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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017 JAMADA ALAWWAL 24, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net KJA elects Born killers: Pakistan’s Bye-bye new board French army third sex ‘Boom Boom’ members, grooms eagles seeks a as Afridi ends top officials5 to down7 drones reformation39 int’l18 career Lawmaker proposes granting Min 03º citizenship to non-Muslims Max 20º High Tide 08:40 & 18:44 Low Tide Panel to probe jail attack • MP demands investment reforms 01:57 & 12:46 40 PAGES NO: 17148 150 FILS POWs recall nightmare Amir meets Sultan Qaboos By B Izzak KUWAIT: MP Khaled Al-Shatti yesterday submitted a draft By Athoob Al-Shuaibi Kuwaiti army officers. law calling to scrap a provision in the 1959 nationality law His son Ali, a citizens band radio that prohibits granting Kuwaiti citizenship to non- KUWAIT: Retired Maj Gen Hassan enthusiast, speaks about how his hob- Muslims. The lawmaker said that scrapping the provision Jassem Hussein and his son by led to his capture, and will end what he called decades of discrimination against Ali were taken prisoner in the harrowing time he non-Muslims in the country’s nationality law. the final months of the 1990- spent with other Kuwaiti The proposed amendment must first be cleared by the 91 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In inmates in an underground National Assembly’s legislative committee and approved an exclusive interview with cell. His mother, Makiya Al- by the interior and defense committee, before going to Kuwait Times, Hussein, who Bannay, tearfully recalls the the Assembly for a vote. To become law, the amendment was a colonel then, recounts moment her husband and must be approved by the Assembly and then be accepted the horrors of the invasion Hassan Hussein son were dragged away by and his incarceration.
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