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Team appointed to Karzai invited to attend Change in Pak-China probe Daesh symposium in Germany corridor route angers funding AT News Report KABUL: Former President Hamid allegations Karzai who is visiting Germany Pashtuns, Balochs has been invited to attend a sym- Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi posium as a chief guest in 2016. AT News Report Karzai during his trip visited KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani Bochum and Iserlohn cities of Ger- has appointed a delegation to many and signed golden books probe allegations that the Nation- there. al Security Council (NSC) has dis- According to a press state- tributed $200,000 among families ment issued by his office on of Daesh fighters. Wednesday, Karzai attended a cer- Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga emony organized by Business and (WJ) Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi on Information Technology School Wednesday said that President (BiTS) in Iserlohn city, Germany. Ghani has appointed a special The ceremony was held to pro- team to probe the allegation posed vide information about a sympo- by the Paktika governor that the sium which will be held by the NSC has supported families of the school in 2016. Thanking Germany for supporting Afghanistan during past 13 years, Daesh fighters financially in the Karzai accepted the invitation the ex-president called on German investors to invest in Afghanistan. province. to participate in the symposium Former National Security Advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta accompa- He said that the president had as a chief guest. nies Karzai in the trip. asked him to include some MPs in the delegation. The speaker of WJ informed Comment: 57 Afghan refugees the plenary that when the lawmak- apprehended in ers expressed their concerns over increasing insecurity across the TTP boasts of Khyber country and financial support to KABUL: Infuriated by change in passes through Quetta, Zhob and If changes were made it will cost Daesh the president assured him Pakhtunkhwa Gawadar-Kashgar corridor map, Dera Ismail Khan. He added that heavy, Lala added. to investigate the case. AT Monitoring Desk Pashtun nationalist leaders said the route was supposed to bring Nabi Bangash, another mem- He said that growing insecuri- test-firing missile that Punjab and China has signed prosperity in terms of infrastruc- ber of ANP, said that the route ty and financial support to Daesh By Mansoor Faizy KABUL: At least 57 Afghan na- some agreements that deprive Past- ture development to the tribal belt, should benefit marginalized areas would be on top of the agenda next tionals have been arrested by po- huns and Balochs of their rights. but now Punjab is trying to back of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, tribal week. As soon as China announced an TTP has the capability to develop Chinese President Xi Jinping down from its decision and make belt and Baluchistan. However, investment worth $46 billion in modern lethal weapons, Khuras- lice in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Member of the Defense Com- the state-run Radio Pakistan re- during his recent visit to Islama- changes to the original plan. Punjab and Sindh are concerned mittee (DC) of the WJ, Shukria Pakistan, the Tehreek-e-Taliban sani said. We are training our fight- bad announced projects worth $28 Afrasiyab Khattak, a senior over their own interests. Unfortu- Pakistan (TTP) claimed to have ers to get maximum results from ported on Wednesday. Barekzai, said that every day Af- According to the report, the billion in Pakistan. The projects leader of the ANP, said the federal nately the current government is ghans are killed by different successfully test fired its first in- the use of technology, including are part of $46 billion investment government wants the road to pass Punjab dominated and only Pun- digenously developed missile name suicide vests, suicide vehicles, hand Afghan nationals were held during groups while the government has search operation for not holding in infrastructure and energy through Islamabad and Lahore and jab will benefit from the project, not sent security strategy to the as Omar-1 . To substantiate grenades, anti-jammer devices and schemes known as the China-Pa- it is in the quest to leave Khyber he added. their claim the TTP group which so on, the statement added. legal documents. parliament. Chief minister of Khyber Pa- kistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan out Qaumi Watan Party leader, She expressed her concerns is currently at war with Pakistani Since Pakistan s military failed It is said that Pakistan is now of the project. Salim Khan, said that Pashtuns are troops in the volatile tribal regions to have arrested or killed any high khtunkhwa Pervaiz Khattak visit- over insecurity and asked the pres- ed Kabul last week where he called trying to make changes to the orig- Rauf Lala, another leader of the disappointed and thinking that as ident to send political guideline and bordering Afghanistan, has issued profile militant leaders, and as well inal map of CPEC and instead want party, told Radio Mashaal that Chinese president is not visiting a statement and posted a video in- as its so-called operations against on President Ashraf Ghani and dis- government s development pro- cussed different issues including the route to connect Gawadar with changes to the original plan of the Pakistan but Punjab only and the grams to the WJ. dicating the launch of the missile. insurgents, it s not a shocking Kashgar through Punjab province route has also infuriated the chair- decisions taken are against Balochs In the video, different parts of the news at all. Though Pakistani se- Afghan refugees problem. It is worth to mention that Khattak told newsmen during of the country instead of Khyber man of Pakhunkhwa Milli Awami and Pashtuns. newly appointed governor of Pa- missile were assembled before its curity officials claimed that around Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan. Party (PkMAP), Mahmoud Khan He said that it was not the time ktika, Karim Matin, accused the launch. 2000 insurgents were killed, most Asfandyar Wali Khan, the Achakzai. Achakzai has warned to remain silent but Balochs and National Security Council of send- It can easily be assembled and of regions retaken from militants, chairman of Awami National Par- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pashtuns should forge unity to ing $200,000 to Daesh fighters dismantled in accordance to the but amid these claims, how the ty (ANP) said, The original route making changes to original route. protect their interests. families in the province. situation, said Muhammad TTP got space to make such mis- He said that though he in- Khurassani, the TTP spokesman. sile at a time when military opera- Regional formed the NSC about the funds, He also said that by launching this tions were going on. Suppose they UN says civilians protection but received no response. special-designed missile they did, could they clear the source intelligence The Meshrano Jirga or senate could target their enemy effective- from where they purchased its EFFORTS MUST IMPROVE has also decided to summon the ly. With the grace of God, you ll needed materials to make this mis- NSC officials and Paktika gover- soon see our enemies on the run, sile. Whose hand is behind this? AT Monitoring Desk behind nor to dig for more information in he said. Iran, Pakistan or there is a third this regard. The engineering unit of the See P2 KABUL: The United Nations As- tempted suicide bombing. On Fri- Nangrahar sistant Secretary-General for Hu- day, I met with civilian victims and CASA 1000: his trip in Kabul that Pakistani man Rights Ivan Simonovic on their doctors at the emergency hos- massacre: Taliban announce launch police have been ordered not to Wednesday said that more efforts pital in Kabul. And then on Satur- Core project harass Afghan refugees who have should be made to protect civil- day I was in Jalalabad at the time Daesh OF SPRING OFFENSIVE special refugee card. ians in Afghanistan as militants are of a ferocious suicide attack by pacts to be inked He said that specific mobile trying to intensify their subversive anti-government elements on a KABUL: A member of Daesh activates here. crowded marketplace, killing at group strongly condemned Nan- KABUL: Afghan Taliban an- eration and those who involved in phone numbers have been pub- in Turkey today lished in media for Afghan refu- Simonovic spent the past least 35 people, the UN envoy grahar massacre on Wednesday and nounced launching of spring offen- civilian casualties would be pun- week in Kabul, Nangarhar and said. It is unacceptable that Af- blamed regional intelligence for the sive codenamed Azm (Determi- ished as per Islamic law. gees to use them in case if they ISLAMABAD: Core project face harassment at the hands of Kapisa provinces. ghans should face such violence on devastating bombing. nation) amid Afghan government However, he asked civilians to agreements of the long-awaited Speaking at the end of a sev- a daily basis. There can be no doubt Talking to Pajhwok Afghan assurances that the country s se- keep themselves at distance from security officials in Khyber Pakh- Central Asia South Asia 1000 tunkhwa. en-day visit to Afghanistan, Simo- that the use of tactics of this kind News from undisclosed location, curity forces were strong enough government officials and offices (CASA 1000) will be signed on Life became miserable and dif- novic said: Afghanistan finds it- Maulvi Abdul Rahim Muslim to meet all challenges effectively. since these would be the main tar- April 23-24, 2015 in Turkey, offi- ficult for Afghan refugees in Paki- self in a paradoxical situation. On Dost---a self-proclaimed leader of Zabih Ullah Mujahid, Taliban gets. cial sources told Business Record- stan following the deadly attack in the one hand, there are new op- Daesh, rejected Daesh involvement spokesman, in a press release to Gen Daulat Waziri, deputy er. Peshawar city which left tens of portunities for peace talks that in Nangarhar massacre. We Pajhwok Afghan News said the spokesman in the Defence of Min- Minister for Water and Pow- school students dead. would have been unimaginable only strongly condemned the attack and spring offensive would commence istry, called mere tall claims of mil- er, Khawaja Asif, Additional Sec- a few months ago. On the other, Daesh never kills civilians and in- from Friday s evening throughout itants who could not implement retary Incharge Ministry of Water NSC create the conflict looks set to intensify nocent people , he claimed. the country. their designs. and Power, Younus Dagha and as insurgents test the strength of Dost blamed regional intelli- Taliban had already won the Gen. Waziri assured that Af- Managing Director National Trans- information centre the security forces hoping to gain gence agency for the attack. He 13-year long battle in Afghanistan ghan security forces had the ca- mission and Despatch Company for enhanced leverage in future negotiations. also clarified that Shahid Ullah which had forced foreign troops pacity to confront all challenges (NTDC) will represent Pakistan. He added: Sadly, as the vio- Shahid, the so-called Daesh to withdraw from the country, the efficiently. He said that anti-mili- Other participating countries will coordination lence of the past week has shown, spokesperson, never claimed re- statement said. tants operations were started in 14 also be represented by their Ener- sponsibility and explained: Paki- KABUL: The National Security it will be Afghan civilians who pay Foreign forces have an- different provinces to purge sev- gy Ministers and higher officials. the price, and more needs to be stan intelligence agencies spread nounced to withdraw but they eral areas of anti-state elements. The core project agreements Council (NSC) on Wednesday cre- fabricated messages on his name ated a new information centre done to protect them. have their presence in some parts We are not worried about consist of Four Power Purchase The Assistant Secretary-Gen- since he does not have accesses to of the country and also take part militants threats therefore the na- Agreements (PPAs) between re- aimed at building close coordina- telephone and internet . tion for operation purposes among eral in his second official visit to represent war crimes, and those in some military operations, tion should be be worried at all, spective countries; a Master the country, focused on increas- responsible for organizing or per- Dot said that Daesh leader Abu Mujahid added. he added. Mohammad Hassan Agreement between all four par- various security organs. Bakar Al-Baghdadi strongly con- The Presidential Palace said in ingly difficult security situation petrating such attacks must be Taliban, he vowed would con- Haqyar, a political analyst, found ties; an Account Bank Agreement; following the withdrawal of for- brought to justice. I was greatly demned blasts which killed inno- tinue with their operation till com- mark difference in Taliban s an- Technical Code; Co-ordination a statement, the centre--- armed cent civilians. with state-of-the-art technology, eign troops and the transfer of se- encouraged by President [Ashraf] plete departure of foreign troops nouncement with their last year s Agreement between Kyrgyz Re- curity tasks to the Afghan Nation- Ghani and Chief Executive Abdul- Dost is from Kot district in from Afghanistan. announcement. Taliban announced public and Tajikistan and Host was inaugurated by President eastern Nangarhar. Pakistani po- Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. al Security Forces. 2014 was al- lah s personal commitment to end- The main targets, he reiterated parliamentarians and other govern- Government Agreements. ready a terrible year for the civil- ing torture in Afghan detention fa- lice arrested him in Peshawar after would be occupation forces, espe- ment officials as their main targets The tariff components of Speaking on the occasion, the Taliban fall in Afghanistan. He was president said the centre would be ian population of Afghanistan. Fig- cilities, and the steps being taken cially their military bases and gov- too but they spared them this year. CASA 1000 project consist of: (i) ures for the first quarter of 2015 to prepare a national action plan detained in Guantanamo Bay and ernment installations, intelligence Haqyar said Taliban realized transmission tariff payback of in- of immense importance during spe- later released by the US. He wrote cial operations for coordination have confirmed that negative on torture prevention, Simonov- and security forces. they would lose their support and vestment costs to Tajikistan, Kyr- trend, Simonovic said. ic added. These institutional re- a book titled Da Guantanamo Bay He directed militants to avoid sympathies by killing civilians and gyzstan, and Afghanistan, AC & among various security organs and Matey Zawlaney (Broken shack- foreign troops. According to preliminary fig- forms must be reinforced by strict civilians casualties during the op- officials. (Pajhwok) DC O&M cost, community sup- ures compiled by the UN Assis- accountability measures. Torturers les of Guantanamo Bay) and joined port fund and common fund; (ii) Gen. John F. Campbell, the Daesh last year. Resolute Support mission com- tance Mission in Afghanistan must be prosecuted and punished, NDS arrests two militants with cost of energy payable to the sell- (UNAMA), 655 civilians have al- not transferred to other positions. Pakistani media also reported ers; and (iii) transit fee to be paid mander in Afghanistan, said the regarding Muslim Dost as Daesh centre was need of the hour and ready been killed and 1,155 injured During his visit, Simonovic Pak- made arms in Kunduz to Afghanistan. in the first quarter of 2015. participated in the launch of a new leader in Khurasan but he rejected The estimated transmission would be crucial to lead major op- AT News Report On Thursday, I met a num- report by UNAMA and the UN all such reports. Pakistan, India and tariff is 2.98 cents/kWh; the ener- erations across the country in an central Asian states are known effective way. ber of children detained for con- Human Rights Office on the barri- KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) held two alleged mil- gy tariff is 5.15 cents/kWh and the flict-related crimes, including at- ers to justice women still face. Khurasan. (Pajhwok) itants along with Pakistani weapons in northern Kunduz province. Afghan transit fee is @ 1.25 cents/ A press statement issued by the spy agency the militants had brought kWh. According to sources, all the weapons from Nangarhar province to Kunduz. outstanding issues were resolved Pakistan s support key to eliminating insurgent hideouts: Noor in the JWG/IGC meeting in Istan- The statement added that the two alleged militants were arrested in Pakistan's sincere cooperation in the Afghan peace process can help destroy all insurgent bases in both the countries, and will also further strengthen an operation conducted in Zarkharid area of the province. It said that bul early December 2014 followed the relations between Kabul and Islamabad, said Atta Mohammad Noor, the acting governor of northern Balkh province. In an exhibition displaying security forces recovered 50 Pakistani pistols, nine Ak 47 and around by the LSC/JWG meeting in Bish- Pakistani products in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital, Noor emphasized that honest bilateral cooperation would ensure security stability in 2,000 bullets of the weapons from the militants. kek in February 2015. the two neighboring countries. Pakistan's Ambassador to Afghanistan, Syed Abrar Hussain, was also present at the event. "Stability in Afghanistan The alleged insurgents were identified as Mohammad Nasir and The CASA 1000 transmission and the region is impossible until the two countries do not fight insurgents with honesty," Noor said. He also stressed the need for cooperation in Samiullah, the statement said, adding that the rebels wanted to use the project envisages the transporta- economic, social and cultural areas between the two nations. Pointing to the recent insecurity incidents in the north, Noor stated that the insurgents weapons in subversive activities in the province. tion of surplus electric power avail- who have fled Pakistan were involved in the recent insurgent activities in Balkh. "We can root out insurgent hideouts in the north. They are those The statement said that the NDS operatives also recovered a huge able in summer months (May 1 to insurgents who have fled Pakistan as a result of operations in that country. But we can also eliminate their shelters here in Afghanistan," Noor cache of weapons in Bala Boluk district of Farah province. (See P2) continued. 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. APRIL 23, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Not a single health clinic in 2 Kandahar towns KANDAHAR CITY: Residents of eryone who falls ill goes to Paki- Shorabak and Regisitan districts of stan for treatment because Kanda- southern Kandahar province on har City is away from here and Wednesday said they had to take travelling there is much harder. their patients across the border into He urged the government to Pakistan for treatment of even mi- reconstruct the road between nor diseases because no healthcare Registan and Kandahar City and Efforts to achieve equality at provincial level still falling far short. facilities were available in the two provide them with healthcare fa- towns. cilities and telecom services. The Afghan government needs to positions. In the western Herat province, speakers at a debate held in Ghoryan district called on officials and Muslim clerics to work towards On the way to Pakistan, they Kandahar Public Health Direc- do more to recruit women to posi- equality. As a priority, religious scholars should teach men about women s rights, said Abdul Hamid, an Islamic scholar himself. said, serious patients often passed tor Dr. Abdul Qayum Pukhla also tions in local government, a series Wahid Poya, a civil society activist from the same region, said many men were held back by the belief that women could not be equal partners away due to rundown condition acknowledged the two districts had of IWPR-organised debates heard in the workplace. Women need to take action against these prejudices and [make men] realise how capable they actually are, he added. (IWPR) of roads. no health facilities, but said other this month. Faiz Mohammad, who lives in districts had such facilities. Discussions held in the Herat, Bala Hesar area of Shorabak dis- He linked the lack of health Jowzjan and Badakhshan provinc- trict, told Pajhwok Afghan News facilities in the two districts to a es focused on female participation residents had long been without shortage of medical personnel and in local government and the work- medical facilities and patients had people s non-cooperation. place in general. to embark on a difficult and long The director said people of the In Faizabad, the provincial journey to Pakistan for treatment. two towns had never visited the capital of the northeastern Bada- He claimed even a single health Public Health Department to com- khshan province, speakers noted clinic did not exist in the entire plain about a lack of health facili- that women held under one-fifth town. That s why people die of ties in their areas. of appointed posts in local gov- even common diseases. He said if residents of the two ernment. The resident also said there districts devoted one house each There are many expert, edu- were no telecommunications facil- to health clinics and assured pro- cated women in Badakhshan, but ities in the district and the road tection of the health workers and government officials aren t even leading to Kandahar City was in medical equipment, the public aware that they exist, said one an extremely deteriorated condi- health department was ready to speaker, Maryam Amwaj. tion, leaving them with no option open clinics and dispatch health Amwaj said women were of- but to travel to Pakistan. workers. ten excluded because of corruption Faiz Mohammad said: Peo- Pukhla said a health clinic had rather than discrimination. She ple not only take their patients to been opened in the Shorabak dis- claimed that many key posts in Pakistan, but also bring with them trict six years ago, but it was closed Badakhshan were simply sold to food and non-food items from after all the equipment were loot- the highest bidder. As women there. ed. could not generally afford to pay, He lamented the government He said Maroof was also a re- they were overlooked. had completely ignored the district mote district, but health facilities Haqdar Sharifi, a representa- as it could not establish a single were available there because local tive of the Afghanistan Indepen- health clinic over the past 14 years. residents were cooperative with dent Human Rights Commission Similarly, residents of Registan health personnel. in Badakhshan, noted that the district said they had been de- He said 93 healthcare centres number of women working in the prived of basic amenities of life and were operational in Kandahar City court system was even lower than led a life full of miseries. and districts across Kandahar. in government or elected bodies. Resident Haji Sherin told Pa- Shorabak and Registan dis- In the Aqcha district of the jhwok Afghan News the big prob- tricts are situated 230 and 350 ki- northern Jowzjan province, Hali- lem they faced was the absence of lometres respectively from Kan- ma Banu Ghazanfar described her healthcare facilities. dahar City. Roads connecting the experiences as a manager in a local Forget about clinic, we don t two districts with the provincial government office. Most of her have even a medical store. People capital are unpaved and insecure. subordinates were male, and they here endure a lot of problems. Ev- (Pajhwok) were unhappy about being super- vised by a woman. She added that they also resented her because I Chinese investments divide prevent embezzlement and brib- ery . Pakistani provinces Rahmatullah Hashar, the dis- trict government chief in Aqcha, From P12 the two provinces against China. called for vocational and manage- Beijing and are eager for Chi- If someone is determined to com- rial training to allow women to mit an economic genocide of our progress to senior government nese investment, he told RFE/RL s Gandhara website. But we Pash- people, it is my duty to resort to tuns are worried that Khyber Pa- everything possible to defend khtunkhwa, the adjacent FATA them, he told journalists in Pe- Two mobile phone towers Religious leaders urge nation (Federally Administered Tribal shawar. If our legal and peaceful Areas) and Balochistan are being protests are not heard, we will be blown up in Wardak left out of CPEC. forced to adopt illegal and extra- to support Afghan forces Khattak says Punjab s politi- constitutional means. MAIDAN SHAHAR: Taliban on rival of insurgents, Nabizada add- cians and civil and military bureau- In Balochistan, passions also Wednesday blew up two antennas ed. ran high. Osman Kakar represents KHOST CITY: Latest wave of ter- attacks in Nangarhar, Badakhshan, Hamim Mangal, a leading lo- crats have dominated resource dis- of telecommunication companies The state-run Salam wireless tribution and decision-making the province in Pakistan s upper in central Maidan Wardak prov- company planned to install doz- ror attacks, killing of civilians and Mazar-i-Sharif, Khost, Helmand cal elder, said Taliban and other house, or Senate. He told Radio security forces, and kidnapping are and Kandahar an unforgivable act government opposition groups since Pakistan s creation 67 years ince, an official said. ens of towers in different districts ago. Mashaal Sharif s administration is Attaullah Khogyani, the gov- of the province. However, mili- against the teachings of Islam, reli- and stressed people to extend their should give importance to peace They see Punjab as Paki- so committed to Punjab it even ernor s spokesman, told Pajhwok tants have not yet commented on gious leaders in southeastern all out support to Afghanistan s and the government should give stan s core heartland while Khy- refrained from building a single Afghan News the blown up tow- the incident. Khost province said, urging mass- security forces. importance to negotiations to stop ber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and electricity generation project in ers belonged to MTN and Roshan Separately, Khogyani said that es to actively support the coun- Maulvi Mohammad Zadran, suicide and other attacks . Balochistan are considered dispos- Balochistan where the potential for coal, solar and wind power is abun- companies. a policeman and a militant were try s valiant security forces. head of Mujahidin Islamic unity The religious leaders, in a writ- able peripheries whose prosperi- dant. Fazal Rahim Nabizada, direc- killed and another person wound- Maulvi Shah Mohammad council, criticized religious leaders ten statement, regarded violence, ty never matters, he said. tor communication and informa- ed in a gun battle in Chak district. Days before Jinping s arrival It seems this corridor is a tion technology, said the militants He added that several other insur- Mohammadi, head of religious lead- for hiding truth from the people. destruction, suicide attacks and joint venture between China and ers council, called attacks against One side, religious leaders call terrorism against the basic teach- in Islamabad on April 20, Khat- torched generators, hundreds of li- gents had been killed and wound- tak s party was briefed about the Punjab rather than between Paki- tres fuel, rooms and several other ed but he did not have exact toll the teachings of Islam and human- militants as martyrs while on the ings of Islamic. project. Ashan Iqbal, Pakistan s stan and China, he said. equipments. into casualties. ity which harmed civilians. Islam other, religious leaders call securi- They appealed civilians in the planning minister in charge of over- Kakar s Pashtunkhwa Milli Three on duty guards were Khogyani said that security does not allow killing or harming ty forces as martyrs and ghazis. It agreement to extend complete sup- seeing the Chinese-financed Awami Party was behind a pro- on duty while two others were on forces killed three militants in mil- anyone without a decree , he re- is high time to issue an agreed de- port to security forces and asked projects, attempted to quell skep- vincial assembly resolution in leave during the incident. One of itary operation last night in Deh marked. cree to declare group of one side as militants to shun violence. ticism over whether the project Balochistan in February that called on Islamabad to make investments the guards fled the scene after ar- Mirdad district. (Pajhwok) Mohammadi made it clear that martyrs , he added. (Pajhwok) will only benefit Punjab or will bring jobs, security and invest- in the province. ments to other regions. The Pashtuns have rendered Influential Farah man rape, Khattak says Iqbal tried to great sacrifices in the war against CASA 1000: Core project pacts assure ANP and other political terrorism. More than 40,000 or our beat 17-year-old-boy: AHRO parties that none of the three road people were killed and millions displaced, he said. Why should FARAH CITY: Ali Mohammad, lice for similar crimes before too networks linking Gwadar and to be inked in Turkey today Xingjian will be changed. The min- we always be the losers while 17 year-old-boy, was kidnapped, but each time at the intervention From P1 Punjab reaps all the perks and priv- raped, and beaten severely by Ha- of the director of provincial coun- ister, he added, assured them a September 30) from Kyrgyz The CASA 1000 Transmis- joint venture in which all four par- western road from Gwadar through ileges? mid Bakhtwar who is not only a cil, he has been released. CPEC, however, faces com- Republic and Tajikistan to Afghan- sion line (T/L) to Peshawar would ticipating countries will own the Balochistan and Khyber Pakh- gunman but also Farah provincial The AHRO said that it is pity plete opposition from Baluch sep- istan and Pakistan. The project be capable of delivering 1300 MW parts of the project located in their tunkhwa will be constructed in ad- council member s cousin, the Af- that not only the poor kid s voice dition to upgrading the existing aratists, who accuse Beijing of be- ghanistan Human Rights Organi- is not heard and no one has cared will comprise the development, fi- (1,000 MW is Pakistan s share & respective countries. ing complicit in helping Islamabad nancing, construction, ownership 300 MW is Afghanistan s share The World Bank in its Board Indus Highway and the Islamabad zation (AHRO) said in a statement for his wounds, but his family s Lahore Karachi motorway. exploit their resource-rich, margin- on Wednesday. life and honor is seriously threat- and operation of the following AC however, the Afghan share may be of Directors meeting on 27 March, The Indus Highway connects alized homeland. The AHRO said that on April ened too. The AHRO called on all and DC facilities: (i) a 750km high available for Pakistan as Afghani- 2014 has approved $120m in IDA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa s capital, Baluch separatists have re- 15, Hamid Bakhtwar kidnapped the responsible government direc- voltage direct current transmission stan may not need the power in credit for Pakistan while 1DB has Peshawar, to the southern seaport peatedly warned China to refrain the Ali Mohammad, a bakery em- torates in Farah province and cen- system between Tajikistan and Pa- near future). The exporting coun- indicated $35 million. EAD has of Karachi and mostly runs along from investing in the region because kistan via Afghanistan together tries (Kyrgyz Republic & Tajiki- been requested to arrange the rest the river Indus in central Pakistan. of fears it will attract a population ployee, and took him to Bala tral government to protect Ali movement from Punjab and Kara- Bolok district s Dehzaki village. Mohammad and his family s life. with associated converter stations stan) have conveyed that they will of the amount US$142 million. The Islamabad Lahore motorway was opened in 1997 and is being chi, reducing the Baluch to a mi- He and his six men brutally raped In addition, it demanded the at Sangtuda (1,300MW), Kabul be able to deliver 4,000 GWh of The source said, tender documents nority at home. and tortured him. government to provide proper (300MW) and Peshawar energy in a normal year and 4,434 for the owners, engineer, EPC con- extended nearly 1,100 kilometers to link Lahore with Karachi, which Separatist Baluch militants are He said the boy filed a report treatment to the poor boy and (1,300MW). Pakistan has decided GWh in a wet year. tracts of convertor stations and also suspected of being behind at- with the local police when the serve justice to Ali s family by in turn is connected to Gwadar by to increase capacity of convertor The estimated cost of the Afghan DC O&M are due to be a coastal highway. tacks on Chinese workers in Gwa- group released him. Three days seriously follow up on the issue aimed at getting electricity over and CASA-1000 project is $1.170 bil- awarded by May 2015. The con- Khattak says Iqbal gave no dar and other parts of the region in later, police arrested Hamid Ba- so that the criminals could be above 1000 MW in case Kabul lion including $208 million IDC & struction start is expected in Sep- details about the investment in elec- recent years. khtwar on the 18th of April, but brought to justice. does not use its entire share of 300 taxes-but the final cost will be de- tember 2015 and project comple- tricity generation and industry. [The development of] Gwa- two hours later, he was released The AHRO said that human MW; (ii) 477km 500kv alternat- termined through a competitive tion is expected by May 2018. He only said the government has dar [port] is a matter of life and from police detention by the chair- rights and civil society organiza- not yet decided the location of death for the Baluch, wrote San- ing current link between the Kyr- bidding process. This includes the Slippage in timelines could occur aullah Baloch, a former lawmaker man of provincial council of Farah. tions and United Nations organi- gyz Republic (Datka) and Tajiki- estimated cost of $200 million re- if the DC convertor stations and those projects, he said. The cor- In addition, Hamid Bakhtwar zations should put pressure on the ridor really means the location of from Balochistan. Any unilateral stan (Khoujand); and (iii) AC sys- quired for the Pakistan portion of Afghan transmission line s EPC decision by Islamabad concerning threatened the boy s family with authorities and seriously follow up tem upgrades necessary to safely the DC transmission line and con- contracts are not awarded in the industry and power generation, death so that they keep silent. It on the issue so that such injustices which is still not clear, and this is the fate of Gwadar will be op- and reliably accommodate the AC vertor station. next 2-3 months, the sources add- posed by the Baluch at all levels. has been said that Hamid Bakh- are eliminated. the main issue. and DC Facilities and the associ- The CASA-1000 project will ed. Prime Minister Sharif at- war has been arrested by the po- (Pajhwok) The Wall Street Journal re- ated power flows. be implemented as a contractual (Business Recorder) cently reported that most of the tempted to address these concerns coal mining and coal-powered while speaking to Pakistani Par- TTP boasts of test-firing power stations, hydroelectric liament on April 21. It will bene- 10-km road being asphalted in Daikundi dams, solar power parks and wind fit the entire country and all the farms are located in Punjab and the provinces of Pakistan, he told From P1 missile NILI: Asphalting of a 10-kilome- Ghairat Jawahery, provincial the miseries of residents during southern province of Sindh. lawmakers minutes before the Chi- tres road between Laziz River and council, member said: This winters. The controversy has united nese leader was to speak. party covertly supporting them? If Iran supported them in their dead- Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab, Khy- liest mission, Pakistan and Afghanistan including international commu- Shahrestan district of central project would help resolve peo- Last week, a police ranger moderate and nationalist political Daikundi province began on ple s problems. plunged into a ravine in Shahrestan groups with leftists and Islamist ber Pakhtunkhwa and the areas of nity must launch massive military operation before they could fire any Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu missile on any country. If Iran didn t, instead Pakistan did, the Iran and Wednesday, an official said. Daikundi is a mountainous district killing three policemen political parties in the two prov- Acting Governor Abdul Haq province with less development. dead wounding two more. inces. Fearing protests, Islamabad and Kashmir [will benefit]. Afghanistan must join hands and carry out blitzkrieg before the TTP Khattak, however, says they could use these missiles. Whoever has supported the TTP but one thing Shafaq told Pajhwok Afghan News Lack of proper roads has added to (Pajhwok) closed the main road linking Islam- is quite clear that TTP will not hesitate to target their supporters. that the road was being built with abad to Peshawar on April 20. won t be swayed by empty prom- Because they have a quite visible record of switching sides and affilia- the financial support of World Political leaders issued emotional ises. The Pakistani establishment tions. Even they don t spare women and children. Bank (WB) at a cost of 270 mil- statements and #RejectAlterna- has only gifted extremist ma- Though Pakistan s security forces brought TTP under massive mil- lion afghanis. The project would tiveRoute trended on Twitter on drasahs, terrorist training camps itary pressure after Peshawar school carnage, but still it is hard to reject complete in a year. April 20. and misery to Pakhtunkhwa, he the involvement of Pakistan s Inter- Services Intelligence ISI behind Gravelling of a 134-kilometre Some politicians have even said. But industry, development, such a move to enable the TTP to have missiles. Since ISI has been road from Shahrestan district to lobbied Chinese diplomats and of- prosperity and new technologies historically supporting militants under one name or the other, with the limits of Bamyan province ficials. are always granted to Punjab. different motives and being omnipresent in the region, it s beyond ac- have started since last year, but In a brief meeting with Jin- Khattat says the dispute over ceptance that the TTP manufactured the missiles without ISI s knowl- the officials did not specify how ping, we told him the corridor Chinese investments doesn t bode edge. Moreover, Pakistan s tribal belt has already become a training and long it would take to complete it. should focus on regions ravaged by well for Pakistan s future stabili- ideological school for militants from across the region, including China Daikundi residents complained terrorism, Khattak said. We em- ty. and Central Asian Republics. the government did not pay atten- phasized this will prove instru- Pakistan cannot be an un- Therefore, to tackle this menace along regional countries, Russia and tion to develop the province dur- mental in defeating terror. He told equal federation. How can you China must do something otherwise the circumstance would be too ing the last 10 years. The province us we were absolutely right. drive a car with a wheel from a awful even to think. Afghans have been bearing the brunt the war since still, they said, did not even own ANP leader Iftikhar Hussain bulldozer and a scooter? he con- long time but this time extreme has happened. an asphalted road. warned the controversy might turn cluded. 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. APRIL 23, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Hamid Karzai s signature striped S-Korea offers public administration coat bound for British Museum SCHOLARSHIPS TO AFGHANS The former Afghan president is donating one of AT News Report KABUL: South Korea offered 150 fields, particularly in capacity He expressed hope that Af- his striped coats to the British Museum short-term scholarships to the In- building and strengthening of edu- ghans would achieve the goal of dependent Administrative Reform cation sector. development through hard work as By Ben Farmer and Civil Service Commission The Korean ambassador said 50 years ago Korean people did. (IARCSC) in the field of public that Afghanistan is a wealthy coun- He said that Korea is commit- administration. try as its profuse natural resourc- ted to support Afghan government South Korean Ambassador in es is incomparable in the region and in field of capacity building and Kabul, Cha Young Chul, awarded its people are hardworking and in- the international community is the scholarships and some teach- telligent. standing with Afghanistan. ing materials to the General Direc- tor of IARCSC Ahmad Mushahid in a ceremony held here in Kabul on Wednesday. Ahmad Mushahid said the scholarships would be distributed among all governmental organiza- EMERGENCY tions through the human resource ALLS department. He said the civil ser- C vants would have to pass a short test to get the scholarship. Police Admiring the Republic of Ko- rea for the humanitarian coopera- 100 - 119 tion, Mushahid pointed out that in the past 13 years Seoul had con- siderable contribution in different Hospitals FMIC Hospital Behind Kabul Medical Taliban are said to target Hazaras University: to try to match ISIS brutality 0202500200-+93793275595

By ROD NORDLAND and JAWAD SUKHANYAR Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital Pule Bagh-e- Umomi KABUL: A wave of kidnappings ty makes up between 5 percent ul to Behsood in Wardak Prov- followed by numerous beheadings and 10 percent of the population. ince, he said, Even 35 minutes 070263672 of members of Afghanistan s Haz- They have long been derided by out of the city, it s not safe for ara ethnic group have spread alarm other Afghans as outsiders because us. He was describing a journey Khairkhana Hospital and anger among a people who they are thought to be descendants to a Hazara area in the province It was a garment apparently ing Osama bin Laden. someone with great elegance and have historically been this coun- of Genghis Khan s Mongol invad- adjoining the capital. 0799-321007 adopted to keep warm in the ruins In a 2002 interview with the pride, Mr Ford explained. try s most persecuted. ers, who subjugated Afghanistan It has become a crime to be a 2401352 of post-Taliban Kabul, that soon Telegraph he said he had started The donation of his coat to the The police in Ghazni Province in the 13th century. Hazaras had Hazara in Afghanistan, Mr. Sahil became the signature look of Af- wearing his chapan on arrival in British Museum was brokered on Sunday confirmed that four long been excluded from govern- said. Hazara farmers who had been kid- ment jobs and education, and once Ms. Rezaye said Hazara lead- ghanistan s new leader. Kabul because he was cold and by Nancy Hatch Dupree, an Amer- Indira Gandhi Children Hamid Karzai s instantly rec- could not find anything else to napped by theTaliban had been were mostly concentrated in the ers have felt that the improvement ican expert on Afghan art, history found beheaded in Ajristan Dis- remote mountains of central Af- in their circumstances in recent Hospital, Wazir Akbar ognisable outfit of a purple and wear. and archaeology who has spent green striped coat draped over his He said: When I started wear- trict. Another six Hazaras from ghanistan, in an area known as years has suddenly begun more than 50 years studying the Daikundi Province who had been Hazarajat. dissipating.That is partly because Khan, Kabul 2301372 shoulders and a lambskin hat saw ing a chapan the girls in Kabul country. him lauded as the most stylish man went mad, particularly my female kidnapped by unknown assailants But the Hazaras prospered of rising insecurity and the gov- A spokeswoman for the Brit- were also found dead, dumped in after the American invasion, with ernment crisis under Mr. Ghani; on the planet. cabinet members and younger peo- ish Museum said: We are delight- Ibn-e- Seena Nearly 14 years on and no ple. They told me it looked stupid Ajristan District, less than a week many migrating to Kabul and send- there still is not a permanent de- longer president, Mr Karzai has and too conservative but I was ed to hear the news that the office after their families began searching ing their young people, including fense minister, for instance, she Pul-e-Artan, Kabul now donated one of his traditional cold. I d left all my clothes in Pa- of former President Karzai has for them, officials confirmed on girls, to school in much greater said. 2100359 chapan coats, which are found kistan. confirmed his offer of one of his Monday. Although the police have numbers than any other group. These are operations against throughout central Asia, to He quickly acquired a ward- cloaks as a gift to the British Mu- not yet recovered the bodies, local Much of Hazarajat has escaped a specific ethnic group, she said. the British Museum s collections. robe full of them, some lined with seum. reports said they, too, had been the warfare that has engulfed the They re trying to incite ethnic Wazir Akbar Khan beheaded. rest of the country, which also issues in the country. The museum said it was de- fur. When he addressed the UN These are world-famous Hospital lighted to receive one of the Security Council soon after the symbols of national and cultural Beheading is not normally a helped the Hazaras to prosper. In In addition to the ethnic dif- world-famous symbols of nation- Taliban fell, he said many ambas- identity and this would be an im- 2301741, 2301743 al and cultural identity and it sadors told him they wanted a sim- portant addition to our permanent would be an important addition ilar coat. collection. to its permanent collections. At the time, Tom Ford, cre- She said textiles such as Mr Ali Abad Mr Karzai has said he adopt- ative director for Gucci and Yves Karzai s coat are not usually kept Shahrara, Kabul ed his well known look soon after Saint Laurent, said Mr Karzai was on permanent display because of he returned to Kabul, following the the most chic man on the planet the risk that they might fade or 2100439 ousting of Mullah Mohammad today . otherwise deteriorate. Omar s Taliban regime for harbour- Visually, he comes across as (The Telegragh) Malalai Maternity Hospital 14 KILLED IN 2201377/ 2301743 Afghan First Lady ONGOING BADGHIS Banks pledges no roll back CLASHES Da Afghanistan Bank QALA-I-NAW: At least four Tal- 2100302, 2100303 on women s rights iban militants and two policemen have been killed in a clash still on- Kabul Bank going in northwestern Badghis province near the Tajikistan bor- 222666, 070285285 der, an official said on Wednesday. Azizi Bank The governor s spokesman, Mirwais Mirzakwal, told Pajhwok 0799 700900 Afghan News the clash broke out on Tuesday noon between Afghan Pashtany Bank border police and insurgents in 2102908, 2103868 Muri Chaq area and was still un- Activists and relatives of abducted Hazaras gathered this week in derway. So far four rebels and two po- Kabul, Afghanistan, as part of a protest against government Air Services licemen had been killed and two inaction. rebels wounded during the clash, Safi Airways he said. Taliban tactic, but the insurgents 13 years, there has never been one ference, Hazaras are mostly Shiite Badghis provincial council seem to be trying to make an ugly single Hazara suicide bomber, Mr. Muslims, whereas the Taliban and 020 22 22 222 head Bahauddin also confirmed the example of the Hazaras, in what is Sahil said. most Afghans are Sunnis. Islamic clash, but he had no information seen by some as a bid for atten- Often working or studying far State fighters, as well as the Tali- Ariana about casualties. tion. from their Hazarajat homes, the ban, have often directly targeted A separate clash between Tal- The Taliban are trying to send Hazaras have had to travel long Shiites, whom they view as un- 020-2100270 iban militants and gunmen loyal to out a new message that they are distances on dangerous roads to Islamic. a former jihadi leader was also un- similar in their brutality to ISIS, visit family members, making the Some officials in Zabul believe Kam Air derway in the Abkamri district, said Shahgul Rezaye, a Hazara recent attacks all the more disturb- that the kidnappers there may have 0799974422 KABUL: I may not raise my I don t think any of these rights provincial National Directorate of member of Parliament, referring to ing for them. All of the attacks have affiliated themselves with the Is- voice a lot, I may not be very that women have acquired during Security (NDS) officials said. Islamic State extremists from Iraq been carried out against Hazara lamic State. Amanullah Kakar, a flashy, but I like to interact with these past few years will ever be The spy service said two and Syria, who have reportedly travelers, especially as they have community leader from the Kha- Hotels people, said Afghanistan First put in question. People should be rebels were killed and a supporter been trying to recruit supporters passed through Pashtun areas ki-Afghan District of Zabul Prov- Safi Landmark Lady Rula Ghani. Soft-spoken as confident that this will not hap- of the jihadi leader was wounded. in Afghanistan. They re trying to where Taliban insurgents are prev- ince where the abductions took she is, her voice, arguably the most pen, she said, adding that Afghan Taliban claimed capturing Cha- show they are as bad as ISIS. alent. place, said that it was locally well prominent among Afghan women women should take part in planned har Sangi area of Abkamari district In what may prove to be the That was what made the case known that the kidnappers were 020-2203131 and killing two Afghan Local Po- worst single episode, insurgents of the 31 missing men so worri- followers of Mullah Abdullah in decades, is being heard. negotiations. lice (ALP) members. In an exclusive interview with Ghani defines her role in ad- stopped a bus in Zabul Province some. The insurgents stopped Kakar, a former Taliban command- SERENA Mohammad Saleh Baik, the in February, separated out the 31 three buses that passed within an er who has gone over to the Islam- VOA s Afghan service, Rula Ghani vocating women s rights simply. district chief, said insurgents at- suggested the attention she s I want to help Afghan wom- Hazaras and took them away, re- hour on the country s major high- ic State. 0799654000 tacked Afghan Local Police (ALP) leasing those from other ethnic way, known as the ring road or The Islamic State claims Qu- drawn, like her recent inclusion in en to feel comfortable in their own posts. ALP and civilians backed Time Magazine s 100 Most Influ- country and to be able to realize groups. The victims have not been Highway 1, as it runs through Zab- ranic justification for its campaign New Rumi Restaurant the security forces to protect the seen or heard from since. ul Province north of Kandahar. of beheadings. Taliban followers in ential People in the world, may be whatever their own personal goals locality. 0776351347 premature. It s only been six are, she said. The gun battle started at noon Those and other attacks have The men s abductors culled Badakhshan Province of northern months since I ve been first lady. I It s an answer that could ap- and still ongoing while two ALP galvanized the Hazaras. They have the Hazaras from Pashtuns and Afghanistan recently beheaded haven t done much yet and I hope ply to her. An Afghan citizen, she personnel were killed and three staged daily protests in Kabul, and others, according to witnesses who government soldiers, but the Tali- Internet Services blocked Parliament with demon- were allowed to leave, and stuffed ban released a statement on I will be able to fulfill their predic- is also Lebanese and American. insurgent wounded in the firefight. UA Telecom tion. Born into a Lebanese Christian (Pajhwok) strators who stood and held emp- them into cars and drove them Tuesday criticizing the practice as The bar was set low. Merely family, she was educated in Paris ty bowls, to signify their unsuc- away. What most infuriated their un-Islamic. 0796701701 / 0796702702 appearing in public with her hus- as well as Beirut where she met cessful effort to beg the govern- families, however, were claims that The four Hazaras whose bod- band, President Ashraf Ghani, has her husband and New York, 62 development ment for help. A logo with the num- the kidnappings took place on a ies were found beheaded in Exchange Rate set her apart from predecessor holding master s degrees in jour- ber 31 has become ubiquitous in stretch of highway between two Ajristan District on Sunday were Zeenat Karzai, who despite the nalism and political science. Flu- projects completed displays here. Poetry and street government check posts that were all farmers, kidnapped on their Purchase: accomplished medical career that ent in Arabic, French and English, theater are regular features at their so close by that the security forc- way to buy sheep, said Zaman Ali preceded her role as first lady she has learned Dari and delved in Kabul protest tents, pitched in three plac- es must have seen what was hap- Hedayat, the governor of the dis- remained largely unknown to many deeply in Afghan issues. es around Kabul and drawing fre- pening to the bus passengers. trict where the victims were from. One US$ = Afghans. It s a background that has As many as 62 development quent coverage on local television They said they couldn t do Mr. Hedayat said the men 57.83Afs But Rula Ghani also has an drawn predictable criticism from projects have been completed in stations. anything to intervene because it were initially kidnapped by the office in the presidential palace MirBachakot, Kalakan and Qara Responding to the public pres- was not their responsibility, said Taliban as a potential exchange for One Pound Sterling= conservative, patriarchal and na- Bagh districts of Kabul province sure, President Ashraf Ghani in- Murtaza Farjad, 24, another Haz- six Taliban insurgents taken pris- 85.35Afs where she works on alleviating the tionalistic elements in overwhelm- plight of Afghans displaced by civil by the National Solidarity Program vited relatives of the 31 missing ara activist in Kabul. oner by the government. Tribal One Euro = and international conflict. She also ingly Muslim Afghanistan. But she (NSP) of the Ministry of Rural men to attend his weekly national Since then, there has been no mediators thought they had a deal attends conferences on gender remains undaunted by such views Rehabilitation and Development security council meeting last claim of responsibility for the kid- to swap them all, but then the 62.04Afs equality and religious tolerance. and believes women in Afghanistan (MRRD). The projects were im- Wednesday, but they left dissatis- nappings, no ransom demands, and men s bodies were found. 1000 Pak Rs = Her abiding issue, however, will continue to make strides, even plemented at a cost of AFN fied. no word on the victims fates. Whoever is responsible for the 560Afs appears to be women s rights, if it takes time. 10,992,374 with 10% contribution He said, Only God knows Most of them were Hazara labor- attacks, other ethnic groups should which, after being trampled under The women I see are very from the local community. Accord- where they are, so only God can ers who had gone to Iran to find be just as worried by the new Sale: Taliban rule, remain limited in re- brave women, very strong wom- ing to NSP Provincial Manager in help them, said Zia Sahil, a Haz- work and been deported, which tactics being used against Hazaras, One US$ = gions still under the militants con- en, women that are facing a lot of Kabul province, these develop- ara activist who said the families frequently happens to Afghans said Hussain Noori, a prominent 58.03 Afs trol. Asked about her husband s ment projects include the construc- viewed the president s answer as there. Shiite imam. Such acts are not in challenges and yet are up to the tion of a 1,210-meter long rural inadequate. It doesn t answer Mr. Farjad, a college graduate the interest of any ethnic group, One Pound Sterling= possible rapprochement with the challenges and are making a very Taliban, she says women shouldn t road, a 15,217-meter retaining wall, why it took the government 48 with a degree in diplomacy, has not he said. They re just trying to 86.15Afs worry that gains made since the big effort, she said. So I don t a 700-meter irrigation canal, a wa- days to come to the families and been home to see his family in create sectarian problems between One Euro= group s 2001 ouster would be re- see why one of them cannot be- ter supply network, six communi- ask for descriptions of those who Ghazni in two years, which is typ- the Shiites and Sunnis in the 62.64 Afs versed. come a president one day. ty centers and excavation of eight are missing. ical of many of Kabul s Hazaras. country. 1000 Pak Rs= 568Afs If I know my husband .... and (VoA) wells equipped with hand pumps. Afghanistan s Hazara minori- Hazaras cannot travel from Kab- (New York Times) 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 . APRIL 23 , 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Resolute action needed to counter IS terror: India

Houthi rebellion in Yemen. How- ever, after days of discussion, the Parliament opted to remain neu- tral. The civil-military huddle dis- cussed whether Pakistan will meet Saudi Arabia s demands of send- ing troops or not for Yemen oper- ation as it enters the ground phase. Officials in the PM house did JAKARTA: Terming terror organ- not confirm any further details of isation Islamic State (IS) as a cause the meeting and visit. for grave concern, India today ex- Just yesterday, Saudi Arabia horted a congregation of Asian and declared an end to air strikes on African countries to be resolute in Yemen, however, King Salman or- combating terrorism and acting dered the kingdom s special forces against maritime piracy. Address- National Guard to enter Yemen for ing the Asian African Summit 2015 ground operation. here, External Affairs Minister Although Pakistan officially Swaraj called for UN reforms and said that it would not jump into cohesive action for a new world the Yemen fray militarily, it has order. She said the rise of extrem- not defined its support to Saudi ist violence and terrorism has been Arabia about meeting its demands. one of the most disturbing securi- Further, PM Nawaz through ty phenomena and several parts his statement tried to clarify the of the two continents are victim to unanimous stance of neutrality in a medley of terrorist groups. "The a resolution of joint session of the ISIS has emerged as a cause of grave Parliament following severe criti- concern in the last year. We must cism from the Arab league, includ- be resolute in countering this ing UAE. scourge that challenges our civili- The premier tried to distance sation," she said. The External the government from an impres- Affairs Minister, who is nursing a sion of neutrality but did not suc- leg injury delivered her speech sit- ceed. ting at her place. She raised the In an attempt of damage con- issue of maritime security saying trol, the federal government sent a threat of piracy remains despite high-powered delegation led by action in Malacca Straits and the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Gulf of Aden. "We have worked Sharif to Saudi Arabia. together to combat piracy in the Upon the Punjab chief minis- Malacca Straits and the Gulf of ter s return, the country s top civ- Aden, yet the threat remains due il-military leadership held a meet- to political instability, poverty and ing stretching for hours but did not lack of development in parts of our categorically state either the gov- region. "The Indian Ocean's im- ernment will meet the kingdom s portance as an active trade route demands or not. will grow in the future. As we em- Instead, the government issued bark upon the concept of Blue a rather vague statement and fo- Economy as a new pillar of devel- cused on the implementation of opment, it becomes even more UN Security Council Resolution important to secure our seas," she ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister demands and clarify Pakistan s welcomed the Saudi announcement Arabia. The move comes a day af- ify his government s vague policy on Yemen issue. said. Recalling the spirit of histor- Nawaz Sharif will be accompanied neutral stance on Yemen. of halting airstrikes in Yemen and ter the kingdom announced an end on Saudi Arabia s demand to send The UN resolution placed an ical Bandung conference of 1955, by Chief of Army Staff General Apart from the army chief, the entering the phase of political dia- to air strikes and moves towards a troops for the Yemen operation. embargo on provision of weapons she said, "The Bandung spirit for Raheel Sharif on his visit to Saudi prime minister will be accompa- logue. It was decided in the meet- ground operation. A step that The kingdom had asked Paki- and other support to Yemen rebels. a just and equitable order contin- Arabia on Thursday, it was decid- nied by Defense Minister Khawa- ing that the prime minister would sources say have put Saudi Arabia stan to join the coalition with De- But in its statement, the govern- ues. Asia and Africa are both in ed at Wednesday s high-level hud- ja Muhammad Asif, Special Assis- undertake a one-day visit to the in dire need of ground troops from fence Minister Khawaja Muham- ment did not define the country s consonance to reorder international dle at the PM House. tant to the PM on Foreign Affairs Saudi Arabia tomorrow to discuss all its allies. mad Asif claiming Riyadh had support to Saudi Arabia. institutions and reform the UN and The civil-military huddle Tariq Fatemi and Foreign Secretary the evolving situation in Yemen Earlier, confirming his trip, asked for Pakistani troops, war- Earlier today, a Foreign Office its Security Council as also other chaired by the premier was to de- Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry. and express solidarity with the officials in the Prime Minister planes and frigates to join the mil- statement welcomed Saudi s dec- institutions, where our voices are sign a framework to meet Saudi During the meeting, Nawaz people and leadership of Saudi House said the premier would clar- itary coalition seeking to quash the laration of end of ait strikes. not being heard. 14 Indian Indian minister says 2,000 girls are Pak interior minister pilgrims killed across the country every day forms four committees to die in bus review security policy ISLAMABAD: To make the coun- telligence agencies in the first in- accident in try s security system more active stance. and transparent in countering ter- Only citizens who are regu- rorism, Interior Minister lar tax-payers and have a genuine Nepal Chaudhary Nisar has formed four security concern should enjoy this KATHMANDU: At least 14 In- high-level committees for a policy facility, he said. We need to dis- dian pilgrims were killed and 25 review. courage elements who use bullet others injured today when a bus Chairing a meeting at the Min- proof vehicles as status symbols. carrying them plunged some 100 istry of Interior on Tuesday, Nisar Read: Peshawar attack brought metre down from the hilly road at assigned senior officers to prepare a sea of change in Pakistani mind- Naubise village in Dhading district, their recommendations for exist- set on terrorism: Nisar 75-km east of Kathmandu in Ne- ing security policies on the Exit He added that there should be pal. Control List, granting permission a centralised office at the federal The bus with Indian number for bullet-proof vehicles, regulat- level to maintain record of all the plate was carrying around 45 pil- ing security companies and grant bullet-proof vehicles, which grims from Gujarat who were re- of arms licenses, within seven should be instantly updated in case turning to Gorakhpur in India af- working days. of a change in ownership. ter a pilgrimage to Pashupatinath Each committee will be head- Regulating security companies Temple in Kathmandu, Superin- ed by a senior officer of the rank On regulating security compa- tendent of Police Bishworaj of additional secretary, stated an nies that provide private services Pokharel said. official statement. to civilians, Nisar said that the new Twelve passengers - six men Exit Control List policy should focus on making and six women - died on the spot. Regarding the ECL, the interi- companies look after the welfare Two others succumbed to their or minister said it was unfortunate of their employees, for instance injuries shortly after being taken that in past, it was blatantly mis- death, disability, insurance, and so to hospital. used and names were entered or on. The injured passengers have removed on personal whims and Arms licenses been rushed to Kathmandu for wishes. Discussing the existing policy medical treatment. The condition Neither any heed was paid on granting arms licenses, the inte- of four of them are critical. to these anomalies nor to correct rior minister stressed upon the Twenty one people are still in the faults in the system, he said. need for early re-validation of ex- the hospital undergoing treatment, There is a need for putting in isting arms licenses, and tasked the according to Indian Embassy place a proper system for making committee to come up with a work- sources. Daughters are considered undesir- are born and have pillows on their 914 females for every 1,000 males. launched in January, which aims entries into the ECL with clearly able proposal on how to expedite The embassy has deputed a able in India's highly patriarchal faces choking them. Female infan- A May 2011 study in British med- to better enforce laws against pre- defined parameters. this process. team comprising Consular Wing society Two thousand girls are ticide is a historic problem in In- ical journal the Lancet found that natal sex determination and ensure Bullet-proof vehicles He advised the committee to officials to the accident site to bet- killed in India every day, with dia s highly patriarchal society, as around 12 million Indian girls were access to education for girls. Discussing bullet-proofing of consider how an effective check on ter coordinate the rescue efforts, many slain before or just after birth, daughters are often viewed as a aborted since 1981, according to There is already a marked in- vehicles, Nisar underscored the the number of licenses to be is- the embassy said in a statement. the country s Minister of Women burden because of the continuing Reuters. The new government un- crease in the number of girls being need for devising a mechanism to sued could be maintained. Rescue efforts are going on at and Child Development said . prevalence of the dowry system. der Prime Minister Narendra admitted to orphanages, a sign ascertain the need of granting the The meeting was attended the accident site, which lies along You have 2,000 girls who are Although the 2011 census Modi is attempting to curb the is- Gandhi says is somewhat heart- permission to any person. He said among others by secretary interi- the Tribhuvan Highway, with the killed in the womb every day, showed an increased parity in the sue through its Beti Bachao, Beti ening because it represents a tran- an assessment committee should or, Nacta officials, commissioner help of security personnel and the Maneka Gandhi told news chan- country s overall sex ratio, the child Padhao (Save the Daughter, Edu- sition from being killed to being scrutinise and analyse such re- Islamabad and senior officials of local people, he said. nel NDTV in an interview. Some sex ratio was at an all-time low of cate the Daughter) initiative thrown out. quests, without referring it to in- NADRA. Sri Lanka ex-leader slams new Pak lawmakers in NA vent anger against PCB over Bangladesh fiasco regime over graft probe ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cricket team s humiliating defeat at the hands of Bangladesh following its COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan net portfolio just before January's and Basil," Rajapakse said. "This tenure, in part by inflating the size worst performance in the World strongman Mahinda Rajapakse polls. is a joke." Although the former pres- of Chinese-funded infrastructure Cup proved to be last straw as Wednesday accused the new gov- "They have no evidence. They ident was initially summoned to projects. The former and current National Assembly lawmakers ernment of pursuing a witch-hunt are making wild allegations. This appear before the Commission to central bank chiefs are also being vent their anger over the misman- against his family as he and his is a witch-hunt," Rajapakse told Investigate Allegations of Bribery investigated over large-scale cor- agement of the game in the coun- brother prepared to be interrogat- AFP in an interview at his home in or Corruption (CIABOC) on Fri- ruption allegations while several try. ed by anti-corruption investiga- a suburb of Colombo, where he is day, authorities later agreed he major defence and aircraft deals are Pakistan People s Party (PPP) tors. protected by police and military could be questioned at his home being probed over suspicions Ra- stalwart and opposition leader in The 69-year-old, who lost a guards. following uproar by some of his japakse cronies received kickbacks. the National Assembly Syed Khur- presidential election in January, "Neither I nor any member of supporters. Gotabhaya, who 'No China bias' The new govern- shid Shah went on to demand dras- accused his successor Maithripala my family has ill-gotten money. served as defence secretary under ment suspended work in Febru- tic changes in the Pakistan Cricket Sirisena of trying to intimidate him At first, they said I had money in his brother and was seen as the ary on a $1.4 billion Chinese-fi- board. by portraying his decade in power Swaziland, then in Dubai. Show real power behind the throne, is nanced project to reclaim land next The lawmakers who had ex- as riddled with corruption. us the money, where is the evi- due to be grilled by CIABOC in- to the port of Colombo pending a tensively been discussing Paki- Sri Lanka's main anti-corrup- dence? vestigators on Thursday although corruption review. The project stan s reaction to Yemen war be- tion panel is to question Rajapakse "They said I owned a hotel in he has requested a delay. The new symbolised the growth in ties with fore Chinese Presidents visit to day. Taking a dig at Intra-provincial minister Riaz Peerzada, who also on Friday over allegations he Dubai. Then they said all the ho- government has accused Rajapakse China under Rajapakse, a trend that Islamabad launched, diatribes holds sports portfolio, PML-N lawmaker Sheikh Rohail Asghar said bribed a high-profile opposition tels in Sri Lanka are owned by me and his inner circle of syphoning upset the traditional regional pow- against PCB officials during the what answer could be expected from him over cricket when he is figure to defect and accept a cabi- and (brothers) Gota (Gotabhaya) off billions of dollars during his er India. question-answer hour on Wednes- useless in his own ministry . 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 . APRIL 23 , 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES ISIS is Russia s greatest enemy not US : Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that the Islamic State group was Moscow's greatest enemy, notwithstanding the strained relations with the United States over the Ukraine conflict. "I believe ISIS is our greatest enemy right now," Lavrov said in an interview with Russian radio stations when asked whether he considers China, ISIS or NATO Russia's greatest threat. Lavrov said "hundreds of Rus- sian citizens, hundreds of Europe- ans, hundreds of Americans are fighting for ISIS, along with CIS (former Soviet) countries." "They are already returning resolved through talks." home. They come here to rest af- Russia's relations with the ter fighting and can get up to dirty West, particularly with the Unit- tricks at home," he said. ed States, have plummeted to a "As far as (relations with the) post-Cold War low over the war United States are concerned, these in Ukraine and sanctions imposed are state issues, these are issues of over Moscow's role in supporting the world order, which have to be pro-Russian militants. Yemen foes fight on despite declared end to Saudi strikes

President Barack Obama said on missed reports the carrier USS son why we keep some of our Navy warships patrolling the re- September and occupying a broad Tuesday the U.S. government had Theodore Roosevelt and cruiser ships in the Persian Gulf region gion had been in direct contact with swath of Yemen, which borders oil sent very direct messages to Iran USS Normandy had been sent to and that is to make sure that we the Iranian flotilla of nine cargo giant Saudi Arabia. warning it not to send weapons to the region to intercept Iranian maintain freedom of navigation, ships. He said the United States The U.N. Security Council Yemen that could be used to threat- ships carrying arms to Iranian- Obama said. did not know what the Iranian car- imposed an arms embargo on the en shipping traffic in the region. backed Houthi rebels fighting forc- What we've said to them is go ships were carrying and declined Houthi rebels, and the Saudi navy The Pentagon said on Tues- es loyal to the U.S.-backed Yeme- that, If there are weapons deliv- to say whether the U.S. warships has imposed a naval blockade day the presence of a large convoy ni president. ered to factions within Yemen that would stop and board Iranian ves- around Yemen. of Iranian cargo ships in the Arabi- In a televised interview on could threaten navigation, that's a sels if they attempted to enter Ye- Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday an Sea was one factor in the U.S. Tuesday on MSNBC s Hardball, problem, he added. And we re meni territorial waters. it was ending a month-long cam- decision to deploy additional war- Obama said Washington had been not sending them obscure messag- I m not going to telegraph paign of air strikes against the ships in the waters off war-torn very straightforward with Te- es. We send them very direct mes- anything, Warren said. Houthi rebels and would back a Yemen. hran about the issue. sages about it. The Shiite Muslim Houthis political solution to the conflict, But Army Colonel Steve War- Right now their ships are in The Pentagon spokesman sidelined the central government an announcement the White House ren, a Pentagon spokesman, dis- international waters. There s a rea- Warren said he did not believe after seizing the capital, Sanaa, in welcomed. Arab army chiefs meet to plan regional force Japan PM Abe Army chiefs from Arab League meets China s nations met in Cairo on Wednes- day to start work on the establish- Xi, says to ment of a region-wide military force aimed at combatting radical work for fighters, including the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant better ties group. The regional bloc agreed in TOKYO/JAKARTA : Japanese March to set up the force, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held member states given four months talks with Chinese President Xi CAIRO/ADEN: Rival forces aa had had a quiet night, a respite to hammer out the details over its Jinping on the sidelines of a sum- fought on in Yemen on Wednes- from almost nightly raids since the composition and precise rules of mit in Indonesia on Wednesday, day despite a declared halt to a campaign began on March 26. engagement. the latest sign of a thaw between Saudi-led bombing campaign, Saudi Arabia said a new phase Wednesday s meeting was the Asian rivals that came despite showing how tough it may be to called "Operation Restoring Hope" overseen by the Egyptian Armed an awkward diplomatic backdrop. find a political solution to a war would now begin in which politi- Forces Chief of Staff Mahmud Abe told reporters after the stirring animosities between rival cal, diplomatic and military action Hegazy, an AFP journalist said. meeting that the two leaders agreed Gulf powers Saudi Arabia and Iran. would be combined but the main Egyptian President Abdel Fat- to work for better relations and Tuesday's announcement by focus would be on the political tah al-Sisi pushed for the creation contribute to regional stability by Riyadh that it would end its cam- process. of the regional force after the Is- promoting "mutually beneficial paign of air strikes against the Ira- Saudi Arabia's leading role lamic State organization executed strategic ties". nian-allied Houthis drew positive against the Houthis has turned a group of Egyptian Coptic Chris- Noting that Sino-Japanese ties responses from both the White Yemen into the latest theater of a tians in Libya in February, prompt- had begun to improve when he met House and Tehran, as well as fresh regional proxy conflict between ing retaliatory air strikes by Cairo. Xi late last year, Abe said: "We calls for peace talks and for urgent the Gulf's leading Sunni Muslim The plan gained further mo- want to make the improving trend deliveries of humanitarian aid. and Shi'ite Muslim powers - a mentum after Saudi Arabia and its in the bilateral relations solid." But hours later, Houthi fight- struggle also playing out in Syria, Arab allies launched air strikes on The meeting took place de- ers captured the compound of an Lebanon and Iraq. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Ye- new alliance or army hostile to any country, but a force to fight terrorism and maintain security, peace and spite a speech at the Asian-Afri- army brigade loyal to the govern- The conflict has also created men. stability in the region, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said in a speech Wednesday. ISIS has carried out can summit by Abe in which he ment in Yemen's central city of desperate shortages of food and The creation of a joint Arab widespread atrocities in the region and won the support of several other jihadist organizations. On Sunday it warned powerful nations against Taiz following heavy fighting. A other supplies in Yemen, where sea force in no way aims to form a released a video purportedly showing the execution of about 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya. imposing on the weak, an implicit Saudi air strike was conducted on and airports are closed. The World reference to China. He also made the brigade headquarters shortly Health Organization said on Tues- an allusion to Tokyo's remorse in afterwards, residents said. day that 944 people were report- the past over World War Two The brigade, along with sever- ed killed and 3,487 wounded in without issuing a fresh apology. al other formations, had declared Yemen in the four weeks up to Turkey raises democracy concerns Earlier on Wednesday, law- its loyalty to exiled president Abd- Friday. en people to die in the clashes, makers from Abe's ruling party and Rabbu Mansour Hadi, opening up Houthi politburo member mostly from the Brotherhood. the opposition visited a Japanese a new front in the conflict against Mohammed al-Bukhaiti on Tues- over Mursi s sentencing Following his ouster, Egyptian war shrine in Tokyo that is seen in the Houthis. day accused the United States of authorities banned the Muslim China as a symbol of Tokyo's past Militiamen in southern Yemen worsening a "siege" of the country Turkey s foreign ministry said on parole on charges of stemming military in July 2013 following Brotherhood movement, with militarism. said late on Tuesday they would by sending warships to the waters Wednesday Egypt should free from killing protesters during dem- mass street protests against his thousands of its supporters being Nevertheless, the two leaders continue fighting the Houthis un- off Yemen. former Islamist President Moham- onstrations outside the presiden- rule. It is the first verdict he has arrested. Previous ties between met for about half an hour, signal- til they drove them out of the re- The United States said on mad Mursi from jail and lift death tial palace in 2012. received since his overthrow and Turkey and Egypt have been ing the desire of both nations to gion, despite Saudi Arabia saying Monday an aircraft carrier and sentences against his supporters Nearly three years after Mur- is one of several trials he faces. strained since then Egyptian army mend frayed ties and promote a its month-old campaign against the guided-missile cruiser had gone before Ankara could consider an si became Egypt s first freely elect- Mursi stood accused of inciting chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi toppled cautious rapprochement. Houthis had met its goals. there to join seven other U.S. war- improved relations with Cairo. ed president, he stood in a cage in supporters to kill a journalist and elected President Mursi after mass "The confrontation between Southerners and Houthis ships already in the area. The judicial ruling concern- court with 12 fellow Brotherhood opposition protesters in clashes in protests against his rule. One of China and Japan has eased and fought clashes on Wednesday The Pentagon said the ships ing former President Mursi ... in- members, who were all acquitted late 2012. As protestors gathered the fiercest crackdowns was then China and Japan have restored around the southern town of Dalea, were there to ensure freedom of creases the concerns regarding the of murder charges, escaping the outside the palace, Mursi ordered enforced by Egyptian security their diplomatic dialogue," said Shi a hotbed of southern separatism navigation through the area, which future of democracy in Egypt, the death sentence. the police to defuse them. Mass against the Islamist movement, kill- Yinhong, a professor in internation- which has changed hands several is vital to oil shipping and con- foreign ministry statement said. Mursi s legal team have said arrests The police refused, so the ings hundreds of supporters at a al relations at Renmin University times in the conflict. trols approaches to the Red Sea Mursi was sentenced on Tues- they will appeal. The former pres- Muslim Brotherhood brought in Cairo protest camp with thou- in Beijing.national disputes by "This front will not stop its and the Suez Canal. day to 20 years in prison without ident was ousted by the Egyptian their own supporters, causing elev- sands arrested. peaceful means. fight until all the south is purified It said the ships were also from the Houthis and pro-Saleh watching a flotilla of Iranian cargo forces," a statement by a group vessels that had approached Ye- called the southern resistance move- men. The U.N. Security Council Trial of Bahrain's top opposition leader resumes ment said. has imposed an arms embargo on The southern movement the Houthis, and the Saudi navy The trial of Bahrain's top opposi- intention of calling for the over- small island kingdom of 1.3 mil- ing to the streets," he told Al right to pursue legal actions against brings together southern civilians, has imposed a naval blockade tion leader on charges of promot- throw of the regime by force and lion people, Adel al-Muawda, a Jazeera. Sheikh Ali Salman because as al- former army officers and members around the country. ing a violent overthrow of the is- never called for violence, because member of Bahrain's upper house Al-Wefaq was founded in Wefaq decided to boycott the par- of a southern secessionist move- President Barack Obama land nation's political system is set he is not convinced of such an ap- of parliament, said Bahrain had 2002, a year after Bahrain an- liamentary elections, they there- ment to oppose the Houthis, who warned Iran on Tuesday not to to resume, in a case that has riled proach," said Jalila Al Sayed, one every right to investigate Salman, nounced political reforms, in which fore forfeited their right to act in are fighting alongside troops loyal send weapons to Yemen that could his supporters and heightened un- of Salman's multiple lawyers. In a calling it "a matter of law and or- the country became a constitution- any political capacity and there- to former Yemeni president Ali be used to threaten shipping traf- rest in the Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab previous interview with Al der". al monarchy with an elected par- fore was no longer immune to such Abdullah Saleh. fic in the region. kingdom. Jazeera, Abdullah al-Shamlawi, Although the trial may appear liament and an independent judi- investigations," Gengler told Al Saleh himself welcomed Saudi "What we've said to them is Wednesday's trial of Sheikh Ali another of Salman's lawyers, said to be provocative, authorities have ciary. Jazeera. Political parties are offi- Arabia's announcement and called that, 'If there are weapons deliv- Salman, head of al-Wefaq Islamic the case against his client was po- little choice but to hold it, since The leading opposition politi- cially banned under the existing for the renewal of political dia- ered to factions within Yemen that Society, is expected to feature tes- litically motivated and lacked le- Manama is only legitimate if it cal society has long complained of Bahraini constitution. Instead, logue, according to a statement on could threaten navigation, that's a timony from key defence witness- gitimate legal basis. applies the law. political and economic discrimina- Bahrain allows "political societ- his Twitter account. problem,'" he said. es. Salman is being tried on multi- RELATED: Bahrain begins Joseph Kechichian, expert on tion by the government against the ies", under which al-Wefaq was "We hope that everybody will Iran called for all sides in Ye- ple offences, including inciting a trial of opposition leader Gulf affairs Shia population, including being considered legitimate until sidelin- return to dialogue to solve and treat men's conflict to start negotiations, "change of government by force, At a previous hearing, Salman "Disturbances will happen, of shut out of certain professions - ing itself this past November, af- all the issues," Saleh, a powerful saying long-term peace was pos- spreading hatred among a segment noted: "I have been working in course, by people who do not like charges Bahraini authorities have ter which a Bahraini court banned ally of the Houthis, said in the sible. of society and insulting the interi- politics since 1998, when people for law and order to take its place," continuously denied. the group from political activities. message, which was also posted "History has demonstrated or ministry". secretly called to overthrow the Muawda said. Justin Gengler, a political re- "Although the trial may ap- on his Facebook page. that military intervention is not a Salman was arrested last De- regime, and I did not take that path According to Mohammed Al searcher at Qatar University who pear to be provocative, authorities Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday proper response to these crises and cember after leading a protest ral- and was on the opposing side. I Sayed, a spokesperson for moder- completed the first mass survey have little choice but to hold it, it was ending month-long air strikes will instead exacerbate the situa- ly against parliamentary elections always stood alongside the gov- ate group Citizens for of political attitudes in Bahrain, since Manama is only legitimate if against the Houthis, whose seizure tion," Iran's President Hassan Rou- in November, which his party ernment and backed the constitu- Bahrain,several of the charges told Al Jazeera that the government it applies the law. It must, conse- of swathes of Yemen in recent hani said at an Asian-African con- boycotted. He denied the charges tion. I was even a former member against Salman "are of a serious has the legality of the constitution quently, allow the process to go months has stirred Saudi fears that ference in Jakarta. during his first court hearing on of parliament." nature and deserve to be examined". behind it to investigate Salman af- through, and it is up to the judicia- Iran is acquiring decisive influence The United States and Saudi January 28. Asked whether the continued "However, it is up to the ter his party decided to boycott ry to be impartial," Joseph Kechi- in a country Riyadh sees as its Arabia have accused Shi'ite Iran of "We strongly believe that legal action against Salman could courts to pronounce on his guilt or the elections. "From the govern- chian, an expert on Gulf affairs, backyard. arming the Houthis, a claim Iran Sheikh Ali Salman never had the hamper the relative stability in the innocence and not us or those tak- ment's perspective, it had every told Al Jazeera. Residents said the capital San- denies. 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 .APRIL 23, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

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 Aryaman Bhatnagar spite immense domestic opposi- imposing its will on the opposing side significantly. The Taliban re- Email: [email protected] tion. Given the prevailing mistrust factions. The arrival of the Islamic mains resilient and has made sig- More than six months into his ten- and bitterness towards Pakistan in State in the region underscored nificant inroads into southern and www.afghanistantimes.af ure, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Afghanistan, Ghani s efforts have with a major attack over the week- eastern Afghanistan. The Afghan is possibly as far from achieving a unsurprisingly raised concerns end also complicates the situa- National Security Forces (ANSF) Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi breakthrough with the Taliban back home. His critics point out tion as it provides an alternative are capable of holding their own both militarily and at the negotiat- that Pakistan has failed to deliver for the disenchanted and disenfran- against the insurgents in the up- Advisory editorial board ing table as he was on his first on similar promises in the past. chised Taliban commanders who coming fighting season, but may day in power. At his inauguration Reported measures such as the differ with the Quetta Shura and not be in a position to inflict last- Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, ceremony, Ghani, while keeping proscription of groups like the who may not be willing to accept ing damage upon the insurgency. the military option open, invited Haqqani Network have been reject- any agreement with the govern- The U.S. President Barack Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal the Taliban to join the political ed as image building efforts rather ment. These internal differences Obama s decision to re-evaluate process and to resolve the conflict than a reflection of Rawalpindi s aside, reaching any sort of agree- his drawdown plans from the re- Graphic-Designers: through negotiations. sincerity. Only a more genuine and ment with the Taliban is still going gion and commit military aid to This two-pronged approach concerted effort to uproot the ter- to be difficult. The Taliban contin- Afghanistan ANSF through 2017 Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari towards the Taliban was followed ror infrastructure on its soil is like- ues to view themselves as the le- has come at an opportune time for by Hamid Karzai as well. Just like ly to change the existing percep- gitimate rulers of the country and Ghani. The U.S. will also provide Marketing & Advertising: his predecessor, Ghani too is fac- tion of the Pakistan military among the existing democratic system in air support and other logistical as- Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 ing problems on both fronts. Afghans. While it is easy to criti- Afghanistan as an illegal imposi- sistance to the ANSF boosting its Ghani s courting of Pakistan is, cise Rawalpindi, its failure to bring tion by the West controlled by position against the Taliban dur- Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan however, a departure from Karzai s the Taliban to the table could pos- Washington. Given this self-per- ing the spring and summer offen- policy in his last few years in of- sibly be a reflection of its limited ception, the Taliban, if and when sives. The recent U.S. commit- Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 fice. Afghanistan has undertaken influence over the group and a big- it comes to the negotiating table, is ments should not be understated. Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press military operations against Tehrik- ger obstacle to the talks may be unlikely to back down from its core However, the impact of the resid- i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) bases on the Taliban itself. The Taliban is demands complete withdrawal ual force remains to be seen, espe- Afghan soil, handed over a top TTP not a homogenous organisation of foreign forces, release of Tali- cially since foreign troops were un- commander, and even withdrawn nor is there any unanimity to- ban prisoners, and a rewriting of able to make a significant dent on The constitution says its request for arms from India. All wards the peace talks. Although the Afghan Constitution to some- the insurgency, even at the height these concessions, made in the Mullah Omar, still the supreme thing more in tune with Sharia of the U.S. surge. Moreover, with Article 122: hope of reciprocity from Pakistan, commander of the Taliban, and the that are not acceptable to Kabul. no change in Obama s plan to com- No law shall, under any circumstances, exclude any case or area from the jurisdiction of the judicial organ are calculated risks. Pakistan has Quetta Shura are said to be in Therefore, it is unlikely that the pletly withdraw from the country as defined in this chapter and submit it to another authority. This provision shall not prevent formation of offered assistance with the recon- favour of the peace talks, there are conflicting interests of the two by 2017, the Taliban, having sur- a number of individual command- parties can be reconciled without vived thirteen years of NATO special courts stipulated in Articles Sixty- Nine, Seventy-Eight and One Hundred Twenty Seven of this ciliation process, but to date progress has been inadequate. Af- ers who are not. Omar s prolonged some form of compromise from operations, needs to wait it out Constitution, as well as cases related to military courts. The organization and authority of these courts ghan government officials have absence from the public space has both sides. The military balance only for a few more years. Time shall be regulated by law. conceded that they have had no made it difficult for the leadership on the ground between the two continues to be on the Taliban s access to the Taliban. This should to keep the flock together. It is may ultimately determine their bar- side. The writer is an Associate be concerning for Ghani, as he has unclear how representative the gaining strength during negotia- Fellow at Observer Research invested significant political capi- Quetta Shura is of the entire move- tions. The existing military stale- Foundation, Delhi. Editorial tal in reaching out to Pakistan de- ment or whether it is capable of mate is unlikely to favour any one (The Diplomat) Massoud on land-grabbing President s special envoy for reforms and good governance, Ah-

mad Zia Massoud, directed officials concerned to recover the if it were not for the fact that the cy than the current Yemen war, brutal Daesh (Islamic State of Iraq grabbed state-land, right away. He said Wednesday that grabbing By Ramzy Baroud other global factors seemed much which didn t start with the Saudi- and the Levant) in more recent more compelling than a simple led coalition but with the launch years, turning Iraq, and of course, of state-land continued in the past decade as no institution could In a highly choreographed inter- shift in US policies dictated by a of the US-war on terror, manifest- Syria, into a savage battleground. stem the tide. Massoud vowed the government will support efforts view with New York Times Tho- small clique of policymakers in ed mostly in Yemen through the Gone are the days in which US mas Friedman, US President Washington DC. First, the US use- deadly drone war. That war un- policies alone dictate the course of of the justice ministry in recovering the state-property from the Barack Obama attempted to once less engagement in the Middle East dermined any political process in history in the Middle East. Initial- bigwigs. He rightly pointed out that the justice ministry failed in more define the legacy of his pres- which proved inconsequential Yemen, and empowered the mili- ly, the Obama doctrine like Bill idency. But The Obama Doctrine in terms of guaranteeing long term tants in that country who control Clinton s exercise of soft power representing government cases in an efficient manner though he and Iran seemed more of a belated US hegemony as plotted by the large swathes of the poor Arab re- coupled with an occasional mili- attempt at defining what is essen- neoconservatives made matters public. To suggest that the US pol- tary strike - was an attempt at com- also hailed the role of the ministry. tially undefinable. In reality, there worse. Instead of managing a New icies in Yemen was a failure is an bining use of US military influence, There has been a serious rant against land grabbing, but little is no Obama doctrine that can be Middle East , the US war simply understatement. It implies that the on the one hand, while investing in examined as a cohesive and con- destabilised the existing one. Sec- US had at least attempted to suc- regional and international allies on has been done in recovery. The government has been formed. sistent body of political conduct, ond, while busy rearranging the ceed. But succeed at what? The the other, to sustain US ascenden- General public has attached too many hoped with the National and Obama is not entirely at fault Middle East region as a matter of US drone war had no other objec- cy as much as possible. However, for the failure to achieve one. In urgency for Israel and its US al- tive aside from celebrating the elim- what seemed like a relative suc- Unity Government. Now that Massoud has pointed at a social, fact, at times he attempted to ar- lies, the US was losing what has ination of whomever the US hit cess in Libya with the ousting of ticulate a doctrine , the same way been traditionally its spheres of list designates as terrorist. But Muammar Gaddafi was too diffi- political and economic disease, it needs to be cured before it be- president Richard Nixon did in the influence, from East Asia, to South now that civil and regional wars cult to duplicate in Syria. Regional come incurable. It must be given a bitter medicine. And the medi- 1970s when he was elected based East Asia, to Latin America. Third, have broken out, the degree of US rivals like Iran, and international on a platform of peace with ho- when the Obama administration influence in Yemen has been ex- rivals like Russia were too resis- cine is zero-tolerance for corruption, land grapping and illegal min- nour. He needed to escape the hell- was ready to pivot to Asia , to posed as limited, their war on Al tant to any open attempt at over- ing. It must be dealt with severe punishment. All must be equal ish American wars in Indochina challenge China s dominion over Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, in throwing the Bashar Al Assad re- that by then killed millions of Viet- countries bordering the South Chi- the larger context of political, trib- gime. And with the rise of Daesh, before the law. Those who have been devouring national wealth, namese and tens of thousands of na Sea, among other regions, which al and regional rivalry, as insignifi- Al Assad had suddenly be re-cast- US soldiers. Nixon s doctrine then customarily gyrated within an cant. The failure, if we are to uti- ed into a different role, becoming a resources and lands as if they were their personal wealth must be was sold to the US public and the American orbit, the Arab Spring lise the term, is of course, not just buffer, although still designated as behind bars instead of roaming in armored vehicles and living in rest of the world as an American exploded into unprecedented fury American, but involves most US an enemy. John Kerry s statement divestment from perpetual war. and mayhem, leaving the US with allies, who have ignored Yemen s about willingness to engage Al As- barricaded houses. This is very much unfortunate that there has But it was hardly that, of course. few options. It was then that the protracted misery poverty, cor- sad signalled a massive turnabout been no serious crackdown against these illegal practices. From It was unavoidable pivoting of term leading from behind was in- ruption, violence and the lack of in US policies there. Now, with a American foreign policies due to vented. Although it was coined to any political horizon, until the preliminary nuclear deal agreed Khost to Badakhshan, illegal mining is at apex. Land grabbing has its devastating defeat in Vietnam describe the US involvement in country finally imploded. When upon by Iran, the US and its allies, reached to record higher. Poppy cultivation is increasing. Some- and the lack of appetite for more Libya, it applies to much more the Al Houthis took over Sana a chances are the US will carry on wars among majority of American Syria, Iraq, and, as of late, Yemen. last September, a foolish act by with its sabre-rattling, as Iran will times, one wonders is there any law in this land? And if yes then citizens. Obama s famous Cairo The early phase of Obama s lega- any account, only then did the sit- surely do as well. But there is lit- speech in June 2009 was meant to cy was largely predicated on man- uation in Yemen became urgent tle chance that Obama will enact where is it implemented? No implementation means no law. Many be the articulation of what sound- aging the disasters wrought by enough for intervention. Set aside any major shift in his regional pol- of these powerful individuals have backing of militants. An anti- ed much like a new-Nixonian doc- Bush s preemption doctrine, and the moral responsibility of tortur- icies. To the contrary, his adminis- trine. The US was meant to en- war on terror. He largely failed as ing already wounded nations, the tration is likely to retreat, further terrorism court needs to be established where not only the mili- gage, not control, respect, not dic- major historical phenomena can- US seemed to lack understanding hide behind its allies to achieve tants but also those who are being backed by them must be trialed. tate, and certainly minimise its not be managed from an Oval of- regarding how its actions frustrate whatever muddled objectives it military adventures, like the ones fice or through the editorial page and contribute to regional conflicts. may have at the chaotic moment. The problem is the lack of political will. And the problem is no one carried out by the previous admin- of the New York Times. The lat- Its exasperation of Iraq s sectarian Attempting to redefine a con- istration of George W. Bush. Yet, ter phase of Obama s legacy, fol- fault lines following the 2003 in- sistent Obama doctrine now is too has fear of law in their hearts. And the problem is that the land that doctrine, mostly compelled by lowing the Arab Spring, has been vasion, leading to a massive civil little, too late, even if Friedman, grabbing is not going in areas which beyond the government s circumstances beyond Obama s an impossible attempt at catching war a few years later, was a lesson the establishment man, insists oth- control, was in fact put in motion up with consequences that the unlearnt. Divide and conquer erwise. Despite what may seem accessibility rather it is what is happening under the very nose of by warmongering Bush himself clumsy and cliche-filled Obama backfired badly. The empowered as genuine attempts at correcting the government. On top of that the problem is the lack of coordi- starting with the surge in Iraq doctrine could neither anticipate, and brutal US-supported sectari- US past mistakes in Cuba and Iran, shortly before the end of Bush s nor was prepared to deal with. But an government that took revenge the behaviour of the Obama ad- nation among the government, legislature, judiciary, and other in- second term in office. There could nothing is more expressive of that on Sunni tribes and communities ministration is mostly compelled have possibly been an Obama doc- lack of preparedness, and ultimate- across Iraq following the war, met by numerous variables, over much stitutions. Kidnappings are on the rise, insecurity is plaguing, pov- trine that can be examined as such ly, impotency of US foreign poli- their match with the rise of the of which, the US has little control. erty is bringing more people under its nagging fold, and corruption is at its apex. At last what is happening and why there is no stern action in sight against all these evils. If transparency and account- ability is not heightened, the plunder of national resources will re- main the same. To address the issue of rampant corruption, plun- der of natural and national resources, the government will never succeed in establishing its writ. Afghanistan is not the only one hit by insecurity and war rather there are other nations as well hit by troubles and challenges, state-owned lands might not have been grabbed even in the deserts of the most lawless African continent. However, why we, as a nation, are unable to make progress in good governance and hesitate from clamping down on social, po- litical and economic evils plaguing our society? Why national wealth is considered being personal wealth and law is used as a selective Justice tool? 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THURSDAY .APRIL 23 , 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Spirit of peace and development China: Afghanistan s new hope What China s and drives modern Afghanistan needs China s financial resources, construction industry, and political leverage. China needs age despite Afghanistan for regional stability. The two need to exploit their mutual need and build a strong partnership. Pakistan s special regional threats By Tamim Asey strengthened internally, Af- globe from China to Africa communities have a keen inter- By Huang Rihan ghanistan is still fighting its to South Asia. Afghanistan, est for partner with Chinese friendship means With the recent surge in direct battle for a united, prosperous, however, has one of the most firms and factories. Chinese This year marks the 60th anniver- diplomacy and high level vis- and peaceful Afghanistan. underdeveloped infrastruc- state-owned companies such sary of the Bandung Conference, its between China and Afghan- China has international tures in the world, barely even as the China National Petro- the first large-scale gathering of diplomatic clout, influence in tapping into its full resource leum Corporation Internation- leaders from 29 African and Asian istan there is an emerging hope states and regions. Aiming for anti- amongst Afghans that China the region, and is an economic potential. China should invest al and China Metallurgical colonialism and anti-hegemony, can be counted on as an hon- powerhouse, all of which can in Afghanistan s infrastructure Group Corporation have in- this historic meeting called for prin- est partner, broker, and good help to facilitate talks with and development to gain access to vested in Amu Darya oil river ciples such as peaceful coexistence neighbor. An increased eco- pressure groups and states to Afghanistan s resources and basin and Aynak copper mine and achieving agreement. These nomic and security interest in achieve regional stability. create a land bridge, better con- in Afghanistan, though the ex- principles, embedded in the Bandung spirit, have finally be- China by former Afghan Presi- While China might have legiti- necting China to Central Asia perience with the two projects come international norms referred dent Hamid Karzai during his mate security and geostrategic and the Middle East. has not been encouraging so to by many countries to deal with last months in office and the concerns over engaging itself Furthermore, Afghanistan far. The contractual obligations international problems. current president, Ashraf in such a controversial interna- is the backyard of the Persian have either been not met or Sixty years on, many of these Ghani, with his first foreign trip tional and regional issue (and Gulf, and given that the major- were asked to be renegotiated. countries that suffered from colo- to Beijing are all indicators of a potentially a never-ending in- ity of Chinese oil supply pass- Despite China s issues in nialism and oppression have pros- By Ishaan Tharoor great rebalancing act by Kabul surgency in Afghanistan), the es through the Gulf, it is of vi- following through and delivery love and friendship belie a pered. Their reunion as emerging harsher truth. In many ways, this economies will herald a new age to reach out to China after de- costs of staying indifferent will tal national security interest for in Afghanistan, Afghanistan The friendship between China and for the Bandung spirit. cades of tepid relations. But be much higher. A neighbor- China to expand its economic has much to learn from the Chi- Pakistan, read billboards in Chi- is not a relationship of equals. A Major economies that belong this new hope of a partnership hood engulfed in terrorism, the and political influence in Af- nese economic model. Afghan- nese and English dotting Islama- Pew survey conducted last year to the developing world have in- should go beyond diplomatic drug trade, extremism, and ghanistan. With some much of istan needs to move away from bad this week, is higher than found that an impressive majority jected impetus to the growth of proxy wars is the biggest threat China s energy imports pass- an aid dependent economy mountains, deeper than oceans, of Pakistanis 78 percent global economy. Nicknames such niceties and be based on a as Four Asian Tigers, BRICS, strong foundation of mutual to the national security and rise ing through Afghanistan s move towards a trade and ex- sweeter than honey, and stronger viewed China favorably. Compare and VISTA are widely used to interests. of China. sphere, the security of the Chi- port oriented economy. China s than steel. This sort of romantic that to the 14 percent of Pakistanis reflect their outstanding achieve- Afghanistan needs Chinese On the other hand, China nese energy supplies depends economic policies have a lot to sloganeering routinely bubbles up who looked positively upon the ments. China s rapid development financial, economic, and tech- should stop relying on Paki- on the stability of Afghanistan. offer in terms of models and ex- ahead of key bilateral summits be- U.S., a figure larger only than the has drawn the keenest attention in nical resources and its political stan when dealing with Sino- China has some of the best amples. China has successful- 13 percent who have favorable these years, as it has entrenched tween the two countries, and so it its position as the world s biggest leverage at the international Afghan border issues, particu- vocational training institutes ly used a state capitalism eco- did this week as Chinese President views of India, Pakistan s foreign reserves country and the stage whereas Afghanistan is larly when it comes to the East and higher education institu- nomic model mixed with special Xi Jinping made his maiden visit archrival. Yet, the same number of largest economy in Asia. the missing link in China s re- Turkestan Islamic Movement. tions in the region. According economic zones, assembly to the South Asian nation. Chinese hold favorable views of The Bandung spirit intended gional diplomacy and geopoli- The time has come for China to to the recent Times Education lines, and export oriented trade This will be my first trip to India and China that is, a mi- to create a new climate for interna- tics. As a rising power, China end its passivity with Afghan- ranking, Chinese universities to become one of the world s Pakistan, but I feel as if I am going nority of 30 percent. Surging Pa- tional politics and economy by istan, directly engage with the and institutes rank among the biggest economies. unifying Afro-Asian countries, and cannot and should not tolerate to visit the home of my own kistani admiration for China, it China gave a great push for that an unstable Afghanistan in its Afghan government, and help world s 100 best universities In the long run, the bene- brother, Xi wrote in an article seems, laps up on the shores of support build a strong, nation- and institutes. Meanwhile Chi- fits of Chinese engagement and purpose. Although times have neighborhood. A troubled and published in Pakistani Chinese indifference. China is one changed and China s international unstable neighborhood infest- al government for Afghanistan na has also over the years ac- influence in building a stable of Pakistan s top trade partners. status has been greatly elevated, papers ahead of his arrival, adding ed with extremists and regional to serve as a credible partner cumulated valuable assembly and peaceful Afghanistan far But the volume of trade with Pa- China insists on its diplomatic for China in its neighborhood. and manufacturing experience outweigh the costs. China can another metaphor about how the proxy terrorist groups is prob- kistan is a drop in the bucket for philosophy and principles and ably the biggest impediment to Afghanistan has natural for the international market. exert its diplomatic status to relationship between the two coun- stand by the majority of develop- Beijing. China views Pakistan also China s rise to a peaceful and and human resources as well China can assist Afghanistan bring parties to the negotiating tries has flourished like a tree ing countries. growing tall and strong. through the lens of counter-terror- The current climate of the in- responsible power. as a prime geographic location in creating an indigenous man- table and use its powerful econ- ternational community requires History is filled with exam- that are ripe for Chinese pick- ufacturing industry in the coun- omy to support mutually bene- It s easy to see such rhetoric ism: a number of extremist developing countries to seek coa- ples, such as the Byzantine, ing. The World Bank has try. Afghanistan a country ficial infrastructure develop- as the cringe-worthy, cynical clap- outfits allegedly linked to ethnic lition for common prosperity. That Ottoman, and Khmer Empires, termed Afghanistan as a coun- where much of the population ment programs in Afghanistan. trap that accompanies internation- Uighur separatists within Xinjiang is why the Bandung spirit is still where rising powers eventual- try with huge potential to serve is still illiterate can greatly A stable and peaceful Afghan- al diplomacy. After all, China and have training camps in Pakistan s effective, and it has been incorpo- rugged borderlands with rated in Chinese President Xi Jin- ly fell or disintegrated due to as a resource corridor between benefit from Chinese education istan can be both a reliable trad- Pakistan may share a border, but ping s proposal to establish a instability in their neighbor- South and Central Asia. China and manufacturing prowess. ing partner with China and cultural ties between the two na- Afghanistan. Curiously, in a coun- community of common destiny. hood. Both China and Afghan- one of the biggest consum- Chinese business interests bring needed stability to the tions and its people are thin, to try where there are frequent dis- Although peace and develop- istan have suffered from impe- ers of raw material and energy and products have mainly been region. Instability in a country put it mildly. plays of solidarity with Muslims ment have become the mainstream inputs has some of the rerouted and exported to Af- breeds instability in the region, So what makes Sino-Pakistani suffering elsewhere in the world, of the age, the international com- rial conquests and fell prey to munity is still threatened by re- various geopolitical games. world s biggest construction, ghanistan via Pakistan be- and China cannot afford such ties tick? Here s a primer. the Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim mi- gional crises and non-traditional These empires were mostly railway, and road companies. cause Afghan roadways from a liability. China will have to What s happening now nority chafing under Chinese rule, security issues. Thus, interests supported by outside powers, They are efficient, experienced, China cannot accommodate the engage in Afghanistan for its Xi arrived in Islamabad on rarely galvanize much Pakistani and challenges are prompting ev- and today, while China has and highly competent compa- demands of the mountainous own national and economic Monday bearing real gifts: an eye- support. ery country involved to share a managed to throw off the influ- nies who have been building border between the two coun- security. (Courtesy: Foreign The bigger chessboard common destiny to seek coopera- popping $46 billion worth of tion and reciprocity. ence of those powers and infrastructures across the tries. The Afghan business Policy) planned energy and infrastructure There are two elephants in the China keeps its commitment investment to boost Pakistan s flag- room whenever considering Chi- to furthering cooperation with oth- ging economy. This would include na-Pakistan ties: India and the er countries, especially develop- adding some 10,400 megawatts to United States. ing countries, so that they can be beneficiaries of China s develop- Pakistan s national grid through Both China and Pakistan have ment. coal, nuclear and renewable ener- fought wars with India in the past, China has initiated and co- gy projects. Years of widespread and to this day squabble over dis- sponsored many regional fundrais- power cuts have been a real drag puted Himalayan territory. China ing and infrastructure projects, helped Pakistan build its arsenal such as the Shanghai Cooperation on the country; energy shortages Organization Development Bank, were one of the main popular griev- of nuclear weapons, and remains the Silk Road Fund and the Asian ances voiced ahead of the 2013 elec- one of Islamabad s biggest arms Infrastructure Investment Bank, all suppliers even as the U.S. con- Middle Eastern states. Pakistan s The role of several other states it comes to military involvement tions won by current Pakistani of which can serve the interests of by Hasan Askari Rizvi was important in encouraging Pa- in Yemen. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. At tinues to commit significant mili- developing countries. Therefore, as security-related cooperation with tary aid to Pakistan. an unswerving supporter of the Pakistan s civilian and military Saudi Arabia and Jordan goes back kistan to stay militarily engaged in Maulana Fazlur Rahman of the the center of what s being an- After President Obama was Bandung spirit, China has been try- authorities are toying with the idea to 1967-68. Afghanistan or provide logistical JUI-F supported the parliamenta- nounced this week is a new eco- ing its best to carry forward the India s guest of honor during its of making its navy available for the Third, Pakistan s troops have and intelligence support to global ry resolution but he later changed nomic corridor railways, spirit of enhancing Afro-Asian co- efforts to dislodge first, the Soviet his position by demanding that roads and pipelines that would annual Republic Day commemo- operation to another new level. plan to blockade sea access to Ye- in the past undertaken active in- troops and then the Taliban from Pakistan fully support the military ration last January, Pakistan ex- Afro-Asian states have to ad- men under the cover of the UN ternal security assignments in Saudi thread an existing land route from tended a similar invitation to Xi to mit that, although they have made Security Council resolution so that Arabia, Jordan and Syria. It is pub- Afghanistan. operation against the insurgents in Pakistan s border with the far west- attend their National Day parade dramatic progress in the past six the Houthis and their allies are not licly known that a Pakistan Army Fifth, the Pakistan Navy has Yemen. ern Chinese region of Xinjiang decades, they are still lagging be- in February. The Chinese leader able to get weapons from outside. contingent was sent to Saudi Ara- participated in various internation- Religio-political parties and through to the Chinese-developed hind their Western counterparts. al efforts for countering terrorism groups that share religious denom- port at Gwadar on the Arabian Sea. declined, perhaps wary of such They need to reinforce their rela- Though the council has asked bia in 1980-81 against the back- overt political gestures. tions as a community of common none to enforce the blockade and drop of the siege of holy sites by and checking high sea piracy. inational identity with some of the It s an impressive proposal, on As Andrew Small, an expert destiny, and China s One Belt and not called upon other nations to unknown terrorists in November Pakistan is on the verge of an- major GCC countries are general- a scale that we ve come to now One Road program offers great on China-Pakistan relations at the support such a move. This will be 1979, and in 1990-91, in the after- other new role for its military. It ly supportive of their role in Ye- associate with China s overseas opportunities for them. has been urged to provide ground men and want Pakistan to extend footprint more usually in cor- German Marshall Fund in Wash- This program reflects China s an entirely new role for the Paki- math of Iraq s invasion of Kuwait. troops, air force and naval ships military support for that role. Oth- ington, writes, it would be an over- grand vision for diplomacy. It in- stan military, which has so far Fourth, the most active and ners of Africa. According to the simplification to see China s ex- tends to expand China s influence played five types of extra-territo- long-lasting involvement of the to bolster its military intervention er religious parties are talking of BBC, the Chinese state and its panding role in Pakistan as just a and consolidate its connections rial roles. Pakistan Army and the intelligence in Yemen in pursuance of its re- restraint and for the need to help banks would lend to Chinese com- with its neighbors by providing challenge to a U.S.-India consen- First, since 1960, it has joined establishment has been in Afghan- gional agenda. cool the situation down and are panies to carry out the work, infrastructures, investments and This has put Prime Minister advocating no military engagement. thereby making it a commercial sus that s emerged in recent years. technologies which are badly need- a number of UN peace-keeping istan. Going back to 1979-80, Pa- China, after all, likely values its ed by these countries. missions in various African and kistan has been involved in the Nawaz Sharif in a difficult situa- If Pakistan participates in en- venture with direct impact on Chi- relations with the U.S. and India Through One Belt and One Asian countries. Police personnel conflict inside Afghanistan in one tion. However, Sharif did not make forcing the blockade of Yemen or na s slackening economy. The Road, China will be more capable as much and likely more than have also taken part in some such form or another. a decision on the issue on his own. sends even token troops for any project is also a key cog in China s of spreading its philosophies such He passed on the matter to parlia- role there, this will be Pakistan s own grand-historic vision of itself its ties with Pakistan. as peaceful development and com- missions. Currently, its troops are In addition to the desire of our ment, which did not resolve the first partisan military involvement While China has a munity of common destiny to its officially engaged in UN peace- leadership to shape the power ar- as a global power and the font of more assertive stance in East Asia neighbors, so they can be better keeping missions in over 10 coun- chitecture in Afghanistan, the spill issue. The military wants to send in an intra-Arab conflict. This will new sea and land Silk Roads. its backyard it s playing a understood and supported by the tries. Second, it played training and over of Afghanistan s internal strife troops but on its terms and it is be a Leap Forward in the Paki- The China-Pakistan Economic international community, which different game to the west. China s advisory roles in most Gulf states into Pakistan made it impossible not clear whether it will stick to stan military s extra-territorial roles Corridor would link up a major land will eventually benefit from the its old stipulation of staying away and whose diplomatic fallout route in Central Asia to what Chi- recent offer to help mediate talks dividends of China s develop- in the 1970s and the 1980s, as well for the country to stay aloof from with the Taliban in Afghanistan, ment. (Global Times) The au- as in some Middle Eastern states. what was happening next door. In from intra-Arab conflicts. could be negative in the long run. na imagines will be one of the key Small notes, marks a real depar- thor is a research fellow with the This role has declined now but a number of ways, Afghanistan s Pakistan s parliament, as well Pakistan has remained engaged maritime hubs at Gwadar. Sure, Charhar Institute and a research ture from decades when Beijing s Pakistan s military trainers and ad- internal strife became an internal as informed public opinion, has in wars and conflicts in Afghani- there remain real reasons to be fellow with the Maritime Silk Road adopted three clear postures on the stan and within its boundaries since skeptical. Much of the new con- official policy has been that of non- Institute, Huaqiao University. visers are still present in some Gulf/ problem for Pakistan. demand for military support. 1980, which has caused war fa- struction would be done in the interference in the politics of oth- There is hardly any support for tigue in Pakistan. This deters most vast, restive Pakistani province of er countries. Now, as the U.S. has LETTER TO THE EDITOR Pakistan s direct involvement in people from getting embroiled in a Baluchistan, where the army is still technically withdrawn from Af- the Yemen crisis. conflict almost 1,700 miles away. grappling with an entrenched sep- ghanistan, the Chinese have be- International Earth Day The opinion ranges from em- The Pakistan military should aratist insurgency. Moreover, as come stakeholders and not just ploying restraint to having no role continue assigning the highest pri- Pakistani journalist and columnist bystanders. Guaranteeing stabili- The International Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. The day was observed in Kabul as well, in Yemen. Pakistan may help to ority to fighting terrorism in Paki- Cyril Almeida points out, the pro- ty in Afghanistan may involve where high-ranking officials including the chief executive and members of the National Environment Protec- defuse the Yemen crisis by diplo- stan, clearing the tribal areas from posed Chinese numbers stretch China exerting its own leverage on tion Authority (NEPA) attended. The CEO Abdullah Abdullah called on the citizens to help in environment matic means in cooperation with violent groups and stabilising its credulity, especially when set Pakistan, which has a protection and leave no stone unturned in keeping the city clean and green. other Muslim states. relations with Afghanistan. against the meager sums currently complicated relationship with the Kabul is among most polluted cities in the world. Increasing population, dusty roads, huge number of Afghan Taliban. vehicles most of the outdated, lack of public awareness about environment protection measures and The response of religio-politi- Any direct or indirect role in being invested from the outside several other issues are key reasons that has damaged Kabul s environment. Once, the starts in Kabul s sky cal parties makes for an interest- the Yemen conflict will expose the into Pakistan s economy. The China, Small suggests, were visible during nights, but now they are invisible because of the polluted environment. ing study. The parties that have country to criticism of fighting oth- proof, in this case, will be in the is finally easing into its role as a Millions of people selected Kabul as their residence during past 13 years that made the city a populated electoral standing, like the Jamaat- ers wars for money. The Express building. An unequal relation- great power. And, indeed, it s us- one and limited services and facilities for citizens. The Kabul Municipality has been inefficient to curb the e-Islami, are advising caution when Tribune ship The saccharine statements of ing Pakistan as a corridor. challenge. Corruption was one of the main reasons that resulted in poor services of the municipality for keeping the city clean and green. Citizens have also been reluctant in this regard. Media outlets, citizens and the concerned departments are highly requested to make all efforts in protecting Kabul s environment. This will start from where we live up to where we work and study. Fawad Haidari, Khairkhana, Kabul Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer s name and address. You may send your letters to: and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. [email protected] 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 . APRIL 23, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Is migrating UK activists protest shocking detention centres to Europe the LONDON: Migrants, asylum seek- ers and social justice campaigners only answer? in the UK are joining forces to call As new details of the recent dead- for the closure of the country's ly shipwreck tragedy, dubbed the notorious immigration detention deadliest ever in the Mediterra- centres amid concerns for the well- nean and a genocide, continue being and dignity of those locked to emerge, Europe s rigid immigra- inside. tion policies have come under the Several hundred protesters spotlight. gathered recently outside the Har- Approximately 850 asylum mondsworth and Colnbrook deten- seekers, including many children, tion centres, two adjacent facili- drowned onboard a three-deck fish- ties on the perimeter of London's ing trawler on Saturday near the Heathrow Airport, the latest in a coast of Libya, according to the series of demonstrations intended U.N. High Commissioner for Ref- to draw attention to a system that ugees UNHCR. Among those on critics decry as racist and brutal. board were 350 Eritreans, as well Protesters watched by a small as people from Syria, Somalia, number of police officers carried Ethiopia, and other African coun- banners reading "No human is ille- tries. gal!" and chanted "Detention cen- Stories about small ill- tres, shut them down!" and "De- equipped fishing boats over- tainees, freedom now!", their cries crowded with refugees, young men and drumbeats mingling every few scaling fences, and corpses wash- minutes with the roar of jet en- ing up on European beaches, have gines as airliners speared into the captured the public and political sky from the nearby runway. imagination since the late 1990s For those inside awaiting re- when Europe increased its exter- moval to countries from which nal border control. they had fled, the near-constant And those who make it safely rumble of flights taking off offered to Europe are most likely to end an inescapable reminder of their up in detention centers in coun- fate, said Antonia Bright, an activ- tries like Italy and Malta, home to ist for Movement for Justice, the Europe s strictest detention poli- campaign group behind the pro- cy. Media reports and rights tests. groups have often criticized the in- "You are reminded all the time, adequate living conditions and ex- but we are here to remind people tensive duration of detention in that there is another way," Bright some of these centers in Europe. told Al Jazeera. Survivors often bring to light "They are like concentration tales of horror, torture, hunger, and camps if you are in them. You hear meeting in which a senior manager against an asylum and immigration are upset with the western world. they treat people is really bad. I respect. Our priorities are safety, mistreatment by human-traffick- people screaming. You are witness- informed inmates they would be system that they say is rigged Now I understand." don't know how the media has not security and managing a decent and ers who continue to exploit the ing people being dragged away to locked in their rooms for an extra against them and denies them ba- Irvine, a Zimbabwean who exposed this." caring environment and we're in- power vacuum caused by the pro- be deported. How do they get two hours a day - from 9pm to sic human rights. Just a student said he had been detained in 2007 'Firm and fair'? vesting considerably on an ongo- longed conflict in Libya and other away with it? It is because it is a 8am - in order to "deliver a better Many of those attending the for several weeks while in the pro- Responding last month to al- ing basis in creating this environ- hostile areas. group of people who are repeat- service", and captured the low March 11 protest said they had cess of gaining asylum, said the legations about conditions inside ment for detainees." The few survivors of Satur- edly talked about as if they are morale of staff forced to work long- gone to show solidarity with those system was now worse because detention centres, the UK's Home 'Freedom, freedom!' day s tragedy told investigators nothing. It is a thoroughly racist er shifts, with one guard saying: inside because of their own expe- government restrictions on legal aid Office said the dignity and welfare During the demonstration ear- how the African and Asian mi- system." "It's just gonna break. There's only riences of being detained. Now I had made it harder for asylum seek- of detainees were of utmost im- lier this month, protesters marched grants, had waited up to a month Protesters chant slogans so much people can take." know why people are upset with ers to find lawyers to represent portance, adding it expected the into a field bordering Colnbrook in Libya for the boat to set sail for against inhumane detention centres Since September last year, the western world. Now I under- them. "highest levels of integrity and pro- until they were standing adjacent Europe. One said he had suffered [Simon Hooper/Al Jazeera] both Harmondsworth and Coln- stand. Ola, student from Nigeria "Everything is restricted, there fessionalism" from its contractors. to an outdoor space on the other a beating at the hands of people The latest protests followed brook have been managed by the Ola, a Nigerian woman, told is no freedom. It is a prison. It is But Karen Bradley, minister side of the razor wire-topped fence traffickers, according to Reuters. publication last month of a highly same contractor, Mitie, which has Al Jazeera she had been sent to a inhuman and it is racist. As long as for modern slavery and organised from where detainees could be Up to one million Sub-Sahar- critical report by independent announced plans to merge the two detention centre after the London you are black there is a certain way crime and a member of parliament heard joining in the chanting. an migrants and Syrian refugees are monitors into conditions inside to create a single facility with ca- university at which she had been they will see you," he told Al for the governing Conservative "We were shouting with the still waiting in Libya to start a new Harmondsworth, the largest deten- pacity for more than 1,000 peo- studying had its licence to spon- Jazeera. Party, said: "Detention is an im- people outside. We were clapping life in Europe, according to the tion facility in Europe with capac- ple. All of the UK's detention cen- sor overseas students revoked, Niyon, a Rwandan journalist, portant part of a firm but fair im- and shouting 'Freedom, freedom!' EU s border agency Frontex. Aw- ity for more than 600 men. It de- tres are run by private companies leaving her with an invalid visa. said he came to the UK in 2012 migration system." wrote one anonymous detainee on ful conditions scribed how one detainee had sewn that campaigners accuse of putting With brothers and sisters al- because of threats to his life. He With the UK set to vote in a the Detained Voices blog. "And Joseph Willits, parliamentary up his own mouth in protest at his profits before the welfare of those ready living in the UK and with no said all of his family except his general election next month, other then the officers come and say they and events officer at the Council indefinite incarceration. in their custody. close family in Nigeria, she applied mother had been killed during the politicians have called for the de- have to come inside otherwise the for Arab-British Understanding On the inside Harmondsworth gained noto- instead for a family visa, only to 1994 genocide, and he had subse- tention system to be reformed, big security officers would come (CAABU), told Al Arabiya News: "Harmondsworth is in large riety earlier in 2014 when an in- be detained when she attended an quently been tortured on a num- with both the opposition Labour to force us." Many will arrive to poor condi- parts a depressing, dirty place and spection report revealed details of interview to discuss her case. ber of occasions because of his Party and the Liberal Democrats, Detainees elsewhere are also tions in detention centers and ill in some cases has a destructive ef- how an 84-year-old Canadian de- Ola said she had been manhan- work. the junior partners in the coalition joining in the protests. Women treatment, but this will be seen as fect on the welfare of detainees," tainee suffering from dementia had dled by guards, denied medication But he said he had been denied government of the past five years, being held at Yarl's Wood deten- the best option in a whole host of the report concluded. been kept in handcuffs as he died, for migraine headaches, and expe- asylum and held for four months, pledging to end indefinite deten- tion centre in central England at- awful scenarios. Recent footage filmed secret- and of how another elderly man rienced intimidation and harass- including several weeks in Coln- tion. tempted to block a deportation In many cases, people will- ly by a detainee and obtained by who subsequently died had re- ment during the 70-day ordeal. brook, despite Home Office rules A parliamentary inquiry also recently, only to be forcibly moved ing to make the perilous journey Corporate Watch, an independent mained handcuffed even while he "I am really disappointed in forbidding the detention of torture concluded in February that deten- by guards in riot gear and armed to Europe by land and sea will be research group, also offered a rare was sedated and undergoing medi- the hypocrisy of this country. I victims. "It is hard to come here tion was being used disproportion- with batons, according to cam- under no illusions that their life af- glimpse of life behind Harmond- cal treatment. used to trust Britain. I never knew because I still have many friends ately and recommended that de- paigners. On Monday, a 33-year- terwards will be perfect, said Wil- sworth's locked doors. The report said the deaths anything about detention centres inside. They treat people like ani- tainees should be held for no long- old Indian man being held in the lits. People arriving in Europe will The footage showed detainees were "among a number of shock- until last year and they are horri- mals because they know it is the er than 28 days, criticising current centre with his wife and child was be able to access better healthcare, living in unhygienic conditions, ing cases where a sense of human- ble," she said. last stop before you are moved to practises as "expensive, ineffective reported to have died of a heart said Willits, adding that many mi- with drains overflowing, food rot- ity was lost". "I've not committed any crime. the airport," he said. and unjust". Scapegoating immi- attack. Movement for Justice said grants will be suffering from seri- ting in the kitchen, bedbugs in their Hundreds of detainees at Har- I've brought my own money, my "When I decided to flee my grants it planned to demonstrate outside ous medical conditions and disor- rooms, and pigeons flying around mondsworth and other centres last family's money, to come and study country I thought the United King- A Mitie spokesperson told Al Yarl's Wood in solidarity with de- ders, aside from those sustained inside the building. year organised sit-in protests and here. We've paid thousands of dom was a country where human Jazeera: "We are committed to tainees being held there soon. on the journey. The detainee also filmed a hunger strikes to demonstrate pounds. Now I know why people rights were respected. But the way treating detainees with dignity and (AL JAZEERA) Migrants are seen on the shore in the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes, Geece on Monday, April 20, 2015. (AP) Picking up the pieces in India after Cyclone Hudhud Their personal security will be greatly improved in much of Eu- rope. Just being able to access some VISAKHAPATNAM: Om were distributed to affected fami- Hudhud's damage are the fishing man s colony, has some function- include those who don't have because they are seen as illegal set- of the basic services will be seen Namah Shivaya doesn't really lies, and a little extra for fishermen communities in Visakhapatnam, ing boats left, while others were Aadhar IDs. tlements. as preferable to remaining in con- know how to tell people where he and weavers who had lost their live- the city which suffered the most completely destroyed [Umika Pi- "During any disaster there are The organisation has been in flict zones, he added. lives ever since his home was lihoods in the storm. from the cyclone. Many lost their daparthy/Al Jazeera] chances of exploitation, we want the news for its drive to pull down But as the tragedies in the wa- blown away by Cyclone Hudhud Promises of compensation of boats and nets to the sea or to irre- Narasimhan Yuvraj, a district to make sure the money goes to unauthorised structures since Jan- ters between Libya and Italy mul- that struck India's southeastern a minimum $40 up to a maximum vocable damage. magistrate, is the key officer han- the right people," he explained. uary 2014 to make way for Chief tiply every week, rights groups are coast six months ago. of $640 were made to families Kantipuchi Pavithraraj point- dling the cyclone relief and reha- "The only condition we made was Minister Chandrababu Naidu's vi- calling on the European Union to Shivaya, a 50-year-old con- whose thatched huts - made of ed to his boat which is being re- bilitation efforts. no cheques and that the money sion of a coastal "smart city". review its immigration policies. struction worker, used to live in leaves, wood, mud, and tarpaulin - paired. "We were very scared that He said the issue of compen- would have to be put in a bank Srinivasu said he has been European governments, Gandhinagar, a slum in the city of were destroyed or damaged. night. We grabbed a torch light and sation is out of their hands because account." Yuvraj said there is a fighting for the right of these com- whose policies have contributed to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh ran up to some schools for safe- as of March 6, the central govern- $51m government scheme in the munities to build permanent hous- this trend cannot absolve them- state with his wife and three chil- Paidi's house will cost at least ty." Another fisherman Puthu ment had released only about works for the construction of es, adding he hopes the Model selves of their responsibility to dren. $5,000 to repair but she has only Srinu, 40, said many people have $100m of the $160m promised by 9,000 permanent structures for Property Rights to Slum Dwellers save the lives of those desperate But on October 12, 2014, they received $128 [Umika Pidaparthy/ taken loans to cover the cost of Prime Minister Narendra Modi low-income urban families that lost Bill that entitles them to a long- enough to attempt the crossing, were forced to abandon their Al Jazeera] repairs because the money hasn't during his visit here after the storm. their homes in the cyclone. term dwelling will be enacted. said Elisa de Pieri, a researcher on thatched hut and escape the strong But for Shivaya and other slum arrived. Adding to their worries, Of that amount, he told Al The death toll was relatively While the slums were "totally Europe at Amnesty International. winds and heavy rain. dwellers, that money has yet to the fisherman say there's been a Jazeera, only $32-$48m has been low thanks to a government evac- devastated" after Cyclone Hudhud, More than 36,000 refugees Leaving behind all their belong- come. For three months, Shivaya severe reduction in their catch af- released by the Andhra Pradesh uation that moved 700,000 peo- he sees the rehabilitation work as and migrants have reached south- ings, the family ran and took shel- was unable to work as construc- ter the cyclone. "There was a ru- state government. ple [Umika Pidaparthy/Al Jazeera] an opportunity to start anew. ern Europe by sea this year so far ter with acquaintances, Shivaya tion projects ground to a halt and mour that we would get 5,000 or Furthermore, the amount But some residents say their "Implementation is the prob- - and if this week s death toll is told Al Jazeera. "Our entire home he struggled to support his family 10,000 boats [from the govern- promised for housing was simply attempts to build their own per- lem - we know there are so many confirmed - at least 1,600 have was flooded with water. We didn't and send his children to school. ment]. But we have not received not sufficient to reconstruct and manent houses after the cyclone proposals pending. All we are ask- died, according UNHCR. The In- even try to come back for one or In a slum of 140 families, his anything yet," Srinu said. rebuild homes, he said, although have been thwarted by the Great- ing is for the government to clear ternational Organization for Mi- two months." is one of the 70 who have yet to "There are 500 boats damaged "so many people, so many NGOs er Visakhapatnam Municipal Cor- it," Srinivasu said. "If they can gration (IOM) puts the number of Hudhud battered India's coast receive any compensation. and only three people here got the have come forward" to help. poration - an urban civic body that provide it, most of the slum peo- migrant deaths in 2015 so far at 30 with winds of up to 195km per About three kilometres from money. What kind of justice is Yuvraj said on the issue of iden- looks after infrastructural and com- ple can finally get houses." times last year s total during this hour, killing more than 20 people. Gandhinagar, Al Jazeera visited that?" Peda Jalaripeta, the fisher- tity cards, the rule was changed to munity requirements of the city - (AL JAZEERA) period.Lack of alternatives There It was a relatively low death toll RH Colony, another slum mainly is a lack of alternatives for people for what is considered to be one of inhabited by Dalit and Muslim fleeing war, persecution and vio- the world's costliest disasters in communities. While many there lence, said de Pieri. Since the start 2014 at nearly $11bn. said they had received compensa- of the uprising in 2011, Syria has The speedy government evac- tion, one resident said she knew of been the largest exporter of refu- uation of about 700,000 people in only 10 people who got $80. gees fleeing war and inadequate liv- Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states Pragada Srinivasu, the city ing conditions in Syria s neighbor- has been credited for preventing convener for the Campaign for ing countries and Egypt. When it the loss of far more lives. Housing and Tenurial Rights, said comes to the Syrian crisis, Euro- Om Namah Shivaya says the receiving compensation comes pean countries have offered limit- government should provide some down to providing identity docu- ed resettlement and humanitarian reconstruction help [Umika Pida- ments. admission places for Syrian refu- parthy/Al Jazeera] For Indian citizens, a ration gees, said de Pieri, highlighting that Half-an-hour from Gandhina- card and Aadhar, a unique identifi- just over 40,000 places were of- gar there is a fishing colony called cation number, serve as proof of fered by the 28 European Union Peda Jalaripeta, where 27-year-old identity and address anywhere in countries between 2013 and 2014, Paidi stood on the beach next to the country. Initially, it was stated and just over 186,000 asylum the remains of her brick and ce- that compensation would be pro- claims were received between 2012 ment house which was flattened vided to those who could produce and 2014. These are small num- by Hudhud. either of these. bers compared to the 3.9 million Her family of five managed to Mattanarayanamma is forced refugees registered in neighboring escape to her aunt's house when to beg at temples where some take countries. The insecurity push- the cyclone struck, but when they pity and give her money [Umika ing people out of their countries returned everything was gone. Pidaparthy/Al Jazeera] of origin, or neighboring host coun- Paidi's house will cost at least "The problem is, many peo- tries, combined with the sealing off $5,000 to repair, but she has only ple in the slums don't have ration of land routes by European gov- received $128 in compensation so cards or Aadhar identification ernments, and the unwillingness to far. cards," he said. "So they only enu- offer sufficient safe and regular "I have never seen a cyclone merated 25 percent of the slum routes are driving refugees and mi- like this in my entire life," she said. dwellers." grants to take the perilous sea "What else can we do? We go from "Most people in the slums live route, she added. EU leaders are one place to another and try to in thatched houses, so they won't due to meet on Thursday, to flesh submit the papers required." have a house tax," he added. "Af- out a 10-point action plan for deal- Almost immediately after the ter the cyclone also they are in the ing with the unprecedented influx cyclone hit, essential commodities same situation, just a little bit of migrants, including increasing fi- such as rice, lentils, kerosene, sug- worse off." nances for EU rescue operations ar, potatoes, onions, and palm oil But bearing the brunt of in the Mediterranean. 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 . APRIL 23, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES EU could end Russian gas LONDON : Oil prices dipped un- bullying in der $62 a barrel on Wednesday af- ter industry data showed a build one fell swoop in U.S. crude inventories for the 15th straight week, adding to con- A regulator with the European cerns of a global supply glut. Commission could alter Europe s The American Petroleum In- long-term energy security this stitute (API) said on Tuesday that week. Europe s competition com- U.S. crude stocks rose by 5.5 mil- missioner is set to formally file lion barrels last week, higher than charges against Russia s Gazprom the 2.9-million-barrel build expect- ed by analysts in a Reuters sur- on April 22 for violating anti-trust vey, to 480.2 million barrels. [EIA/ laws. The case has been several S] [API/S] years in the making, one that went Stocks at the key delivery on hold after Russia s interven- point of Cushing, Oklahoma rose tion in Ukraine last year. by 572,000 barrels, the API said. The EU s top anti-trust regu- Energy markets intelligence firm lator Margrethe Vestager will Genscape said tanks at Cushing charge Gazprom with limiting were nearly 80 percent full. competition in Europe s energy Brent crude for June delivery markets. One complaint is that in (LCOc1) was down 45 cents at bilateral deals with several east- $61.63 a barrel by 1015 GMT, ern European countries, Gaz- while U.S. crude for June delivery prom allegedly links natural gas (CLc1) fell 51 cents to $56.10 a prices with cooperation on other barrel. areas of political significance. If a "You have a considerable build certain country agrees to help in the U.S.," said Olivier Jakob, Russia build a pipeline, for exam- chief analyst at Swiss-based con- ple, they may receive a lower sultancy Petromatrix. price for natural gas than its neigh- "There has been a lot of wait- bors. That violates European ing and hoping for the first drop of competition laws. stocks in Cushing and that has not The EU also charges that happened yet," he said. Gazprom blocks the resale of nat- Official U.S. stocks data will ural gas. Moving natural gas be issued by the government's En- around provides a vital lifeline for ergy Information Administration countries that need supplies at a (EIA) at 1430 GMT on Wednes- moment s notice during a cold day. winter for example, or if Russia Saudi Arabia said it was end- cuts off gas flows (as it has in the ing a month-long military cam- past). And in light of Russia s an- paign against the Houthi rebels who had seized large areas of Yemen, nexation of Crimea in 2014, the bringing hope of a political solu- EU has prioritized deeper pipe- tion to the conflict in the oil-pro- line interconnections to reduce the ducing region. vulnerability of Eastern Europe- Oil prices had gained nearly an states. For years Gazprom has $10 a barrel this month on tensions sought to stymie gas resales in the Middle East and concerns around Europe, something the over slowing output growth in the Commission says is illegal. United States, before starting to leading commodity traders said on Tuesday, citing strengthening demand. "We will probably see one more dip in the second quarter but prices probably won't go below this year's lows," Still, it is not clear that there drop back. said Ian Taylor, head of the world's top oil trader, Vitol (VITOLV.UL). Executive Chairman Gary Ross, of the PIRA Energy Group consultancy, said in an interview: "The world has been is a substantial alternative to Rus- Prices are unlikely to plumb focused for the last six months on destroying supply." "Increasingly the mindset is going to change. They'll have to start thinking about creating supply again, and that's going to mean sian gas in the near-term. Baltic new depths this year, however, a lot higher prices than today," he said. States like Lithuania have turned to imports of LNG, which have loosened Gazprom s grip over Greek anger their energy supplies. But Europe Pak govt may allo- on the whole will still need Rus- Dubai s Arabtec says over state sian gas well into the next decade, according to an October 2014 cash grab cate Rs575b for study from the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. The EU has in talks with banks to from public 125 billion cubic meters of natu- ral gas under contract from Gaz- dev in next budget prom through 2020, which is entities equivalent to nearly three-quar- ATHENS: Greek local authorities ters of total imports from Gaz- fund Egypt project were on the brink of revolt Tues- prom in 2013. In other words, day against the central govern- even if the EU found alternative ment's move to use cash reserves sources of gas through import- from state agencies including ed U.S. LNG for example it will hospitals and kindergartens to be difficult to shake off the large help the country make ends meet. role that Gazprom plays in sup- Greek finance minister to discuss plying Europe with energy. These reforms with IMF chief Reuter- contracts cannot easily be bro- sAt an emergency meeting in Ath- ken. ens, angry mayors voted to defy Vestager says that the case is the order to have spare reserves one related to business and not put in a central bank account. They politics, but bringing charges also agreed to stage protests and take "every possible political and against Europe s main supplier of legal action" against the radical left- gas will inevitably have political led government over its decision. ramifications. Gazprom, and the "Not a single municipality should Russian government, will no deposit even one euro at the Bank doubt be irked by the case, which of Greece," said Ioannis Lolos, could bleed over into the political mayor of the northwestern town standoff with Europe over of Igoumenitsa. Citing an "extreme- Ukraine. Implementing the Min- ly urgent and unforeseen" need for sk accord that called for a cease- cash, an emergency government fire between Ukraine and Russian- decree Monday rendered funds backed rebels has been difficult, from state entities such as the to say the least. A case against national opera, the national art gal- Gazprom is not necessarily linked Dubai builder Arabtec said on Wednesday it was in talks with several local and international banks on lery and even hospitals and kin- to Ukraine, but broader EU-Rus- financing the first phase of its project to build one million housing units in Egypt. Arabtec, which has yet to dergartens available for short- sian relations could be affected. sign a final deal on the project with the Cairo government, did not say how much it was looking to borrow or term loans to the state. That is ex- Another issue to watch is gas provide any other details. Previously, Egyptian officials have said the entire project will cost about 280 billion pected to raise up to 2 billion eu- pricing. The EU has prioritized Egyptian pounds ($36.7 billion), and Arabtec has said the first phase will involve building 100,000 units. ros ($2.1 billion), enough to pay negotiating collectively with Gaz- Greece's public debts through prom over pricing to secure a sin- May. The move, unprecedented in gle EU-wide gas price. That Erdogan says Turkey should not recent Greek history, is the latest strikes at the heart of another sign that the country is running ISLAMABAD: The federal gov- A finance ministry official said complaint by antitrust regulators: perilously short of cash amid an ernment is expected to allocate the next year s allocation for de- impasse in bailout talks with its that Gazprom links gas prices to Rs575 billion for the Public Sector velopment should be seen in the the price of oil, and keeps prices lose time with 4G telecoms international creditors. Until it Development Programme (PSDP) context of actual utilisation during artificially high. Until negotiations Turkey should not "lose time" with 26 deadline in a 4G tender for 20 3G," Erdogan said at a Turk Tele- reaches an agreement with its cred- and increase salary and pension of the current year. 4G telecoms technology, President frequency segments at a minimum kom ceremony on Tuesday itors from the 19-country eurozone its employees by about 10 per He said the annual plan coor- were frozen last year amid ten- Tayyip Erdogan said, calling for a value of around 2.3 billion euros evening. "Within two years Tur- and the International Monetary cent in the budget 2015-16. dination committee was expected sion in Ukraine, European regula- move to 5G technology within two ($2.5 billion). "We're still discussing key will be on 5G. Otherwise, it Fund, Greece will not get a badly- A senior government official to meet in the first week of May tors had not made a lot of progress years and casting doubt over an on- 4G, but I'm thinking, the world is will be a garbage dump with 4G. needed 7.2 billion euros ($7.7 bil- said a budget strategy paper (BSP) to firm up federal and provincial in changing Gazprom s behavior going tender process. Turkey's talking about 5G. Therefore we don't Let's be patient and jump from 3G lion) in rescue funds, without had been finalised and it would be development budgets and other on this issue. Gazprom has picked communications technologies au- need to lose time with 4G. Let's be a to 5G. Can we do this? We defi- which Athens will be unable to presented to the federal cabinet for economic targets, to be followed off countries one-by-one, signing thority BTK this month set a May patient a little while longer with nitely can," he said. meet loan obligations this summer. approval next week. up with a meeting of the National bilateral deals at different prices. The budget is likely to be an- Economic Council probably in the Gazprom s CEO Aleksei Miller nounced in the first week of June. third week of next month. issued a veiled threat on April 13, The official said the allocation Officials said the BSP for next suggesting it won t fold easily on for defence would be around year should have been presented the issue of pricing. If the Euro- Rs760bn, but a final round of con- to the federal cabinet in the third pean Commission will insist on sultations with the military lead- week of March, but it was delayed. equal prices, Miller said, then ership was yet to take place be- The cabinet is now expected to of course, as you understand, a fore announcement of the budget. take up the BSP for approval in base price is not the lowest price. The meetings of the priorities the first week of May to formally It will be the highest price. committee have been completed set the government priorities for On the other hand, the case and the estimate for civil govern- the next financial year under third the EU Commission is bringing WASHINGTON: Employers in 31 a year-long streak of monthly gains ment expenditure had been set at year of the stabilisation programme against Gazprom will provide the U.S. states cut jobs last month as above 200,000. The unemploy- Rs293bn, a bit higher than current with the International Monetary EU with more leverage. Vestager weak economic growth weighed on ment rate remained 5.5 percent. year s Rs290bn, and for salary and Fund. While the cabinet would set has authority to levy billion dol- hiring and a slowdown in oil and Harsh winter weather and a pension increase at about Rs40bn. the general guidelines for the next lar fines against Gazprom. As a gas drilling caused big job losses in labor dispute at West Coast ports The allocations for subsidy budget, the tune and tenor of the result, the Russian company has some states. that disrupted shipping dragged have been scaled down to Rs150bn overall direction of the country s signaled that it would be willing The Labor Department said down the economy in the first against Rs203bn of the current economy would be based on con- to negotiate a settlement with the Tuesday that unemployment rates three months of the year. Consum- year. The subsidy curtailment will sultations with the IMF in view antitrust body. That could pro- rose or were unchanged in 27 states ers, meanwhile, have saved much mainly come from the power sec- of an ongoing bailout programme. duce some wins for the EU, such and fell in 23 states. Eighteen states of the windfall they have received tor through further tariff adjust- After cabinet s clearance, the as securing a commitment from gained jobs, while employment from cheaper gas prices, lowering ments. Sources said the Ministry BSP would be presented before Gazprom to end certain anti-com- of Finance had given a financial en- the parliamentary standing com- was unchanged in Idaho. spending. And a big jump in the petitive practices. Theoretically The biggest job cuts occurred dollar's value also has made U.S. velop of Rs575bn to the Planning mittees on finance and revenue. in states with large oil and gas drill- exports more expensive and low- Commission to adjust develop- The government has decided that could affect pricing or open ing, led by Texas, which lost 25,400 ered overseas sales of U.S. goods. ment projects, but the commission to share the budget proposals with up the door to new contracts for jobs, and followed by Oklahoma, All told, economists forecast had strongly opposed the given stakeholders, including busi- gas supplies. For years, top EU which cut 12,900. Pennsylvania that growth slowed to an annual target and wanted more than nesspersons and chambers of com- officials in Brussels have prom- lost 12,700, the third largest loss. rate of 1 percent or less in the first Rs750bn to accommodate new in- merce and industry in May. ised to wean themselves off de- A sharp fall in oil prices since last quarter, down from a roughly 3.4 itiatives next year. Officials said the broad ambi- pendence on Russian energy, with June has caused oil and gas com- percent pace in the second half of They said finally the alloca- tion of expanding national econo- little progress. While Russia will panies to cut back on drilling. Penn- last year. Still, most analysts ex- tion for the federal development my by 7.2pc in 2016-17 would be be an essential supplier of natural sylvania has benefited in recent pect hiring and growth to rebound programme could be increased to protected along with over 6pc gas for the EU for many years to years from the discovery of shale this spring. The cutbacks in oil and Rs600bn against current year s growth rate for the next year. come, the anti-trust case set to be gas fields in the state. gas production have also led to job the unemployment rate falling to the lowest in the nation. Rs525bn, which was being cut The macroeconomic targets for unveiled this week against Gaz- Nationwide, employers added losses in North Dakota, which had But in February its unemployment rate rose and the state no longer down by almost 30pc to make up the next year and broad outline for prom may finally provide some just 126,000 jobs in March, the experienced an oil and gas boom had the lowest unemployment rate nationwide. It rose again in March, for the revenue loss arising out of subsequent two years would also teeth to Europe s push for great- fewest in 15 months and snapping since the recession. The boom sent to 3.1 percent. Nebraska now has the lowest rate, at 2.6 percent. easing inflation rate. be part of the BSP. er energy security. 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. APRIL 23, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Fawad Khan walks the ramp at PSFW 2015 The Khubsoorat actor has the Midas Touch, everything he touches turns to gold, and this time is no different. The singer-turned-actor walked the ramp at PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week 2015 in Lahore and stunned the audience. When Fawad walked out on stage in Omar Farooq s design, the Featuring textile houses exclusive- crowd cheered with utter delight. Wearing a flower printed silver grey ly, day three of PFDC Sunsilk silk blazer and a white silk shirt to accompany it, Fawad strutted on the Fashion Week was a lavish and runway in black pants and loafers looking dapper and elegant. vivid platform for labels, such as People cheered loudly as he smiled at the crowd and walked with Gul Ahmed, alKaram Studio and confidence. Needless to say, social media erupted with excited fans House of Ittehad. This was the first posting his pictures and videos as he walked the ramp. time a separate day was allotted solely for textile brands. alKaram Studio The Savoir Vivre merged a diverse variety of materials and fabrics to craft a collection that was dynamic to the core. Showcasing lawn, chikankari and jacquard at their best, Alkaram Studio worked with a varied colour palette. With ivory hues paired with lace, intri- cate cutwork and horizontal stripes as a dominant trend, the ensembles grabbed our interest. The showcase comprised pants, jumpsuits and fringe-fashioned styles. House of Ittehad Summer Rouge was a collec- tion exclusively designed by HSY. A dramatic showcase with fine lighting and on-point props, it was representative of the designer s years of experience. However, the prints for women fell short in terms of cuts, design and tailoring. The medley of odd stripes with eerie colour combinations were a total put off. The brand also introduced their menswear line, I-Man, which was remarkably bright and boast- ed ample embroidery. Harmony The brand s Summer rhythm collection was a comprehensive show of colours and well-thought- out patterns. We couldn t, how- ever, relate to the hodgepodge of designs and complicated accesso- ries, which were a little too out- of-place for a fashion week. The male models stunned in vivid-hued kurtas that would be a perfect ad- dition to casual Friday wear. The female models, on the other hand, didn t deliver with gaudy and un- pleasantly busy prints. Overheard in the front row: Where is the sense of harmony in Harmony? Shubinak Pakistan United by Shubinak was easily the strongest and most attention-grabbing collection of the night. Sourcing fabric from Chitral, the line drew an amalgam of retail and the talented artisans of Paki- 'Pure diamond rings' stan. The collection emphasised on an earthy, neutral colour palette and bragged a cohesive, well-styled gifted to all guests at a display of wearable art. The ramp was ablaze with bohemian acces- royal wedding in Kuwait sories, mystical-themed layering and feather headbands. From khus- The photos of the Grand Royal The pictures of the mythical sas with gladiator straps to Sindhi wedding function, as broadly en- wedding ceremony, as widely pre- ralli-patchwork design, the show- dorsed, circulated around the web scribed, went viral on social me- case captured our attention. on social media, especially as valu- dia, particularly as precious dia- Gul Ahmed able precious diamond rings were mond rings were gifted to the list The collection titled A flour- gifted to the rundown of privileged of upper class audience, as per the ishing journey of prints , sadly, gathering of people, reported Es- Alqiyady website. didn t display anything we hadn t howbizzbuzz. Rundown of world class Arab seen before. Innovation was lack- Shaikh Fahad bin Nasser bin stars, including Saudi artists Mo- ing with the patterns and design Sabah Al Ahmad, the grandson of hammed Abduh, Rashid Majid, side of things, but we were im- the Emir of Kuwait, married the Abdul Majeed Abdullah, and Nabil pressed with the East-meets-West Atif Aslam s girl of a renowned businessman. Shuail, alongside Nawal (Kuwait), aspect of the line and the neatly- Fever continues: Gul Ahmed The bride, Fay bint Loay bin Jas- Hussein Al Jasmi (UAE), Miriam crafted silhouettes. The patterns concert cancelled sim Al Kharafi, is likewise the Fares (Lebanon), and Essa Kubai- ranged from the usual bright flo- due to Indian granddaughter of speaker of the si (Qatar) studded the VIP guests rals to darker paisley blueprints. launches volume 2 of lawn National Assembly of Kuwait. at the glamorous wedding. From crop tops to jackets to eth- political party nic skirts, the lawn was elegantly One of the leading textile power- storm this spring/summer. ducing nothing but the best quali- styled. opposition houses in Pakistan, Gul Ahmed With silhouettes that are mod- ty fabrics. It is bound to strike the Warda Prints introduced their Spring/Summer ern yet timeless, this year s col- attention of everyone. The Chromatic Ecstasy col- Atif Aslam was all set to perform lawn volume two collection at all lection is astounding, sensuous and Gul Ahmed is a composite tex- lection was more unpleasant than in Pune, India on April 25, but their stores throughout Pakistan elegant all at once. Keeping in mind, tile unit making everything from exciting. Utilising a bold colour changed his mind after Indian po- on April, 18, according to a press the varying tastes of today s wom- cotton yarn to finished products. palette, comprising crimson, tan- litical party, Shiv Sena threatened release. en, regardless of their age, the lat- On the retail front, Ideas by Gul gerine orange, fuchsia, canary yel- to take action if the event took The brand stays true to its est collection has incorporated a Ahmed offers fabrics and made- low and blues, the collection boast- place. name by bringing the finest and the wide array of delightful designs and ups, ranging from home accesso- ed an intense but unsettling fusion The singer who has charmed most luxurious collections for years striking hues. Offering a spectacu- ries to clothing. of motifs and prototypes. The his way into the hearts of Paki- and years. Continuing its tradition, lar series of varied designs, volume The chain has expanded to 60 ensembles suffered the terrible stanis and Indians had to cancel Gul Ahmed s latest collection is two of the collection has main- stores across Pakistan since its in- print-on-print fate, which design- his event because of strong oppo- expected to take the country by tained the brand s legacy of pro- ception in 2003. ers often succumb to. The show- sition from India s far-right region- stopper outfit that Cybil wore was al political party. The neighbour- possibly the worst of them all ing country is sending terrorists to with fringes and frilled peplum af- India, blasting bombs, attacking fixed in the most unflattering plac- our Parliament, then how do we es, coupled with an odd mix of welcome their artistes, Chitrapat colours. Sena (party s cinema wing) leader Adesh Bandekar told Asian Age. Organizer of the event Sanjay Check out: Shruti s Maharashtrian Sathe was in agreement of Adesh s look in 'Gabbar Is Back' Shruti Haasan will be seen playing a Maharashtrian character for the first time opposite Akshay Kumar in 'Gabbar Is Back'. In the look unveiled by the makers of the film, Shruti is seen in a traditional avatar wearing a pink nauvari saree and a nathani (nose ring). It is interesting to note that Shruti's mother, Sarika, is half Maharashtrian. And in the film, Shruti surely looks like a Maharashtrian mulgi to the core! 'Gabbar Is Back' is a remake of 2002 Tamil film 'Ramanaa'. The anti-corruption drama has been directed by Krish and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and co-produced by Shabinaa Khan. Chitrangda Singh, who has been missing from the big screen for a while now, will be seen in a sizzling item number 'Aao Raja' in the film. The film is slated to release on May 1.

statement and told NDTV, We are from the field of arts, we wanted to do it, but then the intention be- hind the cancellation is totally ap- propriate. He further added, We shall always remain patriotic. As Balasaheb has said Be patriotic and put the nation first , and there- by, at the larger level we had to cancel the show. There was a general consen- sus when it came to the show s cancellation. Shiv Sena has always been against Pakistan and the mo- tive behind canceling the event is to show that Pakistan is traitor. The organizers praised our stand and with a big heart scrapped the event, said Hadapsar MLA Ma- hadev Babar. 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. APRIL 23, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Samuels holds West Indies together in second Test A patient unbeaten 94 from Mar- Alastair Cook put the hosts in to with his second delivery - the left lon Samuels helped West Indies bat, hoping that his bowlers could hander guiding the ball to Moeen recover against England to end the exploit the overcast weather. Ali at point as the hosts fell to 74 first day of the second Test on 188 James Anderson, now En- for four. for five in Grenada. gland's highest wicket-taker in Test Jamaican Jermaine Blackwood While the tourists will be frus- cricket, not surprisingly managed again showed promise by making trated at not having made more in- to find some swing and removed 26 before, after review, he was ruled roads in the final session before Kraigg Brathwaite with a superb to have been trapped leg before off bad light stopped play, West In- inswinger for one. Jordan. With Samuels able to start dies again showed signs of a new- Cook waited before bringing again in the morning, England will found resilience. Ben Stokes into the attack but he regret their captain dropping the After overnight and early provided an instant impact, remov- stroke player off Jordan when he morning rain, England skipper ing Shivnarine Chanderpaul for one was on 33.

Sensational Bayern Munich de- straight last four spot. Bayern off in the 87th for a second book- Barcelona's dominance of was stroyed Porto 6-1 to charge into scored three times in 13 minutes ing. Elsewhere, Neymar scored so complete that despite Neymar's the Champions League semi-finals through Thiago Alcantara, Jerome two goals as Barcelona beat PSG brace Andres Iniesta was arguably 7-4 on aggregate and stay on track Boateng and Robert Lewandows- 2-0 to seal its return to the semi- the best player on the Camp Nou for a treble in Pep Guardiola's ki, to wipe out their quarter-final, finals, joining Europe's elite four pitch. The veteran midfielder used 100th competitive game in charge. first leg deficit. Two more goals teams for the seventh time in eight a breathtaking solo run through the The five-time European cham- before the break from Lewandows- seasons. Neymar had already net- heart of the visitors' defense to set pions, who lost 3-1 in the first leg ki and Thomas Mueller, who be- ted Barcelona's first goal in its 3-1 up Neymar for the opener. last week, showed no sign of nerves came Germany's record scorer in first-leg win, and the Brazil striker Neymar then took advantage as they dismantled the hapless the competition with 27, and a late struck in the 14th and 34th min- of PSG's lax marking to head home Portuguese with an impressive at- Xabi Alonso free-kick finished off utes to crush PSG's already-slim his second goal from Dani Alves' tacking display to book a fourth Porto, who had Ivan Marcano sent hopes of a quarterfinal comeback. cross. Top-seeded Nishikori eases past at Gabashvili in Barcelona

Top-seeded Kei Nishikori began the defense of his Barcelona Open ti- Jim Furyk is short on power, tle with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Teymuraz Gabashvili of Russia. Nicolas Almagro also advanced long on determination to the second round, where he will Power was evident from every foot birdie putt to extend the play- face eight-time winner Rafael Nad- vantage point at the year-end char- off against Kevin Kisner, and then al, after opponent Paolo Lorenzi ity event hosted by Tiger Woods. make another birdie to win. retired 10 minutes into the match Rory McIlroy was there after The reaction was predictable. with Almagro leading 3-0. Last completing his rookie season on Furyk dropped his putter and the PGA Tour. So was Dustin yelled louder than a foghorn at year, Almagro stunned Nadal in the Johnson, who already had won Calibogue Sound. quarterfinals, ending Nadal's run of four times and messed up in two "A lot of pent-up frustration," 41 straight wins at the tournament. majors. Bubba Watson was just he said. Nishikori hit 22 winners and getting warmed up at that time, That should give way to cele- held his serve to win the second- only the shaft in his driver was bration for a player whose game is round match on the outdoor clay pink. working as well now as it did as a court in one hour, eight minutes. And that's when Jim Furyk's PGA Tour rookie in 1994. The fifth-ranked Japanese name was mentioned. Furyk won for the 17th time, player could face last year's run- The consensus was that Fu- which along with a U.S. Open title ryk wouldn't be able to hang on in 2003 figures to make him a ner-up Santiago Giraldo on Thurs- much longer as 300-yard drives shoo-in for the World Golf Hall of day if the Colombian gets past Joao were becoming the norm. Sure, he Fame. Only five active players Sousa. was coming off a three-win sea- have won more on the PGA Tour Nishikori took control of the son, the best of his career. He won Woods, Phil Mickelson, Vijay match by hitting 11 winners and the FedEx Cup mainly on the Singh, Davis Love III and Ernie Els. breaking Gabashvili before finish- strength of his one-shot victory in Furyk played on 15 consecu- ing out the first set by holding his the Tour Championship. But he tive U.S. teams for the Ryder Cup final serve to love. already was 40, and Furyk wasn't and Presidents Cup, a streak that getting any longer. Or younger. ended in 2013 when Presidents Gabashvili tossed his racket Players can rely only so much on Cup captain Fred Couples left him down after a third double fault cost grit and a great short game. off the team in favor of 20-year- him his service as he fell behind 3- That conversation took place old Jordan Spieth. The next year, 2 in the second set. Nishikori then more than four years ago. Furyk finished No. 3 in qualifying struck an ace to finish the match. From then until now, the 44- for the Ryder Cup. Tennis-Barcelona Open men's year-old Furyk has earned just Another measure of his high singles results Reuters short of $16 million, along with level of play can be found in the Granollers beats Matosevic in seven runner-up finishes and world ranking. Furyk cracked the 1st round of Barcelona Open The Associated Press Nadal targets further improve- Bayless picked as third man in ring for Mayweather-Pacquiao ment in Barcelona AFP Nadal, Federer, Wawrinka ease Floyd Mayweather Jr. got his li- ment. Bayless won't have to intro- license and Bayless was picked by cense to fight Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather confidant Le- duce himself to either fighter, hav- Nevada boxing commissioners to into 3rd round in Monte Carlo The along with a question about do- onard Ellerbe also did not return ing worked five of Mayweather's be the third man in the ring, there Associated Press mestic abuse. Veteran referee Ken- calls, and his manager, Al Haymon, fights and seven of Pacquiao's was still no announcement of tick- ''It was a great first match,'' ny Bayless got a spot in boxing's doesn't talk to the media. Arum, bouts. He is widely considered the et sales for a fight now less than Nishikori said. ''It was my first richest fight ever. though, had plenty to say, charg- best referee in Nevada, and is of- two weeks away. Though many match of the year on clay, so I was Floyd Mayweather Jr. got his ing that MGM executives were ten used for big name fights, in- of the tickets have long been spo- little tight, but I played a great two license to fight Manny Pacquiao, conspiring with Mayweather's cluding Mayweather's fights ken for, the MGM Grand hotel sets today.'' along with a question about do- camp to take the best seats despite against De La Hoya and Alvarez. has repeatedly promised a public In the day's other second- mestic abuse. Veteran referee Ken- an agreement calling for the May- ''Kenny knows the pressure sale of at least a token amount of ny Bayless got a spot in boxing's weather and Pacquiao camps to get and stress and responsibility,'' said seats for the May 2 fight. round matches, seventh-seeded richest fight ever. equal shares of tickets after the Bob Bennett, the commission's Promoter Bob Arum charged Roberto Bautista Agut advanced Meanwhile, all anyone look- MGM takes care of its custom- executive director. ''He's efficient that the tickets are being held up after beating Thomaz Bellucci 6- ing for a ticket to the Mayweath- ers. and effective and has proven to be because the MGM and May- 3, 6-4, while Tommy Robredo er-Pacquiao fight got on Tuesday The tickets represent millions successful over a number of years weather's camp are trying to get downed Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, was the runaround. of dollars for both sides, especial- working in Las Vegas and other both more tickets and better seats 6-2. On a day Mayweather got his ly in the secondary market where parts of the world. He's one of the from the allotment given to Pac- Earlier, Russian teenager An- license and Bayless was picked by they are expected to sell between best referees in the world.'' quiao. drey Rublev beat 2010 champion Nevada boxing commissioners to two and three times the face value Bennett said he consulted with ''What's happening now is a be the third man in the ring, there of $1,500 and up. representatives of both fighters scandal,'' said Arum, who promotes Fernando Verdasco 7-6 (4), 6-3 in was still no announcement of tick- ''They're embarrassing them- before making his recommendation Pacquiao ''Customers of various the first round. et sales for a fight now less than selves,'' Arum said of the MGM on both the referee and the judges. hotels are cancelling their reserva- The 17-year-old Rublev, who two weeks away. Though many officials, who he has feuded with Mayweather's camp had no prob- tions, including big high rollers. entered as a qualifier ranked 329th, of the tickets have long been spo- previously. ''They're trying to get lems with either, and Arum said Nobody could tell them if they broke the Spaniard three times ken for, the MGM Grand hotel more tickets to be kicked back to Pacquiao's side is also happy with have tickets.'' The MGM has been while saving five break chances. has repeatedly promised a public Al Haymon to sell on the second- the selection. tight-lipped about the tickets, Rublev will next face 13th-seeded sale of at least a token amount of ary market but they can't sell any The judges are also veterans which originally were supposed to Fabio Fognini. seats for the May 2 fight. tickets until we have a signed agree- of big fights, especially Moretti go on sale weeks ago. A hotel Promoter Bob Arum charged ment. They can't use Manny's who has judged five Pacquiao spokesman said Tuesday he was Albert Montanes also came that the tickets are being held up name without that agreement.'' fights and the last three May- trying to find out more informa- back to defeat Ricardas Berankis because the MGM and May- Rival promoter Oscar De La weather fights. They will be paid tion about them, but otherwise had 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 and will meet David weather's camp are trying to get Hoya took to Twitter to mock the $20,000 each, while Bayless will no comment. Mayweather confi- Ferrer in the second round, where both more tickets and better seats lack of official ticket sales for the get $25,000. dant Leonard Ellerbe also did not 2014 U.S. Open winner Marin from the allotment given to Pac- bout. De La Hoya is promoting a Boxing commissioners also return calls, and his manager, Al Cilic will play Victor Estrella after quiao. fight the week after between Cane- gave Mayweather a special license Haymon, doesn't talk to the me- Estrella ousted Dominic Thiem 6- ''What's happening now is a lo Alvarez and James Kirkland in for being a fighter over 35, the same dia. Arum, though, had plenty to 3, 7-6 (3). scandal,'' said Arum, who promotes Houston. license Pacquiao got last month. say, charging that MGM execu- finally another PGA Tour vic- top 50 for the first time when he Pacquiao ''Customers of various ''Send me a pic of your May- Mayweather called in to the meet- tives were conspiring with May- tory. finished fifth at the 1996 U.S. Juan Monaco got past Alejan- hotels are cancelling their reserva- Pac ticket and I'll send you to the ing to answer questions, and com- weather's camp to take the best dro Gonzalez 7-5, 6-1 and will play Jim Furyk reacts after his Open. Over the last 19 years, he tions, including big high rollers. (hash)CaneloKirkland fight for missioner Pat Lundvall asked him seats despite an agreement calling winning putt on the 17th hole has been out of the top 50 for only Martin Klizan, while Pablo Cue- Nobody could tell them if they free,'' De La Hoya tweeted. ''You if he had completed all his obliga- for the Mayweather and Pacquiao vas beat Roberto Carballes Baena against Kevin Kisner during the 13 weeks, and never lower than have tickets.'' have 24 hrs.'' tions in connection with a 2012 camps to get equal shares of tick- playoff of No. 61. 6-4, 7-5. The MGM has been tight- While the ticket dispute domestic violence plea that sent ets after the MGM takes care of He ended the longest drought His victory at Hilton Head Marsel Ilhan outlasted James lipped about the tickets, which dragged on, parts of the fight moved him to jail for two its customers. The tickets repre- of his career Sunday at the RBC moved him up to No. 5 the Ward 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-1 in just over originally were supposed to go on forward with the Nevada Athletic months.Meanwhile, all anyone sent millions of dollars for both Heritage with a performance built same spot he was four years ago two hours, while Sousa edged sale weeks ago. A hotel spokes- Commission meeting to approve looking for a ticket to the May- sides, especially in the secondary on determination, the hallmark of when his name was mentioned as lucky loser Kenny de Schepper 6- man said Tuesday he was trying Bayless as the referee and Dave weather-Pacquiao fight got on market where they are expected to his career. Not only did he close a guy who might have a hard time to find out more information about Moretti, Glenn Feldman and Burt Tuesday was the runaround. sell between two and three times with a 63, he had to make an 8- hanging on. 4, 3-6, 6-3. them, but otherwise had no com- Clements as judges. 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WJ to approve budget for Chief Key suspect in International Earth Day observed Farkhunda s Executive s Office next week death arrested Media slammed for being Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi The National Directorate of Secu- rity (NDS) has detained another KABUL: Budget for the Chief vital for securing national interests. said that stuffing of ballot boxes suspect in connection with unconcerned over climate change Executive Officer (CEO) could not No one should interpret con- with fake votes was also against Farkhunda's brutal murder this be approved by the Wolesi Jirga stitution based on their own wish the constitution but many people AT News Report M. Nadeem Alizai, an analyst, and air without thinking about cli- time the motorist who drove over said that it is also duty of the elec- mate change impacts, the con- due to lack of quorum. for their personal benefits, said did it. Therefore, no one should KABUL: The International Earth The budget would be put for Fawzia Kofi, an MP from Bada- interpret the constitution based on the deceased. tronic and print media to tell pub- cerned analyst said. Alizai urged approval next week. Some lawmak- khshan. The government was es- their own will or personal hostili- An NDS official told TOLO- Day was observed in the capital lic how to keep their surroundings the media outlets to introduce en- ers had differences over legality of tablished in order to prevent dis- ty. According to reports, Shukria news on condition of anonymity city on Wednesday with minimal clean and refrain from harming the vironment beat so reporters would the CEO office as well. putes, she said. Barekzai was annoyed when Ab- that the suspect, Baryalai, was the representation of the government environment. Media, particular- cover important issues that are Shukria Barekzai, an MP from Abdul Satar Khawasi said that dullah Abdullah denied accepting person who drove the car over departments and media outlets. ly television channels and radios, Kabul, said that creation of the both leaders of the government in- her as chief of the electoral reform Farkhunda. After driving over her The National Environmental are very effective as a tool to tell CEO post was against the consti- cluding the president and CEO commission. he continued accelerating, dragging Protection Agency (NEPA) and tution. However, many lawmak- were working legally and accord- Speaker of the WJ, Abdul Rauf public how to reduce carbon emis- her body under the car. Ministry of Urban Development sions, recycle different items and ers said that the National Unity ing to the national interests. Ibrahimi, termed creation of the were standing apart from others in Government itself was against the Therefore, the lawmakers must CEO post vital for national unity The source said Baryalai, who prevent timber mafia from cutting constitution but was need of the not discuss such useless issues and and interests. He said that the topic is from Kapisa province, is also this regard as they marked the day forests, he said. He pointed out time to prevent the country from consider the national interests im- does not need further debate as at Baghe-e Babar with great zeal. that birds which in search of food going towards political chaos. portant, he said. most of the lawmakers are agreed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and safe shelter migrate to Afghan- Fawzia Kofi and Abdul Satar Shekiba Hashemi, a lawmaker to accept the government and the Abdullah Abdullah also participat- istan are hunted just for fun or Khawasi were among those law- from Kandahar, was also among CEO as legal. He said that approv- ed in the one-day conference aimed meat that could not feed even a makers who supported formation those MPs who pub weight be- al of the budget for the CEO would at to build support for environ- of the CEO office and termed it hind the current government. She be on agenda in the next session. family for a day. Likewise, several mental protection. species are on the verge of extinc- The chief executive said the tion. People should take care of missed daily. He added that unfor- Many parts in government is committed to pro- birds, plants and animals as they tunately in Afghanistan there is no Chinese investments tect the environment and would take care of us. Protection of envi- media organization which cover Badghis cleared bring in use all available resources ronment is not a job of one per- environment. There are many ar- divide Pakistani provinces in this regard. He urged the citi- son, group or institute but of all eas to cover as environmental re- of militants suspected of having been part of zens to keep their surroundings and sundry. To protect the eco- porter such as climate change, ec- the group that then threw clean and green as it was their moral By Abubakar Siddique AT Monitoring Desk system hundreds of thousands osystem management, droughts, Leaders from the underdevel- Farkhunda's body into the Kabul and social duty. He said that fam- people should join the NEPA, he deforestation, afforestation, lands, oped provinces of Khyber Pakh- KABUL: Clashes between securi- River where they set her alight. ily as a basic unit of society comes suggested. We don t know the wildlife parks, health, ecology, As Chinese President Xi tunkhwa and Balochistan, howev- ty forces and the Taliban militants After the incident, the suspect first to keep environment clean, value of environment. If we had to business and public policies and Jinping wrapped up his latest trip er, accuse the current Pakistani have ended in northwestern apparently sold his car and fled then mosques and schools. Abdul- purchase air to breathe, the peo- its effects on the environment. Un- to Pakistan, the multibillion-dol- government of maneuvering roads, Badghis province, said reports on Kabul to his village in Kapisa, the lah said that attention should be ple will have known how impor- fortunately, these areas are left lar investments he inaugurated rail networks and power genera- Wednesday. NDS official said. Farkhunda, a paid to protect the environment tant environment is. Those who untouched because for media in have prompted an escalating con- tion away from their homeland According to reports, the 27-year-old woman, was beaten to from harms caused by humans. take the environment for granted Afghanistan terrorism and securi- flict. into Punjab. clashes occurred between border death and burnt by angry mob a Media was criticized for being re- shall ask people about its impor- ty are scoops generators and Leaders from two of Paki- The region is the key power- forces and the Taliban rebels in month ago on the false accusation luctant to create awareness about tance who walk for miles to fetch worth-buying, said Alizai who is stan s minority provinces have base of Prime Minister Nawaz Balamurghab district of the prov- of burning the Holy Quran. protection of environment. potable water. We pollute water also a journalist by profession. called on the dominant province Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim ince. of Punjab to stop manipulating the League Nawaz (PML-N) party. Quoted by Radio Azadi, Mir- investments to serve its interests, Home to nearly 100 million peo- wais Mirzakwal, spokesman for HPC members tirade against Taliban further cement what they call its ple, Punjab already boasts most acting governor of Badghis, said the Khost ulema declare stranglehold over Pakistan s econ- of Pakistan s industry and agricul- 705 Unit of Border Police, after troubled peace talks: Mujahid omy, resources and institutions. ture. It dominates the rank and file receiving military support and ad- AT News Report Xi, who left Pakistan on April ditional troops, succeeded to de- suicide attacks haram of the country s powerful military KABUL: After six years of its establishment, an official of the High 21, formally announced projects and claims a lion s share of nation- feat the Taliban in Murichaq area AT News Report worth $28 billion. They are part of Balamurghab which shares bor- Peace Council (HPC) confirmed that some members of the council were al resources and institutions. hindering peace talks with the Taliban. Abdul Hakim Mujahid, the of a $46 billion investment in in- Pakistan s natural resources, der with Turkmenistan. He said KABUL: Tens of tribal elders and religious scholars from Khost prov- frastructure and energy schemes deputy chairman of the HPC, a few years back, there was no political coastal and trade routes, however, four rebels were killed and eight will for bringing peace to Afghanistan. Unfortunately, some HPC mem- ince condemned recent terrorist incidents that led to killing of innocent called the China-Pakistan Econom- are located in the remaining three others wounded in the fight. He people and said that the attacks were in negation to Islamic instructions. ic Corridor (CPEC). bers tirade against the Taliban was one of the main hurdles before provinces of Balochistan, Khyber added that three troops were killed bringing peace to Afghanistan, Radio Azadi quoted Mujahid as saying. Recent terrorist attacks in Nangarhar, Khost, Badakhshan and Balkh The more than 2,000-kilome- Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and moun- and three others wounded in the However, he didn t mention any specific name. He added that the gov- province led to killing of tens of Afghans. ter corridor aims to link the tainous territories adjoining India, operation. ernment should appoint the figures as HPC members who are truly Tribal elders and Ulema in a gathering on Wednesday said that sui- Xingjian region in western China China and Afghanistan. However, a border policeman, committed to bringing the Taliban to the negotiation table. Mujahid cide blasts and killing innocent people are in sharp contrast with the to Pakistan s southern Arabian Sea Afrasiab Khattak, a senior lead- quoted by Radio Azadi, said on called on the Taliban to come to the negotiation table and present their teachings of Islam. seaport, Gwadar, through roads er of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa condition of anonymity that the real prerequisites for joining peace talks with the Afghan government. Maulvi Muhammad Sardar Zadran, Head of Mujahedeen Council in and rail links. More than $34 bil- based Awami National Party, says clashes still continue and the secu- The Taliban regime s foreign minister, Maulvi Wakil Ahmed Mu- Khost, said that Islam doesn t allow anyone to slaughter innocent peo- lion will go into electricity genera- the real issue is not the rail and rity forces are mulling to conduct tawakil, said that HPC hasn t exerted its sincere efforts to bring peace to ple. tion. road networks but rather electrici- a large scale military operation in this war-hit country. He said that there is no political will to end wars in Maulvi Bakht Jamal, a religious scholar, said that Islam doesn t Islamabad is touting the initia- ty generation and the industrial the district in a bid to clear the ar- Afghanistan. Some other members of the HPC also admitted lack of a support suicide blast and killing of other people. tive as transformative because of zones that are now largely slated eas of Taliban rebels. political will for peace talks with the Taliban. They urged the govern- The religious scholars also issued a resolution where they declared its potential to resolve Pakistan s for Punjab. It is said that the clashes have ment to exert its sincere efforts to bring the Taliban to the negation table. attacks in public places and kidnapping of civilians as Haram. They also acute electricity shortages and turn Most people in Pakistan pushed tens of families in Balam- A number of political experts criticized performance of the HPC lent their support to Afghan security forces. the country into a regional trade welcome Islamabad s alliance with urghab to leave their houses in over the past years and urged the government to bring fundamental A suicide blast in front of a bank killed 34 people and wounded more hub. See P2 searched of safer place for living. change in structure of the body. than 100 others earlier this week. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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