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14pc of Bamyan Population Slips into Addiction:

OfficialMAZAR-I-SHARIF - Prices of petroleum products have surged 10 percent in north-ern Balkh province due to closure of the Hairatan Dry Port, an official said on Sun-day.Naseer Ahmad Qasimi, ex-ecutive director of the Com-merce and Industry Depart-ment, said after the port closure, petroleum prod-uct rates registered the in-creased.He said the closure had also sent the rates of other items soaring and inflicted losses on traders. “Most of petro-leum products are imported via Hairatan and Aqena ports into Afghanistan.

KABUL - The former police chief for Maiden Wardak maintained his innocence throughout the process.Maidan Wardak’s former police chief Khalil Andarabi was on Sunday found not guilty on charges of embez-zlement by the Anti-Corrup-tion Criminal Justice Center’s Appeal Court after having been sentenced to three years in prison eight months ago.Andarabi who was present at the hearing has maintained his innocence throughout the case, which was originally handed over to the Attorney General’s Office early last year.The ACJC’s lower court

PESHAWAR - The Pak-Af-ghan Joint Chamber of Com-merce and Industry (PA-JCCI) has voiced concern at the declining trade volume between the two countries.Trade volume between the neighbours had fallen from $2.5 billion to $5mil-lion, PAJCCI Director Ziaul-HaqSarhadi said in a state-ment on Saturday.While blaming the bureau-cratic red tape in both coun-tries for the trade slump, he

KABUL - The Foreign Sec-retary of Pakistan Tehmina-Janjua on Sunday arrived in Kabul leading a delegation of Pakistani officials for the talks regarding the Afghanistan Pa-kistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS).A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan Dr. Mohammad Faisal has said Ms. Janjua is leading a del-egation of 28 Pakistani officials during the visit to Kabul.Dr. Faisal further added that the officials will participate in the inaugural session of Afghanistan Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS).

He has also added that the delegation’s presence in Kabul two days before the general elections in Pakistan “shows our commitment to APAPPS”.Ahead of her visit to Kabul,

Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Arrives in Kabul for APAPPS Inaugural Session

Rates of Petroleum Products Go up by 10pc in Balkh

Appeal Court Finds Andarabi Not Guilty

Need to Review Af-Pak Transit Trade Pact Stressed

Ms. Janjua had reportedly told reporters that the APAPPS has resulted into a constructive dia-logue between the two nations.“For example, with US support, Pakistan ...(More on P4)...(5)

BAMYAN CITY - Top counter-narcotics official in central Bamyan province says almost 14 per cent of the province’s residents including hundreds of children are addicted to drugs.Hussain Agha Nazari, counter-narcotics director for Bamyan prov-ince, says though the province is poppy-free, yet the main highway remains ‘a safe way’ to transport drugs.He said most of the drug users ex-isted in Waras district where even women and children have been peddling drugs.“Most of the families in Shewqal area of Waras district are addicted to drugs and their children and women are also consuming drugs,” he added.Nazari cited reports that said schoolteachers and even clerics used drugs in the certain area. About 700 children were also ad-dicted and their number was surg-ing with each passing day, the counter-narcotics director claimed.“The drugs are transferred from Meramor district in central Daikun-di province to Samangan through Waras, Panjab and Yakawlang districts and Shewqal area is lo-cated near the drugs market”, he explained.Without giving exact figures for the addicts, the official estimated that about 14 per cent of Bamyam pop-ulation had slipped into addiction.Based on 2018 statistics, the popula-tion of Bamyan province is around 47, 8423 individuals and 14 per cent of them means about 67, 000 peo-ple.There are two 20-bed addicts re-habilitation hospitals inBamyan, which could not cope with the situ-ation, provincialcounternarcotics officials said.They said at least each district of the province should have one clinic for treatment of addicts and the pro-vincial capital also needed a 100-bed hospital.Mohammad Jan, a resident of Waras district, said he was consum-ing opium for the past five years and during this period all his fam-ily members became addicts.“Because I would give a little opi-um to my family members when-ever they would fall ill,” said Jan, who initially consumed opium outside home but later brought the habit home. “After one year of this, all my family members became ad-dicts.”HawaSeddiqui, human rights di-rector for Bamyan, also expressed her deep concern over the smug-gling of drugs to the province.She said their survey showed most of a family members or all were ad-dicts in some districts because of their men’s addiction.She ...(More on P4)...(9)

Martyrdom Anniversary of Allama Shahid Sayed Ismail

Balkhic Commemorated

“After the closure of the two vital facilities, prices of pe-troleum products started go-ing up. Common people are the worst-affected custom-ers,” the official added.Qasimi ...(More on P4)...(6)

handed down a guilty ver-dict last year and sentenced Andarabi to three years in prison. The former police chief had been charged with embezzling 24 million AFs.However, ...(More on P4)...(7)

said the business community of wanted the trade volume to rise to $5 billion.If the 2010 Pak-Afghan Tran-sit Trade Agreement (PAT-TA) was not reviewed to remove hurdles to bilateral trade, the business situation would further worsen, he warned.Sarhadi said in such a situ-ation the ultimate sufferer would be Pakistan as Af-ghanistan had already im-proved ...(More on P4)...(8)

KABUL - Martyrdom Anniversary of Allama Sha-hid Sayed Ismail Balkhi was commemorated Satur-day July 22 in Kabul. Many Government high rank-ing officials, MPs, and national figures participated in the event. Sarwar Danish,the Second VP, in parts of his speech said that “freedom, social justice and national unity constituted the main concepts of Shahid Balkhis’s thought”. Shahid Balkhi on na-tional identity and combating discrimination says that, “Unity of thought and action leads to prosper-

ity”. Shahid Balkhi neither has sought for kaliphate, nor emirate or monarchy, but he has recommended the “Republic” in his peeches and poems. Danish stated. In the history of Hazara and Shia people of Afghn-stan, Allama Faiz Mohammad Kateb Hazara, Alla-ma Sayed Ismail Balkhi, and the Nartyr of National Unity, Abdul Ali Mazari, are the three outstanding figures who injected the three humanistic and life ...(More on P4)...(4)

Martyrdom Anniversary of Allama Shahid Sayed Ismail Balkhic was commemorated Saturday July 22 in Kabul.

Invitation for Bids (IFB) Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified bidders for Supply and Installation of Video Conferencing Equipment for DAB Head Office - Ref# DAB/97ICB/G-26 Bidding will be conducted through the International Competitive Bidding (ICB) procedures specified in the World Bank Guideline.

A complete set of Bidding Document in English may be obtained by interested bidders by downloading the same from the DAB and NPA website www.npa.gov.af, www.dab.gov.af. In case of problem in downloading from website, interested bidders may contact to Procurement Department, 2nd Floor, Da Afghanistan Bank, Pashtonistan Watt, and Kabul, Afghanistan.

Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before 14:00 Hrs. (local time) on 25th, August, 2018 Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected.

Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders’ representatives who choose to attend in person at the address above at 14:10 Hrs. (Local time), on the same day.

All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of the amount shall be; 14,500USD (Fourteen Thousand and five hundred US Dollar or any other currency equivalent to the amount).

Contact details are as under:

Hayatullah Tofan

Senior project procurement Manager General Directorate of Procurement Da Afghanistan Bank (Central Bank) Ibni Sina Watt-Kabul, Afghanistan Telephone: +93 0202106692 E-mail: hayatullah.tofan@dab.gov.af, wahid.turyalay@dab.gov.af Copy: abaseen.mall@dab.gov.af, attaullah.nang@dab.gov.af, shoaib.rahim@dab.gov.af, sami.mahaal@dab.gov.af