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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015 SAFAR 12, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Cabinet hails Iran, Russia Pfizer and Female player security men vow to oppose Allergan to leaves Iran, for busting ‘external’ moves merge in husband terrorist3 cell to13 dump Assad $160bn21 deal overruled20 Amir has ‘recognizable Min 14º Max 22º place’ worldwide: Gul High Tide 10:47 & 22:18 Low Tide Former Turkish president tackles regional issues 04:27 & 16:31 40 PAGES NO: 16707 150 FILS By Meshaal Al-Enezi and KUNA conspiracy theories KUWAIT: Visiting Former Turkish President Abdullah Gul emphasized that HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Chaos creates Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has a recognizable place worldwide as a decision-maker because of his outstanding efforts and opportunities-II his “vast and rich” political experience that has enabled him to find solutions to most prominent issues in the region. This remark was made by Gul in an interview with Kuwait TV and Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) yester- day. “Dialogue” is the Kuwaiti leader’s approach toward solving regional and international issues, especially By Badrya Darwish humanitarian ones, Gul said, who is visiting the country for four days. He expressed his appreciation on visiting Kuwait on the invitation of HH the Amir, who has made several visits to Turkey, adding that Turkey and Kuwait enjoy “strong” ties in all domains. These ongoing visits [email protected] tackled many regional and international matters on security and safety of the Middle East region, and bilater- al issues such as investment. Gul reiterated the impor- uys, yesterday I told you chaos creates opportu- tance of promoting bilateral relations, especially on the nities. Today, the government is not wasting education front, inviting Kuwait to send its students to Gany time since global oil prices fell a little over a pursue their education in Turkish institutes. year ago. Luckily for us in Kuwait, we have a wise gov- Later, at a press conference held at the Turkish ernment that sets our budget at $55 per barrel, Embassy and attended by Kuwait Journalists Association though we sold it for many years for more than $100 members, Gul highly praised HH the Amir’s wisdom on and we accumulated more than 15 years of multibil- regional issues. “We have shared regional concerns and lion-dollar budget surpluses. are fighting terrorism and developing bilateral relations Thank God oil did not collapse completely, and on in all levels that are expected to grow further,” Gul said. average did not collapse beyond our budget require- On Turkish-Egyptian relations, Gul stressed that Egypt ments. But still, the government has taken it as an oppor- is a major regional country and that both countries tunity to frighten us with stories of deficit after deficit after shared the Mediterranean shores and waters and were deficit. Now the new suggestion that Kuwait will face a KUWAIT: Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan (left) meets former Turkish president like “two halves of an apple”. deficit of KD 25 billion over the next five years. What if the Abdullah Gul at the Turkish embassy yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 2) Continued on Page 13 prices of oil shoot up next year? Who knows, maybe things will improve. Meanwhile, security is the issue on most people’s mind. News Since people are more worried about security - especially MPs, activists blast with the recent attack on a mosque in Kuwait and the in brief activity of Daesh all over the world and especially in our region - so this is another opportunity to exploit the gag on senior cleric MoCI social media chaos. accounts hacked It seems the government is planning a far-reaching KUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry yester- taxation program. Calling it service fees is just a nicer day reported that its social media accounts on Twitter and name for taxation. I don’t mind to be taxed, but in return I UAE ‘jails’ ex-MP Duwailah Instagram had been hacked and that it was currently work- expect better quality services and transparency, which is ing on retrieving them. In a press release issued yesterday, the most important thing. Will we get that? And actually, By B Izzak the ministry stressed that the hackers had posted state- the suggested increases in fees which Minister Anas Al- Saudi King assured ments against certain people with the aim of settling per- Saleh announced sounds to me to be a bit over-exagger- KUWAIT: Several MPs and activists yesterday blasted a sonal scores with them. The ministry strongly denied any ated. He actually said it will not affect citizens with fixed about Amir’s health decision by Minister of Justice and Awqaf and Islamic relation to such information and statements and promised incomes. Excuse me, Mr Al-Saleh, 80 percent of the nation Affairs Yacoub Al-Sane to reportedly ban senior Sunni to sue the hackers. The ministry stressed that it had report- is on fixed incomes. KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- preacher Othman Al-Khamees from the ministry. The ed the matter to relevant authorities concerned with e- If you are saying that you will increase the fees for pri- Jaber Al-Sabah received a phone call from King decision to suspend Khamees from giving Friday ser- crimes so that proper legal measures could be taken to vate schools up to 33 percent to 40 percent, do you think Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, who mons and religious lectures at mosques has not been track down the hackers and hold them legally accountable. that these school owners will really pay this and not inquired and was assured about the health condi- officially announced yet, but was widely reported on tion of the Amir. The Amir thanked King Salman for social media and harshly criticized by activists. increase tuition? Same thing applies to private universi- Kuwaiti jailed 4 yrs ties. And what about the co-ops? You suggested they pay asking about his health, which reflected brotherly Khamees, a leading cleric, was last week fined KD relations between the two countries and people. 20,000 for allegedly insulting Shiites. The ruling is not over Saudi tweets an increase of up to 50 percent. The next day on the shelf, I KUWAIT: The lower court yesterday sentenced an assure you the item that was KD 1 will be KD 4. So how is The two leaders also discussed means of bolster- final as it can be challenged before the appeals and cas- sation courts. Former Islamist MP Mohammad Hayef activist to four years in jail for posting comments on that not affecting fixed-income people in Kuwait? ing the common GCC action towards integration in Twitter deemed offensive to Saudi Arabia. The court Perhaps you are mentally preparing us for a compro- all domains, in order to honor aspirations of the said the decision is not correct and called on the minis- ter to revise the decision because it is not directed convicted Hamed Buyabes, a Kuwaiti, of “insulting a mise. You suggested very high numbers so that the nation peoples of the Gulf countries. brotherly country and endangering diplomatic ties against Khamees only. will panic, and when the government later agrees to only The common action, they agreed, would guar- with it” a year ago, the verdict said. The former small increases, we will say thank you and accept them antee prosperity, development, security and stabili- MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji called on the minister to with- columnist confirmed the sentence on Twitter, saying easily. But still you taxed us wrongly and unfairly. And it’s ty of the six GCC countries. HH the Amir and King draw the decision since no final ruling has been issued he had only been defending the interests of his actually the fixed-income people who will suffer at the Salman also discussed regional and international against Khamees, adding that the minister should have country during a row with Riyadh over a border port. end of the day. developments. — KUNA waited for the final verdict from the supreme court. The sentence is not final as it can be challenged Continued on Page 13 before the appeals and supreme courts. Massive Dubai blaze Kerry rallies Gulf disrupts metro service DUBAI: A massive blaze engulfed three residential blocs in central Dubai and led to services on a metro line being sus- behind anti-IS push pended yesterday, local media reported. The fire broke out in the Al-Shamsi buildings in the city’s Deira neighbor- hood, across the road from the above-ground Green Line ABU DHABI: US Secretary of State John to halt Syria’s civil war. Kerry held meet- of Dubai Metro, Gulf News said on its website. Local media Kerry travelled to the Gulf yesterday to ings with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince said no casualties were reported as fire fighters battled the stress the urgent need to unite a region Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan blaze. Footage posted on social media showed flames riven by conflict against the threat from and United Arab Emirates Foreign spewing out of the five-storey buildings while thick black the jihadist Islamic State group. Kerry Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al- smoke billowed above. Dubai transport authority said on believes his ambitious plan to bring Nahyan. Later yesterday, he sat down to its Twitter account that the service between Union and Syria’s other warring parties to the nego- talk at “great length” with Saudi Arabia’s Abu Hail stations was disrupted. tiating table is the key to isolating and Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir about his ultimately defeating the extremists.

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