Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:102 Price: Afs.15 Weekend Issue, Sponsored by Etisalat FRIDAY . NOVEMBER 11. 2016 -Aqrab 21, 1395 H.S www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantime By Farhad Naibkhel Out of over 700 applicants, and criteria during selection of nees, adding that “the process was selected for the Independent Elec- the selection committee has short- nominees for the two electoral bod- followed freely and fairly.” toral Complaints Commission KABUL: The Selection Com- listed 21 nominees for the Inde- ies. Provincial and gender balanc- (IECC). mittee of Election Commis- pendent Election Commission Abdullah Shefahi, a member of es were also kept in view, he not- Transparent Election Founda- sioners on Thursday said that (IEC) and 15 for the Independent the Selection Committee, said that ed. tion of Afghanistan (TEFA) has after reviewing 722 applica- Electoral Complaints Commission work experience, related education- Maria Akrami, another mem- showed doubts over selection of tions it has shortlisted 36 can- (IECC). al qualification, profession and re- ber of the committee, said that the the candidates. didates for the positions of “The selection committee has quired skills were the main stan- list of the candidates was submit- Mobinullah Aymaq, in charge electoral commissioners. The struggled to select qualified figures dards and criteria for selection of ted to the president. Out of 21 of TEFA, said the list of shortlist- list has been submitted to Pres- through a transparent process,” the candidates. nominees, seven will be selected ed nominees was not shared with ident Ashraf Ghani who will said Head of the Selection Com- He also rejected reports perti- as commissioners for the Indepen- the civil society while the commit- finalize names of those fit for mittee, Jawid Rashidi. He said the nent to any pressure over the com- dent Election Commission (IEC). tee also failed to address com- the positions. committee considered all standards mittee during selection of nomi- Out of 15 candidates, five will be plaints of the rejected applicants. TALOQAN : A huge market Women Affairs Razmara Hawash wash promised tight security here. She hailed the market a big of Taloqan city. Some 40 women for women sellers and buyers hoped creation of the market would around the market would be main- step for businesswomen. Mean- have opened shops in the park but has been built in capital of go a long way in promoting wom- tained to encourage women into while, a women-only park was in- many women could not visit the northeastern Takhar province. en’s economic empowerment. Ha- launching processes and shopping augurated in the Ay Khanum area shops due to its distant location. This market has many shops, but only six women have opened shops there so far. Madar Jan Rostaye is the first woman to have opened a shop in the market. She told Pajh- wok News efforts were being made to encourage more wom- en to make shops in the mar- At least seven civilians including but the local officials said the ket. “Women can also shop women and children were killed in IED was planted by the Tal- here. I am the first woman to an explosion in southern Kanda- iban insurgents, the main anti- open a shop. “I encourage other har province of Afghanistan. government armed militant women to follow suit. Now I Local officials in Kandahar group in the country. am very happy that we have said the incident took place late Taliban insurgents and six women shopkeepers here. on Wednesday in Shawali Kot dis- militants belonging to the in- I believe women can also be trict. surgent groups frequently use good shopkeepers,” Rostaye Provincial governor’s spokes- Improvised Explosive Device remarked. Zarmina, a resident man Samim Khpolwak said the (IED) as the weapon of their of the provincial capital, said civilians were killed after their ve- choice to target the Afghan in a conservative country like hicle struck an Improvised Explo- security forces and the gov- Afghanistan, women were un- sive Device (IED). ernment officials. able to deal with male shop- Khpolwak further added that However, in majority of keepers. “If such markets are three children, two women, and such attacks the ordinary ci- constructed all over the coun- two men were among those killed. vilians are targeted as the mil- try, women will be able to help No group including the Tali- itant groups are accused of their families in economic mat- ban insurgents has so far claimed causing the majority of the ters,” she added. Director of responsibility behind the incident civilian casualties. (KP) FRIDAY .NOVEBMER 11, 2016 AFGHANISTANTIMES AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir Phone No: +93-772364666 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.afghanistantimes.af Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi Advisory editorial board Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal Graphic-Designers: Edriss Akbari and Bilal Yusufi Marketing & Advertising: Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press The constitution says Article 117 The President shall appoint one of its members as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Members of the Supreme Court, except under circumstances stated in Article One Hundred Twenty Seven of this Constitution, shall not be dismissed till the end of their term. By Lauren Carasik to cast democratic ballots. Yet former democratic presidential the nuclear codes or with stew- Trump continued to stoke fears candidate Bernie Sanders who ardship of a planet imperilled Despite tightening polls in the of a rigged election, and issued represented the opportunity to by the climate change he de- days leading up to the US pres- dog-whistle calls to monitor uproot the status quo by con- nies. Editorial idential election, many believed polls in urban areas , raising the fronting crony capitalism and Under Trump, the US will that Hillary Clinton would eke prospect of voter intimidation. the institutions that entrench probably continue to fall short out a victory, in part because His unfounded claims of voter it. of international human rights she had been consistently fraud were intended as a bul- For some with a more glo- ideals. He has evinced his hos- ahead in predictions, and in wark against the humiliation of bal view, Trump's victory pre- tility to even the small number part because the alternative defeat. sents some solace. Clinton is of Syrian refugees admitted to was an unthinkable descent Yet, there are real threats to generally viewed as more of a the US, suggesting that the into fascism and hatred. democracy that went unad- hawk than Trump. She sup- desperate families fleeing the In the end, voters embraced dressed, including the influx of ported the Iraq war, which pro- same extremist terrorism from Donald Trump's intolerance money into politics that uphold voked a humanitarian catastro- which he wants to keep Ameri- and vitriol, in a campaign that the interests of the 1 percent phe and is partially responsi- can safe pose a danger to us It seems that the Taliban want to be responsible for more civil- edged political discourse into and a craven media that failed ble for the rise of the Islamic instead, and has threatened to a mockery of truth, civility and miserably to hold him to any State of Iraq and the Levant Muslims from entering the ian killings on the Day of Judgment before the almighty God, as substance. His presidency will standard of veracity. (ISIL), promoted regime country. the group is urging the continuation of war. Improvised explo- be a catastrophe for human He will now govern a bit- change in Libya to disastrous Trump seems likely to con- rights and the rule of law. Trump terly divided country that has effect, and has called for a no- tinue the use of drones for ex- sive devises (IED) planted by the insurgents are killing scores denigrated African Americans completely lost sight of its fly zone in Syria, which could trajudicial assassination de- of innocent women, children and men on weekly basis—more as monolithic denizens of inner founding ideals, exacerbate its lead to more serious confron- spite civilian casualties: in fact, often daily. city bedlam, demonised immi- existing troubles, and imperil its tation with Russia. he once said the families of ter- grants and Muslims, mocked a very democracy. Her Latin American policies rorists should be targeted as The group as the major armed opposition of the government man with disabilities and de- Trump positioned himself have been dismal. Some leftists well. has been busy in a proxy war for a decade and half since it was graded women. as an authentic, anti-establish- feared a Clinton presidency He has called for the water- ousted from power. The militant group said recently that it would US election: Donald Trump ment candidate who can "Make would continue to project its boarding of terrorists, despite wins the White House America great again", but as military might and economic its lack of efficacy and illegali- not accept an Islamic conference suggested by the government He turned unbounded critics grimly joked, the more priorities across the globe, en- ty, and said that Guantanamo to help for the solution of the war of attrition. The government greed into a virtue, elevated for- honest slogan was to "Make gage in endless war, and un- Bay prison will be expanded had called on the Islamic scholars to help the people of Afghan- profit business to a governance America hate again".