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May 09, 2016

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Unemployment Forces Bamyan Youth for Migration, Drug

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Unemployment Pushing Kunduz Youth

into Insurgency

5 Development Projects Completed in

Nimroz Province

Order to Eliminate Insurgents not being

Impolemented

Taliban Storm Police Check Post on Outskirts of Kabul

102 Factories Resume Production in Balkh Capital

Taliban Attacks End Lull in Combat in Helmand

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - The inauguration of a power sub-station on Saturday enabled at least 102 factories to resume production in northern Balkh province, an official said.The substation worth $1 million was in-stalled at the Ali Sher Nawai industrial park in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital, Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) head Qurban Haqju told Pajhwok Afghan News.Of the 116 factories in the industrial park, only 14 were operational using their own electricity over the past few years and the

KABUL - Taliban insurgents attacked police checkpoints on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the main city of the Hel-mand province early on Sun-day, ending weeks of relative calm during the annual opi-um harvest.Helmand has been one of the main targets of the Taliban, which has forced govern-ment security forces to pull back from several districts and concentrate around Lashkar Gah and the main highway that runs through the province.The attack in the Babaji area of Lashkar Gah, during the early hours of the morning, set off a three-hour gunbat-tle during which the Tali-ban said they overran two

NIMROZ - National Solidarity Programme of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Devel-opment (MRRD/NSP) on Sun-day said that 5 development pro-jects at the cost of AFN 2,552,000 completed in the districts of Di-laram, Kang and Char Burjak of Nimroz province. According to NSP Provincial

KABUL - A number of military experts believe President Ashraf Ghani’s order to suppress mili-tants is not being properly im-plemented.They said that the president is

checkpoints, destroyed an ar-moured personnel carrier and captured a large amount of equipment.Reports of casualties varied. Helmand police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang said 14 Tali-ban fighters were killed and another 22 wounded before the insurgents were driven

BAMYAN CITY - A Large number of youth in central Bamyan province complained unem-ployment, lack of work opportunity to ensure their effective role in political area and work-ing with the government, saying the ongoing problems forced them to seek asylum in for-eign countries and accept life risks.Hussain Ali Amiri, a youngster, told Pajhwok Afghan News that scores of youth in Bamyan province were did ...(More on P4)...(12)

KUNDUZ CITY - A large number of youth in northern Kunduz province complain about unemployment which they blame for prob-lems that force them into seeking asylum in foreign countries or joining militant groups.The increasing joblessness has become a seri-ous problem in Afghanistan and is forcing a large number of youth to embark on illegal migration through dangerous routes to Euro-pean countries.Zabihullah Majidi, a jobless youth and civil society activist in ...(More on P4)...(13)

KABUL - Several Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a police check post in a western Kabul suburb on Sunday, storming the check point from several directions - leav-ing an Afghan National Police (ANA) officer dead and three others wounded.The attack took place in Qala Haidar Khan area of the city near the Kampani Bridge.However, Kabul police headquarters has not released details of the encounter, but eye wit-nesses at the scene told TOLOnews that a gun battle, with light and heavy weapons, lasted between the two ...(More on P4)...(14w)

remaining 102 factories had stopped opera-tions due to a lack of electricity, he said.However, the deputy head of Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries for Balkh, Tahir Roshanzada, said the industrial park still faced a several other issues such as lack of infrastructure, roads, canalization and professional works.Haqju said illegal imports of the same goods was another problem facing the factories, adding his office would present a list of prob-lems facing traders at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting. (Pajhwok)

off, with four police killed and another seven wounded.The Taliban said 15 police, in-cluding a police commander, were killed and several oth-ers wounded, while only one Taliban fighter was killed and another two wounded.After months of heavy fight-ing ...(More on P4)...(11)

Manager in Nimroz province, these projects comprise the con-struction of Community Center, culverts, Retaining wall and Hand Pumps Approximately, 319 families in different com-munities had an opportunity to gain access to basic human needs upon completion of these pro-jects. ...(More on P4)...(9)

“messing with people’s minds” by giving the order but not im-plementing it on the battlefields.“Unfortunately, what the presi-dent has announced is not put into practice. ...(More on P4)...(10)