www.thedailyafghanistan.com facebook.com/The.Daily.Afghanistan Email: thedailyafghanist[email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 April 15, 2019 Back Page Add: In front of Habibia High School, District 3, Kabul, Afghanistan www.outlookafghanistan.net facebook.com/The.Daily.Outlook.Afghanistan Email: outlookafghanist[email protected] Phone: 0093 (799) 005019/777-005019 Add: In front of Habibia High School, District 3, Kabul, Afghanistan Jalalabad Kandahar Ghazni Mazar Herat Bamiyan Kabul Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Chance of Rain Chance of Rain 14°C 6°C 26°C 17°C 10°C 15°C 2°C 13°C 10°C 16°C 23°C 15°C 21°C 14°C Daily Outlook Weather Forcast Wolesi Jirga Polls: Final Results from Logar Unveiled KABUL - The Civil Aviation Authority on Sunday said Afghanistan so far lost $12 million after Pakistan closed its airspace but added efforts were underway to open new airspace through China to In- dia. Pakistan closed its airspace to all commercial flights late February 27 after tensions escalated with India. The air- space was opened to some certain flights, but it is yet to be opened for Afghan flights en route to India. Mohammad Qasim Wafai, the Civil Aviation head, told, an event “Accountability of the Government to the Nation” KABUL - The Central Statis- tics Organization (CSO) on Sunday said national identity (ID) cards are being added to the biometric system in com- ing days in order to prevent misuse of paper ID cards. CSO director Ahmad Javed Rasouli, told an event “Ac- countability of the Govern- ment before the Nation” here that the process to register ID cards into the biometric system would be conducted within two weeks. In the past, millions of paper ID cards (Tazkira) had been distributed to people, but last year as part of a special pro- gram for elections more than 4.5 million new paper ID cards were issued nation-wide. here that after Pakistan shut its airspace against Afghani- stan flights to India, they lost $12 billion so far. According to the Civil Avia- tion Authority, in the past around 250 flights crossed Besides distribution of paper ID cards, electronic ID cards were also issued last year and according to Rasouli, around 120,000 individuals had been issued e-ID cards so far. According to him, the distri- bution of e-ID cards would take a long time as the coun- Pakistan Airspace Closure: Afghanistan Losses Reach $12m Paper ID Cards Being Added to Biometric System Afghanistan airspace to other countries, but the number had declined to only nine. Currently, Afghanistan flights use Iran’s airspace to reach India and ticket price to New Delhi has also ...(More on P4)...(7) try lacked enough preparation for distribution of e-ID cards thought out the county and therefore the CSO was working to store data of all paper ID cards into biometric system to prevent corruption in its distribution pro- cess. (Pajhwok) KABUL - The Independent Elec- tion Commission (IEC) on Sun- day announced final results of the Wolesi Jirga election from central Logar province. According to a statement from IEC, Mohammad Khalid Momand, Shapur Khan Hus- sainzai, Eng. Mohammad Asif Nabizai and Huma Ahmadi have won the lower house polls. After new IEC commissioners took charge, final results from Balkh, Paktika, Ghor, Herat, Fa- rah, Takhar, Nangarhar, Logar and for the Hindu minority seat have been announced so far. (Pajhwok) Telecommunication Minister Warns to Block Facebook in Afghanistan PUL-I-ALAM - The munici- pality on Sunday embarked on demolishing residential buildings illegally construct- ed on usurped public land in the capital of central Logar province. The Pul-i-Alam municipal- ity says some figures had usurped hundreds of acres of land on Mir Abdal Mountain hillsides and sold to other people in 2,000 plots, on which people have construct- ed residential buildings. Nasir Ahmad Lalizai, the Pul-i-Alam mayor, told Pa- jhwok Afghan News that the land had been usurped by a land mafia group and power- ful figures and then arbitrary built houses on it. When municipality officers tried to stop them from their illegal constructions, the land grabbers threatened them with death, he said. “Destruction of illegal con- structions in the city has been approved in a meeting at the KABUL - Taliban militants have looted a flock of sheep in northern Sar-e Pol prov- ince of Afghanistan, a local official claimed on Sunday. Ghulam Sakhi Veera, the governor of Gosfandi dis- trict in Sar-e Pol province told Ariana News that Tali- ban militants launched a widespread attack on Gos- fandi district last night but faced with resistance from the Afghan security forces and were forced to retreat after hours of clashes. He added that Taliban mili- KABUL - The second phase of Etisalat`s Tree Plantation Cam- paign was launched on 14 April 2019 in Kabul. The launch was Logar Municipality Starts Demolishing Illegal Houses Taliban Militants Looted 100 Sheep of Villagers in Sar-E-Pol Etisalat Launches the Second Phase of its Tree Plantation Campaign KABUL - The Afghan telecommuni- cations and information technology minister warned that Facebook will be blocked in Afghanistan during the next six months if it doesn’t follow the coun- try’s regulations. Speaking at a press conference in Ka- bul, Minister Shahzad Gul Aryobi said that Facebook is being misused in Af- ghanistan, saying that creating accounts should be based on documents. He also emphasized that all fake ac- counts should be blocked. “I warn them to respect all regulations of Afghanistan. Registration must be based on documents. Now everyone can create accounts without revealing his/her identity,” Minister Aryobi said. In addition, Minister Aryobi set a one- month deadline for Afghanistan Tel- ecom Regulatory ...(More on P4)...(9) governor’s house,” he said. Lalizai said the decision to raze illegal buildings was jointly made by the gover- nor, the provincial council and security organs. Those involved in the land grab- bing would be brought to justice. The grabbed land in the city was part of recreational and development schemes in Pul-i-Alam but land grab- bers constructed buildings on them overnight, he said. He added a joint commis- sion involving the governor, the provincial council and some other officials had been created to identify grabbed lands and illegal buildings. He said buildings construct- ed illegally or lacking legal ownership documents have been identified and the com- mission has decided to de- molish them. Lalezai said those living in the illegal structures had been ...(More on P4)...(10) tants looted around 100 sheep of the villagers after facing defeat by government forces. The Taliban militant group has not made a comment about the report yet. Sar-e Pol is among the vola- tile provinces in the north of Afghanistan where the Tali- ban insurgents are operating in a number of its districts. In the latest incident, Tali- ban militants took control of two villages in Sancharak district of the province. (ATN) organized in cooperation with Greenery Department of Kabul Municipality where a large num- ber of saplings from different spe- Senior Afghan politicians, including former president Hamid Karzai, have strongly lambasted the Taliban’s announcement of spring offensive, calling it an attempt to sabotage the ongoing peace process. ‘Taliban Spring Offensive an Attempt to Sabotage Peace Process’ KABUL - A day earlier, the Taliban announced the launch of their spring offensive code- named Al Fatah, across the coun- try, drawing strong criticism from the US envoy for recon- ciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan government and NATO resolute support mission. A statement from Hamid Kar- zai’s media office said the for- mer president was saddened by the Taliban’s announcement. It quoted Karzai as calling the on- going conflict in Afghanistan as an imposed war that served the interest of outsiders. He said on both sides only the Afghan were killed and maimed and the conflict only offered de- struction and devastation and nothing else. Karzai urged all the warring sides that instead of waging fresh violence, they should focus all their efforts and energy on ceas- ing the bloodshed and bringing peace and stability to the war- torn nation. In his reaction to the Taliban’s announcement, Senate chairman Fazl Hadi Muslimyar said the Afghan government not only of- fered conditions-free talks but also accepted all conditions of the Taliban for peace in the coun- try. He said President Ghani even of- fered the Taliban to open their political office inside Afghani- stan because the Afghans were desperate for peace which was their long standing demand. “We showed the world that the Afghans are peace loving people and they are ready to offer any kind of sacrifice for peace, but in response ...(More on P4)...(8) cies were planted along the Ka- bul airport road. Inaugurating the campaign, Etisalat CEO, Obaid Alzaabi said ‘The aim of our campaign is to raise awareness about im- portance of trees in our lives and encourage other individu- als to plant trees in their area.’ Mr. Alzaabi further said ‘Trees add to the beauty of our sur- rounding and plays vital role in mitigation of pollution which is a common problem in our soci- eties.’ Present at the inauguration of the campaign, Najibullah Alko- zay, head of Greenery Depart- ment of Kabul Municipality said ‘This is a good initiative by Etisalat Afghanistan. We would like to thank Etisalat for their contribution and assure them that our workers will do their best to look after and care for these saplings.’ The first phase of this campaign was launched last year where more than 100 saplings were planted in 10th district of Kabul city. In addition, Etisalat installed over 50 protective fences to pro- vide care and protection for the newly planted saplings. (PR)
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District 3, Kabul, Afghanistan
Jalalabad KandaharGhazni Mazar Herat Bamiyan Kabul RainRain RainRainRain Chanceof Rain
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Daily Outlook Weather Forcast
Wolesi Jirga Polls: Final Results from Logar Unveiled
KABUL - The Civil Aviation Authority on Sunday said Afghanistan so far lost $12 million after Pakistan closed its airspace but added efforts were underway to open new airspace through China to In-dia.Pakistan closed its airspace to all commercial flights late February 27 after tensions escalated with India. The air-space was opened to some certain flights, but it is yet to be opened for Afghan flights en route to India. Mohammad Qasim Wafai, the Civil Aviation head, told, an event “Accountability of the Government to the Nation”
KABUL - The Central Statis-tics Organization (CSO) on Sunday said national identity (ID) cards are being added to the biometric system in com-ing days in order to prevent misuse of paper ID cards.CSO director Ahmad Javed Rasouli, told an event “Ac-countability of the Govern-ment before the Nation” here that the process to register ID cards into the biometric system would be conducted within two weeks.In the past, millions of paper ID cards (Tazkira) had been distributed to people, but last year as part of a special pro-gram for elections more than 4.5 million new paper ID cards were issued nation-wide.
here that after Pakistan shut its airspace against Afghani-stan flights to India, they lost $12 billion so far.According to the Civil Avia-tion Authority, in the past around 250 flights crossed
Besides distribution of paper ID cards, electronic ID cards were also issued last year and according to Rasouli, around 120,000 individuals had been issued e-ID cards so far.According to him, the distri-bution of e-ID cards would take a long time as the coun-
Pakistan Airspace Closure: Afghanistan Losses Reach $12m
Paper ID Cards Being Added to Biometric System
Afghanistan airspace to other countries, but the number had declined to only nine.Currently, Afghanistan flights use Iran’s airspace to reach India and ticket price to New Delhi has also ...(More on P4)...(7)
try lacked enough preparation for distribution of e-ID cards thought out the county and therefore the CSO was working to store data of all paper ID cards into biometric system to prevent corruption in its distribution pro-cess.(Pajhwok)
KABUL - The Independent Elec-tion Commission (IEC) on Sun-day announced final results of the Wolesi Jirga election from central Logar province.According to a statement from IEC, Mohammad Khalid Momand, Shapur Khan Hus-sainzai, Eng. Mohammad Asif Nabizai and Huma Ahmadi have won the lower house polls.After new IEC commissioners took charge, final results from Balkh, Paktika, Ghor, Herat, Fa-rah, Takhar, Nangarhar, Logar and for the Hindu minority seat have been announced so far. (Pajhwok)
Telecommunication Minister Warns to Block Facebook in AfghanistanPUL-I-ALAM - The munici-
pality on Sunday embarked on demolishing residential buildings illegally construct-ed on usurped public land in the capital of central Logar province.
The Pul-i-Alam municipal-ity says some figures had usurped hundreds of acres of land on Mir Abdal Mountain hillsides and sold to other people in 2,000 plots, on which people have construct-ed residential buildings.Nasir Ahmad Lalizai, the Pul-i-Alam mayor, told Pa-jhwok Afghan News that the land had been usurped by a land mafia group and power-ful figures and then arbitrary built houses on it.When municipality officers tried to stop them from their illegal constructions, the land grabbers threatened them with death, he said.“Destruction of illegal con-structions in the city has been approved in a meeting at the
KABUL - Taliban militants have looted a flock of sheep in northern Sar-e Pol prov-ince of Afghanistan, a local official claimed on Sunday.Ghulam Sakhi Veera, the governor of Gosfandi dis-trict in Sar-e Pol province told Ariana News that Tali-ban militants launched a widespread attack on Gos-fandi district last night but faced with resistance from the Afghan security forces and were forced to retreat after hours of clashes.He added that Taliban mili-
KABUL - The second phase of Etisalat`s Tree Plantation Cam-paign was launched on 14 April 2019 in Kabul. The launch was
Logar Municipality Starts Demolishing Illegal Houses
Taliban Militants Looted 100 Sheep of Villagers in Sar-E-Pol
Etisalat Launches the Second Phase of its Tree Plantation Campaign
KABUL - The Afghan telecommuni-cations and information technology minister warned that Facebook will be blocked in Afghanistan during the next six months if it doesn’t follow the coun-try’s regulations.Speaking at a press conference in Ka-bul, Minister Shahzad Gul Aryobi said that Facebook is being misused in Af-ghanistan, saying that creating accounts should be based on documents.He also emphasized that all fake ac-counts should be blocked.“I warn them to respect all regulations of Afghanistan. Registration must be based on documents. Now everyone can create accounts without revealing his/her identity,” Minister Aryobi said.In addition, Minister Aryobi set a one-month deadline for Afghanistan Tel-ecom Regulatory ...(More on P4)...(9)
governor’s house,” he said.Lalizai said the decision to raze illegal buildings was jointly made by the gover-nor, the provincial council and security organs. Those involved in the land grab-
bing would be brought to justice.The grabbed land in the city was part of recreational and development schemes in Pul-i-Alam but land grab-bers constructed buildings on them overnight, he said.He added a joint commis-sion involving the governor, the provincial council and some other officials had been created to identify grabbed lands and illegal buildings.He said buildings construct-ed illegally or lacking legal ownership documents have been identified and the com-mission has decided to de-molish them.Lalezai said those living in the illegal structures had been ...(More on P4)...(10)
tants looted around 100 sheep of the villagers after facing defeat by government forces.The Taliban militant group has not made a comment about the report yet.Sar-e Pol is among the vola-tile provinces in the north of Afghanistan where the Tali-ban insurgents are operating in a number of its districts.In the latest incident, Tali-ban militants took control of two villages in Sancharak district of the province. (ATN)
organized in cooperation with Greenery Department of Kabul Municipality where a large num-ber of saplings from different spe-
Senior Afghan politicians, including former president Hamid Karzai, have strongly lambasted the Taliban’s announcement of spring offensive,
calling it an attempt to sabotage the ongoing peace process.
‘Taliban Spring Offensive an Attempt to Sabotage
Peace Process’
KABUL - A day earlier, the Taliban announced the launch of their spring offensive code-named Al Fatah, across the coun-try, drawing strong criticism from the US envoy for recon-ciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan government and NATO resolute support mission.A statement from Hamid Kar-zai’s media office said the for-mer president was saddened by the Taliban’s announcement. It quoted Karzai as calling the on-going conflict in Afghanistan as an imposed war that served the
interest of outsiders.He said on both sides only the Afghan were killed and maimed and the conflict only offered de-struction and devastation and nothing else.Karzai urged all the warring sides that instead of waging fresh violence, they should focus all their efforts and energy on ceas-ing the bloodshed and bringing peace and stability to the war-torn nation.In his reaction to the Taliban’s announcement, Senate chairman Fazl Hadi Muslimyar said the
Afghan government not only of-fered conditions-free talks but also accepted all conditions of the Taliban for peace in the coun-try.He said President Ghani even of-fered the Taliban to open their political office inside Afghani-stan because the Afghans were desperate for peace which was their long standing demand.“We showed the world that the Afghans are peace loving people and they are ready to offer any kind of sacrifice for peace, but in response ...(More on P4)...(8)
cies were planted along the Ka-bul airport road. Inaugurating the campaign, Etisalat CEO, Obaid Alzaabi said ‘The aim of our campaign is to raise awareness about im-portance of trees in our lives and encourage other individu-als to plant trees in their area.’ Mr. Alzaabi further said ‘Trees add to the beauty of our sur-rounding and plays vital role in mitigation of pollution which is a common problem in our soci-eties.’Present at the inauguration of the campaign, Najibullah Alko-
zay, head of Greenery Depart-ment of Kabul Municipality said ‘This is a good initiative by Etisalat Afghanistan. We would like to thank Etisalat for their contribution and assure them that our workers will do their best to look after and care for these saplings.’The first phase of this campaign was launched last year where more than 100 saplings were planted in 10th district of Kabul city. In addition, Etisalat installed over 50 protective fences to pro-vide care and protection for the newly planted saplings. (PR)
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