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KABUL - Chief Executive Officer Abdullah has said free, fair and credible election will leave a positive impact on the secu-rity situation in the country.The CEO expressed the view during a meeting with represent-atives and experts of South Asian electoral bodies in Kabul, a statement from his office said on Sunday.

KABUL - “U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Neil Thurgood flew a UH-60 heli-copter, which will soon join the Afghan Air Force fleet as part of the AAF’s modernization pro-gram,” the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a state-ment.The statement further added “During the trip to Kandahar Airfield, the Assistant Minister of Defense for Strategy and Plans Tamim Asey and the 205th Corps Commander Afg. Maj. Gen. Iman Nazar Behbod joined Thurgood for a flight in the newly arrived Black Hawk.”The first batch of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the Afghan Air Force arrived in southern Kandahar province on Monday.The Afghan government and the country’s international allies including US and NATO have stepped up efforts to bolster the capabilities of the Afghan force and Air Force.The introduction of UH-60 assault helicopter is included in the plans for the expansion of the Afghan Air Force, ...(More on P4)...(5)

The visiting delegation is in Kabul to participate in the 8th consecutive meeting among election officials of South Asian states. The chairmanship of the meeting was handed over to Afghanistan this year.Najibullah Ahmadzai, head of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), said ...(More on P4)...(1)

NEW DELHI - Afghan Ambassador to India Dr. Shaida Abdali says New Delhi’s relations with Kabul are not a threat to other neighbours but are aimed at the reconstruction of Afghanistan.In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Abdali said Afghanistan could not cut ties with its strategic friends who posed no threats to its territory.In response to the Pakistani prime minister’s re-cent remarks on India’s role in Afghanistan, he said: “Any country, if its territory is affected from Afghanistan, can react. But if there is no evidences of threats from Afghanistan, then they cannot and should not object.”Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, address-ing the 72nd United ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - The Afghan consul general in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Saturday urged joint efforts by the two countries to meet challenges and establish everlasting peace in the region.Abdul Waheed Poyan expressed optimism that the ongoing tension between Afghanistan and Pa-kistan would be resolved.The diplomat was talking to media after attending a seminar in connection with Afghanistan Inter-national Culture Day at Peshawar Press Club. The event was organized by Regional Forum for Peace and Development. ...(More on P4)...(3)

KABUL - A car bomber attacked a Danish convoy belonging to the NATO-led military mission in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday, wounding a number of civilians but leaving international forces unharmed, security officials said.A Danish military spokesman said some civilians may have been killed but Afghan officials report-ed no fatalities. Security officials say five civilians had been wound-ed while the interior ministry put the figure at three.Captain William Salvin, a spokes-man for NATO’s Resolute Sup-port mission, confirmed an attack had occurred and said a team was on the scene to recover the vehicle.“There are no Resolute Support casualties as a result of the explo-sion,” Salvin he said in an emailed statement.The ...(More on P4)...(7)

KABUL - The Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Sunday said over 20,000 land and air operations were launched by the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan Air Force (AAF) in the first six months of this year. Defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said 440 key insur-gent strongholds were destroyed in these operations in various parts ...(More on P4)...(6)

WASHINGTON - The US Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to start his visit to India next week amid reports the officials of the two countries will also hold talks

TEHRAN - Iran leader said in a tweet that in future all Afghan children living in Iran can enroll in Iran’s schools, even the illegal immigrants. From now on no Afghan child should be deprived of an educa-tion in Iran, Iranian supreme lead-er Ali Khamenei said on his twit-ter page Saturday evening. Iran’s ...(More on P4)...(8)

KABUL - The Ministry of Agri-culture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) will establish a milk pro-cessing complex with the capac-

Kabul-Delhi Ties Pose no Threat to Islamabad:

Abdali

Joint Efforts Required to Meet Challenges: Afghan

Envoy

AAF UH-60 Maiden Flight in the Presence of Top Defense Officials

Car Bomber Hits NATO Convoy, Civilians Wounded

Ministry to Invest $12m in Milk Processing Complex

Military Ops Total 20,000 in First Six Months of this Year

Afghanistan Likely on Agenda as US Defense Secretary Starts Visit to India

Afghan Children Free to Enroll in Iran Schools

Fair Elections to Have Positive Impact

on Security: CEO

ity to process over 35,000 liters of milk on a daily basis, officials said.The ministry will invest $12 mil-lion USD in the project funded by the national budget, said Jahan-gir Miakhail, general director of the MAIL’s livestock and animal health department.He said the center will be built in Beni Hesar Farm in Kabul and that it will meet international standards.He said the complex will have standard cold storage facilities, a center for producing animal feed and it will provide dairy products in standard packages. “This center will be built based

on international norms and its production will meet the inter-national norms,” Miakhail said. Officials from the state-owned Guzargah Dairy Products Firm said there is a need for more in-vestment in the sector – consid-ering an increasing influx and rapid demand of imported dairy products for local markets.“The country needs a big milk processing center with the ca-pacity to produce at least 30,000 liters of milk – every day – in order to help Afghanistan be-come self-reliant in this sector,” said Ghulam Zekria, head of the dairy.According to a recent re-port by ...(More on P4)...(9)

Invitation for Bids (IFB)

Ariana Afghan Airline (AAA) now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified bidders for the procurement of Two Used Boeing 737_055 Aircraft against IFB No. NPA/AAA/96/ICB/G-1776 Bidding will be conducted through the International Competitive Bidding (ICB), procedures specified in the Rules of procurement Procedure of Afghanistan.

A complete set of bidding Document in English may be obtained by downloading the same from the NPA website www.npa.gov.af or directly from National Procurement Authority, 2nd Floor, Administrative Office of President, Pashtonistan Watt Kabul, Afghanistan.

Bids must be delivered to the address of NPA given above by or before 10:00 AM (Local time), on 1st November 2017 at National Procurement Authority, Electronic bids will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened immediately after the deadline of bid submission at the same place of bid submission.

Bid shall include a Bid Security Declaration in the format SDB/G/09 provided in Section 4 of the Bidding Document. Email: zubair.majeed@aop.gov.af copy to mohammad.hilal@aop.gov.af – haroon.naseemi@aop.gov.af, info@flyariana.com , president@flyariana.com - pro.contracts@flyariana.com

A Pre-bid conference shall be held with all willing bidders at the venue and at the time given below:

Date and Time: 10th Oct 2017 – at 10:00 AM Afghanistan Time. Venue: Ariana Afghan Airline (AAA), Char Rahi Shaheed, Shar - e -Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan

The interested bidders who are unable to participate physically in the above pre-bid conference may also participate in the meeting by joining us through Skype at the above date and time. Skype ID of the Purchaser: Ariana Afghan Airlines

on Afghanistan besides discussing other issues of bilateral interest.According to the local media re-ports, Mattis is expected to arrive in New Delhi late on Monday.

He is expected to start meetings with the Indian officials from next week to hold talks on key issues, including the sale of fighter jets as well as the ...(More on P4)...(4)