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KABUL - During the five-day campaign, officials say, about 52,000 Afghan vaccinators will visit 6.4 million children un-der the age of five.Afghan Minister of Public Health Ferozuddin Feroz has em-phasized the neutrality of polio vaccination campaigns. In an official statement issued to mark the start of the current cam-paign, Feroz said that it is being conducted during the high transmission season for polio when children are most vulner-able to getting the virus.“Our primary reports show, that in this round of the cam-paign, around 1,347,000 children could be deprived from polio vaccine in Helmand, Uruzgan, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Kunar and Kunduz provinces, where the anti-government el-

ements are not supporting the implementation of campaign,” the minister noted.Taliban insurgents and Islamic State militants are active in Kunar and Nangarhar next to the border with Pakistan in the east. The Taliban controls or influences the rest of the prov-inces in the south and north, where the vulnerable Afghan child population is located.Afghan health authorities have reported nine polio cases this year in the country, the highest number of wild polio cases in the world. The latest case, a three-year-old child, surfaced last week in Nad-e-Ali district of southern Kandahar province.Officials say the boy was among over 900,000 children in Kan-dahar, as well as surrounding ...(More on P4)...(1)

KABUL - Uzbekistan is also looking at building a 657km railway line from Mazar-e-Sharif to Herat which will connect Uzbekistan to Iran through Afghanistan. Uzbekistan has established a transit hub at its bor-der with Afghanistan in order to promote trade and transit ties between the two countries, Presi-dent Ashraf Ghani’s advisor on Central Asian Af-fairs ShakirKargar said Saturday. According to Kargar, the development project es-tablished in Uzbekistan’s Termez city includes a railway line and station, a trade center for com-mercial goods and roads for transporting of goods. Kargar also said Uzbekistan is interested in invest-ing $500 million in the construction of a 657km railway line from Mazar-e-Sharif to Herat which will connect Uzbekistan to Iran through Afghani-stan. According to Kargar, Uzbekistan’s Andi Jan port is near the new transit hub and that Afghan trad-ers can use this port. “Now most of our transit problems in Uzbekistan have been solved. Now Afghanistan’s goods can be transited to Russia and China through Uzbeki-stan’s Andi Jan port,” said Kargar. Kargar also said the establishment of such a tran-sit hub in Uzbekistan ...(More on P4)...(4)

JALALABAD - President Ashraf Ghani has ordered re-forms in the customs depart-ment and encouraged security officials to stop smuggling, his office said on Monday.Ghani issued the directives at a meeting with traders during his stay in Jalalabad on Sunday evening, a statement from the Presidential Palace said.He said the security officials failing to arrest smugglers should be sent home. Nan-garhar, he remarked, should feed half of Afghanistan but to-day the province could not feed its own people.The president encouraged trad-ers to invest in the country if they wanted to become indus-trialists. “You have the resourc-es to rebuild Afghanistan, let’s join hands and rebuild Nan-garhar.”Representing businessmen, Dr. Mukhlis hailed the reforms in-troduced in provincial govern-ment departments.Truckers were stopped and ex-torted at Torkham but in Khost province the story was differ-ent. “This will harm the open market concept.”He added a quality scanner was deliberately kept inactive at Torkham and the private sec-tor, if asked by the authorities, was ready to invest in scanners. (Pajhwok)

KABUL - Consultations are on-going on creating a National Plat-form for Disaster Risk Reduction, representing civil society, before the end of the current year.Deputy Minister of Disaster Man-agement and Humanitarian Af-fairs Mohammed QaseemHaid-ari, made the announcement in the capital of Mongolia on Mon-dayAlso Afghanistan’s focal point for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Haidari said: “We have three national pri-orities when it comes to develop-ment…”Speaking in Ulaanbaatar, he said the priorities were Sustainable Development Goals, implemen-tation of the Paris Agreement on climate and the Sendai Frame-work for Disaster Risk Reduction.According to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Haidari is part an Afghan delegation at-tending a UNISDR training ses-sion on the newly launched Sen-dai Framework Monitor.Haidari said consultations were underway at provincial level and there is an ambition to go down to district level, wherever pos-sible, to have both national and local strategies for disaster risk reduction in place.Sarat Panda, DRR advisor, said that the effort was gaining mo-mentum in light of a drought which has hit 21 of the country’s 34 provinces affecting one mil-lion people. “The situation is not good. We are seeing a lot of mi-gration from those areas.”The timely collection of data is a key challenge in Afghanistan, given insecurity in much of the country, but IOM, UNDP, UNIS-DR, International Mercy Corps and Focus Humanitarian Assis-tance are trying to improve re-porting ...(More on P4)...(5)

Uzbekistan Builds Transit Hub at Afghan Border

President Assures Nangarhar Industrialists of Full Support

Afghanistan Embraces Sendai Framework

1.3 Million Afghan Children at Risk from Polio

A new round of a polio immunization campaign went into action Monday in Afghanistan amid concerns insurgent bans could possibly deprive

hundreds of thousands of children from receiving the vaccine.

ISLAMABAD - US President Donald Trump’s point person for the region is scheduled to arrive in Islama-

Wells Due in Islamabad for Talks on Afghanistan

77 Detained on Human-Trafficking Charges Last Year

bad for talks on the need for bringing Afghan Taliban to the negotiating ta-ble.Ambassador Al-ice Wells, a senior State Department diplomat, who has just concluded her trip to Kabul, is due to meet Pa-kistan’s Foreign Secretary Tehmina

Janjua and other officials in Islama-bad. The two sides would explore

ways of resuming the Afghan reconciliation process ahead of the parliamentary elections in the neighbouring country, a foreign ministry official said.Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonym-ity, the official believed the Tali-ban could return to talks after the successful Eid ceasefire, which ended two days ago.He added both Afghanistan and the United States were in a push to reach a deal with the militant movement before the October 20 Wolesi Jirga ...(More on P4)...(3)

KABUL - Days after concerns expressed by the US at the Afghan government’s failure to combat human trafficking, a minister said on Monday steps had been taken to address the issue.Justice Minister Abdul Basir Anwari, in re-sponse to the State Department’s latest re-port on human trafficking in Afghanistan, said the government in Kabul had taken measures to deal with the challenge.The minister, also director of the High Com-mission on Human Trafficking/Smuggling, said Afghanistan had been upgraded to second position in terms of monitoring the crime.The State Department assessed the work of various countries in the fight against human trafficking, placing them in different catego-ries. Countries in first category, accepting human trafficking, are working to overcome

the problem.Second-strand countries are trying to battle the phenomenon but their ef-forts are not enough. Third-category states recognise the problem but have taken no corrective action.

In the report, the US said Afghanistan was among the countries that had been unable to make progress in prevention of human traf-ficking, including sexual abuse, recruitment of children by security forces.But the minister said 77 people were arrest-ed in connection with human trafficking. Eighteen of them were imprisoned for medi-um term eight for long term. Four detainees were sentenced to life in jail and two others awarded death penalty last year.Eleven of the detainees were acquitted, and cases of 31 others are under investiga-tion. The minister said security organs had prevented the smuggling of 210 youth and more than 14,000 victims were counseled.Amendments to the law on Combating Hu-man Trafficking/Smuggling, the probation of human trafficking in this law and the adoption of a three-year ...(More on P4)...(6)

””KAUBL - Former Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdul Razaq Wahi-di on Monday appeared before a special tribunal after being accused of corruption and misuse of authority.The special tribunal was established to tackle cas-es against current and former government minis-ters accused of corruption and Monday’s hearing marked its first session. Monday’s hearing, held at the Supreme Court in Kabul, was presided over by a three-judge panel, led by Judge Zaman San-gari.Wahidi has been accused of abusing his author-ity and embezzling revenue collected from the ten percent tax levied on mobile phone users. The accused has rejected the claims and said the allegations have been part of a political conspira-cy against him. He also questioned the legitimacy of the court and described it ...(More on P4)...(2)

Ex-Minister Appears Before Special Tribunal