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KABUL MULLING OVER At least 70 dead in Syria regime Islamabad s 8-article action plan raids near Damascus: Report AT Monitoring Desk BEIRUT: At least 70 people were top aid post in May. KABUL: Pakistan has sent an 8- the action plan. Though contents article letter to Pakistan around killed Sunday in a string of Syrian A video posted online by ac- article action plan to President of the action plan are not clear so four months ago, where he had government air strikes on a mar- tivists of the aftermath of the at- Ashraf Ghani through a high-level far, a number of lawmakers assume asked the country to arrest the ketplace in Douma, a rebel-held tacks showed an intersection Afghan delegation that visited Is- that Pakistan may have stuck to Taliban leaders in Quetta and Pe- town near Damascus, a monitor- strewn with rubble and twisted ing group said. metal. lamabad on Thursday to convey its old demands unconditional shawar cities, not to treat wound- At least 200 people were in- Several buildings appeared to the message of the Afghan presi- access to Central Asia via Afghan- ed Taliban militants in its hospi- jured, with the death toll most of have their fronts almost sheared dent regarding action against the istan, recognition of the Durand tals, destroy camps of the militant them civilians likely to rise as off by the force of the blasts, and Taliban who are enjoying safe ha- Line as international border, con- group on its soil, conduct opera- many of the wounded were in se- many vehicles were overturned and vens in the neighboring country, trol over Afghanistan s foreign tions against Haqqani Network, rious condition, the Syrian Obser- crumpled amid the rubble. said an official. policy and natural resources. and monitor sale of chemical ma- vatory for Human Rights said. NDS fo ils m as s prison break attempt in Herat Douma lies in the rebel bas- In the aftermath of a wave of Shukria Barakzai, a member of terials used in bombs. The regime carried out four AT News Report tion of Eastern Ghouta, a region deadly terrorist attacks in Kabul Wolesi Jirga, said: Kabul should It is said the Afghan militants air strikes against a market in the outside the capital that is a regular centre of Douma, said Observa- KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has foiled mass target of government air strikes. that led to the killing of dozens of not surrender to Pakistan s de- enjoy easy availability of the tory director Rami Abdel Rahman. prison break attempt in Herat province. The Afghan spy agency foiled Earlier this week, Amnesty Afghans, Kabul sent a delegation, mand. They [Pakistan] need us cheaper chemical materials includ- the bid by arresting a man, identified as Ghulam Nabi, who was digging The preliminary information a tunnel into the prison. In a media statement issued here, the NDS said International accused the govern- comprising of the acting defense more than we do. ing fertilizers in Pakistan. Islama- suggests most of the dead are ci- on Sunday that it has arrested Nabi, a resident of Herat City, who ment of war crimes in Eastern minister Masoom Stanikzai, Min- She added that the Afghan bad has been urged repeatedly by vilians, he added. wanted to help the prisoners to escape through the secret tunnel that he Ghouta, saying heavy aerial bom- ister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin government should find alterna- the Afghan government and the Abdel Rahman said locals had dug a few kilometers. In another operation, the spy agency arrested bardment was compounding mis- Rabbani and the chief of National tives to Pakistani transit trade United States to monitor sale of gathered at the site after the first two money exchangers who were facilitating the transfer of cash be- ery created by a regime blockade tween the insurgents. They were identified as Mohammad and Abdul Directorate of Security Rahmatul- routes. For instance, we should these chemicals as the insurgents strike to help evacuate the wound- on the area. ed when more raids struck. Ghani. The two were arrested from Shindand district of Herat prov- Rebels also regularly fire on lah Nabil, to Islamabad. enhance our trade ties with the were using these materials in ex- The devastating attack on ince. They planned to transfer PKR 294,000 to Mullah Jamil, the the capital from the region, attacks An official told Azadi Radio Central Asian region, she said. plosive devices that killed and in- Douma came as UN humanitarian Taliban s shadow district chief for Shindand district. The NDS also that Amnesty also described as war on condition of anonymity that the It is worth mentioning that jured hundreds of innocent Af- detained Mullah Ghawsuddin who was collecting funds for the Taliban chief Stephen O Brien made his insurgents in the name of religion. crimes because of their indiscrimi- Afghan government is looking into President Ashraf Ghani sent an 8- ghans. first trip to Syria since taking the nate nature.

64.42 63.02 70.32 68.92 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. MONDAY . AUGUST 17, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Afghan Why Afghans won t mourn refugee hailed Drive to paint homes on death of Hamid Gul, former ISI a Hero in Hungary for Kabul hills kicks off chief and father of the Taliban saving home- less man s life Gen. Hamid Gul, a A teenage Afghan refugee was hailed a Hero in Hungary for his controversial bravery and on time assistance to military figure and save a critically injured homeless protégé of former man in the capital city of Budap- est. military ruler of The 16-year-old Aziz was the Pakistan Gen. Zia ul- only person who to act after the Haq, led the ISI man drunken, homeless man was injured when he smashed through between 1987 and a glass door to the soup kitchen, 1989. (File photo) which operates in the basement of a building. According to the local media reports in Hungary, the man s ar- tery was cut by the splintering glass who immediately lost a large amount of blood, and among the standers-by, who were clearly shocked by what happened. Aziz jumped to the man s help, squeezing his arm with a belt, leav- ing the eyewitnesses in surprise at the natural rutine with which Aziz did what was right. The man could face certain death had Aziz not been there to KABUL: A campaign colours, official said some traders had so to a great degree. The former chief of Inter Service the Soviet war in Afghanistan was the presence of foreign forces in help, according to the eyewitness- beauty and change has been pledged assistance to the drive and A resident of Khairkhana area, Intelligence (ISI), the powerful in- coming to an end and the armed Afghanistan is not ideal for peace es. Aziz has been residing rough in launched to paint front walls of the municipality had also set aside Naeem Atard, said: Whenever I telligence agency of Pakistan, died rebellion against Indian rule in as it emboldens armed insurgents the Hungarian capital Budapest homes built on mounds to beauti- some money for the purpose. travelled through Deh Afghanan of brain hemorrhage in Pakistani Kashmir was gaining ground. He to carry out suicide attacks. He with a Facebook page that report- fy the central capital Kabul, an He said owners themselves area, I would look at the mud-made resort town of Murree late on Sat- played an instrumental role in cre- justified the suicide attacks in Af- ed on the case stated that Aziz s official said on Saturday. chose colour for painting their houses on the mountain and would urday. He was 79. General Hamid ating the Taliban and fomenting ghanistan because of the contin- father was killed and he lost track Deputy director of services at homes. A large number of mud think if these structures are co- Gul, a controversial military fig- trouble across the Durand Line. ued presence of foreign forces . of his mother and brother on the the Kabul Municipality, Khogman houses had been built in a disorga- loured, it would change the city s ure and protégé of former military He created the Taliban, armed His conspiracy theories, which he way to Europe. Ullomi, told Pajhwok Afghan nized way on the mountains of outlook. dictator of Pakistan General Zia them, funded them and the goal was often discussed on run-of-the-mill In an interview with the news News the painting campaign was Asmai and Sher Darwaza areas and He shared his idea with some ul-Haq, led the ISI between 1987 to destabilize Afghanistan, says Pakistani news channels, made him website Index Aziz said I m hu- launched a day earlier and it was if these houses were painted with public representatives in Guzar and 1989. A conspiracy theorist, Anwar Mohammadi, a political an object of mockery in his own man, he s also human, he was in aimed at beautifying Kabul city. different colours, it would add to area and then with the Kabul mu- Gen. Gul supported armed insur- analyst. He carried forward the country. A few years ago, Pakistani troube, I knew what I had to do, I He said the drive was current- the city s beauty. nicipality and they all agreed. gency in Afghanistan during his legacy of his mentor Zia ul-Haq. journalist and writer, Mohammed didn t hesitate for a moment. ly underway in the city s first, sec- These mud-made houses on After efforts lasting about a tenure as the ISI chief. He is noto- Around same time, Gen. Zia ul- Hanif dismissed him as probably ond, third, fifth, seventh, eighth, mountains have been built illegal- month, the municipality launched riously referred to as the father Haq died in a mysterious plane a visionary transporter with a side- ninth, tenth and 16th municipal ly and they depict the picture of a the painting campaign and nearly of the Taliban . In a BBC inter- crash in August 1988, which paved line in TV talk. New advocacy districts and was expected to be war zone and are visible from long 2000 houses would be painted in view in 2010, Gen. Gul famously the ground for first elections in Many senior Pakistani politi- completed until the advent of win- distances and need to be painted, the Deh Afghanan area until Eidul said: America is history, Karzai Pakistan in more than a decade. cians, including Prime Minister group created ter. Thousands of homes have been he said. The municipality official Adha, he said. It is good, but it is history, the Taliban are the fu- Gen. Gul played a key role in in- Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Te- built on mountains and mounds in said the purpose of the painting should not forcefully done, said a ture. Born in Sargodha on Nov fluencing those events and was hreek e Insaf chief Imran Khan, to help protect Kabul. Ullomi said during the cam- campaign was not only to beauti- resident of Hamzang area, Moham- 20, 1936, Gen. Gul joined the Pa- even accused of rigging the 1988 paid tributes to Gen. Gul. paign, everyone in living these fy the city but also to remove fears mad Shafique, while commenting kistan Army in 1954. In the 1965 election to prevent Benazir Bhut- However, in Afghanistan, the journalists houses was being asked to paint from people s hearts to some ex- on the painting campaign. war against India, he served as a to s Pakistan People s Party (PPP) condolences irked all and sundry. front walls of their houses and if tent. He said his department had He said those lacking money tank commander and was awarded from coming into power. By his In a statement posted on Twit- Members of the Afghan Journal- the owners did not have money to been encouraging for the last five to paint their houses should be Sitara-i-Jurat by Pakistani govern- own admission, he played a key ter, former foreign minister Ershad ist Safety Committee (AJSC) an- do so, they were introduced to the years houses and multiple-storey assisted because there were fami- ment. Between 1968 and 1969, he role in creating Islami Jamhoori It- Ahmadi wrote: And finally the nounced the formation of a new municipality through the local buildings owners to paint their lies in Kabul who could not afford received training from the staff tehad (IJI), a centre-right coalition real Mullah Omar has died in the advocacy group on Saturday. The council. properties in order to change the treatment and buying medicines for college in Quetta and served as a headed by Nawaz Sharif against resort town of Murree. group, composed of both journal- Without going into details, the city s outlook and they had done their children. (Pajhwok) battalion commander from 1972 to Bhutto s PPP. After his retire- Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman in ists and civil society activists, will 1976. In 1978, he was promoted ment, he began propounding vari- the Ministry of Interior Affairs, be charged with reviewing and to the rank of brigadier. In early ous conspiracy theories. Once a called him the father of Taliban . evaluating the National Unity 1980s, he was appointed the com- close ally of American spy agency Gen Hamid Gul former ISI Government's (NUG) policies mander of Multan Corp s and also CIA, he turned fiercely against the Chief and the father of Taliban is toward journalism and members served as martial law administra- U.S. and became an apologist for dead, he created Taliban and was of the media. The group's tor in Pakistani city of Baha- Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He had behind terror created by Taliban founders emphasized that a num- walpur. His brief stint as the chief an uncanny penchant for contro- till last day, he posted on Twit- ber of the promises and commit- of ISI came at a crucial time when versies. Earlier this year, he said ter. ments made by NUG leaders dur- ing their electoral campaigns have not been fulfilled. "NUG leaders OPERATION "IRON TRIANGLE" committed that they would try to prevent violence against jour- nalist, but the statistics from our demonstrates ANDSF capability: RS journalist supporting institutions have shown an increase in vio- The Resolute Support (RS) mis- Deputy Chief of Staff for Opera- lence against journalists," AJSC sion officials in Afghanistan praised tions. "This is probably the best member Fahim Dashti said on Sat- the Afghan National Defense and we've seen this level of coopera- urday. "The NUG leaders prom- Security Forces (ANDSF) for con- tion of any operation to date this ised that they would address cas- ducting a successful operation in year." In addition, Buchanan said es of murdered journalists that the east of the country which the Daesh which is growing in Af- have not been addressed over the mission said demonstrated the ca- ghanistan was a global threat. He past 14 years," Dashti added. pability of Afghan forces. Con- however said the extremist group "The perpetrators should be ducted in eastern Nangarhar to dis- was different from what it is in brought to justice, but it has still rupt Taliban and Daesh networks, Iraq and Syria where the group not happened yet." Muzhgan the operation, termed "Iron Trian- has seized large cities. "I think Mustafawi, the a deputy at the gle," demonstrated the capability Daesh worldwide poses a signifi- were cleared of insurgents, the Ministry of Information and Cul- of the Afghan forces in working cant strategic threat. Clearly the ture (MoIC), has said that the together as a national security center of that threat has been in damaged roads were reconstruct- ed and a large number of Impro- government will soon form a com- force, the mission said in a state- Iraq and Syria and ... it continues mittee dedicated to eliminating ment on Saturday. "There's been to grow over northern Africa. "I vised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were cleared throughout the oper- violence against journalists, and great cooperation between the would say it is just starting to grow that it will work in coordination army and the police. They've come here and the exact look of Daesh ation. The Afghan deputy interior minister, Gen. Ayoub Salangi, and with the new advocacy group. together for decisions about what might not be the same in Afghani- Members of the Afghan media in- to do, and then they employ the stan or Pakistan that it is in Iraq the Afghan Army Chief Gen. Qad- am Shah Shahim also accompanied dustry have expressed optimism right tool to have the best possible and Syria but make no mistake about the new group, despite the effect, whether it's an army tool or about it, it is a very serious threat," Buchanan in visiting different corps participating in the opera- obvious challenge it has ahead of a police tool," said Maj. Gen. Jef- Buchanan said. According to the it. (Tolonews) frey Buchanan, Resolute Support's statement, a number of villages tion, it added. The Afghanistan Cricket Board on the heels of last week's report (ACB) and the United Nations that despite an injection of millions Afghanistan Children's Fund (UNICEF) on of dollars into the health sector, Sunday signed a memorandum of Afghanistan still lags behind in understanding (MoU) to support stamping out the polio virus defeats the polio vaccination campaign in which has been eradicated across the country. the globe except in Afghanistan Under the two-year MoU, and Pakistan. Pakistan to UNICEF will pay $230,000 USD Health officials said on for ACB to let national cricketers Wednesday that no polio case has take part in the polio vaccination been reported in Africa for a year, win snooker campaign across the country. putting Nigeria on course for be- UNICEF office in Kabul says ing dropped from the list of polio- that 90 percent of the polio vacci- endemic countries. (Tolonews) doubles nation campaign has been complet- ed in Afghanistan, but they have called on the national cricket team Farmers in championship to help with the last leg. "We look at this partnership north get as a continuation of the partner- ship that we had last year where Afghan cricketers will talk about irrigation polio whenever they are in the community and make sure that equipment children are completely protect- ed," said Dr. L.N. Balaji, Deputy KABUL : The Ministry of Agri- Representative, UNICEF. culture Livestock and Irrigation He said: "Not only are the (MALI) has distributed 388 sets cricketers representing the nation- of irrigation tools among farmers al team but all cricketers through- in northern provinces of the coun- out the country can really rise to try, an official said on Sunday. the occasion and make sure that The irrigation tools had been the polio vaccination is carried out distributed free of cost to the farm- from door-to-door to every child." ers under the National Horticul- Afghanistan's Saleh Mohammad Mohammadi and "Today is the launch of Na- ture and Livestock Projects, Ah- Ezmarai Hasas claimed the Two-Player Snooker tional Immunization Day for a mad Fahim Jabbari, the project Championship title in Karachi on Saturday after major campaign throughout the coordinator said. defeating their Pakistani opponents 5-3. country and we believe that this is He said 75 sets of irrigation The snooker championship was attended by the right time to spread the mes- tools had been distributed to the more than 70 players, representing 18 different sage around that no child should farmers in Balkh, 96 in Jawzjan, countries. "After defeating India, we made our way be left without the polio vaccine 55 in Samangan, 80 in Faryab, and to semifinals, and in the first semifinal, the Paki- in the country," he added 100 in Sar-i-Pul province to farm- stani players defeated Britain and entered the fi- The ACB Chairman, Nasimul- ers who were facing with difficul- nal," Snooker Federation head Mohammad Aziz lah Danish, said they will fight ties in irrigating of their farmlands. Azami explained on Saturday. polio in Afghanistan with the help Shamsul Haq, the resident of The two-player final match was close, but, ac- of national players. "The money Shulgar district in Balkh province, cording to Azami, Afghanistan's players were "su- which we receive from UNICEF said earlier the irrigation of farm- perior" to their Pakistani opponents. will be spent on our matches." lands was expensive but distribu- Although Afghanistan proved victorious in the he added that the cricketers tion of new tools would help save two-player games, in the larger team games, Af- were eager to help eradicate the money and time of those working ghanistan lost after making to the round of eight. disease in the country. This comes in their fields. 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.

MONDAY. AUGUST 17, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Helmand governor wants SECURITY RAMPED UP Security forces have managed to retake most parts of the Nawzad district from insurgents in military operations in which 77 insurgents have been killed Gen Raziq AT Monitoring Desk ed that security forces have man- the past three weeks all schools aged to recapture most parts of the and hospitals have been closed by KABUL: Chairing a high-level district. He blamed Pakistan s mil- the Taliban. We are facing massive meeting of security officials, Mir- itary interference for the ongoing problems, one of the residents of za Khan Rahimi, the governor of fighting in Nawzad district. He Nawzad said. KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai talking to NATO s Senior Civilian Helmand province directed secu- furthered that Pakistan has been Nabi Jan Mullakhil, Helmand Representative in Afghanistan, Ismail Aramaz, here on Sunday. Karzai and rity forces to make last ditch ef- using local and foreigner fighters Police Chief has said that the se- Aramaz discussed current situation in Afghanistan and the region. forts to improve law and order sit- to fuel insecurity in the district and curity forces have been caught up uation in the province. He added take control of the northern dis- in clashes with the insurgents for that he would personally observe trict of Helmand province. He 21 days in this district but after EMERGENCY Key Taliban leader security situation of the province added that Pakistan and the mili- reinforcements arrived from Kan- CALLS and take notice of security vacu- tants would never succeed in their dahar province, the security forc- held in Badghis um. If any security officials are evil designs. More impute from es were able to re-take control of found guilty of dereliction, they TOLONews Agency: most of parts of the district. Police AT Monitoring Desk would be fired without giving any Abdullah Hamim, TOLOnews Army officials said that their notice , he said. KABUL: A senior Taliban leader reporter who visited the battle field troops had played a key role in 100 - 119 This came at a time when 77 in Nawzad, said that most of the the operation. was arrested and six other mili- Taliban insurgents have been killed tants were killed in Badghis prov- local residents have been displaced Our security forces which are in 21 days of fighting in Nawzad due to insecurity and the ongoing police, military and National Di- Hospitals ince. The Ministry of Interior fol- district of southern Helmand prov- lowing in a press statement said battle in the district. Hamim re- rectorate of Security (NDS) have ince. And also at least 100 other ports that he only saw a few resi- worked together and ousted insur- FMIC Hospital that Mawlawi Salam, a senior Tal- insurgents were wounded. iban leader was arrested in an op- cation drive and make sure their dents in Nawzad and that the Tal- gents from Nawzad, Gen. Dadan Behind Kabul Medical AT News Report Soon the Nawzad district iban have closed all schools and Lawang, commander of the 215th eration conducted by security forc- children receive the vaccine. He would be cleared of insurgents, University: es in western Badghis province. It KABUL: A 3-day anti-polio vac- said that the drops are essential the hospitals in the district. Maiwand Corps said. However, cination drive kicked off to admin- Gen. Abdul Raziq, Kandahar Po- Most of the residents of this the officials did not providing de- 0202500200-+93793275595 further added that six insurgents for protecting children against the lice Chief said. Gen Raziq who is were also wounded. The Afghan ister polio drops to around nine viral disease. He said that all-out district have fled due to the war tails about the casualties of the leading the war in the district add- and have gone to other parts. In security forces. forces also captured tow motor- million under five year old chil- efforts should be made to eradi- Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital bikes belonging to the insurgents, dren across the country. cate the crippling disease from the the statement said. The military During inauguration of the country. Pule Bagh-e- Umomi operations against insurgents were campaign, the Minister of Public A multibillion dollar immuni- 10,000 km of APSU bans import of 070263672 conducted in Qadis and Ab Kama- Health Firuzuddin Firoz, said that zation campaign over the past few ri districts of the province, state- they will also provide Vitamin-A decades has made most of the roads ment added without give details drops to around two million chil- world polio-free. However, the Pakistani medicines Khairkhana Hospital about the casualties of security dren during the campaign. He called crippling disease remains endemic ASPHALTED KABUL: The Afghanistan Phar- tained. forces. The Taliban insurgents not on families to cooperate with vac- in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Ni- macists Services Union (APSU) He said Central Asian Coun- 0799-321007 commented on the incident so far. cinators during the anti-polio va- geria. on Sunday announced ban on im- tries and others would be ap- 2401352 COUNTRYWIDE port of Pakistani manufactured proached for importing of medi- KABUL : The Public Works Min- medicines as a protest against what cine in order to manage the short- ister on Saturday said more than they alleged Islamabad s sustained age of drugs in the country. Indira Gandhi Children Strategy be worked out to 10,000 kilometres of roads had support militants groups carry- He said amount $400 million been reconstructed across the coun- ing out attacks in Afghanistan. medicine had been imported from Hospital, Wazir Akbar try at a cost of $8 billion, but the In the backdrop of recent ter- Pakistan annually and its ban Khan, Kabul 2301372 regain control of Kunduz areas President s Special Representative rorist attacks, the traders have de- would be a huge economic loss to for reforms and good governance KUNDUZ CITY : Citing officials said Afghanistan still lacked prop- inefficiency after the falloff Dash- er road networks. Speaking at a Ibn-e- Seena ti-i-Archi districts and some other national conference on land trans- Pul-e-Artan, Kabul parts of the northern Kunduz port, Public Works Minister Mah- province to Taliban, Provincial mood Baligh said all the 10,000 2100359 Council (PC) members stressed kilometre roads had been asphalt- that strategy should be worked out ed with the help of the interna- to regain control of the areas, which tional community. He said the gov- Wazir Akbar Khan were under militants sway. It mer- ernment had prioritised building Hospital its mention that Dashti Archi dis- roads and railway lines because 2301741, 2301743 trict had fallen to Taliban last transport played a key role in a month but the government could country s economic development. not take back control of the dis- He, however, said such projects Ali Abad trict. Gortapa, a locality close to needed enormous financial resourc- Kunduz City, the provincial capi- es and time. Ahmad Zia Massoud, Shahrara, Kabul tal, Aqtash area in Khan Abad dis- President Ashraf Ghani s special 2100439 trict and some of areas of Qala-i- representative for reforms and Zal locality were being overrun by good governance, said insufficient militants. Mohammad Yousuf work had been done to improve Malalai Maternity Ayubi, head of Kunduz PC, said the country s road infrastructure. The geographical location of our cided to stop import of medicines the neighboring country. Hospital that officials concerned did not from Pakistan, Abdul Khaliq Khan Jan Alkozai, deputy di- demonstrate efficiency to keep the country requires more investment in the road sector. This network Zazai Watandost told reporters rector of Afghanistan Chamber of 2201377/ 2301743 law and order under control. I said that local forces could not be around 15,000 or 50,000 Afghani. here in Kabul. Commerce and Industries (ACCI), have tried many times to tell offi- can connect different parts of the able to take control back of areas if Another source said that more than country and serve as a link to many No doubt Pakistani Inter- welcomed the decision and said the cials that we should not give up the central government did not pro- one hundred families have been liv- Services Intelligence (ISI) was be- ACCI would support the APSU Banks any part of the area, but no one regional countries, he remarked. vide strong backing. A number of res- ing in the area and each family was Massoud said corruption in the hind recent bloodbath in Kabul. in this regard. He said Afghanistan bothered to hear my complaints, idents of Dasht-i- Archi district told forced to give 150 Afghani to Tal- ministries of transport and public The ban on Pakistani medicine imported 40 percent of its required Da Afghanistan Bank he recalled. He acknowledged that Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban iban. Zar Gul Alami, Kunduz PC works in the past had affected the meant to build pressure on Islam- medicines from Pakistan and the 2100302, 2100303 the central government sent them were forcing them to join Taliban deputy head, said that thousands country s transport system. He abad to stop interfering in Afghan- ACCI had tried to find the alterna- reinforcements to launch a decisive ranks. A resident of the locality who of families have shifted from vil- said despite $8 billion expenditure istan s affairs, Watandost main- tive. (Pajhwok) Kabul Bank anti-militants operation in the Tal- wished to go unnamed said that in- lages to safer areas, but the central on the transport system, the coun- iban s infested areas but the offen- surgents have assigned their agent in and provincial government did not try still lacked proper road infra- 222666, 070285285 sive could not be initiated. Ayubi every masque to collect money support them.(Pajhwok) structure. Mohammadullah Batash, Smooth power supply to the transport and civil aviation Azizi Bank minister, said: Land transport 0799 700900 Badakhshan Taliban extort money, needs utmost attention. We want develop industries: AISA to highlight the challenges through KABUL: Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) demanded Pashtany Bank this conference and to find ways the government to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the vital 2102908, 2103868 harass govt employees out. He said the current transport industrial sector, which would go a long way to ensure progress and FAIZABAD: Militants have tants were active along the road of Taliban. Last week, a woman laws also needed amendments. He prosperity in the country. Currently 27 industrial parks are active blocked main route leading to Shu- between Shuhada and Baharak dis- was hanged by the Taliban for said corruptions in tax collection throughout the country. AISA said 2,500 factories were available in the Air Services hada district in northeastern Bada- tricts extorting money from pas- maintaining illicit relations with a offices at ports were not accept- country but most of them did not get enough electricity that caused khshan province and snatched cash sengers daily. He alleged Taliban man in the Tirgaran district. Due able and he wanted electronic them less production. AISA head Mohammad Qurban Haqjo told a Safi Airways and kinds from passengers and of forcefully collecting Zakat, Ush- to Taliban s control of several ar- weighbridges system to be in- news conference on Sunday that some of industrial parks still lacked government officials traveling on ar and cash from residents and in eas of Shuhada district, the prices stalled. Afghanistan Chamber of electricity and they were provided electricity from residential build- 020 22 22 222 the road, an official said on Sun- this way they equip their fighters of daily use commodities jumped Commerce and Industries deputy ings. Load-shedding causes factories to lose materials, stop production day. Mohammad Maroof Khairkh- with weapons and ammunitions. and residents could not afford to director Khan Jan Alkozai criti- and warming the machine again affects the factory, he said. He said Ariana wa, the town s administrative Recently, Taliban have killed a buy daily use items with high pric- cized both the current and former power cables extended to Pul-i-Charkhi industrial park were laid on the chief, said insurgents had captured policeman and her wife in the area. es. The price of flour surged from governments for not paying heed ground because of Breshan Sherkat negligence. It does not seem all the 020-2100270 dozens of villages in the district Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari, deputy 800 afghanis to 1,500 afghanis, 10 to the development of the land appropriate facilities are available for the park which is needed, he and disconnected the road leading police chief, said that rebels forced liters oil jumped from 600 afgha- transport system. He said the added. Haqjo said the country s industrial sector needed serious atten- to Baharak district. He told Pajh- their way into the house of Noor nis to 1,500 afghanis and the pric- transport laws needed changes tion of the government as without government support the sector would Kam Air wok Afghan News that Taliban Rahman, who served at police es of other items had increased since neighboring countries had be unstable. He demanded the government to reduce power tariff and 0799974422 search passengers and get 50,000 headquarters, and shot him and his manifold. The district chief said: freedom to enter Afghan cities with taxes on factories so they would focus on improving quality of their to 200,000 cash from individuals wife dead. Zafnoon Hasam Natiq, We want the government to em- transit goods while Afghanistan did products and compete with the companies of foreign countries. Haqjo working for government or private director of women affairs, con- power former Mujahidin com- not enjoy the same. He specifical- also expressed concern about industrial parks land grabbing issue and Hotels organizations. In case of refusing demned the act and demanded the manders in the framework of Af- ly mentioned Pakistani trucks that said that most of the industrial areas were changed to residential areas. Safi Landmark to give money to militants, he said arrest of killers involved in the ghan security forces because they entered Afghanistan, saying Af- He did not provide more information about the land grabbing issue. Taliban then start beating and ha- gruesome act.According to the of- were aware of ground realties and ghan lorries did not have the per- Afghanistan Industries Association deputy head Abdul Jabbar Safi also rassing passengers. According to ficial, women and their children could maintain law and order in a mission to enter Pakistan. blamed the government for not supporting factories and said that in- 020-2203131 Khirkhwa, as many as 140 mili- were living in areas under control better way. (Pajhwok) dustries could produce high quality with low price products.(Pajhwok) (Pajhwok) SERENA Insecurity bars PCs from 0799654000 monitoring projects New Rumi Restaurant 0776351347 KABUL: Provincial council members say that growing insecurity have prevented them to evaluate and observe projects implementations and local governance. 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AUGUST 17, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada killed ABU DHABI: Ahead of his talks Minister to visit UAE in 34 years, regional engagement with the UAE said all those countries who be- with the Emirati leadership, Prime will have talks with Sheikh Mo- which reflects the importance that lieve in humanity, must stand to- in Attock suicide blast Minister Narendra Modi has said hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, he attaches to the country, Modi gether without delay as it was ex- the Gulf region is vital for India's Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and said he would like to see a truly tremely necessary to challenge the 30 people present when the blast economic, energy and security in- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al comprehensive strategic partner- forces of terrorism. took place,” district information terests and he wants to see the Maktoum, the vice president and ship evolve between the two coun- "As far as the Indian commu- officer Shahzad Niaz told Reuters. UAE as the foremost partner in Prime Minister of UAE, a day af- tries. nity is concerned, the languages “The roof collapsed.” trade and countering terrorism. ter his arrival here. "I want to see the UAE as our that are spoken in India, are all Rescue workers at the scene Noting that both India and "We have a range of common foremost trade and investment spoken in the UAE! In a manner said eight bodies had been recov- UAE have a range of common se- security and strategic concerns in partner. We would build regular and of speaking, the UAE is a 'Mini ered so far. DSP Hazro Shaukat curity and strategic concerns in the the region, including terrorism and effective cooperation in a full range India'. The way the two commu- Shah was among the dead. A Tali- region, including terrorism and ex- extremism. So India and the UAE of security challenges. Our armed nities work together represents a ban-affiliated militant group, Lash- tremism, the Prime Minister said have everything to be a top prior- forces would engage with each oth- special bond," the Prime Minister kar-e-Islam, claimed responsibili- he is keen to foster a strategic part- ity for each other. This is the way er more. We will work together said. ty for the attack and said it was nership, particularly in the securi- I look at the UAE. The Gulf re- more closely in international fo- He said the Indian community retaliation for military operations ty, energy and investment sectors, gion is vital for India's economic, rums and in addressing regional was not only contributing to the against them, according to Reuters. with the fastest growing Arab econ- energy and security interests," challenges. There are no limits to progress and development of the “Such types of attacks will omy and its visionary and prag- Modi said in an interview to Kha- our relationship," Modi said. host country, but also participat- continue in the future,” Saluddin matic leadership. leej Times newspaper. Asserting that terrorism pos- ing in the economic development Ayubi told Reuters. It was unclear Modi, the first Indian Prime Noting that he has begun his es a grave danger to humanity, he of India through their remittances. if Lashkar-e-Islam, based mainly in the tribal areas along the Afghan border, had actually carried out the attack or was just taking credit for Two arrested over Bangladesh it. Earlier, Punjab Home Depart- ment Secretary Azam Suleman told Punjab Home Minister Col (retd) to be a large bomb, and it had The Express Tribune that Khan- Shuja Khanzada was killed along caused the roof to cave in as Khan- zada was critically injured and blogger Niloy Neel killing with dozens of others in a suicide zada held meetings with support- trapped under debris. blast at his political office in Shadi ers in his hometown of Attock. “From the evidence available, Bangladesh police say they have Khan near Attock on Sunday. Khanzada was trapped under the it seems that it was a suicide blast,” arrested two suspected members Adviser to Punjab CM Shah- rubble along with dozens of oth- Shuja Khanzada’s son said, accord- of a banned Islamist group over baz Sharif, Dr Saeed Elahi, con- ers as the entire structure of his ing to Express News. Further, the killing of atheist blogger Niloy firmed Khanzada’s death. “Home office building collapsed. Khanzada’s nephew appealed to Neel. The two men were suspect- Minister Shuja Khanzada was Rescuers move the body of a Pakistan Army to help with res- ed members of Ansarullah Bangla killed in the suicide blast.” victim from the site of a blast at cue efforts. Police and rescue Team, a militant group accused of Khanzada’s body, recovered Shadi Khan village. PHOTO: AFP teams have reached the site and links to previous attacks on blog- gers, police said. Mr Neel was hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes at his home in the capital Dhaka last week. It was the fourth such killing of a secular blog- ger this year. Police say the two men being held are key suspects in Mr Neel's murder. Mr Neel's at- tackers had tricked their way into his home by saying they were looking to rent a flat. Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government is indifferent to at- tacks on bloggers by Islamist mil- itants. In May, secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was killed by masked men with machetes in Syl- het. He was said to have received death threats from Islamist extrem- ists. In March, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Dhaka. Blogger Avijit Roy, who courted controversy by championing atheism and also tackling issues such as homosexu- ality, was killed in Dhaka in Feb- ruary. from under the rubble along with “The bodies of 14 people have rescue efforts are underway. An Imran urged to 14 other bodies, said RPO Rawal- been pulled out from the rubble,” emergency has been declared in pindi. It was being transferred to Zahid Saeed, the commissioner of hospitals in the twin cities. Fur- expel ‘mafia’ Rafale deal: France says Rawalpindi via helicopter for post- Rawalpindi, told reporters earlier, ther, Inter Services Public Rela- mortem. adding it was a suicide attack. tions said, “Pakistan Army’s spe- from PTI Police said the blast appeared “There were between 20 and cial urban search and rescue teams KARACHI: Justice (retd) Waji- have reached the blast site.” Inte- huddin Ahmed, whose party mem- no to offset, yes to rior Minister Chaudhry Nisar di- bership has been recently sus- pended, has expressed the hope companies would like to be part rected for the provision of helicop- of 'Make in India' initiative. The Mahinda Rajapaksa ters from the Interior Ministry for that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan will expel the ‘mafia’ ‘Make in India’ sources said the offset clause will shifting the injured on an emergen- simply drive up the cost of each cy basis. Meanwhile, Punjab Chief comprising ‘corrupt elements’ plans comeback as from the party. NEW DELHI: The French govern- offset clause be asked when the aircraft. It is not just the offset Minister Shahbaz Sharif took no- ment has rejected Indian negotia- French are offering the fighters at clause that the French are worried tice of the blast and DPO Attock He was talking to reporters at the Karachi airport after returning tors' demand for a 50 per cent off- the same rate at which its Air Force about. Indian Air Force wants to Sri Lanka heads reached the site. Meanwhile, the set clause citing sharp cost escala- is buying," defence sources said. integrate a Israeli helmet mounted Punjab CM has announced three- from Lahore . Rejecting reports of differenc- tion but offered to participate in How Narendra Modi re- display with the Rafale fighter jets day mourning in Punjab over at- 'Make in India' projects to carry worked Rafale deal, and why it's a besides tweaking the weaponry to the polls tack on Shuja Khanzada. Condem- es with the PTI chief and the im- pression that he was creating a fac- forward the talks for 36 Rafale winner They added the French technology so that the aircraft can nations pour in Soon after news of fighter jets that have hit turbulence. have instead offered to undertake fire a missile other than what the Mahinda Rajapaksa is on the otism. The constitutional chang- Khanzada’s death, PM Nawaz tion in the party, he said PTI was campaign trail. In the run-up to a es led to accusations of authori- the party of ideological members Defence sources said India's 'Make in India' initiatives. "The Rafales carry. The missile, sourc- said, “Sacrifices of our brave na- insistence on the offset clause, French can look at the option for es said is of American make. crucial parliamentary election to- tarianism. Even so, few observers tion and valiant heroes like Shuja and it had no room for “corrupt morrow, he is doing what he does predicted victory for Maithripala elements”. tweaking of weaponary technolo- making Falcon business jets in In- "The changes asked for are not Khanzada will destroy terrorist gy and plans to set up two bases dia or even the Rafales for future like changing tyres in cars. It takes best: making speeches, holding Sirisena, who was minister of designs and they will be chased to The retired justice of the Su- children, talking to the elderly health, when he announced he preme Court accused Khyber Pa- for Rafale fighter jets would lead besides other projects," the sourc- time, effort and money, all of their last hideout and eliminated to cost escalation. Offset policy es said, adding the French govern- which will again drive up the cost," and, inevitably these days, grin- would stand against the incum- with national resolve and unity.” khtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz ning for selfies. In Kantale, a small bent president. And few believed Khattak, PTI central organiser Ja- was first introduced as part of the ment has made it clear that their the sources said. “The courage and valour of Defence Procurement Procedure town in the eastern Trincomalee the Rajapaksa clan would go qui- Shuja Khanzada is message to the hangir Khan Tareen, Sindh former district, about 6,000 people have etly if defeated. But Sirisena won PTI president Nadir Akmal (DPP), 2005, under which a for- masterminds of terrorists that they eign company has to invest back a turned out to see the veteran pol- by 6% and the transfer of power are bound to be defeated,” he add- Leghari and Abdul Aleem of run- itician. occurred without problems. The ning the PTI like a “mafia”. portion of the deal into India. ed. The premier reaffirmed the "The 50 per cent offset clause “He is the leader that brought current campaign takes place commitment and determination of He said efforts were being dignity to this country ... we against a background of multiple made to put the party on a right was part of the original tender that the government for pursuing the was floated for 126 fighter jets. could hold our heads high because divisions in the island nation of National Action Plan against ter- path. He said the PTI might lose of him. He took on terrorism and 22m. Not only is there a rift be- the next general elections if action The French President and Indian rorism with full force and directed Prime Minister have now decided was the first leader ever to defeat tween the Sinhala majority and for preemptive security strategy was not taken against the “mafia”. terrorism,” said Chandrasiri Ga- ethnic or religious minorities but Published in Dawn, August to go in for a direct purchase of 36 to counter terrorist planning. Rafale jets. So, how can 50 per cent malath, a 47-year-old paddy there is personal animosity be- PM Nawaz urged law enforce- 16th, 2015 farmer who had traveled 40km tween president Sirisena and his ment agencies to not lower their to see Rajapaksa in action. predecessor – the split within the guards till the elimination of the The stakes are high for Raja- once dominant Sri Lanka Freedom last terrorist. Army chief General paksa, who was ousted as presi- party. There are broader regional Raheel Sharif also condemned the India, US kick off talks on cooperation dent after calling a snap election issues too. Rajapaksa tilted to- attack on Khanzada. “Condemn- in January with the aim of win- wards China in his foreign policy, ing the terrorist attack on Punjab ning a third term. If he, and his pleasing a section of the business home minister, army chief direct- in construction of aircraft carriers numerous relatives, cannot gath- community, but prompting deep ed intelligence agencies to help find er genuine mass support in Mon- concern among others. perpetrators,” DG ISPR Asim NEW DELHI: India has now day’s poll, his comeback bid will The former president is bank- Bajwa said quoting the army chief. kicked off discussions with the US have failed. ing on his nationalist credentials “Such dastardly coward attempts on collaboration in technologies “There is unfinished busi- to propel him back into parlia- can’t dent our national resolve to associated with aircraft carriers, in ness from January. Does the ment at the head of a powerful eliminate the menace. Khanzada a move which comes soon after the country want the Rajapaksas bloc of loyalist MPs. A strong was a bold officer whose sacrifice defence ministry here set the ball back in some shape or form?” showing would allow him to claim for the greater cause of cleansing rolling for construction of the coun- asked Paikiasothy Saravanamut- the post of prime minister, held Pakistan won’t go to waste,” he try's largest-ever warship, the tu, a well-known local analyst. by long-term rival Ranil Wickre- added. Meanwhile, PTI chairman 65,000-tonne INS Vishal. The most recent surveys indicate mesinghe, leader of the United Imran Khan said he was grieved to The India-US joint working only moderate support for the National party. The memory of learn of Khanzada’s death. group on aircraft carrier technolo- 69-year-old candidate. “There the 26-year civil war, which end- Further, President Mamnoon gies met for the first time in the doesn’t appear to be a big ground- ed bloodily in 2009, looms large. Hussain while condemning the sui- US from August 12 to 14, which swell,” Savanaramuttu said. Sri When Rajapaksa, wearing his cide attack on Khanzada said such also saw the Indian delegation led Lanka's president tells Mahinda trademark earth brown shawl and cowardly attacks could not dent by Western Naval Command chief Rajapaksa not to run for parlia- holding a gold cylindrical talisman the resolve of Pakistanis to end the Vice Admiral SPS Cheema visit the ment Rajapaksa came to power in hand, met supporters at a tem- scourge of terrorism and extrem- under-construction supercarrier in 2005, led his country’s mili- ple in Kantale before addressing ism. In a statement, President Gerald Ford at Newport News tary to a bloody victory over vi- the rally in the town, some wept, Mamnoon expressed profound Shipbuilding in Virginia. olent Tamil separatists four years telling Rajapaksa how they had grief and sorrow over the martyr- Aircraft carriers like Ford, later and surfed a wave of popu- lived in fear of their lives during dom of Punjab home minister, say- which will have EMALS (electro- larity among the Sinhala majori- the war. Several described nights ing his martyrdom would not go in magnetic aircraft launch systems) ty to win again in 2010. He then spent in jungles, clutching children vain. He extended his heartfelt con- technology to replace the tradition- had the constitution changed to and hiding in trenches. The former dolences to the bereaved family and al steam catapults for launching Indian navies held candid and open diers. The defence acquisitions important since the country's 56- allow the third term he hoped to president, who has been accused prayed for them to bear this irrep- aircraft, are of special interest to discussions on various aspects of council, chaired by Manohar Par- year-old carrier INS Viraat is slat- win in January. However, alle- by human rights activist of allow- arable loss with courage and forti- India since it wants INS Vishal to aircraft carrier development, in- rikar, had recently sanctioned an ed for retirement next year, which gations of corruption, violent in- ing the Sri Lankan army to com- tude. The president also expressed have similar systems. cluding design, integration, test, initial Rs 30 crore as seed money will leave India with only one op- timidation of political opponents, mit war crimes during the final condolences for other people killed The US embassy, in a state- evaluation, management and over- for the proposed project to con- erational aircraft carrier in the attacks on journalists, growing stages of the civil war, listened in the blast. Punjab Governor Ma- ment here, said the Indian delega- sight of carrier construction," it struct INS Vishal. This second in- shape of INS Vikramaditya. resentment among Tamils and patiently and promised: “Don’t lik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana tion received briefs on the US Na- added. India has asked the US to digenously constructed carrier is The 40,000-tonne indigenous mounting sectarian violence led worry, we will look after you.” In expressed deep sorrow and grief vy's management of aircraft carri- share technology for EMALS de- likely to have nuclear propulsion aircraft carrier or INS Vikrant be- to concern at home and abroad. campaign speeches, Rajapaksa’s over the loss of lives, including er programs, met with senior Pen- veloped by General Atomics un- for greater endurance as well as ing currently built at Cochin Ship- The benefits of economic growth message has been simple: renewed Khanzada’s demise, in the blast, tagon officials, and toured the der the bilateral Defence Trade and CATOBAR (catapult assisted yard will be ready for induction did not reach many poorer, rural civil conflict is inevitable if Wick- according to Radio Pakistan. R&D facilities for aircraft carrier Technology Initiative (DTTI), take-off but arrested recovery) only by 2018-2019. It will take communities, a key support base. remesinghe and his coalition part- Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali launch and recovery systems as a which has so far discussed joint configuration for launching fight- well over a decade to construct INS The appointment of three broth- ners keep power. “You know Shah condemned Khanzada’s kill- first step towards exploring op- production of relatively modest ers as well as heavier aircraft from Vishal, which can kick off only af- ers, a nephew and a son to key what this country was when I took ing and said they will not rest until portunities for cooperation. projects ranging from hand-held its deck, as reported earlier by ter its size, propulsion and the air- posts prompted charges of nep- over in 2005. terrorism is eliminated. "During the JWG, the US and drones to protection gear for sol- TOI. The INS Vishal project is craft it will carry is finalized. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. 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Democratic presidential hopeful Jeb Bush blamed Clinton for al- News-in-Brief Hillary Clinton returned fire Satur- lowing the brutal emergence of ISIS day at her Republican rival Jeb by withdrawing troops from Iraq Bush’s claim that a “premature” too fast. “That premature with- Indonesian passen- U.S. pullout from Iraq fueled the drawal was the fatal error, creating rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the void that (ISIS) moved in to ger plane missing Syria (ISIS) group. Clinton served fill,” he told a crowd in California. over Papua region as secretary of state under Presi- “Rushing away from danger can dent Barack Obama during the rise be every bit as unwise as rushing Indonesia's state search and res- of the self-proclaimed ISIS. In 2002, into danger, and the costs have cue agency has reported that it while serving as a U.S. senator from been grievous.” Taking a political has lost contact with an Indo- New York, Clinton voted in favor risk, Bush even suggested it might nesian aircraft. of authorizing the invasion of Iraq be necessary to send more troops In a tweet posted on Sun- ordered by Bush’s brother and then- back to Iraq. “Right now, we have day, the National Agency Search president George W. Bush. With around 3,500 soldiers and Marines and Rescue egency said the the war dragging into a protracted, in Iraq, and more may well be need- Trigana Air flight had 54 pas- costly and unpopular conflict, she ed.” His remarks dredged up a bit- sengers on board. The plane was later called her decision a mistake. ter debate that has long bubbled in reported to be an ATR-42 mod- “I find it somewhat curious that Washington and that has tarnished el. The passengers include 44 Jeb Bush is doubling down on de- his brother’s legacy. A wildly suc- adults, two children, three tod- fending his brother’s actions in cessful invasion of Baghdad was dlers and five crew members. Iraq,” Clinton said on the campaign followed by a ham-fisted occupa- According to the tweet, the air- trail in Iowa. “If he’s going to do tion that fueled brutal sectarian vi- craft lost contact while flying that, he needs to present the entire olence and left the central govern- over the remote eastern Papua picture,” she argued. “And the en- ment debilitated. In addition to region at 2:55pm local time. Al tire picture as you know, includes being a point of contention be- Jazeera's Step Vaessen, report- the agreement that George W. Bush tween Republicans and Democrats, ing from Jakarta, said the plane made with the (Nuri al-) Maliki the conflict may have also cost was scheduled to land at a small government in Iraq that set the end Clinton the 2008 Democratic nom- airport in Oksibil at around of 2011 as the date to withdraw ination to anti-war candidate 3pm local time (06:00 GMT). American troops.” On Tuesday, Barack Obama. Oksibil is a remote town near the country's border with Pap- ua New Guinea. She said re- ports indicated that "the weath- Rescuers work er was very bad" in Papua at Iraq’s Abadi orders commanders to face trial to clear China the time the plane was in the air. The search operation has Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al- blast site of been suspended as night fell in Abadi approved on Sunday an in- the region and will resume on vestigative council's decision to chemicals before Monday morning, Vaessen refer military commanders to a said. The government said it is court martial for abandoning their rain falls coordinating with other author- positions in the battle against ISIS ities to implement the search militants in Ramadi. TIANJIN: Chinese soldiers and operation. "We are not sure The announcement came as rescue workers in gas masks and what happened to the plane yet Abadi pushes ahead with a sweep- hazard suits searched for toxic and we are coordinating with ing reform campaign aimed at com- materials in China's port of Tian- local authorities," transport bating corruption and mismanage- jin on Sunday as Premier Li Ke- ministry spokesman JA Bara- ment in the biggest shake-up in the qiang arrived to offer condolenc- ta told the AFP news agency. governing system since the U.S. es, days after explosions flattened "The weather is currently very military occupation. part of a national development bad there, it is very dark and Ramadi, the capital of west- zone. cloudy. It is not conducive for ern Anbar province, fell to ISIS The goal is to clear the chem- a search. The area is mountain- militants in May, dampening Bagh- icals before any rain falls, which ous." Small aircraft are com- dad's hopes of quickly routing could create further toxic gas. The monly used for transport in re- them from the country's north and death toll rose to 112 from mote, mountainous Papua, and west following earlier victories in Wednesday's disaster, which sent bad weather has caused several eastern provinces. massive yellow and orange fire- accidents in recent years. On The army's collapse in June balls into the sky, hurled burning Wednesday, a Cessna propel- 2014 in the face of ISIS's takeover debris on to a vast industrial area, ler plane operated by Indone- of the northern city of Mosul left crumpled cars and shipping con- sian company Komala Air the Baghdad government depen- tainers, burnt out buildings and crashed in Papua's Yahukimo dent on Shi'ite Muslim militias, shattered windows of nearby district, killing one person and many funded and assisted by neigh- apartments. seriously injuring the five oth- boring Iran, to defend the capital The number of missing rose ers on board. Officials suspect and recapture lost ground. to 95, most of them fire fighters, that crash was caused by bad Critics blamed the military's state media said, suggesting the weather. weakness on sectarian splits, cor- toll would rise significantly. More ruption and politics. The fall of mined Abadi's policy of keeping the militias on the sidelines in Anbar, the Sunni heartland, for fear of inflaming sectarian tensions. The militias are than 720 people remained in hos- Turkish PM sheds Ramadi nearly a year later under- now fighting alongside the security forces in many places. pital. Officials acknowledged the presence of toxins but said they tear for soldier killed posed no risk to people outside a in ISIS gunfight two-km evacuation zone sur- Houthis retreat rounding the blast area. "I can Syrian refugees register responsibly say that there will be Turkey’s Prime Minister no secondary damage to the peo- Ahmed Davutoglu fought back ple," Shi Luze, the chief of staff tears at an event in Ankara as on ship sent by Greece from southern of the People's Liberation Army's he spoke about a soldier recent- Beijing Military Region, told re- ly killed by the Islamic State of porters, referring to people out- Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In a video side the zone. Shi confirmed the posted on Turkish newspaper Yemeni city presence of more than 100 tons Hurriyet Daily News’s web- of deadly sodium cyanide, stored site, Davutoglu’s voice de- at two separate sites. He said scends into a more somber tone Houthi militias retreated from the workers were trying to clear the as he begins to talk about the southern city of Taez, the Yemeni Osama bin area of chemicals before possible soldier. “I can’t forget how the Popular Resistance said on Satur- Laden's young- rain showers, which could create respected wife of that brave day, following clashes with the toxic gas. Fire crews were criti- person, Yalçin Nane, welcomed Iran-backed militiamen. est son 'calls cized for using water to douse us to their home without shed- Resistance fighters took over flames in the initial fire which ding any tears and telling us that the municipality building and the for attacks on may have contributed to the - God willing - her baby will residence of deposed leader Ali blasts, given the volatile nature also serve the country after, Abdulla Saleh following the retreat the West' of the chemicals involved. Green- God willing, he or she is born,” of militias loyal to the former pres- peace said tests around the blast the PM said at an event mark- ident and Houthis, Al Arabiya re- Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza, site showed that water supplies ing the 14th anniversary of his ported. has called for attacks on the West were not severely contaminated party’s establishment. Nane The Iran-allied militias also in a message released by al-Qae- was killed during the first fire with cyanide, but that they did retreated from the southern gover- da, The Telegraph reported . In not "disprove the presence of exchange between the Turkish norates of Aden, Shabwah, Aby- the audio message that was military and ISIS militants on other hazardous chemicals in the an, Lahejj, and Dalea , all of which shared on Twitter, a man al-Qae- water". "Greenpeace reiterates its July 23. “We don’t get tired now under the control of Yemeni da claim is Hamza calls for at- even when we work day and tacks against America and its al- call for authorities to implement armed forces and resistance fight- a comprehensive survey of haz- night. But when we hear the ers. Fighting between the Popular lies, specifically mentioning Lon- voice of a martyred soldier’s don, Washington, Paris and Tel ardous chemicals currently Resistance, allied with Yemeni present in air and water supplies mother or father on the phone, President Abdrabbu Mansour Aviv as targets. Scores of Syrian refugees who re- ry, an AFP journalist said, though sion between migrant groups, some and make public all information," then everything stops at that Hadi, and the Houthis moved to The message is believed to be cently arrived on the Greek island it was unclear whether they could 20 Iraqis at the entrance to the har- it said. moment,” Davutoglu said, ac- of Kos began registering early Sun- be received immediately. Syrians, bor protested, demanding to be al- Al Baydaa and continues to rage the first message from Hamza bin cording to Hurriyet Daily. The in the country’s central governor- Laden, who is thought to be 23 In an earlier statement, the day on a ship sent by the govern- most of who have been living rough lowed onto the ship for speedier environmental organization urged following video, courtesy of ment following tensions over a on Kos while waiting for permis- processing. ates, according to Al Arabiya. or 24 years old. According to the Hurriyet Daily News, shows The Yemen conflict escalated report this is not the first indica- the government to establish a huge influx of arrivals. sion to leave for Athens, would be Earlier this week, about 2,000 five-km (three-mile) evacuation Davutoglu addressing members The Eleftherios Venizelos, allowed to stay on the ferry refugees and immigrants were re- in March when a Saudi-led, Amer- tion that Hamza bin Laden, who zone. China evacuated residents of his party. docked in Kos since Friday, will throughout their registration pro- located to a football stadium. Over- ican-supported coalition began is reportedly bin Laden's young- be moored for about two weeks, cess, Nanou told AFP. whelmed police beat them with launching airstrikes against Houthi est son, had joined al-Qaeda's who had taken refuge in a school Germany says situa- officials say. Officials on board will "We hope the procedure will truncheons and sprayed fire extin- militias and their allies - troops ranks. Hamza is believed to have near the site of the blasts on Sat- register Syrians who are already be smoother now. We just want to guishers during a scuffle on Tues- loyal to deposed leader Ali Abdul- taken part in attacks in Pakistan urday after a change in wind di- tion in eastern on the island as well as any new- be registered so we can leave to day. Since then, the number of mi- lah Saleh - who control the capital, and Afghanistan 2005. Letters rection prompted fears that toxic Ukraine ‘explosive’ comers, regardless of nationality, Athens," said Mohammad from grants on the island has decreased Sanaa, and much of northern Ye- found in Osama bin Laden's Ab- chemical particles could be blown according to UN refugee agency Syria's divided city of Aleppo who from some 7,000 to some 2,500, men. bottabad compound also suggest- inland. It was not clear from me- dia reports how many people BERLIN: Calling the situation spokeswoman Stella Nanou. refused to disclose his family name. according to Greek police. Hun- They are pitted against south- ed that he was being grooming to A group of migrants who had Non-Syrians already on the island dreds of refugees could be seen ern fighters, local and tribal mili- be bin Laden’s successor. It is un- were evacuated, but the order in eastern Ukraine "explosive", came as a fire broke out again that Germany's foreign minister just been rescued at sea were must register with police, UNH- leaving Kos on a ferry to Athens tias, Sunni Islamic militants and known where Hamza was at the brought to the entrance of the fer- CR's Nanou said. In a sign of ten- on Saturday. loyalists of the exiled Hadi. time . day at the blast site, a warehouse urged both parties in the con- specially designed to store dan- flict to come together quickly gerous chemicals, according to for talks to prevent a spiral in Xinhua. Some 6,300 people have violence. In a newspaper in- been displaced by the blasts. terview on Sunday, Frank- Libya urges Arab airstrikes against ISIS Shockwaves were felt by resi- Walter Steinmeier said he had dents in apartment blocks kilo- proposed in talks with his meters away in the city of 15 Ukrainian and Russian coun- Libya’s internationally recognized been based in eastern Libya since trol of Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown. outdated warplanes and helicop- Arabia launched air strikes in Ye- government has asked fellow Arab losing control of the capital Tri- Both governments have conduct- ters from the Gaddafi era and lack- men in late March in an effort to million people. About 100 peo- terparts that Kiev and pro- ple from a residential area near Russian separatists sit down states to conduct airstrikes against poli a year ago to a rival group, ed air strikes against ISIS in Sirte ing precision guns. It was not clear stop the Iran-allied Houthi move- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria which set up its own administra- in recent days but their capabili- how Arab states would respond. ment spreading across the coun- the blast site protested outside a urgently with representatives hotel where a government press from the OSCE (Organisation (ISIS) in the coastal city of Sirte, a tion. Neither government has con- ties are very limited, relying on An Arab coalition led by Saudi try from the north. cabinet statement said on Satur- briefing was held, angry that dan- for Security and Cooperation gerous chemicals had been stored in Europe) to try to reduce ten- day night. In the past few days, ISIS has near their homes. gerous chemi- sions. "The situation in east- cals will harm my health," said ern Ukraine is explosive," he crushed a revolt by a Salafist Mus- lim group and armed residents try- Zhang Yinbao, who works in the told the Bild am Sonntag. chemical industry and whose "There is a lot at stake. If both ing to break its grip on the city. Dozens of people have been killed, n aircraft, apartment building is only 800 parties in the conflict don't re- meters from the blast site. For a turn to the peace process, a according to residents.The fight- ing typifies chaos in Libya, where warehouse the size of the one that new military escalation spiral belonging to two rival governments and parlia- exploded, that's closer to a resi- could be triggered at any time." ments, together with an assortment the interna- dential area than allowed under A peace deal signed in mid- of Islamists, tribesmen and armed laws that deal with the storage of February in the Belarus capi- groups, are battling for control of dangerous materials, according to tal Minsk has eased but not cities and regions, four years after tionally recognised state media reports. "From a le- ended the violence in eastern the ousting of veteran leader Mua- gal perspective it's unreasonable Ukraine, with Kiev and rebels mmar Qaddafi. “Libya’s tempo- Libyan pro-gov- that dangerous chemicals would trading blame over the past rary government urges... the Arab be so close," Zhang said, calling week for repeated violations brother states...to conduct air ernment forces, for a thorough investigation and of a ceasefire. Last Monday, strikes against positions of the compensation. Emotional family Ukraine accused the separat- Daesh terrorist group in Sirte,” a flies over Benghazi. members of missing fire fighters - ists of carrying out the heavi- cabinet statement said. Daesh is 85 of the 95 people missing - also est artillery attacks on govern- an acronym for ISIS, which has protested, marching to district ment positions near the port exploited a security vacuum to ex- government offices where they city of Mariupol in half a year. pand in Libya as it did in Syria and scuffled with police, desperate for Iraq. The official government has answers, before being dispersed. 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. SUNDAY .AUGUST 16, 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 The godfather of the Taliban: AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Hamid Gul and his legacy Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] The former head of Pakistan’s ISI has died of a brain hemorrhage near Islamabad. Known as the “godfather of the Taliban,” Hamid Gul remained an Email: [email protected] Islamist ideologue until his death. He leaves behind a dangerous legacy. “Hamid Gul is not dead; he is alive www.afghanistantimes.af in the form of numerous jihadist Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi organizations, including the Tali- ban, and in the Islamist narratives of the Pakistani state that have Advisory editorial board persisted since the 1980s Afghan Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, War. He will live on as long as the Pakistani military continues its Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal anti-India policies and meddles in the Afghan affairs,” a friend of mine Graphic-Designers: said to me over the telephone after the news of Gul’s death broke Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari on Pakistan’s TV channels on Au- gust 15. Lieutenant General Gul, Marketing & Advertising: the former chief of Pakistan’s In- Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 ter-Service Intelligence (ISI) spy agency, was a controversial figure Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan in Pakistan and Afghanistan for his role in the Afghan war against the Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 Soviets and his support of the Tal- Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press iban. A number of historians called him the “father of the Taliban,” but godfather would be more accurate: He didn’t create the group - just nurtured it. In Afghanistan, Gul The constitution says was sometimes called “the butch- er of the Afghans.” While the Af- Article 31: ghan and Pakistani liberals rejoice In criminal cases, the state shall appoint a defense attorney for the indigent. Confidentiality of conversations, correspondence, and communications between the accused and their attorney shall be secure from any kind of violation. The duties and powers of defense attorneys shall be regulated by law. has passed away, yet his legacy of The situation had deteriorated the army still persist. While some helping transform Pakistan into a to an extent that when the Taliban military generals think that a ‘dou- terrorist haven will live on,” Ghaf- emerged as a force, most Afghans ble game’ with the West - kill some far Husain, a UK-based countert- had no choice but to welcome Taliban and save some - is a good errorism expert, wrote on Face- them, Sulehria added. strategy, people like Gul wanted book. Sulehria said, however, that Islamabad to support Islamists Gul and the Taliban Gul was not the founder of the wholeheartedly.” Hamid Gul re- Gul served the ISI as its chief Taliban: “Gul was supporting the mained close to the Afghan and from 1987 to 1989, when the US- warlord Gulbeddin Hikmetyar Pakistani Taliban until his death backed Afghan jihad against the against former Presidents Dr. Na- The ISI’s relations with the Soviet Union was in its last stag- jibullah (1987-92) and Burhanud- United States and its Central In- es. The Islamists hail him as an din Rabbani (1992-96). He only telligence Agency further deterio- Hamid Gul is dead but yes Afghan war hero who led the mu- started backing the Taliban when rated after the assassination of al jahedeen, or holy warriors, to a they became stronger as a move- Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in historic victory over the Soviets. ment,” he said, adding that it was the Pakistani city of Abbottabad in Gul’s death, many in Pakistan While the US turned its back on the former civilian prime minister in 2011. The ties had remained dif- his legacy is alive are mourning his demise. He was Afghanistan and Pakistan after the Benazir Bhutto and her interior ficult throughout the past decade. not just a former ISI head, he was withdrawal of Soviet troops from minister, Naseerullah Babar, who The United States repeatedly ac- Yet another goon is gone. Pakistan’s former spy master, Lieutenant Gen. (Retd), also an ideologue to Pakistan’s con- Afghanistan, Gul and his ISI con- were behind the creation of the cused the Pakistani military and servative sections, right-wing jour- tinued to work to install a Paki- Taliban. the ISI of backing some factions of Hamid Gul, died on Saturday night of brain hemorrhage at the age of 79. He is no nalists, the madrassa clerics and stan-friendly government in Kab- ‘Taliban are our people’ the Taliban, a charge Islamabad has more. But yes, the mindset, he and his ilk, has engineered is still alive and spreading students, and a powerful faction ul. As a deadly civil war broke out Gul became active in Pakistani always denied. of the Pakistani army. in Pakistan’s neighborhood, the ISI politics in the late 1990s. His rela- Till his death, Gul remained a quite fast. He stands for the godfather of the monsters and the insane. The five evils “Hamid Gul is relatively less- backed a number of Islamist groups tions with his former institution fierce critic of US policies in Af- who collectively start the game of death and destruction in Afghanistan are no more. er known than General Zia-ul-Haq, to fight against pro-India or pro- deteriorated after General Pervez ghanistan and Pakistan. As an Is- the military dictator at the time of Russia factions. Musharraf decided to side with the lamist ideologue, he put his weight But what they collectively engineered is still haunting Afghanistan and this region. the Afghan war, but his role was “Gul and the ISI did not let US effort to topple the Taliban behind numerous jihadi organiza- as damaging as Haq’s,” Arshad any Afghan government to succeed government in Kabul after the Sep- tions and believed that Pakistan Pakistan’s former interior minister, General Naseerullah Babar in an interview to a Mahmood, an Islamabad-based after the departure of the Soviet tember 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Afghanistan needed an Islamic journalist, Farhad Ali Khawar, said that he was invited by the then Prime Minister activist, told DW. “He was re- forces,” Farooq Sulehria, a Paki- on the World Trade Center and regime for a lasting peace in the sponsible for destroying Afghani- stani researcher and journalist in Pentagon. “Pakistan’s alliance with region. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto where he was told that the Durand Line Agreement was expiring stan, and his legacy for Pakistan is London, told DW. “It was one of the US against the Taliban irked “The Taliban are our people. in 1993 therefore Afghanistan must be destabilized to divest it of the power to de- equally pernicious. The Afghans the worst periods in the history of many former army generals who They are angry at us, but we can hate him, and rightly so.” Afghanistan, and Gul was its ar- had supported the Islamists,” Sule- get them back on our side,” Gul mand its lost territory from Durand Line to the Indus River. Babar told the journalist Gul’s role in spearheading an chitect.” hria said. “These divisions within once said in a TV interview. Islamist insurgency in Indian-ad- that they burnt Afghanistan to such an extent that even the former USSR caught fire ministered Kashmir is also well- of it. “Now Afghanistan will never have the prowess to demand for reclaiming the documented. New Delhi holds him responsible for diverting militants lost area and the abolition of the Durand Line agreement, and that’s the service I and arms from the Afghan war to have done for Pakistan,” he told the journalist. He also said that a few young Af- Srinagar toward the end of his job as spy chief in 1989. ghans were brought to Bala Hisar Fort where he gave them some money and 303 A territorial dispute over the rifles. Now the government of Afghanistan must launch an investigation who were northern Kashmir region has been going on between India and Paki- invited to Bala Hisar Fort in Peshawar? How they were trained in Chirat? How they stan for over six decades, with both were given hundreds of rifles. And who were the first Afghans who went to Pakistan nuclear-armed countries claiming the territory in its entirety. India and came back as rebels and started the game of destabilization? If they are alive and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir since their they must apologize for what they have done to their nation and if they are in the list independence from Britain in of ‘no more’ their families must apologize to the nation. 1947. Following his retirement, Gul When General Babar, General Akhtar Abd-ur-Rehman, General Zia, and Gen- became a security expert and could eral Tikka Khan, were busy in destroying Afghanistan and writing the script of Af- be seen on television defending both the Taliban and Kashmiri mil- ghan war, they were actually serving Pakistan, but what for those Afghans fought itants. He was frequently invited who went to Pakistan and came back equipped with weapons? General Zia, Bhut- by the Islamist parties to their anti- West rallies. to, General Akhtar, General Babar, and Lieutenant Gen. Hamid Gul are the five evils “A man responsible for much responsible for the death and destruction in Afghanistan, but the government must chaos and bloodshed in the world Gen Hamid Gul during the days of Afghan Jehad. name those Afghans as well who were the first ones who acted as Pakistan’s pro- tégés and set their very own homeland on fire. Bhutto was hanged by his own General. Zia and Akhtar burnt in the air in a jet crash incident. And then Hamid Gul emerged on the scene. He extended the game of bloodshed. And even after his retirement he remained very much instrumental in nurturing militancy not only in Afghanistan, but at home, and in Indian-administered Kashmir. Whenever there is talk on terrorism, Mujahideen, al-Qaeda, and Taliban, the name Zia and Hamid Gul Public demand come to one’s mind all of a sudden. Though, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other members of the ruling elite showered him with tributes after his death, however, liberal, democratic and secular forces have started lashing at him for being instrumental in nurturing sectarianism and undermining democracy. So, he is not only hated in Afghanistan but in his own homeland. Since he belonged to the powerful military tribe therefore none could dare to hold him responsible for publicly defend- ing and supporting the Taliban in talks shows, calling them the true Mujahideen. Though his pupils had their hands stained with the blood of millions of Afghans and Law 70,000 Pakistanis, but whatever he did remain for the army as something done under patriotism. Being a vocal proponent of militancy in the region, he will only be missed by his ideological students yet at the same time millions of people have al- ready damned him. He is dead but his monstrous legacy is alive and it will take Courts decades to kill this legacy—the legacy of bloodshed, hatred and intolerance. Subscription Rates Categories Fee Afghanistan Times Annual Afg: 3600 at your door step For fast delivery service Six Months Afg: 1800 Afghanistan Times seeks the names, addresses of your International Organization $200 per year organizations and the number of copies you want. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY .AUGUST 16, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

By Syeda Samara istan still remains a lack of access nourable minister of education, projects. Mortada to education, especially among Professor Asadullah Hanif Balkhi; The minister of labour, social young girls. Often, the schools are deputy minister for academic af- affairs, martyrs and disabled By Richard Javad Over 28% of Afghanistan’s pop- not located in proper buildings, to fairs, Ghulam Jelani Humayun; shared that she is trying to create Heydarian ulation is literate, and among wom- keep away from the eyes of insur- and the governor of Baikh prov- jobs for people, especially wom- en, the rate is only 12.6%, accord- gents who strictly oppose girls ince, Atta Mohammad Nur. So how en. Currently, more than 65% of ing to the CIA world factbook. China’s decision to devalue its cur- going to schools. In such scenari- is BRAC’s philosophy of work in the staff in her ministry compris- Malala Yousafzai once said: “One rency has taken international mar- os, there is a constant dearth of sync with the Afghan government? es of women, but they are not in child, one teacher, one book and kets by storm, raising concerns textbooks and other reading mate- The vice president acknowl- decision making roles. Discrimina- one pen can change the world,” over a protracted currency war rials. As such, BRAC is working edged the fact that BRAC started tion against women is still one of and that is exactly in line with the among the world’s leading econo- towards access to education for working in Afghanistan during a the big challenges in the path of education program operating in mies. young girls through the mobilisa- volatile period and helped improve development for Afghanistan. BRAC Afghanistan. Reflecting its growing anxieties tion of the community shura (reli- its socio-economic condition. ED- During the meeting with the BRAC, which started its jour- over the country’s economic pros- gious) leaders, and is doing so in BRAC International mentioned education minister, he also asked ney in Afghanistan, is currently pects, Beijing has decided to go for collaboration with the ministry of that BRAC had started its program for more capacity building and operating two education projects, the jugular by making Chinese ex- education. The goal of the program operations based on the Afghan teachers training programs. The ED namely the Girls’ Education Chal- ports more affordable in interna- is to remove barriers that stand in government’s priorities. Under the noted that the education program lenge project funded by DFID- tional markets. the way of girls accessing educa- capacity development program, of BRAC Afghanistan primarily UK and Community-based Girls’ Recent months have been par- tion, for reasons such as early mar- BRAC trained several government focuses on girls’ education and cre- Education project in Afghanistan ticularly unsettling for the world’s riage, long distance to and from officials and school teachers, and ates employment opportunity, funded by the Department of For- second largest economy. schools, and an inherent tradition provided scholarships on the Mas- since all the teachers are female, eign Affairs, Trade and Develop- Between June and July, Chi- that does not encourage girls’ edu- ters program on Public Health for and can help in this regard — to ment (DFATD-Canada) to educate na’s stock markets fell by more cation. To address these issues and BRAC Afghanistan staff and min- increase the participation of wom- 123,984 girls and boys through than 30 percent (evaporating $3.4 others, from July 23-31, the exec- istry of health staff. en in all sectors across the coun- 4,115 schools, reaching a total of trillion in financial assets), exports the UK as well as Japan, among and Japan (0.3 percent), while utive director of BRAC interna- BRAC Afghanistan was one of try. 91.77% girls. The main purpose suffered an 8.3 percent year-on- other countries, engaged in a sus- German car giant, BMW, also suf- tional, Faruque Ahmed, visited the organisations who worked with Like all the other BRAC oper- of these projects is to provide ed- year decline in July, and there are tained campaign to make their cur- fered a decline in its stock value. BRAC Afghanistan. During his the Ministry of Rural Rehabilita- ating countries, in Afghanistan too ucation through community-based growing indications that China will rencies more competitive, imple- The US Federal Reserve is also visit, he met with the second vice tion and Development (MRRD) BRAC is working for the better- schools, giving Afghan girls and miss its growth target of 7 percent menting expansionary monetary revisiting its initial plan of raising president of Afghanistan, Moham- of Afghanistan to develop its stra- ment of the most disadvantaged boys a chance to attain standard for this year. policies - quantitative easing - its interest rates later this year. mad Sarwar Danesh, minister of tegic plan, and also trained all 34 groups and with the government’s literacy and numeracy skills. One Though China still has one of which, by extension, also made To be fair, China’s currency labour, social affairs, martyrs and provincial officers of MRRD in support, change is already in of the major problems in Afghan- the world’s most dynamic econo- their exports more affordable. devaluation came on the heels of disabled, Dr Nasrin Oryakhil; ho- managing rural development progress.—(Dhaka Tribune) mies, recent trends are, to say the The rebalance its decision to actually let market least, particularly disconcerting for In the eurozone, Germany forces determine its value, a cru- an authoritarian regime, which ended up subsidising peripheral cial step towards making renminbi stakes its legitimacy on providing European Monetary Union: economies, which suffered from a a genuine global currency alongside unbridled prosperity. sovereign debt crisis after years of the US dollar, euro, and yen. Gradually, China is beginning unsustainable borrowing and weak In fact, for years the Interna- to lose its economic lustre, as in- exports. tional Monetary Fund and West- What manner of a union? vestors and policy-makers shift Interestingly, the post-reces- ern countries have been calling their attention to mitigating and sion period actually saw a steady on China to allow its currency to By C J Polychroniou hedging against the vulnerabilities appreciation in Chinese currency float along market dynamics. of the Asian economic power- (renminbi), as Western countries However, the timing of the Greece is just wrapping up its house. and international financial institu- decision shows that China is more third bailout agreement in five More fundamentally, China’s tions called on China to revalue its likely driven by short-term con- years, with its parliament becom- economic woes could significant- currency, liberalise its capital mar- cerns over reflating its flagging econ- ing once again an appendage of the ly undermine its regional and glo- kets, and shift into a more con- omy, as the country tries to recov- troika of the European Commis- bal soft power bid, which is pri- sumption-driven economy. er from slowing exports and a sion, the International Monetary marily anchored by Beijing’s finan- Over the years, the US trade stock market crash. Fund and the European Central cial prowess and largely success- balance improved as its exports Indeed, the draconian response Bank. ful growth model in the past three became more competitive, while of the Chinese government to the As is well-known, German decades. China saw a steady growth in wag- recent stock market crash - large- chancellor Angela Merkel and her The government’s erratic re- es and domestic credit, which al- scale temporary suspension of finance minister, Wolfgang Schae- sponses to economic fluctuations lowed for greater consumption and public offerings, caps on short-sell- uble, "blackmailed" Greece during also underline the ruling Commu- spending at home. ing, and cuts in interest rates - ex- the Euro Summit of July 12 into nist Party’s ambivalence vis-a-vis To express its commitment to poses its reluctance to allow mar- accepting a humiliating agreement fee market principles. the transformation of China’s ket forces dictate economic devel- for a new bailout package or to Beggar-thy-neighbour economy, the Xi Jinping adminis- opments. crash out of the eurozone. As leading economists have tration went so far as to declare But as China grapples with Indeed, Greek Prime Minister noted, one of the factors behind that the market forces will begin domestic economic woes, it will Alexis Tsipras was subjected to 17 the 2008 Great Recession was the to play a more “decisive role” as inevitably have to also re-evaluate hours of psychological "water- neomercantilist strategy of loco- the state decreases its intervention its massive international spending boarding", as one EU official put motive economies, which engaged in economic affairs. spree, which is partly aimed at it, so the term "blackmail" is prob- in “manipulative recycling” of their Meanwhile, China also challenging the Western and Japa- ably quite fitting. Europe's new export-earnings into less produc- stepped up its efforts in creating nese-dominated Bretton Woods hegemon The new bailout pack- tive economies. alternative international financial institutions, such as the World age, far harsher than the two pre- Manufacturing powerhouses institutions that provide affordable Bank and the Asian Development vious ones, consists of new reces- like China and Germany constant- loans and focus on strategic sec- Bank. sionary economic measures, in- ly propped up their current ac- tors, such as infrastructure devel- In the past year or so, China cluding a higher value added tax count balance, discouraging domes- opment. has pledged more than $150bn to (VAT) rate and new tax increases, tic consumption in favour of mas- It didn’t take long, however, various initiatives, such as the additional pension cutbacks, new sive credit lending to consumerist before the Chinese economy’s vul- Asian Infrastructure Investment reforms to liberalise all "closed- trading partners. nerabilities were exposed, as regu- Bank, the “One Belt, One Road” shop professions", and demands This unnatural and large-scale lators failed to prevent a massive strategy, and the New Develop- for asset-stripping the state to en- infusion of foreign credit into coun- stock market crash that dispropor- ment Bank, with plans of spend- sure the payment of debts. tries like the United States created tionately affected aspiring middle ing as much as $1.25 globally by All state-owned assets (pub- and the EU is bent on the econom- iza-led government is essentially a unravel once the global financial a precarious spending spree among classes, while growth numbers 2025. lic goods, utilities, ports, airports, ic strangle of Greece. The mafia- pro-euro, left reformist party, only crisis reached Greece's doors in less productive economies. tanked and raised fears of political Though China’s massive $4 etc) will be transferred into a spe- like stance of Germany reveals that inches apart from traditional Eu- 2008. The economy entered into a The result was staggering debt backlash. trillion currency reserves provide cial trust fund supervised by the the EU is neither democratic, nor ropean social democratic parties. recession by late 2008 and early levels and unsustainable trade def- Back to reality it with significant room for ma- EU. The new bailout agreement does it care about solidarity, digni- The other dimension is that 2009, and the Greek debt crisis icits going hand in hand with un- China’s days-long decision to noeuvre, there are serious signs that makes no mention of a debt relief, ty and people's wellbeing. the Greek people are simply afraid exploded in early 2010. safe lending practices and massive devalue its currency, knocking off it will have to be more cost-effi- thereby ensuring that the Greek Indeed, what kind of a union of making the transition from the Would Greece then be better financial speculation by Wall more than three percent of its val- cient (rather than politically-mo- debt level (currently at 177 per- is the eurozone when its core lead- euro to a national currency. off outside the eurozone? Street, which culminated in the ue, sent shockwaves across the tivated) in deploying its financial cent of the GDP) will continue to ers aim to punish a nation for a The reason most Greeks are With the eurozone's regime crash of the American sub-prime region, leading to a decline in the prowess. climb. Greeks: How did we lose leftist into office, even if it has an afraid of life outside the euro has showing no signs of relaxing its property market in 2007. currencies of neighbouring coun- China is gradually entering a our way? In other words, Germa- utterly incompetent government? both psychological and economic attitude on austerity or proceed- Eager to redress the imbalanc- tries, such as South Korea (two new normal as it descends from ny, as Europe's new hegemon, is What sort of a union is the EU explanations. ing with the introduction of a dem- es in the global economy, the US, percent), Australia (1.75 percent), the economic heaven. treating Greece as a debt colony, that allows banks to be rescued at The psychological explanation ocratic form of governance, Greece the expense of entire nations, but has to do with their own cultural and the rest of the peripheral coun- in turn refuses to consider provid- insecurities. tries would be much better off out- ETTER TO THE EDITOR ing sovereign debt relief? A state Geographically, Greece be- side the euro than remaining mem- of peonage Today's German lead- longs to the West, but the mental- bers of a monetary union, which ers seem to have very short mem- ities and habits of most Greeks are thrives on asymmetries and the ory. much more Eastern than Western. accumulation of surpluses by the Germany was last century's Greece never experienced Eu- strong economies at the expense India’s support to Afghanistan, Nepal worst debtor nation. ropean movements such as the of the weak ones. The country's default in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, As it stands, the eurozone is 1930s pales in comparison with and the Industrial Revolution, and fit only for strong, highly compet- The monumental help and positive diplomacy executed by the current Indian government and leadership for supporting Nepal and Afghanistan the debt problems Greece is expe- its entire administrative structure, itive economies, and countries like in its process of reconstruction and developmental projects should be greatly applauded. The Indian government has been working sincerely in strengthening their diplomatic ties around the globe and in it its supportive role extended to several dependent economies. However, there must riencing today. and even tax collection system, are Greece, Portugal and Spain, among be a word of caution for the government in not overstepping beyond its current abilities. India has failed to keep promises and has been looking Greece and the other countries really a remnant of the age of the others, face natural disadvantages. for cutting funds and promises made to other countries including Afghanistan in the recent past due to poor economic growth, recession, in the periphery of the eurozone Ottoman Empire. Greece and the other countries corruption, domestic political turmoil and several internal economic factors. Any unfortunate failure to keep these huge financial promises will should expect austerity to reign The economic explanation has in the periphery of the eurozone reduce credibility of the Indian government and instead send a wrong signal. The hard work done to resolve the strained and neglected overseas relationships and the restructuring of the Indian foreign policy will come to a halt with this. The grandeur international momentum generated by supreme in economic policy-mak- to do with plain uncertainty, if not should expect austerity to reign the current government will come to nothing more than burnt ashes. India needs to allocate overseas pledges with deep commitments and from ing for decades to come. outright ignorance, about the pros supreme in economic policy-mak- a long term viewpoint. The financial allocations and commitments should be made within the limits of the government without any unnecessary After World War II, Germany's and cons of Greece's participation ing for decades to come. overstretching playing to the gallery. The world’s largest democracy carry a huge responsibility towards promises made to the immediate external debt was largely cancelled in the European Monetary Union. Of course, the day may come neighbors like Afghanistan and Nepal; but, if they fail to deliver that promise due to overstretching, India should not complain if others feel that by the 1953 London Agreement. The curse of the euro Greece when the euro area transforms it- India is not worthy of delivering anything other than showmanship and carefully engineered talk shows to misguide them with hollow promises. But as Europe's new hegemon, was never fit to join the eurozone, self into a fiscal and political union. Saikat Kumar Basu, Lethbridge AB Canada Germany prefers to keep Greece and its participation in it has been But that could be a long time in a legal state of peonage. a huge, unmitigated disaster. from now, and in the long run we Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must have the writer’s Still, the question is why didn't Greek competitiveness de- are all still dead. name and address. You may send your letters to: [email protected] Greece walk out of the negotiations clined sharply after the adoption C J Polychroniou is a political and accept the effects of a Grexit, of the euro, although the economy economist/political scientist who especially since there could have experienced fairly strong annual has taught and worked for many been terms provided for an order- growth rates between 2001 and years in universities and research Disclaimer: ly exit from the euro? 2007. However, this was due to centres in Europe and the United There are two interrelated di- heavy borrowing on account of the States. mensions to this question of why availability of cheap credit and the The views expressed in this The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) Tsipras opted for a complete ca- growth and spread of various bub- article are the author's own and do and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. pitulation instead of facing a Gr- bles across the economy. not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's exit. One dimension is that the Syr- Of course, everything began to editorial policy. 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. MONDAY. AUGUST 17, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Syria deal: 'Population swap' or 'sectarian cleansing?'

The Syrian opposition has broken control of the "core region" and to off talks with the government, protect Damascus. which was being represented by Thousands of barrel bombs, its ally Iran, over a peaceful settle- rockets and artillery rounds land- There will never be an acceptable America today. as the Ku Klux Klan and the college graduates and business ex- elections, black voters turned out ment regarding two frontlines in ed in Zabadani in the course of the explanation for what happened "Our history has never taught Knights of the White Camellia. ecutives. Our neighbours were in record numbers because they the country. offensive to take the town and between Michael Brown and Dar- the centrality of race as the key They regained control of their doctors, teachers, coaches, plumb- were motivated and because many The opposition accused Te- rebels are now trapped inside. ren Wilson in Ferguson but we will barometer to how well we are do- workforce not by owning them ers, entrepreneurs, realtors, nurs- of the old obstacles to voting had hran of attempting to change the Changing trajectory of conflict never fully grasp why the stage ing with the American Experi- but by circumscribing their lives es, ministers, architects, insurance been removed. demographics in areas close to On Wednesday, a ceasefire was was set for such an encounter un- ment," added Pulitzer Prize win- through terror, violence and voter salesmen and carpenters. Many of But a backlash has developed Damascus with the goal of parti- announced in Zabadani and on an- less we know American history. ning historian Taylor Branch that suppression. the men were veterans of World in that arena, too. Two years ago, tioning the country. other frontline in Syria, with rebels We cannot fully comprehend same evening. "If you don t have In Louisiana, the number of War II and the Korean War and in Shelby County v. Holder, the If an agreement had been agreeing to stop their assault why Dylan Roof murdered nine race at the forefront of an investi- registered black voters plummet- therefore eligible for the GI Bill's Supreme Court gutted Section 5 reached it would have been the first against Fua and Kefraya. parishioners at Emanuel AME gation of how America is fulfilling ed from 130,334 in 1896 to 5,320 home loan guaranty. In other of the Voting Rights Act, removing time the warring sides had agreed Those two villages have man- the 'preclearance' provisions that to transfer besieged communities aged to hold out after almost all of required states with a history of as part of a deal in the Syrian con- the rest of the northern province voter discrimination to seek per- flict. of Idlib fell into opposition hands. mission for changes to electoral The mainly Sunni residents of The thousands of people procedures. Despite no evidence Zabadani would have been be tak- there are government supporters. of significant voter fraud, Repub- en to rebel-controlled areas in They are also Shia and they have lican legislators immediately northern Syria, while the Shia res- been under siege for months. passed new voter ID laws that idents of Fua and Kefraya would The warring sides were nego- groups like the Brennan Center for be taken to territories under the tiating a safe passage for rebels to Justice and the Advancement control of the regime leave Zabadani and allow the peo- Project argue will suppress voter A population swap. Some ple of Fua and Kefraya to move to turnout among black, Latino, eld- may call it ethnic cleansing. a regime controlled area. erly and young voters, who are The government and its allies, But according to the opposi- more likely to vote for Democrats. Iran and the Lebanese Shia move- tion, the government had another President Barack Obama's ment Hezbollah, have been accused condition - civilians and not just election in 2008 and re-election in of moving forward with plans to the fighters must leave Zabadani 2012 provided evidence of how cleanse areas from opponents in and go to territories under rebel much the nation has changed in the what is now being described as their control. last half a century. While arrival of "core region," which includes "If this happened it would be the 'post-racial' era was much over- Damascus, Homs and the coastal the first time a substantial transfer stated and a result of magical think- cities. or swap of populations would take ing, Americans rightly celebrated "Iran insists on displacing ci- place in the Syrian conflict," the progress on Inauguration Day vilians from Zabadani and nearby Charles Lister, from the Brookings 2009. The high of the moment, areas which we refused," Ahrar Al Institution, said. though, was accompanied by the Sham, a rebel group leading the "It is a significant shift in rise of the Tea Party and the re- negotiations on the opposition terms of the trajectory of the con- minder of the strain of white su- side, said after announcing it would flict. We have seen for some time premacy that is baked into the no longer abide by a ceasefire after pro-regime forces focusing on se- American DNA. negotiations failed. curing strategically valuable terri- Rattled by the presence of a "The plan for sect based dis- tories - some of them around Za- black family in the White House, placement - emptying Damascus, badani." 'birthers' emerged and fabricated a its surroundings and all the areas While both the government and myth that America's first black along the border with Lebanon of the opposition publicly reject the Church in Charleston unless we its goals, then something is wrong. in 1898. Fraudulent voting words, people who normally president - by some amazing feat Sunni presence is now in its final partition of Syria - on the ground study the Civil War and the Con- And unfortunately right now we schemes pushed black elected of- would have had no trouble quali- of molecular transference - had stages."Zabadani is an important there is a different reality. federacy. are paying the price for 50 years ficials from state legislatures and fying for mortgages. Instead, they been born not in Hawaii, where his town and has been held by the Syria is carved out into five We cannot truly fathom how a of trying to avoid and hide that from Congress. In 1870 there had went to Mammoth Life Insurance, mother was located at the time, but rebels for the past three years. zones - the regime controls an en- minor traffic stop in Cincinnati subject." been two black members of Con- a black-owned insurance compa- in Kenya. In this age of social me- The army and Hezbollah clave in the west, ISIL in the east, could result in a white campus Indeed every time we see an- gress. When North Carolina's ny then based in Louisville, Ken- dia, Youtube and cable television, launched an offensive to recapture the moderate opposition in the police officer blowing out the other video - of Sandra Bland, of George Henry White left in 1901, tucky, for their loans. their illogical stories took flight, it in July. south, the Kurds in the northeast brains of an unarmed black man Freddie Gray, of Tamir Rice - we there would not be another until In 1954, the Supreme Court's promulgated not just by the poor- It is the last significant rebel and the rebel alliance, which in- unless we delve into the role race witness the horrifying evidence of 1928, when Oscar DePriest was Brown v. Board of Education de- ly educated prone to conspiracy held area along Lebanon's border cludes the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra has played in law enforcement our national failure to confront this elected in Chicago. For virtually cision struck down so-called sep- theories, but by people who clear- and would be vital to consolidate Front, in the north. Aljazeera from the enactment of the federal legacy. the first half of the 20th century arate but equal education and man- ly knew better. Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 to to- What used to be called 'the the 15th Amendment had no value dated that American schools be When the past isn't past day's mandatory minimum sen- Negro problem,' really is a matter for blacks in the former Confeder- racially integrated. As a post- A man holds a Confederate flag tencing statutes. of the intransigence of white su- ate states, where they were denied Brown v. Board child, I always as demonstrators, including one Examining American history premacists who are mired in the the right to vote through the cyni- attended integrated schools, en- carrying a sign saying "More than HINA S provides us with the tools to anal- past. cal artifice of poll taxes, literacy countering the occasional racist, 300,000 Negroes are Denied Vote yse how the death of Michael Slavery was not the benign, tests and grandfather clauses. but, like my parents, rolling with in Ala", demonstrate in front of an Brown and the demonstrations on paternalistic system described in Jim Crow laws and Black the punches, keeping perspective Indianapolis hotel where then-Al- Florrisant Avenue became a tipping the history textbooks of my youth. Codes obliterated Reconstruction and finding progressive kindred abama Governor George Wallace CURRENCY WARS point and sparked a movement. Instead it was a brutal, often sa- wins and codified racially based spirits in the process. But in many was staying [Bob Daugherty/AP/ Connecting the dots between the distic, form of domination over the discrimination. The sharecropping communities - both in the South File] past and the present helps us to bodies and minds of people who system, which left black farmers and the North - the diehard segre- William Faulkner famously s China once again devalues its cur see the origins of our current na- were kidnapped, whipped, beaten in debt at the end of every harvest, gationists responded with paranoia said, "The past is not dead. It is tional debate - about race, police and raped. Generations of human was equivalent to slavery. Black and bitterness, decrying the evils not even past". This is certainly Arency, the yuan, we look at the fallout misconduct, white supremacy, beings toiled against their will with- children were allowed to attend of race-mixing and miscegenation. true when it comes to the Civil War. white privilege, inequality, incar- out pay or legal rights. school only during times of the In 1957, nine students at Lit- Most credible scholars and histo- on emerging markets like South Africa. ceration and the unfinished equal For 246 years - from 1619, year when there were no farm tle Rock High School were ha- rians agree that slavery was the rights agenda. when 20 Africans were forced into chores to do. Historian Rayford rassed and spit upon. In 1963, Al- root cause of the war, whether they In a move that has unsettled global missing from the state oil compa- The pendulum indentured servitude in Logan called the period "nadir of abama governor George Wallace focus on the Missouri Compro- financial markets, China has deval- ny. A colour-coded map illustrates Jamestown, Virginia, until the end American race relations". tried, but failed, to block the en- mise of 1820, the Kansas Nebras- ued its currency once again spark- A report by accounting firm the 'Free States,' 'Slave Holding of the Civil War in 1865 - most Those who got too uppity rollment of Vivian Malone and ka Act of 1854, President Lincoln's ing fears of a global currency war. PricewaterhouseCoopers says the States,' and 'Territories Open To people of African descent in Amer- were lynched, firebombed in their James Hood. Across the South, election in 1860 or a myriad of oth- The Chinese central bank en- national oil company should re- Slavery Under The Principle Of ica were enslaved. Those who had homes and chased from land they federal troops were called in to fa- er events and factors. But for an gineered a small devaluation of the fund $4.3bn to the government. Popular Sovereignty,'. It was pub- purchased or otherwise been grant- owned. cilitate the process. adamant segment of the American yuan on Tuesday in a move ana- But it is not just the oil indus- lished in 1898 [Getty Images] ed their freedom lived a precari- In 1915, D. W. Griffith's tech- For a time it seemed that Amer- population the reason for 'The Late lysts said would keep its products try that is plagued with corrup- The history of people of Afri- ous, circumscribed existence. nically groundbreaking movie, ican schools might be integrated, Unpleasantness' remains in dis- competitive with weaker exchange tion. can descent in America - which is Slavery and the slave trade Birth of a Nation, glorified the Klan but that pendulum soon began to pute, 150 years after Confederate rates. On a recent visit to Washing- to say the history of America - is a were essential to the American econ- and fed the trope of black inferior- move in the other direction as all- General Robert E. Lee surrendered But as it manipulates its cur- ton, Buhari sought US President pendulum of progress and set- omy and to the development of ity and criminality. Around the white academies opened. Today, at Appomattox Courthouse. rency to eke out an economic ad- Barack Obama's help in retrieving backs, of resilience and retaliation, American capitalism, especially same time, a migration wave began most Americans are enlightened Five years ago the Pew Re- vantage for its exports, other coun- $150bn stolen by corrupt former of protest and backlash. There have after Native Americans were driv- that would eventually see more enough not to oppose interracial search Center found that nearly tries are beginning to feel the pres- officials and held in foreign bank been allies and there have been en off their ancestral land in the than six million black Americans marriage and are much more toler- half - 48 percent - of those polled sure. accounts. Zainab Shamsuna opponents. There have been dem- Deep South in the 1830s to make flee the brutality and deprivation ant than their grandparents and believed "states' rights" was the And with commodity prices Ahmed, the executive secretary of agogues, who would divide Amer- way for vast cotton plantations. of the South for the relative free- great-grandparents, but American main cause of the war, compared falling due to waning demand from the Nigeria Extractive Industries icans on the basis of colour and The wealth of the nation was inex- dom of the North and the West. public schools in most areas are to 38 percent who thought that it China, emerging markets are being Transparency Initiative (NEITI), class, and visionaries who would tricably dependent upon uncom- Four years later, when black more segregated than ever, as Ni- was slavery. Particularly disturb- the hardest hit. Commodity ex- joins the programme to talk about seek to lead us to common ground. pensated labour, which enriched soldiers returned from World War kole Hannah-Jones' April 2014 ing is that 60 percent of respon- porters like Brazil, Indonesia and Buhari's efforts to fight corruption. The quest for "life, liberty and not only the planters, but univer- I military duty in France, they were ProPublica investigation of Tus- dents under the age of 30 selected Malaysia have seen their curren- Singapore at 50: What lies the pursuit of happiness" has been sities, banks, textile mills, ship attacked during the 'Red Summer' caloosa, Alabama schools so well the states' rights option. cies hit multi-year lows as the price ahead? an American aspiration since the owners and insurance companies, as resentful whites instigated riots illustrated. One suspects the current Red of oil and raw materials slump. Singapore's rise from colonial Declaration of Independence, but who held policies on their bodies. in at least 34 cities, from Chicago Pressure from Martin Luther States/Blue States polarisation - Sim Tshabalala, the co-CEO of backwater to one of the richest black Americans, Native Ameri- To settle a debt, an owner merely and Washington, DC to Memphis King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, thou- where Republican-controlled leg- Standard Bank, joins Counting the nations in the world makes it the cans and women were not at the needed to sell one of his slaves. and Charleston. Their goal was to sands of activists and a powerful islatures resist federal programmes Cost to discuss the currency war envy of those nations that strive table in 1776. Forty of the 56 sign- By 1850, enslaved Americans, put men who had received France's cadre of civil rights leaders com- like the Affordable Care Act in the and the economic fallout on na- for the same success. ers owned other people. who were listed in their owners' Croix de Guerre back in their place bined with the political muscle and name of "states' rights" - has seeped tions like South Africa. As the Island city state cele- Lest there be any doubt about inventory ledgers alongside cattle as the Klan had done after Recon- willingness of the Kennedy and into the historical debate and con- Show me the money brates 50 years of independence, where the young nation's senti- and farm equipment, were worth struction. The NAACP investigat- Johnson administrations to push flated the past with the present. Despite being one of the the next five deacdes could be a ments lay, the Supreme Court's $1.3bn or one-fifth of the nation's ed and black newspapers editoria- for critical legislation during the There is so much to remind us world's largest oil producers, ram- greater challenge as it combats a 1857 Dred Scott decision made wealth. When the first shot of the lised. During the succeeding de- mid-1960s. The Civil Rights Act that the past is neither dead, nor pant corruption and mismanage- falling birth rate and soaring prop- clear that people of African descent Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter cades - through the Depression, the of 1964 forbade discrimination on past. ment has left many Nigerians won- erty prices. - whether enslaved or free - would in April 1861, the value of that New Deal and World War II - the the basis of sex as well as race in Later this month, when five dering where most of the wealth The ruling People's Action not be considered American citi- human collateral exceeded $3bn pendulum continued to swing be- hiring, promoting and firing. To- million Texas students return to has gone. Party may call for an election as zens and had no legal standing in and was worth more than the na- tween progress and setbacks. day, our workplaces are undoubt- school, they will be learning Amer- The country's newly-elected early as next month in an attempt the courts. It mattered not that tion s banks, railroads, mills and The attitudes that informed edly more diverse than they were ican history from a syllabus that President, Muhammadu Buhari, to capitalise on the celebrations. some of their grandfathers had factories combined. Now number- Jim Crow laws and discriminato- in the 1950s, with more people of equivocates about the reasons for has ledged to fight corruption and Simon Baptist, regional direc- served in George Washington's ing four million souls, they were, ry public policy existed in the colour employed as physicians, the Civil War. is investigating claims by the tor at the Economist Intelligence Continental Army during the Rev- as Ta-Nehisi Coates has written, North as well as the South. The firefighters, attorneys, journalists, "Slavery was a side issue to former head of the Central Bank Unit, discusses the big challenges olutionary War. America's "greatest financial as- results are evident today in major investment bankers and profes- the Civil War," declared Texas State that $20bn of oil revenue went facing Singapore. Aljazeera Last month in Washington, set". American cities, where banks re- sors. But it is still true that when a Board of Education member Pat DC, at the third annual March on Immediately after the Civil War fused loans to black home buyers white person and a black person Hardy, when the board adopted Washington Film Festival, Dr Clar- during the hopeful, but brief peri- in the 1950s and 1960s, literally with comparable credentials apply highly politicised standards in ence B. Jones, a confidant and per- od of Reconstruction, black peo- drawing on maps red lines around for a job, the white person is more 2010. "There would be those who sonal legal counsel to Dr Martin ple were finally recognised as citi- predominantly black neighbour- likely to be hired. would say the reason for the Civil Luther King, Jr., said "a definitive zens with rights. But just as quick- hoods and ensuring that those The Voting Rights Act of 1965 War was over slavery. No. It was discussion and description of the ly as the 13th, 14th and 15th homes would not appreciate in outlawed poll taxes and made it over states' rights." institution of slavery, the concom- amendments abolished slavery, value at the same rate as compara- possible for thousands of former- This intentionally and unapol- itant supporting ideology of white provided equal protection under ble white neighbourhoods. ly disenfranchised black Americans ogetically ideological approach to supremacy and the impact it has the law and granted black men the In 1957, when my parents to vote. Now, throughout Ameri- curriculum development is akin to had on subsequent generations" are right to vote, Reconstruction end- were ready to finance a new home ca, there are thousands of people educational malpractice. By mis- missing from the history curricu- ed with retaliatory Redemption. in an all-black development of new- of colour who are city council informing children, they are failing lum of most American high schools When federal troops aban- ly constructed residences in a sub- members, mayors, members of to prepare them for the very di- and colleges. doned their posts in the South af- urb of Indianapolis, they were un- Congress, on school boards and of verse world, not only that they Without that knowledge, he ter the Compromise of 1877, the able to secure a loan from any of course, now in the White House. will inherit, but in which they al- said, it is impossible to understand defeated Confederates regrouped the city's large banks. 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Islamabad to review BERLIN: German MPs will be recalled from holiday on Wednes- day to vote on the proposed bail- withholding tax out for the Greek economy, Bund- estag speaker Norbert Lammert said. Eurozone finance ministers on Friday approved a package worth 86 billion euros ($96 billion) in exchange for far-reaching pro-mar- ket reforms. Germany, as Europe s biggest economy and contributor to Greek aid, has a key role in approving the package. Analysts say approval on Wednesday is almost certain, giv- en that the governing coalition of QUETTA: The Baloch•is•tan As- islation for establishing conservatives and Social Demo- sembly through a resolution asked Balochistan Provincial Police Ser- crats has 504 out of 631 seats in the federal government to review vice to take decisions about pro- the assembly. its decision about withholding tax motion of officers to Grade 19 and The main interest is in the scale because it was affecting the busi- 21. Sardar Khetran tabled the res- ness community and other account olution from both treasury and of any revolt by deputies in Chan- holders. opposition sides and said that po- cellor Angela Merkel s conserva- The motion tabled by opposi- lice officers in Grade 18, belonging tive bloc, they say. tion member Husna Bano was con- to Balochistan, had been facing On July 17, the Bundestag was verted into a resolution on the pro- problems for their promotion to recalled from its summer break for posal of Minister for Law and Par- higher grades. a first vote on giving the green light liamentary Affairs Abdul Rahim The resolution suggests that to start negotiations on the bail- Ziaratwal. the federal government should de- out. Taking part in the debate on volve powers of promotion to the It was opposed by 60 out of the withholding tax, Ms Bano, Mr province. the 311 legislators in the Merkel s Ziaratwal, Adviser to Chief Min- Acting Speaker Mir Quddus Christian Democrat/Christian So- ister on Education Sardar Reza Bizenjo who presided over the ses- cial Union bloc. Muhammad Barach and opposi- sion directed Home Minister Mir The Dutch and Austrian par- Investors pull record amount from US funds tion member Sardar Abdur Rehman Sarfaraz Bugti to submit a report liaments are also required to vote Khetran urged the federal govern- on the issue in one month so that on the deal, which was approved WASHINGTON: Mutual fund investors are deserting the United States and sending their money to the rest of the world. They pulled $78.8 billion ment to resolve the matter amica- legislation could be made. from mutual funds and exchanged-traded funds that buy US stocks in the first seven months of the year, more than in any full year since at least by the Greek parliament early Fri- 1993, according to Morningstar. The Chicago-based firm s data goes back that far. In the same seven month stretch, $179.2bn flowed into funds bly. Adviser to Chief Minister on that buy international equities, not far below the peak of $201.6bn for all of 2013. If the trends continue, we could break the international record The house unanimously Finance Mir Khalid Lango present- day after an exhaustive debate. Merkel will address MPs this year, Alina Lamy, a Morningstar analyst, said in a telephone interview. Michael Mullaney, chief investment officer at Fiduciary Trust Co in adopted a resolution, calling on the ed the Balochistan Audit Report Boston, said investors are drawn to stocks outside the US, in part because valuations are lower. Europe is also further behind the US in terms of federal government to allow the 2014-15 and Financial Committee ahead of the vote before leaving on the economic cycle and the central bank there is still providing stimulus, said Mullaney, who helps oversee $12bn. By contrast, the Federal provincial government to make leg- report 2014-15. an official visit to Brazil. Reserve in the US may be on the verge of raising rates. China gold New markets for Islamic finance emerging, study finds US to pass legislation over reserves rise New markets for Islamic finance are emerging, with African coun- China currency tries launching debut sovereign by 19 tonnes sukuk and East Asian countries devaluation enabling their domestic markets to BEIJING: China s gold reserves tap into Islamic financing, a US lawmakers are moving to pass rose by more than 19 tonnes in glimpse of the 2015-2016 edition legislation aimed at suppressing July, the official Xinhua news agen- of the State of the Global Islamic currency manipulation by Beijing cy said, after the central bank last Economy said ahead of the Glo- following recent exchange rate month gave the statistic for the first bal Islamic Economy Summit that shocks in China. time in six years. will run in Dubai on Oct. 5-6, 2015 China launched its biggest de- Bullion holdings stood at said. valuation of the yuan in 20 years 1,677.30 tonnes at the end of July, The Islamic Development on Tuesday with the country s Xinhua said citing the People s Bank (IDB) and the Bill & Melin- central bank putting the yuan s Bank of China (PBoC), a 1.16 per da Gates Foundation have formal- central rate at 6.4010 yuan for $1, cent increase on June s 1,658 ly launched a $500 million grant a drop of 1.11 percent from the tonnes. facility to address poverty and dis- previous day s 6.3306. The rise is worth nearly $700 eases in IDB member countries. The devaluation, designed to million, according to Friday s price Meanwhile, European banks in allow the yuan to float more free- of $1,118.25 an ounce on the Lon- Russia and Germany, for example, ly in line with market rates, con- don Bullion Market. are also investing in Islamic finance tinued until Friday when the Chi- The PBoC issued gold reserve through debut sovereign sukuk and nese central bank raised the value figures last month for the first time Islamic banking windows. of the yuan against the US dollar since April 2009, revealing a rise Besides, as the demand for by 0.05 percent. of 57pc over the past six years. safe, wholesome and humane food The marked devaluation of the China is the world s largest grows around the world, produc- yuan has caused Capitol Hill to producer of the yellow metal, but ers of halal food who truly adhere press the White House to either the increase marked a slowdown to the concepts of halal and tayy- address the global currency prac- in gold accumulation after holdings ib foods have an opportunity to tices or risk greater opposition to jumped 75pc from 2003 to 2009. become the global standard for this President Barack Obama s global China ranks fifth globally in segment. trade agenda. gold holdings, according to The report cited Saffron Road Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Bloomberg News. as a leading premium US brand in along with dozens of other law- The price of gold reached the halal and all-natural market. many success stories in the ever- lion per hotel for many of its prop- omy, that is the digital component. my has emerged as a high growth makers, is pushing for ways to record highs near $1,800 in 2012 The company is ranked as the fast- burgeoning halal travel sector. erties by end 2015 and through This segment has woven itself into segment. Success stories include address currency more adequately est growth brand of natural entrées HalalBooking.com, a travel search 2016. This is in addition to other the lives of many Muslims world- Zabihah.com, a leading location- in trade deals, according to The in the US, among all frozen entrées, and booking website for halal-con- success stories such as Yamsafer, wide as an integral part of their based guide to halal restaurants and Hill. not just halal. The brand will scious travelers, has achieved tre- a hotel booking start-up from Pal- lifestyle. From Qur an and halal markets with a digital reach of 10 Ryan stressed that China s achieve over $40 million in retail mendous success. The website s estine that raised $3.5 million from travel mobile apps to online Islam- million unique users, MuslimPro, actions have provided the incen- sales this year, and is expected to booking for Turkey-based hotel Global Founders Capital. ic education services and tools for a prayer, and the qibla tracking tive lawmakers need to revive the grow over 50% next year. clients has exceeded millions per Furthermore, the report noted locating the nearest halal restau- mobile app with over 10 million issue in September. Moreover, there have been resort, and hopes to reach 10 mil- a new frontier in the Islamic econ- rants, the Islamic Digital Econo- Android downloads in 16 differ- We can use the momentum ent languages. from the last few news cycles to In addition, pharmaceuticals & resuscitate this idea and get it mov- cosmetics sector offers several ing again, Ryan told The Hill in a India, Canada working on success stories and opportunities phone interview. for growth. The halal cosmetics China s devaluation of its cur- sector in particular is growing rency has gotten everyone refo- quickly in the Asia Pacific through cused on legislation to penalize agreement to boost economic ties smaller brands, forcing large com- countries which deliberately ma- panies such as Unilever to start nipulate their currency in order to TORONTO: Seeking to provide looking at halal cosmetics to en- make their products cheaper in the "new impetus" to their economic sure they maintain their strong United States, said Ryan. relations, Canada and India are presence in this region. South East His legislation, along other jointly working to finalise a bilat- Asia is leading the development of similar bills in the House and Sen- at the height of the United States s eral foreign investment agreement halal vaccinations for meningitis, ate, would address currency ma- bond-buying stimulus programme to accelerate investments, Canada's hepatitis and meningococcal for nipulation the same way as coun- and the eurozone debt crisis, be- Defence Minister has said. Hajj pilgrims. tries that use subsidies to sell their fore falling significantly. To boot, in stark contrast to products in the US at artificially But the yellow metal is con- ason Kenney, Canada's Min- the pressures the mainstream fash- low prices. sidered a safe bet in times of tur- ister of National Defence and Min- ion industry faces in the aftermath The lawmaker asserted that moil and uncertainty, and it rose ister for Multiculturalism, said the of the global recession, the modest Obama needs to take other mea- last week after China devalued its Foreign Investment Protection and fashion space continues to expand. sures, such as the treat of anti-sub- yuan currency, raising concerns Promotion Agreement will benefit Muslim fashion e-commerce plat- sidy duties, to fight currency ma- over the health of the world s sec- investors from both the countries forms such as Hijup and Modanisa nipulation. ond-largest economy. by providing "greater certainty" are receiving further investments According to some lawmakers, Beijing said the move was the for Canadian firms with existing to grow their user base, while main- currency manipulation has cost result of switching to a more mar- investments in India. stream fashion players such as millions of US jobs and led to a ket-oriented method of calculating "It would also promote Cana- Uniqlo, Mango and Tommy Hil- persistently high trade deficit, es- the daily reference rate which sets da as a destination for foreign in- figer are following the lead of haute pecially with China. the value of the yuan. vestment, opening up markets for couture houses such as DKNY in Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Indian corporations looking for tapping into the modest fashion a critic of Obama s trade agenda, ExxonMobil fined new opportunities abroad," Ken- market, the report said. plans to use China s yuan depre- ney said while addressing a recep- The report is released ahead ciation to push for the inclusion of following probe into tion hosted by the Indian Consu- of the Global Islamic Economy countervailing duties in a customs late here to commemorate the coun- Summit 2015, organized by the conference bill in the House. refinery explosion try's 69th Independence day yes- Dubai Chamber of Commerce, China will stop at nothing to terday. Dubai Islamic Economy Develop- give its exports an unfair advan- LOS ANGELES: The California He said the agreement would ment Centre (DIEDC) and Thom- tage the US should be even more agency that investigates workplace promote economic relations be- son Reuters. vigilant about protecting American accidents has cited and fined Exx- tween the two countries and ac- Abdulla Mohammed Al Awar, workers and manufacturers, he onMobil more than $560,000 for celerate two-way investments. CEO of DIEDC, said the launch told The Hill. workplace safety and health vio- "The agreement, designed to of this year s State of the Global China s actions underscore lations following a probe into Feb- protect investors by defining their Islamic Economy report reiterates the urgent need to ensure that final ruary's explosion at a Los Ange- legally binding rights and obliga- the commitment of Dubai Islamic customs enforcement bill gives our les-area refinery. tions, would give new impetus to protect investors by defining their eral relations. next fifty years and account for 25 government tools to protect Amer- The California Division of Economy Development Centre, Indo-Canada economic relations," legally binding rights and obliga- Seeking Canadian investment, per cent of global skilled manpow- along with Thomson Reuters and ican jobs when China cheats trade Occupational Safety and Health he said. tions, would give new impetus to Akhilesh Mishra, India's Consul er," he said. laws, he added. said Thursday that 18 of the 19 DinarStandard to nurture a knowl- "It would also promote Cana- Indo-Canada economic relations," General said India was undergoing He said India had one billion edge-based Islamic economy with- citations are classified as serious da as a destination for foreign in- he said. a historic phase of transformation. mobile phones, 250 million inter- because the violations could po- in the emirate and wider UAE as vestment, opening up markets for It would bring a new "legal re- Through digital transforma- net users and provides a great op- part of our continued priority to tentially cause serious injury or Indian corporations looking for gime" that would boost bilateral tion, rapid urbanisation and mas- portunity for Canadians to invest death. Six of those serious viola- develop Dubai as the Capital of new opportunities abroad," Ken- investment, although some issues sive infrastructure development in the country. Islamic Economy. We are confi- tions were also classified as will- ney said while addressing a recep- like taxation and expropriation India is poised to achieve eight to "Prime Minister Narendra ful because Cal-OSHA found that would be resolved soon, Kenney nine per cent growth every year at Modi has launched ambitious mis- dent the report will inspire and tion hosted by the Indian Consu- empower entrepreneurs, industry Exxon did not take action to elim- late here to commemorate the coun- said. a time when most of the econo- sion of developing 100 smart cit- inate known hazardous conditions Canada's Prime Minister mies were slowing down, Mishra ies, addition of 100,000 mega watt leaders and investors from within try's 69th Independence day yes- the Arab world and beyond to eval- at the refinery and intentionally terday. Stephen Harper and Ontario Pre- said. of solar power and 60,000 mega uate and develop an actionable, failed to comply with state safety He said the agreement would mier Kathleen Wayne in their greet- "When major economies are watt of wind power by 2022, pro- standards. promote economic relations be- ing messages have commended confronted with prospect of viding vocational training to 400 practical and high impact market ExxonMobil spokesman Todd tween the two countries and ac- contributions made by India and shrinking labour population, In- million people, building general strategy focused on growing the Spitler said the company is review- celerate two-way investments. Canada in economic development dia's young demography will wit- industrial corridors and high seed opportunities for Islamic econo- ing the citations. "The agreement, designed to of Canada and strengthening bilat- ness expanding labour force over trains," Mishra said. my in their own geographies. 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Several Bollywood stars have, of He, however, could not add much late, donned the judge's hat for tele- spice to Jhalak and ended up shed- vision reality shows for the first ding tears in his very first episode. time. We rate some of them... In all fairness: The model- As the small screen gets bigger turned-actress has been doing a and more lucrative, Bollywood pretty commendable job instilling celebs are eagerly plunging in to be confidence in aspiring models. She part of exciting television shows. is calm and composed, and polite- And their participation couldn't be ly puts forward her point of view a better bet for show producers, with ease. Lisa does justice to her Actress Keira Knightley, who welcomed her daughter three months ago, says preg- who are willing to invest mega comparisons with Hollywood nancy and giving birth have helped her get past any body insecurities that she had. bucks to cash in on their star value beauty Tyra Banks, maker-cum- Knightley told Elle magazine: "I have to say, as a woman, you hate certain parts and register higher TRPs in the judge of the original show, Ameri- of your body. You go through those periods where you look in the mirror and you process. In the recent months, we ca's Next Top Model. think, 'Oh, if only I had different legs or arms or whatever'. have seen a handful of actors who In all fairness: She has been "You go through pregnancy and giving birth and then feeding the kid and you go, have taken to reality television as quite on the mark and strict about 'Wow, my body is totally amazing, and I'm never going to not like it again, because it judges. hitlist rates a few Bolly- choosing contestants for the ad- did this, and this is f***ing extraordinary'." wood names, who have turned venture-based reality show. But Knightley also said that she was thrilled to turn 30 this year as it has stopped her judges for the very first time... she did not match up to original worrying about things, including what she should wear, reports femalefirst.co.uk. In all fairness: When the ac- judge Raghu Ram's signature cuss- "It's the difficult thing of getting out of your own head. To stop going, 'Oh, there's tress' name was announced as a ing-laden grilling during auditions something I should be doing, there's a way I should be behaving, I should be dressing judge for the singing reality show, - this was much to the respite of ...' All of those shoulds, you can drown in them," she said. it set a lot of tongues wagging as the wannabe roadies and disap- she doesn't have a singing back- pointment of viewers. ground. However, Sona's emotion- In all fairness: After Ekta al involvement with the show and Kapoor's production house took her efforts to connect with the over this show, she got a new judg- budding singers through construc- ing panel for the celebrity couple tive criticism or a comforting hug dance reality show. Along with during eliminations make her like- writer Chetan Bhagat and chore- able. ographer Marzi Pestonji, Preity In all fairness: Known for his was taken on board to add star typical dance moves and facial value to the show. Though the ac- gymnastics, the star was apt to tress barely went wrong with her judge this show which had non- comments, her involvement did celebrity mothers grooving to var- only so much for the show's mid- ious kinds of music. Govinda did dling TRP rating. In all fairness: fairly well as a judge and was also The So You Think You Can Dance quite responsive to the partici- finalist from the US, who danced pants' emotions. His presence def- her way into the audience's hearts initely helped the show garner bet- with her fluid movements on the ter TRPs than what it did in its show's sixth season, was seen in previous season. dance drama ABCD2. Being the In all fairness: Being one of the only woman on an all-male judg- finest dancers in the film industry, ing panel for the show's current the actor was just ideal to judge season, she was expected to not the celeb-based dance reality just raise the glamour quotient but show. He replaced dancing diva also give her expert opinion on a Madhuri Dixit, who had been a participant's strengths and weak- judge for Jhalak for three seasons. nesses. So far, she has been quite While Shahid's opening act was a good and has overcome her lan- visual treat, he keeps flaunting his guage handicap, but there is always moves off and on during the show. scope for improvement. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner

Photography and styling power- take their three kids to Universal houses Guddu Shani have cement- ed their place in the fashion indus- Studios despite split: Reports try over the past decade. Perhaps, two of the most elusive people in the industry, the husband-wife duo Mona avoids attending celebrity get-to- gethers and mingling with design- Love the Singh ers. Among their feats are launch- ing model Rabia Butt, working ex- response clusively with SanaSafinaz, and harassed now being what they claim is the we get in only 360-degree fashion advertis- by ing agency in Pakistan. India: Through their company 360, Sania stalker Guddi and Shani plan on launch- ing a fresh pool of fashion photog- Maskatiya TV actress Mona Singh of 'Jassi raphers. When they started off, Jaissi Koi Nahi' fame refused to they didn t have the platform or Pakistani designer Sania click a selfie with a stranger and money to lend impetus to their Maskatiya has been to ended up being harassed by the career, which is what they hope to India quite a few times unidentified stalker. provide newcomers with. We re and whenever she is The incident occurred on Au- merging all our divisions into a one- there, she feels blessed gust 2 when Mona, who plays stop solution, where one creative as she loves the way the the protagonist in a play which head has been assigned one brand people in India embrace was showcased at St Andrews in each to make their work consis- her work. Bandra, Mumbai, was waiting for Ben Affleck, shown on Friday tak- ing to a photo posted on TMZ. tent, he said. They have one of- India s been amaz- an official photo-op of the team. ing his children to the Fernbank The picture shows the Oscar-win- fice in Lahore, one in Thailand, and ing. I ve been blessed with Science Center in Atlanta with his ning Argo director walking far are also looking to expand to Italy lots of opportunities to mother and a new nanny, took the apart from his estranged wife in soon. work in India. For us, as a kids to Universal Studios with his the crowded Orlando park. As the name suggests, Guddu brand, it s amazing because the estranged wife Jennifer Garner on Twitter reported sightings of and Shani aim at offering a well- culture and people are very Saturday, according to reports. the family at The Wizarding World rounded campaign to their clients. similar yet a bit different. I love The magic of Harry Potter of Harry Potter at the amusement Commenting on how monotone the the response we get in India. helped bring Ben Affleck and Jen- park. visuals of designer brands are these They are very friendly nifer Garner together Saturday af- The couple s undoing report- days, he said, In every magazine The distorted beauty stan- and appreciative of our work. ternoon, but their reunion was like- edly began with an affair between issue, we used to see how incon- dards prevalent in the fashion in- It helps us grow as a brand. ly no more than a fleeting appari- Affleck and a former nanny. Rep- sistent brand communication is. dustry have recently been under It s great. We love coming tion. resentatives for Affleck have called The two got the opportunity to the gun. On digital manipulation here, said Saniya. The design- The pair, who announced the rumors "garbage." create brands with SanaSafinaz. of photographs, Shani said, In er retails across haute couture, their split in June, took their three Affleck and Garner were spot- We designed a 360 campaign for fashion advertising, I believe it s formal wear and luxury pret kids to Universal Studios Florida ted with their children last week- SanaSafinaz, ensuring all their com- acceptable to Photoshop because for women, with a selection on Affleck s 43rd birthday, accord- end at a mall near Atlanta. munication is consistent. people know what they re seeing of menswear. Having majored in Fine Arts isn t real. But it s criminal to alter A graduate of Indus Val- However, a guy walked up to and Graphic Design from Punjab fine-art shoots. They re meant to ley School of Art and Archi- her and asked her to click a selfie Colin Trevorrow will direct University, the dynamic duo broke be an expression of the artist. He tecture with a degree in textile with him. Mona, who doesn't into the fashion photography acknowledged that pictures have design, Sania has been design- click pictures with strangers, re- Star Wars: Episode IX scene back in 2004. Shani shared long been improved upon in ad- ing since 2007 under the label fused to oblige. that the two set foot in the market vertising, as the brand isn t sell- Chamak. In 2010, in a bid to According to a source, Looks like Colin Trevorrow is we all had a mythology to call in hopes of creating quality imag- ing the model, they re selling a expand into broader fashion "Mona was the last one to leave heading to a galaxy far, far away their own. We will do this by chan- es and something true to their roots. product. Shani holds that the endeavours, she launched her in her car from the parking area. the Jurassic World filmmaker neling something George Lucas in- Athar Shahzad and Khawar bhai trend of using editing softwares own label Sania Maskatiya. Suddenly, the same guy overtook will direct Star Wars: Episode IX. stilled in all of us: boundless cre- were our teachers when we start- such as Photoshop has changed Since then, she has had the her vehicle and parked his vehi- Walt Disney Studios chairman ativity, pure invention and hope. because clients don t ask for per- cle in front of Mona's. A terrified Alan Horn broke the news Satur- ed out and we studied their work opportunity to showcase her for its aesthetics, Shani said, add- fect -looking faces anymore. We Mona got out to confront him. day during Disney s D23 Expo, just do colour-correcting and re- creations at a prestigious fash- He asked her for a picture again. saying of the blockbuster dinosaur ing that mediocrity of preceding ion week in Mumbai and also works is what drove them to pur- move shadows now, and the target More than asking for it, it was sequel, It knocked our Avengers audience wants real people rather a few exhibitions, including the his demand." The source further from No. 3 [on the all-time box- sue photography. Of the gaping luxurious wedding exhibition void between theoretical knowl- than a 45-year-old model trying to adds, "The final act of this guy office chart] but we hired him any- look 18 with touchups, he stat- The Vogue Wedding Show. was that he messaged Mona as if way. This is not a job or an as- edge and its practical application, A visit to her stall at the Shani said the duo realised the ed- ed. Guddu and Shani remain mod- to show off that he has her phone signment, Trevorrow said in a ucation they pursued did little to est about their string of achieve- exhibition proved how curious number too. Mona, without statement released in conjunction put them at par with what was ments, including bagging this prospective Indian brides and wasting any time, blocked his with the news. It is a seat at a happening internationally. We year s Lux Style Awards nomina- families were as far as her col- number on WhatsApp. The driv- campfire, surrounded by an ex- Colin is someone I ve been had learnt the black-and-white film, tion for Best Fashion Photogra- lection was concerned. er suggested Mona to file a po- traordinary group of storytellers, interested in working with ever while the world was working with pher . I feel good about it but you The designer had bought a lice complaint, but Mona was not filmmakers, artists and craftspeo- since I saw Safety Not Guaran- digital, so we had to educate our- can t compare a photographer with capsule collection consisting sure of this idea as she did not ple. We ve been charged with tell- teed, Lucasfilm president Kath- selves from the internet, work- over 10 years of experience to a of gota work, zardosi, thread know how that guy would react ing new stories for a younger gen- leen Kennedy said in the same re- shops and seminars, he explained. new one. work and Swarovski. in future." eration because they deserve what lease. 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. MONDAY. AUGUST 17, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Struggling Woods misses cut at third major in a row

Tiger Woods plumbed new depths where I needed to be, but I putted meted to a mind-boggling 278th, when he missed the cut in a third awful," Woods, who totalled 28 his PGA Tour season is nearly successive major for the first time putts in the second round after over as he is unlikely to qualify in his career at the storm-delayed piling up 33 in the first, told re- for the lucrative FedExCup play- PGA Championship. porters. offs. The former world number one, "I finally figured something out Woods in now considering who failed to advance after 36 holes today on the putting green, but the playing in next week's Wyndham at the U.S. Open in June and at damage had already been done. Fi- Championship in Greensboro, last month's British Open, exited nally rolled the ball coming in, and the tournament after carding a one- unfortunately it was a too little too North Carolina - the final event of over-par 73 in the second round at late." the regular season on the U.S. cir- Whistling Straits. Still working through the lat- cuit - in a last-ditch bid for extra Woods had left himself with est swing change of his career after FedExCup points. plenty to do after putting poorly recovering from back surgery, "I'm just going to sit back and on the way to an opening 75 and, Woods has endured a dismal 2015 I'll go through with my team, we'll despite improved play in the sec- campaign featuring four missed talk about it, what I need to do and ond round, he finished at four-over cuts, a withdrawal and just two see if that's the right move or not," 148, two strokes outside the cut- top-25 finishes in 10 starts. said Woods, whose name was add- line. With the 14-time major cham- ed to the Wyndham field before "I hit it good enough to be pion's world ranking having plum- Friday's deadline.

Second-seed Andy Murray breezed to a 6-3 6-0 semi-final vic- tory over Kei Nishikori to set up a final with Novak Djokovic at the UFC Fight Night Rogers Cup in Montreal. Top-seed Djokovic defeated unseeded Jeremy Chardy of France 6-4 6-4 in the earlier semi-final. 75 Fight Card A three-time champion on the Canadian hardcourts, Djokovic has a 19-8 career record against Mur- ray and has won their last eight Filling Up Fast meetings since the Scot beat Djok- ovic in the 2013 Wimbledon final. Sharla Rae overhauled Her Emmynence in deep stretch to win the $300,000 Del Mar Oaks by three-quarters of a length Saturday at Del Mar. The UFC returns to the Saitama against the relatively inexperienced Murray has claimed two Canadi- Ridden by James Graham, Sharla Rae ran nine furlongs on turf in 1:46.58 and paid $14.40, $5.80 and $3.40 for trainer Doug O'Neill. Super Arena on Sept. 26 and more Roger Zapata (4-1). an titles. Her Emmynence returned $9.20 and $5, while 7-5 favorite Prize Exhibit was another 1 1/2 lengths back in third and paid $2.40 to show. fights were released this week, fill- Making his promotional debut Djokovic, who received treat- Ireland-born Graham earned his first stakes win at the seaside track, where he is riding for the first time after many years in Kentucky and ing up the fight card. So far there will be Legend FC veteran Yasuke ment on a sore right elbow several Illinois. ''This is a treat for me,'' he said. ''It's a Grade 1. I don't do things by half measure, do I? You need to hang in and have a bit of luck. Then it are 10 bouts confirmed and the card Kasaya (9-1-2). The Japanese times during changeovers, showed happens. I'm really enjoying it here.'' The victory, worth $180,000, increased Sharla Rae's career earnings to $436,545, with five wins in 13 races. will also feature the final of the lightweight signed for the UFC on no signs of distress on the court as Road to Japan reality show in the back of an impressive submis- he dismissed Chardy in a tidy one which eight Japanese feather- sion win over Frank Camacho at hour, 20 minutes to run his record weights are currently competing. PXC 47 and is booked to face Ger- to 10-0 against the Frenchman. In the lightweight division, many s Nick Hein (12-2-0-1). In the late semi-final, Nishikori Naoyuki Kotani (33-12-7) will be The card will be headlined by appeared to be fatigued in the sec- looking for his first UFC win when a previously announced heavy- ond set as Murray won 12 of the he takes on TUF Nations: Cana- weight match-up between Roy final 13 points. da vs. Australia semifinalist Ka- Nelson and Josh Barnett, who both The decline of Australian ten- jan Johnson (20-11-1), while there served as coaches on the Road to nis will be a bantamweight match-up Japan reality series and there is "I think I'm more tired," the between Takeya Mizugaki (20-9- also a middleweight match-up be- Japanese fourth seed said. 2) and George Roop (15-11-1). tween Roan Carneiro and Gegard "Everything was sore these The card will feature no fewer Mousasi. couple of days. Today it got a lit- than 10 Japanese fighters with Former flyweight title con- tle bit worst so I couldn't really Karate specialist Katsunori tender Kyoji Horiguchi returns to move 100 per cent." Elsewhere, Kikuno (22-7-2) handed a tough- take on Chico Camus, while Japa- world number one Serena Williams looking assignment against TUF 14 nese veteran Norifumi Kid Yama- was dumped out of the Rogers Cup winner Diego Brandao (19-10). moto takes on Matt Hobar in the 3-6 7-5 6-4 by rising Swiss talent Another Japanese fighter looking bantamweight division. There will Belinda Bencic, who will meet Si- to bounce back from defeat is Shin- also be a featherweight match-up mona Halep in Sunday's final after the Romanian second seed beat sho Anzai (8-2), who will be hop- between the two successful semi- Sara Errani in straight sets. Satur- ing to secure his first UFC win finalists from Road to Japan. day's defeat was just the second in 45 matches this season for Will- iams, who has won the first three grand slams of the year and will be favourite for a fourth when the US Open kicks off at the end of the month. The unseeded Bencic, who also beat former world number ones Caroline Wozniacki and Ana Ivanovic in Toronto, wore a look of disbelief after the 18-year-old's forehand winner whizzed past Williams to seal the match. Bencic dropped her racket and covered her face with her hands before the tears started to flow. Halep, playing her first event since a shock first round exit at Wimbledon, was happy to escape with a straight sets win in one hour, 35 minutes. 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. MONDAY. 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