Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:IX Issue No:256 Price: Afs.15 TUESDAY . APRIL 21 . 2015 -Sawr 01, 1394 HS www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes Govt nudged AFGHANISTAN WILL BECOME BIGGEST Silk Road reconstruction to balance its exporter of copper, iron in 10-year: Ghani work to kick off soon: MoPW ties with AT Monitoring Desk route is underway, funded by the AT News Report World Bank, and the remaining REGIONAL ollowing President Ghani s 108 kilometers of the Silk Road KABUL: President Ashraf trip to Beijing where he de will be built by financial support COUNTRIES Ghani who is on a two-day of- Fmanded direct trade relations of the bank with worth $36.2 mil- ficial visit in Iran on Monday with China through the Silk lion. However, the ministry said AT Monitoring Desk stressed on bolstering bilateral ties Road which connects China s complete construction of the route between the two countries, and Shenyang city with Wakhan dis- will cost millions of dollars for KABUL: The National Unity said poverty and unemployment trict in Badakhshan, the Ministry which the MoPW will need sup- Government (NUG) has so far in Afghanistan and the region will of Public Works (MoPW) said port of the international struggled to improve its ties in re- not overcome sans mutual coop- Monday that work on reconstruc- gional level but a number of MPs community.Experts in economic eration among regional states. tion of the trade route will kick affairs believe that the route can believe that Kabul should priori- According to a press state- off in near future.The MoPW tize keeping balance in its ties with connect Afghanistan with China, ment emailed by the Presidential technical deputy, Noor Gul Man- India, central Asia, Turkey, Azer- the regional countries. Palace, Ghani expressed the re- Radio Azadi on Monday quot- gal, said a Chinese delegation will baijan and even a number of Euro- marks at a ceremony in Tehran visit Kabul in upcoming days pean countries. The experts also ed Sayid Ali Kazimi, member of where Iran Chamber of Com- international relations commission which will discuss reconstruction said the Silk Road will change Af- merce, Industries, Mines and Ag- of the Silk Road with Afghan offi- ghanistan into one of the major of the Wolesi Jirga (the Lower riculture s (ICCIMA) high rank- House of the parliament), as say- cials. Radio Azadi quoted Man- trade partners of the world ing that ambiguity in government s ing officials attended. Concentrat- gal, as saying that China was ready countries. I hope it will be a good stance on Yemen conflict and pres- ing on five economic sectors in- to reconstruct the Silk Road, and start for Afghanistan. Involve- ident s trip to Iran have put the cluding location, water, mines, fuel dle for economic development, he main goals of the Afghan govern- and said the real volume of Af- Afghanistan is also struggling to ment of China and its interest in people of Afghanistan between a and gas and investment, the Pres- said the tax which was taken from ment. He said mines, fuel and gas ghanistan and Iran s exports and rebuild trade and transit roads.He rebuilding the Silk Road will en- rock and a hard place. ident told the session that Asia you as bride is no more accept- are the most important economic imports are not known yet, there- said the project needs huge bud- courage other countries to invest He said that lack of clear for- will be changed into an economic able for us. sectors in the country, as primary fore commerce between two coun- get, and talks are underway with in the country, and this can result eign policy has made President continent in upcoming two de- Hinting at the balance of Af- researches reveal that 33 percent tries should turn regular, and ille- Chinese officials about technical in economic and commerce im- Ghani s trips imbalanced, and has cades and trade relations of Iran ghanistan s imports which are thir- of Afghanistan s mines have been gal commerce should be prevent- and economic issues of the route. provement in Afghanistan, Mo- undermined their achievements. with China, Tajikistan and tyfold more than the exports, he estimated up to $3 trillion. He said ed. We are more focusing on contrac- hammad Amin Farhang, the former President Ghani visited Te- Uzbekistan through Afghanistan said the country s location re- Afghanistan will be changed into Poverty and unemployment tion of a railway. Once the Silk commerce minister said as quoted hran at a time that the NUG s re- will create a big change in the re- quires that Afghanistan s trade biggest exporters of iron and cop- in the region cannot be solved Road was built, it will change Af- by Radio Azadi. cent stance on Yemen war has said gion s economy. He said Afghani- should not be one-sided. He per in upcoming decade. without mutual cooperation. Se- ghanistan into one of the biggest Afghan experts say that the to be resulted in tensions among stan is ready to cooperate in in- termed effective utilization of He termed establishment of a curity and stability will not be trade partner of Asian and the Silk Road project can be complet- officials in Iran. The Iranian Pres- frastructural fields of research, water and land, and investment in credible and problems-free trade ensured until poverty is not over- world countries, he added. Ac- ed in a short time if it was fully ident told his Afghan counterpart mobilization and investment. agriculture and changing Afghani- and transit system as important come in Afghanistan as well as in cording to the MoPW, work on supported by China because it that the regional countries should Terming corruption as biggest hur- stan into an exporter of foods as for Afghanistan and the region, the region, he concluded. construction 44 kilometers of the has access to modern technology. try to overcome the regional prob- lems including Yemen crisis through diplomatic and peaceful AL-QAEDA FIGHTERS NO MORE Daesh, Taliban 17 Pakistani militants arrested in Nangarhar channels. Experts believe that Has- san Rouhani s remarks hints at the fighting in Afghanistan: Taliban announce Jihad AT Monitoring Desk recent stance on the Afghan gov- ernment on Yemen war. against each Recently, the NUG announce KABUL: Afghan security forces its support to Saudi Arabia on other: Official arrested 17 militants, including Yemen war. President Ghani is due Pakistani, in eastern Nangarhar to visit India at the end of this AT Monitoring Desk province, said an official source month. Analyst in political affairs on Monday. Fazluddin Ayar, a and head of the US Strategic Stud- KABUL: The Taliban and Islam- border police commander in east- ies Center for Afghanistan, Rohul- ic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ern Afghanistan, said that they lah Amin, was quoted by Radio announced Jihad against each oth- arrested the 17 insurgents in Door Azadi, as saying that President er in Helmand province, said an Baba district of Nangarhar prov- official on Monday. ince. The Pakistani militants were Ghani should thoroughly keep the equipped with different weap- balance of Kabul s ties with the Nabi Jan Mulakhel, Helmand ons, Ayar added. He said that the regional countries. Terming police chief, told reporters that he militants were planning an am- Ghani s Iran trip as the govern- has letters that prove that the two bush, when were arrested. He said ment s efforts to keep balance in terrorist groups have announced that the arrest Pakistani militants the government should ensure that suicide blast in Jalalabad, the cap- its relations with the regional coun- Jihad against each other. are residents of Momand Agency the militants will not be released ital city of Nangarhar, left 34 peo- tries, he said Iran has found a crit- In one of the letters the ISIS, and Khyber Agency. Mudasir, a by judicial organization after tak- ple dead and wounded more than ical and sensitive stance on Yemen KABUL: The spokesman of the group s fighters had left Afghani- also known as Daesh, instructs its commander of militants in Khy- ing bribe. Najib Khan, a dweller 100 others earlier this week. Civil conflict therefore it is required for Qatar-based Taliban has said al- stan to Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. commander in Helmand to fight ber Pakhtunkhwa was also among of Jalalabad city urged the gov- society activists in the province the Afghan government to consid- Qaeda fighters have returned to The unity government is installed against the Taliban, while the oth- the 17 militants. Local people ernment to bring all those involved in a protest urged the government er the issue as important and bal- their home countries and are no by US secretary of state John er letter urge the Taliban fighters expressed pleasure over arrest- in terrorist activities to book. to curb militancy and punish per- ance its relations with regional longer fighting in Afghanistan. Kerry and the government has in- to suppress the ISIS activities in ment of the militants and said that It is worth mentioning that a petrators of the ghastly bombing. states. Emotional decisions and Mohammad Naeem, the ternal issues as well. Their differ- Helmand, Mulakhel said. taking stances without consulta- group s spokesman, who is based ences on a nominee for defence Neither the Taliban nor ISIS Jowzjan police chief concerned 2 BROTHERS tion are not in favor of Afghani- in the Qatari capital Doha told Al- ministry and electoral reforms has commented about the allega- stan, as the government did re- Sharq newspaper they were not commission are examples, he tions of Mulakhel so far.