WEDNESDAY MAY 11, 2016 SHA’BAN 4, 1437 VOL.10 NO. 3537 QR 2

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Business 21 Sports 34 Chill Out Oil market rebalancing in Platini casts shadow Ever-mounting pile 2nd quarter: Sada over FIFA meeting of pills EMIR MEETS SAUDI DEPUTY CROWN PRINCE MEC in push for more export of non-oil goods Minister, pvt sector discuss facilitation strategies QNA DOHA

MINISTER of Economy and Com- merce HE Sheikh Ahmed bin Jas- sim bin Mohammed al Thani on Tuesday discussed ways to facili- tate the flow of Qatari non-oil com- modities to the global market with private sector representatives and several government departments. In a statement, the Ministry of Economy and Commerce (MEC) said the meeting is part of its ef- Minister of Economy and Commerce HE Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohammed forts to promote coordination be- al Thani with representatives of private sector and government departments in tween the economic and trade sec- Doha on Tuesday. tors and government departments concerned in the context of policies ers at the local and international of total exports, compared to 13.4 The Emir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani with Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of pursued by the state and economic levels, and the importance of find- percent in 2014. Defense of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud in Doha on Tuesday. They discussed bilateral trends. ing foreign markets for Qatari non- The meeting was attended by relations and means of enhancing them. SEE ALSO PAGE 2 The minister stressed the im- oil products. Chairman of the Qatari Business- portance of the meeting, which The meeting also discussed the men Association Sheikh Faisal aims to develop and promote creation of new products and serv- bin Qassim al Thani, Chairman of ways of taking advantage of the ices in line with the needs of for- the Qatar Chamber of Commerce QUICK READ international economic and trade eign markets and to diversify the and Industry Sheikh Khalifa bin agreements signed by Qatar Qatari export basket and increase Jassim al Thani, as well as repre- aimed at facilitating the flow of the number of countries importing sentatives from the government QA postpones 400 plastic surgeries Qatari goods and products into Qatari goods. departments concerned, CEOs of longest route over global markets. It also referred to indicators of Muntajat, Qatar Industrial Manu- ‘A350 delay’ Discussions also touched on the non-oil exports growth, which rose facturing Company, and several every month at challenges faced by Qatari produc- during 2015 to make up 17 percent export companies. DOHA Qatar Airways has delayed the launch of the world’s longest scheduled direct flight -- from Rumailah Hospital Doha to Auckland, New Zealand -- by two months because of the CMC calls for installing exercise equipment at parks late delivery of Airbus A350s, TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK “Technical development continues an airline spokeswoman said on DOHA as we conduct plastic laparoscopic sur- RAMY SALAMA a number of recommendations to the to keep them fit, especially given the Tuesday. “I can confirm we are geries which are considered a new step DOHA Ministry of Municipality and Envi- role of fitness in disease prevention. looking at February. It’s due to ABOUT 400 plastic surgeries are being at the HMC. Laser is also used in plas- ronment (MME) regarding installa- The recommendations include aircraft availability, specifically the carried out every month at Rumailah tic surgeries to remove birthmarks and MORE exercise equipment should tion of exercise equipment in parks. allocating more land and green space delay in delivery of A350s,” the Hospital’s Plastic Surgery Department, scars,” he said. be installed at parks and gardens to CMC member Mohammed bin in all regions of the country and spokeswoman said. The 17.5 according to an official. Dr Basti said special burns section encourage people to lead an active Ali al Athba, Chairman of the coun- make available exercise equipment hour, 9,031-mile service on Qatar Dr Habib al Basti, Senior Consult- will open in a number of HMC hospi- and healthy lifestyle, the Central Mu- cil’s Committee for Complaints and to promote a healthy lifestyle among Airways’ Boeing 777 fleet to New ant at the hospital’s Plastic Surgery tals soon. nicipal Council (CMC) has recom- Petitions, said the recommendations people. Zealand had been due to start on Department, said work is under way A burns section for children will mended. are in line with the council’s aim to TURN TO PAGE 3 December 3 this year. to use laser technology open in Sidra Medical The CMC on Tuesday submitted engage people in sporting activities in surgeries in view of Most of the people under- and Research Center. its high efficiency. going plastic surgeries are Similarly, workers’ Qatar likely to He said women ac- in the 25 to 45 age group hospital will have a nominate former IT count for about 85 per- and women account for burns section. minister to VW board cent of the visitors to Dr Basti said light cosmetic clinics. Most of 85 percent of cases. plastic surgery cases HAMBURG Volkswagen investor the people undergoing will be transferred to Qatar will nominate former IT min- plastic surgeries are between 25 and 45 the one-day surgery hospital, while ister Hessa al Jaber to represent years of age, he added. workers requiring plastic surgeries will the country on VW’s supervisory He said the Plastic Surgery De- be transferred to the workers hospital. board, a person familiar with partment keeps pace with the latest The children plastic surgery cases the matter said, allowing the technological advancements. Gastric will be transferred to the Sidra Medical carmaker to fulfil legal quotas for Sleeve Surgeries have been recently and Research Center. women ahead of a key meeting. increased and all patients who under- He said some light surgery cases will The appointment of Chairman went the surgery lost weight dramati- be transferred to the one-day surgery Hans Dieter Poetsch to the helm cally. Some people lost 20 to 60 kilos hospital, which is expected to open by the of VW’s supervisory board needs in a record time, he added. end of the year, reports Al Watan. shareholder approval, which is dependent on VW assigning 30 percent of board’s 20 seats to women. PAGE 21

Four charged with Whale sharks in Qatari waters importing chicken unfit for consumption focus of global meet in Doha DOHA The Misdemeanour Court SAMEH SAEID has heard a case involving four DOHA officials of a local company accused of importing a ship- THE Ministry of Municipality and En- ment of chicken that was unfit vironmental (MME), in cooperation for human consumption. The with Maersk Centre for Oil Research Public Prosecution charged the and Technology, will host the “Fourth defendants with forging the let- International Conference for whale ter of guarantee required by the shark” from May 16 to 18 in Doha. Customs authority from the com- The conference will explore the panies importing food items, reasons behind the gathering of large Over 400 whale sharks spotted in reports Al Raya. PAGE 3 number of whale sharks in Qatari waters around the Al Shaheen oil field. waters, particularly in and around Al Shaheen area, between April and Sep- earth can match such a display of ma- Bangladesh executes tember every year. rine giants feeding.” top Islamist leader The conference, which will be “Offshore platforms in the Al for war crimes held outside the US for the first time, Shaheen oil field have become artifi- will see participation of around 100 cial reefs and may play an important DHAKA Bangladesh on Tuesday academics and scientists from 28 role in attracting whale sharks to this executed the leader of the countries. area. Consequently, the Ministry of country's largest Islamist party The conference also aims to pro- Environment and the Maersk Oil Re- for war crimes, officials said. mote international cooperation to search and Technology Centre have Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader preserve whale shark and to share launched a research programme that of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was experiences and research related to will investigate the importance of hanged at a prison in Dhaka, just this phenomenon. these structures for the marine bio- days after the nation’s highest Whale shark project leader Mo- diversity in Qatar,” he added. court dismissed his final appeal hammed Algidah said, “We had spot- Algidah said whale shark research to overturn the death sentence ted over 400 whale sharks around project has achieved amazing results for atrocities committed during Al Shaheen oil field, approximately during the past six years. the country’s 1971 war of inde- 80km off the north coast of Qatar, a TURN TO PAGE 3 pendence with Pakistan. phenomena that very few places on 02 Wednesday, May 11, 2016

FM attends Mowasalat takes Emir and Saudi Deputy Crown part in traffic Syria meet safety event FOREIGN Minister HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Ab- MOWASALAT participated dulrahman al Thani partici- Prince discuss regional issues in the ‘National Traffic Safety pated in the ministerial meet- Committee Workshop & Exhi- ing on Syria, which was held QNA happiness for them and more bition’ held at Sheraton Doha, in Paris on Monday. DOHA progress and prosperity for as a major stakeholder in the The meeting reviewed the the Saudi people. Ministry of Transport & Com- recent developments in Syria, THE Emir His Highness The meeting discussed munications and also as a particularly the ongoing ef- Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al several regional and inter- member of the National Traf- forts to stop hostilities and Thani discussed with HRH national issues of common fic Safety Committee. means of delivering humani- Deputy Crown Prince, Second concern, especially the latest Through its participation, tarian aid to the Syrian people. Deputy Premier and Minister developments in the region Mowasalat sought to con- During the meeting, the of Defence of Saudi Arabia and endeavours to sustain its solidate concepts and ideas to FM stressed the need to take Mohammed bin Salman bin security. enhance sustainable and safe the necessary measures to Abdulaziz al Saud the existing The meeting was attended transport via different means reach a settlement for the fraternal relations between by sheikhs and ministers. It of transportation in Qatar. Syrian crisis in line with Ge- the two countries and means was attended from the Saudi Mowasalat participated in neva I Communique and UN of enhancing and advancing side by members of the ac- the workshop with two pres- Security Council Resolution them in a way that serves the companying delegation. entations including one by Ali 2254. He reiterated the inter- interests of both countries HH the Emir held a lunch- Emadi, Karwa taxi office man- national community’s need to and their peoples. eon banquet in honour of Sau- ager, who addressed the issue shoulder its responsibilities in At the outset of the meet- di Deputy Crown Prince and of safety and security enhance- protecting civilians, especially ing which was held at Al the accompanying delegation. ment in public transportation. in light of the serious humani- Bahr Palace on Tuesday, the Earlier, HH the Emir Emadi talked about the tarian conditions facing the Saudi Deputy Crown Prince welcomed the Saudi Deputy role of advanced technologi- Syrian people. (QNA) conveyed the greetings of Crown Prince upon his arrival cal devices in enhancing safety Custodian of the Two Holy on Tuesday afternoon along and security of Mowasalat’s Mosques King Salman bin with an accompanying delega- fleets of buses and taxis in his Abdulaziz al Saud and Saudi tion at Hamad International presentation. Qatari Emiri Guard, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Airport. In the second presentation Royal Moroccan Minister, Minister of Interior The Saudi Deputy Crown by Mowasalat, Robert Makon- Guard sign MoU Prince Mohammad bin Nayef Prince left Doha later on do, Karwa Driving School’s bin Abdulaziz al Saud to HH Tuesday after concluding operations manager, high- THE Qatari Emiri Guard and the the Emir along with their a brief fraternal visit to the lighted challenges towards Royal Moroccan Guard signed a wishes of good health and country. safety and ways to overcome memorandum of understanding happiness for him and more The Saudi leader was seen them. He also reiterated sup- (MoU) in Rabat on Tuesday. The progress and prosperity for off at the airport by Qatar Ol- port to the National Traffic agreement was signed for the Qatari people. ympic Committee President Safety Committee and its stra- Qatari side by the Emiri Guard On his part, HH the Emir HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad tegic plans. Commander Major-General entrusted the Saudi Deputy al Thani, Qatar Media Corpo- Mowasalat’s Managing Hazza bin Khalil al Shahwani Crown Prince to convey his ration Chairman HE Sheikh Director Khalid al Hail said: and for the Moroccan side by greetings to Custodian of the Hamad bin Thamer al Thani “Mowasalat is adopting high the Royal Guard Commander Two Holy Mosques and to and Saudi Ambassador to Qa- safety standards with latest Major-General Mimoun Man- the Saudi Crown Prince and tar HE Abdulla bin Abdulaziz technological devices and in- souri. (QNA) his wishes of good health and bin Abdulla al Aifan. dustry’s best practices.” (TNN) Nation Wednesday, May 11, 2016 03

SULAITI MEETS EU TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER

NHRC CHAIRMAN MEETS KENYAN AMBASSADOR: Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Dr Ali bin Smaikh al Marri with Ambassador of Kenya to Qatar HE Galma Mukhe Boru in Doha on Tuesday. During the meeting, they discussed ways of joint coopera- tion in various human rights areas and the mechanisms to bridge the communication between the two sides. (QNA)

Third QCS meet in Doha on May 22 Minister of Transport and Communications HE Jassim bin Saif al Sulaiti delivered a message to European Union Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc on cooperation in the implementation of EU air safety systems TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Doha on May 22. in partnership with Qatar clude workshops on quality in Belgium on Tuesday. The meeting reviewed means of mutual cooperation and enhancing bilateral ties in DOHA Under the patronage of the Primary Materials Company and specifications of primary the field of transport and communications and the air transport sector between Qatar and the EU. Qatar’s Minister of Municipality and (QPMC) under the theme ‘Pri- materials as well as concrete Ambassador to Belgium and Head of the Qatari mission to the EU HE Sheikh Ali bin Jassim al Thani attend- THE third edition of Qatar Environment HE Moham- mary Materials are the Basis and asphalt to be presented by ed the meeting along with Civil Aviation Authority Chairman Abdullah bin Nasser Turki al Subaie. (QNA) Construction Standard (QCS) med bin Abdullah al Rumaihi, of Specifications.’ experts from the QPMC and Conference will be held in the conference is being held The conference will in- QCS committee respectively. 4 land in court for supplying Al Shamal Security Dept Attorney-gen chairs rotten chicken to the market anti-corruption meet TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK of guarantee launches mobile office DOHA However, after receiving QNA the consignment of chicken, TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK BEIJING THE Misdemeanour Court has the company distributed it in DOHA heard a case involving four of- the market even before the QATAR’S Attor- ficials of a local company ac- laboratory results were out, Al AL Shamal Security Depart- ney-General HE cused of importing a shipment Raya reported. ment has launched a mobile Dr Ali bin Fetais of chicken that was unfit for During investigations it office to provide criminal in- al Marri chaired human consumption. was found that one of the vestigation and patrol services the Executive The Public Prosecution company officials had forged for visitors to tourist and recre- Committee of charged the defendants with the letter of guarantee and ational attractions in the area. the Internation- fraud reportedly on the basis submitted it to the Customs In first phase, the office al Association of the forging of the letter of without the knowledge of the started its work in Al Ghar- of Anti-Cor- guarantee required by the Cus- company's owner about the iya area with a focus on holi- ruption ninth toms authority from the com- same to get the consignment day’s periods. meeting in the panies importing food items, released from the Customs. The mobile office will help Chinese city which forbids companies from The rest of the defendants provide a number of services of Tianjin on distributing imported food were accused of distributing to the public through receiving The office has been provided with officers and technical requirements. Tuesday. items without laboratory test- the consignment before the reports and complaints, pro- The Com- ing of its samples. laboratory results of the sam- viding assistance and finding of going to the police station, to the public. mittee approved The company reportedly ples sent for examination. appropriate solutions to some thereby preventing delay in re- The move reflects the keen- the Association Attorney-General HE Dr Ali bin Fetais al Marri imported a large consign- Subsequently, the four offi- problems as well as inform- porting incident. ness of Al Shamal Security De- General Assem- ment of frozen chicken from a cials were charged with import- ing other security authorities The office has been pro- partment to provide security bly decision, which was adopted at the eighth conference of the country in South America and ing a rotten chicken consign- when necessary. vided with officers and techni- services to the residents and association in 2015 in St Petersburg, Russia, nominating Qa- was allowed by the Customs ment and selling it in the local The highlight of the mo- cal requirements with the link visitors of the area in a short tar to chair the association, which includes members from 170 authority to keep the frozen market. The Deputy Attorney bile office is its ability to bring to electronic systems, wireless time in line with ‘providing countries and international organisations working in the field of chicken in stores and not to General has referred the ac- services to the public wherever devices and police patrols to services strategy’ based on the ant-corruption. sell it on the basis of the letter cused to court for legal action. they are and save their efforts provide the necessary services ‘decentralisation’ principle. The Committee also considered amendments of the asso- ciation’s constitution and a number of regulatory issues on its agenda. Meanwhile, the attorney-general met with Cao Jianming, procurator-general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China. They discussed a number of topics of CMC calls for more veterinary centres across Qatar common interest and legal cooperation between the two countries. RAMY SALAMA DOHA Need for special space

THE Central Municipal Council Hi-tech tools help in tracking (CMC) during a meeting under for women at parks the chairmanship of Moham- In addition, the council rec- creatures in Qatari waters CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 med Hamoud al Shafi on Tues- ommended a thorough sched- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Shaheen oil field, as well as to day called for more attention to ule of maintenance for outdoor protect these whale sharks. the veterinary care offered for The Council also proposed al- equipment. They also recom- DIRECTOR of Maersk Center Director of Fisheries De- livestock, especially in terms location of special space for mended routine sterilisation for Petroleum Research Jas- partment at MME Mohammed of providing vaccines and im- women in parks to enable of sports equipment in coop- sim al Khouri said Maersk in Saeed Shuqairi Mohannadi munisations in an efficient and them to comfortably use the eration with the authorities in cooperation with MME is using said Qatar is keen to achieve timely manner. available sports equipment. the Ministry of Public Health the latest technology in marine sustainable development of The Council also called for Central Municipal Council Chairmanship of Mohammed Hamoud al The Council recommended to protect users from diseases studies called (eDNA), one of marine and coastal resources, an increase in the number of Shafi (centre) with other officials at a meeting in Doha on Tuesday. coordination between MME transmission through infection. the surveillance tools used to ensure their survival for fu- veterinary centres for livestock and the Ministry of Culture and The Council called on the monitor and track marine crea- ture generations, and to take in Qatar. The Council called on the Sports to provide trainers and Ministry of Culture and Sports tures in certain waterways. all measures to protect marine The recommendations fol- Livestock Department to find health specialists to supervise to raise awareness and instil a He said this technology environment. lowed a proposal submitted by a mechanism to ensure speedy and advise the users of these culture of sports among citizens will help in drawing a map Mohannadi said the min- CMC member Khalid bin Ab- supply of vaccines and immu- sport equipment in the minis- and residents through radio of marine creatures in Qatari istry has issued a ministerial dullah al Ghali, representing nisations to livestock in the try’s parks. and TV as well as preachers. waters, particularly the ones decree banning the hunting of District 22, which noted that country and also to increase the found in the vicinity of the Al whale sharks. there was a shortage of ade- number of veterinary centres. quate veterinary care, especially The Council also requested that in the areas of vaccines and im- a study should be conducted to the Council also discussed the The recommendation, munisations. evaluate the possibility of the Public Services and Utilities initially proposed by Vice- Outlining the recommenda- increase of medical staff in all Committee’s comments on Chairman Hamad bin Lah- tions, Council Vice-Chairman veterinary clinics in the country. the response given by Min- dan al Mohannadi and Nass- and representative of District Hamad bin Lahdan al Mohannadi The Council further recom- ister of Municipality and the er bin Ibrahim al Mohannadi, 26 Engineer Hamad bin Lah- mended that concerned parties Environment HE Mohammed representative of District 25, dan al Mohannadi, who is role played by the Ministry intensify awareness campaigns bin Abdullah al Rumaihi to and which is currently under- also the head of the Council’s of Municipality and Environ- to publicise the dates of avail- the recommendation of the going a feasibility study by Public Services and Utilities ment’s Livestock Department ability of vaccinations for all Council regarding the estab- the Ministry of Municipality Committee which submitted and called on it to attend to this kinds of diseases and epidemics lishment of a new public park and Environment, is to be fol- the proposal, noted the CMC’s issue given the potential of its related to livestock. between the cities of Al Khor lowed up by the Council in its appreciation of the significant impact on public health. During Tuesday’s session, and Al Thakhira. future sessions. Skydive Qatar extends operations on popular demand TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK of Skydive Qatar. and is expected to last until May DOHA Tandem jumps for ama- 31 before it closes down for the teurs and certified jumps be- hot summer months. SKYDIVE Qatar organisers gan earlier on May 3 and now Tickets are available on- have announced extension of Skydive Qatar centre in Qatar line at http://Skydiveqatar. their planned operations due to has added Canopy Course for com/, Virgin Mega Stores, popular demand. previously certified Skydivers to Qtickets & Novo Cinema at The public can now expe- obtain their UPSA (B-Licence). The Pearl. For Certified Sky- rience the tandem jump all “The centre also allows the divers who would like to take weeklong except on Sundays. opportunity for students that advantage of this event to ful- Operations start at 8:30am and are working towards their USPA fill their passion for air sports, conclude at 6pm daily. (A-Licence) to complete their different packages apply “We are very happy to be minimum required 25 jumps based on their requirements. operating six days a week now for this grade of certification. “We invite everyone to Al instead of our initially planned Our on ground crew also offers Khor Airport, the new home four days only. Tandem jumps coached jumps to improve the for Skydive Qatar, to watch are very popular around the technique of the dives,” ” Ab- and explore this sport that world for armatures and we dAllah added. we are sure will witness rapid are pleased with the public The centre runs on a daily growth among all residents of response in Qatar,” said Mo- capacity of 100 tandem jumps Qatar in the very near future,” hamed AbdAllah, deputy CEO and 180 certified jumps per day, Abdallah said. The public can now experience the tandem jump all weeklong except on Sundays. Operations start at 8:30am and conclude at 6pm daily. 04 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Nation Bashir honours Qatari Doha Document implementation minister with Order of the Two Niles boosts Darfur growth: Mahmoud QNA establishment of the Islamic QNA ity and the regional security KHARTOUM Fiqh Academy in Sudan will DOHA committee for arms control in contribute to expansion of Darfur, stressing the need for PRESIDENT of Sudan Omar dawa activities and promote DEPUTY Prime Minister and continued implementation of al Bashir has issued a presi- the Academy role in maintain- Minister of State for Cabinet the document articles. dential decision to honour ing stability, unity and recon- Affairs HE Ahmed bin Ab- The deputy premier Qatar’s Minister of Awqaf and ciliation in the country. dullah al Mahmoud presided praised Darfur Regional Au- Islamic Affairs HE Dr Ghaith He underlined that the over the 11th meeting of the thority chief al Tijani al Sisi bin Mubarak al Kuwari with government and people of Su- committee monitoring imple- for efforts made in addressing the Order of the Two Niles dan appreciate the Qatari ef- mentation of the Doha Docu- obstacles and challenges faced. (First Class). forts made at all levels, which ment for Peace in Darfur Mahmoud urged the gov- The decision came on the reflect the strong and distinct (DDPD) which concluded in ernment of Central Darfur, in recommendation of the head relations between the two Khartoum on Monday. particular, to enhance its ac- of the Islamic Fiqh Academy countries. The deputy stressed that tivities in rehabilitating health, in Sudan in recognition of the On his part, Minister of during the last five years since social and educational facili- efforts of the minister in sup- Awqaf and Islamic Affairs the inception of the document, ties and providing drinking port of Islamic dawah organi- HE Dr Ghaith bin Mubarak many achievements have been water and the basic needs for sations in Sudan. al Kuwari said that his visit made in terms of power-shar- the return of the displaced and Sudan’s First Vice-Pres- to Sudan comes in the course ing, wealth-sharing, the return refugees to their villages. ident Lieutenant General of the directives of the Emir of refugees and displaced per- He added that some move- Bakri Hassan Saleh awarded His Highness Sheikh Tamim sons, justice and reconcilia- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs HE Ahmed bin Abdullah al Mahmoud at a ments remained out of DDPD the Order to the minister at bin Hamad al Thani to further tion, security arrangements meeting in Khartoum on Monday. agreement despite repeated the opening ceremony of the strengthen cooperation be- and inter-Darfur dialogue. calls to join it. Islamic Fiqh Academy on tween dawah organisations in He stressed that the Doha high commitment to their ob- regard to issues such as the recovery and return to normal He said the document Monday. both countries. Document for Peace in Dar- ligations and cooperated to put payment of compensation life, overcome the difficult days would always be open for any The first vice-president The minister reaffirmed fur succeeded in overcoming the document into effect. and the return of displaced and continued its future de- groups willing to sign it, not- hailed the Qatari leadership Qatar’s continued support and many challenges and that the He, however, noted that persons. velopment and reconstruction ing that it is not only for Dar- supportive positions for the cooperation with the Islamic signatories of the document, some provisions of the docu- “Since the entry into force of path,” Mahmoud said. fur but rather for all of Sudan security, stability and progress organisations and the Islamic both the government and the ment remained partially im- the document, Darfur has wit- He praised the efforts of and has become part of the of Sudan, saying that Qatar’s Fiqh Academy in Sudan. movements, have shown a plemented, especially with nessed a speedy move toward the Darfur Regional Author- constitution.

Tunisia FM meets Qatar’s ambassador Qatar’s public relations professionals TUNISIAN Foreign Minister Khamis al Jehinawi has met with Qatar’s Ambassador to Tunisia HE Abdullah bin Nasser al Hamidi. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral rela- tions and ways of developing and enhancing them as well welcome IPRA president to Doha as matters of common concern. (QNA)

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PUBLIC Relations practition- ers in Qatar welcomed Inter- Traffic diversion on national Public Relations As- sociation (IPRA) President De Vries on his first visit to the Al Kassarat Street country at a dinner banquet held at the Diplomatic Club in the presence of Minister of in Industrial Area Energy and Industry HE Dr TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK commodate traffic in both di- Mohammed bin Saleh al Sada. DOHA rections. The banquet was also at- The diversion aims to fa- tended by Katara General THE Public Works Author- cilitate the implementation of Manager Dr Khalid bin Ib- ity (Ashghal) has announced the roads and infrastructure rahim al Sulaiti, Director of that part of Al Kassarat Street development project in Indus- Foreign Media Affairs at Qa- extending from Roundabout trial Area, which will enhance tar News Agency Ahmed Mo- 15 to Roundabout 2 in Indus- traffic flow in the area. hamed al Buainain, Manager trial Area will be closed for six Ashghal will install road of Public Relations & Commu- months from Thursday, May signs to guide motorists of the nication Department Manager 12, 2016, in coordination with diversion. The authority re- at Qatar General Electricity the Traffic Police Department. quests all road users to abide and Water Corporation (Kah- Traffic will be diverted to by the speed limits and follow ramaa) Abdulla Anbar al Jas- the opposite side of the road the road signs to ensure their sim, Head of Department of Minister of Energy and Industry HE Dr Mohammed bin Saleh al Sada with International Public Relations Association President De Vries with which will be expanded to ac- safety. Mass Communication & In- other dignitaries during a dinner banquet at the Diplomatic Club in Doha. formation Science at Qatar University Dr Mahmoud Ga- from this visit and enhancing ference in 2013, establishing Highness Sheikh Tamim bin I have heard a lot about the lander, a number of teaching the presence of IPRA in all ac- Doha Annual Public Relations Hamad al Thani and his wise development and flourishing staff’s members at Qatar Uni- tivities that benefit public re- Gathering, holding tens of government. We hope that the some Arab countries are wit- versity and media and public lations practitioners and help training courses under the visit will be fruitful and ben- nessing such as GCC countries relations leaders. upgrade such vital sector to supervision of professional efiting to all parties as Qatar is and Qatar specifically. Speaking on the occasion, our ambitions level in this part trainers and various seminars one of the important fields of “Since elected as IPRA’s Jassim Fakhroo, board mem- of the world.” to convey the message of IPRA IPRA’s future activities. I am presided on January 2, 2016, I ber, representative of East He added, “During the to enhance the concept and very thankful and grateful to have been striving to reach out Asia and consultant of IPRA, period of our presidency of importance of public relations Kahramaa for sponsoring this to all PR practitioners around GCC’s branch, said: “We wel- IPRA's branch in Qatar from in harmony with the strategy dinner banquet.” the world, communicate with come Mr Bart de Vries to our 2005 till 2015, we, with the of IPRA. In his address, Bart de them and encourage their beloved county on his first vis- support of the members of “Again, I welcome Mr Bart Vries said, “I am very com- creativity which I consider it ever to Middle East after be- Qatar branch, held a lot of ac- de Vries, who visits us to review fortable seeing such interest very important. That is why I ing elected president of IPRA. tivities and events. The most closely the renaissance our in this vital sector in today’s am here. And that is what I am “We are looking forward important ones were organis- country is witnessing, thanks world. I am not surprised at all trying to achieve with the co- to achieving fruitful results ing the Public Relations Con- to the efforts of the Emir His because before coming here, operation of you all.” Qatar Cancer Society to take part in QIMC 2016 TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK bition alongside the conference. exchange of knowledge and ex- on acknowledgement of the peo- DOHA This participation comes as periences between parties of the ple in this field. part of the Society’s efforts aimed international medical commu- QCS General Manger Mariam QATAR Cancer Society (QCS) at promoting health awareness nity as well as support of the most al Naemi said, “The conference is will take part in Qatar Interna- and education on cancer, its re- prominent human development an opportunity to strengthen the tional Medical Congress (QIMC) sponsibility towards having a components necessary to achieve role of the charity in the creation 2016 to be held at the Doha Exhi- society enjoying health and well- the Qatar National Vision 2030, of a healthy society in line with bition & Convention Centre from ness as well as meeting all the re- through its contribution in ad- the Qatar National Vision 2030, May 18 to 20. quirements and needs of the Qa- vancing the application of national which has made the health sector The event will feature lectures tari society in line with the Qatar healthcare strategy as well as to a key partner in all fields until it on ways to prevent cancer and fac- National Vision 2030. highlight medical innovations for becomes the focus of attention of tors that increase the likelihood of This edition comes to reinforce the healthcare sector and research the world through the achieve- its occurrence. QCS will also have the great success achieved in 2015, institutions operating in Qatar. ments of the comprehensive ren- an awareness pavilion at the exhi- which is an ideal opportunity for The exhibition will also focus aissance in various sectors. 200 experts gather at Acute Care Surgery meet TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK section was officially inaugurated DOHA recently under the leadership of Dr Abdulla al Ansari, HMC’s ABOUT 200 healthcare profes- Deputy Chief Medical Officer for sionals gathered at the first Qatar Surgical Services. Acute Care Surgery Symposium Offering an advanced model hosted recently by Hamad Medi- of care, the section is responsible cal Corporation (HMC). for the management of all urgent Designed as part of continu- and emergency general surgery ing education efforts for acute cases throughout HGH. care surgery specialists, the In the previous year, the Acute symposium tackled the latest re- Care Surgery section conducted search and other developments more than 4,000 procedures. in the field. “Research indicates that hav- The symposium featured in- Dr Abdulla al Ansari Dr Ahmad Zarour ing a specialised acute care sur- ternational and local experts who gery service as part of a health- discussed the management of scess and diabetic foot infections. Acute Care Surgery section at care system is very important in various conditions needing acute “Acute care surgery is an Hamad General Hospital (HGH). reducing patients’ risk of death care, including gallstones in the evolving specialty that aims to “Acute care surgeons are and permanent disability, as this common bile duct, abdominal ensure timely access to high- highly-trained professionals with greatly improves a patient’s access sepsis, diverticulitis, pancreati- quality emergency surgical care a combined expertise in trauma to timely evaluation, diagnosis and tis, bleeding duodenal ulcer, ab- and to improve outcomes for surgery, surgical critical care and treatment of an actual or potential dominal wall hernia, necrotising patients with acute, non-trauma elective and emergency general emergency, provided by a multi- fasciitis (a rare infection that kills surgical conditions,” said Dr surgery,” he added. disciplinary team of highly-trained the body’s soft tissues), breast ab- Ahmad Zarour, head of HMC’s HMC’s Acute Care Surgery specialists,” said Dr Zarour. 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NEW AMBASSADORS: Assistant Foreign Minister for Foreign Affairs HE Sultan Haji Sardar bin Saad al Meraikhi received sepa- rately on Tuesday copies of credentials of HE Mohammad Saad as non-resi- Khan dies dent Ambassador of Togo to Qatar, HE Jens Eikaas as non-resident Ambas- LN MALLICK sador of Norway to Qatar, HE Kamlesh DOHA S Prakash as non-resident Ambassador of Fiji to Qatar, HE Wilfred Ali as non- HAJI Sardar resident Ambassador of Malawi to Khan, a long- Qatar and HE Jose Andrade de Lemos time Qatar resi- as non-resident Ambassador of Angola dent, died in Pa- to Qatar. Meraikhi wished the new am- kistan on May 7. bassadors success in their duties and Khan, aged the bilateral relations between Qatar 88, died in Ko- and their respective countries further hat, a district progress and prosperity. The presenta- of the Khyber tions of the copies of credentials were Pakhtunkhwa attended by a number of officials at province of Pa- the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (QNA) kistan. Khan Haji Sardar Khan was father of Gauhar Riaz, counsellor at the Pa- kistan Embassy. Riaz will be avail- able to accept condolences after his return from Pakistan on May 14. Khan, who was a prominent social worker and known for com- munity services, lived in Qatar for a long time and returned back to Pakistan much before Riaz’s post- ing at the Pakistani mission in Qa- tar. He was not maintaining good health lately and was hospitalised on several occasions. Members of Pak Arts Soci- ety Qatar, including Chairman MA Shahid, President Abrar Hus- sain and General Secretary Adeel Akbar, have expressed deep grief over the sad demise of Khan and have offered condolences to the be- reaved family.

MEC recalls Q-Post rate for 2016 Toyota ABP, Nottingham Law School in pact to Bangladesh Avalon vehicles help Qatari students study Law in UK QNA THE Ministry of Economy DOHA and Commerce (MEC) has TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK announced the recall of DOHA QATAR Post (Q-Post) has announced 2016 Toyota Avalon ve- a reduced rate for international mon- hicles to examine the air THE UK-based Nottingham Law School is set to ey transfer from Qatar to Bangladesh bag sensor of the front welcome students from Qatar on its qualifying from QR13 to QR9 to coincide with passenger seat. law degrees as part of a new agreement with the International Workers’ Day. The Ministry said the Academic Bridge Program (ABP). Q-Post chairman and managing recall decision was part of The first to be signed with a UK law school, director Faleh al Naemi said, “We are its continuous coordina- the progression agreement will see students who doing our best to serve the country’s tion and follow-up to as- complete the ABP given the opportunity to apply Bangladeshi community. The service certain the commitment of for one of Nottingham Law School’s LLB pro- is offered to and from 2,500 post of- car dealerships to follow- grammes, which offer joint routes including busi- fices in Bangladesh.” He added that up vehicle defects and re- ness, psychology, journalism and criminology. some of the Q-Post branches are now pair them as well as pro- Students who join the law school will have open on the first and last Fridays of tecting consumer rights. the chance to work in its Legal Advice Centre – every month between 4pm and 8pm. The Ministry stressed an innovative ‘teaching law firm’ where they will The branches are Old Airport that it will be coordina- carry out pro bono work for real clients to gain (Lulu Hypermarket), Mansoura tion with the company’s valuable experience. (Al Meera), Souq Al Ali, Industrial agent to follow-up on The Dean of Nottingham Law School Profes- Area, Mesaieed and Al Khor, ac- maintenance, repairs sor Janine Griffiths-Baker said: “This is a fan- cording to Naemi. and communication with tastic opportunity for students from Qatar to Qatar Post offers International customers to ensure the experience life at a vibrant UK university. Law is The progression agreement will see students who complete the ABP given the opportunity to apply for one of Money Remittance service on the implementation of proce- a prestigious degree and on this course they will Nottingham Law School’s LLB programmes. International Financial System dures and reparation the gain knowledge and transferable skills which will (IFS) platform of Universal Post defective cars. be of great value to organisations in their own Dr Mark Newmark, assistant director for ABP is working to build human capacity and Union (UPU). The MEC has urged all country and internationally.” Academic Affairs, ABP said: “The ABP is espe- contribute to the 2030 goals of human and At present, the service is op- customers to report any The ABP now has agreements with over 20 cially pleased with the agreement with NTU. economic development.” erational with Morocco Post (Poste violations to the Consumer universities in the UK. These agreements provide The agreement with NTU provides well-qual- ABP is a centre of the Qatar Foundation for Maroc), Tunisia Post (La Poste Tu- Protection and Anti-Com- well-qualified ABP graduates with streamlined ified ABP graduates with a pathway to study Education, Science and Community Develop- nisienne), Djibouti Post (La Poste de mercial Fraud Depart- pathways to year 1 studies in a number of cours- law, a programme of study for which it is very ment recognised locally as a premier pre-univer- Djibouti) and Bangladesh Post. Qatar ment. (QNA) es, instead of having to do an additional founda- difficult to gain admission. By creating such op- sity programme for high school graduates from Post is striving for new agreements in tion course in the UK. portunities for successful ABP graduates, the Qatar and other countries in the region. this regard. 06 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Nation International associations meet in Qatar

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK excited about conveying Qa- DOHA tar’s potential to my board. There is no question in my MEETING planners for inter- mind about Qatar’s capacity, national associations met with infrastructure and the support local industry representatives from the local community for in a session hosted by Qatar hosting large-scale events,” Tourism Authority (QTA) to said Mark Challinor, President introduce event planners to of International News Media potential hosts. Association (INMA). The planners represented Attendees discussed the UK-based and international benefits of hosting large-scale associations, including World international events to the lo- Petroleum Council, Interna- cal community and economy. tional News Media Association Events that draw thousands and the International Artist of delegates can bring up to Managers Association. $50 million in revenue to a The match-making session host country, through visitors took place at Qatar National spending on hospitality, trans- Convention Centre, enabling portation and retail. planners to witness first-hand Jacob Kristiansen, Director a sample of the country’s state- of Projects at professional con- of-the art conference facilities, ference organiser MCI Middle and meet with local industry East, attended the event to ex- leaders such as Qatar Petro- plore opportunities as his com- leum, Northwestern University pany prepares to open a branch in Qatar and Qatar Philhar- in Qatar. “The local market is monic Orchestra. QTA introduces associations on the look-out for hosts of their global conventions to local industry leaders. ripe and ready for hosting glo- “We are delighted to in- bal conferences. The industry troduce global associations to ence and research, sports and tors and the ongoing efforts to ing a substantial number of the heavily on business events. empowering Qatar-based or- is moving quickly on a journey representatives of institutions music,” commented Ahmed diversify Qatar’s economy are country’s visitors.” QTA’s work to achieve this ganisations to bid for and host to build a premium destination that make up Qatar’s key sec- al Obaidli, Director of Exhi- reflected in the year-round lo- Obaidli added that QTA’s target involves continuous ses- global events. for events, and we are glad to tors, including education, oil bitions at QTA. “Our leader- cal, regional and international strategy to attract seven mil- sions to introduce planners to “This visit has been a real be working with QTA to make and gas, environment, sci- ship’s investment in these sec- events being held here, attract- lion visitors by 2030 relies local stakeholders, as well as eye-opener for me, and I am this journey successful.” ‘Quest Arabiya Treat for basketball fans! Pibaq’s AoD screens 200 HD’ now on Ooredoo tv 2016 Ambassador Cup kicks off people for diabetes TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK tools to prevent and better man- TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Event part of Philippine Independence Day celebration DOHA age diabetes in Qatar.” DOHA GCC Health Week features ACTION on Diabetes (AoD) activities organised by the Min- OOREDOO has on Tuesday an- AILYN AGONIA concluded the GCC Health istry of Public Health, Hamad nounced the launch of a new ‘Quest DOHA Week recently with a second Medical Corporation (HMC), Arabiya HD’ channel on its Ooredoo successful screening event. Primary Healthcare Corpora- tv service offering educational, engi- PINOY Basketball of Qatar (Pibaq) in co- Organised at Katara Cultur- tion (PHCC), Qatar Diabetes neering, wildlife, science and crime operation with the Philippine Embassy al Village, the event saw more Association, the Ministry of programming all in full Arabic. Doha and the United Filipino Organiza- than 200 members of the local Interior Medical Services, the The new free to air Arabic factual tions in Qatar (UFOQ) officially opened community screened by dia- Qatar Armed Forces Medical entertainment channel is broadcast the 2016 Ambassador Cup-Ooredoo at betes nurses at a mobile clinic. Services and Action on Diabe- 24 hours a day across 22 countries the Al Gharafa Stadium recently. Healthcare educators offered tes to tackle one of the country’s in the MENA region. Quest Arabiya The basketball tournament or- tips on how to reduce the risk biggest health challenges. broadcasts regionally-produced, ganised jointly with Qatar Basketball of developing diabetes in the fu- The success of the screening original material focusing on stories Federation (QBF) is in line with the ture and distributed brochures at Katara is a testament to the relevant to the region. month-long celebration of the 118th containing information on the considerable progress made by Ooredoo tv viewers will also be anniversary of the declaration of Phil- importance of early detection Action on Diabetes in tackling able to enjoy award-winning con- ippine Independence which will be and a healthy lifestyle. the condition and the health tent from Discovery Communica- marked by the community with a grand This follows an equally suc- challenges it presents through tions’ extensive library of factual gathering on June 3. cessful mobile clinic screening screening programmes that entertainment shows, which has The opening was attended by Philip- event at the Ministry of Devel- support awareness, prevention been fully Arabised to ensure Quest pine Ambassador to Qatar HE Wilfredo opment, Planning and Statistics and patient empowerment. Arabiya appeals to as wide an audi- C Santos and UFOQ Chairman Ed An- that took place at the beginning To date, more than 35,000 ence as possible. ami together with Antonio Valdez Cruz of GCC Health Week. people have been screened Ooredoo tv viewers can now en- of Ooredoo Protocol and Board Affairs. Commenting on the for diabetes through AoD’s joy Quest Arabiya HD via channel “Due to the innate love of Filipinos screening event, Abudullah al programmes with more than number 158. Mozaic TV subscrib- of basketball, Pibaq has taken the lead Kuwari, head of HSE at Mae- 1,000 new cases identified. ers can watch Quest Arabiya HD on in professionalising the conduct of such rsk Oil Qatar, said: “We’re de- The success of activity during channel number 169. tournament in Qatar in compliance lighted with the continued suc- GCC Health Week demon- This is the latest in a line of chan- with the rules of the Philippine Basket- cess of these screening events strates the commitment and nel announcements for Ooredoo tv, ball Federation (Samahang Basketbol Philippine Ambassador to Qatar HE Wilfredo C Santos and other officials opened the 2016 and of GCC Health Week over- proactive approach of Qatar to as the company continues to invest ng Pilipinas). The 2016 Ambassador Ambassador Cup-Ooredoo in Doha recently. (PHOTO BY LYRA CATHERINE AYSON) all as part of our drive to build combat the increasing preva- in providing entertainment for its di- Cup is in preparation for the 1st PIDC- awareness and empower the lence of diabetes. verse customer base. GCC Invitational Championship Cup tures six teams competing in the Inter- a two-point edge through the combined local community to prevent Under the framework of Existing Mozaic TV customers to be held in Al Attiyah Arena on June Region Division, eight teams in Aspir- force of Mark Louie Pradas who contrib- and treat diabetes.” the National Health Strategy, who want to upgrade to Ooredoo tv 16 and 17 as part of the programme ants Division and nine teams in Senior uted 20 points and the tandem of Rich- Herluf Nis Thomsen, Action the National Diabetes Com- can simply visit any Ooredoo retail for the celebration of Philippine In- Open Division. ard Raagas, finishing with 15 points, and on Diabetes programme man- mittee and Ministry of Public shop, order and collect a free Oore- dependence Day. The next event we Besides, the ceremonial ball tossing Rogelio Longalong with 14 points. The ager said: “Events like these Health have developed the Qa- doo tv play device today. Ooredoo tv are organising with Doha League will led by Ambassador Santos, the opening final score was 78-76. play a vitally important part in tar National Diabetes Strategy offers features such as 4K resolution, be participated by teams from Saudi of the tournament was also highlighted The tournament is presented by Ali- helping to successfully deliver (QNDS), a new national strat- time shift, android apps, parental Arabia, Qatar and the UAE (Dubai and by an action-packed opening game be- cafe and sponsored by Diana Jewellery the ambitions of the Qatar Na- egy specifically designed to de- control, thousands of hours of on de- Abu Dhabi),” said Pibaq President and tween team Pampanga (Alicafe) and Ilo- & Watches (Major Sponsor) with Power tional Diabetes Strategy. We’re velop the capabilities and tools mand content and much more at no SBP Head in Qatar Pat Carido. cos (Wind Mill). Horse Energy Drink, Boracay Filipino focused on equipping the com- necessary to prevent and better extra cost. The 2016 Ambassador Cup fea- Pampanga clinched the victory with Restaurant and Control-P Advertising. munity with the capabilities and manage diabetes in Qatar. Russian cultural performers dazzle at Katara TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK dance from southern Russia. other folkloric perform- Performance’. DOHA In addition, the performers ances entitled: ‘Breeze’ and In 1995, the team attained continued to amuse the visi- ‘Molodychika’ which is tra- the title of ‘People’s amateur AS part of the ‘Cultural Di- tors with an artistic show, in ditional Cossack perform- group’. In 2000, ‘Stanitsa’ versity Festival’ activities, which they used Cossacks ance usually performed in was classified as the best am- the Cultural Village Foun- in their performance. Other wedding ceremonies. ateur group in their region, dation, Katara, has organ- folkloric performances in- ‘Stanitsa’ is a Russian which led the performers to ised in cooperation with the cluded: Small Pillow, ‘Naur- folklore group that was origi- regularly perform in all the UNESCO office in Doha, a skaia’ performance originated nally formed in 1990, and regional events. The culture folklore performance by the from the North Caucasus, and was established based on the of Kuban is considered to Russian group ‘Stanitsa’ at ‘Pleskach’ show that repre- House of Culture and Sports be a fusion of the Ukrain- Katara’s Esplanade on Mon- sented the Black Sea region. of the Elizavetinskaia vil- ian, Russian and North day and Tuesday. Some of the artistic yet lage of Krasnodar. The tra- Caucasian cultures. ‘Stanitsa’ creatively per- comedian performances that ditional folkloric group ‘Sta- As Katara’s ‘Cultural Di- formed a number of cultural received a virtuous interac- nitsa’ represents the culture versity Festival’ ongoing ac- performances that repre- tion from Katara’s audience, of southern Russia, specifi- tivities are attracting a wide sented the lifestyle of the Ku- included: ‘The Kiev Guys’, cally Kuban. The performers’ audience, the Cultural Village ban region. The performers which is referred to be a com- main aim is preservation, Foundation has announced greeted the audience with a ic and amusing performance, development and promo- the hosting of African folk- military performance enti- and ‘When Cossacks Cry’. tion of traditional culture loric performance specifically tled: ‘March’, followed by ‘Ka- Furthermore, the per- ‘Stanitsa’ creatively performed a number of cultural performances that represented the lifestyle of the through a performance enti- from Burkina Faso at Katara’s zachok’ which is a traditional formers continued with Kuban region. tled: ‘The National Cossack Esplanade, on May 15 and 16. Wednesday, May 11, 2016 07 Reports by L N Mallick For events and press releases email Pakistan Prism [email protected] or call (974) 44422077

Shafallah Centre Chairman Mohamed Badr al Saada. Al-Awsaj Academy Science Coordinator Michelle Gaddy. Chief guest Wajid Hashmi appreciated PEF’s efforts in spreading awareness about the issue. Charge d’affaires Wajid Hasan Hashmi and Mohamed Badr al Saada with PEF executive committee. PEF SEMINAR RAISES AWARENESS ON AUTISM HE Pakistan Engi- Academy was putting an increas- helping children with special neers Forum (PEF) ing rigour into LEGO Robotics. needs gain proper interpersonal organised a technical It is a grade 1 to12 school that skills that will able them to lead seminar titled ‘Au- addresses the needs of students independent lives. tism: how can tech- with learning challenges and an Dr Qidwai and his team at nology assist’, at Sapphire Plaza outreach centre that provides QU, students and schoolchil- Hotel recently. evaluation and professional de- dren, demonstrated NAO Robot Charge d’affaires at the Pa- velopment services to the com- for possible social and pedagogi- kistani Embassy Wajid Hasan munity, she said. cal activities. He said that these Hashmi was the chief guest. The Dr Qidwai gave an overview robots were designed to address key speaker was Shafallah Cen- of the alarmingly increasing the specific needs of autistic chil- tre Chairman Mohamed Badr problem of Autism Spectrum dren. He said further research is al Saada. Other speakers were Disorder (ASD) in the world and underway to improve the tech- Al-Awsaj Academy Science Co- how it can be handled. “While nology to help children become ordinator Michelle Gaddy, Qa- no known cure exists to date for a normal part of society. tar University Associate Profes- this disorder, many technologi- Chief guest Wajid Hashmi sor (Computer Engineering) Dr cal efforts have been made inside appreciated PEF’s efforts in Uvais Qidwai, and TNG School Qatar as well as internationally spreading awareness about the Special Needs Education Coordi- to alleviate the impediments to issue. “I am grateful to the or- nator Nawal Hafeez. learning and social intractability ganisers for spreading aware- Mohammad Riaz of Saudi Cable Company receivines a certificate of appreciation PEF President Tahir Jamil of children suffering from au- ness about autism. For many from Wajid Hasan Hashmi. welcomed the guests. In addi- tism,” he noted. years, PEF has been continuous- tion to the speeches on autism, a Nawal Hafeez presented the ly spreading awareness about demonstration on robotic activi- community programme of Pa- the scientific developments and ties was also presented. kistan Welfare Forum at TNG we must commend their efforts. Mohamed Badr al Saada said School. “We are treating the Pa- I sincerely hope that all efforts Shafallah Centre was trying to kistani special needs community in the direction of research on introduce all kinds of new tech- (PSNC), which aims at connect- autism comes to fruitation,” he nology to enable disabled chil- ing with families with autism said. dren to interact normally in their /special-needs children and PEF President Tahir Jamil lives with people. He shared his providing them with support as thanked the speakers and the experience with the audience well as a platform where they participants for helping spread and presented some videos of can voice their concerns,” she awareness about this important those special children who have noted. She said that PSNC works issue through the seminar. He been educated at the centre, who to achieve three major goals: also thanked sponsors, Sap- now are in a better condition. He spreading special needs aware- phire Plaza Hotel, Al Khayarin said the centre offers education- ness to increase parental and Group, Saudi Cable Company, al, medical and psychological community support; making Al Anis Trading, Jascon Engi- besides rehabilitation services to special education for children neering and Al Feroz Interna- any child. easily accessible within the Paki- tional, for their support in or- Michelle Gaddy said Awsaj stani and local community; and ganising the event. Dr Uvais Qidwai demonstrating a robot. Nawal Hafeez receiving a certificate of appreciation from Wajid Hasan Hashmi. PPFQ healthy lifestyle among professionals THE Pakistan Professional Forum Qatar (PPFQ) brought together the Pakistani professional community to take part in the fourth event of the ongoing Qatar Running Series organised by Z Adventures recently. Along with a number of Paki- stani professional community mem- bers, PPFQ executive committee members Mohsin Mujtaba, Uzma Shehryar, Sana Salman and Qaiser Anwar participated. “At PPFQ, we believe that run- ning is about getting to the finish line, getting the job done; no matter what. Perseverance is what it takes to do that and Pakistani profession- als in Qatar and all around the world are well equipped with this profes- sional quality,” said PPFQ Chair- Ziyad Rahim with (right to left) Qaiser Anwar, Sana Salman, Uzma Shehryar and Mohsin Mujtaba. (PHOTOGRAPHS :SULAIMAN MOOLA) man Mohsin Mujtaba, after finish- ing his run. On May 6, around 120 runners al Vision 2030, as part of human clubs in town but apart from week- Qatar Running Series is the from over 40 nationalities laced up development by promoting sports end club practice runs, there aren’t brainchild of Ziyad Rahim who their trainers and participated in the activities in the community,” said too many events. Hence, I decided holds 10 Guinness World Records Dugong Marine Challenge, which is General Secretary Sana Salman. to start the running series. Such is in long-distance running. Rahim is the 4th event of the ongoing Qatar “As professionals we often tend the demand for these races that all a Pakistani adventure-runner and Running Series. Participants in- to over-prioritise work. At PPFQ, my events are sold out in advance. entrepreneur. His company organ- cluded professional athletes, fitness we aim to provide our members I am so glad to see Pakistani profes- ises unique running challenges all enthusiasts, amateurs and even en- with opportunities to lead a healthy sionals taking part in the event and over the world, ranging from cruise thusiastic children vying for the tro- lifestyle and this event is the first am thankful to PPFQ for promoting marathons to seven continent chal- phies and medals. The Dugong Ma- in a series of such events. Ziyad the races in the community.” lenges. rine Challenge featured four events Rahim and his team have done a The 5th race of the series will He is the founder and CEO of Z including a half-marathon, 10km, remarkable job and PPFQ is com- take place on May 20 at the same Adventures and co-founder of En- 5km and 3km run along the Na- mitted to extending its full support venue, followed by the season-end- durance Leaders Mideast FZC. As tional Day Ceremonial Road near to Z Adventures to reach out to our ing event in Education City on May an avid athlete and traveller, Rahim Izghawa in north Doha. community in Qatar and help pro- 27. Apart from individual events, has completed over 200 long-dis- While the run was open to all, mote healthy initiatives,” said PPFQ runners points are added from each tance events covering more than 40 prizes were awarded to the best while Megan Jones won the 10K. “PPFQ plans to make this an President Uzma Shehryar. race and the top 3 male and female countries. He is the only athlete in runners in a range of categories, For the 4th time in a row, Jamuel annual event, a part of their events Rahim said: “The idea came to runners in each category receive the world to have completed a half based on age, distance and gender. Sagun won the 5K, while Abigail calendar and hopes to get more and my mind when I was approached awards at the season-ending race marathon, full marathon and an It was a Kenyan sweep in the Half Cox won the women’s race. In the more turnout from all communities by the local running community if on May 27. ultra-marathon in each continent. Marathon and 10K male catego- 5K Under-18 division, eight-year- every year,” said Social Media VP I could organise some local events. Rahim also confirmed organis- Rahim is a member of the exclusive ries as Hillary Ngetich and Hillary old Ahsan Moustapha from Paki- Qaiser Anwar. I have been living in Qatar for the ing the Ramadan challenge in June. seven continents marathon club, Roteich won the race in record stan finished first in an impressive “It aims to promote health and last 7 years and noticed that there There will be a three-race series having completed the circuit five time. The female half marathon was time of 24 minutes, while the girls fitness among professionals based are hardly any organised running starting at 8pm on Friday evenings times. won by American Trisha McElroy, race was won by Zara Rahim. in Qatar in support of Qatar Nation- events. There are a few running during the holy month. 08 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Philippines / Southeast Asia

Marcos Jr calls for halt to unofficial VP vote count Boxer Pacquiao close to Senate win AP trend” contrary to independ- lead. She promised full support MANILA Boxing great Manny bounced back in polls after MANILA ent exit polls and the cam- Official results won’t be re- for Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, Pacquiao appears to have losing support in February paign’s estimates, according leased for at least another two who has cemented his lead won a seat in the Philip- over remarks he made about THE late Philippine dictator to his adviser, Representative weeks. The Philippines elects in the Philippine presidential pine Senate, according to same-sex marriage. He is the Ferdinand Marcos’ son, who Jonathan dela Cruz. the president and vice presi- election, in case she wins. unofficial results. Pacquiao Philippines’ most famous ath- is running for vice president, If Marcos wins, that would dent separately. The election commission has garnered more than 15 lete and among the wealthiest called on Tuesday for a stop put him a step away from the Robredo, a lawyer for the has yet to formally receive million votes, with about 93 sports celebrities in the world. to an unofficial vote count presidency 30 years after his poor and the widow of a well- Marcos’ request and the in- percent of precincts reporting He has represented Sarangani that shows his rival has over- father was ousted by a public loved politician, has denied sinuations of irregularities on Tuesday. That places him province in the House of Rep- taken him. uprising amid plunder allega- cheating. are based on a partial and eighth among candidates for resentatives since May 2010. Senator Ferdinand “Bong- tions and widespread human She thanked her support- unofficial count, according to 12 Senate seats, and nearly Pacquiao ran under the losing bong” Marcos Jr’s campaign rights abuses. ers at a news conference on James Jimenez, a commission 3 million votes ahead of the ticket of presidential candi- said it sent an urgent request His rival, Congresswom- Tuesday but said the count spokesman. candidate in 13th place. Of- date Jejomar Binay but has to the Commission on Elec- an Leni Robredo, was ahead Vice presidential candidate was not yet over. She asked Christian Monsod, one of ficial results are days away. also been endorsed by Mayor tions to halt a tally released by by 200,000 votes, putting Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr all to remain calm and respect the framers of the country’s He cast his vote on Monday Rodrigo Duterte, the winner of an accredited citizen’s group, her half a percentage point whatever results come out of 1987 constitution and former in his home turf of southern the presidential race according saying the results showed ahead of Marcos as of Tues- the unofficial count. Earlier what she said were clean and elections commission head, Sarangani province. He had to unofficial results. (AP) “an alarming and suspicious day afternoon, according to counts had Marcos in the orderly elections. welcomed Robredo’s lead. Duterte is open to talks on sea row with China Duterte claims presidency, AFP no, have endured steadily wors- DAVAO ening relations in recent years as they sparred over joint claims PHILIPPINE president-elect to parts of the South China Sea, vows crackdown on crime Rodrigo Duterte is willing to one of the world’s most strategi- talk with China over a highly cally important waterways. sensitive territorial dispute China claims nearly all of To impose night-time curfews for minors; ban on serving of alcohol after midnight to be considered in the South China Sea, his the sea, even waters approach- spokesman said on Tuesday, ing the coasts of the Philip- AFP in a significant reversal of the pines, Vietnam and other DAVAO incumbent’s stance. Southeast Asian nations. Duterte is also willing to To enforce its claims, China INCENDIARY Philippine form partnerships with China has built contested reefs into politician Rodrigo Duterte to extract gas and oil deposits artificial islands, some topped vowed on Tuesday a relentless that are believed to be in the with military-capable airstrips. crackdown on crime after se- sea, as well as explore joint China also in 2012 took con- curing a landslide presidential fishing management systems, trol of Scarborough Shoal, a rich victory built on foul-mouthed Peter Lavina said. fishing area within the Philip- populist tirades that exposed “This is the difference be- pines’ economic exclusive zone. deep voter anger at the estab- tween the current and the Du- The Philippines, with a lishment. terte administrations, the may- tiny military compared with The 71-year-old fire- or is open to bilateral talks with China, has responded by sign- brand’s main rivals conceded China,” Lavina told reporters in ing a new defence pact with defeat after an unofficial tally Davao, the major southern city the United States and filing a showed Duterte had an insur- that Duterte has ruled as mayor legal challenge with a United mountable lead in Monday’s for most of the past two dec- Nations tribunal asking it to election of 6.1 million votes, ades. China and the Philippines, rule the Chinese claims to a result that added to howls under President Benigno Aqui- most of the sea are invalid. across the globe for strong, populist leaders. CHINA HOPES FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION Duterte, the longtime mayor of the southern city of Davao, captivated Filipinos BEIJING China said on Tuesday that it hopes to work with the with vows of brutal but quick Philippines’ new government to resolve territorial disputes in the solutions to crime and pov- South China Sea, but insisted the onus is on Manila to lower erty, while offering himself as tensions. Beijing hopes the Philippines will “meet China halfway, a decisive strongman capable taking concrete measures to properly deal with the disputes of resolving a host of other so as to put the ties of the two countries back on the track of deeply entrenched problems sound development,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in society. at a daily news briefing. (AP) “It’s with humility, ex- treme humility, that I accept this, the mandate of the peo- A soldier guards boxes containing election ballots and other paraphernalia, a day after the national elections, in the hometown of leading ple,” Duterte told AFP in Dav- presidential candidate Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte in Davao city, southern Philippines, on Tuesday. (REUTERS) ao early on Tuesday morning as the results came in. and eliminating corruption. kill you,” he said. Philippines to tighten “I feel a sense of gratitude On the campaign trail he ROXAS CONCEDES DEFEAT The election commission to the Filipino people.” had enraged critics but hyp- was not expected to officially In other comments to re- notised fans with profanity- EMOTIONS ran high at the Liberal Party headquarters as stand- proclaim Duterte as the win- money-laundering porters who had converged on laced promises to kill tens of ard-bearer Mar Roxas announced his concession to the leading ner of Monday’s vote for more Davao, Duterte offered an ol- thousands of criminals, forget presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday. Duterte is than a week. ive branch to his rivals follow- human rights laws and par- ahead of Roxas by at least 6 million votes. Roxas overtook Sen- However it had author- laws after bank heist ing a deeply divisive campaign don himself for mass murder. ator Grace Poe at second place according to the latest partial ised the PPCRV, a Catholic that had seen President Be- While avoiding such ex- and unofficial tally of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Church-run poll monitor, REUTERS Rizal Commercial Bank- nigno Aquino brand him a dic- treme inflammatory remarks, “According to the unofficial tally of Comelec, Mayor Digong is the to tally the votes, and they MANILA ing Corp. It was then moved tator in the making who would Duterte said a law-and-order clear winner. I wish you success, Mayor Duterte. Your success showed on Tuesday evening through a remittance firm bring terror to the nation. crackdown that particularly is the success of the Filipino people,” Roxas said. Supporters with about 94 percent of the THE Philippines started the and later to casinos and gam- “I want to reach out my targeted drugs would be one of Roxas were seen crying as he delivered a speech at a packed total counted that Duterte process to strengthen its bling agents. Most of that hand and let us begin the heal- of his top priorities when he function hall at the Balay headquarters in Cubao, Quezon City. could not lose. anti-money laundering and money is missing. ing now,” said Duterte, whose became president, and he was Roxas was with his wife Korina Sanchez. (AGENCIES) Duterte had 38.60 percent bank secrecy laws on Tues- “Weaknesses and loop- campaigning style and ability prepared to kill. of the vote, with administra- day, aiming to plug loopholes holes in our legal frame- to upend conventional politi- “I will do it (fight drugs), tion candidate Mar Roxas on that allowed $81 million works breed risk; we intend cal wisdom have drawn com- even if they say I am an ex- One of his Davao rules, Duterte, who on the cam- 23.42 percent and Senator stolen in one of the world’s to stamp these out as best parisons with US Republican ecutioner,” said Duterte, who night-time curfews for mi- paign trail boasted of being Grace Poe in third with 21.65 biggest cyber heists to pass we can,” Finance Secretary Donald Trump. rights groups accuse of run- nors, would be imposed na- behind the death squads, also percent, according to PPCRV. through Manila banks and Cesar Purisima said in the However Duterte vowed to ning vigilante death squads in tionwide while a ban on the had a warning for corrupt po- In the Philippines, a win- casinos. statement. push through on the central Davao that have killed more serving of alcohol after mid- lice. ner is decided simply by who- The Department of Fi- The exclusion of casinos plank of his campaign plat- than 1,000 people. night would also be consid- “If you are a policeman ever gets the most votes. The nance said it was working from the current scope of the form -- ending crime across “Look what I did to Davao. ered, his spokesman Peter and stick to your racket, next president will be sworn with the country’s anti-mon- anti-money laundering laws the nation within six months I will not let down the people.” Lavina said on Tuesday. choose: either you kill me or I in on June 30. ey laundering council and and a strict bank secrecy law central bank to amend the have made it difficult for au- list of entities covered by its thorities to track the Bangla- anti-money laundering law desh money trail and identify Duterte shows softer side at parents’ tomb to include casinos. A draft the perpetrators. bill was submitted to Con- The Finance department AP sonality that voters had seen in the local Bisaya dialect as gress, it said. also said it proposed to in- DAVAO CITY in stump speeches and cam- he sobbed quietly in front of Unidentified hackers in- clude tax evasion, among paign rallies over the last his parent’s tomb. “I’m just a filtrated the computers at the other crimes, as a predicate SOON after it became ap- three months. At that mo- nobody.” Bangladesh central bank in crime, or component, of parent from election results ment it was an emotional The display of emotion, early February and tried to money laundering, and ex- that Rodrigo Duterte would son seeking blessings from caught on video and photos transfer $951 million from pand the powers of the anti- be the next president of the his parents for a monumen- and posted on Facebook, its settlement account at the money laundering council. Philippines, he drove at 3 am tal task ahead. He had come showed a starkly differ- Federal Reserve Bank of New It is also seeking to lift on Tuesday to a cemetery to a long way from being the ent man from the Duterte York. restrictions on bank secrecy visit his parents’ tomb. And problem child who often got that critics have dubbed a Most transfers were of both peso and foreign cur- there he wept. into trouble and even was “butcher” for advocating the blocked, but $81 million rency deposits for tax pur- Gone was the rough, kicked out of school. murder of drug traffickers Mayor Rodrigo Duterte visits the tomb of his late father Governor was sent to four accounts at poses, a proposal also sup- tough-talking, vulgar per- “Help me Mom,” he said and other criminals. Vicente Duterte in Davao city early on Tuesday. (AP) a branch of the Philippines’ ported by the central bank. Thailand frees 8 anti-junta activists on bail Taiwanese group stakes legal REUTERS Two of them also face claim in S China Sea court case BANGKOK charges of infringing Thai- land’s royal defamation law, THAILAND released eight ac- known as Article 112. DPA a case brought by the Philip- nation, sources in Taipei said. tivists on bail on Tuesday who The court released them on TAIPEI pines against China, which Taiwan has tried to bolster had been detained for posting bail of 200,000 baht ($5,675) claims almost the entirety of its claim to Taiping Island in Facebook comments critical of each, Winyat Chatmontree, a A TAIWANESE group con- the vital shipping route. recent months by arranging the ruling junta and a military- lawyer for the group, told Reu- firmed on Tuesday that it had The Taiwanese group on a visit by President Ma Ying- backed draft constitution. ters. staked Taiwan’s legal claim March 23 rebutted the Philip- jeou in January and a visit by The military seized power Supporters greeted them to territories in the disputed pines’ claims to an island in the foreign press in March. in May 2014, throwing out an with flowers outside the Bang- South China Sea as part of an the sea, Tsai Pei-lun of the law “It’s regrettable that we are old constitution and clamping kok prison where they had international court case. society told dpa Tuesday. The not invited to participate in down on dissent. It has prom- been held. The Taipei-based Chinese government in on Taipei is ex- the court case,” Taiwan For- ised an election by mid-2017. “I have to thank the court (Taiwan) Society of Interna- cluded from the proceedings. eign Ministry spokeswoman But a draft constitution that granted us bail and gave tional Law submitted a legal Taiwan-administered Eleanor Wang told dpa. drawn up under military su- Activists leave the military court in Bangkok on Tuesday. (REUTERS) us freedom,” said activist brief in March to the Perma- Taiping Island, or Itu Aba, lies “However, the result of pervision has drawn disap- Noppakao Kongsuwan. “I nent Court of Arbitration in around halfway between Viet- the ruling does not affect the proval from both sides of the dum on it. law for their posts on social also want to thank the broth- The Hague, which is due to nam and the Philippines. fact that, under the principles political divide, and the junta The activists, detained media website Facebook that ers and sisters. Some sent us make a long-awaited ruling The court in The Hague of international law, Taiwan’s has responded by banning in April, have been charged criticised the draft constitu- moral support on social media about who controls parts of has passed the documents sovereignty over islands in the criticism of the charter in the with sedition and violating tion and junta leader Prayuth and others came to visit us in the South China Sea. filed by Taiwan to the Philip- South China Sea is unques- run-up to an August referen- Thailand’s computer crimes Chan-ocha. prison,” he said. The court is considering pines, asking for more expla- tionable.” Pakistan / South Asia Wednesday, May 11, 2016 09 Blast at southwestern Pakistan varsity parking lot kills 2 US weighs lifting of remaining Myanmar sanctions

QUETTA A provincial official says a bomb has exploded in the parking area of a state-run YANGON Washington's new ambassador to Myanmar on Tuesday said remaining sanctions had university in southwestern Pakistan, killing two police officers and wounding five people. taken an "unintended" toll on the nation's delicate economic development, as the US re-evaluates NEWS Sarfraz Bugti says police are trying to determine who planted the bomb that went off its embargoes on the former pariah state. The US rolled back many of its sanctions to reward IN BRIEF Tuesday near the Baluchistan university in the city of Quetta, the provincial capital. No one reforms since 2011, but kept a clutch of blacklists targeting junta-era cronies as it seeks to push immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan further changes. "Now in the aftermath of the transition to the new elected government we are and has long been the scene of a low-level insurgency by Baloch separatist groups. Islamic again reviewing our sanctions," ambassador Scot Marciel said at a press conference in Yangon, militants also operate in the province. (AP) adding that he could not yet say what the result of next week's review would be. (AFP) Abducted son of ex-Pakistan PM freed in joint US-Afghan raid

plain it in words". which he was campaigning. Gilani was kidnapped in Multan on May 9, 2013, just two days before "He is still in Afghanistan Gunmen on a motorbike and soon he will be among us," opened fire before abducting a bitterly contested national election in which he was campaigning he said of his brother. him in a black Honda car. His "God has accepted some- secretary and a bodyguard AFP from Kabul. "This rally has proved for- body's prayer. The prayer of were killed, and four people KABUL The Afghan presidency tunate for me," he said. those who love us," a third wounded. said the raid had targeted an "When I was about to brother, Ali Musa Gilani, told In May last year he was US and Afghan forces freed Al-Qaeda cell, and that Gilani board the helicopter (to come) media. able to phone his father to tell the kidnapped son of a former had been sent to the Pakistani I received the information that NATO said in its statement him he was well. Pakistani prime minister dur- embassy in Kabul. my son Ali Haider Gilani, who that the raid was carried out The ex-premier's family is ing a counter-terrorism mis- The Afghan ambassador to was kidnapped three years under Operation Freedom's one of the most powerful in sion in eastern Afghanistan, Islamabad, Omar Zakhilwal, ago, has been recovered." Sentinel, the US mission fo- Multan and a key clan in the NATO said on Tuesday, three told AFP that Gilani was in Hundreds of people con- cusing on counter-terrorism Pakistan People's Party (PPP), years after he was kidnapped good health. verged on the family's home in as well as training, advising which lost the 2013 election. in a hail of bullets. "He is fine, he can walk, he Multan in central Punjab prov- and assisting Afghan troops. Gilani's recovery comes Ali Haider Gilani, son of can talk," Zakhilwal said, add- ince as the news broke, danc- "Four enemy combatants two months after the kid- Yousaf Raza Gilani, "was res- ing that he expected the former ing to drumbeats and passing were killed as a result of the napped son of another Paki- cued today in Giyan District hostage to return to Pakistan around sweets in celebration. operation," it said. stani politician was also freed. of Paktika Province Afghani- late Tuesday or Wednesday. Some also hugged and pre- Gilani was kidnapped by Shahbaz Taseer, son of stan by US Special Opera- Yousaf Raza Gilani broke sented flowers to Ali Haider's militants on the outskirts of slain Punjabi governor Sal- tions Forces and Afghan Com- the news to a cheering crowd brother, Abdul Qadir Gilani, Multan on May 9, 2013, just man Taseer, spent five years (File photo) Ali Haider Gilani, son of former Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza mandos in a partnered raid," at a political rally in Pakistani- who told media he was "so two days before a bitterly in militant captivity before his Gilani, speaks during an election campaign meeting in Multan before NATO said in the statement held Kashmir Tuesday. happy today that I can't ex- contested national election in abrupt release in March. his abduction by unidentified gunmen. (REUTERS)

FRESH TALIBAN OFFENSIVE Sharif to address parliament over Panama reports

REUTERS where. ISLAMABAD Opposition lawmakers walked out of both the Sen- PAKISTANI Prime Minis- ate and the National Assembly ter Nawaz Sharif will appear on Monday and Tuesday, de- before parliament to answer manding that the prime min- questions on the Panama Pa- ister come to parliament to pers leak that linked his family answer their questions. to offshore wealth, an official "The prime minister will said on Tuesday, after law- attend parliament on Friday makers walked out of the as- and answer all allegations," sembly. Information Minister Pervez Leaked documents from Rashid told the legislature, the Mossack Fonseca law firm adding that Sharif could not in Panama last month showed attend the session earlier due Sharif's sons, Hassan and to an official visit to Tajikistan. Hussain, and his daughter, The leader of the opposi- Maryam, owned at least three tion in the National Assembly, offshore holding companies Khursheed Shah, welcomed registered in the British Virgin the news that Sharif would ap- Islands. pear on Friday but said the op- Sharif and his family have position would continue their repeatedly denied any wrong- boycott until then. doing, saying that assets men- "We don't want any con- tioned in the leaked papers frontation, but the PM should were legally acquired through clear his position and take par- the family's network of busi- liament into confidence on his nesses and industries in Pa- assets and tax details," Shah kistan, Saudi Arabia and else- told reporters.

A member of the Afghan security forces takes up a position during an operation against Taliban fighters in Nad Ali district of elmandH province recently. (EPA) FBI suspects insiders Situation ‘critical’ as Taliban in B’desh bank theft AFP the security of the global infra- WASHINGTON structure linking central banks. Hackers fabricated official THE US Federal Bureau of In- electronic transfer orders to advance on Helmand capital vestigation suspects the com- move the money from Bangla- puter hacking theft of $81 mil- desh Bank's account with the lion from Bangladesh's central Federal Reserve Bank of New on condition of anonymity. determined to gain control of said Bashir Shaker, a member bank was in part an inside job, York in February and send it 15 policemen killed as insurgents Helmand, a Taliban heart- a province to use as a base for of the provincial council. the Wall Street Journal report- to accounts in the Philippines, land and the biggest source of their campaign. He said 17 policemen had ed Tuesday. where it then disappeared, in raid checkpoints in the province Afghanistan's opium, has been Hundreds of American been killed in the latest fighting. Quoting sources familiar part through the Philippines under pressure for months, troops were sent to Helmand British and US forces strug- with the matter, the Journal casino industry. REUTERS kilometres to the north of with government forces pull- this year to bolster its defence gled for years to control Hel- said FBI agents investigat- Separately, the global fi- LASHKAR GAH the governor's compound in ing out of several districts to with a beefed up training and mand and many of the more ing the case "have found evi- nancial transfers network Lashkar Gah, and Nad Ali, to regroup around Lashkar Gah. advisory mission but a prom- than 450 British servicemen dence pointing to at least one SWIFT on Monday rejected TALIBAN insurgents killed the west of the town, under- The province is one of the ised offensive by Afghan forces and women killed in Afghani- bank employee acting as an reported accusations by Bang- at least 15 Afghan policemen lined the growing pressure on key battlegrounds for the Tali- has not materialised. stan lost their lives there. accomplice." ladesh police and bank officials when they overran two check- security forces clinging on in ban, who launched a spring of- After a few weeks of rela- In a statement, Taliban But it added that "a hand- that it was to blame for low se- points in Helmand province the southern province. fensive last month, vowing to tive calm during the opium spokesman Qari Yousuf Ah- ful of others" may have also curity protections. in an attack on Tuesday that "The situation is very criti- drive out the Western-backed harvest, expected to be a madi said the insurgents had aided the hackers in breaking "As a SWIFT user like any sharply increased pressure cal near Lashkar Gah," said a government in Kabul and re- bumper crop, fighting has overrun two checkpoints in into the computers of Bangla- other, Bangladesh Bank is re- on the beleaguered provin- senior provincial security offi- store strict Islamic rule. picked up, underlining the Gereshk. There has been heavy desh Bank. sponsible for the security of its cial capital of Lashkar Gah, cial, adding that 15 policeman After briefly capturing fragile hold government forces fighting in several other ar- The spectacular cyber-theft own systems," it said in a state- officials said. had been killed. the northern city of Kunduz have on the province. eas of Afghanistan, in provinces has embarrassed the govern- ment. SWIFT officials would be The attack on checkpoints "If the government does not last year, the insurgents, who "Over the past few days, the ranging from Kunduz, to Kunar ment in Dhaka, triggered meeting with representatives of in Gereshk, on the main high- act soon, there will be a disas- control more territory than at Taliban have been attacking se- in the east and Uruzgan and outrage in the impoverished Bangladesh Bank and the New way through Helmand, a few ter," said the official who spoke any time since 2001, appear curity belts near Lashkar Gah," Ghazni in the centre. country and raised alarm over York Fed in Basel on May 10. Climbers near Everest summit for first time in three years

their guides are in differ- "Climbers have begun to free of incident. Number of climbers down after last year’s ent high camps waiting for a move from the base camp to Climbers from around the weather window and jostling higher camps for the summit," world spend tens of thousands quake; weather ‘window’ seen on Thursday to become the first to scale the Shrestha told Reuters from of dollars to try to climb Everest peak. Nearly 700 people sum- Base Camp. every year though none reached REUTERS Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa mitted in 2013. Ang Tshering Sherpa, the summit in last year's spring KATHMANDU Tenzing Norgay in 1953. chief of the Nepal Mountain- campaign. The southern route, on the At least 289 climbers and eering Association, who is in Last September, Japan's CLIMBERS on Mount Everest Nepali side of the mountain, their guides are in differ- touch with climbers at Base Nobukazu Kuriki, 33, had to are on the brink of the first at- has suffered tragedy over the Camp, said in Kathmandu call off his solo attempt when tempts in three years to make past two years, with 16 sherpa ent high camps waiting for that, weather permitting, the he was beaten back by wind the final ascent to the world's guides killed by an avalanche a weather window and jos- route from the South Col to and snow at 8,150 metres tallest peak, after fatal ava- in the treacherous Khumbu tling to become the first the summit would be fixed on (26,738 feet). lanches cut short the 2014 and Icefall in 2014. to scale the peak. Wednesday. Wang Jing, a 40-year-old 2015 campaigns. Last year, an earthquake Veteran mountaineer and Chinese woman, was the only Teams at forward camps that killed 9,000 people across Tourism Department of- blogger Alan Arnette, tracking person to climb Everest in 2014 are looking for a weather "win- Nepal sent a massive snowslide ficial Gyanendra Shrestha the campaign, said in a post but her ascent sparked contro- dow" to open in the next few crashing into Base Camp, kill- said climbers had fixed ropes eight teams had slept at Camp 3 versy amid reports she took a days, clearing the way to the ing at least 18 climbers and up to the South Col, the final - at 7,162 metres (23,497 feet). helicopter over the Khumbu 8,850 metre (29,035 foot sum- guides and putting an end to camp, at about 8,000 metres Unpredictable weather Icefall, in what many Everest mit) along the Southeast Ridge that year's campaign. (26,246 feet), and were stock- remains a challenge though climbers saw as a violation of (File photo) Mount Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar first climbed by New Zealand's At least 289 climbers and ing it with supplies. this year's campaign has been their code. in Nepal. (AP) 10 Wednesday, May 11, 2016

ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 PRINTED AT ALI BIN ALI PRINTING PRESS Opinion HAMAD BIN SUHAIM AL THANI CHAIRMAN ADEL ALI BIN ALI MANAGING DIRECTOR DR HASSAN MOHAMMED AL ANSARI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Bangladesh’s Descent Into Lawlessness Confronting Mali’s If the government is to counter Islamic extremism, it New Jihadist Threat must end its own crackdown on democratic freedoms

INCE 2013, more than 20 people in ternational Crisis Group, an independent Bangladesh have been murdered by organisation working to prevent conflict, SIslamist extremists, many hacked to warns that “heavy-handed measures are death. Among the first victims were blog- denting the government’s legitimacy and, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has a dangerous new franchise, gers who had criticised Islamic fundamen- by provoking violent counterresponses, and Mali’s government has only itself to blame talism. Then, two foreigners, an Italian aid benefiting violent party wings and extrem- worker and a Japanese farmer, were struck ist groups alike.” These groups include down last year. In just nine Ansar al Islam Bangladesh, CORINNE DUFKA | NYT SYNDICATE days last month, five people an affiliate of Al Qaeda that were hacked to death. claimed responsibility for the E sat quietly drinking tea on a The government of Prime April 6 murder of a law stu- December morning in a village in Minister Sheikh Hasina’s rul- dent, Nazimuddin Samad. The central Mali. But Amadou, a local ing Awami League Party and Islamic State claimed respon- chief from the Segou region whose its bitter rivalry with the op- sibility for the April 30 murder Hname I have changed for his pro- position Bangladesh National- of Nikhil Chandra Joarder, tection, was worried. ist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami a Hindu tailor. Yet Hasina’s “I know of 10 young men who’ve party are partly to blame. In government denies that the joined the jihadists in recent months,” he 2014, Hasina and her party Islamic State is in Bangladesh. said. “And many more who sympathise.” won elections marred by vio- Secretary of State John I was in Mali to research human rights lence and a boycott by the Kerry said Xulhaz Mannan, abuses, something I’d done since 2012, opposition. Bangladesh’s In- an LGBT activist who worked when the country went through a spectac- ternational Crimes Tribunal, established at the American Embassy and was killed on ular meltdown after a near-simultaneous in 2010 to prosecute those responsible for April 25 along with a friend, “embodied the takeover by Tuareg separatists and Islam- atrocities during the 1971 war of independ- spirit of the people of Bangladesh and the ist groups linked to Al Qaeda in the north, ence, has become a political tool of the gov- pride with which they guard their traditions and a military coup in the south. ernment, targeting leaders of Jamaat-e-Is- of tolerance, peace, and diversity.” He of- The Islamists’ abusive regime in lami. This, along with extra-judicial killings, fered the “full support” of the United States northern Mali was cut short in early torture and disappearances, has eroded in investigating the murders. 2013 by a French-led military interven- faith in the rule of law. Hasina’s government should welcome tion. Mali appeared to be on the mend Meanwhile, Hasina’s government has this support. Few of the attackers have been as a United Nations peacekeeping mis- cracked down on freedom of expression and brought to justice, creating a climate of im- sion was deployed, a relatively transpar- the press. Last month, Hasina condemned punity. The government must protect those ent election took place, a peace deal to atheist bloggers, saying: “It’s not at all ac- who could be targets and restore demo- end the crisis in the north was negotiated ceptable if anyone writes against our proph- cratic freedoms and faith in the rule of law. and billions of dollars in development aid et or other religions.” Failing to do so will accelerate the slide into were pledged. But in 2015, a new Islamist All of this is fuelling extremism. The In- lawlessness. group emerged in Mali’s previously stable central and southern regions. the army had failed to do. “Every time we peared to signal Al Qaeda in the Islamic New York Times The group, which appears to be the call the authorities, they fail to show up,” Maghreb’s escalation of the ‘soft target’ latest franchise of Al Qaeda in the Islamic a young man told me. Others said the Is- game, perhaps in competition with the Is- Maghreb and is often referred to as the lamists had intervened to recover stolen lamic State. Disturbingly, according to the Macina Liberation Front, has attacked motorcycles or cows. “The jihadists are elders I spoke with, several of the people military posts and executed mayors and the law now,” one said. who helped carry out these attacks were councilmen. Its new area of operation is reportedly Peul. largely inhabited by the Peul ethnic group Premeditated mass murder of ordi- As the world ponders what inspires Colour-Coded Death Penalty (also known as the Fulani), which makes nary people in shopping malls, sub- violent extremism, policy makers should up about 15 percent of Mali’s population. listen to people like Amadou, who are on HE last time a white person in Louisiana presented with a study finding that people Since early 2015, I’ve documented ways and hotels has become tragi- the front lines. They insist that their young was executed for a crime against a black accused of killing white victims in Georgia more than 25 execution-style killings by cally common. men are not being wooed over the Internet Tperson was in 1752, when a soldier named were four times as likely to be sentenced to these Islamists. In March a village chief or joining out of religious conviction, but Pierre Antoine Dochenet was hanged after death as those accused of killing black vic- described how the militants gunned down Villagers also described frequent rather, as one imam told me, “because the attempting to stab two enslaved black wom- tims. But the court, in a 5-4 opinion by Jus- his son in retaliation for his cooperation abuses by the security forces and predato- jihadists provide a better alternative to the en to death with his bayonet. tice Lewis Powell, said that given the many with the military. Residents of another ry behaviour marring nearly every contact state.” Another man told me that many are This is just one of many grim facts in a procedural safeguards in capital trials, the village described seeing Islamist fighters with government — demands for bribes unable even to recite the Quran. new report describing the history of capital study “does not demonstrate a constitution- detain a man accused of being an inform- for acquiring ID cards, vaccinating ani- The Peul elders and villagers say that punishment in Louisiana and analysing the ally significant risk of racial bias.” (After re- ant. Three days later, a resident told me, mals, passing checkpoints. Meanwhile, the way to stop this has nothing to do outcome of every death sentence imposed tiring, Powell said he should have voted the “the village woke up to find his head in “there are few schools or clinics in our with preventing terrorists from using so- in that state since 1976, when the Supreme other way.) front of his shop.” villages,” one resident said. Other peo- cial media or stemming the flow of foreign Court reversed its brief moratorium on ex- The new report shows that Louisiana’s I’ve also documented dozens of cases ple told me that the government failed to fighters. They want a government whose ecutions and allowed them to resume. death penalty isn’t only consistently racist; of torture and mistreatment by the Mal- ensure justice in cases of intercommunal security forces protect instead of abuse Racism has always been at the heart of it’s also profoundly error-prone. Of the 155 ian Army as it responded. During my violence — tit-for-tat disputes over land them; whose civil servants serve instead the American death penalty. But the report, death sentences the state has handed down visits, Peul traders, herders and elders or water — or security force abuses. of exploit them; and whose justice system in the current issue of The Journal of Race, and resolved since 1976, 28 resulted in ex- described a growing Islamist presence I’ve spoken with dozens of detainees, ensures their right to redress. Gender, and Poverty, drives home the ex- ecutions. The other 127 — or 82 percent — that exploited not only their poverty, but nearly all Peul, who described torture Mali’s partners — especially France tent to which capital punishment, suppos- were later reversed. Since 2001, two people also their longstanding grievances with and mistreatment by the army. Amadou and the United States — have too often edly reserved for the “worst of the worst,” is have been executed, while 53 have had their the government. They anxiously spoke of was one of 10 men hogtied, suspended turned a blind eye to these problems. governed by skin colour. death sentences reversed. the Islamists’ recruitment success, driven, by an iron bar and beaten. In some cases, Instead, they should insist that Mali In Louisiana, a black man is 30 times These reversals are usually the result of they said, by several factors. their teeth were knocked out; others were professionalises and holds accountable as likely to be sentenced to death for killing major errors at trial that violate the defend- Most often, people cited the govern- burned or subjected to mock executions. the security forces; better supports the a white woman as for killing a black man. ant’s constitutional rights, such as prosecuto- ment’s failure to protect them from ban- Policy circles pulsate with theories chronically neglected judiciary; and takes Regardless of the offender’s race, death sen- rial misconduct, improper jury instructions ditry, which had grown since firearms about what causes individuals and com- concrete action against corruption. Only tences are six times as likely — and execu- and incompetent lawyering. In most cases, began to proliferate in the early 1990s. munities to support groups like Al Qaeda when steps are taken to address these is- tions 14 times as likely — when the victim is the discovery of these errors resulted in the Herdsmen described how bandits wield- in the Islamic Maghreb. And for good rea- sues and people finally feel secure in their white rather than black. defendants’ being removed from death row ing AK-47s had taken their cows and son: Premeditated mass murder of ordi- own basic rights may extremist groups The Supreme Court has been aware of and receiving lesser sentences. In nine of the sheep. “When you steal my animals you nary people in shopping malls, subways start losing ground. racial disparities like these for a long time. cases, though, the defendant was fully exon- take with them the future of my children,” and hotels has become tragically common. In a case decided in 1987, the justices were erated of the crime and cleared of all charges. one resident told me. Scores of people have died in attacks (Corinne Dufka is the Many credited the Islamists with by Islamist extremists in Mali, Burkina West Africa director at New York Times drastically reducing banditry, something Faso and Ivory Coast. The attacks ap- Human Rights Watch.) The Problem With Protecting Grizzly Bears Managing endangered species is expensive, and the regulations can be onerous

IKE many hunters, I dream of one as threatened or endangered under the STEVEN RINELLA | NYT SYNDICATE of the uncertainties of climate change. delisting can move forward, and the Na- day getting a grizzly bear. Yet I’ve Endangered Species Act since then-Pres- This argument was used to reverse an ear- tional Park Service will continue to be re- passed up numerous opportunities ident Richard M Nixon signed it into law lier delisting in 2007. Then, critics point- sponsible for the grizzlies within its parks. to legally kill grizzlies, both in Alaska in 1973. Only about three dozen have been ed to major die-offs of whitebark pine, Finally, it is likely that Montana, Ida- and Canada, where their numbers taken off the lists because their numbers After a century of unregulated whose nuts are a favoured grizzly food. ho and Wyoming will use hunting as a L hunting and habitat destruc- are plentiful. Even though I hunt for all have recovered. Managing endangered Since then, however, there’s been no con- tool to deter bears from occupying areas of my meat, I have opted instead to relish species is expensive, and the regulations tion, there were as few as 136 vincing evidence that the pine’s problems with high risks of human-grizzly conflicts. being close to these remarkable animals. can be onerous. That they carry such low grizzly bears left in those por- have affected grizzly numbers. But any hunting will be tightly regulated. It’s important to say this up front. A assurances of success has cost the act sup- tions of Montana, Idaho and Perhaps the most irrational claim has The killing of females with cubs, or of common refrain among critics of the US port among state governments and land- Wyoming known as the Great- to do with federal versus state oversight. unaccompanied cubs, will be illegal. Any Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal to owners who shoulder much of the finan- er Yellowstone Ecosystem. Once the Yellowstone grizzlies are delist- grizzly killed by a hunter will be counted remove threatened species protection for cial burden. There is increasing hostility ed, they will become the responsibility of toward a mortality ceiling that will also in- grizzly bears in the region around Yellow- toward the act, and toward the species tribal and state wildlife agencies in Idaho, clude bears killed by cars and even natural stone National Park as early as this year is themselves. less than a year old. Montana and Wyoming. Critics say the causes. Once that threshold is met, hunt- that proponents are motivated only by the The grizzly bear was listed as threat- Opponents of delisting argue that griz- states lack the money and expertise to ing will be cut off. If the cap is exceeded, desire to shoot one, or to see them vanish ened across its historic range in the Lower zlies have yet to recover across their his- protect the bears. But last year Wyoming those deaths will be counted against the altogether. 48 in 1975. After a century of unregulated toric range, which extends roughly from spent more than $2 million on grizzly bear next year. This will ensure a thriving, sta- My belief that the bears should be tak- hunting and habitat destruction, there the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. research, problem animals and public ble population. en off the threatened species list has to do were as few as 136 left in those portions of But the Fish and Wildlife Service has education efforts. What’s more, the wild- If a grizzly hunt is too painful for some with the integrity of the Endangered Spe- Montana, Idaho and Wyoming known as addressed this problem by dividing the life agencies in those states are managing to endure, consider what will happen if cies Act. Blocking the delisting of charis- the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. bears into “distinct population segments” many large mammals, including moun- the delisting of grizzlies is blocked by law- matic, Instagram-worthy megafauna like Today, their population in the re- and proposing that only one segment be tain lions, elk, American pronghorn, big- suits. The credibility of the Endangered bears and wolves undermines the cred- gion has increased to an estimated 700 delisted. After all, the grizzly’s absence horn sheep, mountain goats and moose. Species Act will continue to erode. There ibility of the act while costing taxpayers or more. Many experts argue that this is from Golden Gate Park is hardly indica- It’s wrongheaded to suggest that they are is a limit to political and public tolerance millions and diverting resources from close to the maximum number the area tive of its status in the Indiana-size chunk like teenagers, waiting to rebel once their for sacrifice on behalf of wildlife. It should genuinely imperiled, if less photogenic, can support and it goes well beyond meet- of land surrounding Yellowstone. parents leave town. not be wasted on those species that have species. ing federal recovery criteria, which in- It’s also said that the Yellowstone griz- The federal government must approve recovered, especially when we’ve got so About 2,000 species have been listed clude a minimum of 48 females with cubs zly bears continue to face threats because the states’ management plans before the many more waiting in line.

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When Donald Trump talks nonsense, he’s usually just offering a bombastic version of a position that’s widespread in his party Misbehaving drivers

ON May 9, you published an in-depth report about the ‘taxi dilemma’ in the country. When I say dilemma it cov- ers the driver’s behaviour and the pay- ment ‘scheme’. Seriously speaking, I’ve already lost count of the number of times I phoned Karwa hotline to complain about my many unfortunate experiences riding taxis around the metro. And I have long accepted the fact that a commuter like me has to endure some kind of suffering dealing with misbehaving drivers. Also, I am 100% sure that majority of expatri- ates are faced with the same predica- ment. And when I thought my ‘suf- ferings’ would be gone since I have already secured my driving licence… I was wrong because you still battle with them on the road. I can’t help not wiggle my head thinking about this. It’s either they will cut you, or yes, like the report in your paper, parked in front or behind you whiling away their time somewhere not minding the trouble they are causing other motor- ists. I have experienced all these and I am anticipating more! You know, even the tamper-proof meters don’t work all the time. Of course, there are nice Karwa drivers out there, but more of- ten than not, even if there is a ‘sticker RULY, Donald Trump knows noth- credibly low interest rates, are evidently walking away from them. But it’s also true reminder’ sort of ‘no meter means free New Perspective ing. He is more ignorant about policy not worried by our debt. And there’s good that much of the Republican Party shares ride’ – this is not happening in real life than you can possibly imagine, even reason for their calmness: federal interest his insouciance about default. Remem- because some drivers will still insist CHARLES M BLOW when you take into account the fact payments are only 1.3 percent of gross do- ber, the party’s congressional wing delib- on their ‘no meter policy’ and impose NYT NEWS SERVICE Tthat he is more ignorant than you can mestic product, or 6 percent of total out- erately set about extracting concessions a payment they want to receive. Yes, possibly imagine. But his ignorance isn’t lays. These numbers mean both that the from President Barack Obama, using the my friends and colleagues can attest as unique as it may seem: In many ways, burden of the debt is fairly small and that threat of gratuitous default via a refusal to that this is still happening. I asked a he’s just doing a clumsy job of channeling even complete repudiation of that debt raise the debt ceiling. friend what could be the reasons be- The Trump solution nonsense widely popular in his party, and would have only a minor effect on the gov- And quite a few Republican lawmak- hind all these? Wiggling his head, he to some extent in the chattering classes ernment’s cash flow. ers defended that strategy of extortion by replied: As long as their income is not more generally. arguing that default wouldn’t be that bad, enough to cover all their finances, all would, among other Last week the presumptive Republican that even with its access to funds cut off these unlawful acts will never stop. presidential nominee — hard to believe, Even if Donald Trump misunder- the US government could “prioritise” pay- things, deprive the but there it is — finally revealed his plan stands the fiscal situation, how can ments, and that the financial disruption Princess HS to make America great again. Basically, it he imagine that it would be OK for would be no big deal. world economy of involves running the country like a fail- America to default? Given that history, it’s not too hard to ing casino: He could, he asserted, “make a understand why candidate Trump thinks deal” with creditors that would reduce the not paying debts in full makes sense. its most crucial debt burden if his outlandish promises of So why is Trump even talking about The important thing to realise, then, economic growth don’t work out. this subject? Well, one possible answer is that when Trump talks nonsense, he’s safe asset, US The reaction from everyone who is that lots of supposedly serious people usually just offering a bombastic version knows anything about finance or econom- have been hyping the alleged threat posed of a position that’s widespread in his ics was a mix of amazed horror and hor- by federal debt for years. For example, party. In fact, it’s remarkable how many debt, at a time rified amazement. One does not casually Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, ridiculous Trumpisms were previously es- suggest throwing away America’s care- has warned repeatedly about a “looming poused by Mitt Romney in 2012, from his when safe assets fully cultivated reputation as the world’s debt crisis.” Indeed, until not long ago the claim that the true unemployment rate most scrupulous debtor — a reputation whole Beltway elite seemed to be in the vastly exceeds official figures to his claim are already in that dates all the way back to Alexander grip of BowlesSimpsonism, with its asser- that he can bring prosperity by starting a Hamilton. tion that debt was the greatest threat fac- trade war with China. The Trump solution would, among ing the nation. None of this should be taken as an ex- “Leading causes of death short supply. other things, deprive the world economy A lot of this debt hysteria was really cuse for Trump. He really is frighteningly of its most crucial safe asset, US debt, at a about trying to bully us into cutting So- uninformed; worse, he doesn’t appear to in the US: 1. Heart disease time when safe assets are already in short cial Security and Medicare, which is why know what he doesn’t know. The point, 2. Cancer 3. Medical error supply. Of course, we can be sure that so many self-proclaimed fiscal hawks instead, is that his blithe lack of knowl- Trump knows none of this, and nobody were also eager to cut taxes on the rich. edge largely follows from the know-noth- Roles that are constantly in in his entourage is likely to tell him. But But Trump apparently wasn’t in on that ing attitudes of the party he now leads. demand: 1. Behavioral therapist before we simply ridicule him — or, actu- particular con, and takes the phony debt Oh, and just for the record: No, it’s ally, at the same time that we’re ridiculing scare seriously. Sad! not the same on the other side of the aisle. 2. Caregiver 3. Software developer” him — let’s ask where his bad ideas really Still, even if he misunderstands the You may dislike Hillary Clinton, you may come from. fiscal situation, how can he imagine that it disagree sharply with her policies, but she Forbes First of all, Trump obviously believes would be OK for America to default? One and the people around her do know their that America could easily find itself facing answer is that he’s extrapolating from facts. Nobody has a monopoly on wisdom, a debt crisis. But why? After all, investors, his own business career, in which he has but in this election, one party has largely who are willing to lend to America at in- done very well by running up debts, then cornered the market in raw ignorance.

Health is Wealth Bloggers’ Borough GET HEARD! Swaddling Increases UK Hospital Death Data – The Row Heats Up QT NOW MAKES YOUR LIFE The Risk Of SIDS HUGH PYM | BBC-NYT SYNDICATE September by Prof Nick Freemantle of likely to die than those arriving during University College, London and other the week. NICHOLAS BAKALAR | HERE has been an intense war of academics. The Manchester study showed that SIMPLE NEW YORK TIMES words throughout the junior doctors It covered patient data on deaths those who were unwell enough to be Tcontract row in England. within 30 days of hospital admission in admitted to hospital did have a higher WADDLING a baby may increase the But unlike previous disputes be- England in 2013/14. It suggests there chance of death within 30 days if this risk for sudden infant death syndrome, tween the government and the public were 11,000 excess deaths between Fri- happened at a weekend. But they point ADVERTISING & PR Sor SIDS, a new analysis concludes. sector, some of the most acrimonious day and Monday compared to mid-week. out the percentage rate was higher sim- The practice of swaddling — wrapping exchanges have come over statistics. For Saturday admissions, there was ply because it was calculated from a total Phone: 40002155, 40002122 an infant with a light cloth, with the head Doctors by definition are experts on a 10 percent higher risk of death than number of admissions which was lower Fax: 40002235 exposed — has grown in the United States assessing evidence and data and coming those on a Wednesday – and for Sunday than during the week. with reports that it promotes better sleep. to rigorously worked out conclusions. a 15 percent higher risk. The study ad- The authors say in effect there is a Email : [email protected] Researchers pooled data from four ob- They have been quick to forensically justs for the fact that patients tend to be higher bar for admission at weekends. servational studies of SIDS and swaddling analyse and challenge any arguments by sicker at weekends. Like the research for the BMJ, the that included 760 SIDS cases and 1,759 ministers based on statistics. Nowhere The study became a political football, Manchester work also took account of controls. Over all, swaddling increased the has more heat been generated than in much to the irritation of the authors who the fact that patients who arrive on Sat- SUBSCRIPTION & risk for SIDS by about one-third. The risk the debate over the so-called “weekend argued it was a statistical analysis and urdays and Sundays are usually sicker. was greatest in babies sleeping on their effect” in the NHS and whether patients they were not attempting to draw firm There are differences between what CIRCULATION stomachs, less in those sleeping on their receive inferior care on Saturdays and conclusions on whether hospital staffing the two studies analysed. Phone: 40002111 sides, and least in infants sleeping on their Sundays compared to weekdays. was a factor in higher weekend death The Manchester research looked at backs. The study is in Pediatrics. Ever since the row over junior doc- rates. Junior doctors have consistently patients who died in hospital (including Mobile : 55878073 The lead author, Anna S Pease, a re- tor contracts first flared up last autumn, criticised ministers’ use of the study to those who had been discharged and then search associate at the University of Bris- ministers have pointed to research sug- back up their rhetoric over a seven day had to go back to hospital). Email : [email protected] tol in England, said that the results should gesting higher death rates after admis- NHS. The BMJ work included those who be interpreted with caution, because there sion to hospital at weekends. This, they Now a new study on weekend death were discharged and died away from the are few studies of the subject, and the claim, highlights why more doctors are rates has been published and junior doc- hospital. SUGGESTIONS & amount of good evidence is limited. needed in hospitals on Saturdays and tors highlighted it. The Manchester piece included the Still, she said, “We already know that Sundays. This has been rebutted by jun- The research by the University of sickest patients who died within three COMPLAINTS side and prone sleeping are unsafe for ior doctors who say they already work at Manchester, published in the Journal days of getting to hospital while the BMJ young babies, so the advice to place chil- weekends. of Health Services Research and Policy, research did not. Phone : 40002202, Fax : 40002221 dren on their backs for sleep is even more The issue rose rapidly up the agen- concluded that those attending A&E (as The Manchester work spanned 11 Email : [email protected] important when parents choose to swad- da after the publication in the British opposed to those actually admitted to a months of data, the BMJ article covered dle them.” Medical Journal (BMJ) of a study last hospital bed) at weekends were no more 12 months. 12 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 India

RAWAT TRIUMPHANT NEWS Cong steps up IN BRIEF attack on PM,

DU certifies gives privilege authenticity of Modi’s degree notices in LS, RS NEW DELHI Downplaying PTI allegations of glaring discrep- NEW DELHI ancies, Delhi University on Tuesday said Prime Minister STEPPING up attack on Prime Narendra Modi's BA degree Minister Narendra Modi, Con- as circulated by BJP is gress has given notices for "authentic" and it has all the breach of privilege against him relevant records relating to in both Houses of Parliament his graduation while terming over his remarks against Sonia as "minor error" mention of Gandhi in the AgustaWestland 1979 in his degree when he issue even as the party mem- passed out a year earlier. bers continued their protests. The clarification by DU reg- The government, however, istrar Tarun Das came amid remained defiant, with Finance the raging controversy over Minister Arun Jaitley today as- Modi's educational qualifica- serting in the Rajya Sabha that tions. Asked about certain the "Prime Minister is entitled discrepancies being alleged to speak on corruption" both by Aam Aadmi Party in his inside and outside the House marksheets and degree and he cannot be "gagged". certificate, he said, "the dis- His statement came after crepancies in names in two Congress member Shantaram marksheets exist in univer- Naik said he has given notice sity records as well." (PTI) for breach of privilege against Modi and Defence Minister Girl students hold Manohar Parrikar over the school principal PM's remarks at an election ral- hostage in Delhi ly on the AgustaWestland issue. NEW DELHI A group of 50 The government remained girl students and some of defiant, with Arun Jaitley their parents on Tuesday al- Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat talks to the media after the floor test in the Uttarakhand Assembly in Dehradun on Tuesday. (PTI) legedly held the principal of asserting in the Rajya a Delhi government school Sabha that the ‘Prime hostage for over two hours Minister is entitled to speak accusing her of failing them on corruption’ both inside "deliberately" in supplemen- and outside the House. tary examinations, police Cong wins U’khand trust said. Five people -- all family Naik contended that "lies" members of the students -- had been told outside the were arrested. Police had to House about UPA leaders tak- baton-charge to disperse the ing money in the chopper deal. students and free the princi- vote; BJP concedes defeat Jaitley, who is Leader of the pal. According to police, the House, retorted, "Since when two-hour-long protest by the has an election speech by one girl students began around politician against another out- noon on Tuesday after a few 33 legislators reportedly voted for Rawat while oppn could muster only 28 votes side the House started to be girls of the Government Girls construed as breach of privi- Senior Secondary School IANS tored the voting and said it The Supreme Court Tuesday's vote was called money power" to win the sup- lege?" in Yamuna Vihar area of DEHRADUN will announce the result on monitored the voting to prove whether or not Ra- port of its own legislators. Deputy Chairman P J Ku- east Delhi found they had Wednesday. wat enjoyed majority support The Congress now has 27 and rien said he had called Naik to failed in their supplementary IN a major boost to the Con- But within minutes after and said it will after the defection by nine the BJP 28 members in the make a Zero Hour submission examinations. (IANS) gress, ousted Chief Minister the floor test, the Congress announce the result on Congress legislators reduced house. But six other legisla- as per the notice he had given Harish Rawat on Tuesday sounded triumphant. Sarita Wednesday. his state government to a tors, including two from the and not to raise any other issue 24-year-old ITI won the floor test in the Utta- Arya, the Congress legisla- minority in the 72-member Bahujan Samaj Party, ap- like breach of privilege notice. student lynched rakhand assembly though the tor from Nainital, told a TV BJP accused the house. peared to have voted for Ra- In the Lok Sabha, Congress in West Bengal result will be officially known channel here: "The Congress Congress of using ‘mus- But the scales tiled in his wat although the break-up is leader Veerappa Moily has giv- only on Wednesday. has won." cle and money power’ favour when both the Utta- not clear. en notice for breach of privilege KOLKATA A 24-year-old ITI The Bharatiya Janata A beaming Rawat didn't to win the support of its rakhand High Court and the The central government against Modi. Speaker Sumitra student was lynched by a Party (BJP) quickly admit- comment on the result but own legislators. Supreme Court ruled that the dismissed Rawat's govern- Mahajan said the notice is un- mob, which accused him ted defeat after 33 legislators thanked the "Supreme Court, rebel legislators cannot take ment on March 27 and cited der her consideration and she of being a cattle thief, in reportedly voted for Rawat democratic forces, divine But out of deference to part in the floor test. misgovernance to impose will allow them to speak only West Bengal's South 24 while the opposition mus- forces and the people of Utta- the apex court, he refused to BJP member Ganesh President's Rule in the hill after she takes a decision. Parganas district, police tered only 28 votes in a house rakhand" for supporting him. say what happened inside the Joshi conceded that his party state. When Moily wanted to said on Tuesday. One of the whose strength had been re- Using words that made assembly. Most Congress leg- had lost the vote. "The BJP In New Delhi, a jubilant make a point of order, the alleged attackers has been duced from 72 to 62. it very clear that he had islators declined to comment couldn't defeat the Congress Congress described its Utta- Speaker turned it down, saying arrested. The incident hap- The speaker did not vote won, he said: "Uttarakhand on the outcome. in the numbers game," he told rakhand win as a victory for it is not allowed during the Zero pened on Monday evening and nine Congress rebels will be victorious tomorrow But some flashed victory reporters after the assem- democracy. "Democracy wins Hour. Dissatisfied Congress at Harindanga in Diamond legislators were not allowed (Wednesday). signs and shouted slogans bly proceedings were vide- in Uttarakhand. Defeat for members stormed the Well and Harbour where the victim to vote. Apparently, the sole "I hope the clouds of un- such as "Congress Zinda- ographed on the order of the conspirators. Truth always kept raising slogans, asking the Koushik Purakait had nominated member also did certainty over the state will be bad!" and "Harish Rawat Zi- Supreme Court. wins over muscle and money government to stop "politics of come to visit his relatives. not vote. over and things will be clearer adabad!". They clearly looked Joshi accused the Con- power," spokesperson Ran- allegations" and "murder of de- According to the complaint The Supreme Court moni- (on Wednesday)." overjoyed. gress of using "muscle and deep Singh Surjewala said. mocracy" as Gandhi looked on. filed by the family, a large mob thrashed Koushik ac- cusing him of having stolen a buffalo. The youth was brought to the city's SSKM ‘Disturbed’ JNU emeritus professors Delhi woman tops civil services Hospital where doctors declared him dead. (IANS) rue curbs on free speech in letter to V-C exam, J-K boy takes 2nd spot Sri Sri served with two contempt IANS PTI and Kashmir cadre also. I notices over WCF NEW DELHI HC refuses to stay rustication of students NEW DELHI A total of 1,078 candi- will be happy in case I get dates have been recom- chance to work there. I think NEW DELHI Spiritual guru TEN emeritus professors of NEW DELHI Denying interim relief to JNU students Umar Khalid DELHI girl Tina Dabi has mended for appointment there is a lot of scope to fulfil Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was on JNU on Tuesday wrote to Vice- and Anirban Bhattacharya, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday topped the 2015 civil services to various central govern- aspirations of people of my Tuesday served two con- Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar refused to stay the rustication order passed by the university examination, while railway state," he told PTI. Jasmeet, tempt notices for violating saying they were disturbed by against them over a controversial event on Kashmir in the officer Athar Aamir Ul Shafi ment services, the Union whose father works in Indian the orders of the National the curbs on freedom of speech campus. Justice Manmohan said he will "not stay the order" and Khan from Jammu and Kash- Public Service Council of Agricultural Re- Green Tribunal (NGT) with on the campus. issued notice to the Jawaharlal Nehru University, asking it to file mir has got second rank in the Commission said. search (ICAR) here, thanked regard to the World Cultural The letter said the Jawaha- its response along with all relevant documents, including the en- results which were declared on his parents and teachers for Festival he organised on rlal Nehru University campus quiry report. "I have to ask for records. I have to see whether fair Tuesday. in his second attempt. In his his success. the banks of the Yamuna in had always been a space where procedure was followed," said the judge posting the matter for Besides them, Delhi-based first attempt in 2014, he had A total of 1,078 candi- March. In a related develop- free speech was allowed and May 30. The university took the action on April 25 after a probe Jasmeet Singh Sandhu, an In- got Indian Railway Traffic dates, including 499 in Gen- ment, the Principal Bench speakers from outside the uni- panel set up by the varsity administration found them guilty of dian Revenue Service officer, Service (IRTS) and is pres- eral category, 314 belonging of NGT headed by Justice versity were also invited. "misconduct" and "indiscipline". (IANS) has secured third position. ently undergoing training to Other Backward Class, 176 Swatanter Kumar has pulled "As emeritus professors we Topping the list in her first in Indian Railways Institute from Scheduled Caste and 89 up the Principal Committee are disturbed by the turn of attempt, a beaming 22-year- of Transport Management, from Scheduled Tribe, have appointed by it to assess events at the campus. The uni- or at other informal gatherings, students who organised the old Tina, who graduated from Lucknow. been recommended for ap- the damage caused to the versity has always been a space speakers from both within and controversial February 9 event Lady Shri Ram College here, It is a dream come true," pointment to various central fragile Yamuna floodplains where we allowed free discus- from outside the university on Kashmir on the campus. said, "It is indeed a proud mo- an elated Athar said, adding, government services, the Un- because of the World Cul- sion of issues raised by students were invited to participate." The letter also requested ment for me". "I will not leave any stone un- ion Public Service Commis- ture Festival (WCF) for not and faculty," the letter read. They also criticised the uni- the university to reconsider its 23-year-old Athar, who turned to work for the better- sion (UPSC) said. submitting its report even "In the course of such dis- versity administration over the order banning the entry of out- hails from Anantnag in South ment of people". There are 172 other candi- after the deadline for it has cussion whether in seminars punishment handed out to the siders in the campus. Kashmir, got through the test "I have opted for Jammu dates in the waiting list. expired long go. (IANS) CBI questions four people in chopper scam 19 mn Indian women have seven or more children NEW DELHI Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on IANS and above. are illiterate. The spread of fe- given birth to two children-an Tuesday questioned R K NEW DELHI Educated women have male education is a likely cause increase of 88 percent since Nanda, an alleged associate fewer births, average births per for falling fertility among wom- 2001, when the figure was 0.17 of AgustaWestland mid- AS many as 19 million women woman declined since 2001 en, according to this report by million. dleman Christian Michel, in India have given birth to The average births per woman The Economist. Further, 0.28 million mar- in connection with VVIP seven or more children, and 15 in India is 3.3, a decline of 13 Female literacy in India ried girls in the age group of Helicopter deal to know the million (80 percent) of them percent from 3.8 in 2001, based increased from 53.7 percent in 15-19 years have already given outward flow of purported live in rural areas, according to on the total births given by 2001 to 64.6 percent in 2011, birth to four children, which is foreign remittances worth an IndiaSpend analysis of re- women in the 45-49 years age according to census data. As an increase of 65% from 0.17 INR 6.5 crore received by cently released census data. group (which marks the end many as 1,423 females in ru- million in 2001. his firm from Michel. CBI This is equivalent to Niger's of their child-bearing age), ac- ral areas have never attended Adolescent pregnancy can sources said advocate population, a country in Af- cording to the World Health any educational institution for lead to several health prob- Gautam Khaitan, Praveen rica with a fertility rate of 6.76. Organisation. every 1,000 males who have lems - anaemia, malaria, HIV Bakshi, CEO of Aeromatrix The countries with the highest The Central Intelligence not done so, and only 577 fe- and other sexually transmitted Infosolutions Pvt Limited fertility rates in the world are Agency (CIA) estimates India's (Photo for illustrative purpose only. SOURCE: WEB) males attend college for every infections, postpartum haem- and Pratap Aggarwal, Man- mostly situated in Africa. average fertility per woman 1,000 males in rural areas, In- orrhage and mental disorders aging Director of IDS Info- There were fewer such at 2.48 which is the highest Though the CIA data differs The average births decline diaSpend reported earlier. -according to the World Health tech were also questioned women with higher levels of ed- among BRICS nations and just from the census, trends indi- with increase in education lev- 320,000 girls below age Organization. Nearly 12.7 mn separately. Nanda in running ucation, the data further reveals better than Pakistan in the sub- cate that Indian women have els, according to census data. 15 have already reported two girls in India aged between 10- a travel business based in that 15 million of those women continent. Nepal, Bhutan, Sri higher fertility rates than sub- The average births for women births As many as 0.32 mil- 19 years are married and six mil- Connaught Place here. (PTI) were illiterate as against 0.09 Lanka and Bangladesh have continental countries and other who are graduates and above is lion girls who are married and lion children were born to them, million who were graduates lower fertility rates. similar economies. 1.9, against 3.8 for women who aged less than 15 years have IndiaSpend reported earlier. India Wednesday, May 11, 2016 13 553 crorepatis, 283 No new registration of with criminal cases diesel taxis in Delhi: SC in TN election race PTI have not declared their PAN NEW DELHI details, while 284 have not Further extension of time for diesel cab owners to switchover to CNG refused declared income tax details, A total of 553 crorepatis are it added. in the fray in the elections in The survey said that 454 south Indian state of Tamil candidates have declared Nadu to be held this month, their education qualification while 283 have declared to be between 5th pass and criminal cases against them- 12th pass, while 488 have de- selves, a report said on Tues- clared having an educational day. qualification of graduate or "Out of the 997 candi- above. Six candidates have dates analysed, 553 are crore- declared themselves to be patis. 32 from INC, 64 from simple literates and six other BJP, 156 from AIADMK, 133 have declared themselves to fielded by DMK, 72 from Pat- be illiterate. tali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and 57 DMDK candidates have A total of 28 constituen- declared assets worth INR 1 cies have three or more crore and above in their affi- davits," a survey by Associa- candidates from major tion for Democratic Reforms parties with declared (ADR) said. criminal cases. The average of assets of the 997 major party candi- On the age details, 537 dates analysed is INR 4.35 have declared their age to crore, it added. Two candi- be between 25 and 50 years, dates have declared zero as- while 458 have said it is be- sets in their self-sworn affi- tween 51 and 80 years. Two davits. candidates have declared Out of the 997 candidates they are more than 80 years analysed, 283 have declared old. On the gender details, 96 criminal cases against them- of the 997 major party candi- selves, it added. "10 candi- dates analysed are women. dates from INC, 26 from BJP, A total of 3,776 candidates 47 from AIADMK, 68 can- are in the fray in the Tamil didates fielded by DMK, 66 Nadu elections to be held on from PMK, 41 from DMDK May 16, out of which 1,107 are and 8 CPI(M) candidates from major parties. have declared criminal cases Tamil Nadu Election against themselves in their Watch and Association for affidavits," it said. Democratic Reforms (ADR) A total of 28 constituen- have analysed the self-sworn cies have three or more candi- affidavits of 997 out of these dates from major parties with 1,107 candidates contesting declared criminal cases. The from major parties. Data of survey has labelled these ar- 110 candidates could not be (File photo) Diesel taxi operators hold a protest in Gurgaon against the ban on plying of diesel taxis in Delhi region. (PTI) eas 'red alert constituencies'. analysed due to unclear affi- A total of 114 candidates davits, it said. IANS gion (NCR). further extension of time for with court then making it clear NEW DELHI Addressing the problem diesel cab owners to switch- that it would give not further being faced by the people in The three-member over the cleaner CNG. extension of time to switch THE Supreme Court on Mon- the wake of the order banning bench said all the cabs Having said this, the court over to CNG. day said there will be no new the running of diesel cabs as now operating within said the government will frame Appearing for IT sector 70-year-old woman registration of diesel taxis and flagged by the central and Del- National Capital Territory suitable rules and there has to apex body NASSCOM, senior only cabs running on petrol hi governments, the court said area will be allowed to be a gradual phase out of diesel counsel Kapil Sibal told the and compressed natural gas that diesel taxis holding all- operate in National cabs. court that the prohibition on gives birth to first baby (CNG) or either of two will be India tourist permit will be al- Capital Region (NCR). The top court by its De- the plying of the diesel cabs registered in Delhi. The ban on lowed to operate point-to-point cember 16, 2015 order had could drive BPO business out AFP and sperm and was now registration of diesel vehicles for the pickup and drop of the asked the diesel cab operators of the country and adversely af- NEW DELHI "healthy and hearty" af- with engine capacity of 2,000 people within Delhi/NCR till their diesel taxis for the pickup in Delhi to switch over to CNG fect 2.5 lakhs employees work- ter weighing just two kilo- cc or above will meanwhile the expiry of their permits. and drop of people on point to by March 1, and by a January ing with them. AN Indian woman who gave grammes (4.4 pounds) at continue in the national capital Pointing out that these point basis. 5 order, brought in all die- Telling the court that it birth at the age of 70 said birth on April 19, the Na- till further orders. diesel vehicles operating un- The bench said that the op- sel cars operating in National needs time to phase out 14,000 Tuesday she was not too old tional Fertility and Test A bench of Chief Justice T der such permits would have erators of these vehicles would Capital Region in the ambit of taxis ferrying the BPO staff, he to become a first-time moth- Tube centre said. S Thakur, Justice A KSikri and to "comply with regulations of faithfully adhere to the rules the December 16, 2015 order said that once the existing con- er, adding that her life was Kaur's husband, Mo- Justice R Banumathi said all safety, security and fare", the and regulation of the compe- while extending the deadline to tract that various BPOs were now complete. hinder Singh Gill, who owns the cabs now operating within bench said that any future re- tent authority as it modified its March 31. having with can companies Daljinder Kaur gave a farm outside Amritsar, National Capital Territory newal of their permit would be earlier April 30 order banning On March 31 on request by comes to an end, they would birth last month to a boy said he was unfazed about (NCT) area will be allowed to subject to an undertaking that the plying of the diesel cabs in the diesel cab operators, the enter into contract with those following two years of IVF their age, saying God would operate in National Capital Re- in future they would not run NCR after it refused to give any time was extended to April 30 having CNG fuelled cabs. treatment at a fertility clinic watch over their child whom in the northern state of Har- they named Armaan. yana with her 79-year-old "People say what will husband. happen to the child once we Kaur said the couple, die. But I have full faith in married for 46 years, had God. God is omnipotent and Gaya murder accused arrested, sent to jail almost lost hope of ever hav- omnipresent, he will take ing a child and had faced care of everything," he said. IANS Police have also seized the pis- tions in the case within three ridicule in a country where Anurag Bishnoi, who PATNA tol used in the crime, she said. JD-U suspends MLC Manorama Devi weeks. The charge sheet will be infertility is sometimes seen runs the fertility clinic, said The licence for the pistol was is- filed within a month to ensure as a curse from God. he was initially sceptical A JANATA Dal-United legisla- sued in Delhi. PATNA Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United(JD-U) on Tuesday sus- speedy trial." "God heard our prayers. about going ahead with in tor's son Rocky Yadav, was ar- Malik said a separate case pended its MLC Manorama Devi whose son Rocky Yadav was Aditya's parents Keshav My life feels complete now. vitro fertilisation (IVF), but rested on Tuesday from a house will be filed against Rocky’s arrested in connection with killing of a Gaya youth in an inci- Chand Sachdeva and Chanda I am looking after the baby tests showed Kaur was able in Bodh Gaya on the charge of mother Manorama Devi, a dent of road rage. "The party has suspended Manorama Devi demanded a speedy trial to en- all by myself, I feel so full of to carry the unborn baby. murdering a teenager and later JD-U MLC, on charge of viola- for six years," state JD(U) President Basistha Narayan Singh sure justice. energy. My husband is also "I first tried to avoid the sent to 14-day judicial custody tion of the liquor ban in Bihar, told PTI. He said the action followed recovery of liquor from her Meanwhile, Rocky has very caring and helps me as case because she looked by a Gaya court, police said. after recovery of liquor from her Gaya house during a raid on Monday night. claimed innocence, insist- much as he can," Kaur told very frail. Then we made "Rocky Yadav was sent to Gaya house during a raid on Mon- Manorama Devi is the wife of Bindi Yadav, a RJD strong- ing he was in Delhi when the AFP from the northern city her undergo all the tests jail after he was produced in the day night. man from Gaya who is now in jail custody in connection with crime took place here. “I was in of Amritsar. and once all the results Gaya civil court," Gaya Senior With Bihar Chief Minister the road rage. Delhi...when my mother called Kaur put her age at about were okay we went ahead," Superintendent of Police Gari- Nitish Kumar asserting that Pressure was mounting on the state government to take me I came and presented my- 70, a common scenario in the doctor told AFP. ma Malik said. no guilty will be spared, police action against Manorama Devi after police caught her son self before the SSP... I did not India where many people The case is not the first Malik told reporters that promised to file a charge sheet Rocky Yadav, who had been absconding since the incident, in open fire,” Rocky told reporters don't have birth certificates, in India, with a 72-year-old Rocky had confessed to the fa- within a month. the early hours of on Tuesday for the murder of Sachdeva. Her as he was being whisked away while the clinic said in a woman from Uttar Pradesh tal shooting of businessman's Additional Director General trouble aggravated after recovery of about 18 bottles of Indian by the police following a press statement that she was 72. state reportedly giving son Aditya Sachdeva on Satur- of Police (Headquarters) Sunil Made Foreign Liquor from her house last night in Gaya during a conference held by SSP, Gaya, The baby was conceived birth to twins in 2008, also day night for overtaking his car Kumar said: "Police have been police raid to find her fugitive son. (PTI) Garima Mallik where she an- using the couple's own egg through IVF. on the Bodh Gaya-Gaya road. working to complete investiga- nounced his arrest. 32 evacuated Kochi Biennale to feature artists from across the globe from Libya to ates a space for cross-cultural reach Kerala One of the highlights this year is ‘Students Biennale’, a interactions - something that is a fundamental aspect of on Thursday nationwide outreach project involving 60 Indian art colleges Kochi's historical and mythi- cal identity - and can also be IANS IANS gramme of talks, seminars, Lacombe, Caroline Duchate- viewed as a means of connect- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM KOCHI workshops, film screenings let, from France and Katrina ing the past and the present, and music sessions. Neiburga and Andris Eglitis without looking at them in TWENTY-NINE people be- CELEBRATED Chilean poet Curated by artist Sudar- from Latvia and Valerie Mejer binaries," says Shetty, whose longing to six families from Raul Zurita, Chinese poet shan Shetty, the event will from Mexico. work was featured in the de- Kerala and three from Tamil Ouyang Jianghe, and Indian host works by artists working While artist Naiza Khan but KMB in 2012. Nadu will reach Kerala on May theatre personality Anami- across a range of media -- in represents Pakistan, India has Other highlights of the 12 after evacuation from Libya, ka Haksar are some of the keeping with its mandate to seven artists including Orijit year include a 'Students Bien- a senior official said on Tues- names to look out for at the broaden and blur the labels Sen, Praneet Soi, T V Santhosh nale', a nationwide outreach day. "These families includes third edition of the much- and lines attributed to art. and Desmond Lazaro. project involving 60 Indian art infants. They will travel from awaited Kochi-Muziris Bien- "It is going to be an ad- While the past two editions colleges, curated by 15 young Tripoli to Istanbul and will nale this year. mixture of styles, schools and were held in heritage proper- curators. Apart from this, 'Art land in Kochi via Dubai at 8.30 The first list of 25 art- sensibilities," said Shetty, rec- ties, public spaces, and galler- by Children (ABC)', a chil- am on Thursday," the official ists features an eclectic mix ognised as one of his genera- ies in Fort Kochi and Ernaku- dren's-only art event, a project posted in the Kerala Chief Min- of poets, musicians, theatre tion's most innovative artists. lam, the third edition will be aimed at initiating youngsters ister's office told IANS. and performance artists from Touted as the largest held in venues like Aspinwall into art and art appreciation Several of those evacuated countries like Colombia, event of its kind in South House, Pepper House, David with children as both artist were working in Zawiya Hospi- China, France, Norway and Asia, the 108-day-long Bien- Hall, and Durbar Hall. and audience will be held. tal in Libya's Sabratha city. The Pakistan. nale will conclude on March "I see Biennale as natu- The organisers said that Kerala government appreciated Scheduled to be held in 29, next year. rally embodying and carrying Shetty's curatorial note for the support from External Af- December this year, the event Other accomplished in- forward the multi-culturalism KMB'16 and the second fairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's (File photo) An installation at an earlier version of Kochi-Muziris comprises of a main art exhi- ternational artists include of Kochi that is nurtured by list of artists will be an- office for the evacuation. Biennale. (SOURCE: WEB) bition and an ancillary pro- Sophie Dejode and Bertrand both history and myth. It cre- nounced soon. 14 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 World / Africa China court jails pro-democracy Congo opposition leader summoned to Zambia police arrest four suspects of activists: Lawyer court ritual murders that sparked riots BEIJING A CHINESE court has jailed two activists for taking part KINSHASA A CONGOLESE opposition candidate has been sum- LUSAKA ZAMBIA police said on Tuesday four suspects have NEWS in small-scale pro-democracy protests after detaining them for moned to court as Human Rights Watch denounces the arrests been arrested in connection with a string of grisly ritual murders IN BRIEF nearly three years, their lawyer said on Tuesday. Yuan Bing and of his supporters. Moise Katumbi, who last week announced he in the southern African nation’s capital that triggered anti-foreign Yuan Xiaohua were jailed for four years and three-and-a-half would be an opposition candidate for Congo’s November election, riots targeting mostly Rwandan migrants in April. The arrested years respectively, on charges including “picking quarrels and appeared at a closed hearing Monday in Lubumbashi, after a suspects are two army soldiers, a civilian employee of the Zam- making trouble”, their attorney Lu Jingmei told AFP. (AFP) summons Saturday on accusations of hiring mercenaries. (AP) bian Air Force and a traditional doctor, police said. (REUTERS)

PROTEST QUELLED Rwandan mayors on trial in France over 1994 genocide AFP PARIS

TWO former Rwandan may- ors went on trial in Paris on Tuesday, accused of orches- trating “massive and system- atic summary executions” during the central African country’s 1994 genocide. Octavien Ngenzi, 58, and Tito Barahira, 64, are alleged to have played a direct role in the massacre of hundreds of minority Tutsis who had taken refuge in a church in the eastern town of Kabarondo on April 13, 1994. It is the second trial for crimes against humanity and genocide by a special Paris court set up to go after sus- pected Rwandan killers who fled to France. Memories of the genocide, in which at least 800,000 peo- ple died over 100 days of slaugh- ter, continue to strain relations Kenyan opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) supporters run after riot police lobbed teargas canisters to disperse them during a protest at the premises hosting the headquarters of Independent between the two countries. Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to demand the disbandment of the electoral body ahead of next year’s election in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday. (REUTERS) It is the second trial for crimes against humanity and genocide by a special Paris court set up to go Kenya police tear-gas oppn after suspected Rwandan killers who fled to France

Rwanda accuses France of complicity -- and even direct involvement -- in the violence rally against electoral body because of its support for the Hutu nationalist government AID AGENCIES DECRY PLAN TO SHUT KENYA REFUGEE CAMPS at the time. Kenya is to hold general elections in 15 months and the Ngenzi and Barahira deny the charges, which include a main opposition leaders have threatened to boycott them NAIROBI A GROUP of charities working in the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya added their voic- “concerted plan aimed at the if the electoral authority is not reformed es Tuesday to those calling on Nairobi to reconsider a decision to stop hosting Somali refugees. The annihilation” of the Tutsi mi- 11 charities described as “unfortunate” the Kenyan government’s decision announced last week to nority. close Dadaab and Kakuma camps -- home to around 600,000 refugees, including nearly 350,000 in They appeared calm and AP outside the Independent Elec- and baton-wielding officers in Dadaab. “The recent announcement will have far reaching implications for the thousands of refugees attentive as the trial opened. NAIROBI toral and Boundaries Commis- advance of the demonstration, and asylum seekers who have called Kenya a place of refuge,” the aid agencies said. (AFP) Ngenzi’s lawyer Fran- sion in Nairobi along with their organized by the Coalition coise Mathe complained the KENYAN police on Monday supporters. Some demonstra- for Reforms and Democracy. defence was at a great disad- tear-gassed Kenya’s main op- tors pelted police with stones Police Chief Japeth Koome their offices. The opposition Kenya, including the US, last Some members of the elec- vantage, likening the trial to position leaders and hundreds and police dispersed the dem- warned that officers would al- argues that it has had to resort week urged Kenyan leaders toral commission have been a “fight between a tiger and a of their supporters who were onstrators using tear gas. low peaceful demonstrations to street protests after the gov- to hold discussions about the named in a case in which two tethered donkey”. demanding the dissolution of Kenya is to hold general but would not tolerate any ernment rejected its proposal electoral commission. executives of British printing She said the defence had the electoral authority because elections in 15 months and breach of the peace. to hold discussions about the Opposition leaders, protes- firm Smith and Ouzman Ltd. been excluded from “all the of alleged bias and corruption. the main opposition leaders Police previously dispersed electoral commission. The op- tant churches and the Central were sentenced to a total of five investigations carried out in Former Prime Minister have threatened to boycott the leaders and their support- position would lose if the de- Organization of Trade Unions years after being convicted in Rwanda” and was allowed to Raila Odinga, former Vice them if the electoral author- ers two weeks ago when they bate were taken to parliament, have called for the disbanding the UK for making corrupt pay- summon five witnesses at gov- President Kalonzo Musyoka ity is not reformed. held a similar protest vowing opposition leaders say. of the electoral and boundaries ments to individuals in various ernment expense, compared and Senator Moses Wetangula Police had surrounded the to eject the members of the Eleven diplomats repre- commission, charging that it is countries including Kenya to with the prosecution’s 70. staged a sit-in on the highway offices with water cannons electoral commission from senting western countries in biased and corrupt. win business for the company. Mathe also said the trial was relying too heavily on wit- ness accounts, arguing that “witnesses forget, make mis- takes (and) lie.” ‘Chairman Kim’ presides over massive Pyongyang parade But Michel Laval, a law- yer of the Collective of Civil Plaintiffs for Rwanda, which AFP leader arrived. head of state, Kim Yong- has tracked down suspects in PYONGYANG Nuclear-armed North Ko- Nuclear-armed N Korea Nam, addressed the parade the genocide who have fled to rea regularly holds mass mili- regularly holds mass mili- before it began, praising Kim France, disagreed. NORTH KOREA held a mas- tary parades to celebrate key tary parades to celebrate Jong-Un and congratulating sive parade in Pyongyang Tues- dates and show off its latest key dates and show off its him on his election the day day, turning the capital’s giant military hardware, including latest military hardware before as chairman of the rul- square into a sea of pink, to cel- long-range ballistic missiles ing Workers’ Party. Amnesty slams ebrate a ruling party congress that are still under develop- “The election... showed the seen as a formal coronation for ment. clear arms and a strong army,” absolute trust... of our military forced detention of supreme leader Kim Jong-Un. Tuesday’s events were an read the sign on the missile- and people in the great leader Russian activist in Kim presided over the all-civilian affair apart from a themed float. Kim Jong-Un,” Kim said. event from a balcony over- military band. But several of North Korea followed its Leader Kim waved briefly psychiatric hospital looking the expansive Kim the giant floats had military last nuclear test in January to the crowd to thunderous Il-Sung Square, with tens of themes, showing cardboard with a satellite launch that was applause but did not make a AFP People react as they see North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a thousands of people waving mock-ups of missiles and widely condemned as a dis- speech. Hundreds of balloons MOSCOW mass rally and parade in the capital’s main ceremonial square, in bouquets of artificial flowers space-launch vehicles. guised ballistic missile test. were released into the sky to Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday. (REUTERS) over their heads as the young “A strong nation needs nu- The country’s nominal boost the festive effect. AMNESTY International has denounced the forced deten- tion in a psychiatric hospital of an anti-government activist in provincial Russia. US warship sails by S China Obama won’t apologise for WWII on Hiroshima visit Dmitry Vorobyovsky, a prominent anti-Kremlin pro- Sea reef; Beijing fumes REUTERS Peace Memorial Park near the tester in the southwestern city TOKYO spot where a U.S. warplane of Voronezh, was forcibly de- dropped an atomic bomb 71 tained by paramedics on May AFP to South China Sea features BARACK OBAMA will be- years ago at the end of World 6 and taken to hospital. BEIJING do not purport to restrict the come the first sitting US War Two. There have been “At the hospital he was exercise of navigation rights president to visit Hiroshima concerns that a US presiden- tied to a bed for three hours THE US on Tuesday sailed a and freedoms under the in Japan later this month, tial visit would be controver- during which he was injected warship close to a disputed law of the sea by the United but he will not apologize for sial in the United States if it with an unknown substance South China Sea reef Beijing States and others, they were the United States’ dropping were seen as an apology. and given pills against his has built up into an artificial not challenged during this of an atomic bomb on the city The bomb dropped on will,” Amnesty said in a state- island, officials said, prompt- operation,” he added. in World War Two, the White Aug. 6, 1945 killed thousands ment released on Monday. ing China to express “dissatis- It is Washington’s third House said on Tuesday. of people instantly and about The rights group said it faction and opposition”. “freedom of navigation” op- Awarded the Nobel Peace 140,000 by the end of that “remains unclear what the al- Guided-missile destroyer eration in the disputed waters Prize early in his presidency in year. Another was dropped on leged medical grounds for his USS William P. Lawrence launched in recent months 2009 in part for his commit- the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, detention and forcible treat- navigated within 12 nautical after China built several artifi- ment to nuclear nonprolifera- 1945, and Japan surrendered ment were” and that Vorobyo- miles of the Fiery Cross Reef, cial islands as it asserts claims tion, Obama on May 27 will visit six days later. vsky “may have been detained occupied by China and also to nearly all the sea. the site of the world’s first nu- (FILE PHOTO) Amy Carter, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, The majority of Americans because of his outspoken criti- claimed by Vietnam, Taiwan Chinese foreign min- clear bomb attack with Japan’s offers a prayer at a statue dedicated to the children who died in the view the bombing of Hiroshi- cism of government policy”. and the Philippines, the Pen- istry spokesman Lu Kang Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Hiroshima, Japan. (AP) ma and Nagasaki as justified Psychiatric treatment tagon said. confirmed the operation on With the end of his last to end the war and save US was widely used during the “This operation challenged Tuesday, saying the warship term in office approaching at the end of World War II. Group of Seven summit in lives, while most Japanese see Soviet period to try to crush attempts by China, Taiwan, “illegally entered waters near in January 2017, Obama will Instead, he will offer a forward- Japan and a visit to Vietnam. it as unjustified. dissidents who criticised the and Vietnam to restrict navi- the relevant reefs of China’s “highlight his continued com- looking vision focused on our It will be the 10th trip to the Abe, speaking to report- system. gation rights around the fea- Nansha islands without the mitment to pursuing the peace shared future,” US Deputy region for Obama, who has ers in Tokyo, said he hoped Russian authorities have tures they claim,” Pentagon permission of the Chinese and security of a world without National Security Adviser Ben tried to make a foreign policy “to turn this into an oppor- passed a raft of legislation spokesman Commander Bill government”. nuclear weapons,” the White Rhodes wrote in a separate blog. “pivot” toward Asia. tunity for the US and Japan in recent years to make it in- Urban said in a statement. Nansha is China’s name House said in a statement. The visit comes as part of On the final day of the to together pay tribute to the creasingly difficult to protest “Because the Philippines’ for the Spratly Islands, where “He will not revisit the de- a May 20-28 swing through summit in Japan, Obama and memories of the victims” of against the rule of strongman maritime claims in relation Fiery Cross Reef lies. cision to use the atomic bomb Asia, which will include a Abe will visit the Hiroshima the nuclear bombing. leader Vladimir Putin. UK / Europe Wednesday, May 11, 2016 15 UK police apologise for using Arabic phrase in mock attack UK think tank says exit from EU would be a ‘shocker’

LONDON British police have apologized for having a mock suicide bomber shout the phrase “Al- LONDON A British think tank says a decision by UK voters to leave the European Union lahu Akbar” before setting off an explosion during a terror response exercise. would deliver a significant shock to the economy – with the pound dropping by as much as NEWS Greater Manchester Police said in a statement Tuesday it had been “unacceptable” to use 20 percent in the immediate aftermath of the June 23 referendum. IN BRIEF the religious phrase as part of the terror drill at a major Manchester shopping mall. Economists estimated on Tuesday that economic growth would slow to 1.9 percent in The Arabic phrase means “God is Great.” 2017, compared with a rate of 2.7 percent if Britain remains in the 28-nation bloc. Police Chief Tony Lloyd said the use of the phrase could “undermine” strong community “In the short run, the current heightened levels of uncertainty are likely to persist, if not relations in the city. (AP) intensify, as the UK establishes its place outside the EU,” the think tank said. (AP) Cameron calls Nigeria, Afghanistan ‘most corrupt’ REUTERS In a pooled video feed tries in the world.” 166, second-from-bottom, in countries have sent strong sig- LONDON made available to the ITN The queen, who gener- campaign group Transparency nals that they want things to broadcaster, Cameron was ally steers clear of political International’s latest Corrup- change.” BRITISH Prime Minister shown talking with the queen comment, did not respond to tion Perceptions Index, an an- It was not clear whether David Cameron was caught on about the summit. Cameron’s comment. But the nual ranking of countries. Cameron realised he was be- camera telling Queen Eliza- “We had a very successful Archbishop of Canterbury, Only North Korea and ing filmed and recorded at the beth on Tuesday that leaders cabinet meeting this morning, Justin Welby, said: “But this Somalia, jointly ranked at event at Buckingham Palace, of some “fantastically corrupt” talking about our anti-corrup- particular president is actually number 167, are perceived to held to mark the queen’s 90th countries, including Nigeria tion summit,” Cameron said not corrupt.” be more corrupt. Nigeria is at birthday last month. and Afghanistan, were due when the queen approached. Nigeria’s President Mu- number 136 in the index. After Cameron’s remarks to attend his anti-corruption “We have got the Nigerians hammadu Buhari and Afghan “There is no doubt that his- about Nigeria and Afghani- summit. - actually we have got some President Afghan President torically, Nigeria and Afghani- stan, John Bercow, the speak- Prime Minister Cameron leaders of some fantastically Ashraf Ghani, both of whom stan have had very high levels er of parliament’s House of will host an international anti- corrupt countries coming to are due to attend the sum- of corruption, and that contin- Commons joked: “They are corruption summit on Thurs- Britain.” mit, acknowledge corruption ues to this day,” said Cobus de coming at their own expense Queen Elizabeth II speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron day aimed at stepping up Cameron went on: “Niger- in their countries and have Swardt, Managing Director of one assumes?” (right) as The Archbishop of Caterbury, Justin Welby looks on during a global action to combat cor- ia and Afghanistan - possibly pledged to clean it up. Transparency International. “Everything has to be reception in Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday. (AFP) ruption in all walks of life. two of the most corrupt coun- Afghanistan is at number “But the leaders of those open,” Cameron said. Freed Spanish London mayor slams Trump journo feared being over ‘ignorant’ view of Islam sold to IS in Syria AFP there now. Kidnapping is no MADRID longer a weapon of war, it The newly-elected Muslim mayor of London rejects exemption from Trump’s Muslim ban in the US is a profitable business,” he ONE of three Spanish jour- added. AP & IANS nalists released after nearly “You can’t trust anyone LONDON a year held hostage in Syria and anyone may sell you. by an Al Qaeda-linked group The translator, the driver, LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Tuesday he feared the fruit salesman... it is not on Tuesday slammed Donald being sold to the Islamic safe to work there.” Trump’s “ignorant” view of State group, which regularly The Spanish government Islam, after the Republican kills captives. has not disclosed any infor- presidential contender sug- SCAN TO LAUNCH “You don’t know what mation about how it won the gested Khan could be exempt- A VIDEO they want to do or how long men’s freedom ed from a proposed temporary it will last. If they are going ban on Muslims entering the to kill you, release you or United States. sell you to another terror- “I will not return to Syria, Last year Trump proposed ist group,” Angel Sastre said at least not for the “a total and complete” ban on in an interview with online moment. It is impossible foreign Muslims entering the newspaper El Espanol. to work there now. US “until our country’s repre- “The simple idea that Kidnapping is no longer a sentatives can figure out what they could sell me to Daesh weapon of war, it is a prof- the hell is going on.” terrified me,” he added, us- itable business.” Asked how that policy ing an Arabic acronym for would affect London’s first the Islamic State group. Muslim mayor, Trump told Sastre, 35, was kid- The Islamic State group, The New York Times that napped along with two other Al-Nusra’s rival, has execut- “there will always be excep- Spanish freelance journalists ed many of its hostages. tions.” But Khan said “this on July 13, 2015 in the north- In August 2014 it mur- isn’t just about me — it’s about ern Syrian city of Aleppo by dered US journalist James my friends, my family and the Al-Nusra Front, Al Qae- Foley, who was taken hos- everyone who comes from a da’s Syrian affiliate. tage in northern Syria in background similar to mine, The three experienced 2012. anywhere in the world.” conflict zone reporters were The following month, the “Donald Trump’s ignorant flown to Madrid on Sunday group killed fellow US jour- view of Islam could make both on a Spanish defence minis- nalist Steven Sotloff. our countries less safe — it try jet sent to Turkey to bring In 2015, militants from risks alienating mainstream them back. the group beheaded Japa- Muslims around the world Sastre, 35, said he was al- nese war correspondent and plays into the hands of lowed to watch the news by Kenji Goto. the extremists,” Khan said in a his hostage takers after his Media rights group Re- statement. fourth month in captivity. porters Without Borders Khan, the London-born “With CNN or the BBC, (RSF) in 2015 ranked Syria son of Pakistani immigrants, we learned how the war was as one of the most dangerous was elected last week by a going on around us, because countries in the world for wide margin after a campaign Syria was in the headlines journalists along with Iraq. that saw his Conservative rival Newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan is greeted by a supporter as he arrives for his first day at work at City Hall in London, on Monday. (REUTERS) almost every day. It was like It says 139 journalists Zac Goldsmith accuse him of living inside a bubble inside died in Syria, where various having shared platforms with saying. Trump’s “ignorant” the conflict,” he said. armed factions have been Islamic extremists. ‘PRAISE ALLAH’ BANNERS TO APPEAR ON BRITISH BUSES IN RAMADAN views of Islam “could make “I will not return to Syria, battling President Bashar Khan, a former human both our countries less safe,” at least not for the moment. al Assad’s regime and each rights lawyer and Labour Par- Khan added. It is impossible to work other since 2011. ty lawmaker, accused Gold- LONDON London’s iconic red buses and public transport in other British cities will carry banner Trump called for the smith of trying to frighten and adverts featuring the Arabic phrase “Subhan Allah” (Glory be to God) in a bid to encourage British ban in December after Syed divide voters in a multicultural Muslims to support Syrian war victims. Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen city of 8.6 million people — The posters will appear on hundreds of buses during Ramadan, which begins at sunrise on Malik, a married couple, killed more than 1 million of them June 6 and lasts until July 7, the Daily Mail reported. 14 people in a mass shooting Muslims. The start of the campaign will begin a month after London elected the first Muslim mayor of a in San Bernardino, California. In his victory speech, Khan major Western city, Labour’s Sadiq Khan – who, coincidentally, is the son of a bus driver. The Islamic State said the two said the result marked the tri- Islamic Relief, a Muslim charity, is funding the campaign, which will be rolled out in London, were its followers. umph of “hope over fear and Manchester, Birmingham and Bradford. In an interview with Time, unity over division.” Organisers hope it will present Islam in a positive way and encourage British Muslims to donate Sadiq Khan said he would like Trump said he was “happy to humanitarian efforts for victims of the ongoing war in Syria. “In a sense this could be called a to go to the United States to to see” Khan’s election and climate change campaign because we want to change the negative climate around international aid meet with American mayors. hoped “he does a good job.” and around the Muslim community in this country,” director Islamic Relief, Imran Madden said. “If Donald Trump becomes The mayor declined to “International aid has helped halve the number of people living in extreme poverty in the past the president I’ll be stopped lend Trump his support. 15 years, and British Muslims are an incredibly generous community who give over £100 million to from going there by virtue of “I’ll be backing the Demo- international aid charities in Ramadan.” (REUTERS) my faith, which means I can’t cratic candidate — Hillary engage with American mayors Clinton, who I suspect it will and swap ideas,” he said. be — and I hope that she view of Islam could make both plays into the hands of the ex- liberal values are incompatible He said he planned to visit The three freed Spanish journalists (from left) Jose Manuel Lopez, trounces him,” Khan told the our countries less safe - it risks tremists. with mainstream Islam - Lon- the United States before Janu- Angel Sastre and Antonio Pampliega arrive at the Torrejon military BBC. alienating mainstream Mus- Donald Trump and those don has proved him wrong,” ary in case Trump wins the airbase in Madrid, Spain, recently. (AP) “Donald Trump’s ignorant lims around the world and around him think that western the Guardian quoted him as presidential race.

Switzerland may revoke Cannes unrolls red carpet as stars roll in QUEENS OF CANNES jihadist suspect’s citizenship AFP will host stars such as Julia actors roll in to soak up the CANNES There will be no CANNES Roberts, Jodie Foster, Sean A small army of workers glamour, sell films, network shortage of movie star REUTERS Swiss-born Christian Ianniello Penn, Robert De Niro, Kirsten carefully unrolled strips of and party. The festival has also royalty at the Cannes film ZURICH that it had opened a revocation CANNES began rolling out the Dunst, Charlize Theron and the 60-metre red carpet created a security headache festival, but the true queens case against him, although it red carpet on Tuesday as stars George Clooney over the 12- that will host stars over worthy of a movie script for of this year’s red carpet will SWITZERLAND said on Tues- did not state why. including Kristen Stewart and day festival. the 12-day festival. French authorities six months be ‘Twilight’ megastar turned day it was seeking to revoke A spokeswoman said the Blake Lively swept into town The first of the big Hol- after a series of attacks left 130 indie darling Kristen Stewart the citizenship of a 19-year-old secretariat was investigating for the world’s top film festival lywood films, Foster’s drama people dead in Paris. and French film siren Marion Swiss-Italian man identified in coordination with intelli- whose dazzle is being tested by about a Wall Street tipster Victorian tourists eaten by the “We must keep in mind as Cotillard. Both actresses are by a former employer as a sus- gence services and the relevant stiff security measures. ‘Money Monster’ starring locals in northern France. we prepare to open this festi- sweeping into the French pected jihadist who travelled cantonal authorities, “whether On foot, horseback and Clooney and Roberts screens Another, ‘The Neon De- val, that we are... faced with resort town with two films in to Syria to join Islamic State. in concrete cases of jihadist- motorbikes, police patrolled Thursday. And Steven Spiel- mon’, also features canni- an enemy determined to strike the official selection. The Swiss authorities be- motivated travellers the revo- the Croisette, a strip of beach berg will roll out his block- balism, this time among su- us at any moment,” Interior Cotillard will appear in lieve at least 73 people have cation of the Swiss citizenship lined with ultra-luxury stores buster version of Roald Dahl’s permodels in Los Angeles Minister Bernard Cazeneuve two films in the running for travelled to the Middle East to was possible in instances of and headed by the Palais des ‘The BFG’ at the weekend, al- according to the film’s Dan- said on a visit to Cannes on the top prize, the Palme d’Or. become jihadist fighters since dual citizenship.” Festivals, the main venue though neither are competing ish director Nicolas Winding Monday. As a result an “ex- Meanwhile, Stewart gained 2001, according to an official An employee at a window for the cinema extravaganza for the main Palme d’Or prize. Refn, who is notorious for de- traordinary mobilisation” of a reputation for taking on report from April. Of those, 13 blinds business in the town of which gets under way on But already some of the picting extreme violence. security forces has been put in passion projects. “I take part have been confirmed dead. Winterthur where Ianniello Wednesday night. main competition films are The population of Cannes place, with 400 private secu- in successful productions The Swiss State Secretariat worked confirmed he was sus- A small army of workers stirring controversy, with Juli- is set to nearly triple to some rity agents guarding the Palais to facilitate the existence of for Migration issued a federal pected of having travelled to carefully unrolled strips of ette Binoche starring in a pe- 200,000 people as film pro- des Festivals alone, where the more modest films.”(AFP) notice on Tuesday to notify Syria to join ISIS in 2015. the 60-metre red carpet that riod horror ‘Slack Bay’ about ducers, industry workers and main films are shown. 16 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Gulf / Middle East Iraq officials: Suicide bomb kills at least Somalia’s Shabaab claims to have foiled Bomb attack on police vehicle in 13 near Baghdad US special forces raid Turkey’s Diyarbakir kills 3 BAGHDAD An evening suicide bombing in a commercial area MOGADISHU Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-aligned Shabaab fighters DIYARBAKIRY A car bomb killed 3 and wounded 45 when it NEWS in a city northeast of Baghdad killed at least 13 people, Iraqi claimed to have foiled an attack involving US special forces struck a police vehicle on Tuesday in Diyarbakir, the main city in IN BRIEF officials said on Tuesday. The bomber blew up his explosives- overnight on Monday to Tuesday near the town of Toratorow, southeastern Turkey where security forces are trying to crush a laden minibus shortly before sunset on Monday near a bakery about 60 kilometres south of the capital. Residents confirmed Kurdish militant insurgency, the governor’s office said. Explosives and a falafel restaurant in a Shiite neighbourhood of the city of that heavily armed soldiers backed by helicopters had staged in the vehicle were detonated from a distance as an armoured Baqouba, a police officer said.(AP) a raid but could not identify the troops. (AFP) police van passed, the governor’s office said. (REUTERS) Kuwait probes 5,000 families Tribesmen kill 6 in Sudan’s Darfur: UN over social security fraud AFP Darfur was also wounded in the unaware of the latest violence. a “reported rise in tensions KHARTOUM attack near the makeshift camp Insisting that the region between displaced people and AFP by these families on the basis be married to Kuwaiti citizens, in Sortoni where tens of thou- was secure, he said that “there armed tribesmen over cattle KUWAIT CITY of false claims. she said. AN attack by tribesmen near a sands of people have taken ref- are some isolated incidents still raiding”. The families number The oil-rich Gulf country, makeshift camp for displaced uge from an upsurge in fighting occurring”. Cattle rustling is a frequent KUWAIT has launched a around 52,000 people in a which has a generous welfare people in Sudan’s conflict-hit this year between the army and “But this is normal as the source of conflict in Darfur. probe into a suspected scam country with 1.3 million native system, spends hundreds of North Darfur state killed six ci- ethnic minority rebels. region is coming out of a war,” Last month, as many as 20 peo- involving 5,324 families ac- citizens. millions of dollars a year on vilians including two children, a The UN Humanitarian Co- Sissi told reporters. ple died in clashes between two cused of faking documents The minister said pay- social aid to low-income fami- resident and a UN official said ordinator in Sudan, Marta Rue- A resident of the makeshift rival Arab tribes in East Darfur to obtain government social ments were made to 1,479 Ku- lies. Tuesday. das, “condemns the reported camp told AFP that gunmen on sparked by livestock thefts. security payments, a minister waiti women who claimed to But since the sharp decline Monday’s attack came just shooting and killing of six civil- camels and in pick-up trucks Darfur has been gripped said on Tuesday. be single but were later found in the price of oil, its main hours after a senior interna- ians, including two children, by attacked twice using rocket- by conflict since 2003, when Social Affairs and Labour to be married. source of income, the emirate tional mediator working on armed local tribes in Sortoni”, a propelled grenades and ma- ethnic minority rebels rose Minister Hind al-Sabeeh told There were another 1,283 has begun applying auster- resolving the conflict said the statement said. chineguns. up against President Omar al- the official KUNA news agency cases of Kuwaiti women claim- ity measures aimed at cutting region was now “stable”. Asked about the attack, Ti- The UN Office for the Coor- Bashir, complaining that his that millions of dollars in pub- ing they were married to state- spending and raising non-oil A peacekeeper from the jani Sissi who heads the Darfur dination of Humanitarian Af- Arab-dominated government lic funds were illegally taken less people but were found to income. UN-African Union Mission in Regional Authority said he was fairs said the incident followed was marginalising the region. Talks to repair Countries backing Syria talks Israeli-Turkish ties must await to meet in Vienna on May 17 new Ankara govt Syria’s opposition is hopeful of a return to the Geneva peace parleys REUTERS The next meeting “will ISTANBUL have to wait until the com- position of the new Turkish LONG-RUNNING efforts government on May 22,” to fully restore Israeli- Cohen told reporters late Turkish ties strained after on Monday. “I believe it an Israeli raid of a Turk- will take another round or ish boat in 2010 must now two in order to conclude await the formation of a the deal ... Most of the is- new government in Anka- sues between Israel and ra, Israel’s top diplomat in Turkey are already, to a Turkey said. certain extent, clear.” Turkey downgraded Turkish Prime Minister diplomatic relations and Ahmet Davutoglu will step ejected Israel’s ambassador down on May 22 after a rift in 2011, a year after Israeli with Erdogan. Forming a new government could de- lay both domestic and for- eign policy initiatives. NATO member Tur- key and Israel cooperated militarily beginning in the 1990s, a relationship seen as vital to Middle East sta- bility by the United States but viewed warily by Er- dogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party, in power since 2002. The impetus behind fix- ing the relationship now is security, especially with Is- lamic State and other jihad- Israel’s Consul General in ists in control of swathes Istanbul Shai Cohen of Syria, which Israel and Turkey both border, Cohen commandos stormed the said. However, restoring Mavi Marmara, part of a military ties will take time, humanitarian aid convoy he added. trying to break Israel’s Another factor is natu- blockade of Gaza, and ral gas. Energy-poor Turkey killed 10 Turks. wants to pipe product from Israel is currently rep- Israel’s offshore Leviathan SCAN TO LAUNCH resented by Shai Cohen, its field, estimated to hold 500 A VIDEO consul-general in Istanbul. billion cubic metres, for do- The two sides have sig- mestic use and export. nalled for months a deal is “Everyone is looking Residents inspect a site damaged by an air strike in Binnish in the insurgent stronghold of Idlib province, Syria, on Tuesday. (REUTERS) imminent, including com- forward to see how Israel pensation for the Mavi Mar- can export to Turkey, and REUTERS what we did with the Russians LAVROV PLANS TO TAKE PART IN MEET for a political solution and mara victims and an easing through Turkey to the LONDON in terms of this agreement that you know would be pre- of the Gaza blockade. West, natural gas,” he said. and to talk about all kinds of MOSCOW A spokeswoman told AFP that minister Sergei Lavrov pared to bring parties together Israeli officials said a Cohen ruled out lifting THE 17-nation group back- things, ranging from duration, “is planning” to take part in the meeting of the International around a reconstruction proc- deal was reached in Decem- the sea blockade on Gaza in ing Syria peace talks will meet to enforcement to the political Syria Support Group (ISSG) -- which includes 17 key nations -- in ess for Syria.” ber, and President Tayyip place since 2007, calling it next week, US Secretary of process,” Kerry said. the Austrian capital next week. Moscow -- a key backer of Presi- Russian President Erdogan said in March he a “non-issue,” even though State John Kerry on Tuesday, The United States and Rus- dent Bashar al-Assad -- is currently spearheading a diplomatic Vladimir Putin said on Tues- expected positive results Erdogan has repeatedly a day after he and his Russian sia, who support rival sides in push to resolve the conflict as co-chair of ISSG alongside the day the situation in Syria re- soon, raising hopes an made it a condition for re- counterpart agreed to work Syria’s five-year-old civil war, United States. (AFP) mained complicated, but Mos- agreement was imminent. storing relations. to revive a “cessation of hos- said on Monday they would cow hoped cooperation with tilities” agreement reached in strive to revive an accord that the United States would lead February. reduced fighting in parts of the vene in Geneva. the US presidential election in to fundamental changes in the Kerry told reporters in Lon- country for several weeks. Syria’s opposition is hope- November should encourage country. don he expected UN-brokered A recent surge in blood- ful of a return to the Geneva the parties to work towards an Earlier, Russia’s RIA news talks involving the opposing shed in Aleppo, Syria’s larg- talks if a US-Russian deal on agreement, and he disagreed agency quoted the Russian Libya unity govt creates Syrian parties to take place est city and commercial hub reviving the failed truce is with those who argued other- Defence Ministry as saying “some days after” the May 17 before the war, wrecked the swiftly implemented, a mem- wise. that Moscow and Washington ‘Presidential Guard’ meeting in Vienna of the Inter- 10-week-old partial truce ber of Syria’s opposition High “I think it’s actually an in- had agreed to extend a truce national Syria Support Group. sponsored by Washington and Negotiations Committee said centive to get things done now, dubbed a “regime of calm” in “The ISSG will formally Moscow that had allowed UN- on Monday. while you have an administra- Aleppo for another 48 hours AFP table guests” of the country. come together to build on brokered peace talks to con- Kerry said the approach of tion that you know is working from Tuesday. TRIPOLI Manpower figures were not given, but the new force’s LIBYA’S government of na- tasks will include protecting tional unity on Tuesday an- “sensitive sites including mari- nounced the creation of a time, air and land borders, the ‘A lot left to do’ for Assad’s forces in Syria: Putin new military force to protect sources and supply of water government buildings, border and electricity power plants”. AFP Syria and conducted a large in Syria in support of Assad’s posts, vital installations and After Qaddhafi was over- MOSCOW number of strikes, with over forces since September but VIPs, a statement said. thrown and killed nearly five 30,000 targets hit,” Putin told has been accused by the West It was the first move by years ago, dozens of heavily RUSSIAN President Vladimir a meeting of military chiefs of targeting moderate regime the UN-backed Government armed militias in the capital Putin on Tuesday said there and weapons manufacturers. opponents and hitting civil- of National Accord (GNA) to and in cities across western remained “a lot left to do” for Putin insisted that Mos- ians. reorganise armed forces in Libya held onto weaponry they the forces of Syrian leader cow’s strikes against the Moscow is currently spear- the North African country that had used to battle the dicta- Bashar al-Assad despite Rus- Islamic State group and Al- heading a diplomatic push has been mired in chaos since tor’s forces. sian firepower hitting over Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front alongside the United States to the 2011 uprising that toppled In the east, controversial 30,000 targets in the war-torn had been “precise, powerful resolve the conflict and Putin Moamer Qaddhafi. General Khalifa Haftar, self- country. and effective” but also said once again highlighted that The GNA announced on its proclaimed commander-in- The Kremlin strongman “the situation there is compli- Moscow is interested in a po- Facebook page that the “Presi- chief, controls the “Libyan Arab also admitted that the Rus- cated and there is still a lot left litical solution to the war. dential Guard” will be Tripoli- armed forces” who include sian operation in Syria has ex- to do for the Syrian army”. Government forces and based but will include members former regular soldiers and dis- posed unspecified “problems” He conceded that the “op- rebels in the Syrian battle- of the police and army “selected parate armed factions. for Moscow’s military that eration in Syria has exhibited ground city of Aleppo agreed in different regions” of Libya. The presidential council has need to be probed. certain problems, insufficien- on Monday to extend their It will ensure security at no authority over Haftar’s forc- “Since the start of the op- cies” for Moscow’s military A poster bearing portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and truce for a second time, the “presidential complexes... and es who remain loyal to a paral- eration the Russian airforce without giving any further Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen in Palmyra recently. (AFP) army said, as the US and public buildings”, as well as pro- lel government backed by the has carried out over 10,000 details. Russia vowed to “redouble” viding close protection for mem- internationally recognised par- sorties against international “The most thorough inves- into every problematic issue,” Russia has been carry- efforts to end the five-year bers of the government and “no- liament now based in the east. terrorist infrastructure in tigation must be carried out Putin said. ing out a bombing campaign conflict. Gulf / Middle East Wednesday, May 11, 2016 17 Iran equipped with Russian Yemen govt, Houthis agree missile system: Minister AFP to major prisoner swap TEHRAN IRAN’S army is now equipped with a Russian air defence sys- The two sides will meet again today to finalise the mechanism on how and when the exchange will take place tem after a long and controver- sial delivery process, Defence Minister General Hossein De- AFP Following a two-day hghan was quoted as saying on KUWAIT CITY interruption, the two Tuesday. delegations resumed “I inform our people that... YEMEN’S government and face-to-face talks on we are in possession of the Iran-backed rebels agreed Monday after mediation strategic S-300 system” and on Tuesday to free half of that it “serves our air force’s the prisoners and detainees efforts and an appeal counterattack command,” De- held by both sides, in the first by the UN envoy. hghan said, according to ISNA breakthrough in peace talks news agency. that began last month. to control the capital Sanaa as Parts of the system, includ- The deal came during a well as large parts of the coun- ing missile tubes and radar meeting of the joint working try’s north and west, and the equipment, were displayed on group on prisoners and de- Saudi-led coalition has drawn April 17 during a military pa- tainees formed by UN special strong criticism over heavy ci- rade in southern Tehran. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh vilian casualties. The United States and Is- Ahmed. Ould Cheikh Ahmed rael have criticised Russia for There has been mounting warned on Monday that the the sale of the S-300 system to international pressure to end conflict was at a critical junc- the Islamic republic. the Yemen conflict, which the ture. Tehran says it is needed United Nations estimates has “There is no doubt that to strengthen its air defence killed more than 6,400 peo- we are at a true crossroads. against possible attacks, in- ple and displaced 2.8 million We are either moving towards cluding on its nuclear facilities. since March last year. peace or going back to square Iran and Russia originally “It was agreed during the one,” he said. signed a contract for its deliv- meeting to release 50 percent Hours after the talks re- ery in 2007, but in 2010 Mos- of the prisoners and detain- sumed on Monday, Saudi air cow suspended the sale after ees within the next 20 days,” defences intercepted a ballistic the UN Security Council issued Mane al-Matari, media advis- missile fired from Yemen, the a resolution against Iran’s nu- er to Yemen’s foreign minister coalition said. clear programme. who heads the government Before that, coalition air- delegation, told AFP. craft hit a military base cap- A source close to the tured by rebels north of Sanaa, Houthi rebel delegation con- killing at least 11, a military of- firmed the agreement to re- ficial said. Israeli court lease half of those held by both Coalition spokesman sides, describing it as “an ex- Ahmed Assiri told Egyptian rejects hunger change of prisoners”. Dream television late Mon- The two sides will meet day that if Kuwait peace talks striker’s appeal again on Wednesday to final- Yemeni children stand outside a tent at a makeshift camp for Internally Displaced Persons after they were forced to flee their omesh due to the fail “we will storm the capital AFP ise the mechanism on how and ongoing fighting in the country, in the Nehm region, west of Marib city, recently.(AFP) Sanaa and decide the battle in RAMALLAH when the exchange will take Yemen,” by military means. place, Matari said. ruption, the two delegations close to the two delegations demanded the formation of a Ali Abdullah Saleh against The talks follow two failed ISRAEL’S Supre`me Court “The Yemeni government resumed face-to-face talks on said. consensus transitional gov- forces fighting to defend Ha- peace attempts in June and rejected on Tuesday an ap- is committed to release all the Monday after mediation ef- Those issues include im- ernment to handle other is- di’s internationally recognised December last year in Switzer- peal to free a Palestinian jailed prisoners as per the agree- forts and an appeal by the UN plementing a UN Security sues and the delegation of government, supported by a land. without charge and on hun- ment,” he said. envoy. Council resolution which or- President Abd Rabbo Man- Saudi-led Arab coalition. The Houthis exchanged ger strike for more than two Matari estimated that their Two other working groups, ders the Houthis to pull out sour Hadi insisted he is the Pro-government forces prisoners with Saudi Arabia months, the Palestinian Pris- number is in the “thousands”, spanning military, security of territory they occupied in a legitimate head of state, the pushed the rebels out of five in March after unprecedented oners Club said. but the rebel source said there and political issues, also met 2014 offensive and surrender sources said. southern provinces last year talks mediated by tribes along “The occupation authori- may be only hundreds of pris- on Tuesday but failed to make heavy arms they captured. The Yemen conflict pits the with air and ground support the frontier, where dozens ties confirmed their decision oners involved. any progress on the thorny The two delegations re- pro-Iranian Houthis and their from the coalition. have been killed in cross-bor- to keep Sami Janazra, who has Following a two-day inter- issues facing them, sources mained far apart as the rebels allies loyal to former president But the Houthis continue der shelling. been on hunger strike for 69 days to protest against his de- tention,” said Jawad Boulos of the prisoners club. Under what it calls admin- NEWS istrative detention, Israel can IN BRIEF Saudi intercepts missile from Yemen but truce holds hold suspects for renewable pe- riods without charging them. REUTERS exile government are trying peace talks in Kuwait a chance the missile or the target. Simi- base in Khamees Mushait in Janazra, 43, was arrested US announces DUBAI to reach a peace agreement in at progress. Both sides have lar incidents have occurred pe- southwest Saudi Arabia, a loca- in November 2015 and placed $50 mn aid for talks in Kuwait aimed at end- regularly accused each other riodically over the past months. tion previously targeted. in administrative detention for Gaza Strip SAUDI Arabia intercepted ing the year-long war and eas- of violations. Yemen’s govern- “The coalition announces The missile was in response six months, Boulos said, which a ballistic missile fired from ing a humanitarian crisis in the ment wants the Houthis and that it will continue to maintain to coalition air strikes in Yem- was recently renewed for a fur- JERUSALEM The United Yemen on Monday, but a Sau- Arabian Peninsula’s poorest forces loyal to former President the cessation of hostilities,” it en since the start of the truce ther four months. States has announced a di-led military coalition said it country. Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand said, reiterating that it retained that have killed and wounded The lawyer said Janazra $50 million aid programme would maintain a shaky truce The Saudi-led coalition over weapons and withdraw the right to respond as appro- dozens, Luqman said in com- had been refusing food since for the Gaza Strip. US of- despite the “serious escalation” intervened in Yemen a year from cities captured last year. priate. ments to Saba, the Houthi-run March 3, only drinking water. ficials said on Monday that by the Houthi militia and its ago mainly with air strikes in Saudi air defence forces de- Brigadier General Sharaf news agency. Janazra was transferred to the money will be used allies, state news agency SPA support of the Yemeni govern- stroyed the missile without it Luqman, a spokesman for He said that despite this Soroka hospital in southern over five years to provide said. ment. A tentative UN-backed causing any damage, the coali- Yemeni forces fighting along- the forces were committed to Israel where he was “under basic humanitarian as- The Iran-allied Houthis ceasefire has been in place tion said, according to SPA. It side the Houthis, said the mis- the truce but would respond if observation,” Israeli prison au- sistance and create jobs. and Yemen’s Saudi-backed since last month to give the gave no further details about sile was aimed at a military there were further raids. thorities told AFP. The money will be distrib- uted by the US Agency for International Develop- ment in partnership with Catholic Relief Services. Netanyahu boasts he threatened raid to Israel charges Gaza The US Consul General in Jerusalem, Donald A teen with murder bid Blume, said the effort is rescue Israelis from Cairo embassy in 2011 meant to address “the dire needs that are obvious in REUTERS of the six guards by Egyptian ple in the Israeli embassy in AFP interrogators valuable intel- Gaza.” Gaza’s economy has JERUSALEM forces after President Barack Cairo,” Netanyahu said at the JERUSALEM ligence on Hamas operations. sharply declined since the Obama and other top US of- ceremony. The 17-year-old suspect, Islamic militant group Ha- PRIME Minister Benjamin ficials intervened at Israel’s “A wild mob ... came to ISRAEL on Tuesday charged from Jabalia in northern mas took over the coastal Netanyahu said on Tuesday behest. slaughter our people, and a Gaza teenager who crossed Gaza, had provided “exten- territory nearly a decade that he threatened to send The feasibility of an Israe- that evening we used all the into the Jewish state with at- sive information” on “Hamas ago. Unemployment there Israeli commandos into Cairo li raid into Cairo, the densely tools at our disposal, includ- tempted murder and mem- activity in digging tunnels is estimated to be over 40 in 2011 to rescue a number of crowded capital of a country ing a threat of an Israeli mili- bership of the military wing of for the infiltration of Hamas percent. (AP) Israeli security staff besieged with the biggest military in tary rescue operation - some- Hamas, the Shin Bet security fighters into Israel,” said Shin by demonstrators who had the Arab world, would strain thing that ultimately was the service said. Bet. ‘Extremism a stormed the mission. the imagination. On Twit- deciding factor and brought In a statement released The suspect was indicted result of no Netanyahu’s remarks, at a ter, Israel’s liberal Haaretz Israeli Prime Minister the Egyptian forces (to the days after a spike in cross-bor- at a court in the southern Is- Palestinian state’ ceremony in Israel’s Foreign newspaper summed up the Benjamin Netanyahu scene).” der violence centred around raeli city of Beersheba with Ministry to mark the coun- right-wing prime minis- There was no immedi- Israeli operations against Ha- attempted murder, being a DUBAI Jordan’s foreign try’s annual memorial day, ter’s account with one word: in the Foreign Ministry situ- ate comment from Egypt’s mas attack tunnels, Shin Bet Hamas member and harming minister says that Palestin- added a new twist to the inci- “Amazing.” ation room, we faced an ever- foreign ministry following said that since his arrest last Israel’s security, the justice ian statehood is the most dent. It ended with the rescue “Here, several years ago, tightening siege on our peo- Netanyahu’s remarks. month, the suspect had given ministry said. important issue now facing the world and that it fuels extremism gripping the Mi- deast. Nasser Judeh made the comment on Tuesday Boycott leader accuses Israel ‘Unfair to blame US for not doing business with Iran’ at the Arab Media Forum in Dubai. Judeh says the of imposing travel ban REUTERS ing system, have been willing British banks including “Palestinian cause rep- LONDON to get involved in trade with Barclays, HSBC and Stand- resents the essence of AP he does not hold a passport and Iran, much to Tehran’s frus- ard Chartered as well as some the conflicts and crises JERUSALEM instead requires special per- COMPANIES should not use tration. lenders from other European in the region.” He added mission to travel in and out of the United States as an excuse “Businesses should not use countries are expected to at- that “every day of delay A LEADER of the international the country. for not doing business with the United States as an excuse tend, according to sources fa- where the international boycott movement against Is- Barghouti, a Qatari-born Iran, US Secretary of State if they don’t want to do busi- miliar with the matter. community does not exert rael on Tuesday accused Israeli Palestinian who is married to John Kerry said on Tuesday ness, or if they don’t see a good Spokesmen for the three pressure toward reaching authorities of imposing a travel an Israeli woman, said he has ahead of a meeting with Euro- business deal ... that’s just not British banks declined to com- a fair and just settlement ban on him as retribution for lived legally in Israel since 1994 pean banks to discuss the Ira- fair, that’s not accurate,” Kerry ment. of the Palestinian cause his political activities. and never before had a prob- nian issue. told reporters shortly after ar- The Iranian government will lead to another day of The move comes weeks lem renewing his travel permit. The United States and Eu- riving in London. has complained about not get- darkness where the forces after Israel’s interior minis- He said he does so every two rope lifted sanctions in Janu- “We sometimes get used as US Secretary of State John Kerry ting the full economic fruits of of extremism and terrorism ter, who oversees immigration years. ary under a deal with Iran to an excuse in this process,” he the nuclear deal. Ayatollah Ali can act. Then humanity as policy, was quoted as saying “Refusing to renew my limit its nuclear programme, added. clarity and the clarity is that Khamenei, the most powerful a whole will pay the price.” that he would consider revok- travel document now is there- but other US sanctions re- A US official confirmed European banks, as long as it’s figure in Iran, has blamed the Peace talks between Israel ing residency rights of Omar fore clearly political,” he said in main, including a ban on Iran- that Kerry would meet repre- not a designated entity, are ab- delays squarely on the United and Palestinian authori- Barghouti. an email. “It does not just deny linked transactions in dollars sentatives of European bank- solutely free to open accounts States. ties on a two-state solu- In a possible first step, me my freedom of movement. being processed through the ing institutions in London on for Iran, trade, exchange mon- “The US Treasury ... acts tion have stalled. Israel’s Barghouti said Tuesday that Is- It is seen by legal experts as a US financial system. Thursday to address their con- ey, facilitate a legitimate busi- in such a way that big corpo- Foreign Ministry declined rael told him last month that it first step toward revoking my This has meant that few cerns about conducting busi- ness agreement, bankroll it, rations, big institutions and to comment on Judeh’s was not renewing a permit that permanent residency, a clearly European banks, and none of ness with Iran in the wake of lend money - all those things big banks do not dare to come remarks. (AP) allows him to travel abroad. As political and vindictive meas- the big ones that have deep re- the nuclear deal. are absolutely open,” Kerry and deal with Iran,” Khamenei a permanent resident of Israel, ure that has no legal basis.” lationships with the US bank- “It’s important to have said. said in March. 18 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 United States Cruz toys with idea of rejoining Republican race Libertarian Gary Johnson sees REUTERS can nomination,” asked the put the brakes on the “Stop Oklahoma and Texas, accord- opportunity in Trump threat WASHINGTON Texan whether he would Trump” movements sparked ing to news reports. consider getting back into by his unorthodox candidacy. Trump needs a majority of AFP But while Johnson is an US Senator Ted Cruz, who the race if he won Nebras- The Trump campaign on 1,237 convention delegates to WASHINGTON unknown quantity compared dropped out of the Republican ka’s primary on Tuesday. Tuesday dismissed the possi- clinch the nomination on the to his headline-grabbing presidential race a week ago “I am not holding my bility of Cruz re-entering the first ballot, and it is not guar- DEMOCRAT Hillary Clin- rivals, he sees the unprec- after a crushing loss in Indi- breath,” Cruz said to laughter race as highly unlikely. anteed he will win them in the ton and Republican Donald edented chaos within the Re- ana, on Tuesday flirted with on Beck’s show on TheBlaze “I think if Ted has a future remaining nominating contests. Trump are all but assured a publican Party and Clinton’s the idea of tossing his hat back Radio Network. “My assump- in Republican politics in this Cruz spoke glowingly of US presidential showdown in lingering image problems as into the ring while admitting tion is that that will not hap- country, I think he’ll want to the conservative movement November, but a third-party his clearest-ever chance to the chances of that were slim. pen. ... The reason we sus- preserve that,” Trump adviser in the interview, saying it “re- candidate -- Libertarian Gary break through with a frustrat- Cruz, 45, said in an inter- pended the race last week is Sam Clovis said on CNN. “By mains strong and vibrant” de- Johnson -- will likely be on the ed electorate. view with conservative radio with Indiana’s loss I didn’t see suspending his campaign and spite the primary and caucus ballot in all 50 states. “It really is” a golden oppor- host Glenn Beck he would “re- a viable path to victory.” then trying to jump back in be- victories of a less conserva- Johnson, the former two- tunity, the 63-year-old Johnson spond accordingly” if he saw “If that changes, we will cer- fore the convention, I think it Republican presidential tive candidate. term governor of New Mexico, told AFP in an interview Mon- a viable path to winning the tainly respond accordingly.” damages his brand.” candidate, Senator Ted Cruz Asked if he would endorse earned barely one percent of the day near the White House, in- 2016 Republican nomination. Trump’s victory in Indiana The senator may be hop- Trump, Cruz said every vot- vote in 2012 as standard-bearer sisting his campaign could pick Beck, who campaigned last Tuesday pushed Cruz and ing to put his conservative Cleveland. On Monday, he er needs to make their own for the Libertarian Party, which up steam as voters seek a more heavily for Cruz in the sena- Ohio Governor John Kasich imprint on the party’s July said he would not release del- choice and they do not need has yet to win a congressional palatable alternative to the pro- tor’s quest for the Republi- out of the Republican race and 18-21 national convention in egates he had won in Kansas, to make it now. race in its 45-year history. vocative billionaire. NECK-AND-NECK CONTEST At least 2 dead, 2 states vote as poll hints at homes ravaged as tornadoes hit Clinton-Trump battle ahead Oklahoma plains

AP OKLAHOMA CITY The storms also destroyed a radio sta- TORNADOES destroyed tion building in Coal homes, overturned vehi- County and an undeter- cles and stripped the bark mined number of homes from trees as they churned in Murray, Garvin and across Oklahoma, part of a Johnston counties strong series of storms that hit the Plains. At least two people Garvin County officials died Monday in weather so said a man believed to be violent that forecasters de- in his upper 70s died when clared a “tornado emergen- another tornado hit a home cy” for communities in the near Wynnewood, south of path of one of the twisters. Oklahoma City. That storm, The Storm Prediction Cent- caught on video by several er said 23 tornadoes were storm chasers, appeared reported across five states. white against the dark clouds “You are in a life-threat- of a supercell storm. In John- ening situation,” forecasters ston County, the sheriff’s of- declared while warning the fice said a man was killed by communities of Roff, popu- a tornado near Connerville. lation 725, and Hickory, The Oklahoma Office population 71, which were of Emergency Manage- ultimately spared major ment reported the storms damage. “Flying debris will destroyed a radio station be deadly to those caught building in Coal County and without shelter.” an undetermined number Dana Lance was driving of homes in Murray, Garvin through the community of and Johnston counties. Roff, on her way home from The bad weather should work Monday when the settle Tuesday in the Ohio skies grew ominous, sirens and Tennessee valleys, wailed and forecasters on where hail, strong winds the radio told people to take and tornadoes are possi- cover. “I parked and went ble. A separate system is into the school, which has poised to move through a safe room,” Lance said. north Texas, including the “There were kids and eld- Dallas-Fort Worth area. In erly people, dogs and cats, all, about 44 million people Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with voters at the Mug and Muffin Cafe in Stone Ridge, Virginia, on Monday. (AFP) babies. It was like the whole live in areas that could see town was there.” storms Tuesday, the Storm “Six months from election were the Democratic nominee. She later apologized and In nearby Murray Coun- Prediction Center said. Clinton still has active competition day, the presidential races be- The Vermont senator, who suggested her remarks were ty, where Hickory is located, Another storm system tween Hillary Clinton and Don- defeated Clinton in Indiana misunderstood, but in a state emergency management di- should bring storms to the despite her virtually insurmountable ald Trump in the three most last week, has mounted an where livelihoods have hinged rector Gary Ligon said one area from north Texas to near lead in the delegate count crucial states -- Florida, Ohio unyielding come-from-behind on coal for generations, many person was injured. St. Louis on Wednesday. and Pennsylvania -- are too challenge that has exposed are unconvinced. close to call,” said Peter Brown, weaknesses in the former sec- Recent polls show Sand- AFP his quest for the Republican the poll’s assistant director. retary of state’s campaign. ers with as much as a six-point WASHINGTON nomination, his last two rivals Although almost certain to lead over the 68-year-old -- Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Recent polls show win the Democratic nomina- former first lady among Dem- VOTERS in West Virginia and Ohio Governor John Kasich -- Sanders with as much as tion -- she is only 155 delegates ocrats in the state, where 29 Nebraska cast ballots in White having dropped out after the short of that goal -- Clinton’s delegates are up for grabs. House primaries on Tuesday as New York billionaire’s blowout a six-point lead over the ability to excite young and In Nebraska, polls opened a new poll showed presumptive victory in Indiana last week. 68-year-old former first white working class Democrats in the Republican primary nominees Hillary Clinton and A Quinnipiac Univer- lady among Democrats in going into the general election at 8:00 am (1300 GMT) and Donald Trump neck-and-neck sity poll out Tuesday showed the state, where 29 dele- has been put in doubt by Sand- close at 8:00 pm. The Demo- in three key battleground states. Trump rapidly closing in on gates are up for grabs ers’s primary successes. crats caucused there on March Clinton still has active Clinton’s lead in two major In West Virginia, a coal 5, and Sanders won. competition for the Demo- battleground states -- Florida mining state in the heart of While Clinton still has cratic nomination despite her and Pennsylvania -- and over- The poll also found that Appalachia, Clinton shot Sanders to worry about, virtually insurmountable lead taking her in swing state Ohio. Sanders, a democratic socialist herself in the foot in March, Trump faces a rebellion with- in the delegate count, and rival No candidate has won the who commands an enthusias- telling voters in neighboring in the Republican leadership Bernie Sanders was looking presidential election without tic following on the left, would Ohio: “We’re going to put a lot over the insulting tone and A tornado rips through a residential area after touching down for a big win in West Virginia. taking at least two of those do better against Trump than of coal miners and coal com- shifting substance of his can- south of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, on Monday. (AFP) Trump is now alone in three states. Clinton in all three states if he panies out of business.” didacy. S Carolina college’s hijab ban could prompt legal action Ex-US Marine sues Iran over ‘torture’ while held captive

Uniformity is the cornerstone of this AFP WASHINGTON Hekmati ultimately was four-year leader development model, forced to confess to being school’s president Lt. Gen. John Rosa says A FORMER US Marine who a CIA spy and sentenced was accused by Iran of spying to death, though the sen- and held for 4.5 years is suing REUTERS development model,” the Tehran over the “prolonged tence was later reduced CHARLESTON school’s president, Lieuten- and continuous physical abuse” to 10 years in prison ant General John Rosa, said he endured while detained. A MUSLIM student is “heart- in a statement, adding that he According to a lawsuit filed area, forced to stay in stress broken” after being told on hoped the admitted student in Washington on Monday, positions for hours at a time, Tuesday that The Citadel mili- would still attend. Amir Hekmati, a US-Iranian and hit with batons,” the law- tary college in South Carolina She has no plans to do dual national from Michi- suit states. will not allow her to wear a so without the religious ac- gan, was subjected to a slew The former Marine had hijab with her uniform should commodation, said Ibrahim of physical and psychological been visiting relatives in Tehran she enroll this fall, according Hooper, spokesman for the abuse while jailed in the noto- in August 2011 when he was to a Muslim advocacy group, Council on American-Islamic rious Evin Prison. nabbed by Iranian officials. which said it may take legal Relations in Washington, DC. Hekmati was freed in a He ultimately was forced to action in response. The advocacy group is consid- prisoner swap in January in confess to being a CIA spy and In announcing the de- ering legal options as a result which he and three other Ira- sentenced to death, though the cision, the publicly funded of the denial, he said. (FILE PHOTO) Citadel cadets practise for their weekly parade on the grounds of Summerall Field on the nian-American dual nation- sentence was later reduced to military college in Charleston “She was in tears this morn- campus of The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. (AP) als, plus another American, 10 years in prison. said it recognized the impor- ing,” said Hooper, who said he were traded after Washington Aside from physical abuse, tance of individual religious spoke to the student’s family. South Carolina, Hooper said. Citadel students are re- Rosa said the student’s re- granted clemency to seven prison guards threw water on beliefs but would not grant “She told the commandant that Some current Citadel stu- quired to wear uniforms fur- quest to wear the head scarf Iranians and withdrew arrest Hekmati’s cell floor to prevent the exception to the stand- it was not fair for her to have to dents and alumni had spoken nished by the college at nearly was given “considerable re- warrants for 14 others. him sleeping, kept the light on ardized uniform considered choose between her faith and out against allowing an excep- all times except when the view” by the college, which During his lengthy ordeal, and forced him to take lithium essential to its culture. attending The Citadel.” tion, citing the military col- corps of cadets is furloughed considers requests for reli- Hekmati was “whipped at the and other “addictive pills,” only “Uniformity is the corner- The student, who has not lege’s emphasis on uniformity or a cadet is on leave, accord- gious accommodations on a bottom of his feet, struck by an to stop these to trigger with- stone of this four-year leader been identified, lives outside of in apparel and privileges. ing to the college’s website. case-by-case basis. electrical Taser to his kidney drawals, the lawsuit states. US / Americas Wednesday, May 11, 2016 19

US pharmacies taking orders Rousseff impeachment looms from scarcity-hit Venezuela as House Speaker backtracks AFP MIAMI

The Senate will vote today whether to put Brazilian president on trial for breaking budget laws THE PHONE rings off the hook these days at some REUTERS pharmacies in Florida and BRASILIA the calls are long-distance: from Venezuelans desperate BRAZILIAN President Dilma for everything from diapers Rousseff’s looming suspension to cancer medication. from office was back on track Venezuela, though sit- on Tuesday after the speaker ting atop the world’s largest of the lower house of Congress proven oil reserves, is endur- withdrew his controversial ing an acute economic crisis decision to annul an impeach- due in part to the global drop ment vote against her. in crude prices and just about The Senate will vote on everything is in short supply, Wednesday whether to put including medicine. Rousseff on trial for breaking So people are phoning in budget laws. If, as is widely prescriptions to a handful of expected, a simple majority pharmacies in south Florida agrees to hold the trial, she will that are willing to help, al- be automatically suspended though a shortage of dollars from office for up to six months. in Venezuela means most of Vice President Michel Te- the orders cannot be filled: mer would take over as presi- Venezuelans cannot pay for dent, and if Rousseff were the medicine with local cur- convicted and removed de- rency, just greenbacks, which finitively, he would stay in the they do not have. post until elections in 2018. As the prospect grew of The opposition in Rousseff’s ouster and a po- Venezuela has gone so tential end to 13 years of rule far as to say the country by her leftist Workers Party is suffering a full-blown (PT), anti-impeachment pro- testers blocked roads with humanitarian crisis burning tires in demonstra- tions in Sao Paulo, the capi- Still, the pharmacies are tal Brasilia and other cities, doing what they can. snarling morning traffic. The flood of calls is so The PT and labor unions great that one pharmacy set up called for a national strike to a phone line just to take calls resist what they call a “coup” from Venezuela, said Walter against democracy. Cohen, head of international Speaker Waldir Maranhao’s Demonstrators block a motorway during a protest against political trial of the Congress on the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday. (EPA) sales for Locatel, a Venezuelan surprise decision on Monday to pharmacy chain that has two annul the lower house’s April SECRETARY-GENERAL SEEKS ANNULMENT take over the recession-hit Maranhao, a little known Wednesday’s vote. It is expect- outlets in south Florida. vote threw Brazilian markets country under Temer, who is politician before taking over last ed to take place at about 8 p.m. In the five years that these into disarray and threatened to forming a cabinet with pro- week after the removal of Edu- (2300 GMT) at the end of an pharmacies have been ac- drag out a painful political cri- BRASILIA BRAZIL’S Attorney General Eduardo Cardozo asked the business figures. ardo Cunha for obstruction of a all-day session of speeches. cepting prescriptions from sis with a constitutional stand- Supreme Court to annul impeachment proceedings against Pres- In a statement to the Sen- corruption investigation, faces Rousseff’s opponents abroad and offering to send off that could have ended up at ident Dilma Rousseff, his office said on Tuesday, a day before ate, Maranhao did not cite any expulsion from his center-right have more than the 41 votes medicine to Venezuela “the the Supreme Court. the Senate is expected to vote to put her on trial. Earlier in the reason for backtracking on his Progressive Party, which sup- needed to launch her trial in increase has been exponen- Brazil’s currency, the real, day the acting speaker of the lower house of Congress withdrew decision to annul due to “proce- ports Rousseff’s impeachment. the upper chamber, and they tial,” Cohen said. strengthened 1 percent early his controversial decision to annul last month’s impeachment dural flaws” the lower house’s Senate President Renan are confident they can muster Every week the pharmacy on Tuesday after the speaker’s vote in the chamber. This meant the appeal by the government’s April 17 vote. The vote had Calheiros said Monday that two-thirds of the 81 senators, receives about 1,000 orders reversal - a reflection of inves- top lawyer to the highest court may be Rousseff’s best hope of overwhelmingly recom- Maranhao was “playing with or 54, to unseat the unpopular for things such as medicine, tor hopes that a more market- stopping the process from moving forward. (REUTERS) mended that the Senate try democracy” and vowed the president at the end of a trial vitamins and even medical friendly government will soon Rousseff. Senate would press ahead with that can last up to six months. equipment. Besides Locatel, some other pharmacies, courier services and civil society or- NEWS ganizations have stepped up Panama Papers database on shell companies goes online to try to make it easier to send IN BRIEF medicine to the hard-pressed AFP reveals more than 360,000 forced to resign when they shell companies gains force. people of Venezuela. WASHINGTON names of individuals and com- The database reveals more were tied to shell companies. The database “allows us- The opposition in Ven- Woman mauled by panies behind the anonymous than 360,000 names of Until now access to the to- ers to explore the networks ezuela has gone so far as to say dogs succumbs THE PUBLC gained its first shell firms, the ICIJ said. individuals and companies tal cache of documents, origi- of companies and people that the country is suffering a full- to wounds in US access to the Panama Papers It reveals the full extent behind the anonymous nally provided by a mysterious used the secrecy of offshore lo- blown humanitarian crisis. records of over 200,000 secret to which the world’s wealthy, shell firms, says ICIJ “John Doe”, was restricted to cales with the help of Mossack But the leftist govern- DALLAS A 52-YEAR-OLD offshore companies on Mon- alongside criminals, create the ICIJ and a select group of Fonseca and other intermedi- ment of Venezuelan Presi- woman bitten more than day when the International such nominee companies to international media. aries,” the ICIJ said. dent Nicolas Maduro defends 100 times by a pack of dogs Consortium of Investigative stash and transfer assets out of Putin, British PM David Cam- The ICIJ said it is publish- It said it was not making itself by blaming the crisis on last week in Dallas has died, Journalists put a searchable sight of the law and tax officials. eron and others to unreported ing some of the information available raw records online, what it says are conservative the county medical examiner database up online. Reports already published offshore companies. catalogued in a database “in nor was it putting all the infor- business interests maneuver- said on Tuesday. Antoinette The database, built on just a in April based on the explo- Iceland’s prime minister the public interest,” as a move- mation from the records out, ing to topple him. Brown, a grandmother who portion of the 11.5 million docu- sive dossier linked some of the Sigmundur David Gunnlaugs- ment against tax evasion and in part to prevent access to And as that fight grinds on, had served in the US Army, ments leaked from the Panama world’s most powerful leaders, son, and Spain’s industry min- the secrecy accorded the ben- bank account details and per- pharmacy telephones in Flori- died on Monday, a week law firm Mossack Fonseca, including President Vladimir ister Jose Manuel Soria, were eficial owners of anonymous sonal data of those mentioned. da ring and ring and ring. after Dallas police said she was mauled by dogs who ripped off her flesh. She had been in a medically induced coma, with bandages cover- Chapo’s US extradition likely by year-end: Official Panama shuts border crossing ing exposed tendons and to Cuban migrants muscles, police said. “They AFP sequently have 30 days to ap- States before the Sinaloa drug ate her like they was eating MEXICO CITY peal any extradition. If such an cartel kingpin escaped from a steak,” her mother, Bar- appeal is denied, another court prison in July last year. AFP Those Cubans had become bara Brown said. (REUTERS) MEXICAN drug lord Joaquin would have to review the case. Guzman’s lawyer, Jose PANAMA CITY stranded in Panama following “El Chapo” Guzman is expected “We’re still months away,” Refugio Rodriguez, told AFP moves late last year by Costa US willing to work to be extradited to the United the US government official that his client would fight the PANAMA on Monday slammed Rica and Nicaragua, the next with Philippines’ States by the end of the year, a said on condition of anonym- extradition unless he can ne- shut its border crossing with two countries north of Pana- Duterte: Official US official said Monday after a ity, adding, however, that “we gotiate the terms with US au- Colombia to Cuban migrants, ma, to bar entry to Cubans. court approved the move. expect him to be extradited by thorities. becoming the third Central Thousands of Cubans are WASHINGTON A US official A Mexico City judge ruled the end of the year.” Guzman, who was abrupt- American country to halt access leaving their island, typically by signaled Washington’s willing- Friday that the extradition An extradition within the ly transferred to a new jail on to an unrelenting exodus of Cu- flying to Ecuador or other coun- ness to work with Rodrigo could go ahead based on co- same year of Guzman’s arrest Saturday, has hired a US law- bans trying to reach the US. tries in South America to make Duterte, the presumed victor caine trafficking charges would be relatively quick for yer and would be willing to Panamanian President a long overland trek through in Monday’s Philippine presi- lodged in a California federal Mexico’s judicial system, the Mexican drug lord, Joaquin plead guilty in return for good Juan Carlos Varela’s announce- Central America and Mexico to dential election. “We work court, judicial officials said. official said. ‘El Chapo’ Guzman US prison conditions. ment that Cubans without vi- get to the United States. with those elected,” said But Mexico’s foreign min- In a reversal, President “If we have an agreement, sas will no longer be permitted Under a US law dating the official, who spoke on istry, which said it received the Enrique Pena Nieto asked the ary. (the extradition) will proceed,” entry comes as nearly 4,000 back to the Cold War, Cubans condition of anonymity. Du- ruling on Monday, now has 20 attorney general’s office to ex- Pena Nieto’s government Refugio said. “Otherwise, we other Cuban migrants began who reach US soil are given terte’s victory has not been days to make a decision and pedite the extradition process had previously balked at send- will fight extradition with eve- departing Panama on daily privileged entry and a fast confirmed, but an unofficial Guzman’s lawyers would sub- after he was detained in Janu- ing Guzman to the United rything we’ve got.” flights to northern Mexico. track to residency. count of votes by an elec- tion commission-accredited watchdog showed he had a huge lead over his two closest rivals, both of whom Canada natives mourn loss of hunting, fishing after wildfires conceded defeat. (REUTERS)

New Jersey man AFP Nation, as the fires spread. But in northern Alberta faces sentencing LAC LA BICHE “Mother Earth is kind of there is significant human activ- in terror plot upset, I guess,” McDonald said. ity -- a city, oil sands mining and CHIPEWYAN native Elmer “They’re fooling around forestry -- which has interrupt- NEWARK A NEW JERSEY McDonald putters around his with too much Mother Earth. ed this natural cycle, according man who has pleaded guilty trailer in a Lac La Biche park- Someone has to pay for it,” he to natives and wildfire experts. to conspiring to aid the ing lot and plays his fiddle since added, accusing the oil and “There’s been wildfires in Islamic State group faces being evacuated as the Fort forestry companies active in the past but right now it’s too sentencing. Alaa Saadeh McMurray wildfires closed in the region of polluting the dry. It has never been that dry on Tuesday is due in court on his tribal home late Sunday. land and waters, and stripping before, due to climate chang- in Newark, where he was Several indigenous com- away at the ecosystem. es,” Chipewyan elder Fred charged last year along with munities had taken in resi- Seasonal fires are part of Black said. his brother and two other dents of the neighboring Ca- the boreal ecology, helping its “Our traditional ways was men, and pleaded guilty in nadian oil city forced to flee conifers to reproduce. living off the land one time. October. The US attorney’s raging fires that have con- As mature trees burn, the But now, not only the fire, the office says the West New sumed more than 161,000 extreme heat causes their cones oil companies, and the guys York resident admitted he hectares of boreal forests. to open and release seeds, re- that are taking the trees make planned to travel overseas But the reservations near plenish regions devastated by all that changing,” he said. to join the Islamic State or behind the battle lines have the fires with new growth. This was the second time group and discussed those now been ordered evacuated Burnt swaths also create McDonald and members of plans with his brother and too, including the Fort Mc- natural barriers to new fires his tribe have been forced by the others. (AP) Murray First Nation and the since they typically won’t burn fire from their homes since Untouched homes are seen in the background as others destroyed by fire are seen in the foreground in the Athabasca Chipewyan First again for decades. the 1990s. Abasands neighbourhood of the fire-damaged city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Sunday.(AFP) 20 Wednesday, May 11, 2016 The Last Word

A Qatari couple who had double the cause for Qatari families support each other celebration, husband and wife, Ibrahim Ali al Muftah and Abtesam Ahmed Yousuf, were both interested in continuing their studies beyond undergraduate level and both applied to partici- through HBKU Master’s programs pate in HBKU’s E&R program together in late 2014. Having been accepted for the program, TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK tion, husband and wife, Ibra- they became the first married couple to study DOHA him Ali al Muftah and Abte- together at HBKU and have now become the first sam Ahmed Yousuf, were married couple to graduate together LAST week, 111 men and both interested in continuing women marked the successful their studies beyond under- completion of their graduate graduate level and both ap- studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa plied to participate in HBKU’s graduated this year with a we looked at issues from dif- University (HBKU) at a grad- Executive Master in Energy Master of Arts in Islamic Stud- ferent angles and were able uation ceremony held at the and Resources (E&R) pro- ies in Comparative Religions to help each other and take HBKU Student Center. gram together in late 2014. from the university, also ap- each other’s advice. I think Her Highness Sheikha Having been accepted for the preciates the role family sup- it’s important for all people, Moza bint Nasser attended program, they became the port plays. Hussain’s sister, not only young people, to this year’s ceremony, herself first married couple to study Khadija Albuhaliqa, and fa- pursue education and try to a member of the university’s together at HBKU and have ther, Ahmed Albuhaliqa, both continue studying for as long Class of 2015, having graduat- now become the first married completed degrees at HBKU’s as possible.” ed with an MA in Public Policy couple to graduate together. Qatar Faculty of Islamic Stud- Hussain shares his fa- in Islam, and she praised the Commenting upon having ies in years past. ther’s passion for learning. efforts of those celebrating the the chance to speak with HH Khadija, who was first to He commented: “I learned successful completion of their Sheikha Moza, Abtesam said: enroll in an HBKU program, of the graduate programs of- studies. “I applaud the dedi- “It was such an unexpected commented: “I completed my fered by HBKU through QFIS cation of Hamad Bin Khalifa honour to meet Her Highness. undergraduate degree in the three years ago. When I heard University’s Class of 2016. As Though we only spoke to her United States, but was look- about comparative religions an alumna of the university for a minute, that one minute ing for a graduate program I program, I was interested in myself, I understand the effort carries special value for both could complete while work- applying as it was a field new they have put in to achieve of us – it will stay with us ing. I was interested in the to Qatar and I was inspired by a significant milestone and forever. Her Highness’s con- public policy in Islam pro- the challenge of doing some- wish them continued success tinued support for Qataris is gram and found that it really thing different, that was still as they apply what they’ve the reason why we are here to- aided me in my work.” related to my undergraduate learned to build bright futures day. I look forward to meeting “I spoke to my fam- degree in international rela- for themselves and their com- her again after I complete my Hussain Albuhaliqa who graduated with a Master of Arts in Islamic Studies in Comparative Religions. ily about the degree and dis- tions. Today, I can tell you that munities,” she said. PhD, Insha’Allah.” cussed my experience with I am very happy with my deci- Directly after the event, Ibrahim added: “In ad- would help me in my career. and business.” had to balance their studies them. I wasn’t surprised when sion and my degree.” HH Sheikha Moza spent time dition to meeting Her High- She offered to enroll in the “Despite our differences with a full home life and their my brother and father de- “I think it’s important for with the newest additions ness at our graduation being program with me to allow us in skills, we helped each other ongoing work commitments. cided to apply to programs at students in Qatar to seize the to HBKU’s alumni family, a great moment, graduating to help each other. So, we both through the program. It really When asked if he thought HBKU. I knew they could do opportunity to study here. mingling with them, hearing from a university that carries agreed to seize this opportu- broadened our knowledge in other married couples in their it and it’s wonderful that our They’re able to be close to their stories and agreeing to the name of His Highness the nity and register for the pro- the economic, scientific, prac- situation should enroll in the family can be part of the big- family, remain in a society and pose for photographs with Father Emir will always be a gram,” he said. tical and professional facets of program together, Ibrahim ger HBKU family.” culture they are rooted in, and proud students. source of pride for us.” Abtesam added: “Al- the field and it is our hope that was positive about his experi- Ahmed was drawn to the perhaps even, continue work- Among the new HBKU Ibrahim commented on though he studied chemical the relationships we built dur- ence. “Yes,” he said, “as long same degree at HBKU, out of ing while they study. I know graduates HH Sheikha Moza how he first learned about the engineering, while I stud- ing the program with scien- as you have the energy to com- an interest in “understand- that when it comes to my own spoke to were individuals degree. “Abtesam was the one ied electrical engineering, tists, professors, and our col- mit to your studies. Studying ing the world and being able family, I am sure my brothers whose families played a major who first told me about the we have the same scientific leagues will serve our careers together as a married couple to improve communication and sisters will follow our ex- role in inspiring them to pur- program and I’m very glad background. I thought the well in the future.” always means you have more with those around us”. He ample and pursue higher edu- sue higher education. that she did. She explained E&R program was a good fit Ibrahim and Abtesam understanding of the pres- said: “Though my daughter cation at HBKU. I’m thankful A Qatari couple who had how it was designed for those as it is multidisciplinary and have two young children, sures that the other one faces.” was already studying in the for my experience and with double the cause for celebra- in the energy industry and covers politics, engineering meaning that at all times they Hussain Albuhaliqa, who same program, I found that this achievement.” Pakistani students get top honours at NU-Q ASHRAF SIDDIQUI DOHA

TWO Pakistani students Ralph Mar- tin and Syed Owais Ali bagged top honours for their accomplishments in Journalism and Communication programmes of the Northwestern University-Qatar (NU-Q) at its gradu- ation ceremony recently. Ali, who graduated in Commu- nication programme, has a keen interest in filmmaking. His produc- tions have already been acquired by AlJazeera English Network and have been shown in film festivals around the world. One of his films participated in the Chicago-Asian Film Festival in 2014. He was also a team member of a winning Undergraduate Research Experience programme project as a research collaborator and director of photography. The 18-month project produced a six-minute film on driving Pakistani students Ralph Martin and Syed Owais Ali received top honours at the Northwestern University-Qatar graduation ceremony in Doha recently. behaviour among the Arab youth. Ali was also a presenter at the ies Association Film Festival 2014. published by the National Geo- centric attitudes and behaviours. His ‘Effect of outsourcing copy editing on such as Int’l Communication Asso- 2015 Int’l Communication Associa- Another student Martins from graphic Society. papers have appeared in Journalism newspaper accuracy’ and ‘Predictors ciation, Int’l Association for Media & tion Conference, 2015 Northwestern Karachi got a top award in the Jour- Martins also conducted pro- Studies & Journalism Practice as of progressive/conservative self-per- Communication Research conferenc- Undergraduate Research Expo, 2014 nalism course. Martins is an excel- grammes on writing skills for stu- well. Martins’ research covered topics ceptions in Arab countries’. es in Japan and the UK, respectively, Qatar Foundation Annual Research lent writer with deep interest in the dents during his graduation session. including ‘Predictors of support for Martins’ research papers will be as well as at the Northwestern Under- Conference and Middle Eastern Stud- natural world. His works have been His research papers span media- media censorship in Arab countries’, presented at forthcoming conferences graduate symposium in Evanston. QTA event discusses promoting Qatar as a destination through authentic Qatari food CATHERINE W GICHUKI Qatari Cooking Show Tamimi DOHA said, “Qatari food is underrated and therefore, I would like peo- A GROUP of people represent- ple to know that we have vari- ing different segments of the ous flavours to offer. I will have hospitality sector came together a restaurant at The Pearl in on Monday evening to discuss January called Hala Yuma res- how to promote Qatar’s tourism taurant that will offer authentic through authentic Qatari food. Qatari cuisine.” The event organised jointly Guetata from Al Safwa by Qatar Tourism Author- Farm said that they grow vege- ity (QTA) and Georgetown tables and fruits organically and University Qatar (GU-Q) and the number of varieties grown themed, ‘Building Authentic at the farm has increased from and Unique Experiences for four in 2014, to 26. “Our prod- Travellers through Local Food’ ucts are fresh. We are happy was held at Marriott Marquis that more and more farmers are Hotel Doha. Fresh local farm doing organic farming.” vegetables were also displayed For his part Yammine en- on the occasion. couraged chefs to use local farm The event featured a panel produce and include Qatari discussion in which chefs, spice The event organised jointly by QTA and GU-Q was held at Marriott Marquis Hotel Doha on Monday. food in their menu. “I would makers, and others in the hos- like to encourage my fellow pitality sector took part. Promi- green Organics Café Ghanim Programme Gray Shealy said: would like to see Qatari food of- chefs to go for local produce be- nent among them were crea- al Sulaiti, Ritz Carlton Doha’s “We feel that food and bever- fered in all restaurants and ho- cause they are fresh. I also want tor of Mawaed Qatari Cooking Executive Chef Gael Cruchet, age is something that unifies a tels in Qatar and people visit the them to promote Qatari cuisine Show and owner of Hala Yuma partner and director of Mar- lot of people. People can relate country to savour it in the next so that people coming here can Restaurant Aisha al Tamimi keting at Al Safwa Farm Olfa to food and when you sit down few years.” have a taste of the local food.” and owner of Al Shomous and Guetata and vice president of and have food with people, you For her part Qassabi, Sales Manager of Agrico Shay Al Shomous Restaurant in Qatar Culinary Professionals are connecting with them.” who makes spices, said that farm located in Al Khor Mo- Souq Waqif Shams al Qassabi. and Diplomatic Club Executive Shealy added that the aim spices could play significant hamed Othman said, “First of Other eminent personali- Chef Joseph Yammine. of the event was to bring dif- role in lending authentic- all our products are organic. ties that took part in the discus- Speaking to mediaper- ferent players in the industry to ity to Qatari food. Qassabi Secondly, we grow many vege- sion were founder and chair- sons Georgetown University discuss how they could enrich started her business as a tables like cucumber, cherry to- man of Embrace Doha Amal Executive Director of Masters a tourist’s experience with an home-based entrepreneur. mato, capsicum as well as white al Shammari, founder of Ever- of Hospitality Management authentic Qatari cuisine. “We The creator of Mawaed and brown mushroom.”