SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2018 SAFAR 25, 1440 VOL.12 NO. 4442 QR 2 PARTLY CLOUDY Fajr: 4:24 am Dhuhr: 11:19 am HIGH : 29°C Asr: 2:30pm Maghrib: 4:53 pm LOW : 27°C Isha: 6:23 pm Nation 2 Business 10 Sports 13 beIN Media Group chief Global stocks lose gains on Doha Worlds has delivered Qatar’s appoints Obaidly as CEO US-China trade deal worries message of peace: Ali al Hitmi Qatar urges world SHEIKH JOAAN ATTENDS DOHA WORLDS 2018 to condemn siege countries’ actions Their actions are violating human rights, hurting families, says Qatar’s Permanent Representative to UN HE Sheikha Alia QNA individuals and groups both in NEW YORK Qatar and in the countries that Victims imposed the unjust siege. QATAR has urged the interna- “The imposition of such tional community to condemn measures is contrary to inter- Qatar Olympic Committee President HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al Thani, and Second Vice President Dr Thani bin Abdulrahman al Kuwari and reject the measures taken 13,314 national obligations to respect (L) with Olympic Council of Asia President Sheikh Ahmed al Fahad (3rd-L), QOC International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) President Morinari by the siege countries against No. of people directly and promote human rights. Watanabe (4th-L) and other top dignitaries at the 48th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2018 at the Aspire Dome, on Friday. it, asserting that they flouted Such measures should be con- international obligations to affected by the unjust demned and rejected by the in- respect and promote human siege imposed on ternational community.” rights. Qatar Sheikha Alia reiterated This came in a statement Qatar’s keenness to contribute Biles breaks another record with 13th world title in Doha delivered by Qatar’s Perma- actively to international efforts VINAY NAYUDU nent Representative to the to promote and protect human Olympic Council of Asia; Dr kidney stone. United Nations HE Sheikha Violations rights through effective par- DOHA Thani bin Abdulrahman al The champion, however, Alia Ahmed bin Saif al Thani in ticipation in relevant interna- Kuwari, Second Vice President has since endured pain to con- the General Debate of the UN tional bodies. Qatar’s hosting SUPERSTAR Simone Biles QOC; Jassim Rashid Al Bue- tinue with her sublime show. General Assembly on the “Re- 2,451 of the United Nations Center continues to make gymnastics nain, Secretary-General, QOC; “I really wanted to redeem port of the UN Human Rights No. of international for Training and Documen- history in Qatar. Morinari Watanabe, Presi- myself here, and I think I did Council”. human rights laws and tation in the Field of Human On Friday, the 21-year- dent, International Gymnas- that tonight,” said Biles soon “In a series of detailed, Rights for South-West Asia old American achieved vic- tics Federation (FIG); Abdul- after receiving the medal. documented and substantiated principles violated by and the Arab Region reflected tory in the individual vault rahman al Shathri, President, Favourite in the vault reports, the National Human siege nations that resolve, she added. competition at the Aspire Asian Gymnastics Federation; event, Biles scored 15.366 Rights Committee (NHRC) Qatar, through its mem- Dome to become the first- Husain al Musallam, Execu- -- ahead of Canada’s Shallon had monitored numerous hu- bership of the Human Rights ever gymnast to win 13 world tive Member, Olympic Council Olsen and Mexico’s Alexa man rights violations resulting Council, is keen to actively championship gold medals. of Asia; and celebrated gym- Moreno. It meant that Biles from the imposition of arbi- participate and cooperate with The distinguished audi- nast Nadia Comaneci. Simone Biles had broken the all-time re- trary, illegal and unilateral co- member states to implement ence which witnessed Biles’ Biles had arrived in Doha cord set by Belarusian male ercive measures against Qatar the mandate of the Council in new feat included HE Sheikh to participate after a year-and- She was also rushed to gymnast Vitaly Scherbo in since June 2017,” Sheikha Alia the best way possible and to Joaan bin Hamad al Thani, a-half long break from inter- hospital a day before the 1996, a year before she was said. carry out its duties in accord- President, Qatar Olympic national competition follow- 48th FIG Artistic Gymnastics born. She said the reports ance with the principles of im- Committee (QOC); Sheikh ing her four golds triumph at World Championships 2018 showed the effects of these partiality, objectivity and non- Ahmed al Fahad, President, the Rio Olympics in 2016. began and was diagnosed for a More on page 13 Ô violations on several families, selectivity, she said. Qatar decries Top of Saudi govt ordered BODY ‘DISSOLVED’ IN ACID: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR Pakistan agrees to attack in Egypt The body of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was “dissolved” after he was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in QNA Khashoggi killing: Erdogan Istanbul a month ago, an advisor to Turkish President Recep stop Asia Bibi from DOHA Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. “We now see that it wasn’t just cut up, DPA established that his murder they got rid of the body by dissolving it,” Yasin Aktay said. QATAR has strongly con- WASHINGTON was premeditated.” leaving to end stir demned the attack that target- Erdogan says there still MBS DESCRIBED SLAIN SCRIBE AS ‘DANGEROUS ed a bus in central Egypt and THE order to kill Jamal are other significant ques- REUTERS announcement will be made left a number of people killed Khashoggi “came from the tions, such as where his ISLAMIST’ IN CALL TO THE US LAHORE/ISLAMABAD shortly by our leadership.” and injured. highest levels of the Saudi body is and the identity of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin The government con- In a statement issued on government,” Turkish Presi- the “local collaborator” to Salman reportedly described Khashoggi as A Pakistani political party firmed the agreement, with Friday, the Ministry of Foreign dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan whom Saudi officials claim a dangerous Islamist after his disappearance said on Friday it will call off religious affairs minister Affairs reiterated Qatar’s firm says in an opinion piece pub- to have handed Khashoggi’s in a phone call with Donald Trump’s son- protests over the acquittal of Noor-ul-Qadri telling Geo TV position rejecting terrorism lished Friday by the Wash- remains. in-law Jared Kushner and National Security a Christian woman who faced that “the protest will end to- regardless of its motives. ington Post. While he said Saudi au- Adviser John Bolton. hanging on blasphemy charg- night”. The statement expressed Erdogan writes that the thorities have refused to an- es, striking a deal with the gov- Bibi’s case has outraged the condolences of the State of finding is among those un- swer those questions, “we ernment to end three days of Christians worldwide and Qatar to the families of the vic- covered by Turkey’s inves- know that the perpetrators PROSECUTE KILLERS: protests in major cities. been a source of division with- tims and the people of Egypt, tigation into the disappear- are among the 18 suspects FIANCEE CENGIZ Under the deal, the gov- in Pakistan, where two politi- wishing the injured a speedy ance of the Saudi journalist. detained in Saudi Arabia. We ernment agreed to seek to bar cians who sought to help Bibi recovery. “Over the course of the also know that those individ- Hatice Cengiz, the slain Asia Bibi, a mother of five who were assassinated. past month, Turkey has uals came to carry out their journalist’s fiancee, urged the has been on death row since Parties such as TLP, whose moved heaven and earth to orders: Kill Khashoggi and international community to 2010, from leaving the coun- rallying cry is for blasphemers to shed light on all aspects of leave. Finally, we know that take action and hold those Today, I am inviting the try, according to a document be killed, have framed Bibi’s re- this case,” Erdogan says. the order to kill Khashoggi responsible for the crime to international community of the agreement shared by lease as Pakistan’s government Turkish envoy These efforts have re- came from the highest levels account, in her opinion piece to take serious and practical the ultra-Islamist Tehreek-e- caving into Western demands. vealed that Khashoggi “was of the Saudi government.” published by The Guardian steps to reveal the truth and to Labaik (TLP) group. Bibi was accused of mak- hails relations killed in cold blood by a newspaper on Friday. prosecute those involved in a “We have reached on an ing derogatory remarks about death squad, and it has been More on page 7 Ô court of law. — Hatice Cengiz agreement with the govern- Islam. But a three-judge panel with Qatar (PG 2 ) ment,” Ejaz Ashrafi, spokes- ruled the evidence was insuffi- man for TLP, told Reuters. “An cient. (PAGE 6) Qatar reiterates commitment to overhauling labour system moval of exit permits for the Media Attaché to UK says Qatar not ambivalent Inspections Firms banned majority of overseas workers, to the plight of its expatriate workers Sheikh Thamer said, hail- ing it as another major step in the reform process. He, QNA 9,000 2,000 In a statement to The The number of firms however, maintained that the LONDON Guardian, referring to an The number of labour country needs to be vigilant article published in the pa- inspections carried out banned for failing to in enforcing the new laws. QATAR is working on over- per on October 29, Sheikh in the first half of 2018 adhere to the Qatar “Where violations of the hauling its labour system to Thamer said it failed to ac- labour laws law occur, workers are en- ensure that all employees in knowledge the progress Qa- couraged to report these and the country are protected by tar has made in reforming its carried out over 19,000 labour working with the Internation- have multiple mechanisms to the best possible employment labour system, and attempt- inspections, banned almost al Labour Organisation and do so.