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KABUL - Taliban’s attack on a military base in northern Balkh province, which killed more than 100 soldiers, has drawn strong condemnation from NATO, India and Paki-stan.The National Unity Govern-ment’s CEO Abdullah Ab-dullah called attack on mili-tary base a cowardly. “(The) attack on holy places is for-bidden in every belief, what Taliban did in Mazar today was against all values. I con-demn this coward attack,”

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - Af-ghan soldier Zabihullah was chatting with an army com-rade at their military base in northern Afghanistan when gunfire interrupted their quiet Friday afternoon.“I asked my friend what was happening, and he said, relax, it must be one of us.”It wasn’t. It was the Taliban.Dressed in army uniforms, at least 10 Taliban attackers had breached the military headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif, eventually killing

KABUL - A number of MPs at Saturday’s Parliament session spoke out about Friday’s deadly attack on the Afghan National Ar-my’s 209 Shaheen Corps Headquarters in Balkh province and sharply criti-cized government for not having a clear anti-terror policy in place and said the attack was questionable.“People in power see to it that terrorists names are removed from the black list, they see that there is a wrong policy against ter-rorists, they see that terror-ists are being backed from inside government,” said Naheed Farid, one MP.“Government and its me-dia section did not tell the truth to people about the attack. What happened

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there (Balkh) is a tragedy,” MP Arif Rahmani said.Others MPs meanwhile said the attack shows that insurgents have infiltrated the security forces.“This (attack) sends us a

KABUL - A number of sol-diers from Afghan National Army’s 209 Shaheen Corps Headquarters in Balkh prov-ince, who survived the dead-ly attack on Friday but are being treated at a public hos-pital in Mazar-e-Sharif city, said attackers must have had inside help to gain access to the heavily fortified military base. They said the attackers had to pass through a number of checkpoints in order to get to the center of the base where the mosque was located. Hussain, one survivor who is being treated at the Mazar-e-Sharif hospital, said attack-ers entered the base in army

KABUL - The United States Forces for Afghanistan (USFOR-A) con-firmed the death of a top Taliban leader Quari Tayib in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan.“U.S. Forces-Afghanistan confirmed Quari Tayib, once known as the Taliban Shadow Governor of Takhar Province, was killed in an airstrike in

MOSCOW - Thousands of migrants and refugees, who arrived in Germa-ny from Afghanistan, may be former members of the Taliban terror group, outlawed in Russia, German media re-ported on Saturday.The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees informed the German secu-rity services about the potential threat,

message that enemies have infiltrated government,” said Shah Gul Rezaie, an-other MP.“When they (security of-ficials) are summoned, the parliament (MPs) claps

vehicles and had weapons on them.They opened fire on officers and soldiers, he said.“Those who enter the Corps, they are checked at seven or eight places; but the question is how did the insurgents get through these seven or eight checkpoints. The Corps offi-cials should respond this,” he told TOLOnews.He added: “(One) attacker was inside a vehicle with tinted windows and he was shooting at soldiers with a PK gun. I thank the Army’s Special Forces who gunned down the attackers.”Lotfullah, another wounded soldier, ...(More on P4)...(13)

JALALABAD - Journalists on Saturday complained they were not allowed to visit the area where GBU-43/B -- or Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) -- bomb was dropped by the United States in eastern Nangarhar province.Local officials say around 200 Islamic State (Daesh) fighters, including key members of the rebel group, were killed or wounded and a large amount of ammunition destroyed on April 13when a US aircraft dropped the heaviest non-nu-clear bomb on a cave complex in Achin district near the Paki-stani border.After the attack, journalists travel everyday to Achin dis-trict in an attempt to get in-formation about the bombing, but security forces do not al-low them to cover the restive area -- home to Afghan and foreign militants.Babrak Amirzada, a video re-porter with Pajhwok Afghan News, was one of the journal-ists who traveled five times to Achin to cover the incident. But he ...(More on P4)...(14)

Archi District, Kunduz, Afghanistan on Apr. 17,” a statement by USFOR-A said.The statement further added that rhe strike was part of ongoing efforts to deny Taliban freedom-of-movement in the area.“According to USFOR-A, Tayib had been a ...(More on P4)...(10)

the Spiegel media outlet reported.At the same time, some migrants are said to be providing false informa-tion about their links to Taliban in an attempt to persuade the German au-thorities that they could face persecu-tion in Afghanistan – possibly a death penalty – in the case of deportation.Now the German ...(More on P4)...(11)

more than 140 soldiers, ac-cording to the latest esti-mates by officials.“When they started hitting other soldiers, we under-stood that it was a terrorist attack,” Zabihullah told Re-uters from his hospital bed, wounded by an explosion. “The soldiers were drop-ping like sparrows hit by a shotgun.”The attack, which is likely the deadliest yet on an Af-ghan military base, repre-sents ...(More on P4)...(12)

for them when they leave the house,” Humayun Hu-mayun, the first deputy speaker of parliament said.MPs also slammed the in-filtration of anti-govern-ment groups, especially

Abdullah tweeted. “The attack on the 209th Shaheen Corps shows the barbaric nature of the Tali-ban. They killed soldiers at prayer in a mosque and oth-ers in a dining facility,” the NATO Resolute Support (RS) mission said.“The Afghan National De-fence and Security forces and the people of Afghanistan have my personal assur-ance that we will continue to stand with them. We support ...(More on P4)...(9)

Members of Parliament said at their session on Saturday the army base attack proved that insurgents have infiltrated security forces

INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) NCB

Procurement Entities

MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS Afghanistan Rural Access Project (ARAP)

Funded By ARTF-IDA

Item Description Rehabilitation of Road from Dehrawood to Charchino Phase 1, Lot 1, Ch.0 +000 to Ch. 20 + 000 Km, (Gravel Surface)".

Ref. No NPA/MPW/96/W-1659/NCB

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 : 4,500,000.00) Four Million Five Hundred Thousand. (Specified in ITB 17.2). The Bid security should be valid for 28 days after the Bid validity period i.e 118 days beyond bid submission deadline.

Deadline for Bid Submission

Bids must be delivered to the address below in Kabul Office at or before 10:00 AM. Afghanistan Local Time on May 22, 2017. Electronic bidding shall not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected

Address for Bid Submission

National Procurement Authority, Procurement facilitation Directorate (NPA/PFD) 5th floor of Administrative office of the President Kabul, Afghanistan.. Telephone: +93 0202147557

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. Bidding documents may also be obtained in a CD/flash memory from the NPA office (at address given below). In case of any difficulty in downloading from website, interested bidders may contact at e-mail address shekiba.hajizada@aop.gov.af, Copied to: zabihlrahman.rahmani@aop.gov.af and Tel: No. (+93) 202-147557 Note: In case there is difference between IFB and SBD, SBD contents take preference.

ــ د افغان ــ ی ج ـــــالمــــــــس تان اســــــــ هوریتــ د چارو اداری لوی رایست دجهوری رایست

ــ ی افغان ــــالمــــــــــــجهوری اس س تانــــــــ رایست جهوری رایست معومی اداره امور

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Administrative Office of the President

National Procurement Authority

یلــــــــتداراکت م اداره تسهیالت تداراکیترایست

آ مریت تداراکت امور ساخامتین

INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) NCB

Procurement Entities

MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS Afghanistan Rural Access Project (ARAP)

Funded By ARTF-IDA

Item Description Rehabilitation of Road from Dehrawood to Charchino Phase 1, Lot 1, Ch.0 +000 to Ch. 20 + 000 Km, (Gravel Surface)".

Ref. No NPA/MPW/96/W-1659/NCB

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 : 4,500,000.00) Four Million Five Hundred Thousand. (Specified in ITB 17.2). The Bid security should be valid for 28 days after the Bid validity period i.e 118 days beyond bid submission deadline.

Deadline for Bid Submission

Bids must be delivered to the address below in Kabul Office at or before 10:00 AM. Afghanistan Local Time on May 22, 2017. Electronic bidding shall not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected

Address for Bid Submission

National Procurement Authority, Procurement facilitation Directorate (NPA/PFD) 5th floor of Administrative office of the President Kabul, Afghanistan.. Telephone: +93 0202147557

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. Bidding documents may also be obtained in a CD/flash memory from the NPA office (at address given below). In case of any difficulty in downloading from website, interested bidders may contact at e-mail address shekiba.hajizada@aop.gov.af, Copied to: zabihlrahman.rahmani@aop.gov.af and Tel: No. (+93) 202-147557 Note: In case there is difference between IFB and SBD, SBD contents take preference.

ــ د افغان ــ ی ج ـــــالمــــــــس تان اســــــــ هوریتــ د چارو اداری لوی رایست دجهوری رایست

ــ ی افغان ــــالمــــــــــــجهوری اس س تانــــــــ رایست جهوری رایست معومی اداره امور

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Administrative Office of the President

National Procurement Authority

یلــــــــتداراکت م اداره تسهیالت تداراکیترایست

آ مریت تداراکت امور ساخامتین

CONTRACT AWARD NOTIFICATION

Date: 23rd April, 2017 Project Name: Citizens’ Charter National Priority Program (CCNPP)/ Citizens’ Charter Afghanistan Project (CCAP) Project ID: P160567 Funding: ARTF TFA03827 and IDA D1390-AF Type of Consultancy Services: Facilitating Partner (FP) for the MRRD/CCAP Client: Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) Packages#: 11 Further details are available in the NSP/NPA websites at www.nspafghanistan.org & www.npa.gov.af

Taliban, in government’s structure and the legiti-mization of the Taliban by some political figures and groups.“Why does a foreign am-bassador, and why does a leader and a (former) presi-dent, recognize Taliban as a political force. This is a se-rious issue and I hope par-liament does not simply ig-nore it. Our soldiers blood is being questioned,” said Abdul Wadood Paiman, another MP.“If you see any improvement under this government (NUG), come and shave my beard. This government was not OK from the beginning, it is not a government and you should suggest holding a Loya Jirga,” said MP Mir-wais Yasini. (Tolonews)