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214 Militants Killed in past three Weeks in Nangarhar: Gen. Rahimi

Govt. Approves 24 Projects Worth Afs 1.8 Billion

Afghanistan-Tajikistan Wrap up Economic Cooperation Meeting

Kamela Sediqi Appointed as Deputy Minister of Commerce

Above 1,000 Bamyan Women Attend Literacy

Courses this Year

Shaheedani Prevented Plane from Landing

KABUL - Wolesi Jirga member Abdul Rahman Shaheedani on Sunday denied preventing a Ka-mAir flight from landing at the airport in central Bamyan province.However, the airline officials said they had evidence to prove it was Shaheedani who prevented the plane from landing at the airport.Shaheedani reportedly missed flight from Kabul to Bamyan and then phoned his supporters to block the runway of Bamyan airport and not allow the Kam Air plane to land. The aircraft was forced to return to Kabul and again fly to Bamyan with Shaheedani.However, the Bamyan governor had said the air-port commander, head of 1st police district and six border police were being interrogated over the in-cident.Shaheedani, who skipped previous Wolesi Jirga ses-sions, appeared in today’s session along with Ghu-lam Hussain Nasiri, a lawmaker of central Maidan Wardak province. Nasiri had also missed the same flight.Nasiri said the prevention of plane from landing was a political conspiracy. Boarding the plane was scheduled at 6:45am but Kam Air employees denied giving boarding pass to Shaheedani at 6:15am, Na-siri said.Calling for investigation into the matter by a neural party, Nasiri said Shaheedani had not given the or-der to prevent the plane from landing.Shaheedani, a lawmaker from Bamyan, accused Kam Air Company of political confrontation against him and said: “I reached the airport earlier than Na-siri.”“The old terminal was reserved for the president and I went to the new ...(More on P4)...(15)

JALALABAD - At least 214 militants were killed during the counter-terrorism operations in the past three weeks in vari-ous parts of eastern Nangarhar province, the local security offi-cials said Monday.Provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi told re-porters that 61 militants were also wounded and 84 others in-cluding criminal suspects were detained during the period.Gen. Rahimi further added that 43 various types of weapons, 11440 rounds of ammunition, and 8 vehicles were confiscated by the security forces.He said the security forces also

KABUL - Kamela Sediqi, a leading Afghan female entrepreneur, is ap-pointed as the new deputy minister of Commerce.Abdul Salam Rahimi, Director-Gen-eral of Administrative Office of the President, introduced Sediqi and ex-pressed hope that her appointment would result in positive changes in Afghanistan’s trade balance.Sediqi formerly worked as deputy di-

KABUL - The Afghan government has approved 24 contracts worth 1.8 billion Afghanistan during a meeting of the Na-tional Procurement Commission.The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said the meeting was chaired by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in the Presidnetial office.The statement further added the contracts approved during the meeting include as-phalt work of Andkhoi-Qarghan in Fary-ab, health services contract to be provided by the private sector in the restive parts of the country, consulting services for the im-plementation of national Citizens Charter projects over a period of 3 years in Balkh, Sar-e-Pul, and Jawzjan, security contract for Kabul, Balkh, Kandahar, and Herat provinces.The other contracts approved during the meeting includes contract for the genera-tion of certificates ...(More on P4)...(10)

KABUL - The minister of econ-omy Abdul Sattar Murad has said that Tajikistan is willing to expand investments in Af-ghanistan’s power projects and railway links.“Afghanistan and Tajikistan are two important and allied countries in the region, there-fore we are trying to expand joint investments between Afghanistan and Tajikistan in various fields such as railways and road projects and water dams,” said Murad.Meanwhile, Tajikistan’s minis-ter of economy has stressed the need for the expansion of com-mercial routes between the na-

KABUL - The dead body of a young girl found from a container in Kabul has sent shockwaves as the security officials confirm that the young couple had locked themselves inside the con-tainer for some happy mo-ments.The security officials in Ka-bul police commandment said the girl had already died when a search operation re-sulted into the tracing of the two.The Head of the Criminal Investigation Department Salim Almas confirmed on Sunday that the dead body of the girl was recovered from inside the container while the boy was in a state of coma.Almas to BBC’s Afghanistan service that the couple had locked themselves inside the container and the girl died to the lack of oxygen while the boy is still in coma.He said the bodies were re-covered from Macroryan area of Kabul and an investigation is still underway regarding the incident.The security of-ficials are saying that the boy has been admitted in a hos-pital in Kabul and the body of the girl has been taken for forensic examination.No fur-ther details have been given regarding the identities of the boy and the girl but re-ports suggest that the boy is the son of a member of the Afghan Parliament’s Lower House, Wolesi Jirga. (KP)

Deadly Ending of a Young Boy and Girl’s Intimacy in

Kabul

Appointed 3 Years ago, District

Chief yet to Take ChargeAfghan minister of economy said the two countries were trying to strengthen relations

across the board in order to increase trade between Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

confiscated 12 Improvised Ex-plosive Devices (IEDs) and some others were detonated without

tions.“We have a lot in common, we are trying to pave the way for joint cooperation in line with the needs of our people; Afghanistan and Tajikistan

BAMYAN CITY - The Ministry of Education (MoE) on Monday said that as many as 15,000 peo-ple, mostly women, completed literacy courses this solar year in central Bamyan province.Sardar Mohammad Rahimi, MoE’s deputy head for literacy, told Pajhwok Afghan News the nine-month literacy course was conducted in six districts of Bamyan. He said the scheme was being implemented by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi-zation (UNESCO).He said about 10,500 individu-als attended 350 courses and another nearly 5,000 individu-als attended literacy courses by the MoE. “The total number of people receiving literacy course reaches 15,000.”Rahimi said the courses’ par-ticipants were aged above 15

need to be connected through more border routes so that more commercial and trade interactions between the two countries are conducted,” said ...(More on P4)...(13)

years and most of them were women, adding that his minis-try keeping in view the budget had conducted the literacy pro-gramme in 120 districts across the country.He said individuals completing the courses could continue their education at lit-eracy schools as third graders.Meanwhile, ...(More on P4)...(11)

GARDEZ CITY - The Lazha Mangal district administra-tive chief in southeastern Paktia province on Monday complained the provincial authorities were yet to intro-duce him to his office despite being officially appointed three years back.Abdul Rahman Solamal told a press conference in Gardez, the provincial capital, that he had been appointed as Lazha Mangal district chief through an open competition by the Administrative Reforms and Civil Services Commission (IARCSC) nearly three years back, but since he was sign-ing the attendance sheet at the ...(More on P4)...(14)

rector general of Admin and Finance at Administrative Office of the Presi-dent.Humayoon Rasaw, Minister of Com-merce and Industries, said Ms. Sediqi has a decade of experience in the area of trade, and will be efficient through use of her experience and knowledge.Sediqi said she would strive for turn-ing Afghanistan from consuming to a producing ...(More on P4)...(12)

causing any damage or casual-ties to the civilians or security personnel.According to Gen.

Rahimi, the Afghan forces also confiscated 119 rounds of heavy weapons ammunition, 12800 me-ters of explosives belt, and 6470 kgs of ammonium nitrate.He also added that a suicide bomber was detained during an operation from Jalalabad city be-fore he manage to carry out an attack in a busy part of the city.The militants were killed, in-jured, detained, and explosives were seized during 27 various clearance and targeted opera-tions, Gen. Rahimi added.The anti-government armed militant groups have not com-mented regarding the report so far. (KP)

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