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June 09, 2015

Security Forces Recapture Two Areas in Yamgan District

KABUL - Afghan security forces have recaptured two important areas of Yam-gan district in north-eastern Badakhshan province which had fallen under the control of the Taliban two days ago.The operation is ongoing however as security forces continue fighting off insur-gents, said a ministry of defense official, Gen. Afzal Aman.“The operation still continues in Yamgan and the military’s special forces were also in-volved in this operation and soon they will re-take control

KABUL - Lithuanian Special Operations Squadron Ait-varas is finishing its mission in Afghanistan after 13 years. However, a dozen of Lithu-anian troops are set to stay in the country for at least the end of this year.Lithuanian special opera-tions troops are scheduled to finish their participation in NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan on July 1.“The special operations forc-es matured, grew stronger

PUL-E-ALAM - Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, police chief of Logar province, said on Monday the Taliban has released nine deminers from HALO Trust charity organization in Logar province on Sunday evening.According to Ishaqzai the organization’s driver is still being held hostage and the insurgents still have the organ-ization’s vehicles.Preliminary investigations show that the driver may have had links with the Taliban.The Taliban is yet to comment on the hostage release.The deminers were abducted by unidentified gunmen early Sunday in eastern Logar prov-ince, about 70 kilometers from Kabul, local officials said.

FAIZABAD - Three Urban Development Ministry offi-cials were Monday arrested in northern Badakhshan prov-ince on corruption charges as they attempted to flee to neigh-boring Tajikistan, an official said on Monday.The Badakhshan governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Naveed Frotan, told Pajhwok Afghan News the three tainted officials were trying to cross the border into Tajikistan when police ar-rested them in Sheghnan dis-trict in the morning.He identified the officials as Mohammad Amin Qani, Ah-mad Nawaz Bakhtyar and

KABUL - A policeman, who defused more than 600 land-mines, was on Monday ap-preciated and promoted to the next rank, the Ministry of Interior said.Staff Sergeant Abdul Gha-foor Afghan Yar has defused more than 6000 improvised explosive devices during the last few years in southern Hel-mand province. The MoI in a statement said Deputy Interior Minister Mo-

KABUL - Former gover-nor of Khost and Maidan Wardak province, Abdul Jabbar Naimi has been ap-pointed as the new governor

for eastern Laghman prov-ince.Abdul Jabbar Naimi was rec-ommended by Independent Directorate of Local Govern-ance (IDLG) and approved by the presidential palace for this position.Naimi has previously sev-ered as the governor of Khost and Maidan Wardak provinces during the gov-ernment of former president Hamid Karzai. He served for five years in Khost and about three years in Maidan Wardak. IDLG, the agency governors relate to, trust that Naimi will apply programs for the development, good governance and security of Laghman province. (KP)

KABUL - A delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) based DAMAC Con-struction Company has re-portedly arrived in Kabul to assess investment oppor-tunities in the construction sector on invitation from a local Afghan advertising company.DAMAC is a prominent international construction company, and has helped construct buildings in many different countries at the highest standards.DAMAC representatives expressed hope for the con-struction sector in Afghani-stan, while acknowledging the obstacle insecurity pos-es. “There are opportunities in the construction sector in Afghanistan and investors are willing to invest,” DA-MAC marketing director Furqan Haidar told TOLO-news. “However, security threats still remain an issue in the way of investments and we are assessing these issues.”Meanwhile, the local adver-tising company that invited DAMAC’s assessment has said the foreign construc-tion firm is likely interested in investing in tourism-re-lated ...(More on P4)...(12)

KABUL - The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) of-ficially inaugurated 39 de-velopment projects in Ai-bak the center of Samangan province.Completed at a cost of AFN 67,947,000, the projects were funded by the National Soli-darity Program (NSP) of the MRRD with 10% contribu-tion from the local commu-nityThe projects include con-struction of 14 social cent-ers, 522-meters long retain-ing walls, a 1,043-meter irrigation canal, 30 safe water reservoirs, three lava-tories, public baths and pav-ing of 2,475 meters of rural roads and streets.A number of young Af-ghans from the local com-munity benefits from job opportunities generated by these projects. The com-pletion of the projects has helped approximately 6,716 families in 29 communities to gain access to basic hu...(More on P4)...(16)

KABUL - Hundreds of people on Monday gathered in capi-tal Kabul and asked the UN and human rights organisa-tions to demand an end to the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims at the hands of Bud-dhist extremists in Myanmar also known as Burma.Around 400 people, includ-ing religious scholars, youth and elders attended a gather-ing in Khair Khana locality to demand an end to the inhu-man persecution of the Roh-ingya people in the southeast-ern Asian country.Maulvi Baz Mohammad Ah-

Health Minister Maps out 100-Day Plan

Stop Ethnic Cleansing in Burma: Kabul Gathering

MP Apologizes for Threatening

Journalist to Death

Activists Push For Approval of Law on Violence

Against Women

Lithuania’s Special Forces End Mission in

Afghanistan

Taliban Free Deminers in Logar

3 Graft-Tainted Officials Detained on Tajik Border

Afghan Police Mine Defuser Praised, Promoted

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Naimi Appointed as

New Governor for Laghman

Arab Company Looks to Invest in

Afghan Construction Industry

Completion of 39 Development

Projects in Samangan Province

and demonstrated their pro-fessionalism and ability not only to fulfill tasks but also share their experience with Afghans. Today we mark the end of the Resolute Support mission, which last one year, and the handover of that re-sponsibility for security to Afghanistan’s special police forces. It marks maturity of our army and our special op-erations forces,” Lithuanian National Defense Minister Juozas Olekas told journalists in Afghanistan. (Agencies)

The incident took place at about 7 am. in Daoudkhil vil-lage, near the provincial capi-tal, when the HALO Trust employees were on the way to their office, Ishaqzai said.“The ...(More on P4)...(9)

Sayed Amanullah Sadaat who were on the list of six officials accused of corruption.Police chief Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari said two local resi-dents, Bashir and Abdul Ghazi, who were helping the officials to flee to Tajikistan had also been detained. All the detained were currently held at a deten-tion center of the Shaghnan district, he said.On May 30, the Attorney Gen-eral Office (AGO) accused six Urban Development Ministry officials of embezzling millions of US dollars and placed a travel ban on them. An official of the ...(More on P4)...(13)

hammad Ayub Salangi pre-sented an appreciation certifi-cate to Afghan Yar at his office and promoted him to the next rank on Monday.Afghan Yar was one of the po-licemen who performed duty in dangerous conditions and in insecure areas of Helmand, said Salangi. He said Afghan Yar had saved many precious lives and discharged his duty without fear and with a high morale. (Pajhwok)

of the district,” he said.However, officials did not provide details about any casualties.On Saturday, Taliban insur-gents attacked the district and took control of it forcing security forces to carry out a tactical retreat so as to avoid civilian casualties. This came after security forces clashed for hours with the insurgents.On Sunday, officials said that more troops had arrived from the capital of the province to support the local troops and that they were able to launch an ...(More on P4)...(8)

Health Organization (WHO), by 2001, the health system was characterized by inade-quate infrastructures with di-lapidated facilities unevenly distributed across the coun-try; impaired access to health services due to difficult com-

mad told the participants the Muslims of Burma had long been targeted in bloody attacks by the Buddhist ex-tremists.He asked international hu-man rights bodies to play their role in halting the ongo-

KABUL - An Afghan law-maker Ashiqullah Wafa who represents Baghlan in the Lower House of Parliament apologized from an Afghan jour-nalist for threatening him to death.An audio recording of Mr. Wafa’s telephone call threatening the chief editor of Tan-veer television Sher Mo-hammad Jahish went viral earlier which was sparked rage among the organization defending journalists as well as local residents including religious clerics.In the meantime, Mr. Wafa has claimed that the audio tape was fake and blamed Pakistan’s Inter Services In-telligence (ISI) for producing the audio tape.According to Wafa, ISI pro-duced the audio after he op-

KABUL - The Women’s Polit-ical Participation Committee on Monday urged Parliament to accelerate efforts to ratify the law on elimination of vio-lence against women before the legislature’s term comes to an end in two weeks.“If Parliament approves the law with a few days remain-ing, it will be remembered as a dignified Parliament and the move will decrease the vulnerability of women in Afghanistan,” women rights activist Alima said on Mon-day.Activists from the organi-zation addressed a letter to

ing persecution and ethnic cleansing of the Burmese Muslims.He criticised the UN, the US and other western countries for being silent over the vio-lations of human rights in Burma. ...(More on P4)...(11)

posed with the signing of the Memorandum of Under-

standing between National Directorate of Security and ISI.However, Mr. Jahish said the audio recording was authen-tic and there was no forgery in the recording.He also added that he has withdrawn a complaint filed by him against Mr. Wafa af-ter he apologized for insult-ing him and threatening him to death. In the meantime, the Afghanistan Journalists...(More on P4)...(15)

first lady Rula Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Ab-dullah Abdullah, imploring them to ensure passage of the violence against women law. Some warned that the Afghan public would not ac-cept failure from Parliament.“Lawmakers in Parliament must remember that their approach toward dealing the law will not remain hid-den from the eye of women and the people,” a member of the women’s political par-ticipation committee named Khadija Sherbaz said.The letter addressed to first lady ...(More on P4)...(14)

munications and poor securi-ty; chronic shortage of skilled health providers (especially female); poor information systems; and weak imple-mentation of the newly ap-proved national health policy.This ...(More on P4)...(10)

KABUL - Minister of Pub-lic Health Firozuddin Feroz on Monday mapped out his 100-Day Plan and assured the country that his ministry was committed to improving and standardizing health services in the country.He said his main priority was to ensure equal distribution of health services around the country and that he has plans in place to start building much needed hospitals in provinces.Afghanistan’s health status is one of the worst in the world and after decades of neglect, underfunding and war, the sector needs to recover.According to the World