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Girl table-tennis players in northern Jawzjan province have asked the government to support them in promotion of the game as they have been struggling with shortage of equipment and other facilities.

National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib says Kabul is pursuing a three-pronged approach to

bring lasting peace to Afghanistan.

Book Sales, Reading on the Rise in Ghor

MAHMOOD RAQI - Six members of a family, includ-ing four women and two chil-dren, have been killed as a re-sult of a bomb blast in central Kapisa province, an official said on Wednesday.Police spokesman Abdul Shaiq Shorash told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident,

KABUL - Several video clips of alleged election rigging have been slammed as an effort to denigrate presidential wan-nabes.The authorities concerned, who have invalidated non-bio-metric votes cast in Saturday’s election, have promised to in-vestigate the videos.Videos of people marking ballot papers in support of a particular runner and putting them into ballot boxes recently

SHIBERGHAN - Mashal Hasha-mi, who heads the table-tennis federation in Jawzjan, told Pajh-wok Afghan News 370 players, including 33 girls, were engaged in playing table-tennis in the province.He called it a proud moment for Jawzjan that 15 and 7 players in the national teams comprising of total 50 players were the province.According to Hashimi, girls from Jawzjan won the recent youth ta-ble-tennis tournament organized in capital Kabul.He, however, said girl players lacked equipment and resources to promote their game. He added girls struggled with lack of tables, kit and paddles.Nargos Faez, a table tennis player, said: “I developed interest in this game when I was just eight years old and I want to become cham-

JALALABAD - Wolesi Jirga members from eastern Nan-garhar province say issues concerning the province mili-tary and civil organizational structures and budget would be investigated in the lower house and steps for their reso-lution taken.According to Nangarhar of-ficials, funds and organiza-tional structure are being of-fered to Nangarhar based on a 17-year-old ratio when the population of the province was 1.5 million, but now the population has surged to five million.Some Wolesi Jirga lawmakers who held joint meetings with Nangarhar officials in Jalal-

KABUL - Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in the US on Tuesday, the NSA said the first part of the approach would be the negotiating strategy and the post-peace engagement.The focus of discussions in the last nine months was the US-plus-NATO engagement in Af-ghanistan, he said, adding part

abad assured their support to resolve these problems. They discussed budget and human resource related issues.Lawmaker Noor Agha Malakzai said during the meeting that issues related to electricity, education, repa-triation, civil services, budget

one of that strategy for peace negotiation would be the US stay and what the Afghans did to counter terrorism if American troops were to withdraw from AfghanistanIn line with the second point, he said, the government in Kabul would reach out to the Taliban for talks -- those who are Afghans

Women Among 6 of a Family Killed in Kapisa Blast

Mps Vow to Raise Nangarhar Problems in Parliament

Election Fraud Videos Need to be Investigated

Jawzjan Girl Table Tennis Players Need Govt’s Support

and other were discussed at the meeting.He said many issues originated from wrong population statis-tics and they would raise the is-sue on the parliament floor with ministers and other authorities concerned to get these problems resolved. ...(More on P4)...(6)

interested in integrating into Af-ghan society and coming back to political life.Point three of the peace strategy concerns assurances the Afghan society would need from Pakistan in terms of non-interference and respecting whatever agreement might be signed between the Tali-ban ...(More on P4)...(4)

FIROZKOH - Booksellers in western Ghor province say they are pleased with the increase in sales and growing habit of read-ing physical books among young people.Noor Ahmad, one of the book-sellers, in Firozkoh, the provin-cial capital, said: “In the past, we would sell three to four books per week but now seven to 10 books are sold on a daily basis.”He said most of his clients were young people who preferred buying books about politics and stories.He said youths’ interest in read-ing books was on the increase with each passing day and some-times youth from poor families rented books for reading at home.Sardar Ahmadi, another book-seller, confirmed in rise in sales, saying the buyers were youths.Happy with his business com-pared to the previous year, he said, “In the past, we would sell 20 books per month but now 80 books are sold per month be-cause of the growing reading cul-ture among Ghoris youth.”A number of other booksell-ers expressed similar views and were happy about their sales.Mohammad Zahir, a student at the ...(More on P4)...(9)

in which two others were wounded, happened in the Baiskhel village of Nijrab dis-trict late on Tuesday.He said four women and two children were killed and two men others wounded in the roadside bombing. The police spokesman blamed Taliban ...(More on P4)...(8)

went viral on social media.The Independent Election Com-mission (IEC) has already said non-biometric votes are invalid.Sifatullah Amini Kabul shared on his Facebook page a video that shows a man tick-marking President Ghani’s picture on a ballot paper, stamping it and attaching a particular sticker to it. The face of the man cannot be seen in the video. He asked: “Where are the election bodies? Are ...(More on P4)...(7)

pion one day.”“Our main problem is the lack of standard table tennis equipment. We use very primary equipment. We are concerned about future games because in main competi-

Mohib Expounds 3-Pronged Peace

Strategy

tion standard and updated equip-ment are used,” she said.Mohammad Sediq Faez, head of the Sport and Physical Training in Jawzjan, said: “standard equip-ment ...(More on P4)...(5)