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KABUL - In an interview with a private Pakistani news chan-nel, the prayer leader of Makkah’s Grand Mosque, called sec-tarianism “a curse” which could be diminished by resolving mutual differences and following the ‘Kalma-i-Haq’.According to Radio Pakistan, the imam said only the state was responsible for declaring jihad, not an organisation or a group of people.“The Holy Quran says that killing a single person without

HERAT CITY - Officials and traders from western Herat province have expressed con-cern over what they call extor-tion of money by security forces at dry ports, entry gates to the city and on highways.Saad Khatibi, the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and In-dustries (ACCI) provincial chap-ter head for Herat, on Sunday during a press conference here alleged security check-posts sit-uated along highways, entrance gates to the Herat city, the pro-vincial capital, and dry ports in the province were somewhat leased by some influential ele-ments within the government and personnel and soldiers man-ning the posts extorted money from ...(More on P4)...(2)

KABUL - Hungry soldiers on the frontline in Kunduz have said for the past four months all the food they have been given is rice, bread and lentils, which is not what the ministry of interior prescribes.Footage seen by TOLOnews shows these troops are not get-ting nutritious meals.According to one police soldier, Safiullah, “in the last four and a half months we have not re-ceived any of the items listed on our menu – such as milk, cake, eggs and fruit.”Another soldier, Sebghatul-lah, said the lentils are never cooked properly and neither is the bread, which they only get at 11am every day.“We do not get potatoes, onions, fruit or meat. ...(More on P4)...(5)

KABUL - Abdullah, who chaired a Cabinet meeting here, said terrorists groups had recently started targeting cit-ies.“Improving our spy agencies can help us more in this is-sue, the people must know if one incident takes place, we discover and stop several others from happening”, he said.The CEO said the national unity government’s promise of maintaining peace was unbreakable and never meant they were unaware of defending the people.Abdullah considered US Secretary Rex Tillerson’s visits to South Asia including Afghanistan as effective and said this winter the secretary would visit Afghanistan again to discuss mutual pledges.“An efficient work has been done for that, teams from both the sides have constant activities for the mutual pledges.”He said “promises made by the international community with

any reason is like killing the whole of humanity.”He said jihad could only be permitted by the orders of an Is-lamic ruler, adding that no organization could declare Jihad on its behalf.He said militant groups organized under name of Islam never served the religion but they only spread terrorism.When asked about the weakness of Islamic countries, the Imam responded even if the ...(More on P4)...(1)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s national security brain trust faces Congress on the need for a new war authorization as the deadly ambush in Niger is igniting a push among many lawmakers to update the legal parameters for combat operations overseas.Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are scheduled to testify be-fore the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday. They told the panel behind closed doors three months ago that a 2001 law gave the military ample authority to fight terrorist groups.But that’s a position that won’t wash with a grow-ing number of congressional Republicans and Democrats, many ...(More on P4)...(3)

KABUL - The railway administration department said Sunday that the establishment of a railway line between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan will be one of the most important topics of discussion during President Ashraf Ghani’s next visit to Uz-bekistan.The department’s deputy head Abdul Bari Sed-diqi said Uzbekistan is interested in helping Af-ghanistan to build the railway line in order for them to have a direct route to Iran. He said the most direct route would be through Afghanistan.The plan is to run the ...(More on P4)...(4)

KABUL - Officials said $3 billion USD will be in-vested in the new industrial park over the next 10 years – which will help boost the local manufac-turing sector.The biggest industrial park, Green Industries that has been established by an Afghan trader in Ka-bul’s Deh Sabz district will be inaugurated within a month.Officials from the industrial park said they will distribute land to investors who set up businesses in the park. They also said about $3 billion USD will be invested in the park in the next 10 years and that job opportunities will be provided for 50,000 people. The park encompasses over seven million square meters of ...(More on P4)...(6)

KABUL - Kabul traffic manage-ment department has been hand-ed over by the interior ministry to Kabul municipality which says it will resolve the congestion crisis.Kabul Traffic Management De-partment, which fell under the Ministry of Interior (MoI), was on Monday handed over to the Ka-bul Municipality. Kabul Municipality officials said they will focus on drawing up a traffic management plan for Ka-bul city. According to officials, Kabul city streets were designed to cope with only 40,000 vehicles but cur-rently at least 500,000 vehicles use the city’s roads daily.“We will work on traffic regula-tions and will send a new outline to parliament to close the current gaps in the law,” Kabul’s acting mayor Abdullah Habibzai said. The interior ministry meanwhile said handing over the Kabul traf-fic ...(More on P4)...(7)

Afghanistan are endless, that is why the US has not specified a timeline of stay in Afghanistan.Abdullah said the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan would be based on the ground con-ditions. ...(More on P4)...(9)

Chief Executive Officer Dr. Abdullah Abdullah says terrorist attacks have increased in major cities and strengthening of intelligence capacity could help turn the tide.

The Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament on Monday rejected a presidential legislative decree seeking amendment to the population registration law.

US Senators to Press Tillerson and Mattis on

New War Authority

Planned Railway Line to Link Uzbekistan

with Iran

Largest Industrial Park in Kabul Soon to Be Inaugurated

Security Personnel Accused of Extorting Herat Traders

Frontline Police in Kunduz ‘Not Getting Food’

Management of Kabul Traffic Dept. Handed Over to Municipality

MPs Reject President’s Decree on Population

Peace, National Defense is Our Mission: Abdullah93% of Afghan Journalists aren’t Paid on Time: Nai

No Group can Declare Jihad

KABUL - In March, 2013, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) shared a draft population registration law in seven chapters and 39 articles with the lower house, which approved the draft within a month.However, many people around the country opposed the law and demanded addition of nationality and tribe in new com-puterized identity cards after the president approved the law in September 2014.On March 2, 2016 following protests, the president approved amendment to Article sixth of the law about distribution of electronic ID cards. Based on the presidential decree, national-ity and tribes would also be mentioned in identity cards.Mirdad Khan Nijrabi, who heads Wolesi Jirga commission on security affairs, said that all permanent commissions of the house had different views about the presidential decree in joint sessions.However, some other lawmakers stressed the decree itself should be first decided before discussing controversial issues in it.Wolesi Jirga speaker Abdu; Rauf Ibrahimi finally asked law-makers to vote on the decree. Of 126 lawmakers present, 86

KABUL - More than 90 percent of Afghan media workers are not paid monthly salaries on time, an independent media watchdog said on Monday.In a new report, Nai -- a journalist protection group -- detailed violations of rights and privileges of media professionals by their employers.The report alleged inordinate delays in salary payments, lack of pension and annual holidays, unwarranted dismissals and employer interference in the ...(More on P4)...(8)

The Imam of Kaabah, Dr Sheikh Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid, has said no militant group or organization can

declare jihad, which he says is the state’s job.

voted against the decree.Ibrahimi said the government should start distribution of electronic ID cards in line with the previ-ous population registration law. (Pajhwok)