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The Jamiat-e-Islami party, led by Acting Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, has decided to support Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in 2019 presidential elections, the party said in a statement on Saturday.

The Afghan Taliban rejected reports in the Pakistani media that they were prepared to resume meetings with U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Islamabad and repeated their refusal to deal directly with the Afghan government.

A senior Democratic lawmaker has denounced as undemocratic President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Afghanistan.

KABUL - Sima Samar, the chair-person of Afghanistan’s Inde-pendent Human Rights Com-mission (AIHRC) says they have lodged the complaints received regarding the parliamentary elec-tion for Kabul to IECC which might affect the results of the poll.Speaking in an interview with Ariana News, Sima Samar said that a large number of com-plaints have been registered by the AIHRC regarding the parlia-mentary election and that it sub-mitted the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC).Samar stressed some of the com-plaints have been addressed by the IECC and that some still need to be addressed.“We have lodged a lot of the [re-ceived] complaints to the elector-al complaints commission, most of them were important ones,” she said. The chairman of AIHRC, mean-while, noted that they might also receive ...(More on P4)...(1)

AIHRC Lodges Received Complaints on Kabul Votes to IECC

Abdullah Abdullah Jamiat’s Favorite for Presidential Elections

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani newspapers and television sta-tions reported that a meeting in Islamabad was in prospect follow-ing discussions between Khalilzad and Pakistani officials including

WASHINGTON - Chairman of the House Armed Services Commit-tee Adam Smith slammed Trump’s decision on keeping Pelosi and other Democrats from travelling to Brussels and Afghanistan.

Afghan Taliban Reject Talks with U.S. in Pakistan

Trump Slammed for Nixing Pelosi’s Visit to Afghanistan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Fri-day.Senior Taliban leaders said that re-gional powers including Pakistan had approached them and wanted them to meet the U.S. delegation in Islamabad and also include the Af-ghan government in the peace pro-cess but that the approaches had been rejected.“We wanted to make it clear that we will not hold any meeting with Zal-may Khalilzad in Islamabad,” Tali-ban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a statement.Talks between the two sides have stalled after the Taliban accused Khalilzad of straying from the ...(More on P4)...(4)

The Pelosi-led team was slated to meet military officials and partici-pate in national security briefings. But Trump announced on Friday canceling the congressional delega-tion’s trip in light of the partial gov-ernment shutdown.Smith said in a statement: “President Trump’s attempt to deny members of Congress the ability to conduct oversight of military issues by refus-ing to support official travel is dan-gerous, and it is undemocratic.”The public representatives must be able to gather information on the ground about military conditions, especially the safety and security of US ...(More on P4)...(5)

KABUL - Head of the Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Saturday regis-tered as the 10th presidential candidate at the In-dependent Election Commission (IEC).Hekmatyar will run for the presidency, with Dr. Abdul Hadi Wazin as his first and Qazi Hafiz Rahman Naqi as his second vice-presidential hopefuls.Born in 1948 in Kunduz province, Hekmatyar turned to politics when he was a student in Ka-bul Polytechnic University. He joined the move-ment of Jawanan-I-Muslman (Muslim Youths) in 1971when ideological tensions were at peak between right and left groups. ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - Ahmad Walli Masoud, head of the Ahmad Shah Masoud Foundation, on Saturday registered as 11th presidential hopeful at the In-dependent Election Commission (IEC) along with his deputies.Ahmad Walli Masoud was accompanied by Dr. Farida Momand, former Higher Education Minis-ter as his first deputy president, and Abdul Latif Nazar, head of the Ghirjistan Higher Education Institute, as his second deputy. ...(More on P4)...(3)

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Registers as Presidential

Hopeful

Walli Masoud Registers as 11th Presidential Hopeful

KABUL - The statement said the deci-sion was made in a Jamiat leadership council’s meeting where they also decided to be on the same ticket with the National Islamic Movement of Af-ghanistan led by First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, and Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami led by High Peace Council Chairman Mohammad Karim

Khalili.This comes a day after key members of Jamiat, Yunus Qanooni and Atta Mohammad Noor, Mohammad Ismail Khan and Bismillah Khan endorse for-mer National Security Advisor Mo-hammad Haneef Atmar’s election tick-et. Meanwhile, Ahmad Wali Massoud, another member of Jamiat

So far, Abdul Latif Pedram, Hakim Torsan, Sayed Noorullah Jalili, Enay-atullah Hafiz, Zalmai Rassoul, Noorul Haq Ulumi, Faramarz Tamanna, Mo-hammad Haneef Atmar, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Wali Massoud have entered the race for the presidential elections.The presidential elections are scheduled for July 20. (Tolo news)

د افغانستان اسالمی جمهوریت د اوبو او انرژی وزارت

جمهوری اسالمی افغانستان وزارت انرژی و آب

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Ministry of Energy and Water

Website: www.mew.gov.af

تدارکاتریاســـت تدارکات خدمات مشورتی آمریت

آدرس: وزارت انرژی وآب سرک عمومی داراالمان مقابل کوچه سناتوریم کابل افغانستان.

Subject: Notification of Intention to Award; CONSULTING SERVICES FOR ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT (KAMAL KHAN FLOOD CONTROL DAM PHASE lll) (Ref. No.: NPA/MEW/96/CS-1824/QCBS) As per NPA related department’s expert comments and consideration Please be informed that the procurement process for the subject assignment has been completed. Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) now intends to enter into a Contract at the total revised value of USD 5,349,139.78 (five million, Three hundred fourt nine thousand one hundred and thirty nine point seventy Eight) inclusive of Indirect Local Taxes with the successful consultant, namely: Shanghai Investigation, Design and Research Institute co. Ltd, SDIRI) as lead Consultant in joint Venture with Environment and Resource Management Consultant (P) Ltd. (ERMC), Nepal in association with Afghan Tarin Engineering Services Company (ATES) as sub consultant. who obtained the highest combined Technical and Financial score. The Firms or any individual who wants debriefing on any issue related to this procurement may request so in writing within 7 days from the date of issue of this award Notice to MEW at the address/email addresses provided below. MEW shall immediately provide a written response to all such requests. Address: Ministry of Energy and water Kabul, Afghanistan Mr. Homayoun “Hadid” Email Address: hadidhomayoun@gmail.com Copy to: E-mail address: maihanafghani@gmail.com, dsamim.ice@gmail.com Phone: No: +93 78776 88 27 Note: The contract shall not be concluded until the completion of above mentioned period and the next legal process.

د افغانستان اسالمی جمهوریت د اوبو او انرژی وزارت

جمهوری اسالمی افغانستان وزارت انرژی و آب

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Ministry of Energy and Water

Website: www.mew.gov.af

تدارکاتریاســـت تدارکات خدمات مشورتی آمریت

آدرس: وزارت انرژی وآب سرک عمومی داراالمان مقابل کوچه سناتوریم کابل افغانستان.

Subject: Notification of Intention to Award; CONSULTING SERVICES FOR ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT (KAMAL KHAN FLOOD CONTROL DAM PHASE lll) (Ref. No.: NPA/MEW/96/CS-1824/QCBS) As per NPA related department’s expert comments and consideration Please be informed that the procurement process for the subject assignment has been completed. Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) now intends to enter into a Contract at the total revised value of USD 5,349,139.78 (five million, Three hundred fourt nine thousand one hundred and thirty nine point seventy Eight) inclusive of Indirect Local Taxes with the successful consultant, namely: Shanghai Investigation, Design and Research Institute co. Ltd, SDIRI) as lead Consultant in joint Venture with Environment and Resource Management Consultant (P) Ltd. (ERMC), Nepal in association with Afghan Tarin Engineering Services Company (ATES) as sub consultant. who obtained the highest combined Technical and Financial score. The Firms or any individual who wants debriefing on any issue related to this procurement may request so in writing within 7 days from the date of issue of this award Notice to MEW at the address/email addresses provided below. MEW shall immediately provide a written response to all such requests. Address: Ministry of Energy and water Kabul, Afghanistan Mr. Homayoun “Hadid” Email Address: hadidhomayoun@gmail.com Copy to: E-mail address: maihanafghani@gmail.com, dsamim.ice@gmail.com Phone: No: +93 78776 88 27 Note: The contract shall not be concluded until the completion of above mentioned period and the next legal process.