Paul Hastings Llp

LONDON, August 12, 2011 - Following nine years of legal proceedings in New York and London, Telephone Systems International ("TSI"), an operator of mobile telephone services in Afghanistan, and its principal shareholder Ehsan Bayat have secured a decisive victory in the English Courts against Lord Michael Cecil, Stuart Bentham and Alexander Grinling.

LONDON, August 11, 2011 - Following nine years of legal proceedings in New York and London, Telephone Systems International ("TSI"), an operator of mobile telephone services in Afghanistan, and its principal shareholder Ehsanollah Bayat have secured a decisive victory in the English Courts against Lord Michael Cecil, Stuart Bentham and Alexander Grinling.