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Iran to Ban All Hand Written Afghan Passports

Raziq Warns Pakistan of Fallout if Border Issue

Talks Fail

Finland, Germany, Iran, Afghanistan Join Hands to

Train Afghan Mining Experts

High Level Event on Anti-Graft Campaign Today

Journalists, Spokespersons Awarded State Medals

NRC Says Hundreds Fleeing Conflict in Kunduz

KABUL - The Iran government has announced it will no longer allow Afghans who have hand writ-ten passports to enter the country, the CEO’s Office said in a statement late Saturday.Representatives of migrants in Iran have met with the CEO of the National Unity Government (NUG) Abdullah Abdullah, and discussed this problem with him, said the statement. “The representatives of the migrants said that Iran’s government has announced that from now on no hand written passports will be accepted and those who have such passports must quickly change to electronic passports,” ...(More on P4)...(14)

KANDAHAR - Kandahar police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq has warned Pakistan of dire consequences if a diplomatic solution is not found to ease tensions along the border.This comes just days after military forces from the two countries engaged in a fierce battle over the vil-lage of Luqman inside Afghan territory.The Afghan security forces maintain the right to re-taliate if efforts for a political solution fails, he said.“A technical team from the ministry of defense is ex-pected to arrive here to find out which of these vil-lages belong to Afghanistan and which of them to Pakistan, it will also determine the fate of Luqman village,” said Raziq. ...(More on P4)...(15)

KABUL - A group of fifteen Afghan experts received trainings in the field of mining and geological explora-tion in a two-week workshop organized in Iran with the joint efforts of Finland, Germany, Iran, and Af-ghanistan.The Office of the Germany Cooperation with Af-ghanistan in a statement said last week, a two-weeks training on geophysics in Shiraz, Iran, came to an end. Three lecturers from Kabul Polytechnic University and 12 mining engineers from the Afghanistan Geo-logical Survey (AGS) participated in the workshop and will now return to Kabul.The statement further added that the Geological Sur-vey of Finland has already been working with the Afghanistan Geological Survey and organised this seminar, funded by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. In order to support further developing and strengthening cooperation between universities, state institutions and donor operations in the Afghan min-ing and geology sector, the German programme for Academic Mining Education in Afghanistan (AMEA) supported this training as well.According to the Office of the German Cooperation with Afghanistan, Finnish and Iranian trainers lead all courses. The training mainly focussed on the ap-plication of different geophysical methods in mineral exploration.The statement also added that other topics such as groundwater, hydrogeology as well as building and construction stone assessments were covered. The participants further learned how to combine these methods and how to cooperate between different units and departments. ...(More on P4)...(17)

KABUL - Pope Francis has slammed the US military’s nam-ing of the non-nuclear ordnance as “the Mother of All Bombs”, saying the word “mother” should not be used in reference to a dead-ly weapon.Last month, the US Air Force dropped the massive bomb, called the GBU-43 Massive Ord-nance Air Blast (MOAB), on what it called an Islamic State hideout in Nangarhar province.“I was ashamed when I heard the name,” Pope Francis remarked, saying: “A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is hap-pening?”Pope Francis, who is due to meet President ...(More on P4)...(11)

Pope Slams Word Mother to

Describe a Bomb

Mail to Build 248 Cold Storage

Facilities

Representatives of migrants in Iran have met with the CEO, who has promised government

will look into the matter.

KABUL - Tehran on Sunday expressed its readiness to work together with Kabul on legalis-ing the status of Afghans living in the neighbouring country and offered all possible support to the war-torn nation..Iranian Foreign Minister Mo-hammad Javad Zarif voiced Tehran’s willingness for con-sultations with Afghanistan on the issue at a news conference with his Afghan counterpart Salahuddin RabbaniAfter his arrival in Kabul, he went into talks on bilateral co-operation with his Rabbani. Zarif was accorded a warm welcome by Deputy Foreign Minister Nasir Ahmad Andi-sha.Iran was ready for cooperation with Afghanistan on the status of millions of “Afghan guests”, the visiting foreign minister said. “We can pave the ground

for legalising residency of the Afghans.”.Iran was happily hosting 410,000 Afghan schoolchil-dren, 17,000 university stu-dents and three million Afghan nationals, Zarif said, adding the neighbours could forge en-vironmental cooperation and work on water resources.Similarly, the two nations could make coordinate efforts against terrorism and drug trafficking, said Zarif, who also met President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Dr. Ab-dullah.Zarif’s meeting w.ith Ghani was also attended by Abdul-lah, Vice President Sarwar Danish, Rabbani, National Se-curity Advisor Hanif Atmar, Finance Minister Eklil Ahmad Hakimi and a group of presi-dent aides.Views were exchanged on ex-

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani and EU Ambassador to Afghanistan Franz-Michael Mellbin will co-cost a high level ‘anti-corruption confer-ence’ at the Presidential Pal-ace in Kabul on Monday to mark the end the European Union’s 2017 anti-corruption campaign.“Our campaign has put focus on some of the key challenges when it comes to stepping up the fight against corruption. The conference will address those very same issues,” Mellbin, EU special repre-sentative to Afghanistan, said in a statement issued here on Sunday.With the title ‘Intensifying

KABUL - President Ashraf Gha-ni has awarded state medals to 25 journalists and spokesper-sons for different government institutions, his office said on Sunday.In recognition to their contribu-tions, the president on Saturday night conferred on the journal-ists and spokespersons the Mir

KABUL - Norwegian Refu-gee Council (NRC) country director in Afghanistan, Kate O’Rourke, on Sunday said “hundreds of Afghan fami-lies are desperately fleeing armed conflict in (northern) Kunduz province.”“Many are accommodated with extended families else-where, but some have had to sleep in the open,” Kate O’Rourke was quoted as say-ing in a report by the NRC, a leading partner of the Emer-gency Response Mechanism (ERM) in Afghanistan.A civilian from Aq-Tapa, Rahman Gerdi (29), told NRC emergency response staff in Kunduz, that “Taliban fight-

panding the bilateral relation-ships, boosting cooperation and common issues such as combating terrorism.

During the presser, Zarif con-demned recent terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and shared his sympathies with victims’

Iran Ready for Talks on Legalising Stay of Afghans

Af-Pak Mistrust Benefitting Terrorists: Asfandyar

Afghan President did not Decline Invitations to

Visit Pakistan: Sadiq

PESHAWAR - Only terrorists benefit from mistrust and ten-sion between Kabul and Islam-abad, says a veteran Pakistani Pakhtun nationalist leader.Awami National Party (ANP) president Asfandyar Wali Khan said on Saturday: “The people of the region have suf-fered a lot due to the so-called great and not-so-great games.”Pakhtuns on both sides of the Durand Line had been suffer-ing due to tensions between the two ...(More on P4)...(9)

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s National Assembly (NA) Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on Sunday, clarifying Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s ‘re-jection’ last week of an invi-tation to visit Pakistan, said Ghani had assured him he would visit Islamabad after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

KABUL - The Ministry of Agri-culture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) are to build 248 cold storage facilities, with the capacity of stor-ing up to 50,000 tons of agricultural products, across the country.The project will cost at least $40 mil-lion USD and will come from the ministry’s development budget, said Ahmad Shekib Omar, the MAIL’s project manager of cold storage fa-cilities.He said that eight of the cold stor-age facilities would have a particu-larly large capacity of a total 40,000 tons and the project would take two years.“Eight cold storage facilities will be built in six provinces including Ka-bul, Kandahar, Kunduz, Balkh, Her-at and Nangarhar in order to keep agricultural products of these prov-inces (fresh),” Omar added.Meanwhile, members of the agri-culture institute of the Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan urged the agriculture ministry to build cold storage facilities according to inter-national standards.“Two years ago, the ministry of ag-riculture said they had constructed 250 cold storage facilities for Bami-yan province, but according to our information, we can say that they are warehouses not cold storage facili-ties. Because the moisture, tempera-ture and air-flow regulators have not been controlled in those facilities in Bamiyan,” said Mohammad Yasin Farahmand manager of the institute. (Toloenws)

pays a visit to Afghanistan.Speaking to the media on Sunday, Sadiq, who recently led a parliamentary delega-tion during a visit to Kabul, explained that the Afghan president had not declined invitations extended to him by top Pakistani officials, as Ghani’s ...(More on P4)...(10)

families. Both countries were located in a dangerous region replete with extremist move-ment, ...(More on P4)...(8)

ers were shooting from one side of our house and the Af-ghan National Security Forces (ANSF) from the other side.”As a rocket landed in his home garden, his wife threat-ened she would leave alone with their two daughters if he refused to flee. “We fled. We left everything behind. I’m afraid it will be looted.”The Taliban, who captured a strategic Kunduz district, Qala-i-Zal yesterday, are launching attacks on ANSF checkpoints along the main road to Khanabad district and civilians are fleeing from both locations.The intensity of armed con-flict in ...(More on P4)...(13)

the Fight against Corruption in Afghanistan’, the confer-ence will focus on prevention of ...(More on P4)...(12)

Masjadi Khan, Mir Bacha Khan and Malalai Qahraman medals.A large number of government officials, heads of media organi-sations, journalists and state in-stitutions took part in the over-night gathering, a statement from Presidential Palace said.Spokesmen for the Defence Ministry ...(More on P4)...(16)

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