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Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind

must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

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KABUL - The admiration came from IMF Deputy Manag-ing Director of Mitsuhiro Furusawa during a meeting with Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi in Washington DC, the state-ment said.Hakimi is on his official visit to US where he participated in International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) spring meetings. Khalil Sediq, CEO of Da Afghanistan Bank Hamdullah Mo-hib, Afghan Ambassador to Washington D.C were present,

during the meeting and exchanged their views on economic and banking sector. Minister of Finance thanked IMF for supporting Afghani-stan’s financial reform and meanwhile invited him to Geneva Conference that is likely to take place by the end of this year.Separately, Hakemi held a meeting with Miftah Ismail, Act-ing Finance Minister of Pakistan.Both sides discussed strengthening economic and trade ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...(More on P4)...(1)

KABUL - Turkish deputy minister of economy has said the two countries will hold talks in the near future on strengthening economic relations. A joint economic forum between Afghanistan and Turkey is being planned, possibly for May, said Turkey’s Deputy Minister of Economy, Fatih Me-tin. According to him, the plan is for discussions to be held on the development of commercial, invest-ment and transit relations between the two coun-tries.Metin said that Turkey hopes to discuss the in-crease in trade volume exchange between the two countries. He said delegates that will attend the forum will also focus on the development of trade and tran-sit, investment opportunities for both Turks and Afghans, and the creation of trade facilities be-tween Afghanistan and Turkey.“One of the important issues to be discussed at this joint meeting is the growing volume of trade between Afghanistan and Turkey; and we are also working on developing our trade and transit rela-tions,” said Metin.Metin also said many Turkish companies are in-terested in investing in Afghanistan. He said Tur-key supported them in this and has encouraged them to invest in the energy sector in “Our investors are interested in investing in solar energy and solar ...(More on P4)...(2)

PESHAWAR - The British prime minister has commended Pakistan’s efforts in the fight against the scourge of global terrorism.Theresa May recalled Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s visit to Kabul in response to an invitation from President Ashraf Ghani.At a meeting with Abbasi on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Summit, she referred to more than 100,000 Pakistanis affected by war on terror-ism.May lauded Abbasi’s efforts for reaching out to Afghanistan, especially during his recent visit to Kabul, according to the Associated Press of Paki-stan.During the meeting at the Windsor Castle, Ab-basi spoke of his visit to Kabul and underscored Pakistan’s commitment to peace and stability in Afghanistan. (Pajhwok)

SAR-I-PUL - Six Afghan Lo-cal Police (ALP) personnel and three Taliban have been killed during a clash in the Sayyad district of northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Saturday.Governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants stormed a security check-post in the To-blaq area of the district late on Friday night. At least six ALP men and three militants were killed.He said the ALP post remained under Taliban’s control and the three-hour firefight. How-ever, it was retaken after the arrival of reinforcements in the area.Samiullah, a resident of the locality, confirmed the death of six policemen. However, he did not provide details about insurgent casualties. (Pajhwok)

ASADABAD - Daesh, or so called Islamic State (IS), rebels have banned telecom services

in four districts of eastern Ku-nar province, an official said on Saturday.Gauhar Sapi, a resident of Manogi district, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants had restricted telephone ser-vices for the last one month, an issue that has caused resi-dents serious problems.Besides Manogi, the problem has also surfaced in Chapa Dara district, where people are obliged to go to other ar-eas for making phone calls.He asked the government and telecom firms to resolve the problem as soon as possible.Yasir, a resident of Chapa Dara, complained telephone services had been off for last few weeks in his area.He blamed the militants, but did not say which rebel group was behind the problem.Mohammad Madadzai, Ku-nar information technology director, confirmed Daesh in-surgents had banned phone services in Manogai, Chapa Dara and parts of Sawakai and Noorgul districts.He said efforts were under-way with the help of local tribal elders and residents to resolve the issue. Telecom of-ficials have been invited to come to Kunar to find a solu-tion. The MTN was active in most of these areas but it has also suspended its services now.Abdul Ghani Musamam,the governor’s spokesman, con-firmed the phones services were suspended in some dis-tricts.He said the local admin-istration was trying to resolve the problem. (Pajhwok)

Afghanistan-Turkey to Hold Trade Talks

Disabled Swimmer Wins Gold for Afghanistan in the US

Pakistan Renews Commitment to

Afghanistan’s Stability

ALP Personnel Men Among 9 Killed in Sar-I-Pul Attack

Daesh Bans Telecom Services in 4 Districts of Kunar

IMF Hails Afghanistan’s Economic Reform, Revenue Increas

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) appreciated Achievements of Afghan Government in the area of increased revenue and necessarily critical reforms in National Budget

for ongoing solar year, a statement from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) said on Saturday.

KABUL - The MPs move to im-peach the National Directorate of Security, Masoom Stanekzai, last week has sparked sharp criticism by some lawmakers who said sig-natures gathered over the move had been “collected illegally”.“Mr Speaker, I hope that this ses-sion will not move towards a rift. Review your decision, otherwise this is the house of people and we will not let any ‘bullying’ happen here,” said Mohammad Nazir Ahmadzai, an MP.“The chiefs committee is trying to include the summoning issue into its agenda instead of discussions on other matters,” MP Mirwais Yasini said.Other MPs, who signed the peti-tion to move to impeach the NDS

KABUL - Kabul is expected to host a trilateral meet-ing of foreign ministers from Afghanistan, China and Pakistan, the National Security Council (NSC) said on Saturday.

MPs Divided Over Move to Impeach NDS Chief

Afghan, Pakistani & Chinese FMs to Meet in Kabul

chief, said their actions had been in accordance with the law.“Some people are acting against my decision because I have done my job based on the internal du-ties principle and in accordance with the Constitution,” Hum-ayun Humayun, the first deputy speaker of the parliament, said.

KABUL - The Afghan teenager from Parwan won gold on Friday night in Indianapolis in the 100m backstroke event. Abbas Karimi, an 18-year-old Af-ghan swimmer, took gold in his category in the 50m backstroke on Friday night at the World Para Swimming Series in Indianapolis in the United States on Friday. According to the head of the Afghan swimming federation, Qasim Hamidi, the disabled swimmer will take part in the 100m backstroke later today. Karimi is also expected to take part in the 50m butterfly and 100m crawl races. The swimmer, from Parwan

A statement from NSC said Na-tional Security Advisor (NSA) Hanif Atmar, during a visit to China, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Both sides dis-cussed the need for boosting bi-lateral relations and cooperation.Considering the ongoing situa-tion in the region, the need for peace and stabilityhad become more urgent and China could play an effective role a powerful political actor, Atmar was quoted as saying.He stressed the need for contin-

“Supporting ‘illegal’ acts of gov-ernment is not fair for a people’s representative,” said Zahir Qad-eer, an MP from Nangarhar.The Wolesi Jirga, Lower House of Parliament, Speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi meanwhile de-fended the decision to move to impeach ...(More on P4)...(5)

province, scooped two gold medals at last year’s World Para Swimming Series in the US. Karimi ...(More on P4)...(4)

ued cooperation between the two countries and said China’s role was important in fighting terrorism, promoting peace, economic cooperation and forg-ing regional consensus.The Chinese foreign minister and Atmar also discussed Presi-dent Ashraf Ghani’s participa-tion in the Shanghai Coopera-tion Organisation (SCO).Atmar referred to the problems facing major Chinese projects in Afghanistan, particularly the Miss ...(More on P4)...(3)