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Pak PM Nawaz Sharif Steps Down after SC Disqualification Verdict

Afghan Women Fight for their Identity

OSCE Trains Tajik Border Troops and Afghan Border

Police Officers

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) will have no financial problems conducting Wolesi Jirga and district council polls in September 2018.

No Financial Constraints, Says Election Panel Head

Afghan Parliamentary Delegation to Visit Pakistan

KABUL - Pakistan Prime Min-ister Nawaz Sharif on Friday resigned from his post after the country Supreme Court (SC) disqualified him from holding his office, a media report said.“Nawaz Sharif, despite having “strong reservations” on the SC’s verdict, has stepped down from his post as the premier,” his office said.Earlier in the day, Pakistan apex court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over corruption charges disclosed against him in Panama Papers last year. In a unanimous judgment, the judges ruled that Nawaz Sharif had been dishonest to parlia-ment and the courts and could not be deemed fit for his office, according to Dawn.A five-member bench of the

KABUL - A meeting chaired by CEO Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, attended by IEC and other of-ficials, discussed preparations for the democratic exercise on Wednesday night.The IEC has taken steps to pre-pare the voter list, set up poll-ing stations, train polling staff

KABUL - An Afghan parlia-mentary delegation, headed by Wolesi Jirga Speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, will travel to Pa-kistan in the near future.The Pakistan visit was discussed during a meeting between Ibara-him, Ambassador Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Farooq Wardak, the speaker’s office said.The meeting also discussed the agenda of the parliamentary delegation’s talks with politi-cal figures from the neighbor-ing country on issues, includ-

LONDON - In Afghanistan’s patriarchal society, a woman’s name should not be re-vealed, even on her grave.“Mr X’s” mother, daughter or sister, the headstone might read, rather than the name of the deceased.Openly using the names of women is re-garded as inappropriate and even an insult in the conservative Muslim nation.On a birth certificate there is no sign of the mother’s name. On a wedding invitation the bride’s name is not mentioned — only the names of her father and husband-to-be.‘Everything is taboo for women’But a women-led campaign on social me-dia is starting to challenge the old Afghan tradition.WhereIsMyName, recently launched by a small group of women’s rights activists, wants to bring women’s given names to of-ficial documents and to the lips of Afghan people.“Our society is full of injustice for women, basically everything is taboo for women,” activist Bahar Sohaili, a prominent mem-ber of the campaign, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.“With this campaign we aim to change many things for women, and social media has opened a new window to Afghani-stan’s young generation,” she said.Afghan culture, not IslamPopular ...(More on P4)...(11)

apex court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa announced the decision and ordered a fresh in-vestigation into the Sharif family’s wealth by the National Account-ability Bureau (NAB).The verdict is expected to exacer-bate the political uncertainty pre-vailing in Pakistan since the Pana-ma Papers leaks revealed the Sharif family had allegedly used offshore companies to acquire foreign assets worth millions of dollars, includ-ing expensive flats in a posh Lon-don neighborhood, a media report said.The Supreme Court also disquali-fied finance minister Ishaq Dar, a top leader of the ruling PML-N who is related to Sharif by mar-riage, and Captain Mohammad Safdar, the husband of Maryam Nawaz, from their seats in Parlia-ment. (Pajhwok)

Positive Changes in Helmand Situation Soon: Ghani

NATO Stresses Political Solution to Afghan Conflict

LASHKARGAH - President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said positive changes in the security situation of southern Helmand province would start appearing soon.The president, who arrived

here with a high level del-egation, said problems being faced by the Afghan forces in Helmand would be ad-dressed.The president arrived in ...(More on P4)...(10)

and put in place technological arrangements for categorisation of voters,In a statement from the CEO Secretariat, IEC Chairman Na-jibullah Ahmadzai said the commission had no problem in the financial area and the voter registration process had been

ing the fight against terrorism, the peace process and good neighbourliness.The visit is tak-ing place in response to a re-quest from National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq. A joint

KABUL - NATO’s Senior Civil-ian Representative Ambassador Cornelius Zimmermann has held a meeting with Vice Presi-dent Sarwar Danish.During the meeting, Zimmer-mann offered his condolence to the vice president over the July 24 attack in Kabul, a statement from Danish’s office said.Zimmermann was shocked by the death of 28-year-old govern-

finalised.Population Registration Depart-ment (PRD) head Hamayoon Mohtat promised full coopera-tion with the IEC in preparing the voter list.A number of foreign ambas-sadors and the United Nations (UN) political representative also briefed the meeting on their responsibilities and activities, the statement added.Abdullah appreciated the IEC and other relevant organs’ prep-arations and ordered govern-ment institutions concerned to cooperate with the commission.He said finalisation of election zones by the government was still underway and would be shared soon with the IEC. (Pajhwok)

parliamentary committee may be formed to work for improv-ing ties between the two parlia-ments. A Pakistani parliamen-tary team visited Kabul some months ago. (Pajhwok)

ment employee Najiba Hussaini and other educated Afghans, whose services to their country had been cut short by the terror-ist attack.He assured Danish of NATO’s continued commitment to sup-porting the Afghan forces in bringing security and stability to the people.Both sides agreed on the neces-sity of ...(More on P4)...(12)

KABUL - Ten border officers from the Afghan Border Police and ten Tajik Border Troops completed a three-week training of trainer’s course on July 26, the OSCE reported. The course was organized un-der the Patrol Programming and Leadership project of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe.The train-the-trainers course was designed for a limited num-ber of border officers who had previously attended the basic patrol leadership course so that they could teach and transfer the gained knowledge further with-in their respective services and ...(More on P4)...(13)

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Regional Infrastructure Development Fund - RIDF BMZ-ID 2010 66 562, 2011 65 034, 2013 65 048, 2014 67 885, 2015 67 762, 2016 67 633 Prequalification Design and Construction of Asphalt (3 km) and Gravel (0.8 km) Road in Northern Afghanistan SMG-R-2016-01 Design and Construction of Aybak to Dara-e-Zhowandon Road (3 km asphalt + 800m gravel) in Aybak City, Samangan Province The continuation of Aybak – Dara-e-Zhowandon Road starts from the end of the asphalt pavement in Aybak City Center and ends at the intersection of the link road connecting Mazar-Kabul Highway. The project has two segments.

The first segment (Road 1) is 3 km long and will be paved with asphalt 6 meters wide with gravel shoulders of 1.5 meters on both sides. It is a main road connecting two Districts.

The second segment (Road 2) is 806 meters gravel road, starts from Mazar - Kabul Highway and intersects Road 1 forming a Y-junction.

Total length is 3.806 km. Existing drainage on both sides of the roadway will be improved. The Road 2, will be upgraded to an improved gravel surface with raised embankment to protect the road from drainage incursion. The proposed project is located in residential area and a main access to two Districts. Pavement semi-structural surface has been designed to cater to existing level of traffic and projected traffic growth. Main items of the projects are engineering survey, design and construction. These include topographic and geotechnical survey, traffic count assessment and pavement design; earthworks, sub-base, base course construction and asphalt paving, construction of road crossing culverts and installation of pavement markings and signs. The project is financed by the German Development Bank KfW, in the scope of the German Development Cooperation with Afghanistan, and will be implemented through the Regional Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF), conditional to actual budget allocation. Afghan contractors and international contractors with a base in Afghanistan with experience as General Contractors in the design and construction of asphalt roads and associated structures – preferably in Northern Afghanistan – are herewith invited to apply for prequalification for the above project. International contractors are explicitly encouraged to form Joint Ventures with national/local contractors. Tendering will be undertaken according to KfW-Development Bank’s “Guidelines for Procurement of Goods, Works and associated Services in Financial Cooperation with Partner Countries” (August 2016), which can be downloaded at: https://www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de/Download-Center/PDF-Dokumente-Richtlinien/Vergabe-E.pdf. Interested contractors shall request the prequalification documents by e-mail from info@ridf-af.org clearly stating and “Construction of Aybak to Dara-e-Zhowandon Road” in the subject line. The request for the prequalification documents must contain the full name and address of the applicant, including contact telephone and e-mail.

Contractors fulfilling these requirements will be sent the prequalification documents via e-mail. The deadline for submittal of the completed prequalification documents is 28 August 2017.