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KABUL - More than 300,000 Afghan girls have benefited from the program of The United Kingdom’s Depart-ment for International Devel-opment (DFID) since 2012, Priti Patel, the UK’s Secretary of State for International De-velopment said on Sunday.In a trip to Kabul, she said that UK had also built near-ly a thousand classrooms and distributed more than

KABUL - The Ministry of Economy on Sunday said that work on 107 develop-ment projects which were financed from the national budget, were not started in last fiscal year.The ministry said work on 57 other projects was stopped due to different reasons in the same year.“Documents and study of projects are not accurate therefore when they come to procurement phase, they face problems. They are rejected and it takes time to prepare

KABUL - The Gulbuddin Hekmatyar-led Hizb-e-Isla-mi Afghanistan (HIA) has criticized the Afghan gov-ernment over the slow pace of the implementation of the peace accord, claiming that no real actions have been taken by the state to facilitate the return of group’s leader to the country.Nothing has been done so far by the government to maintain security of Hek-matyar, the group’s spokes-man Hashmat Arshad said on Sunday.Hizb-e-Islami accused the government of reluctance for not taking action to en-sure the release of some key figures serving jail terms in Afghan prisons.“No practical steps have been taken regarding secu-rity measures, nothing has been done so far,” said Ar-shad.Following the removal of Hekmatyar’s name from the UN ...(More on P4)...(1)

KABUL - The National Unity Government (NUG) has a clear definition for friends and foes, the chief executive of the government Abdullah Abdul-lah said Sunday.He made the remarks during a meeting with the youths and activists of the Afghanistan In-tellectuals Process.Clarifying the stance of the government in fight against terrorism, Abdullah said a clear definition for the friends and foes currently exist as compared to the previous ad-ministration led by Hamid Karzai where there were no definitions for the same.Abdullah further added that the government of national unity considers an enemy as an enemy and a friend as a friend.According to Abdullah, the government is committed to continue fighting terrorism based on the definitions cre-ated by the government.

KABUL - The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday warned politicians against interfering in the elec-tion process, saying that their intervention put hopes for transparent elections in jeop-ardy.The IEC chief Najibullah Ah-madzai said that the commis-sion was in talks with the pres-idential palace on key issues pertaining the elections, in-cluding a constituency-based electoral system.“I call on the politicians in Af-ghanistan and all those inside and outside the system not to intervene in the works of the election commission,” said Ahmadzai.Meanwhile, chairman The Independent Electoral Com-plaints Commission (ECC)

KABUL - The second round of a sub-national immunization campaign against polio, cover-ing 5.6 million children under the age of five years, is set to begin tomorrow, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) an-nounced on Sunday.With the help of UNICEF and WHO, the ministry will launch the campaign in all provinces in the southern and southeastern regions, most districts in the eastern zone as well as some other areas, in-cluding Kabul.A statement from MoPH said the campaign would run for three days, involving more

KABUL - US Embassy on Sun-day Congratulated Afghani-stan on the New Law to Com-bat Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants.US Special Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador Hugo Llorens welcomed Afghanistan’s new Trafficking in Persons law, which provides significant ad-

300,000 Afghan Girls Benefited from UK Education Program

107 Development Projects Remain Unimplemented

20 Terrorist Groups Fighting Against Afghan Government

India Plans to Build Low-Cost Houses in Afghanistan for Refugees

US Embassy Congratulates Afghanistan on the New Law to Combat Human Trafficking

IEC Warns Against Political Meddling in Electoral Process

Anti-Polio Drive Covering 5.6m Children from Today

NUG Has Clear Definition for Enemies and Friends

He said all necessary prepara-tions are in place to respond to the threats and conspiracies of the enemy, emphasizing that the government and national defense and security forces are prepared to defend their

has said that next elections would a be major test for the democracy in Afghanistan. He warned that Afghanistan would engage in a fresh crisis if the election was to be ex-ploited for personal interests.“We have started the basic work in the election commis-sion. Last Tuesday we sent our proposal regarding a con-stituency-based electoral sys-tem to the president,” added

than 36,000 polio workers. On Friday, polio teams will revisit households where children are missed to ensure all of them are vaccinated.The minister of public health said: “Polio causes permanent disability or even death. It is the right of all Afghan chil-

vancements to protect human rights.“The United States is proud of our assistance to the Min-istry of Justice in support of the multi-year project. In particular, the new law rep-resents a major achievement in strengthening the rule of law and protecting Afghani-

500,000 books to the girl stu-dents.The program, carried out within the framework of ‘The Girls’ Education Chal-lenges’, is aimed at help-ing Afghan girls in remote regions across the nation to have an opportunity to improve their lives through education.Shagoofa is a program coor-dinator ...(More on P4)...(2)

the documents, complete the studies and then re-start the projects,” said Suhrab Bahman, spokesman for the economy ministry.“There are other problems such as lack of capacity or influence of powerful figures which affect the implemen-tation of national projects,” said Asif Ahmadzai, spokes-man for the Supreme Audit Office.Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance said there were no financial problem for pro-jects ...(More on P4)...(3)

nation and soil.In regards to the role of the youths in the system, Abdullah said the youths of the country con-tinue to create barriers against the enemies of the country with their commitments and

Ahmadzai.The IEC chief has also stressed the need for a constituency-based electoral system as the country continues to grapple with serious security threats.“If we lost this opportunity and sacrifice it for the sake of demands of individuals and other interest groups, we would be announcing the end of democracy,” said ECC chief Abdul ...(More on P4)...(4)

dren to grow up healthy and we are responsible to ensure that all children under the age of 5 receive two drops of the polio vaccine during every campaign.”Dr Ferozuddin Feroz added “only by reaching all children with ...(More on P4)...(7)

stan’s most vulnerable popu-lations,” Ambassador Llorens said. The United States will con-tinue to support the efforts of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to strengthen the rule of law, re-spect human rights, and pro-vide ...(More on P4)...(8)

KABUL - The Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MoCI), in a meeting held in Kabul on Sunday on support-ing the world Trade Facilita-tion Agreement (TFA), said it will submit an official letter of complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the closure of business routes by Pakistan.Pakistan closed its border a week ago. Although the deputy minister of Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Mohammad Qurban Haqjo, is optimistic of the reopening of the border in the near future, said the department will sub-mit an official letter of com-plaint to the WTO.“We will complain to the WTO. Currently our teams have gone to customs to ob-serve the situation and show that borders are closed and travelers are stranded. Busi-ness traffic has stopped and we will calculate the losses that we have suffered because of border closure,” said Haqjo.Meanwhile, officials of the In-ternational Chamber of Com-merce (ICC) said the Trade Facilitation Agreement under the WTO will provide big op-portunities ...(More on P4)...(9)

KABUL - The Pakistani Am-bassador to Afghanistan was summoned in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghani-stan regarding the persistent artillery shelling in eastern provinces of Afghanistan.The Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs (MoFA) said Ambassa-dor Syed Abrar Hussain was summoned and a protest was lodged by deputy foreign minister for administrative affair Dr. Nasir Ahmad Andi-sha.Dr. Andisha strongly con-demned the artillery shelling on Sarkano district of Kunar and Goshta district of Nan-garhar which resulted into blaze in a jungle in Shangari area of Sarkano.He sought clarifications from the Pakistani envoy regarding the shelling that resulted into displacement of hundreds of people.Another protest was also lodged regarding the military activities across the Durand Line and the harassment of Afghans by the Pakistani au-thorities, calling for an imme-diate release of the detained Afghans in Pakistan.In his ...(More on P4)...(10)

KABUL - Afghan Security and Defense departments on Sun-day said 20 regional and inter-national terrorist groups are fighting against the Afghan government and warned they are trying to expand their ac-tivities by establishing big military bases in the region. President Ashraf Ghani has repeatedly said 20 terrorist groups are in the country. According to security depart-ments, these groups have bas-es in Pakistan. It also has been said that some of the terrorist groups have bases in Afghanistan. The rea-son behind Taliban efforts to expand their terrorist activi-ties is to establish an Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan. The terrorist groups that fight

KABUL - The government of India is mulling to build low-cost houses in Afghanistan in a bid to help resolve the hous-ing issues of the Afghan refu-gees repatriating to country, it has been reported.India’s joint secretary for development partnership agreement in ministry of ex-ternal affairs M Subbarayudu informed regarding the plan yesterday.He was speaking during a gathering for the first ever

devotions.Abdullah also pointed towards the modifica-tion of the national constitu-tion and said the only to move forward is the establishment of a national grand assembly, Loya Jirga. (KP)

in Afghanistan include: • Haqqani Network: This group has bases in North Wa-ziristan and according to se-curity departments, the group has close relations with Paki-stan military. • Al-Qaeda Network: Re-ports indicate that this net-work has bases in Pakistan and have been carrying out terrorist activities in eastern and south-eastern part of Af-ghanistan. • Daesh: Daesh, the new-est group, is growing into a big threat against Afghanistan. It has carried out most of the deadly attacks in the country. Reports say Daesh training centers are located in Pakistan. “Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, ...(More on P4)...(5)

training batch of officers from Afghan Revenue Department, at National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT).Without disclosing further in-formation regarding the pos-sible housing scheme in Af-ghanistan, Mr. Subbarayudu said the Indian government will also focus on sectors like irrigation and distribution of medicines.“India has built roads connect-ing key cities in the country and set ...(More on P4)...(6)