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Hassad announces Amir reviews strategic ties expansion of with Erdogan animal feed project QNA DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani THE PENINSULA Hassad announced held yesterday evening a tele- that it has signed phone conversation with DOHA: In a move to support an agreement with President Recep Tayyip efforts to achieve self-suffi- Erdogan of the sisterly ciency in animal feed sector, Sudan to commence Republic of Turkey. Hassad, Qatar’s premier investor negotiations on During the phone call, in food and agribusiness sectors, the acquisition of a they reviewed the strategic announced yesterday the major share in one bilateral relations and ways commencement of its expansion of enhancing them, in plans in its foreign and domestic of the largest fodder addition to the latest regional investments. producing projects and international develop- Hassad also announced, near Khartoum. ments. H H the Amir and the that it has signed an agreement Mesmerising view Turkish President stressed with the Sudanese side to com- A musical dancing fountain in Old Salata reflecting multi-colour lights highlights vibrant life at Doha the need to continue consul- mence negotiations on the tation and exchange of Corniche apart from offering aesthetic pleasure to visitors. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT/THE PENINSULA. acquisition of a major share in to those efforts and not to its views on issues of mutual one of the largest fodder pro- competition, thus, all our col- interest. ducing projects in Sudan. lective efforts are in the best Located on a close distance interest of the local market”. from the Sudanese capital — Al As for Hassad’s local efforts, Amir condoles Khartoum — this strategic the company announced the with Amir project currently spans over a completion of the first phase of Qatar leads region in traffic safety land area of 10,000 hectares, ‘Alfalfa’ production, on a land of Kuwait and produces an estimated of area of 1.5 million square metre, THE PENINSULA drivers in the country. Qatar The first steps to institution- 150,000 tonnes of Rhodes and at Irkkiyah farm (owned by leads the Gulf region and the alise the government’s efforts to QNA Alfalfa on a yearly basis. Aalaf Qatar, a subsidiary of DOHA: The roads in Qatar have region in general traffic safety, control the traffic situation and Hassad’s Chief Executive Hassad). Al Sadah said that this become much safer over the QNA reported. to stop deaths and waste of DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Officer, Mohamed Al Sadah, said: accomplishment is in support past decade due the efforts With the huge economic boom public and private property was Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani “We conducted an in-depth of the country’s food security taken by concerned authorities. in Qatar over the past two decades the issuance of the Traffic Law sent yesterday a cable of research on the local market needs efforts. The road accident mortality rate and the large population increase of 2007, which significantly condolences to the Amir of from animal feed, and accordingly, Currently, the total cultivated has fallen from 14 deaths per in record time as a result of rising reduced traffic accidents and the State of Kuwait H H we developed a comprehensive area owned by Aalaf Qatar, has 100,000 people in 2013 to 5.4 numbers of expatriate workers, deaths and injuries. Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al plan which covers both local and reached 8 million square metres, deaths per 100,000 people in the traffic situation has become a Official statistics have showed Jaber Al Sabah on the death foreign strategic expansion to producing Alfalfa and Rhodes. 2017, a figure lower than the concern for the Ministry of the that the traffic law was the of Sheikha Fareeha Al satisfy those needs, as well as “We are currently developing national traffic safety strategy Interior and a challenge that must starting point for the continuous Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, secure external sources to be uti- a plan to begin the second phase of 6 deaths per 100,000 popu- be dealt with in a systematic and success. The death rate of traffic widow of the late Sheikh lised by the country if needed”. of expansion within our local lation until 2022. thoughtful manner. accidents decreased from 16.6 Rashed Al Humoud Al Jaber Al Sadah added: “Hassad is farms by the beginning of next This rate is well below the With a forward-looking vision, deaths per 100,000 people in Al Sabah. fully aware and supportive of year, with the aim of increasing global average of 17.4 deaths per Qatar adopted a comprehensive 2006 (one year before the imple- the efforts done by the private the production and introducing 100,000 people and in high- framework to ensure a secure mentation of the law) to 14.6 cases sector. We would like to new products,” Al Sadah said. income countries of 9.2 per transport system for all road users, in the following year. Amir sends emphasise that Hassad’s local 100,000 people, despite the taking into account all the latest condolence cable investments are complementary →CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 high number of vehicles and developments and challenges. →CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 to King of Jordan QNA

Qatar’s nominal DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Subsidised sacrificial sheep to be Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent yesterday a cable of GDP expands 9.9% condolences to King of the available for Qataris from today Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Abdullah II, expressing his despite blockade condolences to His Majesty THE PENINSULA and to the Jordanian people for SATISH KANADY with QR554bn in the previous the martyrs, who lost their DOHA: The Ministry of THE PENINSULA year. The share of hydrocarbon lives after the terrorist act Economy and Commerce (MEC) GDP in overall GDP increased which targeted the gendar- has announced that the subsi- DOHA: Reaffirming that the to 32.7 percent in 2017 from 30.3 merie and public security dized sheep for sacrifice will be blockade has failed to halt percent in 2016, while share of forces in the city of Fuhais and sold to Qataris starting from Qatar’s growth trajectory, a key non-hydrocarbon GDP declined after the raid on the terrorist today (Tuesday) until the third government document from 69.7 in 2016 to 67.3 in 2017. cell site in the city of Salt, west day of Eid Al Adha. yesterday revealed that the “The developments in the of the capital Amman. The initiative aims at pro- country’s nominal GDP local economy clearly indicate H H the Amir expressed viding Qataris with sheep at a rea- witnessed an estimated 9.9 they are not affected by the Qatar solidarity with the sonable price for the upcoming percent growth in 2017, while repercussions of the siege. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Eid Al Adha, said a release. maintaining a benign inflation internal and external balances of and its support for any The subsidised price of local rate of less than 1 percent. Qatar have improved markedly. measures taken to protect its sheep is QR1,200 and QR1,100 The Qatar Central Bank The budget deficit has improved security and stability, wishing for the sheep of Arab breed. The (QCB) in its 2017 annual report to less than 6 percent of GDP. the wounded speedy sheep will be sold through the released yesterday noted the The current account has recovery. outlets of Widam Food Company Qatari economy during 2017 managed to balance the pay- at slaughterhouses operating at Abu Hamour livestock market starts receiving new stock of sacrificial remained robust and stable. ments and restore surplus →SEE ALSO PAGE 2 Central Market and the abattoirs animals for Eid Al Adha. PIC:ABDUL BASIT / THE PENINSULA Riding on the recovery in global status, which amounted to 3.8 run by the Company in Al energy prices, the nominal percent of GDP. QCB has also Shamal, Al Khor and Umm Salal The initiative came for the provide appropriate animals fit GDP’s 9.9 expansion was against taken effective measures to PAKISTAN INDEPENDENCE DAY central markets. sixth year in a row to create a for scarifying during Eid Al a contraction of 7.4 percent in ensure that liquidity remains August 14, 2018

Each Qatari of 20 years or balance in prices of sheep in local Adha. the previous year; and showed comfortable in the system to Message from the Charge d’Affaires

cultural norms and inspirations. However, the offer new openings and investment opportu- path to independence was not an easy one, nities for foreign investors. With the gradual it was a struggle under the visionary and reduction of security threats in the country, above is entitled to buy one market. The Ministry of Economy The MEC provided a set of a sharp gain in terms of trade. facilitate an adequate flow of inspiring leadership of the father of the nation the improved security climate will provide the that brought Pakistanis under one flag. While impetus for the revival of economic activity in celebrating this Independence Day today, we the country for years to come. In this regards, should not be forgetful of those who sacri- Pakistani expatriates can play a key role in ficed their lives to achieve independence. On reviving the economy which will be the utmost this occasion, I would also like to make a priority of the new Government in Pakistan. special mention of the officers and soldiers The Government of Pakistan attaches its sheep, the MEC added. The Min- and Commerce fixed the price of advice and information on Real GDP growth during credit to the productive of the Pakistan Armed forces who have laid highest priority to overseas Pakistanis in the down their lives during operation Rah e Rast State of Qatar, who have been playing vital JJJJ and Radul Fasad to secure the territorial juris- and meaningful role in the growth and devel- dictions of Pakistan. opment of both Qatar and Pakistan. I would Pakistan has come a long way in consol- like to invite all the Pakistani expatriates in Murad Baseer, Charge d’Affaires idating democracy and democratic traditions. the State of Qatar to keep contributing and Mamnoon Hussain, Justice Retired Nasir u The recently held General Elections is a man- doing their bit for their country. ifestation of the firm belief within the Gov- Pakistan greatly values its relationship President of Pakistan Mulk, Prime Minister o istry of Economy and Commerce sacrificial animals at QR1,200 for awareness and guidance when 2017 decelerated somewhat to sectors,” QCB Governor H E n the auspicious occasion of the ernment and the people of Pakistan to with the State of Qatar. It is indeed satisfying Pakistan 71st Independence anniversary strengthen the democratic credentials of that bilateral relations between our two of Pakistan, I wish to extend my Pakistan and take the country forward. Today, brotherly countries are based on mutual warm greetings and felicitations Pakistan has free media, independent judi- respect and shared desire to promote mutually Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, of the State of Qatar for the cooperation Oto our Pakistani brothers and ciary, strong Parliament and robust civil beneficial cooperation in diverse fields. There the Amir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Hamad support that our Mission has received f sisters and to the friends of society that are geared up to strengthen the is a need to galvanize the private sectors in bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Father Amir, His Excel- them. Pakistan in the State of Qatar. institutional pillars of Pakistan. The Gov- both countries to further explore ways and lency Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa has warned of fraudulent sales local sheep weighing 40kg and buying the sacrifice, such as the 1.6 percent from 2.2 percent. Abdulla bin Saoud Al Thani said. Seventy-one years ago on this auspi- ernment is encouraging the norms of trans- means to promote trade and commerce. Sim- Al Thani the Prime Minister & Interior Min- Long live Pakistan-Qatar cious day, the Muslims under the dynamic parency, pluralism, tolerance and accommo- ilarly, the China Pakistan Economic Corridor ister, His Excellency Dr Khalid bin Mohamed friendship. leadership of the father of the nation Quaid e dation and is resolved to continue working (CPEC) can also play a crucial role in not just Al Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah achieved inde- towards further cementing the democratic linking the two countries economically and of State for Defence Affairs and His Excellency Murad Baseer, Charge d’Affai pendence and created a separate homeland norms and culture in the country. also bringing sustainable development in the Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Embassy of the Islamic Repub for themselves. This freedom envisaged living In the aftermath of the general elections adjoining region. Deputy Prime Minister & the Minister of of Pakistan, Doha, State of Qa of sacrificial animals as the Min- above and QR1,100 for Arab animals should be fit for sac- However, much of it was due “This year’s (2017) QCB in accordance with our religious ethos it is expected that the new Government will Finally I would like to sincerely thank His Foreign Affairs the Government and people istry will intensify inspection sheep of 45kg and above. rifice according to Islamic juris- to self-imposed moratorium on report comes under an unjust campaigns from the first date of The subsidised sheep will be prudence. The animals should new projects in the North Gas siege imposed on Qatar since Included with sale until the third day of Eid Al sold to citizens on their ID cards. look healthy, such as the head Field and Opec+led cut in oil June 5, 2017”, the central bank today’s edition is a Adha to ensure that the outlets The MEC in coordination with is raised to the top and not production. Governor reminded. are complying with the prices Widam Food Company down, and the eyes are bright Nominal GDP reached special supplement and the safety rules. launched the initiative to not yellow or red. QR610bn in 2017 as compared →CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 02 HOME TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 Sudan President attends graduation of Qatari military officers Deputy Amir condoles with QNA Kuwait Amir QNA KHARTOUM: Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir, the President of the sisterly Republic of Sudan DOHA: Deputy Amir H H and the Supreme Commander Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Al Thani sent a cable of condo- attended the graduation lences to Amir of the State of ceremony of the 64th batch (B) Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al of the cadets of the Qatari Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah on officers at the Military Academy the death of Sheikha Fareeha Stadium in Omdurman. Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir, the President of Sudan and the Supreme Commander Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, The graduation of this batch widow of the late Sheikh of the Sudanese Armed Forces, at the graduation ceremony of the 64th batch (B) came within the Sudanese army’s Rashed Al Humoud Al Jaber of the cadets of the Qatari officers at the Military Academy Stadium in Omdurman. celebrations with the graduation Al Sabah. Prime Minister and of a number of batches of mil- Interior Minister H E Sheikh itary officers. The graduation cer- Minister and and military attaches from Armed Forces. The special batch Abdullah bin Nasser bin emony was also attended by Minister of brotherly and friendly countries. received specialised courses in Khalifa Al Thani also sent a Sudanese Minister of Defence State for The 108 cadets of the Qatari the Thunder, Special Forces, cable of condolences to Amir First Lt. General Awad Chief of Staff Lt. General Kamal Defence Affairs, Qatari Military officers received field military Reconnaissance and Armored of the State of Kuwait. Mohammed Ahmed bin Aouf, Abdul Maarouf Al Mahi, Major Attache to the Republic of Sudan training and lectures that qual- Corps, where the graduates spent Lieutenant General Kamal Abdul General Sami Bakheet Al Jattal as well as a number of ministers, ified them to graduate with the one and a half years at the Deputy Amir Maarouf Al Mahi, Sudanese Joint representative of Deputy Prime senior officers of the armed forces rank of lieutenant of the Qatari Sudanese Military College. condoles with King of Jordan Students explore QNA DOHA: Deputy Amir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of opportunities at condolences to the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, H M Abdullah II, expressing his condolences to institute in Turkey His Majesty and to the Jordanian people for the THE PENINSULA The educational martyrs who lost their lives opportunities at after the terrorist act which DOHA: Leveraging Hamad Bin targeted the gendarmerie and Khalifa University’s (HBKU) the Turkish institute public security forces in the growing collaborative agree- came against the city of Fuhais and after the ments in the field of education, backdrop of its recent raid on the terrorist cell site six students and three faculty partnership with in the city of Salt, west of the members from the College of capital Amman. Prime Islamic Studies (CIS) embarked HBKU, which was Minister and Interior Minister on a number of academic devel- signed during the H E Sheikh Abdullah bin opment opportunities at Turkey’s past academic year Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim of 2017-18 to further also sent a cable of condo- University (IZU) this summer. lences to the Prime Minister The educational opportu- cooperation in the of the Hashemite Kingdom of nities at the Turkish institute field of graduate Jordan, Dr Omar Ahmad came against the backdrop of its education. Munif Razzaz. recent partnership with HBKU, Six students and three faculty members from HBKU’s College of Islamic Studies joined their international which was signed during the past peers at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs Summer School Program in Turkey. academic year of 2017-18 to Qatar supports further cooperation in the field Professor and Assistant Dean for of graduate education. Innovation and Community participating students engaged and threats of marginalisation, currently pursuing a Master of measures taken The facilitation of a global Advancement at CIS, Dr. in an interchange of ideas and and focused on the larger Arts In Islamic Studies degree in interchange of knowledge and Mohamed Evren Tok; Professor values on a wide range of aca- political, civic and social life the Islamic Civilization and Soci- by Jordan for resources stems from HBKU’s of Public Policy in Islam, Dr. demic topics, including spiritual lessons that could be drawn eties concentration, said: “Expe- founding pillars — Excellence, Louay Safi; and Assistant Pro- growth, intellectual development from the communities’ experi- riencing the CIGA Summer security People, Innovation and Partners fessor of Methodology and and public activism. ences based on four main clas- School within a wholly new cul- QNA — that guide the University’s Ethics, Dr Mu’taz Alkhatib joined “The CIGA Summer School sifications: spiritual growth, tural and educational envi- steady efforts in seeking out new their international peers at the Leadership Development intellectual development, ronment taught me a lot about international partners for the Center for Islam and Global Program extensively explored political education, and public cultivating personal leadership DOHA: The State of Qatar has provision of inclusive, high- Affairs (CIGA) Summer School the evolution of the sociopo- activism. qualities, particularly with a view expressed its full support for quality learning opportunities in Program. litical environment in which “We look forward to building towards one’s background and the measures taken by the Qatar and abroad. The two universities share an Muslim communities in the on this cooperation with IZU in individual abilities. Witnessing Hashemite Kingdom of Co-sponsored CIGA Summer agreement that supports the West have found themselves future and welcoming our some of Istanbul’s magnificent Jordan to safeguard security School Program Fosters exchange of students, in par- since the turn of the century. To Turkish colleagues to HBKU in sites underlined this further as and stability in the city of Salt, Exchange of Views on Social, ticular those specialising in the this end, the two-week program order to expand our shared we found ourselves in a world northwest of the capital, Religious, and Political Topics fields of Islamic sciences, eco- studied their multifold chal- range of graduate capacity- metropolis that carries a rich Amman, in which four As such, a delegation of six nomics and finance. Resultantly, lenges, particularly in light of building,” Dr Tok said. history of political and religious security men were martyred. CIS students, led by Assistant during this year’s program, the surge of religious profiling Ardela Hyka, who is leadership.” In a statement, the Min- istry of Foreign Affairs reit- erated Qatar’s firm stance rejecting violence and ter- MEC recalls Ford Escape and rorism, regardless of motives Katara lines up Eid Al Adha activities and reasons. The statement affirmed Fusion models of 2013-2016 Qatar’s full solidarity with the THE PENINSULA Jordanian government and its THE PENINSULA support for any measures DOHA: The Cultural Village taken to maintain security. DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce, in collaboration Foundation –Katara is set to host The statement expressed with Ford dealer in Qatar, Almana Motors Company, has announced a festive Eid Al Adha celebration the condolences of the State the recall of Ford Escape and Fusion models of 2013-2016 because with a range of colourful activ- of Qatar to the victims’ fam- the bushing in the shifter cable end may be damaged or missing ities starting on August 21. ilies, and to the King of the which can result in the shifter not completely moving the trans- The festivities, which will Hashemite Kingdom of mission to the proper gear position. take place at the Katara Beach Jordan, the government and The Ministry said the recall campaign comes within the throughout the Eid holiday, are people of the Kingdom. framework of its ongoing efforts to protect consumers and ensure expected to attract a big number that car dealers follow up on vehicle defects and repairs. of visitors including families and The Ministry said that it will coordinate with the dealer to follow children looking forward to Hassad begins up on the maintenance and repair works and will communicate make Eid a memorable expe- with customers to ensure that the necessary repairs are carried rience filled with joy and enter- expansion of Police and Katara staff distribute Eid gifts to children. out. The Ministry has urged all customers to report any violations tainment. One of the highlights to its Consumer Protection and Anti-Commercial Fraud of the celebration is a marvelous animal feed Department. show by the Police Musical Band, children by Katara staff and the by the sunset near Katara who will be playing patriotic kick-off of games, entertainment Amphitheater followed by a project music along the Katara Beach. and activities for children. spectacular fireworks show CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ooredoo offers free data for This is followed by the dis- Another performance by the which will light up the sky over tribution of Eid gifts to the Police Musical Band will be held Katara. Aalaf Qatar currently Pakistan Independence Day owns four farms producing THE PENINSULA animal feed on a total land area of around 800 hectares Ooredoo offers discounted Car-Fi device located at Irkkiyah, Sailiyah, DOHA: Ooredoo announced yesterday the launch of a special A’Refaa’ and Um Selal. 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Thanks to the Ooredoo’s Standalone Endless Internet Packs Wakrah, Al Shahaniya, Customers can also check out the ‘Deals’ tab in the Ooredoo new offer, all new Standalone Endless Internet Packs service allows users to enjoy access to Ooredoo’s Semsema, Al Mazrouaa’) to App to check for more personalised offers. customers will get the chance to purchase a Car-Fi Supernet speeds for as low as QR90 per month (8 ensure the availability of The Ooredoo App is Ooredoo’s award-winning self-service device from Ooredoo Shops for just QR30, saving GB). Once the pack is consumed, customers will be animal feed to meet the platform that enables pre-paid customers to top-up, enjoy the QR300 off the normal retail price. able to continue using internet at a lower 2G speed requirements of livestock latest Hala offers, recharge their data and much more. The Car-Fi device acts as a portable hotspot, until their monthly allowance is renewed. owners. TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 HOME 03 Municipalities intensify inspections on food outlets for Eid THE PENINSULA The municipalities of Rayyan Municipality has made a Al Wakra, Al Rayan, Al special action plan to monitor the DOHA: The Ministry of Munici- Khor and Al Zakhira commercial outlets which has pality and Environment repre- started implementing it and will sented by municipalities has have declared their continue during Eid Al Adha Eid launched inspection drive on food action plans to inspect holidays. outlets ahead of Eid Al Adha to the outlets during the Under the action plan, the ensure they are complying with inspectors will intensify inspection hygiene rules. festivity days. on shops selling, preparing and The municipalities of Al processing sweets and selling nuts. Wakra, Al Rayan, Al Khor and Al A work schedule of veterinary Zakhira have declared their action doctors was prepared for the plans to inspect the outlets during have failed to comply with health private slaughterhouses operating the festivity days. requirements. in Al Rayyan and Muaither to Health Monitoring Unit of Al The unit has taken a number monitor slaughtering operations Wakra Municipality has deployed of actions and plans to serve the of sacrificial animals during Eid Al the inspectors in two shifts to public in order to achieve its Adha. cover the outlets selling items objectives in maintaining the The inspectors have been which have more demands during health and safety of citizens and directed to conduct inspection Eid Al Adha like sweets, choco- expatriates. The Municipality has tours in various residential areas lates, dry fruits and fresh fruits, made a comprehensive plan for at Al Rayyan Municipality, to said a release. inspection before and during Eid prevent slaughtering outside the The inspection drive is also Al Adha. designated slaughterhouses during focusing on butcheries, restaurants The plan aims at intensifying Eid. The Department of Health offering Arab traditional foods and the inspection campaigns on all Supervision will receive com- commercial complexes because food outlets, restaurants, cafe- plaints round the clock. they attract more customers terias, grocery stores, vegetables As part of preparations for Eid Ministry officials during an inspection campaign. during festival. and fruits shops located within the Al Adha, the Health Monitoring The drive aims at ensuring that municipality of Al Wakra and Unit of Al Khor and Al Zakhira the products are safe and they ensuring that they comply with the basis. The plan also means to them regarding food safety. Municipality carried out a number were stored properly and pre- health requirements. Food samples will be taken prepare an awareness plan for The municipalities will receive of inspection campaigns which pared in hygienic way forcing the The plan will also cover butch- from outlets for laboratory tests increasing health and nutrition complaints round-the-clock and covered including slaughterhouses outlets to comply with the health eries and fish markets where vet- to ensure their safety for human education among shop owners, take action immediately against and butcheries, to ensure their rules. Appropriate action has been erinarian doctors will be deployed consumption and surprise raids employees and the consumers by erring outlets. compliance with the Human Food taken against food outlets which to follow up the situation on daily will be made to inspect the shops. distributing brochures among Health Monitoring Unit at Al Control Law No. 8 of 1990. Expert identifies risk Zakat Fund provides over factors of blood cancer QR13m to needy families THE PENINSULA FAZEENA SALEEM immunity levels and environ- official website. distress. This was paid for those QR695,807 for paying medical THE PENINSULA mental factors like viral According to Dr Al Umeri Dr entitled to in accordance with bills to poor patients in coop- infection, chemical exposure frequent infections, loss of DOHA: Zakat Fund run by the the Shariah regulations, QNA eration with Hamad Medical and radiation. Majority of blood appetite or nausea, night sweats, Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic reported. Corporation, along with DOHA: Though there are no cancer patients present persistent weakness and fatigue, Affairs provided more than It pointed out that it pro- QR113,000 for those in debt clear factors that cause blood symptoms after the disease has shortness of breath, swollen, QR13m to beneficiary families vided QR 9,851,724 as cyclical distress. cancer, genetic disorders, envi- developed and in need of urgent painless lymph nodes in the registered with it in July. assistance to needy families, The Zakat Fund is also pre- ronmental reasons and low treatment,” she said. neck, armpits, or groin are The Fund gave a total of QR2,152,409 as onetime aid to paring for Eid Al-Adha to immunity can increase the During August, HMC raises common symptoms of blood QR13,699,623 last month, those in specific needs, and provide assistance to the eligible chances of developing the awareness of blood cancer and cancer. Drug therapy, chemo- including monthly support, one- QR886,683 for assistance such families registered with it, so disease, says an expert. educates the public about the therapy, radiation therapy, stem time aid, tuition fees, treatment as students enrolled in different that it can meet their needs and “Due to the introduction of risk factors, warning signs and cell transplant, immunotherapy and help for those in debt education stages, as well as requirements during the Eid. new, more effective treatment the importance of prevention, and gene therapy are treatment and sophisticated therapies, sur- and also encourages people to methods available for blood vival rates for most types of get tested and adopt a healthy cancer. blood cancer have improved,” lifestyle to reduce the risk. While, leukemia, which is a said Dr Haleema Al Umeri, Cancer affecting the production group of cancers of the bone Senior Consultant, Hematology and function of blood, bone marrow caused by overpro- Department at Hamad Medical marrow and lymphatic system duction of white cells, is the Corporation’s (HMC) National . These types of cancer starts in most common cancer among Center for Cancer Care and the bone marrow where the children in Qatar. Research (NCCCR). blood is produced. Qatar National Cancer Reg- “There are three big groups As part of the campaign Al istry (QNCR) in 2015 revealed of blood cancer as leukemia, Umeri has spoken about the that leukemia counted for 46.3 lymphoma and myeloma. Blood symptoms and types of blood percent of all pediatric cancers, cancer can occur to a person at cancer. It was published on followed by brain cancer. In any age at any time. There is no HMC’s Facebook page. While 2020, more than one million clear cause of blood cancer but HMC has published several new blood cancer cases are there is some risk factors such other information related to expected to be diagnosed as genetic disorders, low blood cancer separately on its globally.

The participants at the International Youth Day organised by the Qatar Scientific Club. Qatar Scientific Club celebrates International Youth Day THE PENINSULA people to meet and engage in activities related to their diverse needs and interests, as well as DOHA: Qatar Scientific Club celebrated on Sunday taking part in decision-making process and freely the International Youth Day, which falls on August express themselves stemming from our tradi- 12 each year. tions and Islamic heritage that our young people The event featured a discussion session on cherish. safe space for young people and a focus on the It is be noted that the first International Youth role of the club in providing safe venues for young Day was celebrated on August 12, 2000. 04 HOME TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 Haider Holding emerges as one of top privately-owned groups THE PENINSULA Hussain said, Pakistan has cereals manufacturing company. range of LU Continental Biscuits and it is in this field for the last 30 emerged as one of the prime des- We are importing cornflakes from produced in Pakistan, he said, years. DOHA: Established almost 70 tinations for the group to import the company,” he said. adding the Group is the main dis- “We deal with major clients years ago as a trading company various kinds of products. Cur- “We have tied up with Paki- tributor of famous Pakistani brand like Qatar Airways, Qatargas. We called Sulaiman Al Haj Haider, rently, Haider Holding is dealing stan’s biggest multinational Kolson Pasta as well. are also providing housing to the Haider Holding has emerged as with nine top companies of company Engro Foods to import “Marhaba Laboratories, staff of Qatar Foundation that one of the top privately-owned Pakistan, Hussain said, adding that its products. Then we have also through its quality, fragrance and includes Sidra hospital,” he said. holding groups in the country. a lot of credit for this goes to the tied up with famous Pakistani efficacy, has surpassed its peers in “We have a construction The group currently operates Qatari government. company Shield Corporation Ltd products like rose waters almond company called Mesopotamia for across a wide range of sectors “Officials from our group were that deals in babycare, toothcare, oil, and hakimi products is our General Contracting (MGC) that which include real estate, furniture part of a high-level Qatari dele- and diapers. We have already exclusive partner for the Qatari develops our projects and also manufacturing and designing, gation that visited Pakistan in the ordered containers of diapers that market,” he said. provide facility management. food import and distribution, retail recent past. We took the oppor- will be available in the Qatari “We want to work more with Then we have a factory named outlets, construction, hospitality, tunity to tie up with a number of market soon. These products are Pakistani companies to further Manzil Al Sultan that manufac- services, and veterinary care, and top Pakistani companies,” he said. very cost effective and of high strengthen our business ties,” he tures and designs state-of-the-art is constantly seeking new oppor- more than 1,000 people from “We signed contract with one qualities,” he said. added. furniture, which we opened tunities to complement its existing across nationalities. of the major companies in “We have partnership with On the growth of Haider almost two years ago in the Indus- portfolio. Haider Holding Branch Oper- Pakistan called Haleeb Foods that King Chemicals from Pakistan that Holding over the years, Hussain trial Area,” he said. With a focus on innovation ations Manager Syed Samer deals in dairy products. We are manufactures insect killers and said, “What started as a small While Haider Holding has and excellence, the group contin- Hussain said that the Group is buying milk, ghee and fresh cream pesticides. We have already business, our mother company made its mark in various areas, he ually seeks to deliver best-in-class actively looking to establish inter- from the company to sell in the started importing their products,” Sulaiman Al Haj Haider has said, services is one sector where products and services. With almost national partnerships to build on Qatari market. We are also dealing he said. become pioneer company in the group is planning to launch 25 companies under its umbrella, its extensive experience and with one of the top Pakistani com- Haider Holding is also the Qatar.” Real estate is one of the some exciting projects in the near Haider Holding currently employs expertise, said a statement. panies Fauji Cereals, a breakfast exclusive importer of extensive major constituents of the group future. Qatar 2022 stadiums begin to take shape as project passes 150 million man hours

THE PENINSULA collaboration between the SC and safety, the SC’s Health & Safety its numerous stakeholders, Assurance Division has overseen DOHA: Construction of the according to Yasir Al Jamal, Vice 1,800 site safety visits. In addition, stadiums being built to host the Chairman of the SC’s Technical the SC organises monthly Safety 2022 FIFA World Cup is Delivery Office. Health and Environment Lead- advancing rapidly across Qatar, “Major progress continues to ership Team meetings with key with the venues for the first tour- be made across our stadium sites stakeholders, including the Min- nament in the Arab world - and this is credit to not only the istry of Labour, Ashghal and Qatar continuing to take shape during work of the SC, but also our Rail. Since 2016, the SC has the peak year of preparations. various stakeholders, contractors worked alongside Building and Following the completion of and sub-contractors,” said Al Woodworkers International, a FROM LEFT: Amal Al Aathem, 7th Heaven Arts Center Chairman and Qatari artist; Dr Nabil Al Filtkawi, Khalifa International Stadium — Jamal. “From day one, we have global trade union, to carry out Director General of the Center; and Mohammad Al Hammadi, Executive Board Member during a Qatar’s first tournament-ready committed to strong collaboration joint health and safety inspec- venue — in May 2017, the with all our partners — particu- tions, while contractors are press conference, yesterday. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA Supreme Committee for Delivery larly in relation to the health and encouraged to visit different & Legacy (SC) is advancing as safety of our workers. Reaching project sites to share lessons scheduled with work on the 150 million man hours is a notable learned and best practices. 7th Heaven Arts Center partners remaining seven venues, the SC landmark as we continue our Al Jamal added: “The health, said on its official website. The journey towards 2022.” safety and wellbeing of our mega-project recently passed 150 More than 30,000 people are workers is our number one pri- with number of institutions million man hours across all sites, currently engaged on SC projects, ority. We remain committed to including 116 million man hours with 26,000 directly involved in regular inspections and collabo- AMNA PERVAIZ RAO Foundation and the Qatar Cancer bolstering the peninsula’s at stadium construction sites the construction of proposed ration opportunities, both of THE PENINSULA Society, among others. eminent status as a regional and alone. Reaching this landmark Qatar 2022 stadiums. which allow us to share The partnerships are centred international hub for art, culture, figure is tantamount to the strong With regard to health and knowledge and lessons learned.” DOHA: The 7th Heaven Arts on the objective of fostering an and peace, stressing how arts can Center yesterday announced arts culture and supporting talents bring people together and partnership with a number of in the local community, which establish a common language prominent community-service encompasses integrating children through which they can connect oriented institutions including with special needs in society and and communicate. This passion Qatar leads region in traffic safety Katara Cultural Village Foun- enhancing their self-confidence for spreading arts culture played dation and Qatar Cancer Society through artistic expression. a pivotal role in the Center’s note- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 from them. One of the most important among others. AI Aathem also highlighted worthy achievements despite its The rate was more than 23 the Ministry of the Interior objectives of the second phase The 7th Heaven Arts Center, the Center’s latest partnership young three-year history, during deaths in 2005. The rate of launched the Second Implemen- of the road safety strategy is to a social organisation, also with “Innovation Films”, a Qatari which its services successfully traffic accidents and injuries tation Plan 2018-2022 for the reduce road traffic deaths by 50 announced appointment of Dr Multimedia company specialising reached 6,115 aspiring artists, resulting from these incidents National Strategy for Traffic percent (to 130 deaths in 2022), Nabil AI Filtkawi as General in film and television production young and old, and its programs at all levels decreased as well. Safety, which benefited from the reduce the number of cases to Director of the Center. aimed at exporting film-making honed the artistic skills of The formation of the results of the comprehensive 400, and implement the United Dr Nabil is a Ph.D in Phi- globally. The conference was also beginners and professionals alike. National Committee for Traffic evaluation of the first opera- Nations sustainable devel- losophy of Arts from the Uni- attended by Mohammad AI Al Aathem also shed a light on Safety in 2010, under the chair- tional plan. It absorbed the new opment goals for sustainable versity of Brighton in the United Hammadi, Innovation Films the Center’s more than 15 diverse manship of the Minister of the challenges, strengthened the cities by building road and Kingdom. He also holds the post Executive Producer and Board programs which cover a mul- Interior, was to strengthen this community partnership, and transport networks and of current President of the Member, who expressed his great titude of art disciplines such as march, respond to develop- tightened the mechanisms of adopting an unconventional Kuwaiti Artists Syndicate, as well pleasure in collaborating with 7th painting, sculpture, paper recy- ments in the country in various monitoring the commitment to planning system. as serves as an Assistant to the Heaven Visual Art Center to give cling, ceramics, fashion design, fields, and develop a deliberate implement the projects covered The second phase aims to Deputy Director General of the birth to a new generation of photography, print, handicrafts, and orderly framework for by the plan for the five years reduce congestion by 5 percent Public Authority for Applied Edu- young Qatari filmmakers. sewing, silk art, calligraphy, glass traffic work shared by all stake- covered by the strategy. per year, reduce infant mortality cation and Training (PAAET) in 7th Heaven Visual Art Center painting, mosaic, and more. holders in the State. The Ministry of the Interior to 17 percent of total deaths by the State of Kuwait. Talking to The was founded by renowned Qatari The Center has also helped The committee is respon- confirmed on more than one 2022 (32 percent in 2016), and Peninsula, Al Filtkawi said: “I feel artist Amal AI Aathem, who rep- 256 entrepreneurs develop their sible for developing policies and occasion that the second oper- begin implementing the UN sus- honoured to be assigned as resented Qatar at many interna- skills to establish and grow their plans in the field of traffic and ational plan for traffic safety tainable development goals general director of the Center, I tional events and whose artwork small projects while taking quality developing it, studying the 2018-2022 is a road map to related to congestion reduction, would be more than happy to is acclaimed at the local and inter- and cost into account. AI Aathem problems related to it, proposing reduce the number of traffic urban planning and networks contribute and teach arts profes- national levels. Sharing her inspi- and Al Fillkawi presented certifi- solution methods, and initiating accidents and address the con- roads and transportation, sionally especially to the young ration behind the establishment cates of appreciation to the media coordination and cooperation sequences of human suffering improving traffic safety, and students of the Center.” of the Center, AI Aathem said it representatives, who were recog- between the various actors resulting from them in linking improved traffic safety During the conference, AI emanated from her strong belief nised as the Center’s partners in working on the proper regu- accordance with the require- with economic growth, national Aathem announced the Center’s that Qatar — being a regional and its success through their contribu- larity and traffic flow. ments of sustainable devel- security and population policy. partnership with a number of international leader in the art and tions in communicating the The committee is also inter- opment and Qatar Vision 2030. The strategy also seeks to prominent community-service culture domain — has the capacity Center’s worthy message to the ested in proposing the devel- The implementation of the develop a system of traffic oriented institutions, including the to nurture and empower a gen- public, which in turn helped fuel opment of legislation related to second plan was done by more awareness based on modern (Katara) Cultural Village eration of artists capable of its growth in record time. traffic and road and transport than 32 stakeholders compared scientific principles, and engineering, in accordance with with 13 in the first phase, and implement targeted programs international standards and in work plans were increased by that lead to measurable results line with the requirements of the more than 450 plans compared and contribute to the Qatar’s nominal GDP expands 9.9% despite blockade continuous development of to 198 in the first phase. achievement of the objectives roads and transport, and other The plan also took into of the strategy. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 related topics. The committee, account the highest degree of The “Accident-free summer” On the fiscal front, the year witnessed a signif- which includes representatives cooperation between the bodies campaign launched by the Min- Qatar’s real non-hydrocarbon GDP grew at a icant decline of 30.4 percent in the budget deficit from a number of ministries and of the government sector, the istry of the Interior six weeks ago reasonable pace of 4.2 percent despite the economic even with a lower total revenue from the previous agencies in the country, is private sector, civil society has been highlighting the minis- blockade. Through relocation and readjustment of year, partly a reflection of implementation of fiscal making a great effort to coor- organizations and all segments try’s interest in ensuring the economic activities, manufacturing, trade and con- reform measures. On the other hand, the current dinate efforts and mobilize of society in the implementation safety and security of drivers and struction sector rebounded strongly in the second account balance recorded an increasing surplus support for the Ministry of the of projects and the promotion pedestrians and their property, half. Wholesale and retail trade and financial and during the year as against the deficit in the previous Interior’s directives to reduce of efforts to achieve road safety and reducing the number of insurance sectors also recovered significantly by the year, as energy prices recovered under the combi- traffic accidents. These efforts and traffic security. deaths and injuries resulting fourth quarter of 2017. This reflected the resilience nation of strengthening global demand and supply culminated in the launch of the The plan adopted an from traffic accidents. Through of the economy against shocks, enabled by the eco- restriction. For the whole year, it recorded a surplus National Strategy for Traffic approach to avoid traditional its organised campaigns and in nomic diversification strategy pursued in recent of QR23.4bn, forming about 3.8 percent of GDP. Safety in 2013, which seeks to operational practices and implementation of its strategy of years. Thus, the economy came out of twin deficits reduce traffic accident victims, encourage the adoption of traffic safety, the ministry seeks The QCB’s annual document noted that infla- problem witnessed in the previous year. The overall decrease the number of deaths effective initiatives through the to raise awareness of the tionary situation during 2017 remained benign even balance of payment, which recorded a larger deficit resulting from these accidents development of desired objec- common traffic violations and while global commodity prices rose and nominal during the second and the third quarter in the imme- to six cases per 100,000 people, tives that commensurate with enhance the knowledge of road effective exchange rate depreciated. Headline con- diate aftermath of the economic blockade, shrank as well as reduce the number of the country’s growth and the users in order to further reduce sumer price inflation averaged 0.45 percent during sharply by the fourth quarter of 2017, restoring hazardous injuries resulting challenges it faces. accidents on the roads. the year. normalcy. TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 05

Israel detains Iran’s top leader prominent Jewish-American says no war or critic at airport talks with US AP JERUSALEM: A prominent Jewish-American commen- AP In remarks carried tator who has been critical of by state television, Israel says he was detained TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme Ayatollah Ali by Israeli airport authorities leader said yesterday that his Khamenei said “along and interrogated about his country will neither go to war political views before he was nor enter into negotiations with with sanctions, allowed to enter the country. the United States as the Trump Americans have Peter Beinart, a con- administration restores sanc- recently raised two tributor to The Atlantic and a tions lifted under the 2015 CNN commentator, said he nuclear deal. more options, war was pulled aside when he In remarks carried by state and talks... War will arrived with his family on television, Ayatollah Ali not happen and we Sunday to attend a relative’s Khamenei said “along with bat mitzvah. will not enter talks.” Thousands of Yemenis vent anger against Riyadh and Washington as they take part in a mass sanctions, Americans have He says he was sent to a funeral in the northern Yemeni city of Saada, a stronghold of Houthi rebels, for children killed in recently raised two more small room where a security options, war and talks... War sanctions.” an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition last week. At least 29 children were among those killed in official asked about his political will not happen and we will not Also on Monday, Iran said the air raid on August 9 on a bus in a crowded market in Dahyan, Saada province. activities and past participation enter talks.” it launched a production line for in a nonviolent West Bank President Donald Trump a radar-evading, short-range protest. He says he was freed withdrew the United States missile. Defense Minister Gen. Yemen bus attack: Doubts over an hour later after calling from Iran’s nuclear deal with Amir Hatami told state TV the an Israeli attorney. “The con- world powers in May and last surface-to-surface missile, versation was depressing but week the US began restoring dubbed Fateh-e Mobin, or not frightening,” he told The sanctions, exacerbating a Bright Conqueror, was effective raised about Saudi probe Forward. “Israel, like America, financial crisis in Iran that has in all weather conditions. is getting uglier.” AFP sent its currency tumbling. He did not discuss the range combatants. After a meeting last government of President Abe- Trump has suggested he would of the missile, but older versions Friday, the UN Security Council drabbo Mansour Hadi after Iran- be willing to hold talks with like the Fateh-313 have a range PARIS: The United Nations has called for a “credible” probe but backed Huthi rebels drove him Protesting Nigerian Iranian leaders, but that would of some 500km. Iran is believed called for a “credible” investi- it did not request an inde- out of the capital Sanaa. troops fire into air be impossible without per- to have long-range missiles gation into an airstrike that pendent investigation -- as The war has left around mission from Khamenei, who with a range of 2,000km, which killed at least 29 children in demanded by UN Secretary- 10,000 people dead, the vast at airport has the final say on all major are capable of reaching U.S. Yemen, but experts and aid General Antonio Guterres. majority of them civilians, and AFP policies. bases in the region and Israel. groups doubt that a probe Commenting on the coa- caused the world’s worst “Negotiations with the US Iran often announces mil- announced by the Saudi-led lition investigation, James humanitarian crisis, according would definitely harm us and itary achievements that cannot coalition bombing the country Dorsey, a Middle East specialist to the United Nations. MAIDUGURI: Nigerian they are forbidden,” Khamenei be independently verified. will yield results. at the S Rajaratnam School of The coalition has been troops staging a protest at the said, adding that the Americans Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime The raid last Thursday hit a International Studies in Sin- repeatedly blamed for bombing airport in the northeastern had proven they could not be Minister Haider Al Abadi bus at a crowded market in gapore, said that “unsupervised civilians, including during a city of Maiduguri on Sunday trusted. “Negotiation with the stepped back from his com- northern Yemen, killing the 29 investigations of oneself are strike on a wedding hall in the shot into the air for around bullying and very eager gov- mitment to abide by new US children and injuring around 50 always problematic.” town of Mokha in September four hours, soldiers and local ernment of the US means giving sanctions on Iran, saying his other people, according to a toll “Add to this that Saudi Ara- 2015, where 131 people died. The people said. it an instrument through which government would only respect from the International Com- bia’s record in such investiga- alliance denied responsibility. The soldiers were pro- it can add to its hostility,” he the dollar ban in transactions mittee for the Red Cross. tions, its lack of transparency, In October 2016, a coalition testing their redeployment to said. with Iran. The coalition, which and human rights record offers air strike at a funeral in Sana’a a restive part of the Northeast Khamenei meanwhile “I did not say we abide by includes the United Arab little reason to have confidence killed 140 people. The coalition, to fight insurgents from the blamed the monetary crisis on the sanctions, I said we abide Emirates, announced afterwards in an investigation that it con- armed with Western-made air- Islamist militant Boko Haram President Hassan Rouhani’s by not using dollars in transac- that it had ordered an investi- trols,” he added. craft and other weapons, has group. Maiduguri is the administration, saying it tions. We have no other choice,” gation into the strike in Saada The coalition intervened in admitted a small number of mis- capital of Borno, the state resulted from “management Abadi told a news conference which it claimed initially had Yemen in 2015 to try to restore takes, but accuses the rebels of worst hit by the nine-year problems unrelated to the in Baghdad. targeted Houthi rebel the internationally recognised using civilians as human shields. insurgency. Israeli defence minister says Free Vehicle more Gaza violence inevitable Recall AFP linked to Hamas, the Islamist for the launching of more than movement that runs the enclave. 180 rockets and mortar rounds JERUSALEM: Another round of “Hamas has suffered 168 by Hamas and its allies fighting between Israel and dead, 4,348 wounded and beginning on Wednesday night. Palestinian militants in the Gaza dozens of terror infrastructures Three Palestinians were Strip is inevitable, Israeli destroyed,” he said. killed in the Israeli strikes, Defence Minister Avigdor Many of those killed have including a mother and her Lieberman said yesterday, been young people protesting 18-month-old daughter, while despite attempts to reach a long- or clashing with soldiers near seven Israelis were wounded by term truce. the border fence in the Palestinian rocket fire as hun- Lieberman said in a video blockaded Gaza Strip. Two jour- dreds took refuge in bomb statement distributed by his nalists and, according to the shelters. It was one of the most office that “the question is not World Health Organisation, serious escalations since the to know if the next confron- three medics have been among 2014 Gaza war and followed tation (with Hamas) will take those killed. There have also months of rising tensions. place, but when”. been three major military flare- There have been efforts by Lieberman also appeared to ups between Israel and Hamas UN officials and Egypt to secure suggest that all Palestinians since July on top of the months a long-term truce between killed in the Gaza Strip since of tension along the border. Israel and Hamas, though Israeli protests and clashes along the Thursday saw extensive officials have not commented border began on March 30 were Israeli air strikes in retaliation on them.

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IANS Claiming that the Congress would form the people want. We work for the benefit of farmers, youth, BIDAR, KARNATAKA: Again the next government poor and small businesses,” dubbing the Goods and Services at the Centre after Gandhi said at the party’s Janad- Tax (GST) as the Gabbar Singh the Lok Sabha polls, hwani (voice of people) rally at tax, Congress President Rahul due by May 2019, Nehru ground in the state’s Gandhi yesterday said his party, north-west town, about 690 km if elected, would introduce one Rahul Gandhi told the from Bengaluru. tax and remove the new indirect gathering that the Urging the people to reach tax regime with five slabs. party would listen to out to the party cadres in the “As soon as the Congress southern state for securing returns to power at the Centre the people and fulfil justice, Gandhi said it was the in the next general elections, we their wishes. Congress which introduced will bring a single tax and Article 371J for educational and remove the ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’ Claiming that the Congress employment reservations to the Congress president Rahul Gandhi (left), speaks to women self-help groups(SHGs) at an event in Hyderabad, with five slabs,” asserted Gandhi would form the next gov- natives of the Hyderabad-Kar- yesterday. Gandhi is on a two-day visit to the capital city of southern Indian State of Telangana. at a huge party rally here in ernment at the Centre after the nataka region. Karnataka. Lok Sabha polls, due by May “The BJP said it was not pos- leges in the region. president said in contrast the coalition government in the Gandhi coined the GST after 2019, Gandhi told the gathering sible to bring Article 371J but we Mocking Prime Minister Congress was doing its best in ful- southern state. the famous Bollywood villain that the party would listen to the brought and proved it wrong. It Narendra Modi for allegedly filling the promises it made ahead “We promised during the Gabbar Singh in the blockbuster people and fulfil their wishes. benefitted the local people in failing to generate 2-crore jobs of the May 12 state assembly polls election to waive crop loans of “Sholay”, which was shot near “We will form and run a getting jobs and admission to or deliver on promises he made and as an alliance partner in the farmers. We are doing whatever Ramanagara near Bengaluru. government that will do what medical and engineering col- four years ago, the party Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S)-led we have promised,” noted Rahul.

Congress seeks EC action against Amit Shah Hero dog saves

IANS family in Election Commission (EC). Under which got them a loan of Rs 25 it soon and also initiate appro- concealed significant liabilities Representation of People’s Act, crore. But he did not disclose this priate action. We don’t want to from his declaration.” “At the flood-hit Kerala NEW DELHI: The Congress 2004, whoever contests an in the election affidavit. This is a make it a political issue. We want time of filing his nomination yesterday met Chief Election election, he has to disclose his liability,” he added. the EC to act on it,” he added. papers for the election to the AFP Commissioner (CEC) O P Rawat assets and properties,” said Con- Sibal said: “We told the EC In a memorandum to the EC, Upper House, Amit Shah had and demanded that BJP Pres- gress leader Kapil Sibal who led that this is a violation of the 2004 the party said: “Following the already mortgaged two of his NEW DELHI: A family in ident Amit Shah’s membership a party delegation to the EC. rule. Our representation should publication of recent news items properties (in 2016) to Kalupur the flood-ravaged Indian of the upper House be suspended “If there is any liability, he be sent to the Chairman, Rajya in the public domain, it has come Commercial Cooperative Bank state of Kerala narrowly for not disclosing his liabilities should disclose that as well. Amit Sabha, so that action can be to light that Amit Shah, who was (one of Gujarat’s largest Coop- escaped death after their in his election affidavit during Shah mortgaged two of his prop- taken against Amit Shah.” “The nominated to Rajya Sabha as a erative Banks) for his son Jay pet dog woke them up the Rajya Sabha polls last year. erties through his son Jay Shah EC said it had taken cognizance member of Parliament in 2017, Shah’s business venture Kusum moments before a land- “Our delegation met the to a cooperative bank in Gujarat of it and will take a decision on has wilfully and deliberately Finserve LLP,” it added. slide destroyed their home, local media reported yesterday. Mohanan P and his family were sleeping at Nation grieves for home in the mountainous Idukki district when their pet dog started barking Somnath Chatterjee raucously at around 3am, waking the household. IANS “That’s when we realised something was KOLKATA: President Ram Nath Kovind and wrong. I went out to see and Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday led we had to just rush out of the nation in paying glowing tributes to former the house,” Mohanan told Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Indian news network (pictured), one of the country’s most NDTV. No sooner had the respected parliamentarians, who died here family rushed out when in the morning. the landslide ploughed Calling him “a veteran parliamentarian down a nearby hill and who had a forceful presence in the House”, demolished their home. the President tweeted: “A loss for public life The family, dog in tow, in Bengal and India. My condolences to his have since moved to a family and innumerable well-wishers.” Modi described Chatterjee, a government-run relief 10-time MP, as a stalwart of Indian politics who made parliamentary camp nearby. democracy richer. He said that Chatterjee “was a strong voice for the Flash floods triggered Back to homeland well-being of the poor and vulnerable. Anguished by his demise”. by the annual monsoon Congress President Rahul Gandhi hailed him as “an institution”. rains have pounded the Released Indian prisoner Gajanand Sharma (centre), is helped to walk by officials as he crosses “He was an institution. Greatly respected and admired by all par- southern tourist hotspot in over the India-Pakistan Wagah Border Post, about 35km from Amritsar, yesterday. Sharma returned liamentarians, across party lines. My condolences to his family at the past few days, killing from Pakistan after 36 years he had gone missing from Jaipur. this time of grief,” he tweeted. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata 39 people and leaving Banerjee, who came to prominence incidentally with her triumph 100,000 more homeless over Chatterjee in the Lok Sabha polls from Jadavpur consituency so far. in 1984, termed it a great loss. 16 dead in Himachal rains JNU student leader Umar Khalid SHIMLA: Heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh claimed 16 lives, attacked in Delhi, escapes unhurt including four of a family, while hundreds IANS of people were angles. A weapon found at the stranded across the spot was being examined. “We state after incessant NEW DELHI: JNU scholar and have deployed the best officers rains triggered land- activist Umar Khalid (pictured), to nab the attacker.” slides, snapping road was attacked in the heart of the Khalid went to the Consti- links, officials said on capital yesterday by one or two tution Club to attend a “United Monday. men but police declined to Against Hate” programme A government confirm if he was fired at as where the listed speakers advisory advised claimed by the ex-student and included noted lawyer people to avoid travel his friends. Prashant Bhushan, MP Manoj as the weather officials Joint Commissioner of Jha and journalist Amit Sen warned of heavy rains Police Ajay Chaudhary said pre- Gupta. in the state till Tuesday liminary investigation showed Arif, a witness to the crime, and thereafter on that an unknown man dragged said Khalid was with him “when August 16 and 17. Khalid when he was with five the attacker targeted us”. He Four members of a friends at a tea stall outside the said there were at least two attacker fired in the air.” family were killed in a Constitution Club, not far from attackers. The officer said the local landslide in Kandaghat Parliament. Deputy Commissioner of police were not informed about subdivision in Solan “A scuffle took place Police Madhur Verma earlier the booking of the programme district. A boy was between them,” the officer told quoted Khalid as saying that at the Constitution Club. washed away in the the media. someone pounced on him The incident took place swollen Kaushalya “The accused managed to and pushed him around about half-a-kilometre from river near Parwanoo in escape. It is not clear yet 2.30pm. Parliament and behind the high- the district. A total of whether the attacker fired or not “Thereafter he tried to fire security Reserve Bank of India. eight persons lost their with his weapon.” He said a First at Khalid. But the person The Constitution Club is itself lives in rain-related Information Report (FIR) was couldn’t fire immediately,” located in a block of apartments, incidents in the being filed and the case was Verma said. “People started many of which are occupied by district. being probed from all possible chasing him. Thereafter, the MPs. TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 ASIA 07 Pakistan’s new parliament meets, members take oath AP The parliament is to run before, though some of his elect a Speaker and popular and influential backers, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s newly his deputy tomorrow who joined his party weeks elected parliament convened before the elections, have ques- yesterday for the first time since and vote on the prime tionable pasts and some of them last month’s general elections minister the following even face charges. that saw the party of former day. The swearing-in The 65-year-old Khan has cricket star turned politician ceremony for the also promised to create 10 Imran Khan win most seats, million jobs in Pakistan, where propelling him toward the post prime minister is due employment rate is high and of the country’s next prime on Saturday. more than 65 percent of the minister. country’s 200 million people are The lawmakers were sworn under the age of 35. in at a brief ceremony in the 342- Chaudhry said more lawmakers Since the elections, Khan has seat National Assembly, the joined the party’s ranks and that adopted a conciliatory approach decision-making lower house of it now enjoys the backing of 180 to Pakistan’s neighbours and Pakistan’s cricketer-turned politician and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Imran Khan, Shah parliament. Later on Monday, parliament members after allies, saying he wants peace Mahmood Qureshi, Khalid Maqbool, Sardar Akhtar Mengal and others taking the oath as members of fireworks were to mark the eve several women lawmakers, with hostile neighbour India, of Pakistan’s Independence Day. minority and independents sided praising China’s economic Parliament during the first session of the Parliament in Islamabad, yesterday. The parliament is to elect a with Khan. He needs 172 law- strategy for reducing widespread speaker and his deputy maker votes to be become prime poverty and sending a message uphold Pakistan’s blasphemy League party, Shahbaz Sharif, the son of slain Prime Minister tomorrow and vote on the prime minister. to Washington that he wants law. both elected lawmakers, also Benazir Bhutto was elected as minister the following day. The Khan’s candidate for par- good relations, based on mutual He enjoys the support of the attended Monday’s ceremony. lawmaker. swearing-in ceremony for the liament speaker, Asad Qaiser, respect. country’s powerful military Khan avoided shaking hands Pakistan’s opposition parties prime minister is due on said he was pretty sure of He also reached out to establishment, although he has with the two. and rights activists have claimed Saturday. winning the post. Afghanistan, suggesting the two been known to go his own way. The house echoed with election results were manipu- Khan’s populist Tahreek-e- Khan has campaigned on the nations adopt a policy of open As he entered parliament on chants of “Long Live Bhutto!” lated by the military, which has Insaf party won 115 seats in the promise of a “New Pakistan” borders, a relationship similar to Monday, lawmakers from his when the young chairman of ruled Pakistan directly or indi- July 25 vote, requiring it to form with justice for all, pledging to the European Union. Khan has party chanted slogans praising Pakistan People’s Party, Bilawal rectly for most of its history. The a coalition. wipe out corruption and help the also disparaged liberals, attacked Khan. Pakistan’s former Pres- Bhutto Zardari came to sign the military denies the allegations, In the days after the elec- poor. He has said he would run feminism, embraced radical reli- ident Asif Ali Zardari and head register after taking his oath of saying it only provided security tions, party spokesman Fawad the country like it has never been gious parties and vowed to of the ex-ruling Pakistan Muslim office. It was the first time that during the balloting. Top Bangladesh Kabul sends special China rejects allegations of photographer detaining a million Uighurs sent to jail forces to Ghazni REUTERS afternoon, with reinforcements REUTERS are detained in re-education more than a denial of allega- AFP pressing the city’s last pocket centres is completely untrue,” tions,” she told the Chinese del- KABUL: Afghan security forces of Taliban resistance. GENEVA: China rejected Hu told the U N Committee on egation yesterday. DHAKA: Award-winning backed by US advisers and air “Afghan forces are in com- yesterday allegations raised by the Elimination of Racial Dis- “I notice that you didn’t Bangladesh photographer strikes fought yesterday to drive plete control of the city,” he told a U N panel that one million crimination on the second day quite deny that these re-edu- Shahidul Alam was in jail Taliban fighters out of the a news conference in Kabul. Uighurs may be held in of its regular review of China’s cation or indoctrination pro- yesterday, 10 days after being embattled city of Ghazni, where Diplomats in Kabul said the internment camps in the restive record. grammes don’t take place,” she arrested following an hundreds of people have been government had admitted being Xinjiang region, but said that “On freedom of religious added, seeking clarification on interview with Al Jazeera killed or wounded during four taken by surprise by the attack some people underwent belief, Xinjiang guarantees cit- how many people undergo about massive student days of fighting. and after days with minimal re-education after being izens freedom of religious belief re-education. demonstrations, police said. The Taliban attack on public comment from the pres- deceived by extremists. and protects normal religious Hu said China has clamped Alam, 63, who accused Ghazni, a strategic centre on the idential palace, Ghani announced Hu Lianhe, deputy director activities,” he said. down on “extremist and terrorist police of assaulting him in main highway linking the on Twitter that reinforcements general of the United Front “Those deceived by religious crimes” in Xinjiang in custody and was earlier sent capital Kabul with southern would be sent urgently. Work Department of the CPC extremism... shall be assisted by accordance with the law, saying to a hospital for a check-up fol- Afghanistan, is a blow to Pres- Afghan officials said U S Central Committee, said that resettlement and re-education,” that there had been assassina- lowing an order from the high ident Ashraf Ghani weeks special forces units were on the authorities in the far western he added. tions, explosions and poisonings court, was taken to a magis- before parliamentary elections ground helping to coordinate Xinjiang region protected the Gay McDougall, a panel there. trate’s court late on Sunday. are due and dampens hopes of air strikes and ground opera- full rights of all citizens member, said on Friday it had But, he said, it did not target “The court then sent him a start to peace talks. tions and the U S military said equally. received many credible reports any particular ethnic minority to jail,” police official Moshiur The insurgents seized its aircraft had launched two China says that Xinjiang that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in or seek ‘de-Islamisation” of the Rahman said. control of the districts of dozen air strikes since Friday. faces a serious threat from China are held in what region. Another police officer told Khawaja Omari north of the city “U S advisers are assisting Islamist militants and separa- resembles a “massive Earlier yestrerday, in the the local Daily Star newspaper and Ajrestan in the west, with the Afghan forces and U S air- tists who plot attacks and stir up internment camp that is country’s first response to the U that Alam would be kept in officials saying dozens of power has delivered decisive tensions between the mostly shrouded in secrecy, a sort of no N criticism, a state-run news- prison until the completion of Afghan security forces were blows to the Taliban, killing Muslim Uighur minority who rights zone”. paper said that massively the probe into his charges. killed or missing. more than 140 since August 10,” call the region home and the “To say that they don’t stepped-up security in Xinjiang Alam was accused of making However, Interior Minister said Lt Col Martin O’Donnell, ethnic Han Chinese majority. violate rights of minorities does has helped prevent “great “false” and “provocative” Wais Barmak said the situation the spokesman for U S “The argument that 1 million not prove anything. We have to tragedy”. statements in media. had improved by Monday Forces-Afghanistan. 08 VIEWS TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 Is Putin going to let this ESTABLISHED IN 1996 Ukrainian protester die? CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI SUMMER LOPEZ THE WASHINGTON POST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI leg Sentsov has not eaten for [email protected] 92 days. The Ukrainian writer and filmmaker, who was arrested by Russian ACTING MANAGING EDITOR forcesO in Crimea in 2014 and has since MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED been serving a 20-year sentence based [email protected] on unfounded terrorism charges, launched a hunger strike on May 14 to demand the release of 64 other DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Ukrainian political prisoners held in MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI Russia. This 42-year-old artist and [email protected] single father of two young children has put his life on the line for his fellow detainees. He has refused to ask for a pardon for himself. As his strike enters its fourth month, Sentsov’s cousin, Natalya Kaplan, reports he has lost some 66 pounds off EDITORIAL his 6-foot-2-inch frame, and his heart rate has slowed to 40 beats per minute. Based on a letter she received from Sentsov last week via his lawyer, she Qatar’s growing economy posted a message on Facebook saying that Sentsov “wrote that the end is near atar’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) increased - and he wasn’t talking about his Orlando Zapata Tamayo died after an Yet Putin apparently feels to 52 points in July, rising from 51.8 points in the release.” 86-day hunger strike, it sparked protest emboldened enough - with an election Qprevious month. The record increase in job cre- It is widely presumed that Sentsov’s actions in Cuba and was viewed as a and a World Cup behind him - not to ation and the remarkable growth of new applications, fate lies in the hands of Russian Pres- significant setback in U.S.-Cuban rela- fear the risks. as well as the improvement in the confidence index to ident Vladimir Putin. There have been tions. President Raul Castro took the President Donald Trump’s obvious its highest level since the start of the study, have all con- rumours that negotiations between the unusual step of issuing a statement disregard for human rights is probably tributed to the results of July. The accelerated growth in Russian and Ukrainian governments expressing regret over Zapata’s death. contributing to Putin’s confidence. the business activity of the non-hydrocarbon private might result in a prisoner swap. But One could imagine Sentsov was Although the State Department called sector in July reflects the strength of local economic people close to the case report those inspired by the example of Anatoly for Sentsov’s release in a June conditions. prospects currently look dim; Russian Tikhonovich Marchenko, a Soviet statement, it has said nothing since. The PMI of the State of Qatar is issued by Qatar authorities seem to have decided to let writer and dissident who undertook a Trump has not uttered Sentsov’s name Financial Center (QFC) and is concerned with the activity Sentsov die as an example to others. similar hunger strike in 1986 to call for in public, nor raised any other human of private non-oil private sector companies in the Why would Putin elect to follow the release of all Soviet prisoners of rights issues with his Russian coun- country. such a provocative course of action? conscience. Scholars view Marchenko’s terpart, as U.S. presidents from both Meanwhile, the value of Qatar’s non-oil exports in Obstinacy is one possibility. Sentsov is a death by hunger strike and the parties have traditionally done. the first half of 2018 reached QR11.5bn compared to the native of Crimea, the region Russia ille- resulting uproar as a proximate cause first half of 2017 which amounted to QR 8.6bn, regis- gally annexed of Gorbachev’s decision to authorize Putin’s imperviousness to criticism tering an increase of 33.7 percent, according to the in 2014, and the release of large numbers of political is nothing new, but the U.S. govern- monthly report of Qatar Chamber on the foreign trade Moscow uni- prisoners the following year. ment’s total abdication of leadership on of the private sector. The total value of non-oil exports laterally Perhaps the best known example is human rights in Russia is. Although for last June reached QR1.66bn compared to QR794m declared him the 1981 hunger strike launched by 23 others have stepped into the vacuum - in June 2017, recording an to be a Irish republican prisoners in Northern French President Emmanuel Macron increase of 108 percent. It is widely Russian Ireland (most famously Bobby Sands), has reportedly raised the case with The significance of PMI is presumed that citizen. demanding to be treated as political Putin previously, and reportedly did so that it’s the most closely Sentsov’s fate lies Allowing the prisoners instead of criminals. By the again this weekend - Sentsov’s case watched business surveys in in the hands of filmmaker to time the test of wills with British Prime may also signal how other despots will the world, favoured by be swapped Minister Margaret Thatcher was over, behave when they know that the leader Despite the central banks, financial Russian President along with 10 of the prisoners had died. Some in of the world’s most powerful ongoing unjust markets and business Vladimir Putin. other Britain praised Thatcher’s response as a democracy will not speak out against siege imposed on decision makers for their There have been Ukrainian political victory, but in Northern their abuses. Qatar by some ability to provide up-to-date, rumours that prisoners Ireland it sparked fury; IRA recruitment Sentsov grows frailer with each accurate and often unique could be seen grew and violence increased. The passing day. Yet in a world where countries, Qatar monthly indicators of eco- negotiations as under- episode is now considered to have con- moral courage feels in dwindling weathered all nomic trends. These data will between the mining that tributed directly to the emergence of supply, his fortitude and commitment storms and not certainly help Qatar attract Russian and legal fiction. Sinn Féin as a mainstream political to the fight against tyranny is a lodestar. more investments and busi- (It was party In a letter from prison in 2017, Sentsov only managed nesses into the country. The Ukrainian Sentsov’s out- Should Sentsov die, the conse- wrote these words about his partici- the initial hic- readings of the main PMI governments spoken oppo- quences are equally unpredictable. In pation in the 2014 pro-democracy cups, but leap- above 50 points indicate an might result in a sition to the Sentsov’s native Ukraine, where the demonstrations in Ukraine: frogged its place improvement in the eco- prisoner swap. annexation media have been following his story “The last time I went to the Maidan, nomic activity of companies that is widely closely, an outcry is inevitable; anti- where people had already begun per- in the global than in the previous month, considered to Russian sentiment there will be further ishing, my mother said, “Why are you economic front. while readings below 50 have instigated his arrest and hardened, potentially increasing going there? You have two children!” I points indicate a decline. prosecution.) regional tensions. Activists inside answered that it was precisely because The increase in business Nonetheless, risking the death by Russia have risked arrest to publicly of that that I was going there - I don’t inflows was due to the cor- starvation of a man whose plight has call for his release, inspired by his want them to live in a country of relation between the strength garnered global attention is a perilous courage in the face of repression. It is slaves.” of demand, the improvement in economic conditions political choice for any government to conceivable that his death could trigger We know what Sentsov is willing to and the promotion activity, which increased in July. make. a broader wave of discontent with sacrifice. What is Putin willing to risk? Meanwhile, the level of trade confidence and employment In 2010, when Cuban activist Putin’s leadership. rate reached record high in the same month. The large difference in the value of exports is due to the repercussions that occurred in the first week of June 2017, which marked the beginning of the unjust siege on Qatar, where exports stopped to the siege countries and Sincere dialogue needed in Japan-US trade talks there was a decline in the total volume of exports. But was quickly compensated for by alternative export des- YOMIURI SHIMBUN: matters while the United States con- will be lowered. The United States, tinations that the Qatari private sector has successfully tinues to use automobile tariffs as a which has withdrawn from the pact, launched in many countries around the world. f a serious conflict develops pawn, there are concerns that Japan will not be able to share in such ben- All these data show the resilience of the Qatar between Japan and the United could be pressed to make unilateral efits. With midterm elections set for economy. Despite the ongoing unjust siege imposed on States, both major economic concessions. November, the US government wants Qatar by some countries, Qatar has weathered all chal- powers, the adverse impact on At the present time, it is not to contain the dissatisfaction felt by lenges. The country has not only managed the initial Ithe global economy and markets will advisable for Japan to compromise. agricultural and other organizations as hiccups, but has also leapfrogged its place in the global be significant. To avoid trade friction, Japan had good reason to ensure the much as possible. In future talks, the economic front. it is necessary for them to sincerely next meeting takes place in Sep- United States is certain to even more promote constructive dialogue. The tember, leaving the talks on starting strongly demand Japan open its agri- Japanese and US governments have bilateral negotiations until then. cultural and other markets. completed their first meeting for new For one thing, Japan does not The details of the TPP pact were ministerial-level trade talks. impose tariffs on imported cars. It is agreed upon as the best possible com- QUOTE OF THE DAY With a view to concluding a free unreasonable for the United States to promise, which were finally reached trade agreement (FTA) with Japan, the regard the Japanese car market as a after lengthy discussions. Japan should United States called for starting bilateral problem. If the United States seeks to continue to resolutely assert that it is The Israeli occupation negotiations. In response to this, Japan successfully close FTA negotiations, it difficult to make even greater conces- siege and division are reiterated the importance of the United should retract its move to consider sions than the compromise made in the basis of the great States returning to the Trans-Pacific taking punitive steps, first and TPP talks. There is no point in holding dangers that pose a Partnership free trade pact, with the two foremost. In the United States, too, trade talks if the United States solely countries failing to narrow their differ- many people are opposed to raising benefits from them. It is important to threat to the existence of ences in their discussions. tariffs on car imports. Doing so could make the new Japan-US talks con- the Palestinians and the The greatest focus was what to do deal a blow to US consumers and cor- structive discussions conducive to the supreme national interests. with punitive tariffs on car imports, a porations through such effects as growth of both nations. measure being considered by the higher imported car prices. Japan In their latest discussions, too, United States. Japan was not able to should tenaciously persuade the United Japan and the United States agreed to Youssef Al Mahmoud secure a commitment from the United States that its protectionist policy will cooperate in settling such problems as Spokesman of the States to exclude Japanese cars from not necessarily be to its advantage. an infringement of intellectual property Palestinian Authority the list of targets for punitive If the TPP treaty takes effect, tariffs rights and a forced transfer of tech- measures. If Japan enters bilateral on agricultural and other imports into nology. This agreement was reached negotiations over the FTA and other Japan from other signatory nations with China in mind. TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 OPINION 09 Catalogue of abuse: Seeking justice for Rohingya

ross-legged in a windowless, amassed which it is hoped will help enquiry has already reached The the findings were sent to the ICC. almost pitch-black bamboo bring the Rohingya some justice. Hague, where the ICC is being urged There are plans for a formal sub- shack, the investigator Another of those giving testimony to investigate crimes against mission once rigorous field work is pressed record on a video is Nurjahan, whose husband and son humanity, something that Myanmar complete. Ccamera and asked the young were also murdered. denies. “I have studied the Bosnian Rohingya woman to describe the She has taken it upon herself to There is a new Myanmar-led war. There was a trial. They were night the Myanmar soldiers came. secure justice for them and for all the commission to examine abuses, but held responsible,” Jahangir said. “I NICK PERRY “They broke down our door. They girls in her village raped at gunpoint. this has been denounced by many really hope we can bring justice to AFP took my husband outside and shot She was among the first of 400 observers as an empty stunt that will the Rohingya.” The NGOs and vol- him,” recalled the 20-year-old, one of Rohingya women to put their inked fail to establish accountability. unteer groups lack the resources around 700,000 Rohingyas driven thumbs to a legal document formally A handful of soldiers have been and expertise of UN fact-finders or from Myanmar into Bangladesh a year requesting a probe by the Interna- charged by Myanmar for involvement the US State Department, which ago. tional Criminal Court (ICC). in a single massacre but UN special sent veteran investigators to “Then they killed my son. Four of The group of largely illiterate rapporteur Yanghee Lee has tem- interview more than 1,000 ref- them raped me,” said the woman, women she is part of, Shanti Mohila pered expectations that Myanmar’s ugees this year. who cannot be named for legal (“Peace Women”), has also collected generals would stand trial anytime Justice experts also worry that Justice experts reasons, only her eyes visible beneath victim testimonies and signatures to soon. Myanmar is not a signatory to amateur efforts to gather testimony also worry that a veil covering her face, as the lobby the ICC thousands of miles the court but ICC prosecutors and risk contaminating evidence and amateur efforts to monsoon rain fell outside. away. “We’ve lost our sons. Our human rights lawyers have taken a undermining prosecutors in the gather testimony Different teams of investigators in daughters have been violated. We unique approach by arguing that the event of a trial. But that does not the world’s biggest refugee camp in want justice for them,” the 45-year- crime of deportation was not com- dampen zeal in the camps. risk contaminating Bangladesh, home to a million people, old said. plete until the Rohingya crossed into “Nobody can deny this,” said evidence and have been quietly documenting what The only other Rohingya sub- Bangladesh. And as Bangladesh is an community leader Mohibullah as undermining the Myanmar Muslim minority suf- mission before the world’s only per- ICC signatory, they say the court has he scrolled through a database of prosecutors in the fered in 2017. manent war crimes court is for the jurisdiction. abuses uploaded by Rohingya vol- From seasoned professionals victims of Tula Toli, a Myanmar A pre-trial chamber of ICC judges unteers onto an ancient laptop, event of a trial. But working for governments, the UN and village whose Muslim inhabitants is reviewing the unprecedented detailing gang rapes, torched that does not dampen international rights groups, to grass- were rounded up and methodically request, alarming Myanmar which mosques and murders. zeal in the camps. roots volunteers armed with pen and slaughtered on August 30, 2017. voiced “serious concern”. Lawyers representing the paper, a trove of evidence is being Some testimony for a broader “They do feel some threat from Rohingya are quietly optimistic the this. I think that’s important,” said ICC will decide it can investigate. international lawyer Megan Hirst “But whether that means from Doughty Street Chambers in anybody will anytime soon end up London, who is representing the Tula in the dock, is a less optimistic Toli villagers at the ICC. prospect,” said lawyer Wayne - How many babies? - Back at the Jordash from Global Rights Com- camps in Bangladesh, another of pliance, who is representing the those painstakingly pulling together Shanti Mohila group. evidence is Osman Jahangir, a field On the other side of the world, investigator from Bangladeshi rights in the squalid refugee camp, his watchdog Odhikar. clients say they are prepared for a His grim questions hint at the sav- long wait. “We know this could agery of the violence. take a very long time, years even. “Where did the gasoline come We don’t care. We just want from? How many soldiers raped you? justice,” said 25-year-old Sukutara, Did you see how many babies were another Shanti Mohila member. thrown in the river?” he asked “Even if I die, and my children refugees. one day get justice, I will be happy.” In a dark tent, Jahangir jotted down the coordinates of a Rohingya village on Google Earth. Where pos- sible, he also gathers medical records and smartphone footage. In partnership with Hong Kong’s Asian Legal Resource Centre, some of D-RING ROAD POST BOX: 3488 DOHA - QATAR [email protected] hen Japanese Emperor an annual memorial ceremony hon- limits, say those who know him. 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Domestic right-wing groups legacy of his father, Hirohito - once “the symbol of the State and the unity opposed the trip, while Chinese not of the newspaper. sincerely and revered as a “living god” in whose of the People”, devoid of govern- activists demanded an apology. respectfully trying name Japan fought World War Two. mental power and unable to interfere While in China, the emperor said All correspondence to reach out to Hirohito’s comments about the con- in politics. he felt “deep sorrow” for the suffering regarding Views and wartime victims in a flict were vague after Japan’s defeat, In practice, Akihito’s public Japan inflicted on the Chinese people. and he remained a divisive figure remarks are carefully vetted to ensure The next year, he began visits to Opinion pages should be deeply symbolic and because of his role. they don’t violate those rules, with wartime sites, beginning in Okinawa, send to editor-in-chief very reconciliatory where resentment lingered against Akihito, 84, will abdicate next delicate discussions determining how office or mailed to the way. year. On Aug. 15, he will for the last forthright he can be. mainland Japan over the islanders’ time as reigning emperor take part in Akihito strained against those wartime sacrifices. [email protected] 10 ASIA / EUROPE TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 Koreas plan third summit of Kim and Moon next month

REUTERS Officials from both Singapore with U S President sides meeting in Donald Trump. SEOUL: North and South Korea the truce village of U S officials have said that agreed yesterday to hold a North Korea had yet to agree to summit in the North in Panmunjom reached a timeline for eliminating its September, another step towards an agreement on a nuclear arsenal or to disclose its boosting cooperation between September summit size, which U S estimates have the old rivals, even as doubts between the countries’ put at between 30 and 60 grow over efforts to end the warheads. North’s nuclear weapons leaders in the North’s After yesterday’s talks, Ri Son programme. capital of Pyongyang. Gwon, the chairman of a North Officials from both sides But not date was Korean committee aiming for the meeting in the truce village of announced. “peaceful reunification” of the Panmunjom, in the demilitarised peninsula, told his South Korean zone (DMZ) that separates the counterpart, Unification Minister South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon (second right) greets his North Korean counterpart two Koreas, reached an Cho Myoung-gyon, it was Ri Son Gwon (second left) at the end of their talks at the North side of the border truce village of agreement on a September the autumn, though the pair met important to clear “obstacles” summit between the countries’ again in May in an unannounced preventing inter-Korean rela- Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, yesterday. leaders in the North’s capital of meeting at Panmunjom. tions from moving forward. Pyongyang. No details on an agenda for “If the issues that were raised creating an obstacle to the Cho said the two sides had media criticised the South No date was announced for next month’s talks were at the talks aren’t resolved, unex- reunion of some families divided exchanged views on the North’s accusing it of only caring only what will be the third meeting announced, but the two Koreas pected problems could emerge by the 1950-53 Korean War, denuclearisation and on a peace about the views of the United this year between North Korean have been discussing a range of and the issues that are already on planned for next week. mechanism to replace the armi- States and failing to take prac- leader Kim Jong Un and South issues, from a possible peace the schedule may face difficulties,” Cho did not say if North stice that ended fighting during tical steps to advance inter- Korean President Moon Jae-in. declaration to joint economic Ri said, without giving details. Korea had raised the case of the the Korean War. Korean relations. They first met in April in Pan- and infrastructure projects. One issue that has angered restaurant workers on Monday, Moon and Kim agreed during South Korea hopes to restart munjom, a remarkable thaw in The progress between the North Korea recently has been merely saying it had not brought their first summit to push for a efforts on a cross-peninsula ties after more than a year of two Koreas comes as North the case of a dozen North Korean up new issues. declaration of an end to the railway and a joint industrial rising tension and fears of war Korea and the United States are restaurant workers who came to “There were mentions that if Korean War together with the park but has been cautious about over the North’s development of struggling to agree on how to the South in 2016 via China. there are problems to be resolved United States this year, but Wash- major projects due to interna- nuclear weapons and ballistic bring about the North’s denu- The North says they were by both sides, on humanitarian ington has said it would only be tional sanctions chiefly engi- missiles. clearisation, after Kim vowed to abducted by the South and issues or for the development of possible after the North abandons neered by Washington over the There they agreed that Moon work toward that goal at a should be returned, and has inter-Korean relations, we should its nuclear programme. North’s nuclear and missile would visit the North’s capital in landmark summit in June in raised the possibility of the issue do it,” the minister told reporters. Last month, the North’s state programmes.

Duterte sacks 20 for graft in Mahathir aims to scrap China pipeline, rail deals AP military to Beijing for his first visit since can, we would like to just drop state-backed companies, and have competing claims on South returning to power in a stunning the projects,” he said from his called for drastic cuts in their bal- China Sea islands and reefs - medical buys PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia is electoral upset three months ago. office in the administrative looning cost, which it estimates at along with the rich fishing looking to cancel multibillion- Mahathir said he wants to center of Putrajaya. more than $22 billion. Some of grounds and potential fossil fuel REUTERS dollar Chinese-backed infra- maintain good relations with During his time in power, that money has already been paid deposits around them. structure projects signed by the China and welcomes its Najib drew Malaysia closer to and could be difficult to recoup. “We are all for ships, even war- MANILA: Philippine Pres- previous scandal-tainted investment, so long as the China, which sees the multi- If scrapping the projects alto- ships, passing through, but not sta- ident Rodrigo Duterte has government as it digs itself out projects benefit Malaysia. But he ethnic Southeast Asian country gether isn’t doable, Malaysia will tioned here,” Mahathir said, adding fired 20 people, including of debt, Malaysia’s prime took his toughest stance yet on as a key part of its ambitious One need to at least put them on hold that this included U S vessels. “It is colonels and a general, over minister said yesterday during Chinese-backed energy pipelines Belt, One Road global trade ini- until the future, Mahathir said. a warning to everyone. Don’t create accusations of fraud and graft an extensive interview in which and a rail project along penin- tiative. The former prime min- Mahathir also urged China tension unnecessarily.” in purchases of military he also blasted Myanmar’s sular Malaysia’s eastern coast ister reached deals for the to respect the free movement of China, which considers much medical supplies, his treatment of Rohingya Muslims that were struck by his prede- 688km East Coast Rail Link and ships throughout the South China of the sea as its own, has built up spokesman said yesterday, as “grossly unjust.” cessor, Najib Razak. the two gas pipelines in 2016. Sea and reiterated his call for no several man-made islands and the latest step in a sweeping Mahathir Mohamad, at 93 “We don’t think we need Malaysia’s new government warships to be based there. equipped them with runways, battle on graft. the world’s oldest prime min- those two projects. We don’t has already suspended work on China and multiple Southeast radar systems and missile sta- Reining in government ister, spoke days before he heads think they are viable. So if we the projects, being built by Chinese Asian nations including Malaysia tions to defend its claims. corruption was a key election plank for Duterte, who has been a big supporter of the security forces, promising equipment and boosting their Philippine President to budget and salaries to help tackle crime, drugs and armed rebellions. visit Israel next month Those sacked were accused of involvement in 17 cases of AFP bogus purchases of supplies, drugs and equipment at inflated MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is to make an official prices, the spokesman, Harry visit to Israel next month, his government said yesterday, nearly Roque, told reporters. two years after he sparked outrage by likening his deadly drug Civilians and military war to the Holocaust. officials were among those The September 2-5 trip will be the first by a Filipino leader sacked. The servicemen faced since diplomatic ties were established between the two countries a court martial, he added. in 1967, a foreign department statement said. Duterte was “personally Duterte and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will aggravated and angered”, discuss how to develop ties on issues including security and having recently ordered that 50 counter-terrorism, according to the statement. million pesos ($936,908) be Israel has been a key weapons supplier to the Philippines, made available to the main mil- which is fighting Islamic militants as well as communist itary hospital where the guerrillas. offences took place, Roque said. An Israeli firm supplied the thermal imaging system for an Military chief Carlito armoured military unit that killed the top leader of Islamic State Galvez said he was angered group-linked militants who seized the southern city of Marawi to learn that men in uniform Gunner’s buddy last year. had profited by inflating the prices of prosthetics bought A gundog retrieves a grouse on Forneth Moor on the opening day of the grouse shooting season, for soldiers who had lost Scotland, Britain, yesterday. Norway minister resigns after limbs in battle. breaching rules during Iran trip Cows help rehabilitate prisoners in Sweden REUTERS OSLO: Norway’s fisheries minister resigned yesterday following his earlier admission that he breached government security AFP Imprisoned since April for their identities) in the morning for (one per 1,000), Swedish and protocols during a holiday to Iran last month. illegally possessing a gun, Alfred, two and a half hours of work and French prison data show. Per Sandberg, who initially failed to notify colleagues of his MARIESTAD, SWEDEN: It’s a grandfather in his 50s who is then once again in the evening. The Scandinavian nation whereabouts and also took his government-issued mobile phone barely 6:00 am and Alfred is due to be released in November, “I clean (the udder) to avoid spends twice as much as France to Iran, had been rebuked by Prime Minister Erna Solberg for vio- already busy milking cows. But can’t hide the joy he gets from the bacteria, then I disinfect it” on each detainee, including lating the cabinet’s travel rules. Sandberg, 58, deputy head of the when his chores on the farm are spending time with the animals. before pulling the teats, Alfred those placed under surveillance, anti-immigration Progress Party, has also faced criticism from within done, he won’t be going home “I like them... they calm me says enthusiastically. and works hard to avoid his party for going on the trip with his girlfriend, Iranian-born — he’ll be returning to his prison down,” he says with a sigh, Other inmates work on the confinement. Bahareh Letnes, 28, who obtained residency in Norway a decade cell. wearing a cap, his arm covered farm watering the plants, Instead, it prefers to put ago. In Sweden, which prioritises in tattoos. repainting the gates, and people on probation, favours Ruling in a minority with a coalition cabinet of her Conserv- rehabilitation over long prison In this agricultural prison mowing the lawn. And a dozen widespread use of ankle mon- atives as well as Progress and the Liberals, Solberg’s government sentences, Alfred is one of 60 called Rodjan — the biggest of of them are in charge of the itors, sentences people to com- has slumped in opinion polls after news of Sandberg’s trip broke. inmates preparing to reintegrate the Swedish penitentiary sys- livestock. munity service, and releases The prime minister said she had ordered Sandberg to hand his into society at a minimum tem’s three farms — his routines Sweden is among the coun- prisoners after two-thirds of phone to police for safety checks, but still faced criticism in par- security “open prison” func- are the same every day. tries with the fewest prisoners time served. Sweden also invests liament from opposition parties questioning the government’s tioning as a farm in the town of He meets up with his work in the world: there are 0.5 heavily in reintegration through competence on issues of national security. Mariestad, about 300km assignment partner Sofian (both inmates per 1,000 inhabitants, language classes and vocational The government requires ministers to inform the prime min- southwest of Stockholm. names have been changed to protect which is half of that in France training. ister’s office of where they are going, regardless of destination. TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 EUROPE 11 Italy refuses safe harbour to ship carrying migrants

REUTERS The Aquarius, be brought to Malta in the run by Franco- afternoon, sources said. ON BOARD THE AQUARIUS: German charity SOS In June, the Aquarius ended Italy yesterday denied safe Mediterranee and up taking some 630 migrants to harbour to the 141 people Spain, which welcomed it. But rescued by the humanitarian Doctors without on Monday, Madrid did not ship Aquarius off the coast of Borders (MSF), repeat its offer, with a gov- Libya last week, setting up picked up 141 people ernment spokeswoman saying: another stand-off with in two separate “At the moment, Spain is not the European Union allies over who safest port because it is not the would take them in. operations and is nearest one” for Aquarius to The Aquarius, run by now in international dock. Due to pressure from Italy Franco-German charity SOS waters between and Malta, most charity ships Mediterranee and Doctors are no longer patrolling off the without Borders (MSF), picked Italy and Malta. coast of Libya. up the people in two separate Though departures from operations and is now in inter- Toninelli, who oversees ports Libya have fallen dramatically Police investigators inspect the seafront platform in Vigo yesterday after a section of a wooden national waters between Italy and the coast guard, said the this year, people smugglers are promenade suddenly collapsed with people watching a rap artist just before midnight on Sunday. and Malta. ship’s flag country, which is still pushing some boats out to Malta said on Saturday it Gibraltar, should take respon- sea and an estimated 720 people would not welcome the ship sibility. “At this point, the died in June and July when while Spain said its ports were United Kingdom should charity ships were mainly More than 370 injured as Spain not the safest destination for the assume its responsibility to absent, Amnesty International vessel. More than 650,000 safeguard the castaways,” estimates. “Aquarius is now migrants have come to Italy’s Toninelli said on Twitter. standing by at 32 Nautical miles festival promenade collapses shores since 2014, prompting The British foreign office from the European coast,” the AFP Rome to accuse its EU peers of was not immediately available ship’s digital log said. he said. “Police got the people we were in an elevator. It was a not sharing the burden of caring for comment. “Aquarius already requested out of the area very quickly. question of five seconds,” for those who arrive on the The European Commission a place of safety to Malta and MADRID: Panic erupted at a There were two people who got concert-goer Aitana Alonso said. bloc’s southern border. was in touch with several EU Italy,” it said. “Both refused to packed seaside music festival in trapped by debris, firefighters “The platform broke and we The Aquarius spent nine states and trying to help resolve coordinate the disembarkation northwest Spain when part of a had to remove them and it was all fell. People landed on top of days at sea in June after Italy’s the “incident” with the Aquarius, of the survivors to a place of wooden promenade suddenly not easy to get them out,” me. I tried to get out and couldn’t. new populist government took a spokesman in Brussels said. safety.” Protracted feuds collapsed, injuring more than Caballero told Spanish public My foot ended up stuck in the office and shut its ports to all She added that while Britain between EU states over how to 370 people, nine of them seri- television TVE. water but I managed to free it humanitarian boats, calling could theoretically be con- handle immigrants have thrown ously, officials said yesterday. The president of Vigo’s Port before a guy gave me his hand them a “taxi service” and sidered as a destination port, it the issue back onto the The seafront platform, Authority said he thought the and pulled me out,” she said. accusing them of helping was not practically feasible to European agenda. That is measuring 30 metres by 10 structure, built in the 1990s, col- “There were people under- people smugglers — charges bring the ship there. despite overall Mediterranean metres (100 foot by 30 foot), lapsed due to “excess weight, to neath me, shouting that they the charities deny. Malta’s rescue coordination arrivals having dropped sharply was jammed with people overcapacity”. “That is what couldn’t get out.” A total of 377 “It can go where it wants, centre told the Aquarius on Sat- since the 2015 peak when a watching a rap artist in the city seems the most likely cause,” he people were injured, with seven not in Italy!” far-right Interior urday that it would not welcome million people arrived. of Vigo when part of it col- told TVE but added: “We are going still recieving hospital treatment, Minister Matteo Salvini said of the ship, according to the charity EU border agency Frontex lapsed just before midnight on to order an expert study to see the regional government of the Aquarius on Twitter yes- ship’s online log. said on Monday it counted Sunday, mayor Abel Caballero what may have happened.” Galicia said. Most suffered light terday , mentioning France, Malta’s armed forces said 73,500 “irregular border told reporters. Local daily El Faro de Vigo injuries. Those seriously Germany, Britain or Malta as yesterday that it rescued 114 crossings” into the bloc so far Rescuers armed with an said the structure collapsed wounded, including two minors, destinations. migrants from a rubber dinghy this year via the sea and the infrared camera combed the site shortly after Spanish rap artist had broken bones or head injuries “Stop human traffickers and taking on water 53 nautical Western Balkans route, more for three hours to ensure no one Rels B told the crowd to jump at but their lives were not at risk, their accomplices,” he wrote. miles south of the Mediter- than 40 percent fewer than in remained trapped underneath the start of his concert. “The Galicia’s regional health minister Transport Minister Danilo ranean island. The migrants will the first seven months of 2017. while divers searched offshore, floor gave way beneath us as if Jesus Vazquez Almuina said.

Merkel slaps Britain pledges to end down talk of working rough sleeping by 2027 REUTERS with leftists accommodation and train staff to help people under the AP LONDON: Britain’s government influence of drugs and victims pledged yesterday to end rough of domestic abuse and modern BERLIN: German Chancellor sleeping in England by 2027, a slavery. Angela Merkel yesterday target activists said could only Britain had previously said slapped down an ally’s be achieved by investing more it was investing more than suggestion that her conserv- in building affordable homes. £1.2bn to tackle homelessness, atives could work with the Homelessness has more and it was not immediately post-communist Left Party in than doubled since 2010 in clear how much of the £100m the country’s east, an idea that England, where more than pledged yesterday was new appalls many on the right. 4,100 people now sleep rough, money. Homeless charities wel- Germany’s political land- government figures show. comed the plan, but said further scape has become increas- Yesterday, the government “bold” action was needed, ingly fragmented in recent announced a £100m ($128m) including significantly more years — particularly in the package to tackle rough social housing. formerly communist east, sleeping, including funding for “Let’s be clear, this is a step where the Left Party is a housing, mental health forward and not a total fix for major force and the far-right treatment and staff training. homelessness,” said Polly Alternative for Germany is at “Nobody should have to Neate, head of Shelter, one of its strongest. Military might sleep rough,” Prime Minister seven charities that advised the That makes it increas- Theresa May said. “As well as government on the strategy. Military Ka-52 helicopters fly over the large landing ship Nikolay Filchenkov deploying armoured ingly hard to form governing ensuring people have some- “We still need to tackle the vehicles during military exercises of Russian armed forces on the shore of the Black Sea outside coalitions, and three eastern where to live, we have to deal chronic lack of genuinely states hold regional votes the town of Gudauta, in the breakaway region of Abkhazia, Georgia, yesterday. with underlying problems and affordable homes, deep insta- next year. In federalized ultimately help people turn bility of renting, and problems Germany, state governments their lives around.” with housing benefit that are play an important role and The government pledged to leaving so many without a regional political experi- spend £50m on building new home,” she said. An estimated ments can foreshadow homes outside London for 236,000 people are sleeping on national developments. Amnesty launches external probes people living in hostels or the streets or in temporary Daniel Guenther, the con- refuges and £30m on mental accommodation in Britain, servative governor of the health support for rough where homebuilding has been western state of Schleswig- after second staff suicide sleepers. It also said it would declining for decades, driving Holstein, said that his Christian improve access to services and up property prices. Democratic Union must be AFP “pragmatic” if election results “We can never compare the Amnesty for more than 30 years in the east make it impossible impact the two tragedies have and was known across Africa for to form a coalition without the LONDON: Rights group Amnesty on the families to our reactions his tireless dedication to his Western filmmakers urge action Left Party. International said yesterday that within Amnesty. “But we too are work — worked for its interna- The Left Party won 9.2 it will conduct “full and inde- shocked and devastated at the tional secretariat. It is respon- to save Ukraine’s Sentsov percent of the vote in last year’s pendent external inquiries” into loss of our beloved colleague sible for the majority of research AFP national election. A fusion of the suicides of two of its staff in Gaetan Mootoo, and a brilliant and leading campaign work. Francoise Nyssen, warned that eastern ex-communists and the last three months. and inspiring young woman, He was found dead in the “to do nothing would be to let other left-wingers created in Roz McGregor, 28, from Roz McGregor, who made a organisation’s Paris offices, where PARIS: Britain’s Ken Loach, Oleg Sentsov die” and called on 2005, it has experience of gov- London, took her own life earlier great impact in her short time he worked. Mootoo had left a Canada’s David Cronenberg the EU and UN to pressure erning in several eastern states this summer, following the May with us,” he added. suicide note allegedly “outlining and dozens of other filmmakers Russian President Vladimir but tends to be more radically 26 death of Gaetan Mootoo, a McGregor was a paid intern his previous request for help called yesterday on Russia to Putin into freeing him. left-wing in the west. well-known researcher for West working for a team that lobbied because of the heavy and addi- free Ukrainian director Oleg “With his health apparently Merkel moved her party to Africa. “We are treating these at the United Nations in Geneva. tional workload; help which was Sentsov, who has been on deteriorating rapidly with each the center in her nearly 13 years tragedies with the gravity and pri- She had developed insomnia and never forthcoming”. Following hunger strike for nearly three passing day, it is time to act. as chancellor, but an alliance ority they deserve, and will be become troubled by anxiety in the the death, friends and colleagues months in a Siberian jail. And fast,” they wrote. Sentsov with the Left Party so far has holding full and independent final weeks of her life, according called on the NGO’s board in In an open letter in French is serving a 20-year-sentence been off-limits - as has working external inquiries,” Colm O Cua- to The Times newspaper. London to look into the circum- daily Le Monde, around 120 on terrorism charges after being with the far-right Alternative for nachain, Amnesty’s acting-sec- Mootoo — a well-respected stances around it “in order to actors and directors, joined by convicted three years ago of Germany, or AfD. retary general, said in a statement. researcher who had been with prevent other tragedies”. French Culture Minister arson in his native Crimea. 12 AMERICAS TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018 Trump slams ‘Wacky’ Omarosa over book, tapes

BLOOMBERG The former reality of private conversations, and issue with the truth, and some- TV villain’s latest said Manigault-Newman has times he battles with reality,” she WASHINGTON: US President revelation follows her “zero credibility.” said of Trump. Donald Trump lashed out at release of a tape she In a subsequent tweet, During the taped call, Trump former aide and “The Trump disparaged Manigault- is heard telling Manigault- Apprentice” contestant Omarosa said she’d secretly Newman and said he wanted to Newman of her firing, “I don’t Manigault-Newman, attacking made of her 2017 ensure the “Fake News Media” love you leaving at all. Nobody her intelligence after she firing by Chief of Staff doesn’t lend her an air of credi- even told me about it.” In a released a recording of a call John Kelly. Trump bility. “While I know it’s ‘not follow-up tweet yesterday with the President in which he presidential’ to take on a lowlife morning, Trump claimed that appeared not to know she’d been aides have sought to like Omarosa, and while I would Manigault-Newman frequently let go from her White House job aggressively counter rather not be doing so, this is a missed work commitments. the day before. her claims, which modern day form of communi- “Nasty to people & would “Wacky Omarosa, who got cation,” he said in the post. constantly miss meetings & work. fired 3 times on the Apprentice, coincide with the In “Unhinged: An Insider’s When Gen. Kelly came on board now got fired for the last time,” release of Manigault- Account of the Trump White he told me she was a loser & Trump said on Twitter. “She Newman’s new House,” Manigault-Newman, one nothing but problems. I told him never made it, never will. She of relatively few black people in to try working it out, if possible, tell-all book. This combination of file pictures shows White House Chief of Staff begged me for a job, tears in her the White House, accuses the because she only said GREAT John Kelly (left) and Omarosa Manigault. eyes, I said Ok. People in the President of having used racial things about me - until she got White House hated her. She was of Manigault-Newman’s new slurs on the set of “The Apprentice” fired!” Trump tweeted. vicious, but not smart.” Later, tell-all book. White House Press thinking about leaving. What Friends” that the thinks Mani- reality TV show, which aired on During her interview on Trump said she had “fully signed” Secretary Sarah Sanders called happened?” After Manigault- gault-Newman violated the law NBC. Manigault-Newman told “Today,” Manigault-Newman a non-disclosure agreement. He her “a disgruntled former White Newman told Trump she’d been by taping Trump and other White NBC News yesterday that the title claimed that during her firing she didn’t elaborate. House employee” in a statement. fired, he responded: “No, House officials. of her book was aimed directly was locked in the White House The former reality TV vil- In a phone call Manigault- nobody even told me about it. “The president makes the at Trump. She said Kelly is situation room and denied access lain’s latest revelation follows Newman claims to have You know they run a big oper- decisions in this White House,” running the White House. to counsel, which she said her release of a tape she said recorded with Trump after ation, but I didn’t know it.” White House Deputy Press Sec- “John Kelly is running this amounted to “false impris- she’d secretly made of her 2017 Kelly fired her, aired Monday The White House has not dis- retary Hogan Gidley said on Fox White House and Donald Trump onment.” The Today appearance firing by Chief of Staff John Kelly. on NBC News, a voice that puted the authenticity of Mani- News. “I’m not going to get into has no clue what’s going on,” she became combative at times, with Trump aides have sought to sounds like the president asks: gault-Newman’s recordings. the tick-tock of who knew what said. “He’s being puppeted, and the former aide saying it went aggressively counter her claims, “Omarosa what’s going on? I Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani and when.” Gidley said taping the that’s very dangerous for this beyond the agreed upon seven- which coincide with the release just saw on the news that you’re said on Fox News’s “Fox & meetings was an ethical breach nation.” “He absolutely has an minute timeframe. Text-messaging FBI agent Peter Strzok fired: Lawyer

AFP FBI lawyer Lisa Page, exchanged text messages during the 2016 WASHINGTON: FBI special election campaign which were agent Peter Strzok (pictured), highly critical of Trump, the who was removed from the then-Republican nominee. probe into Russian interference In one exchange, Page wrote in the 2016 presidential election Trump “is not ever going to after it was revealed he had become president, right?” “No exchanged anti-Trump text he won’t,” Strzok replied. “We’ll messages with his lover, has stop it.” Following the public been fired, his lawyer said revelation of the text messages yesterday. a year ago, Strzok was removed Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s by Mueller from the team attorney, said the dismissal of looking into Russian meddling the embattled 21-year veteran in the 2016 election. of the Federal Bureau of Inves- decided he should face a Trump also called yesterday tigation was the result of demotion and a 60-day sus- for another investigation into “political pressure”. pension. Goelman described the the emails of his defeated Dem- President Donald Trump move as “a departure from ocratic rival Clinton. immediately welcomed Strzok’s typical bureau practice.” “This “Just fired Agent Strzok, for- Chile protest firing and used the occasion to decision should be deeply trou- merly of the FBI, was in charge Human rights activists hold images of missing people during a protest against the decision of the lash out once again at the inves- bling to all Americans,” he said of the Crooked Hillary sham Supreme Court to grant parole to human right abusers during Chilean dictatorship, in Santiago, tigation by Special Counsel in a statement. investigation,” he said. “It was a Robert Mueller into whether “A lengthy investigation and total fraud on the American Chile yesterday. there was any collusion between multiple rounds of congres- public and should be properly Russia and the Trump election sional testimony failed to redone!” Strzok, in testimony campaign. produce a shred of evidence that before Congress last month, said “Agent Peter Strzok was just Special Agent Strzok’s personal that his comments about Trump fired from the FBI -- finally,” views ever affected his work,” in messages to Page were a Black box of crashed Trump tweeted. “Based on the Goelman said. reaction to the Republican can- California fire threatens fact that Strzok was in charge of “In fact, in his decades of didate’s “horrible, disgusting Seattle plane found the Witch Hunt, will it be service, Special Agent Strzok has behavior” on the campaign trail. retirement community dropped?” he asked in a ref- proved himself to be one of the He vehemently denied that SEATTLE: US investigators erence to the probe by Mueller, country’s top counterintelli- his personal political leanings said they found the flight data AFP form the largest blaze in state a former FBI director. gence officers,” Goelman said. had colored his professional recorder of the Horizon Air history — burned 3,100 acres “It is a total Hoax. No Col- “The decision to terminate judgment and his ability to plane stolen by a troubled LOS ANGELES: One of the fires overnight, just one fourth the lusion, No Obstruction -- I just was taken in response to conduct an impartial investi- Seattle airport worker amid scorching California moved in previous night’s toll, according fight back!” Trump said. In political pressure, and to punish gation. “Like many people, I had plane wreckage on a sparsely on a retirement community, to local media. addition to the Mueller probe, Special Agent Strzok for political and expressed personal political populated island in Wash- prompting evacuation orders The Carr fire in the north, Strzok was also involved in the speech protected by the First opinions during an extraor- ington state. for thousands of people. which has destroyed more than investigation of Hillary Clinton’s Amendment, not on a fair and dinary presidential election,” After falling through several Residents of the Trilogy 1,000 homes, grew only mod- use of a private email server while independent examination of the Strzok said. 100-foot lines of trees, the Bom- Glen Ivy community located estly overnight, as containment serving as secretary of state. facts,” he said. “It is a decision “But let me be clear, une- bardier Q400 plane broke up between the Santa Ana Moun- lines improved. Goelman, Strzok’s lawyer, that produces only one winner quivocally and under oath: not into pieces small enough to pick tains and a major highway who Their task was complicated said he was fired by FBI deputy -- those who seek to harm our once in my 26 years of defending up by hand, National Transpor- have trouble driving in the dark by steep terrain making it dif- director David Bowdich on country and weaken our my nation did my personal tation Safety Board (NTSB) were urged to leave immedi- ficult for fire trucks to approach. Friday despite the fact that the democracy,” he said. opinions impact any official Western Pacific Region chief ately to escape the wrath of the More than 25 aircraft were agency’s disciplinary office had Strzok and his lover, former action I took,” he said. Debra Eckrote told CNN. Holy Fire, which has already being used to drop water and burned through 22,714 acres fire-retardant chemicals. and is 41 percent contained. Some 18 blazes are con- The US Forest Service esti- tinuing to scorch wide swathes mates that around 3,700 homes of California. The Ranch fire, Kirchner before judge in sweeping anti-corruption probe and structures have been evac- part of the Mendocino Complex, uated, or around 11,120 people. was 58 percent contained as of AFP The driver’s meticulous of poverty during the first Aires was the venue for the Nearly 1,500 firefighters — Saturday, while the River Fire records of the cash deliveries — decade and a half of the 21st handover of millions of dollars supported by some inmates was 92 percent contained, news BUENOS AIRES: Former allegedly payments from Century,” Kirchner wrote yes- in cash, with others taking place from a local jail — are battling media reported. The two blazes Argentine president Cristina business leaders in exchange for terday on Twitter. at the Casa Rosada government that blaze, as it spread to the have devastated an area of Kirchner appeared before a public works contracts — form As a senator, Kirchner enjoys headquarters and the Olivos north and east, prompting a more than 325,000 acres so far. judge leading a major probe into the basis of the investigation. congressional immunity from official presidential residence. new round of evacuations. Authorities have charged a corruption under her Dressed in a trouser suit and imprisonment, though not pros- Prosecutor Carlos Stornelli Across California, fire- 51-year-old man, Forrest Gordon government yesterday, hitting waving to supporters, a defiant ecution. She is facing trial in has said a total of $160m in fighters reported making sig- Clark, with multiple arson- out at what she described as Kirchner pushed her way past several other corruption cases bribes was handed over during nificant progress against some related charges in connection “judicial persecutions” to rule journalists into Judge Claudio and Bonadio has petitioned the a 10-year period from 2005-15. of the huge wildfires raging with the Holy Fire. A court set bail her out of next year’s elections. Bonadio’s court in Buenos Aires Senate to lift her immunity. “There is no doubt that the across the most populous state, at $1m for Clark, who has had More than a dozen elite busi- where she denounced the case He wants to search Kirch- copybooks describe in detail but were bracing for more of repeated encounters with local nessmen and former gov- as an example of the political ner’s properties for evidence in the way in which the Kirchners the soaring temperatures, dry police over the years. ernment officials were arrested persecution she has faced under the “Corruption notebooks” case, raised money illegally for seven air and gusty winds that have Clark could face anywhere after La Nacion newspaper her right-wing successor Mau- so called because the driver, years without any alarm going made their job so tough. from 10 years to life in prison if reported on August 1 that mil- ricio Macri. Oscar Centeno, recorded over a off at any oversight agency,” Some of the worst fires convicted. He rejected the lions in bribes were delivered by “This is a new regional decade of cash drops in a set of said Nicolas Solari of the con- slowed over the weekend. The charges during an erratic court a ministerial chauffeur to Kirch- strategy to outlaw leaders, notebooks. sultancy Poliarquia. So far, so-called Mendocino Complex appearance, calling them a ner’s residences, both during her movements and political forces According to Centeno’s eight business leaders have north of state capital Sacra- “lie.” He said he could easily presidency and that of her late that expanded rights and bombshell evidence, the confessed and struck plea- mento — including the River afford bail and asked if he could husband Nestor. allowed millions of people out Kirchners’ residence in Buenos bargain deals. and Ranch fires, which together pay it right away. 20 MORNING BREAK TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2018

PRAYER TIMINGS 200 million years FAJR 03. 44 AM old Pterosaur SHOROOK 05. 06 AM Like it or not, Google ‘built for flying’ ZUHR 11. 39 AM MAGHRIB 06. 13 PM AFP ASR 03. 08 PM ISHA 07. 43 PM tracks your movements PARIS: Scientists WEATHER TODAY yesterday unveiled a AP previously unknown species of giant pterosaur, SAN FRANCISCO: Google wants to the first creatures with a know where you go so badly that it backbone to fly under records your movements even when you their own power. explicitly tell it not to. Neither dino nor bird, An Associated Press investigation pterosaurs — more com- found that many Google services on monly known as ptero- Android devices and iPhones store your dactyls — emerged during location data even if you’ve used a the late Triassic period privacy setting that says it will prevent more than 200 million Google from doing so. Computer-science years ago and lorded over researchers at Princeton confirmed primeval skies until a these findings at the AP’s request. massive space rock For the most part, Google is upfront slammed into Earth, about asking permission to use your wiping out land-dwelling location information. An app like Google dinosaurs and most other Maps will remind you to allow access to forms of life more than 65 location if you use it for navigating. If million years ago . you agree to let it record your location The newly discovered over time, Google Maps will display that member of the family, history for you in a “timeline” that maps The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China. identified through remains out your daily movements. found in northeastern Storing your minute-by-minute straightforward position to have.” The map includes Acar’s train Utah, had a wing-span of travels carries privacy risks and has been Google says it is being perfectly clear. commute on two trips to New York and 1.5 metres (five feet) and o o used by police to determine the location “There are a number of different ways visits to The High Line park, Chelsea 112 teeth, including fang- 36 C 45 C of suspects - such as a warrant that that Google may use location to improve Market, Hell’s Kitchen, Central Park and like spikes sticking out police in Raleigh, North Carolina, served people’s experience, including: Location Harlem. To protect his privacy, The AP near the snout. Minimum Maximum on Google last year to find devices near History, Web and App Activity, and didn’t plot the most telling and frequent A jutting lower jaw a murder scene. So the company will let through device-level Location Services,” marker - his home address. suggests a pelican-like Hot daytime with slight dust to blowing dust at places you “pause” a setting called Location a Google spokesperson said in a statement Huge tech companies are under pouch, perhaps to scoop up History. to the AP. “We provide clear descriptions increasing scrutiny over their data prac- fish and unsuspecting small

HIGH TIDE 06:45 – 19:15 LOW TIDE 01:30 – 12:15 Google says that will prevent the of these tools, and robust controls so tices, following a series of privacy reptiles. “They are deli- Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department company from remembering where people can turn them on or off, and delete scandals at Facebook and new data- cately framed animals that you’ve been. Google’s support page on their histories at any time.” privacy rules recently adopted by the are built for flying,” said the subject states: “You can turn off To stop Google from saving these European Union. Last year, the business Brooks Britt, a paleontol- Location History at any time. With location markers, the company says, news site Quartz found that Google was ogist at Brigham Young Location History off, the places you go users can turn off another setting, one tracking Android users by collecting the University in Utah and lead are no longer stored.” that does not specifically reference addresses of nearby cellphone towers author of a study in Nature That isn’t true. Even with Location location information. Called “Web and even if all location services were off. Ecology & Evolution. History paused, some Google apps auto- App Activity” and enabled by default, Google changed the practice and insisted Caelestiventus hanseni matically store time-stamped location that setting stores a variety of infor- it never recorded the data anyway. —roughly, “heavenly data without asking. (It’s possible, mation from Google apps and websites Critics say Google’s insistence on wind”— is probably the although laborious, to delete it .) to your Google account. tracking its users’ locations stems from most complete skeletal For example, Google stores a When paused, it will prevent activity its drive to boost advertising revenue. remains of a pterosaurs snapshot of where you are when you on any device from being saved to your “They build advertising information ever found. “Most ptero- merely open its Maps app. Automatic account. But leaving “Web & App Activity” out of data,” said Peter Lenz, the senior saurs bones look like road- daily weather updates on Android on and turning “Location History” off only geospatial analyst at Dstillery, a rival kill,” Britt said, noting that phones pinpoint roughly where you are. prevents Google from adding your move- advertising technology company. “More there are only 30-odd spec- The privacy issue affects some two ments to the “timeline,” its visualization data for them presumably means more imens in the entire world billion users of devices that run Google’s of your daily travels. It does not stop profit.” from the Triassic period. By Android operating software and hun- Google’s collection of other location The AP learned of the issue from K. contrast, the new specimen dreds of millions of worldwide iPhone markers. You can delete these location Shankari, a graduate researcher at UC left behind dozens of intact users who rely on Google for maps or markers by hand, but it’s a painstaking Berkeley who studies the commuting bones and teeth, along with search. Storing location data in violation process since you have to select them indi- patterns of volunteers in order to help an entire brain casing. of a user’s preferences is wrong, said vidually, unless you want to delete all of urban planners. She noticed that her The remains are still Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton computer your stored activity. You can see the Android phone prompted her to rate a encased in sandstone, but scientist and former chief technologist for stored location markers on a page in your shopping trip to Kohl’s, even though she scientists generated the Federal Communications Commis- Google account at myactivity.google.com, had turned Location History off. accurate 3-D images and sion’s enforcement bureau. A researcher although they’re typically scattered under “So how did Google Maps know models of each fossil using from Mayer’s lab confirmed the AP’s several different headers, many of which where I was?” she asked in a blog post CAT scan technology. findings on multiple Android devices; the are unrelated to location. .The AP wasn’t able to recreate The site where C. AP conducted its own tests on several To demonstrate how powerful these Shankari’s experience exactly. But its hanseni was unearthed, iPhones that found the same behaviour. other markers can be, the AP created a attempts to do so revealed Google’s known to fossil hunters as “If you’re going to allow users to turn visual map of the movements of Prin- tracking. The findings disturbed her. Saints & Sinners, reveals a off something called ‘Location History,’ ceton postdoctoral researcher Gunes “I am not opposed to background dramatic story of survival then all the places where you maintain Acar, who carried an Android phone location tracking in principle,” she said. and local extinction in the location history should be turned off,” with Location history off, and shared a “It just really bothers me that it is not face of climate change, the Mayer said. “That seems like a pretty record of his Google account. explicitly stated.” researchers said. The rocks it was found in were part of an oasis in a two-million square kilometre (775,000 sq mile) desert covered Soul icon Aretha Franklin is seriously ill Why won’t Nasa’s with giant sand dunes. AP Parker Solar Probe melt? Live salmon released NEW YORK: Fans and friends, IANS including Mariah Carey and for ailing orca but Missy Elliott, offered prayers and well wishes to Queen of WASHINGTON: With Nasa launching a historic Parker Solar Probe deeper she doesn’t eat Soul Aretha Franklin into the solar atmosphere than any mission before it, the question arises: AP (pictured), who is seriously Why won’t it melt? Inside the solar atmosphere -- a region known as the ill. corona -- the probe will provide observations of what drives the wide A person close to Franklin, range of particles, energy and heat that course through the region. SEATTLE: Whale researchers who spoke on the condition The spacecraft will travel through material with temperatures greater working to save an ailing of anonymity because the than several million degrees Celsius while being bombarded with intense killer whale have released person was not allowed to sunlight. According to the US space agency, Parker Solar Probe has been live salmon into waters in publicly talk about the topic, issues in recent years, can- member of the Four Tops, told designed to withstand the extreme conditions and temperature fluctua- front of the free-swimming told The Associated Press on celed planned concerts earlier the AP on Monday morning tions for the mission. orca. But they didn’t see the Monday that the singer is seri- this year after she was ordered they have been “very close” “The key lies in its custom heat shield and an autonomous system that critically endangered whale ously ill. No more details were by her doctor to stay off the for decades and their most helps protect the mission from the Sun’s intense light emission, but does called J50 take any of the provided. road and rest up. She was recent conversation was about allow the coronal material to ‘touch’ the spacecraft,” Nasa said in a eight salmon dropped from a Carey, who considers originally scheduled to a week ago by phone. Fakir statement. While the Parker Solar Probe will travel through a space with boat on Sunday. Franklin one of her biggest perform on her 76th birthday said they talked after Franklin temperatures of several million degrees, the surface of the heat shield The feeding operation is influences, wrote on Twitter in March in Newark, New had stopped by his Detroit that faces the Sun will only get heated to about 1,400 degree Celsius. part of an extraordinary that she is “praying for the Jersey, and at the New Orleans house when he wasn’t there. The probe makes use of a heat shield known as the Thermal Pro- response effort to save the Queen of Soul.” Missy Elliott Jazz and Heritage Festival in “She was telling me she tection System, or TPS, which is eight feet in diameter and 4.5 inches thick. malnourished orca. A veter- said that the public has to cel- April. rides around the city every Those few inches of protection mean that just on the other side of the inarian also injected J50 with ebrate iconic artists before Last year, the icon now and then - she talks about shield, the spacecraft body will sit at a comfortable 30 degrees Celsius. medication using a dart on they die. “So many (of them) announced her plans to retire, how beautiful it is again,” The TPS was designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Labo- Thursday. have given us decades of saying she would perform at Fakir said. “We were remi- ratory, and was built at Carbon-Carbon Advanced Technologies, using a Researchers want to see Timeless music,” the rapper “some select things.” One of niscing about how blessed we carbon composite foam sandwiched between two carbon plates. whether they can dose a live wrote on Twitter. those select events was a gala were - only a couple two of us This lightweight insulation will be accompanied by a finishing touch salmon with medication and Mark Frost, Andy Cohen for Elton John’s 25th anni- are around from that era. We of white ceramic paint on the sun-facing plate, to reflect as much heat as feed it to the whale. But they and Ciara also posted about versary of his AIDS foundation were just kind of reminiscing possible. “Tested to withstand up to 1,650 degrees Celsius, the TPS can first need to test whether it Franklin, who is considered in November in New York about the good times we had.” handle any heat the Sun can send its way, keeping almost all instrumen- will take the fish. NOAA Fish- one of the greatest singers of City, where Franklin closed Fakir, who calls Franklin tation safe,” said Nasa. eries biologist Brad Hanson all-time and is known for hits the event with a collection of “baby sis” because he’s older Another challenge came in the form of the electronic wiring -- most told reporters yesterday that like “Respect” and “(You Make songs including “I Say a Little than she is by six years, said cables would melt from exposure to heat radiation at such close prox- they will wait for the pod of Me Feel Like) A Natural Prayer” and “Freeway.” despite her health troubles imity to the Sun. To solve this problem, the team grew sapphire crystal orcas to return to the inland Woman.” Franklin, who had Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the “she was talking about the tubes to suspend the wiring, and made the wires from the chemical element waters of Washington state to battled undisclosed health lone surviving original future.” niobium. evaluate the next step.