Afghan most popular singer Farhad Darya wants to reach afghan youths voice to the government.
He wants to use its art and reach afghan youths voice to those who are decision makers in the country.
If we don’t pay attention to afghan youth's life Afghanistan will face big disaster, says Farhad Darya.
Life is beautiful.
This is the phrase which Farhad Darya wants to understand it s meaning for afghan youths.
This afghan popular singer who is doing social activities in recent years planes to launch concerts and provide albums for youths all over the country.
"I in "life is beautiful" s trip do not promise food for youths, I don’t promise jobs, I don’t promise money too, I don’t promise anything for anyone , but I try to lighten the fire of hop in depressed hearts of youths" says Farhad Darya.
Darya says that he has launched a survey to collect afghan youths hopes and demands and give it to political leaders.
"I want to become a bridge between afghan youths hops and pains and those who are making decision on there destiny and reach there voices" says Darya.
Farhad Darya in recent years has don some activates for peace in his country.
He has been named as peace ambassador of UN in Afghanistan and has launched money concerts in the country.
Afghan president Hamed Karzay says that some governmental organizations besides reporting for afghan government they report for foreign countries too.
"After recent incidents in the country we found that some organizations is responsible to report about there activities for some other countries too", says the president.
According to Hamed karzay this presses is direct violating of Afghanistan s national integrity.
President karzay says that ongoing of this presses is intolerable for his government.
The president did not clear the name of any specific organization.
Meanwhile the president seriously asked international community to close all privet security companies in the country.
These companies blamed by president responsible in insecurities in the country.
"We seriously ask the foreigners to take hand of these foreign privet security companies, Afghanistan dose not have tolerance of paler ale forces, we can't see twenty to 14 thousands forces beside our national army and police to do every thing they want" said president Hamed Karzy.
Closing privet security companies is the most important suggestions of Afghan government in recent months.
The president repeated this suggestion in Kabul international conference last month in Kabul too.
Afghan president Hamed Karzay is in Iran for one day visit.
Afghan president s office announced that president karzay will attend in fourth session of three Persian countries and talk about relations between these countries.
President will also to meet Iran s leader Ayatollah Khamenay together with Iran and Tajikistan presidents, says afghan president s spokesman.
Trade relation among three Persian countries, counter narcotic straggle, regional coop rations and afghan refugees' situation in Iran is the main part of this visit, says Syamak Herawee spokesperson of Afghan president.
Afghan delegation will also discuses afghan refugee's problems and request them to start exchange of prisoners of tow countries soon according to president s office.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s new constitution, written to alleviate longstanding problems that have undermined good governance here for decades, received overwhelming approval from voters in a referendum on Wednesday, according to provisional results released by election officials on Thursday morning.
The new constitution is expected to be a crucial turning point in this country’s postcolonial history by finally addressing many of the political issues that have dogged this East African powerhouse since independence in 1963.
Voting began before dawn on Wednesday, and the high turnout had been expected, because of the intense campaigning for and against the constitution over the past several months.
But the vote was shadowed by memories of the disputed 2007 election, which set off ethnically fueled clashes across the country that left more than 1,000 people dead.
To prevent any sort of repeat, the Kenyan government overhauled the entire election process — not just registration, but also how the lines at polling stations would work and how ballot results would be transmitted — by cellphone and computer, — how votes would be tallied and how voters would be protected. Thousands of police officers have been sent to keep order in rural areas.
At the Baba Dogo primary school in Nairobi on Wednesday, calm prevailed. Beginning at 6 a.m., before the equatorial sun had cleared the horizon, voters gathered in orderly lines marked off by twine.
No one was shouting, cheering or gloating about how they were going to vote. Street vendors had not preventively cleared out, as they often do during elections, fearing trouble, and instead were enjoying a brisk trade selling bananas, peanuts and Fantas to voters streaming out of the polls.
It was an atmosphere, people said, totally different from the election in 2007.
“It’s peaceful,” said Samson Omondi, a college student. “We’ve learned from last time."
But the goal is far more than a clean vote without a violent aftermath. If the new constitution passes, it will curtail the powers of an imperial-style presidency, pave the way for much-needed land reform and give Kenyans a bill of rights, a combination that could spell the beginning of the end of one of the most corrupt, deeply entrenched political systems on the African continent.
Of course, voting day itself in 2007 was not the problem. There were only a few flare-ups, but passions were running high — political supporters mobbed the polls, sporting the various colors of their parties.
Tensions rose from there, and when a few days later the government appeared to have rigged the election to stay in power, fighting exploded.
Many Kenyans said Wednesday they felt confident that this referendum was different enough and that even in the days ahead there would not be trouble.
As of late Thursday morning, there had been no reports of violence as the word spread about the results, and no official challenges had been filed.
“The big forces have come in on one side,” explained Joash Mbulika, a human resources manager at a manufacturing plant in the Baba Dogo area. He was referring to the fact that Kenya’s top leaders — the president, the prime minister, the vice president, the deputy prime ministers and many other “samaki kubwa,” or “big fish” in Swahili — were all pushing for the new constitution. Last time around, they were the ones struggling with one another for power.
The one part of the country that could be the exception is the Rift Valley, Kenya’s breadbasket and also the epicenter of the ethnic violence two and a half years ago. The Rift Valley is dominated by the Kalenjin ethnic group, which has largely been supporting the “no” campaign, partially because of concerns over land reform.
But on Wednesday, officials in ethnically mixed Rift Valley areas that had been flashpoints in 2007 said there were no problems so far.
“Things are going smoothly,” said Chief Nahason Jason Mwaniki. “There’s lot of security."
Pre-referendum polls showed the new constitution getting at least 60 percent approval (it needed a simple majority and 25 percent of the votes in five of Kenya’s eight provinces). Most voters interviewed in Nairobi on Wednesday said they had scratched their X next to the green “yes” box.
“We’ve had a dictatorship-kind of leadership since independence,” Oliver Ochieng, a high school teacher, said Wednesday. “We need to change."
The early referendum results showed that political leaders still held enormous sway over their ethnic communities; an influence that many observers said was exploited during the 2007 election and stoked the violence."
On Wednesday, in some polling places in strongholds of leaders who were supporting the constitution, the “yes” votes were leading by more than 99 percent. The mirror image was true in strongholds of the politicians who had been opposing the constitution. In their areas, upwards of 90 percent of the people had voted “no
Kabul_ Afghanistan s presidential office announced that Afghan president Hamid Karzay planes to visit Iran in next days.
Attending in Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan s presidents' session and talking about relations between these countries are the aims of this visit, according to president s spokesman.
Trade relation among three Persian countries, counter narcotic straggle, regional coop rations and afghan refugees' situation in Iran is the main part of this visit, says Syamak Herawee spokesperson of Afghan president.
The exact date of this visit is not clear yet.
Afghan government says that has specific draft to solve Afghan refugee's problems in Iran that will discuses with Iranian authorities.
Kabul_ Afghanistan s presidential office announced that Afghan president Hamid Karzay planes to visit Iran in next days.
Attending in Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan s presidents' session and talking about relations between these countries are the aims of this visit, according to president s spokesman.
Trade relation among three Persian countries, counter narcotic straggle, regional coop rations and afghan refugees' situation in Iran is the main part of this visit, says Syamak Herawee spokesperson of Afghan president.
The exact date of this visit is not clear yet.
Afghan government says that has specific draft to solve Afghan refugee's problems in Iran that will discuses with Iranian authorities.
TEHRAN — Iran rigorously denied reports on Wednesday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been the target of a grenade attack.
Press TV, the state-run satellite broadcaster, quoted an unidentified “informed source” in the presidential office as saying the reports were false.
“Some foreign news sources published reports that a grenade exploded near the motorcade of President Ahmadinejad during his visit to the western city of Hamedan on Wednesday,” Press TV said. “The source denied the allegation, saying no such attack had happened.
The denial came amid a confusing series of reports and rumors sweeping Tehran.
Earlier, Reuters quoted an unidentified source in President Ahmadinejad’s office as confirming that the Iranian president’s motorcade had come under an attack on Wednesday but he had escaped unharmed.
The source was quoted as saying that a homemade explosive device had exploded as the president was traveling from an airport in Hamedan to give a speech in a sports arena. One person had been arrested, according to the source quoted by Reuters.
Mr. Ahmadinejad later appeared on live Iranian television at a sports stadium in Hamedan, Reuters reported. He was apparently well and did not mention an attempted assault.
On Monday, in a speech in Tehran, Mr. Ahmadinejad said he believed Israel had “hired mercenaries to assassinate me."
The United Nations peacekeeping force in South Lebanon, Unifil, said on Wednesday it had concluded that Israeli forces were cutting trees that lay within their own territory before a lethal exchange of fire with Lebanese army troops on Tuesday, largely vindicating Israel’s account of how the fighting started.
A Lebanese Army spokesman had said on Tuesday that the skirmishes started after Israeli soldiers crossed into Lebanese territory to cut down a tree.
Israel said its forces were clearing brush, as part of routine maintenance work, in a gap between the so-called Blue Line, the internationally recognized border, and its security fence, and that it had coordinated its actions in advance with Unifil.
Lebanon said at least four Lebanese were killed, while Israel reported that a battalion commander was killed and a platoon commander was critically wounded.
The clash was the fiercest in the area since Israel’s month-long war against the Lebanese Hezbollah militia in the summer of 2006.
In a statement on Wednesday, Unifil said its investigators were still on the ground and that inquiries were continuing. “UNIFIL established, however, that the trees being cut by the Israeli army are located south of the Blue Line on the Israeli side,” it said.
Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli government, said the announcement “clearly corroborates the Israeli version — that our routine activity was conducted in its entirety south of the frontier, and that the Lebanese Army opened fire without provocation and without any justification whatsoever.
In the hours after the incident on Tuesday each side had blamed the other, trading accusations of violating the United Nations Security Council resolution that underpins the four-year-old cease-fire.
A senior American official in Washington said that, based on what had been learned so far, the Lebanese military appeared to have been responsible for starting the gunfire.
“We fired in the air, and they responded by firing artillery shells,” the Lebanese Army spokesman said, speaking on departmental conditions of anonymity.
The Israeli military said its soldiers were fired on just west of the Israeli village of Misgav Am.
Israel said it believed that the Lebanese attack had been planned.
Before gunfire broke out, Lebanese soldiers shouted at the Israeli troops to move back, Israeli military officials said, and the Israelis shouted that they were in Israeli territory.
Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman, said that Lebanese Army snipers opened fire and that they “targeted our commanders,” who were observing the maintenance work.
The Israeli military said its forces returned fire with light arms and used artillery fire. Several minutes later, the military said in a statement, an Israeli Air Force helicopter fired at the LebaneseArmyForcesBattalionCommandCenter in Al Taybeh, damaging several armored combat vehicles.
After the first Israeli response, Colonel Leibovich said, the Israelis were asked to hold their fire so that the Lebanese could evacuate their wounded. She said that Israel acquiesced, but that 30 minutes later, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired toward an Israeli tank.
The Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, said in a statement: “Israel desires peace, and proved that when it withdrew its forces in 2000 to the international border. But Israel will absolutely not tolerate attacks on its soldiers or its civilians in its sovereign territory."
Israel said its foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, had instructed the Israeli diplomatic delegation to the United Nations to file a protest with the secretary general and the Security Council, calling the clash “one of many violations” of the United Nations resolution on the border, No.1701.
“Israel holds the Lebanese government responsible for the grave incident, and warns of the consequences should these continue,” the Israeli government’s statement said.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon “denounced the Israeli violations of the Lebanese sovereignty” in a statement, and urged “the Unifil, the U.N. and the international community to assume their responsibilities and put pressure on Israel to put an end to its aggression and its violations."
Unifil called for both sides to show “maximum restraint.” After the Security Council met on the clashes, Council members issued a joint statement expressing their “deep concern” about the violence.
For Israel, the confrontation broke a relative calm on a third front in under a week, after rocket fire from Gaza and a rocket attack in the south.
The northern border with Lebanon, though tense, has been mostly quiet.
Israeli military officials have warned about the fragility of the calm and have pointed to what they say is a concerted weapons buildup by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
The latest violence also coincided with tentative moves toward direct peace talks between Israel and the Western-backed Palestinian leadership based in the West Bank. Israel and the Obama administration have sought support from moderate Arab states, but Islamic militant forces in the region are opposed to any resumption of direct talks.
