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“MoI, Heart of Corruption in Security Institutions”

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

CORRUPTION_8-5-2017-DARI-SOT.mpg_snapshot_00.39_[2017.05.08_18.02.38]President Ashraf Ghani during the European Union’s 2017 anti-corruption campaign conference held in the Presidential Palace said the Ministry of Interior (MoI) is the heart of corruption in security institutions.

In his inaugural speech at the European Union’s third annual Anti-Corruption Conference in Kabul, Ghani acknowledged having wasted billions of dollars in fighting corruption in Afghanistan.

President Ghani said, “in security sector, we are focusing more on the Ministry of Interior this year. MoI is the heart of corruption in security institutions. We will bring reforms to this ministry. Currently reforms are implementing in the Ministry of Defense.”

“Bad strategy is as much a contributor to corruption as the actions of the corrupt,” the Afghan president asserted. “more efforts were directed at fighting graft in the country than in the last 40 years.”

He added, “We introduced more reforms in security sectors, banking, government hiring system, and our income increased by 35 percent.”

The second vice-President, Sarwar Danish said the government had many great achievements in reducing corruption in customs.

EU Special Representative in Afghanistan, Ambassador Franz-Michael Mellbin said at the conference that the international community is committed to Afghanistan’s anti-corruption fight.

Mellbin at the press conference that concludes the EU’s two-month long campaign to raise awareness and fight corruption in the country added, “From last year, until now, there have been more efforts to fight corruption.”

The campaign highlighted issues such as the illegal extraction of natural resources – the second-largest source of income for insurgents – along with the impact of corruption on the judicial system and security forces.

The Special Representative for United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto, during the inauguration of the conference at the Presidential Palace said, “The justice sector is Afghanistan’s most powerful weapon to fight corruption.”

Yamamoto added, “Demonstrating equal justice for all, including the highest ranking and the most powerful is a stark indication that the Anti-Corruption Justice Center and other courts are free from political influence.”

According to Afghanistan Transparency Watchdog, nearly 50 percent of Afghan people called corruption one of the serious challenges in the country.

Reported by Qiam Noori

Edited by Muhammad Zackarya

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ISIS-K leader reportedly living in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

Sanaullah Ghaffari, also known as Shahab al-Muhajar, is reportedly the ISIS-Khorasan (Daesh) branch leader and is holed up in Pakistan, Reuters reports.

The 29-year-old took over as leader in 2020 and under his leadership the group has carried out extreme attacks as a means of recruiting, Reuters reported.

Reuters noted that little was known about Ghafari before the deadly 2021 ISIS attack on Kabul Airport, which killed 170 Afghan civilians and 13 American soldiers.

But after Friday’s deadly attack in a concert hall in Moscow, which left 139 people dead, Ghaffari’s group has come under intense scrutiny.

Reuters reports that Ghaffari is said to have been involved in several attacks in Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

Pakistani officials said months ago that Ghaffari had been killed in Kunar province in Afghanistan in June last year, but Reuters has reported that he did not die and instead fled to Pakistan and lives in the border province of Baluchistan.

Abdul Matin Qani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan, says that Daesh has been suppressed in Afghanistan for more than two years and has lost its operational capacity.

The last attack carried out by Daesh in Afghanistan was the attack on the Kabul Bank office in Kandahar last week which left three dead and 12 wounded.

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IPL: Sunrisers thump MI in record breaking match

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

It was raining records at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday with the hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) clinching a 31-run victory over Mumbai Indians (MI) in Match 8 of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

Sunrisers’ batting rewrote the record books on a batting belter after the posted 277 for three.

SRH now have the highest team score in the history of the IPL – beating Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) 263 for five from the 2013 season.

In reply, MI made a spirited effort, and at one stage, were contenders to do the near impossible. In the slog overs, the enormity of the target proved a bit too much, and SRH clinched victory, but not without numerous nervous moments.

To put into perspective the carnage we witnessed – Heinrich Klaasen’s 23-ball half-century was the slowest fifty of the SRH innings.

Travis Head, playing his first match for SRH, raced to the milestone in 18 balls. Abhishek Sharma got there even faster – in 16 balls – to record the quickest fifty by an SRH batter in IPL history.

While Sunrisers notched up the highest total in the 16-year history of the IPL, just as incredibly, Mumbai Indians almost paid them back with the same coin, their batters coming out with a nothing-to-lose attitude.

The sixes kept rolling off the Mumbai bats too, helping them keep up with the asking rate for most of the chase, eventually however, they ran out of steam and finished on 246 for 5, the highest IPL total in a losing cause.

As ESPNcricinfo reported, never were more runs scored in a men’s T20 match (523). Never were most sixes hit in a men’s T20 (38). At the end of the close to four-hour six-fest, only two bowlers returned with an economy rate of under ten an over.

Thursday, March 28 : Match 9

Thursday’s match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur sees Rajasthan Royals go up against Delhi Capitals.

Fans in Afghanistan can tune in to Ariana Television to watch the match live from 6.30pm. Alternatively the match can be screened live on arianatelevision.com

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Magnitude 5.2 quake jolts Afghanistan

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon, the National Center for Seismology reported.

The quake was at a depth of 70km and epicentered in the mountainous north-eastern area of Ashkāsham.

The jolt was felt across the region including in Kabul, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan

There were no immediate reports of any casualties.

In October last year, over 2,000 people were killed when four 6.3-magnitude earthquakes struck in Herat province.

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