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Kabul Residents Plagued by ‘Severe’ Lack of Water

7 Thousand Metric Tons of Citrus Fruit Harvested from Nangarhar Fields

KABUL - The Ministry of For-eign Affairs (MoFA) on Satur-day summoned Iran’s Deputy Ambassador to Kabul Sayed Saeed Hussaini over “mis-treatment” of a number of Af-ghan refugees by an Iranian Border police force member. A video went viral on social media last week shows an Ira-nian border policeman “mis-treating” a number of Afghan refugees in Iran. The ministry said in a state-ment that Hussaini was sum-moned over “mistreatment, beating and insult of Afghan refugees by an Iranian police member”. According to MoFA, Hus-saini said the move of the Ira-nian police force member was in contravention of Islamic thoughts, insisting that the is-sue should be thoroughly in-vestigated by Iranian officials. The act by the Iranian police was sharply critisized by Af-ghans. Following the release of the video on social media, a num-ber of Afghan refugees who recently repatriated from Iran criticized the Iranian border

PESHAWAR - The planned pullout of nearly 7,000 US troops from Afghanistan was a demand of Taliban, says Pakistan’s foreign minister.Shah Mahmood Qureshi welcomed President Donald Trump’s initiative to with-draw half of US troops from Afghanistan, saying the de-cision was good for Afghan peace talks.While hailing recent US-Taliban talks in Abu Dhabi, the minister told reporters in Multan Pakistan was taking

KUNDUZ CITY - A Public Order Police commander was killed and five of his sub-ordinates were wounded in a Taliban attack in northern Kunduz province on Sunday, an official said.Lt. Col. Zahir, administrative chief for Khanabad district,

KABUL - President Moham-mad Ashraf Ghani has ordered the formation of a new admin-istrative ‘Ministry of Trans-port’ unit by merging the Min-istry of Transportation, Civil Aviation Authority, Railway Authority, and Traffic Direc-torate of the Ministry of Inte-rior with the Ministry of Public Works.The Office of the Chief of Staff of Presidential Palace in a statement said the new admin-istrative unit has been formed with an aim for on time and ef-fective realization of the goals and priorities of the govern-ment in bid to improve better governance, promotion of re-

KABUL - The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday announced initial results of the October 20-21 Wolesi Jirga elections from eastern Nangarhar province.Fourteen candidates, including four women, were have found their way to the new lower hous. Seven of them have been re-elected, a statement from the poll panel said.Based on the preliminary re-sults, the wining candidates are:Abdul Karim Karimi (5,085 votes)Faridoon Khan Momand (7,721 votes)Abdul Rauf Shpoon (7,342

forms in the public adminis-tration, acceleration of strate-gic investment process in the infrastructures of the country and prevention of operational interferences among the gov-

votes)Amir Mohammad Yar (7,198 votes)MirwaisYaseeni (6,698 votes)Hazrat Ali (6,452 votes)Nabiullah Baz (5,420 votes)

Ghani Orders Merger of 5 Governmental Institutions to Establish a New Administrative Unit

Wolesi Jirga Poll Results from Nangarhar Unveiled

Iran Deputy Ambassador Summoned Over Refugees

‘Mistreatment’

US Pullout from Afghanistan a Taliban Demand: Qureshi

Public Order Police Commander Killed in Taliban Assault

ernment institutions as well as re-alization of the principle for pre-vention of expenditures.The statement further added that all documents of the mentioned ...(More on P4)...(7)

Abdul Nasir Momand (6,008 votes)Abrarullah Murad (5,504 votes)Lal Mohammad Durrani (5,420 votes)...(More on P4)...(8)

KABUL - Kabul, a city with an es-timated six million population, is faced with a “severe” lack of water following a 50 percent drop in rain-falls last year, officials and residents acknowledged.Residents said their access to water is getting limited day-by-day as ac-cording to them the underground water level is dropping every year.In a city with no rivers, the Kabul residents use underground water as the main source to afford their daily need for the lifesaving ele-ment.Back in July, the National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) warned that underground water reserves in Kabul will dry up with-in the next 10 years as according to the authority, the demand and use of water is increasing in the capital city.The ANDMA said 32 million cubic meters of water is used from Ka-bul’s underground water reserves every year while the capacity of the city’s water is 29 million cubic me-ters in a year.There are 213,000 wells in Kabul City, the ANDMA figures show. “Four to five years ago, Kabul’s underground water reserves level was high and the access to water was easy, but now, it is difficult to have access to underground wa-ter. The government-owned water supply services are active three to four hours a day while it was active 24/7 four years ago,” said Sayed Ali, a Kabul resident. “In some areas, people pay high prices for water,” said Sohdaba, a Kabul resident. Other residents said the problem requires a serious attention by gov-ernment. “Government should pay serious attention to this issue and should resolve it ‘as soon as possible’,” said Khalilullah, a Kabul resident. ANDMA’s ...(More on P4)...(13)

JALALABAD - The local officials in eastern Nangarhar province are saying that around six thousand metric tons of citrus fruit have been harvested from citrus fruit fields in this provinceThe officials are optimistic that more citrus fruits would be harvested from the newly established fields in coming years.Provincial director of agricultural and livestock Noorullah Sabawoon said around 60 various types of citrus fruits are being studied in the research farm in a bid to boost the harvest of the fruit during the upcoming years.He also added that the employees of the directorate are being trained in a work-shop to help with the establishment of more citrus fruit fields and further in-crease the harvest of the fruit.Sabawoon further added that the em-ployees would be professionally trained during the workshops. (KP)

police for mistreating them. But the Iran border police have rejected the allegations and said they never mistreat-ed Afghan refugees. The Iranian embassy in Kabul said in a statement last week that the beating and mistreat-ment of a number of Afghan citizens is unacceptable. “The mistreatment and beat-ing of a number of Afghan citizens is unacceptable,” the statement said. Thestatement said the Islam-ic Republic of Iran swiftly launched an investigation into the incident and strong-ly rejected involvement of the relevent personnel in such an act. Statistics of Ministry of Refu-gees and Repartriation indi-cate that at least three million Afghan refugees, who fled war and violence, are resid-ing in Iran and only 800,000 have proper legal docu-ments.The United Nations High Council on Refugees has iden-tified civil wars and internal conflicts as one of the leading factors ...(More on P4)...(10)

part in peace talks with Af-ghanistan without any con-ditions.Qureshi said Pakistan had released several Taliban fig-ures in an attempt to make the political atmosphere in the region conducive to the dialogue between the US and the Taliban.Islamabad was facilitating the dialogue so that peace could be restored to Afghani-stan, he said, adding he had twice visited Kabul to ...(More on P4)...(11)

told Pajhwok Afghan News the militant assault took place in the Chahartot area of the district this morning.He said the militants at-tacked the vehicle of POP Commander Lt. Col. Shah Tawoos. He added Tawoos was ...(More on P4)...(12)

Miller says Afghans suffer the most from the conflict and that it is the time «to end hostilities and start talking to one another».

Miller ‘Has No Orders’ on Troop Reduction in Afghanistan

KABUL - The US and NATO Forces Commander in Afghani-stan Gen. Scott Miller in a meet-ing with Nangarhar governor on Sunday assured that they will continue to support the Afghan forces even if they get an order about troop withdrawal – an issue which Miller says is rumors by “newspapers”.

“I have seen the same rumors I have from the newspapers but all I would assure you is first of all I have no orders, so nothing changed,” he said in the meeting.Miller said their support to Af-ghan forces will continue in the same level.“But if I do get orders, I think it is important for you to know that we

are still with the security forces. Even if I have get a little bit small-er, we will be okay,” he said.Meanwhile, Miller insisted on a political solution for Afghanistan and said that “political settlement will only happen through Afghans talking to Afghans”.The US general said much has been ...(More on P4)...(9)