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Gov’t Officials Directly Involved in Blazing War at Helmand: Qahraman
The Helmand Operational Military War Chief Abdul Jabar Qahraman told to Ariana News the current-previous officials from the central-Local Government are directly involved in blazing war at Helmand province, based on his remarks the money for the contracts, selling of fuel, ammunitions of the forces, and salaries of the ghost soldiers are going into the pockets of the High ranking and local Governmental officials.
He said, “ Fake military Generals, Ministers of Defense and Interior Affairs, Chiefs of National Security Directorates, are involved in current war in Helmand, their interests are hidden to this war, war should be continued, all of them are robbers.”
Sources told to Ariana News that the interests of the Officials are in the continuation of war of Helmand, according to sources the major part of the money from the contracts of the Afghan forces in Helmand are robbed by the Governmental officials, in second part, the major amount of money from the fueling of the Afghan security forces are going into Governmental officials pockets, and on the third part the salaries of the Ghost soldiers are divided among the local and central Governmental officials, and in the fourth part selling of ammunition is counted a good income sources for some officials, and in the fifth part the interests of some of the officials in drugs traffic which is also counted as good income and good factor for blazing of war in Helmand.
One soldier also said, “Likely the Government has hands in it, if not they would distribute it, see we are on watching shift under the rain and on the mad.”
Since one year 40 Afghan delegation including the President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani visited Helmand and reviewed the security condition but the security condition of the province experienced no positive changes.
President Ghani said, “We will not allow your ammunition, Uniforms, Foods to be robbed, and the Mafia circles to ruin your rights.”
Selling Weapons, ammunition, Uniforms and foods of the Afghan security forces in the front line of Helmand is not new issue for all soldiers, they believe that Government does not want to decrease war in Helmand.
Reported: By Bais Hayat
Officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) say 7,000 incomplete projects of the World Bank are at risk of destruction in Afghanistan. They call on the World Bank to resume the work of these projects.
According to them, discussions have been held with the World Bank about these projects, but there has been no result yet.
“7,000 incomplete projects are being destroyed, and if the work is not started, these projects will be destroyed. We ask the World Bank to resume the work of these projects as soon as possible,” said Noorul Hadi Adel, the spokesperson of MRRD.
Meanwhile, members of the private sector also ask international institutions to resume their work in Afghanistan.
According to the officials of this sector, with the start of these projects, job opportunities will be provided for thousands of people in the country.
“These projects create employment for our people and the country will grow a lot,” said Mirwais Hajizadeh, a member of the private sector.
However, economic experts stated if the work of these projects does not start soon, they will be destroyed and the investments made in them will be wasted.
Ten people have been killed and six others injured by floods in Helmand province in the past week, local officials said on Friday.
According to officials, seven of those were members of the same family, and they were killed in Kajaki district last night.
“Most of the people moved from vulnerable areas to high lands and mountains, and thanks Allah the number of casualties is low,” Sher Mohammad Vahdat, the head of information of the Directorate of Information and Culture in Helmand, said adding rescue teams and security forces have been dispatched to help people.
It is said that the telecommunication system has also been disrupted due to the effect of floods in Kajaki district. Floods have also destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural land.
Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met with the Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi and discussed issues related to Afghanistan, it was announced on Thursday.
During the meeting, Otunbayeva thanked India for “its critical humanitarian support and longstanding friendship for the Afghan people” and discussed the importance of regional and international cooperation to address prevailing challenges in Afghanistan, UNAMA said on X.
Jaishankar also said on X that the sides exchanged views on the current situation in Afghanistan.
“Underlined that India has provided wheat, medicines, pesticides and school supplies. Appreciate the role of UN agencies as partners in these endeavors,” he said.
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