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KABUL - Transparency In-ternational (TI) has said there is still political interference in the Anti-Corruption Criminal Justice Center (ACJC).According to the watchdog it has raised the issue because the center is working on spe-cific cases while there are doz-ens of other cases that need attention.Addressing a gathering on Tuesday, Srirak Pilpat, Re-gional Director of the Asia Pacific Department for Trans-parency International, said: “When you have more than 10 anti-corruption agencies, you will tend to have this problem in terms of coordina-

KABUL - Participants of a three-day conference on sani-tation on Tuesday said 42 percent of Afghans lacked access to clean drinking wa-ter and 19 percent to public toilets.‘The First Sanitation Con-ference in Afghanistan’ launched here on Tuesday was attended by officials from the rural rehabilitation, public health, education and urban development minis-tries, representatives from UNICEF, embassies in Ka-bul, the United Nations (UN), civil society and nongovern-mental organs.Speaking on the occasion, Rural Rehabilitation and De-velopment Minister Nasir Ahmad Durrani said a Cen-tral Statistics Organization (CSO) assessment in 1393 so-lar year showed only 58 per-cent of Afghans had access to potable water.He said 81 percent of people in rural areas and 19 percent

KABUL - New commis-sioners on the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Independent Elec-toral Complaints Commis-sion (IECC) were sworn-in on Tuesday after their ap-pointment.The president by issu-ing two separate decrees has appointed Najibullah Ahmadzai, Abdul Qader Quraishi, Maleha Has-san, Wasima Badghisi, Maazullah Dawlati, Rafi-ullah Baidar and Gul Ajan Abdul Badi Sayyad as IEC commissioners and Gulam Dastagir Hidayat, Abdul Basir Faez, Ali Reza Ro-hani, Humaira Haqmal and Abdul Aziz Aryae as IECC commissioners.Earlier, the Selection Com-

KABUL - Amidst rising in-surgent attacks, Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday asked the Ashraf Ghani administration to de-velop a security plan to bet-ter protect the minority Shia sect during high-profile pub-lic events.A day earlier, a suicide bomber from the Islamic State group killed at least 32 worshippers, including chil-dren, and injured 50 othersat a Shia mosque in Kabul dur-ing observance of a religious ceremony.“ISIS has stepped up its hor-rific and unlawful attacks on

KABUL - China has increased the budget for the Afghani-stan housing project by Chi-nese Yuan (CNY) 1 billion, the Ministry of Urban Develop-ment and Housing announced Tuesday.Previously, China had pledged CNY 500 million for the housing project to be built

KABUL - The Meshrano Jirga on Tuesday said yesterday’s attack on a mosque in Kabul was an attempt to create re-ligious divisions among Af-ghans.At least 30 people were killed and more than 60 others wounded in a suicide attack on a Shiite mosque, Baqir Al-Uloom, in Chahar Qala area of capital Kabul on Monday.The attack was claimed by Is-lamic State (IS) or Daesh mili-tants.A senator from southern Ghazni province, speaking at today’s session of the upper

Develop Plan to Protect Shia Minority, HRW Asks Govt

China Increases Funds for Afghanistan Housing Project by CNY 1 Billion

Kabul Attack Was Aimed at Fueling Religious Strife: MPs

Watchdog Warns of Political Interference

in ACJC

42pc of Afghans Lack Access to Clean

Drinking Water

CBI Chief Urges Closer Banking Cooperation

between Iran, Afghanistan

Germany Returns Fleeing Afghan Trainees

to Czech Republic

New Commissioners on IEC, IECC Sworn-in

66 Crime Suspects Prosecuted Last Month: CJTF

tion, the overlapping of man-dates. And when two or three agencies have to work on one single case, you will see this problem.”The watchdog urged the Af-ghan government to establish a new commission in order to monitor the ACJC’s activities.“The decision which is taken for corruption cases to be as-sessed by the ACJC, is a po-litical interference in judicial works. This should not be done. We can prevent this when we are able to monitor the activities independently,” said Sayed Ikram Afzali, head of Integrity Watch Afghani-stan. ...(More on P4)...(1)

people in total defecated in public areas due to the lack of public toilet facilities.He said his ministry and other organs concerned were taking part in the conference to assess a roadmap for solu-tions to the current problems until 2025.The minister said public awareness programs about cleanliness would be made part of the ministry’s plan to be implemented until 2025.Public Health Minister Firo-zuddin Firoz called lack of ac-cess to clean water and public toilets as major problems of people and said malnutrition, microbial diseases particu-larly diarrhea had direct con-nection with the shortage of clean potable water.He said water-borne diseases caused 6.2 percent deaths among children under the age of five years.Firoz said 41 percent of Af-ghans suffered from malnu-trition ...(More on P4)...(6)

mittee had introduced 21 persons to the president as nominees for the IEC and 15 others for the IECC.President Ashraf Ghani

Shia public gatherings, mak-ing no place safe,” Patricia Gossman, senior Afghanistan researcher at HRW, said in a statement from the global rights watchdog.“The government, Shia lead-ersand civil society groups

in Kabul, consisting 10,000 housing units.The Ministry of Urban Devel-opment and Housing said the revised budget committed by China was announced during a meeting between Minister Syed Sadat Mansoor Naderi and the Chinese delegation.The Chinese delegation ex-

TEHRAN - Governor of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Valiollah Seif called for efforts to boost banking cooperation between the Islamic Re-public and neighboring Afghanistan.Speaking to reporters after a meeting with his Afghan counterpart, Khalil Sediq, Seif said a great volume of bilateral transactions between Iran and Afghanistan are made through cash settlement methods and cur-rency exchanges.He further hailed his “good” talks with Sediq and said the two sides are seeking to estab-lish a “proper” correspondent banking rela-tionship between the two countries.While the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ac-tion (JCPOA), a 159-page nuclear agreement between Iran and ...(More on P4)...(5)

KABUL - Two Afghan trainees at a Czech mil-itary school, who flew to Germany without permission, have been sent back to the Hra-dec Kralove airport in east Bohemia, a news report says.Česká tisková kancelář (CTK) news agency cited Daily Pravo as saying since the two trainee helicopter pilots had not breached any Czech law, they would be held accountable by Afghan authorities.Police spokeswoman Hana Klecalova was quoted as saying: “They had a permitted stay in the Czech Republic. By crossing the inter-nal border of the Schengen Area, they did not breach any law,”Czech police mounted a search for the missing soldiers based on a tip, the newspaper said. The German police found the men aged 20 and 26and returned them to Hradec Kralove.The trainees went missing on Wednesday morning from a hotel in Lazne Belohrad. “We started a search and loaded the relevant data in the information system of the Schengen Area countries,” Klecalova told the daily.Later in the day, the soldiers were tracked in Germany and sent back to Ger-many. The Afghan group is trained by private companies under US supervision. (Pajhwok)

house, condemned the attack and said security officials in Kabul should be held ac-countable for their negligence in preventing the incident.He said the enemies of Af-ghanistan had carried out the attack in order to create religious divisions among dif-

and Chief Executive Offic-er (CEO) Abdullah Abdul-lah jointly interviewed the candidates and agreed on appointment of seven IEC

should work together to de-velop appropriate ways to improve security during vul-nerable public and religious gatherings so that Shia com-munity members can exercise their basic rights.”ISIS said ...(More on P4)...(3)

pressed optimisms regarding the standard and on time im-plementation of the work by the Ministry of Urban Devel-opment and Housing as they announced the revision of the budget from CNY 500 million to CNY 1.5 billion.In his turn, Minister Naderi said one ...(More on P4)...(4)

ferent communities of the Af-ghans. Enemies should know they would never achieve such goals, he added.Mohammad Alam Ezdyar, another senator, also de-nounced the attack and said, “It was an organized attack to create ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - The Criminal Jus-tice Task Force (CJTF) said on Tuesday it prosecuted 66 suspects in 65 criminal cases during the previous month of the solar year.The 66 individuals had been arrested in Kabul, Nan-garhar, Balkh, Ghazni, Maid-an Wardak, Parwan, Herat, Kunduz, Helmand, Baghlan, Nimroz, Farah, Samangan and Paktia provinces, the CJTF said in a statement.A total of 556.29 kilograms of heroin, 18650 kilograms of morphine, 10125.51 kilo-grams of opium, 3719 kilo-grams of marijuana, 25698.35 kilograms of solid chemicals, 9770 liters of liquid chemicals and 2516,75 liters of alcohol had been recovered from the detainees.The justice center said alcohol and narcotics related cases belonged to 17 of 34 provinc-es, 12 cases each belonged to Nangarhar and Herat prov-inces and 6 cases in Badakh-shan ranked these provinces at the top.The centre said Logar, Khost, Daikundi, Nuristan, Panjshir, Paktika, Kapisa, Ghor, Bamy-an, Badghis, Zabul, Uruzgan, Faryab, Sar-i-Pul, Jawzjan, Kandahar and Kunar had been free from narcotics or alcohol related cases.During the past one month, a total ...(More on P4)...(7)

members and five IECC members.Electoral reform country was one of the unity gov-ernment agreement’s main

First E-Gateway Opens East of

Kabul CityKABUL - The Ministry of Transport has installed and made operational the first-ever electronic tollgate in the Pul-i-Charkhi area on eastern outskirts of Kabul City to en-sure transparent revenue col-lection and entry registration of vehicles.Electronic collection of trans-port revenue, traffic statis-tics and preventing revenue wastage are main purposes of installing these gates, said disqualified minister Mo-hammaddullah Batash at the gate’s opening ceremony. “We are trying to register all revenue collected by mu-nicipalities, finance, transport and public work ministries in an electronic format”, he added.Batash said paying money in cash would be totally elimi-nated after implementation of the project and drivers would have to pay duty through banks. The gate has been de-signed to check every vehicle crossing it.Equipped with advanced facilities, Batash added, besides the director of the gate, the minister, finan-cial and administrative assis-tant and the head of transport department would be check-ing and examining work of the gate through security cameras.He added they were planning to install electronic balancers, GPRs and security scanners in such gates.Ac-cording the transport minis-ter, there had been no exact data for vehicles entering and exiting Kabul City, but now the data would be available and revenue specified accord-ingly.He said three more elec-tronic gates would be installed in other areas of Kabul city and the installment of the gate in Arghande square would start in near future.The direc-tor of the electronic gateway, Mirza Shah, said the gate cost 18 million afghanis and was equipped with computer-ized facilities.He added the non-existence of such system caused corruption in revenue collection but the gate would bring about transparency and would increase revenue. (Pajhwok)

points and the introduc-tion of the commissioners on the two electoral bodies is part of the electoral re-form. (Pajhwok)