SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014 SAFAR 19, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Girls sued Unwelcome The Real Fouz: Prosecutors will for ‘offensive’ dogs find Dos and seek murder social media care at rare don’ts for conviction video, images3 Iran13 shelter healthy37 nails against15 Pistorius Ban on Indian workers Min 09º Max 26º looms as spat escalates High Tide 01:27 & 15.52 Low Tide Meeting to resolve maid guarantee dispute fails 09:08 & 21:03 40 PAGES NO: 16369 150 FILS By Staff Reporter Kuwait Sunil Jain and officials from the for- Delhi in protest against the decision. Filipinos 185,000 and Bangladeshis at eign and interior ministries, during which According to the sources, immigration 180,000. ‘Bomb’ found KUWAIT: A threat to ban the recruitment the issue was discussed at length. departments could start the ban on Indians The Indian embassy has repeatedly of Indian laborers into Kuwait may be Assistant undersecretary for passports from today or from next week unless a com- explained that the bank guarantee is a near ministry implemented as soon as today after a high- and residency Maj Gen Mazen Al-Jarrah promise is reached. Based on the latest offi- decision taken by the Indian government level diplomatic meeting failed to resolve was present at the meeting. Jarrah has cial figures, the number of Indians in Kuwait in 2007 and has been applied in several the dispute over an Indian decision to repeatedly blasted the decision and threat- has rapidly swelled to close to 800,000, countries including all other Gulf states. KUWAIT: A suspected bomb was found near the impose a $2,500 (KD730) bank guarantee ened to impose a ban on Indians. Kuwaiti becoming the largest foreign community. The embassy added that the bank guaran- Ministry of Information in Kuwait City yesterday. In for Indian domestic helpers working over- MPs have also strongly criticized the Indian Among them are more than 200,000 tee will be terminated immediately once an official statement issued by the ministry, a “for- seas, informed sources said. The meeting decision and called on the government to domestic workers. They are followed by the work contract between the employer eign object was found and the bomb disposal unit took place between Indian ambassador to halt the recruitment of workers from New Egyptians who number around 530,000, and domestic helper ends. of the Kuwait National Guard responded and dis- posed of it”. No direct admission of what the “for- eign object” was reported, but according to Shamekh Al-Rashidi, director of the PR and Media KSE rebounds after Assembly, govt meet Department at the Information Ministry, the foreign object was dealt with on site and no injuries or By B Izzak material damage was reported. According to a report in a local Arabic daily Al- KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock market rebounded slightly yes- Jarida, the ‘bomb’ was attached to a motorcycle and terday after heavy losses in the past few months on the was locally made. Another Arabic newspaper Al- positive news that came from a government-Assembly Watan reported that the foreign object was not a meeting to discuss the situation in the bourse. The bomb but a jammer used to block radio signals. This meeting was chaired by National Assembly Speaker information could not be independently verified. Marzouq Al-Ghanem and attended by the ministers of commerce and finance, head of Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), Central Bank Governor Mohammad Al- Kuwaiti student Hashel and others. Commerce and Industry Minister Abdulmohsen Al- recovering after Mudej said after the meeting that there is a complete understanding and an agreement between the govern- ment and Assembly towards regulating and controlling campus stabbing matters at the Kuwaiti bourse. Mudej said that the Capital Markets Authority is exerting efforts in this RIYADH: A female Kuwaiti student is “recovering well” direction and is heading in the right direction. after being stabbed last week at Umm Al-Qura Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh said the Kuwaiti University in Makkah, the Kuwaiti Embassy in Saudi bourse’s decline is the result of the sharp drop in oil Arabia announced yesterday. The Kuwaiti student was prices like other Gulf stock markets as Kuwait is not iso- assaulted in the parking lot of the campus by an lated from the rest of the world. He said “we are looking unidentified female student last Sunday, cultural for an effective, regulated and transparent shares mar- attache at Kuwait Embassy Dr Mesfir Mahdi Al-Mesfir ket that can compete with markets in the region in told KUNA. attracting foreign funds”. The girl was taken to a hospital in Makkah and was dis- Ghanem however said that Kuwait needs a compre- charged on the same day after her condition became sta- hensive plan to deal with the drop in oil prices and this ble. The diplomat pointed out that Saudi authorities have should be based on involving the private sector and been investigating the attack, adding that the Kuwaiti launching mega projects. The speaker said that Embassy is closely following up the case. — KUNA KUWAIT: A trader is seen at the Kuwait Stock Exchange in this file photo. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 Qatar takes pragmatic path in Gulf ties DUBAI: Qatar has bowed to political realism by to Egypt” and Sisi’s political program. London- Brotherhood - now outlawed in Egypt - a “terror- setting aside differences with Gulf neighbors and based analyst Abdelwahab Badrkhan said Qatar ist” organisation, and the Doha summit was only backing Egypt’s anti-Islamist leadership at a sum- “made major concessions” on Egypt as well as possible thanks to last-minute Kuwaiti mediation. mit that reflected a thaw in regional relations, Libya, where Doha has been accused of support- In an unprecedented development, Saudi analysts say. ing Islamist militias. This change in Qatar’s atti- Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain recalled their Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s crack- tude is because of “political realism from one side, ambassadors from Doha in March in protest down last year on the Doha-backed Muslim and its choice to remain within the GCC on the against Qatar’s support for the Brotherhood. Brotherhood triggered a rift pitting Qatar against other,” he said. Diplomatic staff returned to Qatar eight months Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and The pragmatic stance is seen as underscoring later, paving the way for Tuesday’s summit, which Bahrain, who see the group’s political Islam as a Doha’s ambitions to become an economic and Qatar’s young new emir, Sheikh Tamim Al-Thani, threat to their stability. sporting powerhouse. Doha had repeatedly said he hoped would “signal a new beginning for But leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation denounced former army chief Sisi’s ouster of Gulf relations”. At the end of the talks, Gulf leaders Council (GCC) presented a united front at a sum- Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year. Sisi also “condemned the control of militias mit in Doha Tuesday, pledging their “full support allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE have branded the Continued on Page 13 Time mag names TURMUSAYYA: An Israeli border guard grabs Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ebola fighters Ein during a demonstration in this village near Ramallah yesterday. — AFP ‘person’ of 2014 Palestinian official dies NEW YORK: Time magazine yesterday named as its after Israel troop clash “Person of the Year 2014” the medics treating the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 6,300 people, pay- TURMUSAYYA: A senior Palestinian Netanyahu on issues including “recent ing tribute to their courage and mercy. The hemorrhag- official died yesterday after he was developments in Israel, the West Bank, ic fever mushroomed from an outbreak into an epidem- struck by Israeli forces during a protest and Jerusalem and the region”. ic in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, and there have march in the West Bank, prompting A former PA deputy minister, Abu been scattered cases in international calls for an investigation Ein, 55, was the most senior Palestinian Nigeria, Mali, Spain, into the incident. The Palestinian lead- official to die in a confrontation with Germany and the ership vowed to respond to what presi- Israeli forces in recent years. His death United States. “The rest dent Mahmoud Abbas called the “bru- was “a barbaric act that cannot be toler- of the world can sleep tal assault” on Ziad Abu Ein, who was in ated or accepted,” Abbas said, declaring at night because a charge of the issue of Israeli settlements three days of mourning. Neighbouring OSLO: Nobel Peace Prize laureates Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai group of men and for the Palestinian Authority (PA). Jordan condemned the incident as “a display their medals and diplomas during the Nobel Peace Prize award cere- women are willing to European Union foreign affairs head crime” and denounced “clear evidence mony at the City Hall yesterday. — AFP stand and fight,” wrote Federica Mogherini said reports of of human rights violations by the Israeli Time editor Nancy excessive use of force by Israeli troops army”. The confrontation erupted as Malala, Satyarthi receive Gibbs, announcing the were “extremely worrying”, and Abu Ein took part in a march of about prestigious annual demanded an “immediate, independ- 300 Palestinians who intended to plant ent” inquiry. The UN special envoy for olive trees as a symbolic act of protest title. Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo the Middle East Peace process, Robert against Israeli settlements, an AFP pho- “For tireless acts of Serry, urged Israel to conduct a tographer said. courage and mercy, for OSLO: Malala Yousafzai vowed yesterday Fraternity between the nations!” “prompt, thorough and transparent The group was confronted by Israeli buying the world time to struggle for every child’s right to go to Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the investigation” into the death.