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Emergency Classes set up for Returnee Students

Public Reps Concerned at Insecurity in Kunduz City

KABUL - Swedish Committee for Afghanistan has established 98 classes for children of families return-ing from Pakistan to eastern Nangarhar province.The classes have been set up in Rodat, Behsud, Sur-khrod and Kama districts where a total of 3288 stu-dents including 1615 girls are studying.The SCA has hired 98 teachers including 18 female teachers for the students studying in grade one till five.Muslima, first grade student, studying in a class-room established in Shaheed Abdul Jabbar primary school in Malak Bela of Behsud district, is among others, whose families returned from neighboring Pakistan after decades, living there as refugees.“I was a student of ...(More on P4)...(12)

KUNDUZ - Provincial Council (PC) members have voiced concern over the deteriorating security situ-ation in northern Kunduz province. They also as-sailed the officials concerned for unable to improve the situation.Amruddin Wali, head of the PC, told reporters that murder incidents had surged dramatically over the past 10 days. Innocent people were being killed mys-teriously in the Kunduz City and areas around the police headquarters.He accused police and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) of having failed to bring stability to the province. “We are concerned at the security situ-ation in the past 10 days. Police and commoners are being killed mysteriously.”Wali claimed the killing of one or two people daily had become a normal practice in Kunduz City. He said police and intelligence agencies should ac-knowledge their failure.Safiullah Amiri, a provincial council member, also expressed his dismay over the lax attitude of securi-ty officials towards. “Two days back, Agha Jan killed a young man near the NDS headquarters.’“Two more people were killed 100 metres from the police station in the first ...(More on P4)...(13)

KABUL - The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday said selling and buying plastic toy guns and firecrackers was banned, warning violators of legal ac-tion.In a statement, the ministry said the se-curity forces had been directed to strictly prevent the sale and purchase of harmful toy guns and firecrackers.Some toy guns had resulted in injuries to children and the use of firecrackers provided crimi-nals an opportunity to conduct harmful activity, the ministry added.It urged all countrymen, particularly residents of Kabul, to avoid things that could disrupt security or fuel cause concern among people.The ministry asked parents to keep their children away from toy guns. It also directed shopkeepers not to sell firecrackers; otherwise police would take action against them. (Pajhwok)

WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday welcomed the air cargo corridor with India which was launched by the President Ashraf Ghani this week.“We welcome this new avenue for Af-ghan products to enter international markets and India’s contributions to Af-ghanistan’s development and economic growth,” a State Department spokesper-son said.The first Afghanistan-India Air Corridor cargo flight took place on Monday, trave-ling from Kabul to New Delhi, the official said in response to a question.The first flight on Monday carried 60 tonnes of medicinal plants. The second flight will carry ..(More on P4)...(14)

Interior Ministry Bans Sale of Toy

Guns, Firecrackers

US Welcomes Air Cargo Corridor

with India

Ghani Stresses Transparency in Filling Govt Vacancies

Rights Groups Slam Govt over Crackdown

against Protesters

A Good Year for Farah’s Watermelon Farmers

Pentagon Wasted $28 Million on Uniforms for Afghan Soldiers: Report

More Refugees Likely to Return from Iran, Pakistan: UNHRC

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani, stressing transparency in recruitment process in public sector organizations, on Wednesday issued a decree asking all government institutions to fill their vacancies.

KABUL - Marking World Refu-gee Day, CEO Abdullah Abdullah urged host nations to not force refu-gees to leave their countries. The United Nations High Commis-sioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday said that more Afghan ref-ugees are expected to be repatriated this year from Iran and Pakistan and called on the international com-munity to take steps to help ease the process. Since the start of the current year, tens of thousands of refugees have returned home, the UNHCR said.Meanwhile, CEO Abdullah Abdul-lah called on host nations not to overlook the situation in Afghani-stan when sending back refugees. Abdullah made the remarks during a ceremony in Kabul to mark Word Refugee Day.He called on host countries not force the Afghan refugees to leave.

KABUL - The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organiza-tion (AHRDO) on Wednesday slammed the Afghan govern-ment for the way it dealt with Uprising for Change move-ment protesters in Kabul, say-ing the crackdown against them was illegal and uncivi-lized. The AIHRC said govern-ment used violence as a means to deal with protesters, and warned that such an approach

KABUL - The ministry of ag-riculture, livestock and irriga-tion said watermelon crops could total 578,000 tons this year, a five percent increase against 2016.Officials at the Ministry of Ag-riculture, Irrigation and Live-stock (MAIL) on Wednesday

will create serious challenges for President Ashraf Ghani. “The way the protesters were calling for justice was not ap-propriate and government also committed mistakes against the protesters; several people were killed and wounded here,” said Lal Gul Lal, head of AHRDO. At least two protesters were killed and five others wounded during a clash with security forces in downtown Kabul in the early hours of Tuesday morning when Afghan security ...(More on P4)...(8)

said farmers have reported a five percent increase in wa-termelon harvests, which will generate an estimated four billion AFs in revenue for the province. The ministry said it is estimat-ed that this year the watermel-on ...(More on P4)...(9)

WASHINGTON - The Pen-tagon wasted as much as $28 million over the past decade buying uniforms for the Af-ghan army with a woodland camouflage pattern appropri-ate for a tiny fraction of that war-torn country, according to the Special Inspector Gen-eral for Afghanistan Recon-struction.The Afghan Defense Minister picked the pricey, privately owned “forest” color pattern over free camouflage schemes owned by the U.S. govern-ment, according to an advance copy of the report due out on Wednesday. The scathing, 17-

President Ghani, who spoke on the occasion of introducing new commissioners to the In-dependent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission of Afghanistan (IARCSC) here, said hiring qualified persons through a

transparent process would result in good service to the nation.Ahmad Ratib Muzfari, Baryalai Helmandi, Moqa-dassa Yourish, Najibullah Amin, Roohullah Amin, Tabassum Walayatniro, ...(More on P4)...(7)

page study notes that “forests cover only 2.1% of Afghani-stan’s total land area.”“My concern is what if the minister of defense liked

purple, or liked pink?” John Sopko, the special inspector general, told USA TODAY in an interview. “Are we going to buy ...(More on P4)...(11)

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“We are supporting the dignified and honorable return of the citizens, how-ever we cannot ignore the situations in Afghanistan,” said Abdullah. In addition, the minister of refugees and repatriations Sayed Hussain Al-imi Balkhi said over 194,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated in the past three months.“The current situations in Afghani-

stan are not suitable for the expulsion of Afghan refugees,” said Balkhi.“ 33,000 have returned mainly from Pakistan to Afghanistan, this number might increase as well , UNHCR as-sisted them with the cash grant which basically be spent on very basic things such as transport, food and shelter ,” said Fatiha Abdullah, head of UN-HCR’s ...(More on P4)...(10)