Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Kabul (BNA) Chaired by Deputy MoIC for Publication Affairs for Mrs. Semeen Hassanzada, a session of high commission for counter-explosives public awareness was held yesterday.
BNA reported, first, Deputy of Publication Affairs for Ministry of Information and Culture Mrs. Semeen Hassanzada who is heading also high commission’s public awareness section for counter explosives pointed out related to importance role of various organs towards counter explosives, saying the commission formed for rooting out clandestine enemy of people in the country was tasked to aware the people of presence of mines and explosives and such awareness would be easy if followed with cooperation and coordination of different organs.
According to MoIC Deputy, the Afghan people have sustained numerous sacrifices due to this issue. In the session, Daaeul Haq Abid, Deputy Minister of Hajj and Endowment considered public awareness as religious and national duty in this regard, saying the ministry has started preaching and public awareness programs through mosques related to dangers of IEDs.
He said clerics and preachers in the mosques were continuously speaking with prayers, adding a seminar would be soon held for mosques’ clerics in this regard. Maj. General Muslim Abid, engineering head for MoD briefed the session related to works of the ministry towards public awareness and spoiling IEDs, saying humanity has today made various and perplexed types of mines by the help of technology, so public awareness in this regard would help people fight against the dangerous phenomenon and prevent dreadful incidents.
