Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:XI Issue No:343 Price: Afs.20 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes SUNDAY . JULY 23. 2017 -Asad 01, 1396 HS AT News Report he Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) reopened a small AT News Report Zwak. “The incident occurred an airstrike in the Gereshk district We have notified Afghan Thealth clinic in the northern while Afghan forces were engaged in Helmand province late Friday officials of this incident. An Kunduz province, a step to KABUL: At least 16 police in an operation against Taliban afternoon,” the US forces said in a investigation will be conducted to maintain activities in Afghanistan officers were killed and two others militants in the area,” Zwak added. statement. determine the specific after a delay following the bloody wounded in an airstrike carried out “The area is now under control “We like to express our circumstances that led to this US airstrike that targeted a hospital by the US forces in southern of Taliban and the incident is under deepest condolences to the families incident. in the Kunduz city, the provincial province of Helmand, provincial inquiry.” affected by this unfortunate It is pertained to mention that capital that killed and wounded officials said. “The strike was The US forces-Afghanistan incident.” often such incidents took place in scores of patients in 2015. carried out on Friday afternoon in This is the first health MSF’s confirmed the Afghan casualties It said that during a US the past, which have been resulted Parchaw locality of Greshk resulted during airstrike. supported ANDSF operation, at killing of civilians and Afghan MPs said if President Ghani feels that he is healthcare facility after destroying district, after they came under of MSF’s hospital in 2015 in the “We can confirm local security aerial fires resulted in the deaths forces, but still foreign forces not able to lead the country, he should send province. foreign forces airstrike,” said personnel aligned with Afghan of the friendly Afghan forces who particularly US forces failed to his resignation to the parliament “The Medecins Sans Frontiers provincial spokesman, Omar government forces were killed in were gathered in a compound. avoid such attacks repetition. has reopened a small medical clinic in northern Kunduz province,” The Wolesi Jirga’s (Lower House legislations which include the said head of the organization’s Taliban closing in 6 Afghan soldiers of Parliament) administrative approval of two law amendments, programs in Afghanistan, Silvia board on Saturday accused six legislative decrees and 12 Dallatomasina. on Khanabad among 18 dead in President Ashraf Ghani of international documents,” said She said that this clinic will inability to lead the country and Abdul Qader Zazai, the secretary be opened during week days and centre: Public reps Taliban attack said he has an autocratic behavior of the Wolesi Jirga. have no hospitalization capacity. towards the parliament. Another MP, Farooq Majroh, She said that this clinic will KUNDUZ CITY : A public FARAH CITY : Six Afghan The MPs said the president said the MPs were ready to cancel receive small wounds and small should step down if he cannot lead their summer recess “if the representative on Saturday said the National Army (ANA) soldier the country. “Government has president wants to complete the burns. Taliban were closing in on the have been killed and three others The clinic reopened away been damaged under your cabinet and the legislations”. centre of Khanabad district of injured in a fierce clash with the administration and your Meanwhile, the Presidential from the compound MSF hospital northern Kunduz province, calling Taliban in western Farah province, destroyed during airstrike in BEIJING : Journalists from He, however, said the OBOR leadership,” the Wolesi Jirga first Palace said Ghani has always on the government to pay urgent Afghanistan and China held a joint project was not given a fair an official said on Saturday. A deputy speaker Humayun cooperated with the MPs. 2015, completely different attention to the situation. structure in another part of the meeting and talked about various coverage in the media. The Afghan dozen insurgents were also killed Humayun said. “If you (President “President (Ashraf Ghani) believes city, she added. The Provincial Council (PC) opportunities that could help diplomat said Afghanistan was not and six others injured as the group Ashraf Ghani) are unable to run in cooperation between the three In the clinic Afghan doctors member, Safiullah Ameri, in an improved relations between the central to OBOR project but tried to capture the Pashtunkot the country or it is above your pillars of the government. He has are working and we have exclusive interview told Pajhwok two countries. efforts were being made to make district of the province, said Nasir capability, please send your had consultative meetings with the international staffs in the clinic as Afghan News that militants Mehri, the governor’s spokesman. resignation to the parliament.” parliament members and he has First secretary of the Afghanistan a central point of the “Let us give a medal to the respected every decision made by well, she noted. attacked on the district and Afghanistan Embassy in China, mega connectivity project. Manadi But local residents claimed the She said that we have captured several villages and Taliban entered the district National Unity Government the MPs,” said Dawa Khan Syed Mehdi Manadi, was present said economic development was (NUG) – the medal of Minapal, a Presidential Palace negotiated on reopening of MSF closed the Kunduz-Takhar at the meeting on Friday in Beijing, vital for peace and stability headquarters but were pushed hospital, but it is not completed highway on Friday morning. “The back by security forces after hours incompetency, because the spokesman, said. Meanwhile, the the capital of China. therefore the Afghan media should country’s situation has worsened Wolesi Jirga’s first deputy speaker we need commitment to assure the district has been under siege since Manadi said media’s role in strive to attract Chinese investors of a gun-battle. Some locals said safety of our staff and our since the NUG’s establishment,” raised the issue of corruption in two days, we have contacted the improving relations between the to Afghanistan. He added the the Taliban attacked the district patients. We are willing to restart authorities to send reinforcements, centre on Friday night. According said Sadiqizada Nili, an MP from the parliament’s secretariat. He trauma center in 2018, she noted. two countries was vital because Afghan mission in Beijing would Daikundi. said there is corruption in contracts but unfortunately there has been media could attract Chinese strive to pave the way for Chinese to other sources, the militants The Wolesi Jirga and appointments of the This clinic just opened today and no positive response. If proper entered the facility Saturday we are expecting that around 50 investors and inform people about journalists to visit Afghanistan administrative board also criticized secretariat, adding that he will send attention is not paid, the chance is the China’s One Belt One Road thought the Information and morning and carried out some the president over lack of the evidences, about this claim, to patients will be received a day, she the insurgents will overrun the blasts, burnt a military tank and a noted. (OBOR) initiative. Culture Ministry. (Pajhwok) cooperation with the parliament. the Attorney General’s Office. district,” he warned. (Pajhwok) Ranger pick-up. (Pajhwok) “Parliament has worked on 36 (ToloNews) SUNDAY . JULY 23, 2017 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Sayed Saddat and his family fled the Taliban in Afghanistan to come to Germany two years ago. They applied for asylum and tried to integrate fast. After their application was rejected, they appealed to a lawyer for help. Sayet Saddat used to work as a translator for NATO in Afghanistan. He risked his life going on patrol with NATO soldiers and thus the Taliban consider him a traitor. One day, they threatened to kill him and his family if he didn't join them. He escaped to Germany with his pregnant wife and their small The Trump administration seems in no hurry to devise daughter. Nine months later, their application for asylum was a strategy for America’s longest-running war. rejected. This came as a shock and they have appealed the decision. Sayet Saddat is learning German and has found an apprenticeship in a supermarket. He and his family are in temporary accommodation in Falkensee near Berlin. They have no desire to return to Afghanistan but their chances of being able to remain in Germany are limited. On Borrowed Time - An Afghan in Germany A Report by Linda Vierecke. (DW) Football: Gold prices up, Afghanistan fail to qualify flour down in Kabul for AFC U-23 Championship Afghanistan have failed to qualify for 2018 AFC Championship after falling to 8-0 defeat by hosts Saudi Arabia on Friday. The match was played in Prince U.S. armored vehicles patrol near the site of a U.S. bombing during an operation Faisal Bin Fahd Stadium in Saudi capital Riyadh. against ISIS in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on April 15. Saudi scored five goals in the first half and the remaining three Addressing the subject of services’ most skilled and methods. This involved, above all, in the second half. Afghanistan this week, President successful officers on the helping the new government In their first match of the Donald Trump said that he’d like battlefields of Iraq. McMaster, at provide basic services to the qualifier, Afghanistan were “to find out why we’ve been there the time, was a colonel who Afghan people, thus earning their defeated Iraq 8-0.