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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015 JAMADA ALTHANI 18, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait marks Yemen clashes Skype meets Djokovic World Health kill more theatre in Syria overpowers Day with focus than 100 as twist on Romeo Murray for fifth on food5 safety aid delayed7 and40 Juliet Miami20 title Obama promises ‘tough Min 21º Max 34º conversation’ with Gulf High Tide 01:40 & 13:35 Low Tide Iran nuke deal ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity 07:40 & 20:15 40 PAGES NO: 16483 150 FILS WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said he News would have a “tough conversation” with America’s Gulf in brief Arab allies in which he would promise strong US support against external enemies but tell them they must address internal political challenges. In an interview with KAC reassures on New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman published safety measures on Sunday, he said he would tell Gulf states they also KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways yesterday reaffirmed that all needed to be more active in addressing regional crises. “I its aircraft are equipped with collision prevention radars think when you look at what happens in Syria, for exam- and pilots are trained to act professionally if another ple, there’s been a great desire for the United States to plane approaches a KAC plane in the skies. The reassur- get in there and do something,” he said in the interview, ance came after a Kuwait Airways plane nearly collided conducted on Saturday. with another aircraft over Pakistani airspace on Sunday. “But the question is: Why is it that we can’t have Arabs KAC, in a statement released late on Sunday, said the fighting the terrible human rights abuses that have been aircraft radar of KU flight 205 heading to Islamabad was perpetrated, or fighting against what Assad has done?” activated when a Singaporean aircraft in the air he added, referring to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. approached the Kuwaiti plane. The pilot reacted proper- Obama said last week he would meet the leaders of the ly and evaded it, it added. The Kuwaiti plane was flying six Gulf Cooperation Council states this spring at his at an altitude of 33,000 feet when the radar emitted the Camp David retreat outside Washington, partly to dis- warning. Simultaneously, Pakistani air traffic control cuss their concerns about the emerging nuclear agree- permitted the Singaporean aircraft to elevate its flying ment with Iran. course from 28,000 feet to 34,000 feet, thus causing the The GCC includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United radar on the Kuwaiti plane to emit the warning. Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. Saudi Arabia, which sees Iran as its main regional rival, has repeatedly hinted that it would seek its own atomic Aayan seeks to weapons if Tehran ever did the same. Gulf states are part reschedule debt of the US-led coalition campaigning against Islamic KUWAIT: Kuwait investment firm Aayan Leasing State militants who have taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq. Obama said he wanted to discuss with the Gulf and Investment has asked creditors to reschedule WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama reacts to scoring against Caroline Wozniacki, a Danish profes- its remaining debts worth KD 176 million ($587 allies how to build more effective defense capabilities sional player, as he plays tennis during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the tennis court on the South and assure them of US support against outside attack. million), the chairman told reporters yesterday. Lawn of the White House yesterday. — AP Like many investment companies in the state, Continued on Page 13 Aayan was hit hard by 2008 global financial crisis that forced Aayan to restructure part of its debt burden, which helped reduce its obligations from Nod to establish new KD 333 million in 2012 to KD 176 million currently. The company is now seeking to reschedule the remaining debts, Chairman Fahd Ali Al-Ghanim said at the firm’s annual general assembly meet- human rights ‘diwan’ ing, “after the Central Bank eased rules - compared with 2012 - allowing repaying debts over an extended period of time”. As part of the restructur- Assembly panel debates electronic voting ing plan, Aayan planned to liquidate some of its portfolio of listed Kuwaiti companies, Ghanim By B Izzak In another development, the public utilities committee said. However, many of the shares are still trading yesterday discussed with a number of ministries a proposal below the value at which they were bought, KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s human rights committee to implement electronic voting in parliamentary election, Ghanim said, adding this helped to explain why yesterday approved the final draft of a law calling to establish head of the committee said. MP Adel Al-Khorafi said the pro- the National Diwan for Human Rights, an independent body posal does not scrap manual voting, which has been the only Aayan was seeking a further debt rescheduling. to be supervised by the government, the head of the com- means of voting since the first election in 1962. He said both mittee said. The rights diwan will have a board of directors the methods will be implemented if electronic voting is consisting of 11 members in addition to representatives of approved. Saudi policeman the ministries of foreign affairs, justice, interior, social affairs The ministers of interior, justice and state minister for killed during raid and labor, the manpower authority and the government’s Cabinet affairs attended the meeting, which focused on the RIYADH: A Saudi policeman was shot dead and three legal department, MP Abdulhameed Dashti said. technical matters of the process. The committee also decided were wounded during a raid which devolved into a gun The president and vice-president of the diwan will be to invite MP Saadoun Hammad to its meeting next week to battle in the eastern Saudi city of Awamiya on Sunday, appointed on a fulltime basis by Amiri decrees after their discuss his proposal that the ministry of electricity and water state news agency SPA said. “An exchange of fire led to nomination by the government and approval of the should not cut off water supplies of consumers without a the injury of Corporal Majid bin Turki Al-Qahtani, and his Assembly. The 14-article bill stipulates that the establishment court ruling. death after being taken to hospital - may God have mer- of the rights diwan aims at protecting human rights and pro- The Assembly’s interior and defense committee mean- cy on him and accept him as a martyrs - and wounded moting and consolidating public and private freedoms in while discussed with Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- four Asian workers three security men, a citizen, and a (foreign) resident,” accordance with the Kuwaiti constitution and international Khaled Al-Sabah a government-sponsored bill to install sur- with moderate wounds, SPA said. The agency said forces treaties signed by Kuwait. veillance cameras in some public places. Head of the com- killed in collision undertook the search against “terrorist elements” and Dashti said copies of the draft have been sent to various mittee MP Abdullah Al-Maayouf said the panel decided to retrieved automatic weapons, pistols and communica- ministries for revision and comments and that a meeting will complete the discussion on the bill next week. Maayouf said By Hanan Al-Saadoun tion equipment. It added that four Saudis were arrested be held on April 14 to hear the final comments of concerned the committee voted on a number of amendments to the after the firefight for targeting the officers. Tension is parties on the bill. The lawmaker said that the committee national service law - the compulsory military service law - KUWAIT: Four Asian workers were instantly killed on growing in the country’s oil-rich Eastern province, one of decided to invite Saleh Al-Fadhalah, the head of the govern- before it comes up for the second round of voting today. Fahaheel Expressway after a company bus full of ment’s central agency for illegal residents, the government’s MP Nabeel Al-Fadhl meanwhile yesterday called on the the main centres of the Shiite community in majority workers ploughed into a bulldozer sitting in the term for stateless people or bedoons,. He said that the com- interior ministry to appoint Kuwaiti women as mukhtars Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia, as neighboring Yemen, Iraq ‘safety lane’ near Mina Abdullah yesterday, said mittee will discuss with Fadhalah the human rights situation (mayors), saying that women have already been appointed security sources. and Syria contend with violent sectarian conflict. of bedoons and the process of naturalization. as ministers and a number of them elected as MPs. Rolling Stone retracts Saudis seek Pak jets, ships, troops rape story, apologizes ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan for mili- tary aircraft, warships and soldiers, Pakistani Defense LOS ANGELES: Rolling Stone magazine Minister Khawaja Asif said yesterday, at the start of a par- has retracted a controversial story liamentary debate on whether Pakistan should get about a gang rape at the University of involved in a Saudi-led campaign in Yemen. Saudi Arabia, Virginia following a withering study by the Gulf’s main Sunni Muslim power, has asked Sunni- the Columbia University School of majority Pakistan to join a Saudi-led military coalition Journalism that faulted its reporting, that began conducting air strikes last month against editing and fact-checking. The study largely Shiite Houthi forces in Yemen. argues that the magazine failed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has hedged his bets. He adhere to “basic, even routine journalis- has repeatedly said he will defend any threat to Saudi tic practice” adding that it is “a story of Arabia’s “territorial integrity” without defining what journalistic failure that was avoidable”.

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