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Volume No. 4179 Monday May 27, 2019 Jawza 06, 1398 www.outlookafghanistan.net Price: 20/-Afs
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- Afghan captives held by the Taliban have been subjected to abuse, ill-treatment and actions that may amount to torture, the U.N. said Sunday — a statement that comes
as the U.S. is trying to find a negotiated solution to the country’s protracted war.
Pakistan, Afghanistan to Hold High-Level Security Talks Next Week
KABUL - The tensions over the election of the speaker of the Lower House of Parliament contin-ued on Saturday with no breakthrough.Tensions erupted after MPs divided over the se-lection of Mir Rahman Rahmani as the House Speaker. Rahmani’s rival MP Kamal Naser Osuli rejected to accept the election result.In the election, Rahmani secured 123 votes of the 244 votes cast while Osuli got 55 votes. The inter-im speaker of the House announced Rahmani as the winner.Following that tensions erupted between the fol-lowers of the two sides. A 27-member committee was formed to resolve the issue between the two sides.Majority of the committee members endorsed Rahmani’s selection as the Parliament Speaker but 11 members of the committee refused to accept the committee decision.On the latest developments, lawmakers close to Rahmani said the discussions have ended because Rahmani was elected as Parliament speaker by a majority of votes.At the same time, a number of the lawmakers blasted some specific circles for benefiting from the tensions.The lawmakers stressed that if the problem re-mains unsolved, ...(More on P4)...(2)
UN Says Afghan Captives Held by Taliban Subjected to Abuse
Afghans Living in Tough Situationin Iran: Return Refugees
Parliament Deadlock Shows No
Sign of Breaking
KABUL - The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said it interviewed 13 detainees from a group of 53 recently rescued from the Taliban, mainly mem-bers of Afghan forces but also civilians and government officials captured by the insurgents.The group was freed on April 25 when Afghan troops raided a Taliban-run detention facility in the Khas Uruzgan district in southern Uruzgan province.Most of the captives were held since 2018, with three since 2016, the UNA-MA statement said, adding they were kept in poor conditions and subjected to forced labor. It cites the detainees as saying that the Taliban killed some of their captives.”I am gravely concerned about these serious allegations of ill-treatment, torture and unlawful killing of civilians and security personnel, as
KABUL - Afghan refugees who have returned home from Iran said econom-ic problems and unemployment have made life difficult for Afghans living in the neighboring country which hosts roughly three million refugees from Af-ghanistan.Reports indicate that the number of return refugees from Iran is increasing following a sharp rise in the US sanc-tions on Tehran. Figures by International Organization for Migration (IOM) show that 184,185 refugees returned from Iran and Paki-stan since January while 97,440 of them were deported. A weekly figure by the IOM shows that 8,436 refugees returned home from Iran during May 12-18, which shows that more than 1,000 refugees are return-ing to the country from Iran on a daily basis. Out of this figure, 5,291 refugees
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan are set to hold high-level security talks in Islamabad next week.Pakistan and Afghanistan have not held any bilat-eral meeting since November when officials of both countries had met in Islamabad.Afghanistan had stopped meetings with Pakistan under the Afghanistan Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS) as it wanted a joint
meeting of religious scholars in support of peace in Afghanistan.Kabul had long been asking Islamabad to issue a joint “ulema” declaration similar to the one issued by nearly 2000 Pakistani clerics last year against suicide bombings.Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s phone contact with Prime Minister Imran Khan on May 5 played a key role in normalization of relations. President Ghani
had accepted Imran Khan’s invitation to visit Islama-bad.Sources told Daily Times that Afghanistan’s Nation-al Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib would lead a delegation in talks with top Pakistani security offi-cials on Tuesday. Afghan Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi will also be a part of the delegation.The Afghan ministers will hold talks with Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa ...(More on P4)...(1)
were deported.Mohammad Musa, a native resident of Takhar province in the north of Afghanistan, said he returned from Iran with his family last month.“Living in Iran is expansive nowadays and it is very difficult for Afghans to afford it. The Iranian currency has lost its value and it is better to live in our own country rather than Iran,” Musa said. “There is misery in Iran and they ...(More on P4)...(4)
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Regional Infrastructure Development Fund - RIDF BMZ-ID 2010 66 562, 2011 65 034, 2013 65 048, 2014 67 885, 2015 67 762, 2016 67 633 Prequalification Flood Protection of Pul-e-Khumri City and Baladori Canal, Baghlan Province BGL-F-2016-01 Main components of the project are engineering survey, design and construction; these include topographic and geotechnical surveys, determination of the final alignment, detailed design, earthworks, 550 m stone masonry walls, 650 m gabion walls, concrete works, rehabilitation of irrigation intakes, and construction of cofferdams and dewatering for the construction works. The project is financed by the German Development Bank KfW, in the scope of the German Development Cooperation with Afghanistan, and will be implemented through the Regional Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF), conditional to actual budget allocation. Contractors with a base in Afghanistan with experience as General Contractors in the design and construction of Flood Protection Works and associated structures – preferably in Northern Afghanistan – are herewith invited to apply for prequalification for the above project. International contractors are explicitly encouraged to form Joint Ventures with national/local contractors. Prequalification and tendering for the contract(s) will be undertaken according to the KfW-Development Bank’s “Guidelines for Procurement of Goods, Works and associated Services in Financial Cooperation with Partner Countries” (August 2016), which can be downloaded at https://www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de/Download-Center/PDF-Dokumente-Richtlinien/Vergabe-E.pdf. Interested contractors shall request the prequalification documents by e-mail from [email protected] clearly stating “Flood Protection of Pul-e-Khumri City and Baladori Canal” in the subject line. The request for the prequalification documents must contain the full name and address of the applicant, including contact telephone and e-mail.
Contractors fulfilling these requirements will be sent the prequalification documents via e-mail. The deadline for submittal of the completed prequalification documents is 26 June 2019. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
well as the deplorable conditions of detention,” said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the head of UNAMA.The detainees were shackled while in captivity and almost all said they were beaten. The Taliban told them it was punishment for supporting the government, working with the Americans or fighting the insurgents.The U.N. statement comes as Washington’s peace envoy, Zal-may Khalilzad is pressing ahead with talks with the Taliban, who refuse to negotiate directly ...(More on P4)...(3)
