everybody Following the event, the pre- takes advantage of the US - China mier is likely to hold a high level in particular, because they're so meeting in the metropolis to re- good. It's the number-one abuser view the law and order situation. of this country," Trump said dur- Earlier, Chief of the Naval Staff ing the fourth debate of the party. Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah "China is a problem, both eco- while visiting the deep seaport said nomically in what they're doing in Pakistan Navy is capable of de- the South China Sea, I mean, they fending the Gwadar port against are becoming a very, very major internal and external threats. force," Trump said. Sea Spark 2015: Navy chief He said that it was through visits troops at Sir Creek "currency manipulation" that does Gwadar is crucial to the Chi- not even find a mention in almost na-Pakistan Economic Corridor 6,000-page (TPP) agreement that (CPEC) and the sea lanes connect- the countries were taking advan- ing the port with international tage of the US. markets are an extension of the While several other Republi- CPEC, he said according to a press can candidates joined Trump on release of the navy. the China issue, there were no tak- UN chief calls for ers for his allegations against In- dia, which was mentioned only once in the debate. lifting of block- US issues travel alert for "We lose a fortune on trade. The US loses with everybody. We're losing now over USD 500 billion in terms of imbalance with ade on Indo- Bangladesh over terrorism fears China, USD 75 billion a year im- balance with Japan," Trump said. John Kasich, governor of Ohio, Nepal border said China did not own the South China Sea. "I give the (US) President some credit for being able to move a naval force in there to let the Chinese know that we're not going to put up with it any more," he said. Russia and president Vladimir Putin too figured prominently dur- ing the debate. "What we have to recognise is that Putin is trying to really spread his influence throughout the Mid- dle East. This is going to be his base. And we have to oppose him there in an effective way," said presidential candidate Ben Carson. "We also must recognise that it's a very complex place. You UNITED NATIONS: Expressing concern over the obstruction of know, the Chinese are there, as well essential supplies to Nepal, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on "all as the Russians, and you have all sides" to lift the blockade at the Indo-Nepal border immediately kinds of factions there," he said. invoking the landlocked country's right of free transit. "The Secre- Jeb Bush said President tary-General indeed reiterates his concern over the obstruction of Barack Obama and Hillary Clin- essential supplies on the Nepal-India border. Acute shortages in fuel ton both do not believe the US has supplies continue to impede planned deliveries to earthquake-affect- a leadership role to play. ed villages in Nepal," Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told re- "And we are now paying a porters yesterday. He said humanitarian organisations urgently re- price, and it will have a huge im- quire fuel to maintain operations and deliver food, warm clothing and pact on the economy of this coun- shelter materials to high altitude areas that will soon be cut off by try if we don't deal with this," he harsh winter weather. "The Secretary-General underlines Nepal's right said. He favoured a no-fly zone in of free transit, as a landlocked nation as well as for humanitarian Syria. "We should have a support reasons, and calls on all sides to lift the obstructions without further for the remnants of the Syrian Free delay," he said. India yesterday said Nepal's "internal factors" were Army, and create safe zones. If responsible for the blockade on the border. The blockade began after you want to deal with the four Madhesi community -- who have cultural, linguistic and family ties million refugees that are leaving to Indians living across the border -- began their protests over Nepal's Syria because of the devastation Constitution. They believe the new charter is flawed and discrimina- there, then we ought to create safe The US state department has is- an Italian aid worker and a Japa- strictions have been imposed on tacks on the two foreigners and a tory as it does not represent their interests. The agitators have been zones for them to stay in the re- picketing the Nepal-India border near Raxaul, from where 70 per cent sued a travel alert for Bangladesh, nese agricultural worker. movements of US government of- bomb attack on minority Shia gion rather than go to Europe. And, saying there is reliable information The US alert says there is on- ficials and their families, prohibit- Muslims, but Bangladesh’s gov- of goods are transported to Nepal. Madhesis, Indian-origin inhabit- that requires American leadership," ants of Nepal's Terai region, are protesting division of their ancestral that terrorist attacks could occur going potential for extremist vio- ing them from most public places ernment has blamed domestic Is- Bush said. against foreigners in the tradition- lence, including against large gath- and from attending large gatherings, lamic militants. homeland in the new Constitution. The agitation close to the main "It is tragic that you see Iraq, trading point near Raxaul has halted supply of essential goods, caus- ally moderate South Asian coun- erings of foreigners. The state de- including events at international In February, a prominent Bang- and other countries now talking to try. partment declined to provide more hotels. It urges other US citizens ladeshi-American blogger known ing acute shortage of fuel in Nepal. Over 40 people have died in the Russia. It wasn't that long ago that violent agitation that has also overwhelmed Indo-Nepal ties as transit Bangladesh has been rocked by information on the nature of the in Bangladesh to take similar pre- for speaking out against religious Russia had no influence in the re- a series of attacks this year claimed terrorist threat, saying it does not cautions. extremism was hacked to death as of goods and fuel to the Himalayan nation from India via the major gion at all. And, so, the US needs border trading points has been badly affected. The agitation by Mad- by Islamic extremists, including comment on intelligence matters. The Islamic State group he walked through the capital, to lead across the board," Bush killings of secular bloggers and of The alert notice says strict re- claimed responsibility for the at- Dhaka, with his wife. hesi groups has paralysed normal life across Nepal while the dearth added. of medicines has put lives of patients at stake. India’s latest communication Pakistan offers space to satellite GSAT-15 Sri Lanka in economic zones successfully launched Pakistan has offered to allocate port to Sri Lanka, Wickramasinghe welcomed the prospects of Pakistani investment in cement and sugar space in its Special Economic sectors and assured his government's support to promote bilateral trade. India’s latest communication sat- Zones for Sri Lankan investors to ellite GSAT-15 was successfully promote bilateral trade between launched by Ariane-5 rocket in the the two countries, a media report early hours today from the space- said on Wednesday. Balochistan to sign economic port of Kourou in French Guiana. A formal offer was made by The European launcher blast- Commerce Minister Khur•ram ed off at 03:04 AM (IST) and Dastagir Khan in a meeting with zone deal with China: Official hurled the GSAT-15, designed to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil deliver telecommunications servic- Wickram•asinghe, Dawn online QUETTA: Balochistan is set to ister Abdul Malik Baloch told AFP. ratist insurgency aimed at seek- es, as well as dedicated navigation- reported. sign a deal with China Wednes- China is also building a road ing greater control over the prov- aid and emergency services, into The minister assured Wickra- day allotting thousands of acres network to link the zone to the ince's rich oil, gas and mineral re- space in a flawless flight. masinghe that Pakistan was ready of land for Beijing to develop a airport and a sea port, and the pro- sources. Gwadar port, located GSAT-15 was launched into a to allocate space to the Sri Lankan massive special economic zone in vincial government will provide 540 kilometres southwest of Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit investors and this would entitle the deep sea port of Gwadar, of- the land according to their require- Karachi, was built in 2007 with (GTO) after its co-passenger Ar- them to all concessions and exemp- ficials told AFP. ments, he said. As part of the wid- technical help from Beijing as absat-6B (BADR-7) was injected tions accorded to these zones. The 40-year lease will see the er plans, work on the Gwadar In- well as Chinese financial assis- into space. He underlined that Sri Lanka government of Balochistan hand ternational Airport would start in tance of some $248 million. “Arianespace successfully enjoyed the exceptional position over a 923-hectare (2,300-acre) the next couple of months. Paki- But acquiring the land from launched two satellites this carries a Ku-band beacon as well GSAT-15 will provide in orbit of being the first country with swathe of tax-exempt land as part stan is also raising a special securi- private owners to build the eco- evening (local time): Arabsat-6B to help in accurately pointing backup to ensure safety of life which Pakistan entered into a Free of the China-Pakistan Economic ty force of between 10,000 and nomic zone took several years (BADR-7) for the operator Arab- ground antennas towards the sat- navigation services in civil aviation Trade Agreement (FTA) in 2002. Corridor (CPEC), an ambitious 25,000 men to protect the port. and cost the Baloch government sat, and GSAT-15 for ISRO (Indi- ellite. sector as well as other location He expressed the hope that the $46 billion investment plan link- Desperately poor Balochistan has around $62 million, officials have an Space Research Organisation),” GSAT-15 is the 19th payload based services to various services scope of bilateral FTA could be ing western China to the Arabian been roiled since 2004 by a sepa- said. Arianespace said. launched by Arianespace for in the Indian region. broadened through the inclusion of Sea. The contract assigning the GSAT-15, weighing 3,164 kg ISRO. Annadurai also said other two services and investments in its land to the China Overseas Port at lift-off, is a high power satellite Speaking at Kourou, ISRO communication satellites GSAT-17 ambit. Holding Company is being signed being inducted into the INSAT/ Satellite Centre (ISAC) Director and GSAT-18 are getting ready for The commerce minister re- on Wednesday in Gwadar, ac- GSAT system. It carries a total of M Annadurai said, “GSAT-15 sat- launch by Ariane vehicle in the next quested that visa facilities must be cording to Dostain Khan Jamal- 24 communication transponders in ellite signal has been acquired by year. “The realisation of both the eased and multiple visas should be dini, chief of the Gwadar Port Ku-band as well as a GPS-Aided Master Control Facility at Has- satellites are in very advanced issued to Pakistani businessmen Authority. The contract will al- GEO Augmented Navigation san (in Karnataka). The initialisa- stage.” and investors to facilitate their low China to build an export zone (GAGAN) payload operating in tion commands are in process and The launch was telecast live travel to Sri Lanka. and an international airport, L1 and L5 bands, ISRO said. the satellite health is hail and by Doordarshan. Khan added that Pakistan, with Balochistan's top provincial offi- It said GSAT-15 is the third healthy.”He said the launch of GSAT-15 brings in Ku-band more than 50 sugar mills and the cial said Tuesday. “China has satellite to carry GAGAN payload GSAT-15 will enable ISRO to pro- capacity to augment as well as pro- ability to produce sugar machin- asked us to provide land for build- after GSAT-8 and GSAT-10, vide continuity of service to Indi- vide replacement to indigenous ery, was in a position to help de- ing an export processing zone and which are already providing navi- an users in Ku-band and the navi- operational satellite capacity, velop Sri Lanka's sugar sector. a modern international airport in gation services from orbit. It also gation payload GAGAN of ISRO said. Appreciating Pakistan's sup- Gwadar,” Balochistan Chief Min- This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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Myanmar's Suu Kyi wins seat, demands military meeting Conservative lawmakers YANGON: Opposition lead- complained to President er Aung San Suu Kyi was offi- cially re-elected to her seat in Hassan Rowhani that the the lower house of parliament on Wednesday as her National process was too rushed. League for Democracy party continued to steam towards victory in the country's his- Iran has stopped dismantling cen- tional Security Council, was quot- last week complaining that the de- toric elections. trifuges in two uranium enrichment ed as saying by the ISNA student activation of centrifuges contradict- Suu Kyi called on leading plants, state media reported on news agency. ed the directives of Supreme Leader members of military-backed Tuesday, days after conservative Only decommissioned centri- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Union Solidarity and Devel- lawmakers complained to Presi- fuges were being dismantled to Khamenei has said that the deal opment Party (USDP) to meet dent Hassan Rowhani that the pro- begin with, of which there were should only be implemented once and discuss what she said cess was too rushed. about 10,000 at Natanz and For- allegations of past military dimen- would be a decisive win for Last week, Iran announced it dow, the Atomic Energy Organi- sions (PMD) of Iran’s nuclear pro- her opposition party. The had begun shutting down inactive sation of Iran has said. gram had been settled. Union Election Commission centrifuges at the Natanz and For- Shamkhani did not specify The International Atomic En- (UEC) said on Wednesday the dow plants under the terms of a what he meant by “warning”, but ergy Agency is expected to an- Nobel peace laureate had won deal struck with world powers in the head of parliament’s nuclear nounce its conclusions on PMD her seat, and that the NLD had July that limits its nuclear program deal commission, Alireza Zakani, by Dec. 15. Centrifuges spin at su- now captured 135 lower in exchange for easing sanctions. told Mehr news agency that the personic speed to increase the ra- house seats in the national par- Iran’s hardliners continue to dismantling had stopped in For- tio of the fissile isotope in urani- liament out of the 151 official- resist and undermine the nuclear dow because of the lawmakers’ let- um. Low-enriched uranium is used ly declared. The opposition deal, which was forged by moder- ter to Rowhani. to fuel nuclear power plants, Iran’s has also taken 29 out of 33 ates they oppose and which they Zakani, who was not one of stated goal, but can also provide seats announced in the upper see as a capitulation to the West. the signatories of the letter, did not material for bombs if refined much house. With the NLD saying “The (dismantling) process mention activities at Natanz. further. Iran has denied Western it expects to win about 80 per- stopped with a warning,” Ali A group of 20 hardline parlia- suspicions it was aiming to build a cent of the seats up for grabs, Shamkhani, Secretary of the Na- mentarians wrote to the president nuclear bomb. Suu Kyi called on President Thein Sein, Shwe Mann, the speaker of the house, and Gen- eral Min Aung Hlaing to meet with her to discuss the out- Russia proposes new France arrests ISIS-linked come of the elections. "It is important to implement the people's will in a peaceful NAVAL ATTACK PLOTTER manner for the sake of the Syria constitution The country has been on high alert since then and several other attacks country," she wrote in letters Authorities in France have arrest- have reportedly been foiled. Attacks by extremists returning from Syria addressed to the three men. A tled “Approach To The Settlement ed a man with links to ISIS in Syr- spokesman for the USDP said or in online contact with extremists there figure high among the French of The Syrian Crisis,” focuses on ia over a plot to attack military intelligence services’ worries. More than 500 French fighters are thought on Wednesday that Myan- both opposition and “terrorist personnel at a major naval base, mar's president and the mili- to be with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, according to official figures, while 250 groups,” and the need to differen- police and judicial sources said on have returned and some 750 expressed a desire to go there. tary would respect the results tiate between them. Tuesday. The 25-year-old, whom of Sunday's vote, but added It calls for the Security Coun- sources said had been monitored he would meet Suu Kyi only cil to agree to list the Islamic State by intelligence agencies after try- after those are announced by of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group as ing unsuccessfully twice last year China says the election commission. The “a terrorist organization,” and to travel to Syria, was held late military government handed agreement on an additional list of last month and charged on Novem- power to a semi-civilian gov- terrorist groups. When the Syrian ber 2. ernment in 2011, but the army government and opposition dele- The interior ministry said in a Philippines must still dominates politics after gations meet under U.N. auspices, statement that the man had been decades in power. Twenty-five the document says they should under surveillance “because of his percent of seats in the parlia- agree on a series of steps: radicalization and public support heal rift over ment are reserved for the army. Launching a constitutional re- for jihadist ideology” and had “at- form process taking up to 18 tempted to acquire material to car- Australia accused of months to guarantee “sustainable ry out a violent attack on Navy South China Sea security and fair balance of inter- personnel in Toulon.” denying detainees ests, rights and obligations of all While he was being monitored, medical care ethnic and confessional (religious) he had a parcel delivered by the groups in structures of power and post office which was found to as Indonesia Asylum seekers detained off- state institutions.” contain a combat knife and a mask. shore are being denied access Forming a constitutional com- During questioning he admit- to urgent medical care in Aus- mission “to embrace the entire ted he had been in contact with a speaks out tralia because immigration of- Russia has circulated a document munique agreed upon by major spectrum of the Syrian society, Frenchman currently in Syria with ficials fear they will access le- on ending the nearly five-year-old powers in Geneva calling for the including domestic and outside the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria gal assistance otherwise un- Syrian conflict that calls for draft- establishment of a transitional gov- opposition,” with the chair agreed (ISIS) group who had encouraged available to them, an alliance of ing a new constitution in up to 18 erning body for Syria with full ex- by all participants. him to act, a source close to the health workers says. The alle- months that would be put to a ecutive powers, leading to elec- Submitting the draft constitu- case said. Charlie Hebdo attacks gation comes from the group popular referendum and be fol- tions. Russia’s deputy U.N. am- tion to a popular referendum, and He eventually admitted plotting to Doctors 4 Refugees that re- lowed by an early presidential elec- bassador Vladimir Safronkov, who “after its approval an early presi- attack sailors at the Mediterranean views medical cases at the re- tion. The document, obtained on expressed regret that the document dential election will be called.” base of Toulon, home to 70 per- quest of refugees detained in Tuesday by The Associated Press, had been leaked, told The Associ- Postponing parliamentary elec- cent of the French fleet and 20,000 offshore prisons on Nauru, makes no mention of Syrian Pres- ated Press: “It’s our vision — it’s tions planned for spring 2016 and military and civilian personnel, Manus, and Christmas Island. ident Bashar al-Assad stepping our proposal.” scheduling them to be held simul- though a police source said he had Despite a lack of medical down during the transition - a key The document was reported- taneously with presidential elec- not formed a detailed plan. equipment and expertise avail- opposition demand. It only men- ly circulated ahead of a second tions on the basis of the new con- One source said the French able locally, it is increasingly tions that “the president of Syria round of talks in Vienna on Satur- stitution. Assad was elected to a ISIS fighter had himself been held rare for detainees to be sent to will not chair the constitutional day among key governments on new seven-year term in 2014 elec- for several months in France for Australia for treatment. commission.” both sides of the Syrian conflict. tions that the opposition dismissed making violent threats against sa- "There's a push to keep them It calls for U.N. special envoy De Mistura told reporters after as a sham because of the impact of tirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in away from Australia," said Dr Staffan de Mistura to launch a briefing the U.N. Security Council the civil war Agreeing that the 2012. In January extremist gunmen Barri Phatarfod, cofounder of political process between the Syr- late Tuesday that his message to popularly elected president will be carried out a string of attacks in the medical alliance. "The fear ian government and “a united del- the 15 members was “one word commander-in-chief of the armed Paris that left 17 dead, including is that in Australia they may egation of the opposition groups” — momentum.” Document’s de- forces and have “control of spe- much of the editorial team of the have access to legal assistance on the basis of the June 2012 com- tails The Russian document, enti- cial services and foreign policy.” satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. and the courts." The claim is backed by documents shown to Al Jazeera by the the Mel- bourne-based Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC). In an Turkey's Erdogan puts Syria, email referring to an ongoing legal case before the High Court that challenges the legality of offshore detentions, an official Iraq on G20 leaders' agenda at the Department of Immigra- tion stated: "This is likely to cause problems with being able ANKARA : Turkey wants world to return transitory persons, as leaders to discuss the conflicts in more and more plaintiffs join Syria and Iraq at a G20 summit the litigation. this weekend and is ready to take "stronger steps" in the region fol- BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Min- that disputes with rival claim- El Nino threatens lowing its general election, Presi- ister Wang Yi said the Philippines' ants be handled bilaterally. dent Tayyip Erdogan said on case against China at an arbitra- In a legal setback for Beijing, millions of children Wednesday. tion tribunal over rival claims in the arbitration court ruled last in Africa: UN Leaders of the Group of 20 the South China Sea had strained month that it had jurisdiction to major economies (G20), including relations and that it was up to hear some territorial claims the Some 11 million children in the United States, China, Japan, the Philippines to heal the rift. Philippines had filed against Chi- eastern and southern Africa Russia, Canada, Australia and Bra- Beijing's claim to almost the na. The Philippines has wel- face hunger, disease, and wa- zil, are to meet on Sunday and entire South China Sea is shown comed the decision and its For- ter shortages as a result of the Monday in the Mediterranean re- on Chinese maps with a nine-dash eign Affairs Department said on strongest El Nino weather phe- sort of Antalya to discuss global line that stretches deep into the Wednesday it would pursue the nomenon in decades, the Unit- economic issues. maritime heart of Southeast Asia. case "to its logical conclusion". ed Nations children's fund said. But Turkey, a NATO member Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, "China's nine-dash line claim Severe drought and floods are which has taken in more than 2 Malaysia and Brunei also claim is expansive, excessive and has causing malnutrition and in- million refugees from Syria and parts of the waterway. no basis under international law," creasing children's vulnerabili- Iraq and faces a growing threat of The arbitration case against said foreign affairs spokesman ty to killer diseases such as spillover from the conflicts, wants China in the Hague "is a knot that Charles Jose. "If left unchal- malaria, diarrhoea, cholera, and the heads of state to also discuss has impeded the improvement lenged, we could lose about 80 dengue fever, UNICEF said on the unrest there. and development of Sino-Philip- percent of our EEZ (exclusive Tuesday. "The consequences "Our inclusion of issues of Iraq pine relations", a statement on the economic zone)." could ripple through genera- and Syria to the G20 agenda is not Foreign Ministry's website cited China has boycotted the le- tions unless affected commu- against the primary objectives of Wang as saying in Manila. gal proceedings and rejects the nities receive support," it said the platform," Erdogan told a busi- "We do not want this knot to court's authority in the case. in a statement. El Nino, caused ness meeting in the capital Anka- become tighter and tighter, so that Manila filed the case in 2013 by Pacific Ocean warming, has ra. The ruling AK Party, founded it even becomes a dead knot," to seek a ruling on its right to caused debilitating drought in by Erdogan, regained the parlia- Wang told reporters. "As for how exploit waters in its 200-nauti- several parts of Africa, includ- mentary majority it had lost just to loosen or open the knot, (we'll) cal mile EEZ as allowed under ing Malawi and Zimbabwe. five months earlier in an election a have to look at the Philippines." the UN Convention on the Law The worst affected country is week and a half ago. He said that The nine-dash line also in- of the Sea. "The person who Ethiopia, which has the sec- meant Turkey could now act with cludes parts of the Indonesian- caused the problem should solve ond-largest population in Af- more authority in the region. held Natuna islands and Jakarta, it," Wang said. "We hope that the rica and is suffering through its "The result of the Nov. 1 elec- which has kept a low profile in Philippines can make a more sen- worst drought in 30 years. tion completely removed political the dispute, could take China to sible choice." Next week, Ma- More than eight million Ethio- uncertainty in Turkey and gave us the "International Criminal nila hosts the Asia-Pacific Eco- pians need food aid, and the the opportunity to take stronger Court" if Beijing's claim was not nomic Cooperation (APEC) number could rise to 15 mil- steps on regional issues," Erdogan Russia, which supports As- Assad's participation in the elec- Turkey, which opened its air resolved through dialogue, Indo- summit, an event at which the lion by early 2016, the United said, without elaborating. sad, wants the Syrian government tion, something Ankara and the bases in July to the U.S.-led coali- nesia's security chief, Luhut Pan- United States says the South Nations said. Some 350,000 Turkey has been a staunch and opposition to agree on launch- Syrian leader's other foes are like- tion against Islamic State, sees ad- jaitan, told reporters on Wednes- China Sea will likely come up on Ethiopian children have severe opponent of Syrian President ing a constitutional reform process ly to oppose. vances by the Syrian Kurds as a day. the sidelines. Chinese Foreign acute malnutrition, UNICEF Bashar al-Assad, arguing lasting of up to 18 months, followed by Turkey is also expected to use threat to its national security, fear- Although he specified the In- Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said, meaning they are likely peace is impossible without his early presidential elections, a draft its presidency of the G20 to try to ing they could stoke separatism ternational Criminal Court, which said China hoped "sensitive po- to die without therapeutic feed- departure. Prime Minister Ahmet document obtained by Reuters persuade allies including Washing- among its own Kurds. deals with war crimes, it would litical topics" would not be dis- ing. In Somalia, flash floods Davutoglu said on Tuesday that showed on Tuesday. ton against giving U.S.-allied Syri- "Anyone ferrying wood to the appear he meant an international cussed there. "We hope all sides have destroyed thousands of Turkey would respond by air and The proposal, drawn up be- an Kurdish rebels a greater role in Syrian fire will find themselves tribunal such as the Permanent can uphold the economic trade makeshift homes and crops. land to threats from Syria and that fore international talks on Syria in the fight against Islamic State mil- burning. It is a friendly warning," Court of Arbitration. essence of the APEC forum," he a new strategy was needed. Vienna this week, does not rule out itants. Erdogan said. For years, China has insisted told reporters in Beijing. 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We a r e a n a t ion a l in st it u t ion a n d n ot t h e voice of a gov t or a p r iva t e or ga n iza t ion AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] By Hakim Ahmadzai ic government would serve the imposed armed conflict and the economy gets flourished; them well, if not better; yet they terrorism; and the govern- invest in education; support Email: [email protected] It is improbable that any na- are cynical of the government’s ment’s failure to create strate- ally countries within the ambit tion could be entirely indepen- ability to deliver, and they are gies to counter the problem ef- of International Law, and in www.afghanistantimes.af dent and self-sufficient. Af- angry about it. When you fectively. The government is contexts; and punish those ghanistan needs international speak to people in offices and poor; hence, unhealthy and who deviate from the rule of Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi assistance; however, it ought on streets in Kabul –let alone weak. Policies are not autono- Law within the legal jurisdiction to decide its own fate. It is con- rural areas–you are more likely mous. Interest groups are pow- of the Afghan state. Indeed, Advisory editorial board vincing to think that, life is an to receive critical and cynical erful because they complicate scholars and practitioners may Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, idea of loneliness; every being reactions from the subjects to- and shape policies. People who have high cultured proposals can be seemingly thought of wards the Afghan government. struggle badly, join armed and for formulating policies, but my Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal as naturally alone, viewed in- Of course, a scientific research unarmed government opposi- personal and academic experi- trospectively. However, a clos- would produce testable results tion. 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It is uncommon to hear the government are the mani- Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: their situation, God does not 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 trate the scope of our discus- that, within the Afghan gov- festations, closely observed. change it for them. Atheists Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press sion, consider this example: in ernment - powerful persons, So what can be done? could partly disagree; it is ok. principle, a person’s life is i.e., ministers, deputies, and There are some develop- Human knowledge evolves; alone, but in order for it to nur- their associates - seem discour- ments that have taken place at consequently, social, econom- The constitution says ture, it needs assistance and aged by the current structure the cost of blood and treasure; ic and political relationships resources from external natu- of the government; hence, the no one can ignore them. The can be shaped, and trans- Article 68: ral, and artificial sources. The pursuit of national interests Afghan parliament and minis- formed to produce the desired In case any of the Vice-Presidents resign or die, another person shall be appointed by the same applies to a community become illusionary. It is diffi- tries are engaged in dialogue results - peace and prosperity, President with the endorsement of the House of the People. In case of simultaneous death and a country. Hence, accord- cult to refuse that, acrimony and debates over questions of the President and the First Vice-President, the Second Vice-President, the President of the ing to Fund for Peace (FFP), and deep divisions exist among concerning development and in this context. Afghanistan House of Elders, the President of the House of Representatives and the Foreign Minister Afghanistan is still a failed the government officials. Tra- failures (if any). Ministers are lacks a sustainable tradition of shall succeed respectively and, in that order, and, according to Article Sixty-Seven of this democracy, and society build- Constitution, shall assume the duties of the President. state (number 8 after Yemen, in ditional power-politics still busy attending national and in- placed in highly-alert catego- play structural and legitimate ternational conferences in ef- ing takes time; yet the key to ry), Fragile State Index 2015. role in the Afghan government. forts to bring prosperity and success is honest commitment, The Afghan government can However, the lay public is dis- security to the country. determination and sustainable do more than what it is doing affected, tired, and frustrated Though, more needs to be collaboration and cooperation to build Afghan society; and it with their government because done: transparency, rule of law, in a perplexing world of cultures should do it for real. people are excluded from social and trust must be created to and personalities. Capacity There is no reason to deny and economic benefits. mollify public legitimate con- deficit needs work; hence, put that corruption and lack of se- It is unlikely that Afghani- cerns: security and delivering educated youth in position that curity are the major obstacles stan would fall into extreme quality services. Here is a start- fit them appropriately. In gen- to society building in the coun- national crises such as state up: no negotiations with terror- eral, Afghanistan can develop Patience of the nation try; and the two are not mutu- collapse, and civil war. But dis- ists of any kind; extract the min- when the country is not divid- ally exclusive. While Afghans advantaged Afghans in Af- erals (worth trillions) of differ- ed against itself; hence, nation- voted with the hope that their ghanistan continue to suffer ent kinds in Afghanistan and al unity – real not nominal – is at boiling point new representative democrat- from: bloodshed produced by wisely turn them into money so essential. Human autonomy based debates are tools to the There is a tsunami of troubles and issues. One issue is not resolved that ends; however, civil society Syria, Afghanistan and play critical role in spurring the yet another issue emerges. At times they challenge our collective stami- culture. Investment in primary, na as a nation. What did happen to the Shiite passengers in Zabul province double-back in US strategy and higher education is key to at the hands of ISIS is the extreme of brutalities. The brutes succeeded in By David Hoffman signed to “train the moderates” the Taliban, Obama maintains long term human development sending the message that the government is incapable of protecting peo- have proven lackluster. The initial that Afghanistan is “a key piece in Afghanistan; the govern- Top of Form Bottom of Form CIA program only successfully of the network of counterterror- ment should invest in it. Af- ple’s lives. This past October, we wit- and thoroughly trained a handful ism partnerships that we need.” nessed a stark readjustment of the of soldiers. Subsequently, a simi- Many Afghan officials and po- ghans want a more competent What happened in front of the Presidential Palace is even more sad- U.S. military agenda in the Mid- lar Pentagon program, totaling $42 lice strongly advocate a contin- and more transparent represen- dening. The problem is when such issues emerge, our collective wisdom dle East. On Oct. 30, President million, fell through because it was ued U.S. presence as well. So, tative democracy (they voted); disappears, and the people, start focusing so much on differences that Obama announced the U.S. mili- directed solely against ISIS, while will these new U.S. strategies they want their kids and chil- tary would, in fact, be putting most rebels want to fight al-Assad prove successful? I don’t know. dren to become educated and waters even more chaos, and negativity. The people are not blameworthy “boots on the ground” in Syria. as well. In summation, the U.S. I think the bigger question is, par- Earlier on Oct. 15, the Obama ad- strategy of training moderates and ticularly in the case of Syria, benefit from the technological as their grief and fury is natural and they have the right to give vent to their ministration announced an exten- engaging airstrikes has fallen short what does success truly mean? inventions introduced by ad- anger, yet what matters is the government’s unconcern. What did emerge sion of the timeline for U.S. mili- of desired expectations. Likewise, Success for whom? On an opti- vanced societies; they want to tary presence in Afghanistan. al-Assad’s reutilization of chemi- mistic note, world leaders from a fight back and free themselves in news, on the brutal beheadings, in channels is enough to make you be- Through most of next year, 9,800 cal weapons against civilians and myriad of countries, including the troops will continue operations, rebels through the use of chlorine big players in Syria — Saudi Ara- from those who want to entan- lieve as if there is no government. The protestors who had gathered in the and by Jan. 2017, a residual force canisters and Russia’s recent in- bia, Turkey, Russia and the U.S. gle them in, and subject them premises of the Presidential Palace sought resignation from the Presi- of 5,500 troops will remain indef- tervention in the region, largely in — met Oct. 23 in Vienna to dis- to terrorism (of any kind); and initely. support of al-Assad, has inspired cuss future action. Overall, they Afghans want to have good dent and CEO. Some questioned that where is the government? And then One does not have to go very more active U.S. involvement. In agreed on the need for united ef- the most unfortunate happened—warning shots by police which left some far back in time to find statements describing the new agenda, how- forts against ISIS, and delegates relationships with their neigh- from the White House promising ever, the White House resists ad- told the press they discussed bors and other international protestors injured. Even the Wolesi Jirga came into movement over the that neither of these two commit- mitting these “fewer than 50” spe- “even the most difficult (issues).” countries. Afghans know their brutality of terrorists in Zabul. They didn’t behead just seven Hazaras rather ments would be engaged. As re- cial-ops troops will likely see com- The diplomats agreed to meet needs because they live in this cently as Dec. 2014, Obama de- bat, stubbornly maintaining that again, and, judging by the first they beheaded seven Afghans, seven humans and according to the Holy clared, “Our combat mission in they will exclusively pursue “ad- meeting’s optimistic end, per- country. But, the high hopes of Afghanistan is ending.” In the case vise-and-assist” engagements. On haps something constructive will the Afghan society building Quran, they beheaded the entire humanity. of Syria, from the moment the Afghanistan, Obama announced, emerge. As for the revised U.S. can be realized when the Af- This is perhaps the second attempt of the terrorists to create sectarian U.S. began its airstrike venture in “Our troops will continue to pur- strategy in Afghanistan, all that ghan government does more: 2014 to this past Sept. 30, the sue those two narrow tasks that I can really be said is our engage- implement law, mitigate and strife as a Hazarite’s shrine was targeted in 2011 where over 60 innocent White House continually reas- outlined earlier: training Afghan ments will not likely end soon. Shiite mourners were killed. sured there would not be “boots forces and going after al-Qaida.” And seeing as how the U.S.-Af- systematically curtail – discred- on the ground” in Syria. Yet, we Commander of U.S. forces in Af- ghan war now enters its high- it – corruption. Afghanistan Fed up with the no-action based promises of the government, the Wolesi have seen a complete reversal of ghanistan Gen. John Campbell school aged stage, with the en- still does not have its own elec- Jirga (the Lower House of the Parliament), is mulling to summon Presi- strategy on both fronts. What cites the recent resurgence of the gagement having begun way back tricity; it buys it from Turkmen- happened? Engagements in Syria Taliban threat as necessitating a in October 2001, we may, unfor- dent Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah. The Wolesi are likely the result of converging considerable U.S. presence. Given tunately, be seeing this war istan. A government is govern- Jirga also condemned the beheadings of the seven passengers in Zabul factors. Recent reports conclude the rise of ISIS after the 2011 through to graduation day. Dav- ment; a business is business. that the Islamic State group is cur- American retreat from Iraq and re- id Hoffman is a UF history and The two may need each other, province. According to Wolesi Jirga members the government has failed rently as strong as it was in 2014. cent skirmishes in Afghanistan be- physics sophomore. His column but the former should not be- in protecting its citizens. Moreover, U.S. programs de- tween spreading ISIS forces and appears on Tuesdays. come the latter. Besides the failures of the government, the society is also responsible as we have been pursuing an affiliation-based politics. A Pashtun favors a Pashtun. A Tajik favors a Tajik and Hazara is looking for help and support from a Hazara. In the absence of a broader political thinking, some polit- ically established families have been exploiting these gaps. We don’t learn from other nations. India has hundreds of ethnic groups, yet has been proudly marching on the trajectory of economic develop- ment. In Europe, Jews and Christians participate in their religious rituals. Passage of t ime They have dumped their past differences. They have learnt the art of how to live in harmony. Some of the protestors attempted to link terrorism to a particular eth- nic group, yet this is unfair because the ethnic group they named to be responsible is even the worst victim of terrorism. The entire nation is grieved over what the brutes did in Zabul and beheaded the innocent civil- ians, however, instead of fanning divides with ethnic lines is as worth con- demnation as terrorism is. Then why we must commit a mistake when we condemn another mistake. Performance Subscription Rates of NUG Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. 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THURSDAY .NOVEMBER 12, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES NAP’s patchy progress THE third ‘high-level’ re- view of progress under By Barbie Latza Nadeau arms runners who had set up in Mourad Nasr, was arrested through Italy’s extensive AFIS the National Action Plan links in France, Portugal, and on charges that he took over digital database, where he was Al Qaeda operative Ben Mehe- since August has pro- the U.K. All of this was present- as head of the cell. He was re- identified immediately as Ben di Nasr turned up in a refugee duced the same state- ed in a 500-page dossier that leased from prison in 2014 and Mehedi Nasr, one of the most boat in Sicily last month—and ments of intent that every sealed Nasr’s conviction on immediately repatriated to Tu- dangerous terrorists known to their decision as a good omen for was sent home because of a other such appraisal has By Afrasiab Khattak terrorism charges in early 2008, nisia. Italian authorities. Pakistan. So the Taliban networks loophole. Why does Italy keep generated since the plan for which Judge Luisa Savoia On October 4 of this year, Yet rather than questioning News of bloodshed continuously have survived and the death of tribal letting a known terrorist go? began to be implement- keeps pouring in from the Feder- elders continued. Their deaths sentenced him and his associ- Nasr came back to Italy. This his motives for returning, au- ROME — When Tunisian ed earlier this year. Once ally Administered Tribal Area went unnoticed and unmourned as ates to eight years in prison. time, he tried to sneak in as part thorities confirm Nasr was sent native Ben Mehedi Nasr was again, the list of areas (FATA). Pashtuns from tribal ar- the state authorities practically He admitted knowing the other of a group of 200 Syrian refu- back to Tunisia on Monday eas are still in the eye of storm in arrested in the town of Novel- where progress has been disowned them. Many of tribal men, but claimed he was inno- gees who set sail from Libya under a bilateral agreement that the so called war on terror. They leaders raised local self defense lara in 2007, he was considered found to be lacking is the cent. “I’m not part of any orga- and were rescued by the Ital- requires automated repatriation are still dying and they are still forces against Taliban but most of one of the most dangerous ter- same: terror financing, nization,” he told the court, ac- ian navy during one of the for any Tunisian citizens ille- IDPs. There is no let up for them them died in suicide attacks rorists in Italy. When he was madressah reform, mov- although the situation has some- launched by Taliban and others cording to transcripts. “I met many Mediterranean rescue gally entering Italy who are not picked up in the north-central ing against proscribed or- what changed for the better in the were forced to became IDPs. the head of the cell in Milan operations. He was taken to suspected of being traffickers. Reggio Emilia province, author- ganizations and hate rest of Pakistan. On Tuesday The President of Pakistan and [Sabri] twice, but then I’ve had Lampedusa, where Sicilian au- On the boat that Nasr came November 3 two known tribal lead- Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ities had been tracking him and speech. A patchy track no contact with him for two thorities immediately separated over on, authorities identified ers were killed in cold blood by who are supposed to be adminis- 16 Tunisian associates who record of action in each years.” him and three others from the other men who they charged terrorists in Bajaur Agency. Both tering FATA, do not send even sim- they referred to as the “17 fra- of these areas testifies to were killed in explosions caused ple condolence messages to the He was sent to a maximum- rest of the group in what has with navigating the vessel— telli” who had settled legally in the immense difficulties by improvised explosive device bereaved families and clans. That security facility in Naples to become the usual practice of which means Nasr isn’t sus- the country. It was long before facing the state in tack- (IED) in different parts of Bajour. is exactly what has happened this serve his time. In late 2008, racial-profiling. He was obvi- pected of any crime, despite his ling the roots of militancy Tribal leader Malik Moham- week also. The families of Malik an exodus of migrants and ref- anti-terrorism prosecutor An- ously not Syrian, so they im- criminal history. “It’s a big of a mad Younis was going to Raghgam Mohammad Younis, Malik Mun- ugees started coming, back in the country. It is cru- drea Santucci offered him a deal mediately thought he was one loophole. He wasn’t suspect- from Tali. When his car reached sif Khan or journalist Zaman Ma- when it was common for those cial to address each item for early release in exchange for of the traffickers. ed of recruiting anyone or do- Gulo Shah area it was targeted by sood did not receive a phone call, a wanting to settle in Europe did on this list if militancy and a bomb explosion. Malik Moham- condolence letter or any other kind testimony against the others in Instead, he claimed that his ing anything but entering the acts of terrorism are to so by commercial ferry, as Nasr mad Younis died on the spot and of state recognition. It is obvious- the Italian cell, but he refused, name was Mohamed Ben Sar country illegally,” a spokesman be truly eradicated. Oth- had done. his two sons Ijaz and Hazrat Noor ly difficult to decide as to weather according to Vainer Burani, his and even had a Syrian docu- for the police in Agrigento, who erwise, the successes who were accompanying him in these Pashtun casualties are part But soon after his arrival, lawyer at the time. (Burani told ment that he said proved it. He saw to his repatriation, told The scored by the Rangers in the car got severely injured. Ijaz’s of collateral damage or a mere can- authorities suspected Nasr, The Daily Beast he has not said he wanted to claim politi- Daily Beast. “We may never Karachi and Operation condition is stated to be critical. non fodder in the so-called ‘war then 31, was up to no good. He The body of the deceased and in- on terror’. For all practical pur- heard form his former client cal asylum in northern Europe, know his real intentions.” Zarb-i-Azb in the north- had a legitimate job as a con- jured persons were taken to the poses FATA is expected to bleed since his release.) A few but officials didn’t believe him Indeed, hopefully we nev- west will be little more struction worker by day, but Agency headquarter hospital in as long as Afghan Taliban are al- months after the offer, his cous- and ran his fingerprints er will. (The Daily Beast) than mowing the grass, Khar. Another tribal leader Malik lowed to use the area for continu- there were also reports that he only to watch it grow Munsif Khan was also killed in an ing their war in Afghanistan. was helping radicalize young back again. explosion caused by IED when he Operation Zarb-e-Azb start- Muslim men at evening gath- was on his way back from a ed in June 2014. It was supported David Cameron has played with We don’t know what mosque in Galey village in Bajour. by all and sundry and its genuine erings in the local Islamic Cen- exactly was discussed On the same day a known tribal successes were recognized. There ter and at a 24-hour phone fa- regarding these gaps in journalist Zaman Masood was tar- can’t be any complaint about the cility that offered special rates fire over EU immigration - Will the implementation of get killed in Tank bazar which bor- lack of political ownership for it. for calls to the Middle East. It NAP, but the impression ders South Waziristan. TTP ac- The first and the last briefing to was then that anti-terrorism emerging from all these cepted responsibility for his death. political parties was given about it police started bugging his he now get burned? He had received death threats from in August 2014. reviews is that the lead- terrorists who were demanding Initially it was expected to be phone and those at the call By Paul Waugh Of course, the PM isn’t doing Syria, the Iranian nuclear pro- ership — both civil and coverage of their statements in his a matter of a few months. It was center. this so he can be humiliated over a gramme were all cited. Ever since he first gave in to back- military — appears to be reports. From time to time we also also extended to parts of the Khy- During that time, authorities retreat on a key policy. He’s hav- Cameron even argued that the stuck in deciding how to see or read press releases about ber Agency and some other pock- bench Tory demands for an EU ing to negotiate because he’s been fact that the UK has a border post collected valuable intelligence referendum, David Cameron has move forward in these casualties in ground operations or ets in FATA. But after a year and a that was shared with the U.S. warned that the four-year ban in Calais, rather than Dover, was aerial bombardments. But these are half there is still no end in sight. It known that the biggest risk to Brit- could be illegal (because EU law proof of how important the EU areas. There is little mainly statistics without names or can go on for the next few years. and the U.K. about a terrorist ain staying in Europe is public bans discriminatory practices). was to our national security. Not surprise in this. Fight- identities. Collateral damage has Most probably it is linked with cell that recruited young men unease about immigration. A brief bit of political history an easy sell when you’re suggest- ing militants on the not been mentioned even once. plans for fighting in Afghanistan. to fight for al Qaeda in Syria, Cameron’s conundrum in is helpful here. As the Centre for ing the EU is part of the problem, ground is a far simpler The war in FATA has been by and It is linked with on the ground Iraq, and Afghanistan. Nasr 2013 was to persuade the voters European Reform’s John Spring- not part of the solution, to immi- task than rooting out large remained as faceless up till changes in Afghan policy and not that somehow he was acting on ford has pointed out, the four-year gration. was thought to be one of the their concerns, while not breaking their networks of sup- now as it has been throughout the the high rhetoric emerging from leaders, along with Dridi Sabri, idea first cropped up in Cameron’s It can be argued that from his Cold War. Islamabad now and then. Cleans- the EU’s key principle that any immigration speech in November Bloomberg speech in 2013, ply and support. The Tribal elders have been killed ing Shawal and Datta Khel in North who had set up a similar struc- citizen is free to move around for 2014. At the time, there was a real through his ‘renegotiation’ and on former represents a guts- for siding with the state for the Waziristan has taken ages with out ture in Milan, and Imed Ben work. panic on about the rise of Ukip through the referendum campaign, and-glory type of a fight. last decade and a half but the state any tangible explanation. Pashtun Zarkaouwi, who traveled be- When it became clear that mi- and Cameron needed a long ladder Cameron has never been in control The latter is more cere- didn’t protect them or didn’t even IDPs from FATA, particularly tween Reggio Emilia and Milan. gration quotas or ‘emergency to get him out of his hole. and has been buffeted about by brakes’ weren’t either workable or bral, requiring nerve and provide the type of support to trib- North Waziristan, who were prom- All four were arrested in No- It’s thought that Cameron took others. As he pointed out today, it al leaders that could have galva- ised to be sent back to their homes palatable to fellow EU leaders, the a liking to an Open Europe pam- will be others - the British people brains, as well as the ca- nized their fight against Taliban and and hearths “very soon” are still vember 2007 in joint sting op- focus shifted to ‘benefit tourism’ phlet - from Damian Chalmers and - who make the final call. pacity to mould the dis- Al Qaida who occupied their area. waiting. We hear about the num- erations. and the ‘pull factor’ of our gener- Stephen Booth - that suggested a EU diplomats constantly de- course and regulate the The terrorists started their attacks ber of families who will go back. According to testimony ous welfare system. three-year residency requirement scribe the referendum as a prob- flows of funds and mate- invariably against tribal leaders in They are living human beings and presented at his trial, Mehedi But in his Chatham House could be introduced via an EU di- lem of Cameron’s own making, as riel within the economy. every tribal agency to create terror not abstract statistics. They are the Nasr was an explosives expert speech (and letter to EU council rective rather than treaty change. if it were a Conservative party president Donald Tusk) today, In short, the latter task in the region and establish their most disempowered and misera- whose recruitment skills for Add an extra year and, bingo, it management issue rather than one writ. ble people in Pakistan. They do the PM seemed finally to concede was in the November speech. of genuine reform. And just as the rubs up against all the key Military operations were not figure on the radar of “ free would-be jihadi fighters was that he may have to tone down his Despite warnings from civil Tory party’s internal tensions gave weaknesses of the state launched against terrorists from media” that deserves full marks for second to none. Among the demands on even this. servants that the idea may be ille- birth to the referendum, so too itself — its civil-military time to time (in some cases two, self-censoring. things they found in his apart- What a difference six months gal at worst and difficult to get could they bury any ‘In’ vote. A fault lines and the fact that three and even four operations in Is there any roadmap for an ment were colorfully illustrat- makes. In May, the Tory general past 27 other nations at best, the raft of Eurosceptics got up in the the wheels of the state — one tribal agency), but the menace end to war in FATA and the reha- ed bomb-making manuals in election manifesto sounded pret- PM put the four-year idea into the Commons to condemn their lead- could not be wiped out because bilitation of the IDPs? The Hu- ty uncompromising. “We will in- it’s very writ in fact — Italian, French, and English, Tory manifesto. er’s speech. space for Afghan Taliban (or the man Rights bodies should not only sist that EU migrants who want The real fly in the ointment Even though they differ on the rarely touches the ground. good Taliban) was always main- raise their voice against the con- and a lively hip-hop video that to claim tax credits and child ben- was that every other EU legal ex- general merits of immigration, keep- The case of terror fi- tained and they obviously required tinuing death, destruction and ag- apparently showed the perks of efit must live here and contribute perts disagreed with Chalmers. ing control of our own borders is nancing is a case in point. some local support. Hence the onies faced by the tribal Pashtuns suicide bombing. Authorities to our country for a minimum of They suggested that all jurispru- the issue that unites both Boris Where the standard law- agreements with local militants but they should also support the also described a “suicide- four years,” it declared. dence and case law in the EU Johnson and Theresa May with enforcement bodies of the signed in 2006 and 2007 that sur- demand for establishment of a bomber factory” in a Milan Fast forward to today and that points to any three- or four-year many Tory Eurosceptics. vived up till recently in which the Truth and Reconciliation Commis- word ‘insist’ - with its clear impli- country have struggled to apartment block, where young ban being illegal. With a Tory leadership race militant would pledge to not launch sion to apportion responsibility for cation of a non-negotiable red line One solution to what Jean- looming in 2019, will Boris take detect and intercept ter- attacks on this side of the Durand the crimes committed against the men were trained under harsh - has disappeared. Instead, the PM Claude Juncker’s spokesman the biggest risk of his life and come rorism funds, the Rang- Line (implying that they will fo- people of FATA. psychological circumstances said “I am open to different ways called the ‘problematic’ issue of in- out for Brexit if Cameron fails to ers in Karachi have used cus their fight in Afghanistan). Any reform without such ex- before being sent to fight. Po- of dealing with this issue”. In his work benefits is to level the play- come back from Brussels with extraordinary powers Even after the launching of ercise would not bring the matter lice also identified an arms-traf- letter to Tusk, he added that the ing field: impose a four-year ban anything revolutionary on freedom granted to them under an Operation Zarb-e-Azb some Pun- to a close as the scars in the peo- ficking network through which “precise means” of implementing on Brits as well as EU migrants. of movement? Will the normally jabi Taliban and Masood Taliban ple’s minds are too deep to be his migration plans were “a mat- amendment to the Anti- illegal weapons were being Some Government sources have risk-minimising Mrs May? Lead- were able to switch over from “bad heeled by mere administrative ter for negotiation, not least as suggested that British 18-year- ing a Brexit campaign could help Terrorism Act passed in Taliban” into “good Taliban” by measures. Even colonial subjects smuggled via traditional orga- there may, in each case be differ- olds would have to work until they either of them to win the Tory the run-up to their oper- declaring their intent to shift their do not accept half backed superfi- nized-crime routes. Those ac- ent ways of achieving the same are 22 to get any tax credits. Min- party leadership, but the cost could ation, to apprehend all focus from fighting in Pakistan to cial measures as an ultimate solu- tivities were curtailed with the result”. What had seemed a red line isters don’t particularly need the be high. manner of people — from fighting in Afghanistan. It is a tion to their pains from long suf- arrest and convictions of 15 of is now very much a faint pink, if votes of the under-25s (as they’re Don’t forget that Boris may politicians to political matter of record that General (R) ferings and oppression. They in- it’s visible at all. proving on housing benefit and the well be in the Cabinet next May Musharraf publicly welcomed sist on justice.—(The Nation) the 17 Fratelli group, including workers and street crim- living wage), but No.10 sources are and will be bound by collective re- inals, to hardened mem- steering us away from this idea. sponsibility. If he gets a boring job, The other solution is to per- it’s not inconceivable he could stage bers of banned outfits — haps cut the four-year ban to a six- a Hezza-style flounce-out of Cab- and charged them mostly month ban. This may, just may, inet to lead the Out campaign with terror financing sim- LETTER TO THE EDITOR get past the European Court of should Cameron’s renegotiation ply to be able to hold Justice. The problem then is a po- really produce only ‘thin gruel’ them for 90 days. Very litical one: can the PM sell it to the (copyright, J Rees-Mogg). few, if any, of those ap- public after backing off a much Some in the Osborne camp longer curb? would love Boris’s bluff to be prehended have actually Nangarhar University student’s support for Which brings us the guts of the called. And the big problem for been charged, and even referendum. A vote to stay in will Johnson would be the danger of fewer convictions have militants should not be taken lightly depend not on other countries, but ending up on the losing side. Fur- been obtained. This mus- on whether the public are con- thermore, if he does back Brexit cular approach, with A video footage, that went viral in social media, shows a number of Nangarhar University students hoisting flags of the Islamic State (IS), the vinced that there’s a sense of fair and lose, he would face inevitable open-ended targeting, is Taliban and even al-Qaeda. The students were chanting slogans against the government and in the favor of the terrorist groups in Afghanistan. play in the EU’s dealings with the questions of when he’d next hold The government should not take all these protests lightly and should take action against those students involved. We see that the militant the wrong way to inter- groups are killing our innocent civilians. They in a recent move beheaded seven hostages including women and children. UK - and on who’s doing the con- a fresh referendum and ‘banging on vincing. about Europe’ and immigration cept terror funding. The The government should have full control on universities and should not let militants to find way to academic institutions, because those right way is to ratify those studying in universities are the future leaders of the country. However, if they were exploited by militants, then we will lose our next Today, despite his weak warn- would dog the Tories once more. generations to the menace of extremism as well. Thus, I urge the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and National ing that ‘I rule nothing out’, the For Boris, as for Cameron, international conventions Directorate of Security (NDS) to prevent from repetition of such protests in the future and arrest the organizers of this very most striking thing about David playing with fire on EU immigra- that will activate the as- protest. Cameron’s speech was how pro- tion is a dangerous pastime. By sistance from authorities Esmatullah Amin, Khushal Mena, Kabul European it was. And he made stoking worries about generous in central banks around clear for the first time that Brit- benefits and national sovereignty, ain’s very security, the safety of they both risk getting burned po- the world to trace the Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s name and movement of funds, and address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] its people, was at stake. litically. The PM today made flex- “Our membership of the Eu- ibility his buzzword for a reformed develop an automated ropean Union is not just a matter EU. “Flexibility is what I believe system for flagging poten- of trade and commerce, of pounds is best for Britain; and, as it hap- tially troublesome flows in and pence. It is about our national pens, best for Europe too,” he said. the financial system. Thus security as well as our economic On the key issue of EU migration Disclaimer: security. The world is undoubted- and four-year benefits bans, he’s far, progress on NAP is ly a more dangerous place than shown a willing flexibility in his patchy, mainly because The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) when I made my speech at own renegotiation with EU part- the implementation has Bloomberg three years ago,” he ners. Just whether the public - or been more brawn and and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. said. The EU joining forces against Boris - will be so flexible remains less brain. (DAWN’s edi- Putin in Ukraine, ISIL in Iraq and to be seen. torial on Nov. 10) This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . NOVEMBER 12, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Footage appears to show officers intimidating a 13-year-old to confess to attempted murder of Israeli citizens.

As a 13-year-old Palestinian went to trial for allegedly attacking Is- raeli citizens in occupied East Jerusalem, there has been anger after a leaked video of the teenager being interrogated by police after the incident showed an officer us- ing "intimidating" tactics. On Tuesday, Ahmed Manasrah appeared in a Jerusalem court, where he was charged with two counts of attempted murder. According to the indictment, he and his cousin Hassan, 15, stabbed two Israelis, aged 20 and 13, in mid-October. RELATED: Children of Hebron: 'Everyone is afraid' After the alleged attack at the Pisgat Zeev settlement, police shot Hassan dead and a passing car ran over Manasrah. The two Israelis survived their wounds. 'Murder Jews' In a video after the incident, shared widely on social media, Manasrah is shown lying on the ground, unable to move, and bleeding from the head. A nearby man, speaking in Arabic with an Israeli accent, can be heard cursing him and shouting "die, die, son of The voters in Bihar have put the Modi does not offer anything re- a b***h". Meanwhile, other by- BJP and its cow hugging ‘commu- sembling an economic model or standers curse him and shout "die!" nal politics’ out to pasture. policy. Doing favours to the very in Hebrew. The electorate in Bihar, one of rich, which Modi has been accused But another widely shared the most populous states in India, of doing during his tenure as the video, released ahead of Tuesday's has delivered a resounding defeat chief minister of Gujarat does not trial, has further intensified ten- confess. Manasrah, visibly whatever you want, but I don't re- he said, maintaining that Manasrah minors, in such a brutal way. Abu to the right-wing BJP, which had pass for an economic model. In an sions around the case. traumatised but recovered from his member anything," Manasrah is did not try to stab or commit a crime Saleh added that based on material painted Bihar in saffron and plas- op-ed in April 2014, Professor The clip shows what appear major wounds, is seen crying, hit- heard saying. OPINION: The un- against anyone. Lawyer Lea Tsemel, in the video, the treatment of tered billboards with Prime Min- Kotwal explained that while Gu- to be Israeli policemen verbally ting his own head, and pleading that dercurrents of violence in Israel and who is also representing Manasrah, Manasrah constitutes torture, as ister Narendra Modi’s photo- jarat had been one of the top-per- abusing Manasrah, who is from he has done nothing and does not Palestine Israeli police spokes- said she may contest the investiga- defined by Israeli law. Under the law, graphs. The BJP was not expect- forming states in economic output Jerusalem, pressuring him to con- remember anything.A anasrah ap- woman Luba Samri said the inves- tion based on the manner of ques- minors must be questioned by po- ing a defeat of such proportions growth, the same has not translat- pears confused, saying he did not tigation was conducted "with pro- tioning seen in the video. "You can- lice officers who are trained to deal and the party is struggling to ex- ed into meaningful development in fess to attempting to "murder plain the outcome. Meanwhile, the the state. Professor Kotwal com- Jews" and "aiding an enemy at the understand what his accusers were fessionalism and without bias," the not terrify, or threaten, or tempt, for with underage suspects and in the liberals in India and the Indian di- pares Gujarat’s economic produc- time of war". In the video (WARN- talking about. The officer then AP news agency reported. Akin the purpose of achieving a confes- presence of their parents or lawyers, aspora are cheering these electoral tivity and human development ING: some viewers may find this shouts at him, saying "shut up" to 'torture' Speaking to Al Jazeera, sion," she said, according to AP. she explained. Manasrah's case was results. Professor Madhav Badami against other states and concludes disturbing), which Al Jazeera can- and "I will show you … if you Tariq Bargouthi, Manasrah's law- Maysa Abu Saleh, a lawyer with the postponed on Tuesday and sched- at Canada’s McGill University be- that Gujarat has done so much bet- not verify, several Israeli police of- don't answer," after which yer, said that the "intimidating" Public Committee against Torture in uled to resume on November 26. lieves the results were truly fasci- ter in terms of growth and so much ficers are seen screaming at Manasrah breaks down, puts his tactics used by the police officer Israel, a human rights group, told Al Follow Ali Younes on Twitter: nating, especially how poverty- worse in terms of development Manasrah, telling him that he had hands on his head, and cries again. against his client were illegal under Jazeera that Israeli police do not have @Ali_reports stricken Biharis saw through than other states. Interestingly, committed crimes and that he must "Enough, enough, I will say Israeli law. "He is just a little boy," the right to treat suspects, especially Source: Al Jazeera and agencies Modi’s vile rhetoric. He believes Professor Mahadevia makes a sim- these results showed “India at its ilar argument. Professors Mai- finest”. But, while most liberals in treesh Ghatak of the London the diaspora are pleased with the School of Economics and Sanchari outcome, some are not convinced Roy of the University of Warwick that the winning coalition is any are also interested in the compara- better. Professor Sumeet Gulati at tive growth and development in the the University of British Colum- 16 large Indian states. In an online Re m e m be rin g Ke n Saro -W iw a, th e Nige rian w rite r an d e n viro n m e n tal activis t o n th e 2 0 th an n ive rs ary o f h is e xe cutio n . bia, for instance, is concerned that essay in 2014, they reported that a victorious coalition in Bihar, Bihar had “improved the most Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed on a Ken Saro-Wiwa. Kenule Beeson violence that the crowd held in fairs. It was ignored by the Nigeri- al employers, began fleeing the city. which also includes Lalu Prasad during the 2000s”. As for Gujarat, school day. Saro-Wiwa was a writer, publish- check for several hours finally col- an government. In December 1998, The hostage-takers then turned on Yadav, the influential former rail- their analysis revealed that Gujar- That Friday morning of No- er, television producer, and envi- lapsed upon our heads. With the six months after Sani Abacha's sud- the undefended citizens, who ei- ways minister, might not be that at’s “performance in the 2000s does vember 10, 1995, in my birthplace ronmental activist. He attracted in- soldiers in pursuit, we turned on den death, the Kaiama Declaration ther paid up or were killed. At the different from the BJP. Many not seem to justify the wild eu- of Port Harcourt in the Niger Del- ternational attention in the early each other in terror and trampled was born. Like the preceding Ogo- conclusion of Obasanjo's second would recall the lawlessness in phoria and exuberant optimism ta, I was seated in class when the 1990s when he began speaking out whoever blocked our escape paths. ni document, this was about indig- tenure as civilian president, Uma- Bihar during the 1990s when Mr about Modi’s economic leadership. news arrived that the Ogoni Nine against the ecological devastation I was lucky to have moved enous control of resources. The ru Yar'Adua assumed office. It was Yadav served at its chief minister. In particular, there is no evidence had been hanged. of his native land by the oil com- aside before the crowd scattered key difference between the two May 2007. His vice president was Still, Professor Gulati considers of any significant growth accelera- A buzz of excited voices burst panies and the neglect of his peo- and I sprinted to my grandmoth- communiqués was the people Goodluck Jonathan, a Bayelsa the BJP defeat a preferred out- tion in Gujarat in the 2000s”. Pro- over the schoolyard; my teacher ple's welfare by a complicit, cor- er's house a few streets away, weep- whose views they represented. State indigene and the first person come. Bihar is among the econom- fessor Kotwal believes that much stopped his lecture in mid-sen- rupt Nigerian government. In 1990 ing from bitterness and the burn of The sleepy town of Kaiama in from the Niger Delta to attain such ically struggling states in India more than electoral victory was at tence, and then clasped his arms he was a founder of the Movement tear gas. I remember hearing my Bayelsa State, where the document national prominence. The new Ni- where the BJP machinery trum- stake in Bihar. Just like Professor across his chest in cold horror be- for the Survival of the Ogoni Peo- family talk about how people had was signed, is on the ancestral land gerian leadership promptly bro- peted its economic success in Gu- Badami, he is alarmed by the RSS- fore abandoning our classroom to ple (MOSOP), a nonviolent grass- died in the crowd that day, although of the Ijaw, one of the largest eth- kered a ceasefire with the armed jarat under the leadership of then sponsored radicalisation of India join the huddle of adults in the roots organisation that enjoyed I didn't see any myself and the cen- nic groups in the Niger Delta. Sani Ijaw groups, after which an am- chief minister Narendra Modi. The under Modi. Professor Kotwal staffroom. There was no official wide support among his ethnic sored television news certainly Abacha's military successor hand- nesty deal was negotiated and BJP asked the voters in Bihar to was dismayed that the BJP boss- announcement, no ringing bells minority based in the Niger Delta. never spoke of it. "On trial also is ed over power - on May 29, 1999 signed. In exchange for giving up vote for the BJP to replicate Gu- es tried to rile the electorate against drawing us to the assembly ground The high point of the fledgling the Nigerian nation ..." Twenty - to a democratically elected gov- not only their weapons, but also jarat’s economic model in Bihar. Muslims by suggesting that the to listen to sombre speeches. Yet organisation's activism came on years have passed since Nigeria's ernment headed by a retired gener- the dreams encapsulated in the Voters in Bihar, however, were not defeat of the BJP would be a vic- we saw the truth in our teachers' January 4, 1993, when, according murder of an Ogoni hero, and time al and past dictator, Olusegun Kaiama Declaration, the fighters convinced by BJP’s doctrine of tory for Pakistan. Anti-Muslim frightened faces: school was closed to the organisers, around 300,000 has brought the awareness that not Obasanjo. By this time, the issues were paid off and pardoned. What economic success. The BJP sus- rhetoric disguised as anti-Pakistan for the day. people - about three-fifths of the all martyrs are saints. Even in the raised in the Kaiama Declaration, Nigerians got from the brokered pecting defeat in the elections sud- diatribe When the BJP bosses saw I was a 16-year-old secondary Ogoni population - responded to Niger Delta, the theatre of Saro- which the government had again peace was increased piracy in our denly shifted the discourse from a the impending defeat in Bihar, they school senior in a region that was MOSOP's call and protested Wiwa's labours as a writer and en- ignored, were festering into com- waters, continuing abductions of better economic model to the pol- tried to make beef and cows as the increasingly turning to mass pro- peacefully against the oil compa- vironmentalist, there is no consen- munal conflict. And then, in No- citizens for ransom payouts, di- itics of fear, trying to divide the focus of the elections. The BJP ran tests as the only way of express- nies. This display of moral force sus on the purity of his actions in vember of that year, Obasanjo or- sastrous oil spillages from vanda- electorate along religious lines. The ads showing young girls hugging ing its frustration at state-sanc- finally caught the attention of the the struggle that cost his life. A day dered soldiers into Odi, an Ijaw lised pipelines, and security forc- Biharis still did not fall for it. Here, cows. Professor Kotwal recalled tioned tyranny. Thus, when we Nigerian rulers. Just over a year in the life of... a house girl Outside town in Bayelsa State. Short sto- es that had grown even deadlier the real questions to ask are: That BJP ministers fuelling fires by tell- heard that the corpses of the Ogo- later, on May 22, 1994, Ken Saro- his Ogoni homeland, in the con- ry: The smell of home The reason from years of pillaging with impu- made the Bihari electorate say no ing Hindu voters that BJP’s defeat ni Nine had been taken to the near- Wiwa was arrested for murder. sciousness of wider Nigeria, he was given for the military incursion nity. As the Saro-Wiwa story had to the BJP's divisive communal would mean that vegetarian Hin- by Port Harcourt cemetery, I "... the scene here will be a figure whose importance was was that a band of armed criminals already shown, nonviolent activ- politics? Where there were any dif- dus would be forced to eat beef! joined the crowd of chanting stu- played and replayed by genera- mainly due to international recog- had killed several police officers in ism could get you killed in Nigeria. ferences in the economic models Pakistan had undergone a sim- dents that poured out of school- tions yet unborn" On May 21, four nition. His politics, focused as it the town, and were thought to be All the government proved with presented by the incumbent chief ilar radicalisation under General yards all over the city. Ogoni chiefs were beaten to death was on Rivers State, was regional. still hiding there. According to its amnesty deal was that violence minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, Ziaul Haq. The similarities be- Rebellion was exciting, the by angry Ogoni youths. The vic- His activism, in practice rather Human Rights Watch, the "mur- pays. Ken Saro-Wiwa's legacy to and the one offered by the BJP? Is tween Modi’s India and Zia’s Pa- world's cameras were aimed at our tims' names were Edward Kobani, than principle, was ethnic. Where ders were committed by a group the Nigerian nation is a fitting one. there any truth to the claim that kistan are not lost on Professor streets, and this was perhaps our Alfred Badey, Samuel Orage, and Saro-Wiwa came closest to engag- with no apparent political agenda, Though I wasn't aware of it at the the economic gains and prosperi- Kotwal. “Modi to India is what last chance to glimpse the face we Theophilus Orage: The latter two ing the general interests of Nigeri- but took place against a rising clam- time, I could already feel it as a 16- ty in Gujarat were a result of Zia was to Pakistan,” he remarked. all knew from TV, a hero who had were Saro-Wiwa's brothers-in-law, ans was in his writing. This was our from those living in the oil- year-old schoolboy running away Modi’s leadership as its former Even in India, writers and artists lived and died among us. while Kobani was his longtime especially so with the popular TV producing areas for a greater share from the soldiers. It is the anger chief minister? Has Gujarat under have been alarmed at the way the We had all seen the Ogoni Nine friend. On the same day of Saro- sitcom Basi and Company, writ- of the oil wealth". None of the crim- many Nigerians nurse at the ev- Modi developed at a faster rate BJP and RSS are trying to radica- convicted of murder on our TV Wiwa's arrest, even before police ten and produced by him, which inals was captured in that military eryday injustices meted out to the than Bihar did under Kumar? I lise the Indian society. Almost 400 screens in the partially televised investigations could be concluded, was broadcast on the government- reprisal. Yet by the time the guns country's citizens. This legacy is turned to Professor Ashok Kotw- performers, writers and scientists and farcical trial by special tribu- the military administrator of Riv- owned television network. The stopped shooting and the smoke less his doing than ours, the ones al, a celebrated economist at the have returned their awards to the nal. The world was pleading for ers State, of which Ogoniland is a catchphrases "to be a millionaire, cleared, most of Odi town was who remain to learn nothing from University of British Columbia, state-sponsored institutions in and Professor Darshini Mahade- protest. Also read: India's clemency, but the Nigerian dicta- part, called a press conference think like a millionaire" and "Mad- burned to the ground and all its the past. "Come the day" In com- via, the Dean of the Faculty of Arundhati Roy returns National tor, Sani Abacha, went ahead with where he chided the media for be- am the madam" - two jocular ex- surviving inhabitants had fled into memoration of the 20th anniver- Planning at CEPT University in Award Recently, the legendary the executions. Port Harcourt was ing propagandist tools before pro- pressions often repeated by the the surrounding swamps. Five sary of the killing of the Ogoni Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to seek an- poet, Gulzar, was dismayed by the the regional base from which mili- claiming to the cameras that MOS- rascally Mr B, the main character years after the first wave of mili- Nine, a sculpture in the form of a swers for these questions. Profes- radicalised rhetoric in India that in- tary operations had been ongoing OP was a terror group and that - have permeated Nigerian lingo, tary carnage in Ogoniland, the gov- steel bus - created by the Nigerian sor Kotwal believes Modi’s eco- cluded BJP’s claims that it would in Ogoniland for several months: a Saro-Wiwa was a "dictator who though nowadays few realise they ernment was repeating its terror artist Sokari Douglas Camp - was nomic model is that of crony cap- return India to the benevolence of systematic campaign of slaughter, has ... no room for dissenting view", are quoting Ken Saro-Wiwa. "I am tactics in another part of the Niger donated to the Ogoni people. It italism where business conglom- the mythical Ram Raj. Arun Shou- looting, burning, and "deliberately before ending by accusing him of a man of peace, of ideas" To many Delta. This time, however, there was shipped from London on Au- erates, closely aligned with the rie is a former World Bank econo- terrorising the whole community, inciting the murders. Saro-Wiwa in Ogoniland, Saro-Wiwa gave was no "man of the people" to be gust 19, arrived in Lagos on Sep- government, disproportionately mist and one-time Modi loyalist. assaulting and beating indiscrimi- had never been anywhere near the voice to their aspirations and martyred; no internationally es- tember 8, and was impounded by benefit from economic growth. He no longer supports the BJP. nately", according to Amnesty In- crime scene. All these years later, fought gallantly against their op- teemed figure to preach nonviolent custom officials because of its "po- Professor Mahadevia agrees. She He thinks that India should be ternational. Given our awareness nobody knows the truth of what pressors. He put the agenda of the activism and to promote his peo- litical value". The names of Ken believed Modi’s brand of econom- thankful to the people of Bihar for of these atrocities, we were not led to the deaths of the Ogoni chiefs. Ogoni on the international map. ples' cause on the world stage. The Saro-Wiwa and the other eight ics is exclusive, big business, cap- stopping the country from follow- surprised that Saro-Wiwa didn't The Abacha-led government had Even his critics would agree that government's handling of Saro- Ogonis are inscribed on the side of ital intensive, social sector neglect ing divisive and abusive politics. survive the military government's decided who was guilty, and ev- he is the most renowned Ogoni Wiwa and the Ogoni people had the bus along with these words by and hence, no experience of the “The principal result of this elec- ruthless plan for him. Too many erything that happened afterwards person who ever lived, and when- been taken to heart by the new lead- Saro-Wiwa: "I accuse the oil com- welfare state by the people. The tion has been that the direction in lines had been crossed, too much was obfuscation and lawlessness: ever his name is mentioned, his ers of the Ijaw struggle. When the panies of practising genocide upper classes under such regimes which this country was being blood spilt. We never got close the torture in detention of Saro- people will be remembered. He fight came to them, their response against the Ogoni." As I write these generate undue profits and support hurled, that has been blocked by enough to the cemetery to see Wiwa; the harassment of his de- was a man of the people. For the was armed insurrection. "The mil- words, the Ogoni memorial sculp- the regime in return because the the people of Bihar.” I believe the what we came for. The main street fence counsel; the military massa- international community, his im- itary do not act alone" After his ture has still not been freed. Ac- regime promotes wealth genera- most significant result of the Bi- in the old township, the long and cres in Ogoniland; the special tri- age is yoked to his environmental execution, Saro-Wiwa's corpse was cording to MOSOP, a letter re- tion, while ignoring its distribution- har election is that it has given wide Aggrey Road, which ran past bunal (which included a soldier, activism and the manner of his burned with acid and buried in an questing its release was submitted al responsibilities. What about the hope to the Indian liberals that the the Port Harcourt cemetery, was Colonel Hameed Ali, on the three- death. As the website of the Gold- unmarked grave. Ten years later, to the newly appointed Comptrol- economic policies of Kumar? Pro- rising tide of Hindutva could be crammed tight with people, many member judging panel) that was man Environmental Prize, which in 2005, Obasanjo's government ler General of the Nigerian Cus- fessor Mahadevia explains that checked.A ogendra Yadav, India’s of whose faces were contorted by convened to hear the civilian case; he was awarded before his execu- finally released the remains to the toms Service, Hameed Ali. Colo- Kumar’s brand of economics is foremost political scientist, be- grief. They had converged in the the hanging of Nordu Eawo, Sat- tion in 1995, states: "Ken Saro- bereaved family. At this time the nel Ali, who was called out of re- more low-key, delivering on the lieves that Bihar has shattered thousands, from schools and mar- urday Dobee, John Kpuine, Paul Wiwa's life has provided a legacy Niger Delta militancy was ongo- tirement by Nigerian President promise of the welfare state to the BJP’s myth of invincibility. “… kets, from private companies and Levera, Felix Nuate, Daniel Gboo- of great inspiration for human rights ing, with Nigeria's crude oil pro- Buhari, was the only soldier on the lowest of the castes in Bihar. This the monopoly of the NDA in the government offices, from the safe- ko, Barinem Kiobel, Baribor Bera, and environmental activists around duction suffering as a result. judging panel of the special tribu- is a slow progression. Women were country’s politics, the monopoly ty of their homes. Mothers, grand- and Ken Saro-Wiwa. All these vi- the world." His legacy to the Ni- Bloody skirmishes between armed nal that sentenced the Ogoni Nine acknowledged and given benefits of the BJP over NDA, and the fathers, angry sweating men: This olations were on the minds of the gerian nation is less easy to grasp. groups and the military, but also to death in 1995. * All section head- for the first time in Bihar through monopoly of Modi in the BJP, all was the largest crowd I had ever mourning crowd in the streets of "... a denouement of the riddle of among the internecine armed fac- ings are quotes from Ken Saro- 50 per cent reservation for women three are bound to be seriously seen from within. I was swallowed Port Harcourt on November 10. the Niger Delta will soon come" tions, had now become a part of Wiwa's final statement, which he in the local bodies and a cycle to questioned now,” Yadav said in a by the swarming bodies. By the Swirling through the charged air Back in 1990, around the time of daily life in the oil-producing ar- wasn't allowed to read, to the spe- the school-going girl child. Even recent NDTV broadcast. A secular time I flailed a path to the outer was talk of the condemned men MOSOP's formation, a group of eas. Port Harcourt was the largest cial tribunal. from a lower, base level of eco- India and a moderate Pakistan are fringes and paused to catch my being beaten before their execution, Ogoni leaders including Saro-Wiwa and most cosmopolitan city in the A Igoni Barrett is a Nigerian nomic development, Bihar has reg- essential for peace and prosperity breath, I saw I was alone, cut off and of desecrated corpses, all of - as well as two of the chiefs whose Niger Delta, but due to the pro- writer based in Lagos. His most istered a growth rate comparable in South Asia. Zia’s Pakistan and from the school colours and bra- which fuelled our grief. Along with deaths he was later claimed to have tracted violence, it soon lost its recent book, a novel entitled Black- to that of Gujarat. There is, how- Modi’s India are hardly the mod- vura of my mates. I had come along these rumours we heard other caused - signed the Ogoni Bill of innocence, then its charm, and fi- ass, was published in 2015. ever, a big difference between the els to follow. for the spectacle, but was now part sounds whose sources were easier Rights. This document listed the nally its business. Foreign oil The views expressed in this two models. The Bihar model in- Biharis have finally rejected of the mourning masses. Every- to verify. The rumble of army foundational complaints of the workers, who had been reduced to article are the author's own and do cluded a welfare state that was Modi’s radicalism. I hope Paki- thing had changed, and yet one trucks, the bullhorn orders to dis- Ogoni struggle and demanded a form of currency through the in- not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's missing from Modi’s Gujarat. Pro- stanis will continue to reject Zia’s thing remained: a name, whispered perse, the popping of guns, and greater participation for the indi- cessant kidnappings for ransoms editorial policy. fessor Kotwal though believes that extremism. and sung, invoked by everyone: the clatter of tear gas canisters. The genes in the running of their af- always paid by their multination- Source: Al Jazeera This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . NOVEBMER 12, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Egypt stands to lose $280m a month from flight suspensions

BRUSSELS: Eurozone finance to a decision (on Monday). I do Greece and its creditors are over slice of bailout loans. that, despite the disagreements, a ministers told Greece on Monday not think that this has changed in foreclosure rules that the Tsipras However EU economic affairs deal to unlock the payment was to deliver overdue reforms in or- the meantime,” a stern Schaeuble government insists should protect commissioner Pierre Moscovici of still within reach. der to unlock two billion euros said as he arrived for the talks in low-income homeowners. France said a deal was possible this “Greece has made considerable from its bailout as tensions resur- Brussels. “It is exclusively for Eurozone ministers largely avoided week. efforts (that are) all within the bail- faced just months after Athens Greece to implement what we the finger-pointing that marked the “The dynamic remains posi- out agreement of July 13”, said narrowly avoided a euro exit. agreed upon last July. “Creditors six months of bitter talks led to tive. An agreement can be reached French Finance Minister Michel German Finance Minister at the European Union, the Euro- the bailout, but insisted that time in the coming days,” he said. Sapin on Monday. Wolfgang Schaeuble said Athens pean Central Bank (ECB) and the was running out. “Time is limited. Two European sources told “I understand the worries of had failed to meet “a great num- International Monetary Fund We need to complete that first set AFP that a decision was still likely the Greek government,” Sapin ber” of commitments agreed to in (IMF) agreed an 86-billion-euro of milestones, it has to be done later this week when senior said, adding that France and Ger- July as part of its rescue, and urged ($96bn) debt rescue on July 13 but very quickly’,” said Eurogroup eurozone officials hold a telecon- many also had laws to limit bank the leftist government of Prime set tough conditions requiring Ath- head and Dutch finance minister ference. seizures. Minister Alexis Tsipras to deliver. ens to cut spending, raise taxes and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, referring to France, which has mostly “It’s a bit strange that we’re Egypt stands to lose 2.2 billion Egyptian pounds ($280 million) a month “My news at the end of last modernise the economy. The the dozens of reforms needed in backed Greece throughout the tor- always asking more of Greece than from Britain and Russia's decision to suspend flights after the Russian week did not show that we can get sharpest differences dividing order for Greece to receive the next rid bailout process, said earlier what exists in creditor countries.” plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou said on Wednesday. Britain stopped flights to Sharm al-Sheikh four days after the passenger plane crashed shortly after taking off on Oct. 31 from the Red Sea resort, pointing to the likelihood that it was brought down by a bomb. All 224 people on board were killed. Several European countries followed, and Russia later suspended flights to all Egyptian Oil gian t Saudi Arabia subm its airports. Zaazou said Russian and British holidaymakers accounted for two-thirds of tourist traffic to Sharm al-Sheikh, while Russians alone made up half the tourists in Egypt's other main Red Sea destination, Hurghada. Citing what he described as the negative impact of Western carbon-curbing pledge media coverage of the plane crash, Zaazou said he planned a $5 million Japan’s public relations campaign to promote Egypt in Britain and Russia. A senior Russian official has said that Moscow's decision to suspend economy flights is unlikely to be reversed soon. "It's for a long time. For how long - I cannot really say, but I think that for several months, minimum," Sergei Ivanov, the head of the presidential administration, was quoted as likely to slip saying by RIA news agency on Tuesday. Ivanov said security needed to be improved not only in Sharm al-Sheikh but also in Hurghada and Cairo back into - "in those places where Russian planes fly." Zaazou said the govern- ment would seek to make up for the loss of international business by recession encouraging domestic tourism, as well as encouraging Gulf Arab visitors and easing visa requirements for tourists from North Africa. A Reuters poll today showed de- clining confidence among Japanese manufacturers. Confidence among manufacturers fell in November for Apple to add 1,000 jobs a third straight month to a 2-1/2 years low. The fall in confidence reflects fears that a China-led slow- in Ireland: Minister down in overseas demand is likely to have pushed the economy into recession. Disappointing trade data raises fear of recession Shrinking sales to China hurt the volume of shipments resulting in slowing of Japan's annual ex- port growth in September. The dis- appointing trade figures raised the concern that weak overseas de- mand is pushing the economy back into recession. The Ministry of Finance data showed exports rose just 0.6 per cent in the year to Sep- tember. Real exports rose 0.2 per cent in July-September while real imports grew 2.6 pe rcent. Net exports thus weighed on Japan’s third-quarter GDP. The service sector mood is not pleasant either. The retail sector DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple is to tens of billions of dollars from rev- was hit by decline in private con- hire an additional 1,000 staff in Ire- enue collectors in return for main- Oil export giant Saudi Arabia sub- lent (CO2e) per year would be (OPEC) after Ecuador, Algeria and made its target conditional on di- sumption, which accounts for land, a government minister said taining jobs. mitted its pledge on Tuesday to “avoided” by 2030. It was not the United Arab Emirates to sub- versification of its fossil fuel-reli- about 60 per cent of the economy. on Wednesday, as the U.S. tech- EU regulators are due to issue reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clear yet whether this meant a cut mit a carbon-curbing pledge. It be- ant economy. Petroleum revenue The service sector index dragged nology company bids to boost its a decision on the country's tax deal a move observers hailed as a step from existing or projected pollu- came the 157th country to submit makes up roughly 90 percent of gov- down by wholesalers and retailers presence in the country where it with Apple in the coming months. in the right direction. In an action tion levels. Greenhouse gas emis- its national pledge, dubbed In- ernment income. “These ambitions fell to 22 in November from 27 in declares much of its profit for tax Irish jobs minister Richard plan filed with the U.N. three weeks sions for the world last year, to- tended Nationally Determined are contingent on the kingdom’s October. The index is expected to purposes. The European Union Bruton said on Twitter that Apple before a crucial climate conference talled just under 53 billion tonnes Contributions or INDE. These will economy continuing to grow with slip further to 21 in February. last year accused Ireland of swerv- was to create 1,000 jobs at its base in Paris, the world’s biggest crude of CO2e. Saudi Arabia is the fourth form the backbone of a 195-nation an increasingly diversified economy The Reuters Tankan sentiment ing international tax rules by let- in Cork, Ireland's second-largest oil exporter said up to 130 million member of the Organisation of pact, due to be inked in Paris, to and a robust contribution from oil index for manufacturers fell to 3 in ting Apple shelter profits worth city tonnes of carbon dioxide equiva- Petroleum Exporting Countries limit global warming. Saudi Arabia exports,” the pledge said. November from 7 in October, post- ing the lowest reading since minus 4 in April 2013. Government data due on Mon- Five future day is likely to show that the econ- Iraq agrees to IMF m o n ito rin g omy slipped back into recession through September due to a drop in capital spending in the face of challenges for weak foreign and domestic de- pro gram as preco n ditio n to lo an mand. More stimulus needed to fos- Singapore economy Iraqi authorities agreed on Tues- uters last month the new loan ter growth day to have the International would be a “multiple” of the $1.24 Japan's central bank decided to Monetary Fund monitor Bagh- billion in emergency funding which keep its monetary policy un- dad’s economic polices as a basis the IMF agreed to provide in July. changed at its meeting on 30th for a possible funding program in Financial pressures on Iraq October despite little progress 2016, the IMF said in a statement. have become so heavy that Bagh- made by the BOJ in the direction Mission chief Christian Josz dad halted a plan to issue $2 bil- of spurring inflation. Investors ex- said the Staff-Monitored Program lion of international bonds last pect core CPI inflation of 1.05% would aim to rein in spending and month because investors were de- over the next 10 years. The BOJ reduce Iraq’s budget deficit, which manding too high a yield. further downgraded its near-term is expected to approach 12 per- A big new IMF loan to Iraq inflation forecast (FY2015-16). To cent of economic activity next year. would come with policy condi- counter the tight labour conditions The move, he said, “will allow tions, such as steps by Baghdad companies have expanded over- the Iraqi authorities to build a track to reduce energy price subsidies time and hired more part-time record for a possible Fund financ- and reform state-owned enterpris- workers. This measure adopted by ing arrangement.” es - steps which could be politi- companies to restrict labour costs An IMF loan would help the cally difficult. has hindered efforts to boost in- major OPEC oil exporter stabilise Prime Minister Haider al-Aba- Iraq’s gross domestic product reserves, which amounted to $59 flation, the central bank said in its its finances as it grapples with di is already struggling to sustain (GDP) to grow by 1.5 percent this billion at the end of last month, analysis. Data for September lower oil prices and costs associ- support for political reforms he year on higher oil production, and would decline but remain high showed the core inflation at minus ated with the fight against Islamic announced in August aimed at re- the current account deficit to ex- enough to cover nine months of 0.1 per cent. State militants. ducing corruption and waste. pand to 7 percent of GDP. imports through the end of the Household spending fell 0.4 A senior IMF official told Re- Josz said the IMF expected He predicted foreign exchange year. per cent in September from a year Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat framed Singapore's earlier, while incomes slipped 1.5 challenges through the lens of the "five futures" - of jobs, of per cent. Unemployment re- companies, of resources, of technology and of markets.ST mained at 3.4 per cent, and there PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN were 1.24 jobs available for each job seeker. SINGAPORE: The challenge of Heng. Technology undeniably pre- The Bank of Japan on 30th moving the Singapore economy up sents a challenge and, while October cut its economic growth the innovation ladder, from being Singapore has invested heavily in and inflation projections. The one that is "value-adding" to a education, research and develop- weak indicators will keep the cen- "value-creating" one, will be a key ment, the "future of technology" tral bank under pressure to ease focus of the team set up to chart hinges on how this can be trans- policy again to hit its ambitious 2 the Republic's economic direction. lated into innovative processes, per cent inflation target next year. Finance Minister Heng Swee said Mr Heng. But not all innova- Keat, who will chair The Future tions are technology-related and Chin a b u y s a lo t o f r a w m a t er ia ls fr o m o t her co u n - Economy committee, framed another challenge, the "future of t r ies s u ch a s o il a n d co p p er . If t he w o r s t ha s a lr ea d y Singapore's challenges through the resources", looks at how to happened with China's slowdown, it will enable the lens of the "five futures" - of jobs, organise one's resources like land r es t o f t he w o r ld t o r eb o u n d a n d m o v e o n in 20 16 . of companies, of resources, of tech- or staff in creative and competi- nology and of markets. On jobs, tive ways, he added. A fifth area, Mr Heng noted that "it may not the "future of markets", is impor- The world economy isn't heading hinges on China in 2016 be immediate but if we look at a tant because if firms expand over- for disaster in 2016, but don't ex- The Conference Board fore- 10-, 15-year timeframe, the nature seas, "we transcend the Singapore pect it to surge. Experts say growth casts the world economy will grow of jobs will change". With 3D- market, we achieve scale", said Mr will pick up next year, but not by by 2.8% next year, a slight im- printing and additive manufactur- Heng. The formation of this com- much. For that, blame China. The provement from 2.5% this year. ing changing how factories are be- mittee was announced by Prime world's second-largest economy is The OECD is a bit more optimis- ing configured, Mr Heng said, Minister Lee Hsien Loong earlier slowing down, and it's holding ev- tic -- it projects 3.3% GDP next "how do we build skills and rede- this month as Singapore faces a eryone else back. year and 2.9% for 2015. The key sign jobs so that workers can be at leaner workforce, tapering growth A slew of new forecasts out is China. Almost no one believes their best and that talent can be and a weaker global economy. Yes- from the OECD, the International China's official government data on maximised?" He was speaking to terday, Mr Heng also announced Monetary Fund and The Confer- growth, which indicates a minor reporters after a closed-door dia- that Mr S. Iswaran, Minister for ence Board broadly agree: blip right now. But the broad con- logue with business leaders at the Trade and Industry (Industry), China's economy will fall fur- sensus is that China is having a Singapore Business Federation on will be deputy chairman of the new ther in 2016. The U.S. will stay "soft landing." "The good news is Wednesday (Oct 28). A second key committee and is now helping him about the same -- in a "good but this is not a hard landing," says challenge is that the "future of to select other members from a not great" state. Europe will im- van Ark. "A lot of the heat has al- companies" will be marked by the shortlist. The line-up will be an- prove modestly, but still be lack- ready been taken." rise of disruptive business models nounced by early December. Mr luster. India and other emerging China buys a lot of raw mate- and competition from abroad. So Heng said the team will measure markets will be the superstars. rials from other countries such as staying competitive means explor- success by the opportunities and "The global economy is stuck oil and copper. If the worst has ing "cooperative platforms" for jobs it creates for Singaporeans, in a holding pattern," says Bart van already happened with China's different business clusters to co- since a shift to higher skills indi- Ark, chief economist at The Con- slowdown, it will enable the rest operate with one another and rectly addresses productivity is- ference Board. Related: Obama of the world to rebound and move maximise capabilities, said Mr sues. economy: 8.7 million jobs It all on in 2016. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . NOVEMBER 12, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Ellie Gould- ing attends fetish party with beau

Singer Ellie Goulding has revealed Singer Miley Cyrus has left her skinny arms, reports aceshowbiz. other healthy drinks. Her fans got that she attends fetish parties with fans worried about her health with com. She sat on the passenger seat worried. One of her followers her boyfriend Dougie Poynter, but a photograph in which she looks of a car and stuck her tongue out. wrote, "Omg you look like a skel- says there's never any raunchy very skinny. In the image that she "Green tongue!!!!! Sign of good eton", while another commented: behaviour between them at such posted on Instagram, Cyrus wore healffffy mornin (sic)," she cap- "She looks sooo sick". There was events. a gray sports bra and leggings, ex- tioned the image, hinting that she another fan who said: "Love you "I was at a fetish party the posing her flat stomach and super had just consumed a green juice or but too skinny @mileycyrus." other night. One of my best friends said, 'Do you want to come for a party?' The theme was fetish and surrealism. I was in a rush so just put on a latex dress and gloves and Natasha Ejaz’s dreamy music vid- mood from day to night, as the have ably handled the post-pro- that was that," Goulding told The eo for her latest song ‘Khwab’ was song progresses from mellow and duction, making this tricky, possi- Sun newspaper, reports released on social media on Sun- warm to heavy and resounding. ble hit-and-miss, a success. femalefirst.co.uk. However, de- day. Trained in different forms of With this change, you also notice Natasha is also working on her spite the raunchy nature of the dance from hip-hop to kathak, Natasha’s performance become music video for 'Raqeeb', for which bash, the singer said there was no Natasha shows her prowess and more impassioned. The quick cuts, she is collaborating with Kohi frisky behaviour between her and breadth of skill in the video. When lighting and colour treatment gives Marri. This video will be premiered her beau because the party didn't you first watch the video, you the video that dream-like quality, at Natasha's EP launch in the first "get that far." "It wasn't that in- wonder what Natasha is trying to and helps it corresponds with the week of December, for which she tense. There were some topless do? Although dance is not every- theme of the song. The video was has planned installations to go men walking around. Dougie didn't one’s cup of tea, it is one of the co-directed by Natasha and Shahr- with every song. The idea is for take his top off. He's not an exhi- most visceral art forms and works ukh Khurshid, who also did the people to walk in and have a visu- bitionist. He has the goods though. well with this song. cinematography. Natasha’s drum- al experience instead of a standard "But there weren't people sh***ing You witness a shift in the mer Ali Junejo and Salik Abbasi band performance. or anything. It just didn't quite get that far, it was too proper, every- one was really polite. It would only have taken one person to start being weird, though... Nothing shocks me really any more any- way, I feel like I've seen it all," Goulding added. Although she might have developed a new fond- ness for explicit parties, Goulding says she's not into fetish literature and refused to watch the famous blockbuster "Fifty Shades of Grey" despite penning the soundtrack for the movie. "I haven't seen it (the film). That's how busy I am. It's probably a hard thing to put into a film. I didn't read the books. I do read a lot but not specifically fetish literature," she said.

Diwali is unofficial party season for choice -- there were multiple chans were all hosting! While tele- stitched sari caught our eye. Karan too, not just behind it! We think Aish Diwali. While everyone else is cele- across the border; celebs take out shindigs to choose from, happen- vision folks mostly flocked to Ek- Johar posed with Mrs. Funnybones looked lovely in red, not to mention brating, Anushka Sharma is looking time from their grueling schedules ing one after the other over the ta's party, members of the movie at her bash. Whereas Akshay Ku- that eyeliner is on fleek! As expect- out for our furry little friends! Ran- to let loose and light up some fire- course of a week. Ekta Kapoor, fraternity did a lot of party hop- mar took a selfie with Siddhartha ed. Sonam Kapoor killed it in her bir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone crackers. This year, the movers and Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khan- ping this Diwali. Television ac- Malhotra and Asin. Clearly, K-Jo Tarun Tahiliani ensemble. Bebo was were caught up with promoting their shakers of Bollywood were spoilt na, Shilpa Shetty and the Bach- tress, Krystle D'Souza's pre- loves being in front of the camera also on top of her style game this upcoming flick, Tamasha. Whoa! 'Prem Ratan...' has already recovered 71 Actress Jennifer Aniston and hus- percent of its band Justin Theroux often end up fighting over the the latter's love cost for video games. The `Leftovers` actor, who married the 46-year-old actress in August, shared that Anis- ton gets "upset" when he spends hours playing "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3" at their Bel Air home in California, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "Wifey does not Actress Kajol, who makes her play. She is like, 'Where are you?' comeback with Rohit Shetty's She still doesn't see it as a social masala entertainer "Dilwale", says app. Like, I am hanging out with it was her daughter Nysa who con- my friends - technically - and she's vinced her to an entertaining film like, 'No. You are sitting there rather than her usual "crying" mov- watching a TV playing a game.' ies. "Nysa was very happy. In fact, She's not understanding,` E! News she convinced me. She was like, quoted the 44-year-old as saying. 'Mom you have to do this film' But Theroux isn't surprised that and I was like, 'Baby I'm going to Aniston doesn't share his love of be out of town, I'm going to go for gaming. "Well, it looks weird when this outdoor, I'm not going to spend time with you'," said Kajol at the you walk in and they're just sit- star-studded trailer launch of the ting there screaming into a headset film. "She was like, 'Mom I want and they're killing each other. I'm The audience have loved the trail- you to do a film where you're not going to war, and she's not under- crying. I'm tired of you doing films ers and promos of 'Prem Ratan standing. Then I come back from Dhan Payo'. People are looking where I go to see your film, you war and she's upset,` he said. But just start crying. Do some film forward to witness the Salman he insists his hobby doesn't really Sooraj magic on screen after 16 long cause any problems between them as "she knows that I love it, so she's very tolerant,` he added. which is filled with fun and laugh- Actress Cameron Diaz wants com- ter, which I can watch without any years. stress'. And so I said, 'Okay, fine People are in awe with the larg- mon people to be on the cover of the second book that she is pen- I'll do it'. So really that's how I got er than life picturization of the convinced," the actress revealed. film.The huge sets, an ensemble ning. It will center around the men- The star cast including Shah Rukh cast and the whole colorful vibe is tal, physical and emotional jour- Khan, Varun Dhawan, Kriti Sanon, something what one can't miss. ney of ageing. along with Johnny Lever, Varun However, all this has come at After "The Body Book: The Sharma, Kabir Bedi, and music a cost to the Barjatya's. The film Mastani'. The Sanjay Leela Bhan- Law of Hunger, the Science of composer Pritam were present at has been made at a cost of Rs 60 sali- directed period-drama, which Strength, and Other Ways to Love the trailer launch. But the factor crores and 20 crs have been spent also stars Ranveer Singh and Priy- Your Amazing Body", her first which actually clinched her deci- on P&A. anka Chopra, will clash with Shah book which landed her in the The sion was the script, she said. "Of But, Sooraj is a not worried, Rukh-Kajol starrer 'Dilwale' on New York Times' bestseller list, course, first and foremost the script as he is very confident about film December 18. Recently, Shah Rukh Diaz is working on "The Longevi- was really awesome, Rohit and and it has already recovered Rs 57 had said that Deepika was his ty Book", reports eonline.com. Shah Rukh together, so I've had a crores through satellite and music lucky charm and wished some of "It is centered around the men- great time working." Kajol was last rights. her luck rubs on him too for his tal, physical and emotional jour- seen in a glimpse in a "Student Of ney of ageing, and as we diligently The Year" song but had two re- Infact, since this being a Sooraj upcoming release 'Dilwale'. leases, "We Are Family" and Bartjatya film, Salman has not When asked about this, the put the finishing touches on the book, we'd like to ask for your help "Toonpur Ka Super Hero" in 2010. charged his fees and has done it for 'Piku' star said, "That's him being Her son Yug was born in the same free. kind and very, very generous that once more. This book is for you year. Asked about the difficulties Prem Ratan Dhan Payo sym- he always is. When 'Om Shanti and about you, and that's why with leaving children home and bolizes the reunion of the most Om' and 'Chennai Express' did we'd like to see you on the cover. working, she joked that her hus- awaited actor director duo, Salman well he has in more ways than one Much like the cover of the Body band Ajay Devgn was baby-sitting. Khan and Sooraj Barjatya, after a given me the credit for that. He is Book, under the jacket, where we Kajol, who managed her family and long wait. Whenever this duo is someone who is very fond of me featured women of all different career so well, said: "You have to seen on screen, they create magic as I am of him." shapes, sizes, builds and ethnici- just manage time, you don't have and break box office records. Deepika, however, is unfazed ties,` she wrote on her website. to bear any difficulties. This is a Salman Khan returns to the of the clash and is confident that Instead of full-length shots, guilty feeling in all mothers, it's silver screen after his blockbuster, the Rohit Shetty-directed film is Diaz is asking fans to send a can- something that we have to battle Bajrangi Bhaijaan. going to be "massive." did selfie for a chance to be one of daily that I'm not spending enough The movie is supported by a "I am sure 'Dilwale' is going to the 50 women included. time, I've left for so many days huge ensemble cast and is slated to be a massive film. It has amazing- If selected, the lucky winners and what they'll be doing at home." won't just get the honour of hav- "Even now I feel I should be at release on 12th November 2015. They may have shared crackling wood debut opposite SRK in 'Om More than anything, I think ly talented people in it, who have home for them and give them their A quintessential family film chemistry in the three films they Shanti Om' and went on to work we miss each other. I miss being a worked equally hard the way we ing their face printed on a Cam- eron's guaranteed bestseller, they lunch, dinner. Ajay has very sweet- for all age-groups, Prem Ratan have done together, but actress with him in 'Chennai Express' and part of some of the films he has have worked in our film. If the film ly and nicely supported me for the Dhan Payo is Salman Khan's next Deepika Padukone says she miss- last year's Diwali release 'Happy done off late and I miss being around does well, I don't think it has to do will also get a signed copy deliv- duration that I was in Bulgaria and release and Rajshri Productions es being a part of superstar Shah New Year'. him on set," Deepika told report- anything with my luck, it is be- ered to their door. Iceland. He stayed at home and and Fox Star Studios Diwali block- Rukh Khan's films off late. "I think there is a very pure ers at the poster launch of Mas- cause of their talent and hard Last date to submit the best took care of my kids. So I'm very buster release. Deepika, 29, made her Bolly- equation that we share. tani from her upcoming 'Bajirao work." selfie is November 20. happy and lucky," said the actress. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . NOVEMBER 12, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Yo un is an n o un ces retirem en t FROM ONE-DAY CRICKET ABU DHABI: Pakistan's star bats- man Younis Khan on Wednesday announced retirement from one- day cricket, making the today's first one-day international against England as his last international outing in a limited-over match. “Today I am retiring from ODI cricket after deliberation with my family, wife, and close friends,” Younis said in a statement. He made the announcement hours be- fore the start of the England-Paki- stan encounter at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Younis, a record breaker for Pakistan in Tests, was a surprise inclusion in the ODI squad. The 37-year-old batsman was discard- ed from the one-day team after a poor tour of New Zealand and 2015 World Cup in April, where he managed just 77 runs in six matches. Read: Commitment, honesty define Pakistan's top man But chief selector Haroon Rasheed argued that Pakistan would need his batting experience against England. “Obviously his current Test form is good and we need a senior batsman to stabilise our middle order batting,” he said. nis is a legend so we hope that he two hundreds in the last seven after making his debut against Sri Pakistan's ODI captain Azhar contributes and helps us win,” he years, a record that has lead head Lanka in Karachi in February Ali had earlier told media that de- said. Read: Younis breaks another coach Waqar Younis and support 2000. Going into his last match, spite Younis's poor form in the record as Pakistan pummel En- staff to reportedly resisted select- Younis has scored 7,240 runs with one-dayers, he hoped the senior gland Younis has had a see-saw ing him. Today's game will be You- seven hundreds and 48 half-centu- batsman would come good. “You- one-day career, having scored only nis's 265th ODI, nearly 16 years ries in one dayers.

Suspen ded FIFA pre side n t Blatter h ad revealed that Rus sia w as cho sen as h o sts befo re the biddin g pro cess begun .

Netherlands and Belgium have before the completion of the bid- tion," said a Dutch FA spokesman. next." received the necessary majority to sought legal advice over whether ding process. Francois de Keersmaecker, The joint bid, which cost the be declared winners. to seek compensation for the cost Switzerland opens criminal president of the Belgian FA, add- Dutch and Belgians 10 million eu- The English FA are also seek- of their abortive World Cup bid case against FIFA's Blatter Blatter ed: "In agreement with our Dutch ros ($10.70 million), went up ing legal advice and have sent FIFA after discovering the choice of Rus- made the disclosure in an interview colleagues we have asked a legal against another joint bid from Por- questions about the 2018 bid pro- sia for the 2018 tournament was with Russian reporters, sparking firm to see if we can claim for com- tugal and Spain as well as individ- cess. pre-planned. uproar from the joint Belgian- pensation. ual bids from England and Russia Blatter is serving a 90-day sus- The Dutch and Belgian FAs Dutch bid and from England who "It was unethical to allow us in the vote to decide the hosts of pension imposed by FIFA's Eth- have contacted a legal firm after also bid for the right to host the to incur unnecessary costs while the 2018 World Cup. ics Committee, which is looking suspended FIFA president Sepp tournament. "An interview is not the outcome of the bidding pro- England were eliminated after into a $2.03m payment Blatter Blatter said two weeks ago that enough to take steps but we are cess had already been determined. the first round of voting and the made to Michel Platini in 2011 - a football's world governing body preparing ourselves for the out- "On the basis of the advice we Dutch-Belgian bid finished third in case that is part of a separate Swiss agreed Russia would be hosts long come of a continuing investiga- get, we'll decide what steps to take the second round, where Russia criminal investigation. Andy Murray facing hectic Margarito schedule ahead of Davis Cup final Acco rdin g to Ro n aldo , it's w h e n h e take s a pri- laun ches sw ipe vate je t o n th e an n ual Jan uary trip to Zurich to d is co ve r if h e w ill be cro w n e d th e w o rld 's to p playe r at FIFA's Ballo n D'Or e xtravagan za. at o ld rival LONDON: The most important nals - and Ballon D'Or galas. date of the year for Cristiano Already the player with one Miguel Co tto Ronaldo has nothing to do with of the biggest egos in the game - Real Madrid's big “clasico” games justifiably given his goal scoring against Barcelona. Or crucial exploits at Manchester United and Champions League matches. Or now Madrid - Ronaldo is elated at representing Portugal on interna- becoming a silver screen star thanks tional duty. to the team behind movies about According to Ronaldo, it's Formula One driver Ayrton Senna when he takes a private jet on the and troubled songstress Amy annual January trip to Zurich to Winehouse. discover if he will be crowned the This is a film, though, that's world's top player at FIFA's Bal- unlikely to win Ronaldo any cine- lon D'Or extravaganza. matic honors to join the vast col- “It's a card inside an envelope lection of football medals - unless that can change so much,” Ronal- awards are given for shots of foot- do says in a new documentary ballers preening in the showers and about his life that was premiered shaving. Monday in London. But there are touching scenes “It's the climax of a year's with Ronaldo seen as a doting fa- work.” ther, playing with Cristiano Jr. in Ronaldo's obsession with win- his Madrid home. Andy Murray admits he is per- door hardcourt at the O2 Arena, so that I don't have to miss the ning football's top individual hon- Recent media reports are used forming a delicate balancing act as meaning a testing few days for the [Tour Finals] but also give myself or is a major theme in the 92- in the film to highlight the mys- he prepares for the Davis Cup fi- 28-year-old. The transition to the a good chance of playing well in minute documentary, which opens tery over the identity of his son's nal as well as the ATP World Tour specific movements of claycourt the Davis Cup," the British No 1 with the 2014 gala and closes with mother. Ronaldo has full custody finals. The Scot, who has priori- tennis have proved problematic in said. "It's important I'm not too the 2015 triumph. of Cristiano Jr. and says that when tised helping Britain win the Davis the past for Murray, who has of- hard on myself and don't just ex- What Ronaldo is less keen to he is older “then I will tell him what Cup for the first time since 1936 ten suffered back pain as a conse- pect to play great tennis at the start talk about is the governing body I did.” when they face Belgium in Ghent quence. Murray celebrates with his at the O2 as soon as I switch back behind the coveted golden ball or Cristiano Jr. is seen living a later this month, will spend most brother Jamie as they beat Lley- to hardcourts. the president - Sepp Blatter - who closeted life, never mixing on cam- of this week practising on clay in ton Hewitt and Sam Groth of Aus- "I need to respect what the has presented him with it three era with other children. His father London. The ATP World Tour Fi- tralia Murray celebrates with his change to the clay can do to my times. lives a similar existence. nals, where Murray can clinch the brother Jamie as they beat Lley- body and also what it can do to Promoting his film in London “In football I do not have a lot year-end No 2 ranking for the first ton Hewitt and Sam Groth of Aus- your game because it's a completely on Monday, a news conference of friends ... most of the time I am time, begin on Sunday on an in- tralia "I've tried to juggle the two different movement." moderator initially tried to cut off alone,” Ronaldo says. “I consider question to Ronaldo about FIFA myself to be an isolated person ... Antonio Margarito has hit out at legal, as he says, then he would and what the star player expects disconnected from the world.” old foe Miguel Cotto, claiming the not have felt the same effect of the from the scandal-battered organi- Perhaps Ronaldo's tender care H o rn cro w n ed at Cartier aw ards WBC middleweight champion punches in the second fight. I think zation which runs the game. for his son is because his own trou- 'hits like a girl'. Cotto is a girl. He has fear, because But Ronaldo, perhaps sensing bled upbringing with a father who Golden Horn has been named the Cotto recently rejected talk of everyone wants to see a third bout. he was being seen as weak, quick- drank himself to death 10 years Horse of the Year at the 25th an- a third clash with Margarito (38- "Right now we each won one ly cut in: “I am not afraid of any- ago. nual Cartier Racing Awards, Euro- 8, KO27), who has been out of the fight. I think he is afraid to face thing ... I answer what I think.” “I wanted a different father,” pean horseracing's equivalent of ring since their second bout in 2011 Antonio Margarito in a third fight Only he didn't. Ronaldo says in a rare revealing the Oscars. The Cartier Racing as a result of the serious damage to see who is the best." “Of course I'm not going to moment in the film that isn't about Awards were presented before an he suffered to his surgically-re- WBC champion Miguel Cot- speak about that because when self-promotion. invited audience at the Dorchester paired right eye. to (L) and contender Saul 'Canelo' Cristiano says something it's cre- His father figure now is agent Hotel, London on Tuesday And Margarito claims Cotto Alvarez will meet in Vegas later ates like a huge thing,” Ronaldo Jorge Mendes, whose fortune has evening. Owned and bred by An- (40-4, KO33), who is preparing this month said, referring to himself in the been built by representing players thony Oppenheimer, the John to take on Saul "Canelo" Alvarez WBC champion Miguel Cot- third person. “I'm not going to be like Ronaldo - including his then Gosden-trained Golden Horn was in Las Vegas on November 21, is to (L) and contender Saul 'Canelo' involved in these kinds of prob- world-record 80 million-pound an outstanding performer through- scared of a third fight as he steps Alvarez will meet in Vegas later lems.” (then $120 million) switch from out 2015. Partnered by the revit- out on the comeback trail. this month Pressed further on why play- United to Madrid in 2009. Much Cotto has been vocal in his Margarito expects Alvarez ers are seen afraid of speaking out of the film morphs into a homage alised Frankie Dettori, the Cape claim that Margarito loaded his (45-1-1, KO32) to beat Cotto at on the state of FIFA, Ronaldo was to Mendes, the super-agent in the Cross colt gained four Group One gloves for their first meeting in the Mandalay Bay later this no more revealing. sharp black suit, black tie and wins - the Investec Derby at Ep- 2008, while illegal inserts in hand month, but predicts Cotto will not “What do you expect me to shades. som, the Coral-Eclipse at San- Classic winner American Pharaoh said. "It was unfortunate that he wraps were found, and removed, give him an easy time. say? I'm so happy? Of course I'm “If I didn't know you I'd ask down, the QIPCO Irish Champi- rated higher anywhere in the world. couldn't sign off with a victory at prior to his bout with Shane Mos- "He doesn't have the punch- a little bit sad because of yester- for your autograph,” Mendes says on Stakes at Leopardstown and, Golden Horn saw off competition Keeneland but the ground was ley in January 2010. ing power to knock out Canelo day,” he said, referring not to FIFA to Ronaldo at a celebratory dinner. perhaps his greatest victory of all, from Solow, Muhaarar and Legatis- loose. It was like a sandpit, it had But Margarito told ESPN De- Alvarez. I'm serious when I say but Real Madrid's first loss of the “I live obsessed with him every in Europe's richest race - the Qatar simo to be the Cartier Horse of the been raced on a lot, then they got portes: "I failed in the second fight that Cotto has no punching power season. day.” Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Long- Year, while he also takes the Cart- three inches of rain and he was left because I chose the wrong strate- and therefore I have to say it again “I don't want to (think about) Ronaldo's biggest fan, though, champ. His final start came in the ier Three-Year-Old Colt Award scrambling all the way round, like gy, not because of whatever he - he hits like a girl," Margarito said. thinks or says. "It's a very even fight. There yesterday on this day because it's seems to be himself. Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland, ahead of Muhaarar, Gleneagles and a quarterback trying to get the pass such a special day for me. It is one “If we had two or three Cris- "He only contradicts himself, is a lot of talk about youth and when he went down by half a length Jack Hobbs. Trainer Gosden, who away while his defensive line were of the most important days in my tiano Ronaldos in the (Portugal) to Found. However, that defeat because after the second fight he experience but I think that experi- life.” team I would be more comfort- received the awards along with Op- struggling to hold. was asked to compare my punch- ence is important. And honestly I took nothing away from a tremen- penheimer, described Golden Horn "Remember the big days - he For Ronaldo getting his own able,” he said, reflecting on last dous season and he retires to Dal- ing power between the fights and don't think Canelo will have it easy, film premiere in London's Leices- year's World Cup group-stage fail- as "the complete athlete". "We nev- was imperious in the Arc, the said there was no difference, it felt but if he did his job well and has a ham Hall Stud with only US Tri- er gave him an easy time but he Eclipse and the Derby. He was a ter Square seems to be an occasion ure. ple Crown hero and Breeders' Cup the same. good strategy I think he can win on par with Champions League fi- “But we don't have.” kept coming back for more," he very special horse." "So if I brought something il- the fight." This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. THURSDAY . NOVEMBER 12 . 2015-Aqrab 21, 1394 H.S Vol:X Issue No:104 Price: Afs.15

Scores of Zabul residents on AT Monitoring Desk Wednesday held their own dem- onstration in protest against the KABUL: At least 275 school- beheading of seven civilians from teachers received allotment letter the southern province and called of residential plots in a township for their killers, believed to be scheme which began the other day Daesh members, to be brought to in the southern Khost province, justice. They also called on gov- said officials. The scheme was ap- ernment to ensure their safety and proved by the former President to suppress Daesh, Taliban and Hamid Karzai nine years ago, but other militant groups. After the the land was grabbed by some protest, the Zabul residents at- powerful people. The chief of tended a prayer ceremony for the Tani district of Khost province, beheaded hostages. "We condemn Hukam Khan Habibi, during a cer- this incident. The enemy should emony marking the launch of the not be allowed to commit such distribution process said that the crimes anymore," said Moham- the strongest possible words." They were beheaded a few days township scheme consisted of 275 mad Anwar Ishaqzai, the governor Another tribal elder, Ghani Khan ago allegedly by Daesh members. houses for teachers. The teachers of Zabul, who attended the prayer Tokhi, meanwhile said: "Behead- Their bodies were transferred to from Gurbaz and Tani districts will ceremony. Haji Hashim, a tribal ing of the seven hostages was very Kabul on Tuesday, where they get the plots. He said that the elder, extended his condolences to painful for the Afghan nation. Mil- were carried through the streets of houses are being constructed on the bereaved families and con- itants should not be allowed to the capital on Wednesday in a dem- 60 acres of land in Seegai area of demned the incident. "We feel the commit such crimes anymore." onstration attended by tens of thou- Tani district. He added that there pain of the families who have lost The seven victims, including three sands of people protesting against would be more plots for distribu- their loved ones in the recent inci- women, were kidnapped last government's perceived lack of at- tion in different parts of the prov- Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi ga or Lower House of the Parlia- be revoked, because the foreign- ment issued a resolution asking the ers aimed to create insecurity chal- dent," he said. "We condemn the month while traveling between tention to security and safety of ince for other teachers. Hakeem beheading of the Zabul hostages in Zabul and Ghazni provinces. Afghans across the country. Khan, a teacher, said that teach- ired of cold-shoulder re NUG to take measures in order to lenges and differences in the coun- sponse of the government on ensure safety of the citizens. Con- try as they did in Syria and Iraq. ers had never availed such privi- demning the beheading of the pas- He said that the parliament should leges during his past 25 years of Tfragile security situation and growing insurgency, the Wolesi sengers, the resolution asked the choose another leader for the coun- UNESCO launches career. Meanwhile, another teach- Jirga is preparing to summon Pres- US, NATO and United Nations try through consensus if the cur- er Lal Saaduddin expressed that ident Ashraf Ghani and Chief Ex- and other international bodies to rent leaders are unable to ensure nationwide photo he was happy with the distribu- ecutive Officer (CEO) Abdullah act against enemies of Afghans security and prosperity. While tion of plots, adding the govern- Abdullah. based on the strategic agreements expressing his condolence with the competition ment should provide such oppor- Condemning beheading of the they have signed with Kabul. The families of the beheaded passen- AT News Report tunities and pay heed to the fi- seven passengers in Zabul prov- lawmakers said the NUG leaders gers, Khawasi said that the ene- nancial status of teachers. ince, members of the Wolesi Jirga were not fulfilling their responsi- my wanted to create differences on Wednesday said the National bilities and committed negligence among Afghans while the today s KABUL: UNESCO s office in 150 engineers Unity Government (NUG) has in their duties.Some of the legisla- demonstration against the inci- Afghanistan announced the launch failed in protecting citizens. They tors held wrong policies of the dence showed that they are really of a nationwide photo competi- complete suggested holding a joint session government and international part- one nation and not divided on eth- tion in order to portray the rich of the parliament to summon the ners responsible for beheading of nic lines. Shekiba Hashemi, an MP cultural and natural heritage of topography survey president and the CEO. Abdul the passengers and asked the pres- from Kandahar, said that behead- Afghanistan. The theme of the training in Balkh Rahman Rahmani, an MP from ident and CEO to appear in front ing of the passengers and increase competition is Show us the Af- Balkh, said that 30 signatures were of representatives of the people in insecurity is result of the for- ghanistan you re proud of . The AT News Report collected from members of the in a joint session of the Wolesi mation of the NUG. She asked the competition is open to all indi- Wolesi Jirga to call up and quiz Jirga and Meshrano Jirga. Scores US to respond to the concerns of viduals regardless of their nation- KABUL: As many as 150 engi- President Muhammad Ashraf of parliamentarians stressed on Afghans because it created the ality. In a media statement neers completed topography sur- Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdul- revoking of the Bilateral Security current government which is UNESCO said that it invites all vey training in Mazar-e-Sharif, lah over insecurity in a joint ses- Agreement (BSA) with the Unit- against the Constitution. Ms JALALABAD: The Afghanistan draft to the economic council of the Afghans and foreigners alike to Balkh province on Wednesday. sion of the parliament. He said ed States and other strategic agree- Hashemi said that the protestors Investment Support Agency government for a discussion next capture and share the country s The program was officially that the joint session would take ments with NATO and other coun- should carry the dead bodies to (AISA) on Wednesday said it had Saturday, he said, adding the hike stunningly diverse natural and launched by Regional Infrastruc- tries if the signatories failed to the US Embassy in Kabul because cultural heritage through their pho- ture Development Fund (RIDF) decision on summoning of the decided to increase customs duty in customs duty had been demand- NUG leaders. According to Arti- implement the deals. The MPs it engineered the NUG which has on imported goods in order facili- ed in the draft.Nangarhar Gover- tos. Participants may submit their of Germany. It provided techni- photos until December 21, 2015. cal assistance and fund to the pro- cle 69 of the Constitution, the said that three days of national badly failed in improving securi- tate marketing for domestic prod- nor Saleem Khan Kunduzi told the president is responsible to the mourning should be declared. Ab- ty situation. Speaker of the Wole- Photos can be submitted into two gram with 1.5 million Afs. The ucts. Speaking at the inaugural cer- gathering that the industrial park categories: photos taken by a cam- engineers who joined the training nation and the Wolesi Jirga. Accu- dul Satar Khawasi, an MP from si Jirga, Abdul Rauf Ebrahemi, emony of a five megawatts tur- needed 15 megawatts of electricity sations of crimes against humani- Parwan, said that signing the stra- termed beheading of seven pas- era and photos taken by a mobile survey course come from differ- bine at Shekh Misri Industrial Park and the remaining power would be phone. Camera Photos can be ent departments in Balkh, Bada- ty, national treason as well as a tegic agreements is the main fac- sengers a warning message to the on the outskirts of Jalalabad, the provided soon. The turbine cost- khshan, Baghlan, Kundoz, Takhar crime against the president shall tor behind growing insecurity NUG leaders and politicians of the emailed to afg [email protected]. across the country including be- country. He said that the whole capital of eastern Nangarhar prov- ing $250,000 would provide elec- Photos taken on mobile phones and Samangan provinces, a state- be demanded by one-third of all ince, AISA chairman Qurban Haq- tricity to 25 factories in the park, ment issued by the RIDF said. members of the Wolesi Jirga. If heading of the Afghans in Zabul. nation was in shock over the kill- can be uploaded to www. face- In the training survey course the demand is approved by two- Khawasi said that foreign hands ings. He said the government jo said the provision of electricity he said. According to officials, bookcom/showusyourafghani- participants used topographical third, the Wolesi Jirga shall con- were involved in beheading of the should not be silent because peo- would accelerate the production about 61,000 factories could be es- stan. The winners and finalists survey instruments, which gener- vene the Loya Jirga within a month seven passengers in order to cre- ple are killed in every part of the of domestic products in the prov- tablished at both Shekh Misri and will be selected anonymously by ally are used in infrastructure which would determine fate of the ate differences among Afghans. He country, particularly in Ghazni, ince. Low custom duties on im- Hisar Shahi industrial parks, but an independent jury which com- projects, such as GPS, Theodo- president with two-third majori- said that the strategic pacts with Zabul, Nangarhar, Kunar and ported goods badly affect domes- currently only few hundreds are prises of internationally and na- lites and Optical level systems. ty. On Wednesday the Wolesi Jir- the foreigners including BSA must Kunduz. tic products, so we presented a operating there. (Pajhwok) tionally renowned photographers. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.