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KABUL - Former Australia bats-man Dean Jones is to take over the role of Afghanistan’s head coach on an interim basis and lead the team in their Intercontinental Cup fixture in Hong Kong later this month, the country’s cricket board has announced.Afghanistan were granted test status in June by the International Cricket Council, putting them in an elite group of 12 sides permit-ted to compete in the longest form of the game.Afghanistan did not renew their contract with former India crick-eter Lalchand Rajput and have been without a head coach since August.“I am ...(More on P4)...(12)

KHOST CITY - Waziristan refu-gees in the Spera district of south-eastern Khost province have asked the Afghan government and NGOs for assistance.Spira is one of the mountainous and cold districts of Khost prov-ince, where hundreds of refugees from Pakistan’s volatile tribal re-gion -- the scene of a hige military offensive -- are residing.Thousands of families have tak-en refuge in Khost and Paktika provinces after Pakistani forces launched operations in Waziristan across the ...(More on P4)...(13)

GHAZNI CIYT - A number of resi-dents say the conflict in southern Ghazni province has recently in-tensified, with the warring sides disregarding civilian lives.They say both Taliban militants and government forces target ci-vilian homes during clashes be-tween them.Mohammad Anwar, a resident of Gawmishak area of Qarabagh dis-trict, told Pajhwok Afghan News that a few days back, Taliban mili-tants gathered in their village to plan an attack on Afghan forces.“But before they could launch their attack, the Afghan forces tar-geted the militants and there was a bad situation in the village. Two civilians were also injured and a mosque destroyed,” he said.Rahmatullah, a resident of Balai village of Deh Yak district, said three civilians of their village were killed when helicopters dropped bombs over them. The helicopters came after a meeting of the Tali-ban ended in the area, he said.“The government later announced that a Taliban commander was killed in the airstrike, but in fact those killed were civilians,” he said.Local ...(More on P4)...(19)

Taliban Collects 200 Million Afghanis from ‘Power Bills’ in Kunduz

KABUL - The National Envi-ronmental Protection Authority (NEPA) on Tuesday said Af-ghanistan was among 14 coun-tries of the world being affected by the climate change.NEPA Head Mustafa Zahir told reporters here on the occasion of International climate Change Week that soaring temperature was one of the characteristics of climate change which had become worldwide issue and hampered living things.He added last March was the hottest month in the history of

KABUL - Afghan Border Po-lice (ABP) has no helicopters to transfer logistic and food items to the check-posts in mountain-ous areas, an official said on Tuesday.ABP spokesman Safeer Moham-mad Safi told Pajhwok Afghan News they did not have their own copters while sometime took help from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to deliver food, logistic, shift injured or dead personnel from check-posts in the mountainous areas.He said currently have been de-

KABUL - The World Bank said in a report the Afghan government needs to boost certain sectors in-cluding mining and agriculture to boost its economy.The World Bank recently re-leased a report on Afghanistan’s economic situation and said if the country uses its resources prop-erly, especially in mining and ag-riculture, Afghanistan’s economy KABUL - Afghan Ambassador

Hazrat Umar Zakhelwal has met Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman and discussed with him issues facing Afghan students.The ambassador asked HEC Chairman Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad to remove uncertainty about the future of Afghan students at the Baqayee Medical University in Karachi and Imperial Colleague

KUNUZ CITY - Police Chief of northern Kunduz province has rejected the closure of Interna-tional Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) office due to insecurity and said security stepped up for the activities of welfare organi-zations in the province.The Geneva-based organization

Afghanistan according to statis-tics.Zahir said melting of glaciers had bad impact over the envi-ronment, agriculture and living items on the surface of earth.Second Vice President Sarwar Danish said climate change had become a grave issue and change for the world. He said geological factors, human ef-forts and different other reasons direct or indirectly linked to the climate change.According to Danish soaring temperature, ...(More on P4)...(14)

livered to the check-points in dangerous areas including the Ghash Pesh locality by helicop-ters, he said. ...(More on P4)...(15)

could grow by 6.5 percent a year between now and 2030.The World Bank has asked the Afghan government to encour-age private sector investments in the mining sector so as to boost economic growth. Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) meanwhile said they have plans to improve domestic gross ...(More on P4)...(16)

KABUL - A group of 50 Azerbai-jani military personnel was sent to Afghanistan in accordance with the plan and rotation for serving within NATO-led “Reso-lute Support” mission in Afghan-istan, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told APA on Tuesday.The peacekeeping contingent of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces has been serving in Afghanistan since November 20, 2002.Currently, 90 servicemen, 2 medical officers and 2 sappers of Azerbaijani Armed Forces are participating in a mission in Af-ghanistan. (APA)in Lahore.

Zakhilwal wrote on his Facebook page visa issues of Afghan stu-dents at the International Islamic University (IIU) in Islamabad and the Fatima Jinnah University in Lahore were also taken up.The envoy, who had earlier con-ferred on Afghan students’ issues with Pakistani officials over the phone, said the HEC head had told him the ...(More on P4)...(17)

on Monday announced down-graded its presence in Afghani-stan after a series of attacks on its staff.The ICRC delegation head in Af-ghanistan said: “Since December 2016, the ICRC has been directly targeted in northern Afghani-stan three ...(More on P4)...(18)

Australian Jones Named Interim

Afghanistan Head Coach

Khost-Based Refugees from Waziristan Seek

Assistance

Azerbaijani Peacekeepers Sent

to Afghanistan

‘Ghazni Conflict Rages

Amid Disregard for Civilian

Lives’

The Taliban insurgent group in northern Kunduz province has received about 200 million Afghanis from power bills during the last two years, officials said.

ABP Have No Copters to Supply Logistics to Check-Posts

Report Claims Local Economy Could Grow by 6% a YearZakhelwal, HEC Chief Discuss Afghan Students’ Problems

ICRC Office Closure Due to Downsize Not Security Threat: Police

Afghanistan Among 14 Countries Affected by Climate Change

KABUL - “During the last two years, the Taliban is collecting power bills in the areas under their control,” Abdul Hameed Hameedi, the power utility head for Kunduz province said.According to the official, this amount of money was collected from more than 14,000 clients in the province.In addition, sources in the Afghani-stan’s national power utility say that annually, the group receives millions of Afghanis from the power bills in Herat and Helmand provinces.Reports suggest that Taliban receives a part of the power utility’s revenue in the volatile Baghlan province too.Local officials blames both the govern-ment and the power company.“Weak management is the main rea-son that the Company cannot collect its payments; therefore, an enormous amount of money goes to the anti-gov-ernment armed groups,” Firuzuddin Imaq, a member of Baghlan provincial council said.In the past, a part of the Taliban’s in-come used to ...(More on P4)...(11)

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