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Quote of the Day It’s only when you have the courage to step off the ledge that you’ll realize

you’ve had wings all along.

Gail Lynne Goodwin

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VP Sarwar Danish

RIYADH - The Arab Islamic American Summit opened in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on Saturday with 55 leaders and representatives from 60 Islamic countries in attendance - including vis-iting U.S President Donald Trump.The summit which has brought together leaders and representatives from the Is-lamic world will look at ways to build more solid and ef-fective security partnerships to counter and prevent the rising threats of terrorism and violent extremism in the world through promoting tol-erance and moderation.President Ashraf Ghani is also in Saudi Arabia for the summit.“They (participating nations at the ...(More on P4)...(1)

KABUL - Under pressure from the Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament regarding acting officials, the government on Saturday an-nounced introducing min-isters-designate within next two weeks for a vote of con-

KABUL - President Moham-mad Ashraf Ghani congratu-lated Hassan Rouhani on his re-election as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.Ashraf Ghani, on behalf of Afghan people and govern-ment, in a message, congratu-lated the people and govern-

KABUL- Meshrano Jirga chairman Fazl Hadi Muslim-yar on Sunday directed the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Services Commission (IARCSC) and the Computerized Identity Cards Distribution Authority (CIDCDA) ...(More on P4)...(5)

fidence.The Wolesi Jirga in Novem-ber, 2016 impeached seven ministers--including foreign affairs, social affairs, public works, education, transport, telecommunications, and higher ...(More on P4)...(3)

MUDH in Lead of Anti-Corruption

Fight: Naderi

KABUL - The International Or-ganization for Migration (IOM) on Sunday inaugurated a recently completed significant expansion of its Torkham Transit Center in eastern Nangarhar province to increase aid to undocumented Af-ghan returnees from Pakistan.A statement from the IOM received said Deputy Director General, Am-bassador ...(More on P4)...(8)

KABUL - Second Vice Presi-dent Mohammad Sarwar Danish said on Sunday that security threats and bu-reaucracy are two major challenges in the way of Af-ghanistan’s economic devel-opment.Danish suggested that there

KABUL - The Ministry of Education (MoE) on Sunday said nearly 3.5 million chil-dren have been deprived of education due to insecurity across the country.The ministry asked the gov-ernment to an education program in cooperation with international partners about enrolling children who lacked access to school.Deputy Education Minister Mohammad Ibrahim Shin-wari addressed a campaign kicked off today under the title ‘Get up for support

KABUL - The Ministry of Urban De-velopment and Housing (MUDH) is in lead of the fight against corruption as the government of national unity has stepped up efforts to root out graft from the government institutions.Syed Sadat Mansoor Naderi, the Minister of Urban Development and Housing, told reporters in Kabul to-day that millions of Afghanis received in extra from the housing sector cus-tomers were returned to them for the first in the administrative enforce-ment of the country.He said the committee to fight cor-ruption has been established under leadership of the minister and the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing has secured the first place in administrative reforms Capacity Building for Results (CBR) process.Naderi further ...(More on P4)...(6)

Insecurity and Bureaucracy Threatening Economic Development

Govt. to Introduce Ministers-Designate

in 2 Weeks

Ghani Congratulates Rouhani on Re-Election

Senate Summons IARCSC, CIDCDA Heads

3.5 Million Children out of School: MoE

War on Terror to Dominate Agenda at Saudi Summit

Aid for Undocumented Returnees to Increase: IOM

of education and training’ organized by the Move-ment for Support of Quality Education in Afghanistan (MSQEA).In his address, Shinwari said quality education and train-ing services for all people was top priority of his min-istry.He said these services were not delivered justly last year due to problems in planning of the ministry, but the prob-lem would be resolved this year.He said areas under ...(More on P4)...(7)

Shinwari suggested the government should launch effective programs in cooperation with international organizations for enrolling thee

deprived children to schools.

High-ranking officials at a two-day summit in Kabul on justice and good

governance said issues facing the business community need to be addressed.The Riyadh summit has brought together 55 leaders and representatives

from 60 Islamic countries who aim to forge ties to fight terrorism.

PRESS RELEASE

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is a need to bring about struc-tural reforms in the trade laws and to establish a joint committee to address the is-sues facing the business com-munity and trade sector in the country.Danish made the remarks at a ...(More on P4)...(2)

ment of Iran on Rouhani’s re-election.He also congratulated the event on a phone call to the Iranian ambassador to Af-ghanistan Muhammad-Reza Bahrami.On the phone call, he hoped that ...(More on P4)...(4)