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NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg said corruption in Afghanistan will weaken the Afghan forces and will affect

the organization’s political support to Kabul.

Vice President

KABUL - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with TOLOnews said that in return to NA-TO’s assistance and support to Af-

BRUSSELS - Wrapping up a day-long summit, NATO leaders on Thursday agreed to do more to fight terrorism and ensure fairer burden sharing. They also reviewed the alliance’s training mission in Afghanistan, and agreed to continue to sustain the mission.The meeting was a strong demonstration of transatlantic unity and resolve, with allies taking important decisions to do more in the fight against terrorism and to ensure fairer burden sharing across NATO. ...(More on P4)...(4)

KABUL - A number of residents from Qara Bagh district of Kabul have said Taliban presence has increased in a number of villages in the district and that the insurgent group have been distributing flyers among residents.TOLOnews reporter Mir Abed Joyenda visited Sabz Rang village of Qara Bagh district but found residents were mostly reluctant to speak on camera. However some said the Taliban are active in the Qara Bagh district but come from ...(More on P4)...(5)

Residents Report Increase in Taliban Activity

in Kabul District

Some Allies Pledge New Afghan Troop

Contributions: NATO

Moscow, Kabul Agree on End to Propaganda War

Trade Volume between Afghanistan and

Tajikistan Doubles

IMF Approves $6.2m Disbursement for

Afghanistan under ECF

The second vice president added security forces during the month of

Ramazan would continue to serve the nation and discharge their duty.

KABUL - The holy month of Ramazan is a good op-portunity to better recognise the enemy and be unite and stronger than any time in

KABUL - As heavy battles continue in parts of Kunduz province in the country’s north, the commander of NATO’s Resolute Support mission and U.S forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Ni-cholson, on Thursday said in an address to Afghan troops

KABUL - As Russia seeks to strengthen its role in sta-bilising Afghanistan, Moscow and Kabul have agreed on ending the propaganda war against each other.Qader Shah, spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC), told Pajhwok Afghan News that Na-tional Security Advisor (NSA) Mohammad Hanif At-mar met his Russian counterpart during his visit to Moscow.He said both sides discussed the political and security situation in Afghanistan and the region. They agreed on the need for concerted efforts to promote peace and stability in the region and signed an agreement in this regard.Shah said Russian National Security Advisor Nikolai Patrushev appreciated the Afghan government’s ef-forts for peace. He also renewed his country’s support for an Afghan-led peace process.He added Patrushev and his Afghan counterpart stressed the role of the ...(More on P4)...(8)

KABUL - Tajikistan’s Minister of Trans-port Khudoyorzoda Khudoyor, on Friday signed trade and economic agreements with Afghanistan during a two-day visit to the country.Khudoyor had been in Kabul this week for an Economic and Trade Cooperation meeting in Kabul.The Tajik minister said that in the past three months Afghanistan and Tajik-istan’s trade and transit relations have in-creased ...(More on P4)...(7)

KABUL - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved $6.2 million for Afghanistan under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), the Washington-based in-ternational organization said Thursday.According to a statement by IMF “On May 24, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) com-pleted the first review of the arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) [1] for Afghanistan.”The statement fur-ther added that the ...(More on P4)...(9)

Security Forces Committed to Protect Country, People

Gen. Nicholson Assures Kunduz will Not Fall to Militants

Terrorists Hiding, Collecting Money in Pakistan: Ghani

NATO Urges Afghan Govt. to Fight Corruption, Bring Reforms

the past, a statement from the Second Vice President said on Saturday.“The people of Afghanistan ...(More on P4)...(2)

that foreign soldiers have been sent to Kunduz to de-fend the province and to sup-press militants in coordina-tion with the Afghan Security and Defense Forces. “American forces that are here are committed to the de-fense ...(More on P4)...(3)

ghanistan, the organization asks the Afghan government to fight corrup-tion, bring reforms and build reliable security institutions.

KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani says he is still awaiting the implementation of the com-mitments Pakistan made five months ago to help end the conflict in the country.

Stoltenberg said the continuation of NATO’s support to Afghanistan re-quires a number of conditions.“It is condition-based operation.

In an interview with a Pan-Arab daily, Ghani alleged many terrorists were hiding in Pakistan and collecting funds there, but concrete action against the extremists was yet

And what we want in return is that Afghanistan continue to implement reforms to build strong and reliable security institutions and also fight corruption and the fight against cor-ruption is extremely important be-cause it weakens the armed forces of Afghanistan but it also undermines political support in NATO allied countries and partner countries to provide support with training and also financial support to Afghani-stan,” he said.He also talked about progresses made in Afghanistan, saying that they are not sufficient. “We have seen a lot of progress. Just the fact that NATO is able to hand over the responsibility for security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces and that Afghan forces have been able to push back every time Taliban has at-tacked,” he stated. “When it comes to strengthening the Afghan forces in all ways for instance we are now devel-oping the Air Force. That is extremely important and we are making a lot of progress, more planes more helicop-ters more pilots and also strengthen-ing and educating more special oper-ation forces. We also need leadership, better leadership.”Commenting ...(More on P4)...(1)

to be taken.He told Asharq al-Awsat news-paper over a million Afghani citizens had started returning to their country from Pakistan and Iran. The Afghans were driving al-Qaeda and ISIS fight-ers from their areas, he added.About the Arab-Islamic-US summit, the president said it was the first major step to-wards regaining the glory of Islam as an international civili-sation based on science, peace and tolerance. “We are the leaders of the Is-lamic world and we have the conviction and courage to ex-press the aspirations and val-ues of ...(More on P4)...(6)

INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB)

ICB Procurement Entities

Kabul Municipality (KM)

Funded By World Bank (WB)

Item Description Construction of Wazirabad Canal Ref. No NPA/KM/96/W-1740/ICB

Bid Security The Bids must be accompanied with Bid Security in the form of a Bank Guarantee provided in the Bidding Documents at the amount of 340,000.00 USD (three hundred forty thousand USD only) and valid for 148 days after the bids submission deadline.

Deadline for Bid Submission

July 11, 2017, 10:00 hours. (Kabul, Local Time), Electronic submission of Bid is not allowed. Late bid will be reject.

Address for Bid Submission

National Procurement Authority, Procurement Facilitation Directorate, Geodesy and Cartography Building Meeting Room, Administrative office of the President Kabul, Afghanistan.

Website A complete set of Bidding Documents in English may be obtained by interested bidders free of cost by downloading from the NPA website www.npa.gov.af and IFB, from the websites of www.km.gov.af, Or may be obtained in a flash memory from the NPA office (Address given above). In case of any difficulty in downloading from website, interested bidders may contact at e-mail address: suliman.saleh@aop.gov.af, cc: zabihulrahman.rahmani@aop.gov.af, s.salarzai@kutei-pmu.com

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