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MAY 02. 2016 -Saur 13, 1395 HS Yo ur Yo ur ad ad he re he re 0778894038 SAUDI, INDIA CUT NUMBER OFVISAS TO AFGHANS: RABBANI The Deputy Foreign Affairs Min- of which more than 60 were mar- ister Hekmat Khalil Karzai has said tyred and more than 300 innocent KABUL : Foreign Minister ister said discussions had been that the ongoing violence in Af- Afghans including children wom- Salahuddin Rabbani said on Sun- launched over the issue and the ghanistan is not as a result of con- en were injured, Karzai asked the day India and Saudi Arabia had president during a telephonic flict among Afghans but is the re- CICA member countries to con- imposed new restrictions on visas conversation had discussed the sult of an imposed war on the Af- demn the aforementioned barbaric to Afghans for some reasons. matter with the king of Saudi ghan nation. attack and increase their coopera- Briefing the Meshrano Jirga or Arabia. Rabbani said Afghans, In his speech during the Fifth tion towards countering terrorism Senate, Rabbani said India had who traveled to Saudi on Paki- Ministerial Meeting of Conference which Afghanistan is in frontline blamed the move on the use of Af- stani passports, would be dis- on Interaction and Confidence of. He added that Afghanistan is ghan passports by foreigners and tributed Afghan passports and Building Measures in Asia (CICA), committed in this regard and as an Saudi Arabia reduced the number this issue had been resolved to Karzai said “We are making a active member of CICA, it has re- of visas to Afghans after some Af- some extent. He said a mecha- strong case in the international cently held the counter terrorism ghans failed to leave the kingdom nism had been put in place under community that the conflict in Af- conference under the Istanbul Pro- despite expiry of their visas. The which Afghan labourers would be ghanistan is not between Afghans cess/Heart of Asia process frame- minister said Saudi had been de- sent to Saudi Arabia. He told law- but imposed on us.” work in Kabul and the counter nying visas to Afghans aged below makers India was not denying Karzai further added that ter- drugs conference is due to be host- 40 years over the past few years visas to Afghan citizens, but the rorism as a regional threat and em- ed by Afghanistan next month as because most of them did not re- country had brought some chang- phasized on the need for regional well. turn home country after the expi- es to the visa regime. The foreign cooperation and partnership for The Fifth Ministerial Meeting ry of their visas. minister said Afghans traveling to countering effectively this phe- of Conference on Interaction and Rabbani said it was a security India should have bank account nomenon, describing CICA as a sig- Confidence Building Measures in issue and the Saud government and those going to India for treat- nificant platform in this regard. Asia was inaugurated by the Pres- would start issuing visas to even ment should produce report that Pointing towards the latest ident of the People’s Republic of less than 30 years old Afghans once approves he/she could not be terrorist attack in Kabul as a result China H.E. Xi Jinping. (KP) getting assurance. The foreign min- treated inside Afghanistan. KEY TALIBAN DABSdrops bomb COMMANDER KILLED IN on consumers LOGAR: NDS AT News Report try in future, the minister high- AT News Report Tariff increased by 25pc in 15 KABUL: Ministry of Labor and lighted. “Afghan delegation met Social Affairs calls the unemploy- with Saudi Arabia officials to send KABUL: The National Director- provinces to recover losses ment rate above 40 per cent. “Al- laborers to Saudi,” she noted. She ate of Security (NDS) on Sun- though there is no new survey added that in order to train profes- day said that its operatives had By Akhtar M. Nikzad bankrupt. Therefore, we boost the regarding unemployment rate, but sional laborers, the ministry will killed a key Taliban military cost of electricity 25 percent.” He it can be above 40 percent in the establish 46 vocational training commander in the eastern Logar said that the cost of electricity country,” Minister of Labor and centers. “We are also working to province. In a statement the would rise in the provinces of Kab- Social Affairs Nasrin Oryakhil empower three million women and NDS, identified the commander ul, Baghlan, Nangarhar, Kapisa, said Sunday. She said that based provide them with job opportuni- as Mohammad Rahim, saying he Jawzjan, Laghman, Herat, Kunduz, on a survey conducted in 2014, ties in next ten years.” Head of was killed along with two oth- Balkh, Parwan, Samangan, Sar-e- work force estimated 15 million Labor Union Maroof Qaderi, said ers accompanying him in the Pul, Faryab and Nimroz. He add- in Afghanistan. She stated that 8.5 that the government must pave the Khoshi district. “The intelligence ed that the price of electricity million work forces are willing to ground for investment in the coun- operatives also seized two AK- would increase furthermore if the work where only 3.5 find jobs and try to fight joblessness. He urged 47 rifles, one rocket launcher and value of Afghan keeps falling the rest have full time job. “Lack the government to reactivate fac- a motorcycle during the opera- against dollar. “25 percent in- of implementation of labor law is tories and step up efforts to ex- tion.” Numerous weapons, busi- crease in the price of electricity another challenge in the country,” tract mines. Deputy Afghanistan ness cards, Pakistani currency would be implementable over all she added. Providing job oppor- Chamber of Commerce and Indus- and contact numbers have also KABUL: The state-run power customers including government tunity is the top agenda for the tries Khanjan Alokozai said that private sector was willing to in- try. It is required of government been confiscated from the mili- distribution company announced administrations, private sector and government, thus, the ministry private investment could be a good vest, but insecurity and kidnap- to boost up security for traders to tants, according to the state- Sunday that the cost of electricity homes,” he remarked. Earlier, the exerts utmost efforts to boost up alternative to overcome unem- ping issue is the main problem be- invest and create job opportuni- ment. Taliban militants have not would increase by 25 per cent in parliament had approved the elec- employment facilities in the coun- ployment challenges. He said that fore invest mentors in the coun- ties across the country. commented yet. Logar is a vola- 15 provinces, underling fall of Af- tricity services’ law. According to tile province in east of the coun- ghani against the US dollar as ma- the law, the power company is try where anti-government jor reason. The electricity cost two mandated to collect the consump- 64 insurgents groups are actively operating in Afghanis per kilowatt, which tion of electricity from customers some districts and usually carry would jump up to 2.5 Afghanis for monthly. Some people criticize the SIGARwarns against further out insurgency attacks on secu- per kilowatt. “Last year, we lost payment of electricity bill in ev- killed in raids bilities and effectiveness of Afghan rity forces. around $17 million due to fall of ery two months, saying that it has AT News Report forces since troop reductions last Afghani against dollar,” the power a lot of damage for people. The KABUL: Sixty-four Taliban fight- Afghan drawdown year, calling it one major challenge. company spokesman Wahidullah power is purchased from Iran, ers were killed and 50 others Uncertainty over Afghan troop Taliban kill police Tawhidi said. “If we face with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at a cost wounded in different crackdowns KABUL : The Special Inspector of the US and its allies at strength- numbers is also a concern, as is the such loss this year, we would of around $270 million yearly. in the past 24 hours, security offi- General for Afghanistan Recon- ening the Afghan National Army Afghans’ ability to properly man- officer’s wife cials said Sunday. In a press re- struction (SIGAR) has warned (ANA) and Afghan National Po- age US financial aid to support the AT News Report lease, Ministry of Defense (MoD) current plans to reduce the num- lice (ANP) and further troop with- military and police, SIGAR said. KABUL: Armed Taliban insur- said that Afghan National Army ber of American troops in the war- draw would likely exacerbate the The U.S. is currently scheduled to gents shot dead the wife of a po- (ANA) with the collaboration of torn country will leave Afghan forc- situation. draw down its 9,800 troops in lice officer at his house in Darqad the Afghan National Police (ANP) es with “capability gaps” in a num- “The US ability to influence Afghanistan to about 5,500 by the district of Takhar province, a se- and National Directorate of Secu- ber of areas. The US government operational outcomes on the start of next year. This reduction, curity official of the province said rity (NDS), conducted some op- watchdog in its quarterly report ground is constricting, while (that SIGAR said, could result in “gaps Sunday. Noor Mohammad Haki- erations against insurgents in dif- on Friday said the gaps could of the Afghan National Defense and in air support, signals, intelligence mi, provincial police chief told ferent areas of Paktia, Wardak, threaten the success of reconstruc- Security Forces) has not corre- and other areas.”In light of the chal- media that, Taliban insurgents Khost, Kunar, Nangarhar, Ghaz- tion efforts in Afghanistan.