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only opportunity. General Douglas MacArthur

Kabul, Islamabad Agree to Coordinate Issues of Mutual Concern

10 Cases of Violence Against Journalists Recorded in 20 Days

10 Civilians Dead, over 40 Hurt in Badakhshan Explosion

Mps Approve Defense Minister and NDS Chief

Everyday 9,565 Fasting Afghans Receive their Ifthari from Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s

Ifthair Project in Afghanistan

Violence Against Women Increasing in Helmand

1.8m Tonnes of Fuel Annually Smuggled into Afghanistan

UNHCR Renews Pledge to Support Afghan Refugees

Worldwide

Rabbani, Aziz to Meet on Border Tiff in Tashkent

14 Nepalese Security Guards Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack

KABUL - Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday agreed to establish ‘an effective mechanism for consultation and coordination of issues of mutual concern and inter-est.’ “This will be proposed for the consideration of the two countries’ leadership, who will meet on the sidelines of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tashkent, Uzbeki-stan,” the Afghan Foreign Ministry said in a statement.The senior level talks be-tween Afghan and Paki-stani officials took place in Islamabad after forces of

KABUL - Nai --an organisa-tion supporting open media in Afghanistan -- on Mon-day said the ongoing month was the most violent for journalists, as 10 cases of vi-olence have been registered in the past 20 days.Seddiqullah Tawhidi, head of Nai, told a press con-ference here that violence against media profession-als in less than three weeks showed such incidents would significantly increase during the current year.He said the cases including two murders, four beatings and torture and four inci-dents of threats were regis-tered with Nai.

FAIZABAD - At least 10 civilians were killed and 40 others wounded in a re-mote-controlled explosion in the Kisham district of northeastern Badakhshan province on Monday, an of-ficial said.Ahmad Naveed Frotan, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the explosion took place at around 10:00am in the main square of the district. “It was a remote-controlled bombing involving an ex-plosives-rigged motorcy-cle and the victims are all civilians,” But Dr. Jameel Sultani, head of the district

KABUL - The Afghanistan National Standards Au-thority (ANSA) on Mon-day said 1.2 million tonnes of fuel was imported to the country after passing quality test but another 1.8 million tonnes of fuel was smuggled into the country without test each year.

KABUL - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Monday declared its support for Afghan refugees all over the world and assured President Gha-ni the agency’s timely assistance delivery to refugees.A statement from the Presidential Palace said President Ashraf Gha-ni met with UNHCR Commission-er-General Fillipo Grandi at the palace and thanked him for visit-ing Afghanistan on the occasion of International Refugee Day.Grandi stressed solution to prob-lems being faced by Afghan mi-grants and said Afghan refugees’ rights should be supported world-wide and especially in Pakistan and Iran.He said migration was an interna-tional problem and all countries should jointly work to address the problem. He said UNHCR could find ...(More on P4)...(5)

PESHAWAR - Top Afghan and Pakistani officials would meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tashkent on June 23-24, the foreign ministry announced on Monday.Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rab-bani and Advisor to Prime Minis-ter on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz would discuss issues related to better border management, a state-ment from the Foreign Office said.An agreement on the high-level talks came during a meeting be-tween delegations from Pakistan and Afghanistan in Islamabad. Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry headed the Pakistani delegation. Deputy Foreign Min-ister Hikmat Khalil Karzai led the Afghan team, which arrived here after a telephonic conversation between Sartaj Aziz and National Security Adviser Hanif Atmar on June 15. Monday’s meeting was aimed ...(More on P4)...(7)

KABUL - Fourteen Nepalese citizens were killed and nine others, includ-ing four Afghans, wounded in a sui-cide bombing in Kabul on Monday, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said.The bomb took place at around 6:00am in the limits of the 9th police district in Banai locality, a statement from the ministry said. “The bomber rammed into a mini-bus carrying Nepalese security guardswith a for-eign company, leaving 14 dead and nine others hurt.”Following the first major attack in the capital during the ongoing holy month of Ramadan, area residents claimed seeing several dead bodies lying at the scene and some injured individuals being shifted to hospi-

to the main road. A number of people in a nearby market were also injured in the early-morning bombing, he re-vealed, requesting not to be named.As usual, the Taliban claimed respon-sibility for the attack, with the mili-tant group’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid saying casualties had been inflicted on many foreign and Afghan forces.Resolute Support strongly con-demned today’s Improvised Explo-sive Device attacks in Kabul that killed several civilians and injured many more.“The Taliban’s actions repeatedly harm civilians in an effort to under-mine the Government of Afghani-stan’s ...(More on P4)...(1)

the two countries clashed at Torkham border over the construction of gate by the Pakistanis.Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Kar-zai led an inter-ministerial delegation --consisting of senior civilian and military officials--- to visit Islamabad at the invitation of Sartaj Aziz, Advisor to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs.Karzai, accompanied by Dr. Omar Zakhiwal, special en-voy of the Afghan president and Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, met his Pakistani counterpart Foreign Secre-

On June 5, a foreign journal-ist named David Gilkey and his Afghan facilitator Zabi-hullah Tamanna were killed in a Taliban attack in south-ern Helmand province.Tawhidi expressed con-

hospital, confirmed receiv-ing more than 40 wounded people. Six succumbed to their wounds, he said, add-

KABUL - The Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parlia-ment) on Monday ap-proved Masoom Stanikzai as the chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Gen. Abdullah Khan Habibi as the Minis-ter of Defense.Meanwhile, the MPs ap-proved Mohammad Za-man Sangari as a member of the High Council of the

In light of efforts made by the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation in Afghanistan, the Iftar project that the Founda-tion started the first day of the month of Ramadan continues in (18) Afghan Provinces and in dozens of mosques in the north and east, west and south, where the benefits of the project are daily (9545 / fasting) ie until the twenty-ninth of this month will be the beneficiaries (276,805 / fasting), Knowing that such a project was car-

LASHKARGAH - Inci-dents of violence against women are increasing in southern Helmand prov-ince and they are denied rights in various spheres of life, rights officials said on Monday.Fatima Abida, women’s affairs head at Hel-mand’s chapter of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), told Pajh-wok Afghan News that 28 cases of violence against women had been registered by her department since the start of the solar year (March 22) in Helmand.She said some of the cases had

Naqibullah Faiq, ANSA head, told a press confer-ence here that fuel import-ed in the past did not pass quality test, but now test-ing laboratories had been activated at all borders of the country and so far 2.2 million liters of fuel had ...(More on P4)...(4)

tary Aizaz Ahmad Chaud-hary in an amicable and friendly atmosphere with a constructive agenda to ad-dress both sides’ concerns with regards to the recent tensions at the Torkham

cern over provincial officials’refusal to cooper-ate with journalists. Police chiefs tended to snub re-porters, something that was against the law on access to ...(More on P4)...(6)

ing the seriously injured were being transferred to other hospitals in Takhar and Faizabad.(Pajhwok)

Supreme Court.Stanikzai received 161 votes, Habibi got 167 votes and Sangari received 137 votes in his favor out of a total of 224 votes.Stanikzai and Habibi were introduced to the MPs by the second Vice President Mohammad Sarar Danish nearly two weeks ago.During introduction of the ...(More on P4)...(2)

ried out by the foundation during the past years but it was not in such a huge size.Also, the foundation has other projects on the Af-ghan scene as suppying drinking water in some provinces and there are other projects under study by the foundation to be implemented later . It will be announced at that time.It all comes In Imple-mentation of the direc-tives of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of

been resolved and the rest re-mained unaddressed. She said though a number of programmes on women’s rights had been im-plemented during the past some years, the level of violence against the gender continued to be high due to local customs, insecurity and ...(More on P4)...(8)

tal by ambulances. Sediq Sediqqi, MoIspokesman, tweeted 14 people had been killed. Police were trying

to identify the victims, he said. One security official at the site said the as-sailant hit the vehicle soon after it took

crossing, the statement said. Karzai raised with Chaudhary the various violations by Pakistan, including their building of installations and check ...(More on P4)...(3)

United Arab Emirates (may God preserve him), and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and

follow up of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of presidential Affairs and chairman of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan human-itarian Foundation .