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Land Grabbers List Submitted To Government
More than 1500 acres of land have been grabbed by powerful in Bagrami district, Bagram chief district said.
Sayed Shamsuddin Qari Zada, Bagram chief district declared that earlier, thousands acres of land have been grabbed in several parts of the district but most of them were returned to the government’s property.
Qari Zada emphasized that if the government and responsible authorities do not seriously cooperate, retaking the grabbed lands would be difficult.
Bagrami district is one of Kabul’s biggest districts which the confiscation of land grabbing has been unprecedented.
Bagrami chief district said that the list of all land grabbers has been submitted to the government but he refused to name any of them as land grabbers.
Previously, the responsible authorities have committed to try to regain the grabbed lands but it has been seen that the commitments have not been fulfilled so far.
Since 2002, land disputes are a primary motive of conflict in Afghanistan. Rapid urbanization population pressures, displacement and resettlement, and rising land value have increased competition for land since 2002.
Less than 34 percent of Afghanistan’s land has been surveyed and legally registered, leaving the rest vulnerable to land-grabs, the Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee said in a report.
In a country where 80 percent of the population relies on agriculture, the Afghanistan Land Authority has recorded complaints of 240,000 hectares of land usurped in the last decade.
Complainants confront a system rife with forgery and bribery, said the report by the combined international-Afghan body.
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More needs to be done to boost local industry, says Kabir
The deputy prime minister for policy, Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, met with Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, at Sapidar Palace on Tuesday and discussed issues around the quality of domestic products and the need to grow and develop the industrial sector.
Azizi said that good trade relations with neighboring countries has resulted in stable prices of goods in the country.
He said the Ministry of Commerce and Industry works closely with the private sector. As a result, the private sector functions in a befitting manner and the Islamic Emirate has provided necessary facilities.
Azizi said that based on the Islamic Emirate’s good economic policies, there has been a significant development in the import/export sector in the country.
Kabir in turn voiced appreciation for efforts by the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and said: “The unprecedented efforts of the IEA’s administrations and the stability of the Afghan currency caused the price of food ingredients to remain in the right state and our people also be able to buy essential materials.”
He emphasized the need to work for a balance in trade with neighboring countries, and said more efforts were needed to improve the quality of domestic products and to grow the sector.
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Russia and Tajikistan hold joint military drills along Afghanistan border
Russia and Tajikistan conducted a joint four-day military exercise along the border with Afghanistan in order to be prepared for any “potential threats”, Tajik media reported this week.
Russian military personnel from the 201st military base in Tajikistan participated in this exercise. Reports stated military personnel practiced various combat tactics, especially tactics to counter terrorist groups that illegally enter Tajikistan.
This comes amid repeated concerns expressed by Afghanistan’s neighbors about what they claim are terrorist threats originating from Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on the drills but has repeatedly denied the presence of terrorist groups in the country. The IEA has also continuously said no militant group will be allowed to threaten another country from Afghanistan.
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The Media Violations Commission has ordered Noor and Barya TV channels to stop broadcasting and to appear in court, state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Tuesday.
ّIt is said that the decision against the channels was taken for “not observing the principles of journalism.”
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