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Ministers to Be Summoned over Failure on Spending Development Budget: MPs
Chairman of the lower house of the parliament has significantly criticized the poor performances and failure of the Ministers on spending the allocated development budget for the fiscal year of 1395 on Wednesday, Parliament representatives with the majority of votes decided to summon the Ministers in the near future.
Meanwhile head of the auditing joint committees in lower house said in special issue that even some of the Ministers will be dismissed or introduced to judicial institutions.
The majority of the budgeting sectors including Ministries have failed to spend even half of the allocated development budgets in past 10 months.
Members at the lower house of the parliament have demanded serious legal measurements to be launched for Ministers who failed to consume their budgets.
Lower house member Robaba Parwani said,” Parliament specially the representative’s house should decide immediately against those Ministers who have lacked spending of development budgets.”
“No compromised should made against those Ministers who have failed to spend the allocated budgets,” law maker Razia Mangal said.
Meanwhile head of the auditing joint committees at the lower house of the parliament Asadullah Saadati said, “Members at joint committees have decided to either dismiss the Ministers or introduce them to justice and judicial departments.”
Chairman of the lower house of the parliament Abdul Raouf Ibrahimi said, “Poor performances, neglects, irresponsibility and low capacity in consuming the budgets have caused that the development allocated budgets not to be spent completely, unfortunately this is injustice from the Government of Afghanistan to Afghan people. ”
Donor countries have always insisted on spending of the International aids through Afghan Government channel but it seems that Ministers are failing to consume the development budgets to improve the life of Afghans in the country.
Reported by: Rafi Sediqee
Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, met with representatives from the ministries of foreign affairs, defense and interior of Malaysia, along with other senior officials, on Wednesday and called on Malaysians to invest in Afghanistan.
The visiting delegation is being led by senior diplomat Dr. Shazelina Zainul Abidin.
According to the IEA’s foreign ministry, the two sides discussed bilateral trade, holding a business communication conference to strengthen trade relations between the two countries, the trade balance between Afghanistan and Malaysia, and creating a market for Afghan products, including carpets, cotton, and minerals.
According to the ministry, at the end of the meeting, the Acting Minister emphasized the increase of investment from regional countries in Afghanistan and called on Malaysian investors to also invest in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior says that Afghanistan has started exporting goods to Turkey via the Herat-Khaf railway line.
In a post on X, the ministry said: “Afghanistan’s exports to Turkey started in a calm atmosphere through the Herat-Khaf railway line.”
The ministry added that one train will run daily for a month and then two trains will run daily.
According to the ministry, the security of Khaf-Herat railway line is provided by the guards of the National Public Protection Agency.
Khaf-Herat railway project not only connects Iran and Afghanistan by rail, but also completes a 2,000-kilometer route along the east-west rail corridor from China, through Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan, to Iran, and on to Turkey and Europe.
As a landlocked country, this railway network will provide a safe route to connect with Europe via Iran’s railway network and Iran’s southern ports.
This railway line is strategic for trade between Iran and Afghanistan and will allow six million tons of goods to be sent between the two countries.
A joint expo between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan will be held in Kabul in the next four days, officials said on Sunday.
Officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said that the two-day expo will be held for the purpose of expanding and strengthening trade relations between the two countries.
“This expo will be held as a follow-up of the Kazakh-Afghan international expo, which was held in the city of Astana, Kazakhstan, with the participation of a large delegation of the government and the private sector of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” Abdulsalam Javad Akhundzadeh, the spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, said.
“At this expo, domestic products from different sectors of Afghanistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan will be put on display for two days.”
According to officials, 40 large Kazakh companies, and 40 large Afghan companies will exhibit their products.
Mohammad Saber Latifi, head of the Afghanistan International Expo Center, said that fruits, minerals and commercial services will be displayed at the expo.
During the expo, various memorandums of understanding for the trade of goods are also expected to be signed by companies.
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