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KABUL:
Mohammad
Ashraf Ghani, President of the
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has held 12 separate consultative meetings with various
organizations and people related to the destiny of parliament s Lower House, reforms
in electoral system, setting
time for holding parliamentary elections and electronic
identification cards distribution.
In the sessions held at the
Presidential Palace with participation of political and jihadi
figures, ulamas and dignitaries, members of Independent
Election Commission and Electoral Complaints Commission,
administrative panels of Sen-
ate and representatives of Lower House s various commissions, the participants shared
their suggestions and views
with President Ghani in consideration to political and security condition in the country
and in enlightening of the
country s national interests
and constitution.
After hearing views and
suggestions of the participants,
the country s President asserted that the government was
committed to specifying exact
time for holding parliamentary elections, but first a gathering should be held in security,
technical and political affairs.
Finding financial resources for funding the elections is
the government s responsibility and we will use all possible
means for holding a transparent election in the country,
President Ghani said, assuring
that decision will be made according to the country s constitution relate to specifying time
of the elections. Mohammad
Ashraf Ghani also said that the
issue would be referred to the
country s Supreme Court as its
task was to interpret the constitution. President Ghani added that he had asked IEC and
UNDP to Kabul to deliver him
their report within five days.
According to another report, President Ghani in a separate meeting with directors
and acting chairmen for the
Minis te r Jahani re views proble m s of
Parwan, Kapis a MoIC provinc ial depts
KABUL: Abdul Bari Jahani,
Minister of Information and
Culture paid a visit the other
day to Parwan provincial directorate of information and culture and reviewed its problems.
Jahani, accompanied by his
deputy on cultural affairs,
Sayed Musadiq Khalili, in a
meeting with head of the directorate and a number of officials
heard the province s cultural,
broadcasting and youth affairs
problems. Delivering work report of the directorate, provincial director of information and
culture Abdul Wahid Hashimi
shared a range of problems with
minister of information and
culture.
Meanwhile, Mohammad
Rustam Rustamzada, director
of information and culture for
Kapisa also briefed on works
of his directorate and enumerated a range of problems in cultural sections of the province,
asking the ministry of information and culture for consideration to addressing current
problems in the directorate.
Praising provincial directors of
information and culture of
Kapisa and Parwan for their
works, minister Jahani promised he would make effort towards addressing their problems.
The Kabul Times
MoP H p er su a d es
citizens to donate blood
KABUL: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and World Health
Organization (WHO) officials on Sunday took part in a blood
donation drive to mark World Blood Donor Day and to help injured Afghan security forces who are in desperate need of blood.
World Blood Donor Day is celebrated around the world on
June 14 every year. In line with this, the MoPH called on the
public to donate blood in an effort to help injured people and
patients, both in Kabul and other provinces.
"Our countrymen need blood. Every citizen should visit the
blood bank and donate blood for the people who need it, and through
this, they should make blood donations common in the country,"
said Qamaruddin Hafiz, head of the Curative Medicine Department at the MoPH. Meanwhile, WHO says it is committed to
supporting Afghanistan and will help the MoPH officials with
their blood donation campaign. "We are ready to continue our
cooperation with the health sector of Afghanistan. We will help in
building the capacity of MoPH personnel in collecting blood in 34
provinces," said Dr. Richard Pircon, the WHO representative in
Afghanistan. Several blood donation campaigns have been held
in the country in the past few years. Recently, a blood donation
drive was launched by well-known singer and activist Farhad
Darya, where large amounts of blood was collected to help wounded troops in military hospitals. Tolonews
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Constitutional deal to make Lower
House s fate, President Ghani
President Ghani meeting with various organization s members
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country s independent organs
encouraged them towards preparing 100-day working plans
as ministries, asserting that the
country s independent organs
should resolve their problems
in cooperation with each other
and increase the effectiveness
of their works.
In the meeting, directors
and acting chairmen of the
country s independent organs
expressed their readiness in
connection with preparing the
100-day working plan, sharing
their organs current problems
in laws and lack of sufficient
authorizations and budget with
president.
After hearing views and
suggestions of the organs directors, President Ghani while
stressing on transparency and
accountability in the respective
organs said he should be aware
of the organs condition and
laws and regulations of them
should be standardized.
The country s President
asked directors and acting
heads for the country s independent organs to hold joint
meetings with each other and
report him in coming sessions
related to their particular plans
in framework of the 100-day
plan. The Kabul Times
Afghanistan uses
transport planes
to target
insurgents
The Ministry of Defense
(MoD) officials have said
transport planes are used to
carry out airstrikes against
the Taliban insurgents due to
the lack of fighter planes to
provide close air support.
Gen. Afzal Aman, Chief of
Operations for the Afghan
Ministry of Defense, said the
transport planes have been
armed with weapons and are
deployed to provide air support
for the ground force.
He said the Afghan Air
Force needs training which
could not be achieved with
short term courses and insisted that it would be difficult to
have a proper air force within
a short span of time.
Gen. Aman also added that
more investments would be required to boost the capacity of
the air force in order to maintain and operate the planes
properly.
This comes as the Afghan
Air Force officially received
armed MD-530 helicopters
from the United States earlier
in April this year.
Pentagon awarded MD
Helicopters Inc. a maximum
$44.2 million firm-fixed-price
contract last year to develop
and provide an armament
package for the MD-530F helicopters that were already
supplied to the Afghan Air
Force.
Around 17 of the Afghan
Air Force s MD-530F helicopter will be upgraded under the
contract which is expected to
be completed early next year.
MD-530F helicopters are
designed for high altitude and/
or hot weather operations,
where thinner air costs helicopters some of their lift.
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Insecurity a major
challenge ahead of
investment
CE congratulates World Mother s Day
KABUL: Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in a message has congratulated
the World Mother s Day to all Afghan and world mothers, wishing Afghan women sound and peaceful life as other mothers of
the world.
In the message, the country s CE considered the role of
mothers in education of children as key and fundamental and
called mother as resource of kindness and real affection, saying
that the word mother meant a spiritual, moral and education
school.
Mother is the only woman under whose feet is paradise.
Religious and Islamic Sharia and human values always insist
on dignity and respect to mother because mother has raised
personalities and cadres in her hug and delivered to the world,
CE said. In the message, Dr. Abdullah said despite that Afghan
mothers were deprived from most of their rights and life facilities, they have not been disappointed and were still trying to
raise their children and deliver them for the service of the country. The Kabul Times
NUG seeks to fundamentally
address people s problems, Danesh
KABUL: A number of Samangan elders yesterday called
on Second Vice President, Sar-
In return, second vice president asserted that the National Unity Government was try-
now started and they would try
to prevent corruption in new appointments.
war Danesh and shared their
problems with him.
In the meeting, Samangan
elders while enumerating a
range of people s problems in
particular discrimination in
local and security organs in the
province, asked the government for consideration to addressing their problems.
ing to fundamentally resolve
problems of the people of Afghanistan; therefore, the government would make effort towards providing participation
of all the people of Afghanistan
in all government sections.
Danesh stressed that all appointments had been stopped in
the past one year, but they have
The second vice president
promised that he would follow
justified demands of the people of Samangan through relevant organs and would prevent
corruption and discrimination
particularly in appointment
process of civil and military
employees.
The Kabul Times
Overseeing commission on
access to information set up
KABUL: Overseeing commission for access to information was set up yesterday by the
ministry of information and
culture.
In a meeting attended by
Minister of Information and
Culture, Abdul Bari Jahani and
representatives from MoFA,
MoTIT and MoIC, journalists
union, NDS, Independent Human Rights Commission, advocates association, legal advisors union, chamber of commerce and industries and so-
cial society organizations, the commission was officially established by ministry of information and culture and its members
were introduced.
Meanwhile, it was decided that the commission would soon
hold its first official meeting to select chairman, deputy and secretary of the commission.
The Kabul Times
India grants citizenship to 4,300 refugees
from Afghanistan, Pakistan
At least 4,300 refugees
from Afghanistan and Pakistan
were granted citizenship by the
authorities in India during the
past one year.
The citizenship to Hindus
and Sikhs from Afghanistan
and Pakistan were granted as
part of a program by the National Democratic (NDA) government to grant Indian nationality to nearly 200,000 refugees from neighbouring countries. The refugees were granted citizenship at the initiative
of Home Minister Rajnath
Singh following BJP s declared
policy that India is a natural
home for persecuted Hindus
who will be welcome to seek
refuge.
This comes as India s Prime
Minister Narendra Modi had,
during the Lok Sabha election
campaign, said that Pakistani
and Bangladeshi Hindu refugees will be treated like any
other Indian citizen.
According to the local newspaper Times of India, there
are around two lakh Hindu and
Sikh refugees from Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Afghanistan
currently living in India.
At least 19,000 refugees
were also given long-term visas since the Modi government
assumed charge in May 2014.
Citing official sources, the
newspaper repored around
11,000 long-term visas were
given in Rajasthan and 4,000
long-term visas were given in
Gujarat.
India s home ministry also
olled out an online system for
submission of Long Term Visa
application and for its processing by various agencies in the
month of April.
The decision by the government of India to grant citizenship to refugees from neighboring countries, was taken with
an aim to address the difficulty
being faced by Hindu and Sikh
minorities of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who
come to India with the intention to settle permanently. KP
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Pre s ide nt Ghani as ks for trans pare nc y
in UN-le d ag e nc ie s ac tivity
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Insecurity a major challenge
ahead of investment
Despite commitments made by the country s security officials on independent defense following the withdrawal of U.S. led NATO forces, the confidence over ANSF
on carrying out of independent operations, especially in volatile provinces have been
growing and as a result of which security was prevailed in the most insecure areas. But
emergence of unexpected incidents, including suicide attacks, explosions, road side
mine blasts along the highways leading to remote districts and provinces plus changing
of climate and warming of temperature have created certain concerns for the people
and disturbed security and peace in the northern provinces and few districts in Helmand province, but this unexpected move of the insurgents was not underestimated or
ignored by ANSF and was not remained unanswered and shattering blows were inflicted on the enemies who were sent and equipped beyond the borders to show their
physical presence in the battle fields and conduct subversive activities.
Our people who gained bitter experiences from the past devastating war, have
considered suicide attacks as the continuation of previous insecurities and our investors shut down their factories and some businessmen decided to collect their trades
and transfer their capitals abroad.
While preventive measures have been taken for improving of security by the NUG
with support of ANSF, but unexpected attacks of armed insurgents on remote districts, disturbance of passengers along highways such as Kabul-Mazar-e-Sharif, Kabul-Herat and Kabul-Kandahar as well as suicide attacks inside major cities and crowded
areas, robberies, kidnapping of national traders, local and tribal influential and even
children have increased people s concerns.
These concerns and shutting down of factories have faded enthusiasms of national
traders for investment and industrial activities. All the problems especially the investment process and establishment of factories have roots in insecurities. Because we all
believe that in lack of peace and security, expansion and development of commercial
activities and investment on economical and infrastructures systems are impossible.
It is believed that invisible hands are involved from outside the country in devastation of our country and disturbing of peace and stability along highway, which are
called as the economic arteries of our country. The goal behind all these attempts are
disturbing of our people and peaceful life.
Amid all current insecurities, the political atmosphere of the country has been further deteriorated due to parliament s term ending, but presence of lawmakers in the
house of nation plus so-called pledge of the NUG leaders on fighting corruption and
creation of better living condition to people giving us the hope for a better tomorrow.
The people expect the officials of the National Unity Government to put an ending
point to ongoing insecurities with implementation of first hundred action plans of ministers and also take essential measures for improving of people s living conditions and
pave the way for investment in the country.
Press Review
Hewad Daily calling access to communication and internet services as one of roadmaps for
awareness of citizens, in an article said that now, 23 million people of Afghanistan use mobile
and internet. Because, internet is one of the dire needs of today s life of developed nations that
Afghanistan is among them that did to have much promotions in information technology.
Anis Daily expressing its concern over civilian casualties in the country, in an article writes
that the UN is worried about civilian casualties in Afghanistan and asks the involved sides to
pay attention during clashes before civilians.
At the same time, the human rights commission of Afghanistan has demanded the government of Afghanistan to strengthen the culture of responding in the country.
Islah Daily in its editorial wants media to protect the national interests and religious worthies and wrote that the media should benefit from present opportunities, freedom of expression
and press for maintaining national unity, cohesion and growth of democracy as well as explanation about nature of enemies of this country.
Arman-i-Millie Daily in its editorial wants the media to protect the city and its cleanliness
and called it as the responsibility of all citizens and writes that once upon a time, the Kabul City
was one of the beautiful areas of the country. But unfortunately, because of density of population, traffic means and lack of sewerage system, this city is changed into a polluted one.
So, it is the responsibility of all citizens to pay attention towards cleanness of their city.
Weesa Daily quoting the president in a report writes that the activities of the UN institutions
and their effectiveness should be evaluated, and those UN institutions work with repeated
names should be omitted and speed up the process of employment of Afghans in these institutions.
Reporters Desk
President Ghani studied and
evaluated the knowhow of activities of institutions linked with the
UN and asked for transparency
in their working system in Afghanistan.
In a meeting with the in-charges of institutions linked with the
UN, President Ashraf Ghani suggested that in cooperation with the
office of donor mission in important cities, a study should be conducted till the people s considerations be reflected in connection
with projects and activities of government and non-government institutions.
The authorities in presidential office say that in this session
the in-charges of UNDP,
UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR, WFP,
WFO, UNODC and FAO were
attended.
In a report released by the
presidential office, quoting the
president, it is said that the institutions linked with the UN in Afghanistan should establish transparency in their working system
and the process of employment
of Afghans in these institutions
should be accelerated.
The president of the country
also wanted from the UN to work
on arrangement a system for distinguishing of effectiveness of accountability and transparency in
these administrations.
At the same time, the president wanted from the UN administrations to place the handingover of responsibilities and their
of Afghanistan.
He demanded from WHO to
work correctly in this respect and
share its information with Afghanistan.
expertise to the Afghans as their
working priorities.
Quoting from the press release of presidential office, it is
said that cooperation among ministries and the UN-linked institutions that their works are interrelated to each other should be
increased.
The president added that polio eradication and prevention
from measles is from among the
working priorities of government
One of the witnesses who
worked long time in some international institutions, Wali Rasouli says that a technical procedure
should be provided for establishment of transparency in consumption of foreign contributions and
execution of the projects.
He added that for establishment of transparency in contracts,
the government of Afghanistan
should have necessary control.
Because, official corruption is not
only existed in government institutions, but is also existed in some
foreign institutions and foreign
contracts as well.
So, a mechanism should be
established by government and
the UN institutions.
At the same time, a number
of witnesses in political affairs of
the country have different considerations in the connection.
As why so far, the phenomenon of corruption is not eradicated, they said that the government
of Afghanistan doesn t fight alone
with this phenomenon. Because,
official corruption is not only related to Afghans but in this respect, other countries also worked
lesser and majority of foreigners
contracts are polluted with corruption.
A political witness, Hashmat
Ghani Ahmadzai in the connection said that such measures
adopted for promotion of aims of
honest and committed government
is very effective and the experience shows that appointment of
individuals on the basis of meritocracy and talent make us hopeful for an Afghanistan with reliable future and void of corruption
and finally, the president of the
country also reaches to a better
result.
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War creates robbers, peace
executes them
In the course of history, it has
frankly been seen that during war
and crisis robbers are created,
grow, and ultimately are changed
to armed groups spread along the
highways.
Unfortunately, this bitter reality continues to exist in Afghanistan. During the imposed three
decades of wars thousands of
thieves and highway robbers are
created who are still involved in
plundering of people properties
in different ways. They include
armed robbers, robbers wearing
European suits and ties in the
shape of high culture people who
are appointed in important positions by corrupt authorities and
are strongly supported by them.
All these stem ultimately from the
following factors:
First, ethical poverty and uncivil characteristic since childhood; These people are brought
up in an unsound and criminal
environment. Culture is better
than education.
Second, the scientific poverty, namely most people are unaware of either religious principles
or the principles or basics of modern sciences that polishes the mankind s conscience, soul and spirit.
Third, economic poverty that
mainly draws majority youth and
even elders who lack self-reliance
Fourth, cultural towards armed
robberies and modern robbery inside government departments.
poverty: Having high culture that
prevents mankind from deviation
and committing corruption.
Fifth, humanitarian and patriotic poverty namely lack of humanitarian emotions and feeling.
This kind of poverty is more dangerous and misleading and ultimately according to Jan Jack Roso
mankind becomes wolf of mankind. Likewise, there is another
reason and that is dependence
upon intelligence agencies of hostile countries. These mercenary
should act according to the instruction of employer country
and intentionally resort to a series of sabotages and law breakings, create crisis and then deteriorate it. Other reasons might have
also been involved. Now we return to the title of our article War
creates thieve and highway robber, peace executes them.
All the above mentioned reasons that create crisis, are the
products of long lasting and devastating wars in our country.
The high-ranking robbers of
the Kabul Bank, the MoD rob-
bers who have plunded public treasury and the robbers of the ministry of urban development who
were identified recently and some
of them were arrested during fleeing on Afghan-Tajik common borders, are naturally similar to armed
highway robbers who taken money of passengers on highways and
plunder their properties, those
who kidnap children of rich people. All of these robbers and criminals are the same, morely different in form but according to their
crimes they are no different.
Alas! In our country as a result of over three decades continued devastating wars large number of such robbers and criminals
have been created by wars.
Now this question raises here
that how it is possible to eliminate these vast types of officials
and unofficial robbers? I think the
president has also noticed the
main reasons of all current disorders and chaotic situations precisely who has concentrated all
efforts on ensuring peace. Yes, in
peace all these robbers would be
executed. Some Afghans want the
NUG to make miracle and eradicate this bad smelling mountain
of corruption as quick as possible.
This claim and conception is
void of reality. Eradication and
uprooting of this huge mountain
of corruption and this large number of criminals, corrupt and briberies who are deployed in majority of government departments
and created as result of over three
decades continued wars and extended their roots into the depth
of the society is impossible quickly and even void of intellectuality. War on corruption, criminals,
embezzlers, robbers traitors who
are deployed throughout texture
of our society should continue
uninterruptedly for long time. But
for distinguishing of such people
and dirty elements, honest people whose souls and bodies are
rich with love of people and homeland, their hands are not stained
with the blood of innocent people, should be chosen and picked
up. But nevertheless this war
would be long and time consuming. i have already mentioned in
my several previous articles that
one cannot protects carrots by
rabbits. I would like to suggest this
proverb directly to the Afghan
president that be careful and not
to protect-carrots by rabbits, if
really and honestly there is firm
determination for elimination of
corruption at the higher government authorities, otherwise the
Afghan people no longer listen to
talkativeness of this or that ruler
or authority.
Faizullah Warasta Shabsataz
Monday, June 15, 2015
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Hotel, tourism facilities
A g lanc e at e xc avations in s om e
anc ie nt s ite s of Ainak Coppe r Mine
increased in Bamyan
The photo of a man that might be one of the Sasanids kings,
discovered in Ainak Copper Mine.
Afghanistan is a country with
Copper mine enjoyed reputation
thousands years rich history as
along history from two aspect.
historical sites and monuments,
One existence of copper mine
old caves like Hazar Som, Dashtwhich constitution an economic
e-Navar in Ghazni, Chinar
infrastructure and the second exGonjeshkan, Qara Kamar and
istence of ancient sites which are
hundreds others are a testimony
part of culture heritages of Afto our claim.
ghanistan. In recent years, the anIn different provinces of Afcient site of Ainak Copper mine
ghanistan we can find countless
drew the attrition of local and forsites and monuments belonging to
eign journalists, cultural profesnumerous historical and cultural
sionals and scientists.
eras with acknowledged reputaThe primary surveys of this
tion like Takht-e-Jamshed in Logarea took place fort the first time
ar, Musallah and the Gazargah
by geologists of the former USSA
noque in Herat Jam Minaret in
in 1970s. in their reports they
Ghor, Paimmarets, in Ghazni,
mentioned some issues on ancient
Nohgonbad mosque in Balkh that
contents of this area.
all of them represent cultural masLater on French archeologists
terpieces in different eras.
visited that area who collected
The ancient territory of Afscattered pieces of potteries in
ghanistan located near the silk
that area. The subsequent surveys
route and due to this reason esof the said area were carried out
tablished closed socio, economic,
by archeologists, of the MoIC in
cultural and political relations with
2004 is result the archeologists
neighboring, regional countries of
discovered new materials like cotcentral Asia, eastern European
ton, wooden boxes, spades, doucountries.
ble ax, gypsum etc remained from
Logar is one of the rich ansmugglers. Similarly a number of
cient provinces containing severpieces of cloy sculptures with
al historical monuments.
gold color.
The historians called it as Loy
All these discovered pieces
Ghar that means big mountain
were handed over to Kabul museand it has gradually bean named
um. In 1388 H.S (2009) the exas Logar.
traction contract of Ainak CopLocated approximately 30 kg
per Mine was signed between the
south of capital Kabul with many
Ministry of Mines and Petroleum
ancient historical manumits in
of Afghanistan and the Chines
Mohammad Agha, Baraki Barak,
MCC company and the MCC
Charch, Kharwar etc. sometime
started its prattled studies and
legal and illegal excavations have
researches in some parts of that
taken place in these places by
area.
smugglers.
According to primary surThe ancient site of Ainak
veys and researches and remnants
of pottery places which were scattered around, on the upper parts
of Ainak mountain, these are remnants of old constructions. So the
archeology department prepared
on emergency plan of excavation
and the first round of excavations
started in Gul Hamid village in
1389 (2010) which last four
months.
The excavation was going on
regularly but duet to advent of
cold it was delayed. The discovered pieces include body of sculpture, head of sculpture, a guard
which were clay made, a number
of confused copper coins, pieces
of potteries, big and small vessels
for keeping of foodstuff, remnants
of residential buildings, worship
room, painted walls which were
officially handed over to Kabul
museum.
The second round of excavation started in 1390 (2011) in Tapa
Kafar in which one important
temples was discovered.
Tons caves and tunnels excavated by smugglers attract attention of visitors.
The Kafaria hill was rich with
slope of hill and its upper part
was destroyed due to snow and
rain in the part several years palus
unique small, medium and big Stupa a painted walls that show Buddha in particular situation like education peace of mind and thinking. The moveable works were
transferred to Kabul museum
which the immovable works remained in the area. All there
works belong to Koshanids, Koshano-Sasanids and Yeftalieds dynasty.
Other important areas include
Ainak mountain, Shah Martapa,
Shah Tapa etc in some of which
excavations are going on.
Some priceless works were
discovered from the abovementioned areas that include two copper plates polished with gold solution on which the picture of the
Sasained ruler Shahpoor the second was engraved.
The picture is similar to the
picture painted or engraved on the
other players discovered in this
area that showed the Sasanids
domination in this area.
There are a number of potter-
The northern part of Ainak mountain from the direction of east to west.
ancent works renamed from 3rd to
7th Chiristieve centuries.
But the upcoming excitations
may shed more hell include gold
coins, tow silver coins, a number
of copper coins, are wooden Bodhisattva sculpture, a stone sculpture that might had been brough
from Kapisa to this area and was
installed on a Stupa, a big clay
made sculpture located on the
ies an which the picture of native
Yaftalids rulers, animals like Deer,
Horse, Stag, birds were painted
or engraved. According to the discovered pieces in this area, people were living these from 3rd to
7th AD centuries.
Who might had field to eastern parts during the invasion of
Arab troops.
Khair Mohammad Khairzadah
Afgh an is tan ge ts m in iPe n tago n as tro o p s s tru ggle
They call it the mini-Pentagon
a white marble building in the heart of Afghanistan s capital built with U.S.
funds to serve as the headquarters of a modern military
more than a decade in the making.
But the newly constructed
building is a world apart from
the front-lines of Afghanistan s unfinished war, where
soldiers huddled at exposed
checkpoints increasingly rely
on police and local militias, and
where logistical bottlenecks
almost led to the loss of a key
northern city to insurgents
who swept across the northern plain in April.
U.S. officials told during an
exclusive tour of the building
that the new $160 million Defense Ministry will help the
military streamline its operations and more effectively
counter the Taliban now that
the U.S. and NATO combat
mission has officially ended.
The five-story building
with a 34-meter (110-foot) dome
will accommodate 2,500 employees, with barracks for officers and enlisted men, an ancillary garrison as well as a
wastewater treatment facility
and a power plant. Three dining halls can seat a total of
1,000 people, and an auditorium more than 900. The sprawl-
ing compound also includes
gyms, clinics and military
courtrooms.
The design for the 38,500
sq. meter (414,500 sq. foot)
structure was chosen from entries in a nationwide competition open to architecture students. The resulting building,
a combination of the top two
designs, has taken four years
to complete. Some 70 tons of
furniture, along with fixtures
and computer equipment,
have added another $33.3 million to the U.S. taxpayer-funded bill, and information technology alone will add another
$12 million.
We now have the ability
to be able to see the progress
and the potential of everything
that the security forces in Afghanistan can do, said U.S.
Maj. Gen. Todd Semonite, the
American commander overseeing the transition, calling it a
new beginning for the Ministry of Defense.
Meanwhile, away from the
heavily guarded capital and its
blast-scarred facade of order,
Afghan troops are dying in
record numbers and struggling
to fend off the Taliban without
the aid of U.S.-led ground forces and air support. The number of Afghan forces killed and
wounded in action increased
by 63 percent from the start of
the year until early May, compared to the same period last
year, according to NATO figures. More than 2,300 Afghan
soldiers, police and other progovernment forces were killed
during that period, which is
roughly the same number of
combat deaths the U.S. military
has suffered since the 2001 invasion that toppled the Taliban. Another 4,500 members of
the Afghan security forces
were wounded.
The stepped-up fighting
across Afghanistan has the
government increasingly turning to local militias for help, undermining a decade-long effort
to build a professional army
that has cost billions of dollars. And in the northern province of Kunduz, the Taliban
nearly seized the provincial
capital in a surprise April assault, as defenders ran low on
food, fuel and ammunition.
Around 13,000 American
and NATO forces remain following last year s drawdown,
with the narrow mandate of
training, advising and assisting Afghan forces, and carrying out counterterrorism operations. But Washington still
annually provides $4 billion of
Afghanistan s $11.5 billion defense budget. President
Obama has abandoned plans
to cut troop numbers from
9,800 to 5,500 by the end of
2015 and is expected to decide
on troop levels for 2016 later
this year. The Kabul Times
The Bamyan province that
has historical and ancient views
and impressions, with natural
beautiful views, has provided the
ground for the most foreign and
domestic tourists to visit the interesting areas.
Therefore, these attractive
social phenomenon have caused
that many hotels and restaurants
are being constructed with accommodation and reception facilities
for the tourists and the visitors
who are interested in seeing these
beautiful views and sights.
The Bamyan province s official authorities have urged that in
the past year, the private investing have been implemented in connection with hotel facilities that
are equipped with ancient and traditional styles, with the capacity
of 55 guests in one time. During
the past thirteen years, tens of the
hotels, restaurants and accommodation places with modern possibilities, have founded in Bamyan
province.
Each of these hotels that are
consisted of the Gholghula,
Shahyihaland, Silk Route and
Noorband Qallah, have been built
in the recent six years in the area,
having the capacity of 110 guests
in one time with the good reception.
Mohammad Raza Ebrahim the
Bamyan province Tourism
Union s head during the telephonic conversation with the Kabul
time correspondent, has explained,
that the newly built hotels, have
provided great facilities on the reception process to the Tourist s
actions and it is said that 20 millions USD, have been spent and
invested on the construction of
these hotels.
The hotel named Ghughula
was constructed with the expenditure of 3/5 million USD, having
five floors and 47 rooms with
modern, traditional and ancient
facilities. These hotels prepare
three kinds of foods which are
consisted of the local, national
and international meals.
Raza Ebrahim has emphasized
that the construction of the new
hotels, have brought the positive
impacts on the betterment of the
tourists, tourism and residing situations. With the improvement of
the tourism and tourists the national and the Bamyan resident s
economic situations would be
boosted in an efficient manner.
At the same time the con-
struction of the Bamyan s airport
has also effective role on the secure and safety of the tourism
process. The flight which takes
place four times a week from the
Bamyian province, is considered
insufficient flights towards the
tourists and tourism measures.
Ahmad Hassan Ahmad pour
the Bamyan s information and
cultural office s head, has said that
the tourists and tourism affairs
have reduced in a low level than
the past years, but in 1392 despite the difficulties and lack of
flights in this province more than
600 foreign tourists have visited
the Bamyan ancient and traditional places. Therefore, it is hoped
that with the maintaining of the
peaceful condition on the transiting roads and the increasing on the
flight facility, the tourist and tourism activities would be developed
in a satisfactory manner.
This is a time that with the
naming of the Amir dam, as the
first national park in Afghanistan
and the choosing of Bamyan as
the first cultural capital of the
SAARC member countries, considerable progresses have been
taking place in this province.
Karima Malikzada
Pre s ide nt Ghani as ks for. . .
From P2...
At the same time, a number
or our citizens are laying emphasize on fight against official corruption and demanded for cooperation of all institutions and people of Afghanistan.
Likewise, they say that the
foreign institutions should also to
help Afghanistan eradicate this
phenomenon and their contracts
and projects should have transparency.
One of teachers of high
schools in Kabul city Ms. Malalai in the connection said that official corruption is one of the issues that has much critics behind
in and in abroad and in numerous
meetings, the government of Afghanistan committed to international community to fight seriously against this phenomenon.
So, those verdicts that are released for harsh fighting against
official corruption in fact is an
important step taken towards
counter corruption and I am optimist about execution of it.
As the president demanded
from the UN for transparency in
its working system is a benevolent step and the people of Afghanistan welcome it. One of
teachers in Hewad education cen-
ter, Maiwand in the connection
said that we all should join hand
to work for the removal of shortages existed within recent ten years
and no sufficient attention have
been paid to them till no finger of
critics be laid on us.
This is in a time that it is said
because of lower capacity in government organs and incorrect control of contribution of international community within recent ten
years, the same is not consumed
in a good manner and in some cases, the projects have no necessary
effectiveness. Suraya Raiszada
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Italy threatens to 'hurt' Europe
if it gets no help with migrants
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Pakistan attracting
foreign workers
ISLAMABAD: Given the dynamic economic growth of Asia
and the Pacific region over the past decade, a new pattern is
emerging about one out of every three migrants is finding
working opportunities within the region, and Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore are becoming major sources of migrant employment, reveals a new report by the World Bank (WB) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Malaysia and Thailand are now net importers of labour,
while India and Pakistan are also starting to attract millions of
foreign workers, and this trend is expected to grow in the coming decade, findings of a series of studies commissioned by IFAD
and the World Bank say.
The report released ahead of the International Day of Family Remittances , being observed for the first time on June 16,
says for the near term most Asian remittance senders will continue to seek work in the traditional destination countries of
Australia, the Gulf region, North America, the Russian Federation and Western Europe. The remittances day sponsored by
IFAD, is to recognise the significant financial contribution migrant workers to their families back home. It will also encourage them to do more to maximise the impact of these funds in
the developing world. There are currently about 28 million migrant workers from South Asia living abroad, making this subregion the largest source of migrants of the continent, according to findings. Dawn
Iran to build condensate
refineries in Bushehr province
Iran is planning to build a number of condensate refineries
in the South Pars region in the southern Iranian province of
Bushehr.
According to a report by Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, the
project will be completely implemented by the private sector
and aims to prevent further sales of raw material in favor of
selling the end products.
The report added that eight new refineries will be built in
Siraf region of Bushehr province, between phases 13 and 19 of
South Pars gas field over an area of about 300 hectares.
An official in charge of the infrastructure for the Siraf refineries project was quoted by Iranian media as saying on Sunday that when in full swing, the eight refineries planned to be
built in the region will produce a daily total of 24,800 barrels of
liquefied gas, 128,000 barrels of light naphtha, 148,000 barrels
of heavy naphtha, 29,600 barrels of jet fuel, and 149,600 barrels
of diesel fuel.
Britain pulls
spies after
Snowden files
cracked
Britain has been forced to
remove some of its spies after
Russia and China accessed the
top-secret raft of documents
taken by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward
Snowden, British media reported.
The BBC and the Sunday
Times cited senior government
and intelligence officials as
saying agents had been pulled,
with the newspaper saying the
move came after Russia was
able to decrypt more than one
million files.
"It is the case that Russians
and Chinese have information.
It has meant agents have had
to be moved and that knowledge
of how we operate has stopped
us getting vital information,"
a Downing Street source said,
according to the newspaper.
The BBC said on its website, meanwhile, that a government source said the two countries "have information" that
spurred intelligence agents
being moved, but said there was
"no evidence" any spies were
harmed.
Snowden fled to Russia after leaking the documents to
the press in 2013 to expose the
extent of U.S. online surveillance programs and to protect
"privacy and basic liberties".
The Sunday Times said
other government sources
claimed China had also accessed the documents, which reveal
U.S. and British intelligence
techniques, leading to fears
that their spies could be identified. Snowden worked as a
contractor at the CIA and National Security Agency, where
he was able to download 1.7
million secret documents that
showed how hundreds of millions of people had been surveilled by the authorities.
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Rome : Prime Minister
Matteo Renzi threatened Sunday to go to a Plan B to deal
with migrants which "would
hurt Europe" if Italy is not given greater help with the crisis.
The country is struggling
to accommodate an endless
wave of boat migrants and a
crackdown on security at the
French and Austrian borders
over the past few days has excerbated the situation, causing
a bottleneck at Italy's train stations. The crisis "should not be
underestimated. It is a serious
issue and, let me be clear, Europe's answers so far have not
been good enough," Renzi said
in an interview published in the
Corriere della Sera daily. The
EU is having difficulty getting
consensus for its proposed migrant distribution plan -- under which 24,000 refugees
would be taken by other countries -- but Italy is hoping an
EU summit on 25 June will go
even further.
"Redistributing just 24,000
people is almost a provocation," Renzi said. AFP
Israel opens probe
into Palestinian
beating video
Jerusalem: Seven Israeli
soldiers were to face a disciplinary hearing on Sunday after video emerged of troops
beating an unarmed Palestinian in a refugee camp in the
occupied West Bank.
In the footage, which was
widely disseminated by Palestinian media, men in Israeli
military uniform were seen
repeatedly striking the Palestinian civilian, including with
a rifle butt near the back of the
head and a punch in the face.
The beating was accompanied by the chanting of obscenities as the detainee lay helpless on the ground.
The army said seven soldiers were being investigated
for possible disciplinary action
over the alleged assault on Friday in the Jalazoun refugee
camp near Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian Authority.
"Those involved will be
brought before the regiment
commander... for clarification
and questioning regarding the
incident and, if needed, we will
take significant steps against
them," a spokesman said.
"Preliminary investigation
gives the impression that their
behaviour is not consistent
with that expected of IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers."
AFP
Turkish forces use water
cannon to push back Syrians
Turkish security forces on
Saturday used water cannon
and fired warning shots to push
Syrians back from the frontier
as thousands massed at a border crossing to escape escalating fighting, an AFP photographer said. The Syrians were
being held behind barbed wire
fences around the Turkish
crossing of Akcakale in the
southeast of the country.
They are fleeing a looming
battle as Kurdish forces advance on the Syrian town of Tal
Abyad, which is held by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
(ISIS) militants and lies just
across the Turkish border. The
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said earlier that Kurdish People s Protection Units (YPG) had advanced to within 10 kilometers
of Tal Abyad. The Turkish forces used water cannon and fired
warning shots into the air to
keep the Syrians away from the
border fences, the correspondent said. With more Syrians
still arriving from Tal Abyad,
tensions remained high with
Turkish police and soldiers deployed right on the border fence
to ensure no one slipped
through. Most of the women arriving from the ISIS-controlled
town were clad in black with
full face veils. Many carried
white sacks of possessions on
their head. Turkish forces were
not allowing any Syrians
through the border gate.
Despite the Kurdish advance, the black flag of ISIS
could however still be seen flying over the town of Tal Abyad,
the correspondent added. AFP
Sudan's Bashir travels to
S. Africa despite ICC warrant
Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir has travelled to
South Africa to attend an African Union summit, despite being the subject of an International Criminal Court (ICC)
arrest warrant.
The court issued the arrest
warrant in 2009, accusing Bashir of war crimes and crimes
against humanity related to the
conflict in Darfur. He denies
the charges.
Bashir boarded a flight on
Saturday to Johannesburg to
head Sudan's delegation at the
summit which starts on Sunday, presidential sources and
the state Sudan News Agency
said.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation reported
that Bashir was later "welcomed by South African officials and Sudanese diplomats
on his arrival in the country".
South Africa is a member
of the ICC, which does not have
its own police force and relies
on member states to detain
suspects. Since the arrest warrant was issued, most of Bash-
ir's trips abroad have been to
non-ICC states such as Saudi
Arabia and Egypt.
Aljazeera
U.N. confirms
Yemen talks to
convene in
Geneva
The United Nations on
Sunday confirmed Yemen
peace talks would start Monday
in Geneva, despite earlier speculations.
"We expect the parties to be
here for what we call Geneva
Consultations tomorrow,"
spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told
reporters on Sunday.
It had been feared the upcoming peace talks in Geneva
would be postponed, a spokesman for Yemen's government
in exile told Al Arabiya News
Channel on Saturday.
Rajeh Badi had cast his
doubts following news that a
U.N. plane left Yemen s capital city of Sanaa on Saturday
without the delegates that
would have represented the
Houthis and deposed leader Ali
Abdullah Saleh.
Badi said the Houthi and
Saleh delegates were dragging their feet, adding that this
showed they were not seriously considering participation in
the meeting.
Sources told Al Arabiya
News that a fresh rift had broken out between the Houthis
and Saleh over the agenda at
the peace talks, prompting the
Houthi delegations not to board
the plane. Al Arabiya News
US poised to
station heavy
weaponry in
eastern Europe
The Pentagon is poised to
deploy battle tanks, infantry
fighting vehicles and other
heavy weapons for as many as
5,000 troops in several Baltic
and eastern European countries, the New York Times has
reported. Citing US and allied
officials, the newspaper said
that if approved, the proposal
would mark the first time since
the Cold War that Washington
has stationed heavy military
equipment in the newer NATO
member states in eastern Europe that were once part of the
Soviet sphere of influence. Al
Jazeera's Daniel Lak, reporting from Washington, said that
"someone at the Pentagon off
the record has confirmed to Al
Jazeera that this is indeed an
active proposal". "It's an incremental change from earlier
policies where eastern Europe
and several Baltic states were
pretty much out of bounds for
sending weaponry for possibly
deploying troops," he said.