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THULHIJJA 9, 1439 AH MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2018 Max 46º 28 Pages Min 29º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17613 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Developer defends caller ID China shows off automated In one Philly garage, women Brighton pile the misery on 5 app, vows to launch new one 15 doctors, teachers, combat stars 21 using their own elbow grease 28 Mourinho’s woeful Man Utd Amir conveys Eid greetings as millions of pilgrims begin hajj Dedicated team of interpreters provides 24/7 translation services KUWAIT/MAKKAH: The Amiri Diwan launched a “smart hajj” initiative, with yesterday conveyed greetings from HH apps to help pilgrims with everything the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- from travel plans to medical care. Jaber Al-Sabah to the people of Kuwait The interior ministry said on Saturday on the upcoming occasion of Eid Al- that the number of pilgrims arriving in Adha. According to a Diwan statement, Makkah had already surpassed the two HH the Amir also congratulated Arab and million mark, mostly from abroad includ- Islamic nations on the advent of Eid Al- ing large contingents from Egypt, India, Adha, praying to Allah Almighty for its Pakistan and Bangladesh. Wearing the happy return with Kuwait and the rest of simple white garb of the pilgrim, most of the world enjoying peace and security. the faithful began moving yesterday More than two million Muslims from from Makkah to the nearby Mina valley. around the globe started the hajj pil- They were to spend the night there in grimage yesterday in Saudi Arabia, one fire-resistant tents in the desert, where of the world’s largest annual gatherings temperatures top 40 degrees Celsius. in a country undergoing unprecedented Thousands of buses and vehicles car- change. The ultraconservative kingdom - rying the pilgrims lined the eight kilome- where religion remains a guiding force ter road from Makkah to Mina. Many pil- amid dramatic social and economic grims made the journey walking under reforms - has mobilized vast resources the scorching sun, some carrying white for the six-day journey, a pillar of Islam. or blue umbrellas. For the Muslim faithful, “It’s the dream of every Muslim to come hajj retraces the last steps of Prophet here to Makkah,” said Frenchman Muhammad (PBUH) and also honors the Soliman Ben Mohri. “It’s the ultimate prophets Abraham (PBUH) and Ismael journey. What worries me is the return to (PBUH). It ends with the Eid Al-Adha my normal life. For the moment, I am in a feast, which is marked by the slaughter of dream,” the 53-year old told AFP. sheep, a tribute to Abraham’s sacrifice of Every Muslim is required to complete a lamb after God spared Ismael, his son. the hajj journey to Islam’s holiest sites at Earlier in Makkah pilgrims performed a least once in their lifetime if they are ritual walk seven times around the Kaaba, healthy enough and have the means to a black masonry cube wrapped in a silk do so. Tens of thousands of security per- cloth embroidered in gold with Quranic sonnel have been deployed for the pil- verses at the center of the Grand Mosque. KUWAIT: Shepherds lead sheep to the livestock market in Rai yesterday, ahead of Eid Al-Adha or the “Feast of Sacrifice”, which marks the grimage. This year, the Saudis have Continued on Page 24 end of the hajj. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat saw that wherever we are not capable, no one first time, as tensions mount with the US mili- Iran announces will have mercy on us. Our resources are limit- tary in the Gulf. Iran unveiled in 2013 what it ed and we are committed to establishing secu- said was a new, domestically built fighter jet, rity at a minimum cost. We upgrade our mis- called Qaher 313, but some experts expressed new fighter jet, siles according to our enemies’ threats and doubts about the viability of the aircraft at the actions, as a deterrent and to give a crushing time. Iran’s functional air force has been limit- 80 Indian nurses in limbo missile upgrades response to the enemy,” he said. ed to perhaps as few as a few dozen strike air- Hatami added that regional rival Saudi craft, either Russian or ageing US models without work, residency Arabia “has the largest military budget in the acquired before the 1979 Iranian revolution. TEHRAN: Iran will unveil this week a new jet world after America and China... while our Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral By Ben Garcia April 2015,” said Akhila Kumar, a 29- fighter and upgrade its missile defenses to defense budget is limited”. “What would any Hossein Khanzadi said on Saturday that year-old certified nurse who is acting meet threats from Israel and the US, Tasnim nation with such a situation and past do in our “coastal and sea testing of the short range KUWAIT: Eighty Indian nurses prom- as the group’s spokesperson. news agency said yesterday quoting the place?” he said. The defense minister dis- defense Kamand system were concluded suc- ised jobs in Kuwait have been stuck She said those who passed the defense minister. “Our first priority is our mis- missed the idea of an “Arab NATO” - an old cessfully, and said this system was mounted ... sile capability and we must enhance it... given here for more than two years due to written and oral exams - around 1,500 concept that has recently resurfaced as on a warship and will be mounted on a second paperwork and red tape. The group of nurses in total - were hired and issued the enemy’s efforts in missile defense,” said Washington tries to push regional countries to ship soon,” Tasnim news agency reported. nurses, all with nursing qualifications temporary visas that allowed them to Amir Hatami in an interview on television late accept a greater share of their defense. “Arab Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said earlier this Saturday, according to Tasnim. He added that NATO is part of the game of creating discord month it held war games in the Gulf aimed at from India and recruited by health min- enter Kuwait. The 80 nurses were part a new fighter jet “will fly on National Defense by the enemy and it’s not worth paying atten- “confronting possible threats” by enemies. istry officials, are living in government of that batch. Despite having a legal Industry Day”, which falls on Wednesday. tion to,” said Hatami. “It is unlikely that The US military’s Central Command said it housing, but are unable to work visa to enter Kuwait, the nurses were Hatami said the defense program was moti- America and the Zionist regime (Israel) allow had seen increased Iranian naval activity, because their certifications and licens- prevented from working due to a vated by memories of the missile attacks Iran Muslim countries to come together. They extending to the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic ing have been held up. “We are a group delay in paperwork. Placed in the suffered during its eight-year war with Iraq in know well that the aim of Muslim nations is to waterway for oil shipments the Revolutionary of 80 Indian nurses who came directly nursing accommodation from March the 1980s, and by repeated threats from Israel destroy the Zionist regime and defend Guards have threatened to block. from India (Bangalore, Cochin, Delhi 2016, they were initially told to wait and the United States that “all options are on Palestine,” he added. Iran has developed a large domestic arms and Mumbai) and were hired directly while their papers and documents the table” in dealing with the Islamic republic. Iran’s navy announced on Saturday that it industry in the face of international sanctions by health ministry representatives after were being processed. “We have learned in the (Iran-Iraq) war that has mounted a locally built advanced defensive and embargoes that have barred it from they held interviews from February to Continued on Page 24 we cannot rely on anyone but ourselves. We weapons system on one of its warships for the importing many weapons. — Agencies our life,” 20-year-old Inderjeet Kumar told More bodies AFP at a church doubling as a relief shelter As Duterte flags, in the hard-hit Thrissur district. “There was found in Kerala no power, no food and no water - even daughter enters though it was all around us.” The overall death toll in the state since as toll hits 370 the start of the monsoon on May 29 had political limelight reached 370, the spokesman said. Forty- THRISSUR, India: Rescuers searched six of them were found dead in just the last MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte submerged villages in southwest India 24 hours. In Thrissur, rescuers searching thinks political dynasties are bad. But the way the yesterday in a desperate hunt for sur- inundated houses discovered the bodies of prevailing political winds are blowing, it looks like a vivors after floods killed at least 370 those unable to escape as the floodwaters dynasty of his own might be taking shape. Nine people and drove more than 700,000 quickly rose. “They didn’t think that it months away from mid-term elections that could from their homes. Entire villages in would rise this high - 10 to 15 feet at some determine the success or failure of his presidency, Kerala have been swept away in the places - when the initial warnings were his daughter, Sara Duterte, is fast emerging as a state’s worst floods for a century. issued,” said Ashraf Ali K M, who is lead- powerbroker who is aiming to shore up support for Rescuers fear the death toll will rise as ing the search in the small town of Mala.

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