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Monday, 08. 04. 2013 SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2013 JAMADA ALAWWAL 27, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Clashes after New fears in Burgan Bank Lorenzo funeral of Lanka amid CEO spells wins Qatar Egypt Coptic anti-Muslim out growth MotoGP Christians7 campaign14 strategy22 18 MPs want amendments to Max 33º Min 19º residency law for expats High Tide 10:57 & 23:08 Govt rebuffs Abu Ghaith relatives ‘Peninsula Lions’ may be freed Low Tide • 04:44 & 17:01 40 PAGES NO: 15772 150 FILS By B Izzak conspiracy theories KUWAIT: Five MPs yesterday proposed amendments to the residency law that call to allow foreign residents to Menopause!!! stay outside Kuwait as long as their residence permit is valid and also call to make it easier to grant certain cate- gories of expats with residencies. The five MPs - Nabeel Al-Fadhl, Abdulhameed Dashti, Hani Shams, Faisal Al- Kandari and Abdullah Al-Mayouf - also proposed in the amendments to make it mandatory for the immigration department to grant residence permits and renew them By Badrya Darwish in a number of cases, especially when the foreigners are relatives of Kuwaitis. These cases include foreigners married to Kuwaiti women and that their permits cannot be cancelled if the relationship is severed if they have children. These [email protected] also include foreign wives of Kuwaitis and their resi- dence permits cannot be cancelled if she has children from the Kuwaiti husband. Other beneficiaries of the uys, you are going to hear the most amazing amendments include foreign men or women whose story of 2013. By the way, this time it is a true children hold legal residence permits and foreign chil- story. It resembles much the end of a movie dren whose parents or one of them is a holder of a legal G residence permit. The amendment makes it compulsory that is based on a true story. One of the photogra- and not optional as is the case now for the immigration phers in Kuwait Times met with a rather intriguing department to grant these cases with residence per- yet sad story with a happy ending - like an Indian or mits. Under the current law, immigration authorities can an Arabic movie. I also heard that the Japanese tend reject a request for residence permits without explain- to like happy endings in their movies. Who doesn’t ing the reasons even if the applicants fulfill all the con- like happy movies? Why the misery? I sometimes ditions. GAZA CITY: A Palestinian youth looks at apicture depicting the ‘#Op_Israel’ campaign launched by the like a tragic ending and I do not know why. The other amendment allows expatriate residents to activist group Anonymous yesterday. — AFP Let me get back to the story of our photographer. stay outside Kuwait during the whole period of the resi- His wife went to the doctor suffering from stomach dence permit which effectively scraps a rule in the pain because there was no indication of another immigration law stating that the residence permit problem. She did not have her menstrual period Hackers attack Israel becomes null and void if a foreigner stays outside which the doctor explained was a sign of Kuwait for more than six months unless he/she provides menopause. She was not given an ultrasound. They JERUSALEM: Hackers have launched an assault on Israeli Yitzhak ben Israel, head of the National Council for a legitimate or compelling reason. The amendments examined her belly and told her she was entering websites, but the damage has been minimal as the Research and Development, said the scope of the dam- must first be reviewed by the legal and legislative com- menopause. Jewish state is prepared to fend off such attacks, one of age to Israeli sites was “more or less non-existent”. “That’s mittee, passed by the National Assembly and then The woman is only 43, which in some cases is the country’s top cyber experts said yesterday. The hack- because of our preparedness in advance,” said Ben Israel, accepted by the government which is expected to normal. This is what the doctor said. He told her that ers associated with the activist group Anonymous who founded the National Cyber Bureau which operates oppose it because it loosens its grip on immigration some women get menopause early. Then she asked reportedly hit the websites of the premier’s office, the out of the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. matters. another doctor why her stomach was swollen. The defence ministry, the education ministry and the Central Ben Israel said it was highly unlikely that Anonymous In another development, the legal and legislative other doctor was smarter than the previous one and Bureau of Statistics, among others, but all appeared to be was seeking to do real damage to the country’s key committee yesterday approved a proposal stating that he told her: “You have a tumour and it needs to be running normally. “As of midday (0900 GMT) the sites of infrastructure. “Anonymous doesn’t have the ability, nor all public tenders which have a value of less than KD removed.” At this point the poor lady got terrified, the government of Israel are available to the public, as is it its aim to destroy the country’s essential infrastruc- 70,000 can be processed by the concerned department packed her bags and went back to her native Syria. they have been all weekend,” the finance ministry said in ture. If it was, it wouldn’t have announced it in advance,” or ministry without the need to go through the Central She thought it would be better to be with her family a statement. he said, indicating the aim was probably to stir debate Tenders Department. Under the existing law, almost all It said the education ministry site had been temporar- over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The country was surrounding her if she undergoes treatment for the contracts must first be approved by the CTC before it ily out of action “because of a technical fault which has much better prepared than it was a year ago when there can be signed and processed, which some quarters tumour. Despite the war, she thought she would been fixed.” It did not elaborate. Later on Sunday, the for- was a wave of attacks on the stock exchange and El Al blame for the delay of some projects in Kuwait. The find solace with her family there. eign ministry website was also “paralysed for a few (Airlines) and such sites. This time the attack is bigger in committee also approved another proposal to allow the Guys, look at the surprise she got in Syria. The moments before returning to normal,” the finance min- its scope and intensity but we are better prepared,” he doctor discovered that the tumor was a seven- istry said, warning of possible slowdowns or temporary said, referring to an attack on prominent Israeli websites establishment of a second livestock import company to month foetus. Yesterday her husband brought us cuts on official sites. Speaking to army radio, Professor at the start of 2012. — AFP end the monopoly in the sector in Kuwait. kunafa (the popular orange Arab sweet) because his Continued on Page 2 wife just had a lovely baby girl called Catherine. What a happy ending! You will not see such a story - PAGE PAGE neither in Hollywood nor in Bollywood -but you will Trial offers window NATO strike kills 10 see it in Kuwait. I wish the minister of health reads my story. into wider Gulf fears kids in Afghanistan Zawahiri urges Saudis give illegal foreign Muslims to unite workers 3 months’ grace CAIRO: Al-Qaeda’s leader has urged influence of the United States, the Arab Muslims in Arab Spring countries to unite to League, the United Nations and Israel Expats apprehensive over crackdown institute an Islamic state, while warning should they gain control of it. “(They) want France that its intervention in Mali will be to steal your sacrifices and your jihad to give RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has given illegal foreign for their legal sponsors in the kingdom while ees, he said. At least 40,000 students attend bogged down. “I warn France that it will them to their supporters in Washington, workers a three-month grace period to their spouses cannot take up jobs. Many for- private schools in Jeddah. Labour ministry meet in Mali, with God’s permission, the Moscow and Tel Aviv.” legalise their status, after panic over reported eigners enter Saudi Arabia under the sponsor- spokesman Hattab Al-Anzi said that “our role same fate America met in Iraq and Zawahiri also lashed out against mass deportations, an official statement said. ship of a Saudi national but end up working is restricted to carrying out inspections inside Afghanistan,” Ayman Al-Zawahiri said in a Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Iran King Abdullah ordered the interior and labour for others, or set up their own businesses. The workplaces and investigating irregularities 103-minute audio message posted on mili- for their support of Assad, saying that “the ministries to allow “workers violating the kingdom has two million unemployed Saudis, before referring them to the interior ministry tant websites late Saturday. In the recording, true faces of Iran and Hezbollah have been labour and residency system a maximum of many of them fresh graduates, and women, which implements punishments accordingly.” Zawahiri urged Muslims to liberate their exposed, and their ugly reality has appeared three months to rectify their situation,” said according to Labour Minister Adel Fakih. Like many expatriates in Saudi Arabia, lands from oppressive in the field of holy war in Syria”.