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Back Page November 16, 2016 Add: V-137, Street-6, Phase, 4, District 6, Shahrak Omed Sabz, Kabul Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 www.outlookafghanistan.net Add: V-137, Street-6, Phase, 4, District 6, Shahrak Omed Sabz, Kabul Email: [email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 www.thedailyafghanistan.com Jalalabad Kandahar Ghazni Mazar Herat Bamayan Kabul Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Clear Mostly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy 21°C 21°C 6°C 16°C 23°C 2°C 1°C 15°C 16°C 21°C 7°C 11°C 2°C 10°C Daily Outlook Weather Forcast KABUL - Ministry of Refu- gees and Repatriations (MoRR) said on Tuesday that the number of Afghan refugees who have returned from Pakistan and Iran since the start of the year is esti- mated to be about 900,000 - surpassing all previous years. According to the MoRR, more than 600,000 returned KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a fact- finding delegation to inves- tigate an attack on security convoy of First Vice-Presi- dent Abdul Rashid Dostum. A statement from the Presi- dential Palace received said: “In order to investigate the attack on the operational convoy of Dostum in Cha- har Shanbi area of Qaisar district of Faryab province, KABUL - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said that a full investigation into poten- tial war crimes committed in Afghanistan is likely. In a preliminary report pub- lished on Monday, Fatou Bensouda said that she had a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes, including torture, had been commit- ted. As a result of its examina- KABUL - The Anti-Corrup- tion Judicial Center (ACJC) will hear the cases of senior officials who are accused of corruption – without any po- litical interference, the Attor- ney General’s Office (AGO) said on Tuesday. “Considering the fact that we have the support of the Presidential Palace, the Chief Executive Office, the Ulema [Religious Scholars] Council and the people, we will assess any type of (corruption) case under the structure of our au- thorities,” AGO spokesman Jamshid Rasuli said. Meanwhile, a number of MPs and analysts said the ACJC has not assessed big corrup- tion cases as yet; therefore, they feel it is difficult for them to see this actually hap- pening. 900,000 Refugees Return From Pakistan, Iran this Year Alone Fact-Finding Team to Probe Attack on Dostum Convoy US Faces Investigation into War Crimes in Afghanistan: ICC Daikundi Relatively Secure But Undeveloped: Residents Protestors Want Faryab Education Director Removed Hundreds of People Take Arms against Taliban Herat Growers Happy with Raisin Yield, Exports Senior Officials Set to Go on Trial: AGO from Pakistan and 300,000 from Iran. Meanwhile, the World Food Program (WFP) has said that there are about 23,000 children among those re- turn-refugees, adding that many of them are suffering from malnutrition. “Government has failed to deliver on its promises re ...(More on P4)...(10) we have appointed a delega- tion led by deputy strategic intelligence head at the Min- istry of Defense.” Faryab Governor Sayed An- war Sadat, Deputy Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Moham- mad Salim Ehsas and the head of 095 department of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) Brig. Gen. Ali Ahmad are members of the ...(More on P4)...(11) tion, the Court has identi- fied, at a minimum, the fol- lowing crimes: a. Crimes against human- ity and war crimes by the Taliban and their affiliated Haqqani Network; b. War crimes of torture and related ill-treatment by Af- ghan government forces, in particular the intelligence agency (National Directo- rate for Security), and the ...(More on P4)...(15) NILLI - Daikundi might be relatively secure but for resi- dents it is undeveloped and many areas have little or no access to electricity, health- care or other basic services. Situated in the central parts of the country, just over 400kms from Kabul, it shares borders with Uru- zgan, Helmand, Ghor and Ghazni provinces. TOLOnews’ Tamim Hamid recently visited the prov- ince, which has eight dis- MAIMANA - Ulema Coun- cil members and workers of the Islamic education department on Tuesday sought the removal of the education director of north- western Faryab province, warning of more protests if their demand was not met. The protestors accused Education Director Ghu- lam Sakhi Bayan of taking bribes, forgery, misusing his authority, moral corruption and ...(More on P4)...(12) SHEBERGHAN - Hundreds of people have taken up arms against Taliban outfit in the northern Jawzjan prov- ince after the armed group has intensified activities in the neighboring Saripul and Faryab provinces. “Several hundred people gathered in Faizabad district, Jawzjan province this after- noon and vowed to support government forces in the war against Taliban rebels,” a pro-government armed man Zabit Khan told Xinhua on Tuesday. He added that the people have bought arms and am ...(More on P4)...(9) HERAT CITY - The raisin produced in western Herat province is known for its spe- cial taste, with local business- men exporting hundreds of tonnes this year. Farmers in Herat prefer to producing raisins by drying grapes and supplied tens of tonnes of the dry fruit to the market. Abdul Jabbar Rasuli, a grow- er from Guzra district who felt happy with his crop, said he net financial needs of his family by selling grapes and raisins. Although domestic market conditions are satisfactory, the grower believed explor- ing foreign markets would boost demand for the prod- uct. ...(More on P4)...(14) “Unfortunately, they started their activity from assess- ing small corruption cases. I think they are deceiving the people and they lack the ca- pacity to assess big corrup- tion cases,” said Tahir Hashe- mi, a university lecturer. “The people will lose their trust in the ACJC if it failed to assess big corruption cases which involve millions of dollars,” said Farhad Sediqqi, an MP. According to the AGO, al- most 53 corruption cases have been forwarded to the ACJC, of which eight have been assessed. The ACJC has been assigned to assess corruption cases which involve more than 10 million Afs, the AGO said. (Tolonews) tricts – of which only one, Kijran, is relatively insecure. Residents and officials told Hamid that service delivery in their province is poor and that in many instances, security forces have been forced to rent houses for their bases. “A huge number of police ...(More on P4)...(13)
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Add: V-137, Street-6, Phase, 4, District 6,Shahrak Omed Sabz, Kabul
Email: [email protected]: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019
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Add: V-137, Street-6, Phase, 4, District 6,Shahrak Omed Sabz, Kabul
Email: [email protected]: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019
www.thedailyafghanistan.com
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KABUL - Ministry of Refu-gees and Repatriations (MoRR) said on Tuesday that the number of Afghan refugees who have returned from Pakistan and Iran since the start of the year is esti-mated to be about 900,000 - surpassing all previous years.According to the MoRR, more than 600,000 returned
KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a fact-finding delegation to inves-tigate an attack on security convoy of First Vice-Presi-dent Abdul Rashid Dostum.A statement from the Presi-dential Palace received said: “In order to investigate the attack on the operational convoy of Dostum in Cha-har Shanbi area of Qaisar district of Faryab province,
KABUL - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said that a full investigation into poten-tial war crimes committed in Afghanistan is likely.In a preliminary report pub-lished on Monday, Fatou Bensouda said that she had a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes, including torture, had been commit-ted.As a result of its examina-
KABUL - The Anti-Corrup-tion Judicial Center (ACJC) will hear the cases of senior officials who are accused of corruption – without any po-litical interference, the Attor-ney General’s Office (AGO) said on Tuesday.“Considering the fact that we have the support of the Presidential Palace, the Chief Executive Office, the Ulema [Religious Scholars] Council and the people, we will assess any type of (corruption) case under the structure of our au-thorities,” AGO spokesman Jamshid Rasuli said.Meanwhile, a number of MPs and analysts said the ACJC has not assessed big corrup-tion cases as yet; therefore, they feel it is difficult for them to see this actually hap-pening.
900,000 Refugees Return From Pakistan,
Iran this Year Alone
Fact-Finding Team to Probe Attack on Dostum Convoy
US Faces Investigation into War Crimes in Afghanistan: ICC
Daikundi Relatively Secure But Undeveloped: Residents
Protestors Want Faryab Education Director Removed
Hundreds of People Take Arms against Taliban
Herat Growers Happy with Raisin
Yield, Exports
Senior Officials Set to Go on Trial: AGO from Pakistan and 300,000
from Iran.Meanwhile, the World Food Program (WFP) has said that there are about 23,000 children among those re-turn-refugees, adding that many of them are suffering from malnutrition.“Government has failed to deliver on its promises re ...(More on P4)...(10)
we have appointed a delega-tion led by deputy strategic intelligence head at the Min-istry of Defense.”Faryab Governor Sayed An-war Sadat, Deputy Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Moham-mad Salim Ehsas and the head of 095 department of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) Brig. Gen. Ali Ahmad are members of the ...(More on P4)...(11)
tion, the Court has identi-fied, at a minimum, the fol-lowing crimes:a. Crimes against human-ity and war crimes by the Taliban and their affiliated Haqqani Network;b. War crimes of torture and related ill-treatment by Af-ghan government forces, in particular the intelligence agency (National Directo-rate for Security), and the ...(More on P4)...(15)
NILLI - Daikundi might be relatively secure but for resi-dents it is undeveloped and many areas have little or no access to electricity, health-care or other basic services.Situated in the central parts of the country, just over 400kms from Kabul, it shares borders with Uru-zgan, Helmand, Ghor and Ghazni provinces.TOLOnews’ Tamim Hamid recently visited the prov-ince, which has eight dis-
MAIMANA - Ulema Coun-cil members and workers of the Islamic education department on Tuesday sought the removal of the education director of north-western Faryab province, warning of more protests if their demand was not met.The protestors accused Education Director Ghu-lam Sakhi Bayan of taking bribes, forgery, misusing his authority, moral corruption and ...(More on P4)...(12)
SHEBERGHAN - Hundreds of people have taken up arms against Taliban outfit in the northern Jawzjan prov-ince after the armed group has intensified activities in the neighboring Saripul and Faryab provinces.“Several hundred people gathered in Faizabad district, Jawzjan province this after-noon and vowed to support government forces in the war against Taliban rebels,” a pro-government armed man Zabit Khan told Xinhua on Tuesday.He added that the people have bought arms and am ...(More on P4)...(9)
HERAT CITY - The raisin produced in western Herat province is known for its spe-cial taste, with local business-men exporting hundreds of tonnes this year.Farmers in Herat prefer to producing raisins by drying grapes and supplied tens of tonnes of the dry fruit to the market.Abdul Jabbar Rasuli, a grow-er from Guzra district who felt happy with his crop, said he net financial needs of his family by selling grapes and raisins.Although domestic market conditions are satisfactory, the grower believed explor-ing foreign markets would boost demand for the prod-uct. ...(More on P4)...(14)
“Unfortunately, they started their activity from assess-ing small corruption cases. I think they are deceiving the people and they lack the ca-pacity to assess big corrup-tion cases,” said Tahir Hashe-mi, a university lecturer.
“The people will lose their trust in the ACJC if it failed to assess big corruption cases which involve millions of dollars,” said Farhad Sediqqi, an MP.According to the AGO, al-most 53 corruption cases
have been forwarded to the ACJC, of which eight have been assessed.The ACJC has been assigned to assess corruption cases which involve more than 10 million Afs, the AGO said. (Tolonews)
tricts – of which only one, Kijran, is relatively insecure.Residents and officials told Hamid that service delivery in their province is poor and that in many instances, security forces have been forced to rent houses for their bases.“A huge number of police ...(More on P4)...(13)
