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Kurdistan Railway Set for Next Year - Media
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19.10.2006
Press from 18.October.2006
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Kurdistan Railway Set for Next Year
(Hawlati)
A railway linking all the main towns in Iraqi
Kurdistan and northern Iraq is to be established
next year, a source in the directorate of
transportation and communication told Hawlati.
The cost of the Penjwen-Sulaimaniyah railway will be
borne by the Kurdistan Regional Government and the
Baghdad Ministry of Transportation and
Communication, said the source.
(Hawlati is
issued weekly by the Ranj Print House.)
Parliament Wants Al-Sharqiya and Azzaman Shut
(Azzaman)
The Iraqi parliament has called on the government to
shut down the Al-Sharqiya satellite channel and the
international issue of Azzaman newspaper for their
coverage of the parliamentary session on
decentralisation legislation last Wednesday.
In its statement, parliament said that both outlets
described the law as "dividing Iraq and dragging it
into a civil war".
Hamid al-Sa'idi, a lawmaker from the United Iraqi
Alliance, said his party did not support the closure
call and said there should be room for criticism.
Sunni lawmaker Hussein al-Faluji called the
parliamentary move a dictatorial step.
(London-based
Azzaman is issued daily by Saad al-Bazaz.)
3000 Iraqi Policemen Dismissed
(Asharq al-Awsat)
The ministry of interior has dismissed more than
3,000 officers for a range of violations, ministry
spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf announced at a press
conference yesterday.
The sackings are part of a restructuring process
currently taking place in the ministry. More than
1,200 policemen were dismissed for criminal acts
such as forgery, human rights abuses and negligence.
(London-based
Asharq al-Awsat is pro-Saudi paper issued daily.)
Basra Teachers Strike
(Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed)
Teachers in the southern province of Basra went on
strike Monday demanding salaries comparable to those
awarded to education staff in the Kurdistan region.
Kurdistan teachers receive marital, child and risk
allowances and their salary scale is twice as high
as that in the Basra region. Strike leaders say the
protest will continue until the ministry meets their
demands.
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed
is an independent daily paper.)
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