Mod Rejects Report About 75Pc RISE in TROOPS CASUALTIES

Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:IX Issue No:315 Price: Afs.15 SUNDAY . JUNE 21 . 2015 -Saratan 01, 1394 HS www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes Ex-edu MoD rejects report about 75pc Sher Khan minister Port s revenue rejects SIGAR RISE IN TROOPS CASUALTIES report on AT Monitoring Desk crease in security forces casual- more casualties than the ANSF. dog has received. According to the ghost schools ties, but said that figures in the Recently local and international report, 60 percent increase in casu- increased: Official KABUL: Ministry of Defense report were exaggerated as the media published a report, claim- alty was the direct result of lack of (MoD) rejected the recently pub- death and injuries were below 75 ing 75 percent surge in the securi- lethal items and logistics, which af- AT Monitoring Desk lished report which claimed 75 percent. He said that Afghan se- ty forces casualty during the first fected strength and performance of increase in Afghan National Secu- curity forces casualty has in- half of 2015 when compared to the security forces at the battle- KABUL: Amidst the reports rity Forces (ANSF) casualties in creased by nearly 3.5 percent in the same period of last year. The field. Five percent increase was re- about 60 percent decrease in ex- the current year. Spokesman for the current year when compared report seems more credible as it ported in clashes, some of which ports of northern Kunduz prov- the defense ministry, General to 2014. Criticizing the report, was compiled and published took place after the security posts ince, officials in Sher Khan Port Dawlat Waziri, acknowledged in- he said that insurgents suffered based on the data that the watch- came under attack. said Saturday that revenue of the port has increased this year. According to the officials, in- stallation of new equipments Gunmen which have helped to preventing AT Monitoring Desk Pakistan to begin registration corruption is behind increase in the revenue. Sher Khan Port is KABUL: Former Minister of Ed- kill civilian, among key dry ports in the coun- ucation, Farooq Wardak, on Sat- OF UNDOCUMENTED AFGHAN try which shares border with urday rejected report of Special POLICEMAN Tajikistan which allows goods to Inspector General for Afghanistan be transferred to Central Asian Reconstruction (SIGAR) about REFUGEES NEXT MONTH IN ZABUL countries through Afghanistan. taxes from fuel products in the misuse of US aid in the Ministry Head of the port, Shahabuddin of Education (MoE). Recently, port, he said. He said trade af- the incumbent Education Minis- AT News Report Bawar, told a press conference fairs will improve if security situ- that over Afs60 million was col- ation ramped up in the port. It is ter, Asadullah Balkhi, told Wolesi lected in first two months of the said that the Ministry of Finance Jirga that the former administra- KABUL: Unidentified gunmen current year which is 11 percent had sat Afs600 million as target tion dispatched salaries and re- shot dead a civilian and a police- higher than expected plan, which for Sher Khan Port last year while sources to a number of schools man in Shahjoi district of south- was set Afs800 million by the only Afs540 million was collect- that were not existed. SIGAR re- ern Zabul province the other day. Ministry of Finance. Our im- ed as a result of presidential elec- cently asked the United States The Shahjoi district chief, ports have decreased but our ex- tion which was followed by an Agency for International Devel- Wazir Muhammad Jawadi, said ports have mounted. We receive economic crisis in the country. opment (USAID) to submit report unknown gunmen opened fire on regarding its volume of assistance shop in center of the district kill- to the MoE. The SIGAR report ing a civilian and a policeman. stated that the donors had been The civilian and policeman Af-Pak border region provided with fraudulent data and were sleeping in the shop when statistics of schools. Ministers they were attacked, he added. have reported that no schools are He said that police have launched hosts terrorists: US report open in the insecure parts of Af- ghanistan, but former officials investigation into the incident to AT Monitoring Desk arrest those involved in the kill- (ANSF) capacity to control cer- have forged the numbers and have ing. No one has claimed the re- tain border territories in north and embezzled the money, SIGAR sponsibility of the killing so far. KABUL: The US State Depart- east Afghanistan. The report said head John Sopko said on Thurs- ment in its report to the Congress during 2014, the Afghan govern- day. These claims show that the the other day termed the Afghan- ment continued to counter the United States might have paid aid Governor wants istan-Pakistan border region as Afghan Taliban and Taliban-affil- money for schools that did not UNAMA focused on under-governed area and terror- iated insurgent networks with al exist, he said. However, Farooq ists safe havens that are active in Qaida connections. According to Wardak rejected the allegations AT Monitoring Desk NADARA will set up 21 centers this period. According to reports, Laghman uplift both the countries. the report, Afghanistan continued leveled against the ministry and for registration of refugees out of nearly 1,000,000 Afghan refugees The State Department said in to experience aggressive and co- termed the statement of current KABUL: Islamabad has decided which 11 centers are will be locat- don t have refugee cards in Paki- JALALABAD: The newly-ap- its annual report on terrorism that ordinated attacks by the Afghan Education Minister as unfounded to begin registration of unregis- ed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Ac- stan. It is worth mentioning, Pa- pointed governor of eastern Afghanistan has struggled to as- Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and unreal. He said the allegations tered Afghan refugees next month. cording to sources, the newly reg- kistani authorities in a meeting Laghman province urged United sert control over this remote ter- and other insurgent and terrorist are politically motivated and had The National Database and istered refugees will receive refu- with the Minister of Refugees and Nations Assistance Mission in rain where the population is large- groups. A number of these attacks nothing to be proved. The former Registration Authority (NADRA) gee cards in about a month and a Repatriation, Sayed Hussain Ale- Afghanistan (UNAMA) to spe- ly detached from national institu- were planned and launched from Education Minister said majority of Pakistan has been assigned to half time after registration. Paki- mi Balki, and his accompanying cifically focus on launching devel- tions. The report said that since safe havens in Pakistan. The of the donors in Tokyo, Chicago, register all unregistered refugees stani authorities have warned to delegation in May agreed on doc- opment projects in this strategi- President Ashraf Ghani s election, ANSF provided security through- London and Washington confer- within six months. The process is take legal action against those ref- umentation of all unregistered ref- cally important province. Gover- he has actively followed cross- out most of Afghanistan as the ences did not materialize their expected to start on July, 25. The ugees who don t register during ugees. nor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi told this border security cooperation with transition to full Afghan leader- pledges. The nation and govern- in his meeting with Heran Song, the Pakistan, including the pros- ship on security continued and US ment are fully aware of assistance UNAMA chief in eastern zone, the pect of joint operations to reduce and coalition forces continued to and its expenditures, he said. India committed to help Afghanistan: Ambassador governor s spokesman Sarhadi safe havens on both sides of the draw down during 2014. The The ministry has taken action Zwak told Pajhwok Afghan News border. It added that several ter- ANSF and coalition forces, in part- against faked schools back in 2008 on Saturday. The eastern zone rorist networks active in Afghan- nership, took aggressive action and there is no case of graft in its ple centric and it will remain the UNAMA chief pledged they istan, such as al-Qaida, the against terrorist elements in Af- same in the future. The speech was financial matters, added Wardak. would fully support development Haqqani Network, and others, ghanistan, especially in Kabul, and He went on to say that the followed by a question and answer schemes in the province. I will operate largely out of Pakistan. in many of the eastern and north- session, in which the ambassador MoE was not involved in direct encourage UN officials to extend Al Qaida has some freedom of ern provinces. Pakistan continued and indirect spending of aid; the replied to the questions of the par- all possible cooperation for imple- movement in Kunar and Nuristan to experience significant terrorist USAID has provided assistance ticipants. The event was organized mentation of these projects, he provinces largely due to a lack of violence, including sectarian at- to education sector in Afghanistan by Afghanistan Institute for Stra- added. (Pajhwok) Afghan National Security Forces tacks. tegic Studies (AISS) in Kabul as through its different contractors. part of the High Tea with the Ambassador lecture series. The AISS director, Davood Moradian in his welcoming remarks highlight- AT News Report opmental activities in Afghani- ed the cultural similarities existing stan. He reassured the partici- between India and Afghanistan, in KABUL: Ambassador of India to pants that despite the limited re- addition to highlighting the impor- Kabul, Amar Sinha, said his coun- sources, India is fully committed tance of dialogue for understanding try is committed to continue its to help Afghanistan for India and removing biases and stereo- assistance with Afghanistan.

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