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Senate approves 2 legislative decrees; wants call charges cut

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KABUL -- upper house of the parliament -- on Sunday approved two legislative decrees issued by the president, exempting security bosses from holding acting charge and imposing a 10 percent tax on mobile-phone users.

But the Senate, while endorsing the presidential decrees, proposed the cost of a one-minute call be reduced to one afghani. The communications commission head, Javed Rauf, placed the legislative decree before the house for approval.

He suggested the per minute cost of a phone call from one telecom network to another should . . .

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