Reg: No 352 Volume No. 3217 Wednesday June 08, 2016 Jawza 19, 1395 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 15/-Afs

Quote of the Day

Email: thedailyafghanistan@yahoo.comPhone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019

www.thedailyafghanistan.com

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali, “More Than a Hero”US boxer (1942 -2016)

Civilian Casualties Up By 55% in May: Report

Govt. Acknowledges Report on Mining Losses

Afghanistan, Turkey Sign Kajaki Dam MoU

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Humanitarian Foundation will Hold Charity Banquets for

Hundreds of Thousands of People

KABUL - Afghan government on Tuesday confirmed that a number of opportunistic fig-ures and armed groups have tried to muscle in on Afghani-stan’s mines.“Terrorist groups pay all their attention to the areas with na-tional resources. Meanwhile, opportunistic figures use se-curity gaps to misuse Afghan-istan’s natural resources,” said President Ashraf Ghani’s deputy spokesman Shahus-sain Murtazawi.This comes after Global Wit-ness on Monday issued a new report on the millions of dol-lars being lost due to illegal mining activities. In addition they said the mining of lapis

EU Welcomes Special Report Conclusions

on How to Curb Corruption in MoPH

NSC wants Income Sources of Militants Dried up

Iran Wants Peace, Stability in Region: Rouhani

Dostum Asks Noor Not to Spark Tensions Among Jamiat, Junbish Parties

UNHCR Repatriates Over 6,000 Afghan Refugees this Year

First Batch of Afghan Students Awarded M.Sc. Degrees

Afghanistan Has Capacity to Produce 310,000 mw Power

KABUL - A report on Tuesday released from the Independent Joint Anti-Corrup-tion Monitoring and Evaluation Commit-tee (MEC) on corruption within the Af-ghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). The report was requested by Minister of Public Health, Dr. Ferozudin Feroz in 2015. It identifies systemic vulnerabilities and recommendations and on how to counter corruption risks within the health sector in order to restore Government credibility and improve the confidence of the Afghan people. The uropean Union welcome the efforts of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) to openly address corruption, in a sector that is crucial for the life of all Afghans. The EU strongly encourages Dr. Ferozudin Feroz to immediately follow up on the recommendations and pursue gen-uine reforms to improve delivery of health services to all Afghans. ...(More on P4)...(6)

KABUL - The National Security Council (NSC) on Tuesday issued necessary directives to the authorities concerned regarding security of ju-dicial employees and drying up income sourc-es of insurgents.A statement from the Presidential Palace said President Ashraf Ghani presided over the NSC meeting at the Presidential Palace before noon. The security and defence sector minis-ters presented their reports about the security situation in Helmand, Uruzgan, Laghman, Kunduz, Sar-i-Pul, Baghlan, Faryab, Paktia, Paktika and Kunar provinces and praised the bravely and capability of the security and defence forces. The meeting issued directives about prevention of ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dos-tum has asked the acting governor of Balkh prov-ince, Ata Mohammad Noor, not to spark tensions among Jamiat-e-Islami and Junbish-e-Milli parties.Ata Mohammad Noor is a prominent political figure and Chief Executive of Jamiat-e-Islami who has re-portedly blamed Gen. Dostum among several other prominent political figures for the recent upheav-als in Balkh province. However, Gen. Dostum dis-missed the allegations ...(More on P4)...(9)

UNITED NATION - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had so far facilitated the repa-triation of over 6,446 registered Afghan refugees from Pakistan during this year.According to the organization, between January 1 and June 4, over 6,446 Afghan refugees were repat-riated through voluntarily repatriation centers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan, Sindh, Punjab, Islamabad and Azad Kashmir, an official source said, according to the Daily Times of Pakistan.Commenting on the ...(More on P4)...(10)

TEHRAN - Iranian Pres-ident Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Repub-lic wants peace and sta-bility in the region and makes its utmost effort to help regional coun-tries solve their disputes through peaceful ap-proaches.“The Islamic Republic of Iran has always sought the establish-ment of security, stability and peace in the region and the peaceful settle-ment of regional conflicts and will spare no effort to help regional coun-tries in this regard,” Rouhani said in a meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in Tehran on Sunday.He added that Iran and Armenia share a common stance on regional and international issues, stressing,

KABUL - The Afghan Minis-ter of Energy and Water and a Turkish company on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the extension of the Kajaki Dam in Helmand. The hydropower dam currently produces 33 megawatts of electricity but once extended it will provide up to 150 megawatts.The minister, Ali Ahmad Osmani, said that once ex-tended the dam will provide more energy than the new Salma Dam in Herat. The Ka-

In Implementation of the direc-tives of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of United Arab Emir-ates (may God preserve him), and His Highness Sheikh Mo-hammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and fol-low up of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of presidential Affairs and chair-man of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan humanitarian Founda-

KABUL - A security report by TOLOnews reveals that civil-ian casualties have increased by 55 percent in May com-pared to March this year.According to the report, over 120 civilians were killed in conflict and violence during May in Afghanistan.The report indicates that Af-ghan Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) have esca-lated their military opera-tions but they did not make any considerable achieve-ment in retaking areas from insurgents. But from another perspective, May did record achievements by security

jaki Dam is on the Helmand River, 160 kms from Kanda-har. It provides both electric-ity to the area and irrigates farmland. The extension of

tion, by funding from Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Human-itarian Foundation and under the supervision of humanitar-ian and development assis-

NEW DEHLI - The first batch of 21 students of National Ag-ricultural Sciences & Technol-ogy University (ANASTU) were awarded M.Sc. degrees Tuesday at the convocation/graduation ceremony held at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in New Delhi. The Graduation Ceremony was attended from Indian side by Mr. Amar Sinha, Secretary (Economic Relations), Min-istry of External Affairs; Dr. Trilochan Mahapatra, Secre-

KABUL - Afghanistan now has the capacity to produce 310,000 megawatts (MW) of power but it still imports 75 percent of its needed electricity.Officials from Ministry of En-ergy and Water said that 25 percent of 1,400MW power is provided from internal re-sources. “We have a three-year

forces as air attacks increased along with night raids.Based on the report, air strikes and night raids have resulted in the killing of 65 local com-manders of Taliban, including four designated shadow gov-

dam would increase electric-ity output by up to 100 more megawatts – with the aim being to eventually have it ...(More on P4)...(4)

tance Attaché of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Kabul, the implementation of Iftar Project begun in 18 of ...(More on P4)...(8)

tary, Department of Agricul-tural Research & Education & DG (ICAR); M. Subbarayudu, Joint Secretary responsible for coordinating development co-operation with Afghanistan, and from Afghan side by Mir Amanuddin Haidari, Deputy Minister for Agriculture & Technical Affairs; Abdul Ali Shamsi, Deputy Governor of Kandahar and Prof. Abdul Rashid Hakimi, Acting Chan-cellor of ANASTU. ...(More on P4)...(11)

plan to become self-reliant. We will use our own resourc-es once the plan is complet-ed,” said Abdul Basir Azimi, spokesman for Ministry of En-ergy and Water.Meanwhile, a number of ana-lysts on economic affairs said Afghanistan will save millions of dollars ...(More on P4)...(5)

ernors of the insurgent group.The report shows that the ANDSF carried out over 600 military operations in May and that militant activities dropped by 12 percent com-pared ...(More on P4)...(3)

“Under the current unfavorable cir-cumstances in the region, we should increase our cooperation and friend-ship and do not allow minor issues to turn into new pretexts for [others] to conduct acts of terror.”The Iranian president further point-ed to cooperation between Iran and Armenia in the fields of economy, culture, trade, energy, transit and transportation, agriculture and tourism and ...(More on P4)...(7)

lazuli was funding the war. But former defense minister Bismillah Mohammadi rejected the alle-gations lodged against him in a report by Global

Witness. The Global Witness Report said in its re-port that Mohammadi supports a local commander in Badakhshan who is engaged in illegal extraction

of lapis lazuli and also that Mohammadi himself has a hand in the lapis trade.The report also mentioned that MP Zalmai Mujaddidi, his brother Assadullah Mujad-didi and another MP Zikriya Sawda are involved in illegal mining in Badakhshan.The report spoke of Bismillah Mohammadi’s close ties with commander Abdul Malik, who has control over mines in Kiran Manjan district in Badakhshan.However, Mohammadi said he has no connection with il-legal mining.“I had relations with the com-mander [Abdul Malik] when we ...(More on P4)...(1)