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President Ghani says he welcomes Uzbekistan’s willingness for hosting talks on Afghan peace.

Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum has vowed to established complete peace and security in three Uzbek dominated provinces in northern Afghanistan.

AIBAK - Violence against women surged by 19 percent during last solar year compared to the previ-ous year in northern Samangan province, an official said on Sat-urday.Women Affairs Director Malalya Safi told Pajhwok Afghan News in the 1397 solar year, 232 inci-dents of violence against women were registered compared to 1396 solar year’s 195 incidents.She said 65 percent of the last year’s incidents of violence had been resolved through dialogue, with 30 percent incidents going to judicial organs.She said last year incidents in-cluded 45 cases of physical tor-ture, five of denying inheritance rights, 13 cases of denying alimo-ny, four murders, nine incidents of threat to death, four sexual at-tacks and three incidents of kid-napping.Without going into details, she said 39 incidents of family vio-lence had also been recorded at the Women Affairs Department. Among the 232 registered violent incidents, 12 were elopement in which women denied a return to their homes. Torsan Gul, the resi-dent of Aibak City, complained against the violence she had been faced by her husband. She said one and half year back she trave-led to Turkey with her husband where she was physically tor-tured on daily bases.Torsan Gul who has no children said she worked in a cigarette producing company in Turkey and when she collected some money she bought air tickets and came back to Afghanistan where she live with her parents.She has not yet reached to any organization to registered her complain because according to Torsan Gul her complain may not be effective because her husband was currently in Turkey. Habiba, 23, the resident of Aibak City, complained that she had been facing violence from her step mother. She said her step mother tortured her and some-time she was beaten with a rod.She said she complained with the Women Affairs Department against her step mother, add-ing that they reconciled with the mediation of Women Affairs De-partment but the brutality of her step mother continued unabated.Addressing violent incidents:The women affairs director said that last year they resolved 152 incidents of violence in coordina-tion with the Hajj and Religious Affairs Department and the Pro-vincial Council with their con-struction advice.She said 70 more incidents which needed more investigation were referred to judicial organs.She said last year’s figures showed a decline in incidents of torture, ...(More on P4)...(5)

Violence Against Women Goes 19pc up in Samangan

Uzbekistan Ready to Host Talks on Afghan Peace

SHIBERGHAN - After surviving the Taliban at-tack on Saturday evening, Dostum said current security situation in Faryab, Jawzjan and Sar-i-Pul provinces was not acceptable to him.

Dostum Vows to Dismantle Enemy in North

Half of Afghans Suffer from Multidimensional Poverty: Gov’t

He was addressing a huge gathering of his supporters in Shuhada Park in Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province.The Taliban at-tacked the con-voy of Dostum in northern Balkh province late Sat-urday evening, killing one of his bodyguards and injuring two oth-

ers, an official said.Syed Shamsuddin Sadaat, a representa-tive of the Junbish party in Balkh, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Dostum

arrived in Mazar-i-Sharif this afternoon from neighboring Uz-bekistan.He said Taliban militants at-tacked Dostum’s convoy en route to Jawzjan province in Timorak locality of Chaharbolak district of Balkh on Saturday evening.The first vice president vowed to avenge the killing of his person-nel from the Taliban and added the uniform which should be wore while fighting the enemy was with him.He pledged not to go away until insecurity and instability is com-pletely eradicated from the Uz-bek dominated provinces.He assured the women not to worry ...(More on P4)...(3)

KABUL - More than half of people in Af-ghanistan’s about 30 million population are multidimensional poor as the poverty-strick-en country struggles with militancy, high rate of unemployment and war in decades, said a statement released by the government on Sunday.“The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan launched its first Afghanistan Multidimen-sional Poverty Index (A-MPI), shows that just over half - 51.7 percent - of people in Afghanistan are multidimensionally poor - they are deprived in health, education, liv-ing standards, employment and have faced negative shocks in production, income and security,” the statement said.The level of multidimensional poverty, ac-cording to the statement, ranges from a low of 12 percent in Kabul to a high of 81 percent in Badghis province.

“The Afghanistan Multidimensional Poverty Index complements the mon-etary poverty measure and uncovers the deprivations experienced by the Afghan people in various aspects of their life,” Ahmad Jawad Rasuli, direc-

KABUL - The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) on Sunday said that investigation into allegations lodged against former members of the Independ-ent Election Commission (IEC) and the Independ-ent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) will take some time due to the critical nature of the is-sue.The Anti-Corruption Criminal Justice Center will handle the next legal proceedings against the for-mer election commission officials if the allegations against the former commissioners on the misuse of authority and corruption are proved. “The clues were dispatched by the intelligence offices to the attorney general while the claims needed more time to be probed, but the investi-gation is moving forward thoroughly,” the AGO spokesman Jamshid Rasuli said. Heela Mujtaba who ran for parliament from Pa-ktika province claims that members of the Inde-pendent Electoral Complaints Commission have committed fraud in her votes. “The result sheets which we have received from recounting of votes in Paktika show that the com-plaints commission ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - The U.S. Agency for International De-velopment (USAID) held a women’s empower-ment event today for graduates of the Women’s Leadership Development (WLD) Jawana and Royesh programs. Senior Afghan government of-ficials, leaders in the private sector, and civil so-ciety representatives attended the event, which highlighted the achievements of the WLD gradu-ates and strengthened their support network as future leaders in Afghanistan.The graduates shared their experiences about the program, while champions of women’s leader-ship in Afghanistan discussed their perspectives on the role of women in Afghanistan’s peace and reconciliation process. The graduates and par-ticipants also discussed the future of women in Afghanistan and explored potential employment opportunities.Mrs. Nabila Mushleh, the Deputy Minister for Administration and Finance said, “The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is proud to support USAID’s Promote: Women’s Leadership Development Pro-gram, which ...(More on P4)...(4)

Probe on Allegations Against Ex-Commissioners

to Take Time

USAID Hosts a Women’s Empowerment Event

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday met the visiting Uzbek del-egation, led by Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, and dis-cussed the peace process, regional con-nectivity, infrastructure projects and economic ties between the two coun-tries, the Presidential Palace said in a

statement.Relations between the two countries are better than ever, Kalimov said in his meeting with Ghani, adding that implementation of joint infrastructural projects between Afghanistan and Uz-bekistan will further strengthen the ties.

The delegation announced their sup-port to the Afghan government’s ef-forts, particularly an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process.“Uzbekistan is ready to host the talks if Taliban is ready to directly talk with the Afghan government,” the Uzbek minister said. ...(More on P4)...(1)

tor general of National Statistic and Informa-tion Agency, told reporters.“It will also be instrumental in developing ef-fective poverty reduction policies, informed budget allocation, policy coordination and integrated policies,” the official said.According to the statement, 58 percent of all multidimensional poor people in Afghani-stan are children under 18.Nearly six out of 10 children live in multidi-mensional poverty, and children under 10 are the worst affected by poverty, the statement noted.The statement also highlights that multidi-mensional poverty is three times higher in rural areas than in urban areas, and it is the highest among the kuchi (nomadic) popula-tion and households where the head has no education....(More on P4)...(6)