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KABUL - The newly-created Afghanistan Chamber of Industries and Mines (ACIM) on Monday started functioning, vowing to develop industries, prevent illegal min-eral extraction and attract investment in the mining sector.President Ashraf Ghani ordered separation of the industry section from the Afghani-stan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and creation of a special chamber for industries and mines on May 2. The president inaugurated the ACIM four days ago.Rahimullah Samandar, chief operating of-ficer at ACIM, during the launch of the chamber’s work, said creation of the body was needed to support industrialists. He

KABUL - Reports in the US media claimed that the team, tasked to formulate Afghan policy was still struggling with the task, as rifts within the White House and between Con-gress and the administration had further complicated its job.“We’ve had now three sessions within the National Security Council exploring a full range of options. And when I say a full range of options, I mean the entire landscape,” Tillerson said.A transcript, released in Washington by his office, also

KABUL - According to the MoFA, each machine has the capacity to print 120 passports an hour. Data of the holder of passport could be entered into the system.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Tuesday officially opened a passport cell which will undertake the delivery of pass-ports to the citizens of Afghani-stan in Iran and Pakistan. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Salahuddin Rabbani, said the center, which was established at a cost of $1.5 million, will find per-manent solutions to the problems facing Afghan nationals in Iran and Pakistan. He said that within two years, all Afghans overseas will have access to digital passports. The ...(More on P4)...(2)

said the ACCI was now more focused on traders.In the absence of attention from the government and ACCI to industries

quoted Tillerson as telling journalists in Manila that in pre-vious sessions, US President Donald Trump raised some issues that nobody else had done in the past.“The president is asking … some very, very pointed ques-tions, and they are good questions. They were the right questions that he should be asking, and perhaps these are questions that no one’s been willing to raise in the past,” he said. ...(More on P4)...(1)

KABUL - The Taliban -- which banned poppy cultivation when it ruled Afghanistan -- now ap-pears to wield significant control over the war-torn country’s heroin production line, providing insurgents with billions of dollars, officials have told AFP.In 2016 Afghanistan, which produces 80 percent of the world’s opium, made around 4,800 tonnes of the drug bringing in revenues of three billion dollars, according to the United Nations.The Taliban has long taxed poppy-growing farmers to fund their years-long insurgency, but Western officials are concerned it is now running its own factories, refining the lucrative crop into morphine and heroin for exporting abroad.“I pretty firmly feel they are processing all the har-vest,” William Brownfield, US Assistant Secretary for Drugs and Law Enforcement told reporters in the Afghan capital Kabul recently.“Obviously we are dealing with very loose fig-ures, but drug trafficking amounts to billions of dollars every year from which the Taliban is tak-ing a substantial percentage,” he added.Poppies, which are cheap and easy to grow, make up half of ...(More on P4)...(3)

SAR-E-PUL - Sar-e-Pul governor: At least 300 families have been displaced from Mirza Olang village after attack by militants.Families from Mirza Olang village in Sar-e-Pul province, who fled to the provincial capital, say they are living lives of misery following clashes in the area.They said they have not received any assistance from the government and non-government or-ganizations and lack access to primary needs of life.Baqer, head of a six-member family, said they ar-rived in the center of the province bearing many hardships.“A number of people are living under the open sky in this hot weather and some are living in mosques. They have nothing,” he said.“We came here after leaving everything at home and now we don’t know what to do and what to eat or drink,” said Zahra, head of a displaced family.The families said they are concerned about their relatives left behind in Mirza Olang.“I saw a scene where a man was shot dead. His wife ran towards ...(More on P4)...(7)

KABUL - Major dispute over compensation clause in contract with airline after only four export flights to India.President Ashraf Ghani’s vision of cargo route between Afghanistan and India has failed, the Fresh Fruit Sellers’ Union said on Tues-day. Exporters and have said that the Afghan businessmen have suf-fered millions of Afs losses due to the ineffectiveness of the air cargo route with India. “I am thankful to Dr. Qayoumi and Ajmal Ahmadi. Whenever I have a vision out of the books, I consulted with minister of the economy and the minister of fi-nance. We reached consensus that it should become infrastructure,” said Ghani. According to ACCI, one of the terms of the air cargo agreement has been deleted fol-lowing the first flight to India. The Fresh ...(More on P4)...(4)

KABUL - Reports indicate: More US Marines to be stationed in southern Helmand Province; not part of new strategy.Additional US Marines are being sent to Afghanistan as the White House continues to mull over its strategy in the country, NBC re-ported Monday. The news report cited three de-fense officials saying dozens of Marines already based in the re-gion will redeploy to southeastern part of Afghanistan and will be stationed in the violent Helmand province. The deployment is not part of a new ...(More on P4)...(5)

and lack of facilities such as land, electric-ity and others for industrialists caused the country’s ...(More on P4)...(9)

WASHINGTON - Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is publicly touting a proposal to shake up the US military strategy in Afghanistan.“There’s a lot of people that say just pull out of Afghanistan. I disagree with that because I think the Taliban or ISIS would raise their battle flag over the US Embassy in six months or a year,” Prince said in an interview that aired on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Monday night. “That’s bad. But continuing the same -- I would say insanity -- that we’ve been doing for the last 16 years, that has to change.”Instead, the former Navy SEAL and founder of the controversial defense contracting firm, now named Acade-

Kaminzadah said from $110 billion aid to Afghanistan over the past 16 years, only $20 million had been allocated to the industry sector that too misused.

From Poppy to Heroin: Taliban Move into

Afghan Drug Production

Mirza Olang Displaced Families Living

Miserable Lives

MoFA Creates Passport Cell for Afghan Nationals in Iran, Pakistan

Cargo Route Failure Draws Backlash from Business Community

More US Troops to Afghanistan as White House Talks Continue

Chamber of Industries and Mines Starts FunctioningBlackwater Founder Questions US Afghanistan Strategy

Congress, White House Dither on Afghan Policy

mi, has proposed implementing a US viceroy in Afghanistan and increasing the number ...(More on P4)...(8)

KABUL - Corruption in general has hampered successes of the missions of the Afghan security forces in their fight against in-surgents, says President Ashraf Ghani.Addressing the first ever conference on the government’s cam-

President Ashraf Ghani said at a conference that he will reduce his role in appointments within security agencies.

Corruption Impedes Afghan Forces’ Successes

paign against the endemic corruption in security agencies, Ghani said that no one, including him, will interfere in ap-pointments within security organizations.“I want to reduce my authority in appointments day-by-day,” he stated.At the conference security agencies signed an agreement with the Attorney General’s Office to fight corruption in security agencies.“We decided to increase the food calories in our soldiers’ meals to 600 calories – higher than that of American soldiers, because they (Afghan forces) are fighting in a tougher situ-ation. When I meet with soldiers, lieutenants and officers in different categories, I can see that they are sometimes not re-ceiving the normal food they need,” Ghani said.At the same event, the head of the National Directorate of Se-curity, Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai said efforts are under-way to prevent the infiltration of militants into government forces.“We are paying serious attention to preventing the in-filtration of ...(More on P4)...(6)

Rex Tillerson

The Trump administration has been looking at full range of options in the process of crafting new strategy for Afghanistan,

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday.

President Ashraf Ghani