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MONDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10181 August 15, 2016 Dhul-Qa’da 12, 1437 AH

GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals PM meets Netherlands ambassador New ratings In brief to promote EUROPE | Violence Assailant dies aft er Swiss train attack power-saving A female train passenger and the Swiss man who attacked her both died yesterday, one day after he launched a knife and fire assault on a train in north- eastern Switzerland. The 34-year-old woman and the 27-year-old assailant AC units were among seven people injured when the man, armed with a knife HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani meeting with Netherlands and flammable liquid, attacked train ambassador Yvette Burghgraef-van Eechoud. Talks during the meeting dealt with bilateral relations and ways to enhance them. Scientific studies indicate that air up to 51% of electricity compared to passengers on Saturday in the Swiss conditioners use up to 70% of the normal ACs. canton of St Gallen. Page 11 energy consumed in the buildings Besides, QGASM has registered 29 sector types of ACs of seven stars (the sliver NIGERIA | Militancy label) with an EER of more than 11.5 BTU. These save up to 46.8% of elec- Video claims to show pping the ante in the campaign tricity compared to normal air-condi- missing school girls to conserve energy, the Qatar tioners. Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has Millions watch QOC’s UGeneral Authority for Stand- With the new rule coming into published a video apparently showing ardisation and Metrology (QGASM) force, only energy-saving ACs that recent footage of dozens of school girls will launch the golden label of eight comply with the approved Qatar kidnapped two years ago, and saying stars and the silver label of seven stars Standard Specifi cations No 2663 and some of them have been killed in air for air-conditioning (AC) units in the the GCC Technical Regulation No BD- strikes. Dozens of the girls who were inspirational Rio video country in October. 14004-01 were allowed to be imported abducted in the town of Chibok in 2014 The new Energy Star ratings are into the country. The EER of these ACs managed to flee to safety in the initial ore than 6mn viewers world- only optional for distributors and should not be less than 8.5 BTU for the melee, but more than 200 are still wide have watched, in just 24 manufactures and would not be man- window units and 9.5 BTU for the split missing. Page 6 Mhours after going live, the dra- datory but the authority will give ap- units. matic moments when the dreams of 16 preciation certificates to the makers All imported AC units should have PHILIPPINES | Weather talented streetchildren came true in an and sellers to encourage them to in- at least three-stars rating. In addition, inspirational behind-the-scenes video crease the production and supply of the voltage and frequency of these AC Manila braces for released by the Qatar Olympic Com- energy-saving ACs, an official state- have to be in line with the provision more heavy rains mittee (QOC). ment said. in Qatar, which is 240 volts for single Five people have been killed in the The youngsters from Caracol Favela QGASM hopes that in future this will phase and 415 for three phase (50 Hertz Philippines and tens of thousands in the Complexo da Penha, Rio de Janei- be obligatory as part of its plan to pitch frequency). have fled from floods caused by ro, starred in the fi lm that “showcased for energy-saving appliances. ACs with specifi cations other than days of unrelenting rain, rescuers their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” As part of the government’s ef- these would be rejected. QGASM also said yesterday. Civil defence off icials to play football with legends in a sur- forts to conserve power, the QGASM, affi rmed that AC units should have warned residents of Manila and nearby prise match in partnership with charity in co-operation with Qatar General hard to remove plastic or metal labels provinces to expect more heavy Save the Dream and powered by Oore- Electricity and Water Corporation put by the manufacturer indicating the seasonal rain over the coming days as doo at Bayt Qatar, QOC said in a state- (Kahramaa), the Ministry of Energy Energy Star rating of the unit and ap- more than 24,000 people sought refuge ment yesterday. and Industry and the Ministry of proved by QGASM. in schools and government buildings. Having been told by charity workers Economy and Commerce, had an- Since June this year, 39,554 air-con- Page 16 that they would only travel a short dis- nounced the new regulations for ditioning units, including the split and tance to play a local team from a neigh- Cafu entering Bayt Qatar for the match. importing air-conditioners into the window types have been imported into bouring favela, the astonished reactions country. As a result, the import and the country, the authority said yester- of the youngsters were captured when Dunga, Petkovic, Felipe, Assuncao, fully, we have encouraged the children sale of AC units (split and window) day. Of these 4,448 were three stars, they were joined suddenly on their team Lucio and E Marcelo Travares. The leg- from Caracol favela to follow their foot- that do not carry Energy Star rating 1,658 four stars, 25,604 fi ve stars and bus by Brazil’s World Cup-winning ends were all secretly waiting within balling dreams and inspired everyone labels was banned with effect from 6,642 six stars. The rest came from captain, Cafu. the courtyard of Qatar’s Olympic home who watches the video.” July 1. suppliers not registered with the de- The “overwhelmingly positive” reac- for Rio 2016, Casa Daros, which had Mohamed bin Henzab, president of Dr Mohamed bin Saif al-Kuwari, as- partment. tion from people around the world to been transformed from a traditional ICSS and responsible for the Save the sistant undersecretary for specifi ca- Until now, 61 companies have regis- the inspiring short fi lm has prompted Qatari souq into a football pitch over- Dream initiative, said: “Save the Dream tions and metrology aff airs at the Min- tered 392 types of energy-saving ACs QOC to release a second fi lm on its so- night. became involved in this project to help istry of Municipality and Environment with the authority for import into Qa- cial channels. The second video goes On a typical day, these children face empower the next generation and (MME) said as more and more energy- tar. Of these only 270 were approved further behind the scenes to tell the the challenge of living in a favela in Rio spread deeper the Olympic values to all saving ACs are imported into the coun- and the others rejected due to the una- story of one of the youngsters surprised known for its poverty, unemployment, communities in Rio, particularly local try, the high energy consuming units vailability of test certifi cates and re- on the day, 15-year-old Livia Cristina, drug traffi cking, gunfi ghts and vio- children from disadvantaged areas.” will be phased out. ports and other related issues. who dreams of playing for Brazil in the lence. But for the children who all be- On the conclusion of the dream day In the meantime, QGASM, in co- Dr al-Kuwari pointed out that Olympic football fi nal one day. long to the Safe Space Programme run for youngsters, the QOC hospital- operation with the departments con- scientific studies indicated that air Recorded to celebrate and spread the by charity Street Child United, this was ity house in Botafogo was returned to cerned, will launch an intensive in- conditioners use up to 70% of the true spirit of the Olympics to all com- no ordinary day. the scene of a traditional Qatari souq spection drive to ensure compliance energy consumed in the buildings munities in Rio, especially local chil- Speaking on the success of the day awaiting its next visitors. Designed to with the directive regarding the import sector. To reduce consumption, five dren from disadvantaged areas, both and the video, QOC secretary-general share Qatar’s culture, its hospitality and and sale of new AC units, he said. Also, main elements should be consid- videos aim to raise awareness for Save Dr Thani Abdulrahman al-Kuwari said: passion for the Olympic Movement, random samples from the imported ered: improving thermal insulation, the Dream, the offi cial charity of the “The global success of the video is just Bayt Qatar has been a huge attraction stock will be taken to test their compli- ensuring there are no air leaks, using International Centre for Sport Security another example of how the Qatar Ol- for locals and is completely sold out for ance with the required specifi cations high efficiency energy-saving ACs, (ICSS). ympic Committee believes in the power the remainder of the Olympics, QOC and standards. performing regular maintenance of To the surprise of the children, the of sport to transform lives. We wanted has said. QGASM has registered eight types ACs, and controlling the internal fi lms show that after boarding the our presence in Rio to make a real im- All public entry fees to Bayt Qatar will of ACs of the eight-star category (the temperature. bus Brazilian hero Cafu takes his new pact and to touch as many lives as pos- be donated to Futuro Olimpico, an NGO golden label), which has an Energy Ef- QGASM had celebrated the entry of young friends to play against fellow sible through sport, especially children, in Rio de Janeiro founded by Olympic fi ciency Ratio (EER) of more than 12.50 the fi rst energy-saving AC units into all-stars Zico, Trezeguet, Karembeu, who are not as fortunate as us. Hope- medallist Arnaldo de Oliveira. British Thermal Units (BTU). They save the country in June. High hopes HBKU a ‘rising star’ on Nature Governor activates National Index research ranking Guard after Milwaukee riot Reuters the past advised residents to arm them- amad Bin Khalifa University corporate institutions and countries Milwaukee selves against criminals. (HBKU) has been named as around the world. The sheriff , who spoke last month at Hone of Nature Index’s 2016 The lists recognise influential per- the Republican National Convention, Top 25 Research Rising Stars in the formers in science, using an index isconsin Governor Scott has publicly opposed the Black Lives Middle East and West Asia. that tracks the high-quality research Walker yesterday activated Matter movement. The ranking recognises HBKU’s output of more than 8,000 global Wthe National Guard to assist Walker said the Guard would be “in significant growth and development institutions. Universities and insti- should further rioting erupt in a predom- a position to aid local law enforcement in recent years in the field of scien- tutes on the 2016 Rising Stars list are inantly black Milwaukee neighbourhood upon request”. tific research between its colleges noted for growing their research ac- where police killed an armed suspect. Police violence against black men and and research institutes. tivities significantly in recent years. The Sherman Park neighbourhood, women has set off intermittent, some- Debuting at number 15, HBKU is HBKU president Dr Ahmad M Ha- which has a reputation for poverty and times violent protests in US cities from the first institution from Qatar to be snah said: “The interdisciplinary crime, appeared calm at midday yester- Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, New York, included on the pan-regional list, it research conducted at HBKU strives day after businesses were burned, cars Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and St Anthony, said in a statement. to target some of the most pressing set ablaze and gunshots fi red overnight Minnesota, in the past two years. HBKU is a member of Qatar Foun- challenges faced by the world today, by demonstrators angered by the police The outrage has given rise to Black dation for Education, Science and while supporting Qatar’s develop- killing. Lives Matter and touched off a national Community Development (QF). ment, contributing to global schol- Walker announced the National debate over race and policing in the Nature Index, a database of author arship and moving key industries Guard activation after a request from United States. affiliation, collected from research forward. I am pleased that HBKU’s Qatar’s Sheikh Ali bin Khalid al-Thani riding First Devision during the first qualifying Milwaukee County Sheriff David There also have been deadly ambushes articles published in 68 high-quality efforts to bolster and champion ex- round in the Jumping event at the Olympic Equestrian Centre in Rio de Janeiro Clarke, who met with Walker and Wis- of police this summer. Five offi cers were science journals, releases ranking cellence in research in Qatar have yesterday. Team Qatar, including Sheikh Ali, Ali Yousef al-Rumaihi, Bassem Mohamed consin National Guard Adjutant General slain by a sniper in Dallas in July as they tables annually to distinguish top- been recognised by Nature Index this and Hamad al-Attiyah qualified for the Round 1 of team competition and the second Donald Dunbar. provided security at an otherwise peace- performing academic institutions, year.” individual qualifying round yesterday. All four return to action tomorrow. Page 1 Sport Clarke, an African-American, has in ful protest of police killings. Page 7 Gulf Times 2 Monday, August 15, 2016 QATAR

Defence Minister meets envoys Qatar’s stand on regional issues praised

QNA Doha

eputy Secretary General of the Arab League am- Dbassador Ahmed bin Heli highlighted Qatar’s active role and positions towards regional issues, mainly the Palestinian HE the Minister of State for Defence Aff airs Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah met the outgoing ambassador of Kuwait to Qatar, Mutib Saleh al-Mutawtah, in Doha yesterday. The Defence Minister also held and Syrian causes. separate meetings with India’s ambassador to Qatar Sanjiv Arora and ambassador of Turkey Ahmet Demirok. During the meetings, bilateral relations and ways of enhancing them were discussed. In an interview with Qatari daily Al-Watan, ambassador bin Heli recognised Qatar’s humani- tarian role in crisis-hit coun- tries, referring to its role in al- leviating the suff ering of Yemeni and Syrian refugees, and sending relief convoys and aid to help the people in distress. Meanwhile, bin Heli shed light on the Arab League’s role in re- solving Arab crises. Silatech seeks to unlock He underlined that the Arab League seeks a political and peaceful solution to the Syr- ian issue, and recognises the legitimacy of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Yemeni legitimate govern- ment. Arab youth potential The Arab League deputy sec- retary general affi rmed that ilatech has highlighted its As the Arab world suff ers from social and fi nancial stability of with localised versions in eight latech is also keen to enable the the Palestinian cause remains commitment to connecting the world’s highest rate of youth youth through connecting them countries across Mena: Qatar, Sudanese youth to fi nd produc- the main issue, urging all Arab SArab youth to job opportu- unemployment of 30%, Silatech to jobs and entrepreneurship Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, Lebanon, tive jobs, working to establish countries to join forces and unite nities in the Arab world, in line seeks to unlock Arab youth po- opportunities suitable to their Morocco, Algeria and Palestine, and launch specialised micro- eff orts to support the Palestinian with International Youth Day. tentials by developing innova- qualifi cations, in addition to ac- as well as the anticipated launch fi nance programmes to enable people. The theme of the 2016 Inter- tive solutions to remove the ob- tive civil engagement to contrib- of the Ta3mal portal for Syrian more than 40,000 job opportu- national Youth Day, “The Road stacles they face and help them ute to the development of their refugees. nities for entrepreneurs. to 2030: Eradicating Poverty change their lives for the better. communities.” Till date, the regional network In terms of Research and and Achieving Sustainable Con- By early-2016, the regional Silatech has been strengthen- of Ta3mal portal has benefi ted Policy, Silatech works closely sumption and Production”, is a organisation had successfully ing its eff orts in supporting Arab more than 400,000 registered with Arab governments and Qataris funding critical priority in the Arab world. fi nanced over 120,000 youth- youth and connecting them with users. international organisations to “Through its mandate, Silate- owned businesses, created or job opportunities through its As for Enterprise, Silatech study the policies that directly Islamic complexes ch has been working closely with sustained over 200,000 jobs strategy that focuses on three works with leading microfi nance aff ect young people and work partners to mobilise resources through its innovative pro- programmes: Employment, En- institutions across the region to to modify them and remove the in Uganda and create innovative projects grammes and initiatives in 16 terprise and Research & Policy. provide young entrepreneurs with obstacles they face. In addition, and initiatives to achieve tangi- Arab countries: Qatar, Algeria, Sabah al-Haidoos Ta3mal.com, the fi rst on- loans to help them start income- Silatech has adopted the fi rst ble results in creating an eff ec- Egypt, Comoros, Iraq, Jordan, line portal that supports Arab generating projects that involve Global Entrepreneurship Moni- QNA tive economic environment that Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pal- chief executive of Silatech, said: workforce development across additional job opportunities for tor Report in Qatar, where it Doha ensures jobs for young people estine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, “Since its inception in 2008, Si- the Middle East and Africa re- youth in their communities. carried out a national survey on and to promote economic and Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yem- latech has been a pioneer in cre- gion, provides career guidance, For instance, the Bodour ini- entrepreneurship status com- social stability,” Silatech said in en, the statement noted. ating initiatives and programmes job search assistance and pro- tiative in Morocco aims to create paring to other participating atar’s Islamic Dawah Or- a statement. Sabah al-Haidoos, acting that work on improving the fessional skills enhancement 165,000 jobs by 2020, while Si- countries. ganisation is currently Qconstructing three Is- lamic complexes in Uganda at a total cost of $1.4mn, donated by Qatari philanthropists. According to Director General STARZ Play, Ooredoo tie up Oxford Business Group report of the Islamic Dawah Organisa- tion Offi ce in Qatar, Hammad Abdul-Qader al-Sheikh, with the completion of these three for premium Arabic content analyses Qatar’s economy projects, the number of Islamic complexes built by Qatari phi- lanthropists in Uganda will reach ll Ooredoo tv and Mo- studios including Sabbah Pic- wood movies, documentaries, new report produced by pand at an average of 11.4% an- Foundation HE Sheikha Hind 17. zaic TV customers are tures, Eagle Film and Italia Films, children’s entertainment, same- global publishing, re- nually until 2022. bint Hamad al-Thani, HE the Al-Sheikh said in a press Anow able to enjoy a wide are available now on Ooredoo tv day-as-the-US series, and Ara- A search and consultancy Minister of Economy and Com- statement that the Dawah Or- catalogue of premium 4K and and the Mozaic TV service. bic content in full HD and 4K. firm Oxford Business Group “The government’s more merce Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim ganisation is focusing on the HD Arabic series through a col- Speaking about the content, Mozaic TV and Ooredoo (OBG) analyses the burgeon- conservative budget this bin Mohamed al-Thani and HE construction of such complexes laboration between Ooredoo Yousuf al-Kubaisi, COO of Oore- Broadband customers can access ing sectors of Qatar’s economy year reflects the ongoing the Minister of Energy and In- and worship places that provide Qatar and STARZ Play, the on- doo Qatar, said: “We invest heavily Ooredoo tv by using the “Collect that are expected to act as key external and internal dustry and Opec president Dr essential services in one place demand video streaming service to ensure a range of Arabic content & Go” service at any Ooredoo drivers for future growth. challenges that Qatar Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada. for the benefi t of Muslims and available in 17 countries across is available, and we’re delighted to Shop to collect their new Oore- ‘The Report: Qatar 2016’ con- faces’’ Andrew Jeffreys, OBG’s CEO others. the Mena region. partner with STARZ Play to give doo tv box. Installation is sim- siders the government’s plans to and editor-in-chief, said: The services include medical Ooredoo and STARZ Play an- our viewers access to premium Ar- ple, and can be done instantly by invest heavily in a raft of large- ‘The Report: Qatar 2016’ “The government’s more con- and water services, he added, nounced an exclusive multi-year abic series in 4K quality, as well as customers in their own homes. scale capital projects over the contains an in-depth inter- servative budget this year re- pointing out that the organisa- deal in 2015 to off er more “smart the best Hollywood content.’’ Ooredoo tv is available now coming decade, with a focus on view with HE the Prime Minis- flects the ongoing external and tion is planning to build more entertainment” options to Oore- Content includes the latest Ar- via Ooredoo Shops, Starlink, the $220bn infrastructure pro- ter Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser internal challenges that Qatar such complexes in Uganda and doo Qatar customers. Since abic dramas such as Saq Al Bam- TechnoBlue and Jumbo out- gramme. bin Khalifa al-Thani, together faces. However, solid macr- other African countries. then, Ooredoo has launched boo and Malik Bin Al Rayb, as well lets. The service has no upfront In addition, OBG’s 12th an- with a detailed, sector-by- oeconomic fundamentals and He also praised the philan- its award-winning Ooredoo tv as the wide range of blockbuster charges, no equipment costs and nual publication on the state sector guide for investors. substantial fiscal and hydro- thropists who donated for the service, as the company moves Hollywood movies and same- no ongoing contracts. Further- looks at Qatar’s construction It also features a wide range of carbons reserves have ensured construction of these complex- to become the pre-eminent en- time-as-the-US series already more, existing Mozaic TV cus- industry, which has been sup- contributions from other lead- that local players and ana- es, calling on everyone to help tertainment provider in Qatar. on the STARZ Play platform. tomers who migrate to Ooredoo ported by a rapid population ing dignitaries, including vice- lysts remain bullish on growth the poor in the African nations The new Arabic series, which STARZ Play features more than tv will be awarded a 30 day free expansion and is forecast to ex- chairperson and CEO of Qatar prospects.” and other countries. have been sourced from major 4,500 hours of the best Holly- subscription to STARZ Play. Carrefour store in Mall of GAC Motor names winners Qatar nearing completion of Ramadan promotion all of Qatar has an- nounced that Car- oha Marketing Serv- fi rst-hand the original design, Mrefour, one of its key ices Company (Do- state-of-the-art technologies, anchor tenants, has completed Dmasco) has announced high level of safety and eco- 93% of the fi t-out process of its the names of four winners who friendly features.” 14,000sqm store. participated in the 2016 GAC Andrew Parrott, head of Carrefour’s fi rst “Mediterra- Motor raffl e promotion organ- sales and marketing for GAC at nean concept store” in the Mid- ised in celebration of the holy Domasco, added: “It is no sur- dle East will off er Qatari shop- month of Ramadan. prise that GAC was the centre pers “unbeatable value for money Domasco is the exclusive of attention during our Ram- with a vast array of products while distributor for GAC Motor in adan promotion after the huge introducing a unique shopping Qatar. success it received during the experience”, according to a press This Ramadan, customers Qatar Motor Show. We do be- statement from Mall of Qatar. had the opportunity to enter a lieve that the brand will have a Other retailers are following The upcoming Carrefour store at Mall of Qatar. raffl e by enjoying a test drive of bright future in Qatar and are suit, as timelines are being met their preferred GAC model. At excited to further develop it in anticipation of Mall of Qatar’s Mall of Qatar will be an enter- of Qatar general manager. the end of the competition, a with our loyal drivers and car soft opening on October 29, the tainment destination premiering Expected to receive a footfall of PlayStation 4 console each was enthusiasts.” statement notes. the world’s fi rst resident troupe, 20mn customers annually, Mall awarded to Ravi Sockalingam, Speaking about the expe- Laurent Hausknecht, coun- performing mall-wide entertain- of Qatar will feature 500 shops Omer Niazullah, Raymon Hana rience of driving a GAC ve- try manager at Majid Al Futtaim ment and custom-developed live – including over 100 F&B restau- and Reneil Blaza. hicle, Sockalingam, one of Retail, said: “The unique com- shows on a 360-degree, multi- rants and 7,000 underground and Faisal Sharif, managing di- the PlayStation 4 winners, bination of a new retail concept, lift rotating festival stage with surface car parking spaces. rector at Domasco, said: “As said: “GAC really exceeded choice and unbeatable value is theatrical sound, lighting and The mall will also have a usual, Domasco seeks to add my expectations. It is a vehi- set to make the Carrefour hyper- animated water features. 19-screen cineplex, an eight- special moments to the blessed cle that stands out from the market in Mall of Qatar the most “We are witnessing a number lane bowling alley, a Family En- month of Ramadan. Because competition and is a pleas- innovative and contemporary in of retail spaces already in the tertainment Complex spread we always endeavour to meet ure to drive. I will definitely the Middle East region. fi nal stages of fi t-out, and are over 16,500sqm, providing mul- and exceed customer expec- recommend it to others and Having increased the manpow- proud that Carrefour is bring- tilevel entertainment for chil- tations, this year, car lovers without any hesitation I will er to ensure timely completion, we ing its unprecedented concept dren and adults, and a 5-star were given the opportunity always choose a GAC that are very pleased with our progress to the region as part of Mall of luxury hotel, part of Curio, a to test drive their favourite makes for a happy and confi- as the opening date looms closer.” Qatar,” said Rony Mourani, Mall Collection by Hilton. GAC model and experience dent driver.” Off icials at the Ramadan raff le draw. Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 3 QATAR

Defence Minister meets US military official

HE the Minister of State for Defence Aff airs Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah holding talks with US Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein in Doha yesterday. They exchanged views on issues of interest, particularly in the military field. A delegation accompanying the US Chief of Staff attended the meeting, as did a number of ranking off icers at Qatar Armed Forces.

Bedaya launches internship programme for university graduates in Qatar

he Bedaya Centre for help students in identifying this programme will give velopment manager at Be- Entrepreneurship their career goals, build their them the advantage of hav- daya, said: “The internship Tand Career Develop- self-confi dence, learn about ing awareness of the nature programme is an eff ective ment (Bedaya Centre), a joint the work culture, and apply of jobs and consolidate the business experience that initiative by Qatar Develop- what they have learned in a relevance between school helps graduates develop ment Bank and Silatech, has real-life process. education and work re- their knowledge, skills, and launched an internship pro- Bedaya Centre general quirements.” experience. They will also gramme for university grad- manager Reem al-Suwaidi During the fi rst week of be able to develop a clear uates in Qatar. said: “This internship pro- the programme, career guid- understanding of the val- The internship pro- gramme off ers university ance sessions will be held to ues, norms and standards gramme, which will run graduates access to many raise awareness about profes- adopted by institutions and until October 30, aims to local institutions and will sional and career development companies in the state of contribute to the prepara- help them in building valu- topics, and will be followed Qatar. The programme al- tion of young graduates and able relationships with their by specialised workshops lows the graduates to access their transition to the work future workplaces as well. throughout the second week. theoretical concepts and environment. It will provide Through this programme, On the third week, all gradu- apply their skills in a realis- them with the appropriate the students will have a real ates will be trained on the tic work environment. expertise, skills, and foun- simulation of the work en- English language and com- “This will also give them dation to join local institu- vironment, opportunities puter skills. They will then be an understanding on how to tions in the future as soon as for employment, profes- assigned certain institutions develop relationships with they graduate. sional skills, and possible based on their specialisations. employees and customers, Practical training will also career options. Moreover, Ola Abdin, career de- alike.’’ Gulf Times 4 Monday, August 15, 2016 REGION/ARAB WORLD Yemen army pushes Qaeda fi ghters from two cities

Reuters of the global militant group – cide bomber blew himself up in Yemeni pro-government forces ride military vehicles, as they head to Zinjibar, the capital of Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, to launch an Aden from the Hadramout provincial a car trying to attack troops in offensive to recapture the town from Al Qaeda fighters yesterday. capital of Mukalla in April. Zinjibar, a city of some 100,000 The militants have since re- people, but no one else was emeni army forces backed peatedly withdrawn from and hurt. by Arab coalition aircraft then returned to Zinjibar and Saudi Arabia and its allies in- Ykilled about 40 suspected Jaar, the capital of Abyan and the tervened in the civil war in Yem- Al Qaeda fi ghters yesterday as province’s second largest city. en in March last year after the they fought their way into two Abyan Governor Al-Khader Houthis advanced on his head- Floods kill 100 in Sudan militant strongholds in eastern Mohamed al-Saidi, speaking by quarters in the southern port city Yemen, a local offi cial and resi- telephone from Jaar, told Reu- of Aden and forced him to fl ee to dents said. ters that three brigades took part Riyadh. AFP Villagers braved waist-high ing sick, and doctors are miles been destroyed. We lost our Al Qaeda in the Arabian Pe- in the operation and that troops The war has killed more than Kasala, Sudan water as they looked for food, away.” entire stock of food, especially ninsula (AQAP) has exploited a have “taken complete control of 6,500 people, displaced more drinking water and medicines Twenty-fi ve people died in sorghum,” said Saeedna Mussa, 16-month-old civil war between both cities”. than 2.5mn and caused a human- amid a shortage of supplies, Kasala itself and around 8,000 the imam of Al-Mahmoudab, of the internationally recognised Saidi said that 40 AQAP mem- itarian catastrophe in one of the housands of houses have the AFP photographer said as houses have been destroyed a staple food in Sudan. government of President Abd- bers were killed in both cities, world’s poorest countries. been destroyed and sev- he toured two fl ood-hit vil- since heavy rains lashed the Hundreds of people and vehi- Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the while the rest fl ed. Coalition bombing had most- Teral villages submerged lages near the provincial capital state two weeks ago, the Suda- cles were stranded on both sides Iran-allied Houthis to capture He said three soldiers were ly focused on the Houthis and after fl ooding triggered by tor- Kasala. nese Red Crescent Society said of the highway that has been cut a 600-km (370-mile) stretch of killed and several were wounded troops loyal to former President rential rainfall killed 100 people Many people, mostly chil- yesterday. off , a local government offi cial Arabian Sea coastline in eastern in the operation. Ali Abdullah Saleh, but began across Sudan, offi cials and an dren, were seen drinking muddy At least 100 people were killed said. Yemen. “We met with citizens and turning their attention to AQAP AFP photographer said yester- rain water. nationwide, it said. “Heavy rains have cut off the Hadi’s troops and forces from fi ghters and both were happy to earlier this year when forces day. “We had no time. We simply There was a similar scene in highway linking east Sudan with the Saudi-led Arab coalition be free under government au- funded and trained by the United Thousands of people in the fl ed, taking our children when another Kasala village, Al-Mah- the capital. drove out AQAP – widely consid- thority,” the governor said. Arab Emirates launched a sur- impoverished eastern state of our village was fl ooded in the moudab, where all 250 houses People on both sides are ered the most dangerous branch Residents said an AQAP sui- prise attack to win Mukalla. Kasala bordering Eritrea fl ed night two weeks ago,” said Taha and the local school were de- stranded,” he said. their homes after the river Gash Mahmoud, chief of Makli village stroyed. Authorities said water lev- Coalition denies air raid on school killing 10 children burst its banks, fl ooding entire in Kasala. Only the mosque was left els were also rising on the Blue villages inhabited by farmers. “We lost all our food, belong- standing. Nile along the border with The Saudi-led coalition yesterday Doctors Without Borders, a Paris- The coalition of Arab states has Many people were shelter- ings and livestock. We’re liv- Villagers were setting up a Ethiopia after continuous denied targeting a Yemeni school based relief agency also known as been battling the Houthi rebels ing in makeshift grass huts on ing in miserable conditions in makeshift school under a tent rainfall there. in air strikes that killed 10 children, MSF, said the children were killed since 2015 after the insurgents hilltops, after fl oodwaters also makeshift huts that won’t with- so children could continue their The Blue Nile fl ows to Khar- instead saying it bombed a camp on Saturday in coalition raids on a seized the capital Sanaa before cut off the main highway be- stand heavy rains.” lessons. toum where it meets the White at which Iran-backed rebels train school in Haydan, a town in rebel- expanding to other parts of the tween east Sudan and the capi- “We are eating just one “We managed to rescue our Nile and they become the Nile underage soldiers. held Saada province. country. tal Khartoum. meal a day. Children are fall- children, but everything has which fl ows into Egypt. Heavy fi ghting in Aleppo as rebels renew assault

Reuters Beirut

eavy fi ghting took place in diff erent Hsectors of the Syr- ian city of Aleppo yester- day as rebels assaulted two government strongholds in the city’s northwest and south, a monitor of the war said. Fighting for control of Aleppo, split between its government-held west and rebel-held eastern neigh- bourhoods, has intensi- fi ed in recent weeks caus- ing hundreds of deaths and depriving many civilians of power, water and vital sup- plies. Insurgents including Islamist militant groups Syrian children sit in a cart, loaded with belongings, in the northern Syrian town of Manbij as detonated car bombs before civilians go back to their homes yesterday more than a week after the Arab-Kurdish alliance, launching an attack on the known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), pushed the Islamic State (IS) group out of the city. Jamiat al-Zahraa district, an army base and residen- corridor into Aleppo. US-backed forces say next target is Al-Bab tial district, the British- Aleppo is one of the bas- based Syrian Observatory tions of the rebellion to oust US-backed Syrian forces driving the last militants for Human Rights said. Syrian President Bashar said yesterday they have from Manbij. Rebel groups then at- al-Assad, whose army is established a military coun- The last remaining IS fight- tacked the army’s positions backed on the ground by cil to push Islamic State ers abandoned the city of in a cement factory on the Shia Muslim militias from group fighters out of their Manbij near the Turkish city’s southwest, adjacent neighbouring countries and northern bastion of Al-Bab border on Friday after a to the mouth of a corri- from the skies by Russian after ousting the militants rout that the Pentagon dor into opposition-held air strikes. from Manbij. said showed the extremists east Aleppo that insurgents Some recent gains by the “We announce the crea- were “on the ropes”. had opened up a week ago, insurgents have been made tion of the Al-Bab Military The retreat from the city breaking a government by Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, Council” tasked with which IS captured in 2014 siege. previously known as the driving IS from the town was the militants’ worst Earlier in the day, the Syr- Nusra Front, which de- in Aleppo province, said defeat yet at the hands of ian army and its allies cap- scribed itself as an affi liate the Syrian Democratic the SDF alliance backed by tured some buildings in the of Al Qaeda until it cut ties Forces alliance of Kurdish US air power. southwestern 1070 housing with the militant movement and Arab fighters in a Al-Bab is around 50km (30 development, also located and renamed itself late last statement, two days after miles) southwest of Manbij. near the entrance to the rebel month.

Kuwait arrests 10 Iranians for infi ltration bid

DPA The 10 were spotted on coastguard said, without giving further details. Kuwait City radar trying to enter Kuwait by sea, the KUNA carried a photo showing Interior Ministry said in a statement, nine of the alleged infi ltrators sitting according to Kuwait’s state news agen- on their knees with hands tied behind uwait said yesterday it had ar- cy KUNA. their backs. rested 10 Iranians while they One of the “infi ltrators” was injured The ministry did not specify when Kwere trying to illegally enter the while resisting arrest after he refused the incident took place, but it said the country, an incident that could further to comply with the coastguard’s or- 10 men had been referred to legal au- strain the Gulf nation’s ties with Tehran. ders to give himself in, the ministry thorities. Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 5 ARAB WORLD Libya forces press assault on last IS positions

AFP earlier this month that targeted IS after their headquarters fell on Sirte, Libya holdouts in the city. Wednesday. The forces fi red machineguns The “enemy forces collapsed” A member of forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), aims his weapon in al-Zaafaran neighbourhood as mounted on pick-up trucks and in the face of the loyalist advance, pro-government forces fight with Islamic State group (IS) fighters holed up in residential district two yesterday in Sirte. ibyan pro-government light weapons at IS targets in the he said. forces pressed an advance distance as they tried to advance “We will advance on areas Lagainst the Islamic State towards an area known as “resi- where the enemy is still deployed group in the coastal city of Sirte dential district three” facing the in the coming days, God willing.” yesterday as they battled mili- Mediterranean, the correspond- The taking of the Ouagadougou tants holed up in waterfront resi- ents said. centre, where Gaddafi once hosted Warning of Israeli scheme to dential areas. Yesterday, the spokesman for Arab and African summits as well In May, forces loyal to the unity the forces, General Mohamad as European leaders, was the fi rst government began an off ensive to Ghassri, said that both residential in a string of blistering losses sus- retake the Mediterranean city and districts near the waterfront were tained by the militants this week. home town of slain dictator Mua- “currently battle zones”. A statement by the loyalist reoccupy Al-Aqsa by force mmar Gaddafi , which IS seized in Pro-government forces “have forces on Saturday said they had June last year. entered district number two” seized a radio station near the The off ensive came amid grow- which could fall under their con- centre which the militants used to QNA protect the holy sites and the Al- yesterday the Islamic holy site tlers’ entry, injuring at least two ing concern that militants would trol, he said. broadcast propaganda, describing Ramallah Aqsa Mosque from the predomi- in groups to perform rituals, of them. use Sirte, where they had set up “IS has only control over one its capture as “important”. nance of Israeli extremist settlers following calls by Jewish ‘Tem- Meanwhile, the Palestinian centres to train militants, as a sector, residential district one in They also drove militants out of and their schemes to seize all Je- ple Mount’ groups urging their Prisoners Society (PPS) reported springboard for attacks on Euro- the heart of downtown Sirte,” he the university of Sirte which they he Palestinian Foreign rusalem and impose a temporal followers to break into Al-Aqsa that all Palestinian political pris- pean shores hundreds of kilome- said. had used as a key defensive posi- Ministry yesterday con- and spatial division of Al-Aqsa. Mosque to commemorate the Ti- oners in the Israeli prisons of tres away. “From a military point of view, tion, they said. Tfi rmed that what Israel is According to the statement, sha B’Av holiday. Nafha, Ramon, Negev and Ha- One June 9, pro-government the battle (for Sirte) is over,” he Yesterday, pro-government re-occupying by force the Al- the Palestinian Foreign Minis- At least two Palestinian wor- darim will go on hunger strike forces entered Sirte and more said, adding that “victory” would fi ghters could be seen removing Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holi- try will complete the necessary shippers were injured yesterday tomorrow, as a warning measure than two months later pushed the be announced soon. militant graffi ti from the walls of est place, as it happened in 1967, eff orts to call for an emergency during clashes with Israeli po- that could be followed by ex- militants from key positions in- Earlier the forces loyal to the the Ouagadougou centre. urging Muslim scholars to move meeting of the Arab League and lice, who escorted the settlers tended strikes. cluding their headquarters at the UN-backed Government of Na- “The caliphate will endure and quickly to support, defend and the Organisation of Islamic Co- on a provocative visit to Al-Aqsa The PPS said the detainees Ouagadougou conference centre, tional Accord said in a statement expand,” read one slogan at the protect it. operation (OIC) on the level of Mosque compound. will be striking in solidarity with a sprawling compound near the that their fi ghters had seized build- centre’s main entrance, before it The ministry warned in a delegates to discuss the grave Palestine news agency (WAFA) the political prisoners who are city centre. ings on the outskirts of district two was removed. statement that the matter re- Israeli escalation against the Al- said Israeli police assaulted a already striking, including Bilal AFP correspondents who and were chasing the militants. A trail of destruction has hit the quires more than ever a real Arab Aqsa and take the appropriate group of worshippers who gath- Kayed, who entered his second toured the city on Saturday said Mustafa al-Faqih, one of the once grandiose centre, with win- and Islamic awakening aimed positions to face these threats. ered at one of the compound’s month of a hunger strike, de- loyalist forces were pressing their commanders of the loyalist forc- dows shattered, ceilings caved in at achieving practical actions to About 260 settlers entered gates in protest of the illegal set- manding his release. advance, buoyed by US air strikes es, said that the militants fl ed and bullet strikes on its walls.

The grandmother of Fayez Msallem congratulates him during his wedding ceremony in the village of Salem, east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, as his brother Fares looks on. For Palestinians, summer is wedding season – time for brides and grooms to celebrate. But for guests, who are expected to help cover the costs, it can mean financial misery. The tradition of “naqout” encourages those invited to donate cash to help pay for the often lavish feasts. Palestinian wedding season can hit the wallet hard

By Hossam Ezzedine/AFP party in the West Bank town of Birzeit. For him it was payback for decades of Abu Qash, Palestinian Territories “I have already received several in- paying for other people’s weddings. vitations for the rest of August, but I “The naqout endures because it is a think I will refuse a few,” he said. part of solidarity,” he said. or Palestinians, summer is wed- The West Bank sees more than Some see their donations as in- ding season – time for brides and 25,000 weddings a year, according to vestments, expecting similar sums in Fgrooms to celebrate. Palestinian statistics. return when one of their family mar- But for guests, who are expected to Social pressures and tradition mean ries. help cover the costs, it can mean fi nan- that most are extravagant celebrations, “It is a form of social security,” said cial misery. with much of the community invited. Majdi al-Malki, a professor of social The tradition of “naqout” encourag- They tend to involve mountains of sciences at the Birzeit University near es those invited to donate cash to help food, live music and a photographer. Ramallah. “It is presented as a gift, but pay for the often lavish feasts. The most lavish celebrations even it is actually a practical and useful way They pick up an envelope, fi ll it with off er each guest a traditional Palestin- to share the costs of marriage.” cash, usually sign it and place it in a box ian scarf or a rosary. He said the tradition is a legacy of strategically placed at the entrance. A wedding can cost up to $30,000, ancient Palestinian tribal society. Technically the donations are volun- while even a poor family may shell out At some weddings, donations are tary, but hosts take a dim view of those $10,000. even exposed for all to see: the cash is failing to meet expectations. That’s a major in expense in the West triumphantly hung around the neck of Some Palestinians see the tradition Bank, where more than a quarter of the groom in the midst of the guests. as a way to share the costs of important people live under the poverty line after “It’s a way to show pride, to show off community events. nearly 50 years of Israeli occupation. the size of the donations” and to thank But others say the social pressure to The costs come out of the pockets of donors, Malki said. contribute pushes them into dire fi - the family – traditionally the father of But it doesn’t always work like that. nancial straights. the bride. Naqout is a way of sharing One father who recently paid for Murad Shriteh, 46, from near the the burden. a wedding said some guests had left West Bank city of Ramallah, said he Khaled Abdallah, 50, recently cel- empty, unmarked envelopes. feels swamped after being invited to ebrated his son’s marriage in a village “Thanks to video recordings, I could more than one wedding a week. near Ramallah in the West Bank. work out who they were,” he told AFP, He spent $400, nearly half his He splashed out $10,000 on the big speaking anonymously. monthly salary, in just two weeks of day, but recouped the entire amount in “When their relatives get married, I weddings, he told AFP at a wedding donations. won’t forget it.” Gulf Times 6 Monday, August 15, 2016 AFRICA Chibok girls shown in new Boko video AFP schoolgirls from Chibok in April madu Buhari has said the group look visibly distressed and dab Last week, the shadowy Shek- Kano 2014 provoked global outrage is “technically defeated”, his gov- their eyes. au appeared in a video vowing to and brought unprecedented at- ernment has struggled to fi nd the One is seen holding a small fi ght on, shrugging off an appar- tention to Boko Haram and its girls, an enduring political em- baby. ent split after he was said to have A still image from a video posted by Boko Haram on social media, oko Haram has released bloody quest to create a funda- barrassment that highlights Boko “This focuses on using the been replaced by Islamic State seen by Reuters yesterday, shows a masked man with dozens of girls a new video purportedly mentalist state in northeastern Haram’s continued presence in girls as a bargaining chip,” Ryan (IS)-backed rival Abu Musab al- that the militant group said are schoolgirls kidnapped from the town Bshowing some of the Nige- Nigeria. the region. Cummings, director at intelli- Barnawi. of Chibok in 2014. rian schoolgirls kidnapped from A man wearing camoufl age The video was attributed to the gence fi rm Signal Risk, told AFP. Barnawi has criticised Shek- Chibok more than two years ago, gear in the video called on the original Boko Haram name, not “The video shows that the war au’s indiscriminate and brutal ritory once controlled by the in- ognised a girl. We are still in the and called for its detained fi ght- government to release Boko Har- the new Islamic State West Afri- eff ort is hurting the operations of leadership in Nigeria that has surgents. process of confi rming a few of the ers to be freed. am fi ghters in exchange for the ca Province (ISWAP), suggesting the group,” he said. “It does have seen Boko Haram fi ghters kill Over the past year, the mili- girls,” Abdullahi said. The government said it was in girls. that it was released by Shekau’s a sense of almost desperation thousands of people in mosques tary has announced the rescue “We’ve always believed they touch with those claiming to be “They should immediately re- faction, although it is not known from Boko Haram.” and markets and raze entire cit- of hundreds of people, most of will be back, but it’s also painful,” behind the undated video, which lease our brethren in their custo- when or where it was fi lmed. The Nigerian government said ies. them women and children, who he said, criticising the govern- shows groups of girls in Islamic dy,” the man said, warning that if “There are a number of the it is in contact with those claim- In March 2015, Shekau pledged were kidnapped by Boko Haram. ment for being unable to rescue dress standing or sitting around the prisoners are not released the girls, about 40 of them, that have ing to be behind the video but allegiance to the IS and changed But the missing Chibok girls the girls. The frustration will al- a masked man armed with an as- government will never be able to been married,” said the man in was acting cautiously given the Boko Haram’s name to ISWAP, were not among them, despite ways be there. We failed them on sault rifl e. rescue the girls. the 11-minute video. “Some of leadership split. prompting fears the Nigerian in- several unconfi rmed sightings. so many instances.” The fi lm was issued just days “They should know that their them have died as a result of aer- “Since this is not the fi rst time surgency would be bolstered by Abubakar Abdullahi, a spokes- Boko Haram has been blamed after embattled Boko Haram children are still in our hands,” ial bombardment.” we have been contacted over the its connection to the global mili- man for the Bring Back Our Girls for some 20,000 deaths and dis- head Abubakar Shekau denied he said in the fi lm posted on A girl speaking in the Chibok issue, we want to be doubly sure tant group. movement, told AFP that one of placing more than 2.6mn people claims he had been replaced as YouTube that appears to show dialect chokes back tears as she that those we are in touch with However, there have been few the girls had been identifi ed in since it launched a brutal insur- the leader of the Nigeria-based some women injured after an air describes an air strike by Nige- are who they claim to be,” Infor- signs that Boko Haram has ben- what he described as a “heart- gency in Nigeria in 2009 that has militant group. strike. rian armed forces. mation Minister Lai Mohammed efi ted from the alliance, as the breaking” video. since spread into several neigh- The mass kidnapping of 276 While President Muham- In the background, several girls said in a statement. Nigerian military recaptures ter- “One of our members has rec- bouring countries.

Zambia opposition leader angered by Pistorius on suicide watch: media vote results delay Zambia’s opposition leader AFP “toxic” and demanded to be given Hakainde Hichilema has blasted Johannesburg medication prescribed by his pri- the national election commission vate doctor. for slow progress in releasing He alleged that the prison offi cial results from this week’s closely- scar Pistorius has been put wanted to kill him and demanded to fought presidential vote. on suicide watch following be transferred to another jail. Hichilema, the leader of the Omysterious wrist injuries Warders also raided his cell and United Party for National that landed him in hospital earlier found a pair a scissors, prescription Development (UPND) who has this month, media reported yester- drugs and “toxic pills”. alleged fraud in Thursday’s day. Pistorius’s family has rubbished vote, demanded to speak to the Prison offi cials told City Press reports that the “Blade Runner” commission’s chairman at its newspaper that the athlete who is who made history by being the fi rst headquarters where the ballots serving a six-year sentence for mur- disabled person to compete with are being counted, but he was dering his girlfriend was under 24- able-bodied athletes in the 2012 blocked by police. hour monitoring, with increased London Olympics had tried to kill So far results from only 69 out cell visits by warders. Pistorius: said he hurt himself himself. of 156 constituencies have been Some inside sources told the pa- falling off his bed. Pistorius initially escaped a mur- released. per that razor blades were found in der conviction for shooting his girl- The electoral commission the disgraced athlete’s cell last Sat- putee, who is being held at the Kgosi friend Reeva Steenkamp through a initially said that results would urday afternoon, and that his wrist Mampuru II Prison in Pretoria, had locked bathroom door three years be announced within 48 hours injuries, described as “severe”, were told prison offi cials he sustained the ago. of the close of voting, and no self-infl icted. injuries falling off his bed. An appeal by prosecutors saw his explanation has been given for Prison authorities have launched According to the newspaper, the manslaughter conviction upgraded the delays. a probe into the incident. injury occurred soon after he had to murder, and in July he was sen- “Why are they taking this long?” “Our internal investigation is at an altercation with prison offi cials tenced to a six-year jail term. asked Hichilema, a wealthy an advanced stage,” said Correc- over medication prescribed by state But prosecutors have said they businessman who is making his tional Services spokesman Singa- doctors. would push for a longer sentence, fifth bid for the presidency. bakho Nxumalo. The Paralympian had refused to saying six years was “shockingly Lungu is slightly ahead on The 29-year-old double-am- take the medication, saying it was lenient”. 699,960 votes with Hichilema close behind on 644,132. The other seven presidential ANC wants budget ‘re-prioritised’ after local election losses candidates are far behind. Copper-rich Zambia is usually South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) told reporters after a four-day meeting of the party’s known for its relative stability, wants the national budget “re-prioritised” to focus leadership in the National Executive Council (NEC). but the run-up to the vote was on tackling poverty, unemployment and inequality Mantashe said the ANC wanted the cabinet to discuss marked by weeks of clashes following local election defeats this month, the party said changes to the budget at its next meeting. between supporters of the UPND yesterday. “The NEC viewed the outcome of the elections as a and President Edgar Lungu’s The ANC lost its majority in key urban districts including clarion call of the people to the liberation movement Patriotic Front (PF). Johannesburg, the municipality encompassing the to urgently take steps to speed up the programmes of Lungu took power only last year capital Pretoria and the symbolically important Nelson change, and rectify the many subjective weaknesses when he beat Hichilema by less Mandela Bay municipality – its biggest setbacks since aff ecting its capacity,” Mantashe said. “It was noted that than 28,000 votes in a snap coming to power in 1994. our poor performance in the 2016 local government election that followed the death The ANC will take bold action to address the party’s elections is a serious setback to the cause of social in off ice of president Michael shortcomings, Secretary General Gwede Mantashe transformation.” Sata. Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 7 AMERICAS ADL speaks for Muslims after killings in New York

Agencies released a sketch of the suspect New York they say fatally shot the leader of a mosque and a friend as they left afternoon prayers. he Anti-Defamation Police say witnesses de- League is expressing scribed the shooter of 55-year- Tsolidarity with New old imam Akonjee and York City’s Muslim community 64-year-old Thara Uddin as a in the wake of the fatal shoot- man with a medium complex- A gas station after rioters clashed with the Milwaukee police department in Wisconsin. ings of the leader of a mosque ion, last seen wearing a dark and a friend as they left after- shirt and blue shorts. noon prayers in Queens. Police released a sketch early The organisation says that yesterday of a dark-haired, while the motive for the crime bearded man wearing glasses. is still unknown, nothing can Police say video surveillance justify the killing of two men showed the suspect then fl ed walking from their place of south on 79th Street with the worship. gun still in his hand. It is urging the NYPD to in- Police say they haven’t de- Milwaukee’s black vestigate the shootings as a termined a motive, and that possible bias crime. there’s no indication the men The ADL fi ghts anti- were targeted because of their Semitism around the world faith. through programmes and But members of the Bang- services. ladeshi Muslim community Police were search- served by the mosque worry it ing yesterday for the sus- could be a hate crime. people ‘tired of life pect who killed 55-year-old More than 100 people at- imam Maulana Akonjee and tended a rally Saturday night. 64-year-old Thara Uddin. New York City police are The shooter approached searching for the man who them from behind as they left fatally shot the leader of a the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque and a friend as they mosque shortly before 2pm left afternoon prayers. Saturday. Naima Akonjee, the imam’s under oppression’ Police have not announced a daughter, says her father didn’t motive. have “any problems with any- Anger against the police has once city leaders appealed for calm, mayor Tom Barrett said the offi cer was wearing a said the man who was shot had an arrest New York City police have one.” Page 17 again spilt onto the streets Barrett said the man was hit twice, in the body camera. record. chest and arm. Barrett said police stopped the 23-year- The 24-year-old offi cer who shot the Agencies The protesters were largely black, and old man who died for “suspicious activity.” man has been placed on administrative Milwaukee Alderman Khalif Rainey — who represents Police said he was carrying a gun that had duty. the district — said early yesterday that the been stolen in a March burglary in subur- The offi cer has been with the Milwaukee city’s black residents are “tired of living ban Waukesha. department six years, three as an offi cer. Fugitive held in New olunteers swept and picked up de- under this oppression”. Nearly 40 % of Mil- “This stop took place because two offi c- Just blocks away from the riots, two bris yesterday in a north Milwaukee waukee’s 600,000 residents are black, and ers... people were shot and killed Friday and Vneighbourhood that was rocked by heavily concentrated on the north side. saw suspicious activity,” the mayor Saturday, bringing to fi ve the number of Mexico offi cer’s death hours of late night violent unrest sparked “Now this is a warning cry. said.“There were 23 rounds in that gun people who died in shootings in the city by a police offi cer’s shooting of a man flee- Where do we go from here? Where do that that offi cer was staring at. during a nine-hour stretch. ing a traffi c stop. we go as a community from here?” Rainey I want to make sure we don’t lose any “As everyone knows, this was a very, Agencies that Hanes and Nelson, 36, Up to three dozen people swept up glass said at the news conference with Barrett. police offi cers in this community, either.” very violent 24 hours in the city of Mil- New Mexico were believed to have fl ed the and fi lled trash bags with rocks, bricks and The anger at shootings by Milwaukee Around 100 protesters massed at 44th waukee,” assistant chief Bill Jessup told state and were armed and ex- bottles at an intersection where a BP gas police is not new, and comes as tension Street and Auer Avenue between 8 and the Journal Sentinel.”Our offi cers are out tremely dangerous, warning station burned to the ground, a traffi c light between black communities and law en- 9pm, surging against a line of 20 to 30 of- here taking risks on behalf of the commu- uthorities don’t yet that the two men have a violent was bent and bus shelters were shoved to forcement has ramped up across the na- fi cers. nity and making split-second decisions.” know why a New Mex- criminal history. the ground Saturday night. tion, resulting in protests and the recent The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report- A police offi cer was fatally shot while Aico police offi cer in a Chavez was shot in the One volunteer picked up a bullet casing killings of offi cers in Baton Rouge, Louisi- ed that offi cers got in their cars to leave at responding to a call about a suspicious small village famous for its neck and airlifted to Univer- and handed it to police. ana, and Dallas. one point and some in the crowd started person near an intersection in southern green chille and not much more sity Medical Center in El Paso, Darlene Rose, 31, said she understands Milwaukee was beset by protests and smashing a squad car’s windows. Georgia, police said yesterday. pulled over two Ohio murder Texas, where he later died. the anger that fuelled the violence, but calls for police reform after an offi cer fa- Another police car was set on fi re. Patrol Offi cer Tim Smith, 31, was called suspects before being gunned Police arrested Nelson and that it doesn’t help. tally shot Dontre Hamilton, a mentally ill The newspaper reported that one of its to a neighbourhood in Eastman Georgia, a down. But the daytime en- were waiting for Hanes to be “I feel like if you’re going to make a dif- black man, in 2014. reporters was shoved to the ground and small city about 210km south of Atlanta, at counter with Jesse Hanes and released from the hospital to ference, it’s got to be an organised diff er- In December, the justice department punched. about 9.30pm local time on Saturday, the James Nelson on Friday turned book him on state charges, ence,” Rose said.”The people that came announced it would work with Milwaukee Around 11pm, police with shields and Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a out to be deadly for one of the sheriff ’s spokeswoman Kelly and looted, you’re not going to see them police on reforms. helmets moved slowly into the intersec- statement. eight police offi cers in Hatch, Jameson said. here today.” Chief Ed Flynn had asked for what’s tion, telling a crowd of about 50 people to Smith arrived at the area and encoun- 340km south of Albuquerque. Hanes’ arrest came after a The event that triggered the violence known as a collaborative reform proc- disperse. Some threw rocks and debris at tered an individual, the statement said “of- Offi cer Jose Chavez, 33, was dramatic car pursuit, a carjack- was the Saturday afternoon shooting by a ess after the federal government said police, who held up their shields. fi cer Smith exited his patrol car to investi- shot dead at a convenience ing and the shooting of a by- police offi cer of a man authorities said was it wouldn’t pursue criminal civil rights People in the crowd also threw objects gate and was shot by the individual,” it said. store in front of a fellow offi cer stander whose car Hanes stole, armed and who fl ed a traffi c stop. charges against the offi cer. at a business a half-block from the inter- Smith returned gunfi re, but the suspect who had just arrived. police said. Hanes was driving a It wasn’t clear if the man aimed the gun Critics said the department should section. fl ed the scene. The suspected shooter is luxury car when Chavez pulled at offi cers. have submitted to a review of its patterns A nearby traffi c light was bent over and The offi cer was transported to a local Hanes, 38, who along with him over at a gas station shortly Authorities have not released the names and practices, as was conducted in Fer- bus shelters overturned. A bank, a gas hospital, where he died. Nelson was wanted in Ohio in before 4pm Friday. or identities of the man who was killed nor guson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting station, an auto parts store and a beauty The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is the July 25 shooting death of Chavez was standing out- the offi cer who shot him. of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was supplies shop were burned in the vio- seeking tips to identify and fi nd the assail- a 62-year-old man just out- side the passenger’s door when Three protesters were arrested, and one black, by a white police offi cer in 2014. lence. ant, it said. side Chillicothe, about 100km Hanes reached through the offi cer was injured by a thrown brick. The state is investigating the latest Firefi ghters held back from the gas sta- It did not release information about a south of Columbus. window and shot him, police At a late night news conference at which shooting in Milwaukee. tion blaze because of gunshots. Police possible motive for the attack. Ohio authorities had said said. Thousands rescued in fl ooded Louisiana Skydiver dies near Agencies In the Livingston Parish city of Den- Mississippi governor Phil Bryant de- Baton Rouge ham Springs, a suburb of Baton Rouge, clared a state of emergency for several entire shopping centres were inundat- counties in his state as it also battled Westlock ed, only roofs of cars peeking above the the heavy rainfall. In Baker, just north s the Louisiana fl oodwaters water. And in many places, the water of Baton Rouge, residents were res- swallowed Lyn Gibson’s two- was still rising, with days expected be- cued by boats or waded through waist- Agencies Astory home, she hacked away on fore rivers were expected to crest. deep, snake-infested water to reach dry Edmonton a hole near the roof, desperately trying “This is an ongoing event. ground. Dozens of them awoke Satur- to get to safety. We’re still in response mode,” Ed- day morning on cots at a makeshift Red She used a saw, a screwdriver and her wards said, urging residents to heed Cross shelter only a few blocks from skydiver is dead after fail- feet, knocking her way through wood, warnings to evacuate and be prepared for their fl ooded homes and cars. ing to land a “high per- vinyl and sheet rock. a disaster that could last for several days. John Mitchell, 23, said he swam to Aformance technique” at a “I just kept picking and hitting Earlier in the day, Edwards said more safety with his pit bull after police offi c- skydiving facility near Westlock and prying until I could get a hole big than 1,000 people had been rescued. ers in a boat picked up his 20-year-old on Saturday. enough,” the slightly-built, 115-pound That number appeared to at least girlfriend, her 1 year-old daughter and RCMP were called to the Ed- woman said.“I would saw for a while. A member of the St. George Fire Department assists residents as they wade through double by the end of the day, when Liv- Mitchell’s father. monton Skydiving Centre at the I’d kick at it for a while.” floodwaters from heavy rains in the Chateau Wein Apartments in Baton Rouge. ingston Parish sheriff Jason Ard said “This is the worst it’s been, ever,” Westlock Airport at around 2pm Eventually, Gibson made it out of her 2,000 people in his parish alone had Mitchell said. “We tried to wait it out, on August. 13 for a skydiving ac- Tangipahoa Parish home with her dogs, In one dramatic moment earlier declared a state of emergency, call- been rescued, and more people still but we had to get out.” cident. and they were all rescued by National in the day, two men on a boat pulled ing the fl oods “unprecedented” and await help. Mitchell fears he lost their trailer Seargeant Marlene Brown said Guard soldiers on a boat. a woman from a car that was almost “historic”. He and his family were even “We haven’t been rescuing people. home and his car, which was fl ooded the skydiver, a 52-year-old man, It was one of thousands of rescues completely underwater, according to forced to leave the Governor’s Mansion We’ve been rescuing subdivisions,” up to the seats. A bag of clothes was all was participating in a high-per- after a deluge dropped more than a foot video by WAFB. when chest-high water fi lled the base- he said. “It has not stopped at all today.” he had time to save as the water levels formance canopy piloting com- of rain on parts of southeast Louisiana, The woman, who is not initially vis- ment and electricity was shut off . Beginning Friday, 6 to 10 inches of rose. petition. He was supposed to submerging roads, cars and homes. ible on camera, yells from inside the car: “That’s never happened before,” said rain fell on parts of Louisiana and sev- Shanita Angrum, 32, said she called skim over a pond as he neared the At least three people were killed “Oh my god, I’m drowning.” the governor, whose family relocated to eral more inches of rain fell on Satur- 911 on Friday morning when she real- ground, Brown said, but wasn’t across the state, and the rescues were One of the rescuers, David Phung, a state police facility in the Baton Rouge day, according to the National Weather ised fl ood waters had trapped her family able to do so. continuing late Saturday, including jumps into the brown water and pulls area. Service. Some areas got even more rain. in their home. Canopy piloting is a form of missions by crews in high-water vehi- the woman to safety. Rivers and their tributaries swelled In a 24-hour period, Baton Rouge had A police offi cer carried her 6-year- skydiving. It tests a parachutist’s cles who went car to car to pluck motor- She pleads with Phung to get her dog, and bulged beyond their banks. as much as 11 inches while one weather old daughter, Khoie, on his back while skill in manipulating their para- ists from a fl ood-soaked interstate. but he can’t fi nd it. During an aerial tour, a reporter saw observer reported more than 17 inches she and her husband waded behind chute while navigating through Major Doug Cain from the Louisiana After several seconds, Phung takes a homes in parts of rural Tangipahoa Par- in Livingston. them for what “felt like forever.” obstacles over water and landing State Police said about 125 vehicles were deep breath, goes underwater and re- ish that looked like little islands among The system is expected to turn to the “Snakes were everywhere,” she on a target. “He received imme- stranded on a seven-mile stretch of In- surfaces — with the small dog. Both the fl ooded fi elds. north yesterday and portions of central said.“The whole time I was just praying diate medical attention, but un- terstate 12 near Baton Rouge and the oc- woman and dog appeared to be OK. Farmland was covered and streets de- and northern Louisiana could see heavy for God to make sure me and my family fortunately, he was pronounced cupants were being taken to safety. Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards scended into impassable pools of water. rain into next week. were OK.” dead at the scene,” Brown said. Gulf Times 8 Monday, August 15, 2016 ASEAN

A tourist has her photo taken with Thai soldiers at the Grand Palace. Tourists watch as Thai soldiers in vintage uniforms patrol the Grand Palace in Bangkok yesterday. Thailand police fi nd unexploded devices in search for bombers

AFP tage”. “Our investigation is pro- One man has been arrested that theory. If the rebels are to dum vote on a controversial new “It looks like the work of several times before,” Jatuporn Bangkok gressing. We know who was be- over a separate case of arson in blame, it would mark an unprec- charter it drafted. (the insurgents), judging from Prompan said in a video posted hind it,” deputy national police Nakhon Si Thammarat province edented escalation of a 12-year The document, which crit- their kind of arms...it was not on Facebook. spokesman Piyapan Pingmuang and two men have been held for revolt so far confi ned largely to ics say will make Thailand less aimed to create mass casualties, The Red Shirts, who hail hai police discovered said, declining to give further questioning over the Hua Hin the border region. democratic, was approved by 61 so that’s very similar to the far chiefl y from the poor and rural unexploded bombs in details. bombings, police said. The blasts are seen as an af- % of voters but rejected in the south,” Don Pathan, a security northeast, are fi ercely loyal to Tthree top tourist destina- Unexploded devices were A junta spokesman confi rmed front to a military government north and northeast — strong- analyst and expert on the insur- the powerful Shinawatra family, tions over the weekend as they found and defused yesterday in that multiple people have been that prides itself on having holds of the ousted government gency, said of last week’s bomb- whose repeated election victo- searched for clues to a wave of two bomb-hit areas — the up- questioned but stressed it was brought some stability to Thai- — and in the three insurgency- ings. ries have been undone by two blasts that rocked resort areas scale beach town of Hua Hin and too early to identify them as sus- land since its 2014 coup. torn southern provinces. But he said the junta would be coups and a series of judicial rul- and killed four last week. the popular island of Phuket, ac- pects. The kingdom has been bat- The shadowy southern rebel- loath to admit a major expansion ings in the past decade. No one has claimed respon- cording to the interior ministry “It’s just asking questions. tered by a decade of political lion has left more than 6,500 of the confl ict, since it would Their political network has sibility for the bombing spree, permanent secretary. They will not be treated as sus- unrest, driven by a bitter power people dead since it erupted in signal a signifi cant “policy fail- come under heavy surveillance which hit seven southern prov- “It is likely they were intended pects unless the questioning struggle between the military- 2004. ure in the south”. by the military since the 2014 inces on Thursday and Friday to explode at the same time of procedure is done and any of allied elite and populist forces But the violence rarely makes A leader of the “Red Shirts” coup. and left dozens wounded, in- the previous explosions,” said them are found to have violated loyal to the ousted democrati- international headlines or af- — the grassroots movement The bombings in top tour- cluding European tourists. Grisada Boonrach. laws,” said Colonel Winthai Su- cally elected government. fects Thais outside the confl ict supportive of the ousted gov- ist destinations threaten a vital Police said they know who to Police said other unexploded varee. But the violence has not zone, a region annexed more ernment and hostile to the junta source of income for tropical blame but have yet to reveal a devices were found Saturday in Some analysts suggest the matched the coordinated nature than a century ago. — expressed concern yesterday Thailand. culprit or suspected motive. Phang Nga province, which had assault was the work of rebels of the latest bombings or target- Analysts say the rebels are his network would be fi ngered The sector accounts for at They have ruled out interna- been struck by bomb blasts and waging a long-running insur- ed tourist towns. frustrated over stalled negotia- for the attacks. least 10 % of an economy the tional terrorist groups, calling a suspected arson attack the day gency in Thailand’s southern tip, The attacks came only days tions with the military govern- “We have been made vic- military government has strug- the attacks an act of “local sabo- before. but Thai offi cials have rejected after the junta won a referen- ment. tims for things we did not do gled to revive.

Army searches for missing helicopter with fi ve on board

Reuters Ninbanjerdkun, Third Area Bangkok Army commander oversee- ing Thailand’s north. Among those on board he Thai army said it was Major General Nop- was searching for a porn Ruanchan, com- Tmilitary helicopter mander of the army’s 4th that went missing yester- Infantry Division, he said. day in northern Thailand “The helicopter is still with fi ve people on board, missing,” junta spokes- including a major general. man Winthai Suvaree said The UH-72 light helicop- yesterday. The helicopter ter disappeared from radar was returning to its base in at around 10.30am(0330 Phitsanuloke from a fl ood GMT) around 30 minutes relief mission in the Pai dis- into its fl ight, said Lieu- trict near the border with tenant General Somsak Myanmar, Somsak said.

Traditional cattle race

A jockey takes part in a traditional cattle race or “Pacu Jawi”, to mark the end of the rice harvest in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 9 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

Dotcom to seek a review of Vigils, protests planned US court ruling over detention centres Reuters Activists organise Plibersek’s offi ce in Broadway, vowed to push for a parliamen- taskforce, said that the Nau- time people have understood “I’d almost rather people con- Sydney demonstrations at MP off ices Tony Abbott’s Manly offi ce and tary inquiry into the allegations ru fi les confi rmed reports the how profoundly destructive the front it and decided that they’re to call for an end to off shore Anthony Albanese’s offi ce in but the immigration minister, church had received of condi- government’s policy is. The one against what we’re saying rather, detention Marrickville. Peter Dutton, has resisted calls tions on the island. positive is that I think that this than just not care about it at all erman tech entrepreneur Later protests will also be held for a royal commission, down- He said the only moral and could be the beginning of the … rather than just say, ‘oh, those and alleged Internet pi- Guardian at the Brisbane offi ces of the De- playing the severity of the re- legal option for Australia was end.” people aren’t even important Grate Kim Dotcom will Sydney partment of Immigration and ports and saying investigating to immediately close the camps A spokesman for Love Makes enough to consider’.” seek a review of a Federal Court Border Protection and the Perth them was a matter for the Nau- and bring detainees to Australia A Way, Matt Anslow, said the Another group of protest- decision which rejected his bid electorate offi ce of the foreign ruan government. for processing, “because any in- group had organised the vigils ers targeted the City2Surf run to keep hold of millions of dollars rotesters armed with pa- minister, Julie Bishop, as part of Dr Peter Catt, Dean of St quiry is going to take time, and as “an outpouring of grief and in Sydney yesterday, hanging in assets held in Hong Kong and per dolls bearing the text more than 40 actions planned John’s cathedral in Brisbane, what we have learned is that this anger” in response to the Nauru banners demanding Australia New Zealand, his lawyer said. Pof leaked incident reports throughout the week. said he was “appalled” by Dut- is an emergency”. fi les, which he said provided “bring them here” and close de- A three-judge panel of the from Nauru will hold vigils at the The protests are being held ton’s comments. “I have a sense that over the “really clear evidence of how tention centres on Manus Island 4th Circuit US Court of Ap- offi ces of 29 federal MPs today, in response to the Guardian’s “The ongoing suggestion last 12 months the view of the bad it is”. and Nauru. peals ruled two to one on Friday calling for the immediate closure publication of the Nauru fi les, that people are in some calcu- Australian public has shifted “If people don’t want to hear “We are dealing with a lot of that Dotcom could not recover of Australia’s off shore immigra- a collection of more than 2,000 lated way harming themselves from one of acceptance or ap- about it and they don’t want to apathy and I think the govern- his assets because by remaining tion detention centres. leaked incident reports that to come to Australia just shows proval of the government’s pol- read about it then they won’t ment is relying on this apathy,” outside the US, he was a fugi- The protests will start at 8am contain serious allegations of a lack of understanding of how icy to being appalled about what anyway, so the task for people Fabia Claridge said. “One young tive, which disentitled him from and target almost every elector- sexual assault and child abuse desperate these people are, and is happening in their name,” he like us is to get on the street and person said: ‘who are Manus and using the resources to fi ght his ate offi ce in Sydney, including at the Australian-run detention how damaged they are,” he said. said. say to Australia: this is happen- Nauru? Who are they?’ “They case. Prime Minister Malcolm Turn- centre. Catt, who is also chair of the “With the publication of the ing and we can’t turn our backs thought Manus and Nauru were Dotcom’s lawyer Ira P Rothken bull’s offi ce in Edgecliff , Tanya Labour and the Greens have Australian churches refugee Nauru fi les I think for the fi rst from it any more,” Anslow said. [the names of] people.” said his client would seek a re- view of the decision in front of the full bench and, if necessary, petition the Supreme Court. “This opinion has the eff ect of eviscerating Kim Dotcom’s trea- Colourful ty rights by saying if you law- fully oppose extradition in New Zealand, the US will still call you costumes a fugitive and take all of your as- sets,” Rothken said in an e-mail to Reuters received yesterday. mark Dotcom has been fi ghting ex- tradition from New Zealand over charges of copyright infringe- Sydney’s ment, racketeering and money laundering in the United States related to the Megaupload fi le- biggest sharing site he founded in 2005. A New Zealand court ruled in December he could be extra- road race dited, but an appeal hearing has been set for later this month. Dotcom responded to the Fed- AFP eral Court ruling on Twitter. Sydney “Did they think they can sepa- rate me from my kids without a fi ght? I fi ght corrupt US empire orillas, superheroes and clowns all day, every day. Not Pikachus took part in even tired.” GSydney’s biggest fun run In the Federal Court judge- yesterday, with the annual event ment, Chief Judge Roger L Gre- attracting more than 80,000 gory wrote that Dotcom and his participants in sunny winter co-defendants’ reasons for stay- conditions. ing in New Zealand – because of The 14km (8.7-mile) City- jobs, businesses, and families – 2Surf road race from Sydney city were “utterly unpersuasive”. to Bondi beach is a major fun- US authorities say Dotcom draiser for Australian charities and three co-accused Meg- and attracts serious competitors aupload executives cost fi lm and as well as entrants in fancy studios and record companies dress. more than $500mn and gener- This year’s costumed partici- ated more than $175mn in prof- pants included women dressed its by encouraging paying users up in bright tutus, competitors to store and share copyrighted in tight superhero costumes, a material, such as movies and TV team of runners carrying an in- shows. fl atable family of pigs and even Some 80,000 participants take part in the annual City2Surf fun run Pikachu – the most famous from Sydney’s city centre to Bondi Beach. character from the Pokemon se- Top China off icial ries of games. Left: Runners dressed as Wonder Woman take part in the race. Local distance runner Harry slams ‘foreign’ Summers, 26, fi nished fi rst in 42 influence on Below: A runner dressed as US presidential candidate Donald Trump. minutes. Last year’s women’s winner Tibetan Buddhism Cassie Fien took the title again with a time of 47 minutes and 29 A senior Chinese off icial has seconds. called on Tibetans to resist Summers had hoped to com- foreign influence on their pete at the Rio Olympics but Buddhist religion, state media illness stopped him from taking said yesterday, in the latest part in the qualifi ers in Japan, the comments apparently targeting Sydney Morning Herald said. exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Kurt Fearnley, a three-time Lama. Paralympian gold medallist and Yu Zhengsheng, one of the ruling co-captain of this year’s Rio Communist party’s seven most team, won the elite wheelchair powerful off icials, told locals to division in 33 minutes and 22 “firmly resist foreign influence on seconds. Tibetan Buddhism” in a visit to Organisers said they were the Himalayan region, the off icial on track to raise nearly A$5mn Xinhua news agency said. ($3.8mn) for 850 charities, one The report did not elaborate on of the highest amounts collected the alleged foreign influence. since the race was launched in “We should guide and support 1971, and surpassing last year’s representative Tibetan Buddhist A$4.5mn. figures to use the leading Top fundraisers this year principles of the core socialist included Angus Dawson, the values to explain doctrine, brother of Katrina Dawson, one and promote the adoption of of the two hostages killed in the Buddhism to socialist society,” Sydney cafe siege in 2014, the Yu added in comments at the Herald reported. Galden Jampaling Monastery on Saturday. Beijing says that its troops S Korea to use ‘jam-proof’ US military “peacefully liberated” Tibet in 1951 and insists it has since GPS technology on guided bombs brought development to a Japan to develop new missile: report previously backward region South Korea’s ability to counter North Korea’s long-range multiple where serfs were exploited. launch rocket threat will get a boost after its guided bombs But many Tibetans accuse get “jam-proof” US technology, the South Korean military said AFP The report comes after re- puted island chain, the Yomiuri ferring to the technology that off icials of repressing their yesterday. Tokyo peated protests by Japanese for- Shimbun reported, adding that allows for weapon’s long-term religion and eroding their culture, According to sources, the decision by Washington to allow its eign ministry offi cials over what the deployment is expected by storage and capacity to be adding that natural resources are military global positioning system (GPS) technology to be used by Tokyo calls “intrusions” by Chi- 2023. launched at short notice. exploited to benefit China’s ethnic Seoul will greatly enhance the capabilities of its Korea GPS guided apan will develop a new nese ships in the territorial and Offi cials at the defence min- Japan also protested in June Han majority at the expense of bomb (KGGB) arsenal that will be tasked with taking out North land-to-sea missile as part contiguous waters of the rocky istry could not be reached for after it said a Chinese navy frig- the environment. Korean rocket launchers, state news agency Yonhap reported. Jof plans to beef up its de- islands. comment. ate sailed close to territorial wa- Yu’s other remarks stressed The first KGGBs that can use the encrypted military GPS data will be fence of remote southern is- Tokyo plans to deploy the “In light of China’s repeated ters near the islands for the fi rst the importance of economic operational starting next month. lands, as tensions with China weapon, which reportedly will acts of provocation around the time. development and the Last week the military said the US allowed Seoul’s German Taurus increase over the disputed terri- have a range of 300km (190 Senkaku islands, Japan aims to Tension over the islands construction of power lines. missile, which has a 500km range and can be fired from the tory, a report said yesterday. miles) on islands such as Mi- increase deterrence with im- have been a frequent irritant More than 140 Tibetans have set country’s F-15K, to be used with its highly precise military GPS. The two countries are locked yako in Okinawa prefecture, the proved long-range strike capa- and strained bilateral relations, themselves on fire since 2009 The move comes at a critical time as North Korea has acquired in a long-running dispute over top-selling Yomiuri Shimbun bility,” the newspaper stated. though tensions had markedly in protest against Beijing’s rule, considerable know-how in jamming conventional GPS over the the uninhabited islets known as newspaper said, without citing The missile will be developed relaxed over the past two years according to tallies from rights years that could seriously impair South Korea’s ability to use its the Senkaku in Japan and the Di- sources. by Japan and will use solid fuel, as the countries held negotia- groups. Most have died. precision tactical munitions. aoyu in China. The range will cover the dis- the Yomiuri Shimbun said, re- tions. Gulf Times 10 Monday, August 15, 2016 BRITAIN/IRELAND

Wartime festival Fifteen migrants crammed into house

Evening Standard garden shed, indicating that London people were also living there. Another Romanian man liv- ing at the address added that p to 15 migrants were young children lived there, found crammed into a which was evidenced by dolls Uthree bedroom house in and prams. north-west London. Brent Council’s Lead Mem- Bunk beds were found ber for Housing, Councillor packed into small rooms in Harbi Farah said: “Overcrowd- the house in Kingsbury when ed, unsafe properties like council offi cials carried out a this are a danger to the entire raid this week. community. The landlord had The garden shed at the prop- squeezed in as many beds as he erty also appeared to be lived could while disregarding basic in. fi re safety principles.” Brent Council offi cials re- “The vast majority of land- ceived a tip-off that the house lords and lettings agents in was being rented out illegally. Brent are honest and law abid- When they carried out a raid ing, but we take a zero toler- on Thursday a Romanian man, ance approach to the minority who claimed he was the broth- who think they can treat their er of the live-in landlord said tenants like this.” six people were living there. “Our licensing scheme en- But council inspectors found sures that landlords maintain evidence of as many as 15 peo- their rental properties to an ple at the address. acceptable standard. Brent Council’s head of pri- Failure to license a rental vate housing services, Spencer property could result in an Randolph, told the Standard: unlimited fi ne and a criminal “We think they heard us com- record.” ing and they just bolted. Randolph added that the “They’re probably paying council was now visiting unli- about £80 to £100 a week to censed properties twice a week live there. It’s cheap for the in similar conditions. tenants but for the landlords it As part of the council’s soon stacks up.” housing scheme, private land- “This property should be li- lords are required to obtain a censed so the landlord is com- licence to ensure properties mitting an off ence.” are rented out at an acceptable Historical reenactors take part in the ‘Lytham 1940s Wartime Festival’ in Lytham St Annes, north west England yesterday. The two-day festival features displays, exhibitions, A married Romanian couple standard. musical entertainment and live-action reenactment of life during the Second World War. living in the house on Whitby Nearly 100 unlicensed prop- Gardens said they were paying erties have been raided this £600 a month to rent a bottom year, resulting in illegal land- bunk in a room they shared lords being fi ned more than with other people. £220,000 and one even re- There was also a mattress ceived a four month prison Brexit could be delayed and clothes found inside the sentence. as govt not ready: Times There are reports that the government questions to ask when they fi nally begin Davis has recruited less than half of the is unprepared for an exit yet bargaining with Europe.” 250 staff he needs for the Brexit depart- Awful living conditions at the Kingsbury house. Asked about the reported delay to trig- ment, the Sunday Times said, while Fox Reuters gering Article 50, a Number 10 spokes- has fewer than 100 of the 1,000 trade ne- London woman said: “The prime minister has gotiators he is seeking. been clear that a top priority for this gov- Elections in France in May, and Germa- ernment is to deliver the decision of the ny in September, could also push back the Petrol bombs thrown ritain’s exit from the European Un- British people to leave the EU and make a timing of Brexit. ion could be delayed until at least success of Brexit.” Any delay to the process, however, is Blate 2019 because the government “The PM has set out the government’s likely to draw criticism from the pro- at police in N Ireland was too “chaotic” to start the two-year position on Article 50 and has established leave side of May’s Conservative party, process early next year, the Sunday Times a new department dedicated to taking for- with senior members such as John Red- reported, citing sources it said were ward the negotiations,” she said. wood calling for a quick departure from Reuters olic King James II in 1689. briefed by ministers. European leaders have taken a fi rm line the bloc. Belfast Pro-British Protestants Britain voted to leave the EU on June 23, on the speed of Britain’s exit, with Ger- There was an early sign of tension be- march every summer to com- but views diff er over when it should invoke Prime Minister Theresa May man chancellor Angela Merkel saying that tween the pro-Brexit members of May’s memorate historical events, “Article 50”, which sets the clock ticking while it was understandable that Britain cabinet in a report that Fox had clashed atholic youths attacked sometimes triggering a violent on a two-year deadline to leave the bloc, cle 50 was unlikely to be triggered early in would need a few months to fi gure out its with foreign secretary Boris Johnson over police with petrol response from mainly Catholic with some senior politicians calling for a 2017 because the situation in government strategy, “nobody wants a long period of the remit of his new department. Cbombs in the Northern Irish Republicans. quick departure. was “chaotic”, the Sunday Times reported limbo”. Fox said economic diplomacy — policies Ireland city of Londonderry on Police said at least 25 pet- Prime Minister Theresa May, who cam- yesterday. But behind the scenes, there has been concerning trade and Britain’s economic Saturday ahead of one of the rol bombs and fi reworks were paigned for Britain to remain in the EU “Ministers are now thinking the [Arti- a growing realisation in Europe’s capitals ties — should be transferred to his depart- largest Protestant parades of thrown at offi cers as they in- and leads a cabinet of ministers from ei- cle 50] trigger could be delayed until au- that the two-year window for negotiating ment, according to a letter quoted in the the year. vestigated a suspected bomb ther side of the debate, has said she will tumn 2017,” one source, who had spoken Brexit is far too short. Sunday Telegraph. Thousands of pro-British that turned out to be a hoax, not trigger Brexit talks this year as Britain to two senior ministers, told the newspa- Britain created two new government Johnson had fi rmly rejected the Fox’s unionists were due to take to but no injuries were reported. needs time to prepare. per. departments to handle Brexit and interna- demands, the newspaper said. the streets of the city for the Police said they had been But British government ministers have “They don’t have the infrastructure for tional trade, led by David Davis and Liam The spokeswoman said the govern- annual Apprentice Boys pa- called to investigate several warned senior fi gures in the City of Lon- the people they need to hire. Fox, two prominent “Leave” campaigners ment did not comment on leaked docu- rade, which marks the ending suspicious objects across the don, London’s fi nancial district, that Arti- They say they don’t even know the right in the referendum. ments. of the siege of Derry by Cath- province. Competition brews for London afternoon tea

AFP cludes silver tip jasmine tea from Chi- London na, scented over six days with fresh jas- mine fl owers. Customers tend to take around two he popularity of afternoon tea hours savouring the four varieties of has London hotels vying to at- sandwich — including the staple cu- Ttract a new wave of customers by cumber, smoked salmon and egg may- inventing twists on the classic English onnaise, plus the fi ve sweets including indulgence — although with tapas and an amalfi lemon eclair and strawberry takeaways on off er, some say the trend tart. is going too far. Fabio Adler, the hotel’s food and London’s Sanderson hotel won this beverage marketing manager, said part year’s themed afternoon tea of year of the attraction was its conviviality — award for its Mad Hatter’s version, everyone eating the same food at the with every item inspired by the Alice in same pace. Wonderland story. He said afternoon tea was just one of The K West Hotel and Spa has given their fi ve meal slots but more than oth- theirs a “glam-rock makeover”, with ers refl ects a London hotel’s standing. tea-infused cocktails and electric blue “It’s a big draw,” the Brazilian told teapots, served on vintage album cov- AFP. ers. “It’s really fi ercely competitive.” And the Lancaster London has a It can get silly with timings: hotels takeaway version to be enjoyed in off ering it at 11am defeats the purpose. Hyde Park just across the road, plus A member of hotel staff serves afternoon tea at the Kensington Hotel in London. “And Spanish afternoon tea with an ARTea, delivered in a painter’s box mini tapas; for me, that’s going too far.” with jam and cream in paint tubes and can be creative within that structure wiches, scones with clotted cream and perature and infusion time for each dif- ness is actually from people within the At The Bridge Tea Rooms in Bradford featuring “miniature edible paint- but not stray too far away.” jam, and a selection of desserts or cakes ferent tea. UK,” he said. on Avon, southwest England, the two- ings”. Afternoon tea conjures up a bygone — plus, of course, the tea. “We provide training. People who go “We’ve seen a big rise since 2012 time winners of the UK’s top tea place “There is a lot of competition so you age of English aristocratic refi nement, “Afternoon tea was all about accen- to afternoon tea are expecting the best,” when we had Queen Elizabeth II’s dia- award also keep to a tried and tested have to stand out from the crowd,” said luxury and leisure. tuating the tea: tea was the expensive he told AFP. mond jubilee and the London Olym- formula. Keith Newton, the founder of national Attributed to the duchess of Bedford product,” said Max “Mr Tea” Eisen- Newton said the afternoon tea sec- pics: there was a massive interest in all They maintain a Victorian theme, Afternoon Tea Week, which takes place in the mid-1840s, it came about as a hammer, of the Rare Tea Company, tor had witnessed strong year-on-year things British.” with the waitresses wearing period in mid-August. way for the elite to fi ll the gap between which supplies Claridge’s hotel and the growth, leading some outlets to try Prices can cost from £10 ($13, 11.50 white aprons and mop hats with black “But you have to be careful because lunch and increasingly late formal din- Noma restaurant in Copenhagen. shaking up the formula in a bid to stay euros) to more than £50 ($65, 58 euros) skirts. people do want the traditional,” he told ners. He visits hotels to ensure they are ahead. at the top hotels. “The look and feel is very important,” AFP. It is typically served in three rounds serving the tea properly, through the “For foreign visitors, it’s on their list At The Kensington Hotel in west owner Alison Hayward told AFP. “Keep “Sandwiches, scones, desserts: you on plates stacked on a holder: sand- correct leaf-to-water ratio, water tem- of things to do — but most of our busi- London, the tea selection on off er in- it traditional is the best way.” Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 11 EUROPE

Turkey summons Austria Swiss train attack victim envoy over ‘false’ succumbs to her injuries report AFP mains,” police in the Saint Gal- head to toe, like a torch,” he said. line between Buchs and Sen- aged 17 and 50, two women aged He was hurt after rushing in to Geneva len region said in a statement. He described pulling out his nwald near Salez station, not 17 and 43 and a six-year-old girl, pull the attacker – who was on “To date there is no indication water bottle to help another far from the eastern border with suff ered burns and stab wounds. fi re – from the train, police said. AFP this was a terrorist or political- passenger put out the fl ames, Liechtenstein and Austria. The younger woman and the “His intervention probably Ankara wiss police said yesterday ly-motivated act.” before seeing more victims. Police said images of the at- child were in serious condition, prevented worse,” Kruesi told that there was no indica- Although too early to rule “A woman was lying on the tack had been caught on sur- police said. the Blick daily. Stion a stabbing and fi re at- out an act of terror, the police ground with stab wounds to the veillance footage, allowing them One of the women had been Police did not provide any de- urkey’s foreign ministry tack on a passenger train was an statement should calm some stomach. There was blood eve- to determine that the man had doused with a large amount of tails on the identities or nation- has summoned the Aus- act of terror, as a female victim of the speculation circulating rywhere,” he said, adding that he acted alone. the fl ammable liquid, leading to alities of the victims. Ttrian charge d’aff aires and the assailant died of their since Saturday’s attack, which had also seen a young girl with The footage, which was speculation that she might have They were unable to question in protest at what it said was a injuries. followed several violent, often burn injuries to her face. not immediately made pub- been the target. the attacker before his death but “false” news ticker at Vienna Five other people were hurt deadly assaults in Europe, many He said he kept reliving the lic, showed the man, who was But police spokesman Hans- have searched his home, located airport about the age of consent, in Saturday’s assault in eastern of which were claimed by the Is- sight of the burning woman and carrying a knife, pouring out peter Kruesi told AFP it did not in a canton neighbouring Saint further damaging ties between Switzerland, including a six- lamic State (IS) group. injured child. fl ammable liquid and setting it appear the attack was directed at Gallen. the two countries. year-old girl who was seriously Dozens of people were on the “I keep asking myself if I did alight, police said. a single person. Some 90 rescue workers took Ankara voiced fury at the injured. train at the time, police said. enough to help,” he said. Pictures published by Swiss He said it was unclear if the part in Saturday’s operation, in- headline broadcast on screens One passenger, who tried to The witness, identifi ed only The assailant, a 27-year-old media showed a pool of dried attacker, who did not have a cluding police, fi refi ghters, am- at the airport which said Turkey help extinguish the fl ames, de- as 21-year-old Dino K, told the Swiss national, used fl ammable blood on a station platform as criminal record, knew any of the bulances and three rescue heli- allowed sex with children under scribed seeing a woman on fi re 20 Minutten daily’s website that liquid to start the fi re on a mov- well as burned-out train seats by victims. copters, police said. the age of 15. and an injured child. he had heard a commotion and ing train in eastern Switzerland a blackened window. One of those injured was not Saint Gallen prosecutors have “This headline tarnishes the He said he was suff ering fl ash- looked up. about 2.20pm (1220 GMT) on A 34-year-old woman and the a passenger, but a man on the opened a criminal investigation image of Turkey, and is false,” a backs and plagued by fears that “There was smoke every- Saturday before stabbing pas- assailant died in hospital yester- platform at Salez station, where into the attack and sealed off the Turkish diplomat said after the he could have done more. where, and I saw a young woman sengers. day, police said. the train stopped when the aff ected carriage, which is being Austrian envoy was summoned “The question of motive re- burning. She was burning from The incident took place on the The injured were two men smoke detector went off . examined by forensics teams. to the ministry on Saturday. The Turkish constitutional court last month ruled in favour of removing an article in the criminal code which character- Picture risk ises all sexual acts with a child of Italy warned about under 15 years as “sexual abuse”, a decision condemned by civil society groups. Milan-based IS cell Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom waded into the row yesterday, tweeting: AFP basis of suspected incitement “Turkish decision to allow sex Rome to racial hatred. with children under 15 must be The cleric is the ninth imam reversed. Children need more to be kicked out since the start protection, not less, against vio- ibyan authorities have of 2015 under a “zero toler- lence, sex abuse.” warned Italy about an Is- ance” approach to Islamist The news ticker, which was a Llamic State (IS) cell based militancy, which Alfano says report from the Austrian news- in the Milan area with links to has reduced the risk of a terror paper Kronen Zeitung, was re- one of the Islamist militant attack on Italian soil. moved from Vienna airport’s group’s battle-hardened vet- The centre-right minister screens following Ankara’s erans, Italian media reported has signed a total of 109 expul- complaint, Turkish news agency yesterday. sion orders since the start of Dogan reported. The existence of the net- last year, 43 of them in 2016, he The incident came little more work was reportedly revealed said in a statement. than a week after a similar row by documents seized by Libyan Abu Nassim, whose real over another ticker displayed at agents after government forces name is Moez Ben Abdelkader the airport, in which the same took over an IS headquarters Fezzani, fi rst arrived in Italy in newspaper declared: “If you go in the city of Sirte earlier this 1989 to work on building sites. to Turkey, you are supporting week. Suspected of trying to radi- (Turkish President Recep Tayy- The Italy-based militants calise and recruit other Arab ip) Erdogan.” were said to be associates of immigrants, he disappeared in This message was also taken Abu Nassim, 47, a Tunisian 1997 and resurfaced in Paki- down following a complaint who lived in Italy for most stan, on his way to join the late from Turkish authorities. of his 20s and subsequently Osama bin Laden’s forces in Relations between Ankara and fought in Afghanistan and Syr- Afghanistan. Vienna have taken a dive in re- ia, before becoming an IS com- He was arrested by US forces cent days, with several Austrian mander in Libya. in 2001 and held at the Ba- ministers speaking out against Residents clash yesterday with police off icers on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. Approximately 500 people gathered The reports came as con- gram airbase detention facility, Turkey’s longstanding bid to join yesterday morning at the Des Monts housing estate in Bastia’s Lupino neighbourhood, the day after a violent fight occurred in a creek cerns grow that IS fi ghters dis- which was to become notori- the European Union, particu- by the sea in Sisco (Haute-Corse) leaving four wounded, according to an AFP journalist. A girl who witnessed the confrontation said the persed from Sirte could cross ous for the torture and killing larly in the wake of the massive fight happened after a group of youths of North African origin insulted tourists who were taking pictures of women dressed in burqini the Mediterranean on migrant of inmates. purge that followed the July 15 (also spelled burkini). boats and mount “lone wolf” Abu Nassim was transferred coup bid. terror attacks on Italian terri- to Italy in 2009 after prosecu- tory. tors tabled charges of terrorist Security services have been recruitment related to his pre- put on a state of high alert for vious stay. the peak holiday season and He was acquitted in 2012 and Interior Minister Angelino Al- deported to Tunisia. Study says 48% of fano has stepped up expulsions He was convicted on appeal of suspected Islamist militant the following year, by which sympathisers. time he was already fi ghting in Late on Saturday, Alfano Syria. criminals reoff end said he had ordered the de- Since 2014, he has com- portation of Hosni Hachemi manded IS forces around the Ben Hassem, a Tunisian imam Libyan port of Sabratha. DPA Law and the Faculty of Law at based in a mosque at Andria in Tunisia issued a warrant for Berlin the University of Goettingen Puglia. his arrest in connection with followed off enders released The 49-year-old imam had the March 2015 Bardo Museum from prison or given suspend- been cleared of charges of re- attack in Tunis, in which gun- pproximately half of all ed sentences in 2004 to see cruiting militants but Alfano men killed 21 tourists and a po- criminals in Germany how many reoff ended by 2013. expelled him anyway on the lice offi cer. Awill relapse and com- They looked at cases involv- mit another crime within nine ing homicide, sexual assault, years, the Sunday edition of theft, fraud, extortion, rob- the newspaper Die Welt re- bery, battery, traffi c off ences ported, citing a study commis- and drug off ences. sioned by the German federal “Men have higher recidivism Militants detected ministry of justice. rates compared to women, SONG AND DANCE: Members of the public and professionals dance and play music during the Rototom On average, 48% of off end- younger people higher than Sunsplash European Reggae festival in Benicassim town, Castellon province, on Saturday. The festival ers are prosecuted again within older people, convicted crimi- runs from August 13 to 20 in Benicassim, Spain. at refugee centres nine years of the original of- nals higher than those without fence, the study said, noting, a criminal record,” the study however, that the recidivism said. Spanish resorts DPA “These often come from a rate varies. The researchers found that Berlin conservative Islamic back- “Individuals who commit criminals who relapse do not target beach hogs ground and want to go to an homicide have a relapse rate always commit the same crime. Charity slams report Arabic-speaking mosque every signifi cantly lower than the av- “At the end of the nine-year An increasing number of ermany’s domestic in- Friday,” the intelligence agency erage rate,” the study said. observation period, 23% of Spanish municipalities are taking telligence agency says it chief said, noting that there Robberies reoccur in 72% perpetrators of criminal as- measures against people who on camp child abuse Ghas recorded hundreds were also numerous radical of off enders, while 34% of in- sault were likely to off end with leave their gear unattended on of attempts by radical Islamists Salafi st mosques in Germany. dividuals convicted of killing another physical assault,” the the beach in order to claim a to recruit immigrants hosted in “Arabic-speaking mosques off end again within nine years. researchers said. good spot, El Pais newspaper said DPA of abuse, as quoted in the re- the country’s refugee centres. in Germany are not regulated. Researchers from the Max Less than 1% of homicide of- yesterday. Athens port, never took place,” Kana- “We know of more than 340 From the perspective of the Planck Institute for Foreign fenders relapse by committing Those who partake in the kis said. incidences,” the head of Ger- state, there is very little we can and International Criminal another homicide. practice risk fines or having their The Doctors of the World many’s Federal Offi ce for the infl uence,” Maassen said. items confiscated. laims of sexual abuse head said that apart from Protection of the Constitution, He said that Islamist-mo- “We’ve decided to go a step of children at refu- two incidents currently be- Hans-Georg Maassen, told tivated attacks had also taken Shock for woman returning from trip further and instruct the local Cgee camps in Greece is ing investigated, there was no DPA. “But these are only the place before a recent spate of police to remove objects that are “vastly exaggerated” according evidence of child abuse taking cases known to us. Presumably violence in the past month in A woman returned from a three-week trip recently to find that left out early in the morning in to the head of the charity Doc- place at Greek refugee camps, there are even more.” Germany, and that a police of- thieves had used her apartment as their own vacation home, order to turn a public space into tors of the World (Medecins du where thousands of migrants Workers at German refu- fi cer in the city of Hanover as police in the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said a private one,” said Jose Manuel Monde). are being housed in tents. gee centres have already been well as a Sikh temple in Essen yesterday. Prieto, an off icial with the city of Nikitas Kanakis said he was Kanakis urged for caution made aware of the situation, had also been targeted. The perpetrators had gotten in by prying the front door open and Gandia, according to El Pais. angered by a report yester- with reports like these, which Maassen said. “The lesson to learn from are presumed to have stayed there for several days. Just the announcement of day in British weekly The Ob- he said were being used by ex- “It worries us that Salafi sts this is that we should not con- Neighbours reported hearing noises overnight on Friday, but they stricter regulations was enough server quoting volunteers who tremists in Europe to support and other Islamists are pro- centrate only on Islamic State, did not arouse suspicions. to get rid of the problem in said children in Greek refugee their opinions that “migrants moting their cause in asylum which may be sending terrorist Evidence of the thieves’ prolonged stay, including used toilet paper Gandia, El Pais reported. camps were being abused and are all criminals”. centres,” Maassen said. “We units to Europe, as with Paris in the bathroom and food wrappers, was only first discovered when In addition to having their beach were too afraid to leave the “It is dangerous to say know that there are very many or Brussels,” Maassen said. the woman returned on Saturday. gear confiscated, tourists who tents at night. ‘someone told me this’ or ‘I young men of the Sunni de- “Instead, it could be that indi- The off enders also took souvenirs from their stay, including still decide to break the rules can “We have a round-the-clock heard that’ without naming nomination among asylum- viduals that are radicalised on thousands in cash, a television and a stereo system. face a fine of up to €720 ($800). presence in 14 camps. This kind names,” Kanakis said. seekers.” their own or are given orders.” Gulf Times 12 Monday, August 15, 2016 INDIA President condemns intolerance and a divisive political agenda

IANS And he quoted former presi- ing fathers on the four pillars but it would be wrong to rest on The president emphasised the New Delhi dent S Radhakrishnan as saying: of justice, liberty, equality and our laurels”. importance of India’s “neigh- “In an eff ective democracy, its fraternity has withstood several It is much more important to bourhood fi rst policy”. South members should be willing to ac- threats from within and without look to the future.” Indians, he Asia must carve out a common resident Pranab Mukher- cept law and lawful authority. No and has grown from strength to said, “must learn to challenge the destiny to march together, he jee yesterday denounced man, no group can be his or its strength.” status quo and refuse to accept added. P“forces of divisiveness and own law giver.” The President applauded the ineffi ciency and slipshod work”. Mukherjee denounced a rise in intolerance” as well as attacks Democracy, Mukherjee under- coming together of the govern- Mukherjee said that backed by terrorism across the globe, with on weaker sections and said they lined, was not just about elec- ment and the opposition in the a strong political will, the coun- its roots in radicalisation of peo- needed to be dealt with fi rmly. tions. “Disruptions, obstruc- just-ended monsoon session of try must create a future which ple on the basis of religion. In his fi fth Independence Day tionism and unmindful pursuit Parliament, saying the passage of would economically empower “These forces, apart from kill- eve address to the nation, the of a divisive political agenda by the Goods and Services Tax bill 600mn youth, build a digital In- ing innocent people in the name president also attacked groups groups and individuals lead to showed democratic maturity. dia, a startup India and a skilled of religion, also threaten to dis- and individuals who he said pur- nothing but institutional travesty A unique feature of India was India. rupt geopolitical divides, which sued a divisive political agenda and constitutional subversion,” “our respect for each other’s cul- “India will grow, only when all could prove disastrous for world that leads to Constitutional sub- he said. “Polarising debates only tures, values and beliefs”. of India grows. The excluded ones peace. version. deepen the fault lines in public The very essence of plurality will have to be included in the de- “The inhuman, mindless and Without making any specifi c President Pranab Mukherjee addresses the nation on the eve of discourse.” lies in cherishing our heteroge- velopment process. The hurt and barbaric modus operandi of reference to communal forces Independence Day in New Delhi. Recalling that at the time of neity and valuing our diversity,” alienated have to be brought back such groups have been visible or the recent cow vigilantes, independence, doubts were ex- he said. into the mainstream.” in France, Belgium, the United Mukherjee said that in the last ethos are aberrations that need to India is celebrating its 70th In- pressed if India will survive as “In the network environment He said India has had remark- States, Nigeria, Kenya and closer four years he saw “with some be dealt with fi rmly.” dependence Day today. a democracy, the president said of today, a caring society can only able growth in recent times, often home in Afghanistan and Bang- disquiet forces of divisiveness But, he said, “the collective The president pointed out that that seven decades later, Indi- be developed by harmonising re- growing above 8% per annum ladesh recently. and intolerance trying to raise wisdom of our society and pol- the Indian constitution was more ans with all their diversity had ligion with modern science.” over the last decade. “We must “These forces now pose a dan- their ugly head. ity gives me the confi dence that than a political or legal document proved the critics wrong. Calling for scientifi c temper, build on our strengths, so that ger to the entire comity of nations. “Attacks on weaker sections such forces will remain margin- and rather an “emotional, cul- “The strong edifi ce of de- he said: “We often celebrate the this lead can be sustained and The world will have to fi ght them that militate against our national alised”. tural and social contract”. mocracy built by our found- achievements of our ancient past furthered.” unconditionally and in one voice.”

Different strokes

A woman wears a saree made up of the colours of the national flag near Children run holding the tri-colour in a village near Balurghat, West Bengal. the Red Fort in New Delhi yesterday. The Golkonda Fort in Hyderabad is illuminated on the eve of Independence Day today.

Mani reiterates not 948 police personnel honoured on Independence Day looking for allies IANS dent’s Police Medal for Gallantry Medal for Meritorious Service. medals, including 43 Police Med- Service and 23 President’s Police New Delhi among a total of 948 police person- The Central Bureau of Investi- als for Gallantry, fi ve President Medals for Meritorious Service. IANS nel honoured on the occasion. gation (CBI) received 31 medals, Police Medals for Distinguished The Indo-Tibetan Border Po- Kottayam Of those awarded, 170 have been including six President’s Police Service, and 58 Police Medals for lice (ITBP) was conferred 25 police even police personnel have named for the Police Medal for Medals for Distinguished Service Meritorious Service. medals, Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB) been awarded the President’s Gallantry, 88 for the President’s and 25 Police Medals for Meritori- The Border Security Force (BSF) 13, and the Special Protection week after his party parted ways with the Congress-led SPolice Medal for Gallantry — Police Medal for Distinguished ous Service. received 62 awards, including 10 Group (SPG) eight. United Democratic Front, severing three decades old of them two posthumously — on Service, and 683 for the Police Of the 20 Delhi Police offi cers Police Medals for Gallantry, six The Intelligence Bureau of the Aties, Kerala Congress-Mani supremo K M Mani yester- the occasion of India’s 70th Inde- Medal for Meritorious Service. conferred police medals, four re- President Police Medals for Dis- ministry of home aff airs was con- day reiterated his party will not align with any political front. pendence Day, it was announced Nineteen personnel were award- ceived Police Medal for Gallantry, tinguished Services, and 46 Police ferred 35 police medals, including Besides the UDF, Kerala has the ruling Left Democratic yesterday. ed correctional service medals, one President’s Police Medal for Medals for Meritorious Service. one President Police Medal for Front led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Sub-Inspector Dudekula Siddai- including two who got President’s Distinguished Service, and 16 Po- The Central Industrial Secu- Gallantry, eight President Police BJP-led National Democratic Alliance that opened its ac- ah and Constable Chougoni Naga- Correctional Service Medal for Dis- lice Medal for Meritorious Service. rity Force (CISF) was conferred 25 Medals for Distinguished Service, count in the Kerala assembly by bagging Nemom seat from raju of Telangana Police have been tinguished Service and 17 who were The Central Reserve Police Force awards, including two President’s and 26 Police Medals for Meritori- the capital city. posthumously awarded the Presi- conferred Correctional Service (CRPF) was awarded 107 police Police Medals for Distinguished ous Service. “Even though our enemies have increased, we have noth- ing to fear as we have the full support of the farming com- munity,” Mani, a former state fi nance minister, said while ad- dressing his party workers here. Ever since Mani left the UDF fold, indirect invites from both the LDF and the BJP have come his way, but Mani has ‘MPs response to adopt-a-village scheme will improve’ dismissed all speculations of joining the NDA, which his detractors say could fetch his son Jose K Mani, a Lok Sabha member, a Cabinet post. By Nirendra Dev, IANS ed by a few individual lawmakers transparency and thus bring in “We realised that some in the UDF along with our enemies New Delhi during the last two fi nancial years. more effi ciency into the system. were conspiring against us and that’s how we decided to “Our fi nding is wherever these “This has been decided after leave. I am grateful to all of you for having accepted our deci- villages have been adopted by directives from Prime Minister sion,” said Mani. rime Minister Narendra Mo- MPs, enthusiasm among the local Narendra Modi that there should Six Kerala legislators, including Mani, have since decided di’s adopt-a-village scheme population has been overwhelm- be online recording and monitor- to sit as a separate block in the assembly whereas two mem- Phas clearly failed to enthuse ing. This makes me hopeful that ing of assets to check leakages and bers of parliament from his party have been directed to off er MPs, but federal Rural Develop- the scheme will do well in the days for eff ective mapping of resourc- issue-based support. ment Minister Narendra Singh to come,” Tomar said. es,” he said. Tomar is confi dent they will soon When asked about the Con- Around three mn assets are cre- respond more positively to the ini- gress’s apprehension that there ated annually across the country tiative. could be reduction in fund allo- under the rural jobs scheme, he In an interview to IANS, Tomar cation for states in schemes like said, adding that keeping an online said the government is aware that Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yo- track is much easier than physical there is perhaps lack of enthusiasm jana (PMGSY), Tomar said as per verifi cation. among members of Parliament, in- the recommendation of the 14th “The idea is to keep a track of cluding a few federal ministers, for Finance Commission the states are these assets and once we know the ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana’ now getting 42% share of funds as where the assets are and what the scheme, under which parliamen- against 32% earlier. gaps are, it will be easier to address tarians are to “adopt” a village. He said there would not be any the problems. It is more relevant in However, there will be “good re- discrimination against any state today’s situation when fund fl ow sponse in the second stage”. with regard to the allocation of for rural India has increased fol- “It is an ideal scheme and based funds. lowing the 14th Finance Commis- on the spirit of voluntary serv- Under the PMGSY, between sion recommendations,” he said. ice. The Prime Minister has given 2011 and 2014, 73km of roads were He said while budgetary provi- a vision. Now it is left to the MPs Tomar: confident of uptake built per day, while the current rate sion for the PMGSY in 2012-13 was to emulate that vision. It is up to is about 100km of roads every day. around Rs90tn, the amount in- an individual whether this vision “ideal model hamlets” for infra- initiatives may vary from village to “My target is to achieve 133km a creased to Rs190tn in 2015-16. suits him or not,” Tomar told IANS. structure developments. village, and at the same time mod- day,” Tomar said. He admitted that in some states The scheme was launched in However, the absence of enthu- els of local development in one vil- “The progress in work is very elected MPs are not getting due 2014, but so far there has been siasm, especially among Congress lage can be replicated in other vil- good as about 65% of rural habi- importance in fi nalising schemes lukewarm response to it, and that MPs, has put a question mark on lages,” he said. tations had been connected by under the PMGSY. has hit the headlines. the future of the scheme. Under the scheme, Lok Sabha all-weather roads already and the “This is a serious matter as In the fi rst phase, over 90 MPs Tomar said the key objectives of MPs are required to choose villages remaining (35%) too will be con- members are elected representa- failed to adopt any village while in this scheme include development of in their constituencies while Ra- nected by March 2019.” tives of the people. MPs have raised the second phase in the 2016-17 model villages that are to be called jya Sabha MPs can pick any village On the decision of the govern- it in Parliament also. I will instruct fi scal over 580 members from both ‘Adarsh grams’ through implemen- from the state they represent. ment to geo-tag all assets created the states to ensure that consulta- the houses are yet to choose any tation of various existing plans and Offi cial sources have said that under the Mahatma Gandhi Na- tion takes place. In fact, there is a village. certain new initiatives designed on some Bharatiya Janata Party MPs, tional Rural Employment Guaran- mandatory provision that an MP Under the scheme, the govern- the basis of local context. especially from the Rajya Sabha, tee Act (NREGA) in order to make ought to be consulted and even en- ment expects the MPs to select “It was also demand-based and have “shown keen interest” and all ground works and assets on- gineers need to take local MPs into over 6,400 villages by 2024 as need-specifi c. Some schemes and even two villages have been adopt- line, Tomar said this will enhance confi dence,” Tomar said. Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 13 INDIA

Heavy rains Andhra, Telangana under cause fl oods, destroy 8 bridges in fi re for funding river fest Jharkhand IANS Hyderabad IANS Ranchi he Andhra Pradesh and Telanga- na governments have come under Tfl ak from rationalists and atheists ncessant rainfall over the past few days for spending public funds on ongoing has caused heavy fl ooding which has Krishna Pushkaralu river festival. Idamaged and washed away at least They alleged that the governments eight bridges in Jharkhand, authorities in both the Telugu-speaking states said. were acting against the Constitu- The bridges were washed away in Pala- tion and promoting superstitions by mu, Garhwa, Chatra and Gumla districts. spending people’s money on the 12- Cracks appeared in the Jaiprakash day festival. Narayan Dam located at Tandwa in Chatra While Andhra Pradesh is spending district. over Rs100bn on the mega event, Tel- Water started gushing out and people angana has released Rs82.5bn for pro- started to evacuate the area on their own, viding amenities to visitors during the the authorities said. festival which began on Friday. Locals informed the Chatra district ad- Andhra Pradesh in particular has ministration and a National Disaster Re- come under strong criticism for sponse Force (NDRF) team. spending the public money despite the But when no help reached for fi ve hours, fi nancial crunch the state is facing. former Chatra legislator Janardhan Pas- The authorities have built bathing wan and police station in-charge Madhu- ghats along the river to enable pil- sudan Modak themselves joined the locals grims to take a dip. and carried stones to block the fl ow of the They have deployed over 40,000 po- water from the dam leak. licemen for maintaining law and order “We got no help for several hours from during the event and employed thou- the government,” said Mukund Baitha, a sands others for making and maintain- local resident. ing arrangements for the visitors. Recently, Rs5mn was spent on repairing Special buses and trains are being the dam. operated to transport people. The work was carried out by the state ir- Over 65mn people are expected to rigation department. take part in the festival. The leak in the dam has raised questions Atheist Centre of Vijayawada’s G over the functioning of the department, Samaram termed this as a waste of worried people said. public money. Since 2010 more than two dozen bridges “Ours is a secular state and cele- have been destroyed in the rains. brating one particular religion’s event Most cases have been registered in in such a big way is not at all good,” People thronging Pushkara Ghat to take a dip yesterday during the Krishna Pushkaralu river festival in Karimnagar of Telangana. Gumla district. Samaram told IANS. The prominent bridges which were de- He said Pushkar entering the river that people may contract infection by “It’s not just the money they spent rangements for such events to main- uals and actively participating in them. stroyed include Kamdara Balaghat Bridge, was a superstitious belief and by pro- taking bath in Krishna river during the but the very attitude of mixing state tain law and order. “They are deliberately confusing which was built at Rs2.91 crore, and Jolo moting this the government was go- festival. with religion is objectionable. They “But encouraging people to come people and this is not good for the Ghat bridge constructed at Rs56.5bn. ing against the Constitution. “During Godavari pushkaram last are religionising the politics and po- in large numbers, inviting religious states. They can perform the rituals “The Article 51A(h) of the Consti- year, a large number of people suf- liticising the religion so that they have heads and making this an agenda of in their personal capacity. No one will tution of India clearly states that the fered skin, eye and throat infection an advantage in elections,” he said. the government for 10 to 12 days in a have an objection to it,” Vijayam said. government should develop the sci- and the same will happen this year in Vijayam believes that religion is a way that the governance comes to a “Ours is a composite culture. Peo- entifi c temper but the governments in Krishna as there is hardly any water in personal matter in a secular state and standstill is not correct attitude,” said ple from diff erent background live these two states are promoting a su- the river,” he said. the state should be equal to all. Vijayam. here. There is freedom of speech and Bridge crash perstition,” he said. Another well-known atheist, G “Religion is a personal matter while Telangana Chief Minister K Chan- religion but at the same time state Samaram, a physician by profes- Vijayam, voiced concern that the dis- state is everyone’s matter,” he said. drasekhar Rao and Andhra Pradesh is secular. We should not forget this sion and former president of Indian tinction between state and religion He said no one denies that the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and this character must be held,” he toll rises after Medical Association, also warned was blurring. government can make minimum ar- are known for organising religious rit- added. SUV found

DPA AK-47s available for hire in western UP Mumbai escue workers yesterday found an By S P Singh, IANS dozen gangs possess weapons like weapons,” the offi cer told IANS. tortion, loot and contract killing, op- tered in Meerut, Baghpat and Ghazia- SUV with two bodies trapped in it, Ghaziabad AK-47s,” one offi cer said. The cost of hiring an AK-47 is erates from Banda jail. His operational bad districts. Rtaking the death toll from a bridge These gangs include those led by Rs200,000 to Rs300,000. area is Noida and Greater Noida. Kala operates in Muzaff arnagar, Bi- collapse over a river in Maharashtra to 28, the notorious Anil Dujana, Sushil If the weapon is lost, the deposit is Bhati, who is on bail, is active in jnore and Shamli. according to a local offi cial. he police investigation into Moonchh, Sunder Bhati, Dharmen- forfeited. Loni area. He faces over 35 cases of He is caught up in over 60 criminal Sushma Satpute said there was no exact the attempted assassination dra Kirthal, Udham Karnawal, Yogesh If the weapon is returned, a “rent” killing and robbery. cases of extortion and contract kill- account of how many vehicles went miss- Tof a BJP leader has revealed Bhadora and Mukeem Kala. of Rs50,000-60,000 is deducted per Kirthal, who operates in Meerut ing. ing after an ageing bridge over Savitri river that AK-47 assault rifl es – or similar They are said to possess more than weapon. and Baghpat, is now in Meerut jail. Moonchh, out on bail, lives in his linking the states of Maharashtra and Goa weapons – are available for hire in Ut- one assault rifl e and other automatic The weapons are also available for His specialised fi eld is contract kill- village in Muzaff arnagar and is known caved in on the night of August 2. tar Pradesh. weapons. outright purchase, revealed another ing and robbery. to enjoy political patronage. Satpute, the sub-divisional magistrate The problem is clearly more acute When needed, the gangs buy or rent police source. Karnawal is another criminal from Teotia, 54, was seriously injured of Raigad district, said that 35 to 40 people in western Uttar Pradesh, a traditional more. At times, two gangs get together to Meerut who is notorious for contract when AK-47 wielding assailants could have been killed. crime belt bordering Delhi. The modern weapons these gangs carry out a hit, police sources say. killing. fi red at his vehicle off National High- Two buses and several cars were swept Police offi cers probing the attack possess are easily available along Ut- A “supari contract” – to kill a target He has 40 cases of murder and rob- way-58 last week. away in the river that swelled due to tor- on Bharatiya Janata Party leader Bri- tar Pradesh’s porous border with Ne- – is occasionally sub-contracted. bery. Police put the number of attackers rential rains. jpal Teotia say criminal gangs in the pal. “New entrants are hired on daily He too is now jailed in Meerut. at four and said they also used 9 mm Rescue teams have been scouring the region are also into “sub-contracted The weapons are smuggled from wages,” a source said, explaining how Bhadora, accused of extortion pistols. river for the passengers and their vehicles. killings” – in a bid to derail investiga- China via Nepal. the killer gangs operate. and contract killing, is also lodged in Teotia survived the attack but was Navy divers found the wreckage of the tions. “All these gangs are now under po- Dujana, whose crime history in- Meerut jail. injured, as were his guards. SUV with two bodies, both male, about “A rough estimate is that over a lice radar to ensure that they lose their cludes over three dozen cases of ex- He has over 55 criminal cases regis- He is still in hospital. 300m downstream from the collapse.

Water pitcher procession Only 33,000? Atheists cannot believe the census count

IANS “When you say there are only a the numbers at the state level. New Delhi few thousand atheists, it’s a dis- The census data, for instance, tortion of reality,” Vijayam told puts the number of atheists IANS. “This is mischief done by in Tamil Nadu - a state with a here’s a new minority to orthodox people and the Census strong rationalist tradition - at contend with and, at a lit- authorities, and it must be cor- a mere 1,297, a fi gure that “does Ttle over 33,000, they are rected.” not refl ect the actual position”, fewer in number than the Parsis. As far as Prabir Ghosh of the according to Suba Veerapandian, But the unbelieving athe- Science and Rationalists’ Asso- general secretary of the Dravida ists - counted separately for the ciation of India is concerned, the Iyyakka Tamizhar Peravai. fi rst time in Census 2011 — just very reason for the skewed num- “Our organisation itself has cannot agree with the fi gure. To bers are these “orthodox people” around 2,000 members. Moreo- be precise, only 33,304 of In- who dominate those tasked with ver, we have the Dravida Kazhag- dia’s 1.2bn citizens have declared conducting the census - the enu- am, the mother organisation for themselves as atheists in the merators. all the rationalist movements in census — a minuscule 0.0027%. And he speaks from experi- Tamil Nadu, having a large mem- In an overtly and fervently re- ence. When the enumerator who bership,” said Veerapandian, who ligious country, this low fi gure visited his house failed to ask him was infl uenced by his father Sub- may not come as a surprise, but his religion, Ghosh questioned biah, a staunch follower of Periyar. atheists are simply not buying it. him, “What have you written in In fact, many atheists and ra- They accuse the powers that be the religion column? He replied, tionalists want the government of everything from “dishonesty” ‘Why...Hindu. You are a Hindu, to entirely remove the caste and to “unscientifi c” methodology aren’t you? You have a Hindu religion columns from not only - all aimed at “mischievously” surname’.” the census forms, but all forms. skewing the data. “I protested and told him to “We are a secular state and “There are millions of people write ‘atheist’ against my name. there is no necessity to write in India who don’t subscribe to He got cut up, and said that it caste and religion. When people any caste or religion. They call would involve a lot of rewriting. say we don’t have property, you themselves atheists, rationalists I took the paper from him, and are accepting that. Similarly, ac- or non-religious people,” says crossed out the word ‘Hindu’ from cept when they say they don’t Women participate in the ‘Kalash Yatra’ (water pitcher procession) during the Hindu month of Sharvan in Jaipur yesterday. G Vijayam, executive director of the column,” Ghosh told IANS. belong to any caste or religion,” the Atheist Centre in Vijayawada. There are quibbles as well over says Vijayam. Gulf Times 14 Monday, August 15, 2016 LATIN AMERICA

Mothers fi nd 28 clandestine burial sites in Mexico

AFP Veracruz

others in east Mexico searching for missing loved ones said on Saturday they have found a total of M28 clandestine gravesites with remains of some 40 bodies in the gang-ravaged state of Veracruz. The women, who launched their own search for missing loved ones after growing tired of waiting for authorities to do so, have found all of the graves since August 1. The area, located north of the port of Veracruz, “is a great cemetery of crime” that is used “like a camp to kill people who have been kidnapped,” Lucia de los Angeles Diaz Genao, one of the mothers, told journalists. She said she fi nds it hard to believe that “these things hap- pened in Veracruz without the complicity of authorities.” Saturday’s new total doubles the previous August 10 count of 14 graves. Local authorities did not respond to an AFP request for comment. The discovered remains have been exhumed and delivered to forensic police. “We hope to be able to know these victims’ identities in about three months,” Diaz Genao said. She noted that the mothers, who have banded together in a group they call El Solecito, are uncertain of the exact number of buried individuals, as many bodies were found in collective graves. The search will continue, as the mothers have so far cov- ered a small land plot of about 10 hectares. Veracruz is the scene of a deadly turf struggle between two violent drug cartels: the Zetas and the Jalisco Nueva Generacion. Both gangs seek to monopolise drug traffi cking routes to the United States, and often kidnap and extort lo- cals as well as immigrants from Central America. Both criminal groups have buried their victims for years in clandestine graves, which have proliferated recently.

‘Birthday boy’ Fidel joins gala idel Castro made a rare public appearance on Saturday at his 90th birthday gala, after the leader of the 1959 Frevolution thanked fellow Cubans for their well wishes and lambasted his old foe the United States in a column car- ried by state-run media. Cuba went into overdrive this month honouring the re- Venezuelans line up to cross the border from San Antonio del Tachira, Venezuela, to Cucuta, Colombia, on Saturday. tired “El Comandante,” who built a Communist-run state on the doorstep of the United States, surviving what it says were hundreds of assassination attempts along the way. Thousands danced to Latin beats along Havana’s curving seafront Malecon boulevard throughout the night from Fri- day to Saturday. At the giant street party, a live band played “Happy Birthday” on the stroke of midnight and fi reworks exploded on the other side of the bay. The iconic leftist revolutionary, who handed over power in Venezuela and Colombia 2008 to his younger brother Raul due to ill health, appeared later in the day for a birthday gala featuring children’s thea- tre, live music and videos from his life. Seated in the front row of the Karl Marx theatre, he was fl anked by Raul and re- gional ally Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. “I want to express my most profound gratitude for the shows of respect, the greetings and gifts I have received the reopen border crossings days, which give me the strength to reciprocate through ide- as,” Castro wrote in the opinion piece. AFP purchase food, medicine and other basics. It was blamed on Colombian paramili- medicine,” Luis Jimenez, a farmer who San Antonio del Táchira, Venezuela On Saturday morning, the fl ow of pedes- taries. crossed the border and returned to Ven- trians was relatively light across the Simon Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique ezuela in less than four hours, told AFP. Bolivar Bridge from Tachira to the Colom- Capriles took to Twitter to criticise the clo- “We are happy that the government made enezuela and Colombia are gradually bian city of Cucuta, but longer lines began sure. this decision, because it benefi ts the peo- reopening several “provisional” bor- to develop as the day wore on. “What was the Maduro border closure ple.” Vder crossing points for pedestrians Both governments agreed to facilitate good for? Nothing! It just hurt people and Carolina Quintero went to Colombia to for the fi rst time in nearly a year, marking “the fastest possible movement of people, sought excuses for his failure! Get out!” he buy chickpeas, a product she sells in Ven- a turning point after long-running enmity. rapidly but in a controlled fashion,” Vene- wrote. ezuela. More than 54,000 people entered Co- zuelan regional military chief Jose Morantes Santos called it the “fi rst phase of open- “It was easy for me to buy the chickpeas lombia on Saturday, 81% of them returning Torres told VTV offi cial television. ing,” without specifying when the passage today. It’s more expensive to buy them in to their place of origin, immigration au- An agreement clinched Thursday by of vehicles would be authorized again, key Colombia, but there aren’t any in Venezue- thorities said in Bogota. President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and to restoring commercial activity to normal la,” said Quintero, 42. A total of six border crossings were President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia levels in the border area. The 2,200km border has long been opened in the Venezuelan states of Tachira, called for the border to be opened 15 hours With severe shortages of commodities plagued by drug and contraband smuggling, Apure, Zulia and Amazonas. a day. plaguing Venezuela — aff ecting some 80 % another reason Maduro had cited for last In this image grab from the Cubavision TV station, former During three temporary border open- Maduro had ordered the border closing in of food and with medicine in short supply year’s closing. Cuban president Fidel Castro (centre), Venezuelan ings last month, some 150,000 Venezue- August 2015 following an armed attack on — many crossed the border into Colombia The border opening agreement also called President Nicolas Maduro (right) and Cuban President Raul lans — suff ering from their country’s severe a Venezuelan military patrol that left three to stock up. for an exchange of customs information to Castro (left) attend the celebration of Fidel’s 90th birthday economic crisis — poured into Colombia to soldiers wounded. “We bought sugar, oil, rice, lentils and help stem fuel smuggling. at the Karl Marx theatre in Havana on Saturday. Rio safe? Tell that to locals Peruvians protest gender violence AFP scared of the policeman Lima ome 50,000 people marched Saturday in Peru’s By Sebastian Smith, AFP search of a better life, says the hand, “have rules,” added The Complexo da Alemao Scapital and other cities, po- Rio de Janeiro Olympics “doesn’t interest me.” Jansen, who did not want to give favela, next to the Mare, has lice said, to protest rampant vio- He has to worry about sur- his full name. permanent police stations, lence against women in a highly viving stray bullets and clashes “You have to know the right part of a so-called pacifi cation conservative society. he Rio authorities prom- between drug traffi ckers and people, be respectful to them programme that seeks to bring The country recorded 95 mur- ised total safety dur- police. and then life in the favela is not community policing to almost ders of women last year. Ting the Olympics, but “Here you go out of your a problem.” lawless areas. An additional 54 have taken for Mauricio Lima da Silva, a house and don’t know if you’ll Despite the recent police Beyond the stations’ walls, place this year, together with 118 19-year-old street vendor, it come back,” he said. “You’re shooting and a blitz-style raid however, the favela remains some- attempts, according to offi cial doesn’t feel that way. always scared. It’s almost like a the next day by more elite forc- thing close to enemy territory. fi gures. Never mind the occasional, prison.” es, the Mare appeared practical- The only offi cers visible at a Roughly a third of the victims highly publicised muggings of Pushing a cart of soft drinks ly abandoned by the authorities. busy market clutch automatic had complained about their ag- foreigners along Copacabana through the huge, cramped One access road to the favela rifl es, their fi ngers over the trig- gressors before the attacks, a gov- beach and other Olympic hot favela, da Silva has a simple rule. was unmanned, while another ger guards before they, too, drive ernment human rights unit says. spots fl ooded by police. “When the police come I was guarded by only three police away. One woman was disfi gured Just a few miles away in a don’t go outside. I don’t work,” offi cers parked well out of the “There’s no security, it’s all when her husband threw a brick favela, or slum, called Complexo he said. “When there’s police, way and apparently napping. a facade,” said Marcos Enrique at her in recent days, while oth- da Mare, da Silva and thousands there’s a risk of shooting.” At a third, several soldiers Nascimento, 35. ers were savagely beaten by their of other people live under the Last Wednesday, three offi c- with rifl es sheltered from the “The police there are just sac- partners. rule of drug traffi ckers — and ers from the elite National Force sun under a tree. rifi ced to die for nothing, just to Shirley Pajuelo’s husband, the the security forces are nowhere who stumbled into the Mare They made no attempt to put up an appearance,” Nasci- father of their six children, threw to be seen. favela after getting lost were monitor passing vehicles, let mento, who drives a motorbike a brick that hit her eye because he Some 85,000 police and sol- met with automatic weapons alone venture down the street. taxi, added. said the meal she had served had diers — double the number used fi re, fatally injuring one of them. Recalling a full-scale occupa- The Olympics feel far more too much garlic. Peru’s First Lady Nancy Lange takes part in a protest against violence in London 2012 — have been de- Locals seemed more angry at tion of the Mare by the army in distant than the few miles be- Another three women died last against women in Lima on Saturday. ployed for the Rio Olympics. the police than sympathetic. 2014-2015, followed by a total re- tween his home and the stadi- week in Peru from domestic vio- But they patrol areas fre- “The police don’t have rules. treat, one of the soldiers lament- ums, he says. lence. Peru ranks third in the world — inequality and masochistic vio- quented by tourists and ath- They come in here to harass ed: “The bandits came back.” “No one comes here to ask us President Pedro Pablo Kuc- behind just Bangladesh and Ethi- lence.” letes, while swaths of Rio, often us,” said Jansen, 56, the owner The traffi ckers’ “rules” of if anyone from the favela wants zynski joined thousands of dem- opia — in the number of women About 74% of people in Lima close by, continue to be shaken of a small cafe near where the course include summary justice to see the Games,” he said. onstrators in Lima marching in aged 15 to 49 who are victims of consider Peruvian society to be by deadly, little-reported vio- shooting took place. “They look and impunity. “I have a son who likes to support of the “Ni una menos” domestic sexual violence, ac- masochistic, according to polls lence. at us all as suspects because But with the Olympics increas- watch football, but he’s never (Not One Less) movement. cording to the World Health Or- released Saturday, which also Da Silva, who came to Rio we’re from a favela, but as you ing the sense of alienation felt by had the chance to go in a stadi- They held banners and posters ganization. found that 53% said a woman two years ago from the coun- can see, I’m a working man.” the poor, they can sometimes um and see foreign teams. condemning gender violence and Kuczynski urged Peruvians dressed in a mini-skirt is respon- try’s impoverished northeast in Traffi ckers, on the other seem like the better of two evils. “The Olympics are for the rich.” gender-based killings. on Twitter to “reject all acts of sible if she gets raped. Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 15 PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN Patriotic ceremonies mark Independence Day

Agencies Islamabad

akistan celebrated its 70th Independence Day yester- Pday with commemorative ceremonies held in Islamabad, as well as at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and the Pakistani embassy in Kabul, reports Dawn. The day began with a 31-gun salute in the federal capital along with a 21-gun salute in each provincial capital. Flag hoist- ing ceremonies were held in the provincial capitals and district headquarters, Radio Pakistan reported, and change of guard ceremonies were held at Mazar- i-Quaid and Mazar-i-Iqbal. The main ceremony of the day was held at Islamabad’s Con- vention Centre, where President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hoisted the national fl ag. In his address, the president urged the nation to work self- lessly in order to confront the challenges that lie ahead, adding that every visible and invisible Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz enemy will be chased and de- Sharif hoist the national flag at a ceremony to mark the 70th feated in order to establish dura- President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attend a ceremony to mark the 70th Independence Day of Pakistan in Independence Day of Pakistan in Islamabad yesterday. ble peace in Pakistan. Islamabad yesterday. As the Pakistan Army carries out combing operations against mander Burhan Wani earlier in July. dependence Day to the freedom suspected terrorists in various Pakistan will continue sup- of Kashmir. Commemorative Edhi stamp to be released parts of the country days after porting the Kashmiris in their Pakistan’s High Commis- a deadly attack in Quetta, the struggle for self-determination in sioner to New Delhi Abdul Basit The Pakistan Post Off ice ceremony in Karachi. president assured the nation accordance with United Nations unfurled the national fl ag at a Department (PPOD) is going Commemorative postage that the menace of terrorism resolutions, the president said. ceremony held at the Pakistan to release a commemorative stamps have been issued in would be eliminated from the Both the president and prime High Commission. postage stamp worth Rs20 honour of former heads of country through decisive action minister emphasised sacrifi cing Addressing the ceremony, featuring globally renowned state, entries into statehood, and renewed determination. individual interests for the se- Abdul Basit said Pakistan will philanthropist Abdul Sattar historical events, historic sites, President Mamnoon Hussain curity, stability and survival of continue extending political, Edhi. famous people, native flora and said Operation Zarb-i-Azb and Pakistan. diplomatic and moral support to The philanthropist and social fauna and for causes, such as to the National Action Plan have Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif the people of IHK for their right worker, and founder of the Edhi raise awareness of rare medical produced encouraging results remembered those who gave to self-determination. He said Foundation, Edhi died on July 8 conditions. and would continue until their their lives up for the country Pakistan has dedicated this day in Karachi. According to Inland Mail logical conclusion. and said the nation stood united to the Kashmiris, Radio Pakistan The design of the stamp is Director PPOD Mohamed Pakistan cannot forget the against terrorists. reported. based on a sketch of Edhi by Shakoor, the first adhesive Kashmiris on this occasion, he The prime minister said it was An Independence Day cer- celebrated artist Saeed Akhtar. postage stamp in the said, as anti-government protests a memorable day as the spirit emony was also held at the Pa- It will become available in all subcontinent was introduced persist in India-held Kashmir of independence in IHK is at its kistan embassy in Kabul, where post off ices in the country by Sir Farar in 1852, and was (IHK) despite a curfew after the peak, Radio Pakistan reported. ambassador Ibrar Hussain hoist- today, after an inaugural named Scindi Dawk. killing of Hizbul Mujahideen com- He dedicated Pakistan’s 70th In- ed the national fl ag. Pakistan announces civil awards for

President Mamnoon Hussain speaks during a ceremony to mark the citizens, foreigners 70th Independence Day of Pakistan in Islamabad.

Internews Habibah Mahmud (Malaysia). Islamabad For the award Sitara-i-Shu- jaat for gallantry – Khalid Farid (Punjab). n the occasion of the For the award Sitara-i-Im- country’s 70th Inde- tiaz for sciences – Dr Rehman O pendence Day yes- Hoorani (Sindh) for physics, Dr terday Pakistan President Muhammad Iqbal (Punjab) for Mamnoon Hussain conferred biotechnology, Dr Aslam Noor ‘Pakistan Civil Awards’ on (Punjab) for mathematics, citizens as well as foreign na- Tariq Mahmood (Punjab) Pakistani Ranger Commander Shaukat Ali presents sweets to Indian Border Security Force Commandant tionals for showing excellence for engineering, Munir Ahmad Sudeep during a ceremony to celebrate Pakistan’s Independence Day at the Pakistan-India Wagah border. and courage in their respec- (Punjab) for engineering, tive fields. Ghulam Sarwar (Punjab) for The investiture ceremony of engineering, Nadeem Ghaff ar these awards will take place on (Punjab) for engineering, Pakistan Day on March 23, Munawar Hussain (Punjab) Pakistani girls sing the national anthem as they wave the country’s 2017. for engineering, Aleem Arshad Bonhomie on border flags outside the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Mohamed Ali Jinnah, Following are the names of re- (Punjab) for engineering, founder of Pakistan in Karachi yesterday. cipients: Ayaz Ayub (Punjab) for en- For the award Hilal-i-Shujaat gineering, Khalid Naseerud- Agencies – Tahir Rai (Punjab) for gal- din (Sindh) for engineering and Islamabad lantry. Nayyar Dada (Punjab) for en- For the award Hilal-i- Imtiaz gineering, Prof Dr Ather Enam – Prof Dr Muhammad Ashraf (Sindh) for medicine, akistani troops yesterday (Punjab) in the science category Mahboob Ali (Punjab) for distributed sweets to In- for biology, Wasim Ahmad (Khy- medicine, Dr Eice Muhammad Pdian border security forces ber Pakhtunkhwa for biochem- (Punjab) for medicine, Shahnaz on the India-Pakistan Wagah istry and Tariq Ahmad (Punjab) Wazir (Punjab) for education, border to celebrate Independ- for engineering. Prof Dr Rasul Jan (Khyber Pa- ence Day. For the award Sitara-i- khtunkhwa) for science, Offi cer Sector Commander Pakistan for services to Paki- Mohsin Raza (Punjab) for mu- Shaukat Ali from the Pakistan stan – late Leif Holger Larsen sic, Mustansar Tarar (Punjab) Rangers presented sweets to In- (Norway), late Domingo D Lu- for literature, Yussuf Daudpota dian Border Security Forces Com- cenario Jr.(Philippines), late (Sindh) for literature, Prof Dr mandant Sudeep during a heav- Burhan Mohamed (Indone- Halil Toker (Turkey) for litera- ily-attended special parade and sia), late Hery Setyawati Bur- ture, and Luca Maria Olivieri ceremony commemorating Aug han (Indonesia) and late Datin (Italy) for literature. Page 20 14 at Wagah. The two men also exchanged a hug and good wishes. Ishratul Ebad (centre), Governor of Sindh province walks with Rangers Sector Commander Pakistan’s naval off icers to lay a wreath during a ceremony to Shaukat Ali hugged BSF Com- celebrate the country’s 70th Independence Day at the mausoleum of mandant Sudeep before pre- Mohamed Ali Jinnah in Karachi, yesterday. senting sweets during a cer- emony to celebrate Pakistan’s Independence Day. 11 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan The Pakistani fl ag was raised high at the ceremony as the air At least 11 Taliban insurgents were killed in two air strikes in Afghanistan, rang out with cries of Pakistan sources said yesterday. Zindabad yesterday morning. “On Saturday, Afghan army and air force conducted an air strike against Called ‘mithai diplomacy’, the militant’s position in Pasaband district in Ghor province, killing five giving out sweets on Pakistan insurgents and destroying five motorcycles along with several rounds of and India’s respective Inde- weapons,” Xinhua news agency quoted the Defence Ministry as saying in pendence Days (and other spe- a statement. cial occasions) is a regular tradi- In a similar operation, six Taliban fighters were killed in Alingar district of Pakistan children sing national songs during the ceremony to tion at Wagah, despite tensions Rangers Sector Commander Shaukat Ali hugged BSF Commandant Laghman province, the ministry said. celebrate Pakistan’s Independence Day at the Wagah border post. between the two countries. Sudeep at the Wagah border post. Gulf Times 16 Monday, August 15, 2016 PHILIPPINES

Govt, MILF renew Marcos ‘hero’ burial commitment to 2014 peace pact

DPA “With their support, we plan sparks protests Manila have no doubt we will see an early enactment of an inclu- AFP sive Bangsamoro enabling Manila he Philippine govern- law,” he said. ment and the country’s Under the proposed Bang- Tlargest Muslim rebel samoro Basic Law, which rotests took place yester- group yesterday renewed their failed to pass Congress in day in Manila over Phil- commitment to a 2014 peace the previous administration, Pippine President Rodrigo pact aimed at ending decades the new Muslim autonomous Duterte’s plans to honour the of confl ict in the country’s entity would have its own late dictator Ferdinand Marcos southern region. powers over such areas as ag- with a state burial. The government and the riculture, trade, tourism and About 2,000 people gathered Moro Islamic Liberation Front education. in heavy rain to denounce Du- (MILF) met at the weekend in Some legislators have ex- terte’s plans to move Marcos’ re- Kuala Lumpur to discuss the pressed reservations over mains from his northern home- implementation of the agree- some provisions that may vio- town to the National Heroes’ ment that calls for the creation late the constitution, such as a Cemetery in the capital, Manila, of a new Muslim autonomous separate police force. next month. entity in the southern region MILF chairman Murad Eb- “We would be the laughing of Mindanao. rahim said the rebel group stock of the entire planet,” Sena- “We have agreed that the was committed to the peace tor Risa Hontiveros, one of four negotiations phase is over and process and prepared to work members of parliament to attend now it is time to implement with the government in im- the Manila rally, said. what we have agreed we will plementing the agreement de- She called Marcos an “unre- do,” government peace adviser spite the diffi culties. pentant enemy of our heroes”. Jesus Dureza said. The MILF has been fi ght- Marcos’s family have kept his pre- Dureza noted that the ad- ing for an independent Islamic served body on display after he died ministration of President Ro- state in Mindanao since the in exile in 1989 following a popular drigo Duterte has the support late 1970s, but agreed to hold revolt three years earlier, demanding of the leadership of Congress peace negotiations with the that it be buried with full honours in in implementing the agree- government to discuss auton- the Heroes’ Cemetery. ment with the MILF. omy in 1997. Marcos was elected president in 1965 and declared martial law in 1972, allowing him to rule as Rerouting of Tacloban fl ights opposed a dictator while he, his family and allies enriched themselves Some 14 lawmakers from inconvenience to our through massive corruption and Protesters display a banner with an anti-Marcos slogan during a demonstration at a park in Manila yesterday, against plans to honour the late Eastern Visayas strongly constituents but will kill his troops brutally stamped out dictator Ferdinand Marcos with a state burial. opposed the Department of tourism and other business dissent. Transportation’s (DOTr) plan industry in the region. But Duterte, who has styled northern Philippines. as well as relatives of victims of that he will be buried in the He- “There are World War II he- to reroute Tacloban-Manila Why single out Tacloban himself as an anti-corruption A small protest was also extra judicial killings, which his- roes’ Cemetery,” former Marcos roes buried there who sacrifi ced flights to Clark in Pampanga. when there other domestic crusader, defended Marcos, not- staged by human rights vic- torians say claimed thousands of prisoner Danny Tang told AFP. their lives....But here’s one guy The proposal was made in a airports that contribute ing that his father had served in tims outside Duterte’s south- lives. University of the Philippines who distorted things in his fa- bid to decongest the Ninoy heavily to air traff ic at Naia?” the Marcos cabinet and he himself ern hometown of Davao city, Protesters shed tears during Professor Ricardo Jose alleged vour,” Jose told AFP at the rally. Aquino International Airport Rep Ben Evardone of Eastern had even voted for Marcos before. where candles and flowers were the three-hour protest and or- that in order to win war med- Duterte spokesman Martin (NAIA).But the bloc of Visayas Samar said. Duterte has previously said placed outside the city hall, ganisers launched a signature als for bravery, Marcos faked Andanar told reporters yester- lawmakers at the House of He said if the DOTr really that he won the May 9 elections television reports said. campaign to try to reverse Du- his service record in the anti- day that while the leader allowed Representatives branded the wants to decongest NAIA, partly with the support of the The protests yesterday were terte’s decision. Japanese resistance when Japan protests against the burial plan, proposal as “anti-poor.” it should transfer all Marcos family who remain in- joined by Marcos-era victims “I was jailed when I was occupied the country in World he “remains fi rm” it will be car- “This will not only bring international flights to Clark. fl uential in their bailiwick in the of torture and imprisonment young. It’s so hard to imagine War II. ried out. Extrajudicial killings Five dead, tens of thousands fl ee fl oods will be investigated, AFP Marikina River on Saturday. Manila The council said three Manila Philippines tells US slum residents were crushed to death Saturday by walls that col- ive people have been killed lapsed in the fl oods. AFP regarding extrajudicial killings in the Philippines and tens A man drowned crossing a Manila of individuals suspected to have Fof thousands have fl ed swift-fl owing river on the cen- been involved in drug activity in from fl oods caused by days of tral island of Panay on Wednes- the Philippines,” it said. unrelenting rain, rescuers said day, it said, while the authorities he Philippines has vowed to “We strongly urge the Philip- yesterday. retrieved a body from a Manila investigate reports of a wave pines to ensure its law enforce- Civil defence offi cials warned canal on Friday – the cause of Tof extrajudicial killings, the ment eff orts are consistent with residents of Manila and nearby death is under investigation. government said yesterday, after its human rights obligations,” provinces to expect more heavy A fi sherman went missing Washington warned military aid to the embassy added. seasonal rain over the coming at sea off the central island of its Asian ally was dependent on re- A Philippine foreign depart- days as more than 24,000 peo- Marinduque on Monday, while a spect for human rights. ment statement sent to AFP ple sought refuge in schools and man was injured by falling rocks According to media reports, yesterday said that it took note government buildings. at a highway east of Manila on nearly a thousand people have of US views on the issue, adding “We are expecting more low- Friday, it said. been killed since President Ro- Manila was focused on the erad- lying areas to experience fl ood- In all, more than 70,000 drigo Duterte won a landslide ication of drugs in society. ing,” National Disaster Risk people have had their houses election victory in May largely “Nevertheless, while pursu- Reduction and Management swamped by fl oodwaters, the on a pledge to kill tens of thou- ing this objective, the Philippine Council spokeswoman Romina council said, though the major- sands of criminals. government is committed to the Marasigan told AFP. ity of residents have remained at The US embassy warned the rule of law, and the protection of “Those who are already in home. Duterte government on Friday human rights for all.” evacuation centres should stay The western section of the that millions of dollars of mili- It added: “We do not con- there until the weather im- Philippines has been swamped tary aid allotted to the Philip- done any unlawful killings and proves,” she added. by heavy rain over the past week, pines was tied to adherence to Philippine authorities have been Those evacuated include forcing the cancellation of some Residents try to cross a river after it flooded an area in San Mateo, Rizal province, east of Manila yesterday. the rule of law, due process and instructed to immediately look nearly 9,000 Manila residents domestic commercial fl ights and Heavy downpours overnight caused flooding to houses near the riverbank, brought about by a southwest respect for human rights. into these incidents and bring displaced by fl ooding from the the suspension of classes. monsoon. “We are concerned by reports the perpetrators to justice.” Call for longer maternity leave Philippine ports not among

Manila Times believe that the key to successful clusive breastfeeding that they Manila breastfeeding is to give mothers can also seek out to guide them the time to be with their babies through the journey,” the doctor world’s riskiest, says study longer. said. reastfeeding advocates Many mothers discontinue During the event, which was over the weekend pushed exclusive breastfeeding when co-sponsored by gobreastfeed- Manila Times The model took into con- not a natural disaster, was ag- particularly vulnerable. Bfor the passage of a law they return to work after the al- ing.com, Lactation Attachment Manila sideration the port’s location, gravated by the characteristics While the RMS report focused that will increase the period of lowable 60 days,” she said. Training Counselling and Help the types of cargo handled by of the port and cost insurers in on the vulnerable ports rather maternity leave from 60 days to Compared to other countries (LATCH), La Leche Philippines, the port, the facilities for stor- excess of $3bn. than those that are compara- 100 days. in Southeast Asia, the Philip- and SM Cares, the corporate social he Philippines received a ing cargo and the normal “dwell The top two most at-risk ports tively safer, it did give some in- They said the reason why pines has one of the lowest ma- responsibility arm of SM Prime bit of good news recently, time” at the port — that is the according to RMS are Nagoya, sights into how ports can miti- breastfeeding rates remain low ternity leave period. Inc., a photo exhibit featuring Talthough in an indirect time in hours (or days) that a Japan and Guangzhou, China, gate risks. is because many mothers have to Vietnam provides 120 to 180 mothers breastfeeding their chil- way, with the release of a report shipment would normally wait respectively. Apart from being located away go back to work two months af- days of maternity leave while dren were also unveiled. by Risk Management Services at the port before being loaded Both are vulnerable to ty- from obvious risks like earth- ter delivery. Singapore gives 112 days. Kate Delos Reyes, creator of (RMS), a disaster risk consul- onto a ship, or being picked up phoons and earthquakes. quake faults or reclaimed land, Dr Cristina Bernardo noted Cambodia, Indonesia, Myan- gobreastfeeding.com said she tancy. and taken away by truck or train Somewhat surprisingly, six of good port management on the that the breastfeeding rate in the mar, Thailand and Lao PDR have came up with the exhibit to The report listed the world’s after being unloaded. the remaining eight of the top part of operators and govern- country for children less than six 84 days of maternity leave. show that there is nothing to be ports that are most vulnerable to The study also noted that sev- 10 most at-risk ports are in the ment regulators is the key ad- months old remains at 36%. Bernardo also encouraged ashamed of when breastfeeding. natural disasters. eral enormous disasters have hit US, where they are vulnerable to vantage. At the launch of “Feel Free pregnant women to seek the “It is the most natural way of Despite being located in a ports around the world in the hurricanes. Proper handling and move- to Breastfeed” campaign at SM support of lactation experts and feeding our children and there country that overall is consid- past few years, including Hur- The remaining two are in Eu- ment of cargo using good safety Aura in Taguig City, Bernardo breastfeeding advocates to guide is no shame in that. In fact we ered one of the most vulnerable ricane Sandy, which ravaged the rope: Bremerhaven, Germany practices, keeping cargo mov- explained that if mothers are them through the process of should be encouraging women to in the world, none of the ports in East Coast of the US in 2012, (in fourth place), and LeHavre, ing as opposed to allowing it to allowed to stay with their chil- breastfeeding. make this a commitment when the Philippines was among those causing a loss of an estimated France (10th spot), where there is be stored too long in vulnerable dren for a longer period of time, “We have a lot of support they have children because this on the RMS list. $2bn in marine cargo, the 2011 a risk of dangerous storm surges. port areas, and efficient han- exclusive breastfeeding will be groups now because breastfeed- is the best nourishment we can The study used a computer earthquake and tsunami in Ja- Yet, in spite of the entire dling of ships so that they are more successful. ing is really a challenge. There give them,” she said. A breast- model to calculate a potential pan, for which the loss was vir- country being seriously at risk loaded and unloaded in a time- “We have been pushing for are also many medical practi- feeding pod was also unveiled to marine cargo loss from various tually incalculable, and just a from typhoons, earthquakes, ly fashion, are all factors that the passage of the Expanded tioners now as well as hospitals make breastfeeding more con- hazards, including earthquakes, year ago, the Tianjin explosion, and even volcanoes, the Philip- reduce the risks of significant Maternity Leave bill because we that are actively pushing for ex- venient. wind and storm surges. which, although man-made and pines’ ports are not considered cargo losses. Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 17 SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL Nepal govt urged to focus on bilateral ties

IANS both neighbours,” Baral said. Kathmandu He also said that the gov- ernment should work closely with China for the eff ective he opposition Com- implementation of the Transit munist Party of Nepal Transport Agreement signed T(Unifi ed Marxists- with the northern neighbour. Leninists) CPN-UML yester- “At the same time, the gov- day urged the newly-installed ernment should work toward government to focus on the implementing a deal with implementation of bilateral southern neighbour India to agreements signed with China utilise the Visakhapatnam Port and India in the recent past. of India (for shipping in third- Speaking in parliament, country imports),” he said. CPN-UML MP Keshav Baral Welcoming the govern- asked the government to im- ment’s decision to send spe- plement a number of bilat- cial envoys to China and India eral agreements reached with to strengthen bilateral ties, neighbouring countries India the opposition leader said the and China during visits by special envoys should seize the then Prime Minister K P Shar- opportunity to discuss with ma Oli, Xinhua reported. the authorities in both coun- CPN-UML Chairman Oli tries the implementation of resigned as prime minis- bilateral agreements. Members of the New York City Police Department establish a crime scene at the spot where Imam Maulama Akonjee was killed in the Queens borough of New York City on Saturday. ter earlier this month after Deputy Prime Minister his main ally CPN (Maoist- Krishna Bahadur Mahara is Centre) withdrew support. leaving for China today where This paved the way for CPN he will hold high level-meet- (Maoist-Centre) chief Pushpa ings with Chinese offi cials, Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ to according to his media adviser ascend to the post of premier Triibhuwan Poudel. with the support of the Nepali Similarly, Deputy Prime Congress — the single- larg- Minister Bimalendra Nidhi Bangladeshi nationals est group in the Nepali parlia- will be travelling to India later ment. during the week to hold talks “The incumbent govern- with Indian authorities. ment should work toward en- Deputy Prime Minister hancing bilateral relationship Mahara, who belongs to the with neighbouring countries CPN (Maoist-Centre) party, and for this, implementation holds the fi nance portfolio in shot dead in New York of the bilateral agreements the Prachanda administration reached with China and In- that came to power on August By Mizan Rahman he was rushed to the nearby Ja- were as yet “no indications” the said he had led the mosque for the Bangladeshi origin imam dia will be crucial. Our party 3 while Deputy Prime Minis- Dhaka maica Hospital and his associ- men were targeted because of about two years. in NYC…it’s a cowardly act strongly suggests to the gov- ter Nidhi, a Nepali Congress ate 65-year-old Tara Mia suc- their faith. Angry residents of the neigh- on peace loving people,” State ernment to implement those leader, has the home aff airs cumbed to his wounds four The victims were both wear- bourhood staged a rally at the Minister for Foreign Aff airs M bilateral deals reached with portfolio. gunman shot dead two hours later. “After hearing the ing religious clothes at the time scene after the shooting de- Shahriar Alam tweeted yester- Bangladeshi nationals news, we rushed to the hospi- of shooting while the gunman manding justice and calling the day. Aon Saturday as they were tal…we are maintaining constant having a medium complexion assassinations as “hate crime”. Earlier, US Ambassador in TRIAL walking together in New York, contact with the New York po- and dressed in shorts and dark “I understand the fear because Dhaka Marcia Bernicat ex- Death sentence for activist’s murder reports and offi cials said. lice and the hospital authorities polo shirt was seen by witnesses I feel it myself. I understand pressed condolences over the “We have confi rmed that an for gathering detailed informa- fl eeing the scene with a gun in the anger,” said Sarah Sayeed, deaths of the two Bangla- A court in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong yesterday convicted imam of a mosque and his as- tion as we await completion of his hand. a member of New York mayor desh-origin nationals in New five people, including a man and his son, and sentenced them to death sociate — both Bangladesh hospital formalities for subse- “The perpetrator of these Bill De Blasio’s staff and who York saying violence is not the for killing Himadri Majumder Himu, after letting loose ferocious dogs nationals were killed when a quent steps,” he added. senseless killings must be swift- works as a liaison with Muslim solution.”We mourn the deaths on him in 2012, reports agencies. Chittagong Additional Metropolitan gunman fi red gunshots in the af- Reports quoting New York ly apprehended and face the full communities.”But it’s very im- of Imam Akonjee and Tara. Sessions Judge Nurul Islam passed the order, said public prosecutor ternoon of Saturday,” said Bang- police (NYCPD) said the gun- force of the law,” Afaf Nasher, portant to mount a thorough in- Violence can never be the so- Anupam Chakrawarty. The convicted were Shah Selim Tipu, his son ladesh Consul General in New man approached the pair from executive director of the Mus- vestigation.” lution,” she tweeted yesterday. Junaid Ahmed Riyadh, Jahidul Islam Shaon, Shahadat Hossain Saju and York Shamim Ahsan as he was behind and shot both in the head lim advocacy group’s New York Meanwhile, Bangladesh has Ambassador Bernicat in a sep- Mahbub Ali Khan Danny. Junaid and Shaon were tried in absentia. Himu reached by the Foreign Ministry at close range at about 1:50pm in chapter, said in a statement. condemned the killing of the arate message said Imam Akon- was murdered for his role in an anti-drug campaign in Panchlaish area, in Dhaka yesterday. the Ozone Park neighbourhood. The reports described Akon- Bangladesh- origin imam and jee was a respected community Jawed Ali Chowdhury, the sixth prosecution witness in the Himu murder Ahsan immediately could NYCPD spokeswoman Tiff any jee as a peaceful man who was his associate in New York city leader. “We join all Bangladeshis case, told the Chittagong court during cross- examination. Jawed was identify the 55-year-old imam Phillips told newsmen that the beloved within Ozone Park’s describing it as a cowardly act on to condemn the killings and the general secretary of Shikor, an anti-drug organisation in which Himu only as Maulana Akonjee say- motive for the shooting was not large Muslim community while peace-loving people. honour what these two men was a member. Jawed told the court that he was present when Himu ing he was declared dead after immediately known and there the people in the neighbourhood “We condemn the killing of stood for,” she said. described the incident at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital. Lankan PM heads team Tight security in Dhaka ahead for study tour in China of National Mourning Day Agencies Chongqing is China’s fastest- important to Sri Lanka on the Chongqing growing metropolis and out- business and economic front as By Mizan Rahman paced other urban areas in terms it takes places in the backdrop Dhaka of economic growth since 2014 of Sri Lanka’s grand plans for ri Lanka’s Prime Minister while Huang, who is the Mayor the Western Province Megapolis Ranil Wickremesinghe, since 2011, is credited with the Programme. tringent security measures were yes- Swho is on an offi cial visit phenomenal development of Chairman of Western region terday clamped in the capital and to China to observe the develop- the southwestern city. The Sri megapolis planning project Ajita Selsewhere in Bangladesh with deploy- ment of largest metropolises in Lankan delegation headed by de Costa told the Sunday Ob- ment of security personnel on the occasion that country, visited Chongqing Prime Minister Wickremesin- server that, during the visit, the of 41st death anniversary of Father of the city in southwest China yester- ghe includes ministers, Anura delegation would closely ob- Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rah- day. Priyadarshana Yapa and Patali serve the manner in which China man and the National Mourning Day on Au- The premier met with Mayor Champika Ranawaka and they had planned and developed the gust 15. of Chongqing city Huang Qifan also visited the Global Shopping Guangzhou city. “All the possible security measures have at the Wudu hotel and held dis- Complex in Chongqing city, the He said it would obviously been taken to ensure security in Dhaka and cussions on the development of General Joseph W Stilwell Mu- help Sri Lanka’s plans for the elsewhere,” a spokesman of the Bangladesh urban cities, ColomboPage on- seum, and the home and offi ce much talked about Western Re- Police headquarters told newsmen yester- line newspaper reported. premises of China’s very fi rst gion Megapolis. day. During the discussion that prime minister, Zhou Enlai. Another important aspect He added: “Earlier, all SPs (superintend- ensued, Mayor of Chongqing Prime Minister Ranil Wick- would be how Sri Lanka wants ents of police) were asked to ensure sharp city pledged his full support for remesinghe and his del- to integrate the Colombo Port vigil at diff erent strategic points, where the plan to make Sri Lanka an egation are scheduled to visit (Financial) City into the much Mourning Day programmes usually takes economic hub in South Asia, and Guangzhou, the capital and the larger megapolis plan. place within their respective jurisdictions.” stated that best eff orts would largest city of China’s Guang- Against this backdrop, the The members of law enforcement agen- be lent to help create a condu- dong province. prime minister’s fi ve-day visit to cies including police, anti- crime elite forc- Members of elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seen patrolling the roads of Dhaka city ahead of cive environment to encourage According to a senior govern- China has drawn a lot of atten- es, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and diff er- the National Mourning Day today. investors, the premier said in a ment offi cial, the prime min- tion from business and fi nancial ent intelligence agencies, both in uniform Facebook post. ister’s visit to China would be circles. and plainclothes would remain active to in the capital yesterday. He urged all city As part of security measures, vehicular prevent any untoward incident on the day. residents to extend all necessary support to movement will be restricted from Russel The members of the law enforcement the members of the law enforcement agen- Square and Metro Shopping Mall and no ve- agencies will beef up security in and around cies on the security issue. The DMP com- hicle will be allowed to park between Kala- the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at missioner placed a set of directives for en- bagan playground and Sobhanbagh mosque Dhanmondi on the occasion of National suring security and traffi c management in on Mirpur road. Apart from the installation Two Indian fi shermen rescued Mourning Day on August 15. and around No 32 Dhanmondi area, which of security check posts, Closed Circuit Tel- Earlier on Saturday, Dhaka Metropolitan will be followed from today. He said mourn- evision (CCTV) cameras will be installed at Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman ers will have to wait around Kalabagan diff erent strategic points covering the day’s AFP and coast guard rescuers search an area just south Miah said security personnel will beef up playground until the key guests pay their programmes, he added Adequate members Dhaka of the huge Sundarbans mangrove forest that security in and around Bangabandhu Me- tributes to the Father of the Nation Banga- of security personnel including plainclothes straddles both countries. morial Museum at Dhanmondi on the oc- bandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhan- detectives, Special Weapons and Tactics “So far two fi shermen were rescued alive and casion of National Mourning Day on August mondi starting from 4am today. (SWAT), dog squad and bomb disposal team angladeshi and Indian rescuers pulled two we recovered fi ve bodies,” said Tapushi Rabeya, a 15. “The government has successfully tack- Asaduzzaman said visitors, without any will ensure security. Indian fi shermen alive yesterday from the Bangladesh defence ministry spokesperson. led the militant outfi ts…the law enforcers weapons, infl ammable substances and bags, A group of disgruntled military offi cials BBay of Bengal one day after their trawler cap- The trawler sent out a distress signal in rough will remain vigilant and the security meas- have to enter the museum to be checked by assassinated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and sized, but 10 others were still missing, offi cials said. seas on Saturday, some 70 kilometres south of Hi- ures will be tightened to avert any untoward the metallic security archway and leave his close family members on August 15 in Five bodies have also been recovered, as naval ron Point, a docking station in the Sundarbans. incident,” he told journalists at Dhanmondi through the opposite side. 1975. Gulf Times 18 Monday, August 15, 2016 COMMENT

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Large infl ows of capital from to exploit opportunities to boost their Fax 44350474 countries should be First, the problems in advanced countries with low interest rates can trade in services, much like India and preparing for the shift countries – from slow economic easily push up exchange rates, putting the Philippines have done. growth to political uncertainty – are the tradable part of the economy Fifth, the distribution of gains from toward services that they likely to persist, reducing potential under pressure. economic growth cannot be ignored. will inevitably undergo as growth everywhere for an extended At the same time, the prospect of a The advanced economies tried that, period. capital-fl ow reversal adds risk, deters and the result has been rising political incomes rise In this context, developing investment, and can produce sudden polarisation, intensifying anti- GULF TIMES countries must not succumb to the credit-tightening events. establishment sentiment, declining By Michael Spence temptation to try to boost demand In this context, selective capital policy coherence, and weakening Fort Lauderdale, Florida through unsustainable means, such as controls and careful reserve social cohesion. the accumulation of excess debt. management can help to stabilise In a low-growth environment, in Instead, developing countries, the balance of payments and ensure particular, developing countries cannot eveloping countries are particularly those in the earlier that the terms of trade do not change aff ord to make the same mistake. Global warming facing major obstacles – stages of economic development, too fast to be off set by productivity Sixth, it is important to establish many of which they have must find new external markets growth. sustainable growth patterns early on. Dlittle to no control over – to for their goods, by maximising In fact, successful developing A “green” approach would not only achieving sustained high growth. trade opportunities with their countries were pursuing such policies stimulate additional growth; it would target in danger Beyond the headwinds generated counterparts in the developing even before the global economic crisis also be likely to increase the quality by slow advanced-economy growth world, many of which have hit. of growth, not to mention the lives of and abnormal post-crisis monetary considerable purchasing power. Fourth, a realistic approach to the ordinary people. and fi nancial conditions, there are While such demand will surely not digital revolution is needed. Moreover, it will lead to a far more of being missed the disruptive impacts of digital off set the drop in advanced-country On one hand, developing countries resilient economy in the long run. technology, which are set to erode demand completely, it can help to should recognise that disruption, Finally, entrepreneurial activity is developing economies’ comparative soften the blow. while happening fast, will not vital to translate economic potential advantage in labour-intensive Second, investment, both public render their growth models obsolete into reality. The Earth is so hot this year that a limit for global manufacturing activities. and private, remains a powerful overnight. Policies that support such activity, warming agreed by world leaders at a climate summit With the reversal of these trends out growth engine. China’s continued growth such as by removing obstacles to new in Paris just a few months ago is in danger of being of the question, adaptation is the only In economies with excess and rising household income are business creation and enhancing option. productive capacity, targeted creating opportunities for lower- fi nancing opportunities, cannot be left breached. Robotics has already made investment can yield a double benefi t, income economies in low-cost out of growth strategies. In December, almost 200 nations agreed a radical signifi cant inroads in electronics generating short-run demand and manufacturing. Opening channels for fl ows of shift away from fossil fuels with a goal of limiting a assembly, with sewing trades, boosting growth and productivity On the other hand, developing information, ideas, expertise and rise in average global temperatures to well below 2 traditionally many countries’ fi rst thereafter. countries must accept the inevitability talent from abroad can only enhance entry point to the global trading Given this, shortfalls in investment of changes to their growth models these eff orts. degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial system, likely to come next. that promises high social and private caused by digital technologies. Developing economies may not times while “pursuing eff orts” for 1.5C (2.7F). As this trend continues, the returns must be reduced, and even Instead of viewing these changes have much control over the headwinds But 2016 is on track to be the hottest year on record, imperative to build supply chains eliminated. as a threat, and trying to resist them, that they face today, but that does not also buoyed by a natural El Nino event warming the based on the location of relatively These growth- and productivity- developing economies should be mean that they are powerless. immobile and cost-eff ective labour enhancing investments should be getting ahead of them, by embracing Much can be done not just to sustain Pacifi c, according to the UN’s World Meteorological will wane, with production moving fi nanced primarily from domestic disruptive innovations. moderate growth, but also to secure a Organisation. closer to the fi nal market. savings, though some can also be This means investing in the capacity more prosperous and resilient future.- The fi rst six months were a sweltering 1.3C above Adidas, for example, is already fi nanced with debt. – physical and human – to support Project Syndicate pre-industrial times. building a factory in Germany, where Long-term, stable infrastructure their use. robots will produce high-end athletic investments can be fi nanced at least Beyond upgrading manufacturing, zMichael Spence, a Nobel Many climate scientists say the Paris targets are shoes, and is planning a second one in partly by international development developing countries should be laureate in economics, is professor of likely to be breached in the coming decades, shifting the United States. institutions. preparing for the shift toward services economics at New York University’s debate onto whether it will be possible to turn down Given all of this, developing Third, it is critical to manage the that they will inevitably undergo Stern School of Business and senior the global thermostat. countries need to act now to adapt capital account in a way that protects as incomes rise (though the precise fellow at the Hoover Institution. Climate scientists are meeting in Geneva from today to Thursday to plan a UN report about the 1.5C goal, requested by world leaders in the Paris Agreement for publication in 2018. Overshoot is among the issues in preparatory documents. Developing nations see overshoot as a betrayal of commitments by the rich and a recipe to worsen heatwaves such as in the Middle East this year or a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet that could swamp island states by raising global The fi rst six sea levels. They say overshoot lets world months were leaders pay lip service a sweltering to 1.5C while failing to act on pledges made 1.3C above in Paris for a trillion- dollar shift from coal pre-industrial and other fossil fuels times towards renewable energies. US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doubts climate change is caused by human activities and has said he will pull out of the Paris Agreement if elected. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton strongly backs Paris. The 1.5C threshold could be in jeopardy within Airing the IMF’s dirty laundry fi ve years on current trends of world greenhouse gas emissions, led by China and the United States, and 2C By Barry Eichengreen Another is that the IMF is a currency devaluation as part of an regional bodies when lending to their within about 25 years, according to UN calculations Berkeley predominantly European institution, IMF-EU programme for Latvia. member governments. of the amount of carbon that can be emitted into the with a European managing director, a In the end, the Fund felt compelled This has been done before when heavily European staff , and a European to defer to the EU’s opposition to African and Caribbean monetary atmosphere. ollowing the International culture. devaluation, because it contributed unions and central banks were Brazilian scientist Thelma Krug, who leads the Monetary Fund’s controversial The report, still on familiar ground, only 20% of the funds. involved. Geneva meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel actions in the Asian fi nancial then goes on to criticise the Fund for The implication is that the IMF Finally, the report criticises on Climate Change (IPCC), says a “wholesale Fcrisis of 1998, when it acquiescing to European resistance to should not participate in a programme IMF management for failing to conditioned liquidity assistance to debt restructuring by Greece in 2010. to which it contributes only a minority ensure adequate involvement transformation” of economies and society will be distressed countries on government It criticises the IMF for setting share of the fi nance. by the Executive Board, its required to achieve the Paris targets. belt-tightening, the IMF established ambitious targets for fi scal But expecting the IMF to provide oversight committee of 24 national The IPCC report will look at both the damage to an Independent Evaluation Offi ce consolidation– necessary if debt majority funding implies the need to representatives. nature from a 1.5C rise and ways to rein in rising (IEO) to undertake arm’s-length restructuring was to be avoided – but expand its fi nancial resources. Board approval was sought, but only assessments of its policies and underestimating austerity’s damaging This is something that the IEO after the key decisions were already temperatures. programmes. economic eff ects. report evidently regarded as beyond its made. Many IPCC scenarios in recent years discuss ways to That offi ce has now issued a mandate – or too sensitive – to discuss. Moreover, the Board was forced extract heat-trapping carbon dioxide from nature. comprehensive critique of the Fund’s Only countries, not And was the ECB even on the right to act under intense time pressure If applied at a wide enough scale, such “negative role in Europe’s post-2008 crisis. side of the table in these European and lacked the information Many of the IEO’s conclusions will regions, are entitled to debt discussions? When negotiating needed to challenge management emissions” could reduce temperatures after an be familiar. with a country, the IMF ordinarily recommendations. overshoot. IMF surveillance, intended to draw IMF resources demands conditions of its government The IEO’s report suggests involving But there are many pitfalls. detect economic vulnerabilities and and central bank. the Board more meaningfully, in order The simplest natural aid – planting trees that absorb imbalances, was inadequate. More interestingly, the report then In its programmes with Greece, to provide a counterweight to political carbon dioxide from the air to grow – would probably While staff sometimes pointed asks how the Fund should co-ordinate Ireland, and Portugal, however, the pressure from regional stakeholders. to booming credit, gaping current- its operations with regional bodies IMF and the central bank demanded But this merely threatens to require too much farmland to be feasible. account defi cits, or stagnant like the European Commission and conditions of the government. substitute one form of political Industrial technologies for extracting carbon from productivity, they downplayed the the ECB, the other members of the This struck more than a few people infl uence for another. the air are costly and in their infancy. implications. so-called Troika of Greece’s offi cial as bizarre. It would be better to allow an This refl ected a tendency, conscious creditors. It would have been better if, in 2010, independent management team or not, to think that Europe was The report rejects claims that the the IMF had demanded of the ECB a to make decisions free of political diff erent. IMF was eff ectively a junior member pledge “to do whatever it takes” and interference, in the manner of a Its advanced economies did not of the Troika, insisting that all a programme of “outright monetary central bank policy committee. To Advertise display the same vulnerabilities as decisions were made by consensus. transactions,” like those ECB President But this presupposes freeing the emerging markets. But that is diffi cult to square with Mario Draghi eventually off ered two IMF from dependence on fi nancial [email protected] Strong institutions like the everything we know about the fateful years later. contributions from its regional Display European Commission and the decision not to restructure Greece’s This would have addressed the stakeholders. Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811 European Central Bank had superior debt. contagion problem that was one basis And it requires IMF management to management skills. IMF staff favoured restructuring, for European offi cials’ resistance to a demonstrate that it can consistently Classified Monetary union, for some less- but the European Commission and the Greek debt restructuring. make decisions based on programme Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811 than-fully articulated reason, changed ECB, which put up two-thirds of the One objection to imposing countries’ economic interest, not on the rules of the game. money, ultimately had their way. conditions on the ECB is that the the political preferences of powerful Subscription Such self-serving claims were in the He who has the largest wallet speaks eurozone, as a regional entity, is not an national shareholders. — Project [email protected] interest of European offi cials, but why with the loudest voice. IMF member. Syndicate was the IMF prepared to accept them? In other words, there are diff erent Only countries, not regions, are One answer is that European roads to “consensus.” entitled to draw IMF resources. zBarry Eichengreen is a professor at 2016 Gulf Times. All rights reserved governments are large shareholders in The Fund encountered the same But nothing prevents the IMF from the University of California, Berkeley the Fund. problem in 2008, when it insisted on demanding policy commitments from and the University of Cambridge. Gulf Times Monday, August 15, 2016 19 COMMENT Harness the power of teenage girls

As it stands, adolescent girls girls could then become agents for of political will or fi nancing will be are routinely denied control broader positive change within their enough to achieve the SDGs to protect communities. women and girls. over their destinies Protecting the world’s young girls is Given that only two Gavi- a tall order. But countries worldwide supported countries, both of which By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala have pledged, through the ambitious have relatively high enrolment rates, Lagos Sustainable Development Goals have so far introduced the vaccine (SDGs), to fulfi l it by 2030, including nationally, it is not entirely clear how by ending child marriage and ensuring diffi cult it will be to overcome this hen you think of teenage that all girls are in school. challenge. girls, you might imagine But if countries are to succeed in As we move away from common stereotypes, protecting and empowering girls, they demonstration projects toward a Wfrom the “mean girl” to must also embrace the promise of a more efficient and cost-effective the sullen high school student locked key initiative: to expand access to the system of phased national scale-ups, in her bedroom. The reality is that vaccine for human papillomavirus, we should gain a better sense of what teenage girls are not only some of the which causes the vast majority of to expect. world’s most marginalised people; cervical cancer cases. We do have some ideas for reaching they also have virtually unmatched A relatively new development, the girls who are not in school – beginning potential to help build a better future HPV vaccine is most effective on with community health centres. As it for all. nine- to 13-year-old girls who have stands, women are most likely to go to As it stands, adolescent girls are not yet been exposed to the virus, a community health centre when they routinely denied control over their meaning that they have never been are pregnant, or to have their infants destinies. More than 32mn of the sexually active. This age requirement vaccinated. poorest are currently out of school. differentiates the HPV vaccine from But by engaging with community Every day, 39,000 girls under the age most other childhood vaccines, leaders and parents to raise of 18 become someone’s wife. For which are mainly administered to awareness of cervical-cancer huge numbers of girls worldwide, infants. prevention and address other local reproductive rights seem like an At first glance, this might health concerns, we are finding that impossible dream. seem like a serious disadvantage, it is possible to generate demand This situation is morally because the HPV vaccine cannot and achieve good turnout at these reprehensible, socially self-defeating, simply be incorporated into other centres. and economically foolish. By vaccine initiatives. In fact, the age Ensuring that all girls have access addressing it, we could not only requirement provides an important to the HPV vaccine would improve protect millions of children; we opportunity to reach adolescent countless lives, not only by reducing could also tackle some of the greatest girls with other vital health services, rates of cervical cancer, but also by challenges facing the world today. such as reproductive education, enabling the provision of numerous Consider the challenge posed by menstrual hygiene, deworming, Protecting the world’s young girls is a tall order. But countries worldwide have pledged, through the ambitious Sustainable other critical services. It is an rapid population growth. Though nutrition checks, vitamin shots and Development Goals, to fulfil it by 2030, including by ending child marriage and ensuring that all girls are in school. opportunity that should be on the population size seems to be levelling general check-ups. minds of cancer experts, government off in most parts of the world, it Encouragingly, developing-country is not just an eff ective solution, Cervical, Breast and Prostate Cancer countries introduce the vaccine offi cials, and representatives from the continues to rise fast in some regions, governments have increasingly been one that prevents 1,500 deaths per in Africa conference. through demonstration pilot projects, private sector and civil society. particularly those where girls face the demanding the HPV vaccine. This 100,000 vaccinated; it is often the There is more good news: the with fi ve more set to follow. And it is an imperative for all of the highest barriers to success. In Africa, makes sense: of the 266,000 women only solution, because the poorest foundations of an HPV-vaccine But there are signifi cant challenges 193 governments that have signed up the population is expected to double who die from cervical cancer every countries lack the capacity to off er initiative have already been laid. ahead. While the focus on holding to the SDGs. We must not let our girls by 2050 and quadruple by 2100. year – an average of one every two screening or treatment for cervical In 2013, well before the SDGs were vaccination sessions in schools has down. - Project Syndicate If teenage girls were given the minutes – 85% are in developing cancer. agreed, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, proved successful, it is inadequate for knowledge, skills, and tools to avoid countries. This is one reason why cancer for which I serve as board chair, reaching girls in countries with low zNgozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former unwanted pregnancy and take control If left unchecked, that fi gure is experts, government offi cials, took steps to make the HPV vaccine school-attendance rates, especially in minister of fi nance of Nigeria and of their own futures, fertility rates expected to rise to 416,000 by 2035, private-sector leaders and civil society available and affordable in poor urban areas. managing director of the World Bank, would drop substantially. These overtaking maternal deaths. For many representatives met a few weeks ago countries. Unless we fi nd a way to reach the is board chair of Gavi, the Vaccine newly empowered and educated of these countries, the HPV vaccine in Addis Ababa for the 10th Stop Since then, we have seen 23 most vulnerable groups, no amount Alliance. Letters Weather report Three-day forecast

TODAY A tribute to Hanif all played Tests for Pakistan, as did his annals of cricket history. He has High: 44 C son Shoaib. left behind his fi ne imprint as a Low : 33 C Hazy to misty at places at first be- Mohammad Another brother, Raees, was once great sportsman who played an comes hot daytime with slight dust, the 12th man for Pakistan. Four of his instrumental role in winning many and relatively humid by night. Dear Sir, nephews had fi rst-class careers. matches for his side. His knowledge His mother, Ameer Bee, was a about the game was unparalleled. TUESDAY Legendary Pakistan Test batsman national badminton champion in pre- His death is a tremendous loss to High: 42 C Hanif Mohammad, widely known as independence India. the game of cricket. Low: 32 C the “original Little Master”, has died The right-handed batsman was one Sunny at the age of 81, plunging the cricket- of the country’s early cricketers who Ramesh G Jethwani loving nation into mourning. played an integral role for Pakistan in (Address supplied) He played for Pakistan in 55 Test achieving Test status. WEDNESDAY matches between 1952–53 and 1969- In his passing, Hanif Mohammad High: 40 C 70 and scored 3,915 runs at an average will be missed by millions of his fans. Low: 32 C of 43.98, including 12 centuries. Please send us Sunny At his peak, Hanif was considered Zeeshan Nasir one of the best batsmen in the world [email protected] your letters and he played at a time when Pakistan Fishermen’s forecast By e-mail had very few Test cricketers. OFFSHORE DOHA In his obituaries, he has been An era comes [email protected] Wind: SE-SW 03-12 KT described as the “original Little to an end in cricket Fax 44350474 Waves: 1-3 Feet Master”, a title later assumed by Sunil INSHORE DOHA Or Post Wind: NW-NE 05-15/18 KT Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar. Hanif Mohammad: legendary batsman Letters to the Editor Waves: 1-2 Feet He was diagnosed with Dear Sir, Gulf Times prolonged cancer disorder in 2013 Hanif spent more than 16 hours at the P O Box 2888 Around the region and had been having treatment for crease compiling his runs, allowing With the death of cricketing legend Weather Weather respiratory complications when he Pakistan to draw the game. Hanif Mohammad, also known as the Doha, Qatar today Max/min tomorrow Max/min passed away in Aga Khan Hospital It remains the longest innings in “original Little Master”, an era comes Abu Dhabi Sunny 46/31 Sunny 44/31 in Karachi. Test history and stood as the longest to an end in cricket. Baghdad Sunny 48/31 Sunny 46/29 All letters, which are subject Dubai His marathon score of 337 against in all fi rst-class cricket for over 40 Hanif will be best remembered Sunny 42/32 Sunny 42/33 to editing, should have the Kuwait City Sunny 50/35 Sunny 49/33 the West Indies in a Test at Bridgetown years. In 1958-59, Hanif surpassed Sir as one of the fi nest and innovative name of the writer, address Manama Sunny 45/33 Sunny 43/33 in 1957-58, is regarded as one of the Don Bradman’s record for the highest cricketers; he once made a record- and phone number. The Muscat Sunny 38/31 Sunny 37/30 epic knocks in cricket history. After individual fi rst-class innings. breaking innings score of 337, creating Riyadh Sunny 46/30 M Sunny 46/31 Pakistan found themselves following Many other members of Hanif’s history by batting for 970 minutes, the writer’s name and address Tehran Sunny 36/23 Sunny 33/23 on from a fi rst-innings defi cit of 473 family have been cricketers too; his longest innings in Test cricket. may be withheld by request. runs on the afternoon of the third day, brothers Mushtaq, Sadiq and Wazir He will go down as a hero in the Live issues Are some of your relationships falling apart?

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lfardan Automobiles, the offi cial BMW Group im- Aporter in Qatar, has an- nounced the arrival of the BMW M6 Competition Edition in Qa- tar. First presented by BMW M GmbH at the 66th Frankfurt In- ternational Motor Show (IAA), the special edition model repre- sents elements of individuality, portrayed through eye-catching paintwork, high-tech carbon fi - bre and carefully-selected fi ne leathers including superlative co-ordinated stitching. The exterior paintwork of The Edition model comes in two choices: an alluring Alpine White with the embellished bodywork stripes in the trade- mark BMW M colours, or in a radiant Austin Yellow metallic. Both colours are perfectly contrasted with its matt-black 20-inch M light-alloy wheels in The BMW M6 Competition Edition is now available at off icial distributor double-spoke 343 M styling with Alfardan Automobiles. mixed tyres. The kidney grille, black the jaw-opening performance of ogy, outputting a whopping chrome door handles and side the BMW M6 Competition Edi- 441 kW (600 hp) with a maxi- Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) president HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday met with the Qatari athletes in the gills along with the carbon-fi bre tion. mum torque of 700 Nm (516 Olympic Village at the Rio 2016 Olympics, to motivate them and check on their preparations for the competition. During the meeting, exterior mirror caps add further Exclusively available for the lb-ft), taking it to a top speed of Sheikh Joaan reiterated QOC’s support to the Qatari teams, and urged all to exert maximum eff orts during the competition to show commanding appeal to the car. BMW M6 Coupe, the Com- 305km/h / 189.5 mph (fuel con- the great development witnessed by Qatari sport. The meeting was also attended by QOC secretary-general Dr Thani bin Carbon-fi bre M rear spoiler petition Edition comes with a sumption combined: 9.9/100 km Abdulrahman al-Kuwari. and rear diff user is fi tted for the 4.4-litre V8 petrol engine with / 28.5 mpg; CO2 emissions com- enhanced airfl ow to accompany M TwinPower Turbo technol- bined: 231 g/km). Pakistan expats mark I-Day By Kamran Rehmat Doha

oinciding with the festive celebration back home, Cwhere Independence Day is virtually considered a third Eid, Pakistanis from all walks of life turned up at the embassy yester- day to mark the 70th such anni- versary with pomp. Braving the sweltering heat, they had occasion to mix the for- mal with the informal to partake the joy of freedom. Families turned out in large numbers, in colourful attire, mostly preferring to match the green visage of the national fl ag. Pakistan embassy off icials cutting the cake to mark the occasion. Some cars were also bedecked in the same. achievement. Without the leader- The atmosphere had a touch ship of Quaid-e-Azam, the crea- Emir greets president of entertainment to it, with pop tion of Pakistan was impossible. If patriotism in full swing — foot- our armed forces, security insti- HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin tapping national songs blaring tutions, police and people did not Hamad al-Thani yesterday sent through the music system doing shed their blood, its (Pakistan’s) a cable of congratulations to the its bit to lift the spirit on a hu- survival and security was impos- President of the Islamic Republic mid day. Deputy Head of Mission sible. In the month of August, of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain on Wajid Hassan Hashmi hoisted the when we remember the Quaid, the anniversary of his country’s national fl ag as the audience sang leaders and workers of the Paki- Independence Day. HH the Deputy in unison. stan movement, our hearts are Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Sadia Gohar, third secretary at also enlightened with the mem- al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister the embassy, then took the po- ory of those martyrs, who have and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdul- dium to read out a message from become immortal by sacrifi cing lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani President Mamnoon Hussain. their lives for the country,” the also sent similar cables. “Today, we are celebrating our prime minister noted. Independence Day with a new zeal Sharif also dedicated this year’s and vigour. I am confi dent that celebration to the new generation Islamic countries were moving our determination will pave the of Kashmiris in Indian-adminis- ahead with great vigour and vital- way for political, economic and tered Kashmir, who, he said, “has ity in the diplomatic and econom- social stability in the coming days. raised the fl ag of freedom with a ic spheres and even hinted at a Our country has been confronted new vigour”. prospective breakthrough regard- with many challenges since the Deputy Head of Mission Wajid ing the Pakistani workforce. last few years but the nation has Hassan Hashmi while thanking In conclusion, he listed out a boldly faced them through its un- the gathering for taking time out number of steps the embassy has shakeable resolve,” the president to celebrate the occasion despite taken recently to meet the bur- was quoted as saying. the testy weather said it was im- geoning demand of passport re- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, portant to recall the sacrifi ces of newals and issuance, urging the on the other hand, refl ected with the brave citizens who have ren- nationals to co-operate with the poignancy about loss of lives in dered their lives for the country mission in further improving the country’s anti-terror war. and thanks to whom “a brave new ways and means for deliverance. “This year, the day of 14th Pakistan is emerging after trying The mustachioed Malik Sar- August, besides the traditional times”. fraz, a cheerleader known for his pleasure, also carries deep feel- “We salute those who made vocal support for all things Paki- ings of grief. The pain of Quetta’s this country, we salute those who stani around Doha, was again at martyrs is still fresh. Today, we saved this country, we salute hand to brighten the mood in the are also remembering those mar- those who nurtured it and we sa- embassy hall with full throated tyrs, who sacrifi ced their lives to lute those who are toiling day and slogans, and an indulgent attempt protect this independence. This night to set it on the path of devel- at rendering the popular national day is dawning with the deter- opment,” Hashmi said, reserving song Is Parcham Ke Saaye Tale mination of Pakistani nation that special praise for expatriate Pa- Hum Eik Hain (We’re all one un- Pakistan, with the grace of Allah kistanis who have “held aloft the der this fl ag) to wide applause. Almighty, will remain forever,” the crescent moon and star fl ag with The large gathering was treated PM said.He however, reinforced pride away from home.” to the traditional Lahori breakfast the resolve to safeguard freedom. Hashmi was also sanguine made of halwa, puri, chana and “The protection of independ- about the state of relations with tea — hot from the oven as it were, ence is even harder than its Qatar, saying the two brotherly making Doha feel just like home.

Deputy Head of Mission Wajid Hassan Hashmi hoisting the national flag. PICTURES: Noushad Thekkayil Deputy Head of Mission Wajid Hassan Hashmi addressing the gathering.