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A fierce verbal clash between lawmakers and attempts to attack each other physically marred Wednesday’s session of the Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi on Wednesday and was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi later in the day.

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KABUL - A group of 200 drug addicts was discharged from a rehabilitation centre in Kabul on Tuesday upon completing a three-month treatment course.Another group of 200 junkies col-lected from various parts of the city were transferred to the centre after the previous group was dis-charged, said Dr. Fida Moham-mad Paikan, deputy Public Health Minister .He told a ceremony at the 1000-bed hospital for addicts that about 100,000 people addicted to drugs existed in Kabul.Paikan said the 200 cured addicts were replaced by another 200 in-dividuals who had been gathered from beneath Pul-i-Soktha Bridge with the help of the ministries of counternarcotics and interior.Paikan warned of possible return of the treated patients to their old habit and also voiced concern about low cooperation of families.He said recently 11 members of addicts’ families were arrested for transferring drugs to the addicts under treatment.According to information from the Ministry of Counter-narcotics, the level of ...(More on P4)...(11)

TALOQAN - As many as 600 chil-dren have been born with ‘Cer-ebral Palsy’ during the ongoing year in northeastern Takhar prov-ince, say public health officials.Cerebral palsy (CP) is a blanket term for several disorders that af-fect normal, healthy movement.Cerebral palsy (commonly re-ferred to as CP) affects normal movement in different parts of the body and has many degrees of se-verity.Cerebral palsy is caused by dam-age to the fetal or infant brain. It occurs when there is neurological damage before, during, or within five years of birth that prevents the brain from developing properly.Takhar Public Health Director Ha-feezullah Sapi on Wednesday told Pajhwok Afghan News CP disor-der among children hit an all-time high this year in the province com-pared to the past. According to him, about 575 chil-dren were ...(More on P4)...(16)

Ghani Refuses to Join CPEC While Access to India is Blocked

KABUL - The US Secretary of State’s visit to India is part of his six-day tour covering five na-tions including Pakistan, Saudi

KABUL - The house had sum-moned Afghanistan Civil Avia-tion Authority (ACAA) and traffic department officials to question them about high air fares and problems in the traf-fic system, but the session was disrupted due to the dispute be-

KABUL - Chief Executive Of-ficer Abdullah on Wednesday reaffirmed his support to the freedom of expression and ac-cess to information and warned threatening media outlets by government institutions was not acceptable.The CEO was addressing a gath-ering marking the International Day of Universal Access to Infor-

KABUL - The First-ever facility Model United Nations (MUN) headquarters and its meetings have been established at the Ka-bul University by the varsity stu-dents’ association, an official said on Wednesday.Abdullah Andish Yar, head of the newly-created centre at Kabul

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – Young refugees pass through the plush lobby and gleaming kitchens of the Sheraton Hotel in Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital, where they are learning the essentials of the hospitality industry at a re-nowned five-star hotel.Nargis Alinazar Timuri, a de-

Arabia, Qatar, and Switzerland – however he also paid a secret visit to Afghanistan on Monday.Combating terrorism and India’s

tween three lawmakers and the deputy speaker.It began when Gul Pacha Ma-jeedi, a lawmaker from south-eastern Paktia province, accused first deputy speaker Humayun Humayun and lawmaker Lalai Hamidzai from southern Kanda-

mation in Kabul. He said hiding information widened the gap between the government and the masses.Abdullah said the people were real owners of information and the government was a body to protect them. He renewed his support to the media, the free-dom of expression and access to information. ...(More on P4)...(13)

University, during the inaugural ceremony informed about efforts made for strengthening leader-ship skills and diplomacy of stu-dents.He said the MUN program was held at Kabul University last year, and now the permanent center for such ...(More on P4)...(14)

termined 27-year-old Afghan refugee, has been assigned to the housekeeping department.“I couldn’t sleep after the first day, I was really excited,” she said. “I’ve tried to memorize every passing day so I wouldn’t forget all the instructions and im-portant ...(More on P4)...(17)

200 Cured Addicts Discharged from

Kabul Rehab Center

Cerebral Paralysis Incidence Surges in

Takhar Children

While in India on Tuesday, President Ashraf Ghani called on Pakistan to end its support to insurgent groups and took a firm stand against joining the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Threatening Media Outlets Not Acceptable: Abdullah

Wolesi Jirga Adjourned for Day Amid RuckusMUN Centre Inaugurated at Kabul University

UNHCR and Sheraton Hotel Offer Afghan Refugees Chance to Shine

Fighting Terrorism Dominates Tillerson, Swaraj Talks

KABUL - According to India’s Live Mint news portal, Ghani said he would not join CPEC if Islamabad refused to per-mit connectivity between India and Af-ghanistan.The report stated that Ghani also rejected what he termed a “Pakistan-managed” effort to broker peace in Afghanistan. This comes just a week after talks be-tween Pakistan, the US, China and Af-ghanistan in Oman which were aimed at getting the Taliban to the peace talks tables.The news portal reported that in his speech at the Vivekananda International Foundation think tank in New Delhi, Ghani said Afghanistan was fully capa-ble of concluding a peace process on its own.“Our approach to internal peace is to own it through Afghan government-led processes,” Ghani said. “We would like a push factor from Pakistan vis-a-vis the Taliban, not a Pakistan-managed peace process,” he said.Live Mint reported that in response to a question, Ghani noted that in 2001, the

Taliban was an “exhausted”, “spent po-litical force” and it did not have sponsor-ship. The regrouping of the Taliban into

the force it has become currently is due to state sponsorship of the group, he said.“Sanctuaries are provided, logistics are pro-

vided, training is provided, ideological bas-es are provided. So instead of dramatizing, what we ...(More on P4)...(10)

role in war-torn Afghanistan dominated talks between Tiller-son and his Indian counterpart Wednesday as they discussed the new strategy for South Asia.Speaking at a joint news brief-ing with Swaraj, Tillerson ac-knowledged “India’s generous contributions to development in Afghanistan.”Swaraj meanwhile said India had agreed to hold talks on Af-ghanistan with Washington and Kabul.Tillerson, who arrived in New Delhi after first visiting Afghani-stan and Islamabad, said he had conveyed to Pakistan’s leaders “certain expectations” that the Trump ...(More on P4)...(12)

har province of forcibly taking away some documents from the archive of the Wolesi Jirga TV of-fice.“Humayun, Hamidzai and an-other person with a white hand-kerchief around his head, who was not ...(More on P4)...(15)

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