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Reg: No 352 Volume No. 3440 Wednesday November 16, 2016 Aqrab 26, 1395 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 15/-Afs Quote of the Day Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 www.thedailyafghanistan.com Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs. Woody Hayes Don’t Harass Illegal Afghans, Islamabad Tells Provincial Govts KABUL - The Cabinet on Monday instructed minis- ters disqualified by the lower house of parliament or Wole- si Jirga to remain in their jobs until a ruling in the matter from the Supreme Court (SC). A statement from the Presi- dential Palace said President Ashraf Ghani, who presided over the Cabinet meeting, de- clared his full support for the three pillars of the state and said problems created with the lower house’s decisions needed to be clarified and re- solved at the meeting. Calling transparent accounta- bility one of the unity govern- KABUL - Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of parliament dismissed another minister on Tuesday over failure in spend- ing development budget, bringing the number of dis- qualified ministers to seven since launching the process of no trust move on Saturday. “Since the Minister for Com- munication and Information Technology, Abdul Razaq Wa- hidi has failed to secure vote of confidence from the law- makers he has been disquali- fied and I am calling upon the president to ...(More on P4)...(3) Impeached Ministers to Stay Until SC Ruling: Cabinet Carter Says there is an Ongoing Need to Destroy Daesh in Afghanistan Afghan Traders to Strike Major Deals at Indian Tradeshow 30 Nurses, as Many Midwives Graduate in Kunar Chabahar Port First Priority in Developing Iran- Afghanistan Trade Ties 33 Provincial Councils Elect Administrative Board Members MTNA Provides Free Education Opportunity for 500 Students EU Concerned Over Corruption WJ Dismisses another Minister KABUL - U.S Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said on Monday that he would support a peaceful tran- sition of power but that there was an ongoing need to destroy Daesh not only in Iraq and Syria but also in Afghanistan. Speaking in an interview forum hosted by The At- lantic on Monday in Washington D.C, Carter said: “...we need to destroy the fact and the idea that there can be Islamic State (Daesh) based upon this ideology and it needs to start there.” “I just want to say that it ...is necessary, it’s not suf- ficient. So, we also need to operate against it and are wherever it arises. Libya, Afghanistan, and so forth and then absolutely we need to protect our own people. And we do that every single day; pro- tect ourselves from attack.” He pointed out that after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S, NATO worked with them in Afghanistan and has been “working with us ever since to make sure that Afghanistan doesn’t once again become a place from which attacks on America or France or Germany or the United Kingdown or anywhere else in Europe are launched from.” Carter went on to condemn the recent suicide bombing on coalition personnel at Bagram Airfield that killed two U.S service members and two U.S contractors and injured 16 other U.S service mem- bers and one Polish soldier. He said: “Our deepest sympathies go to the fam- ily and friends affected by this tragic loss. So we mourn their sacrifice, we reaffirm our commitment to protect the homeland, and help our Afghan partners secure their country and their future.” On Friday a suicide bomber, who had been work- ing at the base for four years, detonated explosives on the base. According to Afghan officials, the bomber had originally been a Taliban member but joined the peace process four years ago. Meanwhile, a number of Afghan lawmakers said they believe that Daesh ...(More on P4)...(7) NEW DELHI - Afghanistan’s leading wholesale traders of fresh and dried fruits, carpets, marble and jewelry are expected to strike major deals at the India International Trade Fair (IITF underway November 14-27 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Thirty-three Afghan traders are partici- pating in India’s largest annual consumer goods fair which typically attracts thou- sands of traders and buyers and over a mil- lion visitors. The Indian Trade Promotion Organization organizes the annual event. The first five days of the fair are exclusively devoted to business deals, and the last week is open to the public. Afghanistan Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industries Mohammad Qurban Haqjo said the fair is one ...(More on P4)...(5) ASADABAD - Thirty female nurses and as many midwives on Tuesday graduated from a two-year training course in eastern Kunur province. Acting Public Health Director Dr. Attiqul- lah Shinwari told the graduation ceremony that the graduating health workers be- longed to different districts of the province and during their two-year training, they were received theoretical and practical education. He said the nurses and midwives would provide basic health aid to people, which would help reduce mother-child mortal- ity rates.Shinwari the females were trained with primary emergency aid from PU-AMI international organization in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). Meanwhile, Governor Wahidullah Ka- limzai said they were still struggling with problems concerning mother-child mortal- ity in some districts of the province One of the graduated midwives, Shamim, said: “We learnt many things from our teachers during the two years and we are ready to serve our people.” (Pajhwok) Referring to the judiciary’s constitutional powers, he re- quested the Supreme Court to assess the matter by con- sidering the country’s cur- rent situation and 1394 solar year’s financial conditions. The president said perfor- mance of ministers should be judged by keeping in view availability of financial re- sources, human capacity, re- straints and facilities. Sticking to its guns, the Wole- si Jirga on Monday disquali- fied the higher education minister, while the ministers of justice and urban develop- ment ...(More on P4)...(1) KABUL - Governor General of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in a meeting with Afghan Vice President Ab- dullah Abdullah said that Chabahar’s potential and its access to high seas are the first priorities in developing trade relations between two countries. Chabahar port first priority in developing Iran-Afghanistan trade ties Ali Osat Hashemi referred to tourism commonalities be- KABUL - Provincial coun- cils in 33 provinces on Tues- day elected their adminis- trative boards for a third year of the current govern- ment term. The provincial council elec- tions were conducted si- multaneously with the pres- idential election on April 5, 2014, but their results were announced seven months after the Election Day due to some political tensions. Under on the election law, each provincial council should appoint its admin- istrative board including head, deputy head and sec- retary at the start of its work and then every year. According to reports re- ceived by Pajhwok Afghan News, 33 provincial coun- KABUL - MTN Afghanistan (MTNA) under the um- brella of MTN Foundation provides free education op- portunity for 500 Afghan male and female students in various subjects, the aim of this initiates is that those students who intend to pur- sue their studies in the vari- ous subjects and have no financial back up or related to low income families that cannot affords to continue their studies with personal expenses can take advantage of this program. The subject program was taken place in duly coordi- nation with Deputy Min- KABUL - The European Un- ion (EU) has raised concerns over corruption in public offices and said it is a key reason for the lack of trust between the state and the people. EU’s Civilian Operations Commander Kenneth Deane told TOLOnews they will not tolerate corruption in Afghanistan. “Corruption is a cancer that cannot be tolerated at any level of society, at any office, at any 34 provinces of Af- ghanistan. Therefore, Euro- pean Union under the wider international community will monitor the situation tween Iran and Afghanistan, saying that taking advantage of tourism capacities and cre- ating joint tours would be ef- fective in bolstering ties. He called for creating joint dry ports as chances of de- velopment in the regions by using Sea of Oman and be- lieved Milak border in Sistan and Baluchestan is a suitable spot to create the port. He noted that the two coun- tries will be able to make ...(More on P4)...(2) cils on Tuesday elected their administrative boards’ members. Information about the result of the elec- tion in Uruzgan province could not be obtained. Badghis: The 9-member provincial council of Badg- his province elected Mulavi Abdul Basit as head, Farid Akhizai as deputy head and Munsa Qadiri as secretary istry of Youth Affairs and Ministry of Education with its district brunches across the Kabul, as the aforemen- tioned honorable entities introduced 1500 interested candidates to MTN for entry exam from various locality of Kabul city, the entry exam was taken place on 28th Oct- and assess the Afghan gov- ernment - to try to minimize and not to navigate that level of corruption and other as- pects that actually prevent stability,” he said. According to a report by In- tegrity Watch Afghanistan, nearly 17 organizations are working to fight corruption. The watchdog said some of the anti-corruption bodies should be merged in order to make the mission effec- tive. “The parallel organizations are working at the same time. They should be com- bined and a single non-po- litical institution should be of the council. Bamyan: The Bamyan pro- vincial council elected Mu- laiv Yousuf Mazhari as head, Mohammad Amir Mahmodi as deputy head and Abdul Ahad Bianawa as secretary. Badakhshan: Abdullah Naji was elected as head, Ziaul- haq Wasiq as deputy head for a ...(More on P4)...(4) 2016 in very professional and transparent atmosphere as the scene of the exam was overseen by the manage- ment of Shaheen institute representative of MTN. Finally 500 best students out 1500 were qualified that found way for free education thru ...(More on P4)...(6) established instead,” said Nasir Temori, a researcher. Integrity Watch Afghanistan meanwhile said the estab- lishment of the anti-corrup- tion judicial center was a hesitant move and was for a political purpose. “The ...(More on P4)...(8) PESHAWAR - Islamabad has directed all provincial governments not to initiate legal action against undoc- umented Afghan citizens living in Pakistan, a well- placed source said on Tues- day. The federal government’s directive comes as a dead- line set for unregistered Af- ghans by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where most of the illegal refugees live, ex- pires today. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is home to about 1.3 million registered refugees with Proof of Registration (PoR) cards and 0.6 million un- documented Afghans, one provincial official told Pa- jhwok Afghan News. Of them, 33 percent are living in camps and 67 percent, according to the source who did not want to be named. The KP govern- ment has set the November deadline 15 for the repa- triation of unregistered Af- ghans. KP Chie Minister Pervez Khattak has repeatedly warned of against the Af- ghans without residency documents after Novem- ber 15, saying his cash- strapped administration could no longer afford to carry the burden. But a Peshawar-based Afghan Refugees Com- missionerate official said Islamabad had asked all federating units not to bother the unregistered refugees, pending a cabinet decision on the issue. On Monday, the Ministry of States and Frontier Re- gions hosted a conference on the repatriation dead- line. KP Governor Zafar Iqbal Jhargra, Chief Minis- ter Khattak, Aftab Sherpao, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and others were in attend- ance. The politicians urged Is- lamabad to provide visa facility for the Afghan refu- gees, traders, businessmen, doctor and engineers. They called for voluntary and dignified repatriation of refugees. (Pajhwok) ment’s basic principles, the president said accountability was among each ministry’s fundamental jobs and in rela- tionship to implementation of special programmes.
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Reg: No 352 Volume No. 3440 Wednesday November 16, 2016 Aqrab 26, 1395 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 15/-Afs
Quote of the Day
Email: [email protected]: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019
www.thedailyafghanistan.com
Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
Woody Hayes
Don’t Harass Illegal Afghans,
Islamabad Tells Provincial
Govts
KABUL - The Cabinet on Monday instructed minis-ters disqualified by the lower house of parliament or Wole-si Jirga to remain in their jobs until a ruling in the matter from the Supreme Court (SC).A statement from the Presi-dential Palace said President Ashraf Ghani, who presided over the Cabinet meeting, de-clared his full support for the three pillars of the state and said problems created with the lower house’s decisions needed to be clarified and re-solved at the meeting.Calling transparent accounta-bility one of the unity govern-
KABUL - Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of parliament dismissed another minister on Tuesday over failure in spend-ing development budget, bringing the number of dis-qualified ministers to seven since launching the process of no trust move on Saturday.“Since the Minister for Com-munication and Information Technology, Abdul Razaq Wa-hidi has failed to secure vote of confidence from the law-makers he has been disquali-fied and I am calling upon the president to ...(More on P4)...(3)
Impeached Ministers to Stay Until SC Ruling: Cabinet
Carter Says there is an Ongoing Need to Destroy
Daesh in Afghanistan
Afghan Traders to Strike Major Deals at
Indian Tradeshow
30 Nurses, as Many Midwives Graduate in
Kunar
Chabahar Port First Priority in Developing Iran-
Afghanistan Trade Ties
33 Provincial Councils Elect Administrative Board Members
MTNA Provides Free Education Opportunity for 500 Students
EU Concerned Over Corruption
WJ Dismisses another Minister
KABUL - U.S Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said on Monday that he would support a peaceful tran-sition of power but that there was an ongoing need to destroy Daesh not only in Iraq and Syria but also in Afghanistan.
Speaking in an interview forum hosted by The At-lantic on Monday in Washington D.C, Carter said: “...we need to destroy the fact and the idea that there can be Islamic State (Daesh) based upon this ideology and it needs to start there.”“I just want to say that it ...is necessary, it’s not suf-ficient. So, we also need to operate against it and are wherever it arises. Libya, Afghanistan, and so forth and then absolutely we need to protect our own people. And we do that every single day; pro-tect ourselves from attack.”He pointed out that after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S, NATO worked with them in Afghanistan and has been “working with us ever since to make sure that Afghanistan doesn’t once again become a place from which attacks on America or France or Germany or the United Kingdown or anywhere else in Europe are launched from.”Carter went on to condemn the recent suicide bombing on coalition personnel at Bagram Airfield that killed two U.S service members and two U.S contractors and injured 16 other U.S service mem-bers and one Polish soldier.He said: “Our deepest sympathies go to the fam-ily and friends affected by this tragic loss. So we mourn their sacrifice, we reaffirm our commitment to protect the homeland, and help our Afghan partners secure their country and their future.”On Friday a suicide bomber, who had been work-ing at the base for four years, detonated explosives on the base. According to Afghan officials, the bomber had originally been a Taliban member but joined the peace process four years ago.Meanwhile, a number of Afghan lawmakers said they believe that Daesh ...(More on P4)...(7)
NEW DELHI - Afghanistan’s leading wholesale traders of fresh and dried fruits, carpets, marble and jewelry are expected to strike major deals at the India International Trade Fair (IITF underway November 14-27 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Thirty-three Afghan traders are partici-pating in India’s largest annual consumer goods fair which typically attracts thou-sands of traders and buyers and over a mil-lion visitors. The Indian Trade Promotion Organization organizes the annual event. The first five days of the fair are exclusively devoted to business deals, and the last week is open to the public.Afghanistan Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industries Mohammad Qurban Haqjo said the fair is one ...(More on P4)...(5)
ASADABAD - Thirty female nurses and as many midwives on Tuesday graduated from a two-year training course in eastern Kunur province.Acting Public Health Director Dr. Attiqul-lah Shinwari told the graduation ceremony that the graduating health workers be-longed to different districts of the province and during their two-year training, they were received theoretical and practical education.He said the nurses and midwives would provide basic health aid to people, which would help reduce mother-child mortal-ity rates.Shinwari the females were trained with primary emergency aid from PU-AMI international organization in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).Meanwhile, Governor Wahidullah Ka-limzai said they were still struggling with problems concerning mother-child mortal-ity in some districts of the provinceOne of the graduated midwives, Shamim, said: “We learnt many things from our teachers during the two years and we are ready to serve our people.” (Pajhwok)
Referring to the judiciary’s constitutional powers, he re-quested the Supreme Court to assess the matter by con-sidering the country’s cur-rent situation and 1394 solar year’s financial conditions.The president said perfor-mance of ministers should be judged by keeping in view availability of financial re-sources, human capacity, re-straints and facilities.Sticking to its guns, the Wole-si Jirga on Monday disquali-fied the higher education minister, while the ministers of justice and urban develop-ment ...(More on P4)...(1)
KABUL - Governor General of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in a meeting with Afghan Vice President Ab-dullah Abdullah said that Chabahar’s potential and its access to high seas are the first priorities in developing trade relations between two countries.Chabahar port first priority in developing Iran-Afghanistan trade tiesAli Osat Hashemi referred to tourism commonalities be-
KABUL - Provincial coun-cils in 33 provinces on Tues-day elected their adminis-trative boards for a third year of the current govern-ment term.The provincial council elec-tions were conducted si-multaneously with the pres-idential election on April 5, 2014, but their results were announced seven months after the Election Day due to some political tensions.Under on the election law, each provincial council should appoint its admin-istrative board including head, deputy head and sec-retary at the start of its work and then every year.According to reports re-ceived by Pajhwok Afghan News, 33 provincial coun-
KABUL - MTN Afghanistan (MTNA) under the um-brella of MTN Foundation provides free education op-portunity for 500 Afghan male and female students in various subjects, the aim of this initiates is that those students who intend to pur-sue their studies in the vari-ous subjects and have no financial back up or related to low income families that cannot affords to continue their studies with personal expenses can take advantage of this program.The subject program was taken place in duly coordi-nation with Deputy Min-
KABUL - The European Un-ion (EU) has raised concerns over corruption in public offices and said it is a key reason for the lack of trust between the state and the people.EU’s Civilian Operations Commander Kenneth Deane told TOLOnews they will not tolerate corruption in Afghanistan.“Corruption is a cancer that cannot be tolerated at any level of society, at any office, at any 34 provinces of Af-ghanistan. Therefore, Euro-pean Union under the wider international community will monitor the situation
tween Iran and Afghanistan, saying that taking advantage of tourism capacities and cre-ating joint tours would be ef-fective in bolstering ties. He called for creating joint dry ports as chances of de-velopment in the regions by using Sea of Oman and be-lieved Milak border in Sistan and Baluchestan is a suitable spot to create the port.He noted that the two coun-tries will be able to make ...(More on P4)...(2)
cils on Tuesday elected their administrative boards’ members. Information about the result of the elec-tion in Uruzgan province could not be obtained.Badghis: The 9-member provincial council of Badg-his province elected Mulavi Abdul Basit as head, Farid Akhizai as deputy head and Munsa Qadiri as secretary
istry of Youth Affairs and Ministry of Education with its district brunches across the Kabul, as the aforemen-tioned honorable entities introduced 1500 interested candidates to MTN for entry exam from various locality of Kabul city, the entry exam was taken place on 28th Oct-
and assess the Afghan gov-ernment - to try to minimize and not to navigate that level of corruption and other as-pects that actually prevent stability,” he said.According to a report by In-tegrity Watch Afghanistan, nearly 17 organizations are working to fight corruption.The watchdog said some of the anti-corruption bodies should be merged in order to make the mission effec-tive.“The parallel organizations are working at the same time. They should be com-bined and a single non-po-litical institution should be
of the council.Bamyan: The Bamyan pro-vincial council elected Mu-laiv Yousuf Mazhari as head, Mohammad Amir Mahmodi as deputy head and Abdul Ahad Bianawa as secretary.Badakhshan: Abdullah Naji was elected as head, Ziaul-haq Wasiq as deputy head for a ...(More on P4)...(4)
2016 in very professional and transparent atmosphere as the scene of the exam was overseen by the manage-ment of Shaheen institute representative of MTN.Finally 500 best students out 1500 were qualified that found way for free education thru ...(More on P4)...(6)
established instead,” said Nasir Temori, a researcher.Integrity Watch Afghanistan meanwhile said the estab-lishment of the anti-corrup-tion judicial center was a hesitant move and was for a political purpose.“The ...(More on P4)...(8)
PESHAWAR - Islamabad has directed all provincial governments not to initiate legal action against undoc-umented Afghan citizens living in Pakistan, a well-placed source said on Tues-day.The federal government’s directive comes as a dead-line set for unregistered Af-ghans by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where most of the illegal refugees live, ex-pires today.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is home to about 1.3 million registered refugees with Proof of Registration (PoR) cards and 0.6 million un-documented Afghans, one provincial official told Pa-jhwok Afghan News.Of them, 33 percent are living in camps and 67 percent, according to the source who did not want to be named. The KP govern-ment has set the November deadline 15 for the repa-triation of unregistered Af-ghans.KP Chie Minister Pervez Khattak has repeatedly warned of against the Af-ghans without residency documents after Novem-ber 15, saying his cash-strapped administration could no longer afford to carry the burden.But a Peshawar-based Afghan Refugees Com-missionerate official said Islamabad had asked all federating units not to bother the unregistered refugees, pending a cabinet decision on the issue.On Monday, the Ministry of States and Frontier Re-gions hosted a conference on the repatriation dead-line. KP Governor Zafar Iqbal Jhargra, Chief Minis-ter Khattak, Aftab Sherpao, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and others were in attend-ance.The politicians urged Is-lamabad to provide visa facility for the Afghan refu-gees, traders, businessmen, doctor and engineers. They called for voluntary and dignified repatriation of refugees. (Pajhwok)
ment’s basic principles, the president said accountability
was among each ministry’s fundamental jobs and in rela-
tionship to implementation of special programmes.
