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ANA Changes War Strategy in Northern Zone

Suicide Cases on the Rise in Afghanistan: Official

Govt Using Delay Tactics to Hold WJ Polls: Watchdogs

Admin Affairs Slammed for Not Processing Basic

Structure Law

The Only Female Attorney Assumes Office in Nimroz

Five Big Corruption Cases to be Investigated

Afghanistan Hosts International Summit on Energy

in Dubai

Fire at Wood Market Put Out; 60

Shops Gutted

NPC Approves Six Contracts Worth 421

Million afs

KABUL - A huge blaze at a wood market in the capi-tal Kabul was extinguished after it engulfed many shops on Sunday, shopkeepers said.The fire swept through the market in the Quwa-i-Markaz neighborhood of the capitalat around 10:30am. Eyewitnesses said the fire was put out af-ter two hours of efforts.One of the shopkeepers, Reza Akbari, told Pajhwok Afghan News the fire erupted during welding in-sidea shop. The exact cause is yet to be identified, but 60 shops were gutted.“My shop was also gutted and I ...(More on P4)...(4)

KABUL - The National Procurement Commission (NPC) has approved six contracts worth 421 million afghanis, a statement said on Sunday.President Ashraf Ghani presided over the NPC meeting that took place at the Presidential Palace on Saturday evening, the palace said in a statement.The contracts approved were about supply of equipment to pilot PVC laboratories in Kabul, Herat and Nangharhar provinces, extension in the 185km Yakolang-Dara-i-Sauf road’s ...(More on P4)...(7)

KABUL - The Afghan National Army (ANA) battling insur-gency in the northern parts of the country has changed its war strategy from a defensive one to an offensive position and are systematically attack-ing insurgent strongholds, mil-itary officials confirmed.“Now we are not in a defensive position, everyone knows that we attacked insurgents in Sar-e-Pul province and advanced up to Masjid-e-Sabz and Deh Mordeh villages. Also we at-tacked the Taliban in Baghlan and our operation is ongoing in Kunduz as well,” said Gen-eral Mohmand Katawazai, a military official in the north.Katawazai added that Afghan security forces are targeting the enemy but that they are having difficulties destroying Taliban strongholds in remote areas.

KABUL - The Ministry of Pub-lic Health (MoPH) on Sunday said the number of suicide cas-es has recently gone up. How-ever, it did not provide specific figures.A survey conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2014 showed 1,205 people committed suicide in Afghanistan in 2012.According to the survey among the individuals who committed suicide, 643 were females and 562 males. Most of

KABUL CITY - Election watch-dogs on Sunday said the gov-ernment move tasking the elec-tion commission with deciding about polling constituencies was a tactic to delay holding Wolesi Jirg (WJ) and district council elections.Yousuf Rashid, executive direc-tor of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA), told reporters here that it was not yet known when the new commission would start work.He said authorizing new com-missioners to demarcate voting constituencies was a ploy to prolong the electoral process.“If the commission starts work in two months and takes three months to define constituencies

He said that the Afghan security forces are not afraid of the risks as they advance on the insurgents.Meanwhile, military officials in the north have said the Taliban’s “Omari” operation – their sum-mer offensive - has failed and that in the past five months a large number of insurgent have been killed in the north and south-east of the country.

them were aged between 15 and 29 years.Dr. Ahmad Jan Naeemi, deputy director of planning and policy at the ministry, told a function mark-ing the World Suicide Prevention Day the MoPH could not collect exact figures of suicide cases.People tried to avoid disclosing suicide cases, which were consid-ered a disgrace, he reasoned, cases like self-immolation and poison-ing were usually registered by hospitals.According to Naeem, poverty, un-

of election constituencies in provinces was difficult looking at the current security situation.Habib Rahman Nang, a mem-ber of the Afghanistan Civil Societies Election Network (ACSEN), alleged the national unity government was delaying the elections to preserve its own interest.He termed the delay against the interest of the people of Afghanistan and asked the government leaders to give the national interest a priority over their personal interests.Mesharano Jirga member Gu-lali Akbari said constituencies-based polling was against the interest of the people and was difficult to be a successful pro-cess at ...(More on P4)...(1)

cabinet and the committee of laws so far.The general director of legis-lature of the justice ministry, Majid Ghanizada, said they invested their time and effort into drafting the law and that it will be a waste if govern-ment fails to work on it.“We sent the draft law to the Administrative Affairs Of-fice, ...(More on P4)...(2)

The 32-year-old formally as-sumed office as prosecutor of elimination of violence against women in the appel-lant court. She said women were victim of various types of violence that obliged her to work as a prosecutor and stand against brutalities against the gender.“I assure Nimroz people, particularly women, I will be in their service with all my abilities,” she said.Farid ...(More on P4)...(3)

pected of corruption and that eight have already been ar-rested on corruption charges.“These cases involve em-bezzlement by a number of generals in the Ministry of Defense. Nearly eight people have been arrested in con-nection with one of the cases. The cases are under investi-gation ...(More on P4)...(6)

KABUL - Afghanistan is hosting a 2-Day in-ternational summit in Dubai city of the United Arab Emirates on energy sector of the coun-try, the officials said Sunday.The international summit has been organ-ized by the Ministry of Energy and Water of Afghanistan with an aim to attract foreign in-vestments in energy sector of Afghanistan.Officials in the Ministry of Energy and Wa-ter said the summit will be attended by rep-resentatives of more than 120 international companies. The officials further added that representatives of China, India, Turkey and the United States will also attend the summit.According to the officials, the US Embassy in Kabul and the United States Agency for Inter-national Development (USAID) have helped to organize the event. The latest attempts by Afghan government with the support of its in-ternational allies to attract foreign investments in energy sector of the country came as efforts are underway to boost the domestic income of the country, specifically through investments on natural resources of Afghanistan.The Afghan government signed over 80 min-ing contracts with the private sector earlier last month in a bid to boost the extraction of mines and prevent illegal extraction of the mining.According to the Ministry of Mines and Pe-troleum, the government has concluded 84 agreements since the beginning of the new solar year. (KP)

KABUL - Officials from the Ministry of Justice on Sunday criticized the Administrative Affairs Office over what they call incompetence in process-ing the law on government’s basic structure.According to the ministry, the draft law was sent to Ad-ministrative Affairs Office last year, but it has not been included in the agenda of the

ZARANJ - The only female prosecutor for the appellant court of northwestern Nim-roz province on Sunday for-mally started her work, vow-ing to fight violence against women.Hasina Khairzad has re-ceived her bachelor’s degree in justice and prosecution from a private university in capital Kabul and had been serving as defense lawyer in Nimroz from the past one year.

KABUL - The Attorney Gen-eral’s Office (AGO) said on Sunday that the anti-corrup-tion judicial center has col-lected documents in connec-tion with five big corruption cases and will assess them independently.According to the AGO, a number of generals from the Defense Ministry are sus-

and again the government takes some months to pre-pare for elections, it will take nearly a year to go to lower

house polls,” he said.Rashid said if the govern-ment had any plan to con-duct WJ elections next year,

it would have started preparations for the pro-cess some eight months ago because the creation

“In the recent five months, 1,010 insurgents were killed and their bodies remained on the battlefields,” said General Hasibullha Quraishi, a special forces commander in northern Balkh province.Quraishi added: “Around 405 wounded insurgents have been arrested by security forces. We can say ...(More on P4)...(5)

Public Notice

اطالعیه Zero Balance Accounts

Bank Alfalah Limited Afghanistan Branches بانک الفالح لمیتد نمایندگی های افغانستان

All customers of Bank Alfalah Limited (Afghanistan operations) whose balance in the account is presently “Zero” and they intend to continue their accounts are requested to visit their respective branch/unit within 21 days from the date of publication of this notice to activate and continue their accounts. Those accounts wherein the balance is “Zero” and holders do not approach their respective branch within 21 days of this notice, the bank will close such “Zero” balance accounts without any further notice or intimation.

به اطالع تمام مشتریان بانک الفالح لمیتد که بیالنس حسابات بانکی شان فعآل رسانیده میشود ،حسابات شان هستندفعالیت بانکی در و خواهان ادامه بوده صفر

پس از تاریخ نشر این اطالعیه روز 21مربوطه شان تا مدت که به نمایندگی ،ادامه دهندو به فعالیت بانکی خود حسابات خود را فعال نموده نمایند تا مراجعه

.در غیر آن بانک بدون اطالع بعدی حسابات فوق را بسته خواهد نمود

Public Notice

اطالعیه Zero Balance Accounts

Bank Alfalah Limited Afghanistan Branches بانک الفالح لمیتد نمایندگی های افغانستان

All customers of Bank Alfalah Limited (Afghanistan operations) whose balance in the account is presently “Zero” and they intend to continue their accounts are requested to visit their respective branch/unit within 21 days from the date of publication of this notice to activate and continue their accounts. Those accounts wherein the balance is “Zero” and holders do not approach their respective branch within 21 days of this notice, the bank will close such “Zero” balance accounts without any further notice or intimation.

به اطالع تمام مشتریان بانک الفالح لمیتد که بیالنس حسابات بانکی شان فعآل رسانیده میشود ،حسابات شان هستندفعالیت بانکی در و خواهان ادامه بوده صفر

پس از تاریخ نشر این اطالعیه روز 21مربوطه شان تا مدت که به نمایندگی ،ادامه دهندو به فعالیت بانکی خود حسابات خود را فعال نموده نمایند تا مراجعه

.در غیر آن بانک بدون اطالع بعدی حسابات فوق را بسته خواهد نمود

Public Notice

اطالعیه Zero Balance Accounts

Bank Alfalah Limited Afghanistan Branches بانک الفالح لمیتد نمایندگی های افغانستان

All customers of Bank Alfalah Limited (Afghanistan operations) whose balance in the account is presently “Zero” and they intend to continue their accounts are requested to visit their respective branch/unit within 21 days from the date of publication of this notice to activate and continue their accounts. Those accounts wherein the balance is “Zero” and holders do not approach their respective branch within 21 days of this notice, the bank will close such “Zero” balance accounts without any further notice or intimation.

به اطالع تمام مشتریان بانک الفالح لمیتد که بیالنس حسابات بانکی شان فعآل رسانیده میشود ،حسابات شان هستندفعالیت بانکی در و خواهان ادامه بوده صفر

پس از تاریخ نشر این اطالعیه روز 21مربوطه شان تا مدت که به نمایندگی ،ادامه دهندو به فعالیت بانکی خود حسابات خود را فعال نموده نمایند تا مراجعه

.در غیر آن بانک بدون اطالع بعدی حسابات فوق را بسته خواهد نمود

employment, conflict, a deep sense of depriva-tion and other issues ...(More on P4)...(8)