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GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals FM meets EU official Amir, Trump aides review ties, Mideast peace plan

QNA Cairo, in a series of meetings he has Doha held in the Middle East over a much- Argentina on anticipated US plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. is Highness the Amir Sheikh Kushner, President Donald Trump’s the brink of Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani son-in-law, and Greenblatt also dis- Hmet with Senior Adviser to the cussed with the Egyptian president President of the United States Jared increasing co-operation between exit after rout Kushner and Special Representative Washington and Cairo and the need to for International Negotiations Jason facilitate humanitarian relief to Gaza, a Greenblatt at Al Bahr Palace yesterday White House statement said. by Croatia evening. In Qatar, Kushner and Greenblatt During the meeting, they reviewed also discussed with His Highness the the close friendship and co-operation Amir increasing co-operation between Agencies between Qatar and the US in various the two countries and humanitarian Moscow fi elds. relief in Gaza, a separate White House A number of issues of common in- statement said. terest were also discussed, including This week, Kushner and Greenblatt lassy Croatia handed Argentina the Middle East peace process and the have also met with leaders of Jordan and a 3-0 drubbing to claim a place humanitarian and living conditions in Saudi Arabia. Kushner is charged with Cin the World Cup knockout the Gaza Strip. crafting the Trump administration’s stage thanks to goals by Ante Rebic, HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Aff airs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani yesterday met in Reuters adds from Washington: Ear- plan for peace between Israelis and Pal- Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic in their Brussels with Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Foreign and Political Aff airs and Security. Discussions during lier in the day Kushner met with Egyp- estinians, and the White House has said Group D match yesterday. the meeting dealt with the regional and international developments, as well as a number of issues of common interest. tian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in his proposal will be released soon. Rebic seized on a gaff e by keeper Willy Caballero to open the way to vic- tory for the Balkan side before a superb strike from outside the area by captain Modric 10 minutes from time with Rakitic putting the icing on the cake in added time. Bahrain opposition Twice champions Argentina face a struggle to reach the last 16 even with Qatar showcases Lionel Messi in their ranks after taking one point from their fi rst two games. Croatia top the group with six. leaders acquitted Argentina’s woes began when Ca- ballero picked up a backpass and inex- plicably lobbed it towards Rebic, who investment avenues twisted in the air to whack in a volley in in ‘Qatar spy case’ the 53rd minute. Earlier, France beat Peru 1-0 with a Agencies Ahmed Alwadaei, director of advocacy goal from Kylian Mbappe on Thursday Dubai at BIRD, said in a statement. “We hope to book their place in the last 16 of the at US business meet this ruling opens the way for dialogue World Cup and crush the South Amer- and reconciliation.” icans’ hopes of progressing in their Bahraini court yesterday ac- In Washington, a US State Depart- fi rst appearance at the tournament for QNA quitted three senior leaders of ment spokeswoman welcomed the ver- 36 years. Washington Athe country’s main opposition dict and called for Salman’s release. Mbappe’s 34th minute goal made group of spying for Qatar, a rare win for “Today’s acquittal removes a poten- him France’s youngest scorer in the opposition fi gures who say they have tial barrier to political reconciliation competition, at 19 years of age – beat- E the Minister of Economy and been targeted by prosecutors for their in Bahrain, and we urge Bahraini pros- ing the record of David Trezeguet (20) Commerce Sheikh Ahmed bin political views. ecutors not to pursue an appeal of the – and took them to two wins from two HJassim bin Mohamed al-Thani In November, the public prosecutor judge’s ruling,” spokeswoman Heather games in Group C. Sport Pages 1-5 yesterday held a series of meetings with accused Sheikh Ali Salman, opposition Nauert said at a news briefi ng. US offi cials and discussed relations be- Al-Wefaq group secretary-general, and His supporters said that Sheikh Ali tween Qatar and the United States in Sheikh Hassan Sultan, a former mem- was asked to mediate between Qatar the economic, trade and investment ber of the Bahraini parliament for Al- and Bahrain in 2011 following tensions fi elds. Wefaq, of conspiring with Qatari of- between the two countries. The meetings were held on the side- fi cials to carry out “hostile acts” in the He was charged in November 2017 of lines of the ‘Select USA Investment kingdom. working with Qatar against the Mana- Summit’ in Washington, DC, which Qa- The High Criminal Court acquit- ma regime, with Bahrain also accusing tar is attending. ted them along with a third senior Doha of attempting to overthrow the Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim is leading Al-Wefaq member, Ali Alaswad, said government. Qatar’s delegation to the summit which Public Prosecutor Osama al-Oufi , cited Qatar and Sheikh Ali have denied the opened yesterday and ends today. by the state BNA news agency. Sheikh allegations. During his meeting with US Treas- Ali Salman was found not guilty on all Bahrain has had a febrile political ury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Sheikh HE the Minister of Economy and Commerce Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed charges. environment in recent years. It was the Ahmed bin Jassim stressed the close al-Thani meets US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Washington DC yesterday. Human rights group Bahrain Insti- only Gulf country to experience serious historical ties between the two coun- tute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) unrest during the “Arab Spring” wave tries, noting that the signing of the The Minister of Economy and Com- Qatar’s participation in the Select USA hailed the verdict as “the end of a long, of popular revolts in 2011, and the op- Framework Agreement for Trade and merce said the recently organised ini- summit were important steps towards fl awed trial”. position has since accused the authori- Investment in 2004 had contributed to tiatives of the US-Qatar Strategic Dia- consolidating the partnership between “This case should never have been ties of using harsh tactics in a crack- Croatia defenders Domagoj Vida (top) strengthening bilateral co-operation. logue, the US Economic Roundtable and the two countries. To Page 2 initiated in the fi rst place,” Sayed down. To Page 3 and Sime Vrsaljko celebrate their team’s 3-0 win over Argentina in Nizhny Novgorod yesterday.

UEFA ready to take action against beoutQ Qatar takes stadium workers to Russia World Cup The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has called pirate By Anthony Harwood dream come true for me to be selected broadcasts of its most prized European London Correspondent to attend Russia 2018. It is a wonder- matches being pumped out of a Saudi ful moment to be here because it was so Arabia-based TV station a ‘significant unexpected. threat to European football.’ In a hard- Ghanaian worker helping to “I am very grateful and my family hitting statement Europe’s governing build the Qatar 2022 World Cup said that I am on my way to achieving soccer body said it was prepared to Ahad the trip of a lifetime when he my dream. I have followed football in take action against beoutQ which for was taken to the opening match of the Ghana for so many years. Through Qa- months has been illegally transmitting tournament in Russia. tar and through Generation Amazing, the Champions League and Europa Abdel Azeez Suleiman, 28, was my dream came true.” League. Page 2 among eight workers invited to accom- Among the party were also workers pany the former Barcelona star, Xavi from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, Hernandez, to Moscow. who were all hand-picked because of Xavi is global ambassador for the their work as coaches who could go WORLD CUP tournament Qatar will host in four back to Doha and inspire others. years’ time and head of the Genera- Xavi, who won the World Cup with tion Amazing programme, tasked with Spain in 2010, said: “We have workers Yesterday’s results helping build football at grassroots lev- here from Qatar, but the programme France 1 Peru 0 el as part of its World Cup legacy. also helps people in their home coun- Abdel Azeez Suleiman is seen in the middle, wearing white trousers. During their fi ve-day trip to Russia, tries. As the word says, I think this pro- Denmark 1 Australia 1 the group attended the opening cer- gramme is spectacular, so I am proud to cited to be in the stadium. Before this I up by Qatar’s Supreme Committee for well in the workshops and he shared his Croatia 3 Argentina 0 emony and the fi rst match of the tour- have shared this experience with this watched four World Cup tournaments Delivery and Legacy, hopes to benefi t experiences and his challenges, as well nament at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium group. on TV. Our house in the village had no a million people around the world by as how he overcame them. It inspires Today’s matches which saw the hosts beat Saudi Arabia “To be at the World Cup is a once- television, so we had to go to a friend’s 2022 by promoting football at grass- me to be part of this project. Football Brazil vs Costa Rica 3pm 5-0. in-a-lifetime experience, and I too am house to watch the games. Now Gen- roots level. breaks down all the barriers.” Nigeria vs Iceland 6pm Suleiman, a Liverpool fan and wing- learning a lot every day from all those eration Amazing has brought me here, Dawood Irfan, from India, said: “One Qatar will also be taking 16 youth er who played in The Workers Cup in taking part in the fantastic project.” to Moscow, to see my fi rst match in per- of the best experiences of this trip was ambassadors from Qatar, India, the Serbia vs Switzerland 9pm Doha and currently works on the Al Siraiul Islam Howlader, from Bang- son.” being with Xavi. He is a big star but Philippines, Nepal and Pakistan to the Rayyan Stadium site, said: “It was a ladesh, said afterwards: “I was so ex- Generation Amazing, which was set very down to earth, we got to know him Russian tournament. Gulf Times 2 Friday, June 22, 2018 QATAR

NHRC chief calls for speeding up accountability of siege countries

QNA human rights against Qatar and opments as a result of the siege committed by the blockading rituals in a fl agrant violation of solve the Gulf crisis, pointing and constitute gross violations Geneva its citizens. Qatar is also calling on Qatar and its repercussions countries. this right, which is stipulated in out that reconciliation and peace of human rights. on the ICJ to enforce compliance on human rights, informing at international human rights in- between countries is required Dr al-Marri thanked Prince by the UAE with its obligations the same time Qatar’s move to “The Saudi authorities have struments. to achieve security and stabil- Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein, he Chairman of the Na- under international law and to sue the UAE in order to expedite continued to violate the Dr al-Marri, said that the fam- ity of civilians. He said political the United Nations High Com- tional Human Rights take immediate action to protect the lifting of the unjust block- right to religious practice ily ties between the citizens of disputes should not infringe on missioner for Human Rights, TCommittee (NHRC) Dr Ali Qataris against any future irrep- ade on the victims of the siege and deprived thousands Qatar and those of the other GCC rights of communities and indi- for his eff orts during his term of bin Smaikh al-Marri has called arable damage. including citizens and residents of citizens and residents countries have been torn apart viduals. offi ce which is due to end in Au- on the United Nations, interna- This came in a statement of Qatar. of Qatar of (the right of ) and they still hopeful of interna- He pointed out that interna- gust, praising the role he played tional organisations and parlia- made by Dr al-Marri follow- He stressed that such meas- performing the Umrah” tional human rights organisations tional organisations are required to promote and protect human ments to speed up the account- ing a series of meetings held in ures require serious and decisive restoring their protection. to play bigger roles and enforce rights in the world and the Arab ability process with regard to the Geneva, including Prince Zeid positions by international or- “The Saudi authorities have He pointed out that more than the law to make the blockading region. violations of human rights com- bin Raad, High Commissioner ganisations that believe in hu- continued to violate the right to a year has passed since the siege countries to fulfi l their interna- Dr al-Marri said that the mitted by the siege countries for Human Rights of the United man rights and strive to protect religious practice and deprived was imposed and children are tional and regional obligations mandate of the High Commis- that have aff ected the people of Nations, Beatrice Chamorro, and promote those rights. thousands of citizens and resi- still deprived of their mothers to respect human rights. Dr al- sioner was extraordinary and the Gulf. Chairperson of the Special Pro- The High Commissioner for dents of Qatar of (the right of) and fathers, husbands are sepa- Marri called for more steps than witnessed very complex events He also called for accelerat- cedures of the Commission, Val- Human Rights was handed over performing the Umrah of the rated from their wives and cous- just condemnation and denun- in the region, pointing out that ing the process of redressing the entin Zellweger, Swiss ambas- the report of the National Hu- month of Ramadan, and stopped ins from each other, stressing ciation of such practices which he dealt with these complexi- victims of the siege on Qatar, es- sador to the United Nations in man Rights Committee, which the electronic registration for that the blockading countries all the missions of international ties with all the independence pecially in light of the country’s Geneva, and Karl Haligard, head documented general violations those wishing to perform Haj have enforced this separation of organisations and parliaments and credibility dictated by ethics intention to take legal action of the European Union delega- by the siege countries. (pilgrimage) for this season.” families and relatives. did when they visited Qatar dur- and professionalism, stressing against the United Arab Emirates tion to the UN. The NHRC chief noted that He added that the Saudi au- Dr al-Marri stressed the need ing a year of blockade, and unan- that the positions of Prince Zeid before the Court of Justice (ICJ) During the meetings, Dr al- more than a year after the Gulf thorities put obstacles to prevent for urgent intervention by the imously agreed that these are bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein were for its continuing violations of Marri reviewed the latest devel- crisis, violations continue to be citizens from performing their international community to re- arbitrary and unilateral actions characterised by neutrality. UEFA prepared to take action against beoutQ zSaudi-based TV channel illegally transmitting matches zRights to broadcasts are owned by Qatar-based beIN Sports HE the Minister of Economy and Commerce Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani By Anthony Harwood includes digital fi nger printing, holding a meeting with Gary Herbert, Governor of Utah in Washington, DC. HE Sheikh Ahmed bin London Correspondent 24-hour monitoring and take Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani is in Washington, DC to participate in The Select USA Investment down teams. Summit 2018. The Minister also held separate meetings with Don Pierson, Minister of Economic he Union of European But so far they have not been Development of the State of Louisiana and Pete Ricketts, Governor of Nebraska on the sidelines of Football Associations able to trace where the illegal The Select USA Investment Summit. T(UEFA) has called pirate feed is coming from. broadcasts of its most prized Eu- This week it emerged that ropean matches being pumped beoutQ was also stealing NBCU- out of a Saudi Arabia-based TV niversal Telemundo’s World Cup station a ‘signifi cant threat to feed and, as with the beIN theft, Minister discusses economic European football.’ superimposing the beoutQ logo In a hard-hitting statement over the Telemundo one. Europe’s governing soccer body Telemundo paid £450mn to said it was prepared to take ac- broadcast the 2018 and 2022 ties with senior US offi cials tion against beoutQ which for World Cups to Spanish-speak- months has been illegally trans- ing audiences in American. mitting the Champions League BeoutQ claims to be a Colom- From Page 1 sector, and its role in enhancing offi cials, C-Suite business ex- and Europa League. bian and Cuban venture but in- its contribution to the overall ecutives, and other thought The rights to the broadcasts vestigations have shown it to be He also met Governors Pete economic development and at- leaders, each summit focuses are owned by beIN Sports, based linked to Saudi companies and Ricketts of Nebraska and Gary tracting foreign direct invest- on a timely theme related to the in Qatar, with whom Saudi Ara- beoutQ’s defiant message: ‘Don’t worry – leave us in the driving seat promoted by Saud al-Qahtani, Herbert of Utah, Idaho Senator ment. US investment environment, bia has cut off all trade. and enjoy the games’. Media Adviser to the Saudi Royal Kelly Anthony and Director of He also highlighted the latest industry trends, and new op- It said: “UEFA strongly con- Court. Commerce of Idaho Bobbi-Jo measures taken by the State to portunities. demns all unauthorised broad- Property is key to UEFA and we And when beIN Sports put Tom Keaveny, beIN Managing Meuleman. encourage and attract invest- More than 3,200 people are casting and illegal streaming ac- will take the necessary steps a ticker-tape feed across the Director for Mena (Middle East Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim ments, including a draft law on expected to participate in the tivity. We are aware that a pirate to address the issue in order to bottom of the screen inform- and North Africa), said: “The also met Louisiana Economic non-Qatari capital in the eco- summit, representing 64 in- channel, named beoutQ based in enforce and protect the rights ing beoutQ viewers they were pirated signal is being transmit- Development Secretary Don nomic activity, which opens the ternational markets and 51 US Saudi Arabia, has illegally dis- granted to beIN Sports, including watching stolen footage, the ted by the Riyadh-based satellite Pierson. way for foreign investors to own states and territories, this year, tributed the UEFA Champions through engaging with relevant Saudi station simply superim- provider Arabsat, whose largest Discussions during the meet- 100% ownership in all sectors, with the participation of the League and the UEFA Europa satellite carriers in the region. posed its own message over that. shareholder is the Kingdom of ings dealt with means of boost- as well as support for investors’ US Secretaries of Commerce, League throughout the 2017/18 “For the avoidance of doubt, The piracy operation began Saudi Arabia”. ing bilateral relations between entry into the Qatari market. Treasury and Labor as well as season, including the UEFA beoutQ has received no rights after Saudi Arabia stopped trad- He added that the beoutQ op- Qatar and the United States in Qatar’s delegation to the Se- a number of US state governors Champions League Final in Kiev whatsoever from UEFA to broad- ing with Qatar last June when eration “takes industrial scale the economic and trade fi elds, lect USA Investment Summit and the US Chamber of Com- on 26 May. cast any UEFA event.” it launched a diplomatic and knowledge and ability and multi as well as highlighting the op- which opened yesterday and merce. “UEFA considers that illegal beoutQ is broadcast by the transport boycott of the tiny million dollar funding. This isn’t portunities for increasing trade ends today is headed by Sheikh Qatar and the United States piracy of live football, particu- Riyadh-based station, Arabsat, Gulf state accusing it of cosying someone in their bedroom”. exchanges. Ahmed bin Jassim. have close economic and trade larly on the scale of that being in which Saudi Arabia is the larg- up to Iran and supporting terror- The day before FIFA issued They also discussed mecha- The summit is the highest- relations which refl ected posi- carried out by beoutQ, poses a est shareholder. ism, which Doha denies. its statement the Saudi Crown nisms to support joint invest- profi le event dedicated to pro- tively on the volume of trade ex- signifi cant threat to European Last Friday FIFA issued a sim- The Riyadh government Prince Mohamed bin Salman ments and stimulate the private moting foreign direct invest- change between the two coun- football”. ilar threat to beoutQ warning it banned the sale of beIN broad- sat next to the FIFA president, sector to establish innovative ment in the United States. tries, which in 2017 touched Football’s governing bodies, not to continue its illegal broad- cast boxes and stopped existing Gianni Infantino, at the open- investment projects in key sec- The signature event provides approximately QR21bn. who make hundreds of millions cast of the current World Cup. customers from renewing sub- ing match of the World Cup in tors that would serve the eco- an unparalleled opportunity to The United States accounts of pounds from selling exclusive But so far that has been ignored scriptions. Moscow. nomic interests of Qatar and bring together companies from for 16.3% of Qatar’s imports. rights to the events, fear those and every minute of every game Instead, it began pirating the Due to a lack of transparency the US. all over the world, economic The number of US companies who pay for them could try and continues to be shown. Qatari channel so its sports fans UEFA is said to be lukewarm The Minister reviewed the development organisations operating in Qatar is more than claw some of the money back if Amid the fl urry of publicity would not miss out. about plans by Infantino to re- developments of the Qatari from every corner of the US and 650, of which 117 are wholly pirate stations are distributing surrounding the FIFA statement beIN has spent millions of vamp the Club World Cup with a economy, the investment op- other parties working to facili- owned by US citizens, 20 are their material for free. beoutQ brazenly told its viewers: pounds trying to counteract £25bn investment believed to be portunities off ered by the State tate business investment in the oil and gas companies and more The statement went on: “The “Don’t worry – leave us in the the Saudi theft with a state-of- coming from Saudi Arabia and in all fi elds, the initiatives United States. than 30 are licensed under the protection of our Intellectual driving seat and enjoy the games”. the-art anti-piracy unit that Japan. launched to support the private Featuring senior government Qatar Financial Centre.

SUV falls off Requests grow for pedestrian bridge across C-Ring Road bridge onto By Ramesh Mathew road below Staff Reporter n a major accident, a speeding ith a number of new eateries and retail SUV which overshot a traffi c outlets coming up along Al Khalidiya Ilight at Khalifa Al Atiyya Inter- WStreet in Doha’s Najma zone, there has section in Doha fell off the bridge been a phenomenal rise in the number of visitors onto the February 22 Street un- to the area, particularly from the western side of derpass on Wednesday night. C-Ring Road, which host a large number of vil- A tweet from the Ministry of las. Interior yesterday attributed the This has resulted in a growing number of re- accident to ‘overspeed and fail- quests for a pedestrian bridge across the C-Ring ure to obey the traffi c signals.’ road, from residents of both Al Hilal and Najma The vehicle smashed through areas as Al Khalidya Street directly connects the metal railings on one side busy Bin Dirham Street of Najma with C-Ring of the bridge, near the Midmac Road. Flyover, before plunging down to Currently, people from the opposite side of the February 22 Street, which is the C-Ring Road in Al Hilal are climbing dan- a part of Al Shamal Expressway. gerously over the road divider sometimes, espe- No information is available cially late in the evenings, to access the locality. about the status of the occupant(s) The residents on both the sides of the C-Ring of the vehicle or whether any oth- road feel it is high time a pedestrian bridge is er vehicle on February 22 Street erected there considering the growing popular- was involved in the accident when ity of Al Khalidiya Street these days. It has also the SUV fell from above. been found that many a vehicle uses the street Following the accident, po- between Bir Dirham and C-Ring Road and also lice blocked traffi c through the in the opposite direction. aff ected stretch of the road un- One of the residents said the street, which til the area was cleared of the was earlier known for the ‘Kuwait Building’, is wreckage and debris. Yesterday, now becoming more popular with the arrival of concrete blocks could be seen a number of new restaurants catering to diff er- placed against the metal railing ent nationalities. Al Khalidiya Steet in Najma is witnessing a phenomenal growth in the number of restaurants and other retail outlets. PICTURE: Jayaram on either side of the bridge. Gulf Times Friday, June 22, 2018 3 QATAR/REGION/ARAB WORLD Thousands fl ee as regime steps up shelling in south Syria

AFP ince, leading thousands to fl ee have fl ed,” Mohamed Ibrahim the neighbouring province of evision channel also last week, Beirut for their lives. said. Sweida to the east, two civilians Syria’s Assad said contacts were “More than 12,000 civilians The UN humanitarian co- were killed yesterday in rebel ongoing between Russia, the have fl ed their homes in the last ordination offi ce (OCHA) re- bombardment of the provincial United States and Israel over the housands of civilians have three days after regime forces ported that 2,500 people had capital of the same name, SANA southern front. fl ed “intensifi ed” regime intensifi ed their shelling and air fl ed one of these areas, Nahta, as said. After a string of military “We are giving the political Tbombardments of rebel- strikes on eastern” Daraa, the of Wednesday. victories against rebels earlier talks a chance, but if they fail, held areas in southern Syria in Britain-based Syrian Observa- OCHA said the United Na- this year near Damascus, the there will be no choice but lib- the past three days, a monitor tory for Human Rights monitor tions was “concerned about re- regime has turned its attention eration by force,” he said. said yesterday, as fears mount said. ports of an escalation of violence to ousting rebels from areas of The regime has retaken large of a full-blown assault. Presi- The civilians fl eeing areas in- in Daraa... which is endangering southern Syria. parts of Syria from the oppo- dent Bashar al-Assad has set his cluding Nahta, Al Herak and Basr civilians and causing hundreds These include parts of Daraa sition since Russia intervened sights on retaking rebel-con- Al Harir were “heading to nearby of families to become displaced”. and the neighbouring province militarily on its side in 2015. trolled parts of southern Syria, villages under rebel control not Daraa is largely considered to of Quneitra to the west, which Earlier this year, Assad scored whether through negotiations aff ected by the bombardment be the birthplace of the Syrian is largely controlled by rebels a major victory by retaking the or a military operation, and has near the Jordanian border” to the uprising in 2011 that eventually and borders the Israeli-occupied former rebel bastion of Eastern been amassing troops there in south, Observatory head Rami spiralled into civil war after a Golan Heights. Daraa, Qunei- Ghouta outside Damascus, after recent weeks. Abdel Rahman said. Opposition brutal crackdown, and the re- tra and Sweida are included in a blistering assault and a string So far, no deal has been struck fi ghters control around two- gime retaking it would be a sym- a “de-escalation zone” agreed of so-called evacuation deals. to avert fi ghting over the south- thirds of Daraa, which borders Members of the Syrian Civil Defence extinguish a destroyed car after bolic victory. by the United States, Russia and That regime blitz displaced tens ern opposition stronghold that Jordan, but the regime holds a a double explosion in the northern rebel-held city of Idlib yesterday. State news agency SANA, us- neighbour Jordan last year. of thousands of civilians. borders Jordan and the Israeli- sliver of territory in the centre of ing its customary term for rebels, Last week, the US State De- Syria’s war has killed more occupied Golan Heights. Yester- the province. The areas in eastern Daraa west. A media activist in Basr said the army was shelling posi- partment warned Damascus than 350,000 people and dis- day, a Britain-based war monitor The Islamic State group also bombarded in recent days lie on al-Harir told AFP thousands tions of “terrorists” in Al Herak against any military action in the placed millions since it started in said the regime had ramped up holds a pocket of ground in the a strip of land fl anked by regime- had escaped their homes in areas and Basr Al Harir yesterday, and de-escalation zone. In an in- 2011 with the brutal repression its bombardment of Daraa prov- province. held territory to the east and near his village. “Entire villages had killed a number of them. In terview with Iran’s Al Alam tel- of anti-regime protests. Saudi-led coalition faces tough battle A displaced man receives aid kits distributed by the (ICRC) International Committee of the Red Cross in the war-torn Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. for Hodeidah port Army reinforcements Reuters Al-Khokha roll into Hodeidah Saudi-led coalition rid- ing high over its success- AFP Four pro-government fi ghters Aful capture of Hodeidah Khokha and 22 Houthis have been killed airport from the Houthis faces in the past 24 hours, medical a daunting challenge to seize sources said yesterday, bringing Yemen’s main seaport, the ulti- einforcements rolled into the death toll in the battle for mate prize in the biggest off en- Yemen’s Hodeidah yes- Hodeidah to 374. The pro-gov- sive of the war. The alliance be- Rterday as the army and ernment forces announced the lieves that by capturing the port its regional allies set their sights capture of the Hodeidah airport of Hodeidah, the only sea port in on the city’s port held by rebels on Wednesday morning. Houthi hands, it can bring to its who have vowed to fi ght to the The airport had been disused knees movement that controls end. Military sources said the but it housed a major rebel base the capital and most of Yemen’s A displaced man from Hodeidah city carries his suitcase near a A man inspects damage of an airstrike on a truck in the northwestern army, backed by troops from the just inland from the coastal road populated areas. school where displaced people live, in Sanaa, Yemen. city of Saada, Yemen. United Arab Emirates, had been into the city. The United Nations fears sending backup troops to the Rebel leader Abdulmalik heavy fi ghting will worsen what avoid urban areas to the greatest and Ghalil, Houthi snipers and coalition forces would have to ing Al Mokha. The UAE is lead- area ahead of a major off ensive al-Huthi on Wednesday night is already the world’s most ur- extent possible, perhaps opting landmines lie in wait. Armed cross some 10km of industrial ing the off ensive on Hodeidah to close in on the Red Sea port. called for reinforcements to gent humanitarian crisis, with to cut off roads to trap Houthi mostly with AK-47 assault ri- and residential areas where with force consisting mostly of “Our preparations are in their repel the advance of the UAE- 22mn Yemenis dependent on aid fi ghters and prevent them from fl es, the Houthis have gained they could face fi re from both Yemenis gathered from south- fi nal stages for the advance on backed government forces. and an estimated 8.4mn believed sending in supplies and rein- valuable experience in a series of inside the city and surrounding ern separatists, Red Sea coastal the port,” a military source told Local residents are now brac- to be on the verge of starvation. forcements.” guerrilla wars. This gives them Houthi-held towns. plain fi ghters and followers of a AFP, requesting anonymity. The ing for what they fear will be For most Yemenis, the port of Yemeni anti-Houthi troops an advantage in street-to street The Western-backed coalition nephew of the late President Ali Iran-allied Houthi rebels have devastating street fi ghting, as Hodeidah is the main lifeline. led by UAE forces and supported combat if fi ghting extends to the intervened in the war in 2015 to Abdullah Saleh. refused to cede control of Ho- tanks and buses carrying uni- If there is no breakthrough in by warplanes seized control of densely populated areas of Ho- restore a government ousted These forces have captured a deidah port, the entry point of formed troops roll through the UN eff orts to reach a political the airport on Wednesday, in deidah, a city home to around from the capital by the Houthis. series of western coastal towns three quarters of imports to im- empty streets of the once-bus- deal, the coalition has two direct what a senior Emirati offi cial said 600,000 people. Coalition forces quickly retook to form a narrow strip of con- poverished Yemen. tling city. paths to the port: from the air- was a “military and psychologi- “The plan is to secure the the southern city of Aden and trol from the bases to the port. The Houthis have controlled The Hodeidah off ensive, port via residential areas where cal blow” to the Houthis. They airport and then advance on smaller towns on the coast, but But the road is often blocked by the port since 2014, when they dubbed Operation Golden Vic- urban warfare would neutral- are now consolidating their hold the non-coastal road from Bayt since then neither side has made Houthi attacks. drove the government out of tory, is the most intense bat- ise their air supremacy, or a sea by pounding Houthi fortifi ca- al-Faqih to take control of the much progress in the war. “The Houthis block the road the capital and seized much of tlefront in the already-brutal landing that would open them to tions nearby. The Houthis hold highway leading to Sanaa and Al Khokha, located 90km to Hodeidah to isolate (coalition) northern Yemen and a string of Yemen war which has left mil- Houthi missiles and mines. well-fortifi ed position in the Red Hajja road as well,” a pro-coali- south of Hodeidah, was one of troops around the airport. Then Red Sea ports. On June 13, Yem- lions displaced. Since the 2015 “So far, judging from the fi ght Sea city to protect the key supply tion Yemeni military source told the few gains by the coalition in UAE helicopters intervene to en’s army and its allies launched intervention of Saudi Arabia and for the airport, it looks like the line to the core northern terri- Reuters. “This will allow us to the three-year war and is now unblock the road. But as soon as their off ensive to clear Hodeidah its allies in Yemen, joining the Houthis will put up quite a fi ght,” tory they control, including the control everything without even one of the resupply centres for they are gone, the Houthis come of the rebels, raising UN con- government’s fi ght against the said Adam Baron of the Europe- capital, Sanaa. taking the port.” troops on the frontlines. The back again,” one military source cerns for vital aid shipments and Houthis, nearly 10,000 people an Council on Foreign Relations. Beyond the airport in poor However, before reaching the UAE has set up military facilities said. “It is a cat-and-mouse food imports through the city’s have been killed with a majority “The coalition is likely to aim to neighbourhoods like Al Rabsa main road that leads to Sanaa, in Al Khokha, and in neighbour- game that never ends.” docks. of civilian victims.

Merkel pledges $100mn loan to Jordan Bahrain opposition leaders

DPA commodating as many as 1.2mn. acquitted in ‘Qatar spy case’ Amman Neighbouring confl icts have left the economy strained, prompt- From Page 1 seats and the group was later of Bahrain’s parliament for Al- ing the government to take a dissolved by court order in 2016. Wefaq who resigned in response erman Chancellor Mer- three-year loan from the IMF Since Bahraini authorities Salman is already serving a to the crackdown against the kel pledged a $100mn in 2016, amounting to $723mn, crushed street protests in 2011, four-year prison sentence for kingdom’s opposition. He has Gloan to Jordan yester- with the aim of lowering the demonstrators have clashed inciting hatred and insulting the lived in London since 2011. day to help the new govern- country’s public debt, which frequently with security forces, interior ministry, after he was Bahrain has frequently ac- ment implement economic stands at around 95% of gross which have been targeted by sev- arrested in 2015. cused Iran of fomenting unrest. reforms, shortly before leaving domestic product. eral bomb attacks. “The public prosecutor used Along with Saudi Arabia, the for Lebanon on the second leg A series of linked auster- BIRD said Sultan and Alaswad secret witnesses and a video United Arab Emirates and Egypt, of a two-day trip to the Middle ity measures, including lifting were tried in absentia. from a Bahraini television chan- it broke diplomatic and trade ties East. Anti-austerity protests in bread subsidies, left people an- Al-Wefaq, headed by Ali Sal- nel which experts described as last year with Qatar, which those Jordan had forced the cabinet to German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the Marka airport gry. Protests erupted on May 30 man, was the largest bloc in par- edited and not complete,” Alas- countries accuse of supporting resign earlier this month. in Amman, Jordan. and lasted for eight consecutive liament before the 2011 protests. wad told Reuters by phone. militants and cosying up to Iran. Merkel said the loan, which days in opposition to a draft tax All its members resigned their Alaswad is a former member Doha denies the charges. comes in addition to another the fruits of the reforms will later yesterday. Merkel earlier bill proposed by the previous 384mn euros ($443mn) Ger- come later,” she said, following hailed Jordan for hosting refu- government. Protests were halt- UN experts urge Egypt to free couple unlawfully detained many promised Jordan this year, a meeting with King Abdullah gees fl eeing the Syrian civil war. ed only after newly-appointed aims to support the kingdom’s in the capital, Amman. Merkel The kingdom hosts around Prime Minister Omar Razzaz The daughter of the spiritual leader of the Muslim into custody by state security forces without an eff orts to implement reform then travelled to Lebanon and 650,000 registered refugees vowed to withdraw the law. “We Brotherhood, Yousef al-Qaradawi, and her husband arrest warrant at their vacation home in June 2017 demanded by the International briefl y spoke with Lebanese from Syria. Factoring in unreg- know that we’re facing the same have been unlawfully detained in Egypt for the and have been held largely incommunicado since, Monetary Fund. “We know that Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri in istered refugees, however, the challenges, that means the fi ght past year without formal charge, UN human rights the UN panel said. “The alleged legal basis for Ms this is a diffi cult period in which Beirut. A dinner was planned for country is believed to be ac- against Daesh. experts said yesterday, calling for the couple’s al-Qaradawi and Mr Khalaf’s arrest and detention release and compensation. The Cairo government, further suff ers from other serious defects,” it said, QP ‘gives highest importance to compliance’ in its reply published in the UN opinion, said that noting they were not brought promptly before a Ola al-Qaradawi and Hosam Khalaf were accused of judge and were denied access to family and lawyers. The European Commission its liquefied natural gas (LNG) within the European Economic all geographical areas in which belonging to the banned Muslim Brotherhood. The The couple has not received a fair trial within a announced yesterday that it had subsidiaries that are operated by Area. it operates. Qatar Petroleum family denies the accusation and brought the case reasonable time and there was “no sign that their opened an investigation into Qatargas. In a statement Qatar looks forward to working with last September to the UN working group on arbitrary criminal trial will take place soon”, the UN experts certain terms and conditions The investigation will look into Petroleum said it “wishes to the European Commission detention. In a statement, the family welcomed said. Their “ordeals in prison amounted to cruel, of long-term LNG supply the potential anti-competitive stress that it gives the highest to address any queries or the opinion issued by the panel’s five independent inhuman and degrading treatment”. The UN experts agreements into Europe by implications that such terms and importance to compliance concerns they may have in this experts, posted on the UN website. Ola al-Qaradawi called on the government to “remedy the situation” Qatar Petroleum and five of conditions may have on trade with regulatory authorities in regard.” and Khalaf, US residents in their late 50s, were taken including by releasing and compensating the couple. Gulf Times 4 Friday, June 22, 2018 AFRICA SA announces drastic healthcare shakeup

AFP employers and employees and health care,” said Motsoaledi. “The poor, the young must subsidise the more than the US,” said the min- Pretoria is expected to be operational by cost of private health care is out of old and the healthy must subsidise ister, adding that South Africa had 2026, Health Minister Aaron Mot- reach.” the sick,” he said. been “completely out of sync with soaledi told a news conference. Just 8.8mn of South Africa’s Motsoaledi said that would re- the rest of the world”. outh Africa yesterday un- He said the changes were nec- 56mn people have access to private quire “massive reorganisation” of The dramatic shakeup comes at veiled details of a new uni- essary to close the gap between medical care with the rest entirely both public and private care as he a time of intense crisis in the pub- Sversal health insurance plan wealthy South Africans, who have dependent on the state. presented a series of bills to be de- lic healthcare system which is bat- aimed at improving healthcare for access to excellent private care, Motsoaledi said South Africa bated by parliament. tling doctor shortages, industrial the poor in one of the world’s most and the poor who are dependent spends 4.5% of GDP on private care The cost of the new scheme will turmoil and growing waiting lists. unequal nations. on often understaff ed and under- for 16% of people while the public likely fall on taxpayers, employers “(We are) very much alive to the A new National Health In- resourced public facilities. sector spends 4.2% of GDP looking and the private medical insurance problems of poor quality and lack surance (NHI) scheme will use “All South African citizens must after 84% of the population. industry. of effi ciency in the public health- compulsory contributions from have access to private and public “The rich must subsidise the “We have privatised health care care system,” said Motsoaledi.

Displaced at home Suicide bombers target Nigeria military market

AFP Kano

ifteen people were injured when two female suicide bombers tar- Fgeted the edge of a military bar- racks in northeast Nigeria, police said yesterday. Soldiers shot dead one woman as she tried to get into the informal mar- ket at the base of 333 Artillery Nigeri- an Army in Maiduguri on Wednesday evening. Borno state police spokesman Edet Okon said the woman’s explosives detonated when she was shot. A second bomber blew herself up in a nearby motorised rickshaw, he added. “As a result of the explosions, the two bombers died instantly while 15 persons were injured and were rushed to the hospital for treatment,” he said in a statement. A bomb disposal team had “sani- tised” the area, he added. Emergency services in the city said they had no further informa- tion on the blast, which came just days after nine soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack north of Mai- duguri. A girl stands in front of her makeshift tent at Tawakal IDP camp in Mogadishu. Markets on the fringes of military barracks typically sell basic needs to soldiers and are often frequented by troops as well as civilians. Police said the blasts happened at 8.20pm but AFP has been told it oc- curred about 30 minutes before the Evacuation ordered from Abidjan fl ood zones night-time curfew in Maiduguri at 10pm. AFP The statement, read on nationwide TV by Many homes are informal structures built Suicide bombers, many of them Abidjan Interior Minister Sidiki Diakite, did not say in fl ood-prone areas, and deaths are common women and young girls, have previ- how many people would be aff ected by these in the April-to-October rainy season. ously targeted security checkpoints, measures or where they would be rehoused. Twenty-eight people were killed on May as well as markets, mosques and vory Coast’s government yesterday called Floods to 2.5m deep raced through some 29, 1996. In addition to the 18 deaths in Abid- camps for those displaced by the in- for the evacuation of all people living in areas on Tuesday as Abidjan was hit by seven jan, two other people died in fl ooding in the surgency. Ifl ood-prone zones in Abidjan, the coun- hours of exceptional rain. provinces. Last Saturday, suicide bombers try’s economic hub, after 18 were killed by The aff ected areas ranged from the posh The authorities also said 1,650 troops would killed 43 in Damboa, southwest of fl ash fl oods triggered by torrential rain. Cocody neighbourhood, where many em- be deployed to help clear debris and unclog Maiduguri, which has raised fresh After a national security council meeting bassies and the presidential palace are locat- drains, and two billion CFA francs($3.4mn) questions about security for internally headed by President Alassane Ouattara, the ed, to the teeming working-class Yopougon would be earmarked to help victims. displaced people (IDPs) in the remote government announced “the destruction of neighbourhood. It also said that eff orts would be stepped region. structures on storm basins and drainage and A coastal city of 5mn, Abidjan suff ers from up to inform the public about fl ood risk, in- The government, which maintains sanitation work” and “the evacuation of all some severe infrastructure problems, in- cluding weather alerts on the media and by Boko Haram is on the verge of defeat, people living in risk zones.” cluding drainage and sewerage. mobile phone. wants IDPs to return home.

SA black majority battles apartheid-era urban planning

By Beatrice Debut, AFP ing out parasols but receives some husband sells newspapers for the In cities, the government’s goal Two “resettlement camps” have Cape Town money from her employed eldest homeless to motorists pulled up at is to “overcome the divide between opened — 30km away from central children. traffi c lights. wealthy white suburbs and black Cape Town. She once rented a home com- Owned by Western Cape prov- townships,” according to Ruth The modest social homes on of- kin colour gets darker the plete with functioning utilities in ince authorities, the building was Hall, a land expert at the Plaas fer are free but isolated and prone further away you are” from Gugulethu, a township some 20km taken over by squatters in March Institute for Poverty, Land and to crime, drugs and serious pov- Sthe town centre, says Lindi- from Cape Town. 2017. Agrarian Studies. erty, according to the Ndifuna we, a middle-aged squatter ex- “There were too many fi ghts. My As well as having the water and “Black people say we want se- Ukwazi organisation, which advo- plaining how land distribution in son was not in any gang and his life electricity supplies cut, the squat- cure access to well-located land cates for fair land distribution. South Africa has barely changed was in danger,” she said softly. ters have been asked by letter re- in the cities, access to land close to “Relocating people to the out- since apartheid. Her new neighbour experienced cently when they would be able to jobs and economic opportunities,” skirts is a constant reminder of Since last July she has been fi rsthand the violence of the town- leave but so far have not faced a she added. what apartheid did to our people squatting in a rundown building in ship. formal eviction procedure. Joyce, a waitress, once spent a and the current government is central Cape Town, a well-off and “My child was raped, my hus- South Africa has one of the full quarter of her pay — 30 rand continuing with that trend,” said largely white tourist area. band was stabbed with a panga world’s highest crime rates, re- ($2.3) — commuting to and from Nkosikhona Swaartbooi, one of the “Here I am close to everything. (blade), the gangsters stole my bag cording 51 murders a day on aver- her job at a Cape Town restaurant. group’s leaders. I am close to the shops, to the bus twice. After that, my head was not age. Since she moved to the squat in Sea Councillor Brett Herron, re- stop. There is no security issue,” right,” said Nomhle, as she washed Gangs are prominent in Cape Point, she has saved 20 rand a day. sponsible for urban development says the 51-year-old, who is cook- her clothes in the communal bath- Town’s townships, where most of South Africa has built more than in the city, said the desperate situ- ing on a gas stove and will only give room under fading light. the population is non-white, al- four million social homes for the ation had required compromises. her fi rst name. All the rooms in the squat were most a quarter of a century after nation’s poor since 1994, one of “To some extent, we delivered a Her second-fl oor studio apart- taken when she arrived in Sea the fall of apartheid. the world’s most ambitious con- lot of houses — but in the wrong ment is in a former nurses’ lodging Point. But returning to her former Most of their white compatriots, struction eff orts. place,” he said. in the chic Sea Point neighbour- home in the Delft township was on the other hand, live in desir- “The government failed by “We (the authorities) have not hood. not an option. able suburbs, often in secure gated making us live far from the inner done enough to correct the apart- But it has neither electricity nor Instead she moved into a cup- communities. city. There is still apartheid,” said heid spatial planning in our cities water, forcing her to go down to the board of little more than a few The situation is much the same Mpho, one of the Sea Point squat- (but) we are making every eff ort tap on the ground fl oor — which square metres, along with her as it was in apartheid times, when ters. to bring about spatial transforma- is the only water source for more husband and 15-year-old mentally black people were forced out from “End white property power,” tion.” than 300 people. handicapped daughter. the inner cities, often to live a life screamed a poster in Mpho’s tiny Indeed the city has contributed Beachfront and luxury stores lie A waste bin is used for storing of hardship on the periphery. room. to the construction of 4,000 social a short walk from the front door clothes and a mattress is propped South Africa’s recently sworn- Another issue facing the city homes in 11 city centre develop- of the grey, concrete four-storey in a corner, while the stench of par- in President Cyril Ramaphosa has has been resettling poor black ments. building, as does a stadium built affi n permeates the entire space. vowed to “accelerate” eff orts to fix and mixed-race residents in new But that will be unlikely to off er for the 2010 football World Cup. “It’s dirty here but I feel safer,” the gaping disparities and mend homes far from the city centre as much comfort to the 350,000 peo- Lindiwe has a seasonal job rent- explained Nomhle, who with her historical injustices. gentrifi cation accelerates. ple waiting for housing help. Gulf Times Friday, June 22, 2018 5 AMERICAS

Plan to merge two agencies Trump orders reunion of

Reuters Washington

he White House plans to families split up at border propose merging the US TDepartments of Labour Reuters/AFP and Education, the Wall Street Washington Journal reported on Wednesday. Citing a person with knowl- edge of the proposal, the Journal resident Donald Trump said the plan follows a review of said yesterday that he has Cabinet agencies that looked for Pdirected federal agencies ways to shrink the federal gov- to begin reuniting children and ernment. parents separated at the US- The White House did not im- Mexico border after entering the mediately respond to a request country illegally, a fi rst step to for comment from Reuters. implementing his executive or- Congress would likely have der reversing an administration to approve the merger, and it policy that had drawn global was unclear whether lawmak- condemnation. ers would be in favour of a ma- Trump’s announcement came jor governmental reorganisation as his wife, Melania, made a with November elections loom- damage-control visit to a border Trump: What is the purpose of the House doing good immigration ing. detention facility in Texas where bills when you need nine votes by Democrats in the Senate, and the Republicans have long com- children are being held. Dems are only looking to obstruct? plained about the size of the Video footage of children sit- federal government and many ting in cages and an audiotape tention of minors to 20 days. with Mexico were showing more have taken particular aim at the of wailing children had sparked Melania Trump made an un- leniency. Education Department, which anger as the images were broad- announced trip to the border In a federal courthouse in they see as intruding on local cast worldwide. city of McAllen to meet with McAllen, not far from the deten- and state authority. “We want to put them to- staff members at a detention fa- tion facility the fi rst lady visited, President Donald Trump also gether. We don’t want to have cility for minors and asked about 17 cases against parents who had plans to propose moving many children separated from their their work and the treatment of crossed illegally and whose chil- US First Lady Melania Trump tours the Luthern Social Services of the South’s Upbring New Hope social safety net programmes parents,” Trump said at a meet- children. dren had been taken away were Children Centre in McAllen, Texas. She made a surprise visit to the US-Mexican border yesterday as her into a new “megadepartment” ing with his Cabinet. “I’m here to learn about your dismissed yesterday, according husband’s administration seeks to quell a firestorm over migrant family separations. that would replace the Health Trump told the Cabinet that facility, in which I know you to Carlos Garcia, an immigra- and Human Services Depart- he had directed the departments house children on a long-term tion attorney on the board of di- The administration also has groups, would fund the wall Even if a bill clears the House, ment, the New York Times re- of Justice, Homeland Security, basis, and also like to ask you rectors of the Texas Civil Rights sought a permanent legislative Trump has proposed along the it would face an uncertain future ported, citing administration and Health and Human Services how I can help these children Project. fi x on the issue, but congres- US border with Mexico and re- in the Senate, where lawmakers offi cials who were briefed on the “to work together to keep ille- to reunite with their families as There was no formal court sional Republicans said the US duce legal migration, in part by are considering diff erent meas- proposal. gal immigrant families together quickly as possible,” she said. proceeding and the magistrate House of Representatives was denying visas for some relatives ures and where Republicans Among the programmes to be during the immigration process The executive order was an judge was not there, said Garcia, likely to reject two immigration of US residents and citizens liv- would need at least nine sena- moved to the new department is and to reunite these previously unusual reversal for Trump, who who was in attendance. bills designed to halt the prac- ing abroad. tors from the Democratic cau- the Supplemental Nutrition As- separated groups”. made cracking down on illegal Instead, federal public de- tice of splitting up families and The more conservative bill cus to join them to ensure any sistance Programme, or SNAP, Last week Trump had said immigration a key part of his fenders told the 17 adults that address a range of other immi- would deny the chance of future bill could overcome procedural which serves more than 40mn that only Congress could change presidential campaign. they would not be prosecuted. gration issues. citizenship to “Dreamers” – im- hurdles. low-income Americans, the the separation policy but on It moves parents with chil- There was no immediate Republican US Representa- migrants brought illegally into “What is the purpose of the Times said. Wednesday he signed an execu- dren to the front of the line for prospect, however, of them reu- tives Ralph Norman and Mark the United States years ago when House doing good immigration SNAP currently is run by the tive order to keep families to- immigration proceedings but niting with their children. Meadows, prominent members they were children. bills when you need 9 votes by Agriculture Department. gether during immigration pro- it does not end a 10-week-old The children and parents were of the conservative Freedom The hardline proposal was Democrats in the Senate, and Offi ce of Management and ceedings. “zero tolerance” policy that calls separated two or three days ago Caucus, told reporters that they defeated – as expected – by 193 the Dems are only looking to Budget (OMB) director Mick The order still faces possible for prosecution of immigrants and are now in custody, with did not think either of the bills votes to 231. Obstruct,” Trump complained Mulvaney is the architect of the legal challenges and administra- crossing the border illegally un- parents unaware of their exact had enough support to pass the Voting on the compromise bill in a tweet as the US president plan, the newspaper said. tion lawyers were expected to fi le der the country’s criminal entry whereabouts. Republican-controlled House. between the party’s hard-right renewed his call for a change in The OMB did not immediately a request as early as Thursday to statute. Attorneys have not been noti- Both House bills, backed by and moderate wings was pushed Senate rules to allow legislation respond to a request for com- modify a 1997 court settlement There were some early signs fi ed of any reunifi cation eff orts, Trump but opposed by Demo- back to at least today, according to proceed with a simple major- ment from Reuters. that limits the government’s de- that prosecutors at the border Garcia said. crats and immigration advocacy to a House aide. ity.

Canada police stage major crackdown on gang, arresting 70

More than 800 Canadian police off icers Generalz gang – which is rooted in off ences involving firearms ... and were Haley slams human rights groups descended yesterday on 50 locations Toronto’s west side – were arrested, active in the sale and distribution of in Toronto in dawn raids targeting Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders illegal narcotics.” a violent criminal street gang with told a news conference, adding that The police blitz resulted in the seizure AFP reaches into the Caribbean and the more arrests were still to come. of a large stash of guns and drugs. United Nations United States. “These are thugs,” he said. “This group The arrests come after a nine-month Seventy members of the Five Point had been involved in numerous violent investigation.

S ambassador Nikki Haley has accused human rights groups Uof thwarting a US push for changes to the UN Human Rights Council and contributing to Washing- ton’s decision to quit the body. In a letter sent to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Haley com- plained that they had played a “decon- structive” role by refusing to support US eff orts to take Israel off the coun- cil’s agenda. Haley on Tuesday announced that the United States was quitting the rights council, condemning the “hy- pocrisy” of its members and its alleged “unrelenting bias” against Israel. Haley: You (the NGOs) should know that your eff orts to block negotiations and “You should know that your ef- thwart reform were a contributing factor in the US decision to withdraw from forts to block negotiations and thwart the council. reform were a contributing factor in the US decision to withdraw from the broad support and the US might not be the world,” said Charbonneau. council,” said Haley in the letter seen able to stop them,” said Human Rights Haley had repeatedly threatened by AFP. “You put yourself on the side Watch’s UN director Louis Charbon- over the past year to quit the rights of Russia and China, and opposite the neau. council unless there were reforms to its United States, on a key human rights In the end the United States did not agenda and to the election of its mem- issue.” push ahead with its proposals at the bers, which often run unopposed as a Haley was referring to a letter by General Assembly because of lack of region’s candidate, regardless of their 18 rights groups, including Human support from allies who warned that rights record. Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty In- changes could have unwanted conse- Last year, the United States urged ternational, to United Nations mem- quences or might fail to win adoption. African nations to back away from ber-states in May expressing concern HRW executive director Kenneth supporting the candidacy of the Dem- that a US draft resolution at the Gen- Roth argued that reforms were un- ocratic Republic of the Congo to the eral Assembly could weaken the rights derway to improve the workings of the rights council, but the appeal fell on council. 47-nation Geneva-based council but deaf ears. The rights groups had warned that that the United States “walked away Human rights groups had also raised the proposed changes could trigger from” that eff ort and chose instead to concerns about giving the Congo a “hostile amendments”, possibly from “theatrically” quit the council. seat at the council, citing the violence China and Russia, to undermine the “By attacking and blaming NGOs for in Kasai, the murder of two UN experts work of the council which monitors its own failure, the Trump administra- who were investigating mass graves human rights crises worldwide. tion is taking a page out of the book of there, and the arrests of scores of op- “Such hostile proposals could enjoy some of the worst governments around position demonstrators.

Manafort bid to suppress evidence fails

Reuters Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent got Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. Washington one of his employees to open the stor- He has pleaded not guilty to charges age unit, rather than asking Manafort that range from conspiring to launder for permission or seeking a warrant. money and failing to register as a for- federal judge has declined a Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the eign agent for the pro-Russia Ukraine request by President Don- US District Court for the District of government, to bank and tax fraud. Aald Trump’s former campaign Columbia rejected that argument, Last week, Jackson ordered Mana- manager Paul Manafort to suppress saying “law enforcement agents do fort be jailed after Mueller brought evidence seized by investigators for not need a warrant to enter a location fresh charges against him alleging he Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s of- if they have voluntary consent”. tampered with witnesses. fi ce from a storage unit. Manafort is facing two indictments Manafort has been seeking ways to Manafort, who is currently jailed in in Washington and Virginia that arose deprive prosecutors of what could be Virginia, had argued that the evidence from Mueller’s ongoing investiga- pivotal evidence in his Washington was seized improperly after a Federal tion into potential collusion between trial scheduled for September. Gulf Times 6 Friday, June 22, 2018 ASIA China, Nepal International yoga day sign 14 deals, including one on rail

By Anil Giri, IANS utilisation of highways in Tibet by Nepal for cargo Beijing transport. With this agreement, Nepal can use the Ti- betan highways to ferry goods and logistics to its hina and Nepal yesterday signed 14 agree- northern part close to Tibet, but diffi cult to ac- ments, including one on railway construc- cess from other parts of Nepal. Ction in the Himalayan nation, following a Other MoU inked was investment and co-op- meeting between visiting Nepali Prime Minister eration on production capacity between the Na- K P Sharma Oli and his Chinese counterpart Li tional Development and Reforms Commission Keqiang. of China and National Planning Commission of Both sides struck the deal on conducting feasi- Nepal. bility study of a railway line connecting the bor- Similarly, an agreement between the two gov- der town of Kerung to Nepali capital Kathmandu. ernments was signed on reconstruction of the The MoU was signed by Nepal’s Minister for Friendship Bridge in Tatopani of Sindhupalchowk Practitioners participate in a mass session to mark International Yoga Day in Dhaka yesterday. Physical Infrastructure and Transport Raghubir and Rasuwagadhi of Rasuwa districts of Nepal Mahaseth and his Chinese counterpart Li Xiaopeng. that were damaged due to the 2015 earthquake. China will bear the cost of the 121.480km These two bridges link Nepal and China in two project. Kathmandu and Beijing had in principal busiest trading routes. agreed to expand the Chinese railway beyond Ne- Another MoU was signed on the setting up of pal border in 2016 during the visit of Oli but no mechanism for facilitation on the implementa- agreement was reached that time. tion of China-Nepal Co-operation Programmes UN envoy tells Myanmar: Perpetrators of The Chinese railway authorities will conduct and Projects in Nepal. the pre-feasibility of the project within August Several others pacts were signed on energy co- and will start preparing the detailed project re- operation, Nepal’s Nuwakot Palace Restoration Rohingya attacks must be held accountable port by the next two years. Project at Durbar Square, public schools recovery The construction will be completed within project in Rasuwa, Dolakha and Sindhupalchowk. fi ve years. The Chinese side said its rail will likely Nepal and China also agreed to strengthen AFP other offi cials during a nine-day driven from their homes by an as the United States, France reach near Nepal border in 2022. people to people relations, partnership in tour- United Nations visit to Myanmar that ended yes- army campaign. and Britain have described the After that, the construction of cross border ism sector, exchanges of socio-cultural in various terday. Myanmar has said the military military campaign in Rakhine as railway will commence. sectors and co-ordination and dialogue on major “In all discussions, the special operation launched in August in “ethnic cleansing” and is push- Mahaseth and Li also signed a protocol on the international issues. he new UN envoy for My- envoy underlined the importance northern Rakhine state is aimed ing for a full investigation of al- anmar told authorities in of accountability, which she high- at rooting out extremists. legations of atrocities. TNaypyidaw during her fi rst lighted was essential for genuine After visiting camps of dis- Myanmar has refused to allow visit that credible measures were reconciliation,” said a statement placed Rohingya in Rakhine, a fact-fi nding mission set up by needed to establish accountabil- on the results of her visit. Schraner Burgener also suggest- the UN Human Rights Council to ity for the violence that engulfed Schraner Burgener “urged for ed that authorities hold public enter the country, and has barred Manila defends anti-loitering Rakhine state and drove 700,000 credible fact-fi nding measures” meetings with the aff ected com- UN rights expert Yanghee Lee. Rohingya from their homes, a UN and said the United Nations was munities to encourage “recon- The Security Council visited statement said yesterday. ready to co-operate to establish ciliation and healing”. Myanmar and Rakhine state in crackdown to deter crime Christine Schraner Burgener such steps. The former Swiss ambassador early May, meeting with refugees held talks with Myanmar’s de Schraner Burgener will trav- to Germany, who was appointed who gave detailed accounts of facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi el soon to Bangladesh where special envoy in April, also plans killings, rape and torching of vil- DPA campaign last week, more than 7,000 people have and commander-in-chief Gen- 700,000 Muslim Rohingya are to visit Thailand and China. lages at the hands of Myanmar’s Manila been arrested up to June 20 in metropolitan Ma- eral Min Aung Hlaing among sheltering in camps after being The United Nations as well military. nila alone, according to police records. On Wednesday, one suspect was killed when he Philippine government has defended he allegedly fought back while police conducted a campaign against loitering in streets at their rounds against people loitering in the streets Tnight amid concerns the crackdown could in a town in Pangasinan province north of Manila, be open to abuse, with two suspects reportedly a police report said. The suspect, who was only Lankan refugee family loses Australia appeal killed since last week. identifi ed by an alias, was armed with a 22-calibre Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the pistol, the report said. campaign against people who loiter in the streets In Quezon, a 22-year-old man allegedly ar- Guardian News and Media two-year-old Kopiga, had hoped Queensland to Melbourne, one respectively, when they arrived at night, locally called tambay, was part of the rested for being half-naked while hanging out in Melbourne to remain after fl eeing Sri Lanka day after Priya’s visa had expired. independently by boat. government’s eff orts to prevent crime. the streets on June 15 died four days later while in by boat. The couple’s treatment has They met and married in Aus- “It is in line with the president’s role as chief detention. But the federal circuit court in sparked a petition, signed by tralia, and their daughters have implementer of the law to increase police visibil- His family alleged he was beaten by police. family of Tamil asylum Melbourne yesterday struck out more than 62,000 people asking never left the country. ity and to enforce strictly existing ordinances,” he Police denied the allegation, noting that the seekers who settled in their appeal. They now have 21 the home aff airs minister, Peter The couple worked in the meat said. suspect “complained of diffi culty in breathing Athe Queensland town of days to decide whether to contest Dutton, to intervene in the fami- works in the Queensland town of “It is necessary to get the message across that and was rushed to [a] nearby [hospital] where he Biloela have lost their appeal to the ruling. ly’s case and grant them the right Biloela for four years. police are in the community and going around to was pronounced dead.” stay in Australia. At 5am on March 5, Austral- to stay in Australia. They were well regarded in the deter crime,” he added. Police said the doctor “certifi ed that there were Nadesalingam and Priya, and ian Border Force offi cers took Husband and wife, Nadesal- close-knit community, which Since police stepped up the anti-loitering no signs external injuries.” their Australia-born daughters, the family into detention and ingam and Priya have lived in rallied to support their battle to nine-month-old Dharuniga and transported them 1,500km from Australia since 2012 and 2013 stay in Australia. Skateboarding skill A boy demonstrates his skateboarding skills Former Thai PM Yingluck marks birthday in exile during an event to mark Go Skateboarding Day in Manila yesterday. Reuters nied accusations over her han- despite attempts by the military coup, made many enemies Bangkok dling of a rice purchase scheme to stamp out their infl uence. among the Bangkok-based elite, that ran up losses in the billions Parties aligned with Thaksin who accuse him of nepotism and of dollars. have won every election since corruption. ormer Thai prime minister “This is the fi rst birthday I 2001 by appealing to poorer vot- Yingluck was banned from Yingluck Shinawatra yes- have spent overseas,” Yingluck ers. politics for fi ve years by the junta Fterday made her fi rst public wrote on her offi cial Facebook Yingluck fl ed the country last in 2015. comments on social media since page, thanking Thais on her 51st August, days before the Supreme Since fl eeing Thailand last fl eeing the country last August birthday. Court was to decide her case. year she has appeared alongside during a criminal negligence trial “I wish to thank the Thai peo- Sources in her Puea Thai Party Thaksin, notably in China, Japan, that eventually sentenced her to ple for still thinking of me.” said she fl ed to London via Du- Singapore, and the United States fi ve years in jail. She also updated pictures on bai, where her brother, billionaire this year. Yingluck, whose elected gov- her offi cial Twitter and Insta- former prime minister Thaksin Thaksin also lives in self-im- ernment was overthrown in gram accounts. Shinawatra, has a home. posed exile after fl eeing a 2008 2014 by the army generals who The Shinawatra family re- Thaksin, in offi ce from 2001 graft conviction he says was po- still control Thailand, had de- mains infl uential in Thai politics, until he was ousted in a 2006 litically motivated. Najib’s 1MDB denials unbelievable, says Mahathir

Reuters eral election last month. The new and abuse of power against his fund founded by Najib in 2009. there was no way those running Najib also said the nearly 300 the Department of Justice under Kuala Lumpur government led by 92-year-old former protege. “If he doesn’t know, it must be 1MDB could have kept the alleged boxes of designer handbags its anti-kleptocracy programme. Mahathir has relaunched in- Mahathir told Reuters investi- that he doesn’t understand what embezzlement of billions of dol- seized by police during searches The DoJ has alleged in lawsuits vestigations into where 1MDB’s gators had found Najib’s signa- a signature means...Najib always lars in public funds a secret from were mainly gifts given to his that more than $4.5bn from 1MDB alaysian Prime Minis- money went. ture on cheques and documents. assume that people are stupid.” Najib, especially after the US wife and daughter and had noth- was laundered through a com- ter Mahathir yesterday In his fi rst sit-down inter- Reacting to Najib’s protesta- Najib, in some of his most ex- Department of Justice fi led civil ing to do with 1MDB. plex web of transactions and shell Mpoured scorn over his view since losing the election, tions of innocence, Mahathir tensive comments yet on the suits that detailed how and where Najib’s denials sparked outrage companies, of which $681mn predecessor Najib Razak for de- Najib told Reuters on Tuesday told a newspaper that Najib had 1MDB scandal, had told Reuters some of the money moved. among Malaysians who roasted ended in Najib’s bank account. nying knowing whether millions that he should not be blamed for lost credibility. that he did not know if hundreds “All Malaysians should study him on social media. According to the DoJ, assets of dollars from scandal-plagued the scandal at 1MDB and that he “Who wants to believe him that of millions of dollars that moved and dissect the most astonish- “Mr Ex Pm you know nothing purchased using 1MDB money state fund 1MDB had been put in knew nothing about money from he didn’t know, when he signed? through his personal account was ing interview given by Najib on except for lavish lifestyle...,” read include a Picasso painting, luxu- his personal bank account. the state fund appearing in his Every bit of money that goes in from 1MDB, and if money from the 1MDB scandal with Reuters,” a tweet posted under the handle ry real estate in South California Voters, fuelled by anger over personal account. and out of the fi rst borrowing of the fund was eventually laun- Lim said. @mase99rati. and New York, shares in a Hol- the multi-billion dollar scan- Interviewed by Reuters the 42bn ringgit ($10.5bn), all his sig- dered to acquire assets globally, “I do not believe that Najib is Transactions involving 1MDB lywood production company and dal at 1Malaysia Development same day, Mahathir said authori- nature,” Mahathir said in an inter- including yachts, paintings, gems so stupid, incompetent or igno- are being investigated in half a a $265mn yacht, and more than Berhad (1MDB) and rising liv- ties were looking to bring cases view with the Malay Mail. and prime real estate. rant, which only means he was dozen countries, including the $200mn worth of jewellery — in- ing costs, dumped Najib and his ranging from embezzlement, The amount refers to the total Lim Kit Siang, a senior leader lying through his teeth in his in- United States, where it has be- cluding a 22-carat pink diamond long-ruling coalition in a gen- bribery with government money debt accumulated by 1MDB, a in Mahathir’s coalition, said terview with Reuters,” he added. come the biggest case pursued by pendant and necklace. Gulf Times Friday, June 22, 2018 7 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

Relatives of missing passengers from ferry accident on Lake Toba wait for news at a command post at Tigaras port in Rescue team members are seen on boats as Kamel Purba, a farmer who lost his mother and brother in the ferry accident Simalungun, North Sumatra. at Lake Toba, sits on a pier of Tigaras port in Simalungun, North Sumatra. Indonesia questions captain of sunken

A rescue team member prepares a ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle) during search operations for the missing passengers from a ferry accident at Lake Toba at Tigaras port in Simalungun, North ferry, widens search Sumatra. Reuters ferry disasters in years left four Authorities were trying to get panded (the search area) from On the quay, hundreds of Turia, said on Wednesday, de- while a speedboat carrying 30 Tigaras confi rmed dead and 18 survivors, clearer information from the 6km to 10km,” Budiawan, an of- people sang hymns, some in scribing attempts by nearby passengers sank off South Su- including the captain. captain and survivors on where fi cial of Indonesia’s search and the regional Batak language, ships to help survivors. The mo- matra, killing at least two. “We see there’s a possibil- the vessel went down. “(The rescue agency, told reporters. in an area of predominantly bile telephone of Turia’s daugh- In Lake Toba, there has also ndonesian police yesterday ity to begin a criminal investiga- captain’s) health remains unsta- That is equivalent to a range of Muslim Indonesia that is home ter, who was accompanied on been a string of previous ac- questioned the captain of a tion because of negligence that ble. We asked him some ques- 3.7 miles to 6.21 miles. to a large Christian commu- board by her husband and the cidents, including a 1997 sink- Iferry that sank without trace resulted in people losing their tions, but he has yet to remem- Authorities were waiting for nity. Waiting at the quayside couple’s 2-1/2-year-old daugh- ing that killed about 80 people. in a volcanic lake in Sumatra this lives,” national police chief Tito ber clearly,” police offi cial Agus more sophisticated navy equip- for news of the family of her ter, has not been active since President Joko Widodo said the week, warning that a criminal Karnavian said during a visit to Darojat told Metro TV. ment that can plumb depths of 20-year-old daughter who Tuesday, Turia added. government would push to pre- investigation could be launched the base of rescue operations at Teams of divers resumed a as much as 450m (1,500ft) in took the ill-fated ferry, one The Southeast Asian nation vent future boat accidents. “I over a disaster that has left at the lake, one of the world’s deep- search for the wooden ferry, some places, he added. distraught mother criticised frequently suff ers boat sinkings, ask that this kind of case will not least 192 people missing. Des- est. “The captain may be named which may have had aboard The picturesque lake fi lls the the disorganised nature of the with basic safety rules often happen again and I have asked perate relatives awaiting news a suspect,” Karnavian said, add- nearly fi ve times the number of caldera of a giant ancient vol- initial rescue effort. fl outed and vessels overloaded. the transport minister to evalu- of loved ones prayed and sang ing that regional transport of- passengers it was supposed to cano that erupted about 75,000 “Just looking at the videos Last week, 13 died after a boat ate all safety standards for ferry hymns at the port on Lake Toba fi cials would also be questioned carry when it went down in bad years ago in one of history’s big- of them throwing lifesavers, it carrying about 43 people sank transport,” he said in a statement after one of Indonesia’s worst about supervision. weather on Monday. “We’ve ex- gest eruptions. looked haphazard,” the woman, off Makassar on Sulawesi island, late on Wednesday. New Zealand PM gives Pro-smoking Japanese lawmaker panned birth to healthy baby girl for heckling cancer patient, tenders apology Reuters MP, shouted “Enough already!” Hasegawa told Reuters he did dren, die from passive smoking Tokyo at a hearing last week when Ka- not believe his ears at fi rst. every year. This week, the lower AFP privilege and we are sure your zuo Hasegawa, a 47-year-old “I’d actually just said it house passed a watered-down Auckland new arrival will fi ll your lives non-smoker with stage four lung would be all right if there were version of a health ministry with all the happiness our chil- Japanese member of cancer, was testifying about the places to smoke outdoors when proposal to limit secondhand dren have ours,” he said. parliament apologised danger of secondhand smoke. I was jeered, and this was so smoke, which allows smoking ew Zealand Prime Min- Ardern, who refused to discuss Ayesterday for jeering a Anami’s jeer sparked wide- contradictory I wondered if in more places than the original ister Jacinda Ardern plans for motherhood during the lung cancer patient testify- spread criticism on social me- he’d even been listening, which proposal. Ngave birth to a baby girl election campaign, waited until ing about the dangers of sec- dia and yesterday, he issued a made me even sadder,” he said. Smoking is banned in schools in an Auckland hospital yester- January to reveal on Facebook she ondhand smoke, saying he had statement to say he was sorry if “Some people who smoke have and hospitals, but most provide day, becoming only the second had conceived and was going to spoken out to prevent discrimi- he had caused any “unpleasant been criticised so much they outdoor smoking spaces. Ja- world leader to do so while in of- be “prime minister and a mum”. nation against smokers. Japan feelings”. “I just murmured my feel they’re being attacked and pan’s Health Ministry removed fi ce. It was the fi rst child for the Her plans for a family had lags many countries in eff orts to feelings that smokers should get angry. Perhaps that was the its last cigarette vending ma- 37-year-old and her 40-year- Jacinda Ardern sparked a sexism row during the fi ght smoking, with attempts to not be discriminated against case with him.” chine earlier this year. “Given old partner Clarke Gayford, with election when a television host tackle tobacco often stymied by more than necessary,” he said MPs were discussing a bill to how many people die from pas- the new arrival weighing in at I want to acknowledge that,” she quizzed her on the issue, saying pro-smoking politicians, res- in the statement on his web- limit passive smoking in public sive smoking each year, the law 3.3kg (7.3 pounds). said when revealing the preg- voters had a right to know be- taurateurs and Japan Tobacco, site. He did not refer directly to areas ahead of the 2020 Sum- should be trying to help them,” “I’m sure we’re going through nancy in January. fore they cast their ballots. She which is one-third owned by Hasegawa, except to say he had mer Olympics in Tokyo. Activ- Hasegawa said. “But the law, as all of the emotions new parents The birth capped an event- rejected the line of questioning the government. no intention of interfering with ists say about 15,000 Japanese, it stands now, doesn’t seem as if go through, but at the same time ful year for Ardern who became as “unacceptable”, saying preg- Yoichi Anami, a ruling party the statement of a witness. many of them women and chil- it will.” feeling so grateful for all the prime minister last October, three nancy and child rearing should kindness and best wishes from months after inheriting the lead- not hinder women’s opportuni- so many people. Thank you,” Ar- ership of the Labour Party when ties in the workplace. Killing dogs for dern said. She added on Insta- it was languishing in the polls. “It is a woman’s decision gram that the baby was healthy When no party won suffi cient about when they choose to have Cooling effect meat illegal, rules and doing well. support in the election to form children and it should not prede- S Korean court “We’re all doing really well a government, she was anointed termine whether or not they are thanks to the wonderful team at prime minister by New Zealand given a job or have job opportu- A South Korean court has ruled the Auckland City Hospital.” First leader Winston Peters, the nities,” she said then. Pakistan’s killing of dogs for meat is illegal, in The charismatic Ardern fol- kingmaker in a three-party coali- Bhutto, who was assassinated in a landmark decision that animal lows Pakistan’s prime minister tion also involving the Greens. 2007, gave birth in January 1990 rights activists said yesterday could Benazir Bhutto in 1990 as the Peters, who became Ardern’s to her daughter Bakhtawar who pave the way to outlawing eating only women in recorded his- deputy, is now acting prime now describes herself on Twit- canines. The meat has long been a tory to give birth while in power, minister while she takes six ter as “1st child born to a sitting part of South Korean cuisine, with but she downplayed the signifi - weeks maternity leave, although female Prime Minister”. about 1mn dogs believed to be cance. “Lots of people juggle a she will continue to be consulted Ardern was due on June 17 and eaten annually. But consumption lot of things in their personal and on signifi cant issues. New Zea- had said she did not want the has declined as South Koreans private lives, and I’m not unu- land opposition leader Simon pregnancy to drag on and was increasingly embrace the idea of sual in that. Plenty of women Bridges off ered congratulations. prepared to be induced if neces- dogs as man’s best friend rather have multitasked before me, and “Being parents is a joy and a sary. than livestock, with the practice now something of a taboo among younger generations and pressure Millionaire Australia developer jailed for ordering killing from activists mounting. Even so it remains a legal grey A millionaire property developer his Mercedes in the harbourside to order the intimidation of area. Despite no specific ban, could die in jail after he was suburb of Cremorne. Kimberley McGurk less than authorities have invoked hygiene sentenced yesterday to 39 Medich and McGurk were a year later “breathtakingly regulations or animal protection years behind bars for ordering involved in multi-million- callous” and “inherently ruthless”. laws that ban cruel slaughter the killing of a former business dollar property and financing Medich went on trial last year but methods to crack down on dog associate in a wealthy Sydney partnerships before the a jury failed to reach a verdict in farms and restaurants ahead of suburb. Ron Medich, 70, was in relationship turned sour. the high-profile case. A second international events such as the April found guilty of directing the “Directing and financing the trial kicked off in January, with Pyeongchang Olympics. Animal 2009 murder of Scottish-born killing of another human being a jury finding him guilty of both rights group Care last year filed property tycoon Michael McGurk is a fundamentally abhorrent crimes. He will be eligible for complaints against a dog farm and for organising intimidation of and heinous crime,” New South parole in 2048. operator in Bucheon, accusing him his wife. Wales Supreme Court Justice Four other men have been jailed Giraffes eat iced fruits given out to help them endure the summer heat at South Korea’s of “killing animals without proper McGurk was shot in the head Geoff rey Bellew said in his over the killing but police have Everland Amusement and Animal Park in Yongin, south of Seoul, yesterday. Temperatures reasons” and violating building by a gunman in front of his judgement. never been able to prove who in South Korea rose to 30C. and hygiene regulations, and young son as he stepped from He also called Medich’s decision actually pulled the trigger. prosecutors later charged him. Gulf Times 8 Friday, June 22, 2018 BRITAIN/IRELAND

PEOPLE WILDLIFE CRIME TRAGEDY CONTROVERSY Ex-Love Island contestant Sleeping woman Heiress beaten by man Child with rare brain MSP faces suspension Sophie found dead mauled by fox at Kensington home tumour loses fight for life over sexual harassment

Love Island star Sophie A woman mauled in her bed by a fox yesterday Police are hunting a man after the daughter of The father of an eight-year-old girl taken An MSP faces being suspended from Holyrood Gradon has been found dead warned Londoners not to leave windows open in a millionaire property heiress was attacked at abroad for treatment for a deadly brain tumour for a month after he was found guilty of sexual aged 32. Her boyfriend, Aaron hot weather. Jodie Nailard, 22, feared she would her home. Chloe Pidgley was hit over the head yesterday paid tribute after she lost her fight for harassment. Mark McDonald resigned as early Armstrong, led tributes to contract rabies after she woke to find the animal and punched and kicked in the face when the life. Scott and Yang Lau, from Woodford Green, years minister in November 2017 after he sent Gradon, a former Miss Great gnawing on her arm at her Clapham flat. Nailard, a suspect broke into her Kensington flat. The spent £250,000 on pioneering therapy for an “inappropriate” text message to a woman. He Britain who appeared on the personal assistant, managed to scare off the animal granddaughter of Berkeley Homes founder daughter Kaleigh in Mexico after the NHS had later quit the SNP. The Commissioner for Ethical dating show’s second season but was left covered in blood having suff ered six Tony Pidgley also had her fingers broken run out of options. They believe it prolonged her Standards in Public Life concluded that the case last year. Sharing a picture of puncture wounds during the attack at 5.30am from a slammed door as she tried to flee, say life by more than a year, while they campaigned amounted to sexual harassment. Holyrood’s them together on Facebook, on Sunday. She told the Standard: “I woke up in reports. The 25-year-old was taken to hospital for more research into childhood brain tumours. standards committee has now recommended he wrote: “I will never forget that smile. I love terrible pain and blood coming from my arm. I then where she was treated for non-life-threatening Kaleigh was diagnosed in April 2016 with a rare McDonald be suspended without pay for a you so so much baby.” Gradon was found saw the fox’s bushy tail and squirmy face — it was injuries, police said. Her mother, Denize Hewitt, diff use intrinsic pontine glioma tumour. She died month. The final decision on the sanction will dead at her home in Medburn, Ponteland, near terrifying.” She said her boyfriend Harry King was 53, revealed her daughter’s attacker told her he last week after falling into a “deeply unconscious be made by parliament as a whole, and the Newcastle. Police said there were no suspicious forced to throw pillows at the animal to keep it at was going to get some acid and come back to state” in early May and spent her last weeks at suspension period will not include the upcoming circumstances. bay before rushing her to hospital. disfigure her. Great Ormond Street hospital. summer recess. Hands quits NHS staff protests as minister to vote against Heathrow plans

Guardian News and Media there is a three-line whip to vote London in favour of the proposed £14bn expansion. Labour MPs will get a free vote. he international trade min- Johnson, the foreign secre- ister has resigned in order tary and one of the expansion’s Tto vote against Heathrow most vocal opponents, is due to expansion when plans for a third be abroad on the day of the vote, runway are put to the Commons allowing him to escape having to on Monday. choose between resignation and Greg Hands’s resignation came rebelling against Theresa May. as the mayor of London, Sadiq The former transport secretary Khan, said he would join legal ac- Justine Greening, a fi erce oppo- tion against the third runway if nent of Heathrow, told the Guard- MPs voted to approve it. ian she was “very sad” Hands had Hands, the MP for Chelsea and been forced to quit. “It’s totally Fulham and a longstanding op- wrong that Conservative MPs are ponent of Heathrow expansion, not allowed a free vote to represent wrote on Twitter: “As the govern- their local longstanding concerns ment will be whipping the vote on on Heathrow pollution,” she said. Monday, this means I am resigning “Other Conservative MPs NHS staff hold banners and placards during a protest in central London yesterday. from the government. have also voiced concerns to me “It has been an honour to serve about Heathrow expansion more the prime minister (and her prede- broadly. If the secretary of state cessor) for the last seven years and for transport was confi dent of his I wish the PM (and) the govern- case he should allow a free vote. ment every continuing success.” Because that’s not the case, the A Downing Street source said: government has lost a very capa- “He had been categoric to his ble minister.” constituents that he would vote Khan said he would join legal against the third runway, so it is action against the third runway if not a massive surprise that he has MPs voted to approve it next week. Police probe new leads resigned. It is a three-line whip.” “While I believe in a better Hea- Andy McDonald, the shadow throw, I do not believe a bigger transport secretary, said: “Hands’s Heathrow is the right answer for resignation piles the pressure on London and I remain committed Boris Johnson, who promised his to opposing such a short-sighted constituents he would ‘lie down decision,” he told the Guardian. in front of the bulldozers’ to stop a “There are no plans on how to deal over 465 hospital deaths third runway. Instead he is jetting with the valid concerns about off to Luxembourg on Monday to Heathrow expansion.” London Evening Standard The relative of one woman Hampshire chief constable Olivia blacklisted” and that data on a disregard for human life and a avoid the vote because he is too Khan said he would support the London who died at the hospital called Pinkney said the inquiry panel mortality rates is still not being culture of shortening lives of a weak to stand by his promises.” legal action set to be brought by for cases to be “fast tracked to the had sight of information “not fully and properly assessed. large number of patients” at the A Downing Street spokesman local authorities. “This will be a Crown Prosecution Service, and previously seen” by the force. Health Secretary Jeremy hospital. said: “Hands has served the gov- critical moment, and for the sake olice yesterday said they criticised previous inquiries as a Her comments came as a re- Hunt admitted that doctors and The report added: “There was ernment with great ability and of Londoners aff ected by poor air were examining new infor- “shambles.” spected health safety expert said nurses still found it too diffi cult an institutionalised regime of distinction over several years and quality, disruption from noise and Pmation from the report into The study revealed that 465 it was likely that other scandals to speak out. On BBC Radio 4’s prescribing and administering we thank him for all his work. This the costs needed to improve trans- the Gosport Hospital scandal. patients had their lives shortened similar to Gosport are happen- Today programme he said the ‘dangerous doses’ of a hazardous government is committed to ex- port connections, I will do what The authorities are under after being prescribed powerful ing in the NHS. Sir Brian Jarman, “blame culture” in the NHS had combination of medication not panding airport capacity at Hea- I can to stop these poor plans,” he growing pressure to deliver jus- opiate painkillers at Gosport War emeritus professor at Imperial to change even more to help un- clinically indicated or justifi ed, throw – this is an important deci- said. tice over the deaths of hundreds Memorial Hospital. Another 200 College London, said he did not cover scandals following reforms with patients and relatives pow- sion which will play a crucial role “The south-east of England is of patients following a damning patients may also have suff ered believe Gosport was a one-off , implemented by him. erless in their relationship with in securing the future of (a) global in need of additional airport ca- independent inquiry. Families a similar fate but their records and claimed there was still a re- The Gosport scandal revealed professional staff .” Britain.” pacity, but I believe the govern- demanded that the GP blamed have been lost. The cases span fusal in parts of the NHS to rec- failure at “every level of the in- The Crown Prosecution Serv- The government’s plan to ex- ment is pressing ahead with the over the failings, Dr Jane Barton, from 1989 to 2000. Hampshire ognise failings. stitutions of the British state,” ice said: “We will consider the pand the west London airport is wrong decision to build a new faces justice after the report ac- police conducted three separate He said he believes whistle- he added, stressing: “We have to contents of the report, but we can almost certain to get the green runway at Heathrow. It is my view cused her of presiding over a sys- inquiries over 12 years, investi- blowers are still reluctant to ex- learn every possible lesson.” The only act if new evidence is iden- light in the Commons next week. that a second runway at Gatwick is tem which gave patients power- gating more than 91 deaths — but pose malpractice because of the damning report published on tifi ed by the police and sent to us Conservative MPs have been told a better option.” ful drugs they did not need. no one was ever prosecuted. Now risk of being “fi red, gagged and Wednesday revealed “there was for a charging decision.”

May at DNRC opening No deal if UK backtracks Name female Question Time host, BBC urged on border pledge: Dublin Guardian News and Media woman come as the BBC has London pledged to address issues includ- ing gender inequality over pay Agencies for signifi cant progress in June. from the EU. and on-and off -screen opportu- London The British government have This pacifi ed Tory rebel Do- he culture secretary has nities. been unable to deliver on that. minic Grieve MP. A Lords amend- called on the BBC to ap- The race to replace Dimbleby That is frustrating for everybody. ment that would have given MPs Tpoint a woman to replace has opened up fi erce competi- reland yesterday warned Brit- But, if anything, the negotiations the power to block a “no deal” David Dimbleby as the host of tion among the potential candi- ain there will be “no deal” on need to intensify, particularly on Brexit was voted down by 319 Question Time. dates, with Samira Ahmed, the IBrexit if it backtracks on a the Irish backstop element of the votes to 303. Dimbleby, 79, who has chaired journalist and presenter of Radio promise to avoid a hard border. withdrawal agreement.” Meanwhile, Interior Minister the most high-profi le British 4’s Front Row programme, using The country’s deputy premier The warning came as European Sajid Javid said European Union political TV show for 25 years, Twitter to throw her hat in the Simon Coveney said EU countries Commission president Jean- citizens living in Britain can begin announced this week he would ring and state her credentials. were considering allowing Britain Claude Juncker and EU chief ne- registering from this autumn for a step down in December, spark- Other leading internal can- to leave without an agreement gotiator Michel Barnier visited post-Brexit settlement scheme, ing widespread debate over who didates include the Newsnight unless they get legally binding as- Dublin yesterday. as the government vowed to make should take over the role. presenters Emily Maitlis and surances on the 300-mile border Their meeting ahead of the Eu- the process as simple as possible. During questions to the dig- Kirsty Wark, the Radio 4 Today with Northern Ireland. ropean Council in Brussels this Almost 4mn EU nationals cur- ital, culture, media and sport programme hosts Nick Robinson Coveney told RTE radio: “We month is being interpreted as a rently live in Britain with no re- secretary in the Commons, Vicky and Mishal Husain, and Desert have been reassured over and over gesture of solidarity on behalf of strictions under the bloc’s free- Ford, the Conservative MP for Island Discs’ Kirsty Young. again that Ireland will not be left European leaders to Ireland. dom of movement laws, but this Chelmsford, asked Matt Han- The BBC could choose to go isolated. Let’s be very clear: there Juncker later met Taoiseach will end with Brexit, when they cock’s view on Dimbleby’s re- for a more left-fi eld choice such will be no withdrawal agreement, Leo Varadkar and received an must apply for a new status. placement. as Victoria Derbyshire, whose no transition agreement and no honorary doctorate from the Na- Unveiling further details of the “Does he agree with me that in morning news show on BBC Two managed Brexit if the UK don’t tional University of Ireland. plan, Javid said registering will be this year, 100 years of women’s has won a series of awards, or follow through on their commit- The EU Withdrawal Bill com- “as simple as people can reason- suff rage, this baton should be the Radio 5 Live presenter Emma ments in writing to Ireland, and to pleted its passage through parlia- ably expect” and would have no passed to a woman?” she said. Barnett, who received plaudits the EU as a whole.” ment on Wednesday night after a income requirement. Hancock replied: “While of after standing in for Andrew He called for talks to be stepped last-minute compromise deal saw Applicants will only have to course the job must go according Marr on his Sunday programme up over the summer on the border off a threatened rebellion by pro- prove their identity, that they live Prime Minister Theresa May attends the off icial handover to merit, I think it’s about time this year. issue and said he regretted that EU Tories. It means Speaker John in Britain and that they have no to the nation of the newly-built Defence and National that we had a woman at the helm Outside the BBC, the Channel substantial progress had not al- Bercow will decide what kind of serious criminal convictions, and Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) at the Stanford Hall Estate, of Question Time.” 4 News anchor Krishnan Guru- ready been made. “meaningful vote” MPs will get there will be no minimum income Loughborough, yesterday. The calls for the coveted Ques- Murthy has been speculated as a “We had asked for and looked if there is a no-deal withdrawal requirement. tion Time role to be given to a potential candidate. Gulf Times Friday, June 22, 2018 9 EUROPE 23 nations seek tougher climate goals by 2020

Reuters by UN Secretary General An- to join us in expressing their de- lands, New Zealand, Norway, cation in October, about ways to of greenhouse gases, China, is scientifi c fi ndings that man- Oslo tonio Guterres to host a sum- sire to lead from the front.” Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Spain, and limit a creeping rise in global av- not among the nations pledging made greenhouse gases are the mit in September 2019 to review The governments also said that Sweden, a statement said. erage temperatures that is caus- faster action, but the declaration prime cause of warming and the fi ght against global warming they would encourage long-term Their “Declaration for Ambi- ing heat waves, downpours and is preliminary with other nations wants to promote the coal indus- ore than 20 nations since almost 200 governments strategies for low emissions and tion” underscores commitment droughts. welcome to sign up. try. ranging from Germany, signed up in 2015 for the Paris new funds and investment in to the principles of the Paris A leaked draft of that report Beijing remains a signatory of By contrast, small island states MFrance and Britain to climate agreement. projects to help goals of the Paris climate agreement, which also says warming is set to exceed 1.5° the Paris accord. say that a thaw of ice worldwide Pacifi c island states said yester- “We commit to exploring the Agreement. seeks ever tougher climate goals Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) above The landmark agreement has will raise sea levels and swamp day that they would try to limit possibilities for stepping up our The signatories are Argentina, to phase out polluting fossil fuels pre-industrial times, the strict- been weakened by a decision their nations. their greenhouse gas emissions own ambition,” the 23 nations Britain, Canada, Chile, Colom- this century. est goal under the Paris Agree- by President Donald Trump to “If we do not raise global am- more than already planned under said in a statement, issued by the bia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ethio- The nations said that they ment, by around 2040 unless withdraw the United States, the bition by 2020, it will be too the Paris climate agreement by Marshall Islands in the Pacifi c, pia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germa- would work in the light of a governments take “rapid and far- number two emitter, out of the late for my island nation,” Hilda 2020. about objectives for action by ny, Maldives, Marshall Islands, United Nations report by leading reaching” measures. accord. Heine, the president of the Mar- They welcomed a decision 2020. “We call on other countries Mexico, Monaco, the Nether- climate scientists, due for publi- The world’s biggest producer Trump doubts mainstream shall Islands, said in a statement.

‘Wolf Pack’ sex abuse culprits freed on bail Five men cleared of the gang rape of a teenager in a case that provoked mass protests across Spain were granted provisional EU draft accord dropped release from prison, a judicial source said yesterday. A court in the northern region of Navarra had cleared the men – who joked about the 2016 incident afterwards on a Whatsapp group called “The Wolf Pack” – of rape and convicted amid migrant policy row them of the lesser crime of sexual abuse. Reuters fuelling the rise of the far-right ers more evenly, Seehofer has The judicial source said the five Brussels/Rome League, which forged a coalition threatened to introduce an entry men would be released on bail by government this month. ban on the German border for all today, a move that led to calls for Conte, who had threatened those who have already regis- renewed protests. talian Prime Minister not to go to Brussels on Sunday tered for asylum elsewhere. The decision to release the men Giuseppe Conte said yester- unless the draft was amended, Merkel opposes that idea as after almost two years in jail was Iday that a draft EU accord on spoke to Merkel yesterday. it would require rigid checks on based on a legal technicality. migration had been withdrawn “The chancellor clarifi ed that the EU’s mostly open internal Their conviction is not yet final after he clashed with Chancellor there had been a ‘misunder- borders. because prosecutors have Angela Merkel over an issue that standing’. The draft text released Many would see such checks appealed to a higher court, but is splitting Europe. yesterday will be shelved,” Conte as reversing a key success story under Spanish law people cannot The leaders of four central wrote on Facebook, adding that of European integration. usually be held for more than European states, meanwhile, he would now go to Brussels at Hence, she asked other EU two years without a definitive confi rmed that they would boy- the weekend. states to hold extra talks this sentence being handed down. cott an EU mini-summit on mi- Berlin played down the dis- Sunday and agree to do more on All five men, who include a gration, taking a veiled swipe at pute. migration in the hope that would former police off icer and a former Merkel by accusing countries of “We are in constructive talks be enough to convince Seehofer soldier, have to pay €6,000 pushing the issue for domestic with Italy. The meeting on Sun- not to go it alone. ($6,960) in bail. political reasons. day has only preparatory char- With an eye on further curbing The withdrawn declaration acter,” a German government arrivals, the bloc’s top migration had been drafted ahead of an source said. offi cial, Dimitris Avramopoulos, emergency meeting of 10 Euro- Italian authorities appeared said separately yesterday that Turkish pop singer pean Union leaders set for Sun- to relent yesterday after at fi rst EU states should make asylum Hacer Tulu killed day in Brussels, with Germany refusing to accept 226 migrants assistance uniform to discourage and France hoping for a swift on board a German rescue ship, refugees from moving between Turkish pop singer Hacer Tulu deal that could be approved at a saying later in the day that they member states. and a businessman were shot full EU summit at the end of next would take them in but impound Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz He said that the EU should dead at a nightclub in the popular week. the vessel. Morawiecki, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are also work more with Africa, Aegean resort of Bodrum early It contained key elements that Anti-immigrant Interior seen during a news conference at a meeting of the Visegrad Group (V4) in Budapest. tighten borders further and ex- yesterday, reports said. Merkel needs to placate her re- Minister Matteo Salvini initially plore setting up bases outside An assailant or assailants opened bellious coalition partner, the said that the Dutch-fl agged its shores across the Mediterra- Minister Viktor Orban host- mit on Sunday but we would like its territory where it would de- fire on businessman Mehmet Ali Bavaria-based Christian Social Lifeline should take the people it nean. ed yesterday a meeting of the to state clearly that the prime cide on asylum requests before Surensoy, who runs nightclubs Union (CSU) and its head, Horst had plucked from the Mediter- There have been 41,000 sea “Visegrad 4” (V4) former Com- ministers of V4 agreed that they claimants make it to EU soil, and in Bodrum and Istanbul, outside Seehofer, who is also Germany’s ranean to the Netherlands, not arrivals so far this year, data munist countries, with the lead- will not go to that.” hold them there if they were re- the Medusa club in the Gumbet interior minister. Italy. shows. ers of Poland, the Czech Repub- Polish Prime Minister Ma- jected. district west of the town centre, However, Rome objected to However, Transport Minister Most are in coastal states of lic, and Slovakia. teusz Morawiecki said that the Critics have long said such a the Dogan news agency said. provisions that said asylum- Danilo Toninelli, who oversees arrival like Italy and Greece, or The four confi rmed that they four states spoke “with one plan could violate international Tulu, who was at nightclub at the seekers would have to be re- the coastguard, later said that it rich destination countries like would not attend the Sunday voice” on the migrant issue. humanitarian law. time of the shooting just before turned to the EU country they was unsafe for the 32m vessel to Germany and Sweden, where talks. “Let’s just say (that) we don’t But Avramopoulos said such dawn, was also shot and killed, it had fi rst logged their claim in, travel so far with so many people governments have felt heat from “We understand there are do- belong to this migrant-loving bases would not be “Guantana- added. which often means Italy. on board. voters unhappy over the new ar- mestic political diffi culties in group of friends, and neither do mo Bay for migrants”, in a refer- It was not immediately Rome has taken in some EU states have been at log- rivals. some countries but that cannot we want to partake,” he said. ence to the widely-condemned clear whether she had been 650,000 boat migrants over the gerheads over migration since EU states to the east are refus- lead to pan-European haste,” Unless all EU states agree at US detention centre in Guan- deliberately targeted or was past fi ve years, stoking anti-im- arrivals spiked in 2015, when ing to take migrants in. Orban said. “We understand their looming June 28-29 sum- tanamo Bay in Cuba, set up to caught in the crossfire, with initial migration sentiment in Italy and more than 1mn migrants reached Hungary’s nationalist Prime that there will ... be a mini-sum- mit to share out asylum-seek- hold terrorism suspects. reports suggesting she had been accidentally hit. Reports said that she has been at the club with friends – rather than to perform – and was shot at the entrance after paying. Merkel plan must not come at expense of taxpayer: CSU Four people were wounded and four suspects detained three hours later, driving a car in the DPA yesterday that Germany “must Over the whole of 2017, there cellor said that she would off er neighbouring province of Manisa. Berlin be an open country” in the face were 25,673 deportations, while countries aid if they agreed to They have been brought to of Seehofer’s threat to close the the fi gure was in 26,654 in 2016, take back migrants in deals sim- Bodrum for questioning. border to migrants who have according to the report. ilar to Turkey’s refugee agree- hancellor Angela Mer- already registered elsewhere in The report noted that many of ment with the EU. kel’s plan to enlist other the European Union if she fails those repatriated in 2016 were “EU law allows member states Court throws out CEU countries to take back to fi nd a solution at the EU level. to Balkan countries, where the to fi nd bilateral agreements on migrants so that German bor- Speaking at an Amman uni- authorities were prepared to ac- how to improve co-operation at Breivik rights case ders can remain open must not versity at the start of a two-day cept chartered fl ights carrying the borders. We encourage, we come at the expense of the Ger- trip to Jordan and Lebanon, their citizens bearing special EU urge, member states to co-op- The European Court of Human man taxpayer, a leading member Merkel acknowledged that the travel documents. erate among them[selves],” EU Rights (ECHR) has rejected a of her conservatives’ Bavarian infl ux of asylum-seekers into Repatriations to countries not Migration Commissioner Dimi- complaint by Norwegian right- sister party said yesterday. Germany over the last few years accepting this procedure were tris Avramopoulos said yester- wing extremist Anders Behring “We are worried that Angela had caused anti-immigrant sen- incomparably more diffi cult, the day. Breivik over his prison conditions. Merkel will start walking around timent to rise in the country. report said. Under the EU’s current asy- Breivik is serving a 21-year Europe with a chequebook,” A report from the German Merkel is seeking bilateral lum rules, member states can sentence for killing 77 people in Markus Ferber, a leading mem- Bundestag’s committee for the deals that would see fellow also conclude administrative gun and bomb attacks in Oslo ber of the Christian Social Un- interior presented to members member states take back mi- arrangements to speed up the and at a Labour Party youth ion (CSU) told the RND media Seehofer: gave Merkel a deadline to find a solution in conjunction yesterday found that the num- grants seeking to enter Germany transfer of asylum-seekers to camp on the nearby island of group. “She needs Greece and with other EU countries on how to deal with illegal migration into bers of migrants deported from on the basis of the so-called the member state responsible, Utoya. Italy for a solution to the refugee and across the bloc. Germany have changed little Dublin rule, which stipulates Avramopoulos added. Under his new name of Fjotolf question.” over recent years, despite legal that refugees should be sent The governments of Germany, Hansen, he asked the ECHR to Merkel has accepted an end- other EU countries on how to Christian Democrat (CDU) party measures to facilitate removals. back to the fi rst EU country Austria, Italy, France and other rule that his prison conditions, of-June deadline – set by her In- deal with illegal migration into would decide how to proceed Over the fi rst four months where they registered an asylum EU member states will convene and especially his isolation from terior Minister Horst Seehofer, and across the bloc. after the two-week deadline of this year, there were 8,736 bid. in Brussels on Sunday for an ex- other prisoners, violated his who heads the CSU – to fi nd a Merkel, the EU’s longest- elapsed. “forced repatriations”, the re- At a press conference earlier traordinary meeting on reform- human rights. solution in conjunction with serving leader has said her Merkel once again insisted port said. this week, the German chan- ing the bloc’s asylum rules. Norwegian courts had previously rejected his complaint.

Outbreak of goat disease in Bulgaria Most Russians want Putin to serve past 2024

Bulgaria has reported the first DPA to be amended for him to keep spondents to the nationwide ed a pro-Russian rebellion in outbreak in the European Union Moscow the helm in 2024 because it poll, conducted last month, said Ukraine’s east, in response to of the highly-contagious Peste would be the end of a second- that they would prefer Putin to Ukraine ousting its pro-Russian des Petits Ruminants (PPR), on consecutive term. remain president, while only president. livestock farms in the village of ore than half of Rus- Putin would be 71 years old. 27% said they would prefer oth- Western powers have widely Voden in southeastern Bulgaria, sians want President “There are no successors. erwise. condemned Russia for those close to the border with Turkey. MVladimir Putin to con- People are viewing this prag- More than half of respondents actions, and relations with The disease, also known as ovine tinue serving in the post after matically,” the pollster’s direc- have wanted Putin to remain Ukraine have plummeted to an rinderpest or sheep and goat his current six-year term fi nish- tor, Lev Gudkov, said in com- president since 2014, when the all-time low. plague, can have a severe impact es in 2024, the country’s largest ments carried by the Vedomosti indicator jumped from 33% the Patriotism surged in the face- on livestock, killing between 30% independent pollster revealed newspaper. previous year to 58%, pollster off with the West. to 70% of the infected animals. this week. The spectre of political Levada Centre said in a state- “The eff ect of the Crimea Once introduced, the virus can Putin was inaugurated to his change evokes a fear of instabil- ment on its website. mobilisation is ending,” Gudkov infect up to 90% of an animal fourth term as president this ity, he said, and Putin is seen as Russia in 2014 annexed said, “but that was slowed down herd. Putin: the constitution would have to be amended for him to keep year. “preserving the status quo”. neighbouring Ukraine’s Cri- by the presidential campaign The virus does not infect humans. the helm in 2024. The constitution would have Fifty-one per cent of re- mea region and then support- and a new infl ation of support.” Gulf Times 10 Friday, June 22, 2018 INDIA

TRAGEDY CRIME CONTROVERSY CLAIMS ASTRONOMY 15 of a family die AAP lawmaker attacked Kerala policeman’s arrest Abdullah, Madhav clash Scientists discover in road accident by mining mafia over assault claims stayed over Kashmir politics sub-Saturn size planet

Fifteen members of a family, including eight Aam Aadmi Party legislator Amarjit Singh Sandoa The Kerala High Court yesterday asked police A war of words erupted yesterday between The Ahmedabad-based Physical Research women, were killed early yesterday when a jeep was yesterday injured after he and his security not to arrest a policeman, allegedly beaten up former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Laboratory has discovered a sub-Saturn or super- collided with a tractor in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena personnel were attacked by sand mafia goons in by a senior police off icial’s wife and daughter, Omar Abdullah and BJP national general Neptune size planet (with mass equivalent to 27 district, police said. A police off icer said the family Punjab’s Ropar district. Chief Minister Amarinder on the charges filed against him by the off icer’s secretary Ram Madhav after the former Earths and size six times Earth’s radius) around of 20 had left Gwalior to attend a relative’s funeral. Singh has sought a report from the deputy daughter. Gavaskar, the driver of additional alleged that the PDP-BJP split was a a sun-like star, a statement said. This discovery is “Their jeep collided with the sand-laden truck on commissioner of Rupnagar. Sandoa was attacked director general of police Sudesh Kumar, has “Bollywood-inspired fixed match”. Abdullah very important for understanding the formation Ambah road in which 12 people died on the spot.” near Baihara village when he had gone to see also filed a case against the off icer’s wife and alleged that the assembly was being mechanism of such super-Neptune or sub-Saturn Three more died in a hospital later. Of the five an illegal sand mining site. When Sandoa, the daughter Snigdha who allegedly misbehaved dissolved to start horse-trading. Responding kind of planets that are too close to the host star injured, two are critical. According to police, the AAP legislator from Ropar, objected to the illegal with him after he turned up late to pick them up to the allegations, Madhav asked: “Why is he and as well as planet formations around Sun-like truck was carrying illegally mined sand and the activity, the goons attacked him and his security last week. In his petition before the high court, (Abdullah) so scared? I’m sure his party men stars, said the space department. The planet will driver was accelerating to avoid being caught. He personnel. Hit on the chest by a stone, Sandoa was Gavaskar said the case against him was false are loyal to him. There is no question of horse be known as EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b. With lost control over the vehicle and hit the jeep. The admitted to a hospital in Anandpur Sahib and later and baseless and he had done nothing wrong to trading from our side. We have seen what kind this discovery, “India has joined a handful of jeep was so badly mangled that it took time to referred to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Snigdha but instead it was she who had beaten of horse trading happened in the state under countries which have discovered planets around extricate the bodies. Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh. him up with her mobile phone. his party, nobody should forget history.” stars beyond our solar system”, it said.

PM using yoga for Govt hits US political advantage: Congress goods with

IANS New Delhi higher duties he Congress yesterday accused Prime Minis- Tter Narendra Modi of not practising yoga with the right intention and only promoting it for political advantage. Also noting that yoga cannot in tariff row improve India’s economic situa- tion, the party also accused Modi The move to increase tariff s complaint against the US at the government note said. The gov- and the BJP of “fragmenting the from August 4 will also cover World Trade Organisation. ernment also raised duties on society” and said this cannot be a slew of other farm, steel and “India’s tariff retaliation is some grades of iron and steel healed through yoga. iron products within the discipline of trade products. “Modi and his party have frag- tariff s of the World Trade Or- In May it had given a list of mented the society. You cannot Reuters ganisation,” said steel secretary products to the WTO that it said heal it through yoga. Yoga can New Delhi Aruna Sharma. could incur higher tariff s. keep your body healthy but not Trade diff erences between An offi cial from the steel min- the society. It cannot improve India and the US have been ris- istry said at the time that the the economic situation in the ndia, the world’s biggest ing since US President Donald new tariff s were intended to country,” said Congress spokes- buyer of US almonds, raised Trump took offi ce. show displeasure at the US ac- person Pramod Tiwari. Iimport duties on the com- Bilateral trade rose to $115bn tion. “In order to do that, they (the modity by 20%, a government in 2016, but the Trump adminis- “It is an appropriate signal. I Modi government) will have to order said, joining the European tration wants to reduce its $31bn am hopeful that all of this (trade change their way of working. Union and China in retaliat- defi cit with India, and is press- war) will die down. In my view They will have to take everyone ing against President Donald ing New Delhi to ease trade bar- this is not in the interest of the along,” he added. Trump’s tariff hikes on steel and riers. global economy,” said Rajiv Ku- “The fi rst theory of yoga is one aluminium. mar, vice chairman of the Indian should not show off . This is a New Delhi, incensed by “It is an appropriate signal. government’s policy thinktank very personal thing if someone is Washington’s refusal to exempt I am hopeful that all of this Niti Aayog. practising it. Modi has breached it from the new tariff s, also im- (trade war) will die down. Rising trade tensions between that theory. “He should promote posed a 120% duty on the import In my view this is not in the US and some major econo- it but Modi doesn’t practise yoga of walnuts in the strongest ac- the interest of the global mies have threatened to derail with the right intention.... he tion yet against the US. economy” global growth. wants to use its promotion for The move to increase tariff s Offi cials from India and the political advantage,” said Tiwari. from August 4 will also cover a Earlier this year, Trump called US are expected to hold talks on From Ladakh to the deck of an slew of other farm, steel and iron out India for its duties on Har- June 26-27 to discuss trade is- aircraft carrier, tens of thousands products. ley-Davidson motorbikes, and sues, local daily Times of India had yesterday joined Modi to cele- It came a day after the Euro- Prime Minister Narendra Modi reported yesterday citing Press brate the fourth International Day pean Union said it would begin agreed to cut the import duty to Trust of India. of Yoga, with a few wearing masks charging 25% import duties on a 50% from 75% for the high-end The US commerce depart- to highlight poor air quality. range of US products from today, bikes. ment on Wednesday announced Modi has pushed for the an- in response to the new US tariff s. But that has not satisfi ed a preliminary fi nding that im- nual event to be held worldwide India is by far the largest buyer Trump, who pointed to zero du- ports of large-diameter welded after winning power in 2014, of US almonds, purchasing over ties for Indian bikes sold in the pipe from China, India, South with the lifestyle industry cen- half of all US almond shipments US and said he would push for a Korea and Turkey were subsi- tred on the ancient physical and in 2017. “reciprocal tax” against coun- dised by those countries, and spiritual discipline estimated to A kilogram of shelled almonds tries, including US allies, that said it was imposing preliminary be worth around $80bn. will attract duty of as much as levy tariff s on American prod- duties that could top 500%. Pictures on social media Rs120 ($1.76) instead of the cur- ucts. In a separate trade dispute, showed participants braved rent Rs100, the commerce min- In the tariff rates issued late Trump threatened on Monday rising mercury levels and un- istry said. on Wednesday, the commerce to hit $200bn of Chinese im- healthy air quality in some plac- Last month, New Delhi sought ministry named some varieties ports with 10% tariff s if Beijing es to spotlight yoga, India’s cul- an exemption from the new US of almonds, apples, chickpeas, retaliates against his previous tural export to the world. tariff s, saying its steel and alu- lentils, walnuts and artemia that announcement to target $50bn Countries such as Afghanistan, minium exports were small in would carry higher import taxes. in imports. Japan and Peru held yoga ses- relation to other suppliers. Most of these are purchased The United States has accused sions, while Australia and South Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking part in a yoga session to mark International Yoga Day in But its request was ignored, from the US. Walnuts have gone China of stealing US intellectual Africa celebrated on Monday. Dehradun, Uttarakhand. prompting India to launch a from 100% duty to 120%, the property, a charge Beijing denies.

Bus falls into gorge Daily labourer gifts land Man drives around for for school building hours with wife’s body Tribune News Service within a few hours, with his Mumbai wife’s body in the back seat. Tribune News Service that he will take about 16 months dents to have midday meal. We As he was nearing the Sanjay New Delhi to earn. According to govern- will cultivate vegetable on the Gandhi National Park (SGNP), ment rate the cost of the three- remaining land,” said Soumen- anicky after fi nding his Purohit called his wife’s cous- decimal plot is Rs66,000 (Rs dranath Mandal, headmaster of wife hanging from the ceil- in, who advised him to take the school dropout and a dai- 22,000 per decimal). But he did Binduidi Primary School. Ping of their home in Saki body to a government hospital. ly labourer has donated a not care to sell it to the school, or Bauri was born in a poor fam- Naka, Andheri, a 28-year-old Purohit then turned back Apiece of land measuring anybody else. ily. He was admitted to a school shop owner drove across the city and went to Shatabdi hospital more than 1,300 sq ft to a pri- but poverty forced him out of till Borivli, a Mumbai suburb, for in Kandivli. Hospital authori- mary school so that authorities “When we were students studies. His son, too, suff ered around eight hours, fi nally end- ties there informed the po- can build a shed under which we never got a meal, but the the same fate after primary ing up at a government hospital, lice about the death. “A team students can have their midday students are now fortunate. studies. which reported the death. was sent to the hospital, after meal. The school has 90 stu- My plot is adjacent to the The school authorities have Soklaram Purohit, who was which an accidental death re- dents. school, and so I thought it started appealing to the people arrested on charges of abet- port was registered,” said a Jhuka Bauri, who is around 55, might be use to them” for money to construct the shed ting suicide, is now in judicial police offi cer, on condition of and a resident of Binduidi vil- for midday meal. A Rajya Sabha custody. anonymity, as he is not au- lage of Purulia district in West The area is about 65km from MP has promised Rs500,000. According to the police, when thorised to speak to the media. Bengal, earns his living as a daily Purulia town, the district head- “After getting the money we Purohit returned home he saw “The accused claimed he wage earner, and somehow runs quarters, and about 237km from will start construction,” said the that his wife Maniben had com- wanted to take the body to his family of four. Bauri lives in a Kolkata. head master. mitted suicide. He put the body the community hospital be- single room along with his wife “I have watched the students “We want to turn the school in his car, and went to a hospital fore reporting to the police. He and two sons. On some of the have their midday meals under into a model one. The people of in Saki Naka, where the doc- did not report the incident for days he does not even get any the blazing sun. When it rains, the village will remember Bauri’s tors declared her brought dead. eight hours.” work. the kids have to run to the school gesture for a long long time,” He then smuggled the body out “Our investigation revealed Bauri gave away half of the balancing their plates of rice and said Subrata Shit, a teacher of and took it to another hospital the couple used to fi ght often small six-decimal plot (one gruel. When we were students the school. A kindergarten student was killed and 12 others were injured in the area, where too she was as the man blamed the wife decimal = 435.5 sq ft) of land he we never got a meal, but the stu- The school began on a one when their overcrowded private school bus skidded off declared dead on arrival. for not having a child. We had. The plot has been registered dents are now fortunate. My plot decimal piece of land in 1962. the road and fell into a 100-foot-deep gorge in Himachal Purohit again managed to then arrested the husband and at Raghunathpur in the name of is adjacent to the school, and so I But that land was clearly not Pradesh’s Mandi district, police said. The students, belonging get the body out of the hospital changed the accidental death the school. thought it might be use to them,” enough to run a school. Later, to Spectrum Premier Public School in Sarkaghat area, were and brought it back home. He report to a case under section The price of land that Bauri said Bauri. Bauri’s relatives gave the school returning home from school when the driver lost control then decided to take her to a 306 of Indian Penal Code,” has donated to the school costs “It is a noble eff ort. We will 12 decimals and a new building over the vehicle while negotiating a turn near Garli. hospital belonging to his com- said N Reddy, deputy commis- about Rs100,000, an amount construct a shed for the stu- was constructed in 2010. munity in Borivli. He left home sioner of police of zone 10. Gulf Times Friday, June 22, 2018 11 LATIN AMERICA

SIGHTSEEING CRACKDOWN CONSERVATION ACCIDENT POLITICS 7 killed as army-backed Savannah deforestation up 7 dead as truck with brake Venezuela govt sends police raids sweep Rio in 2017 after 2016 drop defect hits crowd in Mexico ‘coup plotters’ to jail

Seven people, including a boy of 14, have been Deforestation in Brazil’s vast savannah, which A lorry with apparent brake defects drove into a Five members of Venezuela’s armed forces and killed in continuing violence between army-backed takes up 25% of the country, ticked up in 2017 crowd of protesters in southern Mexico, killing at three civilians were imprisoned Wednesday, police units and Rio de Janeiro’s criminal gangs, after a sharp drop in 2016, the Environment least seven people and injuring nine others, the convicted of taking part in a 2015 coup plot reports said yesterday. In the latest crackdown, Ministry said yesterday, outpacing destruction website Milenio and other local media reported against President Nicolas Maduro, a prisoners’ soldiers and marines in camouflage and carrying of the Amazon rainforest. Destruction of native on Wednesday. The lorry hit several cars before rights group said. A military court handed down rifles could be seen searching people as they came vegetation in the region known as the Cerrado hitting the crowd in Tuxtla Gutierrez in Chiapas sentences of between three and six years, the in and out of two poor neighbourhoods, known as rose to 7,408sq km last year after falling 43% state. The state prosecutor’s off ice said the group Foro Penal announced. Maduro publicly favelas, within the posh Copacabana beach area. to 6,777sq km in 2016, data showed. The accident was caused by problems with the denounced a coup plot in February 2015 that The military, which was put in charge of security in Cerrado’s plant life is a major carbon sink and vehicle’s brakes which caused the driver to lose he said was backed by sectors of the opposition Rio de Janeiro earlier this year, said the operation its preservation is considered vital to Brazilian control of the vehicle. Local media said teachers and financed by the US government. The involved 1,800 troops and 50 police off icers. Their eff orts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and police off icers were among those killed in socialist president referred to it as the “blue goal was to remove roadblocks put up by gangs and global warming. Revised data from the the accident. The driver suff ered only minor coup” — a reference to the colour of Venezuela’s Tourists visit the Sugarloaf Mountain near Rio and to “check up on reports of criminal activity Environment Ministry showed that deforestation injuries. Protesting teachers had blocked the air force uniform, saying the plot had been de Janeiro. and other illicit conduct.” of the Cerrado rose 10% in 2015 to 11,881sq km. road during a strike. “dismantled.”

Colombian indigenous Art reflects life people create university against Western values

By Sinikka Tarvainen, DPA established in 2011, ranges from eco- Silvia, Colombia logical thought to indigenous eco- nomic and social structures. Respect for nature is fundamental, university is the not fi rst thing Morales says, adding: “We have duties one might expect to see emerg- rather than rights towards nature.” Aing from the greenery on the Students are taught about tradi- side of an unpaved road deep in the tional foods and ecological agriculture countryside of south-western Colom- so it can be practised in reservations bia. where land is communally owned. “Misak University,” reads a sign on Other tenets of indigenous culture the rondavel-shaped building with a include respect for elders — “wise three-layered roof reminiscent of the people transmitting millennial knowl- traditional straw hat of the Misak in- edge,” says Morales — and a form of digenous people. cooperation known as minga, within Inside, there are no rows of chairs, which people help each other sow but instead stools surrounding a fi re crops or build houses. pit in the centre. The curriculum also focuses on Spirals painted on the fl oor repre- spiritual values, emphasising the im- sent the stages of human life before mortality of the spirit and the impor- and after death. tance of dreams in communicating The building has just been ritually with the invisible world. cleansed with fi re and herbs. “The spirits gave us the water and The university is located in the Gua- the air, nature. The white man says we mbia indigenous reservation measur- construct our own reality, but reality is ing 18,600 hectares near the village of already there and in constant re-crea- Silvia in Cauca department. tion,” Almendra says. The reservation is home to about The primary and secondary school half of the 26,000 Misak people, one where Almendra teaches follows the of at least 68 indigenous groups found same philosophy as the university, in Colombia, where such communities with its curriculum including tradi- are estimated to total more than a mil- tional music, weaving, ecological ag- lion people. riculture and the history of the fi ght Misak University has no offi cial po- for indigenous rights. sition among Colombia’s institutions Teachers and students wear tra- of higher learning — and that is part of ditional Misak dress: a straw hat or the idea. black bowler hat, a poncho and a skirt, The university focuses on Colom- which is blue for men and black for bia’s indigenous cultures and thought women. in “a process of resistance” against the Such schools are struggling to country’s dominant Western culture, maintain Colombia’s indigenous lan- academic coordinator Trino Morales guages, which number 68 and all of says. which are endangered, according to “They colonised our minds, our way expert Tulio Rojas from Cauca Uni- A worker pulls a cart past a mural by US artist Scarlett Baily, painted in the framework of the project ‘La Bodega de Arte’, at the Central de Abasto wholesale of seeing the world, with money and versity. market in Mexico City. the cross. We need to awaken,” says “We had a teacher who punished us Agustin Almendra, who teaches Misak if we ‘spoke ugly,’ making us kneel on thought at a school in the reservation. hard rocks, maize grains or sand,” re- Teachers at the university, who calls Luz Maria Guehia, a 45-year-old include established academics, are resident of a reservation of the Nasa conducting a fi ve-year weekend pro- indigenous people in the same region. gramme for 78 students. The Pijao indigenous group, which Many of the students are Misak lives in neighbouring Tolima depart- from the region, though the group also ment, has already lost its language. includes people from other indigenous Many of the teachers in the three groups, people of mixed ancestry and primary schools in the Nasa reserva- UN, IACHR to probe people of African origin, Morales ex- tion “speak better Spanish than Nasa,” plains. community leader Emilio Conda says. “The Misak have forgotten a lot of The outside world, meanwhile, is things,” says Alexander Tunubala, a taking a growing interest in indig- traditional healer who is studying at enous values seen as representing an the university. ecological worldview. “The courses help to recover and to Prominent US academic Noam Nicaragua violence strengthen the culture.” Chomsky, for one, has described the In a country where drug traffi cking world’s indigenous communities as DPA tions, are due to investigate the coun- cades while fi res reportedly destroyed producing victims.” The unrest was and other crime is rife, many young trying to “stem the race to Managua try’s two-month wave of violence and a house and a hotel. triggered by protests against pension indigenous people prefer to seek easy (ecological) disaster.” to support eff orts to restore calm. The owner of the Hotel Masaya at- reform on April 18. money rather than follow the tradi- “We have a lot of people from Eu- Jose Adan Aguerri, president of Nic- tributed the fi re to armed groups which President Daniel Ortega has resisted tional way of life, Almendra said. rope coming to visit us,” Morales says. he Inter-American Commission aragua’s Superior Council of Private were driving around the locality and subsequent calls on him to call early Some of them succumb to alcohol- They include academics, research- on Human Rights and the offi ce Enterprise, said an invitation had also fi ring at demonstrators. The incidents elections and resign. ism or swap their culture for the values ers, members of non-governmental Tof the United Nations human been sent to the European Union. followed the reported killing of six Rights groups put the death toll at of evangelical churches, which have organisations and ordinary people rights chief said on Wednesday that Protesters’ representatives had ear- people in Masaya on Tuesday. up to 215 and the number of injured mushroomed in the Guambia reserva- from France, Italy, Norway and Spain. they were preparing to travel to Nica- lier said the government was refusing Colombian President Juan Manuel victims at more than 1,400. tion, he added. “They want to talk to us and learn ragua after receiving government invi- to show them the invitations despite Santos on Wednesday asked the Or- The government only acknowledges “Children prefer outside values to from us,” Morales says. tations, which had been a key demand having promised to send them. ganization of American States to in- 46 deaths and blames them on criminals their own,” said John Alexander Aran- “Outsiders sometimes take more of the opposition. Unrest meanwhile continued in Ma- tervene in Nicaragua and to use the in- or people with political agendas. A par- da, a young Misak man. interest (in our culture) than our own The organisations, which confi rmed saya at about 25km east of Managua, struments at its disposal “so that this liamentary Truth Commission on Tues- The curriculum of the university, young people do.” on Twitter having received the invita- with demonstrators manning barri- hurricane does not keep growing and day put the number of deaths at 173.

Grandmother in El Salvador prays for detained granddaughter

By Nelson Renteria, Reuters “I want my aunt to come and It had been 15 days since her They had helped her pay Armenia, El Salvador take me to her house,” the child 29-year-old daughter, Cindy $16,000 to people smugglers told a border agent, according to Madrid, and her daughter were who said they could get her safely audio obtained by investigative detained and separated, Hen- there, Henriquez said. na Henriquez prays that news site ProPublica. riquez said. Waves of Central her six-year-old grand- The girl says she knew her She had been unable to speak Americans have fl ed poverty Adaughter will soon be aunt’s phone number. with either, but her other daugh- and violence to try to cross into reunited with her mother, even “My mom, after my aunt ters who are already in the United the United States, driving the if it means that they are both de- comes to me, will come as soon States had managed to speak Trump administration to imple- ported back to El Salvador. as possible to take me with her,” once with the child and knew she ment the policy of separating The anguished voice of her she pleads. was in Houston. families. granddaughter became a viral More than 2,000km away “The girl told them that she Following the backlash, in- indictment of the US policy of from the US border, Henriquez was sleeping on the fl oor, that cluding a rebuke from Pope Fran- separating detained immigrant on Wednesday polished a framed she was covered with a plastic cis, Trump ordered that immi- children from their parents after photo of the girl in a party dress blanket, that she was cold and grant families should be detained audio of children crying for their and hanged it back on the wall afraid of being there, and that together, but it was not clear for parents was released this week. across from a small altar with an she wanted them to come pick how long. US President Donald Trump image of the Virgin Mary, rosary her up,” Henriquez said. “He has children too and he on Wednesday backed down and beads and candles. She has no idea where her should put himself in the place abandoned the policy that was The girl’s toys and books are daughter is being held. of all the immigrants who are aimed at immigrants illegally scattered about her house. Madrid, frustrated by a lack of separated and of the relatives crossing the US-Mexico border “I hope that they can get back to- work in her town, had traveled to who are here with a broken heart after images of youngsters in gether,” she said. “If they are going the United States in the hope of and hear our cry,” Henriquez said cages sparked outrage at home to send them back, then send them joining her two sisters in Hou- of Trump, shortly before his an- Ana Henriquez holds up a photograph of her granddaughter Alison Valencia in Armenia, El Salvador. and abroad. and they can keep fi ghting here.” ston. nouncement. Gulf Times 12 Friday, June 22, 2018 PAKISTAN Most nomination papers for KP reserved seats rejected

Internews According to the details re- available in priority lists submit- The returning offi cer accepted the Awami National Party, the ince, whereas 1,919 papers were Provincial Assembly (PA). Peshawar leased by the Election Commis- ted by political parties. nomination papers of 35 candi- Qaumi Watan Party, the Pakistan accepted for 99 seats of the KP Similarly, 224 candidates were sion of Pakistan (ECP), provin- The provincial election com- dates for the seats reserved for Muslim League, and the Pakistan Assembly. declared eligible (64 for NA and cial election commissioner Pir missioner is the RO for three cat- women in the National Assembly, Rah-i-Haq party. A total of 726 candidates fi led 160 for PA) to contest in Swat for he Returning Offi cer (RO) Maqbool Ahmad, who is the RO egories of reserved seats: nine for 77 for seats reserved for women The returning offi cers have de- papers for the National Assem- three NA and eight provincial as- has rejected 291 of the 423 for the reserved seats in KP, has women in the National Assembly in KP assembly, and 20 for non- clared 2,609 candidates eligible bly general seats, out of which 36 sembly seats, Tnomination papers fi led accepted the nomination papers from KP, 22 for women in the KP Muslim seats. for contesting the general elec- were rejected. In Mardan, 178 candidates for seats reserved for women of 132 candidates submitted for Assembly, and three for non- The candidates whose papers tions for 39 seats of the National Similarly, 2,062 candidates (37 for NA and 141 for PA) were and non-Muslims in the Pro- these seats. Muslims in the KP Assembly. were accepted were mentioned Assembly (NA) and 99 seats of had fi led papers for the KP As- cleared to contest for three NA vincial and National Assemblies By law, no independent candi- A total of 262 papers were fi led in the lists of political parties, the KP Assembly in 25 districts of sembly, out of which 690 were and eight PA seats. from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) date can contest for the seats re- for reserved seats for women in including the Pakistan Tehreek- the province. rejected. Chitral has one NA and PA seat because of the absence of those served for women and non-Mus- the KP Assembly, 88 for women’s e-Insaf, the Pakistan Muslim According to the ECP, nomi- The highest number of can- each, and the Returning Offi cer names from the priority lists lims, and it is a pre-condition seats in the National Assembly, League – Nawaz, the Pakistan nation papers of 690 candidates didates is 364 in Peshawar: 68 has cleared 16 candidates to con- submitted by political parties to that the names of those submit- and 73 for non-Muslim seats in Peoples Party Parliamentarian, were declared valid for 39 seats of contesting elections for fi ve NA test for the NA seat, and 25 for the the Election Commission. ting nomination papers must be KP Assembly. the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, National Assembly in the prov- seats and 296 for 14 seats in the PA seat.

Commission brings regulations to satisfy Imran Khan declares task force conditions

Internews counter parts, assessment of Islamabad money laundering risks by the fi nancial institutions of any new product or technology assets worth Rs3.8bn o comply with the rec- before its launch, implemen- ommendations of Fi- tation of AML/CFT controls Internews Tnancial Action Task at fi nancial group level, and Islamabad Force (FATF), a requirement AML/CFT requirements for for Pakistan as a member of the foreign branches and subsidi- Asia Pacifi c Group on Money aries of Pakistani fi nancial in- he statement of assets Laundering, the Securities and stitutions. submitted by politicians Exchange Commission of Pa- The new regulations have Twith their nomination pa- kistan (SECP) has issued a no- introduced simplifi ed due dili- pers showed that the worth of as- tifi cation on the Anti-Money gence for customers identifi ed sets owned by Pakistan Tehreek- Laundering and Countering as low-risk. e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Financing of Terrorism Regu- This will allow customers to Khan has increased from Rs1.4bn lations 2018. avail services of fi nancial insti- in 2015-16 to Rs3.8bn last year, “Though almost all these tutions with relative ease, and while Maryam Nawaz owned as- requirements were enforced enable fi nancial institutions to sets worth Rs845mn. Musharraf: does not own any immovable assets in Pakistan. in Pakistan, they were scat- focus their resources on high- The total value of assets of tered in various circulars and risk customers, which are sub- former president and co-chair- est politician in terms of declared feet, although in Lahore it is notifi cations,” a SECP spokes- ject to enhanced due diligence. man of Pakistan Peoples Party wealth. 4,500 square feet. man said, adding that now the Low-risk customers have (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari is around Over one dozen proper- His sources of income include commission has streamlined been identifi ed as customers Rs758.66m. ties owned by Khan include his earnings from agriculture, bank the FATF recommendations dealing in pension schemes, According to the statement of 300-kanal residence in Islama- profi t, and salary. by formulating a single set of limited services fi nancial assets for the fi nancial year 2016- bad’s Banigala, a family home in Maryam Nawaz, former prime regulations. products and insurance prod- 17 submitted with his nomina- Lahore’s Zaman Park and 168- minister Nawaz Sharif’s daugh- These regulations supersede ucts with annual premium of tion papers, the worth of Khan’s acre agricultural land and an ter who entered politics follow- all earlier circulars and noti- Rs100,000 or a single premium assets has registered more than a apartment in diplomatic enclave. ing the disqualifi cation of her Imran Khan: the richest politician fi cations, which had separate of Rs250,000. twofold increase to reach Rs3.8bn In Pakistan a kanal is a unit of father and is now set to make her in terms of declared wealth. anti-money laundering (AML) The high-risk categories in one year, as it stood at Rs1.4bn land area that is generally con- debut in electoral politics, owns and countering fi nancial of ter- inter alia include politically- in 2015-16, making him the rich- sidered equal to 5,400 square assets worth over Rs840mn. The fi ve properties in Paki- rorism (CFT) requirements for exposed persons, legal persons According to the details of her stan in his wife’s name, Sehba fi nancial institutions regulated and legal arrangements with Paramilitary forces sought at PTI chief’s residence assets annexed with her nomina- Musharraf, include a farmhouse by the SECP. complex ownership structures tion papers, she holds shares in in Islamabad’s Chak Shahzad These circulars were issued and not for profi t organisa- The capital administration has sought the deployment of Rangers at the Chaudhry Sugar Mills Limited, valued at Rs23.75mn, a house in to various sectors falling under tions. Islamabad residence of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Hamza Spinning Mills Limited, DHA (Defence Housing Author- the regulatory framework of In order to ensure that Khan, off icials of the police and capital administration said. Mohammad Bukhsh Textile Mills ity) Karachi worth Rs5mn, two the SECP, such as the stock- criminals are not able to hide The capital administration has sent a request to the interior minister in Limited, Hudaibya Papers Mills shared plots in DHA Karachi as brokers, insurance companies, their identity through use of response to a demand made by the capital police. Limited, and Hudaibya Engi- well as a shared property in DHA non-banking fi nance compa- complex ownership structure The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police told the administration that neering Co Private Limited. Islamabad. nies, and modarabas (fi nancial of companies, partnerships, more than 700 protesters who had gathered in front of Khan’s house She owns 1,506 kanal of irriga- The former army chief also managers). trusts or other similar forms, could put life and property at risk there. tion land, invested Rs3.4mn in holds Rs21mn in three of his eight These latest regulations will the fi nancial institutions are “It is requested that the Rangers Sector Commander may be approached her family’s fl our mills, and gave accounts – one of which is his harmonise the AML/CFT re- required to identify the ulti- and requested to deploy 300 personnel in aid of the police to perform a loan worth Rs7mn to Soft En- pension account as former army gime. mate benefi cial owner, who is a duty at the house,” the police added. ergy Private Limited. chief – in Rawalpindi and Is- However, there are certain natural person, of all legal per- The PTI workers from Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) have been She owns jewellery worth lamabad, according to details of Maryam Nawaz: owns assets changes and additional provi- sons and legal arrangements protesting outside the Khan residence at Banigala since June 3 over the Rs1.7mn. assets submitted with his nomi- worth over Rs840mn. sions in the regulations that before off ering their services distribution of party tickets for the upcoming general election. Her brother Hasan Nawaz, nation papers. make it substantially better to them. They staged a sit-in a few yards away from the residence. who resides in the UK, has given Half of the eight accounts are the apartment in South Ridge, equipped in serving its purpose Moreover, fi nancial institu- On Monday, the capital police took over the security duties at the resi- her a loan of Rs20mn, while she joint accounts with his wife. downtown Dubai, are two vehi- than the previous regime. tions are now required to carry dence, replacing private security guards. also received Rs40mn as gifts. Apart from the bank accounts, cles there worth Rs13mn. Under the new regulations, out self-risk assessment relat- Four police reserves, each comprising 25 personnel, are guarding the Meanwhile, former military which were frozen on a court or- Besides the immovable prop- focus has been enhanced to- ing to money laundering and Banigala residence. ruler retired General Pervez der, the only assets in Pakistan erty, his wife owns three Toyota wards high-risk areas and terrorist fi nancing risks faced Dozens of police off icers were also deployed at the road leading to the Musharraf does not own any im- declared by the former ruler are jeeps and two Toyota Hiace vehi- taking a risk-based approach by them. house. movable assets in Pakistan, but two 2008-model SUVs, which cles valued at Rs24mn. towards combating money This requirement envisages A number of police reserves and anti-riot units were also put on standby. he has an apartment, valued at are valued at Rs13mn. Her jewellery and furniture are laundering and fi nancing of instilling greater self-aware- Rs90mn, in the UAE. His declared assets besides worth Rs6.5mn. terrorism. ness in fi nancial institutions Other new provisions cover and accordingly, enabling them correspondent relationship to implement internal control between Pakistani fi nancial measures that commensurate institutions and their foreign with their risk profi le.

PML-N candidates to be announced by weekend AIOU to start giving scholarships

Internews dition of the party leader Nawaz hore from London yesterday af- ing in their constituencies. “Each candidate was inter- The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has set a record in Lahore Sharif’s wife Begum Kulsoom ter seeing his sister-in-law (Kul- In Lahore, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, viewed in order to make the the recent semester with its scholarships to students under its Nawaz, Aurangzeb said that eve- soom), and he will sign the lists of Khawaja Saad Rafi que, Khawaja process of awarding tickets community welfare scheme. ryone in the party was very much the candidates. Ahmed Hassan, Waheed Alam, transparent and democratic,” he The number of beneficiaries under this scheme reached to 1,792 he Pakistan Muslim concerned about her health and “The party leadership, espe- Saiful Maluk Khokhar, Afzal said. “The parliamentary board in 2018 spring semester, whereas in the corresponding period last League – Nawaz (PML-N) we pray for her fast recovery. cially Nawaz Sharif, has fi nalised Khokhar, and Malik Riaz have held hundreds of interviews of year, the figure was 1,092. Twill announce its candi- “The party will fi nalise the the candidates and they have started workers meetings in their aspirants who submitted their In autumn 2017 the number of beneficiaries was 1,280. dates for the July 25 polls today schedule of Mian sahib’s rallies subsequently been informed,” constituencies. applications for tickets.” According to the university’s Department of Students Advisory or tomorrow, spokesperson Mar- once her condition improves,” said a PML-N leader. Shehbaz Sharif has said that “All are equal in our party. The and Counselling Services, the allocated amount for the community yam Aurangzeb said yesterday. the former information minister The candidates, who have the PML-N is the only politi- parliamentary board did not pre- welfare schemes was Rs4.5mn for the 2018 spring semester. Explaining the possible delay said. received the green light by the cal party that conducted parlia- fer anyone and I too appeared be- However, the university spent an additional Rs6.4mn in order to in the PML-N’s election cam- PML-N president Shehbaz leadership about their selection, mentary board’s meetings for 86 fore it to be interviewed as aspir- accommodate all the applications received during the semester, on paign because of the health con- Sharif was due to return to La- have launched their electioneer- hours to shortlist the candidates. ant for the ticket,” he added. the directives of Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Shahid Siddiqui.

Roadside business Pakistani Taliban delay leader’s appointment to avoid split

DPA Pakistanis in a decade of vio- group thought to be close to the Islamabad lence, members of the Taliban Afghan Taliban’s Haqqani net- told DPA. work, is also seeking to become Fazlullah, the commander the chief now, both sources he Pakistani Taliban have who had ordered the attack added. delayed the selection against Nobel laureate Malala The Haqqani network, said to Tof a new leader amid a Yousafzai in 2012, was killed in a be partially based in Pakistan, is row between two groups vying drone strike in Afghanistan last also supporting Mehsud’s bid. to put forward their own pick, week. A Taliban council was holding sources in the militia said yes- Umer Rehman Swati, a mili- meetings in Afghanistan and terday, a week after their chief, tant from the northwestern could also potentially choose Mullah Fazlullah, was killed in a town of Swat, was about to be a third candidate to avoid the US drone strike. chosen as the new leader before split from getting deadly, both Two factions within the re- a competitor emerged, said Qari militants said. ligious militant group opposed Noor, a Pakistani militant based Dozens of fi ghters were killed to each other are vying for their in Afghanistan. in a succession war among the A boy selling tomatoes sits beside bags of the produce along a road in Peshawar. contenders to lead the militia, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, Taliban groups in 2013 before which has killed around 70,000 leader of a Pakistani militant Fazlullah was appointed. Gulf Times Friday, June 22, 2018 13 THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH What after Ramadan? amadan is a level playing fi eld wherein people {And they who carefully maintain their prayers -}[Qur’an compete with each other in good deeds and 23:9] benevolence. During the blessed month, souls are If you aspire to know how to save yourself from this trap Rtrained in virtue and accustomed to dignity, they and how to perform good deeds regularly, you have to do the learn to disdain vices, sins and acquire all good attributes. following: Whoever witnesses this month without gaining any of its 1- You must be sincerely and strongly determined to rewards is indeed poor, and nothing cripples him other than do good deeds constantly under all circumstances and negligence, laziness, procrastination, and false hopes. conditions. This requires keeping away from weakness and However, what is appalling is to see some of those who laziness. That is why the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa were guided to do good deeds and take provisions from sallam, used to seek refuge with Allah The Almighty from virtues during the month hastily destroying what they had inability and laziness, given their dire consequences. Hence, built, and replacing good with evil. This is a gross mistake you should seek the help of Allah The Almighty and move and shameful act in the true sense of the word and no ahead. remorse or apology will revoke it when you stand in front of 2- Moderation is very important, and you should never your One Lord. overburden yourself, as the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa Bishr, may Allah have mercy upon him, was asked about sallam,said: “Do such deeds as you can do easily, as Allah will people who only become diligent during the month of not get tired (of giving rewards) until you get bored and tired Ramadan and he said: “They are abominable people, because (of performing religious deeds).” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim] they only know Allah The Almighty during the month of You should remember that there are blessings in Ramadan. The truly righteous people are those who worship perseverance. For example, whoever reads a Juz’ (portion) of Allah The Almighty diligently throughout the whole year.” the Qur’an every day will read the whole Qur’an in one month, Ash-Shibli, may Allah have mercy upon him, was asked, and whoever observes fast for three days every month will be “Which is better: Sha‘ban or Rajab?” His answer was, “Be a rewarded as if he had observed fast throughout the whole year. worshipper of Allah The Almighty rather than a worshipper of Likewise, whoever observes 12 voluntary Rak‘ahs every day, Sha‘ban.” Allah The Almighty will build a house for him in Paradise, and ‘Aa’ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, was asked, “Did so on. the Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, choose 3- You should know that it is unacceptable for whoever some special days (for fasting)?” She replied, “No, but he used observes a good deed to abandon it. It was narrated that to be regular (constant) (in his service of worshipping).” The ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Amr ibn Al-‘Aas may Allah be pleased with him Prophet, sallallaahu `alaihi wa sallam, also never performed said, “The Messenger of Allah,, sallallaahu `alaihi wa sallam, more than 11 Rak‘ahs (units of prayer) whether in Ramadan or ( may Allah exalt his mention ), said to me: ‘O ‘Abdullah! Do at any other time of the year. not be like so-and-so; he used to get up at night (for voluntary We sincerely invite such people out of fear for them to prayer) but abandoned it later.’’ [Al-Bukhari and Muslim] reconsider their lifestyle and to review themselves and think 4- Dear brother, remember what our righteous about their condition before it is too late. We advise them predecessors used to do. ‘Aa’ishah may Allah be pleased with not to allow appearances, their strength, health and youth her said that whenever our beloved Prophet Muhammad, to deceive them. That is because all of this is nothing but a sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, missed the night prayer because mirage that one may see as water, but once he reaches it, he of illness or sleep, he would pray 12 Rak’ahs the next day. fi nds nothing. Health will be followed by sickness, youth will [Muslim] be followed by old age, and strength will eventually turn into The Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, also once weakness. missed ‘Itikaaf (staying in seclusion) and he made up for it So, wake up and pay attention! Life is short even if it seems in Shawwal. Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, long, and happiness will end no matter how long it lasts. said that the Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, Such people should know that perseverance and adherence said to Bilaal, may Allah be pleased with him: “O Bilal, tell me to the right path as well as obedience to Allah The Almighty about the most hopeful act (i.e., one which you deem the most is one of the greatest signs of acceptance of one’s good deeds. rewarding with Allah) you have done since you accepted Islam Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {And worship your because I heard the sound of the steps of your shoes in front of Lord until there comes to you the certainty (death).} [Qur’an me in Paradise.” Bilaal, may Allah be pleased with him, said, 15:99] ‘I do not consider any act more hopeful than that whenever I Consequently, the souls should remain adherent to the make ablution (or take a bath) in any hour of the night or day, I right and guided path just as they were during the month of would immediately perform prayer for as long as was destined Ramadan. Guidance is not confi ned to certain times and acts for me to pray.’’’ [Al-Bukhari and Muslim] of worship, and obedience to Allah The Almighty is not limited However, the most amazing thing is what ‘Ali ibn Abi to the month of Ramadan. Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, used to do in response Al-Hasan al-Basri, may Allah have mercy upon him, said: to the advice of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, “Allah has not set an end for the believer’s work other than when he once visited him and found him sleeping with his death.” Then he recited: {And worship your Lord until there wife Fatimah, may Allah be pleased with her, (daughter of comes to you the certainty (death).}[Qur’an 15:99] the Prophet). ‘Ali said, “The Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa Indeed, Ramadan has ended but you still have several sallam, placed his leg between me and Fatimah and taught us renewed seasons for worship. The fi ve daily prayers are among what to say when we go to bed, saying: ‘When you go to your the highest and best good deeds and prayer is the fi rst thing bed recite 33 times Subhanallah (Glory be to Allah), 33 times about which one would be asked on the Day of Judgment when Alhamdulillaah (All praise is for Allah), and 34 times Allah-u- he stands in front of Allah The Almighty. Akbar (Allah is The Greatest).’ ‘Ali added ‘By Allah, I never left If the fast of Ramadan has ended, then you have the this practice for the rest of my life.’ A man asked him, ‘Even voluntary fasts and occasions such as the six days of Shawwal, on the night of the Battle of Siff een?’ He said, ‘Yes, I observed Mondays and Thursdays, the White Days, the tenth day of this even on the night of Siff een.’”[Al-Hakim: Saheeh] Muharram, the Day of ‘Arafah, and so on. If you contemplate over this narration, you will be amazed If the night prayer of Ramadan has ended, you should know at the keenness and persistence on doing good deeds even at that the night prayer can be off ered every night: {They used to times of war and bloodshed. None of these distracted him sleep but little of the night }[Qur’an 51:17] from implementing the advice of the Prophet, sallallaahu If the time of Zakat al-Fitr has ended, then there is the ‘alaihi wa sallam, regarding what he should say upon going obligatory Zakah in addition to the countless ways of giving to bed. Such stories and narrations should make you persist voluntary charity. in doing good deeds and attempting to imitate the righteous Dear Muslim brother, you should know that one of the predecessors and following their path. attributes of the slaves of Allah The Almighty is that they Article source: http://www.islamweb.net/emainpage/ perform their good deeds constantly, as Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {Those who are constant in their prayer}[Qur’an 70:23] Islam and stability of the family

ut of all the previous divine religions, people. If they both desire reconciliation, him, “Do not do so.” “I do not love her,” the man husband decides to divorce his wife after he had only one wife, other women and young girls none has given due importance to the Allah will cause it between them. Indeed, argued. ‘Umar said, “Are families built only divorced her while she was menstruating or will remain spinsters. This means that they family as Islam did. In doing so, Islam Allah is ever Knowing and Acquainted [with all on love? Where is, then, mutual care and the during a period of purity in which an incident will harbor rancor against married men and Ohas legislated procedures and means things].} [Qur’an 4: 35] maintenance of rights and duties?” of intercourse took place and then took her in women. This also means exposing their which maintain security and preserve stability 2- Islam directed the spouses to exert their The statement of ‘Umar, may Allah be wedlock again, he has to divorce her according chastity to danger. In such a case, the wives within the family. It has also prescribed some best eff orts in reconciliation when dissension pleased with him, indicates how Islam is keen to the Shari‘ah-approved manner. themselves will be affl icted with evil, for the measures which prevent the family from and dispute occur among them. Allah The to maintain the solemn marital contract as 2- Permissibility of polygyny if one can be unmarried women will share their husbands collapse and destruction. Exalted Says (what means): {And if a woman Allah The Almighty describes it in the Qur’an fair: with them secretly. This evil also affl icts men We - particularly in the present time where fears from her husband contempt or evasion, Saying (what means): {And they have taken There are great advantages in polygyny for unmarried women are relatives to men and immorality abounds and temptations are there is no sin upon them if they make terms from you a solemn covenant}. [Qur’an 4: 21] including, for example: what hurts their reputation hurts their relatives overwhelming - have to return to the endless of settlement between them - and settlement Even if love is missing in marital life, there is 1- The wife may suff er from an incurable as well. spring of the Qur’an, the Sunnah (Prophetic is best. And present in [human] souls is still scope for co-operation, solidarity and the disease and does not expect a full recovery, Discussing the advantages of polygyny, tradition) as well as the sayings of the righteous stinginess.} [Qur’an 4: 128] fear of blame for divorce which distresses the and therefore she is neither able to manage Shaykh Ash-Shinqeeti, may Allah have mercy predecessors which are guiding beacons for us Commenting on the last verse, At-Tabari, wife, the children and the husband himself in her home nor fulfi l her husband’s rights. upon him, said: along our road to maintain family stability. may Allah have mercy upon him, said: “There many cases. Meanwhile, she is poor and has neither “It is one of the normal ways of Allah in Islam has initiated several measures to is a consensus that this is applicable when the 1 - When divorce is unavoidable, the best wealth to live from in case of divorce nor is the universe that men are less than women maintain the stability of the family as well the wife is unattractive or very old and feels that form is to divorce the wife only once during a she a breadwinner capable of taking care of in number and more vulnerable to death in whole Muslim community. her husband no longer desires her, treats her period of purity during which no incident of herself. Does chivalry entail divorcing her in all fi elds of life. Consequently, if the man In this article, we will discuss only two with contempt or inclines to other women. In intercourse takes place. This is the meaning this case? The answer is of course no. Rather, is forbidden from marrying more than one measures that Allah The Almighty has such a case, she can waive some of her rights in of the verse in which Allah The Exalted chivalry entails that he keeps her as his wife. woman, there will be a huge number of legislated to avoid the disintegration of the order to appease him and maintain her marital Says (what means): {O Prophet, when you Nevertheless, is it just that he retains her as unmarried women who will resort to adultery. family structure and to maintain the unity life.” [Muslims] divorce women, divorce them for his wife while he badly needs someone to Neglecting the guidance of the Qur’an and of the Muslim community and steadfastness 3- Islam warns against following whims and [the commencement of] their waiting period.} take care of him, manage his aff airs, maintain the Sunnah in this issue is one of the greatest in the face of the huge challenges that the desires as well as surrendering to emotions, [Qur’an 65: 1] his chastity and provide him with off spring? reasons behind lacking morals and degradation entire Muslim Ummah (nation) is facing. Such which overwhelm and change. A husband The period of menstruation mostly brings on This would mean sentencing him to misery to the degrees of animals in losing chastity, challenges are directed to the Muslim family in may feel aversion towards his wife, but if feelings of lethargy, alienation and irritability. and wretchedness. Moreover, this would be a honor, nobility and morals. Glory be to The particular which has become a clear target for he is patient, this feeling will soon change. On the other hand, the period of purity features wretched fate for them both. Rather, justice Ever Wise and The Ever Acquainted with the schemes of Westernisation and corruption Therefore, it is not acceptable that a husband intermixing between the spouses, mutual entails allowing him to marry another wife. everything.” [Adhwaa’ Al-Bayaan] led by the enemies of Islam from among the divorces his wife because of these temporary understanding and interaction. Consequently, Consequently, chivalry and justice entail 4- Unlike women who rarely have children Jews and others. feelings of aversion. Allah The Exalted Says when a husband divorces his wife while she is allowing polygyny in such cases. after the age of 45, man is naturally able 1- Restricting the gates to divorce to maintain (what means): {And live with them in kindness. menstruating or during a period of purity in 2- The wife could be infertile, and although to have children even after the age of 60. marital life and safeguard the community: For if you dislike them - perhaps you dislike which an incident of intercourse takes place, she may spare no eff ort in seeking a cure and Consequently, when a man marries at an older To avoid making divorce the fi rst decision a thing and Allah makes therein much good.} this is, as expressed by some of the righteous her husband may be keen to utilise the available age or loves having a lot of children, preventing in case of dissension and dispute, Islam stated [Qur’an 4: 18] predecessors including Ibn Taymiyyah, may means for her to conceive, their eff orts may be him from marrying another wife is a form of stages for reconciliation between the spouses, In a Hadith (narration), the Prophet, Allah have mercy upon them, a divorce based in vain. What is the judgment of justice and confi nement. Also, unlike the woman who is including: sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam (may Allah exalt upon Bid‘ah (innovation) which contradicts human nature in this case? Should the husband prevented by pregnancy from having children 1- The policy of reconciliation between his mention), said: “No believing man should the wise Shari‘ah (Islamic legislation). suppress his desire to have a child to please all the time, the husband is able to do so at the disputing spouses. Reconciliation is hate his believing wife. If he dislikes one of her Actually, this form of divorce contradicts the him in his lifetime and inherit him after death anytime. recommended even before dissension characteristics, he would surely like another.” ordinances of Allah The Almighty because it or marry another woman after keeping patient To sum up: worsens and its evil consequences emerge. [Muslim] is an innovated matter in religion and does with his wife’s infertility for a period of time Islam legislated many regulations which The arbitrators are chosen from the spouses’ This means that a husband could hate one of not cancel the original state (i.e. the marriage and losing hope in having children from her? safeguard the Muslim family and prevent it families because they are more capable of his wife’s characteristics while he is heedless contract) which is established by the Qur’an, Like the previous wife, such a woman could be from disintegration. The family is the essential reconciling them and of knowing the details. of her other good ones. Consequently, he has the Sunnah (Prophetic tradition) as well as the poor and have no breadwinner. In such a case, pillar of the entire Muslim community and its The arbitrators should truly seek reconciliation to think deliberately before divorce as he may scholars’ consensus. faithfulness, kind association and chivalry inviolable fort. This indicates the justice and and maintenance of the marital life, and as such prefer keeping her and his feeling of dislike The Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, entail that he keeps her, maintains her and takes perfection of the Islamic Shari‘ah as well as its Allah will help them to achieve this. Allah The could change. rejected this form of divorce and nullifi ed it. care of her. keenness to do what is benefi cial to humans in Exalted Says (what means): {And if you fear It was narrated that a man consulted ‘Umar [Ibn Al-Qayyim] The majority of scholars, 3- In most nations, particularly in certain both worlds. dissension between the two, send an arbitrator ibn al-Khattaab, may Allah be pleased with however, are of the view that this form of circumstances, women noticeably outnumber Article source: http://www.islamweb.net/ from his people and an arbitrator from her him, about divorcing his wife and ‘Umar said to divorce is eff ective. Consequently, when a men. Consequently, when each man marries emainpage/ Gulf Times 14 Friday, June 22, 2018 COMMENT

CHAIRMAN Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka Energy for the common Deputy Managing Editor K T Chacko P.O.Box 2888, Doha, Qatar good of humanity [email protected] 44350478 (News), epidemics of obesity, opioid overdoses, to guarantee a new pipeline to export identity of every society and measure 44466404 (Sport), By Jeff rey D Sachs New York school shootings, depressive disorders, output from its polluting and expensive of every culture are not judged by the 44466636 (Home delivery) and other grave ills. oil sands to Asia, while under-investing degree of technological development, The US incurred $300bn in losses in Canada’s vast renewable energy economic growth or public 44350474 he climate crisis we now face is from climate-related disasters last year, sources. infrastructure,” he said.“Our civil life facebook.com/gulftimes a refl ection of a broader crisis: including three massive hurricanes In his meeting with the CEOs of and civilisation are defi ned and judged a global confusion of means – the frequency and intensity of major oil and gas companies, Francis primarily by our respect for the dignity twitter.com/gulftimes_Qatar Tand ends. which has risen, owing to fossil-fuel told them, “Our desire to ensure of humanity and integrity of nature.” We continue to use fossil fuels dependence. energy for all must not lead to the The 300mn faithful of the Eastern because we can (means), not because The US has vast power, wealth, and undesired eff ect of a spiral of extreme churches led by the Ecumenical they are good for us (ends). This growth, and yet diminished well-being. climate changes due to a catastrophic Patriarch are in lands facing extreme confusion is why Pope Francis and The US economy and politics are rise in global temperatures, harsher dangers from global warming: intense GULF TIMES Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew are in the hands of corporate lobbies, environments, and increased levels heat waves, rising sea levels, and spurring us to think deeply about what including Big Oil. of poverty.” He noted that the oil increasingly severe droughts. is truly good for humanity, and how to Resources are relentlessly allocated companies are engaged in “the The Mediterranean region is already attain it. to developing more oil and gas fi elds not continued search for new fossil fuel beset by environmental distress and Earlier this month, the Pope and because they are good for America or reserves, whereas the Paris Agreement forced migration from confl ict zones. Trump helps kids; patriarch each convened business, the world, but because the shareholders clearly urged keeping most fossil fuels Unchecked climate change – which scientifi c, and academic leaders, in and managers of ExxonMobil, Chevron, underground.” And he reminded the has already contributed to confl ict – Rome and Athens, respectively, to Conoco Philipps, and others demand it. executives that, “Civilisation requires would spell disaster for the region. hasten the transition from fossil fuels to Trump and his minions work daily energy, but energy use must not destroy Bartholomew’s conference opened at now is the time for safe renewable energy. to undermine global agreements and civilisation!” the Acropolis, the very heart of ancient In most of the world today, the domestic regulations that have been Francis underscored the moral Athens, where 2,300 years ago Aristotle purposes of politics, economics, and put in place to accelerate the shift from dimension of the problem: defi ned ethics and politics as the quest technology have been debased. fossil fuels to renewable energy. “The transition to accessible and for well-being. immigration reform Politics is regarded as a no-holds- Yes, we can produce more oil, coal, clean energy is a duty that we owe The political community, wrote barred fi ght for power, economics as and gas. toward millions of our brothers and Aristotle, should aim “at the highest a ruthless scramble for wealth, and But for what? Not for our safety: the sisters around the world, poorer good,” to be achieved by cultivating the President Donald Trump did the right thing on Wednesday by technology as the magic elixir for more hazards of global warming are already countries and generations yet to come. virtues of the citizenry. reversing course to address an immigration crisis. He issued an economic growth. upon us. Decisive progress on this path Aristotle famously contrasted two executive order to end his administration’s inhumane practice In truth, according to Francis Not because we lack alternatives: the cannot be made without an increased types of knowledge: techne (technical of separating children from their parents at the southern border. and Bartholomew, we need politics, US has ample wind, solar, hydro, and awareness that all of us are part of know-how) and phronesis (practical Nearly 2,000 children had been sent alone to shelters because economics, and technology to serve a other sources of primary energy that one human family, united by bonds of wisdom). Scientists and engineers have of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to prosecute all far greater purpose than power, wealth, don’t cause global warming. fraternity and solidarity. given us the technical knowledge to or economic growth. The US economy, alas, is an out-of- Only by thinking and acting with move rapidly from fossil fuels to zero- adults, including parents, who violate immigration laws. Taking We need them to promote human control juggernaut, chasing oil wealth constant concern for this underlying carbon energy. aggressive enforcement action at the border is a policy choice, well-being today and for future and jeopardising our very survival. unity that overrides all diff erences, Francis and Bartholomew urge us but doing so at the cost of victimising children was cruel. generations. Of course the US is not alone in the only by cultivating a sense of universal to fi nd the phronesis, the practical Trump responded to the public outcry, and to protestations America may be the most confused mad pursuit of wealth over well-being. intergenerational solidarity, can we set wisdom, to redirect our politics and at home from the fi rst lady. He also recognised what previous of all. The same get-rich-quick confusion out really and resolutely on the road economies toward the common good. – presidents learned at some point in their tenures: Immigration The United States today is rich of means and ends is causing Argentina, ahead.” Project Syndicate is an emotion-laden issue that defi es simple resolution. Sort beyond imagining, with median host of the G20 Summit later this As Francis was meeting the CEOs of like healthcare. “Nobody knew healthcare could be so household income and gross domestic year, to pursue fracking of natural gas, in Rome last week, Bartholomew was zJeff rey D Sachs, Professor of complicated,” Trump marvelled early in his term, even if he was product per capita each equal to nearly with all the associated climate and similarly convening leaders of scientifi c Sustainable Development and Professor $60,000. environmental risks, instead of tapping institutions, UN agencies, and major of Health Policy and Management at among the last American to discover that fact. The US could have it all. its bounteous potential in wind, solar, faiths in Athens and the Peloponnese, to Columbia University, is Director of On Wednesday, he off ered a similar observation about Instead, what it has is widening and hydro power. chart a path to environmental safety. Columbia’s Center for Sustainable immigration reform: “If you are really, really, pathetically weak, income inequality, falling life The same corruption of purpose Bartholomew also underscored the Development and the UN Sustainable the country is going to be overrun with millions of people. expectancy, a rising suicide rate, and is causing the Canadian government fundamental moral concern. “The Development Solutions Network. And if you’re strong, you don’t have any heart. That’s a tough dilemma.” In signing the executive order, Trump left himself open to some colourful criticisms. He “caved” to pressure. Or he “lied” about his policy reversal because he previously insisted only Congress could end the separation practice, not an executive order. Or he had been holding the children “hostage” as part of a hoped-for congressional deal that also would fund the border wall he desperately wants. What’s hurt Trump in this instance is his failure to seize the “If you are moment. He could have used the last few days to rally members of really, really, the House and Senate in support of pathetically a bill that would end the practice of separation plus take on other weak, the desperately needed immigration reforms. Something still could country is happen, but when momentum on Capitol Hill didn’t accelerate going to be quickly, Trump took action. He did so despite the fact that his initial overrun with claim that Congress must act to millions of stop separations may turn out to be accurate. people” Now the House should take up a bill supported by Speaker Paul Ryan. It would resolve both the treatment of migrant children and another immigration problem, that of the so-called Dreamers – the young foreigners who grew up in the US after being brought here without permission. Ryan’s bill also would We continue to use fossil fuels because we can, not because they are good for us. provide money for border security, including Trump’s wall, and tighten legal immigration. The challenge is fi nding enough supporters in a bitterly divided legislative body. Democrats don’t want to fund the wall, or give Trump a victory. Hard-line Republicans equate giving the Dreamers a path to staying in the US with amnesty. And The value of government risk taking the president won’t abandon his wall idea. We’ve scoff ed at that notion ever since Trump mentioned it (and promised that Mexico would fund it). Another issue is whether there is still In this view, the state should ensure In the United States, for example, pricing is used as an excuse to charge urgency to include an end to child separation in the bill, or if the By Mariana Mazzucato London a level playing fi eld; fund things like collaboration between Nasa and extremely high prices that the market executive order is enough. public goods, such as infrastructure DARPA, the Defence Advanced can bear, ignoring the role of public What is needed is a comprehensive immigration reform that and defence; and devise mechanisms to Research Projects Agency, actually investment in creating that value, would include stronger border protection and a plan to address conomic debates are often mitigate negative externalities such as created the Internet. like the over $30bn that the National the millions of people who have lived and worked in the US presented as black-and-white pollution. While in the UK, a BBC literary Institutes of Health spend every year. for years in violation of the country’s dysfunctional system. battles between conservatives And then get out of the way, to allow project helped drive innovation in But is that right? calling for smaller government, the real wealth creators to actually computer processors through dynamic Only by understanding markets There is a scenario, however unlikely, in which Trump makes E and progressives arguing for more produce value. use of procurement. as outcomes of the investments and progress where other presidents came up short. He still sounds public spending. The state might later step back in to Today, however, many mission- activities of diff erent actors can we interested in the legislation, and one would like to see progress. But this simplifi cation overlooks the redistribute that value that was created oriented institutions have been move beyond the dogma and start If money for the wall must be included, one would reluctantly way that markets are co-created by in business via taxation. weakened, and it’s become easier for asking more granular, interesting, and accept that in Congress, compromise doesn’t come free. diff erent actors. And when states exceed this politicians to call for downsizing and dynamic questions, like “what forms Inaction on immigration shouldn’t be an option. By that As economic historian Karl Polanyi mandate, they are accused of creating outsourcing than to increase budgets of public organisations will be best measure, Wednesday brought progress. The president signed an wrote in his classic book The Great market distortions. and defend public-sector risk taking. able to experiment and explore in areas order on immigration to end a practice that hurt children. Now, Transformation, “free markets” The emergence of “new public But this is shortsighted. relevant to grand global challenges are themselves products of state management” theory in the 1980s led Modern government does not mean around healthcare and sustainable the reforms. – Tribune News Service intervention. civil servants to believe that they should simply redistributing existing wealth energy?” As John Maynard Keynes They were forced into existence. take up as little space as possible, or addressing issues aff ecting the argued in 1926 – sustained economic And yet, while many in the private because they might get easily captured provision of public goods. growth requires long-term government sector consider themselves “wealth or corrupted. It also means co-creating value in planning. To Advertise creators” and “value creators,” And this actually led them to fear ambitious ways in diff erent areas. But how to do that planning in policymakers and civil servants have government failures even more than When mission-driven public-sector innovative, creative, and dynamic ways, [email protected] come to believe that their economic role market failures. actors collaborate to tackle problems, co-shaping the opportunities of the Display is more passive. While this thinking has caused they co-create new markets that future, is the question we have ahead For many governments today, the governments to adopt some private- aff ect both the rate of growth and its of us. 44466621 44418811 “state” is at best a market fi xer, and sector management tactics, it has direction. And that means that policymakers this notion of fi xing and mending has also undermined confi dence in Furthermore, understanding the have to start thinking big again. – Classified then translated into other pretty passive public institutions and undermined co-creation of value leads us to Project Syndicate 44466609 44418811 words like the role of the state in simply governments’ ability to confront question the way that the term value “enabling” or “facilitating” the value modern challenges. itself is used in areas like corporate zMariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Subscription creators and business. It wasn’t always this way. governance. Economics of Innovation and Public One reason for this is that in In the decades after World War II, We have been sold on the notion of Value and Director of the Institute [email protected] mainstream economic theory, it governments took risks and encouraged shareholder value, which assumes that for Innovation and Public Purpose at basically holds that governments innovation, and were proud to do so. only shareholders take big risks. University College London, is the author should only intervene when there is a Many agencies were well funded and But is that true? And in the of The Value of Everything: Making and © 2018 Gulf Times. All rights reserved clear market failure. attracted top talent. pharmaceutical industry, value-based Taking in the Global Economy. Gulf Times Friday, June 22, 2018 15 COMMENT Europe’s left turns right on immigration

By Michael Bröning who is campaigning for reelection Berlin in September, recently called his country’s traditionally open immigration policy “not sustainable.” urope’s established left is His proposed policy, entitled “A Safe facing the threat of extinction. Migration Policy for a New Time,” In less than two years, the would halve the number of refugees Econtinent’s social-democratic allowed into Sweden and prevent parties have suff ered historic losses rejected asylum seekers from receiving in France, the Netherlands, Germany, social support – a position that pro- and Italy. migration groups harshly criticise. On a continent long defi ned by The criticism highlights a key democratic competition between challenge. centre-right and centre-left parties, On one level, social democrats’ the collapse of the left could have immigration shift is a necessary far-reaching consequences, beyond response to voter demand. particular party interests. Eff orts to limit or manage migration Many factors underlie the left’s are not necessarily based on racism or decline, including the dissolution of xenophobia. the traditional working class. The key is to ensure that policy But one of the most important responses remain morally acceptable. reasons is as grim as it is simple: At the same time, too drastic a European voters are increasingly change could be self-defeating for opposed to immigration, and do not struggling centre-left parties. trust the left to limit it. They clearly cannot copy the crude Faced with a sustained infl ux of nativist recipes of the radical right, refugees and migrants, primarily from which would not only be economically the Middle East and Africa, European counterproductive, but would also voters have transformed a series of fl y in the face of progressive values, recent elections into popular referenda alienating cosmopolitan supporters. on immigration. Instead, Europe’s centre-left Right-wing populist movements have German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer attend an event on the occasion of the World Refugee Day yesterday at the German parties should strike a balance skilfully played on blue-collar voters’ Historical Museum in Berlin. The World Refugee Day is being observed on June 20 each year, and the United Nations, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and between national and international fears by convincing them that traditional civil groups around the world host events in order to dedicate raising awareness to people who are forced to flee their homes and seek safety elsewhere. solidarity with a three-pronged labour parties will allow immigrants to strategy comprising eff ective limits on fl ow in virtually unchecked. When right-wing populists fi rst with social democrats in several Some in the SPD’s leadership and its “functioning protection” of the EU’s immigration, a focus on integration, In April, Hungarian Prime Minister started gaining political traction, key countries changing long-held youth wing were up in arms. external borders. and humanitarian eff orts to ease large- Viktor Orbán won a landslide election Europe’s centre-left parties hoped positions on migration. Yet Nahles has doubled down on her Denmark’s social democrats scale human suff ering. victory after running a campaign that that their traditional strengths would In Germany, the coalition stance, publicly endorsing a critical are a step ahead of their Austrian Such an approach would eschew focused on the “threat” to “Christian enable them to weather the challenge. government (comprising the SPD, analysis, compiled by a board of counterparts: in preparation for incendiary rhetoric, and instead values” supposedly posed by Muslim To avoid unwittingly strengthening the Christian Democratic Union, and independent observers, of last year’s next year’s elections, they have offer real, forward-thinking, and immigrants. right-wing narratives, centre-left the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the election defeat. adopted a new position paper on morally sustainable solutions that Italy’s new anti-establishment campaigners attempted to shift Christian Social Union) is embroiled That report identifi ed “the lack of a immigration titled “Just and Realistic.” are not populist, but certainly can be coalition government was propelled public debate toward their ideological in a bitter fi ght over immigration that consistent social-democratic position” By establishing “reception centres” popular. to power by the popularity of the comfort zone: unemployment, threatens the survival of the coalition. on migration issues as one of the outside Europe to decide on asylum Canadian Prime Minister Justin staunchly anti-immigrant League inequality, and social justice. While the SPD aims for a party’s structural weaknesses. claims, the paper asserts, the fl ow of Trudeau has embraced this approach, as party, led by Matteo Salvini, who is Germany’s Social Democratic Party European solution and rejects sealing Austria’s Social Democratic Party migrants into Denmark can be reduced. has French President Emmanuel Macron. now interior minister and deputy (SPD) based its entire 2017 election Germany’s borders, party leader has taken its shift on immigration The paper also calls for stronger co- Struggling centre-left parties across prime minister. campaign on the slogan, “It’s time for Andrea Nahles called for accelerated further. operation with the United Nations and Europe should follow suit, recognising In Slovenia, former Prime Minister more justice.” asylum procedures that would enable The party leadership has presented a “Marshall Plan” for Africa that would that such a repositioning may well be Janez Janša’s right-wing opposition Yet defeat after painful defeat has authorities to conclude asylum a new platform, to be offi cially presumably convince more migrants to the key to political survival. – Project party secured just under 25% of the driven centre-left parties to a stark applications from safe third countries endorsed later this year, that formally stay home. Syndicate vote in this month’s parliamentary realisation: voters who are concerned within one week. redefi nes the party’s position as This stance is largely mirrored by election, meaning that Janša will form primarily with immigration are not Last month, Nahles launched “pro-integration,” as opposed to pro- Sweden’s social democrats, as they zMichael Bröning is Head of the the country’s next government. going to be won over with calls – the debate within the SPD when, migration. attempt to cope with strong public International Policy Department of the Echoing US President Donald however justifi ed – for equality. seemingly echoing right-wing While the platform does refer support for the far-right, anti- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, a political Trump, Janša campaigned on an anti- As a result, centre-left parties across rhetoric, she declared that Germany to the country’s “humanitarian immigrant Sweden Democrats. foundation affi liated with the Social immigrant “Slovenia fi rst” platform. Europe have begun to change course, “cannot accept all.” responsibilities,” it also demands Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, Democratic Party of Germany. Health & Wellbeing Faces of depression

By Dr Abdul Waheed Khan weight changes, changes in motor visiting a primary care physician Doha activity, sleep problems, weakness, report physical symptoms only and guilt, difficulty concentrating, and no depressive symptoms. Depression recurrent thoughts of death. Many can mimic many physical illnesses epression patients do not present with these producing myriad presentations. is the classic symptoms of depression, However, most commonly patients most making diagnosis diffi cult. suff ering from the illness report pain Dcommon Depression has varied psychiatric symptoms. The pain is often described mental illness manifestations. Some patients, as ‘generalised body aches’ but can aff ecting 300mn especially children, may not report be localised to one region such as people worldwide. any changes in mood. Instead they headache or abdominal discomfort. It is a major cause may present with irritability or Many patients with depression of disability with an grumpiness. Forgetfulness and lack have symptoms of indigestion and enormous global burden of disease. of focus is the main concern for stomach upset. Some patients have Besides, it is the most frequently some patients. Excessive worrying changing symptoms involving encountered psychiatric disorder or anxiety may predominate in the different regions of the body at in primary care. Patients suff ering history of some depressed patients. different times. Depression in the from this serious illness have a poor A group of these patients are overly elderly is more likely to present with quality of life and experience signifi cant concerned their physical health and physical symptoms. disruption in social and occupational may fear having a major illness. At Awareness about depression and functioning. Furthermore, such patients times, some patients may even see its protean manifestations is crucial are at an increased risk of physical depression as a personal defi ciency both for physicians and the general health problems, death and suicide. rather than an illness. In some severe public. Depression is a serious Depression is very costly both in terms cases, the guilt experienced by the health condition and its detection is of loss of productivity due to this disease patient becomes delusional and the often diffi cult. Luckily, however, it and money spent on its treatment. patient believes that they deserve to is easy to treat. Currently, there are In order to diagnose depression or suff er as a punishment. Depression various pharmacological and non- major depressive disorder, clinicians in such patients can be detected only pharmacological therapies available commonly use the Diagnostic through proper screening. Primary with excellent safety profi les and and Statistical Manual of Mental care doctors ought to refer such effi cacy. Fortunately, both physical Disorders 5th edition (DSM-5) patients to specialists if in doubt. and psychological symptoms criteria. According to these criteria, Depression, a notorious associated with depression are depression is diagnosed when a masquerader, becomes especially highly amenable to therapy. Under- patient reports a two-week history diffi cult to diagnose when a patient recognition of depression must be low mood or loss of interest in with the illness complains of physical minimised so that more and more daily activities plus at least four problems only. Interestingly, two- people can have access to its safe and symptoms from a list which includes thirds of patients with depression eff ective treatment. Live issues Walking ability before heart surgery tied to brain function

By Lisa Rapaport About two weeks after the surgery, dysfunction,” said lead study Reuters Health they repeated the same battery of author Kazuhiro Hayashi of Nagoya cognitive tests. Overall, 51 patients, University Hospital. or 28%, had developed cognitive “Fortunately for patients, physical lder adults who are faster on problems. Half of these patients were function could be improved . . . their feet may be less likely unable to walk more than 400 metres regardless of age,” Hayashi said by to suff er cognitive problems in six minutes before surgery, while e-mail. Oafter heart surgery than half of the participants who didn’t Temporary cognitive problems patients who have diffi culty walking, a develop cognitive issues had walked at are common after heart surgery, the Japanese study suggests. least 450 metres. authors point out. A week after such All 181 patients in the study Each increase of 50 metres in operations, as many as 50% to 70% of were undergoing non-emergency walking distance before surgery was patients have problems with memory, heart surgery at Nagoya University linked to a 19% decrease in the odds attention and other skills. The rate Hospital. Before surgery, researchers of cognitive problems after surgery, falls to 30% to 50% after six weeks, measured how far each participant researchers found. but persistent cognitive dysfunction could walk in six minutes and “This study is the fi rst to indicate at fi ve years after surgery has been did assessments of memory, that the walking ability is a risk observed in 20% to 40% of patients, concentration and attention. factor for postoperative cognitive they write. Gulf Times 16 Friday, June 22, 2018 QATAR

Football fans relax and enjoy the atmosphere at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena. Giant LED screens at MoQ’s Ooredoo Oasis stage screens live the matches in Russia. PICTURE: Noushad Thekkayil Russia ’18: Football enthusiasts live it up at Qatar fan zones

By Joey Aguilar Staff Reporter

ootball fan zones at various locations in Doha continue The Qatar Fan Zone features various activities and a designated area for children. Fto attract a large number of residents and visitors who enjoy the live preview of the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches. From the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena and Khalifa Inter- national Stadium to Mall of Qa- tar (MoQ), Hamad International Airport and Katara – the Cultural Village, the fan zones have be- come favourite destinations for thousands of football fans in Qa- tar since the tournament opened on June 14 in Russia. “We are really excited to part- ner with QNB and Qatar Insur- ance Company to bring every World Cup game to MoQ. We have a fan zone where people can come for free, sit and watch every game,” MoQ Stuart Elder told Gulf Times on the sidelines of the Por- tugal Week opening in Doha on Fans gather at the Khalifa International Stadium to support their favourite teams. Wednesday. “During the last weekend, from ing (for their favourite country or visitors who throng the venue to Qatar Tourism Authority, also Thursday the Oasis (stage) was team), and play station, among support and cheer for their teams, continues to gather thousands of full, we had a great crowd, good others. according to Aspire Zone Founda- people from various communi- atmosphere, lots of families and As the live screening of the tion. The fan zone, sponsored by ties, giving them a chance to ex- just a really great feel in the mall tournament coincided with the the Supreme Committee for De- perience a World Cup atmosphere for football fans coming to sup- Qatar Summer Festival 2018 in livery & Legacy (SC) as the main four years before the tournament port their teams,” he said. the country, Elder said such ac- partner and Ooredoo (main spon- takes place in the country. The SC Elder noted that many mallgo- tivities will help boost retail sales sor), as well as Al Attiya Motors is encouraging families to visit the ers and shoppers also enjoy of shops at MoQ. “Having a fan and Trading Co, Mannai Trading fan zone, which also features vari- watching the games live on the gi- zone and kids’ zone, all works re- CO WLL, Witr Jewellery, Royal ous activities and a designated ant LED screens at the mall while ally nice, which give people great Air Maroc and Pepsi, will screen zone for children, and more than eating in restaurants. MoQ also activities to do over summer in all football matches live until July 40 food and beverage carts. put up a kids’ play zone, spon- Qatar and come enjoy the mall,” 15. Fan zones will be screening sored by QNB, where the young he stressed. Meanwhile, the Qatar Fan Zone matches live today between Brazil visitors can come and take part in The fan zone at Khalifa Inter- at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah vs Costa Rica at 3pm, Nigeria and a number of fun-fi lled activities national Stadium is also attract- Arena, organised by SC, the Min- Iceland a 6pm and Serbia vs Swit- Excitement fills the Khalifa International Stadium as football matches begin. such as face painting, fl ag-mak- ing thousands of residents and istry of Culture and Sports and zerland at 9pm.

A large number of football fans gather at the Khalifa International Stadium to watch the games live.