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KABUL - Vice-President, who addressed a gathering mark-ing the 14th anniversary of the Constitution, said the existing supreme law had some ‘shortcomings’ and needed amend-ments.He, however, said there was no other option to amend the

KABUL - Da Afghanistan Breshana Shirkat (DABS) has inked contracts worth 251 million afghanis with private companies for provid-ing required materials for uplift projects.DABS’s monthly revenue is 100 million af-ghanis at time when Taliban militants collect electricity bills from consumers in 16 districts of the country.The power utility said it had managed to col-lect 2.5 billion afghanis so far out of the 10.6 billion afghanis the company owed to its con-sumers.Contracts:DABS has inked five contracts with four private companies to provide needed materials. The companies are Abdul Rahim Salehzada, Farhad Faraz Limited, Sherkat-e-Taminati wa Sakhtumani Seqa and Babarak Bilal Limited.DABS chief Eng. Amanullah Ghaleb told reporters after signing the

Constitution except the one explained by the Constitution it-self.“Choosing any other option (interim government or a Loya Jirga) is against the Constitution and would be the worse step against the supreme law, ...(More on P4)...(1)

TEHRAN - Lawmaker Nahid Farid has said Af-ghanistan’s current economy is fueling terrorism as rebel groups are using energy and oil to meet their operational costs.Nahid, who is in Tehran, Iran’s capital, to attend the Tehran Security Conference. Talking to re-porters on the sidelines of the meeting, she said Afghanistan’s economy was also used by terror-ist groups to empower themselves like Taliban whose roots lied outside of the country.She said economy could lead to peace and stabil-ity but it could also negatively impact the security.“Afghanistan is enjoying a democratic law for 17 years, but the conflict is still ongoing because our economy is empowering terrorist groups such as Taliban whose roots are outside,” she said.She said current economy in the region was the “economy of terror” as rebel groups were trying to get benefit from energy and petroleum using them against governments.Farid said some people in Afghanistan were join-ing militant groups because of their bad economic condition. ...(More on P4)...(3)

KABUL - Nangarhar Province, along Afghani-stan’s eastern border with Pakistan, was the dead-liest place in the world for US troops over the last year, according to reports.Since March, US warplanes have conducted hun-dreds of strikes and American special forces have carried out hundreds more tactical operations on the ground in the province.Nangarhar is one of the few places Americans have been routinely accompanying Afghan forces into battle. One-third of the 21 US servicemem-bers killed in combat last year died there, more than in any other single spot where troops were fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, So-malia and Niger.Combat deaths were far rarer in 2017 than at the height of the wars in Iraq - in 2007 - and Afghani-stan - in 2010 - but the recent uptick in Nangarhar could foreshadow a rise in American bloodshed in the country as the US escalates the fighting in its longest war.Last year’s combat deaths in Nangarhar all fol-lowed the ...(More on P4)...(5)

KABUL - After a joint report of Pajhwok Afghan News and Law-yers Association on violations of the Constitution, some senators on Tuesday expressed concern over the poor state of the su-preme law’s implementation.The report said 94 articles of the Constitution have been violated, with four of 10 people having little information about the ba-sic law and more than half com-plaining they have no access to justice.People say of every 10 individu-als three enjoy their legal rights, and that the law has brought positive changes to the lives of six out of every 10 Afghans. Many call the freedom of expression the best right they have been granted by the constitution.The government is weak in im-plementing the law, as the parlia-ment has also failed to discharge its responsibilities. The absence of judicial institutions in half of the districts has restricted law en-forcement in some areas.The Constitution has 12 chapters and 162 articles and approved 14 years back.Safiullah Hashami, a member of the Meshrano Jirga or Senate from Samangan province, ac-cused government officials of not respecting the Constitution and said: ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - Hamid Gailani, Chair-man of Mahaz-e-Milli party, said at a press conference in Kabul on Tuesday there was no truth in claims that he tried to secure the release of Anas Haqqani, who is in an Afghan prison. He also said insurgents have re-leased 14 Afghan security force members who were held captive for two days by the insurgents in Janekhil district of eastern Paktia province. This came about due to the mediation efforts by the Man-gal tribe.Anas Haqqani, one of the leaders of the Haqqani network, was cap-tured with Hafiz Rashid another leader of the network in October 2014 in Bahrain and then sent to Qatar before being transferred to Kabul.He was traveling in the Persian Gulf to visit the brother of Hafiz Rashid, Nabi Omari, who had been released from Guantanamo Bay prison in exchange for the only US soldier in Taliban captiv-ity. On Saturday, Gailani said that most Taliban leaders are in Af-ghanistan and that they want to negotiate, also with other coun-tries involved.After Gailani’s claim, the Na-tional Directorate of Security (NDS) in a statement on Monday condemned his remarks and said that it was “irresponsible”.“The Taliban leaders are on the other side of the Durand Line and are in large cities in Pakistan and the ...(More on P4)...(6)

contracts that the companies would pro-vide transformers, switches, electricity equipment, miscellaneous raw materials, 4,900 power pylons in different sizes and 10 safety ...(More on P4)...(8)

The power supply company says it has also brought corruption under control and has disconnected hundreds of customers who failed to pay.

Current Afghan Economy Empowering

Terrorists: Farid

Nangarhar Deadliest Province for US Forces

in Past Year

Poor Implementation Ruins Constitution: Senators

Gailani Rejects Claims of Trying to Get Anas Haqqani Freed

MoI Hiring will no Longer be Relationship-Based: Ghani

DABS Inks Contracts to Buy Needed EquipmentPakistan Court Frees Pro-Taliban Cleric

Danish Blames e-NICs Delay on Ethnic Extremists

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said at the 10th graduation ceremony of Afghan police forces from the nation-al police academy that “hiring should be conducted based on the police’s rules and regulations and no more personal rec-ommendations should be accepted.”He warned MPs not to visit the Ministry of Interior for ap-pointments or promotion of their relatives and friends in the ministry. He said if this happens, names and videos of those lawmakers will be aired by the media.“I direct the Ministry of Interior that all administrative affairs of young officers, senior officers, appointments, changings, promotions and implementations should be done based on the regulations of administrative affairs of officers,” Ghani said. “Any person who is appointed based on relations has escaped from the battlefield and the one who has been appointed by giving money that has been embezzled. I do not accept this condition.”

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani court has ordered the release of a radical pro-Taliban and anti-US cleric who came to Afghani-stan with thousands of volunteers to help the Taliban fight against Americans after the 2001 US-led invasion, a defense lawyer said Tuesday, as quoted by The Associated Press. The development comes amid rising US-Pakistani tensions following US President Donald Trump’s accusations that Pa-kistan was harboring terrorist groups and the withholding of American aid to Islamabad.The report quotes defense attorney of Pakistan court Fida Gul as saying that Sufi Mohammad ...(More on P4)...(7)

Vice-President Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Tuesday blamed the delay in starting distribution of the electronic

national identity cards (e-NICs) on ‘ethnic extremists.’

Ghani said to cadets that “their graduation belongs to all the people of Afghanistan. Today our commandos have doubled, and the air-force will also increase.” ...(More on P4)...(4)